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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1925
Page
6
At a New York medical convention Doctor Tonic argues air travel eases fear and sharpens thinking. He praises open planes for true travel thrill and urges busy commuters to fly to lift motivation and mood despite fatigue.
An account describes how during captivity pythons often refuse food and require forcible feeding. It recounts the method with one worker holding the tail, another restraining the head, and a third inserting meat into the snake’s mouth and guiding it toward the stomach with a stick and careful handling.
Aged authority now says stone does not expand at a uniform rate with temperature. Tests show small increases above normal cause slight expansion in austhic and limestone, but expansion accelerates with higher temperatures. Warble expands minimally at 100 C and about doubles at 200 C, affecting how stone materials behave in construction and contributing to warping of headstones in cemeteries.
The Mitchelswen cave in Ireland is a lime stone cavern noted for its vast connected passages resembling a city map. French explorer Martel first surveyed the feature and described its animal inhabitants, including a spider species unique to its recesses.
Thrift Magazine notes the proverb about picking up a pin has faded as efficiency grows. It states the United States uses over 20,000,000,000 pins yearly, about a pin per person, and argues modern pin forms are copies of ancient pins.
The note urges doing work with thought and noble purpose despite unfavorable circumstances. It counsels against whining and accepting hardship with self-respect and dignity, comparing cleaning a gut to blackening a shoe with religious zeal.
A New York journalist recalls a traveler’s tale of medical charlatans in an article from Hearer’s International Cosmopolitan. The piece describes a doctor pressuring a patient with fear tactics for an unneeded tuberculosis treatment and a large ensuing bill.
Professor Kenry Russell of Princeton proposes the earth’s age as 8 billion years. His method uses the Colorado River’s canyon carving time and uranium decay rates. He notes uranium’s long half life and the global lead deposits as evidence, implying a world that formed long before present.
The article describes a motorless glider perfected to release bombs from a battle plane enabling raiding bombers to unload their cargo at a distance safe from enemy aircraft fire. The glider then travels toward the target while the bomber remains out of the gun line.
Dr. Lee De Forest, famed for radio work, told a New York Harvard Club audience a tale of a man sentenced to a month for reckless driving. As the man was taken to jail he asked the judge to let him bring his radio set to his cell.
A historical note clarifies common misstatements about Abraham Lincoln and his sons. It explains Tad's real name Thomas and Willy’s death during the Civil War, contrasting public memory with documented facts and naming origins for Robert Todd, Edward Baker, and William Wallace Lincoln.
A device named the multiple electro entero graph devised by Sir W C Alverez of the University of California records abdominal activity like an earthquake seismograph. It is said to detect the path of food through the digestive tract, reveal digestion steps, and locate the exact spot and moment of trouble. The instrument uses a pendulum in a vacuum tube to mark its records.
Near East relief funds three schools for the blind in the region keep Braille Bibles. No complete Firaille Bibles exist. New Testaments in native Braille are present. Students hand punch the Braille from repurposed cardboard pages cut from American breakfast-food boxes.
Friends recall a Maine barber shop incident where Childe Hassam, in need of a shave, asked for a haircut. The barber warned against being mistaken for an artlet, and Hassam agreed to trim, avoiding a misidentification in the famed artist colony region.
John J. Hallorwa of Flushing recounts fishing off Fire Island with a group when bait ran short. He borrowed a gumdroy from a child and soon pulled in a three pound fluke.
Expositions cost fortunes and outcomes vary. From London and Paris to Chicago and St Louis, results swing between profits and deficits. Early exhibitions drew millions in visitors and large surpluses, while some events ended in deficits before later fairs turned profitable.
The article notes a centuries old Nile flute from an Egyptian noble’s tomb, discovered 2000 years ago and later referenced by Capper's Weekly. It explains the wind instrument’s single reedlike hole design creating simultaneous tones, producing a soft mellow sound. If reproduced, Twentieth century audiences might hear new music from the antique artifact.
A celebrated case ends with a young murderess cleared by the jury who reportedly thanked the jurors. The New York critic Mor Gerid mocks the episode likening it to a police court scene as he questions propriety and marriage.
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