18 Mar 1922
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1922
Page
1
A promotional appeal urges investing in Preferred Shares of a growing public utility, promising 8 percent interest with a monthly payment plan and optional lump sum in April 1922. It argues high rates result from tight money and low rates from abundant money, urging timely purchase to lock in yields.
In a 1922 vignette by McClure Syndicate, David Henderson, desiring Lois Mardis, plots cave man tactics to win her. After overhearing her friend’s doubt, he stages a public scene, rescuing Lois in white stockings and demanding marriage. Lois finally agrees, then melts into a smile as they enter her door.
A wild weasel uses a dancing ploy to lure lapwings on a meadow. It pretends madness by jumping and twisting while inching closer. startled birds scatter as a final spring reveals the weasel gripping a neck and claiming its meal.
A foreign firm reports a metal alloy with 16 percent iron 60 percent chromium and 2 to 5 percent molybdenum may become a cheaper platinum substitute. The alloy resists hydrochloric nitric and sulfuric acids and even boiling aqua regia, suggesting value in chemical manufacture and analysis.
A shark resembling Devonian era species in teeth and features was captured off Norway, with a similar specimen taken by the prince of Monaco's yacht near Madeira in 188?. Other finds in Japanese seas, together with these, form the only known live representatives of the Devonian shark on Earth.
A Boston Transcript note observes that many famous names recur in Columbia University enrollments, listing Chester A. Arthur Jr and Ulysses S. Grant among the notable names, and adds unusual entries such as Ann Church Colin and Mildred Fenr Menmory, illustrating recurring and odd naming trends.
A National Geographic writer hails the dolphin as the deep’s swift wanderer. It spends life in open seas and, while idle moves slowly, it can surge with incredible rapidity when pursuing prey. Its color shifts vividly, with blue or emerald hues and yellow fins, blinking iridescently like opal as it turns.
In a small town Francesca debates ending her relationship with Bil Thorpe while Roger Benedict courts her rival Betty Lane. A dramatic confession from Bil reveals he is engaged to Betty, reshaping Francesca's schemes as she vows to abandon flirting forever.
The article describes tortoise shell being harder and more brittle than horn, requiring heat and pressure to work. It details separating carapace plates, smoothing irregularities, and polishing before shaping. Large plates form via careful heating and pressing to create invisible joints. Combs are cut with a twinning machine creating interlocking teeth.
A compact method explains cork removal from a bottle using cold water to shrink the cork then hot water to expand the air inside. Poking the cork with a hat pin helps move it into the neck before immersion. Greasing the neck may speed the process and illustrate a simple physics principle.
Two cases noted in one district reveal a boy nearly thirteen who after nine years of schooling reads only two-letter words yet understands "of" and can do arithmetic. He recognizes digits 2 but is baffled by 122. The condition, termed word blindness, seems to be a failure to recognize written words or numbers, with implications for learning.
The New York Sun notes the harp predates Jewish tradition by antiquity. Jubal is cited as the inventor in 3875 B C, with the Irish king Brian Boru’s harp moved to Dublin College museum in 1785 and instrument maker Erard improving and patenting the harp around 1795 to its modern form.
Federal Bureau of Mines warns carbon monoxide, colorless and odorless, as a common cause of industrial and dwelling deaths. It arises from incomplete combustion in furnaces, chimneys, gas stoves, and engines, with typical car exhaust levels 5 to 7 percent and up to 13 percent in some cases.
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