Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-28

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Gated at the north side. AT the OPEN
ing. which probably will occur soon,
there will be no formal exercises
Boston Post
John Frederick Ballard, winner of
the Harvard prize play contest, took
up a homestead and worked as 81 cow
boy before going to Harvard and en-
tefing the playwriting class of Profess
sor Baker While in the west he wrote
play IN competition for the annual
scholarship prize awarded by the Mac
lowell Fellowship. and obtained Sec
ond place. but no other reward. Then
ioiiowed two years at Harvard and his
winning play, Believe Me, xantippe."
Robert Arlington. of Tiegnmouth
England, who died lately bequeathei
S4'5o0,000 to two London missionary
societies to be used in religious pro-
paganda.
John Lawton, twenty six, q moving
picture operator in Lorain, o., has
fallen heir To $1S3,000
MIssouri's agricultural college 10
crowded with students.
a renee can be made cat proof by
s'rihslhg tight wire about two inch
es above and parallel to the top.
folishing with stone gives alligator
leather It's beautiful gloss that neither
Japahhfhg nor vanishing can initiate.
with gradients of ninety-two feet in
iVoo' a railroad in Brazil is the Steep
est in the world of any built of ordf-
nary rails.
st Louis police are to have an eight
hour day.
tanonsburg. Pc. will this year cele-
brate the birthday of its founder.
st. Louis must pick this spring from
so candidates for municipal Offices.
Mrs. John Perrine of Jamesburg, Pa.
mas cat which she says is able TO play
the scale on piano.
Greek Catholics in Philadelphia have
started missionary work for negroes in
charge of negro priest.
st. Patrickis Catholic parish. ST. Louis
Is spending $4,000 for day nursery for
poor children of the parish.
David P. Ranken bachelor. dead In ST
Louis, leaves 100000, but his will dlsln.
herits most Of his poor relations.
German butchers have learned TO make
extensive use of ozone as a supplement
10 the ordinary process of refrigeration.
This year there are 32l3 young women
of them are German young women.
Mrs. Jennie Russell. 50 years old. a
once noted Civil War nurse. has been
found i'll and in poverty in Denver.
Miss A. T. Cruise, whose initials sug-.
gest the alphabet. is stenogra pher OF
Kansas City. whose time is said TO be
worth $1,000 a year.
In Vienna five hundred thousand cases
of influenza have been reported by the
doctors within three months and the
epidemic still RACES
Boston Is to have open air flower
shows in 1914
Paris omnibuses viii shortly adopt
electric power
Next year New York viii celebrate its
tercentenary.
st. Louis needs. 5000, Geo for its water
system extensions
New Workers are calling for law to
prohibit yivisection.
Columbus, o., will appoint physicians
for its public schools.
Health marriage legislation has been
defeated in Oklahoma
Grand Forks. n. D., society women
will censor moving picture shows.
When Paris adopted Greenwich time
the result was an increase of business
FOR the electric companies by extending
the working days a few minutes.
Edmund Allen of Philadelphia, has
just celebrated his ninety-third BIRTH
day by distributing an extra weeks
salary to each of his three hundred en-
ployes.
Experiments in England have shown
that artificial silk makes incandescent
gas mantles that are more elastic and
durable than any of the materials gen.
erlly used.
Quartermaster General Edwin A.
Taylor. of the United Sons of Con-
federate Veterans, told story at a
Memorial day banquet in Memphis.
"A Southerner," he said, sat in the
lobby of a New York hotel, discussing
certain campaigns with Northerner.
Well the Northerner ended, with a
laugh. we licked you, anyhow Yes.
you did, the Southerner admitted,
but. by thunder it's plain, from the
size of your pension list. that before
we gave in we crippled every blessed
one of you,'"
There were 63.610.57S tons Of hard
coal mined in 1912 in the United Sto412.
Up To TIE CLOSE OI last year 00utAh
Africa has produced gold worth ~.
579,715.000 and diamonds worth $7fLs-
COG, 900. u
So many people are going into HuGoE
ton, Kas., in anticipation of r4ilfo&d
extension, that houses can not ~ built
fast enough to accommodate them.
Milhurn. n. j.. has enacted curfew
law requiring the fire chief to blow
the fire whistle at A. NJ. Now the
elders are kicking because the whistle
wakes them up.
| Frederick Gerhard, whose will has
been brought into litigation in New
York, by his second wife, Marie Gam
BILE Gerhard, sometime of the "origi-
| nal" Florodora sextet, inherited a
| large fortune and left great deal of
money.
| One of the war correspondents sent
to the Balkans was forced to ride in a
| fourth class car on the way to Bel
| grade. On a board was this notice:
Passengers are warned that they
| must not scratch the window panes
with diamonds"
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