19 Jan 1918
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1918
Page
1
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Harvard Professor Alexander McAdie rejects the idea that heavy cannonading causes rain. He argues dust rather than sound could aid condensation, notes Krakatoa’s eruption as a rainfall example, and cautions that no proof supports rain from bombardment while acknowledging future physics may reveal new controls over atmospheric moisture.
Bishop William Lawrence warned at Trinity Church that a 35 million pension fund for Episcopal clergy highlights a wider trend. He said fixed charges push people with incomes from 50 000 to 100 000 toward poverty by age forty to fifty, contrasting them with a mechanic living on 80 percent of income. He criticized wealthy parents who underteach money management to children.
Cardiff Wales earns the nickname Pittsburgh of the British Isles as coal mines and shipping drive rapid growth. Former shipping clerks now run multiple ships while coal miners reportedly earn around a hundred dollars weekly. Local investments in the war effort topped large sums, underscoring the city’s extraordinary gains.
The country produced 292000000 barrels of crude petroleum during the well period, 4 percent above last year’s total. The gain reflects increased exploration and higher refinery throughput across major producing regions.
Henry Hennette of Santa Monica, noted for dunes of singing sands, reports a clump of whispering trees high in Los Tunud canyon near Weber ranch. Thousands of leaves rubbing create a faint chorus as breeze moves through scrub holly like chaparral, intriguing nature students.
The piece argues that the true price of life lies beyond tangible needs. Mary Gordon in the New York World notes the cost arises from striving and desire. To yearn greatly leads to either disappointment or achievement, with many other gains missed in the process.
A New York police magistrate confronts a familiar face arraigned for striking his wife. The defendant explains a mice trap mishap led to the blow, claiming he stepped on a wire noose while barefoot. The magistrate notes the man had been drinking and sentences him to two months in the workhouse.
Paul Burton, a Chicago grain clerk, outsmarts his employer Peter Griscom by leveraging inside crop data to buy up wheat. A new partnership forms as he secures Griscom’s approval to woo Edna, balancing a financial coup with romance in a hopeful, period-voice tale.
A Papua discovery describes Ta piro pygmies as small yet sturdy, with stocky calves and no tattooing. They carry personal gear in a shoulder bag, craft balanced canoes from heavy logs, and use stone axes and bone knives. Death rites involve mats and crude coffins, with skulls kept by relatives.
A stenographer admits to stealing a man's car and later breaking into a bank to steal money. The judge questions the confession as the defendant answers yes with downcast eyes, claiming money was needed to keep the automobile.
A small electric furnace has started volatilizing tin from scrap at the Northwest experiment station of the United States Bureau of Mines in Seattle. The Engineering and Mining Journal notes an extensive experiment program to save tin wasted in discarded containers and scraps.
In a domestic moment, a couple vows to never argue again. The man immediately asks where his wife keeps the blankety clean socks, prompting a humorous tension as they start their new pact.
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