The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-12-09

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Calios E Bianchi of Montpelier has
received from the bureau of patents
at Washington letter patents on ar
intermittent motion picture device
The purpose of the device is to make
smoother operation of the pictures as
they pass through the machine, doing
away with danger of tearing and
damaging the films as at present and
making the operation smoother and
with less Pickering.
Adjutant General H T johnson has
appointed Joseph G Estey of Brattle-
boro as adjutant of the LIST Vermont
Regiment, National Guard, in place
of Harley Hartwell of St. Johnsbury,
who recently was appointed intelli-
gence officer and was in the French
motor service overseas in the World
war when the United States entered
the war, after which he joined the
marines. %
Vermont's death toll from auto
mobile accidents this year has reach
ed &c and the number of accidents re-
ported to the office of the secretary
of state is 1872 as compared with
2,177 a year ago. The one great con-
tributary cause to the accidents and
deaths is the speed mania and the
C ases are few where accidents occur
when a moderate rate of speed is
James C Wood, three-year-old son
of Clifton o Wood of Rutland, died
Nov. 9th of poisoning from bichlor-
ide of mercury given him accident
ally by a little playmate who
thought it was candy. The children
we're so young that it is difficult to
get information as to what took
place, but it is thought that the
children found some disinfectant tab
lets, made in the form of ring,
in shape the "life saver
candies.
For the second time in six years a
pearl of no small value has been
found in the north end of Washing
ION county and it looks as though the
second one would be retained in Yer
mont. The first one weighed Is
trains, which is exceedingly heavy,
while the last one, found a. few
weeks ago in Woodbury., weighs %
grains and is probably worth $1,000.
The two boys, whose names are not
made public, found it in soft water
lain she'll. This is said to be the
argest pearl that has been found in
Vermont in so years.
A meeting was held at Burlington
nov. 81 by the state commission hav-
ng in charge the writing of Yer
nont's history in the World war. No
,ody has been chosen to write the
history but there are three men who
re candidates for writing it, either
s a whole or a part. The American
.egion-has recommended Major Har-
Id C Sheldon of Fair Haven, state
sh and game commissioner. Other
andidates are w j Bigelow of the
staff of the Brattleboro Re-
ormer, and E F Palmer of Water
ury.
AS result of Investigation on the
art of the Middlebury post of the
american Legion, Frank Abair, the
3-year-old ex-service boy, who was
rrested few weeks ago for enter
ng the Shade Roller company's
liant in Vergennes, was taken to the
larry Fletcher hospital at Burling-
On for an X-ray examination and OBJ
ervation. The case of Abair, it is
aid, is like hundreds of others OF
milar nature, where ex-service men
aving criminal records are found to
e unbalanced through injuries, and
ithout the investigation of the {
egion and cooperation of prosecut- :
lg state officials, would be sent to |
email institutions when they should 5
sally be in state hospitals. I
The number of deaths from tuber-
llosis in Vermont during 1920 was !
lie lowest of any year since the state !
BARD of health began keeping rec i
Ids. In 1920, according to this re- =
)rt, the number of deaths from ?
Iberculosis of the lungs in the state e
as 22S, and the number of deaths !,
ON all forms of tuberculosis was i
-. This is a decrease of better
ian 80 over the best previous record, v
lat of 1919, when the deaths from {
berculosis of the lungs reached 260 II
ii from all parts of tuberculosis 1923.
1916 the deaths froc tuberculosis y
the lungs numbered 800, and those y
ON all forms of tuberculosis 2S4.
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