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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-08-24
BOY TIRES OF WORK

the kitchen to leave the bread. The
door was open. You'd ought to seen
John! He ran out yelling"
John went to Frank Klein, janitor
at No. S25, and told what he had seen.
Klein ran back to the Gussig kitchen
and cut the ropes from Andrews feet
and hands.
"A big man came through that win
dow" said Andrew, and tied me
down and turned on the gas"
Patrolman Wolf was called. Acting
Captain Place of the Morrisania sta
ton came with detectives Captain
Brennan Of the fremont station did
likewise, after word had reached Cap
tain Price of the Bronx detective bu-
reau that murder had been attempted
The block was surrounded, men
went to roofs and others questioned
jewellers in the neighborhood. While
an ambulance surgeon was working
over the boy his mother ran in.
MY poor boy!" she walled. 81 left
you all alone to na'~ baby"
Andrew was e /, occasion.
Its better for me to play outside
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-08-24
BEATING DRUM HIS HOBBY

Simon E. Bernheimer, a millionaire
brewer OF New York, died recently
just as he was exultantly and delight
edly in the exercise of his lifelong
hobby-beating bass drum. It was
an odd revelation that man of great
wealth and large affairs had found his
keenest enjoyment in acting as a mu-
stefan in band. Bernheimer has
spent thousands of dollars in the sup.
port of musical association for the
mere privilege Of welding the big
baton with its huge leather ball against
the side of booming drum. He had
Joined a Masonic order in order -
get an opportunity to play the bass
drum as a substitute in the band, at
tending rehearsals devotedly in the
hope that some night the regular bass
drummer would be absent and he
would get chance. And when he
did get it the other night he attacked
the instrument with such vim and was
SO highly excited withal at the oppor-
tunity that had come to him that he
brought on a stroke Of apoplexy thai
killed him
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-08-24
FEWER SHIPS IN THE WORLD
Carrying Trade Is Done in Bigger Yes
sells, Being Moro ProftabIe-Ton-
mage Growing.

London.-It will surprise many per-
sons to learn there are fewer ships In
the world than there were a few years
ago. Lloyd's Register now gives the
total as 30,087, whereas the figure for
1907-08 was 90,303. The explanation
is simple. The carrying trade of the
globe is done in bigger ships, because
it is more profitable. The Olympic, for
example, only counts as one vessel,
whereas her $4,000 tons would tn the
old days have been spread over quite
a respectable feet
Again, sailing ships have largely
disappeared. A single steamer replac-
ing three of them Is at least as ef-
fective. All the same, the worlds ton
mage keeps growing. The 30,087 ships
represent 43,147,154 tons, whereas the
larger number Of a few years back
stood for 39,438,917, a growth of $780,
900 tons in four years.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-08-24

with the other boys" he said Then
no big men viii come in and try to
murder me-"
His mother agreed fervently. But
Detective McIlhardy became suspi-
cious.
Where did you say that big man
came in?" he asked.
The boy indicated a window, close
to which stood a feather bed in such
a position that one entering by the
window would have had to crawl over
the bed. But there wasn't mark on
it. The detective took the boy into
another room and there made him con,
Tess.
81 tied myself up" said Andrew. "I
didn't want to stay in here. I wanted
to go out in the field and play detec-
tive and Wild West"
When the detective Informed the
parents they cried:
Take him away to Jail! He's a
bad boy"
So Andrew, Jr., was taken to the
Children's society rooms and will be
arraigned in the children's court,
charged with attempted suicide and
juvenile delinquency.
Gee! it looks like I'd never get a
chance to play" he said.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-08-24

ter and syrup, two glasses of butter
milk and if allowed will drink two
cups of coffee. For dinner he will eat
big plate of green's or vegetables
with boiled bacon, corn bread biscpits,
a whole pie if he can get it, and two
glasses of buttermilk He eats again
between dinner and supper, and his
supper is in keeping with breakfast
and dinner
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-08-24
LAWYER CURED OF ECZEMA

While attending school at Lebanon.
Ohio, in 1882, became afflicted with
boils, which lasted for about two
years. when the affection assumed the
form of an eczema on my face. the
lower part of my face being inflamed
most of the time. There would be
water-blisters rise up and open, and
wherever the water would touch it
would burn, and cause another one to
rise. After the blister would open,
the place would scab over, and would
burn and itch so as to be almost I'M
bearable at times. In this way the
sores would spread from one place to
another, back and forth over the
whole of my upper lip and chin, and
at times the whole lower part of my
face would be solid sore. This con-
dition continued for four or five years,
without getting any better, and in fact
got worse all the time, so much so
that my wife became alarmed lest it
prove fatal.
During all this time of boiIs and
eczema, I doctored with the best ply
to no avail. Finally decided to try
Cuticura Remedies, which I did, TAX
ing the Cuticura Resolvent, applying
the Cuticura Ointment to the sores,
and using the Cuticura Soap for wash
iEg. In very short time / began to
notice improvement, and continued to
use the Cuticura Remedies until was
well again, and have not had re-
currence of the trouble since, which Is
over twenty years. / have recon-
mended Cuticura Remedies to others
ever since, and have great faith in
them as remedies for skin diseases"
(Signed) A. G. Brandon, Attorney-at-
Law, Greenville, o., Jan. II, 1911.
Although Cutlcura Soap and Oint-
ment are sold everywhere, a sample
of each, with 32-page book, will be
mailed free on application to "Cutl-
cura," Dept. 3 K. Boston.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-08-24
GET POWER.
The Supply Comes From Food.

II we get power from food why no,
strive to get all the power we can
That is only possible by use of skill
fully selected food that exactly fits
the requirements of the body.
Poor fuel makes a poor fire and a
poor fire is not good steam producer.
From not knowing how to select
the right food to fit my needs. I suf-
fered grievously for a long time from
stomach troulaes,' writes lady from
little town i'll Missouri.
1T seemed as if l would never be
able to find out the sort of food that
was best for me hardly anything that
l could eat would stay on my stomach.
Every attempt gave me heartburn and
filled my stomach with gas I got
thinner and thinner until | literally
became a living skeleton, and in time
was compelled to keep to my bed.
A few months ago l was persuaded
TO try Grape-Nuts food, and it had such
good effect from the very beginning
that ! have kept up its use ever since.
was surprised at the ease with which
j
what I needed.
"Al my unpleasant symptoms, the
heartburn, the inflated feeling which
gave me so much pain disappeared.
My weight gradually increased from
IS to l16. pounds, my figure rounded
out, my strength came back, and am
now able to do my Homework and en-
Joy It. Grape-Nuts food did it. Name
given by Postum Co, Battle Greek,
Mich.
A ten days trial will show anyone
some facts about food.
Read the little book. "The Road to
Wellville.' in pkgs There's a reason"
Ever read the above letterf A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine. true, aad full OF human
Interest.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-08-24
He CAN TWIST BIG SPIKES.

Michael Manson, a confectioner of
Wooster, O., although well along in
years, has just discovered that he has
wonderful strength in his hands Mau-
sor watched a street fakir doing feats
with nails. He tried some of them
and was astounded on finding how
easily he could twist and bend nails.
Then he tried the largest steel spikes
and these he was able to bend and
twist with apparent ease. Manson
made a chain of the spikes to show
what he could do with his hands. A
strange part of Mansor's discovery is
that although he has seen tricks of
the sort performed he never before
thought of trying to initiate any of the
performances
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-08-24
Cement : ak No. 2

R011land Cement does
not come from Portland,
Maine, or Portland, Ore
gon, and it was not first
made at either of these
places. 1t is called Portland
because it was given this name
by the Englishman who first
made it. He called it Portland
because he thought it resembled GER
tain natural deposits on the Isle of Port
land in England Portland Cement is
the fine powder produced by pulver-
izing the clinker- resulting from the
burning together of various materials of prop
or chemical composition. In the case of
UniVsrJaI Portland Cement, these raw mater
ials are blast furnace Stag and pure limestone.
There are many brands of Portland Cement
on the market, produced by different manu-
Facturers. UHfUerJalis one of the best known
and highest grade Portland Cemenb. You
can always tell it by the name UnfgerJaIand
the blue trade mark printed on each sack.
Forty million sacks of UHiIsrJakare made and
used yearly in this country. If you have any
concrete work to do, you will make no mistake
byusing UniUerJaI Portland Cement Unf-Uer5al
isforsale byrepresentatiVe dealers everywhere.
UNIVERSAL PORTLAND CEMENT co.
II W. ADAMS STREET, CHICAGO
ANNUAL OUTPUT 100000 BARRELS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-08-24
BOYS REMARKABLE ESCAPE

4 seven-year-old boy, Walter Gus
tavage. had thrilling experience at
Girardyille, Pa, one day lately. A
chum dared him to Jump over the
mouth of an air shaft at one of the
colliery mines, and on making the at
tempt he miscalculated the distance
end vent whirling down the chute 40
feet into an excavation. He escaped
with nothing more than a few bruises.
When the boy disappeared into the
opening his companion spread an
alarm and rescuers were lowered into
the hole with ropes, but could get no
response to their calls. An hour later
when those on the surface had given
up the boy for dead, loader boss ap-
peared on the surface with the lad in
his arms. He found him on gang
way platform crying from fright, but
practically unhurt.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-08-24
In Strict Obedience.

Master Gregory Graham, aged three,
had been having an ocean bath, and
breaking away from his older sister
ne ran all dripping wet to the door OF
the living room, where Mrs Graham
was entertaining caller from the
fashionable hotel
Why, Greg" his mother greeted
him, you mustn't come in here like
that, dear. Go straight upstairs and
take off your bathing suit first"
A few minutes later Mrs Graham
turned toward the door in curiosity
as to what sight there had sent her
visitors eyebrows up so high, and in
the same moment her sons cheerful
voice rang out:
q looked it off, mother, like yoi
told me to. I'm coming in now for
some cake"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-08-24
QUEER PRANK OF LIGHTNING

In an electrical storm at South
Windsor, Conn, fash of lightning
struck the handle bars Of a bicycle
standing beside an elm tree in the
yard of Charles Ryan. The handle
bars were torn off and driven from the
foot of the tree up 20 feet, removing
the bark as smoothly as If the work
had been done with knife. The bars
were then turned back, slid down five
feet, and buried themselves eight
inches deep In the wood, none tbs
worse for their journey.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-08-24
The YOUNG Idea.

There are two kinds of joints. the
hinges and the ball-bearing.
Reflex action is the inside eye and
ear. Reflex action controls things
that we do not have to think about,
as talking.
Had we no skin, our clothes would
cause us endless agony.
The stomach is the trunk of our
body. The stomach contains the liver.
The stomach is south of the lungs,
west of the liver. 1t has three coats.
Without the stomach we should die,
therefore God chose the stomach to
digest our food.-Woman' Home Com.
panion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-08-24
China Hits at Cigarettes

If these cigarettes, says a statisti-
clan, could be connected from end to
end they would cover a distance OF
$4,000 feet, which exceeds the height
Of Mount Full by 1850 feet.
In the Nihonbashi ward of the city
the smoking is heaviest. each inhabi-
tant smoking on the average from
$3.50 to 81 worth of tobacco per year.
In addition, over LOO tons of cut to-
bacco are smoked every year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-08-24
DUMB MAN SPEAKS.

An unusual case was that of Harry
Wiltze, a dumb patient, in New Ha-
ven hospital, who greeted the visiting
physician the other morning with
Hello, Doci" 1t was the first word
he had spoken for nine months, and
the first sane utterance in many
years. An operation was performed on
the patient, section of his skull
which had come in contact with the
brain being removed, with the result
just recorded. There is every indica-
ton that the remarkable operation
will be perfectly successful
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-08-24
WORLDS BIGGEST BABY.

In James Adolph Cody, two years
and three months old, Mount Airy, Ga,
boasts the biggest baby in the world.
James now weighs 122 pounds and is
growing every day. The coming
giant already stands 40 inches, meas
ures SO inches round the waist, and
takes a Pinch collar. James sleeps
well, is perfectly healthy and very
strong. His appetite is more like a
grown persons than a baby's. For
breakfast he viii eat three or four
large biscuits, with bacon, gravy, but
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-08-24
HORSE PUTS FOX TO R0UT.

On farm in Sussex is a four-year-
old horse of rare intelligence. Recent
~ its owner was astonished to hear
great commotion In a field in which
number Of fowls are kept. He guess
ed that fox was making off with
a duck. His suspicious were correct,
but before he could get to the spot,
the horse, which was grazing in an
adjoining field, had cleared some high
oaken rails and gone to the rescue
of the bird. Not only did it cause
the fox to relinquish its hold of the
bird, but it seized the marauder with
its teeth and held it under the water
for some time
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-08-24
LADY SMITH GETS BIG FISH
Yellow Tail, Weighing 36a4 Pounds,
Is Landed at Catallna-Breaks
This Seasons Record.

Los Angeles, Cal.-Lady Hampden
Smith of London, Eng, established
new seasons record for lady anglers
at Catalina by catching a yellowtail
weighing 36& pounds. near Seal
rocks. She has receive therefore
silver button from the light tackle
class Of the Tuna club. II her record
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-08-24
CHILDREN PAWNED FOR GIN

A fearful state of affairs seems to
exist in southern Nigeria. At recent
missionary meeting in London, Eng.
it was stated that the country was
literally stepped in gin. Half the rev
enue is derived from the sale of the
liquor, and in many courts the fines
are paid in gin. The estimated imports
OF spirits into the colony during 1910
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-08-24
Avoid DisputatIon.

The disputatious person never makes
a good friend. In friendship, men
look for peace and concord and some
measure OF content. There are
enough battles to fight outside, enough
Earring and jostling in the street,
enough disputing in the market place.
enough discord in the workaday
world, without having to look for con-
tention in the realm of the inner life
also. There, if anywhere, we ask for
an end of strife. Friendship is the
sanctuary of the heart, and the peace
of the sanctuary should brood over 1t.
Its chiefest glory is that the dust and
noise Of contest are excluded.-Hugb
Black
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-08-24
TWICE BURIED BUT ALIVE

Supposed to have been ground to
death beneath freight train at New
buryport, and to have been twice
buried, once in the potters field and
again in Swampscott, after his body
had been so positively identified that
an insurance policy on his life was
paid, Raymond Smith is back at his
former home in Lynn, Mass.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-08-24
Character in the Eve.

Beware of the man who does not
look you clearly in the eye. He has
possibilities of evil Id his nature.
There are eyes which are luminous,
others which seem to be yelled be-
hind curtain
Men and women of the world are
accustomed to judge human nature by
the expression of the eye. Many peo-
pie read character by the eyes, and
can thus distinguish the false from the
loyal, the frank from the deceitful, the
hard from the tender, the energetic
from the indolent, the sympathetic
from the Indifferent.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-08-24
NOVELTY IN ADVERTISING

This remarkable alphabetical adver-
tisemeEt appeared IN an issue of the
London Times away back in 1912: ITO
widowers and single gentlemen
Wanted: By lady, situation to SUI
perintend the household and preside
at table. She is agreeable, becoming,
careful, desirable, English, faeetious,
generous, honest, Industrious, keen,
lively, merry, natty, obedient, phi2o-
sophie, quiet, rosy faced. sociabIe,
tasteful, useful, vivacious, womanish,
Xantippish, youthful, Jealous, etc"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-08-24

reached the enormous figure Of AGO.
900 gallons, by far the largest on rec
ord. The drink expenditure at mar
riage and funeral ceremonies has
grown greatly, with the result that
children are pawned 10 the gin trad
ers as security for debts incurred.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-08-24
German Kingdom Has Thlrty-Two Mu
inequalities of More Than 100000
Against Twenty-Five In 1909.

Berlin.-According to the last cen.
sus (autumn of 1910, Prussia has 81
cities of over 100000 inhabitants,
against 20 cities of that size In 1905
and % in 1900 Sixty-one cities Of over
$4,000 inhabitants each have total
population of 1O,S90.000 In 1905 there
were 81 such cities with a total popu-
lation of 9,650,000, and in 1900, 81
with population of 100000.
Cologne is now the second city in
Prussia in size. having passed Bres-
lau, second in 1906 Frankfort On
Main, with 414,59S inhabitants, comes
fourth
Heaviest increase during the period
from 1906 to 1910 was noted in the
cities Immediately surrounding Ber-
lin. OF these cities, four-Charlotten-
burg, Rixdorf, Schoeneberg and
Duetsch-W ilmersdorf-ha now over
100000 inhabitants, while the fifth,
Lichtenberg, bids fair to attain that
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-08-24
Troll for Fish, Hook Girl.

Winsted. Conn.-While trolling for
bass in Lake Mahkeenac in the Berk-
shires, the other day, Frank Parsons
got a strike" and when he began
to take In his line a society girl.
who was in bathing $50 yards away
cried out: I've been hooked
She had taken a dive off the float
after Mr.. Parsons boat had passed
by and the trolling hook caught her
bathing suit and held fast. The girl
swan to the Parsons boat where she
was unlocked
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-08-24
SCOTLAND HAS a KL0NDIKE

Scotland now has little Klondike
all its own, but there has been no rush
of gold-seekers because it is all on the
property of the duke of Sutherland.
Considerable gold has been found In
the Suisgill burn, typical Scottish
stream flowing amidst wild and barren
country, and the duke has established
a mining camp with a score of labor
ers under the charge of an experienced
miner from the real Klondike. Placer
methods are being employed
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-08-24

Beach, the angler being D. H Bux-
ton of Cedar Rapids. He got his
strike about seven miles off shore at
two o'clock and being unable to do
anything with the monster tied his line
and two others that had large gaffs
sunk deep into the fish, to the boat,
and started for shore. It took two
hours and half to get the fish to the
dock, where no means could be found
for raising it out of the water. Experts
say the fish weighed about 1900
pounds. 1t was cut loose and allowed
to sink
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-08-24
9ennsyIvania Hermit Looks In Mirror
for First Time In Life and Imme-
diately Coiiapses.

Pittsburg.-Jacob Steinman, aged
eighty-five, a hermit living back Of Re
serve township, for the first time in
his life saw himself in mirror. He
Immediately tainted and when revived
ran to a barber shop and got shave.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-08-24
NOW THE ELECTRIC CARPET.

The latest electric Invention is the
electric carpet for heating rooms. 1t
was originated in Paris. The under
side of the new carpet consists of a
network of steel wires through which
the current is equally distributed in
all directions. 1t is said that the cost
of the new form of heating will be
less than that of any known system;
indeed it is estimated that room
fitted with one of these carpets can
be heated at a total cost Of penny
an hour
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-08-24

is not beaten by some other woman
before Oct. l, when the tournament
closes, Lady Smith will be the win
ner of many valuable prizes, consist
ing of cups, medallions and fishing
paraphernalia.
For more than two hours Lady
Eampden Smith fought her catch with
deSterity. Often times she would have
to reach far over the side of the
launch, welding the rod and keeping
the line from being tangled in the
propeller. Calmly she fought the fish.
or rather allowed the fish to fight,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-08-24

New York-Gabriel Cross dived into
the East river. His head got caught at
tie bottom between two stones After
seven Linutes companionC succeeded
l. freeing him. He said it seemed
like a month under water.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-08-24
Fear Restores Leos.

HarEisonburg, Va.-A cripple from
birth, Joseph Summers the other day
threw away his crutches and crazed
with fright after accidentally shoot
ing small girl, ran in his bare
feet into the country. He fled so
rapidly that he has not yet been over
taken.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-08-24
Fec for Professional saruinas

New Iork.-A process server got
Into the presence of DR.. Maurice
Strum by asking for a prescription.
The doctor was awarded judgment for
So il court for professional services.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-08-24
Refreshments at Funeral.

New York.-Carl Schletter hanged
himself after leaving SIS, lis worldly
all, to his friends to be used for
music and refreshments" after his
funeral.