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Dunstan Times, Issue 3135, 18 September 1922, Page 7

Wink l the passengers on the fast American trains which run daily between New York and Ithaca sit in their coin Portable armchairs they can hear the news' by wireless telephone in addition to reading it in their newspapers. To each chair is fixed a. receiver that can be put over the eairs. Tf the passenger prefers to keep his head free, he can sit in the buffet car and let the loud-speaking telephone tel! him all that is happening while he goes on his way. Neither Napoleon nor St. Paul would' have been pronounced medically fit according to present-day standards', said a doctor examined before a House of Commons Committee. The schoolboys of a Massachusetts (U.S.A.) town take turns in acting ns traffic officers at street corners l snrrounding their schools. Trained by tiro Department of Police, they stay on duty at the hours when the pupils are arriving and leaving, and accidents' are decreasing.