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Farmer William Sprague, 42, town clerk of Wantage, N. J., under indictment for transporting a truck load of beer, was out hunting one afternoon last week when U. S. District Judge William Clark at Newark delivered a long and startling decision in his commonplace case. Concluded Judge Clark's opinion...
...Chicago, N. A. T.'s new service completes another through passageway for transcontinental passengers. The California-bound traveler reaches Chicago by early evening in ample time to board Boeing's night mail plane to the coast-total flying schedule 28½ hr. But unless the mail load is light, in which case a maximum of four passengers might be taken, the passenger must wait overnight in Chicago for the morning transport, arriving in San Francisco the morning after that. When enough travelers appear to demand it, large passenger planes may be flown regularly on the night schedule...
...corn rows the farmers went as fast as they could go, each well-trained team of horses leading in front without direction, each tough cornstalk a fight. After 80 min. a gun boomed. Swiftly the judges weighed the yield. Ray Hanson of Cottonwood County, Minn, had the biggest load but he did not win. Competitive cornhusking has its intricacies. For every pound of marketable corn that the gleaners find left in the field the husker is penalized three pounds, for every ounce over five ounces of silks and shucks per 100 Ib. of corn husked, 1% of the weight...
...total weight of the carillon will be about 27 tons. In order to carry such a great load the plans of the Lowell House tower were altered to give extra strength to the structure. The tower is now capable of supporting a load of 32 tons...
...Adel, Iowa, Mrs. Samantha Burns died in the Dallas County Home where she had peeled a bushel and a half of potatoes daily for 35 years, equivalent to 32 car-load...