The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-11-15
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In France, medical tests are
necessary before a driver Of a mo-
tor car is given a license.
Eskimos in the Canadian north
west have asked the Anglican
church to send missionaries to off
set the demoralizing influence OF
vicious whites.
Skeletons of human beings buried
for a period estimated to be be-
tween 1000 and 10000 years were
recently uncovered at Point Magu
Ventura county, California, by .
representative of the Smithsonian
Institution of Washington, DC.
Senator Curtis of Kansas never
takes an elevator if he has time to
climb the stairs. He says climbing
stairs is the best "reducer" ever
tried. During the past summer he
lost rs pounds by this practice.
A Los Angeles Judge allowed a
husband, who was i'll and unable to
work, five dollars a week alimony
from his wife's salary oof $140 a
month, pending permanent DISPOSE
ton of the case.
At the time of the recent eclipse
of the sun, September 10, along the
southern coast of California, there
were on the state highway 140 miles
of automobiles, packed closely to-
gether. The occupants were jour-
neying from Los Angeles to San
Diego and Tia Juana, Mexico, to
see the total eclipse. Traffic moved
at six miles an hour and 1000 ar
rests were made for cutting out OF
line and endangering others on the
TORY Pines grade. just out Of San
Diego. Gasoline stations were
drained early in the day and fuel
was sold for forty cents a gallon
instead of fifteen cents.
DIR. Charles H. Mayo of Roches-
ter, Minnesota, says: ut can al
most be said with certainty that the
average man can live five years
longer than he does now. If he
would present himself at every
birthday for a thorough medical
and dental inspection after he
reaches the age Of forty he could
maintain a state of health that
would defy the incursions of disease
bacteria. Dilations of the heart,
distortion of different organs, can
GERS, tumors, and so on, can be
nipped in the bud. There is too
great tendency to think that peo-
pie past the age of sixty merely
vegetate, waiting for death. Some
way will be found to keep them
vigorous"
Since the prohibition law went
into effect January Is, 1920, more
than 10000 cases have been termin-
ated, Of which there were 72,4S9
convictions. Fines totaling more
than $12,367,66O have been as
sessed in criminal cases alone. Jail
sentences for the past 23 months of
national prohibition total more than
5000 years.
A schooner tied to a dock at
South Amboy, New Jersey, recently
was being loaded with powder from
railroad cars when fire started on
board ship. The flames spread to
the powder and caused an explosion.
The freight cars on the siding were
set on fire and the glare of the
flames attracted hundreds of mo-
florists who headed in that direction.
A dozen automobiles became
damned into a passageway beneath
the railroad tracks. More freight
cars of powder exploded, killing
three Of the trapped motorists and
seriously injuring about twenty
others. This is a result Of the
habit Of running to fires.
An electric voting machine is
used in the state legislature OF
Iowa. 1t has proved to be a time
saving device, enabling more legis-
lation to be passed in a given time
than formerly under the old system
of voting.
A United States navy airplane
pilot, operating a Curtiss navy BIZ
plane, in preparation for the air
plane races at st. Louis, recently
established a new worlds record
of 245 miles an hour. The previou.
speed record was held by lieuten.
ant of the United States marine
corps, with 238 miles an hour.
The Australian tomato weevil 4
a new undesirable immigrant thai
has been discovered in the south
Agricultural experts fear it may be
come of great Importance if meas
ures for its suppression are MOI
taken at once.
The Bureau Of Jewish Research
reports that the United States nov