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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1939
Page
3
In the dim Glen Jane meets Evans, now confident and steady after war trauma. He urges strength and asks her to wait before marriage, while Jane discovers renewed feeling for him and a resolve to wed him despite Baldy’s support and her own doubts.
After meeting Evans in the Glen, Jane feels haunted by spirits urging her to surrender to desire. She faces a moral bind toward Frederick Towne, whom she is unsure she should marry, yet believes no escape exists. At the Capitol luncheon she feels the emptiness of Frederick’s charm as she contemplates her future.
Dr. William Foshag of the Smithsonian reports thick reefs of natural sodium bicarbonate discovered at 300 feet beneath an ancient California lake bed near Searles Lake. The find, from brine beds yielding potash and borax, may be the first authentic natural occurrence, alongside a newly identified mineral burkeite silenced as a rare double sulfate and carbonate of sodium.
Collier's Weekly says Jay Gould silenced rumors of bankruptcy by inviting reporters from every New York newspaper to view his safe. It reportedly contained $75,000,000 in stocks and bonds belonging to him, later proven by the will's execution.
Johnny Pisano, a Clifton barber with 17 years in the chair, recalls a summer 1934 lightning incident. A back door to a pool-room opened to draft, a thunderstorm, and a razor shock left a customer unconscious while Johnny trembled and vowed to close that door in future storms. His wife fears lightning, but the tale ends with caution and a lesson about back-door drafts. The piece segues into a Practical Pinafore sewing pattern from The Sewing Circle, No. 1876, priced 15 cents, with size 32 to 44 and material needs listed.
Dr Antonio Longoria a Cleveland Ohio scientist who in 1923 perfected a death ray apparatus says he will have nothing to do with recreating such a weapon He recounts the device killed pigeons at four miles and the machine was destroyed due to danger He warns that the electric wave could also kill humans and lies in an unexplored X ray vicinity without burning health risks.
Dr. Longoria recalls demonstrations in California and Cleveland where a light ray altered silver salts and killed rabbits and pigeons inside metal enclosures. He claims he would reinvent the machine but has no drawings, keeps plans in his head, and now seeks to aid civilization rather than profit.
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