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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1919
Page
6
Reports describe wooden cannons crafted from twisted grain logs in Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Logs five to six feet long and one foot in diameter are hollowed and wrapped with rawhide, heated and bound to tighten the mass. The crude weapons reportedly fire many times before failure.
Geologists and anthropologists debate unearthed remains in Vero Florida, dating to the pleistocene. Some insist the bones belong to modern Indians buried in ancient strata, others argue natural soil accumulation moved bones and burial is unlikely.
The article surveys curious German fortune telling practices. It describes listening to kettle tones to guess a lover’s vocation, fortune telling with walnut shells, tea leaf movements in a bowl, and lead casting from molten metal poured into cold water. Each method is seen as symbolic of the future.
The text notes plants showing attachment and distress when separated. Begonia and fuchsia examples illustrate apparent bond and sadness. It suggests plants may possess feelings and possibly reasoning, urging interest in nature’s curious aspects beyond human senses.
The body of Sir Starr Jameson known as Doctor Jim rests beside Cecil Rhodes in the Matoppos of Matabeleland. Remains were shipped from England after removal from Kenil Green cemetery to Africa and then conveyed to Bulawayo and through Rhodesia to the lofty view called The View of the World.
Astronomers describe a structure where no observer has seen the sun. A series of concentric shells surround a central core, which must be extremely hot and constitute over nine tenths of the solar mass. This inner nucleus is the true sun, forever hidden from view, with the outer chromosphere about four thousand miles thick.
A reflective exhortation urges readers to examine their life path and determine who or what governs them. It argues that being ruled is acceptable only if the guiding force is worthy and just, so one can later feel the race has been well run.
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