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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-04-19
SAL EsmEN WANTED.

SAL EsMEN WANT ED--Three good
live men wanted to travel, references
required Enquire room 20. Laing
building.
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EXC HANG E-DruR stock and fixtures
III good Ncrth Dakuta town. til
voice about $4,000; fine proposition,
care Forum.
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" YOU WANT something by way Of
good board and room in strictly
modern house you can find 1t at eli
Tenth street north. Phone 1902.
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SCHOOL WANTED by experienced
North Dakota teacher. Address
Geo. ID. Crosby, Winnebago, Mimi.
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Fer RENT-Furnished rooms at
operahouse annex. Phone 1861.
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FoR EXCHANGE.

TO EXCHANGE Tor land: lsine-roOfn
strictly modern house: large lot; one
of the best locations iii Fargo for
clear farm. Address It's care Eo-
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FOR SALE--Neuspape in small live
tion for hustler. fes. care Forum.
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FOR RENTING furnished rooms
and private bath. Phone 2005-L
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BOARD AND ROOM in modern house
one block from car line. 604 First
street north. Phone 1899.
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tN ORDER TO close out the few re-
manning Fargo Forum carpet sweep
ers ON hand. we will sell them way
below cost The Forum Printing Co.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-04-19

Az soon as little more frost gets
ont of the ground the aviatogs wtla ~
sums business
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500 ABLE BODIED young men. II TO
40 years old, good character, for
steam and electric railway service.
complete preparatory, home course OF
study 1t low rate. takes but few
weeks; good steady position await
ing. state which course decided. Al
dress railway Service. Box $50. Fargo.
n. 70.
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A YOUNG MAN who is high school
graduate and understands bookkeep-
ing and typewriting, would like posi-
ton about May i can furnish No. 10
Remington machine; teaching at pres
emit; references Ernest Berger. Tn
darwood. n. =.
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RELIoUIsHMENT ron SALE.

REIMBURSEMENT for sale. Address
Box 1877, Almont. N. ID.
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FOR RENT-Room In modern house,
sos Fifth street north. Phone 1878.
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HARNESS and shoe shop for sale;
must sell soon; good reasons for
selling; no trade; good location. Ad-
dress Fred johnson. Palermo, N. ID.
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FOR SALE--Lfvery barn I'm good
North Dakota town; other pressing
business forces me 10 abandon this /;
only livery in town; easy terms. Ad-
dress Box 20T, Cooperstown.
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nREssMAKlNe scHooL.
HOUSE AND SAFE MOVING.

MAKE q speciality OF unusual and
heavy mo. ing: houses. safes. raising
bualdin@ss furnish everything. ]. WI
Hodges Phone 903.
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TAILOR SHOP for sale In good town
in North Dakota: snap for right
man; living rooms and shop together,
SIS d month; busheling averages $50
a week; reason for selling. must set
to better climate for my health. A0 :
dress No. Ill, Fargo Forum.
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FOR SALE--r'ive-roo cottage, mod
ern except heat, In good condition:
one-haif block from car line. Inquire
1880 Fourth avenue south.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-04-19

vYANTED Coat and pants makers.
MI. j.. Lasson e. Co.
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FOB sALE--.L.ANn.

FOR SALE--Improved property on
lake shore. Detroit, Mimi; about ISIS
acres with ten-room house, with fur
mace, 100 barrel cistern. good well in
kitchen: also number of lake lots
for sale as well as two cottages for
sale or rent. p. r.. Curfman. Route J..
Detroit. MINI,
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MISCELLANEOUS.

FOR HoMESEEkERs' rates to vest
ern Canada call at Interstate Land
Co.'S. Office, rooms and 10. Pioneer
Life building. n O. box s45s phone
1885, Fargo. N. D.
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young man stenograph-
er. Wood Bros Thresher Co.
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FOR sALE-A farm at a bargain; $50
acres one-half mile from country p.
o.; level rich black soil. clay sub
soil; three-room house, barn, granary,
1000 trees, good curhed we'll, plenty
water viii cell crop and all for $4,000,
on easy payments; must sell by May
/. f.. r. Dodds. Benedict, NJ. d.
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BARBER WANTED--G. M. Dawson
Edwards block.
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WANTED--A man to operate Turkish
bath rooms. A. r.. Emerson, MOOT
head.
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HELP wANTEp-htALE.

HAVE knight rrinting g. print i.
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WANTED TO EUY--First class sec
ondhand typewriter; visible desired
Address $50, care Forum.
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WANTED First class barber at once;
no boozer. Apply at Webster hotel
barber shop.
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SAVING MACHINES.

j - - 80 ~ 10
n. n. STOW, the expert repair
man cleans and repairs any !
make OF machine. prices rea-
] sonahie; work Guaranteed Sec
ond hand machines for sale.
! Phone 3t0-L.
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WANTED 70 nuY.

News worn garmsn.- Phone 1857
Fargo.
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HOSPITAL.

MATERNITY HOSPITAL Competent
nurses and best OF care: highest tes-
timonials from doctors and patients.
MRS. Jennie Camp. 9o1 Tenth street
south. Fargo.
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IN ANSWERING all want ads. giving
a certain number care Of The Forum
be sure 60 address your answers TO
that number, In care OF Forum. This
insures prompt attention.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-04-19

WA9TED-To purchase = small mod
ern hotise. Address. giving full par
ticulars as to location and price. 174
care Forum.
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soARD AND ROOM oFEgREp.

TABLE BOARD offered; reasonable
rates. Phone 1851.
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BUSINESS CHANCE.

FOR SALE--Three-ch barber shop |;
good location in Fargo. Address
1875. care Forum.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-04-19

BOARp AND ROOM in modern house
601 Broadway. Carlson's boardinr
house. ?
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-04-19

ROOM AND BOARD at the Clifton
lis Eighth street north.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-04-19

"A LADY COOK wanted at Hebron
hotel; good wages. F, A. zook. Prop.
Hebron. N. D.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-04-19

WANT Ed Competent girl for general
houseworlk lit Eleventh street
SOUTH
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j AN OFFERING for rent, my barber
shop In the Hotel Jordan In this
city. A three chair shop, three baths
and shower bath, which will rent at q
very reasonable rent to responsible
party; can give immediate posses
sion OF same. For other information
inquire Of =. J. Berry, Glendive. Mont.
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ROOM AND BOARD at 2O7 Fourth
street north. Phone 207-L
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WANT ED Competent girl for general
housework. MRS. Sorkness, 9l2 First
avenue north.
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Foa SALE on FOX RENT.

FOR SALE or RENT-Quarter sec
ton: ten miles from Fargo. Enquire
w. A. Scott, Pioneer Life building,
Fargo n y.
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POSITION wANTED-MALE.

FOR LAWN or window work. cali
1851.
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FOR Confectionery store. well
| located, viii sell reasonable. Apply
NO. 200, care Forum.
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HELP MANUFACTURING.

WANTED-Good plain cook. 2i1
Tenth street north.
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FOR RENT-Furnishe rooms at 214h
Broadway.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-23

handling Of its outgoing malls, II was
constructed and paid for, not by the
Post-office Department, but by the rail-
way company. In fact, many of the
operations on which depends the in
creased speed with which the malls
travel from one part of the country to
another are conducted by the railways
at their own expense.
The costly terminals maintained by the
railway lines in all the big cities are all
equipped with facilities for handling the
mails. While these are not so elaborate
in most places as is the equipment of the
new Pennsylvania station described
above, they represent In every instance
a heavy expenditure which the railways
are forced to bear alone. A big railroad
cannot hold back its other important
business to keep pace with the easy-go-
ing methods of Uncle Sam, and, conse-
quently. improved and rapid mechanical
appliances are installed. regardless of ex-
pense, while the Post-office Department,
and, incidentally, the public, get the ben
eft.
One OF the great time-saving devices
enabling mail to be delivered promptly
is the apartment postal car, in which
mail is assorted on the way to its des-
tination. There are nearly 1000 of these
cars in operation in the country, but the
government pays nothing to the railways
for their use beyond the regular allow
ances by weight for the mail transport
ed. The railroads also in many cases
are required to deliver the mail between
their stations and post-offices not more
than a quarter of a mile distant with
out any payment, although, on the state
ment of post-office officials, II would cost
the government over 100000 annually
to perform this work by contract. These
services have grown up in the course of
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-23

form services for which he does not pay
and to introduce labor-saving machinery
at their own expense, he has been COM
PEELED by the very magnitude of the
operations involved to adopt mechanical
Improvements himself In connection with
certain phases of mail handling. How
important this Is in a city like New
York is indicated by the fact that on
every business day of the year some
$500 900 pieces of mail matter are handled
by the local post-office. More than two
fifths of the outgoing mail. or over ], 500,
900 pieces, descend upon the post-ofice
in the hours between and Z p. m.
One of the greatest time-savers in the
operation of the New York post office
is the system of pneumatic tubes by
which the mail is shot through to branch
post-offices in the different parts Of the
city. In the case of mail destined for
railway transportation outside the city,
branch post-offices have been erected in
connection with the great new terminals
of the Pennsylvania and New York Gen.
trail railroads, and are connected with
the general post-office by pneumatic
tubes. Half an hour before train time
the mail for outgoing trains is tied
out" dropped to the basement Of the
post-office, loaded into pneumatic shells,
each one of which holds half a bushel
of letters, and is shot away at the rate
of thirty miles an hour to the branch
office, where a new set of machinery. as
already described. takes hold Of 1t and
delivers II to the travelling post-ofices
of the Railway Mail Service in the short
est possible time. By pneumatic tube
transmission the trip to the railway sta
ton is made in five to seven minutes,
instead of requiring half an hour, as
would be the case II automobiles or
horses were still employed to convey it.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-23
NEW YORK'S MAIL MATTER
HANDLED BY MACHINERY
First Complete System for Loading Pouches Auto
naticaly Is Installed in New Pennsylvania Terminal
HON. the Railway Postoffice Has Been Improved
by Railroads at Opn Expense

New York. April 4-The first complete
mechanical system for leading mail mat
ter into cars, providing for its handling
entirely by automatic appliances from
mail wagon to train. has just been in
! stalled here at a cost of more than $780,
ooc. The apparatus is part of the equip
ment of the new Pennsylvania terminal,
through. which 40 per cent of the mail
matter leaving New York is handled
The saving even of seconds is valuable
in the transfer of the millions of pieces
of mail that pass through the station
daily, and from the time when the wagons
from the many branch post-office deliver
the pouches at the street level until they
enter the mail cars waiting on the tracks
OF the under-river tunnels. seventy feet
lower down. human labor is supplanted
by more rapid mechanical devices.
There are three stages in the process
of getting the sacks of mail from the
street to the mail cars. Some time be-
fore the fast mail train to Western
points, consisting of perhaps half a dozen
cars, is scheduled to leave the station,
it is shunted upon one OF the subterra-
mean tracks in the great terminal. Into
these cars there shortly begin to drop
automatically delivered pouches coming
from some unseen source. AS the mo-
ment OF departure approaches the pouches
come in more rapid succession. until they
are shooting into the cars in a constant
stream.
Rising slightly above the floor Of the
terminal post-office at the point where
the mail wagons make their deliveries
are a number of huge, hollow sheet-iron
cylinders. Into these the pouches arc
dumped and slip down to a point Just
above the roofs of the waiting cars. The
pouches do not fall in direct line. since
this might injure their contents, but they
travel down on spiral slides like great
screws inclosed by the iron cylinders.
Occasionally a number of sacks become
damned in the chutes, and then an en-
ploye. as the quickest way of dislodging
them, jumps into the cylinder itself and
takes a hurried ride down to the point
where the pouches are lodged.
When the mail bags reach the bottom
Of the cylinder the first stage Of their
handling is ended. From that point
they drop onto one of a number OF con-
tinually moving endless belt conveyors
which travel just above the roofs Of the
cars Of the waiting train. Each cylinder
leads to a certain belt and each belt
serves the trains set on certain track
But since not all the mail is carried in
one car. a third operation is necessary in
its mechanical delivery. Standing on the
platform beside the cars are a number
of movable curved chutes just long
enough to reach from the conveyor belts
to the door of the mail car. These are
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-23

| looms or flights into the clouds in bird
like aeroplanes. You will travel in steer.
able ships, handled by captains, pilots
and engineers, making regular round
trips from their starting points to fixed
destinations and return.
Not only is America behind Europe In
aerial navigation. but the Americans dc
no: even understand how far the Euro
peans have surpassed them. Germans
lead the world in airship development
England and France are active, but In
Germany the day of the passenger air
ship is not coming, it has arrived. The
development has progressed to the point
where these two air travel authorities
declare they do not hesitate to say that
within three years German airships will
be making regular trips across the At
lantic to the United States. and that
within five years airship service in Ger
many will be operating as regularly. and
almost as commonly, as steamers, rail-
road trains, and automobiles.
Plan North Pole Trip.
The Germans have established regular
airship passenger lines. They have or
ganized their weather bureau to serve
their ships by wireless. German cities
have extended the scope of municipal
ownership to include airship docks. Ger
man financiers have invested their mon
ey. The Kaiser and the imperial gov
eminent have taken a definite interest
A trip to the north pole will be made
under the Emperor Williams sanction
and under the direction of a company
headed by Prince Henry of Prussia. his
brother. for the purpose of training crews
for transoceanic service.
While Americans have been devotins
their time to aeroplane speed contests,
altitude records, and other spectacular
feats. the Germans have been working on
the less romantic but infinitely more
useful air liners. We have studied pic
lures in Sunday newspapers of structures
like the Eiffel tower that were to serve
as landing places for great aeroplanes.
The Germans have built airship docks
down on the ground and equipped them
with ticket Offices and tickets. They
have sold the tickets for good hard cash
and given in return real aerial voyages.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-23

, time as Incidents in the rapid handling
OF the mails and in the absence Of spe-
cifc appropriations to enable the post
office to perform them, the railways have
assumed the burden for the sake Of get
ting the work done promptly.
Railroads Make Complaint.
Recently. however. the transportation
lines have begun to protest against this
condition of affairs. They have been
taking stock of the mail service which
they perform and they find that with
the reductions made in recent years in
the rates of pay for carrying the mails
they are. conduting this branch of their
business at an actual money loss amount
ing to several million dollars annually.
Last winter they asked Congress to
make some provision for payment for
these various free services, but no action
was taken in spite OF the fact that the
chairman Of the committee investigating
the matter announced that he believed
the claims of the railroads were justi-
fed.
While Uncle Sam has thus been able
to turn a few tricks at the expense Of
the railroads by requiring them to per-
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-23

The popular belief that crows must
have their tongues split before they can
talk is declared to be a fallacy by Mel
son R. Wood. bird taxidermist at the
Smithsonian Institution. He says he has
had crows for pets all his life and the
majority have talked without any doctor
ing whatever.
This statement was made after a visitor
to Mr.. Woods workshop had been intro
duced to a big. intelligent-looking crow,
Young Jack, who, upon being noticed.
made a great commotion by hopping
around in his cage. Mr.. Wood It Is who
stuffs the specimens which are on exhi-
bition at the museum, and his little shop,
which is in reality nothing more than an
old barn, is a veritable "Old Curiosity
Shop" Big birds and little birds sit to-
gether in the various cases or lie around
dismally in punches on the tables wait
ing to be mounted.
THE crow" Mr.. Wood continued after
Young Jack had been made to keep quiet,
"is the most intelligent Of all birds to my
way of thinking, but is at the same time
the most silly in its fear, which is appar-
entity without foundation. That one is
the fourth bird I have had within the
ing my absence in the summer. In those
birds noted certain characteristics. One
was afraid of common soda cracker and
a swinging door. Nothing could induce
him to leave his perch IL a cracker were
put In the cage. Another was afraid Of
peanuts and would go without eating for
hours at q time should a peanut be put
on the top of his food. Still another
would be terrified at the sight Of any
thing black. ribbon or tie having the
same effect as a whole suit
From the fund OF knowledge which Mr.
Wood has stored up about crows he is
able to tell many interesting and anus
ing little tales which illustrate his state
ment concerning the intelligence Of the
bird.
I'm my youth was farmer boy"
said Mr. Wood, land one Of the few pets
/ had was Q crow which my teacher had
given me. No matter where went the
crow would follow. When at work Jack
would be put ; few feet away looking for
something to eat Sometimes would
md worm and would call to him. Come
here. Jack, and zee what I've found
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-23
SHAW'S LATEST JOKE

two middle-class families, the Gilbeys
and the Knoxes. Giibey's son has zone
to prison for fourteen years as the result
of a lark. Knox's daughter has also
gone to prison for assaulting a police
man. she having. after a religious meet
ing. strayed down Piccadilly, gone to a
dance hall with a young Frenchman and
been roughly handled by the police in q
raid on the hall. Both sets of parents
try to conceal their children's disgrace
which finally leaks out in the humorous
third act.
The epilogue is back in the counts
hall, where he, shocked by the modern
ity Of his daughters play, asks the crit
les their opinions. Not knowing the au-
thor. the critics are In a dilemma One
attributes It to Shaw. another to Pinero.
Fanny finally admits the authorship The
piece was splendidly acted by Mrs. Gran
vile Barker and her company. All the
social and intellectual lights of London
gathered to applaud the Shaw-Barker
joke. Calls for the authors were with.
out result, although both gentlemen were
In the house