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CiIISTIANSTED.
V. L
1L 8
A,
FRIDAY.,
3ri2
JUNE
1948
to unusually
parfect
voeal
eords,
throa
and
resonance
chambers
in
his
head
His singing
is aiso
remarkably
pleasin;
and artistic.
The
voice of Michael
Prita,
an Austrian,
44 vears
old.
has
= range
of
five compl te
octaves.
His
lawest
note
is a
base
F
corvesponiinz
to
42
vibra-
tious per second
—iwo octaves
lower
than
the deepest
violin ,pote.
Hoa reunders
up-
per
U
with
foll
tonal
Yvalus,
He
can
r2ach
the
upper
F and occasionally
upper
A. correspondinz
to
174 D vibrations
per
sacond
and
one
note
above
Patii’s high-
est.
His
higher
notes,
hyvever,
pass
into the heal register anl
arco of falsetto
nature,
resembiing
soprano.—lbid.
A CALD.
Captain
A. J. Blackwood end
son
Ralph Blackw?,
throwjh this
me-
dinm,
beg
to express
their gratitu!?
for
the
expressions
of
sympathy,
they
have
wreceived,
in
tiis
the
oreat bereeemznt,
from their m-.
frionds,
and nzighbors,
both person-
ally, and
by te'egrams
and
letters
which they appreciate
highly.
Also
for
the
kind
and
generous
aid
given
them
in their hour of need.
Annaly, St. Croix, V.L., June sth
1823,
P‘!n??-‘\““
s
i
rouvy U LG PUDiic.
THE
attention
of the public
is in-
vited
to
the
fact
that
repairs
ara
being
made
on
Kin2’s Street
between
Market
and
West
Streets.
traffic will please
detour from time
to time as
Indicated
by
barricades,
which will be plazed
only when it is
necessary.
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Asst. Public
Works Oplicer.
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CYPRESS
TREE IS 2500
YEARS GLD.
A giant cypress
tree
in
Winn
parish,
Louisiana,
is
declared
by
C.
F.
Poole
o’ the state
conservation
department
to
bo the fifth oldest
known
living thing on
earth
and the
third
oldest
on
our
con-
.
tinent.
Scientists
estimate
its
age
at
2500 years.
Yhe
patriareh
of
all living
things,
so far
as
is
known,
‘=
the S-"ta
Mavia de! Tule
eypress
in
Mex..o, 5,000
to 6,000
years
old.
Next
is
the dragon
tree
at
Orotava,
Island
of
Teneriffe,
4500
years
old.
A California redwood
tree.
4.000
years
old,
is
the third oldest,
this distinetion
being
sharply
contested
by
a baobab
tree
in
Senegal,
West
Af-
riea.
The Pathfinder,
May Z6th.
LIGHTNING SPOiILS
EIFFFL
RADIO.
t johtning
struck
the
wireless
trans-
mitting station
at the
top of EiiTel tower,
1.000
feet
from
the
erournd,
and
the
whole
apparatus
came
crashing
to
the
earth.
Steps
were
taken
at once
to
re-
store
the station
on
the highest
building
in the world.—lbid.
VOICES OF EXTRAORDINARY
RANGE
Fourteen-year-old
Robert
Murray,
Ta-
coma,
Wash.,
sings
six
octaves
from
C below middle
C (within one
note of the
lowest of
the great
basso,
Mardones)
to
A above
the
lighest
Con
the
piano.
This is half an
octave
above
the hizhest
note
on the piano, far beyond the world’s
+
greatest
opera singers.
His voiee is pro-
nounced
first class
1n every
respect,
due
No.
131,
b licats
e
i
4
3
EUIRIICaTiON,
URSUANT
to
paragraph
3
of
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Charter
of
Foundation
for
Upper
Chamberlain
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VON
OXHOLM and
Wite’s Legacy
for
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persons,
it
is
hereby
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notice
that
a
balance
of interest
am
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to
Fres.
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on
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1923.
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information
and
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forwarded
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1923.
Despatehine
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Cflice,
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1928.
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