Grasshopper Serum Powers Horse Jump High Busted Leg
Wichita dispatch reports Dr. Stephen Schlossbein and assistants testing grasshopper serum in Kansas. A horse injected with grasshopper hind-leg extract leapt so high it broke a leg while an anemic youth, fed on grasshopper meal, outran rivals. Researchers seek a serum and a nutritious grasshopper meal to impart lasting strength. Grasshoppers’ energy is huge, with estimates that 2500 hoppers jumping together could equal forty horses.
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Wichita
Kan
Kansas
Stephen Schlossbein
New York University
Insects Boost Grasshopper Jumping Power Experiment
Dr Schlossbein experiments with a ductless gland in grasshoppers alleged to enhance jumping. A student eating grasshopper meal reportedly breaks eastern standing jump and high jump records. A horse inoculated with the gland reportedly leaps too far, breaking a leg in a steeplechase.
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Schlossbein
Meyer Irving
Head of the Herd Offered Two Thousand For Insect Species
Nearly a year old head of his herd is valued at $2,000. Male grasshoppers are smaller than females, but the big-legged grass hoppers are developed mainly through the male line of descent.
Against the Professional Evangelists Report in Texas Gainesville
The Times criticizes traveling evangelists as vaudeville performers citing the North Texas Methodist Conference in Gainesville. It notes Rev. R. C. Hicks reports 3,969 additions on profession of faith and 207 life service volunteers, suggesting pastors bringing in evangelists hinder church work in the community.
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the Times
North Texas Methodist Conference
Gainesville
R. C. Hicks
The
Evangelistic Committee
Church Revivals Record Averages At Meetings
The Clarksville Times notes averages show fifteen additions per meeting when pastors were assisted by evangelists, and thirty six additions when revivals were conducted by the church pastors themselves.
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Clarksville
Balloon Sent Up By Boy Found 250 Miles Away
Denton Texas Nov 4 Joe Bill reports a balloon launched by a local boy was recovered 250 miles from the starting point detailing the voyage and the finders location with brief notes on the journey and weather conditions at the time.
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Boy
Denton
Texas
Joe Bill
Balloon experiment sends message across vast distance
Brally, 11, son of the College of Industrial Arts president, released a gas balloon from the college power plant. He attached his name and address and asked the finder to report where and when it was found. A strong wind carried it away and days later Joe Bill received a note from Lee, a town about 250 miles from Denton, saying the balloon had been captured by a traveler on a country road.
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Brally
College of Industrial Arts
Joe Bill
Lee
Denton
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