Lyre Bird Of Australia Tops Songsters In Forest Dances
A Melbourne correspondent notes Australia's birds are vocal with the lyre bird as the nation’s greatest songster. The 15 inch bird imitates sounds from cross-cut saws to trains, dances before hens, and dwells in cool mountain fern gullies. It is shy, rarely captive, and elusive to photographers. The emu, also featured, stands five feet tall and is a bold, combative bird on the coat of arms.
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Australia
Melbourne
New York Times
layers of animal skin revealed in tanning process
An article explains the skin has three layers: epidermis, true skin, and under skin. The epidermis is removed during unhairing, exposing the true skin called the grain. The true skin, made of interlaced fibers, reacts with tanning agents to form leather, while the under skin contains glands and fat and is discarded during fleshing.
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Detroit News
Angina Pectoris and Its Painful Heart Cause
Angina pectoris is a severe chest pain caused by inadequate nourishment of the heart muscle. It results from problems in the coronary vessels and may be linked to poisons fevers alcohol or other illnesses.
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Osceola
Nebraska
American Sapphires in Montana Riverbanks Quarry
In Montana along Rock creek a narrow gulch belt yields sapphires in paying quantities. most stones are clear and colorless, appearing light green in heaps. Stones vary blue yellow pink or red, with the largest gems sent to jewelry markets to compete with Burma sapphires.
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Rock Creek
Montana
Burma
Island of Tobago Birds Paradise Sanctuary
Island of Tobago lies off Trinidad and hosts birds of paradise in a noted sanctuary. description notes the small island and its title as home to these unique birds outside New Guinea, highlighting its stand as a regional origin point.
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Tobago
Trinidad
New Guim
Ingram Island
Phrenology Through the Ages from Aristotle to Gall
A Detroit Free Press writer notes phrenology traces to Aristotle and outlines later developments. It recounts Lodovico Dolce in the 16th century proposing brain maps and credits Franz Joseph Gall, born 1758, with popularizing phrenology and early observations linking eye prominence to memory.
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Aristotle
Detroit Free Press
Lodovico Dolce
Francis Joseph Gall
Tiefenbaum
Germany
Vienna
Gall
George Combe
Edinburgh
Eyes Reveal Afflictions of Person Oculist Says
Dr. Morris D. Keller argues in Hygeia that eye observations via ophthalmoscope reveal thyroid status, age range, nutrition, and potential diseases from gallbladder to brain tumors. The eye shows arterial and venous health, with pulsating central vessels signaling heart or systemic issues.
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Morris D. Keller
Hygeia
The Origin of C Time Marking in Medieval Music
The letter C, often linked to four four time, traces to medieval printed music. Monks used C as Perfection for triple time, calling any later change Imperfection. The circle broke, and C came to signify imperfect or common time, not the word common.
Oil Pumping Station Chains Oil From Field to Refinery
The article explains how oil moves from the ground to storage tanks, then to pipelines via gaugers opening tank valves. Small pumps powered by steam boost oil to larger pumping stations, continuing through a network until it reaches the refinery.
Coconut products diversify beyond milk in commerce
The coconut yields familiar items such as hair oil creams and mattress fibre, with many less common products including cups and saucers brooms vinegar cattle food soap candles margarine perfume honey treacle baskets rope and ship's cables. Coconut shell charcoal ink may also be produced.
Collie Dog Describes Calm Intelligent Working Breed
The collie is an intelligent, companionable breed that thrives with space for exercise. It descends from a long line of working dogs and learns quickly. They enjoy homes and watching over them, unlike breeds used mainly for guard work.
Oyster Ecology and Feeding From the Sea
The article describes oysters as stationary filter feeders abundant along the eastern coast. It notes a single species with both sexes in one, contrasting with European oysters. Spawn flows from adults in spring, fertilization, embryonic development, and shell formation. Oysters remain fixed, drawing nourishment from plankton carried by seawater.
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Montreal Herald
Pearls Through the Ages A Jewel Lovers History
This passage traces pearls as a prized jewel from Homeric Greece to modern times. It notes shifting preferences from pear-shaped to round pearls in the Roman and eighteenth to nineteenth centuries and cites aristocratic and merchant interest across civilizations.
Fishermen's superstitions from Brittany and Scotland
A Pearson's London Weekly writer collects beliefs among Breton fishermen who link a newborn at sea to tides and a sailor's fate. Brittany mourns a death at sea with blood on the hand or dripping water, and removes butter and onions. In Scotland a boat keel is set on Friday and the launched craft faces the sun.
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Pearson
London Weekly
Brittany
Scotland
Favorite Brig Afloat in War and Trade Lore
The brig remains a favorite subject for Roux Corneille and Pellegrini as American sailors expanded to China and the Mediterranean two decades after the War of 1812. Privateers and Yankee ships scourged British trade while antique porcelain and ceramics crossed oceans in brig fleets.
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China
Mediterranean
America
Roux, Corneille
Pellegrini
First White House in New York Housing Presidents
The first White House began as a private New York home. In 1789 the First Congress ordered Mr. Osgood, owner of the house used by the President of Congress, to prepare the residence and furniture for the President of the United States.
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White House
New York
Congress
Washington
Schnauzer Varieties: Giant, Standard, and Miniature
The Miniature Schnauzer is one of three Schnauzer types standard in Germany. The Giant Schnauzer is a massive breed weighing eighty to ninety pounds, built like a boxer but as tall as a Great Dane, with fox terrier like wiry coat. The Standard Schnauzer shares the Giant’s traits in a smaller size.
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Germany
Omaha Live Stock Prices Hover Near Nine Year High
At Union Stock Yards Omaha July 6 1937 cattle receipts rose moderate amid a holiday lull. Top steers to 15 25 and heifers to 15 00 led a market with hogs hitting nine year highs as buyers paid 11 25 to 12 25 with about 4000 hogs marketed. Fat lambs up 25 40 cents to 10 75 native and Idaho lambs strong while ewes and feeders held steady.
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Union Stock Yards
Omaha
Grassers. Com
Lambs Rangers
Choice
Rangers
Two Mile Amusement Loop Planned for 1939 New York Fair
The 1939 New York World's Fair announces a vast amusement zone of 280 acres and a two-mile loop designed for record visitor capacity. Grover Whalen promises bold themes addressing modern issues and a World of Tomorrow. The lake shore area will host a $1.6 million state amphitheatre and marine stage for aquatic shows and pageants.
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New York
Grover Whalen
The
Fair Corporation
Meadow Lake
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