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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-04
STARTED TO BUILD FIRE
With CAN OF GASOLINE
Instead of Kerosene. Death
The Result

Thomasville, Ga, March 3.-Twenty
thousand is the sum for which the
Standard Oil Company is being sued by
the heirs of the late Mrs. Reagin of
Meigs, the suit having been filed In
the City Court of Thomasville.
Sometime ago while attempting TO
start a fire with what she supposed 70
be kerosene oil, the can containing it
exploded and Mrs. Reagin subsequent
ly died as a result of the burns re-
cejved 1t is said that the can explod-
ed when she struck match before she
had applied the oil to the wood.
The contention of the plaintiffs in
the case will be that the contents Of the
can were gasoline which had been sold
by the agent of the Standard Oil Com
pany instead of kerosene and that be,
ing more explosive in its nature, it
caused the death of Mrs. Raglan when
under normal conditions she might
have used kerosene safely without any
injury TO herself.
Much interest is taken in the out
come of this suit and the trial of the
case will be watched closely.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-04

Every opportunity is now open TO
woman TO be self-supporting But one
reason that salaries in most occupa-
tons remain so low for women is that
the girls don't go into business ser
iously.
They work specifically and with
out interest" say the employers. "Theg
all hope to marry soon and stop work.
ing"
The domestic help problem would
soon be solved if girls felt that the
occupation held matrimonial prospects.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-04

the culture of long staple cotton will
be perfected. The meeting is of vital
Importance and it is expected that a
large crowd will gather.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-04
lob OF BEING A WIRE
CERTAINLY NOT A CINCH

Consider the st. Louis woman, for
instance, who had nine manageable
sons. In order to get good wives for
them she trained her servant girls
Three of her sons married three of
her maids. Since her plan has been
made public she has been overwhelm-
ed with applicants from young women
to become domestics in her house
hold.
And yet, after the girls are married
and find that a husband wants some
thing besides an idle lady on his
hands, they're not at all contented.
It's women who are keeping the di-
Norce mill busy.
It's women who claim that matr,-
nony hands them a lemon-the very
same women who were so anxious to
be wives that they shirked their jobs
and kept wages down for others who
needed the money.
There is no harder job on earth THAI
that of being good wife.
The girl who is earning her salary
is finished with her work at he end Of
the day. She can rest if she wants to-.
The wife, however, has the dinner
dishes to wash husband to humor
some kids to put TO bed; and at night,
instead of resting in the deep sleep of
a girl who has only worked for wages,
she's up several times in answer to the
children's demands.
There's no rest for the good wife
unless she's sick, and then she gets
well quicker than anybody else would
because she really hasn't time to be
sick
If it was love of home and husband
and children and a keen sense of re-
sponsibility which urged girls to "get
a man." one would wonder at the de
sire for husbands.
But I'm afraid that the general de-
sire is not born of such unselfish emo
lions. If it was our girls would marry
better men, refusing to encourage any
thing masculine simply because it ap-
parently promises a free meal tickets
and leisure to wear a kimono.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-13
EyK3'|T;S':RINF
BY w. j. MORGAN

Volumes have been written to show
the desirability, from the viewpoints
of efficiency and economy, of the mo-
tor truck over horse-and- sys-
TENS of delivery. Truck manufactur-
ers have spent small fortunes in hav-
ing traffic and delivery experts inves-
tigate the economic features of both
systems. Long tables of figures have
been prepared, dealing with such
items as horse cost, feed, mainten-
ance and depreciation, as against the
same items in motor truck upkeep.
These Investigations have proved
that under nearly every condition of
service, the truck is much more econ
omical than the horse. There is one
phase of the question, however which
had not been touched on until, in
recent discussion, Vice-President G.
w. Bennett, of the WHY'S Overland
Company. pointed out an important
saving in the time of drivers.
He makes the statement that the
driver of a light motor truck can do
from three to four times as much
work in given time as the driver
of q horse and wagon outfit, declar-
ing that the time saved triples and
sometimes quadruples his capacity.
This interesting discovery was
made" says Mr.. Bennett, "in a recent
investigation we conducted as to the
practicability of our three-quarter-
ton truck Most of our findings con-
tanned nothing that we did not know
before: namely, that in the matter
of maintenance and operation costs
and economy of time, the truck was
vastly superior to the horse. We did
learn that this saving was largely
due to the increased efficiency of the
operator of the power vehicle, point
that we had not before taken into
consideration.
Day after day, during our tests,
our drivers did from three to four
times as much work as could be done
by the men in charge of horse and
wagon outfits, solely because they
could save time both in travel and in
making deliveries. The saving in
time through the elimination of the
necessity for tying the horse while
the driver carried a package to a
home or business place furnished
some interesting figures. We found
that the truck operator could stop his
vehicle, select the parcel, make the
delivery and return to the car in just
about the time it required for the
horse driver to assure himself that
his vehicle would be where he left
it on his return.
I'm other words, where the truck
driver could shut off his power, Sc
lect his parcel and dismount almost
before the truck had come to a full
stop, the horse driver wasted precious
minutes stopping his team, dismount-
ing with the hitching weight or to
loop a tie-strap about a hitching
post and returning again to the
wagon to reach for the parcel. Often,
too, unless he had made the selection
before dismounting. the horse driver
had to climb into his wagon again to
get the package he was after. With
fifty or sixty stops per day the loss
of time charged against the horse
driver reached a large total. All of
this is saved by the truck"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-13
200 BACHELORS "FALL"
FOR MATRIMONIAL BUNCO

PRINCETON, Ind, Aug. 13.-What
is said by Federal officers to be one of
the slickest and farthest reaching
schemes for mulcting lovelorn bachel-
ors ever brought to their notice was
uncovered by the arrest of Miss Ora
Mabel Farris, 80 years old; her father,
Martin w. Farris, 62 years old, and
her mother Emma. They are charged
technically with using the malls to
defraud, but really are charged with
mulcting more than a score of young
men in a dozen States, stretching
from New York to the Pacific coast.
The scheme by which the officers
say more than 200 men of all ages
were caught was for the young wom-
an to insert matrimonial advertise
ments in newspapers in widely
scattered parts of the United States
under the name Susan Myers"
When an answer was received the
young woman would start CORE
spondence with the man, and after a
time 1t would reach the point where
he would propose matrimony.
The young woman they would sug-
gest that he send her money to come
to him. Often gifts of jewelry also
were received.
At this point an uncle would ap-
pear He would write to the young
man saying he had opened one of his
"niece's" letters "by mistake" and
on learning what was going on had
decided it must stop. He would
threaten to prosecute the man on
charge Of enticing a young girl
away from home, but on considera-
ton that the correspondence cease,
he would not prosecute.
This usually served to frghten the
man away, and, of course, the pres
ents and money were never returned,
II is said
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-13
CHILDREN DIE in WELL,
MOTHER NEARLY PERISHES

SOUTH BETHLEHEM, Pa, Aug.
1.-Two children of Mrs. Charles f.
Bishop were drowned in a cistern at
their home, here, yesterday and the
mother nearly lost her life in
frantic efforts to save them. James,
aged s, in attempting to draw
bucket of water, lost his balance and
fell into the cistern. His mother
hearing his cries from an upstairs
room, sent 6-year-old Edward to find
out what. was the matter with his
brother. 1t is believed the younger
boy heard James splashing in the
water and was dragged to his death
in trying to pull him out. When
their bodies were recovered the chill
dren were clasped in each others
arms.
Mrs. Bishop, hearing the younger
boys cries, rushed to the cistern and
squeezing herself through the open
ing in the floor, dropped into the
water as the children sank. She was
rescued with difficulty by neighbors.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-13
SURGEONS DISCOVERIES
TO HELP THE CHILDLESS

LONDON, Aug. 13.-Hope for child
less women is held out in a remark
able claim by DR.. Voronoff, of Nice.
who described to the Medical Con-
gress his experiments in transplant
Ing vital organs from one animal to
another.
BY this means he actually enabled
a barren eve to give birth to a lamb
which is still living. In an interview
he said:
at assert my experiments can be
applied to human beings. Indeed, it
Is easier to graft certain parts with
humans than with animals.
"a new era Is dawning for human
surgery. Those condemned to death
by incurable diseases will receive
new life, whole organs will be
grated sterility will be trans
formed into fruitfulness."
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-13
BOSTON NOSES OFFENDED
BY ONIONS AND CABBAGE

BOSTON, Aug. 1S.-There may be
robust ones of stout sensibilities to
whom the odors arising from the
cooking of onions and cabbage and
such things bring sensations of pleas
ure IT'S otherwise with certain
esthetic Bostonians who live or do
business in the neighborhood of 20
Hawley street Beans and goldfish
aye! but onions and cabbage-nay!
Frank Enger, who has a restaurant
at that address, was before the bar
in the Municipal Criminal Court to-
day on complaint of several neigh
bors.
Judge Greed was inclined to think
the odors might become a nuisance
through their very monontony. A
compromise was effected.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-13
BURGLARS ENTER HOUSE
ON ROCKEFELLER ESTATE

TARRYTOWN. N. Y, Aug. 49,
Venturing within few hundred feet
of the residence of John ID. Rookie
Teller on his estate at Pocantico Hills,
burglars forced an entrance last night
to the home of Voorhees, Conover, one
of Mr.. Rockefeller's principal super
intendents. and packed up all the
silverware and jewelry they could
find. Apparently they were getting
ready to leave the house with their
booty when they were frightened
away.
They had tied the silvefware into
bundles and had it near a window,
when Mr.. Conover's daughter was
awakened. heard them and screamed.
The thieves climbed out of the house
through a bathroom window.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-13
GIRL BATHER'S CLOTHES
GONE; TRAVELS IN BARREL

CHICAGO, ILL.,. Aug. 13.-Modern
fashions have ruled out petticoats
and this is the reason May Leonard,
pretty bather, started home from
Clarendon Beach last night attirrd
jauntily in a raincoat, a sratke;
barrel and a pair of stockings. She
had rented a bathing suit for the
afternoon swim and the rules of the
beach required she should surrender
it when there were claimants in line
awaiting it. All this came about be-
cause some miscreant stole Mays
clothing from a locker.
Arrayed in the barrel neatly draped
with the raincoat and surrounded by
a Gordon of indignant women bath
ers. Miss Leonard proceeded n couple
of blocks up the beach until she
could make a hasty dash into a
closed taxicab that had been ordered
by telephone by a sympathetic man
who accepted her profuse thanks as
he started her homeWard
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-13
SOCIAL WORKERS TO MEET
IN SEPARATE CONFERENCE

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug. 13.-Dis-
tinguished social workers are sched-
uled to take part in the first separate
conference of the National Federation
of Settlements to be held here for
three days beginning September "a.
Participants will include Jane Ad-
dams, of Chicago, and Miss Julia c.
Lathrop, director of the National
Childrens Bureau. Charles c. Cooper,
resident director OF Kingsley House,
a Pittsburgh settlement, and the
Social Workers Club, of PittsburR
arc providing in their arrangements
for the care of several hundred dele
gates.
officers of the National Federation
of Settlements are: President, Lillian
D. Wald, New York; vice-president,
Graham Taylor, Chicago; secretary
treasurer, Robert A. Woods, Boston;
assistant secretary, Albert j. Ken
nedy.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-13
MRS. RUMSEY ABANDONS
HOPE OF GETTING GEMS

NEW YORK, Aug. 13.-Mrs. Charles
c. Rumsey said yesterday that she
has given up hope of recovering the
pearl necklace and other jewelry
stolen from her summer home at
Narragansett Pier, r. l., several
weeks ago. She now believes the
theft was committed by others than
persons connected with the house
hold. Coincident with the announce
ment 1t was learned that the Burns
detective agency had withdrawn from
the case, presumably at the request
of Mrs. Rumsey. She will return
next week to her home at Westbury,
L.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-13
BEAUTY'S SLIT SKIRT
SAVES HER FROM DEATH

NEW ROCHELLE, Aug. 13.-A
pretty young woman about 20 years
old who wore a thin lavender silk
hobble dress with the skirt slit some
distance toward the knee, a while
silk petticoat, lavender silk stock
ings, white kid pumps and a large
white lace hat, and who said she was
Miss Loretta Vaudeville, of Frank
lin avenue. The Bronx, saved herself
from drowning in Long Island Sound
near Davenport Neck yesterday
when the canoe in which she was
padding upset.
The youth, who was with her and
who refused to give his name, had
difficulty in keeping afloat until help
came. The girl, finding she could
not swim in her hobble skirt. reached
down and tore it from the slit up to
the waist. Then she struck out for
Glen Island refusing to be taken
aboard a launch that rescued the
Young man.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-13
GOODWIN, IN BOOK, BEATS
TWAIN, SAYS MRS. NO. s.

NEW YORK. Aug. 13.-Nat Good
win and Mrs. Nat Goodwin No. s
sailed for Bad Nauheim yesterday.
Nat believes the waters at the Eu-
ropean spa will help him to come
back" and that he will be ready for
the stage again.
The present Mrs. Goodwin. who
was Margaret Moreland, is enthusi-
astic over the book her husband is
writing. She says Nat is far wittier
than Mark Twain. The author has
been seventeen years writing the
book. and In 1t has mentioned the
names of 1000 persons.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-13
"SOFT-SOAPS" DOG INTO
DISGORGING A DIAMOND

NEW YORK. Aug. 1s.-Antonio
Gagliardi, barber, of SO Main street.
Yonkers, says he was playing with
his children and his dog Billie in the
front yard of his home. He put his
hand in the dogs mouth.
Sometime afterward he missed a
5000 diamond ring from his finger.
He remembered he had put his hand
in Billie's mouth and decided to kill
the dog to see If he had swallowed
the ring.
But his wife persuaded him to spare
Billie's life. so Antonio admins
tered an emetic of soapsuds. And
now he has his diamond ring again.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-13
WHITE WHOEVER MAKES
BLACK TEACHER BRIDE

5 LANCASTER, Pa, Aug. 13.-The
young negress of Lancaster county
who was married to a white man.
Jacob Sandoe, at Harrisburg, is the
daughter of Rev. N. H. Hagler, pas
tor of the Presbyterian mission on
the Welsh mountains. Her family
had planned that the girl should
marry in her own race.
Sandoe. a widower, had been pay
ing attention to the girl despite the
protests of her parents. The couTie
eloped to Harrisburg and were mar
ried by Rev. J. D. Fox, who thought
the girl was either Mexican or In
dian. The girl is highly educated.
being graduate of Southern insti-
tuition
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-13
MORGENTHAUI IS
CHOSEN FOR POST
New York Man to Be Named
for Ambassador to
Turkey.

NEW YORK, Aug. lat was
learned yesterday that President
Wilson had decided to nominate
Henry Morgenthau. of New York,
for the post of ambassador to Tur-
key. The nomination will be sent
to the Senate in a day or two.
In June last a tender of the am
bassadorship at Constantinople was
made to Mr.. Morgenthau, and at
that time he paid a visit to the
President. Mr.. Morgenthau indicated,
it was said then, that he wanted no
diplomatic post, although 1t was be-
lieved that the President hoped that
he might change his mind The
Presidents decision to send in Mr..
Morgenthau's name is therefore
taken as indicating that in later
communications Mr.. Morgenthau has
been induced to agree TO take the
post. He is now in Europe.
Ever since President Wilson's
election mention has been made from
from time to time of a possible
choice of Mr.. Morgenthau for some
high office under the government
He has long been a close friend and
warm supporter of Mr.. Wilson, and
his services as chairman of the
finance committee of the Democratic
national committee were invaluable.
He was talked of as possible
secretary of the treasury, and soon
after the Inauguration word came
from Washington that he would be
appointed to an ambassadorship. At
that time Mr., Morgenthau modestly
disclaimed any desire for a diploma
tic place
Before he demonstrated that he
could be big force in politics, Mr..
Morgenthau's name was chiefly as
ISOLATED among his fellow citizens in
New York with big real estate de-
velopments, and there have been few
important movements of the kind in
New York during the last dozen
years in which he has not played a
prominent part
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-13
REBEL GOVERNOR CALLS
DIR. SUN PITIFUL COWARD

s PEKING, Aug. 13.-While the res
toration of order by the government
troops is reported from most of the
centres of the recent rebellion, the
governor of the province of Kiang-
ST is striving to organize fresh OPP
position to the government of Yuan
Shih-Kai He declines scornfully to
follow the example of Huang- Sing
and DR.. Sun Vat Sen. now in Japan.
who are described by the governor
as "pitiful towards"
There appears to be no longer any
doubt as to Yuan Shih Kai's election.
his only remaining opponent being
virtually powerless.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-13
DARE BRINGS DEATH
TO TWO; TWO ESCAPE

NEWPORT, Aug. 13.-An argu-
ment among four seamen at the naval
torpedo station as to which was the
best swimmer is believed to have led
to the drowning of two of them.
Thomas Sharpe and P. j. Finnegan,
and the close escape of Joseph Eigo
and Patrick Cavanaugh In this
harbor yesterday. The sailors were
returning in a skiff from the New
port lighthouse, when all four
plunged overheard.
The strong tide quickly exhausted
their strength.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-13
TEN MEN GUARD BED OF
STRIKE-BREAKER FARLEY

NEW YORK, Aug. 1S.-Fearing
enemies have designs upon his life,
James Farley, who is believed to- be
dying at the Greater New York fair
grounds in Yonkers, where he is
watching his horses trot. has sur
rounded his cot with ten detectives.
FARLEY became wealthy supplying
men to break street car strikes. and
In SO doing has created many enc
mics. He has long worried that his
Toes would get him." and this fear
mas increased as his health has de-
clined.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-13
CUPID TAKES PLACE OF
MARS in THE BALKANS

LONDON, Aug. 13-The Daily
Nails Bucharest correspondent tel
egraphs that 1t is announced in dip
lomatic circles there that a future
alliance of the Balkan peoples will
be cemented by the following mar
riages:
Crown Prince George of Greece
and Princess Elizabeth of Rumania
Crown Prince Alexander of Servia
and Grand Duchess Olga, daughter
of the Car.
Crown Prince Charles of Rumania
and Grand Duchess Tatiana, second
daughter of the Gear
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-13
WAGE INCREASES THREE
PER CENT; FOOD FOURTEEN

LONDON, Aug. 13-A report is
sued by the Board Of Trade on an
official investigation of the rise i'll the
cost of living shows that for nine
million people in England and Wales
belonging to the working classes with
incomes of 1925 week or less. the
cost of living has increased in seven
years s435, 100000 or nearly 81 a week
for each person.
Retail prices of food have risen IA
per cent. since 1900, while wages have
increased only 3 per cent, the great
est increases being in bacon, 80 per
cent. and potatoes. 46 per cent. Peo-
pie have been able to meet the ad-
vances only by reducing consump-
ton.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-13
ATTACHMENT FOR $500
AGAINST INVOICE PADDER

BALTIMORE. Md. Aug. 13-An
attachment for $500 was taken out
in the Superior Court here yesterday
against Haydn Dobry, of Chicago,
who was arrested here Monday
with $13,500 in his possession. The
attachment was obtained by Henry
Morris. member of Chicago cloth
ing firm.
1t is alleged Dobry obtained the
money on padded invoices for goods,
aided by an employee of the firm.
who has confessed. Dobry was on
his way to New York to take a
steamer for Europe.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-13
KILLS HIS FATHER in DUEL
FOR HAND OF GIRL UMPIRE

PARIS, Aug. 13.--A fatal duel be-
tween a father and son, living near
Aubusson. began in rivalry for the
heart of pretty farm girl The son,
Jean Lelong, was jealous of his
father, who had won the girls
affection, so the two men agreed to
fight.
Six revolver shots were exchanged
without result. They resumed the
fight with kitchen knives, while the
girl watched the duel without inter-
fering. The father received terrible
wounds, dying soon afterward
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-13
LOAN SHARK KING TOLMAN
is HELD IN BAIL FOR TRIAL

NEW YORK, Aug. 13.-Despite the
testimony of three of his women en-
ployees. Daniel II. Tolman, known as
the liking of the loan sharks" was
held in $500 for trial yesterday by
Magistrate Barlow in the Tombs
Court. Tolman is accused of charg-
ing Illegally high interest on $40
loan to a young clerk.
Tolman, who is MISUNDERSTANDING
and bald headed, with small white
moustache, showed great assurance
when he started to testify.
II buy nothing but commercial pa
per-notes with two names on them"
he said.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-13
THOUSANDS co TO CANADA

OTTAWA. Ont, Aug. NV. J.
White. Dominion superintendent of
an American immigration agency,
who has just returned from trip
through the Canadian and American
West. says that German-Americans
are pouring into Canada. The most
of them come from southern Penn
sylvania, and quite a number from
Missouri.
Last year arrivals in Canada from
ths Enitsa States totaled $4,000.