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...Fairmont, W. Va.. James F. Gwynn discovered a reservoir of honey cached by a hive of bees behind his kitchen wall. Ingenious James Gwynn rigged up a pipe line from the hive to his breakfast table, now flavors his hot cakes from a little honey spigot directly above his plate. Chase...
...found a co-operative homestead settlement in northern Minnesota. Shrewd Leader Allen had persuaded the U. S. Government to buy 640 acres of land for $9,000. After one winter in a community log house, each family will receive, in addition to land, two cows, two pigs, a hive of bees, 100 chickens, farm machinery, a house costing $1,500?all free...
...Peace Conference); 2) expulsion of common nations from the League Council which would become a permanent committee of Great Powers, nebulously "responsible" to the Democratic League Assembly of all states; 3) drastic reduction in League expenditures and personnel on the theory that Geneva has become a hive of bureaucratic drones...
...field, lift its saurian tail, lumber aloft. Suddenly in a spatter of color the world's record for mass parachute jumping was broken.* Thirty-six graduates of the Soviet parachute school, some of them women, issued from the side door of the ANT-14 like bees from a hive. Ten others leaped from a bomber. Each 'chute was red. white or blue, and each graduate had remembered to bring along a second colored chute which he released as he floated earthward. Fourteen other jumps during the day brought the total to 60, with no injuries...
During the War and shortly thereafter the most fashionable hotel in Washington was the Shoreham at the corner of 15th and H Streets.* In 1929 it was dismantled and subsequently became an office building. Last week it became known that the Shoreham Building would be the Republican hive for the next four Democratic years at the Capitol...