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Did You Know That --
Clover Once Was 'Noxious Weed?'
-- By Will Maupin

NEBRASKA statutes once declared
sweet clover to be a
"noxious weed?"

THE Protestant Episcopal
Church has furnished more
presidents than any other religious
denomination?

IF Congress were a
unicameral body and the membership
were put on a population
basis, New York, Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Illinois would have more
representatives than all the states
west of the Mississippi River?

WILLIAM Howard
Taft weighed more than any other
president of the United States?

LISLE thread hose
were once as popular as nylons
are today?

MORE than 50 years
ago Mrs. Elia W. Peattie of The
World-Herald staff won a prize
of one thousand dollars offered by
the Detroit Free Press for a story,
"The Judge," published in book
form?

WHEN W. J. Bryan
established his weekly paper, "The
Commoner," his political enemy,
J. Sterling Morton, immediately
founded an opposition weekly,
"The Conservative?"

THERE ARE only
three places where the American
flag is legally permitted to fly
both day and night? They are at
the grave of Francis Scott Key,
the National Capitol in Washington,
and the war memorial in
Worcester, Mass.--Mrs. Elizabeth
Sharp, Sparks, Neb.

THE Governor of Nebraska
can reach his office in the
Capitol by private elevator, to
which he alone has the key? It is
an automatic elevator.

A WELL preserved
set of first edition McGuffey
Readers is worth more than the
salary of Nebraska's Governor?

FREMONT, Neb.,
was given that name because a
rival for the county seat was the
town of Breckenridge on Shell
Creek? Mr. Breckenridge was a
democratic candidate for president
and Mr. Fremont was a Republican
candidate. Dodge County
was overwhelmingly Republican.--
C. C. Cushman, 230 North N
Street, Fremont.

MRS. Jessie Rent-
from of Ashby, Neb., slipped up
on a feasting coyote and clubbed
it to death?--Mrs. Eugene Chrisman,
Scottsbluff, Neb.

The World-Herald pays $1 for
each item selected by Mr. Maupin
for this column, Address Did You
Know, The World-Herald, Omaha
2, Neb.