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Newspaper
Cottonwood Chronicle
Location
Cottonwood, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1922
Page
4
A European proposal uses a theodolite and a distant searchlight to compute cloud height for night flying. The instrument pair, with distance known, yields cloud altitude from the measured angle. The system aims to inform airmen at wireless stations along flying routes.
The Caribe, once numerous in the West Indies, are nearly extinct as an ethnic group now. Only Dominica retains pure Carif lines, due to Spanish and French persecutions. The piece notes slave trade beginnings post Columbus, native deities, Pee-ay-man sorcerer cures with shrines, and dead laid in hammocks suspended between forest trees.
A report notes Elizabeth Yelding plans to cross the Niagara River on a tight rope echoing Blondin’s historic stunts. Blondin Jean Francois Gravelet astonished Americans in 1855 1859 and 1860 by stretching a rope over the falls and walking it keeping audiences spellbound and fearful.
The world's largest electric locomotive of its class has been installed at the Rosedale mine near Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The thirty five ton mule runs on electric power, using three eighty horsepower Westinghouse motors and is guaranteed not to balk.
In Tacloban on Layte Island most homes are electrically lit. The town with about 12 000 residents runs an electric light and power plant equipped with three 22 kilowatt generators, keeping streets bright at night.
Early in 1921 half of Pernambuco's automobiles used alcohol fuel. today 90 percent have returned to gasoline. Objections to alcohol can be addressed with specially designed motors and related measures, supporting a transition back to gasoline usage.
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