Cape Town One of Most Beautiful in All World
Cape Town is hailed as one of the world’s most beautiful locations with dramatic Table Mountain, Table Bay shoreline, and a landscape of forests and cliffs. The city’s equable climate and abundant sunshine are noted, while its setting beside the bay and beneath the mountain’s sheer precipices is praised as unmatched.
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Constantinople
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Giants Lizards Captured by Smithsonian Team
Detroit News reports Petite Gonave fishermen believe lizards drink rum to be captured. Smithsonian expedition members proved harmless, catching six by hand for the National Zoo. Locals describe the creatures as giant iguanas resembling miniature long extinct dinosaurs and warned outsiders away.
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Smithsonian Institution
Petite Gonave
National Zoological Park
Detroit News
Tokens of copper spur coinage in late 19th century
The piece notes two periods when copper tokens were issued to address a shortage of small coins. In 1863 a flood of tokens appeared matching the bronze one cent size, while 1887 saw many firms mint tokens for redeeming in legal currency. Some tokens carried political slogans, others advertised issuing merchants.
Deep breathing as a beauty aid and habit
The article argues that many women breathe shallowly and that learning to breathe fully is a cheap, effective beauty aid. It promotes deep breathing as a by-product of vigorous outdoor exercise and indoor exercises with free limb and trunk movement to stimulate natural oxygen intake.
Chillon Occupies Spot on the Lake of Geneva
The World Telegram notes Chillon Castle on a small rocky island near Montreux, famed in art and literature. Descriptions recall medieval romance with drawbridge, guardrooms, sunlit courtyards, turrets, dungeons, secret stairs, and water edge postern for escape, highlighting its storied beauty and historic details.
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Chillon
Lake of Geneva
Montreux
Earth
Paradise
Frederick Treves
Inaccurate details in famous art and literature noted
Golden Book Magazine’s inquiry into human fallibility highlights errors in depictions and texts. Leutze’s Washington crossing the Delaware shows a non existent flag in 1776. flag adoption occurred in 1777. Goldsmith, Tintoretto and Dickens are cited for anachronisms and implausible scenes.
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Golden Book Magazine
Leutze
Metropolitan Museum
New York City
Washington
Delaware
Oliver Goldsmith
Georgia
Tintoretto
Charles Dickens
Nicholas Nickelby
Dotheboys Hall
Read the Riot Act Origins and Legal Consequences
The phrase read the riot act warns away wrongdoers and traces to England's 1775 statute. It empowered officials to disperse unlawful gatherings of twelve or more and made those who refused or interfered felons after an hour.
The Word Nature and Its Varied Meaning Across Time
The Washington Star explains Nature derives from Latin natura and natus, tracing birth as its core meaning. It outlines three senses: origin or birth, essence or life’s source, and phenomena produced by natural forces within the universe. The summary emphasizes that Nature essentially embodies life and living things.
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Washington Star
Dishonored Bath Time Mystery at Club in London
In a historic London club a famous late literary figure, reputed to dislike soap, was found each morning in a dressing gown by the bath. Members once forced the bathroom door to discover him splashing water with his walking stick, producing curious ablutionary sounds.
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London
Water testing kit uses liquid color comparators
A water testing outfit provides sealed vials with nine shades from pH 6.0 to 7.6 for direct color matching. Bromothymol blue serves as the indicator. excess alkali is corrected with sodium phosphate while acidity is balanced with bicarbonate of soda.
Daredevil Terriers Courageous Irish Terrier Story
An African hunter tale shows an Irish terrier attached to a lion's tail, clinging with locked teeth as the big cat broke from dense undergrowth after a failed pack effort to flush it out. The account highlights the breed's famed daring and fearless nature.
Rainy day fog alters familiar streets and houses
Fog on rainy days softens and looms over houses and streets, giving even ordinary blocks a startling, altered look as bricks and stones blur in vapors, changing the city’s familiar silhouette in a Washington Star reflection.
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Washington Star
Student’s Shakespearean Quiz Backfires With Witty Mistake
A class studying English poetry faced a quiz on a line from Wadsworth. A student perplexedly interpreted the line “The child is father to the man” and quipped that Shakespeare wrote it, accusing him of making a common error.
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Shakespeare
Wadsworth
Livestock prices at South Omaha June 13 1933
Union Stock Yards Omaha reports opening cattle prices steady with yearlings stronger and plainer cattle weaker. Receipts 7,500 head. Best steers $6.50 to $6.75. Cows and heifers slow. feeders firm. Fat cattle and hogs noted with prices for lambs and sheep, including hogs up to 10 cents, fat lambs 7.50 to 17.75, feeder lambs weak, aged sheep dull.
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Union Stock Yards
Omaha
Hog demand broad as 11,000 head sell strong
Demand for hogs was fairly broad Monday and the 11,000 head on sale changed hands readily at prices strong to 10c higher than the close of last week. The range of prices continued narrow, bulk of the trading being at a spread of $4.40 to $4.50, the latter price being high for the day.
Sheep Market Sluggish as Demand Dips Five Thousand Head Sold
Fresh sheep and lamb arrivals totaled 5000 on Monday with demand indifferent and prices about 25 cents lower than Friday. Fat lambs traded largely at 7.50 to 7.75 dollars, feeders at 6.00 to 6.75, aged stock weak, ranges for fat lambs and feeders detailed with quality tiers and local prices for yearlings and ewes.
Rain Expected As Smoke Drops Indicate Low Pressure
Smoke settling to the ground signals a falling atmospheric pressure and an approaching storm region. The steady drop in air pressure suggests unsettled weather and possible rain in the near term.
Kinds of Beets and Varieties Listed
Four beet types are identified: garden beet, sugir beet, mangel wurzel, and foliage beets. The garden beet is variety eras u, foliage beets are forms of variety cicla, with names like leaf beet and spinach beet among common names including Sicilian beet and Chilean beet.
Obscure Sun Halo Seen on Clear Day
The article notes a whitish halo appearing when the sun is covered by the hand, caused by light scattered by dust or fog. It can be far brighter than the sky and swamps the corona, while clear, dust-free skies show no haze. Regions with clean air, high mountains, and snowy air often reveal this test of sky purity.
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Norway
Ls Jenry Norris Russell
Scientific American
Shape of Holes Gives Key to Cheese Taste
E. Carlberg of Sweden explains in the Swedish-American Trade Journal that cheese taste is guided by its structure with holes. Round holes form when pulp is stirred into a clump, yielding air exclusion and gas pockets during maturation. Irregular holes arise when whey is broken into small fragments before maturing.
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E. Carlberg
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Misread demand note from income tax assessor sparks confusion
A contractor who received a fifty pound demand from the income tax assessor declared he could not understand it. He told himself he had not even five pounds and wrote a letter claiming the statement on his return form must have been misunderstood, insisting he is a contractor not a conjurer.
The 1914 Romania and Postwar Additions Overview
Romania then covered 123000 square miles combining Walachia Moldavia and Dobruja. After World War I borders expanded with Bessarabia Bukovina Transylvania and part of the Hungarian plain. About 80 percent work in agriculture with wheat as main crop. Major minerals include oil salt lignite iron and copper. Railways about 7500 miles and Danube Black Sea navigation are state controlled. Key towns Balcharest Jassy Galatz Ishmail and Kichonef.
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Moldavia
Dobruja
Bessarabia
Bukowina
Transylvania
Danube
Black Sea
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Rapnal
Jassy
Galatz
Ishmail
Kichonef
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