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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1929
Page
10
Architect Richard Buckminster Fuller envisions self-contained hexagonal houses hung by dirigibles for quick relocation. Central mast, vacuum insulated walls, casein panels, and curtains replace doors. Interiors feature built in electric appliances and a rooftop garden with independent power and ventilation.
A new alarm clock replaces the traditional bell with a musical mechanism. The device uses a phonograph attachment to play varying melodies at the set wake time, softly rousing the sleeper instead of a harsh ring.
In Tales of Travel Lord Curzon describes rain from the falls in the southern Rhodesian rain forest. He notes a spray column rising from the chasm and a torrential shower soaking a land of tree jungle and grass. Rainbows flicker through the mystic forest lighting twigs with prismatic colors.
A patient with a nonfunctional opaque cornea received a full corneal graft from a donor eye at the New York Eye and Ear Clinic. Dr. Ben Witt Key led the operation, restoring vision to the damaged eye with roughly ten feet of usable sight, as described in Science and Invention.
In a Southern Indian tribe the Holy Milkman is the supreme milk purveyor with an official residence called the Sacred Dairy. He must remain within the dairy during his term, and if married before appointment he must live celibate. He eats without lips contact and drinks by pouring, while others must not touch him to avoid defilement.
In Tacony Pennsylvania a Baptist church built its walls from discarded grindstones. A local factory donated worn-out grindstones and shaped them into the church walls, creating what is believed to be the world’s only grindstone church.
A vault under a busy New York street holds millions in naked silver bars used as a global clearing house for mints and silversmiths. Bars are unboxed and handled without gloves, each bar numbered, with rapid transfer to armored trucks and ships bound for China and India.
The article traces soap origins with Romans learning from Gauls who used ash and goat tallow to wash hair and color it red. It describes a traditional method using a cask with layers of straw lime and ashes, water drip, collection, boiling fat, and cooling into bars.
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