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Newspaper
The Mobile News Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1925
Page
14
F W Sargent in Waterloo explains grafting a single tree to bear diverse varieties. He lowers a one year old trunk to three feet and buds five to six on each side, enabling twelve kinds of apples on one city lot. He notes this method saves space and supplies his family with fruit.
June 19 report notes Los Angeles grows as a sports hub with boxing and wrestling venues, a new Olympic auditorium, plans for a $350,000 indoor arena seating 16 000, a $850 000 baseball park for the William Wrigley team and various new beach clubs and golf courses. The piece also mentions efforts to attract British and American stars and a forthcoming national wrestling program.
Six University of Chicago students slept 115 hours to let Dr. Nathan Kleitman of physiology test insomnia and dream theories. He argued that sleep severs mind from body, that complete muscular relaxation triggers sleep, and offered a view on dream psychology and symbolist ideas of a policeman’s whistle as a symbol. The piece also mentions the Indian pueblos as a notable race culture topic.
Charles Fuller, 26, of Montreal, pleaded guilty to second degree murder for shooting Thomas A. Leeming, a millionaire manufacturer and club man. He received a sentence from 20 years to life in Sing Sing after blackmail attempts were revealed.
A dispatch from The Hague reports Queen Wilhelmina of Holland injured in a glacier slip accident at Chamonix France near Mont Blanc while traveling by automobile.
The article cites Scott on how advancing white culture dulls touch and hearing, reducing beauty to a general sensation. It contrasts the new prose with poetry and notes signs of symbolism in modern life, referencing Shakespeare, cartoons, and a cathedral insignia. It also mentions Dr Max Thorek stating osteomyelitis from wounds can be cured without surgery.
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