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Renwick Times in Renwick, Iowa

01 Dec 1938

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Renwick Times

Location

Renwick, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 01, 1938

Page

7

Centennial of Photography Spotlighted in Taft Book Review

Elmo Scott Watson notes photography’s 100 year birth as a social boon. Robert Taft’s Photography and the American Scene 1839 1889 traces inventors Daguerre Morse Seager and Wolcott, Civil War era Brady Gardner and O Sullivan, frontier photography and Hayden surveys, Yellowstone Grand Teton and Mesa Verde as pivotal milestones.

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Robert Taft United States Uning Jean Richard Green Macmillan Company Taft University of Kansas John C. Fremont Lovis Jacques Mande Daguerre Daguerre Joseph Nicephore Niepes Niepce Arago New Academy of Sciences Nicocé Morse John W. Draper Dorothy Catherine Draper Dr. Tait Alexander S Wolcott New York John Johnson Tohnson Dr. Taft America Mathew B. Brady Brady Alexander Gardner T. H. O’sullivan Gethsburg Oliver Wendell Holmes Dr. Talt West John Mix Stanley Sorthern Pacific Gov. J. Stevens Washington Fremont S. N. Carvalho Wre Daguerreo Joan K. Hillers J. W. Powell Colorado River Grand Canyon of Ark Wiliam H. Jackson Omaha Couner Union Pacific BE. V. Hayden Jackson Yellowstone National Park Grand Teton National Park Ern Ingersell Une Mesa Verde National Park
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Arline and Alec Face Love and Misunderstanding

In a tense restaurant scene Alec confronts Arline about their hidden love and his patience ends. After he storms out she discovers she has no money and endures a humiliating moment with a waiter. Days pass as Arline clings to love while Alec stays distant, prompting a late phone call that reshapes their fragile bond.

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Lec Arline Alec Adiir Walter Ariine Alec Booth Alee Cafe de Royal Coxi Jack Annie Brnie
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Nerve Currents Speeded Up by Warmth, Old Idea Revisited

Historical note revisits the claim that electric nerve impulses accelerate under warmth. Early beliefs about brain activity are contrasted with a more modern finding that warmth can influence nerve conductance even without active impulses. Researchers describe surprising results and potential mechanisms as they explore heat effects on neural signaling.

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Dahomey Rituals of Laughter Endure Across Colony

The article describes Dahomey natives and a French West Africa colony custom where a man’s speech is restricted to a first shout of 100 cries, while a silent partner must wait. After a silent period, the pair turn, cry together that they are “idiots,” and then are free to act, often breaking into laughter as the old chief intended.

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Dahomey Jas
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Nobel Prizes and Alfred Nobel Background

Alfred Nobel, a Swedish chemist born in 1833 and died in 1896, invented dynamite by mixing nitroglycerine with Kieselguhr and amassed a fortune to fund the Nobel prizes. Five annual awards honor outstanding work in physics, medicine, chemistry, literature, and world peace, usually valued at over 4,000 pounds each, though some years may see one or more prizes withheld if no adequate achievement exists.

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Alfred Nobel London Answers Magazine
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Elmo Scott Watson France England Knickerbocker S. F. B. Morse The New York Observer Samuel Finley Breese Morse Ture Aater Paris D. We. Seager Seager St. Paul’s Church Astor House Samuel F. B. Morse United States National Museum A. Bogardus Mathew H. Jackson Union Pacific Railroad W. 8. Jackson Alecs Hunch Meredith Scholl
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