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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1928
Page
11
A collage of aphorisms and social quips covers politics culture and technology. It jokes about radio laws fashion Broadway English Latin phrases and the absurdities of modern life. The piece reflects a stream of witty reflections on society and human foibles.
Experts in coffee tasting and blending require keen senses of taste and smell. Maj Frederick McLaughlin notes over a hundred varieties sold in the U S. Blind cup tests compare aromas and flavors to standard varieties, guiding pricing and quality assessments.
A small factory in a London garden extracts mesotherium from rare earths used in gas mantles. It produces glow for watch dials at a fraction of radium’s cost and is twice as powerful for phosphorescent prints, but its alpha radiation fades in a few years. The process requires skilled chemistry and careful handling in a private laboratory setting.
The article outlines button origins in ancient times as ornamental then functional, noting earliest use in southern Europe during the 13th and 14th centuries, English manufacture beginning under Elizabeth I, and the first literary reference to the buttonhole in 1561. It observes a modern shift away from buttons in favor of buttonless garments for women and many men’s undergarments.
In historic Sweden, weddings were held at night beneath Husaby Church in Gothland. Groomsmen carried torches in long lances with sockets for defense and domination. The best volunteers served as guards. A superstition says the bride must step into the carriage with her right foot first and repeat the rite when returning home after the wedding trip.
Food scientists note healthier populations in countries with higher butterfat intake. The Chinese diet avoids butter, with only about 2 million pounds consumed annually for a 446 million population. The average American eats roughly ten times the Chinese yearly butter consumption in just two days.
The piece surveys the origin of ice cream, noting encyclopedias place its introduction in France from Italy around 1550 with concurrent use in Germany and England. It cites a 1786 American ice cream advertisement and claims Mrs Alexander Fairbairn as the first hostess to serve the dessert in the United States.
Inside the New York Botanical Garden in a Renaissance style building a major display traces plant development from a clay-like single cell to higher plants. It features common life essentials like foods drugs gums spices oils corks and more arranged by botanical order. The fossil botany section shows evolution and a local plant life guide covers plants within a hundred miles of New York City.
A historical note on the electric organ described as a true pipe organ enhanced by electricity. It explains electric action allows rapid, light touch and dynamic control, turning the organ into a near orchestral instrument under one player. The piece traces organ prestige from prince to emperor with electric bellows, pedals, keys, swells, couplers, and stops.
The United States biological survey notes that large pythons can produce around 100 eggs in a single day, while ring necked snakes often lay most eggs within one day. The New York Zoological Park states oviparous snakes typically lay all eggs at once, though occasional multi day laying occurs. Common species such as the sugaries lay three to eight eggs, while chicken snakes often lay eight to fourteen.
The weather bureau states rain drops never exceed 25 feet per second, many fall around 15 feet per second. From a 2,500 foot cloud, the greatest drops take about 100 seconds to reach the ground. At 15 feet per second, about 186.7 seconds. A fair average velocity of 20 feet per second yields roughly two minutes of fall time.
The white of an egg is beaten to a thick consistency. The vessel is tipped to remove a small amount of liquid, then two or three drops of the pale yellow liquid are placed in each eye to soothe and clear the eye.
The text explains that storms move with the general wind patterns driven by Earth's rotation. It notes storms can travel hundreds of miles east or southeast within a day due to prevailing atmospheric flow.
In Lowestoft England a carpe trawler caught a well-fed codfish that was softly blind. Naturalists propose the fish located food by feeling with its barbel along the sea floor, probing for small crustaceans.
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