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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1921
Page
8
The Manufacturers of Planet Jr announce a demonstration of a new riding cultivator perfected for potato cultivation. Engineers studied local needs and farm conditions to tailor the tool. The event is set for Saturday June 11 at 2:30 PM on the Richard Ely farm and invites all farmers to attend.
The narrator recalls meeting Old Maddington who fled Death Valley with gold. A party pursues a rock cipher said to reveal the mine. They learn Maddington never found wealth. his benefactor’s Alaska fortune shifts the tale. The tale ends with a charred card reading a warning about long gaps between drinks.
The report outlines which states retain the death penalty and the methods used. It notes Washington state abolished it in 1918, Iowa 1872 with 1878 restoration, Colorado 1897 with 1901 restoration, and Michigan treason as the only death crime. Methods include hanging in most states and electrocution in Arkansas Indiana Massachusetts New York Nebraska Ohio Pennsylvania Vermont Virginia and Oklahoma with Nevada allowing hanging or firing squad.
A boy asks his brother for a new book after finishing his latest. The brother gives him Robinson Crusoe and boasts it is interesting. The boy reads by skipping words he does not know and concludes there isn’t much left.
A German gliding competition in the Rhone district organized by the League of German Model Aircraft and Gliding Clubs ended badly with the death of pilot Von Loessel due to elevator failure. Monoplanes and biplanes competed, some with modern seats and landing gear, achieving a longest distance of 1,830 meters and 142.5 seconds of flight by Klemperer at 380 meters height and a glide angle of 1 to 31.
In June 1918 Canadian soldiers on the Atlantic voyage cast a sealed bottle with a note asking the finder to forward it to the Toronto Sunday World. It washed ashore at St Ives, Cornwall, and the request was fulfilled. The drift over two years and a half sparked theories, including Gulf Stream memory and smugglers past.
R F Erwin of Peru says a year ago he suffered indigestion biliousness and constipation. He tried Chamberlain's Tablets after hearing praise and they helped him quickly. He recommends them to others with similar stomach troubles.
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