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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1913-01-10
STATE OF MICHIGAN.

To the Circuit County of
The petition OF ORAMEL FULLER Auditor General OF the
State of Michigan and behalf OF said State respectfully
shows that the list OF forth marked
County Shawassee which
mentioned therein which returned delinquent
for OF and which have been PAID
together with the total such with interest
provided by law extended against each OF said
parcels Of land.
Your petitioner further lands
returned General
Act the Public Acts Of 1893
unpaid that lands Included in Schedule
for OF 1890 prior returned Auditor
General delinquent for said under provisions
Public Acts of 1891, and which remain unpaid.
Your petitioner further shows that all lands
included In schedule A. aforesaid
prior lands have sold said
heretofore sold for said delinquent the
or Gales made have been set aside by court Of
Jurisdiction been cancelled provided by law.
Your petitioner further shows and that the
interest collection fee and forth in said Sched
A. valid lien the OF lands described
In said schedule.
petitioner taxes on said
described lands remained unpaid
they returned delinquent the said
having paid and same due and remaining
paid as above prays decree In favor
OF the OF interest," collection
computed and extended In said schedule agans
several of land contained therein and default
OF the said and
said lands that each said parcels land sold
due thereon provided by law the lien aore
said. tetY
And your petitioner will ever pray etc.
Dated November IA, 1912 - -
Auditor General of the State OF Michigan, for
and In behalf of said State.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1913-01-10

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Lots H. Is, 16 and H.. 4 10 81 S46 bS IL 81
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stafford, Gardner and Trsnkle's Central Addition
t tos i, 70 ... ..... IS i ,Oa i@ SIS
M. L. Stewart and Co.'S Addition
Commencing north
Of let's,
rods, south
4 rods s. rods ~
beginning 81 IL % % W
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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1913-01-10

THE TIMES has loW-priCed
combinations with all the
leading newspapers and
magazines.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1913-01-10

Lot 3 northumberland.
commencing at q
point 40 feet West
Of Northeast corner
of Lot 3 thence
South 10 rods, West
so feet, North 10
rods. East 30 feet to
beginning ......,."
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1913-01-10

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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-07-07

days that would have been extra
otherwise, but when you've worked
hard for months and months and
there's a chance of a week of idle
ness ahead, you get so eager that
you're willing to do anything to fill
in the time. :
Tuesday is our payday, and it
was Tuesday night that I would have
left to start my week.
ct was Tuesday night that Frank
Koler, assistant manager of division
c in the hardware section called me
over, and handed me my salary. Then
he said:
You are one of the girls being
laid off for a month
81 just couldn't believe it. /
thought it must be mistake or else, .
because he knew I was going to start .
my vacation, he was playing a joke.
Why, I start on my vacation to-
morrow, Mr.. KoIer,' I said. Didn't
you know that?'
Yes, knew it, but you have been
laid off a month instead. Oh, you
aren't the only one. See this bunch
of envelopes? Every one of these
girls is being laid off a menth, too
is it my work. l asked him. I
knew it wasn't, because I had never
had to be called down, but I Just
wanted to get some reason.
"fOh, no, your work is perfectly
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-07-07
HOW MONTGOMERY WARD & co. CHEATS GIRL,
EMPLOYEES OUT OF THEIR VACATIONS


discouraged thrown
of position wondering with that futile wonder of the workers at tt
their employers girl told this
working Montgomery Ward the mail
house.
them the whose daughters
given healthy and healthy amusement.
believe
printers would than printers ink tn
squared
speeding ready
hands, worked the full
very, often.
PROMS
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-07-07

She has worked for them over s.
tenn of speeding, worked while a me-
the finished product from her hands,
lows very, very often.
But you see, if you work over s
you a vacation of a week, with pay,
and it was to this paltry prize that
the girl was looking forward.
Two months ago, in pursuance Of
this supposed custom of Wards, they
let the girls choose the months and
the time of the month when they
would take this week, and the girl in
question choose her week to begin
July 1.
She prepared as well as she could
on a wage of So a week, the sum that
Mr.. Thorne told the Welfare Commits
sion would support a girl provided
she didn't have any laundry done.
"You see," the girl said to me, 81
was invited to spend the week with
one of my friends, so all wanted was
nv carfare and the little extra money
YOU must spend when you are visit
ing, and I figured 1 could just about
manage with the So.
Saturday, June %, when we were
supposed to close half a day, they
came to us and told us we would
have to work all day to make up for
the fact that we would be closed on
July 5, so, really, we wouldn't have
gotten any extra time, because we
were giving an afternoons work for
the mornings, but the public never
knows these things.
81 didn't mind working, though I
wasn't going to benefit because I had
chosen my week to include those two
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-18
Minimum Frost Loss

Our location in the mountainous por-
tions of the state reduces the loss from
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-18

women and children limits it's function
in that respect Another said that a
man who bought a big sandwich for 5
cents and a schooner of beer for an
other cents was getting more for his
money than he could get anywhere else
third remarked that another legiti-
mate appeal of the saloon was its in
tellectual freedom. A man could speak
his mind there and would not be judged
by the bartender 1t is the only place
in our social life where the judge or
the puritan does not appear. Still an
other social worker said that the sa-
loon was the breeding place of all
ideas about labor; here the labor move
ment is started and developed.
These men were not under observa-
ton and no doubt they meant their
words to be suggestive rather than
completely balanced. They all see the
evil of the saloon, but it was a sugges-
tive meeting along recent lines OF feel
ing and thought. The tendency to re-
gard all growths of society as being
capable of use as we'll as of abuse Is
marked. And there is doubt that
the saloons have a hitherto unsuspected
vitality for good. one way to remedy
their defects, according to one of the
social workers. would be for the re-
spectacle people to go to them modify
them for good and perhaps gain some
thing themselves from their democracy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-18

early or late frosts to minimum, and
at the same time affords good natural air
drainage, which adds greatly to the COM
fort and healthfulness of the locality
Our rainfall averages nearly 80 inches
per annum, well distributed throughout
the year, which is not so great as that
of southern Alabama, but ample for any
agricultural pursuit
Summing up, it can be justly said that
our winters are mild and our summers
not excessively hot. Winter with us is
short making our growing season and
period for outdoor pursuits as long as we
desire. Our high annual temperature
compared with cities in the north is due
more to our mild winter climate than to
any supposed severity of our summers.
Damage from frost is usually slight
Snowfall is negligible. Rainfall is abund-
ant, but there is a marked absence Of
the muggy or foggy conditions that af-
f1ict certain sections of the country
There is a good natural air drainage
among the hills of this section, but high
winds are rarely experienced.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-18
BILIOUSNESS NOT
CAUSED BY BEER
by J. H. BAKER

1t has been the aim of the brewmas-
ter since time immemorial to brew a
beer as high in nutrition and as low
In alcohol as possible Even when
there was no thought of legislation to
prevent the brewing. sale or use of beer.
the brewmaster thought a nutritious,
nourishing beer, with a rich hop flavor
and a low percentage of alcohol tho
acme of success.
In fact, beer was never intended as
an intoxicant. As the highest grades
of beer contain only from to per
cent of alcohol. one would have to
drink a great quantity of such beer 10
become intoxicated. and every learned
physician who is not prejudiced against
malt drinks, or whose acts are not
controlled by a prejudiced public SEN
timent will agree that tho hops in beer
acts as a bile tonic and recommends
beer for convalescents and delicate per-
sons, and yet we hear many people say.
Il like beer, but 1t makes me bilious"
Now there never was a more erron-
ious idea given credence in the minds
of men. 1t is we'll known fact that
II one is bilious" and drinks beer to
excess 1t will stir the bile in him or
her and cause nausea, but should they
continue to drink beer and not mix 1t
with spirituous liquors their system
would soon become cleansed of bile
As before stated the highest grades
of beer only contain from to 5 per
cent of alcohol. but in order to satisfy
the fanatlcal who have found favor
with many Of the we'll meaning but
misguided members of state legisla-
lures, many of the leading brewing
companies in order to satisfy this class
of people, have had their brewma sters
brew a light weight beer containing
less than per cent of alcohol, nom
Intoxicating but healthful, pleasant nu-
tritious drink. Yet they are not con-
tent. Nothing short of the absolute
crushing out of existence an industry
that yields more revenue to the state
and nation and gives employment to
more branches of industry than any
other one industry in the United States
will satisfy them.
The open saloon Is the only safe-
guard for the boy and yet you will hear
the prohibitionist cry out, Save our
boys" The boy Is barred from the open
licensed saloon, but not the club house
and the pool room. These are the pit
falls of the boys, while the open saloon
puts the blind tigers and the bootleg
gers out of business
Beer is not only the most nutritious
but the most cleanly beverage offered
to a particular people at a time when
sanitation is the order of the day.
Diseased germs have no abiding place
in the sanitary equipped brewery of to-
day. Beer is both food and drink, aids
digestion and makes new blood and It's
sue, and thus renewing and upbuilding
the worn out or run down system of
man, woman or child, and is the most
safe beverage in hot weather.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-18

public sentiment of the immediate COM
munity does not and will not sustain
the enforcement of the law. In such
cases the legislation usually is the re-
suit of agitation by the people in the
country districts. who are determined
to make their fellow citizens in the
city better The enactment of the law
comes through the country representa-
tiyes who form majority of the legis-
lature, but the enforcement of the law
is among the people who are generally
opposed to its enactment and under
such circumstances the law is a dead
letter. In cases where the sale of liquor
cannot be prohibited in fact. it is far
better to regulate than to attempt 70
stamp it out
by the enactment of a drastic law
and the failure to enforce 1t, there is
injected into the public mind the idea
that laws are to be observed or vio-
lated, according to the will of those af-
fected. | need not say how altogether
pernicious such a loose theory is.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-18
The Much Abused Saloon

The New YORK Globe says:
A little group of social and civic
workers met the other day to discuss
that much discussed subject. the sa-
loon. But the spirit of their remarks
was not one of unbridled condemnation
Nor did they limit their sympathetic
ina gination to the mere statement that
the saloon is the poor mans club and
let 1t go at that.
One man. at the meeting said that the
saloon is the only wide and socially
important social center that we have.
although, of course, the absence of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-18
WINTERS ARE MILD AND
BsSJTMMERS NOT TOO WARM
Alabama Has Best Climate the Rockes-Loss Fro1
Frost Is Minimum-Other Features Equally AS Good
Birmingham Compared With Other Cities
BY E. c. HORTON,
United states Weather Obse rver, Birmingham bureau

II would be impracticable in short
article to treat fully the climate of any
section or city, nor is 1t thought neces-
sary or even desirable to discuss all the
phases of the climate of Birmingham,
but our object is rather to bring to view
some of it's more salient features and to
point out the characteristics wherein it
differs from that of other cities similarly
situated geographically.
The mildness of our southern winters
is proverbial, and this feature of our
climate is too well known to tourists and
the travelling public generally to need ex-
plotting here.
The weather over the greater portion
of the United States is directly con-
trolled by great barometric eddies (the
high and lows of the weather map) that
traverse the country In varying easterly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-18

courses, producing weather and tempera-
turel changes on their forward side In
proportion to their intensity, rate OF
movement and the route along which they
travel. At any place the sum of these
weather changes through long periods OF
time go to make UP it's climate. 1t is not
therefore to. be expected that many de-
sirable localities can be found where
there are no visitations of frosts or cold
waves on the one hand or hot, sultry
weather on the other. Objections can be
raised to the climate of almost any Sec
ton. 1t is either too hot or too cold too
wet or too dry-it depends largely on the
viewpoint. Most people are agreed, how
ever, that an invariable climate is monot-
onous and enervating, while one that is
very changeable is often unhealthful and
provoking. What is to be desired is a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-18
Taft on Prohibition

Hon William Fl. Taft in his work,
-Four Aspects of Civic Duty" says.
Nothing is more foolish. nothing
more utterly at variance with sound
policy than to enact a law which, by
reason of conditions surrounding the
community is incapable of enforcement.
Such instances are sometimes presented
by sumptuary laws, by which the sale
IF Intoxicating liquors is prohibited un-
der penalties in localities where the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-18
Moderate in the Summer

To show the wide range of temperature
in other cities as compared with Bir-
mingham, there is a difference of 62 de-
grees between the January and July tenn
peratures at st. Paul. MINI. The cor
responding difference in Birmingham is
only 5 degrees, yet the July mean in
Birmingham is 81 degrees, only degrees
above that of st. Paul. The great dis
parity between the two cities is due to
our mild winter and not to excessively
hot summers. In the interior of the
northwestern states, the monthly rise in
the temperature from January to 5uly is
about 10 degrees In Birmingham this
change is only 6 degrees.
Our seasons begin about one month
ahead of those in the states of the mid
die Missouri valley, and close at least a
month later, on the approach of winter,
giving us a much longer season for out
door occupations of all kinds.
Our humidity is somewhat higher during
the summer months and somewhat lower
in winter than in the interior of the Mis-
sissppi valley and along the lake shores,
but damp, foggy weather, such as is ex-
perienced in some localities is hardly
known here Our average annual humid
ity is about the same as that of Des
Moines, ST. Paul, or Pittsburgh, less
than that of Chicago, and only 2 per cent
greater than that of st. Louis, Kansas
City. or Indianapolis. 1t is less than
in our southern and eastern coast dis
tricts.
Minimum Frost Loss
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-18

climate subject to as few abnormal fluc-
tuatlons as is compatible with the preser-
walton of good health and the renewal
of our physical energy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-18
Compared With Rocky, Mountains

Compared With Rocky Mountains
After study of the climate of various
sections, the conclusion is easily drawn
that our north Alabama climate is second
to none east of the Rocky mountains.
The most southerly of the trans-conti-
mental storm tracks is well to the north
ward of Alabama, and severe weather is
experienced only when an occasional cold
wave, deviating from its accustomed
path, travels far enough southward to
give us two or three days of wintry
weather. Our cold spells are short and
outdoor occupations and sports can be
carried on during the greater part of the
year On only one or two days a season.
usually in January or February, does the
thermometer stand below freezing
throughout the day. The lowest on any
day is seldom below 20 degrees and on
only about so days year does the mer-
curry drop to the freezing point.
As already stated, our mild southern
winter climate is well known the country
over. but it is in regard to our summer
climate that the public may have some
misgivings. There is popular impress
the direction of the equator the climate
of the south must be terrifically hot and
forbdding in the summer time. Such
erroneous impressions are formed, no
doubt, from a consideration of our mean
annual temperature alone, instead of con-
sderng it In conjunction with the month
ly and seasonal means and extremes. 1t
requires only a brief investigation along
this line to convince one that our annual
temperature average is high, not because
our summers are excessively hot. but be-
cause our winters are exceedingly mild.
Our mean annual temperature is 10 de-
grees higher than that of Kansas City.
but our summers are only degrees
warmer, whereas our winters average II
degrees higher than theirs. Our spring
mean is II degrees above theirs, and au-
tumn degrees
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1913-02-05
Throws AWAY $39,16O.

Misers have great resourcefulness
in selecting hiding places for their
treasures, but they rarely adopt the
methods employed by traveller on the
railway line between Lescar and Pau,
in France. This individual, who owned
an estate worth about $4S,700, sold all
his property and insisted upon being
paid the full purchase price in nego-
table bearer shares and in coupons
payable to the Bank Of France.
He disposed Of some Of his money,
and then during a brief halt Of the
train approaching Pau threw his peck.
etbook containing the remainder, ap-
proximately $39, 100. into hedge Dor
dering the line.
There It was found recently by a
hedge clipper, who deposited his find
at the nearest police station. BY the
laws of France it will become his
property at the end Of twelve months
unless the original owner claims It
and proves his right
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1913-02-05
REORGANIZATION OF
ARMY IS ORDERED
Three Infantry and One Cavalry
Division Provided For

Washington, Feb. Provision
for the tactical organization of the
United States army into three in
fantry divisions and one cavalry di-
vision is made in an order issued
by direction of President Taft and
made public last night by Secretary of
War Stimson.
This plan of reorganization, which
becomes effective Feb. Is, includes
the entire mobile army within the
continental limits of the United
States.
Hitherto there has been no tactical
army organization higher than regi-
ment. There have been no brigades
or divisions existing in time of peace.
Upon the outbreak of war, when an
army was needed, it was necessary
to create such an army under all the
stress and hurry and excitement of
such an occasion
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1913-02-05
SAVED RELATIVES TROUBLE
Georgia Man Bought Lot, Erected
Monument and Killed Self

Greenville, Ca, Feb. 2.-After
buying a lot in a local cemetery, hav-
and informing his wife that she would
be widow within two weeks, Joseph
S. Smith, farmer, aged II years,
committed suicide.
Mrs. Smith had attached no impor-
lance to the statement of her hus-
band. She was Frustrated when she
found him dying from the effect of a
drug.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1913-02-05
WOMEN KILLED
IN FIRE PANIC
TrarnpIed to Death In New York
East Side Theatre
EXPLOSION or PICTURE film
Causes Rush of Four Hundred People
For Exits-PiIe on Top of One An
other as They Try to Descend Steep
Steps-EIeven Persons Found to
Require Hospital Treatment

New York, Feb. 3.-A boys cry of
fire. and the smoke from an ex
ploded reel of motion picture film in
an East Side theatre last night re-
suited in a panic among the 400 spec
tators and a rush for the exits, in
which two women were killed and
eleven other persons so badly injured
that they had to be sent to hospitals.
The panic occurred in one of the
y densely populated sections of the
East Side, and the thousands who
poured into East Houston street in
front Of the theatre anC rushed to the
doors added to the confusion and to
the number of injured
The two women were trampled to
death in the crush of the crowd to
reach the doors. The operator of the
machine soon eXtinguished the burn
ing film and the flames did not spread
beyond the fireproof cage in which he
worked.
With the exception of one rear exit
door, the only way OF escape from the
theatre was through the main yesti-
bule, and it was here in a narrow
space that most Of the injured were
found. The two women who were
killed were picked up in the main sec
ton Of the theatre where they had
been trampled.
Steep steps led from the sidewalk
70 the theatre entrance and down
these hundreds fell while those be-
hind piled ON top. Children became
separat ed from their parents and
frantic searchers for friends or relat-
ives mingled with the panic stricken
audience.
In the panic clothes were torn from
the backs Of their wearers and the
police gathered up great pile of hats
coats, shoes, eye glasses and even
pocketbOoks, A few rings and watches
were among the salvage taken to a
police station for Identification.
At the time the panic started fully
100 persons were waiting in the yes
tibule to gain admission to the thea
IRE, and as the doors burst open from
within these people were caught in
the rush to reach the street.
Fire Commissioner Johnson arrived
at the theatre soon after it had been
cleared. In a statement he declared
that there were 500 similar theatres
in Greater New York where condi-
tons were equally perilous.
He said, however, that the theatre
owners had complied with every Or
dinance governing such places In ad-
ditiOn to the usual Sunday night
thrOng, the management had adver-
tised an added spectacular attraction
which caused an unusually large
crowd to gather
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1913-02-05
LORDS Reject HOME RULE
Result of Four Days Discussion Was
Foreaone Corcl IS, on

London, Jan. 31.-After a four
days discussion the house of lords
last night rejected the home rule bill ),
1926 to So The result was foregone
conclusion.
terest because, as the Earl of Halls
bury pathetically observed, the posi-
ton of the house was now that of an
ordinary debating club--the peers
could express their views and reject
the bill, but they could not prevent it
from becoming law
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1913-02-05
DEATH OF GEORGE PEPPER
Former President of Colby College
Was Known as "LincoIn's Double"

Waterville, Me-, Jan. 31.-Rev.
George D. B. Pepper, former presi-
dent of Colby college, and known as
"Lincoln's DOUBLE" died here, aged
so years. Pepper bore a striking re-
semblance to the emancipation. He
retained the characteristics up to the
last.
He was born in Ware, Mass. and
was graduate of Amherst college and
the Newton Theological institute.
In 1882 he became president of Colby
college, holding that position until
1890. A widow and three children
survive