The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-07-09

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tasks, such shoveing snow house duties, kitchen
police and standing night watches"
Every Boy Scout should be proud of the accom-
pishments of their representative in this greatest adj
venture in which American boy has ever participat
ed.
Fireworks And Autos
N n ORNING papers of every July formerly car
VI ried distressing accounts of the killing and in
- juring of many persons, mostly children,
through the explosion of fireworks in celebration of the
Glorious Fourth the preceding day. For days af-
terward additional deaths from lockjaw as the result
of powder wounds would be recorded
| While casualties of this kind still occur. their
number has been reduced to small fraction of those
in former On the Fourth of July 1906 no less
than 1872 persons killed outright and 1894 were
wounded By 1910 the number of killed had fallen to
131, in 1915 to forty, in 1923 to eleven while last
year only seven deaths were reported.
This illustrates the fact that sometimes safety
warnings finally accomplish the desired results but
the of educating the public realization of
| even the most obvious dangers is slow one.
And 1T seems that when menace to life and
limb has been brought under control, arises
| to take its place. Today the outstanding menace is
the automobile, which last year took toll of more
than 10000 killed and nearly million injured in the
United States.
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cessary as the casualties from fireworks were twenty
five years ago. Will it take twenty-five years more
to develop generation of careful automobile drivers
Cripple Wins Degree
! 4 MONG the seasons college graduates none is
! ~ more interesting deserving that Richard Ma
honey who has just received his A. B. degree
at Clark University, in Massachusetts.
Mahoney stricken with infante paralysis
when he four years DID, He has not been able to
use his arms legs since, but has developed remark
able facility in the of his neck muscles He writes
with pen pencil between his teeth and runs a
typewriter by punching the keys with stick held in
his mouth
i His great physical misfortune has never daunted
his ambitious spirit and he voted the best-natured
man in his class. He expects continue his studies
and win his masters degree next year.
Mahoney's ambition is to become writer and the
courage and determination he has already shown will
stand him in good stead in his effort to win fame and
! fortune a of letters.
o.
/ There is no doubt that now and then hungry
pheasants grab bit two of corn but they like the
worms great deal BETTER says the Cottonwood Conn
ty Citizen of Window. The other day, Warden D. p
Brady showed US the crop of pheasant he had killed
along the river road, where, it was thought the
pheasants were damaging The crop was alb
solutely filled with worms, mostly cutworms showing
that the bird had been making delicious meal on
one of the farmers greatest pests.
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Shifting The Gears
"Cheap money" doesn't mean much to the fellow
who can't borrow any.
We might beat the sugar tariff by stirring the
| ice tea thoroughly.
Even the weather man did his prettiest in giving
the returning Byrd party warm reception.
The Oldest hotel in Berlin is named "King of Portu-
gall and has just celebrated the 230th anniversary of
its opening.
It seems that all the unemployed in Texas are
candidates for office Nineteen of them are running
for governor.
Some probably object to dial telephones because
they miss the pleasure of bawling the patient GEN.
trail operator.
] Cuba is creating great national park of 64,s12
acres in which native animal and vegetable life win be
propagated and protected
A Kansas man has received penitentiarv sentences
aggregating 223 years. But he'll probably get about
hundred years off for good behavior.
Glenn Curtiss pioneer aviator and airplane manufac
urer was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of
Science by the University of Miami Fla He first
flew from Albany to New York 20 years ago.
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William Green, president of the American Fedora
ton OF Labor in testimony before the house committee
again asserted the opposition of his organization to all
forms Of communistic activity.