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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12
Great Athlete Dead

Joliet, Ill, July n.-Merrit Ginn' TOT mer national champion discus thrower' and who took second at the Olymplc games in London in 1908, died here today from injuries received in runaway two weeks ago: His London record was lSs feet 61s inches.
 In the fall of 1908 while attending the University of Illinois, Giffin hurried tnc discus 165 feet 1Ola inches, although the record was not declared official. Giffin was an evangelist.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12

surance agents and which is greatly appreciated. 1t Is further said that many of the most progressive insur- ance agents of this city, while not be- ing disloyal to the older companies that they have for years represented, are not antagonistic to but are rather inclined to be helpful to Birmingham insurance companies, realizing the great ultimate good which will come tc Rirmin gham as result of the rapid growth and ultimate success of cur home companies as above outlined"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12
BOARD OF TRADE
 ANNUAL MEETING
CONTINUED FROM PAGE B


 each member to decide in his own mind which way he would vote on this im- portant question.
 Cheaper Water
 The Board of Trade has been earn est and insistent in its fight for cheap CT water in this city. Recognizing long ago that the rates charged by the local water works company were abnormal ly and outrageously high as compared with other cities with the same facil- i;ies the Board of Trade began a fight for municipal ownership of the water plant for Birmingham. As result of this agitation the legislature enacted a bill giving cities the power to ac- quire and own their own water works in Alabama. A committee from the Beard of Trade worked actively in Montgomery for the passage of this
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12
HUNDREDS OF BLIND TIGERS IN JACKSON Grand Jury Busy With Such
 Indictments REVISE POLL BOOKS Voters Showing Unusual Interest in View of Coming Primaries.
 Existence of Ice Trust
 Alleged

Jackson, Miss, July 11-(Speeial 1.-The Kinds county grand jury resumed it's grind today, and it is understood there Is yet a good deal of grist in the hop per Already 93 true bills have been re- turned to the court, and others are in sight. Most of the indictments returned have been against blind tigers, class of lawbreakers with which the city of Jack son has been overrun ever since the state voted for prohibition. When the city of Jackson was wet" there were only nine places In the county where whisky or beer could be had; today there are hundreds of places in the city. It used to cost a dealer s25o0 to open a saloon in Jackson, but now they pay nothing unless they happen to fall into the hands of the police and the courts, when they are fined $50 or s10o and perhaps few days in jail, resumng operations as soon as they are released.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12
Election Commissioners to Meet

July F is the date on which the boards i of county election commissioners are to
 meet at their respective courthouses for the purpose of revising the poll books preparatory to turning them over to the county executive committees for use in the primary elections of August l and 22. No doubt these meetings on the 17th will be well attended, as there are great many persons who are in doubt as to
 their right to vote. and they will be on hand to make sure.
 Heretofore little or no attention has
 been paid to the law in regard to the
 eligibility of the man who presents him. self at the ballot box-no questions being asked, for the reason that nobody cared
 much one way the other But this
 time the lines are going to be just as
 tightly drawn as if there were two parties
 In the field The state board of commits sioners permitted the three candidates for the United States Senate to name one county commissioner each, so that each of the three candidates have one repre- sentative in every county, and they will see to 1t that no man votes unless he is a qualified elector under the law.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12
Bilbo Holds His Own


 The attending physicians report that State Senator Bilbo, who was beaten very severely at the Starksvile depot last Thursday by John Henry, agent of the New Orleans, Mobile and Chicago rail- road. Is getting along as well as could be expected, and stick to their promise that he would be out again in 10 days or two weeks.
 The excitement over this affair is not as great as the first day or two after 1t happened. but feeling Is very bitter and more trouble is freely predicted between the Vardaman and the anti-Vardaman forces before the senatorial question is settled.
 The Vardaman papers are declaring Henry attempted to assassinate Bilbo | but partisans of the other side take nc stock in that charge. They declare that there is no more fearless man in the state and that if he had intended to kill him he would have done so
 Gage Hanging Public | The Winston county board of supervis- ors has determined that Bell Gage, a | negro murderer, shall be executed in pub | lie. The supreme court fixed the date of execution for July q, but the super visors have the say as to whether the hanging shall be public or private. There was a demand from all over the county that the execution should be public, and it was so ordered in the hope that it will prove an object lesson to the balance of the citizens of the county. Gage shot and killed a negro woman as she rode along the public road in buggy with an- other man, being on her way home from church.
 Alleged Ice Trust
 It has been stated that the ice manu- facturers of Jackson have formed a pool or trust, dividing out the territory, and agreeing on the price. 40 cents per 100 pounds, at which ice may be soiu. A year ago Jackson was getting ice at 20 cents per 100 pounds, but that did not last many months. It is understood the grand jury Is going to look into the matter, and if it can be shown that the ice makers have formed trust true bills will be found against them.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-10
MUSCATINE BOYS
INVENT NEW CUE
Tip Which Will Not Have to Be Glued
on Has Been
Patented.

MUSCATINE Ia. Feb. To- Musca-
tine may yet take a prominent part in
the billiard world. The improved bill
lard cue which was invented by Carl
Winning and Victor ]. Evans, two
Young men of this city, and later pat
ented in Washington, has elected doz-
ems of letters from large billiard
manufacturing companies, brokers
and others anxious to figure in the
money end of the deal. These letters
seem to indicate tina, there is consid-
cradle merit to the invention. To date,
Winning and Evans have rejected all
propositions and shall not make any
contract until they have thoroughly
looked the field over and considered
all possibilities. Charles Possow &
Son, representing the Chicago Billiard
company, made the inventors a pro-
posal to put the cue on the market on
a royalty basis. Their proposition is
being seriously considered.
The object of the invention is to
provide construction which obviates
the necessity of gluing the tips in
place, which insures the firm reten-
ton of the tip in position and which
permits of the ready and convenient
adjustment of the tip as the occasion
reuuires. The technical description of
the invention shows a billiard cue,
having its end provided with bore,
a ferrule inclosing the end of the cue
and having threaded passage COM
municating with the bore therein, a
can having a screw threaded engage
ment with the ferrule and entering
the bore of the cue, the stem being
provided with contact portion to
bear upon the tip. The tip is friction
ally fitted with the outer end of the
CAP.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-10
Boat Operators Willing.

AS to the boats, the Mississippi riv-
er companies are ready to send their
boats to Ottumwa and Des Moines as
soon as lift spans are put in the
bridges. They will be very glad to
use the Des Moines river as a feeder
for their main lines between st. Paul,
st. Louis and New Orleans and ar
engagements have been made with
them to use it. AS to the water, any
man, be he a riverman, merchant or
a farmer, who will keep track of the
seasons, will learn to certainty, to-
wit:
That during the months of March
April. May and June when the rains
are falling there is plenty of water in
all the rivers of the upper Mississippi
valley, the Mississippi. the Iowa, the
Cedar, the Des Moines and all other
tributaries of the Fathers of Waters.
He will also learn that there is more
rain and more water from September
to October Is. the latter being the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-10

one day of the wonderful cures made
by Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound and decided to try it,
and it has made me well woman.
My neighbors and friends declare it
had worked miracle for me. Lydia
L. Pinkham's Vegetables Compound is
worth its weight in gold for women
during this period of life. If it will
help Others you may publish my
letter. Mrs. NATHAN B. Creation,
81 n. Main Street. Natick, Mass.
The Change Of Life is the most criti-
cal period of a woman's existence.
Women everywhere should remember
that there is no other remedy known
to medicine that will so successfully
carry women through this trying
period as Lydia e. Pinkhams Vege-
table Compound.
If you would like special advice
about your case write a cOnfiden-
tial letter to Mrs. PinI1ham, at
Lynn. Mass. Her advice is free,
and always helpful.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-10
HUGH CHALMERS
BOOSTER FOR IOWA
Head of Automobile Corporation Fa
vors the Establishment Of
Publicity Bureau.

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keokuk boosters who believe that
energetic action in expansion of Keo-
kuk will operate the same with the
state If its citizens boost and the
legislature authorizes the appropria-
'ion sought for in the establishment
OF publicity and development bu-
reau are particularly interested in the
letter received by the president Of
the Iowa League of Commercial clubs
from Hugh Chalmers, president of the
Chalmers Motor Company Of Detroit.
Mr.. Chalmers, unsolicited, sent an en-
tnusiastic booster letter to President r..
y. Carson Of the league, voicing the
emphatic opinion that Iowa needs adj
yertising. This opinion, coming from
such a successful man as Mr.. Chal-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-10
LA GRANGE HAD
MORNING BLAZE |
Fire Got so Wild that Quincy Was Ap.
peaied to and Sent up
Assistance.

La Grange was the scene of a de-
structive fire early Thursday and five
business houses on the east side OF
Main street were wiped out Of exist
ence.
Assistance from Quincy was re.
quested by telephone and Chief Schlag
loaded the No. = steamer and hose
wagon on flat car and went up,
leaving shortly before o'clock.
When the firemen and apparatus ar
rived the fire was under control and
the steamer and hose wagon We're not
unloaded.
The fire started from some cause
not determined, in the hardware store
OF w. E. Oyster and from there
spread to H. u. Hopkins meat shop,
the central exchange of the East Mis-
souri, Telephone Co., just completed,
McCloud & McPike's grocery store,
and B. II. Days harness shop. The
harness shop was one-story building
and was pulled down to prevent, the
further spread of the fire; the other
buildings were two story structures.
The razing of the Day building kept
the fire from large building on the
corner occupied as furniture store
and this building was not damaged
or only very slightly SO. The stock of
furniture was carried out and piled in
the street and most of the grocery
stock of the McCloud & McPike
store was similarly treated. The total
loss will not exceed $4,000. and is
partially covered by insurance.
In the rear OF The grocery store was
large wooden shed that contained a
tank of 5000 gallons of gasoline. The
Quincy firemen assisted in keeping
the flames away from the building,
making barricade of sheet iron from
roofs against the rear door and win
dows Of the burning building. 1t was a
hot job as large quantities of highly
inflammable materials were stored in
the rear end of the store and blazed
and reared like miniature hades until
it burned itself out.
Although LAGRANGE has the whole
Mississippi river to draw from IN
case Of fire in the business district It
has no fire fighting apparatus and is
at the mercy OF the flames. Now that
there has been a fire and destruction
of valuable property there is talk of
purchasing an engine and supply OF
hose, so that in case of another yisi.
alton some apparatus may be at
hand to do the extinguishing.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-10
DO YOU ENJOY
YOUR MEALS?
One Of: the Most Important Questions
3 to Consider In the Search For
Happiness. and Health.

y
Theys hurling question to YOU is,
Are you getting out of life all the
pleasure and the health you are en-
titled top Ii not, why not?
No matter whether every organ and
member OF your body is in sound
state Of health and strength, If your
stomach is In anyway disordered, you
are not going to be yourself" You
are going to be worried, out-of;sorts,
nervous or sullen individual, whose
actions will reflect your condition in
side, and people will naturally avoid
you
The world wants to smile and be
cheerful, and unless you are cheerful
and smile, at least, occasionally, you
will have few friends, fewer oppor-
tunities, no success, and you will go
down in defeat defeated by dyspep-
STA and bad stomach
A good and thorough digestion has
a quick, wonderful reaction upon the
brain. You must have noticed it many
times, for the brain and stomach are
as intimately connected as needle
and its thread, one can hardly be used
to advantage without the other If
your stomach is slow and lazy in di-
costing your food, it will produce at
once a slow. lazy and cloudy influence
upon your brain. Mark it! If your
stomach has absolutely quit work, and
fermentation is poisoning your vitals
as a result, surely your brain is going
to be sluggish and correspodingly de-
pressed. No one need tell you that.
But why continue to suffer all the
miseries and torments that disorder
ed stomach brings you?
If your stomach can not digest your
food, what will? Where's the relief?
Where's the cure?
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are the
relief and the cure Why? Because,
as all stomach troubles arise from in
digestion and because one ingredient
of Stuarts Dyspepsia Tablets is able
to thoroughly and completely digest
5000 grains of any kind of food,
doesn't it stand to reason that these
little Dyspepsia Tablets are going to
digest all the food and whatever food
you put into your stomach? Science
nowadays can digest food without hav-
ing to use the stomach for it. And
/ Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are the re
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See if your stomach refuses to work
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-10

mers demands recognition. The De-
troit automobile manufacturer is a
man who has certainly made good,
and knows whereof he speaks. He
gave up a position at $4,000 year
with, the National Cash Register con-
pany to go into the manufacture Of
autos and is making splendid sue
cess today with his product.
Mr.. Chalmers Letter.
Mr. Chalmers letter favoring the
establishment of a publicity and de-
yelopment bureau in this state is as
follows:
Detroit. Mich. Feb. 4, 1911.
Mr.. Robert N. Carson, President.
Iowa League of Commercial clubs,
Iowa City, Iowa.
Dear Sir:
understand that the Iowa League
of Commercial clubs has bill. before
the Iowa legislature for an appropria-
ton of $50,000.O0 to establish a State
Publicity and Development bureau.
1t seems to me that this is a step in
the right direction, and that such a
bureau ought to be of great benefit to
the state of Iowa in gathering stats.
tics and circulating this information
throughout the country
What Iowa needs most today, in my
opinion, is to be advertised, and
cannot conceive of anything that
would get people to investigate Iowa
with view to locating there, more
than to be able to intelligently give
out information about your great state
SO that people outside the state may
know just what advantages the state
offers.
When ! heard that you were trying
to establish such bureau l made VI
my mind that would write you and
tell you what thought of it.
sincerely hope that the legisla
t,re will pass the appropriation, and
I believe that If it does it will never
have cause to regret it's action
Very truly yours,
Hugh Chalmers, Pres.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-10

Do you know that Group can be pre-
vented? Give Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy as soon as the child becomes
hoarse or even after the croupy cough
appears and it will prevent the at
tack, It is also a certain cure for
Group and has never been known to
fall. Sold by all dealers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-10

The highest lighthouses are the Bar
tholdi Statue of Liberty in New York
harbor which is ISL feet, besides the
pedestal of Loo feet; one at Genoa.
Italy, us feet in height; and Cape
Hatteras light, which is 1879 feet.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-10

the enactment of scene No. .. 1t was
7:45 when, the couple rehearsed be-
fore the minister and o'clock when
the knot was tied, with the two young
gentlemen in the party as witnesses.
The next twenty minutes were
spent in JOY ride up and down Main
street and at S:25 Mr.. and Mrs. Wal
ter Mas boarded the Kline train.
1t was no gentle surprise receiv-
ed at the Phillips and Mas homes a
few minutes later when messenger
boys almost simultaneously delivered
letters from daughter and son.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-10

of it between the Ottumwa dam and
the Mississippi river, which can be
done for at least four months or one
half of the boating season. AT the
time application was made to the gov
eminent for survey OF the river,
those who were urging it were request
ed to show that the stream had at
one time beer navigated by steam
boats. Unless this could be shown
the board OF engineers and war depart
ment would not recommend that
money be appropriated to pay for a
survey. 1t was something of task
to so back ffty-eight years and Sc
cure this information, but it was ac-
complished. A. c Miller, president of
the Iowa waterways commission and
others furnished the surveyor at
Washington with a list of fift-six diff
fercnt Mississippi river steamers
which had navigated the Des Moines.
Not only the names of the boats but
the name of the captains who had
charge of them was given. Upon this
information the survey was ordered
and an appropriation made to cover
the expense.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-10

|ol ulc DSIOTc 4 tTleu
Lydia +. Pinkham's
" G &c "a Bile Com
pound. | was in such
a nervous condition
u could not keep
S till. M y Ii m b $
were cold, ] had
creepy sensations,
and / could not sleep
nights. l was finally
told by two phys
icians that / also
had a tumor r rnad
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-10
Popular Young People.

The bride is twenty-one and the
groom twenty-three. They are among
the most popular young people of the
city. Mrs. Mas was prominent in
Keokul's younger society class and
is a girl of beauty ant charm. The
groom his been employed in the Keo.
kuk Savings Bank for several years
and has wide acquaintance
The surprise is complete to all, for
although the young people had been
intimate for some time, no intimation
of an engagement had been made.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-10
date when the boats go into winter

date when the boats go into winter
quarters.
If he will follow the investigation
still further, he will find that the
building of dams and dredging and all
other work done by the government
is for the sole purpose of maintaining
4 steamboat channel during July and
August, the two dry months of the
year. With rain through July and
August the only government work
which would be needed would be the
rip.rap or shore protection to hold a
stream within its banks. This Is all
there is to it. The Des Moines
river can be used by the boats for not
less than four months of the year and
some seasons, five, six and seven
months, owing to the rain fall.
Some may argue as to what will be
accomplished by operating the boats
before the dams are built and for
portion of the boating season. / can
answer.
.
Some Strong Arguments,
First, the pilots who bring the boats
up the river will demontrate that a
loaded steamboat with two feet OF
water under it will so along without
touching the bottom. 1t is very sim
pie matter, but there are many people
who are slow to believe it. Secondly,
the operation of the boats to the Mis-
sissippi river during the good water
months will give our shippers cheap
all water route to all water points.
north, east and south. Thirdly, the
manufacturers OF Ottumwa and Des
| Moines can sell their goods and COM
/ pete with the manufacturers at water
/ points. which they can not now do.
! Fourth, the operation of the boats will
Increase business of our merchants
and manufacturers in all of the towns
and cause reduction in their freight
charges of not less than forty per cent
/ to and from all water points, river
and lake cities. Fifth, the operation
of the boats for even one-half OF the
boating season will make it very easy
to receive money from congress with
which to build the dams and make
the river good for the full season OF
eight months, and with the naviga-
ton secure, the great water power
! which will be generated by the twen-
ty-three dams will be of immense val
! ue.
/ ] might give many other good reasons
for operating the boats during the
good water months, as was done III
the sos and cos, but the above are
/ sufficient.