New Rays as Aid to Man
A Washington National Geographic bulletin urges that rays power life on Earth from sun heat and light to chlorophyll driven plant factories. It notes X-rays boosting seed yields, ultraviolet aiding health, radio waves carrying music and pictures, and gamma and cosmic rays as frontier fields with unknown origins and effects.
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New Jersey
National Geographic Society
Bulletin
Coeds in Missouri and Kansas Grow Hair Long Again
Missouri and Kansas University students are letting their hair grow as editors and stylists note. A Missouri campus check shows about 60 percent of girls with long hair or planning to grow it soon, while Kansas reports a larger share.
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Immigration Law Oddity Delays Tampa Native at Ellis Island
The case involves Maria Carrall born in Tampa and Domingo Carrall born in Spain. Maria, claiming American citizenship, was sent to Ellis Island while Domingo was admitted. The Carralls had traveled to Spain last spring with five children and Maria failed to obtain a return permit due to her belief she was American. Commissioner Day parole d Maria pending Washington ruling.
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Washington
Hungarian Engineer Wins Big Lottery After Fire Burns Home
Emil Peternell, a Hungarian engineer living in Bucharest, bought a Romanian firemen lottery ticket that funds indigent firemen families. His house burned down days later, destroying his fortune with no insurance. He then learned his ticket won 1,000,000 Romanian tel, about $5,000.
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Emil Peternell
Bucharest
Emil
Why He Was Called The Boob
Elida Durham and five friends discuss the slang term The Boob as Myrtle Farr explains a fool is prey for clever people. Walter Dale, nicknamed The Book, arrives with a rescue plan after Norman Durham’s drunken escapade at college. Dale swims to Lone Island during a storm to save the girls, impressing Elida and earning her admiration and later marriage.
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Vi Barringer
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Miss Durham
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Lone Island
Fellows
Odd Tomb in London Reveals Grim Miser Tale
In Southwark Cathedral's Lady Chapel a stark tomb shows a nearly skeletal figure said to be a miser who starved himself and his staff. He faked death to test servants, causing pantry raids until a servant murdered him when he revealed himself at the kitchen door.
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Southwark Cathedral
Continental land areas compared to Europe
Europe covers about one fourteenth of Earth's land surface. Asia spans nearly a third. Africa is about three times Europe. North America is just under twice Europe. South America is a little over one percent larger than Europe.
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When Rats Are Currency In Hoa Island
The Dearborn Independent reports on Hoa Island where rats act as money during a French possession in the mid Pacific, and enough rats can buy a wife.
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Dearborn Independent
Rummage Sale Funds Fall Short but Hats Pay Election Bets
A Toronto Telegram item notes the rummage sale did not raise much money yet enough hats were collected to cover the parson's election bets for two decades.
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