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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1949
Page
6
Dr. Charles G. Abbot reports fourteen simultaneous solar wave ebbs and surges within a master 273 month cycle. He cites rigorous analysis of Mt Montezuma measurements from Smithsonian Observatory, linking solar rhythms to earth weather.
Michigan state college foresters advise Christmas tree growers to prune Scots pines now to avoid rapid, lanky growth. Forester Lester Bell notes unpruned stands yield only 30 to 40 percent merchantable trees, while early pruning can raise this to 90 to 95 percent by trimming at peak growth before buds set. A few hours of pruning can yield thicker, denser trees and higher returns.
The peanut called earthnuts monkeynuts and groundnuts remains a major global commodity. In 1948 world output neared 11 million tons with India China and the United States as the top producers.
The first world yachting championship sailed August 22 1851 around the Isle of Wight was won by the New York Yacht Club’sAmerica. The trophy awarded by the Royal Yacht Squadron at Cowes became known as the America's Cup and has remained in American hands despite British challengers efforts to regain it.
Heat engineers urge careful coal storage with a streamlined path from truck to bin to furnace. Five essentials include locating the bin for easy movement, holding five tons or more, sloped bins for hand feeding, possible interior or exterior placement, and hopper-type bottom for bin-feed stokers or simply allowing coal to remain in place. A 6 by 6 by 5 percent foot bin holds five tons.
The article notes railways proved vital in war from 1830 onward. It cites a British regiment moving 34 miles in two hours near the Liverpool and Manchester line. It mentions 1833 plans by a German for a strategic rail line and wartime rail use in the American Civil War, with Congress authorizing rail seizure in 1862 and about 2,105 miles taken over.
DDT or dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane was first prepared in 1874 by Othmar Zeidler in Strasbourg Germany. In the 1930s Paul Muller discovered its insecticidal properties in Basle Switzerland. Reports of its efficacy reached the United States in 1939 and military needs spurred rapid adoption.
The text outlines ways to contract undulant fever including consumption of raw milk and milk products, contact with infected animal tissues during butchering, exposure to cattle swine and goats with brucellosis, and handling abscesses in horses. It mentions various transmission routes and references brucellosis and related terms with fragmented phrasing.
In a brief reading moment more than 4,500 loaves are baked nationwide. The American Bakers Association notes U.S. bread output exceeds fourteen and a half billion loaves per year, enough for about 100 loaves per person annually.
The most violent quake in history struck Assam India north of the Bay of Bengal and Calcutta on June 12 1697. It caused complete destruction over about 9000 square miles, with moderate destruction across 160000 square miles. The tremor was felt over 1750000 square miles roughly half of Europe, and major topographic changes occurred.
The Journal of the American Medical Association reports seventy two infant poisonings from aniline coal tar dyes used to mark diapers, including five deaths. It advises boiling and thorough drying after stamping to fix the dye and prevent absorption, noting non toxic alternatives lack permanence for large institutions.
A report recalls that the great composer George Frideric Handel became totally blind while writing the oratorio Jephtha and endured three unsuccessful cataract operations. The text also mentions Milton’s attributed blindness by Melville-Tetinel and notes inherited myopia from his parents.
Wool buyers urge care at shearing pens to protect 1949 clip quality. Berry N Duff of Colorado A M ext sheep and wool specialist lists don ts and musts: separate belly wools with burrs, remove black fleeces and shear last, use clean concrete or wood floors, keep pens swept and sweepings separate, use fleece paper twine only, tie fleeces flesh side out and not too tight, avoid wet wool, and shield bags from weather to prevent quality loss.
York shire hens lay eggs with green yolks due to their diet. National Geographic notes yolk color reflects feed, with greens reducing yellows and heavy corn/alfalfa deepening hue. Despite color, green yolks offer full nutrition, but market demand favors traditional yellow yolks.
The heat pump harvests low temperature heat from earth water or air and delivers it at higher temperatures. It raises temperature by compressing a gas after it circulates through coils. It can be reversed in summer to provide cooling for a home or building.
Researchers compiling the World Book encyclopedia report a postwar drop in inventions. The US Patent Office granted well over 70 patents weekly from 1935 to 1940, then about 460 weekly in 1948. In 1947 the weekly average was 885, vs 430 in 1936.
Tropical fireflies in the American tropics grow larger than United States species. The best known is cucujo or Pyrophorus noctilucus of the Elateridae family. Seen by day the insect is greenish black and one to two inches long with a luminous nodule behind each eye. When it lights up, it glows all over.
In 1849 Dallas welcomed its first newspaper printing press and the town’s first piano arriving by oxcart. A scoal bowling alley wagon and buggy factory and tavern followed quickly as Alexander Cockrell, a Kentuckian, became the city’s first industrialist by manufacturing bricks, selling lumber, and contracting ferry services, plus building Dallas’s first Trinity River bridge.
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