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Bridgeport Telegram

Location

Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America

Date

Mar 02, 1918

Page

6

Marvel of insect mechanism described in detail

An Indian fly uses a three blade retractable sting with outward cutting edges and six muscles to rip tissue, ejecting blood. Each blade has a hair brush from an oil gland to antiseptically clean the blade. Also notes an applicant’s remark about neutralization papers and new Americanization of immigrants.

Harvard to Offer Six Week Summer Military Course

Harvard announces a six week summer military training camp at its Summer School starting July 5 in Cambridge. Open to college students in good standing and graduating high school students admitted to first year, with R O T C as the likely framework. Courses cover basic and advanced drill, with plans to form a regiment and battalion under new U S Army drill tables.

Cambridge Mass Harvard Summer School Harvard R. O. T. C United States Harvard Bummer

How to Be Happy by Benjamin Franklin

The piece presents two routes to happiness one can either lessen desires or increase means the choice depends on circumstances and effort. It argues a wise person should pursue both approaches simultaneously to raise personal and societal happiness.

Benjamin Franklin

Control of Birth Gets Court Favor

Chicago March 1 Judge John Stele of the Court of Domestic Relations argues for birth control as a aid to poor mothers defending their right to avoid adding mouths to feed. He condemns forcing debilitated wives to bear defective offspring and urges federal action. He criticizes poverty-struck youths and war victims, emphasizing social failures and neglect by government.

Chicago John Stele Court of Domestic Relations Stelk

Wasteness of the Grand Canyon

United States Geological Survey describes the Grand Canyon as over a mile deep and eight to ten miles wide with cliffed edges, horizontal rock beds, and a broad shelf deep in the canyon. Erosion by sun and water shaped immense vertical steps and varied colors from white to red and pale green.

Grand Canyon United States Geological Survey

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