Kind-Hearted Mr Jones Gives Stranger a Ride
In a readable vintage tone a generous man, Mr Jones, offers a lift to a pedestrian struggling with a bundle. He drives her beyond a mile and learns she was headed to the next house, yet she thanks him and continues onward.
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Beasts in Markets and Man's Meat Eating Rise
In a Science letter W W Lyon argues strong evidence links human dominance to long eating of three parasite hosts beef pork and fish tapeworms. He notes dog involvement with fish parasites and cites scholars like Gregory on horse meat. The piece links meat eating to quicker digestion greater energy and advancement in evolution.
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Science
W. W. Lyon
Gregory
Blowpipe Perfection Shaped by Patient Soriwaak Craftsmen
The Land Dynaks of Soriwaak North Borneo craft blowpipes with extreme care. A veteran driller bores a straight three eighths inch through the entire Yong log, then, after testing, shapes the exterior with axes and blades.
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North Borneo
Popular Science Monthly
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Driter
Petroleum fuels vast wealth and global industry
The article explains petroleum as the main economic driver behind wealth, noting its extraction from earth, processing into petrol and paraffin, and the production of naphtha. It mentions large wells in Russia and America and long underground pipelines transporting oil to ports for shipment, highlighting oil’s broad influence and distribution.
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Russia
America
Plaeces
American Attitudes Toward Quiet Music Machines
The Philadelphia Ledger notes Americans test quiet by piano and talking machine usage. Pianos remain valued higher than phonographs, yet piano production has fallen while phonograph use grows. Two years ago US spending reached 815 million dollars on talking machines and 11 million on records, with stock values reflecting optimism in the industry.
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Stockholidrs Bank
Responsibility and the awakening of self respect
The text argues that lack of responsibility yields an empty life for individuals, including the insane and public charges. It contends society relies on individuals conforming to fixed rules and that elevating the vulnerable begins with awakening self respect through a sense of responsibility.
Weird music from a mine at Guanajuato shaft deep
In the Neuva Las shaft the deepest in Vela Madre Mexico miners are lowered in wire guided buckets while almost nude natives sing a torch lit hymn. The melody fills the shaft as lights fade and a distant echo of prayer follows the descent, until silence and darkness.
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Vela Madre
Guanajuato
Mexico
Frank I. Probert
National Geographic Magazine
Unclear Antiquated Oddities on Island Reading and Radium
The piece mocks prewar reading lists on Elephant Island reflecting Shackleton era humor while noting a radium containment chamber. It references The Bible and Britannica as comforts during frostbound isolation and hints at radium energy concentration and containment, with garbled technobabble suggesting ongoing emanation concerns.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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