The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-01-23
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banqueted by the British government
at the Savoy hotel, and rendered q
brilliant reception, the Five-poweI
Naval Farley, in London, is ready to
begin its deliberations looking to dis
armament.
The cost of a telephone call from
New York to any point in new terri
tory to be connected, including Venice
Trieste, Padua and Bologna, will be
$51 for the first three minutes and
SIT for each additional minute.
The body of Harry Busick, presi-
dent of Lord Baltimore Hotel Com
pany, one of the most heavily insured
men in America, policies on whose
life total $1,150,0O0, was exhumed for
an autopsy three days after its burial
Mr.. Busick was drowned while duck
hunting.
A device to enable air mail planes
to snatch their daily load of financial
mail from the heart of Wall Street
will be tried, when a plane will at
tempt to pick a 4O-pound bag from
the top of building 440 feet above
the street.
During last summers vacation, the
girls of Goucher college earned $23.
342.25, according to the published rec
ords of the college, the average for
each position during the summer was
little better than $1OO.
Mrs. Sarah Boggess Smith, Fair
mont, local representative of the
Equitable Life Insurance Company
led the Equitabel Agents of the Uni
ted States in writing group insurance
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At Meyersdale, Pa, banker, wear
ing two pairs of pants, saved himself
the loss Of a large sum of money,
when the highwaymen searched the
outer pair, but found nothing, the
money remaining safe in the other
pair.
Two Detroit MEN and descendant
of the Incas have started to Peru,
believing they possess the secret of
buried treasures, which they propose
to recover by draining lake, where
tradition says a two ton chain of gold
was dropped by Spanish conquerors.
American business men in 1929 lost
300 million dollars by bad checks as
reported by the National Retail
Credit Association.
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In China beggars must belong to a
society or guild and his earnings are
turned into a common treasury and
divided weekly in equal proportions
among the members, after the society
has deducted a certain percentage as
commissions.
At Cadiz, Ohio, the municipal clerk,
having worked At years for a salary
of $3.50 a year, has received an in
crease to $50 per month.
Bob Martin, West Virginia, heavy
weight champion of the A. E. F..
permanently disabled by 60 fights
while in the service, has been awarded
compensation of 500 a month by the
Veterans Bureau.
$40
At Wilmington, Del, the U. S. Dis
trict Judge and a jury visited the
back room of a saloon to see how it
looked when a man was arrested
there for possession. The bar tender
was behind the bar when they ar
rived.
In Baltimore a couple were mar
ried, separated, sued for divorce, and
the wife now suing for alimony, all
in ten days time. This is a record
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At Mount Morris, New York, prac-
teal jokers placed thumb tack
point up, in a chair and fourteen
year old girl returning to her seat
unsuspectingly sat on it, developed
blood poison and died.
In Baltimore, dry agents, in two
raids, arrested two men and seized
1000 gallons of alcohol. Estimated
value of same being $4,000.
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