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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1912
Page
5
The notice invites shoppers to visit for Christmas gifts featuring wearables and craft materials. It highlights special Holiday selections and suggests consulting staff to aid in making selections and personalizing gifts.
The article recounts a prediction by a scientist named Ir enberg on minute animals called distur found in a study of rays. He noted gaps in ray counts such as twenty seven, twenty eight, thirty two and other numbers, predicting missing species would be found. ten have been discovered, leaving three unaccounted.
Miss Maude Annesley recalls a French restaurant tale where an Englishman accustomed to France tests the maître d hotel by negotiating the price per head. The maître d keeps lowering the quoted fare until the guest finally pays 22 francs per person, proving character over currency.
The article describes the gourdlike grapple plant that grows in the Transvaal and Orange Free State deserts. Its hard pod ejects clawlike runners with hooked thorns that lodge in animal hooves, forcing the animal to gallop and spread the seeds widely while the pod clings for days. The mechanism is noted as cruel to the tread animal and aids the plant’s seed distribution.
A description of fulminate of mercury showing how its shock sensitivity affects other substances and its role in explosive rests. It explains the need for rapid heat generation and oxygen, using gunpowder as an example where saltpeter releases oxygen and, with charcoal, creates heat and rapid gas expansion leading to an explosion.
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