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...Roland Hart awakened to find himself in a gaol cell. Making out what appeared to be a man hanging from a beam, Hart screamed, brought attendants who cut his drunken cellmate down. Then Roland Hart was told that an unknown had found him asleep in his auto on a grade crossing, had flagged a train just in time to save his life. Said Hart: "I'm glad I could give some one an even break...
...Haven's 258 barber shops are in "what may be properly termed a high state of perfection."?Health Officer John Levi Rice, in a report last fortnight. Dr. Rice has devised a shrewd method of harrying slovenly barbers. He grades their shops as to cleanliness and sanitation, publishes the grades with names. No New Haven barber shop merits grade 100 but: 138 are between 90 and 98; 104 between 80 and 88; only 16 between 70 and 80. When a shop falls below 70, it is closed...
...Geography has been more a name than an institution at Harvard. Such isolated courses as Geography 1, faintly reminiscent of the odium of a "snap", have fallen to the lot of a conspicuous minority of undergraduates. Geography as a study is only too often a memory of the fifth-grade...
Idaho Democrats gathered at St. Anthony first thought they would not put up a candidate to oppose Senator Borah, largely because nobody wanted such an empty nomination. Then they changed their mind, named John Tyler of Emmett for the Senate. Nominee Tyler, 55, a grade school teacher turned farmer and smalltown politician, declared: "If elected, I will not be found voting with the Republicans as Borah has been with the Democrats." Democrats nominated for Governor G. Ben Ross, Mayor of Pocatello...
...bushel. The mill quotations on standard flour, Omaha in car lots, for that date was $6.50 per barrel. Bran, $27.50 per ton and shorts $33.50 per ton. Last Friday, Aug. 8, 1930, the Chicago option was 96 ½? per bushel. The mill quotations were on standard grade flour, $4.70 per barrel. Kran $24 per ton semi shorts, $27 per ton. On Aug. 2, 1930, Chicago option, 86^½?. Omaha cash 76?to 80? per bushel. Mill quotations, Omaha standard flour, $4.30 per barrel semi bran $19 per ton semi shorts $23 per ton. Every day the flour quotations...