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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1955
Page
4
A nostalgic reminiscence on pre science fiction era ghosts, sheet shapes and will o the wisps. The author recalls warding off specters with chalk marks and beliefs in Tibetan ghost traps, noting a failed experiment when an ice truck crushed the trap and ghosts were seen to be watching. The piece mentions 14 ghost trap types.
Providence based Brown University students complain in The Brown Daily Herald that the campus hears fewer prominent speakers than other Ivy League schools. The editorial notes a desire for voices like Robert Frost and remarks that crowds once hoped for a figure such as Grandma Moses.
A roundup of fresh products includes a Zodiac watch with a reserve gauge and automatic disengagement when wound, a fabric laminate by a Rhine backing and printed film, and a spill-proof nail polish tube with built in brush. Also debuting are a metal loosener by Olin Mathieson, a floor and wall tile adhesive by Johns Manville, and a doorknobless push latch by Filmtex. Smith English Clocks offers a tea making alarm clock that brews tea and wakes the user.
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