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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1935
Page
8
A dainty sewing project for silk and rayon petals that can become a decorative pillow or pajama bag. Includes white and peach cuttings and full sewing directions. package No. 46 costs 40 cents postpaid with instructions 10 cents. Address Home Craft Co. Dept. A St Louis MO for info.
An article notes Joliet researchers produced radioactive elements in a lab and, with work by world physicists, transmitted radioactivity to aluminum, boron, and magnesium. These elements may radiate beneficial rays for a defined period, potentially enabling targeted cancer treatment at reduced cost.
The Virgin Islands puzzled Columbus on his second voyage he marveled at their beauty and found few saints to honor them with. He named them the Virgin Islands as a tribute to St Ursula and her 11 000 virgins, reflecting a shortcut in tribute.
Alan Garth, a lone prospector, guides a perilous air trip to his Far North claim aboard a plane with Burton Ramill, Lilith Ramill, and Vivian Huxley. Ramill and Lilith show contempt, tamper with the plane, and after a failed setup they drift the craft, forcing Garth to rally the group for a grueling trek to the Mackenzie outpost.
Garth leads a four member party toward a Mackenzie bound exit while weighing a platinum gold alloy cache. Tension rises as Huxley Ramill and Lilith face heavy packs, treacherous slopes, and the promise of a million dollar placer hidden in the ice cave ahead.
Pathfinder Magazine reports that 20,000,000 years ago giant elephants used shovel tusks as dredges to scoop swamp bottoms for water piles and food. Fossil finds in the Gobi and discoveries of plant remains confirm swamp existence and show these elephants also lived in America dredging swamps in California Nebraska and Kansas.
Webs are used to create fine lines on telescope eyepieces and are valued for their distinct, delicate qualities. An instrument maker in York hires a specialist to harvest a rare spider, aperira diademata, found on gorse with a cross on its back, to wind about 40 feet of web for scientific instruments.
A Tit-Bits Magazine note claims a pithorse at Markham colliery warned of danger by bolting before a roof collapse killed its driver. It cites English pit-horses sensing danger, a New Forest dog saving its master, and Burmese elephants refusing a bridge, leading to belated rehandling of logs.
A gramophone voice from an opera singer caused natives aboard an American explorer ship off Australia to panic, misunderstood as a threat. The piece argues fear of the unknown stems from ignorance and parallels prejudice, urging open investigation of new things rather than quick dismissal.
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