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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-02
She Turned Bill Poster To Help
Hubbv--And She Made Good At It
'If More Women Would Help
Husbands Make Money Instead
of Spending 1t as Fast as He
Makes 1t, There Would Be Few
er Divorces, Says Plucky Los
Angeles Woman.

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan. y.
"A woman bill poster! Yes, sir;
there is one right here in Los An
geIes.
Mrs. Grace Rockingham enjoys
the unique distinction of being
the only woman bill poster in the
West and probably the only one
in America. For eight hours
every day she can be seen slap
ping on the big, gaudy theater
signs, and she does not use that
dainty, modest slush to her big
brush that is characteristic of
her sex. She slaps the paste on
just like a man and quicker and
better than some men. She makes
$3.50 per day-and she earns the
money.
Her husband, w F .Polking-
ham, is a bill poster. He had u
hard time finding reliable help,
so "the missus" jumped in and
he has never wanted for reliable
help since. She started at the
work like an old timer, and it
never even blistered her hands.
Sounds funny, but it's right. She
is a big, robust, healthy woman
and somewhat of an athlete be-
sides. She can pick up two so
pound sacks of flour and put one
on each shoulder with ease.
Mrs. Rockingham likes being a
bill poster. Here's what she has
to say about it:
when a man is in trouble, his
wife should always be the first
one to the rescue. Mr.. Polking-
ham was about to lose several
contracts, which meant bread and
butter to us, so 1 concluded to he
a bill poster.
II like the work fine. 1t is out
of doors and healthful and beats
house work all hollow. 1t is hard,
Of course, but hard work that Is
honest never hurt any woman.
'If more women would interest
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-02
THISWEEKS jokes Hot From BROADWAY

you shouldn't get SO sore and
angry because that poor girl Of
yours kept you waiting last night.
George shouldn't get sore?
Why not? Wasn't / waiting in
taxicab?-Ward and Curran.
Little Boy Ito his father)-
Here's a funny dreamstiok, pa.
Father-What IL it? Nothing
silly, l hope?
Little Boy-0h, no: this is a
dandy. If Postal-Telegraph OPP
orator got married in Frisco,
would that make is Western
Union?-Harry Beresford and
Company.
Mr.. Finnegan-Sure, that's
foine dog ye have there, Mr..
Cohen.
Mr.. Cohen-Vell, he ought to
be. He's worth fiveshundred dol
lars.
Mr.. Finnegan-An' sure, how
the divil did he ever save up that
much money?-Flanagan and Ed
wards.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-02
M0Sf:
AWhipe
STRANGERS

strangers! That's chilly word
And freezes up the soul;
Never meant for lads that march
Toward comman goal.
Who are you, or who am l
That we should delay
Grabbing hands with all the folks
On life's common way!
All of us were born alike
Every mothers son
Walks the self-same vale of things
Till the journeys done.
And we reach the sel-same end
In the dreamless dust,
Let us wander hand in baud
Taking life on trust.
strangers! Let's forget that
word
Comrades-that's the thing,
We will share the pain, the joy,
Heart to heart we'll cling.
Down the little valley-path
Through the shade and shine
We will laugh the years away
In brotherhood divine.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-02
Quo Vadis, Louis?

I'VE shall private monopoly
must and shall all the Of government to restore
lawyer
Good, but how Mr. lawyer BY law by statutory unscram
constitution be
fictitious
chldren's children be in
the cemeteries
If by law by government competition? up
building
business?
spells Socialism,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-02
IN THE LIMELIGHT
Arthur I. Vorys, that astu

politician o [
Ohio, has no all
absorbing ambi-
tion to have his
name go thun-
dering down the
ANIMAL of time
as a great states
man. He would
m Il C h rather
hold the reins
of the republic
can machine in
Ohio, and main
tain a reserved
seat in the ma
tional b a n d
wagon. That's
one reason why
he is going to
be worth watch
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-02
a struggle?-Don Carney.

a SLTuRRle .-OOn Sdt hcy.
Young Miss Ito young man
who is jollying her)-You'd bet
ter look out for yourself, or III
take you at your word, and then,
IL you don't make good, I'll sue
you for breach of promise.
Young Man Every wittily) =
You'd better not, or you'll be
trampled on in the rush.-Mason
and Keller Company.
Mrs. Rooney complaining to
parish priest)-Father, that man
of mine is either drinkin' again,
or he's workin' in a circus.
Parish Priest-Why do you say
that, Mrs. Rooney?
Mrs. Rooney-Why? VIII, he
cum home last night, and he was
ravin' and screamin', and was
asking me to please shoot the ami
mails at the foot of the bed.-Gus
Williams.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-02
TODAY IN HISTORY

Gov. Ellis of
North Carolina
stood not on the
order of his TAX
ing. Fort Ma
con for me, he
said and he took
possess / on of
same day Geor-
gia troops seized
Forts Pulaski
and Jackson and
the United States
arsenal at Sa-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-02

The idea that salvation is free
is erroneous. You have to live
for 1t.
Wearing a rabbits foot is lucky
for the rabbit. Until somebody
else begins to wear it.
It's miraculous that so many
children live with their parents
and still respect them.
In Chicago they are talking
now about ''the uncommon, or
Mary variety of Garden"
One way to miss. human SYM
patty is to feel sorry for yourself.
PERHAPS
you never heard this one:
Mother, 1 cannot mind my wheel;
My fingers ache, my lips are
dry;
oh, if you felt the pain I feel!
But oh, who ever felt as I!
No longer could l doubt him true,
All other men may use deceit;
He always said my eyes were blue
And otter swore my lipe were
sweet.
Walter Savage Lander.
{
Pennsylvania has invented a
trap nest that tells which of his
hens lay which eggs. Get it?
No? Well then, the trap nest
'blames each egg on the hen that
laid it.
u -
i, Common salt and water is a
French remedy for dusty roads.
Marse Henry says that IL T. r.
gets into the White House again
well never get him out unless he
comes feet-first.
How can popular government
succeed when there are so many
more patriots than Jobs?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-02
amhtimAte.HW$m
N0rrQSpOndGnCG

|ready overbalanced pension roll.
or the president recommends the
passage of the French Spoliation
claims, amounting to approx
|mately six million, and which are
over a hundred years old and are
not even in the hands of the de-
|scendants of the original claim
ants.
Sincerely, RATH.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-02

Red Cross Ball Blue makes the
laundress happy, makes clothes
winter than snow. II you wish
beautiful, clear white clothes, use
Red Cross Rail- Blue. At all good
Jrncaro ssN
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-02

ing during the 1912 campaign.
Also he's the G. o. P. national
committee man from the presi-
dent s state.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-02
NO DOUBT ABOUT 1T

DOUBT ABOUT IT
a book poems
written Immediately the authors 30-day fast
Thirty-day He surely must be poetCleveland Plain
l9tt
I
shall lonely Bridget, if leave 81
Bridget-Dont I'll until a house
full of comprehension Evening Transcript
Man-Have advice a struggling
employe?
Gentle Don't II
Young Man-Don't work?
Old Gentleman-No. Become employer.-Judge. ~
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-02

If at first you don't succeed,
complain to your congressman.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-02

Never de- a beautiful motto,
Never quit Is a lovely one, too;
winks cynical guise
labels the proverbs too good be true;
well o and courageous and pucky,
To plug right ahead though your destiny frown
times when it's right to continue the fight.
times when it's wiser by lay down.
When your you prone and is jumping upon you
humping your chest with his number ten feet,
1 yell Enough" he be rough
And get even the next time meet.
When somebody raises" each bet that offer
hand that hold is the worst hand in town
The thing boosting the pot,
the guys the knows lay down!
/ sing of the fellow who isn't downhearted.
discouraged when matters wrong,
possesses the wit that will tell him to quit
When fighting is HOPELESS ana fate is too strong
say die is a beautiful motto,
quit has deal
the wise guy, I claim. Is the chap who is game
But when to stick-and the time % down
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-02

In many cases it seems a mis-
take a starch the front of the
shirt when a starched back would
be so much more useful.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-02

After eighteen years expert
menting a French scientist has de-
cided that the common snail can
stand more cold than any other
creature.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-02
Jan. 2, 1851

vannah, so taking 1t all around it
was not a very cheerful day for
Uncle Sam.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-02

The man who invented the word
"cornucopia" is still hiding out.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-02

Getting a bun on brings no bis
cults home to the babies.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-02
OBS ERV ATIONS


PROMOTERS of that beef merger were to receive only rs
millions intangible" Intangible is
the right Neither producer got hold of
any Of it, anyhow.
FRANK COSEA just decision in California court
fell dead There shocks that Caor
niaus bear only with great difficulty
PROBABLY Chinese isn't
Tafts recognizing the republic of China right away
COOK county Ill., takes the prizes Seventy jailed
derers ate Christmas dinner together in her jail
remarkable if Russias reply Uncle takes
the
WHEN! Kaiser William decreed that all
Christmas
here bought Teddy bear that
BATERMAN declares China
enlightened AS
ably the for despot
COUSIN TAFT attend the dinner,
Bills beginning
o a
PEOPLE wl-no eat-Lorimer, Taft and
candidate
mixed about that keyhole
REYES martyr Seems like nice old man
thinking a crowd
awful to shoot all people who made that mistake.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-02
"a" STANDS FOR

Artichoke, apple-dumpling and
for April Fool appetite
and angleworm. Even for Archie
Butt. Some constitution, Ell?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-02

Marse Henry always was sus-
picious of this T. r. person.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-02

But then anybody can stand a
lot of cold who wears a house for
clothes, as q snail does.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-02
WHAT is THE
MATTER WITH YOU?

If the doctors have disa-
greed as to the cause of your
illness, let me explain how the
cause may be removed so that
whether they were right or
wrong, you may get we'll any
way. When the nerve supply
is normal, the disease and pain
will disappear. The treatment
is simple but effectual and the
results will surprise and please
you. No drugs, no knife. Con-
sultation free. Main 4476. Of
flee practice only.
DIR. NINA A. DERBY
I'll So. X st.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-02

Entered at the postoffice at Tacoma, Wash,
as second-class matter. Telegraphic Service
of United Press Association.
published Every Evening Except Sunday by
the Tacoma Times Publishing Company.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-02

THE Ek6lhE6c SAW A
MAN STANDING on THE
TRACK WAVING A RED FLAG.
NE DROUGHT THE MIGHTY
ENGINE TO A SUDDEN STOP
AND PUSHED HIS SKI PIECE
FROM The CA8 WIN DOW.
TIE FLAeMAN CALLED
THE FOLLOWING TO HihN.
IF ROOSEVELT LIKE PAYING
FOR WHAT LAFOLL ETTE,
WOULD THAT MAKE
SENATOR ALDRtcH.
q DOCTOR QUICK:
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-02

LIZ Chinese vote isn't big enough to warrant Mr.
ling the republic of China right away.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-02

REYES martyr Seems like nice old
mistaken thinking a
awful to shoot all people who made that mistake
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-02

got a Just decision a California court
difficulty
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-02

PEOPLE-with- whonl-Tedd Observation-Disclosures, Tai
believe Booker Washington is candidate since he
mixed up about that keyhole.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-02

Mother (to her son)-Georgo,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-02

COOK county, ILL.,, takes the prizes Seventyseven jail
derers ate Christmas dinner together in her jail
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-02

It's miraculous that so man
children live with their parent
and still respect them.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-02

In Chicago they are talking
now about "the uncommon, OF
Mary variety of Garden"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-02

will remarkable if Russas reply to Uncle Sam
he form of massacres of Jews.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-02

One way to miss. human SYM
pathy is to feel sorry for yourself.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-02

COUSIN TAFT attend the dinner pro-
vded " Bills beginning feel the
strain eating for 10 II hours at stretch.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-02

Wearing a rabbits foot is lucky
for the rabbit. Until somebody
else begins to wear 1t.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-02

PROMOTERS of that beef merger to receive
millions of stock the Intangible" property "Intan
the right for it, Neither producer consumer
of 1t, anyhow.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-31
IN HOSPITAL, He
COMMITS SUICIDE
Patient at Soho Slashes Throat
with Razor While
Despondent.

Despondent ever his physical condi-
ton. Edward Burns. a patient at the
Isolation Hospital, Soho. committed
suicide last night by slashing his
throat with a razor.
Burns. who gave his address as II
huffman street, and said he lived
with Patrick Donnelly, a relati]e. was
admitted to the tubercuiar ward May
4 last. In his weakened condition he
left his cot last night about 9 o'clock.
went to a locker where he kept a ra-
zor and cut a deep cash in his throat.
He was founN soon afterward BY a
nurse and vas given medical attend
ance by a physician. The names of
the nurse and the physician were not
revealed today by the hospital author
tiles.
Burns died at 1l:45 p. m. County
Physician Mckenzie was notified and
called at the hospital today.
At the huffman residence it was
said that Donnelly was a distant rel
alive of the dead man. He is a sea
captain and is away.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-31
M|[KMAN THOUGHT
HE FOUND BOMB
Internal Machine in House
Turns Out to Be Harmless
Dry Battery.

When Carr Benz. a milkman, of 644
North Seventh street. entered As Nom
roe street on his first delivery round
at about 4;20 this morning he was
brushed aside by two men who were
hurrying out of the house.
Benz mounted to the fourth floor
and began to leave his bottles at
the doors. Suddenly he stopped,
dropped his bottles and ran down the
stairs as fast as his feet would
carry him. He had seen a bomb
with a fuse sticking out of it. The
end of the fuse was charred. Benz
took it all in at a glance, and then
an.
Benz finally found Patrolman
STICKY, of the Third precinct. STICKY
raped sharply for help.
Patrolmen Scully, Fannon, Morley
and Van Steenberg responded. The
six policemen marched to the house.
Scully procured a bucket of water
and the bomb was immersed in it.
They then arrested the two men
Benz had seen leaving the house.
DIR. Salvatore Aurienna, who lives in
the house, and Tobio Pecoraro, of
s16 East Kinney street. who had
summoned the doctor to attend to his
sick child. Explanations were Of n 70
avail, and with the two men in tow
they pore the bucket to the station
house.
There the bomb was found to be a
perfectly i~noffensive dry battery.
wrapped in heavy brown paper. with
a heavy blackened cord wound
around 1t.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-31
| DIES, MANY HURT
IN LONDON RIOTS
Dock Strikers and Non Union
Men Battle in Various
Parts of City.


LONDON. July S1.-Seven strikers
We're shot, one dying later in a nos
pital, and twenty other men seriously
wounded by sticks and stones in riots
at the Victoria and other docks in
London today.
The chief encounter occurred at the
Victoria dock. when 1000 of the labor
ers, who had been on strike for over
ten weeks. appeared In compliance
with the manifesto of the Dock Work
ers' Federation. ordering them 10 re-
sumo work. They found, however.
that their places were occupied by
non nionist or free ID borers, who
were determined to continue work
They defied the men belonging TO the
union to eject them, and a severe
fight ensued.
Another fight centred around the
steamer City of Columbia, which was
being loaded at one of the wharves-
Unionist workmen tried to board her,
but were repealed by the non-union-
lists with revolvers. bottles and be-
laying pins. Many men were injured.
some of them receiving bullet wounds.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-31
COP INTOXICATED
ON POST CHARGED
PatroIman Schwartz Is Sus-
pended, Pending investigation
Of Alleged ofense.

Charged with i~ntoxication on post,
Policeman Henry D. Schwartz. of the
Second precinct. is suspended today,
pending his trial before the Board OF
Police Commissioners.
When Sergeant William Ryan saw
Schwartz at 1:3o Sunday morning the
patrolman, so he says. was sober. A
little later, however, telephone calls
were received from the Woodside sec
ton saying that an intoxicated po-
liceman was wandering around.
Sergeant George Bowers was sent
out to bring him in. When he ap-
peared with Schwartz, Lieutenant
Thomas w. Purcell found that the
patrolman's badge was missing.
The lieutenant took Schwartz's re-
volver and then sem him to DR.. Liv-
ingston S. Hinckley. The physician
diagnosed the patrolman's case as
intoxication.
Chief of Police Corbitt ordered
Schwartz suspended.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-31
SIashes Wife to
Halt Departure

PATERSON, July sl.-Returning
home yesterday to find his wife about
to leave with another man, Nicholas
Delmo. of 200 Cliff street, slashed her
across the throat. it is alleged. and
then fled. Her condition was greatly
improved today, and she win recover.
She is in the General Hospital.
When Delmo. for whom the Pater-
son police are now searching. entered
his home he found his wife busy
packing her belongings. The hus-
band is alleged to have grabbed a
carving knife and slashed her across
the throat and then fed
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-31
MOB OF 1000 HUNTING
NEGRO WHO KILLED TWO
Fourteen Blacks Face Lynch
ing UMess He's Caught.

GAINESVILLE, Texas. July ill.,
Two thousand white men today afs
searching for a negro, Leonard Potts.
who within a week has killed two
Texas officers. His latest victim was
Sheriff Charles Stevens, Of this city.
whom he shot last night.
Ii is reported here that Potts Is
surrounded on Peters Prairie. Jour
miles southeast of here. Dozens r
armed men have been rushed there -
assist the posse in beating up the
prairie for the black.
Fourteen negroes are in Jail here.
They are held on the suspicion that
they know something about Pottss
movements. Some ofsthe imprisoned
negroes are believed 10 b in danger
OF violence unless Potts is caught or
their own innocence of attempts 10
hide the fugitive is quickly estae-
lished.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-31
Falls 800 Feet,
but Is Uninjured

ATLANTIC CITY, July S1.-After
a distance of 500 feet Johnny
Mack. a professional aeronaut, was
picked up uninjured by a life-saver
/ 200 feet off the new million dollar
pier here yesterday. Mack's wife and
child saw his perilous dash
to the ocean. The former became
frantic until assured that her hus-
band was not injured. r
Despite his miraculous escape Mack
continued his flights today.
Mack had made the ascension from
the million dollar pier and when at a
distance of about 500 feet released
himself for the parachute drop.
The parachute failed TO open and
he was precipitated into the sea .,
a tremendous speed. He was picked
up unscratched.
Johnny Mack Is a Newark boy
and lives with his family at II Ster-
ling street. His wife and child are
with him at Atlantic City today and
the house was closed when an Eve
ming Star reporter called.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-31
Love for Music
Causes Tots Fall

A street organ grinding out it's rag
time in front of his home caused
william Hirschel. "a years old. of 80
Hillside place, to dance about the
porch at the rear of his home. When
the organ stopped little Willie
climbed upon the railing of the porch
to find the reason.
He lost his balance and toppled TO
the yard below, a distance of about
twelve feet. receiving &Feral lacera-
ions OF the scalp and probably inter-
nal injuries and a fractured skull
He was taken to the City Hospital,
where il is said his condition is
serious.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-31
Losers Gun Won
Game, Is Charge

When Joseph Bradley, of 436 Gen.
trial avenue, swore out a warrant
against ]. Knobler, a saloon-keeper
of 3e9 Central avenue, on the ground
that after Bradley had won some
money at a poker game in Knobler's
saloon, Knobler drew a revolver and
forced him to return it, he was in
dignant when Acting Judge Oehring,
of the Second precinct police station,
fined him $40 on his WI admission
that he had been gambling.
Knobler started to deny the
charges, but changed his mind and
entered a plea of guilty. Judge
Oehring fined him $50 for allowing
gambling in his premises, and held
him In $500 bail for the grand jury on
the charge of assault and battery
for drawing the revolver.