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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1935
Page
8
Charney hides behind a tombstone as white figures and Kluxers converge in the cemetery. He hears a strange ceremony with guards in white sheets and a large Kluxer gathering, while he prays for safety and contemplates escape.
A reflective note on aging and ethics. It mentions the desire for photographs waning with age, warns about prepared alibis for deceptive acts, and cites Adam as the sole man with no scar from the rib’s origin. The passage uses allegory to question appearance and truth.
Thinkers report a serum that cures gas infections and gangrene. A device to detect faked old master paintings is promised. Japanese and German scientists claim a cotton substitute from straw. Alberta oil sands extraction method evolved. Crossbreeding builds stintless bees. Mouse and monkey tests suggest alum nasal sprays prevent infantile paralysis and sleeping sickness. A Swedish engineer patents a calendar clock. A powerful ray that penetrates two-inch lead was disclosed.
A survey of curious reports includes England's war on rheumatism, a Hungarian baby with 32 teeth, a Dundee whaling ship’s unlikely dog and walrus friendship, a zoology professor training chimpanzees in Africa, a four minute three minute egg atop a Rocky Mountain dining car, Regenstein Germany’s smallest town claim, a 14 400 line capacity National Physical Laboratory instrument at Te d ding ton, a primitive African village telephone using coconut shell instruments and fiber wires.
A compilation notes that about one in thirty two people in England are twins, that diabetes disproportionately affects women especially married women, and that Jews have higher prevalence. It also mentions Mount Izara in Costa Rica offering ocean views from its summit, 1934 tobacco and lumber accident rates, German ship soundings challenging an undersea mountain theory near Newfoundland, and rheumatism costs to England’s government and workers.
A compilation of notes on women’s roles across nations. Switzerland reports a surplus of bachelor girls while Turkey lists 17 women deputies in Ankara. Japan’s peasant women stand strong and marriages occur at about fifteen. Congo tribes are led by women. In the United States over 47,000 women work in banks. Chinese women defy a government order on hairstyling. Polish women aim for slim figures amid Western vogue.
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