Polarized lights eyed by auto engineers for safer night driving
Detroit reports automotive lighting researchers are testing polarized light to improve night visibility. A depolarizer windshields and a polarizer in headlamps could let drivers see oncoming cars with less glare, though challenges include light loss requiring larger lamps and upgraded generators. Civic groups push brighter street lighting to cut accidents while research continues.
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Detroit
Ostacles
Air-Conditioning Costs For Capitol Rise Over Estimate
Washington Congressmen awaiting an air-conditioned Capitol and private offices learned that an additional 1,672,000 dollars were needed for equipment. The 1935 appropriation had provided 2,550,000 dollars for air-conditioning the Capitol and three office buildings. Spend your money in Whitewright.
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Washington
D. C
Capitol
Oddities and curiosities from a long list of strange facts
A collection of bizarre notes includes a queen with seven teen children but no heir a hen laying empty eggs a dish of baked ice and a man who married a statue Lord Orserey’s ring for a Venus de Medici statue and a seven year old boy becoming a lawyer. Other items mention backward spelling a tiny spider web stretching miles a ship weighing less east than west and a remark about England Chang and Eng Siamese twins their feud and deaths.
Woman Linked to Bookies Jailed After Mail Theft
Pearl B Wilkinson a former postal employee testified she bet on horse races with Dallas bookies to cover debts and began stealing letters from the mails to meet obligations. She described money-lending pressures after losing savings and was sentenced by Judge Davidson to a year and a day in Alderson with a two year suspended term for three years.
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Dallas
Pearl B. Wilkinson
Sho
United States
Davidson
Alderson
Dallas Journal
Typist Questions Salary Rise as Boss Changes Role
In a tense office exchange a typist asks for a raise while the boss retorts, suggesting the worker call herself secretary instead, framing the shift in title as the key change rather than pay. The dialogue hints at power dynamics and workplace expectations.
Oil May Stay Jay Gould Prophecy Of Desolation
The piece recounts Jay Gould's 1873 prediction that Jefferson Texas and Marion County would wither as oil development revived the town. Oil discovery near Rodessa and in Marion County spurred population growth from about 2,500 to over 3,000, easing taxes and reviving land values, seemingly delaying the financier’s warned doom.
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Jay Gould
Marion County
Jefferson
Gould
Texas and Pacific
Excelsior
Texas
Rodessa
Three new views on cancer draw publicity
The March of Science highlights differing opinions on cancer genetics. Dr Maud Slye proposes recessive inherited susceptibility with type specific genes, while Dr C C Little cites an extra chromosomal factor. Dr Felix Bernstein suggests an allergic predisposition and notes virus-like ultramicroscopic research possibilities.
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Maud Slye
University of Chicago
C. C. Little
Roscoe, B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory
Slye
Felix Bernstein
Invisible virus discussion pushes beyond microscope limits
The article explains that influenza and cold viruses are smaller than porcelain filter pores and escape standard microscopy. It argues microscopes have reached a magnification limit for visible light and that particles near light wavelength can be observed with new methods, including ultraviolet techniques, signaling further exploration beyond traditional microscopy.
Self-Liquiding Cow Found On Indiana Farm
Rushville Ind A Jersey cow named Toots six years old on Paul Wasling farm taps drinking water by nose horn and lever. Witnesses including local newspapermen confirm the self powered process as water flows or fills a bucket beneath the pump.
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Rushville
Ind
Paul Wasling
Toots
Wesling
Scientific Drunk Calculated by Booze in Blood
Dr Thorne M Carpenter of the Carnegie Institution says a single blood drop can determine alcohol level and whether sobriety is crossed Two tenths of one percent marks drunkenness He notes tests used in Germany and Europe face US legal obstacles and that a pint of whisky can reach the level Daytona Beach builds an alligator farm while Leavenworth prison holds 3195 inmates and an annex adds 1564.
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Washington
Thorne M. Carpenter
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Germany
United States
Carpenter
Supersonic vibrations to clear smoky atmosphere devised
Dr. J Hartman of the Copenhagen Technical College claims to have developed supersonic vibrations that purge dense smoke from the air in ten seconds. The piece notes steam electric plants now convert one pound of coal into about one kilowatt-hour of electricity, a threefold efficiency gain over thirty years ago when three pounds of coal were needed per kilowatt-hour.
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J. Hartman
Copenhagen
Baby weighs 17 pounds 4 ounces at birth in Indiana
In Fort Wayne Indiana Mrs Elmer Fleck and a WPA worker welcomed a 17 pound 4 ounce baby boy named Franklin John after birth at the Fleck home in Ari north of the city. Doctors say the infant is doing nicely and not unusually fat, just very strong.
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Ind
Elmer Fleck
WPA
Fleck
Ari
Here
Franklin John
Roosevelt
Jesse Briggs
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