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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1919
Page
7
A discussion on shaping hereditary traits through training of muscles and sensory impressions to improve habits. It argues that with corrective, helpful stimuli, the hereditary nature of weak or unstable individuals can be aided and elevated from an unhappy state.
A discussion notes that the singing of telegraph wires is sometimes viewed as a weather omen though opinions differ on what weather it predicts. Likely the aeolian harp effect explains the sound, depending on wind direction relative to wire alignment. Pitch variations arise from tension changes as temperatures shift.
An exchange notes methods to immobilize birds and mammals at will. Kircher allegedly immobilized fowls by placing them on their backs in the seventh century. The experiment reportedly works on sparrows, a wryneck, and a finch immediately after capture, excluding training. The writer also claims success with various mammals, especially mice.
A well known Scottish divine intervened as a drunken man caused a disturbance on a carriage. He calmed the man and ensured the rest of the journey remained peaceful. Before alighting the drunk muttered threats, then greeted the minister and claimed he knows what it is to be drunk.
It argues that knowing more does not guarantee success because many fail to apply knowledge. Knowledge wasted is like gold buried underground. success comes from using knowledge within applicable law and practical steps rather than merely possessing facts.
Quotation emphasizes timely justice as moral duty. It contrasts prompt action with injustice and urges immediate fulfillment of our obligations to administer justice.
Men can have no hope in work while living hand to mouth, and you cannot spread habits of intelligence among the laboring class if their means are too poor or leisure too short to enable participation in surrounding culture.
The fragment cites the New Century Journal describing a bell and lines spoken in a sing song tone. The quote invokes Heavenly Father’s care if we are good, but notes people must take care of themselves, reflecting a cautionary rural sentiment.
The Chinese introduced rice culture to Hawaii and remain the islands chief rice growers. They first planted sugar cane at the Crossroads of the Pacific and manufactured sugar, and when Hawaiians ceased taro cultivation it was the Chinese who became taro planters.
Rosaries sold in Kandahar are made largely from soft silicate of magnesia quarried about thirty miles NW of the city. The material also yields soapstone and antimony in quantity. The stone ranges from light yellow to bluish white and is typically opaque.
A historic weathercock on the First National Bank Portland clock tower, aged 130, weighs over sixty pounds and was originally carved in oak. It began life atop the old courthouse in 1778 and now sports a fresh gilt coat.
Dr Horatio N Wood Sr a noted specialist and medical writer chats with the late Dr Horace Howard Furness Shakespearean scholar. A third man arrives and Wood jokes that the three of them can now forget the cold presenting Mr Cole.
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