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The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-06-01
UNION ROSTER

STATE FEDERATION OFFICERS.
I President, w. F. WEIGH, 24O7 Eoff
street, Wheeling, w. Va.
| OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Frank w. Suy-
der. p. o. Box $50. Charleston. w. Va.
DISTRICT NO. II. U. NJ. w. of A..
PRESIDENT. Ben Davis, Smith Buila-
| ing. Charleston, w. Va.
Secretary-Treasurer, Benz F.. Nor
| ris, Smith Building, Charleston. w, Va.
TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION.
President, w. 2. Campbell.
y-Treasurer, Mrs. Frank
Snyder. 1877 Washington street.
Meets last Saturday in each month
at /. o. o. r. Hall.
PRESSMEN'S UNION.
President. Harry L. High Mail
Office Kanawha street.
Secretary-Treasurer, Miss Ola Fish
err. Mcclure & Fishers.
Meets last Monday night in each
month in the |. o. o. F. Hail
MUSICIANS UNION.
President. Omar Morgan
etary-Treasurer. Rube Blumen-
berg.
Meets first Sunday In each month in
the ]. o. o. T. Hall.
CARPENTERS.
President, ]. II. Cain.
Secretary, y. S. Starks, 1850 Wash
ington street
Meets every Friday night at l. o. O.
f. Hall.
DECORATOR AND PAPER HANG
ERS UNION.
President, Chas. Eagler.
Secretary Treasurer, w. F. LOOMS.
Meets every Friday night in the l.
O. O. T. Hall.
PLASTERS UNION.
President. j. ID. Donnally.
Secretary-Treasure ]. A. Barley
No. Cottage Place.
Meets every Wedn esday night at the
Plasterer's Hall. POS y Capitol street.
BAR TENDERS UNION.
President Dan Montague
Secretary. J. L. PauIey.
Meets every second and fourth Sun
day i'm the month. Plasterer's Hall,
20sk Capitol street.
BRICNLAYERS UNION.
President, Sam Boyd.
Secretary. Billy Martin.
Meets every Tuesday night at oOS 10
Capitol street.
JOURNEY MEN TAILORS UNION
President, Il. II. Thomas, Schwabe &
Mays.
Secretary. II. HieDel, Schwabe &
Mays.
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REFERENDUM.
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AShtabula, o.. May 1-'Believing
thar the establishing of n Socialist
daily paper in Milwaukee and the
sustaining of the two other dailieS
now in the field to be of the utmost
Importance to the Socialist move
ment at the present time, Local
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ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
State of West Virginia. S.,
County of Kanawha

At rules held at the clerks Off
&c OF the Circuit Court of Kanawha
County. on the first Monday in the
month of May 1911.
Brent Bogel. Plaintiff.
VS..
Mary l.. Bogel, Defendant.
tThe object of this suit is 70 OBJ
tain divorce from the bonds of
matrimony.)
fhls day came the plaintiff by his
attorney. and on his motion. and it
appearing by affidavit filed that the
defendant is nonresident of this
State it is ordered that she do appear
within one month after the first pub
LEGATION hereof and-do what is nee
essary to protect her interest in this
said suit.
Teste:
IRA MOTTESHEARD.
Clerk of the Circuit Court,
w. w. VERT. Solicitor
for Plaintiff
NOTICE TO TAKE DEPOSITIOyS
10 Mary L. Bogel.
Take notice: That on the 9Th
DAY OF June 1911. between the hours
OIL O'Clock a. m, and O'Clock D.
m, OF that day at the law Office of ".
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We ask You. Mr.. Workingman, to
study Socialism. because we are, like
you, a wage slave, who would be
free
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THE FAMOUS BARBER SHOP

Is now open in their new
quarters, .19 Virginia ST.
and are now in position to
serve the patrons with the
same speed and efficiency
as in the past. n
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EASY CHANGE
When Coffee Is Doing Harm.

A lady writes from the land OF cot.
ton Of the results Of four years. use
of the food beverage-hot Postum.
Ever since can remember we had
used coffee three times day. 1t had
more or less injurious effect upon
US all, and myself suffered almost
death from indigestion and nervous
ness caused by it.
II know it was that, because when
I would leave it Oft for a few days l
would feel better. But it was hard to
give it up. even though 1 realized how
harmful 1t was to me.
AT last l found a perfectly easy
way to make the change. Four years
ago l abandoned the coffee habit and
began to drink Postum, and I also in.
f1renced the rest Of the family to dc
the same. Even the children are al.
lowed to drink it freely as they dc
water. And it has done US all great
good.
u no longer suffer from Indigestion.
and my nerves are in admirable tone
since began to use Postum. We
never use the old coffee any more.
"Wo appreciatae Postum as a de.
lightful and healthful beverage, which
not only invigorates but supplies the
best Of nourishment as we'll" Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Creek
Mich.
Read "Tbe Road to Wellville," In
pkgs. "There's Reason"
Ever read the above letter3 A nev
ono appears from time to time. The,
Interest. :. - . =
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PATENTS Nsss. %ss;1' Dc Gsss iess Tss
u - . 0nU y ~ est references. Best rssultA
ENLIST AID OF CHURCHES
Powerful Weapon Brought to Bear II
tho Fight Against Tuber-
cuiosis.

Just how serious a problem tubercu.
losis is to the average church, and in
just what ways pastors are called up
on to minister to those suffering from
this disease, Is the subject OF an in.
vestigation which the national asso-
citation for the study and prevention
of tuberculosis is conducting in con-
nection with its plans for tuberculo-
sis day on April 80. Statistics are
being gathered from thousands Of
ministers regarding this subject, and
among other figures the number Of
deaths last year from tuberculosis in
the church congregation will be given.
1t is planned to place these statistics
together with other educational ma,
terial, in the hands. Of every minister
in. the country for his use in connec.
tion with tuberculosis day. Millions
of circulars and pamphlets on the pre-
vention Of tuberculosis will also be
issued, both from the national Office
and from the headquarters of the $50
anti-tuberCulosis associations who will
cooperate In the movement.
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Culture at any Cost

I'VE came back from Sicily this Octo.
ber." said literary woman, ION a big
emigrant boat. Along with some 1900
Hungarians were five Americans, forced,
like ourselves. out of their regular route
by the cholera in Naples. They had
embarked at F1ume and were already
warm friends with each other and with
the officers, so we newcomers decided
not to butt in.' but to spend most of our
time reading. There was only the off,
GERS library and the only really worth.
while book in it was loaned, so the
ships doctor informed me. It's Henry
James's Ambassador" he continued,
and the lady from Oklahoma has it,
She not only had it, but she kept it.
Morning, noon and night it was under
her arm, as jealousy guarded as a nun
guards her breviary. About a week
later. when we had scraped acquain-
tance, she accosted me one morning
with, Say, l hear you write so maybe
you can tell me what this mans trying
to get at. anyway! l can't make head
nor tail Of the darned thing! l suppose
you've heard of him, haven't you? His
names Henry James,
Hoping to discourage her into giving
up the book, l assured her she was not
the first who had been numerically tor
tured by Henry's curious, involved style
that that was precisely what he was
noted for and that nobody ever pretend
ed to understand him.
There, now, she calculated, 7 knew
I'd get lemon the minute l struck tho
first page! It made me SO mad felt
like chucking it overheard. But you sec.
the doctor, who lent it to me, told me 1t
was sign OF culture to be seen reading
Henry James. so I'm going to stick to it
right straight through the whole voy.
age!'.
And she did"
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ECZEMA GONE, BOILS CURED

e my son was about, three weeks old
when noticed a breaking-out on his
cheeks, from which a watery sub
stance oozed. A short time after, his
arms, shoulders and breast broke out
also, and in few days became solid
scab. I became alarmed, and called
our family physician, who at once pro-
nounced the disease eczema. The lit
tie fellow was under his treatment
for about three months. BY tho end
Of that time, he seemed no better. l
became discouraged, and as I had
read the advertisements Of Cuticura
Remedies and testimonials Of great
many people who had used them with
wonderful success, dropped the doc
tors treatment, and commenced tho
use of Cuticura Soap and Ointment.
and in few days noticed marked
change. The eruption on bis cheeks
was almost healed, and his shoulders,
arms and breast were decidedly bet
ter. When he was about seven
months old all trace of the eczema
was gone.
During his teeth1ng period, his
head and face were broken out IN
boils which I cured with Cuticurx
Soap and Ointment. Surely he must
have been great sufferer. During the
time Of teething and from the time I
dropped the doctors treatment. 1 used
the Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Oint-
ment, nothing else, and when two
years old he was the picture of health.
His complexion was soft and beauti-
tll, and his head mass of silky curls.
I had been afraid that he would never
be well. and feel that I owe a great
deal to the Cuticura Remedies"
(Signed) Mrs. Mary w. Ramsey. 224
E. Jackson St., Colorado Springs,
Colo, Sept. "a. 1910.
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smoulderips Z fire, the, magnificent
arch of the heavens above US Of that
deep rich blue with those cleaning,
clear-cut stars which can only be seen
IN tnat dry desert air, 1
Our camp lay in silence before us,
and no sound reached our ears save
the dull murmur Of the voices of our
companions and the occasional 5hrill
cry Of jackal among the sandhills
around us. Face to face sat with
this strange man. the glow OF the fire
beating upon his eager and imperious
features and rejecting from his pas
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There were times when his stories Of
demons OF miracles, of dreams, and
OF omens were such as an old woman
might tell to please the children Of an
evening. There were others when, as
ne talked with shining face of lis
converse with angels of the inten.
t1ons OF the Creator, and the end OF
the universe. l felt as If l were IN
the company Of some one more than
mortal, some one who was indeed the
direct messenger Of the Most High"
Sir A. Conan Doyle IN scribosr.s
Magazine.
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sionate eyes. It was the strangest
vigil, and one which will never pass
from my recollection. have spoken
with many wise and famous men upon
my travels, but never with one who
left the impression of this one.
'.And yet much of his talk was un-
Ineligible to me, though, as you are
aware, speak Arabian like az Arab.
It rose and fell in the strangcst way.
Sometimes :. was the babble of a
child, sometimes the incoherent lay-
ing Of fanatic, sometimes the lofty
dreams Of prophet and philosophers.
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tickets" as we'll $756 which was to be divided
among the new arrivals in sums of SO each for dis
play at Ellis Island. AS matter of fact the plant.
ers money had gone from his pocket to the ma
chine" via the Mississippi agent also via the same
agent to the agent of the steamship line, and from
thence to the steamship agent in Italy, who deiv.
cred through tickets" to the Italians.
The Italian families promised before they left
Italy to work out their transportation here but it
the planters policy take the extra precauton
Of charging the advance made against the account
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these commercial interests-wth its employment ,ot
not less than $4,000 European agents and subagents
whose sole purpose is to pack the steerage and load
the trains-with it's secret operations fortified by
enormous resources backed by the best intelligence
tn both continentsis practically In control Of all the
channels Of immigration.
Vigorous attempts being made to successfully
combat every law before congress which will
reduce the number of these agents by restricting
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A Most Impressive Arab

have supper with me. and, after a
long exercise of prayer with. his fol-
lowers, he came q join me, but my
attempt at hospitality was thrown
away, for he would. not touch the ex.
cenent wine which I had unpacked
for him, nor would he eat any of; my
dainties. contenting himself with
stale bread. dried dates. and water.
After this meal we sat alone By the
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tHe commercial
aspect Of immi-
grafton. and his
brother was q
Greek con s IL
here. Returning
home, all he had
to do was to talk
and talk again
everywhere l. on
the road, in the
coffee houses, on
the village green.
near the foun-
tain at 8 u n Sc t
when men rest
their cattle and
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alarming They hold the real key to the immiera,
ton situation
An idea as to the extent Of the returns may be
gathered from what was told me by a steamship
agent in a small community of the southern Pelo-
ponnesus, Greece-a town far from railroad that
must ride nine hours mule back to reach the
nearest station. This worthy said that In five
years he had cleared in drachmas sum equal to
100000. He had been in the United States to study
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times, and said that 1 c. Int to have an
operation. I would not listen to that,
and when friend Of my husband told
him about Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound and;what it had done
for his wife, I was willing to take it.
Now / look the picture of health and
feel like it, too. 1 can do my own house,
work, hoe my garden, and milk a COW.
can entertain company and enjoy
them. I can visit when I choose, and
walk as far as any ordinary woman,
any day in the month. I wish I could
talk toevery sufferingwomanandgirl. /"
Mrs. DElA BETHUNE, Sil1eston, Mo.
The most successful remedy in this
country for tho cure Of all forms of
female complaints is Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound.
It is more widely and successfully
used than any other remedy. It has
cured thousands Of women who have
been troubled with displacements, in
flammation, liberation, fbroid tumors.
Irregularities, periodic pains, backache,
that bearing down feeling, indigestion.
and nervous prostration, after all other
means had failed. Why don't you try it,
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Sir Conan Doyle Tells Of Night
Spent With Him in the
Desert.

1T was now evening, and it was
decided that the two caravans should
camp together an arrangement
which was the more welcome as we
were by no means sure that We had
seen the last of the marauders. had
invited the leader Of the Arabs 70
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Is Your Health
Worth 10c?

That's what It costs to get a-week's
treatmeut-of CASCARETS. They
do more for you than any medicine
on Earth. Sickness generally shows
and starts first in the Bowels and
Liver; CASCARHTS cure these ills.
It's 80 easy to try-why no; start to-
night and have help in the morning.
cAScARET9 roc box for Q weekss q
treatment, all druggists. Biggest seller
IN the world A1Eoo hoxeS 4 monfh
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Of the italian who furnished him names, which Sc
cure him against loss in his imported laborers
were refused landing. The agent however, ar
ranged with this Italian to write the expected cotton
workers individually and direct them how to violate
the United States immigration law by giving them
the following instructions: -.
They must pay great attention not know at all
that tney nave somebody in America who has prepared
work 1or them or that they the families
into agreement contract
II they say anything the opposite OF what tell
Ing YOU they Will absolutely be sent back to Italy
Also you Will have to inform these fami-s that the
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A1CSOoooI AAl " II e y
for their landing in
New York will be
handed them when
they arrive In that
city.
This s h o W 8
plainly the three
violations of law
mentioned d before
It h g Italians
were solicited.
they were import
ed as contract Ia
borers and their
tickets we're pre-
paid. All but one
or two entered
the country sue.
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- ~
ship companies.
re 6 u ! arly pay
commissions for
inland transpor-
tation to the At
lantic steamship
companies, where
such transporta-
ton is purchased
from the Europe
an s t e a m 8 h ip
agents of these
steamship compar
MES in Europe.
And so the
machine" an
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His Opinion.

Nephew-What do you think Of the
opera?
Uncle Josh-Them women in tn
boxes ought to be able to raise enough
money on their diamonds to buy some
clothes with, by jinks!
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I ar m e r s. q n d
among other in
fuential patrons
was the planter
named above, who
ordered a num-
Der of Italians for
a second planta-
tion which he
controlled. Names
of persons in It.
ally we're accord
ingly furnished
and the planter
sent the agent a
check of some
$3,SG6.50, with
which to Dur.
chase "Drepaid
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steerage h o d
with emigrants,
the agent care
fully coaches.
them in the ques.|
tions an d an
swers which con-
stitute the Ellis
Island inspection.
This is intended
to secure alike
for the" machine"
the agent and
the emigrant free
dom from detec-
ton. These ques-
tions and an
swers the emf
prant rpcefvea
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IS PROMPTED Dy
law.
An even more
S tr k in & law
breaking prac-
tice, however,
and one which
cannot fail to be
a serious menace
to our nations
welfare because
it Is so far-reach-
ing-is that in
which the immi-
grant appears as
pr in CT ipals and
commits =. perjury
in violation Of
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u1A6A dLAOA, uAA0
repeated VIOLA
tions of our pres
ent laws are reg
ularly practised
a n d m ay b q
classed under two
main heads.
is o L I CITING
AN ARTIFICIAL
E M I G RATION
I N E U r o p F.
FOR THE BEN
EFT o F T II E
8 T E A M s HIP
COMPANIES.
I'm A X I N G.
CERTAIN THE
ADMISSION OF
I M NJ I GRANTS
I N T o T H I S
NnTNTDS M
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PREVENT A REDUCTION PROFITS.
Under the first heading the specific violations are
(a) SOLICITING EMIGRANTS
This is forbidden the part of transportation
panies, Of vessels others engaged trans
porting aliens into United For every vto-
laton there is penalty of 81 1ooo-(sec. Z. U. s.
grafton Act of February 20. 1907
o. IMPORTING CONTRACT LABORERS.
This includes those who have been "ass!sted encour
aged induced migrate by offers promises of
employment
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DURING A TIFF.

Wife--1t seems to me we've been
married century. I can't even re-
member when or where we first met.
Husband-Can't you? Well, I can.
It was at dinner party where there
were 13 at the table.
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"Oue whose ticket passage is paid for with tho
money another, who is assisted by others to
excludabe aNen.-(Sec. e. U. s. 1mmigra-
tun Act. February 20, 1907
In a single case all three of these violations are
too often found. The following is illustration.
well-known American citizen, and member
of the Mississippi bar, is member Of a firm of
cotton factors" which employs Italian immigrants
upon it's plantation. An Italian steamship agent
whose brother solicited emigrants In Italy. worked
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SCANT one.third of the
immigrants who land
on our shores come VOL
unfairly and of an in.'
telligent desire to bet.
ter their. condition by
hard work. OF these 1t
is not the purpose Of
this article to treat.
The remainder of the
yearly output from for
eign countries come
here because they have
been caught up and
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had rather be kissed by an enemy
than wounded by friend who enjoy
ed the job.
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section "a of the act Of February 20, 1907 when he
encounters the immigrant inspectors or board Of
special inquiry at Ellis Island In this he may
be punished severely, If detected while the steam
ship agent, suborner and accessory before the
fact, has for trepidation being beyond the
of the law If he keeps out OF the country. This
violation falls under the general head No. II before
mentioned ans is explained as follows
Before the machine" begins to load its daily
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IN lE.S plduIdtlOu
comnissary. 1t
was the agents
practice to ex-
tract from immi-
grants upon the
plantation t h Q
names and ad-
dresses Of their
kinfolk living in
Italy. These he
forwarded to bis
brother, who in
turn persuaded
them to become
cotton workers.
Such remunera-
tive commissions
resulted that the
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their false statements at Ellis Island insisting,
per Instructions given, that they themselves had
paid for their tickets that the money they exhibited
was their own and also that they had made
tracts for work.
The unique feature about this transaction is that
the planter, being lawyer, availed himself of the
legal quibble of calling his imported laborers "set
tiers when a matter Of fact they were clearly
contract laborers whose entrance into this country
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FL0RIDAFARM for $1,000 Cash

And $500 q month. Five, acre truck
farm In the famous Pensacola District
between two railroads. canning factory
pert and demonstration farm to show YOU
how. Invest near q growing city in q
climate that can't be beat. Write for
literature.
PENSACOLA REALTY CO., Pensacola. Ela.. 20. Cox ,,
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IN consequence
Of agreements.
oral. written or
printed, express
or implied, to
perform labor
in this country
of any kind.
skilled or un-
skilled" For
every violation
OF t hi is ! a W
there is a PEN
atty of $1,000
(Sec. 2. U. 8.
] m m 1 grafton
Act, February
2, 1T.)
A s 8 I s T ING
A L T e N 8 TO
MIGRATE BY
r E P A Y ING
THEIR PAS
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nOtlc power tney
exercise over the
ignorant minds.
they are in such
association with
each other that
they may be even
more accurately
described as a
Fraternity" than
the widely feared
Black Hand So
ciety and the in
fuence they ex-
ercise upon the
destiny Of our ma
tion and upon the
immigrants them
selves is far more
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Your druggist viii refund money II PAZO OINT..
AENT falls TO cure any case Of itching, Blind,
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agent soon left the planters commissary and NOV
Ing to business center in the Yazoo delta district,
built up upon extensive scale general business
of importing contract laborers which he termed 1al
ian products He published the following notice.
ITALIANS!
II you have money to send passage fares
your relatives, have the possibility of making them
here with the understanding that they will place
themselves where they assigned lands the most fer
tile, conditions the BEST
He furnished laborers for the surrounding cotton
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Do noble things, not dream them an
day long.-Kingsley.
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lOr 1Our 0t QV6 Gays
at a time every
month and SO wea1
7 could hardly walk.
I crarnped and had
backacho and head
ache, and as so
nervous and weak
that I dreaded to
see anyone or. have
anyone move In the
room. The doctors
gave me medicine to
oo~o ~o ~ $h@nA
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SEVEN. =. <. =. =, , ......
YEARS OF
MISERY
An Relieved by Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound.

Slkeston, No. -"F0r seven years ]
suffered everything. I was in. bel
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from the agent together with his steerage ticket:
he is told to commit them to memory and not to
forget to throw the paper into the before the
ship reaches America 1t is made clear to him that
to the questions according to the ist regard
less Of fact prerequisite for entrance into the
United States.
The steamship agent and subagent have come
to be the most unique figures in European life to-
day. BY their secrecy collision and the almost hyp-
Washington telegraph., 1911-08-11
DISCONTINUE BUSINESS
renzel Grocery Company Close
Nashville Branch

Penzel Grocery Company of
Little Rock closed their Nash.
vile branch Wednesday. The
BUSINESS at Nashville has been
managed by Mr.. Charles Holt for
'ile past SIX years. J. r. Frazier
manager of the Little Rock bouse
went to Nashville Tuesday to at
eend to closing out the business.
thls was the first knowledge Mr..
Holt had of the change. It is
alleged thata change in stock
holders brought about the
change.