Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-08-21
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| ried by the tramping feet of New York
, ers into the subways every "a hours.
! Appleton, wis, has broken the world 8
| cheese-mak king record by turning out a
cheese weighing 31,964 pounds. feet high
| and 81 feet in circumference. The milk
| that went into II came from 1900 cows
that mooed on 1900 farms.
| When Theodore Roosevelt was police
commissioner of New York he asked an
| applicant for a position on the force :
| IF you were ordered to dispense a mob
| what would you do?" Pass around the
hat sir was the reply.
Among the spectators that gathered at
| fire Sunday in a small Berkshire town
were people in automobiles from q
| States.
Philip H. Dubois of New Paltz, y. Y,
! has entered into a contract to sell his
! fruit crop to a dealer in Yonkers for
$4,000. This includes both apples and
| pears. Roelf f. Dubois of New Paltz
has sold his crop to the same dealer for
$4,000.
Prayer flags" are a labor saving de-
| vice employed by the people of Tibet.
| The flags are suspended on long lines,
and while they are moving in the breeze
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| ers for the benefit of those who put them
up.
No picture is hung in the Louvre in
Paris, until the artist has been dead 10
years.
The so-called cork legs do not owe their
name to their composition, but to the
| fact that their inventor was a Dr. Cork.
| Although 70 years old and grand
mother, Mrs. Ellen A. Copp is enrolled
| in the present summer session at the
University Of Wisconsin pursuing studies
| in sociology and eugenics. with view
| Of securing the degree Of doctor OF phil
| osophy. She has already FIVE college de-
grees and is the author Of several books
| Dancing is the worlds greatest aid to
| matrimony, according to the ballet di-
rector of the Paris Grand Opera, who
| says: III the government will organize,
protect and control public dancing in
the parks. athletics fields and halls we
shall find France quickly and vigorously
! repopulated."
| Down in Bolivia the latest census shows
that the white population is barely more
| than IL per cent, the other SIS per cent
| being Indian and mixed.
| Mr.. and Mrs. James Dotterer, of EN-
lenton, Pam, have been married 81 years
|
were the parents of 10 children. 10 of
whom are living. They have A grand
children. q great-grandchildren and one
| great-great-grandchil For more than
80 years they have lived in the house
| built by Mr.. Dotterer. There has never
| been a wedding, death or fire in the
| house.
A doll that really walks has been achiev
| ed by New York inventor. 1t has mus
cles' of rubber bands.
| On a farm near Akron. Ohio, 800 BUSH
| els of potatoes were found. They had
been dumped there by cold storage COM
pany Of Akron
The States of Idaho, Washington, Arr
IONA, Georgia, Kansas, Michigan, North
Dakota. Oregon and Utah prohibit the
possession Of alcoholic liquors for bev-
erage purposes
| A New York business man has started
committing from Westhampton. L. l., to
the city by airplane. starting from a
field near his home. It takes him about
an hour and 10 minutes TO reach the
Sheepshead Bay motordrome, and from
| there he goes to his office in less than
half an hour, saving more than an hour
on the TRIPS miles.
The truck farmers on the Delaware
| d
for their strawberries. instead of from
to cents quart as in previous years,
and their profits in some cases haL
been more than 1000 per cent Also one
man got $500 worth of cucumbers from
an acre and a half, and cantaloupes are
| bringing the growers from $500 to s7o0 an
| acre. Many of the farmers have raised
from their land more than enough to
pay for the entire properties. houses and
| all improvements included, in the one sea-
son.
In Norris county, \. j., heavy rains
have kept the valley flooded. and at
| Pinebrook farmers are harvesting some
Of their crops from rowboats.
The American government will pay to
| France for damages to property or inju-
ries to civilians by the American army
100000, or about 81 a man for all the
soldiers in the American expeditionary
force. This sum represents $1,000 separate
claims, ranging from broken windows to
a charge of 100000 francs for destruction
of forests and fruit lands through Amer
lean artillery practice at Souge, near Bor-
| deaux.
The Berkshire Eagle prints this adver-
tisement:: "Wanted-Any dangerous Job,
no matter how dangerous or venture
| soiho, 40 dhytnins' not over week
engagement; must be legitimate Ad-
| dress, etc "
Here is charge actually delivered to
[ a jury by the late Chief Justice Cartier
T Of the supreme court of the district of
Columbia Gentlemen Of the jury-This
is case in which YOU have got to guess
who Is telling the truth among a pack
of liars. Take the case" The Jury guess
ed for the government and found the de-
PENDANT guilty.-Boston Globe.
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