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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1900
Page
8
The Cincinnati Enquirer explains green mold as a fungus called Penicillium. A microscope reveals a surface dusting of globules and hyphae forming a brushlike, crusty mass that spews powder spores and endlessly grows, producing a light, paperlike crust.
GQ M Sherman of Wampden Mass conducts rapid growth tests using a porous jar buried beneath soil to feed plants. Roses show enormous daily shoot growth, with roots clustering around the nutrient source. Sherman seeks state station testing and broader fruit shrub applications. Intelligence of Animals Tests show various animals recognizing themselves in mirrors and pictures. Birds singing attempted to ease Mercenas insomnia but failed.
Mc Clure's recounts Octave Chanute a veteran civil engineer and leading American aerial navigation expert describing tests from the Lake Michigan shore two or three years earlier. The piece covers Chanute's "multiple wing" and later "two surface" gliders, gust tolerance, automatic wing adjustment via pivots and springs, and wind balance challenges. It notes speeds of up to 15 mph with gusts felt as 40 to 45 mph, and that no motor was used until stability is mastered. It adds a brief item on a German patented electric tanning method using lead salts and a low voltage dynamo for faster processing.
A prominent railroad unveils a system letting engineers weigh coal by letting the engine run on a trestle and touch a button. No coal drops into the tender as it is weighed, altering traditional fueling methods.
The article surveys global fortifications from Malta and Cronstadt to Fortress Monroe and the Great Chinese Wall. It distinguishes forts from fortified cities, lists key bastions across Europe, Russia, Denmark, France, Belgium, Italy, and the Atlantic coast, and notes the Red Sea gateways at Aden and Perim.
The piece warns that a universally popular preparation carries world wide endorsement and that retailers offering substitutes are frauds seeking extra profit. It cautions buyers to beware of Cascarets substitutes and to trust the genuine boxed product with its distinctive metal box and long tailed C logo.
A collage of light quotes and social snippets on war terms, humor, tonics, and etiquette. The column notes a wife’s playful misinterpretation of “the seat of war,” cites drug ads for tonics and gums, a traffic-car encounter with an anti-cigarette tract, and brief witticisms from multiple papers, concluding with a plea to mention the advertisement.
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