GENERAL ITEMS.

Shannon News, 18 January 1924, Page 4

GENERAL ITEMS.

BAD BOYS PUNISHED. A Salford boy of 14 was sent to a reformatory for four years for being concerned with five other-lads in breaking into an office and stealing pens and blackleadg. It was stated that the boys tarred a watchdog on the head, blinding one eye, and injuring the other. BRIDAL-BOUQUET WREATH. The funeral of Mr John Ldward Freeman, Mayor of Malflon, Essex, who committed suicide by falling from a bedroom window of the Hotel Cecil, Strand, while on his honeymoon, took place at Maldon. All the shops in the borough were closed, blinds were drawn and flags were flown half-mast. A choral service was attended by the widow, whose bridal bouquet was placed on the coffin. SOUND PICTURES. Professor A. M. Low is to make a further experiment in photographing sound-pictures. His object is to compare the soundwhile singing a song and the soundwaves of the same song while it is being projected from a wireless loudspeaker. By this method he will be able to determine the extent of the distortion of original sound-waves during their re-production by the wireless instruments. CARRYING BETS AT SEVEN. "The worst feature of this case is that children as young as seven were allowed to go to the house," said Mr Dawson, the chief constable, in a betting prosecution at Birkenhead. England, when Henry Raffcrty, a dock labourer, of Beckwith Street, his wife, and son Henry were fined £25 each.

During five days a police constable saw 718 persons go to the house, of whom 172 were girls, 199 boys, and 139 women.