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FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1925.

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LARGEST BUTTERFLY MOTH

Miss Jesale Henderson la shown here with two rare specimens of

the male and female butterfly moths; the largest ever caught in the. "world. They came from New Guinea. Their scientifle name is coacinocera hercules,

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King Fordinand, of Rumania, "father-in-law of the Balkans" and husband of Europe's most beautiful Queen, is reported to be ready to abdicate his throne in favour of his son, Crown Prince Carol. The King has been ill for a long time.

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Five students have adopted a novel method of paying their way through college Their blood which they sell at £ a pint, has been the means of saving several lives by transfusion, and also is used for experimental purposes.

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A new use for hot cross buns was discovered by Sheriff John Hannan, of Jersey City, when he opened one that Mrs. Benjamin Bonmosche

brought to her husband in jail and found that it contained morphine...

MRA HRS JAMES A. SPENCER & BABY

James Spencer is shown at work on his thermostat, on which he has been experimenting for years. He gives full credit for hia per- severance to his wife and their baby daughter, Madeleine,. His devicu has been secepted by the Westinghouse Electric Company, which is kaid already to have paid him $1,000,000 in royalties,

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Mrs. Gutzon Borglum, wite ot the famous sculptor of the Confederate; Memorial on the face of Stone Moun- tain, near Atlanta, stood by her hus bund when he was dismissed from the work for destroying the precious. models. Mr. Borglum told the puthorities her husband had destroyed the models, but asserted thats it was his right to do so, as they were, his and no one else's. "

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Russell Scott, who at the age of thirty was the head of a £2,000,000 Canadian corporation, has been, hanged for the murder of Joseph Maurer, a 17-year-old clerk, whom he killed in a hold-up in Apr, 1994. Scott said that the exunc of his downful! was the suit of Miss Dorothy Newbury, a manicurist, who alleged that he, posing as an unmarried man, had wooed and won hor. The girl's story brought her a verdict of £2.000. Unable to pay, Scott fled to Canada, became a cheap actor, then bootlegger and dope peddler, finally to and up on the gallows, Spott's arrest followed the finding of a key in the pocket of his overcoat which he dropped de the store after the murder. Search of his room, revealed a scrap of paper bearing, the address of Helen Bullard, chance acquaintance, with whom he had. lived for some time. He was found in her room and arrested.

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Mrs. Horace B. Dodge and bar sister-in-law, Mia. John F. Dodge, principal owners in the ., Dodge Brothers Automobile Company, bava sold the firm to Diffon, Read & Co., of New York, for a sum reputed to be $175,000,000, In 1901, the Dodge brothers were poor me chanica. They went into partner whip with Henry Ford,' Later they, Bold their Ford holdings and began manufacturing a*ci?"of, thefizofu)

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Dorothy Ellingson, San Francisco "jazz murderer," who shot her mather when refiroved for late hours, fainted in court when found irisane, no ending her murder trial. The former Premier Mr. Lloyd George, not entirely recovered from his reeent illness, has left South- ampton for a trip to Madeira to recuperate. Julius Kruttaphńitt, famous railroad man, will rotire on May 21 as chairman of the exécutive com- mittee of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Mary Pickford, screen star, wite of Douglas Fairbanks, has Just celebrated her thirty-second, "birthd

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