Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1912-11-01
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Judge Hama IN Inc nlted states
district court dismissed the suit
brought by the" Journal Of Commerce,
Postmaster General Hitchcock and At
torneY General Wickersham 10 test the
constfiutionality Of The newspaper
publicity law On the heels of MS ac-
ton in sustaining the demuffers, ) Judge
Hand granted the petition Of counsel
for the aJoHrnal OF Commerce for APP
peal Of the case 10 the nited STATES
supreme court. Robert G. Norris who
obtained the order for appeal, declared
that the whole day proceedings had
been merely formal and were welcom-
ed by the complainant as eXpeditiug
an Ultimate ruling by the supreme
court.
sts Australian parliament has Just
voted to grant a prize to the parents of
each child born in Australia. The
measure Wns adopted on second read
ing aid provides fer bonus Of 81 for
each child The native blacks and
Asialie residents Of Australia will not
benefit by the law,
John Thompson, negro, left the
Pennsylvania hospital well and strong
after surviving the operation Of hay
ing nine stitches taken in his heart.
The knife penetrated deep into his
heart. and the hospital doctors had lit
lie hope of saving his life lie was
operated on within two hours and the
wound in his heart was sewed up
without delay. Not only did he live
through the operation, but he began
Immediately To Improve, and today he
was declared rs we'll and as strong as
before he was wounded
Nov, Noguchi, in the matter OF
your wages, - said Mrs. DE Rich To the
candidate for the office of japanese
butler. money no object smiled
Noguehi. "Oh, indeed How nice ~
said Mrs. De Rich, You mean that
YOU will work for nothing ." mo,
no. no % cried Noguchi. "Me mean
me no object to money. Harper 5
Weekly.
Mrs. Mary Palmer Pellet, l03 years
old, died at her home in Norwich from
infirmities due I, ner advanced years
She was prol ably the oldest woman
in the state.
A Washington dispatch says that to
po,tmasters in Connecticut and other
New England states, leave of absence
of not more than five days has beer
granted 10 enable them to attend the
meeting of the Postmssters' Associa-
ton in Boston Nov. III.
Almost all the fruits and vegetables
stain the hands when being pared, and
all iellies leave their traces If the bags
are saueezed. To remove the stains
there are various receipts given. a
rine tomato will take OIL most fruit
stains, If the hands are washed in the
pulp vigorously, and rinsed with cold
water. Cucumbers will take oil all
hui the ingrained stains which remain
after contact with dark grapes. The
best method, however, is To apply per
oxide Of hydrogen with new natl
brush. one which has had no trace OF
soap on ii, riusing well aiterward,
John Wanamaker has written see
ond open letter 10 the business men Of
The country; he thinks there are mor'
than ten millions Of them. The new
thing in il is suggestion that tht
overloaded treasury department be re
lieved by creating new executive de
partment-the department of manu-
features, tariff and oustoms'
OF the new crops which have beer
introduced into the 1 aited states du
rum wheat seems TO be the most con
spieuously successful, lis grown ex
tensively in semi arid parts OF III,
Northwest, and the department of az
riculture estimates the value of THU
years crop at s4ooOo,oo0. Sorghum
comes TO about the same figure, bu
sorghum is hardly a novelty having
been cultivated for about half a centu
rs. Kafir corn is grown on a smailel
scale. but the total is some sl5,ooO,e 900
and this is one OF the most important
Of the new products, for 1t grows n
arid Iparts OF the Southwest where
hardly any other crop can be raised.