Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-16
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bv the Alberta branch of the Sol
der Settlement board Since February,
1919. The sum of $11,2S6,003 has been
loaned to the settlers for the pur-
| chase of the land, stock and equip
nfent.
German government's appeal for for
| hands of the civilian population, it is
stated that 100000 weapons and g.
| 100000 rounds of ammunition have
ben given up
Thirty million marks have been
| paid in rewards for surrender Of
| thes arms.
In Bavaria the result is declared
! to be unsatisfactory, but In Berlin
fairly clean sweep has been made.
! An avalanche of divorce petitions
| breaking all records for Boston and
necessitating two separate sessions
| of the divorce court, promises to add
! nearly so per cent to the divorce rate
! there this year.
At the twin sessions of the divorce
court, cases are now being handled
as frequently as one every ten min
utes.
Treatment of appendicitis by anti
Sangrenous serum instead of by OPP
GRAFTON has been tested with such
satisfactory results that it is likely
| operations as q cure soon will be
abandoned, Prof. Pierre Delbert said
| in a paper read in Paris before the
congress of surgery. According to
/ Professor Delbert the tests have ex-
tended over period of thirteen
! years.
The Red Star liner Cortland, from
Danzig, Rotterdam, Cherbourg and
Falmouth, arrived at New York last
week with a steerage list of 1909
made up almost entirely of. imrni-
grants eeklng a haven in this coun-
try from the rigors of winter in Mid
die Europe.
According to the ships officers
and glimpse at the steerage mani
Test, no greater variety of aliens has
come here in the hold of one ship
since the European war. Just how
many of tie newcomers will be res~
united to enter the country is some
thing upon which the immigra ton
opinion.
New York custom house apprais-
ers were recently setting a value on
the 1915 carat diamond known as
! Ihe Sultan's diamond probably the
largest ever brought to this port,
which Fred Withram brought on the
diameter and IA deep.
Withram Is manager of the Mad
rid branch of an American bank. He
has been abroad in that capacity
five years.
of Morocco" Mrs. Withram said, me
wore this diamond in the centre of
his turban. On abdicating in favor
of his brother he took the diamond
among other valuables, to Spain. AS
they. were heirlooms he did not try
to dispose of them, but recently de-
ctded to sell this diamond. He has
asked Mr.. Withram to sell it for
him."
A pension fund for newspaper
duced in the Argentine Congress.
The measure would authorize the
appropriation of 100000 pesos to
start the fund, which would be
maintained and increased by con-
tributions of per cent monthly
from the salaries Of the beneficial
ries, contributions by their employ
cent of their monthly salaries, and
proceeds of theatrical and other
benefits. The fund would be SUI
pervised by the PRESS Club of
Buenos Ayres.
Persons who have been employed
in journalism for twenty-five years
and are at least forty-five years of
age would receive from the fund
3 per cent of their ordinary sala-
ries, multiplied by the number of
years they have served.
No Porto Rico sugars are being
forced on the market, San Juan re-
ports say. Whatever sugars there
are here are being held for better
or worse. (This is evidently being
done to prevent refiners from re-
ducing the price of raw sugar, as
the Cuban growers have asked the
Porto Rican producers to join them
in an attempt to prevent q cut in
prices.)
For the first time in many years
two weeks have gone by without
the shipment of any sugar from
the island. Approximately $4,000
bags, or $4,000 tons, remain in the
island for export.
The citizens of New York smash
ed all previous records during the
week Of registration just ended,
when 1,367,S35 men and women quail
flied to vote in the five boroughs.
This was an increase of 288,409 over
last years registration, which at the
time set a new mark.
The enrolment at Harvard Uni
yersity for the fall term Is 5,4Sl, an
announcement from the registers Of
flee says. This represents a gain
of $50 students over last year and
an incre ase in every department eX-
cept the divinity school,, which, with
registration of So, loses IL stu
dents