Volcanoes Help Keep Oceans Salty Described by Dr Jaggar
Dr Thomas A Jaggar of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory explains that about 485 active volcanoes emit hydrochloric acid gas totaling over 100 million tons yearly. The gas dissolves in rain and, with riverborne sodium, forms ocean salt. He notes Katmai Alaska and Kilauea contribute notable shares and that submarine vents also play a part.
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Honolulu
Thomas A. Jaggar
Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
Kilauea
Doctor Jaggar
Glohigerina
Big Snake Stirs Up Hospital in New York
A ten foot boa constrictor entered a hospital in Guayaquil after wandering from the Grace Line ship Santa Rita. It slithered through corridors to the cripples ward causing panic until police and militia killed the snake. several patients reportedly improved from paralysis after the incident.
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New York
Allan A. Lomberg
Grace Line
Santa Rita
Lomberg
Valparaiso
Chile
Guayaquil
Ecuador
Lonnberg
Mr. Lonnberg
Civil Hospital
Forbidden Things Forbidden Things
University of Illinois dean Thomas Arkle Clark discusses how forbidden things tempt people. He cites Jens Baggesen on Adam craving coffee and notes curiosity drives youths to test the prohibited, risking consequences when doors stay closed.
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Thomas Arkle Clark
University of Illinois
Jens Baggesen
Bag- Zesen
Adam
Eden
Smith
Father
Plane cabin turns aircraft into mobile office
Mahoney-Ryan Aircraft Corp builds cabin plane with desk dictaphone filing shelves and bookcases. Insulated rear engine area houses an office environment. User can dictate letters to the dictaphone and drop records by parachute for mailing. Three planes monthly planned. aH Fall Street Suit.
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St. Louis
Mahoney-Ryan Aircraft Corporation
The Return of Exiles to Jerusalem Ezra 7
Lesson on Ezra’s leadership and journey back to Jerusalem. Ezra a priest and ready scribe seeks God, receives royal commission, leads 1754 men plus dependents. Journey of four and a half months proves God’s guidance, protection, and care for the holy mission.
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Jerusalem
Ezra
God
Seraiah
Aaron
Zerubbabel
Israel
Artaxerxes
Dwzra
Izza
Nowaja Semila Island Bacteria Free Says Review
An article in the Review reports tests by a Leningrad Central Geophysical Observatory team on Novaya Zemlya’s Nowaja Semila island. Dr Sasansky led a winter expedition and found no bacteria in air water soil dust or hunter shot animal flesh, indicating extreme purity of polar air.
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Berlin
Review
Ingrad Institute
Novaya Semsin
Sasansky
Left Handedness Traced as Inheritable Trait
Prof. Catherine Beers of the University of Southern California reports that left handedness is inheritable. A 12.3 percent rate among 1,398 individuals rose to about 25 percent within their families. Two in five children of left handed parents show the trait, with germ-free testing and remarkable observations on gelatine and meat under city air.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Catherine Beers
University of Southern California
Miss Beers
Welterweight King Struck by Foul in Detroit Bout
Jackie Sields of Chicago retained the welterweight world title after a foul by Joe Dundee in round two of a scheduled 15 round fight at Detroit’s fairgrounds. Dundee was knocked down three times in the round, then landed a below the belt uppercut and was suspended indefinitely by Michigan authorities for foul tactics. The piece also notes unrelated anecdotes about prohibition era attitudes and bootlegging.
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Jackie Sields
Chicago
Joe Dundee
Fairgrounds
Detroit
Dundee
Michigan
Silk monopoly broken and silkworm origins
The article notes that silk production began in China over 5,000 years ago and was controlled by Chinese until 540 A D. when two Persian monks smuggled silkworm eggs to Constantinople during Justinian's reign, per 1929 Western Newspaper Union report.
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China
Justinian
Constantinople
Western Newspaper Union
God Answers No Prayer A Devout Girl’s Rainy Picnic
A devout girl prays for fine weather for a picnic. The morning brings heavy rain and gray skies. Her mother asks if God answered, and the girl replies that He has said no, yet she trusts the divine answer.
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Carlotta Monterey
Eugene O’neill
Paris
Katmai
Alaska
J. Stanley Gardiner
Cambridge University
Big Snake
A. A. _ Neilson
West Point
Juctson River
Neilson
Yurtsen
Fall Street Suit
Jersey
Mason
Mney
P. B. Fitzwater
D.D
Dean Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
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