davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1911-11-10
Muscles Of the Forearm Especially
Seem to Be Powerful. Says
London Periodical.

The myth of the infant Hercules,
who strangied two serpents in his
cradle. NAV not have been myth dt
all but a fact says the London leie
graph Modern science has proved
that it is quite a possible feat The
new born babe is relatively much
stronger than a full-grown man. ac'
cordins to the result OF medical tests;
The muscles of the forearm are sur
prisIngIy vigorous A few hour after
birth a baby suspended by it's finger
to stick, or to the finger of per
son. can hold itself in the air for ten
seconds. and. in the case Of particu-
larry strong intanis. Tor as jnns az
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1911-11-10
Streegth of the Newborn

half minute At tour days old the
chiid's strength has Increased. and
the time is two and half minutes
for 9S per cent. OF babies The maxi
mum is attained at fortnight Fe"
infants can hang on COR more than
one and a half minutes. though one
exceptional young Hercules remained
suspended for two minutes and 81
seconds by his right hand After that
be still hung on with hts left tor 10
seconds longer II is not stateo
whose babies we're pat through these
horizontal bar gymnastics at the early
age of from one hour to fortnight
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1911-11-10

whereas AZ the January Session Of the
General Assembly Of Maryland. held in the
year of Lord, Nineteen Hundred and
Ten, three Acts were passed. one proposing
an Amendment to Article i Of the Con-
stitution. by adding thereto a Section to
be known as Section s.; one proposing an
Amendment to Section 2 Of Article of said
Constitution. and one proposing an Amend
Gen to Section 4 Of Article Of said Con-
stltution. said Acts being respectively
Chapters 253 BOB and 31s of the Acts of
the General Assembly of Maryland Of 1910,
and which are in the words following. to
wit;
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1911-11-10
Blind Girls Poultry Yard.

Recently the writer had the pleas
ure of meeting A young Scotch girl
who though almost blind is active and
accomplished to a very remarkable
degree One of her principal interests
is her poultry yard. and there her al
most unaided efforts have met with
truly wonderful success.
Her yearly balance sheet shows sub
stantial and increasing profits. while
the care of her birds proves source
of much interest and provides good
deal OF healthy outdoor exercise She
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1911-11-10
She Probably

She Probably Was Worth 1t.
Il proposed last night and TO-DAY
have to see the girls father.
"A painful ordeal.
Yes: / teeI morally certain that ne
Is going to borrow at least $50.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1911-11-10

keeps careful and accurate accounts.
Braille slate being used for memoran-
da She uses typewriter for CORE
spondence- Life
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1911-11-10
The Silent Father.

I'll bet that man Is the father OF
six or seven children"
"Why?"
''If he had less than three he'd be
Dragging about them"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1911-11-10
Very Much So,

VeTY WUCH 0O'
1T is odd what fascination Henry
VIII. seemed to have for women.
Yes. he certainly did make them
lose their heads.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1911-11-10

A woman rarely uses toilet vinegars
and oils in her dressing until she is
past her salad days
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1911-11-10
A e,rnlno SUGGESTION.

n bUTrIFrg OuySC-er9rr'
why is It that you have taken TO
the exploiting of cremation?"
Because | found 1t the best way in
which to urn a living"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1911-11-10

Many a fellow who falls into a for.
tune goes right through 1t.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1911-11-10


n WINSLOW WILLIAMS,
Sr-rs re-. = Stata
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-11-24
Pennsylvania.
LANCASTER, Pa, Nov. IA, 1911.

LANCASTER, PA, Nov. IA, 1911.
There is great activity in the cigar
factories here. Many are oversold and
working overtime All have orders
enough to keep them busy the remain
der of the year. This situation is re-
garded with equanimity by the holders
of tobacco, who believe it foreshadows
a brisk leaf trade later.
I have had occasion during the past
month to call the attention of the trade
at large to the rapid disappearance of
the 1910 tobacco from the Lancaster
market through large purchases by out
side dealers and large manufacturers.
Comparatively little is now left, not a
dozen local dealers having any unsold.
Recently the buying was so active that
thousands of cases changed ownership.
One of the heaviest buyers was John
DeHaven, who secured about 1900
cases the past week, in addition to his
previous purchases. Seisef & Tole sold
500 cases to Western manufacturers.
William Spitzner bought 1000 cases.
What these various lots brought is not
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-11-24
New York.
Now YORK. Nov. rs. 1911

NEW IOKk, NOV. 10, 1JI1.
The most momentous trade event this
week was the issuance of the final de-
cree by the Federal Circuit court of its
approval of the recreation plan of the
tobacco combination with such minor
notifications as were suggested by the
attorney-general and agreed to by the
tobacco corporation. Momentous was
this final settlement especially for the
leaf trade because it was due chiefly to
the latter that such hallobaloo was
raised against the acceptance of the
plan. But all the opposition, it seems,
did not change one iota in the general
features and restrictions under which
the disintegrated parts of the conbina-
tion are to start on new lease OF IN
dustrial and commercial life. And it
may Just as we'll be added that the
trade need not borrow any troubles or
fears as to return of the illegal meth
DDS and practices of which the trust
was convicted, as the revival of them
is not only expressly enjoined on every
one of the separated and segregated
companies, but is just as expressly
guarded against by the proviso Of IN
functions which may be invoked at any
time in case the slightest deviation
from the prohibitions becomes mani
tested. The new reorganizations will
come into life by March l next. That
the cigar leaf trade will not be harmed
by them is the firm conviction of the
United States Tobacco Journal. For
that matter the cigar leaf market is
not benefited either to a very great ex-
tent by the large Independent cigar
concerns. For they are the direct com
petitors Of the leaf packers and dealers
both in our domestic tobacco fields and
in the acquisition of foreign leaf at its
original markets. But the final settle
ment Of this great and absorbing ques-
tion should restore at least peace to
the trade and permit an undis isturbed
pursuit of business, for which the en-
tire country has been craving for ever
so long. What is needed more than
anything else is to put q quietus on the
business unrest. For the present the
market seems to be anyhow in a condi-
tion of fair activity. All types of leaf
with hardly an exception find willing
purchasers even under the restraining
influence of firm and steadily advanc-
ing prices. journal.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-11-24
WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARKET.

EDGERTON, WIS, NOV. "A, 1911.
A little Stacking up of the buying
movement can be noted this week as a
few of the larger operators are taking
some of their men off the road Buy
ers for the low grades, however, are
still hammering away at the unsold
fraction of the crop and in the aggre-
gate lop off fair sized slices each week.
Some of the large lots in the vicinity
of Stoughton have been taken over re-
Gently at the following prices:
Ole Simonson & Sons, 43a at 9&3c.
Saliva Peterson, 16a at 9&4c.
John Carter, 10a at TIC.
Albert Otteson, 8a at SC.
A season of fair casing weather has
occurred during the week, during which
quite a little tobacco was taken from
the sheds and stripping has commenced
on many farms.
A strong, healthy demand has devel-
oped for all classes of old leaf of a
binder nature, but sales are confined to
small sized lots. The stocks held by
local dealers are lighter than for some
years at this date.
The shipments out of storage reach
900 cases for the week to all points
from this market.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-11-24

known to the trade, but prices lately
have been running from sixteen and a
half to eighteen cents.
When the new crop was put away it
was heralded to the world as $4, 000,
900 crop for the growers of Lancaster
county, but owing to unfavorable
weather, which has continued, irregu-
larly, ever since it was housed, this es-
innate has been gradually dropping.
The packers refuse to touch it until it
has been stripped. The prevalence of
pole-burn makes it a mighty risky crop
to touch now.
Some of the buyers predicted Some
weeks ago that the crop would De
bought for ten cents and under, but the
trade generally does not believe this.
The expectation is that the packers
will pay the same prices as were paid
for the 1910 crop. but when they buy it
they will buy carefully and not break
their necks in scramble to buy just SO
they may have goods for their trade:
The 1909 crop served as pretty good
warning against such suicidal style
of business.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-11-24
New YORK. Nov. Is. 1911

The main inquiry of the week has
been for binders, and the manufactur-
ers find themselves up against the con-
dition that has been predicted ever
since the 1910 crop advanced sufficiently
toward maturity to allow an estimate
of it's output Outside of the holdings
of one or two firms the market is prac-
tically bare of this type. A business
of fair proportions has been done. Con-
siderable activity in 1910 Pennsylvania
is reported, several thousand cases
having changed hands in the past week.
The belief that this tobacco contains
a proportion of leaf serviceable as bind
ers has helped it's sale. The old-fash-
ioned Havana Seed of Connecticut has
also come in for share of the mar
ket's attention. The growers and pack
ers are anxious for ''soft" weather so
that they can begin taking the tobacco
down. A few warehouses have opened
in various tobacco-growing states.
Preparations are being made to raise a
greatly increased acreage of shaded to-
bacco in Connecticut Leaf.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-11-24

Continued on Page A.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-11-24
New E. ,sland.

SPRINGFIELD. S., Nov. IA, 1911.
The mind of the average tobacco
grower is sor- awhat hazy concerning
just how the American Tobacco Co.
have depressed cigar leaf prices. One
thing he does krow 5 that the cost OF
production has Increased and the price
he receives trhe 1911 crop being an ex-
ception) dwindles progressively. The
New England tobacco grower Is con-
vinced that some oness depressing him,
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-11-24
Check Your Expenditures

So-called luck is frequently
nothing but hard common sense.
Some men are said to be lucky,
when really they have only
been sensible and saved, in
stead of spending their earnings.
Get the habit of banking your
spare cash and you will never
regret it. Bank with US and
you will easily earn your own
independence and have the sat-
isfaction of seeing your fortune
grow.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-11-24
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES

The wiping out of hundred or more
curing barns, destroyed in the recent
tornado that swept path across the
growing sections in Rock and Dane
counties, cannot but have an effect on
the acreage of the future in this state.
In some localities growers We're grad
ually curtailing their fields each year
and now that their sheds are gone it
will take an extra inducement for the
growers to rebuild. There was but
5,245 acres of tobacco produced in Rock
county this season-a loss of 240 acres
for the year-an area less than that
grown twenty-five years ago, and but
few curing sheds have gone up in re-
cent years. 1t is not an easy matter
to replace $4,000 worth of tobacco
sheds, as statistics will probably de-
velop later. The loss cannot be fgur-
ed in curing barns alone, for the con-
tents of the sheds is also partially or
wholly ruined. On one farm near
Janesville not single leaf of tobacco
could be found anywhere in the vicinity
to mark the place where shed filled
with tobacco stood, everything was
completely blown away. The storm
too was most severe in the heaviest
growing section.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-11-24

Attorney General Wickersham has is
sued statement in which he approves
of the final decree of the court in the
tobacco trust case. ''By this decree
the court approves the plan for the ter
mination of the existing unlawful COM
bination and the recreation Of cOmpet-
tive conditions, embodying as it does
substantially all the notifications sug-
gested on behalf of the government
The decree thus embodies substantially
all of the requests made by the gov
ernment except the enforced sale and
distribution to outsiders of the United
Cigar Stores Co., and an authorization
to the government at any time within
five years to apply to the court for re-
lief based upon showing that COM
petitive conditions have not actually
resulted from the operation of the plan.
BY the terms of the plan the business
of the trust in the various branches is
distributed among fourteen separate and
distinct corporations, no one of which
will acquire substantially more than
one-third. Nothing in the law requires
or, in the opinion of the attorney gen.
eral, would justify the government in
taking the position that to reduce a
monopolistic combination to legal size,
no one of the distributee concerns
should be larger than the largest ex-
isting independent concern. The pub
lie at large will be more apt to benefit
from competition between number of
large, solvent, well organized compan-
les in strong hands than from the gen
eral decentralization of business which
would ensure were the business to be
distributed between large number of
small, weak organizations with in
sufficient capital to maintain them
selves. During a period of five years
the fourteen distributee companies are
enjoined from having common officers
or directors, from employing the same
agents for the purchase of leaf tobacco
or other products or for the sale of to-
bacco or other products; each corpora
ton is also enjoined from acquiring
stock in any other, from purchasing
factories, brands, plants or business
from any other, and from making loans
or extending financial aid to any other.
The twenty-nine individual defendants
are also enjoined from purchasing, ex-
cept from each other, any additional
stock in any of the fourteen distributee
companies, except the British-Ameri-
can Co. It is the opinion of the attor-
ney general that the execution OF this
plan will necessarily result in termin-
alton of the monopolistic conditions
created by the unlawful combination,
and in substituting actual competitive
conditions instead. =
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-11-24

Preliminary figures on the production
prepared by the Department of Agri-
culture, show very large decrease in
the tobacco crop this year, compared
with last. The decrease amounts to
about 1874, 100000 pounds. The total
production is estimated at 100, 663, 500
pounds this year, compared with 1884,,
349, 900 pounds last year and 949, 357, 900
pounds the year before. The average
annual production for the years 1906
1909 was 736, POI, 900. The quality of
the crop is not so good as it has been,
according to the governments report.
The quality figure of the Department
of Agriculture for this years crop is
86.1 per cent, against 86.8 per cent,
which is the average for ten years,
The. average yield per acre of tobacco
this year is fixed at 1852 pounds, which
is greater than the average yield of
1878 pounds last year and an average
of 1886 pounds for the past ten years.
The decrease in crop was widespread
and general. In Kentucky it amounted
to III, 900, 600 pounds, as compared with
last years production. The only ex-
ceptions to the rule of decrease among
the principal tobacco-growing states
were Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
There was an increased production in
the former state of about million
pounds and in the latter state Of over
Is, 600, 0OG pounds. The average yield
per acre is greater this year than last
in Kentucky, Tennessee, Wisconsin,
Indiana, Ohio, the Carolinas and Vir-
ginias, New York and some other
states. The yield is less this year than
last in Connecticut, Massachusetts,
Pennsylvania and some other states.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-09-02
The Worlds Chief Rug Msrkse.

The Worlds Chief Rug Market.
The worlds increasing demand for
oriental carpets has caused certain
,hanges in the rug business particu'
arly tending toward an enlarged out
out through the Intervention OF mar
chants in Constantinople and Smyrna.
who are establishing factories OF Per-
sian carpets In both Turkey and Per
STA. Another new feature OF the rug
business Is the growing practice on
the part OF merchants in Constantine
pie Of shipping direct to the United
States from Persia instead OF from
Constantinople. This explains why
the shipments OF Persian rugs from
Constantinople to the United States
as consolidated at this ONCE show . d.
crease On the whole Constanunopls
maintains its position as the worlds
principal rug market. German buys
Oriental carpets In ever Increasing
quantities In order to satisfy her own
requirements and those OF Scandi'
nayia, South Africa and Canada. Ham
burg, being a free port, is becoming
an important distributing center TOT
Oriental rugs, more or less at the ex'
pense Of London. II IL inquired tnat
ss,25O,OO0 worth OF Caucasian and FER
sian rugs are shipped In . year from
Constantinople and Smyrna. more than
bali OF which 20 to Hamburg.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-09-02
Unnerved.

Every minute was precious, said the
man who wanted his letters written In
hurry. yet ne left building that
provided three public stenographers
and walked four blocks up the street
to another stenographer.
She is no more efficient than those
other girls" he said. but nobody will
get good work out OF them today be-
cause two workmen were killed this
morning in the building next door All
the men working in the new building
have gone home for the day; that is a
rule Of the trades, and 1t might just
about as we'll be made rule in the
neighboring Offices, for the clerks
who see and hear about the accident
are never fit for much the rest Of the
day. There Is no danger attached te
their Jobs, but the accident gives every
stenographer and typewriter in the
building a case OF nerves"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-09-02
Differences in Alcohol.

More than two-thirds of the total
production of German alcohol Is OBJ
tanned from potatoes. but only COM
paratively small portion is sold In the
form of bevedges, for the reason that
other kinds of alcohol are better
adapted to the manufacture OF liquors
and brandies.
The alcohols OF wine, cherries and
cane possess an agreeable aroma
whereas all alcohols produced from
bee1s grains, molasses and potatoes,
must he rectifed before they are ready
for consumption, in order to free them
q their unpleasant natural taste.
As to potatoes, the resultant alec
hol possesses an oily favor which
would be particularly unpleasant if
not eradicated by recuficatton
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-09-02
Times Changes.

A New York dancing master. at .
recent meeting of teachers Of the
poetry Of motion. said that dancing
as IN amusement had lost much ground
IL the last few years. and that he saw
no prospects, Of q revival True" he
said, there are dancing parties and
balls every season. but they are not
what they were once upon a time.
They begin late and end early. and
those who attend for the most part
do not go to dance. The parents and
the grandparents Of our pupils used
to go to balls where dancing began
at 9 o'clock, and there was dancing
Until tho supper march was played.
Supper over. there was dancing again
until all hours The smoking and
cardrooms are more popular now than
the dance door.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-09-02
Some Rules for Health.

The Women's Imperial Health asso'
citation is the name Of IN organiza'
ton in England of which DR.. MARY
Scharlief is president, that runs q
caravan through the country. 30 tna'
mothers may be taught In their OWL
homes how to take care OF tneI'
babies. These are some of the rules
that are laid down for the mothers
and their children: Keep windows
open day and night; do not spit;
breathe through the nose by keepins
the mouth shut; drink pure water: ea'
slowly well-cooked meals and cult
vate regular habits: wear loose clotn
ing Of seasonable material; take regu
lar open-air exercise in the sunshine
II Sossibie; wash whole body at ieas'
once q week; work but do net worry
get house drains certified By sanitary
authority"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-09-02
Brown Bread and Beans.

The story of brown bread and baked
beans Is more interesting and I'm
portant than local historians appear
to think. Perhaps the most incisive
record Of Boston brown bread is the
entry in the selectmen's records. Jan
uary I. 17z6, or January 10. 1747 On.
81 It calls brown bread that which
has good proportion OF Indian meal.
June 20, 1884, the selectmen ordered
that the proportion Of Indian meal In
brown bread must not exceed one-
half. The use of Indian meal in bread
Is mentioned in the selectmen's or
der of October 20, 1922. Apparently
the use Of Indian meal as substitute
for wheat -four was due to poverty.
Or is there any evidence to show such
use Of Indian meal in the seven
teenth century? The term brown
bread" is medieval, but had nothing
to do with Indian meal, 1t seems, I'M
til Major Thwing acted in 1747. He
-es . famous man.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-09-02
THE Hlahe,t Garden.

The highest garden in the world ia
said to be the Alpine Garden of Bot.
any. which was laid out by the late
Canon Glamour. formerly rector OF the
Hospice Of Little st. Bernard. the
London Globe has discovered. II 10
situated at an elevation Of 1900 me-
tiers. or 1850 feet. Hero are to be
found almost all species of mountain
flowers. not only those common In the
Alps, Pyrenees. Carpathians, the Cas.
casus and the Balkans. but even from
far OF Himalaya. The canon con.
ceived the idea In 1883. but 1t was not
until 1902 that his project became
effective. In the latter year tho COM
mune Of Thule gave him the land.