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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1915
Page
30
Scientists report that confidence and cheerfulness significantly enhance muscular strength and lung capacity. Dr. Sadler cites tests where mental state shifted strength from 3000 to nearly 5000 pounds, with fear reducing hand squeeze and chest development while optimism raises endurance and breathing power.
BR William C Minchin, a British practitioner, reports remarkable success using garlic poultices to treat long standing tuberculosis like bone infection cases. He describes a case where garlic aided healing after amputation was refused and asserts garlic's allyl sulfide poisons TB bacilli and travels through the body via the lymphatic system to reach lungs and bones.
The text describes prehistoric living in trees among the Guarnis of the Orinoco basin and Australian bushmen. It notes tree houses built on palm beams, mud floors, palmetto roofs, and fires kept for cooking. It emphasizes shelter from floods and rain with natural roofing and woven branches.
The article argues that the fur seal provides a natural model for submarines, detailing how it dives, surfaces, and breathes. It compares seal physiology to submarine features such as periscopes, rudders, and compressed air work, noting the seal's limited underwater time versus the submarine's extended submerged endurance. It also notes seals' hunting methods and their sensitivity to propeller noise.
A compact door key guiding device with diverging arms over the escutcheon promises entry without light. Separately, Newfoundland sealing vessel owners consider employing two aviators to survey East Coast and Gulf of St Lawrence herds before next season opens.
The Latydid produces its sound by friction of taborets in the overlapping wing parts, with air escaping from body sacs strengthening the tone. The katydid has been nicknamed the testy little dogmatist.
Ruins atop a four thousand foot summit withstand the earthquake of 1892. Fortified walls eight feet high sixteen feet thick guard envisioning Haiti’s last independence refuge. Guns, secret passages, and hidden treasures belie the vast 19th century construction by the so called Black King Christian.
A 1675 dated order check drawn by Edlmond Warcupp payable to Samuel Howard and cleared by goldsmith Thomas Fowles. The note cites Fowles’s shop between two Temple Gates in Fleet Street with the Black Lion sign. The document is cited as the oldest order check in existence.
A survey of ongoing scientific and technological efforts includes the US Bureau of Fisheries annual outputs, wireless port equipment mandates in Uruguay, Pennsylvania inventor gifts, a collapsible tool chest stand, a German lighthouse lamp guidance, a California mop connected to a sink, Bavaria graphite reserves for crucibles, an electric motor water recycling device, an English study on heartbeat individuality for handwriting, USDA fiber flax trial in the US, and American work on shale oils in England seeking fuel substitutes.
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