Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1920 — Page 6 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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Six hundred women were executed in France for witchcraft in 1609. The women in ancient Crete wore flounced dresses more than 4,000 ago. Mademoiselle Naplerskowski, a famous Russian danoer, has insured her feet for $50,000. Scotch interests are planning to obtain 42,000 electrical horsepower by harnessing three lakes, and to utilize the waterpower running to waste in the watershed of the Tay. Madame de Grandt was forty-two years old when the celebrated Talleyrand, who had remained indifferent to all the blandishments of younger women, fell a victim to her charms. A form of pumice stone has been discovered in Japan which can be used in concrete for boat building, making a concrete as strong, but 60 per cent lighter than the ordinary kind. St. Louis has a flfteen-year-old girl rabbi, Leona Hurwitz by name, who has delivered several sermons in the Temple Israel in that city. Miss Hurwitz is said to be the only girl or woman in America who has ■ ever acted in a rabbinical capacity. Clyde Newton swung his right fist and hit Arthur Thomas, a fellowemploye of the city electric light plant at Fremont, Neb., on the point of the jaw, knocking Thomas several feet and fracturing his jaw, hut saving his life. Thomas had taken hold of a plug which had been charged by a short circuit and could not break away. George de Hedberg, one of the trusted generals of the murdered czar of Russia," is now a mechanic in a New York City garage, and his wife, Baroness Taube, former companion of the imperial princess, is now “plain” Mrs. Hedberg, of New York. The Reds took their beautiful home and confiscated their wealth, and would have taken their lives if they had not escaped.

CITY PROPERTY FOR BALE Ax I expect to leave for California soon I wish to dispose of thf residence property I own on north Cullen street and a 60x160 residence lot two blocks from court house oq north Weston street. —C. W. DC-, TALU AUTO LICENSES —Apply with our notaries any time, day or night. We attend to all the details and have a car record of nearly every car In the county. See us at once.- —THE MAIN OARAGE, The Best In Rensselaer.