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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-14
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-14

Court at Winona.-Judge William
Lochren and the officials Of the United
States circuit and district court, left
today for Winona, where term Of
court will convene tomorrow morning.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-14

Tax Sale for County. County Audi
tor Hugh R. Scott is today conducting
the annual sale of real property in
Hennepin county which has been de-
clared delinquent on account of the
non-payment Of taxes.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-14
AROUND THE TOWN

: Talks on Frisco. - Rev. Theodore
Heyshams of San Francisco will speak
on the recent disaster at his home city
at Central Baptist church this evening.
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Beer as a Fire Extinguisher

Two kegs Of beer took the place Of
patent fire extinguishers Saturday
night, when the lightning started fire
in Frank Noethen's saloon at Sixth av-
enue NE and Marshall street.
When the lightning struck the build
ing, small blazes started in all parts
Of the barroom. One man threw his
glass of beer on the fire and seeing the
effect the proprietor placed two kegs
on the bar and by means of a faucet
turned two streams on the blaze, which
was easily extinguished without the
aid Of the fire department..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-14

Panama Hats, Cleaned and Blocked.
Hoffman g (3) Stores and Laundry.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-14

Dalluges Divorced.-Judge D: T.
Simpson today granted Ollie Dalluge
divorce and 5000 permanent alimony.
in her suit against Rudolph Dalluge.
She alleged and proved cruelty.
Paving Hennepln.-The asphalt crew
is working down Hennepin avenue at a
good pace. The start was made at
Tenth street Saturday afternoon. The
paving will be carried to Seventh
Washington avenue. and work out,
Street railway work between Fifth and
Seventh streets and considerable work
in connection with conduit systems
make the Jump necessary.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-29
Something for the Belt

We have received several communi.
cations lately from q New York house:
urging us to purchase immediately q
6O-pound butt Of K LsfO belt dressing
at the regular price Of IS cents q.
pound, or $21 for the butt Some one
has no doubt told them that we we're
In need of about sixty pounds of belt
dressing, or they may have found out
thru detective agency that our belt,
needs dressing. The fact is we are
not wearing any belt. sat this season
Of the year. We run more to under.
clothes and overcoats than belts. Belts
are all right in their place. and no.
doubt need dressing occasionally. The.
sionally need a little dressing, as ike
some Of the rest Of us it may occasion
ally slip, but we think it can be
coaxed along without buying sixty
pounds Of belt dressing at one shot.
The last letter from this firm shows
that they mean business and want to
hurry US up. They offer to throw in
2O-year gold watch and chain worth
$40 if we will send the $21 for the
butt. The watch is warranted abso-
lutely free, and the chain is printed in
yellow ink. The watch almost makes
us think we need sixty pounds of belt
dressing. We could dress all the belts
IN the county for Christmas with it,
but we will let the butt 60 and strug.
gle along with the watch we have been
getting time from, now and then, for
the past twenty years and let the belts
60 undressed until the weather gets
colder.-Grafon, n. D., Record.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-29

The town is torn wide open over the
Great Skidoo Problem-and the coun-
try round about is almost as excited
The Skidoo Problem Editor was just
barely able today to wave his hand
frantically out from the apex of "a huge
pile of constantly increasing answers.
The Nicollet avenue throng eyes the
thousand new pennies in Barnaby g
window and wonders who I'll get 'em.
It may as well be said again that
there is no trick or catch about the
problem-it is just a plain problem in
arithmetic. The! head prize will go to
the one who turns in the cleverest cor
rect answer, and there are twenty
three skidoo button prizes for others
who figure it out correctly. It is not
case of the first correct answer re-
ceived, SO you have as good chance
as anyone. -
There are still large numbers who in
sist that the answer is %. Without
passing on the accuracy of this answer,
doned for advising careful reading of
the problem and test of any answer
that is obtained. Here are few speci-
mems out Of today's mail:
Worked 90 Hours, % Min. % Sec.
To the skidoo Problem Editor:
Talk about skidoo, I worked % hours %
that nothing less than 2 1927 925 900 900 600 OOO
100000 will skidoo it. The least common multi
pie of to % is 292, 1872 $780, This is not divisi-
bic by %, so just made pull on cipher pile
with addition of and got this number
that is Invisible by 20, and leaves only one
when divided by any number from 2 to o..
Charles McGiven,
Milbank, s. D.
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With the Long Bou
Bishop Against
Destroy the
wedding Rudey
Eye nature. walks. shoot folly i. Il nle.

Bishop issued against
Of century North DAKOTA The bishop outlines the Te Dakota
Chief the emny of wedding he declaration and
pain sorrow hope
Imagination ceremony which declares grave
enotiong' &aaa
who do. bishop adds @@@s
altogether
& IT, tEsa the e ad 10 an a Of @
labelling
baggage with notices. and such like these perform
service ordinary courtesy cvi they
abomnae That proceed often from
which should abide tendth
ut s @ o1 B 50 g her piiaa
Bufooney weddings practice against which for the
the church the derang Of the train conveying the pair to Mneap
throwing paint the BRIDES all little dveise
themselves and from % yet in their
all these things we have borne witness and still do They are not right
deeply activity following
the wedding Of Deacon Bates thirty forty odd The poet
ssThe night be with musc.''
eight along
the mans place. high that
breaking
the night
Connecticut has lost Wisconsin, Formerly Wisconsin bought freely
Of tho output but today the boot the other foot William
paper offering so
tell new and cheap way to d raise goats; d f ~ DAVIS he ed ,
n
swndle raising cutlery
and annoying the district attorney in an effort to have that ofa draw
out neighbour if he does live in Connecticut
The by on Park other day would have had an attack
reading
Of the Park Avenue chuh basement evidently field
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-29
TILE SKIDOO PROBLEM

A coin collector had an accu-
mutation Of pennies. He told his
son he would make him a present
Of the entire lot if he would put
them in boxes, the same number in
each box.
There was an odd number of
pennies, so that if he put an equal
number in each Of two boxes there
would be one penny left over; in
a like manner he figured on 8, 4, 5,
e. z g. g 19 S Il, II, 1 % Il, -, aS,
in every case If he put an equal
number in each box there would be
one (only one) penny left over.
The son gave it up and told his
father he thought it impossible to
perform the feat.
His father replied: "SKIDOO
-23 for you.''
The son then put the entire lot
Of pennies in % boxes, the same
number in each box. How many
pennies were there?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-29
THE THANKSGIVING THIEVES

Leslie M. Shaw, the secretary of the
treasury, during a recent visit to Louis
vile said Of certain financial swindle:
''The thing was certainly ingenious.
It reminded me of Thanksgiving
happening. -. ,
thru some error, to Thanksgiving
banquet, but they found to their cha
grin that everybody at table was I'M
der surveillance. It was impossible to
steal thing.
cat length, tho, Doe, the older thief,
managed to secrete silver spoon in
his shoe. Roe, the younger, saw the
trick, and was filed with Jealous rage,
for, with all his cleverness, he had not
been able to pinch so much as tooth
pick. !.
t'All of a sudden an ingenious idea
came to the envious and unsuccessful
Roe. 80. .... -.
g Gentlemen he said, waving sill
yer spoon in. the air, Il will now try a
conjuring trick
All eyes were fixed upon him.
Presto, vanish he said, and
passed the spoon up his sleeve. where
is the spoon gone now9 You will find
it, gentlemen, in my friend Does
shoe. 80 -. 49,, 50. ~. .-..1..
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Is He One of $4,000?

TO the Skidoo Problem Editor: .=2
Looking over T h j gu nal today found
that you received a large number of answers to
your sk1doo problem, I take the liberty Of
sending you one. If the term ''skidoo-23 for
you," is left out of the problem, anybody can
see that it impossible to find a number which,
see that it is impossible to find a number which,
elusive, should in each have a remainder
of just 1, and if divided by % comes out even.
The last digit Of the answer would have to be
l, In order to be Invisible by s. 15 20 and
leave in each case as remainder. From 1 to
1000 inclusive there is not number that will
fulfill the the requirements, and it is useless to
try greater number since dividend of three
digits divided by number of two digits will
determine the last digit in the answer. If the
term .sk1doo-23 for you,'' has anything to do
with the problem, then the problem is not fair,
since The Journal states that there is no
trick in the problem but simple arithmetic.
am not one of the wise ones, SO my answer win
De, "Sk1doo-23,0OO fools will answer you.''
. . w. w
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-29
THE INVISIBLE HUSBAND

Joseph H. Choate, the eminent law
yer, was talking at the New York
Union league about cross-examinations.
"How often,' he said, ga good
cross xamination routs witness, and
how often, on the other hand, does it
-ropt the cross examiner himself.
IA young lawyer the other day was
defending a man accused of burglary.
CHOW madam he said to the wo-
man whose house had ! been entered,
what time Of night was it when you
saw the prisoner in your room9s N.Y. ~
1t was about 2 O'Clock in the
morning. the woman answered.
" Was there a light in the room?'
= emo
"'Could you see your husband at
No, said the woman.
HThe young lawyer frovned impress
sively. He shot a side glance at the
jury.
"Then he thundered:
"fN Now, madam, please explain to
us all how it was that you could see
the prisoner and yet could not see
your husband9'
My husband said the woman,
was aI Cne #cluD. $f2'5s Y@ %.sEz,.ts No. se *
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-29
PASTORAL LOVELINESS AND
PEACE - a

Mayor Stoy Of Atlantic City said the
other day Of a disappointing industrial
stock: 81
The people that had their money in
this stock felt, when it dropped, a
shock akin to that which was incurred
by a philanthropist at one of our big
hotels. - s :
.5. For an experiment this philanthro-
pist recently sent a child from the New
child, raised among slum horrors, all
the beauty and poetry of a pastoral
life was offered. Thus the philanthro-
pist expected to give the youngster an
esthetic education.
Well, the other day the man went
20 see his charge She is a little girl.
He took her on his knee, glanced with
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-29
THE LADY CHAUFFEUR

"Good gracious,'' said the lady
chauffeur, that bull seems awfully an
cry, doesn't heg''
tits your red automobile, ma am, !"
explained the farmer.
She flushed and bit her lip.
know it is an old-fashioned 1904
model. she murmured, tsbut who ID
have ,thought stupid old country bull
would notice that's q,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-29
SUSPICIOUS

Senator Beveridge said the other day.
OF OF political statement that seemed to
1t reminds me of an Indiana wo-
man who, as she examined her Thanks
giving turkey, said to her little son:
Did the grocer tell you this tur-
Key was quite fresh9' Il
No M the boy answered. HE.
as / could -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-29

appreciation about the quaint old farm.
kitchen, and said: :. "a.... = ,
" And do you find the country very
beautiful, my dear9''
"'0h, beautifully the youngster an
"'And what have you seen during
your weeks sojourn here's - y.
killed and man g nose broke in
punkin raffle.'',
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-29
Lars Makes a Protest.

Mester Ekidoo EDITOR:
Wat kin Of feler be 700 eny hou3 700 max
me mad. Fl 700 no hou .meny peny de fader
Civ. boy, den wat 700 want a feler too tel
VOC for? I no dat he ever had 500 meny pennies;
der es not SO meny III de world. No der heht
700 bet. !, bet ,yoo an de :fader an de- boy Is
yoos. en- I bet Diet Won box vii hol al dc peny
hou moch mony VOC hey fog to 'gaiv boy. But
you not kick me DAT ,yay. .eny ..mor. I tenk I
kan as be youst es. soud en- kount nony es 700
eder. not no vot you means bi skidoo. I lok
en- meny boks en- kan not Sc him. 50 bet yuo
mex him upp too I tenk no 700 al rite.
700 ;tenk We viii tenk you es Rokafeler:H- do
nam es Lars Hokinson en- 1iv on Skidoo street.
eff VOC no we're dot es ~
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-29
There Are One This Evening"
SkLDOO PROBLEM EDITOR r..
BURIED DEEP IN MAIL
THE SKELETON IN THE PANTRY

Oh pennies and put 20 $780, 4e7 1893, s47 s12 oa4,
1855, o3291o in each of % boxes. The first
number is the result of multiplying % by itself
70 times, which gives the least number that
can be divided by O. g. s, 6, 7, 8, ., 10, II,
H. 49, II, 10, :16, IT, 49, 10, 20, q and %,
and have a remainder Of in each case; and
also can be divided by % evenly. II this is
not correct, please tell me why. -
| Louise Martin. us 9th at a.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-29
Needed His Pencil All RIGHT

TO the Skidoo Problem Editor:
''once was unusually good in mental arith-
metic,' said the old w0man, ''but now I see
no more So it is with me, too, and there
fore take my pencil and multiply the follow
Ing numbers: IL, ID, If, Is, 1e, 1t, ls, 10, 20,
Il, ~, and add 1 and get 2s1 $685. $50, 57e, OO1,
which Is the correct answer There are thou
sands Of numbers-and more-that answer Ito
the conditions, but the number above mentioned
Is the least, and I doubt 1T to be work for. a
'Skideo'' to administer more money. Please
follows: = {-Sverre Haslund, ga
: IT, ,Vin1ng, MINI.
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Thrifty Old Gentleman.

To the Skidoo Problem Editor:
The correct number Of pennies owned by this
patriarch was 16761 ,O64, 1921. He evidently be-
lieved in saving his pennies, and should his
son exhibit the same thrift the old gentle
man he will not have to worry concerning the
future. s. W. Abbey,
Ortonville, MIMI
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A Fake. Saws Casnar.
70 The; skidoo Problem Editor:

To the skidoo Problem Editor:
This Is the way think is right: First. add
s she numbers to p and get 800; then
ooo by Is and get $500 pennies. Then divide
by % and get 800, which was the number in
each OF the % boxes. Therefore, 5000 were
the amount OF the pennies. 1 am Il years old
and am in the Emerson school. If this answer
Is not right think the whole thing is a fake,
because I have worked four and half hours
on it. Casper HeiIhron = s.
As 11th St &
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-29
Edith Lees BRIGHT idea.

To the skidoo Problem Editor:
l subtracted Is from 1000 and got SIT. Then
! multiplied 977 by %, which is 22,471 There.
box. -Edith Toe .n
~ .rit 1929 Division st Nh
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-29
TRUSTS THANKSGIVING QUERY

Right glad are we, still whole, to see
Another Day Of Thanks roll round.
Are many more for us in store
Before they put us under ground9
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-29
This Is Very Simple.
To the Skidoo Problem Editor:

10 the SkldoO Problem Editor:
added from 8 to %, which gave 26O I
then divided by 20, got POS. I then multiplied
by %, which gave me the final answer Of 4,7S4
It seems very simple
Ludwig Dyregror,
726 Tenth st s.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-29

IS It takes million barrels of herringe
daily to supply the breakfast of the cod
of the Norwegian coast.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-29
Three Guesses and Then Some:

10 the Skldoo Problem Editor: ~ =
Dear Sir-As understand the Skidoo problem
the answers may be 1888 or 2,507,. and. can be
followed up into any number Of millions. ii i
think the problem is a skidoo all right enough
because any odd number that will multiply Is
and bring out an odd number the answer will
certainly divide g. Therefore the pennies can
be put into % boxes. ! &--Lottie .Cosgrove,
<r..r.s - Z - Rarapa Mich-
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Not, Why Not7

To the skidoo Problem Editor:
Here is the answer to your problem. mn.
boz had 4so, ,sae, 768 948.
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Poor. Man; He Had but One Penny.

10 Cue SK1do0 Problem Editor: -
The collector had only penny, which he told
his son to put in lot of boxes, the same mum.
Der In each box. The son tried, but could not
90 1t, and when the father said: .Skidoo-2
for you, the son got mad,~and in irving to
gather up the boxes at once found that some had
got into larger ones Seeing this, he tried If
he could put all the boxes into one another. and
when ne was lucky enough to get all the other
boxes into No. % he nut the nennv in tho LII
est box. He then had % boxes, each containing
penny, but If he. tried to lift one or more
boxes ne would have equal amount in the rest
Or and penny left. m: II. O.. Phil. S
1872 First st s., City.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-29
Problem So1vers Criticized.


To the Skidoo Problem Editor: a..
was impressed with the lack Of thoroness
displayed in the answers to the skidoo problem
in your last nights edition. took the trou-
BILE Of trying to prove but two or three Of the
answers involving large amounts, none Of which
would prove. g.~- q
The one who gave the answer $3.50 would have
fallen down on the very first trial with 2 boxes
as he would not have the required penny left
over "a.' -, zs.'Es|sEl =
The next, 1853, could have been placed in
three boxes, with none left over.
The next, 49, could have been placed in three
boxes, but there would have been pennies
over, or penny too many. 49,
The next, SO, could have been placed in three
boxes, with none over.
- The next, 253, could have been placed in five
boxes, but there would have over, or 2 too
many. r..
The answers to the problem illustrate the Diff
fculties business men have: to- contend with in
procuring competent Office employees:
-i,.. -.-RuSiness Man
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Did You Divide IT by 222
the Skidoo Prob1en Editor. -!

The answer to your problem Is A3, 374, O63.
Solution-Find the least common multiple Of
the figures to % inclusive, which is 232. 792,
$780, Use this number as a dividend and % al
divtsor and the quotient will be 10, 1851, 4SO
or the number of pennies in each of % boxes If
that number of boxes only were used. To the
dividend add the quotient, which will give the
number that would be contained in % boxes,
A3374, O4O. This number, however, is Invisible
by each of the numbers 2 to % inclusive without
remainder. Now add penny to each box, OF
23 pennies In ALL, and you have the answer
as above. 243, 374, O63. i.:s:S.- ~.
Proof-Use the answer dividend and each
of the figures from to % inclusive as divisors
in turn and the quotient in each case will show
remainder of 1 penny. Divide it by % and
there will be no remainder, thus complying with
all the requirements Of the problem.
Miss Louise Casteen, 21O6 Aldrich av s.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-29

I Red flannel underwear q coming
back into fashion. a
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1906-10-06

The cattle and machinery ON
exhibition at the Fair is pro-
nuunced to be the finest We have
had in some time.
The Ladies' Sunlight Social
Club will meet next Wednesday
at the residence of Mrs. Field of
S. 18TH street, and S. Grand Ave.
A goodly number will be out.
James w. Bolden of st. Louis
was a guest in the city several
days in the city this week.
You should go in ana examine
the superior stock of mems and
boys furnishings at Peter My
ers' store on the north side of
the square.
The colored people will have
learn the value of advertising be-
fore they can hope to rise in the
business world like the whites.
You can't expect the people to
know of your entertainments and
socials if you don't advertise.
The new place of G. G. Lee is
open for business and the restau-
rant is one of the best fitted uI
in the city.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1906-10-06
FRANK T. REID
City Clerk.

Mr.. Frank T. Reid, our
present city clerk, is a pro-
duct of Springfield, having
been educated in the city
schools. He is we'll known by
most of the people and liked
by all. Mr.. Reid has made one
Of the best city clerks we have
ever had. AS a public officer
he has treated colored people
with all the courtesies
bestowed to any other people
and has, to the knowledge of
the writer. made no discrimi-
nations whatever. All the
colored people who are in bus
ness and have come IN con-
tact with Mr.. Reid, say he is
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1906-10-06

Edward Gorum of Bloomington
is in the city and attended the
Fair.
Misses Nina and Bessie Moore,
of Pittsfeld, were the guests Of
Mesdames Belle Bailey and Lou
Greene, respectively this week.
Elijah Davis of Pittsfield, was
in the city this week.
The. coroner's jury exonerated
the Cain girl who shot Mack Da
Wis to death last Saturday night
ia the east end of the city. the
girl plea was seld defense.
Curtis Davis of Pittsfeld, was
in the city this week.
Fred Payne was seen on the
streets again.
Otis Woods of Chicago, was
the guest of his mother Of N. I'd
street, this week.
James Moore of Pittsfeld was
in the city this week.
Dan Patch made the mile in
1881.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1906-10-06

of the best they The demands
such regardless party We advise the read
Of this and other articles put premium upon such
no matter what party to which they belong
Mr. Red present city expires spring; he
will probably be candidate reelection and such is the
but the the
people, when he will support he did before of
host of coored their worth
merit and not their party affiliations
He has discharged his duties satisfactorily that the
pie for him reelection What the
pie want who will decently give them
respectful hearing after they have been elected We speak the
above from knowledge of do believe
there be exceptions offered what has been said