What Is Disease The Beginning Of Biological Measure
Paul H. De Kruif discusses Osterhout and laminarin to define injury vitality and recovery in Laminaria cells. He shows normal cells resist electric current consistently while damaged cells lose resistance, enabling equations to predict injury and recovery. This marks a scientific advance toward answering what disease is.
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Paul H. de Kruif
American Mercury
Osterhout
Osterhuut
Laminaria
Uncharted Rocks Endanger Mariners Across Oceans
Ancient and shifting hazards haunt sea lanes as rocks like Lamb and Avocet surface or vanish. Lamb rock rose in 200 feet of water near the St Lawrence route, a constant threat in rough seas. Avocet rock in the Red Sea blocked steamer lanes, sinking ships before several British inquiries confirmed its location.
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St. Lawrence River
Avocet
Red Sea
India
Flying Fish
Teddington
H. M
Stork
Surveying the Seas Plans for a grand ocean survey
A conference representing US government science and allied institutions inaugurates plans for the most complete ocean survey yet. One or more ships will be fitted as floating laboratories to map the sea bottom and study water density temperature and currents at all depths. The effort aims to inventory marine food potential in the vast water surface.
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United States
Remarkable Night Cough Cure Promises Quick Relief
An old remedy claims to ease a persistent cough that disrupts sleep. A Doctor Kuing’s method uses a single teaspoonful nightly, held in the mouth before swallowing with water, to reduce soreness, loosen phlegm, and shorten coughing spells for a restful night. It allegedly helps bronchitis, asthma, hoarseness, and spasmodic croup in children, and is sold by druggists.
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Kuing
Man and woman with dogs spar in seaside post office
A man enters a seaside post office with a large dog while a woman at the counter has a dog. As the dogs fight, the man asks an assistant on the safe side to intervene but she refuses. After the chaos ends, the dog owner complains the clerk allowed disturbance in the office.
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Manchester Guardian
Trajan's Column A Marble Monument in Rome
The Kan sas City Times reports Trajan's Column in Trajan's forum Rome. Erected in 114 A D by the senate and Roman people to honor Emperor Trajan's Dacian victories. The 182 foot high column is 12 feet in diameter and built of 84 Carrara marble blocks with bas relief sculptures. A spiral staircase of 185 steps leads to the summit once crowned by a gilded statue later replaced by a St Peter statue by Pope Sixtus V in the sixteenth century. Trajan's ashes lie beneath the column.
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Rome
Senate
Kansas City Times
Sixtus V
St. Peter
Trajan
Suburban gossip swirls around a new marriage
Town whispers about a recent wedding spark speculation on the bride’s groom finances. A pair of locals debate whether the husband has money, noting he did not live in the area and that the bride vowed not to marry a poor man, despite the short time since the ceremony.
Mystery Vegetation and Giant Cabbages on Kerguelen Island
A Popular Mechanics description places Kerguelen Island between Africa and Australia about 1500 miles north of the Antarctic Circle. The island known as Desolation Land is noted for its perplexing Indian Ocean mystery, unique vegetation, and millions of cabbages with heads 18 to 20 inches across.
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Indian Ocean
Africa
Australia
Antarctic Circle
Kerguelen Island
Desolation Land
Popular Mechanics Magasine
Vitamins Stored in Liver Says JAMA Editor
The Journal of the American Medical Association editor notes vitamins are stored in the liver and are essential for living organisms. Evidence from Steenbock Sell Nelson and others shows the liver varies in fat soluble vitamin content with diet. Depletion occurs when vitamin A or B is deficient, demonstrated by Osborne and Menceil.
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Journal of the American Medical Association
Steenbock
Sell
Nelson
Osborne
Menceil
Cleveland on the Cow Grover Cleveland’s childhood verse
The Kansas City Times recounts a short school poem by Grover Cleveland noting the cow’s usefulness. It describes milk for coffee and tea, leather from skin, beef from flesh, buttons from horns, and glue from hoof glue, arguing life’s necessities rely on cows.
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Cleveland
Grover Cleveland
Kansas City Times
Ancient Candlestick Uniquely Crafted by Ancestral Gift
An iron candlestick owned by a Los Angeles girl traces to Henri I of France. Baroque in design, it features trap spirals on a tripod base and a twisting knob to raise the candle as wax melts. The piece was reportedly used in the hunting lodge of the monarch.
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Los Angeles
Henri I
France
Process of Growth of Human Language
Sir Richard Paget demonstrated an artificial speaking machine to illustrate language evolution from prehistoric roars and grunts. He described early humans using the larynx to roar and grunt while grimacing and moving the tongue and lips, then discovered that blowing air through the mouth with these grimaces produced clearer sounds. The progression led to whispered variations and finally sung speech that could be recognized at greater distances.
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Richard Paget
New York
Clouds Vary Greatly in Their Composition
The article discusses clouds with viscid, varying viscosity dependent on temperature and pressure. It notes ground diffusion, ropy and granular levels higher up, and fixed cloud levels with clear spaces. It cites Rehoboth Sunday Herald about fixed atmospheric layers, mentioning clovis levels beneath 5,000 feet and near-ground fog that darkens daytime skies.
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Rehoboth Sunday Herald
Jupiter
Certainty Was Dumb In Lancashire Cartoon
A fragment describes the mill scene where the tackler, an onlooker, is repeatedly portrayed as very dull. The text attributes many jokes to this role and references a miscaption or misattribution involving Lost and Cunliffe, suggesting a typical excuse or example within the Lancashire mill humor.
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Lancashire
Cunliffe
Curious Smells And Coat Hangers In Daily Life
Two men in Sunday attire chat about a suit losing shape and a coat hanger remedy, then joke about the hanger causing sore shoulders. A note on odor says substances not dissolving in water carry smell via airborne vapor, not the liquid itself, with garden scent post rain as proof and eau de cologne often not detected by the nose.
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Bill
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