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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1930
Page
8
A reader recalls gaining and losing weight over a year, noting fat gain was a pound heavier and now believes overweight is foolish. The change came from cutting out sweets, eating modestly, and taking Kruschen Salts with breakfast each morning.
Fashion notes praise sheer wool dresses as the season’s top style, replacing bulky wool with soft, draped fabrics that mimic silk. The look pairs with short fur jackets and formal hats, highlighting fur trims, turquoise beads, sequins, and velvet hats in a chic, elegant fall palette.
The London Telegraph notes birds build ingenious nests across species. Long tailed tits craft moss and grass domes with a side entrance, woodpeckers hollow trunks, swallows bind walls with sun-dried clay, guillemots lay eggs on sea ledges, grebes and coots use reed foundations, lapwings hollow nests.
Professor D M Watson of the University of London argues that studying pterodactyl bodies could unlock flight efficiency in modern aircraft. He notes these extinct reptiles had wings over 20 feet wide, hollow bones, and leathery wing membranes, suggesting superior aerial adaptation compared with today’s birds.
The article discusses pterodactyls with ridge muscles suggesting speed and flight capabilities, noting how bones and skeletons studied by Professor Watson could inform modern aircraft design. It says these reptiles glided and flapped, became extinct as climates cooled, and contrasts old kitchens and life insurance concepts in a reflective newspaper voice.
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