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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1926
Page
3
Principal Grant Robertson argues in a recent address that libraries should become laboratories of sweetness and light. They should nurture the literature of power to humanize industrial society and uplift a crowded democracy beyond the reach of universities.
This piece traces how the term conjure once referred to the magician and oath bound ritual. It notes the shift from dark arts to stage tricks and explains how the phrase a name to conjure with survives as a metaphor for influence or power today.
The superintendent of a railway designed a motor driven scraper shovel to remove hard to reach ore and coal left in corners and under hatch openings. The machine uses an automatic dumper and can push material under hatchways to reach unloading buckets, performing the work of 12 to 40 shovelers and saving one to five hours per unload depending on boat type.
The article notes Chinese kitchens in American chop suey restaurants imitate Oriental mud stoves. Gas replaces wood in China, but in America ranges mimic the old model with tile. Chinese elements persist in cookware, water chestnut jars, and bamboo shoot slices in kitchens here and in the Faust.
The International date line aims to resolve objections to the 150 degrees west meridian where nearby islands differ in date by a day. Proposals favor keeping 186 degrees mid Pacific with a bend to align Alaska and Aleutian islands with America, and to bring South Sea Islands in line with Australia and New Zealand.
The New England piece discusses a superstition that combing hair after sunset brings misfortune. It links hair to personal identity and notes ancient beliefs about hair tied to strength and fate, citing Samson and Pliny and warning that night brings evil spirits and disturbance to the hair.
A vintage piece notes Sir Jagadis Bose’s claim that some plants are anchored animals, reacting to approaching people. It cites gardeners whose personality appears to influence bloom vigor, and observes that flowers seem to “love” certain individuals as dogs or horses respond to people.
Alberta and Saskatchewan became provinces on September 1 greeting majority at twenty one. The combined population rose from about 40,000 before 1905 to 1.5 million by a census for Canadian Pacific Railway. Agricultural output since birth grew from 40 million to 75 million dollars annually.
Niagara Falls is described as a colossal clock by which scientists gauge time. Receding at about two feet per year, the cataract would take tens of thousands of years to move from its original site near Queenstown. A parallel time check comes from the Mississippi delta, where seasonal sediment in water estimates land erosion rates.
A Selches explains how a sudden atmospheric pressure change over a large lake causes simultaneous level changes across the surface. Increased pressure lowers the local water surface while raising it elsewhere, and the reverse occurs with decreased pressure. Pulsations ensue until equilibrium reappears.
A British driver, visiting Rouen, offered 3,000 francs to the town mayor for local charities after confessing he once damaged a French woman's umbrella in 1916 while serving as a motor driver in the army. He said the incident haunted him and asked the mayor to accept the funds as recompense.
A fall young fan declared she bet on the home team but the visiting eleven led 27 to at end of the first period. Her friend teased that they would lose and the girl replied she bet kisses rather than points. American Legion Aluguzine.
A real estate broker urges public investment in a housing venture claiming safe returns. He cites example costs and profits from a test house, pledges open books, West Jersey Title and Guaranty Co as guarantees, and promises 20 percent yearly returns with shares at 100 dollars.
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