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Washburn Times

Location

Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America

Date

Jun 01, 1922

Page

5

Gifted calculator Inaudi in Paris since youth

Jacques Inaudi, a famed calculating prodigy, has lived in Paris since 1890 when he was eleven. The article notes his constant accuracy and unique mannerisms, his early life as a peasant, and Broca measuring his skull, yet he made no advances in mathematics.

Jacques Inaudi Paris F&e le Petit Parisien Kansas City Star Inaudi Marseilles Broca

Growth of Metals Through Ferrous Ferricyanide Tubules

Scientific Monthly reports experiments by Ralph B. Lillie showing iron wire in potassium ferricyanide with egg-white or gelatin and salt forms blue green vesicles and filaments of ferrous ferricyanide within minutes. Cobalt and nickel yield a different, coarser tubule growth with numerous fine tubes.

Ralph 8. Lillie Vela Research Laboratory Cleveland Scientific Monthly

Glittering Soap Bubble Scene Dazzles Film Dancers

A film director staged a 20 by 40 foot froth scene using a metal floor leveled basin and 200 barrels of soap solution. Steam pushed bubbles through porous flooring creating a huge shimmering mass in which dancers moved, a spectacle described as fairy like in Popular Mechanics.

Popular Mechanics

Chinese wives gain freedoms in republic shift says Canton feminists

In China the power of mothers-in-law is waning as the republic advances. Canton feminists claim a glorious victory with reforms ending the ma rcode, allowing wives to keep earnings and shaping divorce laws for both sexes. The piece muses on Garis with crystal buttons observing the change.

China Chinese Republic Canton Gariis

Quebec Forestry Conference Debates Permit System

The forestry conference in Montreal discussed a permit system for sportsmen surveyors trappers and others crossing land designated as timber limits by the provincial government. Between 1917 and 1920 Quebec logged about 2800 forest fires caused by carelessness burning roughly 517000 acres with at least 278060 acres of green timber and young growth affected.

Quebec Montreal Re Tely

One Broken Lot of Assorted Sizes and Colors

A broken lot offered in assorted sizes and colors described as neat shapes and bargains. Prices listed range from 39 cents to 1.50 dollars, available while they last.

Arrow Kahki Wisconsin Athletic Union

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