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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1933
Page
4
The piece explains that water vapor, though small in amount, sustains plant and animal life, while carbon dioxide is essential for plants. It notes ozone at 20 to 30 miles up blocks UV rays. removing it could blind eyes, while increasing ozone would exclude UV light and threaten life.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz born April 9 1865 in Breslau Germany. He studied at Breslau Berlin and Zurich Polytechnische Institute specializing in mathematics chemistry and electrical engineering. Fled Europe for socialist beliefs moved to Austria and Switzerland then to the United States in 1889 where he became chief consulting engineer for General Electric at Schenectady New York. He served on Schenectady’s board of education from 1910 until his death July 19 1923. His notable contributions include induction regulator three phase place transformation and the metallic electrode arc lamp. His works span electrical engineering mathematics and relativity.
Ancient safety pins predate modern invention, traced to bronze makers. Bronze items from Viking age Ireland include a religious lamp, while iron or steel pins rust away when buried.
The Mosque of Al Azhar in Cairo is described as the oldest university in the world supplying Egypt with its ministers of religion and experts in Islamic law. It predates Oxford and Cambridge as centers of learning and has long stood as the mountainhead of orthodox Islamic doctrine and the home of literary Arabic.
The novelist Charles Henry Cook known as John Bickerdyke is buried within six feet of his mare Black Bess in a tamarisk grove at Cape Province South Africa. He was a sportsman and naturalist and directed his tombstone to bear the lines He loved his fellow men and Here also lies buried his faithful mare Black Bess.
In 1783 William Pitcairn and others were granted sole privilege to make glass in Connecticut and ran a bottle factory in Manchester. Most ware went to Hartford by ox teams and was shipped to the West Indies aboard sailing vessels.
The Montreal Herald describes palmistry as a social observation tool noting broad palms signal practical folks who keep feelings in check, narrow paths suggest dreamy temperament, slender fingers point to artistic feeling, and square tips imply patience. It adds health hints like white nail marks.
The Bank of England vaults are not the only gold source in Britain. Welsh gold made the queen and royal brides rings. Kildonan in Sutherlandshire supplies Sutherland wedding rings. a gold reef under Forest of Dean rivals Witwatersrand. Romans established Carmarthenshire mining. British Museum holds ancient Walstatt gold. Nuggets surface in Lanarkshire streams.
An excerpt discusses how doctors map brain function to treat disease, noting experts rely on symptoms to locate diseased areas and operate precisely. It cites Turgenev’s renowned brain size as a curiosity, arguing head size does not correlate with intelligence and large brains do not imply more units of mental capacity.
The Bard of Avon allegedly consulted several dictionaries when stuck for a word. Italian Grammar was popular among scholars then and used in many plays, notably Romeo and Juliet. John Florio's World of Words, 1598, is believed to be Shakespeare's most used dictionary.
The text explains a 28 year original copyright term with possible 28 year renewal if applied for within the year before expiration. Works published in the last 36 years are typically still controlled by the author or publisher, while older works leave protection.
Parrots learn best in the three hours after sunrise or before sunset, says an authority. They should be taught verbally as with a child, line upon line, with even the brightest parrot potentially taking six months or longer to commit verses like Mary had a little lamb.
Lord Julian Pauncefote born in Munich on September 12, 1828. He became the first British ambassador to the United States in 1893 and helped secure the Hay-Pauncefote treaty enabling U S canal ownership. He died May 24, 1902, at the British embassy in Washington, with a state funeral and burial in Stoke Newarke, England.
The grouse family includes the ruffed grouse and Canada spruce partridge also called black grouse. These birds are tied to northern spruce forests and are often named differently across regions, with some called pheasant or prairie chicken though authorities deem them distinct from Canada spruce partridge and ruffed grouse.
In Wellman Iowa a turkey farming boom leads to 75 000 turkeys ready for shipment to the east this fall and winter. The operation employs 5 to 90 workers packing and shipping. An agent buys top grade eggs in Texas each year for hatching in Iowa.
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