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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-27

dropping bombs will have to stay at q
high altitude to eude the sharp-shoot-
ers on earth. Thus a falling bomb from
a great height will not be difficult to
avoid. It's fall will be guaged with more
or loss accuracy, certainly with suffic-
lent correctness to enable those under
meath to run clear of the spot 1t IS fall
ang towards. All things eonsidered,
modern warfare is tending to become far
less an affair entailing wholesale slaugh-
ter-not because we are becoming more
humane, but merely because recent con-
hicts have proved it is policy to wound
and mt to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-27
A Matter of Taste

He was the sort of young man who
take a girl out and talks a lot OF pretty
things, but never dreams of buying
anything not even a penny bar OF
cocoanut toffee
They had been walking out together
for quite a time. and she was getting
bit tired of it. One evening they came
to a pause outside a gayly decorated
confectioners shop.
Look, daylingt' he whispered. gush-
ingly Il can see your beautiful, sweet
face quite clearly in that Window
But she was determined on making a
change
That's all, right. George, about my
sweet face" she said. coldly: I'm tired
of hearing about it, I wish you'd re-
member my sweet tooth occasionally in
stead"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-27

~ NE of the members Of the body
of loafers had just finished read
ing an item relative to the suicide
of a wealthy man who feared that he
would finally become q pauper, when the
Sheriff looked up from experimenting
with his favorite bull dog. in the effort to
get that canine to eat peanuts, and seeing
that no one was disposed to comment on
the news item he proceeded to discuss it
himself:
Usually I am not much given to re-
feeting or moralizing about the short
comings and mental deficiencies of other
people," said the Sheriff, NOR am 1 just
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-27

BINGHAM SCHOOLS
to
Ss1sn'nE s.rss GSnS during Tuition
The Prescott daily news., 1913-06-27
DETAILS OF CAMlNETTI
 AND DlGGS ELOPEMENT

Sacramento, Cal, June 27.-The double elopement, which has had such far-reaching results, created q great sensation locally.
 Martha Warrington, 20 years old, is the daughter of T. H. Warrington. Sacramento agent for the Santa Fe railroad. Lola Norris tS, is the daugh- ter of w. F.. Norris, a retired dealer in real estate. Drew Caminetti is 2f wealthy. and has a wife and two Chil- dren. He is a son of Immigration Commissioner Caminetti. Maury Diggs is 27 married and a member of one of the wealthiest and best-known fam lilies of the section.
 The two girls, both high school stu dents, were very popular in their cir cle ot society, but no one seems to understand just how they met Diggs and Caminetti. who were regarded as rather sporty pair. But they met. and under the names of Fisher and Whitman, the men began to pay court to the girls and were received in their homes. They took the girls out Tn automobiles and entertained them generously and won their affections Then they confessed to the girls that they were married giving their names, but told tale of domestic un- happiness which they meant to end by getting diVorCeS, when they would marry the two girls. The girls sym pdlilHeQ.
 The next step was hurry message to the girls to meet the men secretly The girls were told dramatically that Mrs. Caminetti and Mrs. Diggs had learned of their husbands conduct and had applied for warrants for the ar rest of the young women They told them their only hope was to escape from the state Panic-stricken. the girls consented and the flight was ar- ranged. The four travelled in draw ing-room car to Reno, where 1t was agreed they should remain until the divorces could be obtained
 Arriving in Reno. they went to the Riverside hotel. and the following morning moved into rented cottage. where a few days later they were found by officers. When the police men knocked. the girls rushed to meet them and begged to be taken home. One of the prosecuting officials says one Of the girls has testified that, aft CT reaching Reno, Caminetti treated her very cruelty. The men are under indictment under a state law for hav- ing abandoned their minor children, a felony. Diggs' wife, a bride. be- came a mother six weeks before the elopement. She has forgiven her hus- band. Mrs. Caminetti and her two children are at the home of the elder Caminetti. The two girls are at the homes of their parents.
The Prescott daily news., 1913-06-27

woman because of the beauty of that woman and her form divine.
 "Oh, if you could only know the joy 1 felt when 1 transformed my ugly self to one of graceful curves and beauty. | actually cried for joy when I learned that at last I had perfected a plan simple and so harmless for the reduction of adipose tissue 1t was the greatest day of my life when my fat began to vanish, cried out many nights because of my ungainly figure and fat, norrid lines and limbs"
 Following which. in various bits of literature, Marjorie Hamilton an nounces these little axioms:
 Fat win out"
 Upon the altar of woman's beauty man worships."
 'I have conquered the fat world"
 Let me glorify your life by banish- ing your fat and your double chin forever"
The Prescott daily news., 1913-06-27
'LEARY FIGHTS HIGH COST
GAMBLER IN GAME TO TRIM MIo-
 DLEMEN OF BIG PROFITS.
soans May Go to Shop With the Farmers.

Chicago, June 27.-Jim OLeary, probably Chicago's most successful votary at the shrine of the Goddess Chance, has begun the operation of a new "system'-devised to beat the economic forces. He will show down with the cost of living in the public market he has opened at Fifty-second and Halsted streets.
 The basket bourse," as O'Leary's mechanically couched opening an- nouncement styles it, covers 20 acres, the entire site of what was formerly Luna park. It will be open A hours a day every day of the year and will have 500 stalls where farmers, dairy men and poultry raisers will be able to sell their products direct to the housewife. These stalls will be rent ed at 50 cents a day, including light, heat and janitor service, and the over head charges added to food prices will therefore be small.
 A large artificial lake has been put in and stocked with fresh fish Here the purchaser will see his fish caught and weighed fresh from the water. Stalls also will be provided for live poultry, and chickens will be killed and dressed while you wait Every day everything from carrots to a side of beef. On Saturday there will be grand county fair.
 O'Leary's market will have no mere neighborhOod range. To encourage patronage from all over the city, ear fare will be refunded to purchasers of a dollars worth of goojs Those who order by telephone will have their goods delivered by automobile tricks for a charge of cents per cubic foot of wagon space.
 No Monopoles Allowed.
 Finally, no specter of monopoly VII stalk in this market. The tentacles of any ambitious octopus will be severed with a cleaver. OLeary thus sounds his keynote of unrestricted compCti- tion
 "We intend to bring the grower and the manufacturer in touch with the consumer, eliminating numerous un- necessary tolls that are prime factors in the high cost of living. Such mar ket will promptly render imperative all agreements between manufac- turers, growers and middlemen's as sociations by which an enormous and startling percentage is added to the original cost. The management in- tends to tolerate no trade agreements, and all sales will be made with guarantee"
The Prescott daily news., 1913-06-27
CONQUERED FAT WORLD
fEsEG k .lt s.9II { SE sgsl iss, eATssa MARJORIE HAMlLTON'S LITER
 ATURE GOOD READING.
Says Cleopatra and Josephine Fudged Their Figures and Their Beauty
 Was Not Natural.

Denver, June 27-Not only did Gle opatra and Helen of Troy use flesh re- ducers in the good old days. but Epl- press Josephine and all the rest of Napoleon's crowd were there with thr fat-bouncing remedies.
 The svelte figure for which Jose phine was famous did not just come natural" but was the result of an art ful course of treatment.
 These are some of the things stated in the letters alleged to have been written by Marjorie Hamilton Gun ningham to heavyweight women, wit nesses for the government in the trial using the mails to defraud in selling a so-called obesity cure.
 Federal Judge Lewis ruling that the efficiency of the anti-fat treatment was not an issue in the case, nor was the fact that money was not returned when demanded, did not prevent the reading of more lively literature said to have emanated from the office of the defendants.
 Here is what one letter said:
 "I wish that I could bare my soul to you, that you could see in all its naked horror what I suffered from fat. Every woman desires to look her best in the eyes of someone in this world.
 "The beauty of social leaders and of women of power in this world is the thing which gives them their immense right to rule. You see in the papers every day of loving wives who have lost their husbands to some other
The Prescott daily news., 1913-06-27
A GOOD INVESTMENT.

There is no better investment than a fifty cent piece in a bottle of Meritol White Liniment.
 Muscular and rheumatic palns' swellings, lameness and soreness of the muscles, are promptly
 relieved. Meritol White ,Linl] ment is especially recommenaeq as a general pain killer of unu1 sual merit. At Hesterly Drug Store.
The Prescott daily news., 1913-06-27
OIL KING AT FOREST HILL
John D. Rockefeller Arrives at Cieve. land to Spend the Summer
 Wife Appears Feeble.

Cleveland, June 25.-John D. Rocke feller arrived in Cleveland to spend the summer at his Forest Hill home. He was accompanied by Mrs Rocke- feller. her sister, Miss Lucy Spel. man, and retinue of servants.
 Mrs. Rockefeller appeared feeble as her husband supported her from their private car to a waiting automobile
The Prescott daily news., 1913-06-27
New Names for sIeepers.

Chicago, June 25.-Use of mytho. logical and historical names in desig- mating sleeping and private cars is being discontinued Statistics com. piled by the Pullman company show names of cities, states and towns are being substituted. especially by west ern railroads
The Prescott daily news., 1913-06-27
Last of Hunger Strikers Out.

London, June 27-Miss Harriet Kerr, the last militant suffragette pris- oner of those sentenced for conspiracy on June IT, was released from jail sui fering from the effects of a hunger strike" She was undergoing a 12 months sentence.
The Prescott daily news., 1913-06-27
A FOLDER FREE

Ask for a folder descrlOlns Ross Dead Quick" spray any telling how to get rid of bedouss] ants, feas, reaches, chlch.u mites, lice, and their eggs. also tells how to thoroughly dlsin] feet your home to prevent u''] ease. It's free for the asking a] Hesterly Drug Store. nu
The Prescott daily news., 1913-06-27
NOTICE!

The Annual Singing Oonveal ', T, oo, tion of Nevada County VIII n ..SaJ at Bodcaw on the first Sa.uiuss ,,a nev and Sunday in July, The s;,, n hf books, songs and hymns VIII T used. :, p,.os
The Prescott daily news., 1913-06-27

V S
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-07-18
MERELY COMMENT

Another crime that needs inVes-
tigation is the brutal beating up of
citizens by so-caIled detectives
third degree where officers of the
law take the law into their own hands
and deprive citizens of their cOnsti-
tutional rights.
When state detectives beat a man
up because he won't sign an affidavit
that isn't true it's time some detec-
tives were put behind the prison bars
as more dangerous criminals than
most of those already there.
BY the way, wonder what's biting
David M. Pfaelzer of the board of
assessors. Can't he get any H-H
cadets on the pay roll? Else why all
this yawping?
Assistant States Attorney Sullivan
says The Day Book had better be
careful. Same to you, Michael, same
to you! Public officials can't be too
careful in these days when the pub
lie eye is opening up.
And when there is so much inVes-
tigating of officialdOm being done in
the public interest.
Anyhow, Chicago isn't yet Siberia;
and no honest man who has few
dollars to hire good lawyers need be
afraid Of official threats.
Nor need any honest public official
who is doing his duty and doing it
honestly be afraid of any newspaper.
Well, next on the program comes
an investigation of that voting ma
chine deal by the Butts legislative
committee; and then they public may
find out who the stockholders were
in the company that sold the voting
machines to the city.
Changing the subject entirely, we
suggest to States Attorney HOyne
that he find out just what happened
to Jeweler Phillips in the Office of
Assistant States Attorney Sullivan.
The journal has raked up Sec. 1874,
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-07-18

so mucn SATURDAY nlgQL 10 run the
house and then borrow it back the
next week, and you think you're
keeping the house going"
John arose from the table. His
face was getting red with emotion.
well, that's the biggest whopper
of a downright lie I ever heard.
give you back extra every Saturday
any money borrowed from you dur
ing the week, and you know it"
''WeI, that doesn't help me out
any. If you give me money Satur-
day night and borrow some back all
the next week what have 1 got?"
But I just told you 1 add it to your
allowance the following Saturday"
And then you borrow it back
from me again, don't your"
And I give it to you extra on
Saturday night, I tell you"
You don't do nothing of the sort.
How do you make it Out?"
Didn't I give you your allowance
and the three dollars l borrowed
from you last week on Saturday
night?"
yes, and you borrowed a dollar
yesterday"
Wont you get that extra on Sat-
urday?'
and you'll borrow it back again"
John looked frantic. He hasn't yet
learned that finance is an impossible
subject to discuss with a woman be-
cause she rarely understands it.
81 don't want anything to eat"
John said, his lips closing tightly.
''I'm going out and won't get back
until late. You make me tired"
IF you go out"
There was an interruption. Fan
ny's mother, who had been making
a call, came into the room. She look
ed at the angry children without
comment, then seated herself at the
table.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-06-25
United Nurseries of Philadelphia
Win Purity Fight.
Women Members of Board of Man.
ayers Garry Point-VioIations of
Regulations for Benefit of
Babies Reported.

Philadelphia.-Th the efforts
of the Philadelphia Association OF
Day Nurseries, a reform in the han
ding of the milk supply of the city
has been brought about and condi-
tions which chiefly affect the babies
of the poor have been greatly RENE
died.
The association, made up of woman
representatives of the board of man
ayers of twenty-five day nurseries, has
procured the enforcement of an ordi-
nance prohibiting the sale of dipped
milk" except in shops where eggs,
butter and bread are sold.
Following the baby-saving show of
last spring, and still keeping in mind
lessons of the milk show of the prev
ious year, members of the association,
determined to safeguard as far as
they could the lives of the babies, en-
trusted to the care of their nurseries
and started a systematic investigation
of milkshops in the neighborhOod of
the nurseries.
The infant mortality committee
which undertook the investigation ap-
piled to leading physicians who have
had the work of baby-saving under
their direction and procured the serv-
ices Of an investigator who has had
experience in public health work.
Visits were made to several hun
dred shops in the neighborhoods of
the day nurseries. The shops were
viewed from every angle that would
make them places where it would be
prejudicial to the child health to have
its milk supply stored The source of
supply, the condition of refrigerating
facilities, occupancy of the house and
the methods employed in handling
were gone into and card index was
made of all places visited.
The research showed many fragrant
violations of the milk regulations of
the department of health. All sorts of
menacing conditions were discovered.
One of the chief causes of complaint
was found to be the cigar and candy
shops in which milk was sold in bulk
In many of these no attempt was
Eaade to keep the milk at an even
temperature, or to ward off the flies
which infested the places. The milk
was carelessly handled and dipped out
with any sort of a dipper and in any
sort of a way.
Reports of these conditions were in
stantly made to the bureau of health,
which acted upon them in two cases,
revoking licenses, and in every in
stance prohibiting the sale of dipped
or loose milk in any stores except
those which handle bread, eggs or
butter and which are qualified to give
proper care.
The object of the association is to
safeguard, by concerted effort, the
children who are entrusted to various
nurseries and to study their home en-
vironment and the conditions which
affect their health
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-06-25
Auto Route Across Alps.

An electric automobile service has
been established across the Alps, at q
cost of approximately 100000. The
line, which is about twenty-five miles
in length, extends from Airolo, Switz-
erland, through the Bedretto valley
and the Nufenen pass, and ends at
Ulrichen. in the Valais region, on the
Italian side of the Alps.
The automobiles have capacity for
twenty-five passengers and make the
trip in one and three-quarters hours
on express service, running at the rate
of twelve to twenty-five miles an
hour
The company has ten stations along
the route, and three trips are made
daily in each direction when there is
no snow on the road to interfere with
the passage Of the vehicles.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-06-25
NEW YORK GODDESS is HAPPY
Wardrobe of Miss Liberty Costs the
Government 100000, but 1t Was
Worth it.

The happiest woman in all New
York today is standing out in the mid
die of the river, with one arm raised
over her millions of fretful sisters to
show that a goddess still can be a
goddess even if she does have to wear
made over clothes winter and sum-
mer, the New York Herald remarks
Miss Liberty has just had $4,000
spent on her wardrobe, and although it
was only a patching up of the clothes
which Mr.. Bartholdi gave to her when
he left her here in 1886 she is con-
tended,
For five years she has been COM
planning, groaning occasionally and
feeling creepy in her joints after the
stiff winds had driven the rain
through little weak spots in her cop
per clothing. Her clothes were sadly
in need of repair, but Uncle Sam did
not give heed to the needs of his
daughter, until one day her arm began
to weaken and it was found that she
could no longer hold up twelve per-
sons in her right hand. Then the lad
der up the inside of her forty-five foot
arm was closed to the public because
the brawny arm wobbled, and it was
deemed best not to tax it too much.
Small holes appeared here and there
in the copper sheath skirt and some
of the braces on the steel frame work
came loose. Uncle Sam found that he
must send for the dressmaker.
The copper envelope which forms
the goddess gown was repaired piece
by piece, all the steel work was
painted, all the missing riyets were
replaced, all places where the cop
per was SO badly damaged by corro-
sion that the light could be seen shin
Ing through the shell were patched
properly with soft copper. Great care
was taken that none of the small
holes intended to drain the pockets
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-06-25
A SIGNAL TELEGRAPH.

Here is a simple piece of apparatus
with which you boys can communi-
cate with one another after dark, from
your bedroom window to the boy who
lives across the street, or from your
tree club house to boy upon the
ground, or if you go camping in the
woods you and your companions can
flash messages from one place to an
other.
Get box about IL inches long, 8
inches wide, and inches deep, for
your signal box. This will be the
most convenient size. Fig 1 shows
the completed piece of apparatus with
the key that controls the lengths OF
the signal flashes (A) in operations,
while Fig. 2, a cross section, and Fig.
8, a view of the inside of the box, ex-
plain how the flashes are made. You
will see by these illustrations that
when the key lever A is pushed down
it pulls up, by means of cord OBJ, a
shutter co., until the hole bored
through its center CD comedies with
a hole in the front of the box (E).
Make the shutter block about 4 by
inches in size, and bore the hole
through it and through the box front
about Ia inches in diameter Gig. A.
Screw screw-eye into the center of
two opposite edges Of the shutter
block (FO, another screw-eye to the
inside of the box inches above hole
E (G), and another into the bottom OF
the box under hole E On, Fig. 81.
Cut the key lever stick A enough
longer than the inside depth of the
to Be Published Before This Date.
box so its key end will stick about 1 II
inches outside of the box Gig. p.
Prepare the key end as shown in Fig.
5, screw a screw-eye into the stick at
I, and hinge to the inside Of the front
of the box II inch above the bottom
Gigs. 2 and g. Tie piece of stout
cord to the upper screw-eye F, slip 1t
through screw-eye G and tie to
screw-eye / Gig. 81, allowing just
enough length so when the key stick
is perfectly horizontal the two holes
D and E will come opposite one an
other. Connect the lower screw-eye
F and screw-eye H with a heavy rub
Der band %. This will spring the
shutter back to the position shown in
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-06-25
ASSURE PURE MILK
WASP STING MAKES MAN WALK
While in Bed Feels "Hot Needle"
Pierce His Ankle-Leaps to
Floor and Runs.

st. Louis.-Charles Wightman, dep
uty county clerk at Clayton, told a
Post-Dispatch reporter how he had
just been able to walk without
crutches for the first time In 38 of
the AZ years of his life. He fell when
he was four years old and injured
both legs permanently
He said that neighbor had told
him a snake story just before he went
to bed. 1t was tale of blacksnake
ever so many feet long and an incred-
ible number of inches thick, which
the neighbor had said he had killed.
Charles woke up in the morning
with the story still in mind He
thought how comfortable it was to
live in a country where one could
sleep in peace instead of in one of
those countries where, he had heard
snakes sometimes creep in and share
ones bed.
Revealing in the thought, he thrust
his right leg deeper under the covers.
Then something that stung like hot
needle pierced his ankle.
Il sprang out of bed and ran and
stumbled IL feet across the room"
he said. 1T was the first time l had
taken SO many steps unassisted since
l was baby"
And was it really snake?" he was
asked.
NO; it was a wasp" And he
showed the ankle where the sting
had swollen it.