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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1921
Page
7
A writer in the Electrical Experimenter argues radium dials on watches imply immense future power. Even small current glow could power a motor if energy release could be concentrated. radium energy might last millennia, with zinc sulfide extending glow for years. The piece also muses on bias in judgment and urges gathering facts before judging others.
Medical men say eye shading can improve work comfort, but curved opaque shades with dark edges distract the eye. They disrupt eye adjustment and darken the upper field, increasing glare on otherwise glare-free surfaces and intensifying glare where glare already exists.
Gladstone, famed statesman, sought mental rest by chopping wood at Hawarden. He would strip to shirt sleeves and work a large tree to cordwood while consulting friends on which tree to fell. Admired for the pastime, he was photographed with his ax and received many axes as tokens of esteem, amassing over 30 in his collection.
Russell Thompson submits affidavit to the Florida Fisherman recounting an alley clash where Dr. Jack Halton's dog and Mayor Edwards' rabbit chased each other for twenty minutes before the rabbit bit the dog and kicked Major, ending the morning.
A federal Bureau of Education pamphlet reports 1917 18 total high schools at 13 951, with 16 300 on mailing lists. Growth since 1890 exceeds 452 percent, averaging one new high school per day for 28 years. Public control rose from 60.8 to 87 percent, and enrollment increased from 312 to 15.6 per 1000 population. California leads with 27 per 1000, Kansas second, South Carolina last at 5.3.
A correspondent praising China’s imperial color and the Great Wall compares the yellow rivers and famine plains to a shimmering golden city. He asserts the wall’s form seems grown from mountains, not quarried stone, and lauds its sinuous, aspirational design beyond ordinary construction.
A 224 foot tunnel through the hill provides a new approach to the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles. An automatic twelve passenger elevator climbs 108 feet to the main hall, ending a long pedestrian ascent.
The Avignon castle near Lyons once papal residence from 1809 to 1417 is being restored and will be furnished with medieval Vatican furniture. The Avignon mayor appealed to Rome for help in obtaining the pieces, but the building remains unfurnished with no reminder of its fourteenth century splendor.
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