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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1921
Page
7
In Heywood Broun's Bookman column on college pessimism he recalls Harvard students viewing life as a sham. He also mentions Doctor Jewett’s Oxford remark that students called themselves Agnostic, forgetting the Latin Igno ramus.
A returned citizen cites American practice of keeping girls at home until age eighteen or nineteen then introducing them as debutantes. The statement frames American gender norms as restrictive and contrasts them with other customs.
The article traces early time reckoning from the lunar month of about 29.53 days to a 354 day year. It notes seasons drifted over a decade, causing misalignment. Jews and Greeks occasionally added months, and in 19 years seven more months were inserted to adjust.
The article surveys popular superstitions in Japan noting they stem from moral precepts and are common in rural areas. It describes beliefs about purple wedding dresses, medicine, fire as a god, avoiding visitors, broom rituals to repel guests, mirrors for children, and notices to prevent disease spread.
The Devil's Finger Tip hill near Durango Mexico hosts 700 feet of hematite rich rock with an estimated 600 million tons of iron ore at 70 percent. A British expert before World War I valued the ore at about 5 billion dollars if protected for operation. Mercado Mountain named for Spanish explorer, iron could outvalue Mexico's historic gold and silver output.
At an American Medical Association gathering Dr John Mc Mullin of the U S Public Health Service argued that much so called trachoma in American children is not true trachoma and not contagious. He noted true trachoma spreads easily between eyes and may require surgery and careful treatment, with no certain permanent cure, while another type folliculitis is not contagious and curable.
A report on the Columbia Basin Irrigation Project in Washington explains why an arid climate favors farming. Continuous sunshine stimulates plant growth, there is no night soil chill after cloudy days, and crops are harvested promptly with less spoilage. Artificial irrigation optimizes water timing and quantity, while low rainfall preserves soil nutrients and prevents alkali buildup.
A Popular Science Monthly writer notes the Earth’s rotation is weakening and days grow longer though at a slow pace. Eventually a year length may match a day, leaving one hemisphere in perpetual sunshine and the other in darkness, possibly as the sun dims over time.
The article argues Americans mispronounce the short a by broadening it to a nasal sound, while European usage favors the ah or broad a as in far and palm. It cites the Encyclopedia Americana and notes the ah sound as a model from early English origins and educated speech.
In the Gulf stem climate, the He brides area basks in warmth with 47 inches of annual rainfall, often exceeding 100 inches at the coast. Yet the islands remain largely treeless, described by a lifelong resident as imagining a tree only like a cabbage amid a stark landscape of rock water sand and bog.
A brief note on reading poetry, noting a speaker asking about Tennyson and the line from The Brook, illustrating a shared literary moment observed in a Boston newspaper exchange.
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