Eyes and sports stars: vision fuels athletic success
The article argues good eyesight is essential for sporting excellence, citing Babe Ruth Helen Wills and other champions. It notes athletes often wear glasses during play, highlights eye injury risks in youth sports and outlines three first aid principles: cleanliness rest and professional medical care.
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Efe
Ife
Babe Ruth
Helen Wills
Bill Tilden
Jack Dempsey
Bobby Jones
Lee Meadows
Vic Sorrell
Detroit Tigers
Toporcher
MacFayden
Chick Hafey
St. Louis Cardinals
Mark Koenig
Detroit
New York City
Yankees
Safey
Koenig
Watson Washburn
Willie Mcfarlane
Westchester County
New York
United States
National Society For the Prevention of Blindness
Machines That Are Almost Human
A 1931 Western Newspaper Union feature on the "bean growers eye" a photo electric detector that sorts dried navy beans and other goods. It explains how the device uses light and a cell to separate inferior beans oranges and tobacco leaves by grade and color matching clothing fabrics with near perfect accuracy.
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California
Morida
Sally
Western Newspaper Union
Arizona the land of sun and steam and steel
National Geographic notes Arizona grows from a hard to reach territory into a developing state. It highlights shifting northward traffic from California, the Grand Canyon bridge, rising tourist numbers, and vast copper mining. It traces early exploration, Gadsden Purchase, rail and stage links, and major irrigation projects like Yuma, Horse Mesa, Mormon Flat, and Chollidge dam transforming its economy and population.
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Grand Canyon
Flagstaff
Colorado
Lees Ferry
Bluffs
Arizona
Utah
Bryce Canyon
Kaibab National Forest
Zion National Park
Great Gorge
United States
Grand Canyon Station
South Rim
Kaibab Forest Station
North Rim
California
Nevada
Cedar
Guadalupe Hidalgo
Gila River
Gadsden Purchase
Arizona Territory
Congress
Washington
Panama
Gadsden
Sonora
Guaymas
Gulf of California
Mexico
Sam
Egypt
Texas
San Francisco
Colorado River
Mazatlan
la Paz
San Antonio
San Diego
St. Louis
Tucson
Gila Bend
Yuma
Tubac
Bisbee
Horse Mesa
Mormon Flat
San Carlos
Florence
Casa Grandé
Old Myth Telling of Fire Theft by Animals
A Pacific Northwest myth explains how animals stole fire from pine trees along the Grande Ronde river. Beavers hide a live coal under a bevnast, sparked a chase, and ultimately fire passes to willows and birches after trees tire. The tale ends with rubbing sticks to start fire.
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Grande Ronde
Famous Botanic Garden Origins in Washington
The Botanic garden in Washington grew from the Columbian Institute’s 1818 act and 1820 site grant. Congress funded $5,000 for swamp improvements after 1836 while the Wilkes expedition of 1838 to 1842 expanded the collection. Botanist W. D. Breckenridge brought back seeds and cuttings, forming the core of the nucleus.
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Botanic Garden
Washington
Columbian Institute For the Promotion of Arts and Sciences
Congress
George Washington
W. D. Breckenridge
South Seas
Insists Lower Animals Know Little About Pain
Dr Har old Jackson of the zoological department at London University argues that lower animals feel no true pain. He says pain is relative and a lobster or telephone instrument does not suffer as humans do. He notes pain acts as a burglar alarm and suggests humane killing methods for lobsters.
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Harold Jackson
Zoological Department of London University
Surprise for Auntie Bible inscription chosen by a boy
A schoolboy, eight, gives his Aunt a Bible for her birthday. He searches his father’s bookshelves for a fitting inscription, compares dedications, and writes on the fly leaf: With the author's compliments. London Evening News notes the quaint moment.
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London Evening News
Saving His Skin Duel Threat Ends Peace Talk
A Mexican city paper reports a man seeks to avert a duel between two married men by admitting he is one of them. The exchange underscores personal risk and social constraints in a culture wary of honor conflicts. authorities are not named and no further action is described.
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Excelsior
Mexico City
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John D. Grant Rawn
David Resnick
National Society
Ruth
Tilden
Lig McFarlane
E.C. Taylor
Eye
National Geographic Society
Washington, D. C
Phoenix
Canada
Nogales
Southern Pacific
Los Angeles
New Grand Canyon Bridge
San Xavier del Bac
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