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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1915
Page
8
Royal Theatre presents A Lady of Quality with a warm period drama. Local residents attend weekends with many visits noted, while theater ads urge families to come see the film and the free moving pictures on Main Street.
Sir Abbot Sylvester returns to his neglected estate after twenty years to find his wife Martha and their daughter alive in the attic room. A dramatic reunion unfolds at the old house, revealing shared memories, forgiveness, and a restored family bond after a long separation.
A neighborhood exchange features a young man asked if he knows the Jacksons. He replies he does not know all members but says he always speaks to the dog at the front gate as he passes.
The piece describes a novel method to correct champagne faults by injecting measured agents during secondary fermentation. A long hollow needle pierces the cork and a syringe delivers the remedy, then cork elasticity seals the wound. It notes the historic guillotine and mentions Dr. Guillotin's death in 1814.
A new German book by Hector Fleishman challenges the long held claim that Dr. Guillotin invented the guillotine or that he died after its adoption. The author notes Guillotin proposed equal law treatment and later a simple beheading device, but claims the machine’s mechanism was not his invention.
The article estimates average male stride as 31.5 inches and travel speed as 7,158 yards per hour. It equates to about 125 steps per minute or 7,500 per hour. Stride lengths by army are United States 30 inches, German 31.5 inches, Austria 29.5 inches, Italian 29.5 inches, French 29.5 inches, and British 30 inches.
The Carnegie Observatory on Mount Wilson California features a white canvas building housing mirrors rather than a telescope tube. Visitors stay in chalets with a separate small house for each guest. Observations have run since April 1904 with daily photo heliographs and other pictures, not including spectro heliograms.
After the Bastile’s destruction the bells were taken to a Romilly foundry but not destroyed. They now reside in a Paris private house on Avenue d Eylan with engravings stating Made by Louis Cheron for the Royal Bastile in 1761 and bearing royal arms with a large cross.
A authorities puts direct physical loss from smoke emissions at 600 million dollars yearly. The piece argues this waste dwarfs other losses and highlights additional indirect harms including uncleanliness poverty disease and death caused by slovenly chimney practices.
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