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Newspaper
Spring Valley Gazette
Location
Spring Valley, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1918
Page
7
The article describes Leon Spain’s Great Cathedral set among wheat fields and tranquil streets. It highlights its yellow stone spires, carved portals, and gargoyles, with vast interior stained glass that blends colors along the nave. The king who planned the cathedral elevated Leon’s wealth, though the city later suffered destruction and rebuilding.
The Wide World says South Australia’s salt lake on York Peninsula forms a vast white crust in hot summers. A subsurface body of sluggish water lies beneath the crust as workers rake, shovel, and cart salt to refiners. Yields reach several thousand tons yearly, with a multi square mile surface and high value.
A magazine piece compares dining habits of regional travelers in New York City eateries. It notes Westerners seek change in food and atmosphere while South Americans prefer home-like conditions, citing hotel McAlpin staff and Spanish cooks as examples.
The passage recalls Disraeli's Jewish heritage and asserts ancient Jewish choirs in Solomon’s Temple, noting four thousand ancestors singing in Jerusalem two millennia before Christ. It highlights the temple's music as a celebrated, divine art and mentions Old Testament accounts of instrumentals and trained singers.
A rare Sphex wasp species is described using a stone as a hammer to pack earth over its tunnel mouth after laying eggs. The behavior mirrors other animals’ tool use but stands out as unique among insects. The observation is attributed to the People’s Home Journal.
A Philadelphia Evening Telegraph note recounts contrasts between famous figures and modern inventions. It highlights how Shakespeare Napoleon Lincoln Grant and others shaped history without technologies such as trains, telephones, or electric lights, ending with a remark on an ancient Chinese empress who started the silk industry.
A 570 foot reinforced concrete chimney in Saganoseki Japan now claims the title of the world’s tallest. It sits on a hill 430 feet above the adjacent copper smelter and discharges fumes 1,000 feet above the plant. The base diameter is 42 feet while the top interior measures 26 and a half feet. The foundation spans 95 feet in diameter with 2 700 cubic yards of concrete. Four hundred tons of steel were used in construction.
Alfred Francis reviews girl applicants for chorus and is told by one to call her Minnie Sota. She explains her real name is Skoopeyand and adds she took the name of her native state. He replies that her apology is ample.
Old walnut trees in the country were planted not for fruit but for gunstocks since the wood yields preferred firearm components. The note highlights a historical trend in selecting walnut trees for their superior timber.
Emergency kitchens operate in The Hague aiding the poor and small earners. The municipal kitchen serves one four cent meal daily. The Dutch Society of Housewives kitchen offers dine in for 12 cents or 10 cents takeout. A private initiative kitchen caters to better paid workers at 30 cents per meal.
Robinson Smith, a Hoover helper, spots a Norfolk-born man by the road and hires him as cook for a cargo of American corn sent to Belgium in 1916. The improvised chef, wearing a chef’s uniform, prepares corn pone bread and cakes, making the relief cargo quickly usable again.
An American who escaped from Russia recounts a Kerensky era joke about counterfeit notes bearing the phrase Our s are just as good as yours. The anecdote illustrates chaos and contempt for authorities sweeping through Russia at the time.
Prof 8 C Ball studied mosquito migration from Rebecca Shoal lighthouse far from land. Mosquitoes reached the lighthouse from Marquesas Atoll and Cuba aided by northeasterly and southerly winds. House flies and other insects were also captured at the lighthouse.
A stranded passenger at a country station hears a hideous noise from the waiting room. The porter boy explains the sound is the station master composing timetable tunes as trains halt less often after the war.
A Saturday Evening Post naval officer recalls a near catastrophe when a Spanish fireman flashed a light aboard a leading transport in a blackout convoy to France. A quick response by bluejackets prevented discovery of the periscope threat and led to five days’ solitary confinement for the offender. The piece emphasizes navy control of merchant ships and the high stakes of wartime discipline.
Dr. W G Hudson of DuPont argued at an east coast medical meeting that explosive industry risks are exaggerated. He cited railroading as deadlier and said most accidents stem from worker negligence, not explosives. He noted automation reduces hazards by boosting machinery use and cutting labor.
A barge equipped for underwater drilling blasts emits a whistle to warn nearby vessels before detonation. Birds flock to the surface after dead and stunned fish rise, treating the whistle as a dinner gong. Canal workers and locals also join in the observed effect.
An American Magazine author argues that fatigue is a mindset not a physical limit. He cites Edison Bell Ford Hoover Wilson Pershing to illustrate how sustained work did not kill capable individuals.
A Scribner's Magazine writer explores how returning American soldiers will absorb French and British ideas and adopt French words or redefined English terms, creating new shades of meaning in postwar language. He notes this linguistic exchange will emerge from naming new ideas and adapting foreign terms.
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