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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1921
Page
3
A Baltimore plant, using two 12 hour shifts, is producing about 70 000 lbs of invertose daily from corn. The process makes ketohexoses or fruit sugars from starch, yielding a sugar about 80 percent as sweet as corn sugar with many food uses. One bushel of corn yields 46 lbs of invertose, with 16 lbs of wet mash recovered as cattle feed.
Naturalists studied the gas in fish swim bladders and found it mainly consists of oxygen, nitrogen, and carbonic acid. Oxygen levels vary widely not by depth, and recent observations from the Princess Alice yacht show deep and shallow fish share similar oxygen proportions. The unsettled questions invite young naturalists to pursue discovery in science.
A playful classroom puzzle asks when two trains meet after a delay. Willie Green cleverly points out the second train catches the rear car as the answer, while the teacher clarifies the setup and solution.
An eager boy approaches a man at the railway station and offers to carry a bag for a dime. The man declines, and the boy sprints after him, questioning why the bag is being carried. The exchange highlights a tense, hurried street encounter.
The Cincinnati Enquirer notes confusion in the London Paris trade as cultured pearls enter the market. A workshop method threads mthly mother of pearl into oysters forming complete pearls, then shells are opened to reveal identical true pearls. The risk of fraud alarms buyers and vendors amid uncertain purity.
Sarah Flower Adams wrote the hymn Nearer My God to Thee while frail yet at work on devotional poetry. She married English civil engineer William Adams, suffered many illnesses, died in 1849 aged 44 near Marlow, England, and the hymn entered worship collections after publication in Fox’s volume and linked to the Bethany hymn.
In eighteenth century Paris sun dials drew crowds at the Palais Royal, where noon was marked by a powder magazine explosion once lit by sun glare. Duke of Orléans preserved the dial, later replacing it with a sun-powered cannon clock. Buffon’s botanic globe used a hair to burn through at noon, causing the globe to topple onto a Chinese Rong.
A century of floods on the Hoang River has claimed more lives than any other cause in a hundred years. Experts say reforestation of the denuded river slopes is the sole flood prevention measure.
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