The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-11-28
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George CIemenceau Tiger Of
France" veteran French statesman,
having just completed his autobio-
graphy, in the Evening of My
Thought" died in his Paris home last
Sunday.
A judge in Seattle, Wash, prohibi-
ted the prosecuting attorney Of the
county from using a lie detector'
and a truth serum" in attempting to
solve the death of James E. Basnett,
on Annapolis.
The Bureau Of Markets states that
the commercial apple crop in the
United States for 1929 is 28.501,O
barrels as compared with 35,268,003
in 1928 and a five year average OF
32,46S,OOO barrels.
Albert NJ Tarr, Seaford, Del,
farmer, is the champion corn grower
of Southern Delaware, having at
tanned a record of 80 bushels shelled
corn TO the acre.
Charles NJ. Steadman, Of North
Carolina, So years old, having sur
rendered with Lee at AppomatoX, is
the only Confederate veteran in Con-
gress, being an active member of the
House of Representatives.
/ A direct result of the late cold
snap accounts for the death of eleven
persons in Virginia, North Carolina
and Arkansas.
Not yet in regular session, the LIST
/ Congress has lost by death three
senator's and nine representatives.
Four Of those elected to the House
died before they assumed their seats.
One cabinet member, Secretary Good,
also died recently.
President Hoover last week issued
his proclamation for the 10Th Decen-
NAL Census to begin next April LIST.
A schoolmaster in Spain spent a
year engraving the Lords Prayer on
a grain of rice. He is now at work
similarly engraving mustard seed.
The first negress to announce her
candidacy for the Illinois Legislature,
seeking election from a "bIack belt
section, is Mary c. Clark, of Chicago.
The U. S. Assistant Secretary Of
Agriculture says that the "mysterious
barn fires" cost the farmer 30 mil
lion dollars every year, one-ffth Of
the annual fire loss.
Frank de Luca, New York Taxi
driver, found and recovered a 900
strand of pearls in a gutter, found
the owner and on returning the jew
les, received a reward of $1,000.
A woman, married 72 years, says:
"Never argue with a man for he is
always wrong; never let him look
for a pair of studs or clean socks, as
it will put him in bad humor the
rest of the day"
A gas well, believed to be the big
gest strike in so years, has been
brought in near LittIeton, W. Va,
having a capacity of Is million cubic
feet per day. The well is the result
of drilling an old boring 90 feet deep
er.
Two West Virginia state prisoners,
being moved from Ravenswood to the
penitentiary at Moundsville, hand
cuffed together, leaped from a moving
train into a river and are believed to
be dead.
The fortune Of J. Ogden Armour,
meat packer, estimated during the
war at 200 million dollars, has shrunk
until now, two years after his death,
there is found to be a defcite of over
one million dollars. At one time his
government contracts for meat
reached one billion dollars a year.
Raymond Hitchcock, "a, one of the
brightest stage luminaries of the last
quarter Of a century, well remem-
bered in his "Hichy Koo", king Do
do, THE Old Soak, and yankee
Consul" died suddenly Monday in
front Of his home in Beverly Hills.
Two thousand feet over Roosevelt
Field, in an 18-passenger twin bomb
ing plane, Marguerite Klinger and
Donald Babcock were married and
then made parachute jumps, with the
best man following.
The first so gallons of legal whis-
key manufactured in the United
States since 1917, was produced in a
plant of medicinal spirits company
in St. Louis this week.
j. V. Thompson, Uniontown, Pa,
aged rs, one time noted banker and
coal operator, who failed about Is
years ago for approximately 65 mil
lion dollars, whose creditors will re-
ceive about II cents on the dollar,
was arrested Monday for embezzling
100000. He says it is a misunder-
standing
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