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Privy Fuel. Into underground tanks, similar to his up-to-date farm privy, let the farmer dump his field debris-straw, stalks, husks. They will ferment and produce methane (marsh) gas. Twenty pounds of pulped debris will develop 100 cu. ft. of gas, enough to light and heat the average farm house for a day. Corn stalks from 40 acres will give a winter's supply of gas. After the gas is exhausted the sediment in the tank can be purified and made into paper.-Illinois' Arthur Moses Buswell...
Foolish Doodlebugs. Neither doodlebugs nor forked sticks nor any instrument known to man will locate oil under the surface. The best a geologist can do with all the tools of science at his service is to locate underground formations where oil might have seeped. Thus the geologist can prevent useless digging. When he picks the site of a probable well, he studies the subsurface rock and sand, particularly for those minute fossil animals called foraminifera whose deep presence almost always means oil a little ways farther down. So accurate have geologists become in their prospecting, so reliable that...
...procession of elderly men filed down the steps into the Gothic chapel, those who had not been there before read the inscription above the door: "The Way of Peace." Inside the vaulted, half-underground chapel they stared curiously at the tombs of Woodrow Wilson, Admiral Dewey, Associated Pressman Melville E. Stone. They sat down in, armchairs facing the altar and their vice-chairman and secretary, the only ones present wearing canonicals, Bishop Charles Palmerston Anderson of Chicago and the Rev. Charles Laban Pardee...
...point of fact Mr. Thomas presented a definite and constructive if in no way brilliant scheme. He proposed to tap the Exchequer for approximately $90.000.000 to be spent on digging reservoirs, building roads and other public works. Further he envisioned Government assistance to several British railways and the London Underground (subway), which would enable them to employ workmen on "improvements" (electrification of steam trackage, new tunnels) costing upwards...
...melodrama. One has to understand (and stand for) certain conventions in the best of bloody melodramas. The locale is a little town in England, in the dusty shadows of the cathedral close. It is a good stage for a mystery, though one might accuse Mr. Reeve of overdoing the underground passage and hidden chapels a bit for his effect. The story moves swiftly enough, although it might have been better-handled...