BRIEFLY TOLD
Briefly Told A tract of public lands in the northern part of Australia has been set aside by the government as a reservation for the tribes of aborigines of that country. Conservative estimates...
...This man insured his three daughters from kidnapping, each being insured for $5,000...
...Hundreds of telephones are out of commission because of the depredations of this beetle which bores holes in the cables allowing the rain to enter...
...The tax will bo graded according to the number of rooms and servants...
...The "short-circut" bug is a beetle of California which is able to bore through wood and alloyed substances which are harder than lead...
...The Ohio State University football team drank water from its home town when it played the University of California team at Pasadena...
...Conservative estimates place the rat population of the United States on an equal with that of the human population...
...This action was taken to prevent possible sickness due to the bad effect of strange water...
...Baled cotton may now be treated with a chemical compound which renders it flame and spark proof...
...To socialize Berlin's housing and servant problem, the municipal government plans to tax empty rooms and multiply servants...
...The first kidnaping policy ever issued by an American insurance company was recently made out to an oil man in Oklahoma...
Vol. 13 • January 1921 • No. 1
