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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1924
Page
7
East argues in Scribner's Magazine that farming must modernize scientifically. He foresees larger, professionally managed farms, centralized cooperation, standardized year round sales, and reduced middleman margins, with careful control of production to meet demand.
George Ellerly Hale notes in Scribner's that small instruments can view sun spots during solar activity. Focus to project a disk on white cardboard held 2 to 4 feet away and distinguish spots by their sunward motion. Eyes must be protected with smoked glass to avoid serious eye injury.
A Maine tourist stops her car on a narrow road to yield for a wagon drawn by oxen. Several hens gather and one sits before the vehicle as the farmer jokes about rousting a hen from the path. The farmer’s remark reflects rural humor in the encounter.
A rich gold reef was found near Ardlethan New South Wales with samples returning 15 ounces of gold per ton. A second vein was located near Bodangora mines on former property, about two feet wide, yielding free gold assays from 1 ounce 13 pennyweight to 2 ounces 7 pennyweight per ton.
A newly invented X ray tube reportedly emits five to six times more curative rays than standard tubes, reducing exposure time. A complementary process aims to broaden X ray use to internal cancer treatments, signaling advances in medical imaging and therapy.
New Orleans physician William Scheppegrell reports over one million Americans affected by hay fever with rising numbers. He advises selecting homes away from weed zones, notes pollen travel distances, and recommends cautious lifestyle changes including fans avoidance, careful travel, and consulting a physician before relocation. He warns theaters and typhoon fans worsen symptoms and suggests salt water swimming and cold showers as remedies.
English aviation rules to be simplified with a once issued airworthiness certificate. Owners will be responsible for ongoing maintenance. daily inspections and landings at recognized airfields no longer required.
The coast guard cutter Bear, on its fiftieth voyage, is trapped in heavy ice about 1,000 miles north of Unalaska. With two propellers broken and the hull dented, it is deemed unsafe and may be dismantled on return. The Bear's mail service to Point Barrow is halted as rescue options falter.
Charles Brown of Salem Massachusetts found a bag with 52000 in cash and bonds and turned it over to a mysterious Doctor Mc Knight who promised him a house and lot. Brown has not seen McKnight since nor received the promised property, though he continues to hope.
Berlin reports German crew building the air cruiser for the United States expects a North Pole test flight if conditions allow. They are instructed to prepare for a test beginning in August and to complete tests by August 15 before handing the craft to the United States in early September.
In Paris a new game awards ten points for spotting women with long hair in the street, though scarce numbers make it less engaging than the old bearded man version. Colored wigs gain popularity with 38 wigs noted at a recent Champs Elysees souper dansant.
A discussion tracing fear from primitive living to modern science. It explains the physiology of fear through the solar plexus and diaphragm, linking the sinking sensation to bodily relaxation. It lists phobias such as agoraphobia, monophobia, and bathophobia.
An old inmate at Welfare Island fashioned a home-made eyeglass from a cigar-box strip and a glass lens to stay connected with the city news. Dr. Sydney Ussher, the hospital chaplain, notes eyeglasses cost are unfunded by the city and recalls the inmate’s quiet ingenuity to ease long days in the facility.
A Seattle Argus note describes a mother shopping for a three year old named Teddy. She struggles choosing gifts as toys once liked by him no longer appeal. A clerk playfully suggests a silk nightie, but the mother rejects the idea, saying Teddy already has such items.
Eleven states prohibit salary discrimination between male and female teachers and several others have recognized equal pay for equal work by administrative action. California Colorado Maryland Nevada New York Oregon Texas Utah Washington Wyoming are listed among the states with prohibitory laws per the United States Bureau of Education as reported by School Life.
Workers froze the mine shaft walls to prevent collapse and reach coal 6,000 feet beneath swamp in northern Belgium. The 46 inch coal beds are expected to be accessed using refrigeration systems.
Hamburg report outlines postwar German shipping recovery from 1920 to 1924. It notes loss of about half the fleet in war and under Versailles, reconstruction to 2.8 million gross tons, about half prewar, with private capital, government indemnities, and inflation shaping the pace. The fleet now includes more mixed freight and passenger vessels and preserves major routes to North and South America, the Orient, and Australia.
In Ludwigslust Germany E Ziemsen an extensive local landowner flooded fields last fall to grow fish. This year his self made lakes yielded strong returns and he plans to extend his home made lakes.
Figures from the national convention show the Socialist party of Germany has 1,260,000 dues paying members with 180,000 women among them. The party now operates 169 newspapers.
Mrs Nellie Drane Pascoe announces a massive property claim to the U S capital area including all Washington and Prince Georges county Maryland based on an old English grant. She says the land once belonged to James Anthony Crane II and hopes the government will buy it back. she has engaged a California lawyer and will pursue the case.
Washington reports Joseph F. Rock, National Geographic explorer, returning from Yunnan with 1,700 bird specimens, 500 mammal specimens, and over 60,000 plants. He cites discovery of no blight resisting chestnut tree and aboriginal rites predating Buddhism, plus ancient Nushi priest books.
Russian archaeologists near Krasnoyarsk have unearthed several Stone Age human skeletons and numerous mammoth, dinosaur, bison, and stag fossils along with 780 plus stone and bone tools, ornaments, and weapons. One skeleton is dated at least 17,000 years old under Professors Auerbach and Sosnowsky.
Hans and Caro Erickson, both over sixty, divorced five years ago after forty years of marriage, were remarried by Superior Judge Thompson in Los Angeles. Hans moved to Pasadena, where four children settled, and three months ago Caro visited. She admitted rekindling the old flame and began a courtship, leading to a reuniting ceremony with Lew Head of Pasadena as the giver.
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