Word: glazes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Potter Poor's method is Persian and difficult. Known today as "under-glaze decoration," his method involves metallic oxide colors which must fuse with a glaze fully to reveal their tones. Most pottery methods involve repeated firings, which allow plenty of time for the potter to decorate and redecorate if he is not satisfied. Not so with the oldtime Persians, and Potter Poor. He must do his decorating swiftly and surely, and only once, for the glaze must quickly follow and the piece be fired without delay...
Many an employe, going about his tasks in a manufactory where mercury heating is in process, has found himself suffering unaccustomed ailments. His eyes glaze with fever. Dysentery sets in. The dentist cautions him against pyorrhea, for his teeth are loosening. Finally the doctor orders him to give up work for a long vacation in the country and he recovers. What has occurred in such cases is an insidious mercurial poisoning, the result of inhaling mercury vapors escaped from leaking seams in the apparatus. The illness may be a long time coming or a short time. Mercury is cumulative...
...Pastor's story is self-defense. L. H. Nutt, elder in his church, says he heard Chipps threaten bodily harm to the Pastor. One Carl Glaze, 14, only witness of the tragedy, has signed a statement declaring he saw Chipps shot to death in an anteroom to the pastor's study...
...attorney for the state conjured 14-year-old Carl Glaze as his mystery witness, and according to the prosecutors, gazing Glaze has seen sufficient to wreck the Parson's plea of self-defense. Dr. Norris is the potent medicine-man of the Texas Fundamentalists. With the aid of the Ku Klux, who he claims have rallied to his cause, he may get off easily. But some, who do not take Dr. Norris' medicine, hope District Attorney Hanger lives up to his name...