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Ice Stops Shipping in the Cape Cod Canal
This photograph, made from n plane over the new vertical type lift railroad bridge spanning the Cape Cod
canal, shows Just how greatly hampered shipping was In the canal due to huge cakes of Ice. Only the largest
vessels could pass through.
Chicago Banker
Has Treasury Post
Wayne Chatfleld Taylor of Chi
cago, who has been serving as vice
president of the export-Import banks,
has been appointed assistant secre
tary of the treasury to succeed L.
W. Roberts, Jr., resigned.
Mr. Taylor, a Chicago investment
banker, was for several years as
sociated with George N. Peek, for
mer bead of the export-import banks
and acted as their chief following
the resignation of Mr. Peek sev
eral months ago.
Table D'Hote for Rabbits and Birds
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During the unusunlly snowy winter many persons throughout the country Imve been putting out food for
the animals and birds that find foraging dlliicult. Corn and carrots on sticks comprise this outdoor banquet
hall near Cheltenham, Pa. The corn Is for the birds and the carrots form the piece de resistance for the
rabbits you see In this picture. Hunger caused them to overcome their natural timidity and thoy refused
to allow the cameraman to Interrupt their fea«*,
Bridge Widowers Learn Cooking
Some of the students In tlie cooking class for men only that Mrs.
Winifred Steis teaches at a Detroit high school. The culinary art is
meant for sportsmen who want to cook their own game, but nny married
man can think of a number of other occasions when the course will come
in handy right at home.
THE ROCKY MOUNT HERALD, ROCKY MOUNT, NORTtf CAROLINA
Scenes and Persons in the Current News
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I—New $10,000,000 palnce on the shore of Lake Leman near Geneva, Switzerland, which has just been
occupied by the League of Nations. 2—Alexander V. Dye of Flora, .111., new director of the bureau of for
elgu and domestic commerce of the Department of Commerce. 3—View in the main street of Monrovia
during the military parade that featured the inauguration of Edward Barclay as president of Liberia.
Hostess for G. O. P.
'36 Convention
Has Big Job
Miss Marian Lang, secretary ! to
the president of the Cleveland Con
vention bureau, will be the most
popular—or unpopular—young lady
In Cleveland around June 1. She
has the job of seeing that delegates
are adequately housed during the
Republican national convention.
Part of Great British Fleet at Alexandria
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Malta being too close to Italy, a large part of the British fleet In the Mediterranean was concentrated at
Alexandria, Egypt, and many of the vessels are to be seen in this photograph.
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Millions of years ago nature, In Bryce Canyon, southern Utah's na
tional park, began to make, with rain, wind, sun and frost, this giant
Tower bridge. It needs but to have a moat beneath It and knights of old
In the armor of the Middle Ages to be almost the perfect counterpart of
a sceue from the 10th and tlth. centuries. Union raciflc railroad photograph.
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A beautiful aerial view of the model aerial training ground, Ran
dolph field, Texas, called the "West Point of the Air," as three squadrons
of airplanes form the letters "U S A" In the sky In the background.
Fiddle Champ
of Maine
Is 78 Years Old
Eugene H. Staples, "Happy Gene,"
seventy-eight years old, of Dlxfleld,
Maine, Is the newly crowned fiddle
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champion of the state of Maine. He
succeeds the late Mellle Dunham of
Norway, Maine.
Foreign American*
Over 100,000 Americans live In
the various countries of Europe the
year 'round.
FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1936
Goose Was Established
in Europe of Man
J The goose goes fnr back into an
tiquity ns a provider of food as
well ns fenthers. It was already
established In Europe before man
Jennie along, and with the possible
exception of the common lien, was
probably the first bird doniestlcat
'ed. Four thousand years ago It
was regarded as a sacred bird In
(Egypt, though in so far as that
.may translate into tribute it must
be discounted by the fact that the
Egyptians early made it a habit
.'to multiply their stock by sacred
iblrds in species. There are refer
ienees to in some of the San
skrit writings, and In the tombs
( of Luxor figures of geese arelln
■ eluded among the decorations.
! The Romans considered goose Uv-
Jer a great delicacy, and enormous
'numbers of the birds were placed In
ipens and forcibly fattened by cram
jming. It was probably some of
these geese whose loud alarm saved
:tlie Roman capital from the attack
lof the Gauls in the Fourth century,
B. C.
In Pliny's time geese were driven
across Europe in flocks from
France and Belgium Into Itnly. And
Pliny adds, "Messalinus Cotta, the
son of Messoin, the orator, discov
ered the method of cooking the
webs of the goose's feet, and fricas
seelng them In small dishes along
with cocks' combs."
The Celts are reputed to have
the largest responsibility for pop
ularizing the goose; from them the
Romans learned the art of filling
cushions and mattresses with the
feathers to make luxurious couches.
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Found Plow That Turned
Soil With Singing Sound
Of the many steps by which
plows have progressed from the
crooked stick powered by the mus
cles of man to modern methods of
turning the soil, none were more
important than Improvements un
dertaken by James Oliver beginning
in 18,'»3. Oliver wanted a plow that
would "turn the soil with a singing
sound," says a record of the bu
reau of agricultural engineering.
Cast-Iron plows made about that
time were superior to wooden
plows, but they wore too rapidly
and would not scour properly In the
rich, sticky soils of the Mississippi
and Olilo valleys. They "rooted,
but would not Invert, the soil."
Oliver's experiments led him to
obtain several patents for the proc
ess of hardening or "chilling the
inose and catting edge of the share."
Thus he realized his ambition for a
plow that "sang" as It cut Its way
through rich prairie sod or heavy
soil,
"Gallery God."
The celling of th 6 old Drury Lane
theater, In London, was painted to
represent the sky, with clouds and
the usual cuplds and cherubs. Since
the ceiling was immediately above
persons seated In the gallery, tbey
were said to be "among the gods."
Out of this grew the appellation
"gallery gods" to designate those
occupying the highest seats In any
theater.
Inventor of Electric Lighti
History gives credit for the In
vention of electric lights to Sir
Humphrey Davy, an Englishman,
who in 1810 observed the electric
arc and produced the incandescence
of a fine platinum wire In connec
tion with his famous experiments
with a 2,000-cell battery.
Settlers Introduced the Bee
The bee was actually unknown in
this country until introduced by the
settlers. One writer records that
the Indians had no name for it and
called it the Englishman's fly. Yet
the Invention of bee line to mean a
straight line is purely American,
although it has become familiar in
England.
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