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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1914
Page
8
A report notes rapid ecological shifts in New Zealand as native Polynesian traits fade under European impact. Imported species overwhelm native wildlife, streams host large trout, and forests are replaced by foreign trees. Eleven million larches oaks spruces Douglas firs and eucalypti have been planted with more seedlings arriving.
A magnetic hammer is introduced to hold tacks securely, eliminating the danger to fingers when driving small nails. The permanently magnetized head grips the tack so it can be driven home safely without harming the user's fingers.
Post Titanic, patent office filled with life preserver ideas. This Maryland design features an elongated pillow filled with non absorbent material and a narrow transverse head slot. Adjacent bag sections can be fastened around the chest and ends for secure fitting.
A burglar trap described in Popular Mechanics involves a false floor before a safe in stores. The floor drops an intruder into a pit with springs or pneumatic absorbers to cushion a landing. A lever then slides a floor to close the pit mouth, preventing escape.
Professor Zeeman backs Hale's reading of doubled lines in Mount Wilson sunspot spectra. Strong magnetic fields appear in sunspots with lines perpendicular to the solar surface. If confirmed, this explains perturbations in Earth's electric and magnetic equilibrium.
Professor Milne of the Isle of Wight observed shocks about eighty degrees distant likely from the east. Professor Bejer at Laibach placed the center roughly three thousand seven hundred fifty miles east. The following day Belpat in Baluchistan reported a severe quake at the observation time.
Fragmented notice reports Ottawa Ont observatory planned equipment including a Tinohu telescope. Other readable fragments mention mushrooms as a by product of Japan’s forests, automatic rewinding of film by an Ohioan, and fish guano for cattle and poultry, with Germany noted among general topics.
A youthful William Jennings Bryan visits a small Minos town to illustrate voting methods. An elderly man secretly leads him behind a school to offer a drink. Bryan politely refuses three times, prompting the sad line that ends with a resigned concession about doing best possible.
A World War I era notice recounts Walter Mahony of Troop H, Fifth U.S. Cavalry, at Camp McCoy Wisconsin describing a two year battle with psoriatic lesions on limbs. After trying multiple treatments he used Cuticura Soap and Ointment following a newspaper ad and claims complete cure in three months.
Wolf says New York is the most democratic city in the world where talent admits anyone. A duchess replies that common people nose to smell, while high-borns have noses to express contempt for others.
John D Wells of the Buffalo News observed a lecture in Sher wood New York. An old lady kept her eyes on his face and declared she was curious if he was related to the Wellses in Jamestown.
A playful dialogue from Puck critiques fashion and romance. Madge laments acting as others do, Marjorie jokes about slit skirts, and a quip notes a man's notion of a quiet game letting money speak. The piece juxtaposes style with social satire.
A chaplain aboard a cruiser hands a Bible wrapped as a small gift to Able Seaman Spikes. Spikes reads it quickly and jokes that the tale ends with everyone married and living happily ever after. Progress reference ties to modern styles and manners aboard.
An anecdote recalls Sargent in Venice last autumn amid European society. An amateur painter sketched the Grand Canal, caught the artist's eye, and the master advised an exhibition in Paris and a note to the Artistes Francais. The amateur then revealed his name, American and bearing the same Sargent surname.
A young woman sits on a stern boat as an exhausted oarsman strains at paddies. She muses about an upper in camp while he grimly guesses a floating island, noting it has passed him three times going up stream.
Mrs Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt surprised Newport society by arriving with a parasol whose panels were painted with a variety of cats.
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