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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1922
Page
3
Col. Claude Lowther proposes a Commons bill to award brains over birth and abolish hereditary titles for the next generation. The author recalls American society in New York and questions whether genius is truly inherited, noting few sons of great men reach greatness.
A parcel of wooded ground near the old Ndil factory on Riverside Drive is prepared for picnics. Tables and seats are arranged at various spots in the reservation. The grounds are open to the public and free of charge with direct car access for those seeking a shaded retreat from the city heat.
Dodge Brothers announce a new business coupe with an all steel body the first of its kind. The model features steel framework panels leather upholstery wide doors Yale locks and ample luggage space designed for daily work use and reduced production costs.
Charlotte Greenwood, longtime star of the Letty serial on stage and screen, reflects on a six year run in Los Angeles and Broadway hits. She jokes about a lifelong career, shares her nicknamed Letty persona, and says a song about herself sums up her hopeful philosophy of constant performance.
In a mediation scene at the city hall, Mayor Payne acts to calm two neighboring families amid a disturbance case. Trouble escalates to a peace breach and the mayor issues a night ban on the home, while a resident leaves relieved and amused by the outcome.
Off Key West Florida on June 15 twelve crew members and Captain E T Fulder along with his wife escaped a blazing submarine chaser 204. The vessel burned to the water line with only the captain's wife sustaining slight burns to her arms.
Dr Charles Russ, an English physician, says a delicate instrument proves force propels from the eye in the ray of vision. He notes Greeks hinted at this 2,500 years ago and references the hydropathic eye and Italian beliefs in the evil eye.
The Royal Society of Victoria debated the divining rod as a water finder. They concluded the topic should be studied by psychologists, not geologists. The piece notes many failures and only occasional discoveries.
A waterspout observed from a British ship in the Indian Ocean reached about 600 feet to the base of the overlying cloud. The funnel tapered from 500 feet wide at the sea junction to 150 feet at the sea level.
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