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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-05-11

Mr. A. F. Moves Of the Iowa Auto
Company, Of Tama, Iowa, has ex-
changed autos with M. E. Melvin Of
Marshalltown. Iowa. giving him an up
to-date car, fore door, self starter the
famous Dreadnaught Moline, equipped
with the famous Moline long stroke
motor developing in excess Of thirty
five horsepower, giving to the operator
that sense Of security and satisfaction
30 essential to the fullest enjoyment Of
motoring. You should see this car to
appreciate It. Mr.. Melvin is very much
pleased with the new car. Mr.. Moves
would be pleased to figure with any
one desiring to purchase high grade
car.
Mesdames F. A. Smith, Ellen Abbey,
and c. A. Farmer. were hostesses at
the church Friday afternoon to the
Ladies' Aid Society Of Central Church
Of Christ. The program was in charge
Of Division C, and opened with de-
votional conducted by Mrs. c. III. Nor
ris. after which the nth Of the series
Of talks on bible women, this subject
being Deborah was given by Mrs.
Leroy Bigalow. Miss Louise Harris
gave two vocal numbers, with Mrs.
Laura Rogers as accom- PIANIST, and two
piano solos by Miss Lillian Tenant
were also enjoyed. A social time fol-
lowed, and the POSSESSES served re-
freshments.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-05-11

For Sale-I desire to sell my home
place. including two :louses on same
lot Will sell together or separately.
Good income property. all modern, fine
location. Also will sell properties at
los South Fourth street and 107 South
Third street. All close in. No trade.
Inquire Theodore Johnston, Times-Re-
publican Office.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-05-11

Everybody ought to wear Munsing
union suits Everybody would wear
them II they knew how much comfort
and satisfaction there is in suit that
fits perfectly that always stays in
place and holds it's shape and that
washes splendidly. For sale at Paint
er's clothing store.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-05-11
Up-t date goods. Chamberlains.

We are now receiving regular ship
ments Of Nevada vegetables and can
furnish you with the finest head let
tuce, radishes, and onions grown. A
p. Myers
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-05-11

The members Of the Arnold Moth
ers' Club met Friday afternoon at the
school and enjoyed an interesting pro-
gram. Grace Wing gave piano solo,
Velma Rupert and Dorothy Schultz
appeared in piano duet, and Mr..
Horace Patton, brother of Miss Emma
Patton. one Of the teachers of the
building, gave a piccolo solo. The at
terroon's subject was Understanding
Boys" and Superintendent Palmer
gave q talk explaining why 30 many
boys lose interest and drop out Of
school after they reach the age Of IL or
thereabouts. Mrs. ScfNlltz read an
article written by Purdue Julian w.
Mack. Of the Chicago Juvenile court,
entitled. "The Law of Action and How
to Apply 1t to the Boys Physical and
Moral Mature" Mrs. G. 3. Moehrl also
read a paper, on "A Specialist in
Boys" ana followed with recitation,
A general discus
sion followed. after which the hostess
es for the afternoon. Mesdames Han
egan, Battin. Matson. Dumhoo. Adams
and Echternacht, served light refresh
ments. Adjournment was taken until
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-05-11

Base ball game. Boston Bloomer
Girls vs.. Ben Hur team. Sunday. 3 p.
M, fair grounds Admission Is cents.
Why not bring the boys up town
Saturday night and buy one Of the
suits at Painters special cut price sale
on boys clothing?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-05-11

Mr. and Mrs. j. W. Lloyd, 303 West
Linn street, were host and hostess Fri
day evening to small company Of
relatives, entertaining at dinner in
honor of Mrs. Otto Dentzer, of Chi
cago, formerly Miss Carrie Bradbury.
Dinner was served at Z o'clock in three
courses. and the evening was. enjoyed
in an informal social way.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-05-11

To Rsnt-Two furnished rooms. 3l1
East state street
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-05-11

A small company Of friends Of Miss
Ruth Wiltse were entertained at the
NJ. F. Wiltse home, all East Linn
street, Friday evening, in honor of the
birthday anniversary Of Miss Ruth.
The evening was enjoyed in a pleasant
social way, and light refreshments were
served
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-05-11

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-17
HOW CARBORUNDUM
 l WAS FIRST MADE
First Vial of Crystals Sold For Thirty Cents
 a Carat

The first of the abrasives to be a com merciaI success was carborundum. To see the genesis Of earborundum one must hark back quarter century to Monongahela, Pa, and see a scientist laboring night and day with an cleo tric furnace that was little more than q tin pot. trying to create an abrasive that would enable the manufacturer to meet the eXacting requirements of an inventive age. The scientist was pr. Edward Goodrich Aeheson.
 After what seemed to pr. Acheson an eternity his dream was realized, says the National Magazine. He had invented a substance second only to the diamond in point of hardness and so superior to any known abrasive as to make com parison impossible. and all from such simple substances as sand. salt, coke and sawdust and that unknown quant- ity electricity.
 Named carborundum because it's in- ventor believed it to contain carbon and corundum, this new substance was crystal in form and beautiful in color Ing, and so hard that 1t could cut the face off a finished diamond. But its manufacture was a slow and a tedious operation, and it was two months be. fore Dr. Acheson had manufactured enough of the crystals to fill a three eighths of an inch vial But with this vial in his vest pocket he started cour- ageously for New York to convince the world of the utility of his product.
 This in itself was a difficult task and it was some time before he succeeded
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-17

night. It was one of those stag af- fairs. common enough in these days, but then they were viewed with suspicion. Having been invited to one of the Kings parties there was no lodging 1t for a previous engagement.
 While the salad was being served the walters brought in coffin one or two cubits in length, and in it tho wooden effigy of a dead body. perfectly imi- tated by the Kings own private seulp- tor and painter. It was handed to Amunoph, who gazed admiringly on it and then passed it around to the quak- ing guests.
 Look upon this" he said. then dring and be merry, for such as thou seeist it will thou be after thy death"
 Now that was where the joke came in-"after thy death.f The guests knew right away that there was going to he something doing for them in the near future, so they began to wind up their little business matters and prepare for the grand blow-off. It came on the fol lowing morning, before the King and his assembled family, consisting of a couple of hundred wives. The men, whose names posterity does not know, went through the ordeal without a murmur. But they had had good time the night before, anyway
 The performance made a great hit with Amunoph, and he began looking around for novelties in this line. II seems that he had had for his first wife a venerated heiress named Nitoc- ris. Her advent into Amunoph's fam fly was quickly followed by scores oi others, many of them prettier, more attractive as to figure and invariably better able to amuse his highness. All she had on her rivals was little Egyptian money, but she didn't have it long, for no sooner was she the wife of Amunoph than her money was his, too Of course, that was under stood.
 As Amunoph looked over the field full of dead bodies--the mortal re- mains of the men he had wined and dined the night before-and caught sight of Wife No. 1, Nitocris, lonng ing around on the outer edge of his presence, wondered. no doubt, if she was going to get by. No, she was not. The frolic was on.
 Amunoph beckoned his attendants.
 See that yonder woman, Nitocris, whom l first took unto myself?n he asked. See that her life is taken from her-now, in the presence of these my prettier and more gracious wives
 Amunoph yawned during the epi- logue, which had it's little moral for the other wives, who. we are told, 'counseled among themselves as to the best way of restoring the good humor of his grace"
 Then Amunoph began tampering with the rules. Every upsto-date meth cd then in existence was brought into play Amunoph, 1t has lately been learned, even hired men of originality to conceive novel means by which he might kill a couple of wives. Some thing new and clever he was looking for all the time.
 Murders were being pulled off in ev- cry corner of the palace. Of course the King did his best to keep all his engagements but he could hardly be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-17
.SALON|K| IS
 4 JEWISH CITY Has Been Refuge For Jews For Many Years-lm-
 portant Sea Port

From the Chicago Daily News.
 Emperor William of Germany has tele- graphed to his sister Sophie, wife of Crown Prince Constantine of Greece, conqueror of Saloniki, his congratulations on that feat of arms. Indeed, capture of the second seaport of European Turkey is no small triumph. The city takes its rame from Thessalonica, sister of an other great monarch. For Thessalonica' s father was Phillip of Macedon her broth CT was Alexander the Great and her hus- band was King Cassander, who by his patronage gave the city it's first renown.
 Thither. as everybody knows went the Apostle Paul in the year S3. He found there synagogue and many Jews, and there certain lewd fellows of the baseI sort formed a mob "and set all the city on an uproar,R the complaint being made that the proselyting Christians that have turned tho world upside down have come hither also"
 There are today 37 times as many sym agogues in Saloniki as there were in the year 53. For about two-thlrds of it's pop ulation of 10000 are Jews. Indeed, 1t has been a city of Jewish activities and Jew lEH tuiluTt iiDu lHt DtEiilHlHB or lnC Christian era. For centuries 1t was a refuge for persecuted Jews driven from western Europe. This was particularly true after Murad captured the city for the Turks early in the 18th century. Jews fleeing from Germany, Italy and France brought wealth and prosperity 10 Saloni- Xii. When the great eviction of Jews from Spain and Portugal came about the time of the discovery of America, the city profited enormously by the wealth and thrift, the virtue and the learning of Jews driven out of the Iberian penln- sula. Until this day the prevailing speech in Salonil1i is a corrupted Spanish.
 Let 1t be remembered of the Turk that he gave asylum to the Jews when west ern Europe made outcasts of them. In Saloniki they lived on equal terms with Greek Christians and prospered exceed ngly There they established the chief center of Jewish learning and from that center they helped to raise Europe out of it's medieval darkness.
 From Thessalonica, sister or Alexander, to Sophie, sister of William, is long look down the centuries. But from the time of the one princess to the time of the other saloniki has been great and famous city lying in the broad highway of history.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-17
The Efficiency Movement

]. George Frederick in Harpers
 Weekly.
 But greatest of all has been the de- velopment of the application of the efficiency idea to the general admin istrative side -sf business. As 1t costs on the average twice as much to han dle and sell an article as it does to manufacture 1t, it can easily be seen of what relatively superior import ance Is the matter of making selling efficient when entrusted with mere manufacturing. Consequently a great deal of stress has lately been put upon the development of efficiency in sell ing and advertising and general exec utive administration. The saving of 5 CT cent in factory costs Is now much harder to secure than the saving of as rpuoh as 20 per cent on administrative and selling costs, because there is so much more opportunity for efficiency in the latter field. When efficiency will have finally solved manufacturing prob lems it is freely predicted that the United States will achieve new and decided spurt toward prosperity. Moth ing is at present more inefficient than distribution and selling Price disor- ganization, inefficient plans and incom- TIC tent executives are wasting many millions in selling and administrative work Even capable executives in of- fees have found it impossible to real ize, until brought up against the plain truth, that they were duplicating writ ings and operations as many as 29 times. The same general thing is true of individuals. Business men every where are crying out against the ap- paiiing prevalence of inefficiency among employes--employes who are constantly demanding more salary but are able to deliver very little in re- turn The public school system Is ev- crywhere agreed to be incapable of pro- oucing young men and women who can use their heads and hands intelligent ly. Many large concerns have found 1t necessary to put all employees going
 into their place of business through a training school. In addition to this the science of closer study of individual efficiency is being developed in order that a closer tab may be kept upon tho somewhat intangible clements of per. eonal efficiency.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-17

stone slabs pretty busy. The printers go+ away behind in their work, and besides, if Amunoph's reputation Is to he believed, they didn't dare advertise foo many of his private affairs. He had the drop on them, being king.
 Anyway, Egyptologists are Just learn ing that Egypt's printers in the stone age were like the reporter who had all of the story but the facts. They knew Amunoph was a brutal man. with Q penchant for getting rid of his wives and friends, especially his wives, fast CT than the high priest scould get him married. but they never dreamed that he was dealing in carload lots It so happened that half dozen mur- ders at the palace on a bright May morning never feazed 'em
 Amunoph was descended from a wig orous line of fighters, notably the four Thothmeses, none of them champions, but all of them with good fighting blood in their veins. There was noth- ing they liked better than a scrap.
 Amunoph started out friendly enough, until he became King, and then he took off the lid. Prof. James Henry Breasted, of the University of Chicago, among other students of ancient hls- tory and Egyptology, has just discov- cred that all was not serene in the palace during the reign of Amunoph; !; in fact, recent developments show that Amunoph holds the wife murder record for all time.
 Amunoph was having party one
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-17
OTTER CALLED OUTLAW
With His Fierce Wanderlust No Other
 Animal Can Compare
From Outing.

From Outing.
 Now the travelling of an otter is TO light thing Of all the beasts in the world. this fierce outlaw is the great est wanderer. It Is as if he were af- ficted with a curse that forbids him to be still. and forces him ever to push on-on--onl Rest. as rest. he knows not. Three days will see the end of his longest inaction. and the number of miles he covers in a fort night would amaze some folk.
 He travelled straight down the coast line with the plunge of the fishing seals in his right ear and the thun- der and moan of the rollers in his left, and never sound in either of all answering whistle to his unutterably lonely cry. In the moonlight his wet, blunt muzzle and his astonishingiy bright eyes shone together in a tr!- angle. and that was all there was to be seen of him; the rest was under water, driving along with steady strokes of the shcrt, strong legs, and with an infinite grace.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-17
England a Hearty Eater
le Brooklyn Eagle

From the BrOokiyn EdSte.
 Canada Is regarded as the most trustworthy sourco of wheat supply, and last year the dominion sent abroad more wheat than any other country m the world. But England does not take il all. In fact, only 3S per cent of England's food comes from British possessions. Englishmen eat 130 pounds of meat per head every year and 343 pounds of wheat and flour. Thirty per cent of the butter used is home produced; more than half the cheese Is Canadian. The decreasing production of butter and cheese in England is due to the increasing demand for fresh milk the supply of which annually hos been augmented by 10000 gallons from France and Holland. Adding con- densed milk, England consumes 90O,- 900 100 gallons of milk every F months.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-17
Penalty for Burning Coal
ha Dundee Adyertiser

From the Dundee AdVertiser.
 In these days of suffering from that happily rare infliction, succession of fogs, the Londoner may possibly find 4 little consolation in the knowledge that the fog is a very ancient evil of the metropolis. It is true that the monk, Fitz stephen. who wrote at the end of the twelfth century the earliest detailed description that has survived makes no mention of this particular feature, the only thing to be com plained of in the London of his time being. in his view, "the immoderats drinking of fools and the frequency ol fires.' But by the following century the fog was well established. and jus, over 500 years ago (130S) the citizens peittioned Edward I to prohibit the use of sea coal in their houses. The King adopted the suggestion. and promptly made the burning of sea coal capital offense.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-17

in selling his small supply to the dia- mond cutter at 20 cents a karat or s4S2 a pound--a princely sum indeed but it must be remembered that the lapldary depended wholly at that time on dia mond dust to polish his stone, and dia- mond dust was worth a minimum af 40 cents karat, or s576 pound. IT the initial price of carborundum could have been maintained last years ontput V ould have been valued at the astound : ing sum of sS2,944, 4,000,0 ,00o-a figure equal to nearly forty times the aggre. gate gross earnings of all the railroads Tn the United States.
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expected to do more than an ordinary mans work. He attended the death bed scenes of his favorite wives. while
 the others who did not stand so high In his estimation had to get through 1t alone as best they could.
 In the meantime Amunoph was get ting married dozen times a day. Sometimes his dates so conflicted that when there were large number of
 wives going out those coming in were married in bulk. Individual service was absolutely impossible, for the King was
 busy man.
 Now, Amunoph III was otherwise
 known as Achencheres, or Chebres, and
 was one of the Theban or Diospoiitan
 kings of the eighteenth dynasty. It was in this dynasty that Egypt had a large
 circle of friends and it was probably because doings at the palace were kept so quiet that kings of the smaller countries surrounding were glad to get places for their daughters In Amun
 oph's palace for 1t was reported about
 ,he country that they had jolly good times there.
 One King TImafos, who was from
 he north of Egypt was thus deceived by public gossip, and he sent his
 uaughter, Hatash to the King for his approval Now, Amunoph was not over | ly particular about the looks. It was
 an item of course but the main thing
 was that they had royal blood in them. Timaios heard that his daughter was
 not treated well by Amunoph. And so,
 taking an army with him, he went
 down to see If he couldn't fix things
 up. Amunoph was warned of the np- proach of the enemy, and this &C., counted for the fact that business of
 wife murder quieted down a bit. While lAmunoph was preparing for the at | tack the wives took occasion to sneak from the palace and throw themselves into the river where the crocodiles could get them.
 Amunoph was Injured in the battle
 that followed with Timaios, and his death resulted. His army however was victorious, and Timaios was put to
 death for his -impertinence.
 Psychologists are greatly interested in the career of Amunoph which is just as yet little hazy. They know that he ascended the throne after Thothmes ", about 1450 B. C., and that he was succeeded in 140S B. c. by Khuenaten, so that he was only 42 years old when he had his fatal quar- | rel with Timaois. Having murdered over 300 wives by the time he was 27 years of age, searchers for the truth
 are mortified at the possibilities con
 tained in those last 15 years which he served as King of Egypt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-17
Charge It

From the Fredonia (Kan.) Herald
 A woman went into one of the banks in Fredonia and said to the cashier:
 q should like to open an account at this bank. ig you p2ease"
 we shall be glad to accommodates you. madam. What amount do you wish to deposit?"
 "Oh. but I mean a charge account. such as l have at the dry goods store.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-17
BLOODY CAREER OF WICKED OLD KING Was Greatest Bluebeard of
 History NAME WAS AMUNOPLE Invited Guests to Big Banquets Alter Which He Would Murder Them Just for His Amusement
 Served Coffin
NAME WAS AMUNOPLE

From the Chicago Tribune.
 'Bluebeard.o champion of the world King Amunoph III of Egypt.
 Murder will out, although 1t may be 5000 years coming. Egypt is not to De blamed for failing to serve news promptly, for man who engaged ln such a wholesale business as Amunoph was bound to keep the printers on the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-17
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