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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1919
Page
6
Will Irwin notes in the Saturday Evening Post that Americans visiting a French chateau failed to respect local sensibilities in wartime housing. He recalls being forced to remove installed plumbing to preserve venerable beauty and ancestral continuity, highlighting cultural friction.
The department of agriculture plans a large aircraft fleet over six months to aid farmers and detect outlaw cotton planters in Texas Arizona and southern California. Lieutenant Compere, once at Ellington, led earlier cotton investigations. A 10000 foot patrol photographed seven outlaw fields. those fields were destroyed. Compere is released and will organize coast aviation scouting work.
Experiments by the United States Department of Agriculture bureau of entomology show naphthalene effectively protects woolens from clothes moths and kills all life stages. Red cedar chest kills adult moths and damages larvae, but eggs hatch. Cedar chips and shavings help only marginally in reducing damage.
Wartime organization of trench mortar batteries by divisions will end in favor of one regiment under army artillery. Trench guns arose from stabilized warfare and divisional batteries became useful mainly in special open warfare conditions, leading to their early withdrawal.
The piece argues British steam driven submarines of 2700 tons at 23 to 25 knots surface speed are too slow and blind submerged. It notes future electrical systems could see 10 to 15 miles underwater and imply submerged speed of 20 knots would change naval dominance.
A doctor builds a light proof box that uses red filtered light from a tungsten lamp to expose a highly sensitive photographic plate placed under the area to be examined. A half second exposure yields a shadow picture, offering a simple imaging method similar to X-rays for limited studies.
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