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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1920
Page
8
In June 1911 Dr Maurice KF Penn recounts a Danish voyage to Germany and a perplexing request. An equerry sought help to honor a sailor who praised Copenhagen and addressed the king as Dear King. The solution involved consulting a chaplain and Frederick VIII to receive the medal.
A reader asks why some South Sea islands may have been parts of continents. The reasoning cites early habitation, simple sailing, resemblance to humans, and ancient land bridges. Submarine ridges near Tasmania rising 11,000 feet above sea floor are cited as evidence of a shattered continent fragment.
Spain leads in olive oil production with large domestic needs and growing exports. Italy has more olive area but lower normal yields than Spain. France concentrates on the Mediterranean coast and is shifting to vineyards, with 20 000 hectares converted from olives. Tunis and Algeria are seen as better prospects for olive growing than French Europe.
The earliest speaking transmission used strings or wires with ancient Chinese claims. Alexander Graham Bell, born in Edinburgh and resident in the United States, invented the electric telephone at Boston about the same time as Elisha Gray in Chicago, but Bell was granted priority.
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