The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-08-11
annual report Of the superintendent
sent to Washington.


paralysis were reported to the New
York state department of health dur
ing the first twenty-seven days of
July. This is a greater number than
has been reported in any July since
the epidemic of 1916.
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Twenty thousand Spanish troops
and rebellious Moorish tribesmeni
have been killed, wounded or captur-
ed in the violent battles that have
been raging in Morocco, says Tan
gier dispatch to the London Times.
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Nineteen thousand acres of govern
ment land will be thrown open to SOL
diers of the world war from Septem-
Der 9 to Is, it has been announced.
The land is in the North Platte and
Shoshone irrigation district in Wyo-
ming For sixty days no one but
former soldiers will be allowed to file.
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Under the 1920 census there were
42,827 foreign born whites in Gin
cinnati with 1888 Germans heading
the list. Cleveland's foreipn born
white population is 239,533. The
foreign born white population of
Columbus is Is, O55. A total of 297,-
All for three Ohio cities.
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Mrs. Louise Reeds Welz-Mliler, of
New York, deputy commissioner of
public markets, has written to Pres
ident Harding Gin the name of the
children" requesting him to obtain
removal of the federal tax on ice
cream.
China is in dread of civil war as
result of hostilities between the
provinces of Human and Tupeh.
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The Tapping of the wings of DR..
Stork, heard so little during the war,
is again a familiar sound in Ger
many. The pessimists have ceased
worrying about Grace suicide" and a
receding birth rate and are now
gloomy about how to dispose of Ger
many's surplus population with no
colonies.
10000
The inter-allied supreme council
will meet in Paris, August 4, to take
up the Upper Silesia issue. England
and France have not been getting
along tremendously on this subject.
10000
Mont Blanc, the highest summit of
the Alps, has been conquered by an
aviator. The successful airman was
Durafour, a Swiss flyer, who had
previously failed in two attempts to
land on the summit. He landed 49,
1872 feet above sea level.
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American and British Quaker re-
lief workers have conferred with
Maxim Gorky for the relief of fam
inc stricken Russia, according to adj
vices just received in Berlin from
Moscow. The German labor unions
and socialist parties have decreed
that every member give one days
pay.
10000
Bees attacked Ed Daggett of Hop
kinsville, KY, while he was saving
off the limb of a tree to get their
honey. He escaped by jumping into
pond. He may recover.
10000
With belated gift of 81 ,529 from
Chicago women, the Marie Curie
radium fund is more than 100000
over subscribed The latest gift was
received from Mrs. Edward Dwight
Pomeroy, treasurer of the American
Association of University Women at
Chicago. The 100000 is held in a
bank here pending completion of an
other fund of $4,000, the 100000
to be used for a trust fund for Nine.
Curie At her death the income will
be given two American students in
chemistry and physics at the Sor-
bonnie.
10000
The packer control bill in congress
was halted by the illness of Senator
Norris, who exhausted himself
physically in a three-hour speech in
the senate last week.
10000
Word that Brigadier General
James A. Irons, U. S. A, retired, had
died in Sorrento, Italy, July %, was
received in Kansas City, last week, byI
Mrs. Edward Fenlon, a cousin of the
generals wife. No details were given.
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Drawing a Lesson from the results
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