The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-03-13

demonstration was a failure, accord
ing to press reports.
In Oklahoma City, approximately
100 cases of illness resembling para
lysis, attributed to drinking Jamaica
ginger and alcohol, occurred last
/ week, among the stricken being two
physicians, four students in Oklahoma
School of Medicine, five druggists,
two girls of school age, and a
, minister. 'f t@1' -
Mrs. Fannie Howard, member of
one of the oldest families in North
Carolina, has had her coffin construc-
ted and placed in the sun parler of
the cottage in which she lives.
| A colonial mansion, once the prop
erty of George Washington and the
home of his sister-in-law, Nellie Cur
p, tbs, Alexandria, Va, was totally des-
troyed as a result of brush fire
which ignited the house. 1t was built
in the 18th century.
In Philadelphia, Saturday, the Bun
yam Tercentenary Committee honored
the 301st anniversary of the birth of
, John Bunyan, author of Pilgrim s
Progress" printed in 1878. Bunyan
was imprisoned from 1860 to 1872 at
Bedford, for daring to read the Bible
at informal gatherings of friends.
At New York Federal Narcotic
agents discovered in two trunks be-
longing to first class cabin passen-
ger on the lie de France, narcotics
valued at 100000. In a raid in
Greenwich Village $4,000 worth of
, dope was seized.
| : Tom Mix, favorite cow boy film ac-
tor, pleading guilty to indictments
charging income tax shortage in 1925,
1926, and 1928, was fined $1,000 by a
Federal judge in Los Angeles and re-
quired to pay SIT, 10000 in back tax
es and penalties.
When Alexander Graham Bell in
vented the telephone in 1875 it was
called scientific toy. In the succeed
ing 55 years this "toy" is the asset
around which the Bell system has
built corporation whose assets are
over A billion dollars.
At Chicago University in 800
page report, it is stated that men
spend ten percent more than women
on clothes, and DR.. Ward, plastic sur
geon, states that his men patients far
outnumber his women patients, who
come to him to have faces lifted, or
otherwise to improve on nature.
Secretary of Labor Davis, in con-
ference at the capitol, estimates the
number of unemployed in the United
States at million but is optimistic, as
to the future in case the tariff bill is
disposed of and favorable action is
taken by Congress on the 230 million
dollar public building bill.
William Howard Taft, Solicitor
General U. S., first Civil Governor of
! the Philippines, Secretary of War,
professor of law at Yale University,
President of the United States, Chief
Justice Supreme Court, born Septem-
Der Is, 1857, died March 8, 1880.
Edward Terry Sanford, Associate
Justice U. S. Supreme Court, living a
few doors from the Chief Justice,
after having a tooth extracted, died
approximately five hours before the
death of Chief Justice Taft occurred.
United States Horticulturists have
determined that from forty to fifty
we'll formed leaves are necessary to
produce, develop and furnish the
proper amount of food reserve to pro-
duce a full matured apple.
At Middletown, Md, Mrs. Cora
Pofinberger, has just received a pos
tai card in the handwriting Of her
dead father, mailed at Jefferson post
: office, distance of six miles from her
, home, May 18, 1922, it having taken
seven years for the card to travel six
miles.
George Herman Ruth, on Saturday,
signed a contract to play baseball
with the Yankees for the sum of $780,
900 a year for two years.
The Department of Commerce of
the U. S., has reported that for the IL
months ending February %, 1929,
there We're 8,545 deaths from auto
! mobile accidents as compared with
1859 the previous year, in Maryland,
while the death roll for the entire
country from the same cause is well
over 10000 every year.
At Roosevelt Field, Eleanor Smith,
18-year old aviatrix, apparently es-
tablished new altitude record for
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