, 1935-07-24
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-frederic IHssEin
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any question OF fact by writing Tho
Brownsville Herald Information Bu~
reau. Frederic y. Haskin. Director
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three 90 cents for reply.
q. Does traffic orr weather DO
more damage 90 highways? C. w.
"A. Engineers say that traffic does
most OF the damage TO highways
q. n II true that one can catch
fish through gratlnKs I'm m street Arm
Shepherdst0wn. West virginia. ILL.,
Nice.
A. This Is not an uncommon &C
currence. for many people fish I'm the
Town Run. which flows from south
to north the entire width off the
town. which Is seven blocks.
q. What week IN yet apart for spe-
cial interest I'm people who are hard
of hearing? NJ. R.
A. The American Society for the
Hard OF Hearing says hat National
Hearing Week Will be celebrated tbs
last fun week In October.
ID. +.
"A. The pneum0-gastric, or tenth
cranal nerve. supplies the stomach
with the desire. When the body be-
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water runs below normal. this nerve
conveys TO the brain the sensation
OF thirst.
q. Are artificial flowers more ma
tural when made. by hand. than
when made by machinery? NJ y.
"A. In the making or n flower the
hand worker has no mechanical RI
val. No inventor has been able 70
harness electricity or steam to any
instrument which can reproduce the
def twist Of the skilled Use max
ers' fingers.
q. How much land dId John I'D.
Rockefeller give TO sorle park I'm New
York? W.. u. H.
A.. Mr.. Rockefeller gave seven
hundred acres along the crest on
the Palisades to the Palisades In
terstate Park.
q. How many men and women Arm
the United states have been steril-
lied? WI. H.
A. According 70 q report OF the
American Legislators Association.
in 1894 over 16 900 persons mentally
CT morally unfit 10 be parents had
been ster1lized.
q. should one write Reverend
Carter or The Reverend Carter?
" n.
a. Reverend should be preceded
by the and should never be follow
cd Immediately by a surname. Eth
er The Reverend Mr.. Carter or The
Reverand Amos Carter II correct.
q. DO all mammals have hairf
T. IN.
A. Hair Is the characteristic cover
lnE or mammals. Some are densely
covered. while others have hair on
limited areas.
q. Who were the pirates on Bara-
TARA? III. r.
"A. This was IA company 0f out
laws under the leadership Of Jean
Lhfitte who established their rem
devious IN the Bay OF Barataria,
forty miles south OF New Orleans.
They committed great depredations
on English and Spanish shipping.
but their colony was broken up IN
1914 by a United States naval force.
q. What is m tally shop? NJ. P.
"A. IL Is a place where goods are
sold on the installment plan.
O. Is there m monument on tho
spot where Lincoln made bis Get
tySburg speech? vi. II.
"a. The eighteen states OF the
North represented In the Battle OF
Gettysburg. erected In 1869, IA monu-
ment on the site where lincoln de-
livered his Gettysburg Address. This
monument is known as the Soldiers
National Monument and stands I'm
the center Of the Semi-circle OF the
Soldiers National Cemetery. The
figures around the base were sculp-
tured by Randolph Rodgers and the
cost OF the entire structure was ap-
proNimately fifty thousand dollars.
q. Are all atoms the same riEef
$. $.
"A. Different kinds OF atoms may
vary IN size. but atoms or the same
kind are uniform.
a. What cities I'm Connecticut are
called the clock city. the brass city
and the hat city? wv. Id.
"A. Waterbury IN known as the
clock city; Bridgeport as the brass
city; Danbury. the hat city.
q. Who founded Bates college In
Maine? III. j. w.
"A. Bates College nc Lewiston.
Maine. was opened In 1863 and char
tered In 1864. III grew out of Maine
State Seminary, a secondary school
opened in 1857. The college was
founded by its first president. Rev I
erend Orcn Burbank Cheney. and
bears the name OF It's chief benefac-
tor. Benjamin Edward Bates. "a mer-
chant Of Boston.
q. How much Of the nations ma
val stores comes from Florida? a. ~.
A. Florida's 5.45O,OOO acres OF orig
lnal pine forests produces about
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