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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1911
Page
18
A fragmented clipping reflects on aviation milestones with references to early airmen and engineers. The text weaves in names and places, noting Protaras and Wright related themes, while musing on the era's experimental craft and their impact on travel and technology.
A dense OCR style piece discusses light's effects on organisms and machinery, linking photosensitive reactions in worms and plants to locomotion, and detailing imagined experiments and observations on how light influences movement, growth, and behavior across species and devices. It touches on locomotives, chemical actions, and historical scientific ideas.
Experiments show Crustaceans and worms orient to light or gravity under chemical or electric stimuli. Esters or acids in water draw Gammarus toward light, while Paramecium swims to the cathode. Gravity and temperature shifts alter Polygerdius larvae, sea worms migrate with temp, and memory and chemical cues influence animal behavior, including ants and hover of moths.
A verbose reflection on a morning full of small mishaps. The narrator describes a rushed routine, mislaid items, a crowded streetcar, missed connections, and a flood of odd letters demanding updates and contributions. The piece ends pondering the irony of typing errors duplicating on both sides of a sheet.
A historical tour discusses ancient time measurement using gnomons and sundials, noting Egyptian and Greek roles, water clocks, and early clocks. It cites Stonehenge as a primitive sundial site and recounts juror influence, courtroom parades, and mental telepathy myths shaping trials and verdicts.
A courtroom tale on a summer day in a Justice of the Peace court recounts a black man accused of stealing a lawn mower and his lawyer’s bid for acquittal. It explores trial tactics, jury selection, and the role of an attorney who reads human nature to sway twelve jurors.
Inventor Timghast af Wotcesias reports an aeroplane that sails wind like a yacht with engine off. He says a four cylinder 123 horsepower motor achieves 10 miles per hour and claims extended airtime. Public trials pending to verify if this surpasses Kitty Hawk experiments and prior records.
A historical note discusses skull elasticity, tensile strength of bone, and comparisons to wood. It cites a cylindrical bone sample of 0.1128 square millimeters area, 0.44 millimeters diameter, capable of about 33 kilograms of tension, roughly 4740 pounds per square inch, with wood at 10 kilograms for contrast. A single bone fiber supported five kilograms in Dresden.
Kansas City Journal reports a bedbug triggered a divorce suit in Hutchinson. The husband moved the bed to another room to escape the insect, while the wife claims desertion of the marital bedroom. Tom Cordry, formerly of Hutchinson, says the man can prove an alibi by showing who moved the bed.
An obscure note describes unusual locomotives with ten-foot driving wheels and geared spindles. The fragment mentions Americar and The Fontaine along with raw and western references, suggesting a historical rail technology snippet lacking full context.
A discussion of rare stamps and prices from early issues to modern values. Notable items include Mauritius stamps and British colonial issues, with notes on imprints, errors, and auction outcomes in a historical collecting market.
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