A prizo of ,£IO,OOO is offered by an American newspaper syndicate for tho iirst aviator flying from tho Atlantio to tho Pacific, nearly 3000 miles. Orders for tho construction of innumerable new roads throughout Afghanistan have just been issued by tho Ameer, who has become a keen enthusiast on motoring. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, for Coughs and Colds, never fails, Is. 6d.A At Briston, Norfolk, a gardener has grown a number of potato plants to an extraordinary height. Many of them were over six feet high, while ono measured over seven foot. The tubers have not in any way been affected, and as much as nine pounds were dug from a seven-foot tree.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1271, 28 October 1911, Page 13
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