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Newspaper
Corona Independent
Location
Corona, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1910
Page
2
A condensed view of friction as interlocking microscopic teeth between surfaces, causing resistance to sliding. The piece notes how friction arises within materials, its role in bearings and rails, and imagined consequences if friction were absent, citing Lawrence Hodger in the New York Tribune.
Washington correspondent notes the mace as an ancient emblem of the House of Representatives. The silver eagle staff sits in a pedestal beside the speaker's chair during sessions and is carried back to the sergeant at arms when adjourned. It is rarely used beyond keeping order.
A terse Baltimore American quip notes a metaphorical exchange about cleaning rooms with alacrity. The applicant replies with a clever line about preferring patent sweepers, highlighting a witty exchange in a historic context.
A man named Furk is invited to pick his veiled bride from twelve white clad ladies after a wedding in the sultan’s presence. With a minute left, he weighs a frowning and a smiling woman. He chooses and reclaims his wife, but which sign did he read final?
German researchers show air reaches the olfactory chamber via nose and mouth, so a perfumed breath emits odor when inhaled and exhaled. This explains why taste sensations often stem from smell and can mislead about their source.
A New York Herald remark questions whether impressions of flavor arise more from smell than taste, noting the mouth as the site of perception and suggesting scent plays a larger role in flavor experience.
John Fiske argues that pre-Columbian voyages yielded little historical result. They produced two failed Greenland settlements but added no significant geographic knowledge or European contact until Columbus in 1492.
A Ruskin quotation celebrates nature as always producing scenes and scenes of beauty for human delight. It asserts nature operates on exquisite, constant principles to provide perpetual pleasure.
The Westminster Gazette notes a moment in a jury trial where the presiding lord justice, the clerk, and sheriff are involved. A small jest by the judge drew laughter from the audience before the judge demanded silence and asserted there was nothing to laugh at.
A traveler asks a hotel clerk if he can bathe at the counter, the clerk rebukes him and directs the man to hire a room. The exchange appears in Lippincott's as a brief humorous vignette.
Enlivened the Play. Monte Cristo played to a crowded house in a New York theater as the audience reacted to lines and a box map joke about Woboken, capturing a lively Broadway moment reported by Brooklyn Life.
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