The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-01-16
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John D. Rockefeller, Who has made
and given away more money than any
other man in history, 80 years of age,
made "talkie" at his summer home
in Florida, to be seen and heard at an
anniversary dinner of the Standard
Oil Company in Cleveland.
Harry G. Hustled, Cleveland inven-
tor, proposes to attempt a world
flight in June in a specially construc-
ted plane to cost $4,000, the trip to
consume not more than ten and a
half days.
S. S. Huebner, University of Penn
sylvania professor, states that only
one out of ten men at the age of 65
has an income of even $50 month;
that SO people out of every 100 are
financially incompetent.
While filling his tire with air, Geo.
/ Ball of Philadelphia was instantly
killed when the bursting tire drove
an iron tire i'm against his forehead.
In Little Rock, Ark, negro girl,
apparently dead after an operation,
was revived thirteen minutes after
respiration had ceased by an intra-
venous injection of oxygen, probably
the first successful act of the kind in
the United States.
To demonstrate that the New
Testament is not as long as some
people think, 80 members of church
in Massachusetts read it from Mat
thew to Revelations in IS hours and
10 minutes, relieving each other every
Is minutes.
In Baltimore in 1929, GIFTS mar
riage licenses were issued and 1913
divorces granted, as announced by the
clerks of the courts.
It is estimated that the London
Naval Farley will cost our govern
ment more than $35O,OOO. Transpor-
tation costs will be about $4,000 and
daily expenses about $4,000.
Psittacosis (parrot fever) seems to
be spreading, there being a total of
dozen cases in Maryland, as an
nounced by DIR. C. Hampton Jones,
Commissioner of Health.
Don C. Wallace, when he is on the
road, packs short wave radio set
and communicates with his wife, who
has a short wave transmitter and
receiver, at their home in Long Beach,
California.
By means of highly complicated
secret code, known only to hand
full of American diplomats, President
Hoover will be kept in daily touch
with the London Disarmament Con-
ference. Each code book is numbered
and closely guarded.
The "Radio Knife" is a new scien-
tifc appliance, the size of lead pencil
with a short length of wire project
ing from one end connected with a
radio frequency vacuum tube and I'M
damped radio frequency transmitter,
the spark from which cuts the tissues
and is being used with success in can
Ger operations.
Detroit firemen, believing that the
five percent raise recently granted
them might better be used towards
alleviating poverty and unimploy-
ment, asked the commission to rescind
it's action. The money represented
by the raise totals approximately
$215,OOO annually.
At Wilkes-Barre, Pa, three men
were killed and three injured Monday
afternoon when pay car of the Glen
Alden company was dynamited near
the Truesdale Colliery by bandits.
At Morgantown, w. Va, the Nor
gantown Post and Morgantown New
Dominion, two dailies, one democratic
and one republican, have organized a
joint publishing company to print
both newspapers from one plant. The
editorial and news work will be con-
Quoted in separate quarters.
Maryland has $50 depositors under
the postal savings system with $117,-
APT to their credit, as of July 80, 1929,
Baltimore City leading with 400 de-
positors and $1o9,2sO deposits.
At Richmond, Va, the United
States Court of Appeals declared the
race segregation ordinance of Rich
mond to be unconstitutional.
At Fairmont, W. Va, in recent
charge to the grand jury, Judge Sho-
walter stated that. slot machines,
punch boards and raffles, whether for
turkeys or blankets and whether car
ried on by an individual or by a
church bazaar, are closed as lotteries
under the. West Virginia law.
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