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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1920
Page
4
Steel gauges accurate to one millionth of an inch are produced at the United States Bureau of Standards. A set of 54 finished gauges had 31 exactly precise to .000001 inches while the remaining 23 were within .000002 inches. The gauges are steel disks.
The city child lacks regular work and grows impatient, turning to loafing. The country child is given chores early, building responsibility and initiative. Consequently, most successful businessmen come from rural backgrounds.
Archaeologist Flinders Petrie reports finding a rock face door during a queen's pyramid exploration. The door fit so perfectly it hid a solid rock behind it, a ruse built around 8000 B. C. by a prankster to deter tomb robbers.
The daysman is an arbitrator, umpire or judge. A term of Anglo-Saxon origin still used in northern England for an unofficial judge or arbitrator to whom a dispute is referred. The origin of the word remains obscure.
A Dallas News excerpt notes an anthropological remark about beauty and age focusing on girls around eleven, describing the cleanest faces in the world as belonging to that age group.
Excerpts remark on bankers and friends with a satirical tone. The text references the Court of Lions in Alhambra and quotes Arthur Helps on human attachment to worldly events. It notes the blue whale as the largest species, reaching over 90 feet and up to 70 tons.
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