Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1914-11-06
All Parts of the
World Newspapers
By JAMES MARET.

We are In receipt OF a bundle OF
newspapers publish in various
parts of the world. Chamberlain
Medicine Company; of Des Moines.
Iowa, are shown TO be advertisers
the world over. Among the pap
ers we find The Friend, Bloomfon-
TEN, South Africa; publisht in
English. One of the lads" says
Ford CARS seated fl90 at the
coast. Buy a Ford because it is a
better Car, not because it is cheap
er." The East London Daily Dis
patch and Frontier Advertiser,
East London. South Asrica. is
larger than cur Courier Journal
and has advertisements of every
thing except whiskey and beer.
The Madras Mail, India, has this
remarkable railroad time card
'ad": MADRAS Southern Rail
way, Ltd. Alterations in the
passenger trains. The public are
informed that from 1st of March,
1914, the timing of certain trains
will be revised. Broad gauge, the
down Calcutta mail train will leave
Madras at 19 hours, arrive Waltau
at 10. 10. Down mixed from Ray
puram will leave at 1915 and ar
rive at CocOnda Fort at 90 30"
This rtilwsy seems to be using
the "A hour system of timing"
This paper has one whiskev ad,
bottled in Scotland. Now jump to
Cuba and find La Discussion pub /
lisht at Havana in Spanish. 1t
contains pictures of U. S. navy
vessels at Vera Cruz. Under one
of the pictures is this sentence: I
"AscarOzados norteamericanos en- !
orden de battala en- aguas de Vera
cruz. " Translated: North Amer
lea war ships in battle order in
the waters of Vera Cruz This
paper also contains the picture of
Mrs. Ella Flagg. Young superin-
tendent of schools, Chicago; also
LA Catastrofe de Calumet. The
catastrophe of Calumet, (explo-
sion in coal mines at Calumet,
Mich). Other things in the paper
may have proved interesting had
the writer's Spanish vocabulary
not been limited owing to its hav-
ing been used but seldom for 35 |
years. Dropping to the island of
JevlOn, just south of India, we
ind The Times of Ceylon with an
advertisement of government rail
way advising the public that "the
$50 down thru train from Kan
kesanturl to COLUMBIA will be two
minures earlier in arriving and
eaving Vaviuiya."
The Penang Sin Poe (The Chi
Iese Daily News of Penang, Chi :
la, surely is some paper but no !
American would know it if il v
idn't have a few English printed {.
lords at its heading TO tell Us S
What the cat tracks and tea signs O
neant. Some of the ads are
'artly English. Chamberlain's b
'ain Balm shows up by imprint of (
arton. Advertisements from ia e
an, England Austria and a num- t
er from United States appear in n
his paper which has its column p
ules placed horizontally across the S
age instead of perpendicularly as c
yhite people make up their pap t.
RS. You read these Chinese b
apers or rather the natives read b
y beginning on right hand side of b
aper and read downward to end 81
line at column rule, then repeat &
ntil column is finished on left side e.
the journal. The next curios- b.
y and mystery to US people is
lie Cujrathi Weekly OF Baroda, g
ndia. is type is not so peculiar b
} that of the Chinese but is on
le order of shorthand writing b.
I'd but for some explanatory NJ
nglish we wouldn't know the VI
ame of the paper or where it lii
me from. 1t also contains w
and foreign ads. At lii
e bottom of the last column ap-
9ars this: Printed and pub of
hit by Manikeal A. Doctor, at or
lyaji Vijaya Press. Raspura. ha
aroda for himself IN the evening We