Putnam patriot., 1909-09-10
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 ned by Il short message ff6m Gemman der Robert E. Peafy, which read.
 "stars and stripes nailed To North Poie.n
 No protest has gone np in his case that his discovery k fake. lie ia an of ficer of the United states army, and went on his quest Of the North Pole, in igps, in the Roosevelt. lie made sey. efal voyages on the same effahd be fore--this time he planted the Anefi- can flag on the very center Of the earth on April {, loOa. No trace of Cooks presence was found.
 President Taft's vacation ends this week ai Beverly. lie will go from there to N Washingion on Monday, and from there will shortly after start on speak- Ing tour through the West and south west He has vacation but no rest from business.
 Mexicohns cruelty suffered from rain, floods and eioud-5ufsts. The latter oe- cured on Thursday last, when tor renlof rain from Il eloudbnrst submerg cd several villages and miles of fertile valleys. On Saturday, in the town of Tuia, in the province Of Tamaulipas a wave 45 or 50 feet high, rushed down the river, engulphing the lower half Of the town, sweeping away 200 houses and railroad bridge. Many lives were lost. Last week we mentioned the fearful loss of life al Monterey from the satue causes,
 Australia, like Canada, k going To burden Itself with modern navy, to give the Mother country aid to swell it's navy twice the size of any other country. Every ship added with such increase their nayies In like proportion and places an extra burden of debt on the poor working people of all civilized nations, and also increases the danger sacrifice the lives of the poor people.
 The school of citizenship that pre-. pared for his final "cxamsn an Italian applicant for naturalization in Jersey City, proved seriously defective in its department of American history. IL k thus recorded;
 "Do you know who Abraham lin. coin was23
 "No, don't know who he was,
 aNon don know who Abraham lan- coin was2'
 "No, does hc iiNe in West ilohakenA
 .He is dead,
 "Ncll, l never heard of him. Was he T tallefs'
 Such K The sluil American citizens are made ol in and around New ! ork ciiy
 Rev. Df. Vim. F. Warren, former President af Boston University, wrote book tmenty- y-iise years ago to prove that the Garden ol Eden was located at the North Pole. Now that the spot has been redscovufed, the learned and reverend Dr must feel oveTloycd al the probability of soon verifying his views b, excavations. Unfortunately Adam and Even were driven out and kept out of the garden, and could leave nothing Ia verify his theory which was very plausible.
 \ gentleman and wife visited friend in Charleston, ~. t 0ne evening the two gentlemen were sitting ON the porch and saw in the darkness figure pass the house towards the creek, Net being answered when they hailed II, they got shotgun and followed 1t. With only surmise that Il was bun gtar, when they came near II the host asked hts visitor what he sheuid do uShool,a' was the reply. aud he did with both barrels, and the hgure fell They got light and went where th, person fell and there tound the visitor wife shot dead.
 nf. Thomas ] Allen, of Aurora, Ill. who gained much notoriets by livins sixty days solely on peanuts announce that he has discovered cure for can Ger. and k willing go have 1t tested oi himself Cancer, he claims, k canses hy indigestion, and monodlet vii care it--living on single article o food until heated, He SAYS he demon strated it's efficacy on several persons Ills theory Is to be tested at the loca Cancer Hospital.
 Forty thousand tons ol pig iron wa ordered in Germany last week for eN port 10 the United states And th United states has mountains of lroi and deep mines of iron--and coal [ match, and woFkmen te make pig iron
 \ dispatch "a the American Boar from Sidney, \. :. M, on August si reported the loss Of the mlssionaF, steamship .lilran Brigham, and In death Of her master, Captain Alfred [ Walkup. The ship, which cost sas ON was largely paid for by the eoaIripn Gons of children in Congregation churches throughout the country ans was tho fifth vessel built in this coun < 1U ard sant to Micronesia by the Anne o6n Bard.