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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1922
Page
10
A mill foreman pursues Lizzie Peebles, who hesitates on marriage. A mill accident blinds and disfigures a worker, sparking a crisis of love. Lizzie reveals she wears a false hairpiece and ends the engagement, while the foreman learns true devotion.
A Vienna storm dislodged about a hundred sparrows from night shelters in Simmering. Police moved in as a crowd of children gathered to collect the birds. Officers saved them by catching and housing the wet birds in an old detention cell overnight before releasing them in the morning.
Excerpt explores why men fear darkness and how solitude in the woods affects nerves. Morris Longstreth recalls sleeping alone in the Adirondacks and notes light as a relief while night and path fear linger. Questions about guards and rangers sharing this instinct are raised.
The article traces the word spinster from old English origins meaning a woman who spun at home while men fought or hunted. It shows how the term shifted to refer to unmarried women and became a legal term by 1617.
An article extols swimming as a healthful exercise now widely recommended for all ages. It notes swimming supports body weight, enables movement for partially paralyzed people, and aids damaged limbs while serving as both therapy and general fitness.
A step by step method uses a 00 level stone with leather on a board and emery powder No 40 to No 100. Water is added and the surface is rubbed in circular motions until smooth, then leather is used for a final fine lasting polish. Patience and effort determine the result.
A Scientific American correspondent asks if whirlwinds such as tornadoes cyclones and typhoons rotate counter clockwise. The answer explains that rotary motions arise from the Earth's rotation on its axis and are counter clockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
A dialogue from the Boston Evening Transcript humorously notes a delay as a character jokes about finding the deepest part of the sea. The exchange centers on Miss bute and a promise to cast oneself into the sea, while one character admits ongoing statistics work.
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