Norwich bulletin., 1920-12-07

5ity Of California claims to have invented a machine that will increase the speed of slow readers.
 Riga inventors are reported making fortunes from a machine for stamping nails out of the barbed wire left on the battlefelds of eastern Europe.
 | A majority of retail shoe dealers at | Wheeling, W. Va, decided to reduce 20 to 90 per cent in order to keep pace with reductions in other Commodities.
 Major General P. C.. Harris. adjutant general of the army. announced all peace recruiting records were broken in Mo- vember, when 24,30S men enlisted. Il Present American Red Cross plans con- template the distribution of warm cloth ing to more than 5000, ,000 needy indi- l viduals in Europe during this winter. ]. Eight indictments were returned as the !, result of the discovery of 26 ballots in sewer entrance on the East Side, New York, the day after election. : Systematic savings for Christmas this , year ,neans that six Bridgeport banks will pay out $605,00C on Dec. Is to depos- itors who started accounts year ago. William II. Chapman, business agent !, for the Plumbers union is the latest to be indicted in. connection with investi- : gation of New York's building trust" , The Society of Friends obtained pos 5 session of the manuscript of the Jour naP' of the first Quaker. George Fox when it was recently put up at auction Tn London.
 |
 Money appropriated by the city of , Paris and French government is being used to build houses of wood outside of g Paris as Q means to relieve the critical congestion.
 Il A whipping post has been authorized r in Hungary by a bill just passed by Ire l assembly. It applies to moral offenders : against the army and state and plotting n against property.
 r. The cotton mills of the Edwards Man e ufacturing company Agusta, Me, whicl q have been closed the past week, re. e stunned operations on a schedule of thre r days a week.
 Mrs. Joseph Tumulty, wife of secre tary Tumuity and their son, Joseph, Jr with MT. Tumulty's secretary. Edwar, dllNuucu the -IuueTdl OI LII John w. Coughlin in Fall River, Mass U Jewelry valued at $5O,o00 reporte. : stolen from the Studio building in whicl five persons last their lives in New Yorl Thursday was found scattered througl e the ruined building.
 j. Brazil is asitated over the propose, - concession of 250.000 acres of land to b e Setf1e1 hy 900 nr-r Tova e II to engage in the silk making industry il + the Minas Ceraes state.
 II The house of comons was informed b
 Premier Lloyd George that the Britis v government had no knowledge of the re d ported conclusion of an alliance betwee It the Turks and the Russian bo,shevik g Premier Hara, in an address at NaEs l. va expressed the hope that the preseT
 negotiations between Japan and tl
 United States would result favorably. H le reiterated that Japan's policy continue es toward peaceful expansion. IS Senator Jones predicted In a statemer ,e President-elect Harding would "undoubt 0. edly" abrogate the commercial treatie
 under the merchant marine act wnic
 President Wilson refused to annul
 Importation of diamonds into this coul try declined 40 per cent since Jun
 Prices of diamonds are expected to ris
 on account of high wages recently gran
 ed International Jewel Cutters union
 meeting of farmers at MIneoIa. l..
 will be held Saturday to discuss propos:
 of pooling their purchases of raw mat.
 rials and mixing their own fertilizer tn
 winter, thereby saving from S15 to S20
 ton.
 One woman was killed and s5 persor
 seriously injured when a westbound SD
 cial train carrying 360 immigrants fro
 Ellis Island to the west crashed into 2
 idle shifting engine near the Langhorr
 Pa.) station.
 A report submitted to the navy depar
 ment says since American occupation
 the Dominican republic last June thel
 have been constructed five large charit
 hospitals, national insane asylum ar
 a new leper colony.
 Two seaplanes belonging to the Ae,
 Limited, which it had been plaunf
 would leave for nonstop flights to Milan
 Fla. were torn from their moorings
 Flushing bay by the storm and picked U
 near Rikers Island.
 
 Two former governors of New You
 state are members of a non-partisan cit
 zens' committee in Albany which will tel
 der Gov. Alfred E. Smith a farewell di,
 ner on Dec. 30. They are Martin l
 Glynn and John A. Dix.
 pr. Rupert Blue on returning to Far
 after tour of inspection declared err Igration from Europe to the United Stat
 in the next few years will be limited on
 by the availability of shipping faciliti
 or restrictive legislation.
 'i Four armed and masked bandits ridiI t. in an automobile committed five robberi ). in suburbs of Paterson. NJ. at oaklzn ,y Midland Park and Fair1awn The To '. included s22oo in cash, S1 .ooo in jewell = and $500 in certified checks. sT It was announced, in Chicago by mel IT bers of the national socialist commit e. that the first official act of Meyer Lo ,r don, socialist-elect of New York. in t : lnext congress, viii, be the presentation a petition signed by 1,eo0,oo0 citize ' asking for Debs release.