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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-14
20 LoTs AND ROOM HOUSE.
ALL KINDS OF SPECIALS.
w NJ. FORBES.


COTTAGE Buchanan paved. for 500
EASY TERMS: room, lots, W. Sth,
81, 500
Your own terms: ~ lots, east front,
S cash and IS to SO per month. NEW 6
East front. Orchard Place, $500, 500
cash and payments.
TYLER ST. ) rooms, east front lots,
81 300; 800 cash.
MUST SELL at once: 1918 W. 18th St..
81 100. or trade for larger house
Also n. e corner -21st st. and Kansas
ave. new, unique. S1-7O might take small
property for equity Be quick, owner
leaving. make bid.
Good s. 900 house, close in, rents SlS,
would take suburban.
TRADE: . good houses, large barn.
room for another house. Jackson st, q
Topeka near business. rent for $29; trade
for clear farm or western land
FINE SITE Fillmore. close, $3.50
OVER AN ACRE rich soil. room cot
tage large barn. fruit, well. eistern, eel
lots and 4 rooms. . blocks car, $3.50
JUST LISTED: rooms, H. lots, east
'front.' nice location southwest. Sl,tgo, Z
cash, balance monthly without inter-
HARRISON ST. one of the new room.
all modern houses. only $500.
CHEAPEST WEST SIDE building site,
~ east. front lots, al conveniences' VIII
sell MONDAY for $3.50.
ANOTHER LOT SALE:
We had such a good run at our special
lot sale that we will continue another
week with the lot buyers.
If you want prices on any lots. no mat
ter where. or particular locations or adj
ditions, just call US up and we will give
you prices. or if you are looking for the
cheapest. we will quote them.
SEE Us FOR EVERYTHING IN REAL
ESTATE LINES.
w NJ. FORBES
107 w Seventh St. Topeka.
Both Phones.
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SOME SPECIALS:

READ THIS: 10 room house. 3 corner
lots, blocks west steam heat every con
venience. large barn. Special price So
500
SWITCH PROPERTY-About 500 feet
of switch frontage. , acres of ground. in
heart of city building on corner. rents
over $40 per month. Price 5000. This is
a IS per cent investment and the ground
thrown in.
Beautiful building site. east front, in
Governors Square. Lots are worth 81 600
each or more. These figure less than
SOC.
IL lots. Just east of avenue. $1,000
Little house and fine high lots. end Of
Quinton Heights car line, S400
THE STRAUSS AGENCY.
107 E. Seventh St.
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Look these over. If you don't ind whai
you want, call US up Have lots Of 9th
~ lots ZIG Lane St. $3.50
lots 1920 Tyler ST., 500.
ll22 Polk. fine shade, $1,000
623 Van Buren,, ~ lots HOO
yl5 Quincy, ~ lots. s., 600.
l246 Clay, IL lots, paved alley, $50
14l4 West 18th, 60 feet, 500.
$50 Lincoln, IL lots $50.
1404 West St, 46 feet $3.50.
1913 Lincoln, lots, 81 600.
2l0 greenwood fine shade $500.
18th and Western, , lots, $375.
East fronts on Central Park, $780,
lots, 1431 West, $500
1922 West, 2 lots, $3.50
Lane, south of 18th, , lots 500.
10th and Polk, east fronts 800.
Lots. 18th and Fillmore, $500.
1922 Topeka ave, 5000 each.
$40 Horne. fine shade $500.
10th and Lincoln. lots, $500.
1410 Polk 2 lots, $500.
Lots 18th and Lane, $25 each.
18th and Clay. 3 east fronts, $780,
613 Polk, 112 lots. cheap.
1920 Buchanan, . lots 500.
Throop St, lots. $3.50.
3 lots 10Th and West, $3.50.
18th and Western, , lots, $500
907 Lincoln, H. lots, large shade, S525.
Westlawn lots
Orchard Place lots.
Walnut Park lots.
Any old lots.
THE STRAUSS AGENCY,
10I East It'll.
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BUSINESS CHANCES.


THEATERS. hotels. office buildings, fac
tories, society halls temples. churches.
club houses and business blocks built and
financed on cur u year bond plan, any
where in L. S. or Canada. Lawrence &.
Co. Willoughby bldg, Chicago.
WANTED Responsible man to manage
branch office and distributing depot for
large coffee and spice company owning its
own mills; salary 5000 monthly and COM
missions; references and investment of
81. 900 required. Address Mgr, IS River St,
Chicago.
NY magazine. Invest for Profit (Which
I'll send free. is worth SO a copy to any
man who intends TO invest any money.
however small; who has money invested
unprofitably, or who can save IS or more
per month, but who hasn't learned the art
of investing for profit. It demonstrates
the real earning power Of mOney-the
knowledge hnanciers and bankers hide
from the masses. It shows how to invest
small sums and how to make them grow
into fortunes-the actual possibilities of
intelligent investments. It reveals the
enormous profits bankers make and shows
how one can make the same profits safe
~. It explains how stupendous fortunes
are made and why they are made-how
s.. coo grows to so. 900. To introduce my
write me now. mention this pa
per, and I'll send it three months free
EDITOR GREGORY,
81 Jackson Blvd, Chicago.
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FOR SALE.
BY 2. c. MOORE.

Cottage 4 rooms, barn. fruit, 6 corner
lots on car line. only s.. 40
New. cottage 3 rooms, lots. fine loea-
ton, 81 100
east front lots Sumner St., $500.
3 east front lots Horn St, block from
WestlaWn fine residence site, $3.50
l acre 3 blocks from new R. R. shops
We sell you the land for $500 and throw
in the houses that bring so per month
rental. See this soon.
In Brigham and Rice's addition can sell
good homes of z and rooms, 3 lots each
on reasonable terms. first cash payment
800. See me for location.
Large list Oakland property for sale by
P c. MOORE.
Cor Wabash and Indiana Ave- Oakland
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ZOE sAIlE-IsEAr. EsrArr,.
FOR sALE-sEAL ESTATE.


Snap lot home Topeka
Good leo goodltt hotel
other at bargain prices
$50 hande terms
nice lots Orchard Place cheap
E. n nothing SOS
Monroe
L. and cuff $500
lots Wichita. driving
Have Ser quick.
Client payments
Some Of the for exchange
Fine oil 50 chanute $500
or Gala US
5Sf KANSAS AVE
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1414 WEST.

Z rooms. partially modern. ? lots. good
cellar, sink in kitchen. front and back
porch, IL blocks Of pavement, gas for
cooking.
SHAWNEE AGENCY.
Ind. sos. 5s4 Kansas Ave.
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REAL Observation-Disclosures.

DOM house e st rents for Price 81
Dom house1 lots on location
colt O. and th.
5roonh house., near and
A me corner O park WI Gotta
DOM house o Oh st, c in hgas.&S
m house ath. furnace
ON house
near Gage's park
water, acres
cultivation balance pasture For sale
n
s. pc
sroRAIoNT
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FOR SALE


hes in the city at h rio
land
Partca baanc eeanbe ARA
l5oson Fnnorest ST. near
dcodb closets
baanc 6 perce nt $ a
wood floors
al
l. Ce cashb ance to suit
sony1b lockfr
price. ownerH in ngton. C, ands ays
LOTS roonh
fine
,vib offer for a al
tx onere a
o
LOWE
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1854 CLAY ST.

Just north of Central Park. on car line.
This splendid room house. ~ lots. barn.
for very low price Paved alley. low
taxes Want an. offer at once Go look
at it. Owner will show you through
THE STRAUSS AGENCY,
107 East Seventh St
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FOR EXCHANGE

Now, listen; I am no politician; I dick
NJ - - a. AZ il4Ss L. ~ 49, o. evo,
miles out. s: 500 and 1920 house and lot.
making 5000 want 60, so or 100 acres of
near same value; 20 acres miles of ATer-
iden $4,000. want So 900 to $500 50 not over
3 miles away and will pay the difference;
10 acres on corner in city. the finest i'm
proved property in the state the finest
fruit and most of it. price $500. want To-
peka rental property, $50 acres 10 miles
Council Grove. $50 per acre, want rental
properties in Topeka: a new town site 120
acres, 81 blocks of plated lots and 200
acres goes with 1t. fortune for some
one, all for $4,000. will trade: a fine op-
portunity for hotel business in Carbon
dale only s1.oeo. viii trade for North To
peka property and pay difference: nice
residences and l business house on Kan
sas ave. North Topeka. rents at s47 per
month price $500. wants lands or farm:
$500 worth of fine rental property Van
Buren St, North Topeka wants a stock
ranch all the above properties are nicely
improved and are now bringing good
rents. Come on, you can all dicker
don t want money John L. Howard 210
E Fifth st. Topeka
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FOR SAIEOr exchange tor smaller
property close in. a good 10 room house
and barn . lots, 5 blocks from business
center. Add. SO. care Journal
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LET your rent buy farm or home. We
will sell you anywhere in L. S. or Can
ada on L, IS or IS years time, small cash
payment. balance $11 to SIS per month,
which includes taxes, interest and princi-
pal and in case of death during life of
contract your estate gets property free
and clear without further payment. VIII
sell to either sex. ages 20 to 50. Our plan
cheaper than cash. Write for circular and
application. The fairest, sQuarest and most
equitable proposition ever offered. No ad-
vance payment, no dues. Pay no money
until property is delivered. Lawrence &
Co, Willcughby bldg Madison and Mich
fgan ave. Chicago.
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FOR SALE:
FOR SALE:


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I have several stocks of goods for sale
which will interest you. Such as grocery
stocks, clothing stores. general stores and
hotels. It will pay you to see me before
you invest
CORD c. SMITH,
12S North Kansas Ave
TO MEMBERS OF THE WOODMEN'S
PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION:
I would like to have every member of
the above order call on me at S27 Kansas
avenue, as I have some information I am
anxious to impart to them that Is vital
to their interests.
n. R. FOsTER. 81 kansas Ave.
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WILDER AND JOHNSON TRACT.

50 lots between 10th and 18th. Buchanan
and Lincoln. $3.50 to $500 per lot. In most
desirable residence location in the city.
Look them over, or let US take you out to
see them
EASTMAN & LAKIN.
Ind. 127. 115 w. Sixth St
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WHITE & co,

1855 Rings $40 Kansas Ave.
New room cottage, lots, west side,
fine location 81. 100
lots. all to fruit, block of car line. on
paved St. s.. 600.
6 rooms. ? stories, Il lots. fine location.
east side, $1,000
Small house. lots, west side. $3.50.
/ acre, highly improved, west side, 81
$50 acres Western Kansas. for east side
property.
so acres fine hay land for city property.
ed, IS, 900.
40 acres fine garden land, good orchard.
$1.200.
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FOR SALE:

Houses. lots and acres, on easy pay
ments
F. J. BROWN. II Columbian Bldg.
Ind. Phones: Office, 1910; residence, sS1
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FOE sALE-REAL Estate.

G. w. ". YATES & co.
FARM LOANS-REAL ESTATE.
SALE, RENTAL. AND COMMISSION
BROKERS.
You are invited to list your property
with US Ind. tel, 523. 625 Kansas avenue.
Room 3, Topeka, Kan
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% Pol,n
snalho house. Quno hts
cottag z s and
lot st, sewer
lots Horns
cottage
oms in
Dom ottageC St and Sd,
moder cota s
il OF partcu
& NIXON,
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FOR SALE:

6 room house. modern, . lots, Buchanan.
between 18th and 18th St, well worth the
money. Price $500.
9 rooms, partly modern, good barn This
is a splendid property and a. good loca-
ton on Lane St, and very reasonable at
50. zoo
c. G. BLAKELY & co.
Central National Bank Bldg.
FOR SALE-5 room house. cellar. cistern,
sewer connected Price $500. III Jefferson.
Owner leaving city.
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MUST SELL.

10 days, 4 east front lots. room house.
small barn, well and chicken house near
Washburn, owner leaving city. Price ST.
200 Make an offer.
THE SHAWNEE AGENCY.
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WANTED-AGENTs.

The Sure Getter, agents wanted in every
county in Kansas to canvass and sell our
Sure Getter pig and lamb forcep. Write
and get busy selling this instrument. sells
at sight to farmers. Write at once. G. D.
Latta 8 Co, box IS. ManlIus. III.
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DYE AND CLEANING WORKS.
DYE AND CLEANING WORKS.
DYE AND CLEANING WORKS.
This is the only dry cleaning
house in this city. Ladies and
gentlemens clothing cleaned like
new. Give Us a call
BOTH PHONES s57.
$40 Kansas Ave.
ROEDIGER & SON.
ROED1GER & SON.
WE PAY highest cash prices for you
good discarded clothing. shoes. hats
overcoats. etc. Drop postal or call II
Manson. 425 Kansas ave.
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FOR SALE-REAL ESTATE.
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$3.50. MONDAY. $3.50.
CHEAPEST WEST SIDE BUILDING
II east front lots. nice and high. all con
Nenlences, sewer, sidewalk, city water,
street car, close to pavement. school,
$3.50.
w NJ FORBES.
Office 107 W. Seventh St.
Or Phone Hat Ind.
FOR EXCHANGE OR SALE:
50 acres miles of Carbondale want ST.
900; want home in Topeka.
20 acres. chicken farm, only $500; want
Topeka home.
5000 hardware stock; want western
lands.
JOHN L. HOWARD,
2lO East Fifth Street.
FOR. SALES lots on paving. face on a
park, electric light, gas. water, sewer
and brick sidewalks A fine site near the
car line for suburban home. Ind. tel
FOR SALLY lots on w 9Th. corner Lin
coin. modern room cottage across rear
another house on 6th, cottage has BATH
furnace; gas. vide hall. mantel. cisteTn
~ HIiSL ives N CaillOfnld ana writes MAKE
price $3.50 so as to sell at once Address
sO6 W. sth ST. Ind. tel 5252.
FOR SALE-New cottage rooms bath
room Nestbule, attic. cellar city water,
sewer, IL lots E. R. Simon, 1915 West ST.
20 LOTS AND ROOM HOUSE.
I have fine tract suitable for subdivid-
ing 1O3 Elmwood avenue. Potwin. room
house enamelled bath. new furnace. one
block to car = blocks to school; viii make
40 lots usual size. at the low price of s6,o00
Would sell house and part OF ground at
reasonable price. House for rent at so
EMMETT E. ROUDEBUSH,
107 w 9Th St. Stormont Building
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Personal.

MORPHINE. opium, Iaudinurn, cocaine
habit: myself cured; viii inform you Of
harmless. permanent home cure. 1drn.
Baldwin. box 1912. Chicago.
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FoR RENT-RooMs.

FOR RENT-Furnisbed rooms for light
housekeeping, IS per month. 2o7 Adams
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oNE BLocK FRoM WAsHBrRN
BEAUTIFUL HOME.

FOR SALE-At a bargain, room cottage,
good barn, 2~cisterns. 8 lots, 81 bearing
fruit trees, near Central Park and Wash
burn. See owner, 1211 w 18th St
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FOX SA14E-BN owner, CnOlce vacant lots
Address 1885 Lane st.
CASH AND PAYMENTS.
3 rooms. barn, well anad cistern. $3.50;
little down. rooms story, $3.50; 1-3 cash.
rooms, 4 lots, $3.50. payments, 6 rooms,
good well and barn. $500; cash and month
". 5 rooms s. w. part, $3.50; terms. Large
room house. modern, close in. w side,
S700 will handle Il. rooms modern ex-
cept heat. large rooms below. close in,
w. side, 500 down. rooms, modern, S
lots. college district, 81 300 down. Several
ranches, high lying lots this side Wash
burn. S125 each. Also many suburb and
farm bargains and many interesting ex-
changes.
SHEPHERD
Bell Tel 913. $50 Kansas Ave.
ONE BLOCK FROM WAsHBURN.
rooms, good well. cistern, large cellar,
house in excellent condition, plenty small
fruit A bargain at 81. 100.
THE SHAWNEE AGENCY.
Ind. Dos 534 Kansas Ave.
BEAUTIFUL HOME.
10 room house on Clay St. strictly mod
ern. hot air furnace, 531k foot front >
eisterns. 1 well. city water. good barn
and chicken house This is beauty. Only
$500.
CORD c. SMITH,
12S North Kansas Ave
FOR SALE-At a bargain, 6 room cottage,
good barn, 2~cisterns 3 lots, 81 bearing
fruit trees. near Central Park and Wash
Durn See owner 1211 w. 18th St
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MISCELLANEOUS.

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Use the SILVER Lear brand pickles. vim.
eear. lnince meal. etc Otto kuenne
Preserving Co. Phone 500
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FOR sALE-REAL ESTATE.
LOTS OF LOTS!


THE real estate bargains are found at 5O9
Kansas ave. The Smith Agency.
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NANTFp-11IsCEI.T.ANEous.

7-7-~-~--~--~------------~
~ ANTED-Horses to pasture near town
tame grass. shade and water. Ind uS6-2
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CASH AND PAYMENTS.

FOR SALE-By owner, choice vacant lots.
Address 1895 Lane st.
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LOST AND FOUND.

LOST-Pocketbook containing 1922 corner
9Th and Kansas ave. Finder please re-
turn and receive reward. 332 Ash St
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FOR RENT-To gentlemen. 3 furnished
rooms. south and east exposure, I'd floor.
gas and bath. at my home, northwest cor
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FOR RENT-A bake shop and store room.
1918 W 6th st.
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FOR SALE-Bull year old. good Short
horn. 2. P. lie Van.
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FOR NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

FOR RENT-About 12o vacant lots in
Highland Park. in blocks of 8 lots. Jo-
seph Groll, agent
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FOR Rents furnished bed rooms TOR
gentlemen. 132 Topeka ave.
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NANTED-To buy from owner for cash,
new or room cottage, or Z or room
house. Add. D. F., care Journal
The Washington times., 1906-03-18
YOU CAN NSlRE YOUR TEETH, VOICE, ORCHIDS,

SO without leaving the island. In
that case the premium was (and isl
$1,000 annually on a $4,000 princl-
pal.
So. too, may one insure here in
America against having twins arrive
in the family (seemingly a tremen-
dous risk, yet one which Lloyds has
found one of the very safest to gam
bic on; against any children at all
with a limit of $500 placed to any
one risk; against delay in ones
train or steamer; against arrest for
violation of the Federal excise laws;
against losing a pair Of glasses
(Which costs the insured only 81 q
year,; and (strangest of alb against
capture while committing any crime.
1t is said that there are three COM
panies operating in the last-named
class of business one in New
York, one in Philadelphia, and the
tkird in ST Louis, but there seems
some ground for doubling the state
ment Criminal insurance is no new
thing TO France, howeyer-and this
is how it is worked.
The Washington times., 1906-03-18

Pop approved this suggestion and
the beavers all were delighted to
have something TO do.
After supper Ham said: That
was a clever notion of yours. Shem,
but | am afraid that setting the
beavers TO work has introduced an
element of discord.-
We'll, don't know" replied
Shem. "I'll admit they made about
a cord OF wooden pegs"
"Oh, bosh and fiddleSticks," cried
Ham. Quit your fooling, 1 mean
that many Of the animals are sore
because they consider that labor is
degrading. / have listened a bit and
/ have heard the lions and tigers
discussing the question of associat-
ing with the low-down toilers such
as the bees. the ants. the tailor
birds, beavers, and muskrats and in
fact any creature who gets busy and
prepares for the future either by
house-building or laying up store of
grub
Il have long observed that very
few of them seem to wish to be
chummy with the busy wasps and
hornets" chuckled Pop. "One day,
when ne had happened TO be telling
me that sometimes he ate insects,
| asked the fox if he had tasted any
wasps. He said: I never really had
any desire to try any of these hot.
spicy dishes. The simple life for
mine when it comes TO wasps and
hornets said he"
Il do not mind some Of the ami
mails, like the tortoise or the arma-
dillo, for instance, showing retiring
dispositions and withdrawing into
themselves, as the saying goes, for
they are naturally built that
way" continued Ham But when
it comes TO hyenas and coyotes put
The Washington times., 1906-03-18
The Origin of Gold and Silver

A BOUT two years ago Frederick
~ Soddy. an English physicist. OBJ
n served that a gas which proved
to be helium was given on from
radium under circumstances suggesting
that it was generated by the disinteg-
ration of the latter element. says the
New York Tribune Subsequently Sir
William Ramsay made tests which led
him to the same conclusion. Since that
time a number of lines of experiment
bearing on the possibility of transmu-
tatiOn have been opened One OF these
was designed 10 find out whether radium
was derived from uranium A second
is described by Mr.. Soddy in the latest
issue of Nature to reach this country
and grew out of his suspicion that gold
also might be both a product OF a diff
ferent element and the parent Of others.
The first step in such an inquiry. Of
course. would be to accumulate q suit
able amount Of gold and confne it so
that if gas were evolved the quantity
and character could be determined. So
rapid is the transformation which rad
ium undergoes that results can be had
in a few days. 1naSmuch as gold IS ap-
parently not a radio active metal it
would be safe 10 assume that If It dis
integrates at all the process must be
extremely slow.
The Washington times., 1906-03-18
Who Is Tor Are) LIQUIDS /?

Who or what is this ''Lloyds?"
asks many a good American.
The concern is the most remark
able, unconservative, ragtime insti-
tuition il Johnny Bulls wide empire.
1t has no System" 1t viii take a
chance at anything. from the gen
uineness of an alleged Panama hat
10 the number of minutes a stricken
monarch can cling to life. In brief,
Lloyds is the most gigantic betting
institution in the world.
1t sprung into existence early in
the seventeenth century, getting It's
name from a certain coffee house
kept by one Edward Lloyd. Sea
captains used to congregate about its
tables to talk shop" often specu-
lating among themselves on the fate
OF cargoes in transit. From this
sprung up a regular business, on
what today would be called COOP
erative basis, of insuring vessels, the