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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1933
Page
6
Observations show mottled enamel in children drinking water with three or more parts per million fluorides. Iowa studies at Ames reproduce the condition in rats fed Ankeny well water. Health officials urge survey of prevalence and measures to prevent fluorides in drinking water.
A Pacific island crab, over twelve inches long, now spends most of its time on land. Once a solitary hermit in a shell, it burrows on coral shores and uses a modified gill chamber to breathe both air and water. Its diet centers on coconuts, and storms may drive it to climb trees to harvest nuts.
Dr Williams Beebe in Nonsuch Land of Water argues Bermuda is not coral. Living coral appears on submerged reefs but is only a veneer of encrusted life. Bermuda is the peak of an extinct volcanic mountain raised and lowered by Ice Age seas, with shelly rubble and wind blown sand accumulating in stages.
Glassmaking began in America with Jamestown as early as 1608 but did not become a large industry until later. Early factories such as the Wistar works in South Jersey 1738, Stiegel at Mannheim 1764, and Pitkin at Manchester Connecticut 1783 1830 faced financial struggles and short lifespans as the trade proved hard to profit from in colonial and early national periods.
A town built on a giant raft in Canada travels west coast waters while its residents, including a school and church, live on a main street and all children wear life belts. The piece contrasts odd local life with brief notes on historical beliefs and global curiosities.
In Chilean nitrate fields workers gamble by each man placing a dynamite stick with lit fuse in a contest to hold it longer than others. Winners collect or are collected. The hazardous game highlights dangerous labor practices amid mining work.
A collection of historical curiosities and world trivia spans art, famine, cultural practices, mining, ancient lore, biology, travel, and crime. It notes Zeuxis gifting paintings, the Skull Famine of India, Yoruba debt burials, Chamacocos menus, Battaks asking kin to end life, silver as a by‑product, and early bibliomancy bans. It also mentions anaerobic bacteria, postwar travel growth, Dussseldorf manhunt, and mass questioning of suspects.
The fragment notes a line about selecting territories for conquest and clergy making forecasts in sermons. It preserves the odd phrasing and unidentified context from the source. No clear event or identifiable entities are present.
Odors trigger memories more vividly than sights while the Holy City of Beni Isguen in the north Sahara forbids overnight visitors. Strangers must leave before sundown and camp outside the walls until dawn. A physics note explains that air in front of a speeding bullet pierces glass before the bullet itself arrives.
The thermocouple, an electrical thermometer, ranks among the most amazing instruments. Placed beneath an astronomer's telescope, it can gauge the heat radiated by individual stars, with the nearest about 25 million miles away.
In the U S Pharmacopoeia the largest official dose of citrate of magnesia equals 2 504 000 times the smallest dose of aconitine 1 400 of a grain. A surprising contrast in medicine measurement underscoring vast dosage ranges.
About 700 years ago many brides never saw their husbands. Marriages were performed by proxy with a friend standing for the groom. If the groom resided far away, he could be killed in war before arriving for the wedding.
In Carthage 2,500 years ago traders displayed goods on the shore then withdrew to ships. Natives offered prices beside each item and left while traders returned. If bids were too low sellers returned for another chance. No goods or money were ever stolen.
The Mitsui family story spans 250 years from a pawn shop to finance. Takatoshi Mitsui created a cash exchange and drapery shop in 1670, building exchange houses in Suruga, Kyoto, and Osaka. By 1872 five young Mitsui members studied banking in the U.S. and in 1873 Mitsui-Gumi and Ono-Gumi opened Japan’s first national bank, followed by the first private bank in 1876.
The article notes that while hearts are not made of gold they contain traces of copper aluminum and silver when examined spectroscopically. It also reports the thyroid gland containing tin silver copper lead and zinc.
Horace G. Hutchinson notes the long span of human history from Menes and ancient Egypt to the earliest tools from the pliocene. He argues that man’s records are brief compared with vast times, with the oldest proof dating around 6 000 years ago, while worked flints appear about 600 000 B C.
A wary note identifies bootleggers as the best customers of back numbers in New York City today. They use old papers as wrappers to persuade buyers their liquor is aged years, a shrewd ploy by illicit sellers.
Vienna physician Doctor Eisenmenger unveils a device described as an artificial heart that can revive individuals after cardiac cessation. The machine alternates pressure and suction on the chest to simulate normal circulation, pumping blood while the real heart stops.
A newspaper ad from London recalls a Hungarian minister Baron Ivan Rubido-Zichy lamenting a lost engagement book and asking for reminders. Three dinner invitation callers ensured reminders for specific dates, while he recalled the rest of his engagements.
A sun powered water heater has been built and used successfully in the agricultural engineering department at the University of Florida. The solar heater warms water hot enough for household use on nearly every day of the year.
The report lists rapid recording typewriter speeds up to 235 wpm, shorthand court testimony at 280 wpm, and up to 350 wpm. It notes wireless telegraphy at 186000 miles per second, Morse manual telegraphy at 30 to 40 wpm, and automatic devices pushing speeds to 500 to 600 wpm or more.
A historical note on textual variants during 14 centuries of hand copying the Bible, estimating at least 150000 differences across surviving New Testament manuscripts.
A vintage drumbeat advertisement promotes Bukets juniper oil blend to purge bladder irritants and acids. It claims relief from nocturnal urination within four days and offers a money-back guarantee if unresolved. Druggist H. H. Sorg touts Bukets as a best seller.
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