The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-11-07
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watch-virtually radio receiving set
that will tell the owner the time, day
and night
The power of suggestion was illus
trated last week by a man who
thought he had swallowed his false
teeth. While the doctor was taking
X-rays of the throat and stomach, his
wife walked in the office with the
grinders which the owner had left at
home.
The search light atop the Beacon
Hotel, New York City, shoots its rays
distance of forty miles.
Crediting American newspaper ad-
vertising for the growth in the sale of
Lucky Strike cigarets, the American
Tobacco Company declared an extra
dividend of two dollars per share in
addition to the regular dividend Ct
two dollars per share.
Ted Cole, an Oklahoma youth, pied
guilty to holding up bottling works
and robbing it of $415.OO and SEN
fenced to death by the judge, who is
only 80 years of age. A companion of
Cole received life.
A cure for grippe is described by
! the British Medical Journal as the
most valuable agent discovered is
Para ben-oly- paramino- ben-oyl-amino-
naphthol-3,6 sodium sulphonate. How
ever you may ask for IS. L. P. &C."
At shooting match, Clyde F.
Brammer, of New Rodge, Md, offer
ing to bet fifteen cents that he would
shoot himself through the head, last
Friday fired a bullet through his
temple.
For the first time since 1870, the
King Of Italy will visit the Vatican
during the first two weeks OF this
month. The visit will be Of private
character The Pope is expected to
return the visit in January.
When Miss Adele Sinclair, New
York, went on board the liner Olym-
pic to see a friend off October l, she
tainted and when she came to found
herself on the high seas. Friends
radioed passage money to her for
! Paris
Nine. Marie Curie, noted French
scientist, co-discoverer of radium, has
received a gift of $4,000 at the
hands of President Hoover on behalf
of the donors with which to purchase
gram of radium, which no longer
can be bought in this country.
At the American Federation of
Lutheran Brotherhoods in biennial
session in Chicago recently, it was
stated THE average church needs pep
and a certain amount of restrained
| whoopee, under proper supervision, to
make it attractive to young people"
Examination of a car taken in
trade, which had been standing on
the floor of a New Bedford (Mass.)
garage since last September, disclosed
negotiable securities worth $13S,000,
the property of Alice B. Loughlin.
Two old prospectors have discov-
cred $4,000 in $50 gold pieces buried
in an old abode hut in Aurora, Ne
vada, an old ghost town" abandoned
for many years, once a boom town Of
the gold days.
The prevention and cure Of meas
| les, the germ Of which is so small
that it cannot be seen through mi
croscope, is predicted as the result Of
the discovery of a serum in the Hoop
er Foundation laboratories of the Uni
versity Medical school.
Dry agents discovering grape
juice which tested as high at 81 per-
| cent alcohor, raided the Colony Vim
tage company Of St. Louis last week.
Fred s. Raft, Chicago, began the
collection of pre-cancelled l, S. pos
tage stamps when a boy. He recently
sold his collection for $4,000.
An eagle in Kentucky, swooped
down on a hillside where George
Mace, aged TO- was playing, seized
him by the strap of the overalls
which he was wearing, carrying the
boy ten feet in the air before drop
ping him.
Completing a hazardous air jour
ney of 1880 miles, the globe-trot-
ting Russian plane Land of the
Soviets" landed at Curtis field Friday
last, after an adventure Of 70 days
across two continents and the North
| Pacific ocean.
Aaron Youngquist, Minnesota at
torney general, described as dry
politically and personally has been
appointed as chief of the prohibi-
ton post, lately vacated by Mabel
Walker Willerbrandt. Mr., Young
quist is a native Of Sweden
A huge structure, reaching sky
ward $50 stories, to cost 100 million
dollars, covering two city blocks,
dwarfng by far the Eiffle Tower in
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