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Newspaper
Pendleton Times
Location
Pendleton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1922
Page
8
A man wore a device at 3 o'clock one afternoon that blocked light except through the instrument, keeping images inverted on the retina. By noon the next day the observer adapted, with habit and experience overcoming the visual inversion and odd perception.
The article notes that Spanish gardens lack grand Italian or French scale but possess a Moorish influence. Southern Spain’s semi tropical vegetation with palms, myrtles, citron and orange trees gives an African feel, especially in Jardines del Alcazar Seville where little remains of the original Twelfth century Alcazar built by Sultan Abu Yakub Yusuf.
The passage reflects on etiquette as largely ridiculous yet familiar, contrasting Western kisses with Moroccan salutes and embraces. It notes that greetings evolve from shielding eyes from glory, and that habit shapes custom, while prejudice fades with understanding. Walter B. Harris references Morocco That Was.
The piece contrasts historic whaling hardship with today’s improvements. It notes harsh, stormy voyages and icebound scenes versus modern warm forecastles and steam heat. It describes seasonal cycles with Montevideo winters and refits in November as ships from Norway return, with crews drawn from many nations.
A U S Bureau of Entomology test uses a gate and meter at beehive entrance with a telephone attachment to log each bee leaving for honey. The piece ponders whether proving a saying could shift views on animal behavior and phrase laziness.
On an island formed by two Mississippi river channels at Rock Islands lies an oak and elm twin tree whose trunks grew together to form a merged bole. The twin, about a century old, stands within a forested 200 acre area occupied by a U.S. arsenal. The two trunks diverge at five to six feet, each with its own bark and foliage, yet grow as one stem.
An article discusses S Stefansen and his book The Friendly Arctic arguing that Arctic waters teem with fish and the land supports abundant life. It notes explorers crossed the Beaufort Sea without food, and that Eskimos stay active during the long polar night with social dances and merriment.
The passage traces how parash meaning separate led Jews to label a school member as a hypocrite, then how Greeks adopted pharisee to describe mimics and performers. It notes shifts to mean a religious pretender in Greek and Roman usage.
The Twelfth and Thirteenth centuries saw Spanish Jews translate Moorish Arabic works into Castilian and pass Greek learning to Europe. They revived philosophy with Plato Aristotle and Empedocles, aiding the renaissance. Scholars from France England and Germany studied in Moorish Spain while Rabbi Ben Ezra traveled through Italy France and England spreading Spanish Jewish learning.
A saturnine citizen questions a film’s promise as Herald Heartbreak, the renowned screen lover, plunges from a 2,000 foot precipice. The scene shown is a camera trick, prompting the critic to deem the movie not worth much.
Investigations into when people shifted from fingers to forks yield no firm date. In 1050 Constantinople, the Venetian doge’s daughter-in-law reportedly used a gold fork. Saint Peter Damian reports divine wrath as she rotted away, and the era’s believers blame forks for blasphemy amid plague.
The passage contrasts colonial leadership displays with Puritan restraint. It notes Sir Thomas Gates and De la Warr arriving with pomp and guards, and Puritans marching to church under Captain Standish with drums, cloaks, muskets, and Elder Brewster.
The swordfish is praised as the fiercest fighter of sea life due to its superior arms. Authors note it may be the best fighter not for valor but weaponry. Swordfish prey on sharks and whales, fueling calls for its destruction and consumption.
In the eighth century Moors conquered almost all of Spain except Asturias and left lasting Arabic derived terms in war agriculture irrigation gardening and justice. Yet Moorish impact on Spanish thought remained limited according to A J B Trend in A Picture of Modern Spain.
A teacher explains to Willie and Ma She that telegraph wires vary with seasons, expanding and sagging in summer while contracting and taut in winter, reflecting basic physics from Science and Invention.
A witty exchange appears in the Birmingham Age Herald about Charley Lapleigh and whether he ever had a usable idea. Miss Peacher jokes that he may have had one at some time but doubt remains he knew what to do with it.
A Birmingham Age-Herald vignette quotes a remark about a poor salesman lacking sales psychology. The speaker suggests he would try to sell a cemetery lot to a man who had been poor all his life and had just inherited a million.
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