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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-04
ADVERTISING TALKS.
tcs.s,...a from Pas. os.I

that they had $4,000 worth of
mems and boys clothing which
had been slightly damaged in a
railroad wreck, and which they
would sell at very low prices.
Their statements were so
exaggerated that the Merchants
association arranged to have
several people visit the store,
buy goods and take note of the
claims made.
These purchasers were told
that they were buying $40
overcoats, suits, etc., at prices
as low as $500, $500, etc.
The matter was taken up with
the city attorney and warrants
We're issued against the propris-
tors of the store and they were
summoned to the police court.
The trial took place the next
day, and after the examination
of witnesses on both sides, the
judge fined them $25 and costs.
After this the advertisements
that the firm ran in the daily
papers described the goods to be
sold at the ACTUAL PRICE,
and nothing was said about
quality or former value.
They also placed placards in
their windows asking the pub
lie to DISREGARD their previ-
Gus newspaper advertisements,
and instructed their clerks to
represent goods only as of val
ues of the price asked for them.
Stories have been printed be-
fore in this column about these
fly-by-night concerns that light
in a community like a crow in a
cornfield, and it is good to know
that the Merchants association
of Little Rock have had the WIS
DOM to organize and drive them
out of their territory.
Ito be Continued.)
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-04
Saturday. March a
1911

senate that they were unavoidsbly
detained and could not. be present
when q vote was taken. Both an
nounced they sw9uld have voted for
the bill
When the bill went back to the
house for consideration OF the senate
amendments. Fitzgerald (Dem.. N.
", started a nlibuster. Dalxell (Rep.,
Pal. offered a gag rule, and Fitxger-
aid made'a point OF no quorum. On
the roll call, the Democrats walked
out with the evident intention or pre-
venting quorum. Another roll call
was necessary on the Dalzell rule,
and Fitzgerald hoped to keep the
house tied up until noon.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-04
DIARY OF FATHER TIME.

You poor folks. who think that you
are so smart building REINFORCED
concrete houses and factories. seem
to forget that Pharoah's daughter
found Moses floating among the bull
rusbes In a REINFORCED concrete ark
made Of bulrushes daubed with slime
and pitch. Talk about your infant
Industry!
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-04
Threatened BY sIaekmaIIers.

ERIE, Pa, March 4.--Police and ten
Pinkerton detectives are trying TO-
find blackmailers who sent threaten
ing letter to Mrs Charles II. Strong,
demanding that she put large sum
OF money under a stump in field
southeast OF the city, under pain OF
death. Mrs. Strong is daughter OF
the late millionaire, Congressman
William l. Scott, whose magnificent
tomb In Erie cemetery recently was
despoiled by ghouls.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-04
What Congress Has Done
During Taft's Term

WASHINGTON. March Ain the
two years OF the administration or
President Taft, the following program
OF legislation has been enacted:
The Payne-Aldrich tariff law.
The railroad rate law, creating q
commerce court and rewvifying the
act to regulate commerce.
Postal savings banks.
Statehood for Arizona and New
Mexico.
Submission to the states of a con-
stitutional amendment for an income
tax.
Publicity of campaign contributions
in national and congressional cleo
tons.
A $2O.00O,oOo bond issue to provide
funds for completion of existing ir-
rigation projects.
bureau of mines.
Authorization by statute for execu-
tive Withdrawals OF land from the
public domain.
Fertilization of the Panama canal.
The Appalachian White Mountain
forest reserve bill.
Ratification by the senate OF q new
treaty with japan.
A bill to prevent white slavery"
Several OF the policies urged by the
executive since his induction into Of
fice on March 4. 1909, have not been
enacted, and now with Democratic
house. stand small chance OF ever be-
ing written on the statute books.
Among these are: -
Reform In judicial procedure, 50 as
to hasten final determination OF lfti-
cation.
Limitation of the injunction.
Ship subsidy.
The Mccall bill. for reciprocity with
Canada, went through the house, and
failed In the senate.
Aside from the legislative accom-
plishments OF the sixty-hrst congress.
the two years Of the Taft admins
tration have been marked with In
cidents that will go down In history.
A Democratic house has succeeded
Republican majority for the hrst
time In sixteen years.
A new non-partisan movement for
clean government. for and by the
people without the party boss, has
had its inception and growth.
A bitter squabble ON conservation
ious charges against Secretary Of the
Interior Ballinger, discharge OF Chief
Forester Pinchot, and two OF his as
sociates. and "whitewash' OF Ballin-
ger by a joint congressional commit
tee.
Four new members, new chief jus.
tice, were named for the supreme
court OF the United States.
T<xxr<. ~ a LII
to test the Sherman antitrust law, be-
gun in the Roosevelt administration.
were carried through the courts to the
supreme tribunal.
A new program OF economy in gov.
ornamental finances was Instituted. Z.
The attempt on the part OF the gov.
eminent to sue New York newspa-
per for libel failed.
Suits under the Sherman antitrust
law were begun against the following
combines:
The beef trust, the bathtub trust.
window glass trust, decided in favor
of the government; cotton trust, great
lakes towing company. sugar trust
(victory for government), southern
Wholesale grocers combine, night
riders In Kentucky, (won by the gov
ernmenD, butter and egg trust, brick
trust and the electrical trust.
A general movement on the part Of
the railroads to increase their freight
rates were blocked by the interstate
commerce commission.
The rates on Pullman sleeping rates
were reduced by order Of the commits
! sion.
Since his Inauguration, President
Taft has travelled approximately 49,
600 miles, new mark for presidential
jaunting.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-04

Let's see, lie told I'm one minute
takes 20 years to overtake, doesn't 1t!
S'Death.
There was a revolution that buzzed
like tarnation. II spurted here and
there making music In the air. TIL
finally big business smelled rat ana
the revolution died quicker'n scat.
A flea, a common nea. can hold up
trafic on a busy street-when the oos
on which the flea lives stops 70
scratch, and lady Is leading the dog.
Did you know that when your meer-
schaum pipe was first mined 1t was
SO soft that II made good soap!
The ak, the pen, the shovel are best
welded by men with good digestion,
and good digestion doesn't abide with
fast living.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-04

John W. Gates, multimi1iionaire, got
his start manufacturing barbed wire.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-04

Raising babies cost money. But no
1oby ever cost half as much as he Is
orth-
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-04
No Race Suicide.

II all the progeny survived. the de-
scendants OF one pair OF rats in five
years would number $40 1868, 1863, 152.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-04
Some Girls.

Why shouldn't girl be happy,
And merry and gay, at that,
When all she has upon her mind.
IL a marcel wave and rat?
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-04

Asbestos was first used by the anci.
ent Romans, who made cremation
robes from IL.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-04
bid Yon Trade
Your Baby For a
Germ Carrying Cat2
NJ % the Proposition FOR Those
she Place vIvIssetion Under
1hs Head 81 Cruelty TO AMI
mals-Ths Most Valuable
CT We Know Of.

ms,rh. Most Valuable The question the value Of the
CT Of. | cats il neither here there ex-
cept would like to see what
- that i worth $500 looks like.
We don't harsh in what have to say here
We know how women how are about cats
They family and wouldn't part with one that
purng for great DEAL but we are taking
expressing opinion perhaps there baby in the same
Our opinion that the most valuable cat the
- mp his work Of research.
any mother who would trade her baby for
~ but let's see opposed vivisecon isn't really
<Esing in position that very kind of swap
Msnns one the agnng and from
children principal sufferers been conquered through
51viseoton.
The death rate from meningitis two years ago 20 so
~ can't
now only rs cent and the
hs the given early eight
imbecy defoy which formerly resulted from the
foease have entirely disappeared
his triumph Of Dr. exner and the Rockefeller
1n1nksys 200 guinea pigs and rabbits
psrectng operation TRANSMISSION blood Dr. carre
"a up few kittens
Golfers Weekly its last that the societies which
placed cruelty animals would rather
W. had kittens put bag and thrown into river
says Golfers further upon this subject
s n.s , . s1r % s"'sI ... s
n S handled
u. s.al.sI,
q :. :. sy tt:
. ss s s ". De
% - ss.s @
a. IL 81: ' sss: Vet $ % s s
y into the to protect these sus
Rat. are unpp.ar Just now because o. the a .ney carry
sesns plague s.d 0 sss o. rodents ns ought " Dc
raising the destruction of occasional
pig forgetting the benefits that society
xxivingi
displaying sympathy for cats than
babies die that babies may hvef
Men gone willingly and
IA lives for their governments
u asking interest of the
cynical welLbeing Of governments people'
There might be some ground objection to cutting up by
Dullege students and especially by students
Judging BY way these young students would cut
% Of bread by the slice would look where there
hight be little torture for the cat in the operation.
good couldn't be and why there
compromise permit
expert experiment upon
e periodical newspapers
teislatures
The scientists working the beings
permitted animals
mdisturbed and
furthermore these scientists don't don't
me cats do and don't ur birds upon
s ess s . n %S But no n Asbestos was first
e 4ofn robes from It.
OSCAR und ADOI F
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-04

Poetry and dollars--Who dared
mention poetry and dollars In the
same breath?
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-04

When at a chatting dish party every
thing burns in the chafing dish, go te
a regular restaurant.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-04
FooIIshnsss

Conductor to passenger: We ran
over n cat down the line.
Passenger: Was the cat on the
liDaS
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-04
The sentimentalists are busy

The sentimentalists are busy
again.
Girls in Wellesley college cut up
some cats in their biological labora-
tory, said to have been worth $500
each, as a result Of which fact WV
section is all wrong.
The question of the value OF the
cats is neither here nor there, ex-
cept that we would like to see what
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-04

Conductor: Why, OF course not "
chased up an alley after her.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-04

There was a girl
Who had q curl
That caught a man
Fen as he ran.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-04
s'Death.

Let's see, lie told In one minute
takes 20 years to overtake, doesn't 1t!
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-04

Are flirting girls foolish girls7
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-11-24
Entertainment Course.

Arrangements have been made for a
course of five entertainments to be
given during the winter season under
the local direction of committee rep
resenting the Baptist, Methodist and
Presbyterian churches. The object OF
the course is 10 furnish the people with
several first class, wholesome entertain
ments and to aid the high-School Ii.
brary with any remaining profits. 1t is
the plan of the committee to admit all
school children free with the aid OF
parents and others purchasing suffi-
cient number of course tickets. These
course tickets have been placed at the
lowest point consistent with the high
priced talent secured and the total cost
of the course. The course tickets will
be 50 or 40 cents for each entertainment.
Single admission tickets will be 50
cents.
The program thus far arranged pro-
videS for humorous lecture next
Tuesday evening, Nov 2Sth, by Mr.. R.
H. Gee. The second will be A. M.
Dixon on Jan. 10th, and the third, The
National Male Quartette on February
10th. The other entertainments will be
announced later.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-11-24
Crescent City News
Woman's Club Reception.

Mrs. c. H. Preston and Mrs. |. F.
RhoadS will entertain at reception to
be given this afternoon in honor of Mrs.
Geo. E. Gay, former president of the
Palatka Woman's Club, and the local
delegates TO the meeting of the State
Federation of Women's Clubs-Mes.
danes Hurlbut and Borson.
The reception which is to be held al
the home of Mrs. Preston, will also
take the form of an open meeting of the
V. /. A., TO which the ladies of the town
are invited
AT this meeting Mrs. Gay will read her
paper on "Civics," this being the same
read al the meeting OF the State Fedora
ton and which received so much of
favorable comment from the delegates
and the press. The subject is one branch
of club work TO which Mrs. Gay has
given much thought, and that she is
recognized as an authority on the subject
in Florida Woman's Club circles is at
tested by the fact that she is chairman of
the committee on "Civics" of the State
Federation. Mrs. Gay is the wife of ex-
Mayor Geo. E. Gay of Palatka.
AT this meeting Mrs. Hurlbut will also
make report of the work of the State
Federation at its meeting last week in
Jacksonville.
There is one item in Mrs. Hurlbut'S
report that will interest all the people of
Crescent City, this item the fact that
Mrs. Hurlbut and Mrs. BorSon secured
the 1912 meeting of the State Federation
of Women's Clubs for Crescent City.
This is convention made up of some
so or 90 of the leading ladies in all sec
lions of Florida, and that the delegates
from Crescent City succeeded in secur-
ing the next meeting for this place is an
achievement in which all citizens will
rejoice.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-11-24
Christmas Entertainment.

The officers and teachers of the Meth
odiSt Sunday school have already made
arrangements preparatory TO big Christ
mas entertainment and tree to be given
Christmas night. These arrangements
are being made on large scale and
Santa Clause will not be permitted to
forget the children, the young people,
nor the old.
AT meeting early this week the fol
lowing committees were appointed to
make all needed arrangements for this
coming Christmas festivals:
Executive Committee-Mrs. T. C.
Darby, Miss Daisy Brooke, Mr.. C. E.
Gutteridge, Rev. D. D. Dieffenweirth,
Prof. ]. H. Selden.
Committee on DecorationS-Mrs. A.
E. LoundS, Miss Louise Hunter, Miss
Nettie Holley, Miss Ruth Herlong, Miss
Lottie Gutteridge, Mr.. Clifford Hunter.
Committee on Tree-ChaS. Gutter.
idge and Mr.. Boyd.
Com. on Music and Entertainment
Misses Myrtle and Ruth Herlong, Miss
Daisy Brooke.
Committee on Finance - Mr.. c. E.
Gutteridge, Mrs. T. c. Darby, Mrs.
lanes.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-11-24
LAKE COMO

Mr.. and Mrs. w. l.. Diggett and son,
Lawson, have returned to their home at
Seabreeze after a short visit with their
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. F. Gable.
Mrs. ]. Jay and mother-in-law, Miss
Clinton and Mr. Mack of Binghamton,
n. Y, are occupying the Highland
House, which they have rented for the
season.
Mrs. Green and Miss Florence Green
of Fruitland have been the guests of
Mrs. D. B. Raybon.
Wright Palmer of Ossining, N. Y, is
here on visit to his parents.
Mrs. Rosa H. Blood of Boston, Ga, is
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. D. B. Raybon.
She was accompanied by her son, Mau-
rice, who remained only few days and
then returned TO his home at WaycroSS,
Ga, where his insurance business is To-
Gated. Their hosts of friends were in
deed glad TO see them.
Capt. Morrell of Livermore Valley,
California, is the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
Claude Monjar
Mrs. Davies and grandson, Otto
Kirchheimer and w. L. Gable were
visitors at Palatka this week.
Horace Prior of Jacksonville is in
town this week attending 10 the shipping
of his orange crop.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Gates and Mr..
and Mrs. George Davidson arrived on
Friday the 18th from Cleveland, Ohio,
and are again enjoying the comforts of
their pretty bungalow home-"Bonnie
View" With them are the Misses Lii
liam Selak and Cora Bull. Como met
these popular winter residents right.
On their arrival nearly the entire village
was at the train. AS the train drew up
to the station the people formed in line
and marched down to the Pullman car
to the music of horns, harmonicaS, &C.
cordians, drums, ETC., and the waving OF
flags. D. B. Raybon headed the parade
as band master, pumping an accordian.
The band was composed of men and
women and children, and two ladies
carried a large banner with the one
word welcome" in large letters. Pas
sengers on the train were attracted by
the music" and rushed TO the windows
and platforms. They didn't know what
it was all about, but when they looked
down TO the end of the train and saw
the Gates party alight, they knew that
the pretty town of Lake Como was out
TO welcome its most distinguished citi-
zenS.
Rev. ]. B. Crippen spent the past week
at Hastings, and on Sunday the pulpit OF
the Methodist church was occupied by
Mr.. Parrott of Crescent City, whose
sermon was much enjoyed. Willie II.
Gable led the Epworth League meeting
in the evening.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-11-24
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Department of the Interior.
U. s. LAND OFFICE AT GAINESVILLE, FLA.

U. s. LAND OFFICE AT GAINESVILLE, FLA.
November 4, 1911
Notice is hereby given that Louie f.
Lovelace, whose postofiice address Is Palat-
ka, Florida, did, on the 23rd day of June, 1911,
file in this office Sworn Statement and Az
plication, No. 09037 to purchase the Nw4,
Section s, Township south, Range "
east, Tallahassee Meridian, and the timber
thereon, under the provisions of the act of
June 3, 1878, and acts amendatory, known
as the Climber and Stone Law" at such
value as might be affixed by appraisment,
and that, pursuant to such application, the
land and timber thereon have been apprais
ed at Eight Hundred Dollars, the tim
Der estimated 100000 board feet at $500 per
M, and the land $4,000; and the land has Il
distinct value of 5000 for turpentine pur-
poses; that said applicant will offer final
proof in support of his application and
sworn statement on the 10th day of January
1912, before the Clerk of the Circuit Court,
at Palatka, Florida.
Any person Is at liberty to protest this
purchase before entry, or initiate contest
Mt any time before patent issues, by fling
corroborated affidavit in this office, al
legng facts which would defeat the entry.
HENRY s. CHUBB,
Register.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-11-24

the same measure, to bananas, which
even in the growing belt are picked
green to rlpen in the sun, lest all
their flavor should go back into the
tree. Southern tomatoes must be
shipped green in order to be salable
in Northern markets. Our own win.
ter apples are picked in the autumn
and allowed to ripen in the normal
temperature of a cellar. The danger
is in selling an ignorant consumer a
citrus gold brick.
Most of us have set white
and careless teeth into such oranges
and taken them out again. We
have understood vaguely that Flor
ida oranges were beginning to be
obliged to beg for market, and this
was why. Several months ago the
Florida growers, alive to this situa.
ton, put bill through the legisla-
ture of their state making it mis-
demeanor to market unripe oranges.
They had realized, at last, that these
premature shipments to catch high
prices were defeating their own end.
The man who had taken an orange
as sour as lemon was not repeating
the act, and when the ripe fruit did
arrive it found no buyers. The Flor.
ida dealers found themselves being
Disseminated against by the consum-
ing public as a natural result of their
own haste and greed, and what the
years of protest by Northern dealers
had been powerless to accomplish
was done quite promptly by the re-
fusal of the public to buy. This bill
has not wholly prevented individual
shipments of unripe fruit, and it is
change to detect and punish such rem
egades that agitate the courts of that
state at present.
ut is an amazingly unanimous row.
The public demands an investigation;
the government proposes to interfere;
The Northern dealers welcome the in
reference, and the Southern growers
wish the whole thing to be aired. The
fact is that an organization of Florida
growers voluntarily forced the issue
in the hope of making an end to
shipments Of unripe fruit which were
injuring the whole market out of all
proportion to the higher prices
brought by sweated fruit Incident
ally, the Florida Citrus Exchange is
being exploited in the national press
in the most flattering guise Of defend
er of the faith and protector of the
consumer, sounding public warning
throughout the North against the sin
full traffickers in unripe fruit. The
exchange in obtaining more free ad'
vertising than it could pay for in
decade; the public welfare is served
we are made solid with the govern
ment, and the land is instructed in
the strategy of getting something for
nothing from the newspapers, an art
known to few save the press agent,
the professional philanthropist and
artists or authors craving divorce on
grounds of temperament.
with such concert of dissent, the
sweating Of fruit, except the humble
efforts of the Italians aforesaid, is a
practice with only a short term left
to it. And If the banana as a bed
fellow is a myth, and the ripening of
punches by hanging in West End liv-
ing-rooms Is the only foundation for
the tale, we, the people, may quiet
ourselves with the thought that we
never buy of Giuseppe or Giovanni.
If any mishap befalls him who does,
why, what can you expect of cheap
food?"
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-11-24
HOW CHRONIC COUGHS
Are Being Cured bv Vinol


New Haven, Conn., was troubled
with a most persistent chronic cough
for long time and had tried so many
remedies and prescriptions without
benefit that I was discouraged. was
persuaded by my friends to try vi
mol. After taking the second bottle,
my cough left me, and I must say I
never felt better in my life. can al
so recommend Vinol to any one in a
rundown condition as the best posi-
BILE remedy"
1t is the combined action of the
medicinal elements of the Gods liv-
ers, aided by the blood-making and
strengthening properties of tonic
iron which makes Vinol so efficient in
curing chronic coughs, colds and
bronchitis-at the same time building
up the weakened, rundown system.
Try a bottle of Vinol with the I'M
derstanding that your money will be
'eturned if it does not help you.
Ackerman.Stewart Drug Co. PaIatka, Fla.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-11-24
A Grim Reminder,

Doctor" said the desperate heavy
weight, give me something to make
me weigh less" THAT sort Of thing
merely makes you dangerously ILL"
81 don't care If it does" Very well
But 1 can't see why you should go to
all that trouble merely to make labor
q little lighter for your pallbearers "
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-11-24

Is your husband cross? Au irritable,
fault finding disposition is often due to
disordered stomach. A mau with
good digestion is nearly always good
natured. A great many have been per-
manently cured of stomach trouble by
taking Chamberlain's Tablets. For sale
by all dealers.