davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1907-09-06
SIR THOMAS Upton IN STORM.

Rumor That ne was on way TO Issue
Challenge for Cup Wrong.
London, Sept. 5.-sir Thomas Lip
ton and party of guests have ar
rived at Southampton on the steam
yacht Erin. Upton left Belfast last
Thursday for Dublin, and his non-ar-
rival at the latter port had given rise
to rumors. that he had steamed for
the United States.
Sir Thomas and his guests had a
lively experience OF southsea. They
had boarded the schooner yacht Cey-
lon and were at luncheon when
storm arose which caused the boat to
heel dangerously. Dishes, chairs, ETC..
were thrown about and smashed. The
party returned to the Erin as soon as
the squall abated.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1907-09-06
ROBERT cURRAN NEARs DEATH.
In Point Of Service He Is One Of Old
est Operators In Butte.

est Operators In Butte.
Butte, Sept. 5.-Robert Curran, one
OF the Oldest in the service Of The
telegraph operators Of Butte, is lying
at the point of death at his apartments
at the Broadway, and it is thought he
will not live until morning. He was
all employe of the Anaconda Standard
lor 1c years, and, in company with ~.
w. Wallsworth, opened the private
wire of the paper to Anaconda. Since
Tie race meeting Curran has not been
working, though he was employed con
ditionally on the resumption of Iele-
graph facilities. He is a brother-in-
law of John Campbell, trainer for
the late Marcus Daily.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1907-09-06
CANNOT BUY CIGARETTES.

Spokane, Wash, Sept. 5.-Aa a re-
suit of the new cigarette law, 1t is
impossible to buy them here.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-05
jim WILL TRY HIS
HAND IN NEW GAME
Abandons be-Trotting Idea
for a Cafe to Feed the
Angels.
Trinune Special Sporting Service.

Tribune Special Sporting Service.
SAN FRANCISCO, May f,-Jim Jefries
has decided to substitute the thrills OF
urban life in place OF the more. placid
pleasures OF the simple rural existence;
Instead OF comnunlng with nature and
listening to the thrill OF the merry lark,
he win commune with the festive poll
tician and FOUNDERS, and delight his ears
with the jangmg mechanical piano. II
is Jim's intention TO open up about the
most gorgeous thing in cafes that has
ever delighted the aesthetic tastes OF Los
Angeles sports, To do this he has had to
abandon the globe-trotting idea, and
thereby has grievously disappointed his
aristocratic European friends, many or
whom have sent regrets.
The one stumbling block In the path 10
fame via the liquid route for Jim Will
be the glad-hand stunt. He Is not
mixer In any sense Of the word. One
class OF trade however JEFF will make
n hit with. and that's the rural patrons
Ie might make the place sort Of
''grangcrs' headquarters. with horse
trough In front and q frieze OF village
Rubcs tipping chairs against the wall
discussing politics and crops, and occa
sional;y mailing all adventurous fly with
a second hand chew Of tobacco On what
ever lines the place is run, 1t is sure TO be
popular with Pacific Coast sports, and
should become the headquarters OF all
visiting sDortsmen.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-05
Another Wrestling Champion.

Tribune Special Sporting Service.
NEW YORK. May 4,-Tom O'Rcurke:
the fight promoter. says Joe Rogers
can beat Hackenschmidt at any style OF
wrestling that the foreign athelete selects.
When Hackenschmidt came to this coun-
try two years ago there was nobody able
to compete with him at his style. as
men who were champions at GTaeco-Ro-
man. such as Muldoon. Roeber and 9TH
ers had retired from active service and
those who were Graeco- Roman wrestlers
were too light in weight to compete. This
compelled Hackenschmidt to take on
Tom Watkins at catch-aS-Catch can
style, and The former disposed of Jenkins
easily. Now VIC have man born and
brought up in New York City to repre-
sent this country. and who wants
match with Backenschmldt, at his own
style OF wrestling. and asks no favors."
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-05
TIRE QUESTION WILL
Be SOLVED SOON
Manufacturers Are Getting
Together on Matter of
Uniformity.
Tribune Special Sporting Service.

Tribune Special Sporting Service.
NEW YORK, May 1.-The tire sit
uation is one that for long time has
not only bothered automobile manu-
facturers and users. but the tiremakers
themselves. The peculiar position sub
iected to tire selection and the num-
Der OF people through which IL had to
pass rendered it very confusing the
tiremakcr, the rimmaker. automobile
manufacturer and consumer. The lack
of standard methods rs to the quality
and size resulted in the tircmakers be-
coming more or less uncertain of the
conditions to be imposed upon them
by the users.
Under the direction Of the tire COM
mittee the mechanical branch S experts
have made several tests in the quality
and size of tires to determine what
specifications Will be adopted and
standards recommended which Will call
for uniformity throughout.
Test for Quality.
Tests show that the part of the tire
nearest the ground and what 10 known
as tread rubber, TO give the best re-
suits, should be of compound rubber,
as pure rubber would not stand the con
tinuous friction caused by coming in
contact with the road surface, Near
the center of the tire comes the
''breaker strip made up of two or
three layers of canvas separating the
tread from the next layer of rubber or
"cushion stock. - The "cushion stock -
is usually of the highset class rubber,
being only slightly compounded; the
or six ply fabric, frlctioned inside and
out. The degree of compounding can
be obtained by the specific gravity of
the rubber. it being shown that the
specific gravity of pure rubber is be-
tween $50 and $50. The ash, after
burning the rubber at a low degree of
heat represents the degree of com
pounding independent Of the sulphur
used for vulcauization. To determine
the strength strip of rubber is cut
from each of the different layers of
qualities in the tire, one-quarter inch
wide and one-eigbth inch thick. One
end is gripped and weighted and then
added to the other end until the strip
breaks. Para rubber shows high
strength and the cheap rubber low
strength. In determining the elasticity
similar strip is cut from the tires
one.quarter inch by one-eighth inch and
measured length of ten eentimcters
IS taken. The strip is then stretched
between nails on board until the ten
centimcters length becomes thirty cen
timeters. 1t is kept in this position
for twentyfour hours, then released
and ten minutes after release the per
manent set taken. A good rubber has
small permanent set; poor and cheap
rubber has much permanent set.
Relative Size Of Tires.
Consid erable discussion has beer
given TO the relative merits of differ
ent size tires on front and rear wheels
The size Of tires, Of course, depend:
on the weight of car and it's gearing
Many manufacturers have found it tc
advantage to use smaller diameter
tire on the front wheels than on the
rear, and careful investigation seems
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-05
ARCHERY COMING BACK.
Bows Weigh Forty-Five Pounds and
Sport Develops Beautiful Exercise.

Tribune Special Sporting Service.
CHICAGO. May 5.-Archery is coming
back into favor In the West. and on the
field In Washington park every Wedres-
day and Saturday afternoons one or Two
score OF devotees OF the sport may be
found al practice. According to DR. T. b
Weston, who is the dean of the Chicago
srchers and former president OF the
National Archery association OF the
United States. there is no sport which
has such fine qualities and so wins the
enthusiasm of its devotees. Its no
childs play, to begin with he said, ANY
man who undertakes 10 handle forty
five pound bow in archery meet will
have his work cut out for him. His
arms will get superb exercise, and every
shot Will find his entire body I'm state
OF exhilaratlng tension. Archery makes
good red blood. | know several we'll
known Chicago golfers who. having tasted
the pleasures OF an archery contest, have
put away their golf sticks for good, That
shows something Of the witchery of the
sport"
national shoot Is scheiuleI f. Chi
cago In the near future. and I'm that LLg
ncction announcement is made BY Dr.
Weston Of the gift Of $500 by F. c. Havens
of Oakland, Cal, with which two trophies
TO be called the Havens cups, are TO be
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-05

to prove this 10 be wise. First, it IL
much easier to steer, it having a small
er friction area on the ground sur
face; this makes the wear on the tire.
as a whole, considerably less, with
chances for punctures decreased. liz
has less weight in itself and is nearer
proportion to the weight Of the car,
which is, of course, heavier in the rear.
For high-powered cars-that is, cars
required to attain speed of from forty
to sixty miles an hour-the smaller
the diameter of the front tire, the
less the danger in case Of blowout or
puncture. s. T. Edge, noted English
driver, has made several tests to de-
terminc tho relative shock caused by
punctures, of different size front tires,
with the result that with three or
three and one, half inch tire car go
ing fifty miles an hour would be thrown
not over six to eight feet, while with
an explosion of fiye-inch tire it would
be thrown from thirty to forty feet.
Economy and safety call for smaller
diameter front tire. Many do not think
it an economy to carry two size tires
but in the long run it will be found
more advantageous. For racing pur
poses French driver will not use over
90 tire on the front wheels.
Adoption of Universal Size.
One of the first recommendations of
the tire committee Of the mechanical
branch was the elimination of so many
sizes of tires; that is, the wheel sizes,
Up TO the time the mechanical branch
took hold of this matter there were
twenty-three sizes of tires in the mar
ket, many of which were incapable of
doing the maximum amount of work
required owing to their being of wrong
proportion. not only for the weight of
the car. but the area of the ground sur
face. Experiments by the branch have
resulted in reduction of this number
and the adoption of eleven sizes:
2Sx3, 30x3, 30x3Ia, 32x3ia, 32x4,
34x312, 34x4, 34x413, 36x4, 36x412,
36x5
A great difficulty that has confronted
the automobile manufacturers is the
various sizes Of rims on the market,
thus causing considerable rim cutting
to tires. Many of the rimmakers of
single piece rims had n uniform size
diameter and depth of clinch, but not
all, Through the efforts of the branch
the rimmakers have all agreed to a
standard size rim TO be inspected and
passed by the tiremakers, who will
guarantee any tire bearing the rim as
sociation S stamp,
Tests and experiments arc being
made for the Standardization Of qnick
detachable tires and dcmountable rims,
results of which, when completed, will
prove of considerable advantage TO all
tire users.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-05
WISCONSIN FIGHT SCHEDULED.
Fate of Athletics at Madison Varsity
Hangs in the Balance.

Tribune Special Sporting Service.
MADISON, Wis. May A hot fight
is on among the Wisconsin universlty's
faculty for and against intercollegiate
athletics. The opponents of intercol-
legiate games are in the minority. but
they arc powerful. and the fate of ath-
letics al Madison hangs In the balance
Tho chief objection Is against football
which, they say, gives training to only a
few Of the $500 students at Madison and
at the same time diverts hundreds from
their studies and incites the sportlly in
clined TO gambling and carousals. There
are similar, but milder. objections TO in
IorS0liegaa,e ouss e oase9aIl, track meets and
ton to sending the varsity crew TO the
regatta al Poughkeepsie. The old ath-
letic management left q debt of $4,000
and this is dwelt on heavily by the oppo-
sition. Two special committees have been
appointed TO investigate the finances OF
the athletic department and the advisa-
btlity OF aholishlng Intercollegiate sports
and to report at its next meeting, late
= In June.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-05
LIVELY WAR PREDICTED.
Two Cycling Organizations Will Fight
Each Other in East,

Tribune Special Sporting Service.
NEW YORK. May 4.-There promises
to be lively war IN cycling circles this
summer, with the newly organized Ma
tional Federation OF Amateur Cyclists on
one side and the old National Cycling
association on the other, The n. j.. A. @
sprang into existence couple OF weeks
ago after meeting OF large group of
riders and their followers. who were NOT
satisfied with the way things were run
by the \. G. A. The aim OF the new body
is to control amateur bicycle racing in all
its departments, and the chances are that
the first effort In this line Will come when
the lrYington- Mllburn road race Is held
The event will be held this season under
the auspices Of the Bay View Wheelmen
OF Newark, and the members OF that club
are said to be strongly In favor OF run
Ming the race under the sanction or the
\, II. A. G. The National association
is not going to lose its grip on the sport
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-05
Golfers Sail for Europe.

Tribune Special sporting Service.
NEW YORK. May i.-Ebcn NJ. Byerg
and II. Oden Horstman have sailed for a
golfng tour Of tho famous links in Great
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-05

Britain Incidentally they will play In the
amateur championship. TO be held TINS
the week OF May "a The British wo-
mems championship will be at Newcastle
Ireland, beginning May 6, and the Amerl,,
can champion, Miss Harriet Curtis. VIII
be a starter. Her sister. Miss Margaret
twice runner-up in this country for the
national title is also 10 enter. Byers Is
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-05

weight champion has agreed TO light
Jimmy Gardner. the Lowell, Mass, light
weight. as soon as some CLUB offers a
purse.
Until recently Cans was tied up In
the match with Harry Lewis. but as no
club would offer $50. 600 for the scrap.
both fighters thought 1t best to call
eyeryehing off
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-05

purchased for the American round for
men and the Columbia round for women.
lt was Mrs Eavenss desire when he ap-
propriated the money to make these
trophies perpetual but Il Is understood
that they Will become the property OF the
winners this year and may be renewed
In future Journeys.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-05
Utah Has Vanadiunl.

Nanadium, the new element which is
said 10 be about To reVolutionize the
steel industry, according to an expert.
impregnates certain sandstone and lead
formations in Colorado, California. Utah.
Arizona and New Mexico In sufficient
quantities 10 supply the demand for many
wears to come.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-05

This is a picture of Thomas Long
boat, the famous Indian runner, who
won the recent Boston Marathon race,
with great ease, smashing the world IS
record for the distance Of twenty five
miles. The map shows the course of
the race.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-05

Drugs don't restore
strength; they don Z
feed nerves which arc
weak. they excite
them, but that does
not help them, as the
excltem ent must pass
off. and often they
are weaker than ever.
They don't cure dis
ease,
IL you are weak YOU
want strength. Your
nerves need new life.
New life is electricity
That is why Electro :
Nigor. my dry cell
body battery. has
d0la Rn nDIINh nnnI
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-05
Cans Quietly Resting.

Joe Cans is taking a vacation in his
home down at Baltimore, and stories en-
ansting from there say that the light
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1907-10-02
SOME COTTON OPINIONS.

TIE ADVERTISER never takes the re-
sponsibility of telling a mar what to do
with his cotton. In the long run, the
law of supply and demand fixes the
price. There is no Trust annulling
competition in buying or selling cotton.
The mills Of the world are buying
against each other, there are bears and
bulls in the market, and every grower
is striving to get the best price he can.
In our judgement, the average price
of cotton for this season is not likely
to be below what it is now. 1t may be
much higher.
Cotton, unlike tomatoes and English
peas, is a non-perishable crop. 1t may
be kept indefinitely. There is every
reason to believe that the price will be
so much higher in the Spring than now
that the difference will cover the cost
of insurance, storage and interest.
If the fWmers generally rush their
cotton to market within the next three
months, the market will go to pieces.
AT the end of the three months the cot
ton will be in the hands Of cotton mer-
chants and spinners. A rise in the
price will benefit only the holders. A
great deal of cotton will be sold by
farmers who owe money. In any case,
a large part of the crop will be sold.
1t therefore seems plain that every
man who can hold should do so.
However we must not be understood
as advocating the indiscriminate hold
ing of cotton. We have very good
reasons for believing that the price
will go higher but nobody knows any
thing about cotton and we regard it as
bad business for a man who owes his
cotton crop to hold it. The person that
he owes probably needs the money and
has relied on the collecting of this debt
to meet his obligation. 1t is more
important for a poor man to protect
his business obligation than one who is
better off. His only collateral is his
reputation for honesty and promptness.
His well-to-do neighbor can put up the
more tangible kind and can hold his
cotton with impunity.
If somebody does not hold cotton, the
price for the crop will be whatever the
buyers choose to pay. If a tremendous
quantity is put upon the market within
a short time, the competition among
the buyers will amount to nothing.
The well-to-do farmers ought by all
means to assist their neighbors in hold
ing. They should encourage their
weaker brethren to place all that they
can in the warehouse. Money can be
borrowed on the warehouse receipt.
Looking over the whole field, we do
not observe the enthusiasm among the
farmers for their organizations this
year that has prevailed in former
years. Yet it is certain that the farm
ers have received millions that they
would have lost during the past FIVE
years had not these organizations been
formed and had not their advices been
followed.
The Southern Cotton Association
should have an office in every county
the manager of which should know all
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1907-10-02
Times Around TyIersyille.

Tylersville, Oct. Good rains fell
here Saturday.
Messrs. Will and George Little and
Martin Poole attended the union meet
ing at Lanford Station Sunday.
Miss Lucy Donnan spent Friday in
Laurens.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Dannan spent
Wednesday at Clinton with Mr.. and
Mrs. Clyde Todd.
Miss Nina Poole was the guest of
Mrs. A. b. Blaklcy of Clinton a few
days last week.
Misses Lula and Lucy Donnan spent
Saturday night with Miss Lille Mae
Bailey on Pea Ridge.
Miss Lila Clark spent Saturday and
Sunday at her home near Langston
Mr.. and Mrs. William Alexander of
Hillsville spent last Saturday with
relatives here.
Mrs. Lucy Glenn returned to her
home at Boyce's Cross Roads Sunday
after a visit TO her daughter, Mrs. Fred
Little.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1907-10-02
CIRCUS DAY.

Gentry Brothers show will be in
Laurens to-day. The performance will
begin at 2 o'clock and again at 8 p. m.
The show is not new and is claimed to
be much better than ever before but
those who have seen it before will be
satisfied with the old record that it has
established. The feature of the show
is the trained animals and probably no
where else has this been brought to
such perfection. There are other at
tractive features of course but this is
the exceptional one.
Every child in Laurens should see
this show and all the grown ups" too
for that matter. We have NO patience
with the ~stereotyped joke: "going to
take the children" Yes go and take
the children and have 4 couple of hours
enjoyment for yourself likewise. You
will probably have the opportu-
nifty to see SO much again for the price
nor sec il again at the cost of SO little
time.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1907-10-02
LAURENs, S. c., OCTOBER 2. 1907.
A NOVEL BY A LAURRNS MAN.

For the first time in many years a
Laurens man has published a novel.
"Sinful Sadday, Son of a Cotton Mill,
A story Of a Little Orphan Boy Who
Lived to Triumph" is from the press
of Smith & Lamar, Nashville, Tenn,
and the author is the Rev. Thornwell
Jacobs son Of President w. P. Jacobs
Of the Thornwell Orphanage and form
erly viee-president of that institution.
1t is bound in cloth and there are many
excellent half-tone pictures.
The story is we'll told. Sinful Sadday
is a Thornwell ~orphanage lad who came
out Of a cotton mill village, and the
incidents Of his life tell of the methods
and influence Of the Thornwell Orphan
age in building up a Christian charac-
ter.
Woven into the tale are numerous
exciting and numerous episodes. There
is a match game of base ball which will
bring wildly to the mind Of Southern
people the picture of those contests as
they were fought out ten or fifteen
years ago before the towns and villages
began to corrupt the game by import
ing, hired batteries and other players.
The story discloses the possession of
marked dramatic and constructive tai
ent by the young author, and it will
hold the readers interest. Moreover,
it convinces the reader by its intimate
and sympathetic handling of the Incl
dents of orphanage life that a charita-
BILE institution may be conducted on
truly parental lines. The reader will
be sure when he has finished Sinful
Sadday that the children in the Thorn
mere lay figures. He will have some
understanding of the beautiful affection
that, beginning with the great-hearted
President, ramifies the institution and
binds the teachers, superintendent and
all the children from the seniors in the
College down to the little ones in kits,
together, a spirit which d~ifferentiates
the Thornwell Orphanage from so many
charitable institutions in which that
charity (Which suifereth long and is
kind is scarcely known.
Mr.. Jacobs has not only written a
book which should command a reception
that will encourage him to further
literary efforts, but he has done a good
work in giving to the public an insight
into the methods which have made the
Orphanage at Clinton so successful in
the development Of young men and
women who have proved useful mem
bcrs of society when they have been
graduated into the world.