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Mexico Missouri message., 1914-01-08

This heredity idea is overwork-
ed. Don't put your meanness on
your ancestors-dead long since
and not here to defend themselves
against your ISLANDERS. Begin
right and YOU will end right.
Don't try any excuses with the
Lord. Where there's a will
there's a way. It's your business
to find that way-or make one, -
and don't put up the bluff of he
redity, that you are not able to
to do this or resist that because
dad or some other sire or dam
down the line sinned likewise.
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-01-08

Gray Wilson: We farmers have
been mudding it little lately,
Some of this moisture would have
been great last summer? Maybe
so. We don't always know, how
ever, even when we know we
know.
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-01-08

Mr.. and Mrs. August Ahlfeldt:
A week or two since we left our
home at Stuttgart, Ark. and
the roses were in bloom. Have
been visiting our daughter, Alma,
who married Mr.. Ruby ID. Gar
rett, an attorney, of Kansas City.
Have also been down at our old
home, Laddonia, to visit our ge-
nial friend, jim Lynch. Are now
on our way to visit Mrs. Ahlfeldt's S
mother, Mrs. Emeline Neeley, at
Benton City. From thence we go
to st. Louis, to visit Henry Ahl-
feldt, and then we depart for
home. We are in partnership
with G. A. Wilder of Laddonia
and X. W. Pearson of Mexico on
Il big rice farm near Stuttgart.
We sold from off this farm last
season 81, 900 worth of rice, hay
and oats. Our oats made 60
bushels per acre. Stuttgart is a
growing place, with population
of 5000 people. Mostly all are
new settlers, from the North. The
natives are pushing back into the
woods and the sparser settlements.
We have brought them energy and
new ideas and we're making
things hum. We've the liveliest
community you ever saw. Come
| down and we'll show Won.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-16
Rid STOMACH Of
GASES, S0URNESs
AND INDIGESTION.
"Pape's Diapepsin" Ends all
stomach distress in five
minutes.

You don't want slow remedy when
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It's millions of cures in indigestion.
dyspepsia, gastritis and other stom-
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Keep this perfect stomach doctor
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something which doesn't agree with
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nausea; eructations Of acid and I'M
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Pape's Diapepsin comes In contact
with the stomach all such distress
svanishes It's promptness, certainty
and ease In overcoming the worst
stomach disorders is q revelation to
those who try 1t.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-16
Lung Trouble Yielded
10 This Medicine

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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-16
The First War Widow.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1
NEW YORK, Oct. 16.-The first
war widow arrived in New York; to-
day. She is Mrs. Hazel B. Schott.
formerly Of Yonkers, N. Y. She was
a bride Of three weeks when her hus-
band, Captain Schott, Of the First
Royal Berkshire regiment, departed
for France with the first British ex-
peditionary force. Following the
battle OF Mons, Captain Schott was
reported missing. Unable to obtain
definite news through the war depart
ment, Mrs Schott went to Mons.
There she found sergeant of Schott's
regiment "The sergeant told me the
story Of his DEATH" said the bride. Cap
tain Schott was commanding the
rear guard during the British retreat:
He was told to hold bridge, with a
handful of men. A great explosion
was heard and it was seen the bridge
had been destroyed by Germen
she'll None OF the force Of British
defenders was ever seen again Mrs.
Schott was Miss Hazel Brown.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-16

let Mott Of Union college, Schnec-
tady, perfected a stove for the burn
ing Of coal. It Is significant that this
old Dutch city should be the scene OF
the development OF the first coal
stove and the piece where the first
modern electric range was produced.
Out of the coal stove grew the gas
stove. Someone discovered that 1t
was easier and better to turn the
coal into gas and to burn the gas in
a stove for cooking purposes. The
gas stove removed much Of the dirt
and smoke and eliminated the hand
ling OF fuel and ashes.
The next step in the perfection OF
cooking stoves was the invention of
the modern electric range by an en-
gineer of the General Electric Co,
wherein the invisible fires Of cleo
tricity are used to boil, bake and
broil. The electric range draws cur
rent from the house wires, much the
same as an electric lamp. At the
pressure of finger the stove is ready
for use and the fire" can be extin-
guished just as quickly when the work
Is done. The electric range wastes
very little heat. Every precaution is
taken to prevent useless radiation and
consequent waste Of the heat. The
heat Is concentrated where it is need
ed, where it will be most effective and
most economical.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-16
May save His Neck.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1
DENVER, Colo, Oct. 1.-THE fate
OF Harold F.. Henwood. slayer OF Syl-
vester L. Won Phul, Of st. Louis, and
Geo. q. Copeland, OF Cripple Creek,
will be decided by Governor E. NJ.
Ammons today. The executive is con-
sidering whether to commute to life
Imprisonment the sentence to death
pronounced by the trial court last
winter.
The members OF the state board of
pardons last night unanimously rec
commended that the governor commute
the sentence. This Recommendation
was presented by John w Springer,
former husband of Isabelle Springer,
who pleaded for Henwood's life. 1t
was quarrel with Won Phul over Mrs.
Springer which precipitated the shoot
ing In which the ST. Louis man was
slain.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-16
Home.Made AeropIane.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
DIES MONIES, Iowa, Oct. 16.-W.
C. Robinson, Of Grinnell, who flew to
Des Moines yesterday from his home
town, distance of f1fty-six miles in
forty minutes, is flying over the city
today in his homemade aeroplane.
Tomorrow he will attempt to fly a
nonstop trip to Chicago. I he will
assault with deadly weapon. Police
pie for delivery in Chicago.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-16

her to the bedside Of her wounded
warrior. Count Willis Feodor Hines
Won Zagred Of Austria, will not have
to travel in the steerage and eat bolona
enroute. though she has less than
$3.50. Likewise speeding towards New
York is her brother, Frederick, with
a modest pot full Of gold. She's a
BRICK said Frederick, referring to
his sister, who eloped by herself; SOS
the count, and I'm going to take her
enough money to let her make the
trip in STYLE"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-16

FRANKLIN HELPED SOME
American Revolutionary Statesman
and Printer Responsible for Va
rIety Known by His
Name.

Way back In the dim and misty
past. ever and ever SO long ago, the
cooking OF foodstuffs was unknown
and man primitive man-lived on
fruits, nuts and raw vegetables And,
no doubt, he varied this diet with such
eggs, fiedglings, small birds and mann
mails as he could catch. With the
coming OF weapons, the obsidian
pointed spear and the fint-tipped ar
row, man developed into an eater OF
flesh. Weapons made him bolder,, no
longer did he fear the destructive
beasts with their claws and fangs. 1t
was easy for him to stalk and STAY
bird and beast, even the great NAM
moth and the giant sloth.
Just how the art Of cookery began
we shall never know. AS far back as
We have any record of men we know
that he cooked his food over IRE, art
er fashion. The kitchen mfddens OF
prehistoric man show heaps OF ashes,
charcoal and half burned bones. evil
dencing that early man knew the ART
Of building a flre and made a serious
attempt to cook his food.
In the earlier days when fire was
first obtained, 1t was carefully cher
ished. The American Indians never
allowed permanent camp fires to go
out. When on long marches one OF
the tribe carried a hollow stone con.
tainng red-hot Goals e1nbedde IN
ashes. Fire was later made by str1k-
Ing flint and by other means.
Taking up the history OF stoves
they are really modern inventions.
just as you can remember when there
were no flying machines, so can your
grandmother remember when the
cooking was done over the fireplace
with the aid Of q long-legged spider
snd pot hung ON an iron crane.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-16
First rhree.eun rurret.

BOSTON, Oct. 16.--Within few
days there will be installed on the
new battleship Nevada at the Fore
river shipyards, the first three-gun tur-
ret ever placed on an American
bettleship. They will be the best pro-
tected Of any in the world and Will
be the heaviest ever set up, weighing
ON the average about eighty tons, or
some eleven tons heavier than the
turrets on the Argentine battleship
Rivadavia, which was considered the
last word" in naval construction.
Each of Nevada's turrets will have
three fourteen inch guns, the most
powerful on any United States battle
ships and rivalled only by few In
the British and German fleets. They
will weigh about lat 500 pounds each,
will be ffty-three feet long and will
throw protective weighing 1,4oo
pounds. The latter will carry much
larger amount Of high explosives than
the S75-pound projectiles of the r.
inch pieces.
Two of these three-guns turrets will
be installed, one in the fore-castle
deck and one on the quarterback,
with q two-gun turret behind and
slightly above each other so there Will
be five fourteen-inch guns pointing
ahead and similar number facing
astern. Thus the fire Of all ten guns
may he concentrated at either side or
almost directly ahead or astern. This
advantage Of such an arrangement
has deeply impressed naval authori-
ties the world over The New York
and Texas, the only American ships
now in commission with 14-inch guns,
carry them mounted In five twogun
turrets instead of four as on the Ne
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-16
shakespeare and the War.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
ROME, Sept. 80. (By mail to New
York. )--William Shakespeare has all
the tomb to participate in the bitter
hostilities between Germany and Eng
land.
Because OF his English birth, the
bard of Avon is being regarded as an
undesirable citizen in Germany where
comment has reached fever heat of
literary discussion.
Max Reinhardt, the great Shakes
perian producer who gained his
most notable success during the past
season through his presentations OF
Shakespeare's plays, has taken up lit
erary arms in favor Of the English
dramatist. Furthermore he has ap-
pealed to leading authorities in Ger
many as to just what Shakespeare
position should be. Reinhardt wishes
to know whether Shakespeare should
be considered as an intellectual con-
quest and retained, or as mere Eng
lishman and expelled.
Chancellor VanBethmann Hollweg
expressed the opinion that Shake
speare belongs to all the world.
The Greek authority Wilamovitz
Mottendorf, expressing his views in
the difficulty said: 1--WE should pre-
sent Shakespeare because he is partly
our own, because he is the poet of an
cient England which would be asham-
ed of hypocriticaI England of TODAY
and above all because we are superior
to all chauvanism."
Adolf Harnack, general director OF
the royal library, declared: Shake
speare is the ancestor of our German
civilization"
Reinhardt declares he is quite con-
tent with the replies he has received
and Shakespeare literature will tri-
umph over national differences.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-16
His Neck Saved.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1
DENVER, Colo, Oct. 16.-Governor
e. M. Ammons this Afternoon COM
muted to life Imprisonment. the SEN
tence to death, pronounced against
Harold F. Henwood, slayer OF Sylves-
ter L. Won Phul OF st. Louis and Geo.
d. Copeland, of Cripple Creek. Hen
wood was under sentence to be
hanged during the week Of October
%.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-16
SPECIAL TAX NOTICE.
ada and her sister ship the Okla

hOnla.
1t is estimated that about three
more months will be needed in which
to complete the work OF laying on
the Nevada's side armor. Because of
the fact that she will use only oil for
fuel there will be but one smoke
stack and the boilers can be concen-
trated in the middle of the ship. The
boilers can thus be given heretofore
unknown security in the form of the
heaviest armor ever employed for this
purpose.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-16
Rombardment Continued.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1
CETTTNJE, Oct. 1s.-The Anglo
French fleet now comprising forty
unites and supported by the heavy
French naval guns that were success
fully posted on Mount Lowcop, has
again resumed the bombardment of
the port Of Cattaro. The allied fleet
fs very anxious to take this port, as
it will give them their much needed
naval base on the Adriatic.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-16
Hank Gowdy,s Vacation.

limited Press Leased Wire Seryice.]
BOSTON, Oct. Io-Hank Gowdy,
the lanky hero Of the worlds series,
Is preparing to leave Boston tomorrow
for New York. Il have date to APP
pear for q week on the vaudeville
stage in New York. and, after that |
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-16
The Countess Flees.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1
CHICAGO, Oct. 16.-Mrs. Marie
Henkle, speeding today toward New
York to catch boat that will rush
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-16

Four years ago Keokuk was practically un-
known to the people of the United States. To-
day it is the best known city of less than $4,000
inhabitants, not onlysin the United States, but
in the world. It has cost some cities millions
and millions of dollars to attract the same at
s.tention Keokuk has attracted. The expense to
Keokuk has been very light.
The people Of Keokuk at an election in the
spring of 1911 instructed the city commissioners
to establish Bureau Of Publicity and the latter
in doing so contracted with the Industrial As
ISOLATION to conduct the campaign Of publicity.
The space purchased in the large publications
in the country started the publicity which has
spread and grown from nothing to the present
condition Of world wide interest and goodwill
Immediately following this small expendi-
ture of publicity money came a demand from
the general public to know more about Keokuk
and its possibilities. The columns Of the news
papers and magazines were thrown wide open.
Space valued, at regular rates. at hundreds of
thousands Of doll ars, was given free to Keokuk.
All this was possible simply because Of the be-
ginning which Keokuk had to pay for to get.
Many city in the United States would be
willing to pay from fifty to one hundred thou
sand dollars for the general public interest and
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-16
There were few ssss.sln those days

There were few stsSaszn those days.
/ And so 1t was tile same with their
mothers and grandmothers, through
all the ages, for, until less than 200
years ago all cooking was done over
the open fire or in Dutch ovens. Some
one had a brilliant idea and brought
the fire inside the house, with the aid
OF chimney and a fireplace, where
the cooking was done over the Goals
just the same.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-16
Board Of Directors
Keokuk Industrial Association

intend to go home for visit he said.
II have no theatrical engagement,
just simply going on visit. ] may
stay all winter but that's uncertain
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-16

Read The Daily Gate City. 10
cents per week.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-16
First Iron stove.

Late in the seventeenth century
Cardinal Polignac designed the first
iron stove. However, one was not
seen in America for many years after
this. Shortly afterwards Count Rum
ford invented improvements for econ
omizing the fuel and heat It was in
1716 that Des Aguliers re-arranged the
Polignac store with earthen sides and
backs so as to burn anthracite coal.
These designs were on the plan OF an
open fireplace.
BENJAMIN Franklin journeys to Eng
land, and in 1745 wrote to Phtladel-
phia friends of wonderful German
invention Of a stove, consisting OF an
iron box made of five plates fastened
together with screws. One side OF the
stove was left open, and when set In
position the open side, with smoke
nine. was in an ante-room. When In
ordinary use 1t was a fireplace, but
the open side could be closed when
dinner time rolled around
In 1771 Franklin invented a stove
to burn ,bituminous coal, which stove
was arranged SO that 1t would con-
s,,1ne its own smoke Franklin's in
yention had a downward draft. He
later invented another design Of stove.
which had basket crate and NOV
able bars at the top and bottom sup
ported on a pivot. The top would be
filed with kindling, then the basket
would be inverted and the fire would
burn at the base.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-16
Franklin stove Modified.

The Franklin stove, considerably
modified, of course, came into general
use in the United States between
1892 and 1925, and is still in use at
the present time. There have been
hundreds of notifications. ETC.. since
Franklin's time, and much inventive
genius has been directed to base heat
ing. anti-clinkering devices, etc.
Perhaps one of the greatest aids
to making stoves more convenient for
modern cooking was the invention or
the friction. or phosphorus match IN
1892 Previous to the invention OF
this style OF match the chemical match
was used for producing fire, and the
sulphur match for communicating It..
Before this era finder, flint and steel
were the means by which fire was
rrafe.
The development OF the modern
cook stove owes much to the stove
manufacturers of Troy and Albany.
Long before the civil war, DR.. Elipna-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-16
The Association Has Done Some Things Which
Are Basic Necessities

attention which has been attracted to Keokuk.
This is true because this publicity is absolutely
basic from the standpoint of industrial and COM
mercial growth.
We all know what publicity has done for
certain manufactured articles of commercial use
in the present generation. Millions Of dollars
have been spent simply to attract the attention
of the public and to create interest in the
article. Here is where the same amount
of publicity has been secured at almost no ex-
pense at all, when compared with the actual J.
amount of attention attracted.
Keokuk has started right and has attracted
the attention of the public first and as result
subsequent activity and effort at growth will
receive its just consideration and attention.
The Industrial Association expended the
funds placed in it's hands by the city govern
ment for publicity purposes. with care and dis
elimination and the results fully justify the ex
penditure.
- ~o
The Elbert County tribune., 1914-12-25
rravesty on Real FaIstatr.

Yarmouth has claim upon all Eng
lishmen quite Independently OF its as
sociations with the breakfast bloater.
remarks writer in ST. Nicholas. For
it was the home of Shakespeare's Fal-
staff, who appears to have been a man
of exemplary piety. The Falstaffs
were an old Yarmouth family.
"a Falstolfe or Falstaff," writes
John Richard Green, was bailiff of
Yarmouth in 1881. Another is among
the first of its representatives in par
Lament, and from that the members
of that family filed the highest mu-
nicipal Offices. John Falstolfe, man
of considerable account in the town,
purchased lands at the close of the
fourteenth century in Caistor, and be-
came the father of Sir John Falstolfe,
who, after distinguished military ca
reer, was luckless enough to give his
name to Shakespeare's famous char
acter. In Yarmouth, however, he was
better known as a benefactor to the
great church of st. Nicholas.
The Elbert County tribune., 1914-12-25
COSTLY METHOD OF REVENGE
Procedure in Europe Reminded An
drew Carnegie Of Somewhat
Humorous Incident.

Andrew Carnegie. in a recent inter
view on peace, said to New York
reporter:
"a lad twenty killed man and
woman in Sarajevo. All Europe Is now
fighting to avenge this wrong. Eng
land alone is spending $4,000 min
ute, according to Sidney Webb, on gun
powder.
well, this is such an expensive way
to avenge a wrong that 1t reminds me
of the man at the banquet
"A man entered the cloakroom. at
the end of banquet, and began to
smash in silk hat after silk hat
Hold on, boss! What TO yo' smash
in all dem high hats?' demanded the
attendant.
I'm looking for my own" the gen.
tleman answered. It's an opera hat
collapsible, you know. None Of these
seem to be it,"
The Elbert County tribune., 1914-12-25

this disease seems to b. steadil.- de-
cIlning. In Massachusetts and New
Jersey and in sixteen American cities
the government reports indicate that
mortality from cancer has Increased
100 per cent since 1880, and during
the ten years from 1901 to 1911 It has
increased rs per cent. Cancer costs
the United States about $4,000 lives
annually and the rate in the regfstrr-
tion area per 100000 in 1911 was 7s;
in England and Wales 1t was>s7. But
among the colored population in the
United States 1t was but 81.
There is a deep Significance to
many minds In all the foregoing facts.
and men everywhere are searching
for the key to the riddle, and some
day, half by chance perhaps, it will
be found.
The Elbert County tribune., 1914-12-25
NO COFFEE FOR SMOOT

Senator Reed Smoot. in corse-
quence of his Mormon training, uses
no stimulants-no tobacco, alcohol,
coffee or tea. No one who has ever
undertaken to go through life without
the use of coffee or tea has any idea
of the petty annoyances that such abb
stinence entails. A man can quit
drinking malt. vinous, or spirituous
liquors. and his friends m srely re-
mark: "On the wagon, eb?" and let
1t go at that. They don't ask why he
quit. and usually do not insist on his
drinking, regardless of what may be
the prevailing notion to the contrary
Anybody knows that when a man
quits drinking he does so because he
does not wish to take all the natural
finish off his insides and die ahead of
schedule, or have a befuddled brain.
such as one can see Oh the charts in
any doctors office.
But with a man who does not
drink coffee or tea it is different.
Everybody desires to know why.