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Cañon City record., 1911-03-09
Municipal And Civil Matters

itentiary with convict labor, builded
the Parkdale road over the Royal
Gorge divide. crossing over and
through the Canon City National
Park, admittedly one of the most seen
ic and wonderful roads in the world.
and an asset to Canon City of in
calcuable value. The city builded
spur connecting this great highway
with the very rim of the Royal Gorge
but which for lack of means is 4 most
imperfect roadway.
The city administration two years
ago was changed. or partially so, In
the midst of one of the greatest muni
cipal undertakings which has ever
confronted Canon City, the construc-
ton of our new water works. The
outgoing council passed an ordinance
giving to the incoming mayor and al
derman. salaries aggregating six
thousand dollars for the two years
just ending. The splendid water sys-
tenn was completed during last sum-
mer to the credit of the administra-
ton, to the honor and everlasting
benefit of Canon City.
The work confronting the coming
administration is not more exacting.
is not fraught with more responsible
ity, will not involve more personal
sacrifice OF time. to say nothing OF ex-
penses, than that service which will
be rendered by scores of the citizens
mentioned above DUNG the next two
years.
Therefore, it is unreasonable to sup
pose that there are many men in each
ward of our city, who are so thor
oughly identified with its best inter
ests. and determined to see It advance
in spite of handicap and distractions.
and. deeming it an opportunity to
help, gladly accept an election as
mayor or councilman for the next two
years without salary in dollars and
cents.
There are many of such in every
ward in town. We speak knowingly.
having occasion to call upon them
many. many times.
Not that it is necessary under our
present system that men should
make claim to expert training ortech-
nical knowledge in municipal or civic
affairs: but men active. alive and de- |
termined to make this the best and |
most progressive town in Colorado. |
,nd ,,.hO ,rfIi forago vaIa-g.a ,hu, ,ha
city may be relieved to that extent
in the matter OF ready cash TO help |
do things
This is only a small contribution |
from each individual but large in the |
aggregates. Six thousand dollars |
would enable the city TO spend one
thousand dollars for the improvement
of the road in the Canon City Royal |
Gorge Park. would build the concrete |
viaducts recommended by Mayor Tan
street. or the entire amount would |
help toward the erection Of a coy |
little city hall. as suggested by him.
Or six thousand dollars would enable |
the city to uphold the work under
taken by the Business Mems asso-
citation for the next two years. with. |
say fifteen hundred dollars per an
mum and leave like sum TO improve
our Royal Gorge Park and other much |
needed civic work.
Is this too much for Canon City TO !
expect OF her citizens who can only |
prosper as the city does7
Respectfully.
CHAS. II. MILAN.
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VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPART
MeNT ELECT OFFICERS

The volunteer fire department held
their regular meeting March : and
elected the following officers for the
coming year: Chief, g. Il. Cassedy;
assistant chief. c. G. McKissick; presi
dent, A. c. Jensen; vice president. s.
b. George; treasurer. o. J. Rundahl;
secretary. V. p. Cutler; electrician,
w. B. Holland. Executive committee: (:
II. j. Knight, Z. NJ. Collins, w. l.. Bur
ton; physicians. Herman Graves, G.
C. Lamb.
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CANON CITY FAv0RS
THIS NEW BILL

The following bill is of as much in
terest to Canon City as IL it had been
introduced for cur special benefit
A careful reading will convince every
citizen that it ought to pass. Our own
representative and senator will no
doubt support II as soon as 1t is called
to their attention.
Canon City people who have friends
in the senate or house should write
them in Denver and ask their support
for the measure on account OF Its
fairness to all and special benefit to
us.
Bill for
An act to empower the Incorporated
towns and cities of Colorado to sup
ply water from their water systems
to consumers outside their coporats
limits and TO regulate the price there
of
Be II enacted by the General As
sembly of the State of Colorado:
Section ]. The Incorporated towns
and cities OF the State of Colorado
are hereby empowered to supply vat
er from their water systems to con-
sumers outside of the corporate lin
It's OF the said cities and towns; and
to collect therefor such charges and
upon such conditions and limitations
as said towns and cities may impose
by ordinance.
Section 2. In the opinion OF the
General Assembly. an emergency ex-
lists: therefore this act shall take ef-
feet and be In force from and after
its passage.
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| than ever. at this particular time, en-
! titled to enlist and expect of her ci-
| tizens, sacrifice and work for the pub
lie good. Not being Colorado COM
mon point in passenger charges. and
| handicapped by an excessive freight
differential. it behooves us all to put
our individual shoulders to the wheel
to the doing OF those things which
shall surely make for our material
progress in spite of car fares and
freight rates.
Buyers of Colorado season tickets
can purchase round trip from any
point east of the state good for six
months at the SAME PRICE at DEN
YER Colorado Springs. Pueblo, or
Trinidad. but must pay additional
fare to reach Canon City.
Our Business Mems Association rec
ognizing this handicap, are doing all
in their power to overcome it. which
can only be done by extraordinary ef-
fort and eternal vigilance in calling
attention to our climate. products.
soil. roads, scenery and the beauties
and advantages OF our city.
This necessftates a large expen-
diture of money and the time and ex-
ertions OF many busy men.
April 24th. last, a great endurance
biles from central and western Kan
sas made the running time from Hut
Crimson to Canon City in twenty-six
hours. ALI this grea. effort to pro-
mote the building of a great highway
from Kansas City 90 Canon City.
Automobiles were volunteered and
went to Pueblo to pilot the visitors
to Canon City, and over our wonder
ful roads through our orchards. The
result continues TO live and grow
in interest and to our advantage.
During the season following, numer-
Gus conventions of distinguished and
notable visitors. through the activity
of our Business Mems association.
and others were brought to and en-
tertained here. The secretary of the
Business Mems association had only
to make the request and automobiles
by the dozen We're at his service to
show to our guests the many special
features OF ranch. garden and noun
tain drives. Large committees OF ac-
tive men were in session every week
and larger numbers yet left private
business TO give hours of time in re-
sponse to any and many calls of the
secretary.
All this service of motor owners.
even to drives to Colorado Springs
and Denver; OF committees large and
small has been contributed not grudg-
ingly. not from personal or selfish
motives, but for the municipal and
civic good Of the community as a
whole.
Suppose that the secretary OF the
Business Mems association had been
required to prepare and present to
the city council bills for a reasonable
commercial charge for the use OF au-
tomobiles. and for the time Of our
citizens devoted exclusively to civic
affairs. The city council would not
have allowed no. would the tax pay
ers have approved same.
The services of these autos. and
many more, of the same committees.
and larger, OF active and busy men.
are again and at all times at the dis
posal OF the community for its gen.
eral benefit and advancement.
During the past season the county
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MRS. Weber II on
TRIAL FOR MURDER
tBy United PressJ

Albany. y. Y. March 6.-The trial
OF Nrs. Edith Melber. charged with
the murder OF her son with carbolic
acid in the outskirts OF the city be-
gan this afternoon The prosecution
demands a death sentence while ths
defense will be insanity.
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Clayton Wilson while riding to
school Thursday morning had the
misfortune to have his horse fail on
him, breaking small bone In his leg.
which the doctor says will cause him
to use crutches for six weeks; but
will be able to return to school this
week.
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Fisher Prominent In Chicago.

Chicago, March Walter Fisher
is a lawyer and for many years was
secretary of the Municipal voters
league which sought to secure muni-
cipal ownership of the street rail-
ways. For the last six months he
has been a member of the National
railway securities commission.
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assured. Financial and other mat
tiers pertaining to the welfare of the
church and the congregation will be
Cañon City record., 1911-03-09

LOST-S. G. II. s. class pin. 1911;
monogram on back: reward. re-
turn to Record fsg-St
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FOR SALE-5 room modern house !:
close In; cheap. Mrs. Katie j.
Moore. zoos Main st. 1so-p-st.
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FOR SALE MISCELLANEOUS.

FOR SALE-Lots OF Fruit Ranches.
Read our big Ad. Page 5. Haynes &
Barter. lss-p36t.
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WHAT MAKES A WOMAN BEAUTIFUL?-WE
ASK YOUR PERSONAL OPINION

revealing the her
which beauty
suffer
beautiful literally
the flat her back the floor
sides during several hours
This figure During
the of the for the same period of time she sat on high
body backward
said
have a statuesque a sylphs waist.
a soaring corrected and
application months
a small in it for a
filled injections
months against the sides
required elongated shape which has been
cessfully achieved
suffered this complicated martyrdom for the
sufficiently
An Perhaps.
been will be anything in
beautiful
fully
MAKES WOMAN BEAUTIFUL?
opinion, but opinion is better,
any beautiful.
Write briefly We would like
on subject:
make a beautiful"
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OBSERVATIONS,

winter that they had down fruit
trees for fuel That's sacrificing the future for the present all right
talking of reviving the ducking stool for
scolding wives. How about scoldng bubbles?
a the bed of the Thames 10000 years
lifesaving medal to 16yearo
child railroad
Uncle Sam, Uncle
paid the medal
MRS BEIMONTS farm school for girls with 20 pupils
calls farmeree How make language in these
tmes
REVOLUTION in Paraguay! Patagonia, you're next!
CARNEGES fund pensonng educators has made about
past Andys pension
differs Uncle Sans.
writes senate
on polecat publish this
.They vindicate, venlate douche If they will,
But the odor of Lormer cngs to them STILL"
M0NTANAs senator used to be newspaper man. Thus
far, this is the only serious charge against him.
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SHORT SHAv|NGS

81 always keep a youngster's
parents out of the room when l am
taking a picture, said photog-
rapher who is well known for his
work with children" And the rea-
son is that l can get better results
if the child is alone with me than
if a mother and aunt are in the
room.
"The child's nervousness is
quickly overcome when you get
the little one interested in bright
rubber ball or a new toy, and then
it's an easy matter to get the right
pose for the picture. It's the
mothers anxiety to have the child
act naturally that makes trouble.
"The last time I let a mother
in while l was taking the actual
picture was lesson to me. The
woman wanted to have her boy
photographed while playing and
the hopeful insisted in trying to
hide under her skirts. Finally she
turned to the child.
Johnny, If you don't begin
playing this minute she said, I'll
lick you within an inch of your
life -
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why does almost everybody "a cod? Where dc
1t? And how the nihs
wanted to know
Invests Here's
clothing.
You the weather was cold
probably didn't get it by sitting in a draught -
ventilation Ihey are spread
by all the rest Of the
famly companions in the wrokroom.
colds found among department.
employees
is colds
notably free from them on their
back to tney
all kinds of colds.
The day is COM
oudoorshat everybody
it,
sidewalk.
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OF Course There's Hope
Don't say there is no hope.

say
and shake head soienhy anu poiIt gu.
that wrong this woman turned
or
Attend the meodramas Choose play with
house where
admission price is low.
he applause that is given the poor hero
accorded the
matte be.
circle applaud with mouth
gives his all to the
girl.
thunderous applause when he
heart glad
by his display of manly qualities
in spirit of American audience OF
with pride, will
never wish higher caste.
fair play proven by
his actions at the town or
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Editor Times: There is a GER
tain woman in Tacoma whose
business is to swindle other wom-
c.. BY means Of want ad. in the
papers, her victims are ATTRACTED,
and made an easy prey for the
promise of pleasant, profitable
home employment.
Once the money for "inst:uc-
tion," outfit" etc, has been de-
osited, all promises are quickly
forgotten, while with fair words
and more promises an effort is
made to keep the victim docile
while more money is extracted.
This game, old as the prove:b-
ial gold brick" is always new to
a sufficient number to make it
rery profitable to the operator.
aud as most of those duped keep
it to themselves, this woman
the only one who makes any easy
money at bome-continueS to
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The TACOMA MARKET
RETAIL PRICES.
Meats

RETAIL PRICES.
Meats
Round steak 15417c; sirloin, 17kc;
zoe; pot roast, 12hc;
mutton steak, 15c; chops, 1Sc; pork
steak, 1Sc; chops, zoe; ham. SLICED.
hens 25c; pork sausage. 15c; lamb
IL hc; picnic hame, lac.
Potatoes-Home, grown, sl.65 ;
Yakima, s1.S5 sack; sweet potatoes.
2 @4c; cabbage, &c lbS lettuce, 2 for
SCI, All bunch stuff. for sc. eau
lifiower, 5@1ec head.
Fruits.
Apples, $1.00 UP box; oranges. 15c
doz, for zoe;
Dairy Products.
EGGS. 25c doz.; cream cheese
S5c; domestic, 25ch butter. PIN @
35c; dairy. 25c. 49,.
Halibut cheeks. lbs. 25c; halibut.
lOc lb.; salmon, 15c; smelts, lbs 2bc
black cod, Toe; salmon trout. zoe;
rock cod, 12hc; clans, sc per lib.
eastern oysters, $500 at; 76c@s2 a
hundred; shrimps, IL 4 q csc; crabs
81. 10000 a doz.; perch, Zoe; Col. r.
Hay, Feed and Grain
Prices In Tacoma.
Bran, 75c sack; shorts. S1.05
sack; wheat, $3.50 sack; oats, $165
sack 100 lbs; hay, timothy, s24 ton;
alfalfa, $14@15 ton: corn. s1.50 sack
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"a ~ ~ SAAS w ~ " ~
ever care to find.
l t consistently
boosted Bellefon-
tame and the
s e C r e t a + y
whooped it UP
for further or
ders, sending out
trainloads o I
"literatoor' and
things like that.
But that W a s
a long time ago.
T h e n Eugene
Wood C a m G
along, and began
to write. H G
picked out Belle
fontaine, where
Ia Hnn horn fif
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COME NOW, LET'S SMILE AWHILE
JOSH WISE
SAYS:
"What scan
daIs there'd be
in BeeleyspOrt
eff tn parties had
O whole lot o.
money"
WHAT HE WANTED.

Nov this car" said tine agent
calling Billup's attention to a
handsome Limousine In the cor
ner, lis a dandy. 1t runs Sc
smoothly you wouldn't know you
were in it. Rides just like a
rocking chair"
What do you think 1 am, an
escaped inmate of an old ladies
homer" demanded BilIups. 81
want a car that I'll know I'm in
when I'm in it, and when I go out
looking for a rocking chair I'll &c
to furniture store and not to a
garage. "-Harper's Weekly.
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prosper unmolested in her nefaIt-
Gus business.
II those who have been swim
died by this woman will write to
b 26, care Times office, giving
their name and address or phone
number, or both, it may be pcs
sible to at least prevent others
from being exploited.
All names and information will
be held in strictest confidence Sub
tject to the will of the informant.
ONE OF THE DUPES.
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light the French

light the French, for when 1t fell,
the English and Spaniards were
pressing the French so hard at
other points they had to drop
Badajoz rather like a hot potato
than a plum.
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AN UNFORTUNATE EXAMPLE,.

who stood smoking cigar the other there
approached elderly and impe reformer of mmemo e
gend
"How cigars day?" asked the medder
"Three" answered the youth patiently he could
GLOW much do for them?"
'Ten cents" confessed
Don't continued the that If would
that old could
building
"Do it," inquired the smoker
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HERE'S A MORAL.

SALEM, Ore, March 11.-Har-
ry Holmes, in an attempt to kick
a dog today, slipped and struck
his head on part of the steel
bridge crossing the Willametter
river, cutting his scalp and rem
dering him unconscious.
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the fall being
particularly con-
spicuous because
it was not the
only plum that
fell that season
in that vicinity
that did not de-
light the duke of
Wellington. And,
indeed, Badajoz
did not long de-
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Hans Wagner has been released
from jury duty on the condition
that he practice faithfully and hit
the ball squareIy on the snoot,
Hans has got to make good or be
In contempt of court.
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Winding Her Own Business

Greeley Il am
business Magistrate John Dono
hue of WIkesbarre William Horn, who
a in involving among her
neghbors follows:
anything about it. do not interest myself in my
home, and
there and ttend to m business"
of the who Offered
the a impenen
boor do the
it to intimate that but
peoples affairs Mrs Butinsky
world She has husband and children of botf
that the disagreeabe old curmudgeor
had his pinched in
with
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SAYINGS OF CELEBRITIES

drunken said oTIorace Greeley 81
self-made man."
sir" replied Horace, Almighty
great responsibility"
party
suddenly exclaimed: you say
anything? should like opinion Twain replied
Madam have friends in both places"
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THE SUREST PLACE.

Speaker warming to his sub
ject) What we want is men with
convictions, and where shall we
find them?
Voice--In jail, guv-nor!-Pen-
ny Illustrated Paper.
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STRICT GOLF.

"You mustn't touch the ball. Use
a stick"
How am l going to get it out
of mudhole with a stick. Caddy,
go to the clubhouse and borrow
IA pair of tongs. "-Pittsburg Post.
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Everybody in Pierce county reads this column snor.
of general interest and without
personal Write about anything or any
body you wsh malice motive Many
letters printed they too long, Keep EN-
short
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Poultry
Vegetables.
BOYS WANTED

Good live 9Th grade and high
school boys to carry good paying
Times routes. Call at Times office
in person after school,; ask for
Allen or Kinney.
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WHOLESALE PRICES

"HuLESALE PRICES
Livestock.
Cows, SIC; steer beef, 6h @7c;
wethers, Az @5c; lambs, 6@6c;
ewes, 8 @4Ac; hogs. S@9hc; heif-
ers, SA Q4c.
Poultry
Turkeys, 23@25c; ducks. live, 1870
zoe; hens, live. 10000; springs, IS
zoe; squads. live. s2.50@3 doz.;
dressed, $3@3.50.
Vegetables.
Artichokes. 81 doz.; beans. wax. SO
lb.; green, SC lb.; bell peppers, zoe;
Chilli peppers, 12c; tomatoes, $2.25@
$50 crate; cucumbers, dollhouse,
$1.50 doz.; carrots, zoe doz. punches,
81 sack: beets. zoe doZ., S1.75 sack;
&c; radishes. 30c doz.; rutabagas,
$l.25 sack; parsley. csc doZ.; lettuce,
$3.50 per crate; spinach, &c lb.;
sprouts, Sc; green onions, zoe doz.
Butter and Eggs.
BUTTER-Wa shington, 31c.
EGGS-Washingto ranch. cam
died, 21c.
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If nothing but steel cars are to
be used for carrying United States
mail, why not the same rule for
people?
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ty-one years ago today, as his
theme, and before long he had
turned out two delightful stories,
"Back Home" and Folk Back
Home" 1t was all about the old
home and the old home people,
and from those books Bellefon-
taine got more advertising than it
had from all its trainloads of ''lit-
erature." Wood is a socialist.
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LIFE LONG; ART FLEETING.

IHFE IINU; AItT FIEEITNU.
The Critic-My dear, just fancy
having your portrait painted in
your car! Why, motor car goes
out of fashion in a single year
London Punch.
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TODAY IN HISTORY

March IL, 1911, Badajoz, Spain,
fell into the hands of the French,
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Although ninety years old, A.
Callen of Clinton, Ark, has been
admitted to the bar.
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Read This to Teacher

little Johnny's mother, "kndly
yesterday
BY doing will greatly obge his mother"
Com
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Good News!

Good News!
A travelling man expected an
addition to his family. When the
telegram came it read: Twins
this morning. More later"
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TO A JILT.
OUR DAILY BIRTH
DAY PARTY.

Bellefontaine, o., once had one
of the most energetic commercial
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Entered at the po.tofnce
seed m TELJ<E
OF UNITED PRESS AssoC upon which he had
PUBLISHED EVERY EyENIW and so dspassiopr.-
COMPANY.
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A man has a Fight to raise the
deuce in a poker game.
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n nd-
RMG&

A man SO interested in his work
that his pipe goes out, is a man
who will succeed.
The United States each year
uses more than 40 per cent of the
worlds output of tin.
Bugs.
More than 800 different kinds
of insects find homes in the oak
tree.
Whether In a hobble, hoop skirt
or harem skirt, milady is milady,
the hope and savior of mankind.
Spectacles were invented 500
years ago. No wonder we are all
acquiring the habit.
Now IL 500 Irish strikers should
come into collision with 500 Irish
policemen, we would see real
war.
The Greensburg, Pa, coal mine
companies have already paid
$143,147 to deputy sheriffs to
smas the strickland the strike
continues.
Bach: Confess, now. Henry,
you don't pay half as much atten-
ton to your wife as You did be-
fore you were married.
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Editorial PAGE Of Che Cacoma Cmes s
E[5sz'@zM.Z~MHXmz

against stone wall! YOU
Smeto Sicily which for years
without bohering when
lava flood from Aetna poured across the
cold soded into hardest rock
work to cut
40 to % feel deep
and fly Moral, keep at it!
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so cold in Russia this winter that they had to Gu
trees fuel That's sacrificing future for the prese
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LOWELL Mass, is talking of reviving the ducking S
scolding wives How about scolding bubbles?
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!. A man SO interested in hts work
that his pipe goes out, is man
who will succeed.
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The United States each year
uses more than 40 per cent of the
worlds output of tin.