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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24
AN AUTUMN JINGLE.

AN AUTUMN JINGLE. The goldenrod Is a-bloomin' bright on "a hundred shiny hills, An the nnoonshincs' fallin' ghostly-whito on the nameskae Georgy 'stils.f
 Don't care, particular,
 To be there,
 But-what'll you do
 Bout the chill in the air?) When past the window the shiverin' wind, like 0 witch O the mountain moens, You shake an quake with the fall-time ache, an the rattlin' of the bones. (You must kill the chill
 Of the wintry breeze
 About two Jumps
 Of sugar. pleaseD Frank L. stanton, in the Atlanta Con- stitution.
 A PETTICOAT SPOUTER "She Is a great believer in the uplift" Chiefly as applied to her voice, pre- sume." What do you mean by that?" "She never overlooks a chance to make a speech PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24

The revoltuionists fin China boast a purse of S2 2000,0OO but it will take big ger purse than that to upset the Man chuS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24
BosTONEsE FoR JAILE

That Rieheson's in Boston
 We quickly could have guessed, Because the correspondent
 Tells us that he's Impressed"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24

The man who calls out the name of the dead and wounded in a Chinese battle needs a Timber tongue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24
SOCIETY NOTE.

SOCIETY NOTE. Patsy" and her old man. and-well ten or dozen of their children, Colonel Welch and family and Bogus Welch and family were the guests of W. H. Johnston and sister, Miss Minnie, Wednesday even
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24

The word "obey" in the marriage ser vice is coming to be regarded as an ob solete blue law.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24

Baseball is taking large bite out of the bootball season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24
THE COMMON HERp

Some men attain to high estate
 As leaders of the mob and teachers; Both classes are considered great,
 But most of us frequent the bleachers, Where life's a scramble after bread
 And clothes and place wherein to sleep; Where mortal days are briefly sped
 And sorrows hold is wondrous deep.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24

A revolution in China should spread east in order to get around in a vast nopulation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24

exercise It is about all he has left them | to take
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24

he President broke the ground for the San Francisco exposition with a golden spade
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24

California may yet be compelled 10 fit a grandmother clause to her new women voters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24
TELEPHONES

The iron tongue of midnight h ath told twe1ve;-- Lovers to bed; 'tis almost fairy time,
 --Midsummer Nights Dream.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24

Always ask when you are shopping foI pui Wiley vinegar. and take no other.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24

A popular subscription will soon be the measure of the LaFollette boom.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24

NOTHING DOING TODAY. Sweet Poesy, why dost thou mock Mo still. thy willing slave? luimovable as any rock.
 In vain my tears do lave Thy cruel feet; my prayers go Unheeded past thy ear. Was ever mortal wight in woo Immersed so deep, my dear?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala, pestoffiee as second class matter under act of Congress March 3. 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24

No one loves a millionaire and more except arohnd at the stage door.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24

z. E. Morgan and II. E. Oliver are the only authorized travelling repre- sentatives of The Age-Herald in It's circulation department
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24

Chicago has actually begun to buy some automobile fire equipment.
 1x-o,,,o,, ,,o,- ,.a+ 1o tba shonninq. and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24

Thyra Samter in the Chicago Tribune.
 WANT to be loved by matinee
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11
"MOVING-DAY"
FOR DYSPEPSIA
Indigestion, Headaches, Heartburn,
Gas Vanish When This Little
Remedy Moves In-One
Tablet Works
Wonders.

The day you take the first little
Miller's Dyspepsia Tablet, you can
just say Goodbye" forever to that
dyspepsia of yours. You'll never
be bothered with it any more. That
one little tablet is enough to show
dyspepsia the door, and if you take a
tablet just before meals for few
days more, you'll be able to eat what
you like without ever suffering the
slightest inconvenience.
Yes, eat anything and everything
your appetite craves-pies, cakes, rich
est pastries, nothing will hurt YOU
then. Your meals VIII taste good. too.
and there will be no dyspepsia OF
belching of gas; no weight in your
stomach, no headaches or dizziness;
no difficulty in catching your breath
and no sour risings of half-digested
TODD that make your breath offensive.
The beauty of this remedy is that
while it acts SO quickly, it acts just
as thoroughly. No matter how long
you've suffered, few days doses OF
Miiler's Dyspepsia Tablets and your
stomach will be as strong as ron
able to do its work without minutes
grumbling. The trouble is that now
your stomach is sick--Miller's Dys-
pepsia Tablets simply soothe and in.
vigorate it and make it strong and
healthy again. Then you have no
more distress after meals. But lis
done with almost before you know II
Why not try it today. You can buy
a big. box of Miller's Dyspepsia Tab
lets for 25c at any good drug store
or the druggist will give you trial
box free.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11

Mississippi. over its full length. and
along the banks of its tributaries. are
To-Day alive with men and boys gath
erlng the rough stock for buttons.
The result OF this clam gathering in
dusfry is told in one short paragraph.
when We see that more than five mil
lions of dollars is invested in these
shells, and the warehouses of the CON
Germs who make a business of col
lecting shells are bullying with re-
serve stock. Some day the supply
will fall short. Uncle Sam knows
this and has an eye out for the future
welfare of the button So now we
have stations all along the various
waterways of our country. and at these
stations are men experienced in
biological work, seeking out the
places where suitable shells lie buried
or perhaps lie unnoticed, and never
used Boepples. when he started saw
ing out blank forms for buttons also
started the wheels of MANY mills
moving. There are factories now go
ing top speed and at full limit of
capacity in four states. Muscatine be-
ing the center of the industry There
are three thousand men. women and
adults employed in the factories at
Muscarine, and their labor produc IS
an annual income of half million
dollars and makes use of about nine
hundred tons of buttons daily. Thus
il Is that the tiny button is used as
legal tender-a coin of the realm-and
buys anything that can be bought.
because It is only button. The old
days in our attic, on rainv da -
when we played store and used but
tons as money, may after all have
unconsciously sprung from the mys
terious fact that button is money
Along about 1899 everybody who
sought work found it in the making
OF siugs for buttons There was de- /
mand for them. The material was
easily gathered from the river banks. /
1t was big business working for
small manufactured article. yet the
necessity of its making drew an end
less call from factory and from lob
Der, and from stores where buttons
are sold, and nearly every store has
on hand for sale stock of buttons
Tho supply then was never to be oy- /
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11
KEOKUK PEARL
BUTTON DISTRICT
Writer Says Beauty Spot or Two Be-
tween keokuk and TT. Madison
Furnishes Best
Material.
THE FIRST BUTTON
German Tinker by Name of Boeppel
Near Muscatine Invented Saw
Which Gives Thousands
Employment.

Who's got button? Nobody would
ever think that a button could posi-.
bly, cause, through its earning capac-
ity, lot of trouble and immense
losses in labor. Nobody would ever
think much about the output of but
tons. or where they come from, or
how they were ever introduced. To
contemplate the origin of the button,
we must ring the old school bell of
the eighteenth century and look in up-
on the Riddles there as they study of
the first principles of the estate OF
man and his advancement. Or let us
stroll along the shores of our water
ways and find shells of transparent
tendency, and then wonder, il we
can, just to how many uses that piece
OF shell was destined. Or better still.
take a hitch in your clothing, and the
careful appearance of men and wo-
mea depends very particularly upon
the exact location and the exact condi-
ton, size, strength and quality of a
button. To set alight the city or night
or to start the sluices running aft of
ship ready to launch. or to pen the
gates OF an exposition or to call 20
wire someone who is thousand
miles away at the end of a tiny line
charged with the manufactured light
ning-press a button.
A tremendous lot depends upon that
tiny thing of earthly ossified crust.
There are many millions of buttons
doing respectable duty right now. IN
TACT, If we could get at the center of
tne universe. perchance we would find
a button there, and it would be asso-
ciated with the movement of things
material-beyond the darkness of the
understanding of man.
There is wise little gentleman of
German descent. now working for
Uncle Sam. at the biological station
near Muscatine. Iowa His name is
William Boeppels, and he came to this
country from the fatherland when he
was yet in his teens Less than a doz-
en- years ago Boepples located at Mus
catine, where he had friends. He
took to tinkering for his OCCUPATION.
t~i-~ - ii1Ac eiIhCI LIZ he OlScOFHT60
that he could shape the millions of
little shells he picked UP here and
there and shape them into buttons
Ihls maybe was necessary in his case.
for many man has urgent need of a
button at times, and his pockets near
" always reveal everything else in the
trfnket line brit button, when it is
most needed Boepples took to shap-
Ing these shells, and then he contriy-
ed saw which would work out form
quickly and easily and then he crossed
his legs and commenced to saw up
shells and shape them into buttons.
and he sold the blank form as fast as
he could make it, and after awhile he
obtained help, then more help, and to-
day there are upwards of 10000 men.
women, boys and girls all depending
upon the ingenuity of that little saw
and upon the genius of Mr. Boepples
FOR living. The clam beds along the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11
500 REWARD. 500.

rhe readers Of this pa er will he
nloased TO learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that fcfence has
been able to cure in all It's y j. and
that IL Catarrah. Hail. Catarrah Cure
Is the only positive cure now known to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh ,eing
constitutional disease. requires con-
stitutional treatment. Halls Catarrah
Cure IS taken Internally acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces Of
the system. thereby destroying II foun-
dation of the disease and giving th1
pa tient strength by building up the con-
stitutIon and assisting nature In doing
its work The proprietors have 20 much
fan in its curative powers that they
offer One Hundred DoiIors for any case
that II falls to cure. Send Tor lists of
testimonials.
Address r. ]. CHENEY B. co. Tole-
do. O.
Sol by all druggists Tie.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipa-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11
Seventeen keokuk Manufacturers are
There Today Attending the
State Meeting With Pur-
pose in View.
WANT THE 1913 MEETING
Have Taken With Them Much Al
vertIsine Matter and viii Boost
the Old Town for all
It's Worth.

Seventeen Keokuk manufacturers
went to Burlington this morning to
attend the state convention of the
Iowa Manufacturers Association and
primarily for the purpose OF bringing
back the convention for the year 1913.
They were laden down with booster
advertising matter and will make
themselves known when they STAN
pede about the convention hall and
boom Keokuk as the city with a flu
ture. The delegates were supplied
with number of the Water Power
Company bulletins and with water
power badges. 500 other badges will
be taken for distribution. The gentle
men going were the following:
Messrs. John Nagel G. j. Kirch,
Henry Stricken, c. NJ. Rich, ]. B.
Well, Cephas Harrison, Paul Dysart,
G. A. Weber. A. c. Decker, Harvey
Ringstrom, Will Carter. Well M. irwin,
Jack Ellsworth, H. T. Henderson,
Stephen Irwin, A. E. Matless, w. j.
Fulton.
The Program.
9:00-Address of welcome by Hon.
W. C. Cross, mayor city of Burlington.
9:15 to 0:0o-"Financing Indus
tries; the Williamsport Plan by Rev.
r. H. Bnrton-smith. vice president
Sioux City Foundry Co.
Promotion, by Woodwork C1um,
secretary of Greater Davenport com
mittee
1000 to :0o-"Taxation In Iowa. .
by Prof. John E. Brindley, department
economics and political science. Ames.
Iowa.
1900 to 12:oo-"The Value of Jul
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11
Just Half in Bed

clyde, ky.-Mrs. /. A. Decker. writes
from Clyde: q recommend cardni
Inc woman's tonic to any woman in
need OF remedy. For five years. I
was unable to do my own work. Half
my time was spent in bed. At last
| tried Cardui. Now l am we'll and
happy, and can do my own work. /"
Don suffer pain, headache, backache
and other womanly miseries, when
your own druggist has on his shelf a
remedy fos such troubles-Cardui.
Get bottle for your shelf AS a
general tonic, for weak women, moth.
ing has been found for 80 years that
would take its place. Try it. 1t will
help you.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11

dicious Advertising" by T. w LIE
Quatte, president of Des Moines Ad-
mems club.
Afternoon.
LOO sharp. Trip on the Mississippi
river on palatial steamer Dubuque.
Music by Fischer's band.
$3.50 to 5:3O-visit to Burlington
factories.
Evening.
73O-1llustrated lecture. Employ
ers' Liability in Europe
The Continent by Fred G.
Schwedtman, president st. Louis In.
dustrial Association.
England" by James A. Emery,
Washington, D c.
These addresses on Employers
Liability will be illustrated BY lantern
slides and will be of very great value
to every employer. Lectures will be
held in the Garrick theatre, opposite
Hotel Burlington.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11
Nerves Gone
Heart Weak
Doctors tell us that vast percentag,
OF the breakdowns and trouble.
to-day are from overworked, un.
dernourished nerves,

OF the breakdownS and troubles
to-day are from overworked. I'm.
dernourished nerves.
We Americans strain every nerve
IN our body trying to make success
IN ne, and do not nourish and feed
our nervous system SO as to make
II equal to the strain, the result ;s
we are broken-down men and women
De before we are forty years of age.
ne nerve TISSUES must be fed and
strengthened, the stomach must be
assisted IN doing the work of digest
ing the food, the blood must be en-
Iicned and circulation quickened, the
bouy and brain must be invigorated
50 that we can withstand the strain
ana retain health, strength and youth.
Here IS the experience of Miss
Kemp. OF Summit, New Jersey, who
mad a complete nervous breakdown.
SO that her heart became very weak.
MISS Kemp was in serious condi-
ton and was advised to try Duffv's
Pure Malt Whiskey. Not approving
OF. taking whiskey or any alcoholic
stlmuiant, she declined at first. but
after reading what it had done for
others, she tried it. and as she ex-
pressed 1t to a friend the other dav.
Il am indeed thankful and glad that
did, as it has restored her health
and made her strong so that she can
again resume business.
The young lady says that she re-
ceived good advice from our Medical
to which she wrote and
stated her case.
Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey is the
only whiskey that was taxed by the
government as a medicine during
the Spanish-American war.
All druggists, grocers and dealers,
Or direct. Sl.O0 large bottle. Re
'use substitutes and limitations, they
are injurious.
The Duffy Malt whiskey Co.. Rochester, N. Y
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11
SUGAR CREEK.
> = . . $50 ~>%4 .

The farmers have all about finished
planting corn.
Linn Humes and family spent Sun
day with Tom Gregory and family.
Cloit Berkhead spent Sunday with
Elya Mckinney.
Willie and Hazel Buchanan are sick
with the chicken pox.
Glenn Mckinney spent Sunday
with Kenneth Clark
Vera and Ethel Schellenberger visit
ed the Sugar Creek school last Sun
day.
Mrs. C. c. Mckinney and Edna
Schellenberger spent Sunday with
Myrtle Walker
Fritz Zennert and Wells Sanders
Spent Saturday and Sunday with Ed.
Zennert at Medill.
Mr. and Mrs. Berkhead spent Sun
day with their daughter, Mrs. Christy.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11
FoIey's Kidney Remedy Acted oulek,,

FoIeys Kidney Remedy Acted Quickly
M N. George, Irondale. Ala. was
bothered with kidney trouble for
many years. Il was persuaded TO try
Foley Kidney Remedy, and before tau.
ing It three days ! could feel IT'S beno.
fetal effects. The pain left my baek
my kidney action cleared ~, and {
am SO much better do not bealtatc
to recommend Foley Kidney Remegy .
Wilkinson Il Co.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11
Description of $3.50 Acres of Deaf Smith

The 6Oac
County Ie1as lying south of the Chicago Island
from Amarillo Tmmcar
teen mules north of the land the Genrio
in all
in the from
thence
20 my land and will undoubtedly
through which Within
Tor charter for the Rock Island Texas Railroad from
Dalar, the Denver
1oakum County This
my land which will make the M
descipt land i
4 RANGE ana secdos 10 so
81 and IS sRang2
About the so dark brown chocolate
IN depth all kaI
kal district The soils fertile In
it's medium land By this
an neither The the
experience
depth this land will hold the moisture ora onghm
and teyf eject NsN' - HOA
beautiful wing
a present 800 : $3.50 -
German neghrs
Germansa
ct loose - @l az nifty
conditions meo been fine
the are RICH Nie pe'er
tath
HI
the sacrifice sea-
land
@N'nee
~ Panhandle this Summer
but this s
o
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11
Never hesitate ab1,tl gfgt,., y.

Never hehllate ab11 9tvlnu rl4..
pertains Cough tsemedg III ealJ1ren
y contains no opfam ~ ubAs nag
collcs and can be giYag nm ,mat,eu
condolences, Az 4ui1k Ngs4 ~, ~
coughs and eoids " ut,f1t, 1s,ltd3 IL
are susceptible, II II 9sa.,,,,ssal ~
Sold ny ail desisfg e8Sss''
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11
Good Take. Ito p,ses.

Every year strips us of al jesst ons
vain expectation and teaches ~ ~
reckon some solid good IN i,s stss1 {.
George Eliot
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11

CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS
John ". Young, Builder, Superin-
tendent and contractor for all kinds
o. construction. Also general repair
work. Prompt and careful attention
given to plans and estimates. Your
patronage solicited. Office SOC Blon-
deau. Iowa Prone. office 2143. resi-.
dence, 3342.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11
DR.. J EATON JOHNSTON

Oh. EATON JOHNS ten
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
The only physician practicing Oste-
opathy in the county. The Smi.heoni-
an truss fitted and guaranteed. the
only truss that holds. Office. North
side OF Main street, third door above
Fifth. Phone SO. Residence, Ninth and
Webster. Phone 4S4. p. o. Lock Box
Al. Warsaw. Ill.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11
DR.. BRUCE I. GILFILLAN,

DR.. BRUCE L. GILFILLAN,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office, 6211a Main street, over
Crooks & Cox Millinery store. Bel
Phone 100 Black
Residence 81 North Fourth stree.
Bell Phone 1880 Red
Hours: 1912 a. m; I'd p. M; 7-8
P. m. Sunday by appointment.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
PHYSICIANS.
DIR. W. 2. sHERLock

W. y. HARTER, M. o., o. o.
Osteopathic and Electric treatments
a speciality. Office, 80 North Fourth
street. Ground floor.
Hours 10 to IL c. M; 2 to 8 p n.
Evenings by appointment.
Phone-Offics, Iowa 1254-Red; resi-
dence, Iowa 1146-Red: Hub. S432.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11
Land! J. and!
The Safe Investment. The Big Money Maker
The Safe Investment.


line of this advertisement o
further particulars.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11

w. FRANK BROWN, M. D.
Surgery and Genito Urinary Diseases
Keokuk, Iowa.
400 Main
Office -2:3o4.oo p. m. 7.45
300 p. m.
Miss. Val. Phone, 5; Bell 1874.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-04-21
Lyceum Theatre

"A special return engagement of
Manager Singers big musical revue
Miss Nobody from Starland," will be
Manager Moore's offering at the Ly-
ceum next Sunday matinee. 1t is sell
dom that a musical attraction is book
ed for a second engagement in Tole-
do in the same season and there
must be something unusually strong
and pleasing about the play to prompt
the idea of a return. 1t is claimed
that this offering is one of Chicagos
most remarkables revues, having met
with phenomenal success in all the
principal cities. A few changes have
been made in the musical program and
the makeup of the beauty chorus,
but aside from that the production
will be seen at the Lyceum exactly
as before. This is the play which
in which the entire audience is taken
back of the scenes and given an op.
portunity of seeing Just what funny
things can happen at n rehearsal and a
first performance of new musical
comedy. This scene alone has re-
ceived more favorable publicity than
any scene constructed for the stage in
a decade. 1t is not overeXaggerated
in the least and is round of laugh
ter from the rise of the curtain to the
finish.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-04-21
0EGNER- -NEIFER WEDDING.

Edna Mav, only daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Neifer and Clarence A.
eldest son of Mr.. and Mrs A. Degner
were married at the Catholic parson
age by the Rev. Father Schaendorf on
Wednesday. April 10, 1911.
The bride was attired in white crepe
de chine over messaline with pearl
trimmings.
Miss Lulu Bayer, cousin or the
bride. acted as bridesmaid. She was
attired in an empire gown of pale pink
over taffeta with pearl trimmings.
Mr.. Joseph Rossbach, friend of
the groom, acted as best man.
Following the ceremony a wedding
dinner was served at the home of the
brides parents on Second Street for
immediate friends and relatives.
The dining room was decorated in
white roses and smilax with carna-
tions as favors. Mr.. and Mrs, Deg
ner left in the afternoon on wedding
trip and after MAY Is will be at home
at 81 Devonshire Road. Walkerville,
Ont.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-04-21

that service may be given, nor does
it make any difference how much
good is being accomplished-the un.
just, unwarranted, reputation destroy.
ing criticism is given out just the
same.( Billy Sunday, the Evangelist,
who has converted thousands of peo.
Pile; brought them up from the by
ways of grief. sorrow and shame, and
started them anew on the pathway
to honor, success and happiness, with
the sunshine of hope lighting their
way-and yet he is being made the
subject of the most damnably unjust
criticism that has been piled on the
head of any man in the past centu.
ry. Toledo has been flooded with a
Chicago newspaper that was filled
with abuse of the Evangelist, but
Sunday goes right on just the same.
He does not ask anyone to come to
hear him, yet every meeting is attend
ed by thousands. He does not ask
anyone to give one penny for his
services, yet at the close of his cam.
paign thousands of dollars have been
contributed by those whose hearts
have been touched by his wonderful
ly strong appeal to their sense of
right and duty-voluntary offerings
on the alter of love and devotion to
one who has placed the lamp of
Faith in their hands and given them
right chart, which will enable them
to navigate the tempestuous sea of
life, and finally anchor in the safe
harbor of rest. And Billy Sunday
goes on.