(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The metric system of weights and measures was introduced in Palestine . An ordinance to this effect was promulgated in the Official Gazette on January 1. Nahum Behr Rackowe, Jewish playwright, died in Mount Vernon, N. Y. on Thursday night. His wife and three sons survive. Born in Russia in 1865, Mr. Rackowe went to England in 1887 and became a close friend of the poet William Morris. He came to this country in 1902.
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