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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1935
Page
12
The piece uses a playful calculation to express 4.8 billion dollars in silver dollars stacked flat, yielding a 7,575 mile high column. It then compares to Beckley to Paris distance and even a trans Earth hole drill, before critiquing social habits of Beckley ladies driving husbands daily.
Wilmington Del Oct 11 Suits of the Ashland Coal and Coke company and the Pemberton Coal company operating in Bluefield West Virginia against the Old Ben company selling agents in Chicago were amicably settled out of court yesterday. Breach of contracts was alleged and at a trial in superior court in April 1934 the Ashland company was awarded 9614 and the Pemberton company 21919. An appeal was taken and action on this was scheduled for next Monday. Celery grows wild in England by the sides of ditches and in marshy places. A new profession of patent economists has been launched in Germany by engineers and economists to advise inventors. Consumption of fresh fruits in Great Britain broke all previous records during the last year amounting to nearly two million tons.
President Roosevelt landed at Cocos Island during his Pacific voyage and shared a luncheon of beans and sandwiches with a band of adventurers. The meal was ashore from the cruiser Houston and Portland, with officers joining the outing. British treasure hunters and Costa Rican soldiers guarding a search joined the gathering and discussed the venture.
President Roosevelt, deeply tanned from fishing trips, spoke under a khaki canopy about experiences during the hunt. Guests passed two hours chatting and tossing rocks at sharks while wading to reach land as Secretary Ickes and Harry Hopkins listened nearby.
The Abbi river also known as the Blue Nile is traced to its headwaters near Mt Danguiza in the Gojam highlands of Ethiopia.
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