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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1913
Page
7
A French chemist explains that an oxidizing ferment in apples causes browning and rusting when sliced or bruised. Exposure to air activates the ferment, turning cut surfaces red as oxygen interacts with juice. Heat may destroy the ferment's oxidizing properties, preventing oxidation.
A fragmented verse reads like a playful kitchen chant with Mrs Walbrook directing a batter mixing scene. The lines drift into a dark aside quoting Marmion about catching a wife and the man’s death, attributed to the Baltimore Sun.
The article argues for broad access to music education at home for all children, not just those labeled musical. It notes that costly lessons and concert tickets exceed many families’ means, and that simple, quality music a mother can play at home provides essential instruction and joy for children.
The western belt averages twenty miles wide and is an alluvial formation with no mineral deposits. The middle belt spans about fifteen miles, extends along the north coast, and holds all current productive mineral resources. The eastern belt covers half the island with peaks up to 13,000 feet, composed of Paleozoic limestone granite and crystalline schist, with mineral resources largely unknown.
Two Brown juniors at Brown University attend a French play. The leading man’s brief curtain remarks prompt one to applaud hoping to seem fluent in French. He learns the actor’s line reveals his father is dying and the understudy will take the rest.
A collection of witty exchanges about age and wit. The Washington Star and Sydney Bulletin snippets illustrate humor in conversation. A Latin proverb notes wisdom to oneself as true wisdom.
A crowd-backed interruption forces Ben Butler to move Rufus Choate from an upper hall to the street level as floor timbers groan under pressure. Choate pleads to read, Butler eyes an exit, and a plan to adjourn is proposed amid the urgent scene.
A newspaper note cites M. Henri de Parville linking eating and nerve nutrition to hair growth. It claims strings sustain hair, wind instruments less so, brass players notably thin and brass players baldness rising quickly, with trombone players regaining 60 percent of hair in five years.
The article explains graphite as an allotropic form of carbon alongside amorphous carbon and diamond. It notes carbon can assume multiple forms without losing identity, likening coal to black diamonds due to chemical sameness with white diamonds and price measured per ton rather than per carat.
The pamphlet was prepared under extreme external pressures as Napoleon's empire neared collapse. Despite Russian defeats and Allied advances, Paris remained under his control while the author protected the manuscript by concealing it at night and keeping it on his person or his wife during travel.
In a whimsical exchange from the Ladies' Home Journal a bucket and its companion ponder the paradox of poling to a well and returning empty or full, ending with a playful twist on fulfillment versus emptiness.
A man puffs to the ticket office window and asks if he can catch the 2 30 train. The agent jokes that with his speed he may not. Cincinnati Enquirer edition.
The Aeroplane Age notes a dialogue about Yorick Hamm stranded on Saturn amid a planet storming crowd. Hamlet Fatt says the gondow busted and Les cannot return, reflecting a bizarre satirical scene.
An excerpt discusses two gradual deafness types the hardening of the eardrum and the running ear. It notes limited medical progress and links deafness to rheumatism uric acid gout and rheumatic stiffness with a call to address blood impurities to curb deafness.
Frederick A. King recounts the Don Vincente tale in which a man kills to obtain a single sought book then claims a Louvre copy proves nonunique. The alcalde is told the error was clumsy as the suspect asserts there may be more copies in existence.
The article explains that the sky’s vault resembles a segment of a circle in vertical view, subtending about 4 degrees at the center. It notes horizon-related flattening, causing phenomena like apparent sun and moon enlargement near the horizon and oval halos and coronas at low altitudes.
The piece notes that humbug dates from fakirs and holy men who deceive, with the term a corruption of Hamburg. It cites war era false reports from Hamburg, Germany, and explains disbelief phrases like Hamburg and Wamburg evolving into humbug per the New York Mail.
A two year old amused in church by a deacon head peeking through a hole in his hair. The child laughed at the sight while the amused mother asked the reason for the giggle in this humorous church moment.
Baltimore American quotes a joke about a woman who never asks her husband for money because the court compels him to pay alimony. The punchline notes the husband is not a good provider.
A scientific writer claims touch can only determine blue and a man always knows when he feels blue, a quote from the New Orleans Picayune.
In a quip from the Adelphia Record a speaker asks if bald eagles are distinct, then playfully answers that a bald eagle may simply be a married one, suggesting a light literary pun about the bird.
A clipped dialogue from The Crisis and Life shows a mock debate on altruism and action. Randall questions progress, Rogers quips about not amounting to much, while a practical answer mentions using a couple of motor trucks.
In The Arbitration of the Alabama Claims, William Conant Church recalls Lincoln using tea sessions with Senator Sumner to secure support. Lincoln avoided direct confrontation, instead hinting at forthcoming Senate matters and relying on Sumner’s willingness to listen before raising issues. The anecdote highlights Lincoln as a master negotiator who used intimate, informal dialogue to gain crucial backing.
St James Gazette describes a fifteenth century Oxford undergraduate path to the B A. Three years in core studies with Porphyry Boethius Aristotle and arithmetic to find Easter. Three more years in geometry astronomy and astrology. Meals and clothes modest. Regular secret reports punished peers. Visits to taverns and certain amusements forbidden.
A New York Sun note explains using a watch string and an almanac to find latitude and noon in an open boat. By setting the watch and measuring sun altitude with a string held at arm’s length, one can approximate location and time without knowing where you are.
The article argues there has been no universal war by Moslems against unbelievers since Mohammedan times. It notes kaliph authority and Ottoman sultans, Persian and Moor rulers, and cites Mahdist proclamations such as Sudan 1882 with General Gordon’s death. It emphasizes no general jihad has occurred recently among Muhammadans.
A young woman famed for language mastery and leadership orders visits a friend. The friend, embarrassed, hesitates and expounds excuses for half an hour, prompting the woman to end the interview with a sharp refutation about verbosity and idiocy.
A short exchange questions curing a woman’s infatuation with a man. The respondent says no known method to prevent marriage in this case, implying uncertainty about influencing her feelings and marital decisions. Public posting notes a casual, dated tone from the Houston Post.
A St. Louis Post-Dispatch mock dialogue explains the Latin phrase multum in parvo as meaning a lot in a little. The joke compares it to a humorous image of a fat woman in a bathing suit.
Mr Grumbler teases a new family piano accessory described as wonderful. The item is a lock and key, suggesting a security feature added to safeguard the instrument.
Dialect humor scene shows Jim and Bill debating mobility aids as BIM suggests pumps while Lippincott's notes winter knee pain and cane use turns into a comic exchange. The snippet reflects period newspaper voice with casual remarks and light civic wit.
A historical note cites Linnest Mensen and Pie as legendary runners who traveled vast distances at high speed. Pie allegedly ran 1760 meters to Moscow in thirteen days eight hours, then 3150 miles via Central Asia to Constantinople in fifty nine days, never walking and delivering dispatches for the East India Company.
A collage of 1920s newspaper quips and repartee from the Baltimore American and Boston Transcript. Snappy exchanges touch on parental traits and social conduct. The snippets mix irony with moral reflections.
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