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...National celebration in honor of 130th anniversary of death of Count Casimir Pulaski, at Savannah, Ga., where he was mortally wounded aiding George Washington. In Michigan, a drive to collect an endowment fund for a Chair of Polish history and literature at the University of Michigan...
...ganization of the government, headed by Gen. Herbert M. Lord, Director of the Budget, hinting sternly that his veto of the proposed tax cut as too large was no impossibility. C. From one Luke W. Duffey, President Coolidge received gratis the deed to a 176-acre onion farm in Pulaski County, Ind. Taxes and mortgage interest were due. Donor Duffey explained that he had found it impossible to farm at a profit under present conditions and advised the new owner to exercise extreme efficiency or he would get deeper into debt...
...Pulaski County, Ky., Teacher Bertha Mize of the Short Creek School, thirsty, drew herself a glass of water from the school cooler. It looked, she thought, a little queer. The water seemed cloudy. Lifting the cooler lid, she was startled by a puff of smoke. None of the 70 pupils had taken a drink yet that morning, so none was poisoned by what authorities judged to be sulphuric acid dumped into the cooler by the same malcontent or malcontents who two days prior had smashed the school window panes and electric lights. Between Fundamentalists and Evolutionists of that countryside, suspicion...
...More precisely, six: Plato, la.; Plato, Pulaski Co., Ky.; Plato, Houghton Co., Mich.; Plato, Minn.; Plato, Mo.; Plato Center, 111. Of these, Plato, Ga., was doubtless the "city" Agathon had in mind. Its population is by far the largest: 238. There are 13 Homers, from Alaska to Texas; one Homer City, (Pa.) ; two Homersvilles (Ga., Ohio). There is no Socrates, no Xantippe, but in Missouri there is a Huzzah...
...Polish soldier who, when exiled, went to America, joined Washington's army. He distinguished himself in many a battle, was made a brigadier general, raised for the colonists a mixed troop, the Pulaski Legion. Wounded when Savannah was attacked (1779), he died on board ship two days later. In Savannah, General Lafayette laid the cornerstone of a monument...