The employees of an Irish linen factory went on strike because the owners of factories.in the district docided, for the benefit of the sick, to discontinue the blowing of factory horns. The owners at length agreed to sound the horns at certain times, and the hands returned to work. The novels of Sir A. Conan Doyle and other English writers have been banished from the station bookstalls'of the Swiss Federal Railway under an order issued by the company prohibiting the sale- of detective stories. Sir Arthur remonstrates that there is nothing in his detective stories to shock anybody, but the Swiss papers, while they sympathise with him and other authors of repute, point out that the drastic measures are imperative, since the evils of poisonous "literature" have resulted in so many crimes of recent years among the Swiss routh.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 783, 5 April 1910, Page 7
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139Untitled Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 783, 5 April 1910, Page 7
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