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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1924
Page
8
A Challenger expedition member reports Earth’s small size beside Jupiter and other planets. Neptune and Uranus are described as dwarfs by comparison, while Earth remains larger than Mars and Mercury and only slightly smaller than Venus.
The death of Lady Colvin ends a long life that connected closely with literature and with Robert Louis Stevenson. She, Frances Jane Featherstonhaugh of a Northumbrian line, shaped and inspired letters and friendships across decades in Ireland and London.
The article discusses machines that graph a person’s voice as wave lines like a land map. It notes nervousness alters the voice to shrill tones and praises D B W Scripture for detecting nervousness via voice pictures. It suggests a voice camera could become common in medical offices.
A mother in Indiana returning from blackberry picking used iodine on chigre bites. Three year old Betty noticed spots on the skin and later exclaimed upon seeing white pigs with sandy hair patches, calling them chigre pigs, in a report from the Indianapolis News.
A Louisville Courier Journal humor item features an old boss and Jim discussing his wife leaving and returning. The punchline shows she left thinking she could do better but returned, not finding Jim enough for the movies.
Sir Charles Parsons proposes a 12 mile deep shaft to probe the earth’s interior, arguing it could reveal new elements and energy sources. He estimates $100 million cost, 50 years to sink, bottom temperatures around 272F, with air locks and electrical hoisting to manage heat and pressure.
The term bush means more than country to Australians. It evokes vast landscapes, diverse scenery, and personal memories from regions from New South Wales plains to Queensland gum forests, capturing the nation’s wide horizons and the starry sky.
The Jenny Lind association plans a full length statue in Battery Park near the Aquarium as a tribute to the Swedish soprano. The dedication is set for October 6, 1925, marking her 105th birthday and following the 75th anniversary of her first U.S. appearance on September 11, 1850.
A Los Angeles Times quip recalls a Venice Beach incident where a duty officer admonished a heavyset flapper about her tights. She retorted that the officer should mind his own business and strutted away, highlighting the era’s costume policing and public propriety.
Detroit News notes a Jefferson Avenue car conductor stepped into the street to retrieve an elderly woman's dropped handkerchief and returned it with a courteous gesture. An observer exclaimed the scene defies belief in this age.
Washington forest rangers discover that using tree branches as antennas transmits messages two to three miles. A copper nail driven into a tree trunk connects to the sending instrument and start transmission. Experiments aim to boost efficiency for ranger communication between stations.
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