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GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

President Harding has become one of the keenest radio-telephone enthusiastic.? in Washington. Scarcely a day goes by that he does not “listen in” on the receiving set specially installed for him a short time ago. The President is singularly fortunate, .for his set can take a wave-length of 25,000 metres, while the average amateur cannot receive on a wave much longer than 375 metres. The receiving set is placed in a bookcase near the President’s desk in White House. A vacuum tube director and a two-stage amplifier make up the Presidential set. Sergeant Czediwy, of the 14th Regiment of LanCers in Galicia, was sentenced to death for having stolen several thousand marks. The Court knew him as a man who fought bravely in the war and announced that they would ask for a reprieve. “Please don’t,” said the sergeant. “Let me be shot.” His request for his own execution was ignored.

Sixty-five years with one London firm is the record of Mr Edwin Bin'll who has retired from the post of manager to a firm of general merchants.. Commenting on the change in man’s dress, Mr Burtt said: “Yes, they were stricter in my young days. Silk and hard felt hats were insisted on; no strolling in jauntily with a straw hat on the side of the head. Girls in business wei'e, of course, unknown in my young days, hut they’ve come to stay,” said Mr Burtt, his eyes twilding. Speaking of sport, he remarked: “I play golf myself three times a week.” On the staff at the Homo Office in London is a member familiarly known to his colleagues as “Sam.” He is a large black cat, whose duty if is to keep the mouse population under his control. . So taking are Sam’s manners, that visitors are very much attracted to him, and 'an American lady who recently had business at the Home Office pleaded so hard to be allowed to take him hack with her across the Atlantic that the officials half consented. But they had reckoned without the “chief.” When the Home Secretary got to hear of Sam’s impending departure he issued certain orders as a result of which Sam will remain where he is.

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MH19220704.2.28

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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2449, 4 July 1922, Page 4

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GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2449, 4 July 1922, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2449, 4 July 1922, Page 4

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