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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-03-01

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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-03-01

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The Detroit times., 1912-12-16
BREAKING THE MONOTONY
RY TOM p. MORGAN.


$50 1 am compelled, am 1. 10 wait un-
I'll tomorrow afternoon before | can
get a train out OF this Providence-for-
saken place." peevishly carped a hy-
percritical young parsonage from the
north, who was marooned I'm the hum
Bile hamlet OF Polkville. Ark. "Oh, con-
found the luck!--tC be Obliged 10 re-
main In this dismal. monotonous----''
We'll. now. / don't know about its
being so mighty monotonous" calmly
Interrupted the landlord OF the tavern.
You can get drunk tonight IL you
like, and prob'bly have "A fight or two
whether you want TO or not
You can go and call on a certain
charming grass widow lady could
name, and very likely get shot at II
you're as fresh there as you are here.
or you can attend an elocutionary en-
tcrtainment at the ap'ry house and not
be In any great danger unless the
building kctches fire.
You can play checkers with mem
Der OF the legislature and not lose any
thing but your self-respect, or you can
sit around in the parlor and read SUIT
Lovengood's latest work and laugh
yourself 10 death. II she happens TO 20
by I'll point out TO you. although. OF
for IL. short lady that would be
fully n foot taller II she wasn't so
blamed bow-legged. I'll throw you.
sideholts for the cigars or for nothing,
III you say so.
"I'll do anything 20 break the mon
otony for you. even TO the extent. II
you don't quit mourning about II, OF
getting up a foot race in the general
direction OF Lower California, with you
as the party OF the first part and me
OF the second part, just to show you
that you don't admire TO.
Locks considerable like rain of TO
the northwest, don't it7"
The Detroit times., 1912-12-16
Society
Personal
Fashions
SOCIAL and
PERSONAL

Theomarriage OF Mrs. Fanny Ste
wart Atkinson and william s. Dever
was quietly celebrated Saturday even.
ing, In the home OF the brides aunt,
Mrs. j. II. McEldowney, No. S42 Sec
ond-ave. The Rev j. VI Barley, of
the Forest-ave. Presbyterian church.
o. .ciated.
The people will inspire the art OF
tie future, and not powerful mon
archs. as in the past" Director A. r..
Griffith told large audience, Sunday
afternoon, I'm the Museum OF Art. The
director told interesting stories about
the splendid views he threw upon the
screen of the great memorials o. the
world, from the pyramids OF Egypt 10
some of Americas own public build
ings.
A huge Christmas tree, beautifully
lighted, occupied the place of honor
en- the platform for the program or
Christmas songs and stories given
Sunday afternoon, in the Century
auditorium, under the auspices OF the
Twentieth Century club. A kaffee.
klatsch followed.
When Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske
comes TO Detroit, in February, with
her new play, The High Road" dur
ing her engagement she will be the
guest at luncheon, in the Hotel Pont.
chartrain, OF the Twentieth Century
club and the Detroit Board of Com
merce. Mrs. Fiske will give an ad.
dress following the luncheon on AMI
NAL welfare work" The noted actress
is deeply interested in humane work
or all kinds, and It was an address
given by her in the Century building
last winter that resulted in the pres
ent excellent humane organization
under the direction OF the animal well
fare committee of the Twentieth Cen
fury club.
Isadore Levin, son of Rabbi judah
Levin, OF this city, a junior in Har
ward, has won two scholarships, the
Price Greenleaf and the Wendell
Phillips. Of the 1900 students, only
48 are included in the group eligible
TO the scholarship so that the young
Detroiter's distinction carries with Ii
much honor.
Prof Jean Beck, Of the University
or wisconsin, gave most entertain
ing program. Saturday evening, for
Alliance Franchise, In the green room,
OF the Hotel Pontchartrain, when he
gave talk on and sang a number of
the present-day French chansonettes,
favorites In the cabarets of Paris. M.
B Z. de Montigny Gingras also inter
preted the boulevard lyrics, accompaB
led by Nine. de Montigny Gingras.
Judge William f. Connolly will
talk on "Penology and criminology,"
before the Political and Civic league.
Tuesday afternoon, at 1880 o'clock, In
the Elliott-Taylor-Wo olfenden cafe.
Miss Maude Ralston, pianist, will give
several numbers.
The Burns club will give a dancing
party, in Duffield hall, Friday eve
ming, Jan. 8.
o.
A bronze bust of "Bobbie" Burrs
and an intaglio OF the Scotch poet
have been loaned" to the Museum
of Art, by the Burns club of Detroit.
The Detroit times., 1912-12-16
DIV cERTRupE M. PRICE.


The Times Moving Picture Expert.
The moving picture is the latest
Ind most wonderful chapter in the
history OF the drama.
Its amazing popularity rests on the
TACT that after all, and at heart, we
/ re all children TO whom the fascina-
ion of a picture never grows old.
The growth of the industry in the
|ew short years IL has been in exist
|nce: the stupendous financial invest
|nent and the millions of people who
Constitute its every day audience are
lmost beyond belief.
Between $4,000 and 10000 theaters
4 how the moving picture every day in
|he United States.
An average OF various estimates in
|icates that we are spending 100000
day on moving picture shows.
The estimated investment in the
hoving picture industry factcNjes, ex-
|hanges and theaters) In the United
|tates is roughly put at sl50000,000.
The moving picture is both an aeci-
ent and slow growth. II was
born" they tell us, away back IN
|S72, as the result OF wager between
leland Stanford, governor OF Califor-
The Detroit times., 1912-12-16
WEEKEND HARVEST is
REAPED BY THIEVES

Two clever crooks successfully
worked their difficult tricks, Saturday
afternoon, obtaining $50 In cash from
IT. s. Timms, clerk at the Hotel Nor
mandie. and a diamond ring from
showcase in ]. III. Garlicks jewelry
store.
Timms was approached by we'll
dressed young mn who presented an
EXPENSIVE, diamond-studded watch as
security for a loan OF $50, explaining
that he had been in an auto accident,
and needed money at once. Timms
found the watch good security ane
advanced the money, but made the
mistake Of letting the borrower place
the watch in an envelope. When he
opened the envelope, several hours
later. he found an old brass ticker
worth about 40 cents.
When one of the clerks in Garhcks
store put the gems In the safe, Satur'
day night. he discovered that some
one had substituted ring set with
paste diamond, for one with genuine
stone.
BENJAMIN Idehn rerNrs that some
one stole $500 from his room on First
St. though there was no evidence OF
burglary.
Pickpockets got $12 from Fred
Lageman, of No. SO Preston-st.. anc
robbed Fred Ernest, OF No. 1853 Beau
fait-ave., Of $24.
Several small thefts from houses
were reported.
The Detroit times., 1912-12-16

Babes In Toyland" are "Alices in
Wonderland" this Christmas. Never
has there been such a riot of things
for the little folks, and those not so
little, as the toys which this year
transform stores into Happy Land
Popular veterans of many a Christ
mas vie with the latest Inventions
for popularity. There really isn't
much new" said the buyer for a big
tore. but many old things are out
n new clothes
The new things are scientific and
lucational. Zeppelin airships, mono
lanes and biplanes circle swiftly
riven by clockwork; submarine
oats, battleships and ocean liners.
omplete in detail, slip through the
vater or under IT. propelled by the
anne medium.
For AS cents you can buy an aero
llane, launched from spring gun. its
propeller driven rapidly by twisted
rubber band. and the prices soar to
$50 for a working model OF success
full monopiane
Mechanical toys, driven by clock
work, range from crawling insects
that refuse to tumble off table
Through the whole animal kingdom
|all constructed TO perform some life
Pike act peculiar to the thing repre-
scented.
Mechanical dolls walk and dance:
n cat walks, waves its tail. meows
land spits at an imaginary dog; bull
The Detroit times., 1912-12-16

dred million feet of film used every
year.
Millions have been made in the
Dusiness-and some of them lost in
'ruinous competition. before the
trusts" were formed. The motion
picture industry now ranks with the
great automobile business in magni-
tude OF investment and output.
The production of picture film to-
day, with all its modern realism, costs
all the way from $500 TO $4,000.
The life OF picture is from four
to six months. Its travel scope is Of.
ten the entire length and breadth OF
the United States, and many foreign
countries as well.
The daily moving picture audience
is estimated 10 be 5000 900, in audi.
ences of 200 to 800
! There are between 40 and 80 pro.
ducing companies, banded together
under two alleged trusts.
| Films are sold to film exchanges,
which rent them out. supplying ex.
hibitors from two to four films daily.
The price for the use OF film
varies. A first rum" one that has
never been shown before is the most
expensive. A second rum" costing
less rental, is furnished for the secNnd
week, after being rented out TO first
run" show for one week. The third
run" may be anywhere from a week
I to month old and costs less Films
older than 80 days are called com
meTcials.'
Most theaters use a first run" a
second run and a commercial"
each day. A few of the largest thea.
tiers use FIRST runs" altogether The
equipment of a moving picture costs
from $500 to $4,000 up. A projecting
machine alone will cost from 5000
for secondhand one to $1,000 for y
new one.
The Detroit times., 1912-12-16

/, Cog rolls its pop eyes and snaps
lviciously; parrots scratch their heads
and insist that Polly wants crack
err; duck waddles and "quacks;" q
goose struts about Kissing; a canary
MARBLES as sweetly as any Hartz
mountain importation and costs 500.
The choice is limitless and the prices
range from % cents to the canary.
The highest priced thing is doll
at $500.
Educational toys are popular
Blocks sell fast and from % cents TO
$500. Architectural blocks with which
ornamental buildings can be construct
ed are attractive TO many boys.
BY far the most instructive thing
on the market Is called "Meccano.
With "Meccaco,' boy OF mechanical
bent can reproduce anything built by
bridge builders or iron workers.
"Meccano" consists of thin, perfor-
ated steel strips about a halfinch
wide, angle irons, plates and bent
strips, milled brass pulleys, cog
Wheels screws and keys with which
TO lock the parts Practically indie
structable, flexible. each part inter
changeable, "Meccano" offers an un-
limited field TO the bright boy. The
sets sell at from 81 TO $36.
The monorail top is an improved
|gyroscopic top that does inconceivable
things, seemingly defying gravity. II
walks a wire, spins on a needle point,
on a horizontal plane, climbs out Of
The Detroit times., 1912-12-16
BIo FACTS ABOUT MOVING
PICTURES.

The daily moving picture
audience is about 100000
people.
A picture costs all the way
from a few hundred TO $4,000
to produce.
The average picture is 600 TO
1000 feet long and takes Is 20
20 minutes TO see.
Films are sold by the manu-
facturer to film exchanges and
then leased by the exchanges to
the exhibitors.
There are about 10000 NOV
ing picture theaters in the
United States alone.
The salary OF a moving pic
ture actor ranges all the way
from a few dollars week for
a sup" to $4,000 a year for
star.
Joseph Jefferson was one of
the first legitimate actors To
pose for the movies" Since
then there have been Blanch
Walsh. who did Tolstoy's
Resurrection Nat c. Good
win. Who recently rehearsoG
"shylo I" Bernhardt, Rejane
Jane Hiding and many others.
The Detroit times., 1912-12-16

The bust Is the work OF W. D. Steven.
son. II. :. A. and is a replica OF tie
Burns statute executed for the city OF
Toronto The intaglio Is replica OF
the statue destroyed IN the San Fan.
cisco earthquake ana was presented
to the Burns club by the sculptor.
Earl Cummings.
o
The Central chapter OF the Detroit
Housewives league will meet. Wed
nesday afternoon, at o'clock in The
First Unitarian church parlors. The
Northwestern chapter OF the league
will meet Tuesday afternoon, AL >
o'clock. I'm the Scripps branch library,
when W. Earl Flynn. will give a talk
and q special market committee VIII
report on Christmas supplies prices.
The Detroit times., 1912-12-16
Prevent the Fly

The season for swatting the fly is
over hereabouts; Only a rare fugi-
tive from justice is TO be found in
our houses. and he is not likely long
to survive. But this is good time
to think about that better scheme
preventing the fly. About so per cent
of house flies are produced in and
around stables, and II the right meth
DDS are used there the pestilent In
sects can be prevented from breeding.
That is where the crusade should be-
as we'll as in all places where garbage
heaps and other filth are maintained
Boston Post.
The Detroit times., 1912-12-16

q tumbler. and so great force does
it exert when at top speed that a
small wooden standard placed near II.
is forced around the top, in circle,
the top spinning at the axis.
| Electric railway systems sell from
81 to $40. The higher priced ones
consist OF trains, depot, an intricate
switching system, block system. cleo
| trio lights, etc, controlled by stor'
age battery and switch.
Automobiles from little tin run-a.
bouts to big limousines, with electric
lights and real rubber tires, sell from,
10 cents to $40. And the parent whose
bank account is healthy may buy his
boy real automobile, driven with
gasoline motor, for $50.
New games are few, although Red,
White and Blue" variation of pigs
in Clover" is different from most
games, OF recent years; Corona
board upon which % games may be
played; "Bombardment," battle
game between forts and ships; "Stung
Again" copied after the hit-the-doll-
baby-and-get-a-cigar of the county fair,
and the TOY Town" cooking school
for housewifely little girls that sells
for As cents are much in demand.
Sharon, Pa, has a number of col
lege students who are growing whis-
kers in fulfillment OF VOWS made prior
TO the recent defeat OF their football
team.
The Detroit times., 1912-12-16

Thousands OF actors are regularly
engaged in the moving picture bust
ness, and many thousands OF "sups
work frequently in large scenes. An
extra" list oil players known as
types" is kept by all the large pro,
ducing companies.
During the last fiscal year, $4,000
miles OF motto. films were exported
from the Unite. States and about g.,
900 miles imported. A large part oil
the motion picture films used the
world over are made here.
In measuring films / 900 feet is the
unit. Each picture on the film Is one
inch wide and. 3-4-inch deep--16 pic
lures TO the foot. The average film
OF 1000 feet. requires Is or 20 min.
utes TO see.
The Detroit times., 1912-12-16
OFFICE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF
PARKS AND BOULEvARDs.

Room 2oI. City Hall. Detroit
Dec. .. 1914.
Sealed proposals win be received at
the above office until Thursday, Dec.
10, at IL O'Clock noon. on erection OF
TOILET BUILDING
in Perrien Park, to be completed on or
before May j. 1913.
Plans and Specifications may be seen
an tho Office OF the architect, Geo. ID.
Mason, so Griswold-st. who Will Turn
ish bidcing blanks.
A certified cheek equal to nvs per
cent OF the amount OF the proposal
must accompany each bid.
Bids must be submitted I'm triplcat%
The Commit ssioner reserves the rig
60 reject any or all bids.
M p HURLBUT,
Commissioner
II. w BUSCH. Secretary.
(6al --Advt
The Detroit times., 1912-12-16
MAX sTRAseuRo
BRoADENs QUARTERS

Max Strasburg, the well-known
dealer in monographs, has broadened
his quarters at Grand Riyer-aye. west,
and Farmer-st., by annexing the ad'
Joining store for his growing busi-
ness. With the busy whirl or indus
trial activity, Mr.. Strasburg sees an
increasing desire on the part OF the
public to obtain entertainment from
Photographs which supply the needs
made by their inability to continue
thcir musical training. He also says
the selections of the old masters are
more popular than ever.
The Detroit times., 1912-12-16

MIA, and Eadweard Muybridge, an
Englishman. as TO whether horse
ever has four legs of the ground at
the same time, while running
/ To settle the wager a test was made
at Stanfords Palo Alto ranch. Twenty
four cameras were placed side by side
along the race course. Silk threads
ATTACHED to each camera shutter were
stretched across the road. AS the
horse raced by he broke the threads,
opened the shutters, and literally
photographed himself "a times. Hur-
dies were set at given distances for
the horse to jump. The result was i
series OF pictures showing each move
ment of the horse. The test decided
/ the question that no animal has all
It's feet of the ground at one time
except when jumping But il also
suggested TO Muybridge the possibil
lily OF showing pictures in motion. He
! put his "a separate pictures into an
old-fashioned "zoetrop;" cylinder
shaped contrivance made of paste.
board with Sits in the upper part,
and revolved them rapidly. The ex.
pertinent was crude, but IL simulated
motion and proved the feasibility Of
his idea, and was probably. the first
moving picture. However. there are
many other accounts of the origin OF
the movie" The greatest step after
the first crude idea came with the
invention OF Photographic film, In
stead OF glass plates, for without film
modern movies" would be impossible
George Eastman developed the film
to make amateur photography popu
lar. Then Thomas A. Edison applied
Il to moving pictures. Eastman makes
the film and Edison gets half a cent
foot royalty on all that's used--s
meat half million dollars on the hun.
The Detroit times., 1912-12-16
\7he MOVieN'
t.,::..
INVENTED TO SETTLE BET ON HOW A HORSE RUNS

4ERE's THE sTuPENDous Ro.
NANCE OF WORLDS GREATEST
AMUSEMENT TOLD IN START.
LING FACTS AND FIGURES.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-06-14
The Age of Publicity

-Continued from Page 2-- ago. New methods. new de- vices are coming into use daily and every live wire in the com world is quick to see and equally quick to adopt.
 The day of the 'drifters" i'll business is passing swiftly. The fellow who hopes to struggle along on the achievements Of the past had better begin to fi- gure on closing up. for there must he a force behind every business to push 1t ahead. a force greater than a personality still greater than a past record, and the name of the potential force which keeps business a. live and moving ahead is PUB LICITY.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-06-14
DON'T BE A kNockER

IT there's any chance to boom business, boom it. Don't be a knocker. Don't pull long face and get sour in your stomach. Hope bit. Get a smile on you. Hold up your head. Get hold with both hands. Then pull.
 Bury your hatehet. Drop .your tomohawk. Hide your lit- tie hammer. Don't be a knock CT. When a stranger drops in jolly him. Tell him ketchikan is the greatest town on earth. It is. Don't get mulish. Don't roast; just jolly. All men like to be jollied always. So jolly. Get popular. It's dead easy. Help yourself along. Push your friends with you. Soon you'll have whole procession. Be a good fellow. Don't be a knocker.
 No man ever helped himself up by knocking other people down. No man ever got rich trying to make people believe he was the only good man on earth. You can't climb the lad der of fame by stepping on oth- CT peoples corns. They are their corns. Not yours. They are tender. Keep off the corns. Don't be a knocker.
 All men are not alike. Once in a while you may find two who are very much alike. But some are different. You're not the only. There are others. If you don't like their style. let em alone. Don't knock. Walk right in and make yourself look pleasant. You'll get used to it. There's no end of fun i'll mind ing your own business. You'll get used to it. And 1t makes other people like you. Better have others stuck on you than get stuck on yourself. Nobody gets stuck on a knocker. Don't be one-or two. Be good.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-06-14
ExASPERATIoN

Some days all things seem going wrong. and life is not 6 grand sweet song. \ man has work piled up so high that just to view it makes him sigh; he's busy right down to his boots, needs every minute as it seoots; and while his nerves are all un- strung. there comes a man with rubber tongue, who holds him with clammy hand, and says: II sell Alaska land. 0. buy yourself a happy home. l have some lemon groves near Nome. or l can sell you wood- ed tracts and mountains, mines and cataractS, and polar bears and salmon streams, and coal Hand claims and other dreams.
 Alaska. fair and picturesque, Why wear your life out at your desk, when you can seek that majic land. and gather hoodle with each hand?" Why do IT. agents always come when life seems dour and out of plumb. ito sell Us lands we wouldn't have. and soap and sealing wax and Salve? And when We kill them we're run in. the same as though 1t were a Sin.-NALT MASON.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-06-14
1HNNNHNN~NANNN NNNWWNNHNN~W~~ Notice of Forfeiture
 Of Mining Claim

To Peter Johnson:
 You are hereby notified that ] have expended during the year 1911. one hundred dollars m labor and improvements upon the following named lode claim. 10 wit: The Copper Lake MIn- ing Claim situated near Mallard bay, Prince of Wales Island. in the KetchIkan Mining District, Alaska, and the same + record ed in the office of the Recorder for Ketchikan Recording Dis trpb Alaska, i'll order to hold said lode. claim uJIder. the pro- uisiOns of Sec. 2324 of the Re.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-06-14

vised Statutes of the United States, approved January 22. 1880, concerning annual labor upon mining claims, being the amount required to hold said claim np the 31st day of Decem- Der of said year. And if within nlnly days after the publication of this notice, you fail or refuse to contribute your proportion of such expenditure as a co-Owner your interest in the said clain, will beronle the properly of the subscriber, your co-owner, Wh0 has made the required cXpendi- lure by the terms of said scc- liou. TIOLGER HANSEN. March 22 to June 2t. t012.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-06-14

South Front Street. Kechikan, Alaska
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-06-14

Free concert at Field the Spe cialist's this evening from eight to nine o'clock introducing the Columbia Grafonoia and Re- cords. No goods sold on this occasion. Come and bring your friends.