The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-07-04
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Sunday movies are to be shown in
Huntington, W. Va, the Citizens
Board having so voted yesterday IA
to 6 in favor of the project.
Renting his son out as beggar,
David Bernstein, New York, drew a
sentence of three years in the peni-
tertiary. The boy was paid thirty
cents a day, all other profits going
to the father, and a negro partner.
Methyl chloride gas, escaping from
a leaky refrigerator in Chicago, ap-
parently caused the death of Is per-
sons in an apartment house in that
city.
Each automobile in the United
States travelled about $500 miles on
an average last year, according to the
figures of the American Motorists,
Association.
In an effort to decrease the time
between bites," the U. S. Bureau Of
Fisheries planted over 7 billion fish in
the streams of the country last year.
Juan Aviles, Mexican revolutionist,
survives six shots from the execution
squad, "the mercy shot" to insure
death, passing through his head. He
will recover.
The next Congress, it is estimated,
will make appropriations to the
amount of billion dollars to carry on
the National business.
Nuts to the amount of fifteen hun
dred are required to hold an automo-
bile together. 1t only takes one to
wreck it.
The Government finished it's 1929
fiscal year June 80 with surplus of
1876 million dollars and a public debt
of approximately II billion dollars,
the lowest since the World War.
While tumbling in a ten thousand
foot drop in parachute, an aviator
proposes to try to broadcast through
novel radio transmitter just invent
ed.
A large turtle found dead on the
edge of a golf course, on post NOR
tenn, yielded up eight perfectly good
golf balls which it had swallowed pre-
sumably in the belief they were eggs.
Wilmer Stultz, Amelia Earhart's
transatlantic pilot and two compan-
ions were killed Monday in a crash
while stunning.
A Richmond, Va, woman, so years
of age, seeing a railroad train for the
first time, was nervous and frighten-
ed. She refused a ride.
Jack Hays, former taXicab driver
and ex-policeman, has been named by
Mcdonald, British Premier, as vice
chamberlain of the royal household,
whose principal duty, dressed in a
blue uniform and a cooked hat, is to
carry messages to Parliament from
the King.
Major Gillies, of the Canadian EX-
peditionary Forces in the World War,
having had his jaw shot away in
1928, is just now returning home with
new jaw made from other parts OF
his own body. 1t functions perfectly
but is very sensitive to cold, it is said
Because of the extra weight of Ar
thur Schneider, %, Portland, Me-, a
stowaway on the "Yellow Bird,
transatlantic plane, the ship was
prevented from reaching Paris in its
attempted nonstop flight.
President McKinley's old home
at Canton, Ohio, where the front
porch campaign" originated, is being
moved from its crowded quarters to a
spacious park, to be preserved as a
monument.
Ray Keech, American Auto Speed
King, while leading the field in 200
mile Flag Day event at Altoona, Pa,
was killed in a four-cornered smash
during the race.
At Ripon, Wisconsin, a platform
was erected on the spot where, on
March 20, 1854, a mass meeting was
held to form a newpolitical party, and
the 18th anniversary of the birth of
the Republican party was held.
A 22-year-old student pilot, flying
an airplane near Washington, o., at
tempted a forced landing and in so
doing landed on an automobile. No
one was hurt.
Former U. s. Senator Nelly and
Grand Lodge l. 0. 0. Il. Secretary A.
j. Wilkinson We're injured when their
automobile aEijded and overturned
near Huntington, last week.
The 13-month calendar now being
proposed would place every holiday on
Saturday or Monday What a cry from