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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1913
Page
6
A World column explores how taste and smell are chemically connected, noting smell as taste at a distance and detailing tongue papillae types, taste cells, and how solubility drives perception. Differences among individuals and the limits of taste perception are discussed with quirks of rapid salty versus sweet detection.
The U S assay office in New York operates as a compact yet high value refinery. It buys impure gold and gold alloys from the public and refines them to pure form using electrolytic methods. Minimum accepted material is 20 percent gold and silver and a value of at least $100.
A survey notes many future leaders were college sports stars. Harvard presidents Charles William Eliot and Abbott Lawrence Lowell played crew and track in the 1850s and 1870s, while Yale figures Thomas Lee McClung and H. S. Graves led teams in 1891. Other fame names include Peary, Bacon, Spalding, Speer, Davis, Remington, Pinchot, and Reed across Bowdoin, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Lehigh.
The scientist argues against raw fruit and vegetables advocating cooking and boiling to avoid illness. He demonstrates by showing ripe bananas and describes wiping all utensils with flame sterilization. He emphasizes that all foods should be cooked or baked and water should be boiled or filtered before use.
In Chinese Turkestan deserts a vast forgotten civilization lies buried by sands. Manuscripts in unknown script are preserved. M Gauthiot, a young Frenchman, has decoded fragments with notes in known languages. The find may expand knowledge of Sogdiana and its people cited by Strabo and Herodotus.
An improved searchlight uses a telescope to direct the beam. The observer swings the telescope and the light follows, keeping the beam on the telescope’s aim. Electrical mechanism controls the searchlight. Exchange.
London plans a postal tube nine feet in diameter and six and a half miles long. It will fit two two foot wide tracks for steel motorized trucks. The route will be bored beneath London clay.
Grandma Kittredge endures the sale of the Boston walnut set as Kitty the Third faces a future in New York. The auction reveals the judge's hidden bank and hints at a plan to stay in the old house, with Kitty the Fourth possibly to come.
A German scientist calculated the cycle of a water drop from ocean to vapor to condensation. He estimates 13,460 part of the ocean’s annual renewal travels from sea to air, with a molecule spending about 3460 years in the ocean before evaporation. After evaporation the drop condenses in about ten days and returns swiftly to the ocean.
EXAMINE OUR LUMBER closely and you will understand why we can truthfully claim superiority for it. The smooth straight grain, the absence of large knots, the thorough seasoning all show the experienced economy of using our stuff. Follow their aeons and profit we do by being customers of ours. M.H. PINNEY Newberg, Ore.
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