Putnam patriot., 1910-07-29
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 Pubic Instruction in California, has issued an appeal 10 the people oi t4e l cities and towns of his -tnte to pfoYied 1 pIaygfonnds for the ehiidfeB# lie asks i that public parks be turned into play l grounds, and thnt communities estab- lish play spaces az regularly as they do streets. Putnam has no piece Of ground on winch children can play, 0ihef lfian The streets, and il is difilcnlt tp maiH- tain local base ball ieams 50 much has 10 be paid for the Use of pris ale grounds besides iis ethsf heavy xpen. ses. If this comngaIIy has the same power to Lay of playRfoands as II has ihe streets, il had better be about Ii. II will be regretted in the future II neither parks nor piaygfounds are iaid of before ihe city grows dense in pop. uation.
 If the woman suffrage movement i'll England has accomplished nothing else, It has certainly mnde enough of an impression 10 bring the Wesleyan Methodist church of the realm to the point of allowing women to participate in the annual Church Conferences.
 Of the nearly 4,oo0,Doo British sub jeets who have emigraied from the | United Kingdom, in the last 2a years, about ,eoo, ,0eo went To British oyersea colonies Canada, Australia, South Al. Tica, etc., and about 2.0t0,e ,e0 came to the United States.
 Prospects of another battle for power in Zion City are seen with the arrival Tn Chicago of TX ing Dowie, profess ed brother of the late John Alexander powie-"E Elijah II - and claimant to is said lo be the intention of "king' Dowie 10 oust. osefseer Wilbur Glen yoliss, now in possession.
 Exports of manufactures in the past year exceeded those of any earlier year and imports of manufacturers ma terials, in l9io, were also The larg- est on record. The statement, prepar- cd by the Bureau of Statistics of the OtItHflUffHI 0i tftft iAht'f ' shows the total imports and exports, and is sufficient, when coupled with the detailed figures of the preceding month, to justify the assertion that both the exports of manufactures and the imports of manufacturers mate riais, exceeded those ef any earlier year In the history of our eommetee.
 The telephone business Is but thirty. three years old, and Il is one of The h. dustriai leviathans of the age. From the smallest beginning, In lsTT, the te. lephone business has grown SD greatly that on January last lo,eoo, ,ooo sta. tions m d over 2l0 ,uo0 ,ooo miles of wire were in usc In the world and two-thifds are In the United States. The gross te venue in Eufope for iaos, the latest figures ohtainable. was about s5A, ,oea, ooo, and for the United states for the same year about slsa. .tsn, ,tVs,.
 When harvest lime comes the excite. meni Of fam life compares iasoraely with that ol the "t.reai N hite Way. afIt 4ft tAAH3tte NAA'tA AtfN AAffAR 1N fthss te fipen, thc automobile becomes not only a life hut a crop saver. The farm. CT rnshes to the ncatest railroad station every time train comes in and picks up every one he can, iramps included, offering ihem big wages, With board, to help him gather in hiserens
 One would suppose that in n region first settled nearly three centuries ago, and having as large population as New England possesses, there would be few slteams which had not been uti. iized for industrial purposes. Ne, the statement was recently made, that within l75 miles of Boston, water ea- pable of yielding 8eo,0oo hotse- power Is going Io waste.
 explosive compound, invented by Norwegian named Carlson, h credit ed with possessing slightly higher dis. ruptise power than dynamite and with being 50 insensltive To shock that il can be handled in the toughest mannel without danger,
 Because he was not placed next te the Turkish ambassador, at one of the Saturday night dinners in New York city, Mir. Topakyan, the fefsion Con sui-Gsneral, quit The dining. room in 4 hnff.
 Caracas, Nicaragua. has a population of 5000, and there isn'l store in the town where man can buy suit of rea. dymade clothes.
 Minnesota taxpayers will not have to pay any State tax next year. The State is running itself through coilec- uons coming in from various sources- the successful srstIeusent of cases which have nefied iaue susns cf moaey- The larxest of these came from the gross earnings tax canes, the kennedy inheF- itance tax cascs, Ar. Other Ssases can do the came.
 Washington state wifi nave sEis sea- son n apple croNof about 2. .to0, GU box = to ship East. New England ts able Q Faise all the applss the Enss nests.