Sunlight and Soil Shape Foliage Color in Plants
Sunlight chiefly drives color differences in foliage and flowers as plants absorb certain colors and reject others. Soil type and even root stock can alter color, with examples from New Jersey wildflowers versus Illinois varieties. Hydrangea colors shift to blue with alum-amended soil. hybrids create new shades though less predictably, and color variation may occur on a single stem due to hybridization or natural variation.
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New Jersey
Illinois
Beit
Gradually extending these limits in wild flowers
The note lists yellow, white, and purple as the commonest wild flower colors in that order. It claims yellow is the simplest primitive color while blue is the latest and most evolved, attributed to an Exchange source.
Scientific Notes Of Interest
The notes cover a year old condor before flight, ancient Chinese gas use, hot coffee in paper cups on a Chicago train, Can ton aviators' school plans, 1915 London weddings total 58354 vs 43373 and 41409, cotton moved by compressed air in California factory, German dental neglect prompting a nationwide schoolchildren care committee, and an electric locomotive’s 339 mile nonstop run on a western railway.
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Chicago
Canton
London
California
Germany
Shoestring Republic Vision of Chile Between Mountains and Sea
A compact, evocative description portrays Chile as a narrow land long as New York to San Francisco and bounded by mountains and coast. The image likens its cities to peering up at the hills, capturing a dramatic landscape in concise terms.
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Chile
New York
San Francisco
Lake Erie
Chile Advances Among World Nations In Growth Push
The article likens Chile to the Yankees of South America, noting twenty four provinces, a large province capable of holding multiple states, and aggressive economic expansion. It highlights nitrate wealth, a network of wireless stations, a focus on Panama trade, and twelve million dollars in port and dock improvements as Chile moves into the modern era.
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Arthur Ruhl
Chile
Pennsylvania
Vermont
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
South America
Panama
World Outlook
Northside notes mark passing and growth in Edenburg
Edenburg residents respond to deaths in Pittsburg and New Castle with family travel. Bessie and Ruth Krider visit. Jere Seamons to New Castle after his brother B Franklin Seamons dies. Harland Hawn and daughter Margaret visit from New Castle. The Sedwick children suffer whooping cough. Groundbreak for six room bungalow on Sedwick farm. North Side school closes term with picnic supper and talent show. Several grammar pupils plan to enter New Castle High School in fall.
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Bessie
Ruth Krider
Girard
Dickson
Jere Seamons
New Castle
B. Franklin Seamons
Harland Hawn
Margaret
Sedwick
North Side
New Castle High School
Williams resigns from Pennsylvania Engineering for Shenango tin plant
Joseph Williams of South Mill street has resigned his position at the Pennsylvania Engineering plant and accepted a job in the machine shop of the Shenango tin plant.
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Joseph Williams
South Mill Street
Pennsylvania Engineering Plant
Shenango Tin Plant
Art of Letter Writing Defined by James Howell
James Howell defined a true familiar letter as the art of expressing one's mind as if discoursing with the recipient in succinct and strict terms.
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James Howell
New explosive Terrorall claimed by Dr De Waltoff
Dr D De Waltoff, vice president of the American Med ico-Pharmaceutical league, and his Brooklyn chemist son announce a new explosive called Terrorall said to be 10 000 times as powerful as dynamite. They claim five grains could wreck the Woolworth tower and a plane dropped bomb could devastate a city ten miles square. The discovery arose from experiments with a gasoline substitute near New York, New Jersey sources.
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D. de Waltoff
American Medico-Pharmaceutical League
Brooklyn
Woolworth Tower
de Waltoff
New York
New Jersey
Dr James Headache Powder Ad Card
An old time remedy promises rapid relief from headache neuralgia and pain. The ad urges readers to send someone to the drug store for a dime package and notes relief within moments after taking the powder.
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Dr. James
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Frisco
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Patel
Edenburg
Northside
John Dickson
Pittsburg
Leetta Walker
D.de Waltofe
Taylor Millinery Co
Lowe Brothers Vernicol
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