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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1924
Page
7
A look at how terms such as outlandish naughty presently careful and careworn changed meaning over time. The piece cites dictionaries and London Tit-Bits to show shifts from foreigner to ill behaved present time to future time and from full of care to free from worry.
The ignis fatuus or Will-o'-the-Wisp is a light seen hovering above marshy ground where decaying matter is present. It recedes when approached and is attributed to phosphorated or carbureted hydrogen escaping from decaying material.
The piece notes gold vanishing through arts and dentistry uses and weight loss in coins, with claims of immense buried wealth in Peru and ancient tombs. It cites Popu lar Mechanics Magazine estimates and historic legends of treasures unfound from Egypt and Alexander the Great.
Quick pot repair tip uses a protruding end of an old shop fastener pushed through a pin hole and hammered flat to extend the pot or pan's life.
The article notes esparto grass abundant in Tunisia’s central uplands and shipped from depots after pressing into bales. Used for ropes sandals mats and baskets, esparto also serves in the Spanish navy cables. Gafsa is described as an Arab town with sparse European buildings and a notable oasis with large apricot trees.
The article notes that smelling a rainbow is a folk belief and explains rainbows emit no scent. It discusses spring fragrances from vegetation and suggests wind direction at season’s turn is thought to predict three months ahead, though no scientific basis exists. It adds British weather tends to persist once established for ten days, affecting expectations of future patterns.
The early Jewish cemetery near New Bowery and Oliver Street, once New York City’s oldest Jewish burial ground, was established around 1654 56. Governed by a 1656 grant from Gov. Peter Stuyvesant the site overlooked the East River and Chatham Square. By 1856 New Bowery cut through erasing most of the graveyard leaving a 57 foot front.
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