X-Ray May Preserve Food Indefinitely
Six American firms back MIT research showing high voltage X-rays and electron beams can sterilize foods such as milk and water without reducing quality. If economical, milk delivery could end, with households buying weekly or monthly from stores. meat penetration remains a concern per institute comments.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technolgy
Boston
Journal of Applied Physics
MIT
American Meat Institute
Hair Mosaic Artist Stuns With Hair Portraits
Winnipeg, John Woerlee, a retired wigmaker, creates mosaics from human hair pasted on glass. Using hair from Switzerland, he paints with tweezers and a glue egg mixture, avoiding artificial color. A Holland native, his living room features a Manitoba Legislative Buildings portrait two by three feet in size.
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Winnipeg
John Woerlee
Switzerland
Woerlee
Peace pioneer Rosika Schwimmer dies at 70 in New York
Rosika Schwimmer, famed pacifist and promoter of a world federation to abolish war, died at Mt. Sinai Hospital. Born in Budapest, she advised Henry Ford on the 1915 peace ship idea, became Hungary’s minister to Switzerland in 1918, and was the first female ambassador. Her brain was willed to Cornell University.
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Rosika Schwimmer
Henry Ford
Europe
Mt. Sinai Hospital
Schwimmer
Stockholm
Mme. Schwimmer
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World Federation of Nations
Five Nations
Budapest
Switzerland
Cornell University
Farmer seeks diet advice after fatigue at 97 years old
An Australian farmer wrote to a Sydney practitioner asking if his daily fatigue is due to wrong food. He notes he is 97 years old and wants guidance on his diet after a long day of work.
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Australia
Sydney
Makers Of Coins Have No Chance To Become Rich
Denver report on the United States Mint describes a vast gold reserve worth 5.75 billion dollars stored in a five story vault. Mint workers handle thousands of coins daily and the article notes high productivity and strict safeguards along with odd facts about pennies, gold ingots and the processing of used materials.
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Moses Smith
United States Mint
Denver Mint
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Mint
Bread And Milk Diet Suits Two Black Bears
In Boise Idaho two bears at the city zoo, Lochinvar and Lovelace, have lived on a bread and water diet as meat prices rose. Zookeeper Fred Knosp could not afford meat, until Beatrice Burdock donated five pounds of fresh horsemeat. The bears refused the meat and preferred bread.
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Boise Zoo
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Lovelace
Fred Knosp
Beatrice Burdock
Elizabeth Lizzie and global hive of oddities headline
A quirky mosaic of notes on spelling Elizabeth and British imports to Australia. A Montreal cocoa spill creates a smoky street haze. A London theater dog owns false teeth yet barks true. New Jersey beekeepers host a picnic while a baboon in England frolics through a home and sips likker before napping in the best room.
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Montreal
England
Water as Weapon in Biblical Floods and Miracles
A concise survey of water used as a weapon in biblical narratives. It highlights Noah, Joshua, and Moses as key figures where floods and seas serve divine judgments or miraculous crossings.
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Joshua
Jordan
Moses
Red Sea
Airborne Hoppers Threaten Seedling Crops In Agriculture
H L Seamans warns mature grasshoppers can travel long distances with Wings aiding mobility and destroy seedling winter wheat and fall rye. Wet bait up to 20 pounds per acre can protect crops. newer sprays like chlordane help on vegetation but may fail if applied to seedlings before the poison acts.
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H. L. Seamans
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Woman ordered to part with cats at North Wales home
Miss Mildred Lewis a 52 year old animal lover faced magistrates in Caergwrie North Wales after Hawarden Rural Council complained the home held 44 cats and kittens. She was fined 2 pounds for disobeying a February order to reduce the number of cats.
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London
Mildred Lewis
Caergwrie
North Wales
Lewis
Hawarden
Flintshire
Photosphere: Sun's bright rice grain surface revealed
The photosphere is described as the sun’s white hot radiating surface, appearing mottled with a rice grain texture and forming the visible boundary of the solar disk.
Side notes mix wit and whimsy in a late 19th century column
A collage of wit on courtship and flirtation, anecdotes about child prodigies, New York beauty services, and famed sword swallower Chevalier Cliquot. The column blends farcical quotes, reader letters, and odd historical vignettes to entertain readers.
Stamps of Europe Feature Animals Birds Across Nations
philatelic notes survey animal and bird stamps by Liechtenstein Albania Austria Bosnia France Iceland Greenland Norway Sweden and other regions. It highlights 1920s 1930s 1940s issues including eagles cranes horses dogs reindeer and farm animals along with commemoratives from the United States Nicaragua and Belgium Congo.
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Albania
Spain
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Austria
Bosnia
Bulgaria
Iceland
Philatelic Zoo
Greenland
Norway
Sweden
Who's Who
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Oregon Territory
John McLoughlin
McLoughlin
Jason Lee
Repaid Loan Just As She Promised
The Atlanta Journal recounts a cashier in a local bank who encounters a curly headed four year old peering into the window. She asks to borrow two cents to buy candy and promises to repay that afternoon. The cashier accepts the terms and the girl returns to settle the debt.
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The
Atlanta Journal
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