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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1912
Page
4
George Gamble, Pere Marquette fast freight manager, found a green wad in hotel lobbies across states. First a $5 bill, then two $10s, then another green wad. A dog nabbed the third find and a passerby retrieved it. Gamble claimed it, saying he had missed it. The wrapped bundle contained a garter clue.
A bitter night and driving snow expose a lone figure, an old farmer’s scarecrow, standing by a snowbound road while a farmhouse party glows with warmth inside. The stark contrast highlights loneliness as neighbors party unaware of the cold figure outside.
George H. Demuth of the U S Department of Agriculture, formerly head of the apiary department in the Indiana state entomologist office, reports in the annual apiary department record that bees escaping from shipping boxes in a Terre Haute to Indianapolis car flew ahead of the moving train. He observed bees escape at 35 to 40 miles per hour and concluded a honey bee’s sight may exceed railway train speed.
New York authorities report 3 245 fires in 1910 and 8 332 in 1911 caused by smokers negligence in industrial settings. Fire Commissioner Johnson will apply a statute to forbid endangering health or safety and has ordered 40 000 notices in English Yiddish and Italian to ban smoking in factory buildings, backed by strict inspections.
A Glymis, Forfarshire farmer, Alexander Jack, reports a potato experiment yielding whites and reds from one cut tuber. Three years earlier he found a pink-spotted potato that produced on one stalk both white and red varieties, giving large crops of good quality and creating curiosity about the unusual result.
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