The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-06-11
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The last American soldiers are be-
ing withdrawn from Russia. The
casualties among them aggregated
| b56.
One German method that has come
I to light was the dissemination OF.
bottled bacteria to kill horses, some
Of which was sent to Italy.
The Germans are planning to try
those guilty Of planning and losing
4 Ne war. They will have to import
Jurors to get qualified panels
Konenkamp, head of the wire
strike, has name that seems to bel
appropriate for the business ne isl
engaged in.
Small boys who are interested in
rainy dhy employment win be inter-
ested TO learn that 56,554 tons of
grindstones were produced last year
in the United States.
~ $50"
Last winter in Siberia was theI
coldest on record The mercury Of
ten went down to go below zero
and great suffering and many deaths
from freezing occurred
The department of Agriculture has
developed a paste to put on water
melon stems to keep them from decay
after they have been pulled. What
is needed more is something to put
on them to keep them from being
pulled green.
Rev. e. E. Smith, pastor of the
Fourth Street Presbyterian church
in 0wensboro, is preaching a series
Of four-minute sermons. The other
preachers viii have to look to their
laurels to prevent stampede to Bro.
Smith.
The German Peace Treaty Text
was put into type within two hours
after the Senate ordered the stolen
copy printed Forty-eight linotypes
handled the article of 100000 words
in record time, and $4,000 copies
we1s printed in few hours.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Amos Harvey, and
Mr.. and Mrs. John Tilford, operating
boarding houses next door to- each
other in Omaha, have mutually and
afkSicably agreed to get divorces and
marry in reverse order. The wives
agreed to swap husbands and the
men were Hdee-hghted." The hus- !
bands have changed boarding houses
and all hands are awaiting divorces.
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Bud Fisher, who is Capt. Fisher,
of the British army, makes 100000 ]
q year out of his Mutt and JEFF pic
lures and has other big sources of /
income. He is the highest paid ar
-tist the world has eyer known. Fisher
is 81 years old and started his car
toons in 1907 while a reporter on the
San Francisco Chronicle.
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Mary o'Conner an English girl
in London has sued Allen Gray, an
Evansville millionaire banker for
breach of promise in 1911. The suit
is brought in Federal court at Indian
apolis and she asks $5O0,0O0 dam
ages, alleging that her health was
wrecked by an operation she under
fwent.
A Nogales dispatch says 80 Ameri
cans and Mexicans have been killed
by bandits in one district in Sonora,
Mexico, in two weeks. The Govern
or Of Texas has asked that Texas
troops be called into service, but the
War Department replied that 10000
regulars were along the border apd
that the need of more troops would
be investigated.
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Evansville has two public swim
ming pools open to both sexes with
trained instructors in charge. The
girls are taught to swim in the morn
ings and the boys in the afternoons.
The Yf'7o, Of swimming cannot be
over 3D. Joseph Kelly, Hop
l1 by whose ship was tor
/ ID the crew picked up from
= 4, learned to swim at Edge
water Park in this city in 1912 and
1918 when the river was used for
bathing and boating.
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