Geniuses Proved Stronger by Health, Not Weakness
Professor Rudolph Kinder argues that mental power and bodily strength go together, listing Socrates Isaac Newton Darwin Herbert Spencer Shakespeare Goethe Dante Leonardo da Vinci Michelangelo Galileo and Athens as examples. He says a robust body underpins greater achievement and urges improving public health to foster more geniuses.
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Rudolph M. Kinder
New York University
Bender
New York Sun
Binder
Professor Binder
Socrates
Sir Isaac Newton
Darwin
Herbert Spencer
Spencer
Shakespeare
Goethe
Dante
Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo
Galileo
Athens
Flowers Unfold in Four Series
A flower has four whorls: outer sepals protect the bud, petals attract and protect inner parts, stamens supply pollen, and carpels house ovules that become seeds when fertilized.
How Rodents Spent Nights
Vernon Bailey of the Department of Agriculture studies night behavior in mice and other rodents. He observes some on a sleeping porch, others in the library, and places some in outdoor temperature to study winter hibernation. The research includes 15 live rodent species captured in Arizona and beavers at the National Zoological Park.
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Vernon Bailey
The
Biological Survey
Department of Agriculture
Mr. Bailey
Arizona
National Zoological Park
The Graball Inn Pennant Design discussion
A brief exchange over a newly designed pennant for the Graball Inn. The Guest compliments the flag as very pretty while Captain Kiedrew references a skull and crossbones motif.
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Graball Inn
Captain Kiedrew the
Survive 7 Still Grudges in Old Jot of Local Anecdotes
A Loculsville Courier Journal item recalls seven survivors and a lingering grudge tied to Noah myths in a collection of old anecdotes.
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Noah
Loculsville
Success Seekers and the Value of Honest Industry
Don Marquis urges young financiers to seek honest industrious partners, stressing thrift and sobriety. Build a stable network of dependable people, accumulate small savings, and avoid wastrels to ensure steady income and lasting business relations.
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Don Marquis
New York Sun
Wastress
Diamond Cut Diamond tale of guile and fraud ends in escape
William J. Burns recalls a courtroom ruse where a doctor pretends a boy’s ear is destroyed to claim damages. The boy flees with a yell like a Comanche Indian, ending the case against the school teacher.
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William J. Burns
Washington
Herod
Moose and Boxer Cow Strikes in Snow Packed Yerds
In Canada’s northern forests moose form small bands to trample snow and create packed lanes called yerds for browsing. The cow moose lacks horns but uses two forefeet with boxer like strikes, aiding defense against wolves dogs and hunters.
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Canada
Stops Planes Cotton Waste Ban In Air Service Workshops
Cotton waste long used for cleaning machin ery has been banned in Canadian air service workshops. Engines have停止 after overhaul due to small cotton thread fragments left on parts after cleaning. Lieut Col EF Stedman warns commercial firms to prohibit such use of waste.
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Canadian Air Service
EF. W. Stedman
Air Board
Science Service
London’s Literary Nights Institutes Open to All
London city council establishes literary night institutes for residents over eighteen. Courses cover music dances astronomy biology horticulture history languages art and modern English literature. Institutes operate cooperatively and reflect student ideas with educational visits included.
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London
London County Council
Alexandria Exposed as City of Powerful Contradictions
Harold Lake says in the London Daily Mail that Alexandria blends beauty and ugliness, splendor and squalor, sacred and vile. The city’s old spirit fights modern trappings as motor cars meet funeral processions and wealth sits beside beggars, with the Coptic monastery memory contrasting with guides to vice.
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Alexandria
Harold Lake
London Daily Mail
Mr. Lakes
Egyp
Paris
Britain
Europe
Stock Exchange
Italian chemist Majorna produces minute artificial diamonds
Majorna, an Italian chemist, claims to create tiny artificial diamonds by heating carbon with an electric arc and then applying a sudden piston-driven pressure about 5,000 times atmospheric. He says extreme heat and pressure alone can form diamond from carbon, unlike Moissan who used carbon in molten iron and cooling under pressure.
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Majorna
Moissan
Labor laws in Japan limit child work hours and grant holidays
Henry Sloane of Toronto reports on Japan's child labor rules. The law restricts children under twelve from work without permission and caps under fifteen at twelve hours daily with curfews and mandatory rest. It allows two monthly holidays, longer night work rules, and lunch or longer rest as specified.
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Japan
Henry Sloane
Toronto
Orient
Victoria Bridge Remains Victoria Bridge Through Time
The Victoria Jubilee bridge spanning the St. Lawrence at Montreal began as the Victoria tubular bridge named for Queen Victoria and was opened by King Edward VII as prince of Wales in 1860. A later cantilever replacement in 1897 98 kept the official label Victoria tubular bridge while popular usage endures as the Victoria bridge.
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St. Lawrence
Montreal
Edward VII
Prince of Wales
Notice Petition To Improve Highway In Floyd Township
Putnam County Auditor Ralph E. Knoll announces a petition by Jonathan Hansell and 88 others to upgrade part of a public highway in Floyd Township to 40 feet wide by grading draining paving with stone or gravel and bridge it. A hearing before the Board of Commissioners is set for Monday June 5 1922 at Greencastle Indiana.
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Putnam County
Indiana
Jonathan Hansell
Floyd Township
Board of Commissioners
State of Indiana
County of
Putnam
Board of Commissioners of
Floyd
Greencastle
Ralph E. Knoll
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