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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1914
Page
26
A call for eugenics era public education on infant poisoning by alcohol and opium in soothing syrups. It links early drug exposure to later drunkenness, mental decline, and social failure, urging laws, awareness, and maternal responsibility to protect children.
A British medical journal discusses finding a substitute for profanity. It notes anger fuels violent urges and society restrains them, prompting tears or swearing as outlets. It calls for an Esperanto of profanity that stuns drivers yet offends no cleric or refined lady.
The piece reviews conclusive signs and tests to confirm death. It cites open arteries, embalming injections, X rays, rigor mortis, and fluorescein dye as highly reliable indicators, while refuting breath, mirror fogging, eye responses, and electric shocks as unreliable.
The essay argues that dirt is simply matter out of place, not a separate substance. It contends cleanliness depends on context, with dirt defined by location, comparing natural dirt on a forest dweller to clothing on a city resident, and calls for segregating human waste to farms for productive use.
A historical article argues insects carry a hypodermic-like needle to inject poisons and microbes. It cites mosquitoes fleas and ticks as disease vectors and describes a British Columbia sheep tick causing paralysis and occasional death in children of shepherds.
The heliograph once used for long range signaling over 70 miles can reach 200 miles only on exceptionally clear days. The article notes world examples from Mt Snowdon to Mt Everest and places in Ireland Mexico and India, highlighting visibility limits and future replacement by wireless telegraphy.
An article argues microbes under the ground are hunted by amoebae while surface microbes feed the soil. It claims antiseptics can boost soil fertility without harming beneficial microbes and that heating soil or plowing aids ammonia production and plant nitrogen uptake.
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