Mules Being Abandoned, Replaced by Motor Equipment

1920

Motors Displace Mules

The First cavalry, stationed at Nogales, Ariz., has abandoned mules in favor of motor equipment, but the change is not so revolutionary at it sounds, because you can swear just as fluently at a balky carburetor as you can at a stubborn quadruped. And it does just as much good.—The Home Sector.


Largest Wooden Building

The parliament building in Wellington, New Zealand, is the largest wooden structure in the world.


Protect the Song Birds

Song birds may be protected from cats by winding four or five strands of barbed wire around the tree trunks, Cats have a great dislike for barbed wire and will not cross it. The wire will not harm the trees and can be removed when the birds leave.

—Bedford Gazette, Bedford, Pennsylvania, January 9, 1920, page 4.