Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-11-30

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Official reports show that 100000 pas
| sengers used the now Penn .vlvania STA
ton in Manhattan during the year lust
! closed.
A seedless lemon has been discovered
by California botanical experts It is ex-
pected to produce a revolution in industry.
Eight thousand commercial automo-
hles are registered in New York State.
of which 80 per cent are used in greater
| New York
! Alleging that ship owners have failed
to carry out the agreement made in
| the last strike Antwerp seamen have
| declared general strike
! y headache powder was found I'm one
Of the envelopes put on the collection
plate in Calvary Episcopal Church. New
! York
The Massachusetts State highway com.
mission reports that of the 1857 automo-
! bile accidents on the road, Of which 10O
were fatal the great majority were due
To the carelessness OF pedestrians.
{ The reclamation service reports that
from 800 to 1911 water has been provided
for 100000 acres. OF which half is in use
and 1900 families are residing on the re-
/ claimed land.
German military authorities are con-
SidcrinG tn" question of raising to $780,
oo0,Coo the war fund of s300oO.ooo now de-
posted in a tower near Spandua
The OUTPUT Of automobile factories OF
/ the United States last year totaled 10000
cars, and this year it is estimated the out
put will considerable exceed 10000 cars.
! Three full-length portraits by Gains
borough have been acquired by Henry T..
Huntington OF Los Angeles for a price
said to be close to S1.uDo,tOD
A St Petersburg special says tina. there
are signs that the Car may put forward,
with the approval OF leading European
powers. an attempt to mediate between
Italy and Turkey.
Italian losses since the commencement
and 1909 wounded. Turkish losses are
estimated at 6,000 killed and the same
number made prisoners.
The Gary steel plant. which Is cons.r-
cred creditable barometer of business
conditions in the middle West. is produc-
ing to-day more steel than ever before
in it's history. There are G5oO men on
Continental Beet Sugar co. will build
a 100000 beet sugar factory near To-
ledo, O.. which is expected to be COM
pleted in time for 1912 crop and have
capacity Of Loo tons of beets per day
The republican national committee will
meet December Y 1t will probably do
nothing except to select n convention city,
which is likely to be Chicago. It will
probably turn down proposition for preSi-
dental primaries
Assessment life and accident associa-
tions. according to the annual report of
the New York State insurance depart
, ment. had total insurance in force In 1910
Of $S7S. 16a. lO7. against ss37 $685. in 1909,
ana fraternal beneficiary orders had Sc
o76 lGO2o4 in force as against S5,7o1, SG.63s
! in 1909
OF GUo.Ooo elementary school children in
! England and Wales 40 per cent. suffer
from teeth decay, 30 to 80 per cent have
I uuclean heads or bodies 10 per cent.
suffer from a serious defect in vision
, six to eight per cent have adenoids or en-
> larged tonsils, three to five per cent.
suffer from defective hearing. one to two
! per cent. are afflicted with heart disease,
and one per cent. suffer from tuberculosis.
As Il result of confidential replies re-
ceived from 10000 manufacturers all over
| the country by Henry II. Louis, editor
: OF the American Industries, the official
! organ of the National Association e
! Manufacturers. decision has been reached
! that there has been practically no revival
! of trade in the last u months, that there
Is nothing irremedal for the present
| stagnatiou and that one thing keeping
the country back is fear of politicians.
The supreme court of Missouri has re-
ducod the fine against the international
Harvester company from s5000 to s25ooo
Judges Graves and Woodson dissented
Patrons Of a restaurant in Montclair,
| y. J., were startled when an automobile
| executed some fancy manocuVrcs in the
street and then came crashing backward
through the plate glass window of the
place Nobody was hurt, but the restau-
rant and the automobile were consider
ably damaged
stephen j, Campbell a passenger con-
ductor in Chicago dreamed that he would
get hurt in railroad accident His dream
came true. His right foot Wa cut off
when he got In the way Of a coach
William seymour Of New Milford,
Conn, on his way home from "A house
warming, lay down on tie platform of the
railroad station and fell asleep. lie was
awakened by pain Just in time ia see
the lights of train disappearing in the
distance. He reached down To see what
WAS tn, matter and fuNId TINT li. lap