The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1912-11-29

Hetty Green, of New York, the rich
est woman i'm America, was ~ years
old, on Thursday, November 81. She
attended to business as usual, in her
9Th floor Broadway Office.
The principal Of Camden High
School, N. T., has prohibited the girl
students from wearing more than one
bracelet on each arm-three and four
make too much Of jangle.
The principal products of Mexico
are hides and skins, approximately
$5,O0O,O00 and cattle 100000. Prac-
tically all of these products are ex-
ported to the United States.
A steam yacht, in which to take a
honeymoon trip around the world,
was the first purchase made by Will
lam Zeigler, Jr., upon coming into
possession of his fortune Of thirty
million dollars.
The opening of the hunting season
i'm the Northern woods has an unprece-
denied casualty record, hunter day,
it is said being killed by amateur gun
ners. Sport ceases to be such when
it becomes a matter of life and death.
Mrs. David Chambers McCan,
prominent Los Angeles society club
woman and civic worker, has accepted
appointment at the hands of Mayor
Alexander as a member of the Civil
Service Commission. Mrs. McCan il
the first woman civil service commits
ci0nnr in the limited States.
John Schrank, who shot Col. Theo-
dore Roosevelt on the night of Octo-
Der IA, i'm Milwaukee, has been pro-
nounced insane by five alienists and
was committed by Judge Backus' to
the Northern Hospital for the Insane,
near Oshkosh, Mimi, until cured.
Nearly all of the pictures published
in connection with the Balkan war
are purely fanciful, and the same is
largely true of the lengthy descriptive
articles. The dispatches actually ar
irving from the field of hostilities
have been, as rule, very brief, but
and imaginative writer's
have embellished them into long stor-
les.
Myron L. Briggs, who lives near
Grand Rapids, Mich, is a successful
farmer, though II years ago he lost
both legs in a street car accident.
when he recovered from the accident
he bought a 90-acre farm and, doing
all the work himself, he has doubled
it's value. Briggs works all the time
and can do any and all kinds of farm
work.
The STRENGTHENING and police de-
partments of Washington are search
ing for an old crutch belonging to
Mrs. John McCuen. Every garbage
can and dump i'm the district has been
turned over in an attempt to locate
that very valuable and necessary i'm
plement- The crutch is more than
$50 years old, according to Mrs. Nc
Cuen and is the only one she can
use.
A remarkable man is Levi Shoe
maker, of Berlin, mining town in
Somerset county, Pa, few miles
above Frostburg. He will be 101
years old on January 9 next. At the
recent election he walked into the
polling place and prepared his ballot
without assistance. 1t was the twenty
first Presidential election in which he
His first vote was cast
for Andrew Jackson in 1882, and since
that time he has been an ardent DEM
ocrat.
Simultaneous arrests of 175 manu-
facturers OF alleged 'quack" medical
preparations were ordered by Post
master General Hitchcock, last week,
in ~ different cities scattered through
20 States. The arrests are the re-
suits of months Of investigation by
postoffice inspectors and are aimed at
firms which manufacture medical
preparations injurious to the health"
and are using the mails to defraud.
Neither names Of the firms nor the
cities in which the arrests were to be
made, were made public at the Post
office Department.