The mirror., 1922-07-13
QUERIES
NOTICE TO INMATES

For the benefit of any inmates who appre.
ciate and ses the opportunity that their spare
hours give toward a means of self education
through correspondence school courses, study of
good literature, acquiring an education in our
Night Schools, or, who need helpful informa-
ton in connection with their work in our var.
ious departments, will herewith be privileged
to use the Query column. You are well
come to send in any queries of serious interest
laboration of Miss Miriam E. Cary Super
visor of Institutional Libraries, will gladly
endeayor It to supply thsr~requested information
OF this column inmates must sign their name
register number and lock number to all queries
submitted for publication. Inmates names of
course, will not be published only the initials
OF each querist being used.-Editor.
O:-What is the rate of Ell PasO Herald
for six months, and the Ill. State Journal,
six months? Is the El Paso Herald a week.
ly or twice week paper? Is the Stillwa-
ter Gazette permitted in prison? If so
give publishers name and rate of sub
scription p. NJ.
A:-El Paso Herald six months, $500;
ILL., State Journal, six months, $1.9O; Ell Paso
Herald is twice-a-week paper. Stillwa-
ter Gazette (weekly) is permitted; rate
$500 per year.
Q:-Please inform me through the query
column in your next issue, if available, the
weight of pitcher Kaufman who pitched
her June oath for the Tenth Ward Base
ball club of Minneapolis ?-W. N.
AIN reply to query signed by w. NJ,
asking the weight of our pitcher, wish to
answer that this man August kaufman,
when dressed up in his working clothes,
weights one hundred twenty-nine pounds,
'Q29) this is with his hat and shoes on:
dressed in his baseball uniform he would
weigh few pounds less.-H. C. Miller.
Mgr, Tenth Ward Baseball team.
Q-At what age is carrier pigeon at
its best ?-W. L.
A-The training of such pigeons begins
when they are about three months old
and continues during that season and the
next one. During the three following sea-
sons bird should be at its best.
>Q:-What state was the first to grant
women the privilege of voting?-H. N.
A-Ihe first state to extend suffrage to
women on an equality with men was
New Jersey. The constitution of that
state, dated 1916, granted that privilege,
but in an act passed in 1898 voting was
limited to 'white male citizens" Ken
lucky in 1888 granted to widows with
children of school age the right to vote on
questions of public education. The first
state to grant and maintain full suffrage
tor women was Wyoming where such
action was taken in 1869.
Q:-Has anyone the right to raise the
vessels that were sunk during the war?
e. ].
A:-Shipping board says that these ves-
sells have been declared losses and settled
for by the underwriters whose property
they have become. Contracts to raise them
would have to be made with the insur-
ance companies.
NOTICE-All inmates using the Query Col.
umn and desiring more detailed information to
their queries are invited to use the splendid
reference books in our library to be had on
request. The International Text Books are
especially complete in their information on
technical subjects. Consult the Reference, Use.
full Arts, Literature, Chemistry. Biography and
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