Putnam patriot., 1911-09-08
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With no dissenting voice, franciso I. Madero Thursday received the mo- imitation Of the progressive party Tor President When the convention ad- iourned the candidacy of no other man that Franciso Gomez for the Viee-p pre- sidency had been considered
 Anintense sensation has been created among the Belgian people, especialIy near the boundaries of France and Germany, by the military precautions which are being put into effect by the Belgian government
 Atphotograph clearly showing the canals of Mars was exhibited by pro- fessors at the Lowell Observatory. The negative was obtained last ednesday night. and is said to be one of the cIearest ever taken.
 The explanation of the lsO4 dollar has recently been given at hainiS' matic meeting in Chicago. It seems that after the die was made Congress altered the amount of silver to be put into the coin and the coinage rom this die was given up before use, but in ls42 few coins were struck oil from this die by request Of collector who traded valuable other coin for one of these. An 1s04 dollar recently sold for 500.
 Chicago's superintendent of schools. Mrs. Ella Flagg, Young, continues to display the courage of her eonVic' tions. II think, ,n she told the Cook County Teachers Institute this week. athat schoolteachers are forced to listen to too many talks on teaching-and known 1 have been bored by H.
 This is an age of dizzy speed. In rough weather and using most of the time but ,three-fourths of her power, hydroplane motor boat Dixie showed n speed of over 45 land miles an hour in the trial on Wednesday preparatory to the international motor boat races soon to be held at Huntington, l.. l.
 A measure empowering the build ing and loan commissioner to in- quire into the value of oil and mining and similar stocks offered for sale in the state has passed the Connecticut General Assembly.
 Forty or more years ago British scientists placed the exhaustion ot the usable coal supply of the United King dom at data not much later than 1870. Now Sir William Ramsay ad- dressing the annual meeting of the British association for the advance ment of science, places the life of the coal fields at l75 years from the pres ent time.
 The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey passed out of existence, so far AS it's present form and functions are concerned. The work of apporlion- ing the company's holdings of the stock of more than thirty subsidiaries affected will occupy at least three months.
 The great Appleton cheese, weigh ing l2,000 pounds which is to be eN- hibited at the national dairy show in Chicago, from October 26 to November and which contains milk from 10000 cows, has been finished and photoeraphed and Is without doubt the largest unit of human nourish- ment in existence on the globe. It Is now ripening and "getting gooder every minute.
 Sixty Pennsylvania farmers repre- senting e, ,5O0 tillers of the soil Of that state called upon Mayor Gaynor and explained to him why they believed that the ''unnecessary middleman should be done away in New York and the products .of the ground handled directly from the farmer to the con sumer. The delegation is working out cooperative scheme whereby this may be accomplished.
 Mayor Gaynor made brief speech to the delegation, speaking Of over production of gold as causing higher prices and also attacked "favoritism" !" in railroad freight rates as tone Of the most damnable things ever al. tempted.
 According to an official statement issued by the Italian government, there were l63 cases of cholera and b9S deaths from the disease throughout Italy between August 20 and August 26, inclusive.
 For the first time in the history of the United States, the coal mines oi the country in 1910 were credited wiih an output exceeding half billion short tons, the combined production of anthracite, bituminous coal, and Ignite having amounted to 6Ol, ,77o,ss5 short tons, with spot vrlue of se.9, ,52s,- 745.
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