20 Nov 1915
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1915
Page
1
Ward, a Chicago attorney, lures a blue eyed river woman into a whirlwind romance on a Mississippi river trip. An accident ends the affair as Ward faces a fatal case tied to Ivan Sederstrom, a dying inventor, and a court verdict clears Ward of blame in Sederstrom’s death. The girl vanishes as Ward contends with memory and pursuit.
An 1890s note explains how bullets traveling at 1500 feet per second or faster generate two distinct sounds as they create a vacuum behind them. It compares the pack pack crack of a 2700 fps Springfield to a later heavy thud, noting sound lags behind the bullet due to speed differences.
Garrett P. Serviss explains in the New York Journal how the earth’s twin motions around the sun and through space create a spiral path at about twenty-two miles per second. He notes the vast energy of this motion, yielding nearly three sextillion horsepower, and posits that instant rest would vaporize Earth, creating a distant nebula seen as Jones Nebula by other observers.
The phrase A fool's paradise traced to a borderland near the blessed realm where the praise less and the blameless dead dwelt. Today it denotes a mental condition of those who fool themselves with unwarranted hopes as described by New York American.
Fruits undergo marked changes in chemical composition as they grow to full size and ripen. In some fruits ripening increases sugar content and decreases acid, while in others both sugar and acid decline during ripening.
In the whare matoro or wooing house Maori youth gathered for songs and dances. At quiet moments a girl would declare her love for a suitor, waiting for his assent or silence. Mothers also sometimes pressed for their son to wed. If rejected, mockery followed and the couple could use the house themselves.
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