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Did You Know That-- By Will Maupin

Clover Once Was 'Noxious Weed?'

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 becasue 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 Chriman, 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.

Did You Know That-- By Will Maupin

Clover Once Was 'Noxious Weed?'

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 becasue 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 Chriman, 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.