Dread Leprosy Losing Terror Gains Ground
Carville reports science is shrinking the terror of leprosy once called a living death. Eight patients are released on probation from the National Leprosarium, with 37 released in seven years and only one relapse. Health Service workers credit chemotherapeutics and bacteriological study for progress.
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Carville
United States Public Health Service
Chantmverra
Connccion
United
Ster
Carbon Used for Scientific Work at Bell Labs
In New York the Bell Telephone Laboratories metallography department records a method to focus the ultra violet microscone using blue end spectral rays invisible to the eye. The microscone can image objects at 200 to 300 atoms. Scientist Seancis F. Lucas reports carbon paper can create contrasting lines on the surface to aid focusing.
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New York
Bell "Telephone Laboratories
Seancis F. Lucas
Coats rushed to Moslem women in Caucasus
Soviet government dispatches one hundred gird rubles worth of heavy overcoats to the Caucasus to clothe Bidiammedan women of mountaineer tribes. Coats offered on long term credit at fixed price. wearing of coats previously forbidden by the prophet’s law.
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Caucasus
Grocer Displays Imitation Ham. Window Glass Damaged
In Louisville a grocer used a wooden dummy ham in a window display. A passerby, seeing the ad after midnight, shattered the display and seized the ham. He paused the scene but caused damage as authorities pursued action.
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Louisville
Dry weather may mute meadow lark song says researchers
Dr B Reed of the citrus experiment station in Riverside California notes that meadow larks sing in winter mainly during damp weather just before or after rain and cites Dr William B Ritter of the University of California who heard meadow larks singing through winter at La Jolla where the sea air remains humid confirming a link between humidity and song activity.
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Washington
William B. Ritter
University of California
la Jolla
Durability of Slate Roofs Through English History
A compact history traces slate roofing from Saxon carpentry to modern prestige. It notes early use in Hartford-on-Avon, with slate replacing straw thatch on important buildings, praised for enduring strength and beauty across England, Wales, and English style homes in America.
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Boland
Hlartford-on-Avon
Wight
England
America
Tempests Shape Naval History Across Centuries
A compact timeline notes how storms altered sea battles and threatened wars. It cites the Spanish Armada clash after Drake's raid, the defeat of 53 Spanish ships by Sir Richard Grenville, and a 1889 hurricane near Apia that averted conflict between nations, leaving only the British ship Calliope afloat and prompting a treaty.
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Drake
Spain
Richard Grenville
United States
Apia
Samoa
Calliope
London
Woman Sold Stock at Nevada Mines Palmed as Prize
A San Francisco visitor to Virginia City displayed stock certificates from the Comstock mines. She was told shares rose to 600 dollars and planned to sell, but grew suspicious after hearing such high prices. She consulted her son and departed, noting it would reach a thousand before returning home.
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Nevada
Virginia City
San Francisco
Comstock
Speed of Falling Body Experiment Yields Terminal Velocity
An experiment dropped a man from height to measure fall speed. Without air, distance would rise with time squared: 16 feet each second, 64 in two seconds, 246 in four, 1,024 in eight. Air resistance caps the velocity, reaching a terminal speed under 200 miles per hour after about 1,660 feet of fall.
Glow Worm Still Puzzle Insect Light Mystery
Glow worms are beetles mistaken for worms. About 500 slow producing insects exist. The secret of their glowing could unlock heatless light, a goal scientists have pursued for years. Theories on the purpose of light abound but none satisfactory.
Tornadoes Occur Largely in Central U.S. Report Says
Nature Magazine notes that tornadoes mostly occur in the Mippi valley region, with Texas Oklahoma Missouri leading funnel cloud counts. Nebraska ranks second, while Alabama Iowa Wisconsin the Dakotas and Minnesota also show activity. Outside this region the sky shock rarely strikes. California and New England are rarely visited.
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United States
Mippi Valley
Nature Magazine
Texas
Oklahoma
Ansag
Missouri
Nebraska
Mippi
Alabama
Iowa
Dakotas
Minnesota
California
New England
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