The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-04-24
Beyond the County

lion dollars has been instituted against
the Consolidation Coal Company, a
West Virginia corporation, by the
Western Maryland Railway Company
for breach of contract.
The Yale News, using excerpts
taken from an essay written by Pres
ident Hoover ten years ago on Amer
lean Individualism, published what
was claimed to be an exclusive inter-
view with the President.
At Washington it has been announc-
ed that there are still in circulation
over billion and quarter dollars in
the old, large-sized currency, and that
substantial part of this sum will
probably never be returned for re-
demption.
At Boston radio set built to hold
full sized man has been formally Of
fered to the medical and scientific
world as possible disease cure, using
the short wave to hea9the interior Of
LIE UOOy INSTANTLY
At Washington plans for special
hospital-laboratory for treatment OF
war veterans afflicted with inflamma-
ton of the bones in which cure is
effected by placing live maggots in the
infected parts which eat away the dis
eased flesh and bone, is being consid-
cred. DIR. William S. Baer, Baltimore
scientist, discovered the method.
At Washington the Department Of
Agriculture has announced that the
| American people are eating less meat.
The per capita consumption was 1897
pounds in 1924; 1873 pounds in 1927,
and 1868 pounds in 1929.
Near Knoxville, Tenn, Aunt Cindy
Kelley, 76, who lives near a creek in
the mountains, supports nine grand
children by panning gold from loca-
ton which she has kept secret for
many years.
/ In Russia an artificial Rubber, OBJ
tanned from a plant known as chan
drilla, the sap of which contains about
20 per cent of rubber-like substance,
and which is likely to revolutionize the
rubber industry of the world, has just
been discovered. Edison is expert
menting in the same field with golden
rod.
In California a huge army plane
made a cross-country flight, bearing
four men and guided only by a gyror
scope robot, except for the take-off
and landing, which was accomplished
by the regular pilot.
At Schenectady, N. Y, an electric
sign, having small photo-electric cell
about the size of peanut radio tube,
is automatically flashed on as dark
ness approaches. '
At Greensboro, Nd, DR.. Wairman
F. linn, lung expert, successfully re-
moved peanut, with the use of an
aesthetic, from the bronchial tube OF
a nine-months old child, by use of the
bronchoscope.
In the United States cotton was still
king in 1929, this country having ex-
ported more than five billion dollars
worth of the crop.
At Charleston, W. Va, three per-
sons, going to the aid of relative int
iured in an automobile accident, were
killed Monday when their own auto
mobile was struck by passenger
train at a crossing.
In North Dakota, Gus Reinhold, 40,
farmer, pied guilty to first degree
murder, he having been charged with
drowning his four-year old deformed
son in a river. He was sentenced to
the penitentiary for life.
In North Carolina the census re-
cords Jim McNeill, Ill years old, who
was engaged in chopping wood when
the census man called, and who said
he could not remember the names OF
the first three of his wives whom ne
married sometime before the outbreak
of the Mexican War.
At Stone Mountain, near Atlanta,
the carved figure Of Gen. Robert E.
Lee was marred by having poured
over it quantity of red paint.
In California woman who had lost
the sight of one eye on account OF i'll
ness several years ago, had the sight
restored by a. fight in an airplane.
Secretary Lamont reported this
week that the awarding of 303 million
dollars in public construction con-
tracts during the first quarter OF 1880
in 81 states indicated that z billion
dollars would be spent for public and
private works this year.
In Idaho, a great roundup OF wild
horses is in progress, the animals to
be used as chicken feed and exported
for human consumption.
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