Irish yarns and a speedsters tale from a highway
A passage from Henry Robinson’s Further Memories of Irish Life recounts a roadside moment with two policemen watching speeding motorists. Colonel Nugent asks what happens if a driver ignores a desist order. the sergeant replies they would arrest. A torpedo-shaped racer speeds by at 70 mph. the constable cheers, praising the driver as the best yet.
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Henry Robinson
Sir Henry
Ireland
Col
Oliver Nugent
Nugent
Discovery of vitamine X boosts growth in lab animals
Dr Herbert M Evans of the University of California reports a glandular nutrition discovery with vitamine X. Experiments on rats tadpoles and guinea pigs show growth effects when the fluid is injected under the skin or into body cavities and given daily. The work centers on the pituitary gland and raises questions for human welfare.
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Herbert M. Evans
University of California
Berkeley
Evans
Ancient Chinese vase with secret design at British Museum
The British Museum acquires a Fifteenth century Chinese vase from the Hung Chih era featuring a near invisible secret design of rocks and waves traced with a needle. An official notes no special significance beyond a feature of Chinese art. A bronze bull figure from Babylonian antiquity, about 5,000 years old with missing limbs, is also added for possible religious use.
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Hung Chih
British Museum
Babylonia
Death Penalty for Laziness in Inca State
The text describes Inca society where the state controlled life and land distribution. It outlines three classes royal family priests and people. Everyone aged twenty one or eighteen for women faced arranged marriage and each child received land. Work was shared and compulsory. Laziness carried a death penalty.
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Peru
Athenaeum origins and global spread in antiquity
The Atheneum began as a temple in Athens sacred to Pallas Athene where poets and philosophers debated. An Atheneum in Rome founded by Emperor Hadrian in 125 A D studied poetry and rhetoric with a staff of professors as the Schols Romana until the fifth century. Similar institutions followed in Constantinople, Lyons, and Nimes. The term later described associations or buildings for literary or artistic purposes.
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Nimes
Kansas City Star
Old Oregon Trail Unity Plan Formed At Denver Meeting
Delegates from Colorado Nebraska Oregon Illinois and Iowa backed a transcontinental highway uniting the Old Oregon trail with the Lincoln and Denver routes. The plan calls for a continuous surfaced road from Washington D C to Seaside Oregon and Portland Oregon via Denver Fort Collins Cheyenne Granger Pocatello Olympia Baker Pendleton and more. The route would pass through Kansas City Topeka Omaha and Denver linking with the Oregon Washington segments and follow the pioneer trail from Independence Missouri to Olympia Washington.
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Virtue Found in Incompatibility in Marriage
A writer argues that total incompatibility keeps marriages lively. Drawing on Joan and a Seattle friend, she contends intelligent debate and critique prevent stagnation, with partners defending their ideals and remaining vibrant through daily friction.
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John
Joan
Marjory Swift
Washington Post
Killing for Food and Fun In Panama Jungle
T Gilbert Pearson described contrasts between native Indians who kill for food and American hunters who kill for sport. His Panama jungle field work for President Porras led to conservation laws by the Panaman parliament to curb export of birds and animals.
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T. Gilbert Pearson
New York
Kansas City
Canal Zone
Bear grease touted as hair growth remedy by Detroit photographer
A Detroit photographer recalls buying a large chunk of bear grease from a market carcass, using it as a hair growth treatment. He claims nightly application on his bald spot shows early signs of results and cites bear fat as an effective remedy.
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Detroit
Voice From a Fan Gramophone With Diaphragm Reproduces Voice
A French inventor, M. Lumiere, develops a gramophone using a 14 inch plaited diaphragm and needle holder to read records. He found an acoustic curiosity when a strange noise came from a fan of plaited paper during experiments, claiming voices sound as if from a living being.
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M. Lumiere
Prisons De Luxe in France Houses Single Inmates
France reportedly runs at least 61 prisons housing a single detainee. The lone prisoner enjoys comfort and relative luxury, performs a few odd jobs for the head jailer, and spends the rest of the day playing cards with jailers.
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France
Combative Rooster Attacks Car on Wiltshire Road
A gamecock on a country road in Wiltshire attacked its own reflection in a car’s enamel, making it hard to drive off. Repairs cost over 40 dollars and the insurance company has settled the bill.
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Wiltshire
England
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