Ray May Preserve Food Indefinitely
Six American concerns back a MIT led electronics project to sterilize foods with X rays or electron beams. Preliminary results show bacteria killed in milk water juice cultures and liquids without harming quality. If economical the milk delivery habit could vanish with weekly or monthly store purchases. Meat safety remains contested with limited penetration in meat.
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New York
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Boston
Journal of Applied Physics
MAT
American Meat Institute
Hair Mosaic Artist Builds Portraits From Strands
Winnipeg craftsman John Woerlee creates mosaics from human hair rather than paint. A retired wigmaker, he pastes hair on glass using fish glue and egg white, sourcing shades from Switzerland to recreate detailed images such as Manitoba's Legislative Buildings.
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Winnipeg
John Woerlee
Switzerland
Woerlee
Mother Of Peace Ship Expedition Is Dead
Rosika Schwimmer 70, famed pacifist and promoter of the 1915 peace ship idea, died at Mt. Sinai Hospital New York. The Budapest born journalist and former Hungarian minister to Switzerland championed internationalist peace, proposed a world federation to abolish war, and earned Nobel Prize nominations from five nations. Her brain was willed to Cornell University.
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New York
Rosika Schwimmer
Henry Ford
Europe
Mt. Sinai Hospital
Schwimmer
Stockholm
Mme. Schwimmer
United Nations
World Federation of Nations
Five Nations
Budapest
Switze
Cornell University
Makers Of Coins Have No Chance To Become Rich
Denver Mint runs about 5.75 billion dollars in gold stored in a five story vault. Workers process bath water and clothing to recover gold dust. Mint staff punch out large quantities of coins daily and rely on precise scales. They earn modest wages while handling vast gold reserves and ingots, with curious facts about penny stacks and platinum hides.
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Denver
Colo
Moses Smith
United States Mint
Denver Mint
Smith
Mint
Australian farmer seeks diet advice for fatigue after work
A rural farmer in Australia wrote to a Sydney practitioner asking if his tiredness after a day’s work is caused by diet. He claimed he was 97% years old and asked for guidance on proper nutrition to restore energy.
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Australia
Sydney
Bread And Milk Diet Suits Two Black Bears
In Boise two bears Lochinvar and Lovelace at the zoo live on bread and water as meat prices rise. Zookeeper Knosp couldn’t afford meat, until Mrs Beatrice Burdock donated five pounds of horsemeat which the bears refused, preferring bread.
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Boise. Id
Boise Zoo
Lochinvar
Lovelace
Fred Knosp
Beatrice Burdock
One Word Lizzie Eludes Nickname in Elizabeth Spelling
A quirky item notes fifty spellings for Elizabeth and gives playful examples. It mentions Australia inviting a quarter of Britain's population, a cocoa spill in Montreal, a London dog with false teeth, and a baboon’s antics in England as a whimsical wrap of oddities.
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Elizabeth
Lizzie
Water as Weapon in Biblical Tales
The piece surveys major biblical examples where water serves as a weapon. It highlights Noah's flood, Joshua crossing the Jordan, and Moses parting the Red Sea as decisive acts of divine intervention using water.
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Noah
Joshua
Jordan
Moses
Red Sea
Airborne Hoppers Threaten Seedlings in Wheat and Rye
H L Seamans of the Dominion Department of Agriculture warns that mature grasshoppers can devastate seedling winter wheat and fall rye due to their mobility. Wet bait at up to 20 pounds per acre can protect crops, while sprays or dusts like chiordane or chlorinated camphene are less effective when applied directly to young plants.
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H. L. Seamans
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Indiscriminate cat lover ordered to cut numbers
Miss Mildred Lewis, 52, described as an animal lover, kept 44 cats and kittens in her Caergwrie home. Magistrates ordered her to part with all but two and fined £2 for disobeying a February order to reduce cats on the premises.
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London
Mildred Lewis
Caergwrie
North Wales
Lewis
Hawarden
Flintshire
Photosphere: Sun’s white hot radiating surface named
The photosphere is described as the sun’s white hot radiating surface with a mottled rice grain texture, forming the visible layer from which light escapes into space.
Shadowed pursuits and stories from a past era
A collage of curiosities, pairing social dating advice with eccentric anecdotes. The piece notes clever tricks to spark courtship, childhood prodigies, Manhattan beauty services, a London reader query, silent film star King Baggott, and famed sword swallower Chevalier Cliquot with his perilous 14-sword feat and long life.
European animal and bird stamps highlighted in philatelic notes
Stamp Corner surveys European issues featuring animals such as stags rabbits and birds across Liechtenstein Albania Austria Bulgaria France Iceland Greenland Norway Sweden and others. It notes 1940s and 1920s stamp themes including cranes eagles horses chickens and doves plus U S commemoratives and requests Canadian Newfoundland and British North American stamp offers.
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Europe
Principality of
Liechtenstein
Albania
Spain
France
Austria
Bosnia
Bulgaria
Iceland
Greenland
Norway
Sweden
United States
Oregon Territory
Harlan Fiske Stone
Palomar Mountain Observatory
Clara Barton
Gold Star
Fort Kearney
Nicaragua
Gold Coast
Belgian Congo
Dominican Republic
Poland
Finland
Helsinki
Pratt Kuhn
Weirton St. W
Toronto 1
Ont
Repaid Loan Just As She Promised
A cashier at a local bank helps a curly headed four year old request two cents to buy candy. He questions the use and repayment. she promises to repay this afternoon. The child returns with two pennies and settles the loan as agreed.
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The
Atlanta Journal
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