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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1940
Page
8
A new device called a tSecatron acts as a spook light and burglar alarm. It detects intruders, rings a bell, floods with light, photographs the burglar, and releases a tear gas bomb while alerting police. It also opens garage doors and closes windows automatically in bad weather.
The article notes the domestic character of the cowbird, detailing its oligogamous nature and neglectful care of offspring. The mother cowbird sneaks through trees to steal nests and lay eggs, leaving hatchlings to other parents, and sometimes removing existing eggs before adding her own.
Gray-haired Marian Rice Hart, an Englishwoman, arrived in New York in her 80-foot ketch the Panora after a 30,000-mile journey around the world. She employed professional seamen but acted as her own skipper, doing much of the piloting herself.
A fragmented rural note mentions Cataloochee in the Great Smoky Mountains and a distant ranch area with cattle and prune farming. It also records a weather caused frog highway incident near Glen da Minnesota where a car skidded and another person was injured.
A fragmented report notes valuable chinchilla pelts and garments once possessed by royalty, valued between $89,000 and $100,000, with trapping details and preface on the era. It mentions an investigation into a cellulose composition using X ray to show chains of atoms linked by oxygen in cotton pulp.
A 44 year old spectator named Ralbert Strelau held a ticket as a 3 to 1 shot in a race at Thistle Okemean Race Track near Cleveland. At the moment the horse crossed the finish line, it was declared the winner but confusion followed.
The piece explains twilight vision where maximum eye sensitivity makes colors fade in dim light. Green tones turn gray while in darkness, blues fade next, and greens become gray as illumination drops. When lighting rises eyes light adapt and colors return in full spectrum.
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