NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 27, 20 January 1928, Page 15

NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE

An Act of Gocdwill The Paris police have forbidden the use of the word Boche in kinemas}; the word German is always to be used. Robin’s Nest in a Mackintosh. A robin has laid five eggs in a nest built in the folds of a mackintosh hung in an apple tree in Cumberland. A Link With Lincoln. The widow of a man who made clothes for Abraham Lincoln has just celebrated her hundredth birthday. The Penny-a-Day Man, A Nottinghamshire man whe started work ninety-six vears ago at a penny a day has just retired at 1038. In the Porridge Pot. . At a training school in Belfast the other day a boy fell into a large pot from which -he was ladling porridge. Praise for Boy Cooks. A lady who has heen teaching cookery to boys in London says they learn more quickly than girls and make twice as much in a given time. The Parrot’s Reveuge. The wife of a Spalding councillor is recovering from blood-poisoning caused by being pecked by a_ parrot after she had accidentally prodded it with a fork. The Scout in the Window, A South African reader writes to tell us of two other Scouts in a stained-glass window Both died in the war, and appear together in a window in St. Panl’s Church, Durban, Fishes Go by Car. The River Trent has heen restocked with 5000 roach and _ perch taken from the Birmingham Corporation’s reservoirs and conveyed to Nottingham in basket-shaped -tanks by motor car.