Eight policemen and three civilians were required to convey Hannah March, a negress, of Atlanta, Georgia, to the police station, where she was charged with intoxication. Three Clacton boys named Edmund Hunt, George Hazelton and Douglas Barnard. who were caught in the orchard of Police Superintendent Ackers stealing fruit, were recently fined 10s, representing tho amount of damage they committed. A boy's hair grows ono-lialf slower than a girl's. In boys the average rate of growth is 3ft Sin in six years, being an average of .018 in per day. During his twenty-first and twenty-fourth year a man's hair grows quicker than at any other period. i Tho Rev. J. T. Wardle, of Stafford, a well-known Wesleyan Methodist minis-; ter. speaking at, Wellingborough, said that at a thanksgiving meeting at Grimsby a noto was rent up from a lady on which was the-following:—“For three husbands already in heaven, and one on the way, .£10.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6488, 7 April 1908, Page 8
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