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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-12-17

One thing about having a battle
along two wings and a center, 1t is
almost always possible to pick out
4pme point where it is going in favor
I0e your side.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-12-17

Many married couples have lived to-
lgether much longer than the neigh
bors predicted they would when they
started out.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-12-17

Putting war tax on chewing gum
and face powder may be all right as
far as It goes, but is there nothing
else In the party case?
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-12-17

Nitrates are not SO cheap for the
aSticulturist improving his land as for
the city fellow sending a dispatch.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-12-17

From what we can gather by read
ing their stories, the war correspond
Ients at the front are at the rear.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-12-17

Deceptions used in diplomacy are
mot 30 much, compared with the light
regard for the truth shown by the
thve-year-old hen that masquerades az
q spring chicken.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-12-17

The Swiss navy seems to be get
ting about as much glory out of this
war as any of the others.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-12-17

Children will not object to Ameri-
can-made toys provided they can break
'em without having to use an AK.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-12-17

An eastern man after living on a
diet for 20 years in the hope of reach.
ing q hundred died at ninety-eight
from tripping over rug. What's the
ytse?
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-12-17

It is easy to prove that pumpkin pie
b grand good thing, because it has
20 many limitations and substitutes.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-12-17

Steel coaches make for safety, but
the man who habitually counts cross
tios would gladly ride in wooden one.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-12-17

The American hospital ship sent
to Europe is more welcome than
battleship.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-12-17

Now and then one comes across ap
old-fashioned man who thinks politi-
clan ought to be consistent.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-12-17

Our sympathies are hereby extended
to the whale which, according to the
old song, lived in the North sea.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-12-17

The chief officer in command of
both armies just now appears to be
General Fighting.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-12-17

Ecuador has had an earthquake
Bhock. But that is very little mat
ter to worry about Just now.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-12-17

Funny, but when a man has screw
loose people call him nut.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-12-17

A man who is, distrustful Of other
people should not expect other people
to trust him.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-12-17

Strange that nobody has attributed
the war to the spots on the sun.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-12-17

A cool head and cold feet do not
usually go together.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-12-17

OF all false words of tongue or pen,
the falsest are these: Call again"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-12-17

The aviators are not the only ones
who are up in the air these days.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-12-17

The woman who calls her bulldog
Precious" has mistaken idea Of
values,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-12-17

Cycling is coming back. Why not?
Even history moves in cycles.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-12-17

They are still playing baseball, but
the fans are reading war news.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-12-17
SPECIAL NOTICE.

Cards of Thanks, Obituary Poetry ana
Resolutions OF Respect are publish at
the rate of cents per lire only. There
will be no deviation from this rule.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-12-17

1t hurts some people more to pay
the Bill than to have the tooth pulled.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-12-17
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.

One dollar per year II paid in advalic ce.
One dollar and fifty cents II Not paid In
edvance.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-12-17

AS the chiropodists look at the styles
In footgear they softly murmur. I'VE
should wnrrvi"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-11
The Post Office, Nassau and Liberty streets in 1855

can in the neighborhood. They were
excellently well built, however, in the
first place. as they must needs have
been to remain so long, and they have
been kept in repair better than most of
the other houses on the same block, so
that excepting for the old fashioned doors
and doorways they might be supposed
to be the most modern of any there.
The doors are, however, unmis akably
antique, and being well preserved as
they are they give an air of elegance
to what seem otherwise to be quite
ordinary edfices.
Both houses TEEN with foreign look
ing men day and night. and a foreign
agency of some sort evidently carries
on prosperous business inside. 1t
|. seems likely that while the Clam Broth
House may very probably disappear in
the near future these two will stand
substantially unchanged for generations
to come The bricks OF which their
walls are constructed look as substan-
tial and strong as If they had been
laid this year.
one other building should properly be
classed with these, standing as it does
in a crowded street. practically UNI
changed INTELLECTUALLY since the time
1t was erected. 1t is the one at Z State
street, originally private mansion and
now the home OF Roman Catholic
sisterhood, but its history has been told
and retold so often that repetition
here would serve no purpose.
Outside of these there are only a
very few buildings in the city originally
designed for private occupancy that
even rank in age with the comparatively
modern Fraunces's Tavern, which has q
record of less than two hundred years
These few. however, are notable and the
most OF them are Well known.
The original Schermerhorn farm.
house, though it is not so old even as
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-11

knows anything. He is an elderly man
and he says he never even saw the place
till his father, the previous owner died.
The history of the two houses at II
and 10 Cherry street, almost under he
Brooklyn Bridge, Is somewhat better
known, though only meagre details are
to be learned concerning them. They
were built, the record says in 1885 or
1856 by Joseph Latham, man of con-
siderable substance and excellent stand
ing, who Occupied one Of them as his
own residence In what was then one Of
the fashionable nelghborhoods of the
city.
1t is hard to realize when looking
at them to-day that any portion of the
story is true, for no trace of fashion can
he dscerned in them any more than II
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-11

long time to come. and those of ST.
Paurs Chapel, on Broadway, and of st.
Marks are also jealousy guarded
against all changes but those OF time
itself, but excepting for these there are
no others on the island which have not
been encroached upon at the demand
of those who coveted the space for the
purpose of building upon it.
No longer ago than 1898 II was noted
in Kings Handbook of New York
City" thai there were nearly fifty of
these Gods acres still to be found with
in the older limits of the city. To-
day the most dligent search will fail in
locating even the sites of many OF
these.
Concerning the buildings still stand
ing which may fairly be called antiq-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-11

uities the story is considerably different,
though 1t serves as a somewhat start
ling reminder of the rapidly of the
changes time brings about.
OF the untold number of houses that
were builded within what are now the
city limits more than two hundred years
ago there are hardly more than half "A
hundred still standing. OF those on
Manhattan Island there are probably
not more than a dozen. 1t was indeed
claimed not long ago for a small group
of wooden houses on West street. be-
tween Christopher and West Tenth
streets that they were the oldest build
ings then standing in Manhattan.
According to tradition. they were
standing prior to 1867, which would give
them a history of a century and half
That for New York, is respectable an
tiqulty, even though the claim referred
to can hardly be justified, since at least
three edifces far better known thar
they were erected some years before
that.
But even OF this small group of houses
only a portion of one of them is now tC
be found, and the presence Of even that
would never be suspected by a passen-
ger on West street, for the portion of il
which fronts there has been torn away
to give place to the facade of an ordl
nary West street saloon.
The rear portion of II, however, /.
still to be seen on Weehawken stree
displaying no evidence OF change ex,
ceptng a huge sign which has beeI
painted on the original boards and which
tells the modern name of the saloor
inside, and excepting also a modern
door which has been built in as a real
entrance to the saloon. 1t Is now known
as the Clam Broth House. and the FIRE,
lunch in the saloon consists mainly o
clans Concerning it's early history no
even the present owner of the propert,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-11
Ha, sydney. Sydney,
Lyest thou here?
/ here lye
Til Time Is Flown
To its Extremity.

But st. Marks, st. Paul's and even
Trinity are not the only burial grounds
OF great age remaining in the city de-
spite the modern laws that forbid in
terments of the dead on Manhattan
Island. In the New Bowery near Oliver
street. a portion of the old Jewish Gene
terry that dates back to Stuyvesant' 3
time may still be found, though 1t was
practically abandoned long ago, when
its name was transferred to the newer
location in Twenty-frst street west
OF Sixth avenue. and the Hebrews be-
gan burying their dead in a more fash
ionable neighborhood, in a cemetery that
is itself now almost forgotten. All that
remains of that is now shut in so
that 1t Is invisible from the street, and
II Is rarely opened even to the visitor
who seeks to see it for himself.
And there are others. one tiny patch
is walled in next no the sidewalk on
West Eleventh street short distance
eastward from Sixth avenue, which Is
said to be all that is left Of what was
once another Jewish cemetery, but even
those who live alongside Of il know no
more than that about 1t, and those who
have tried to read the inscriptions on
the crumbing stones have been unable
to decipher them. Hardly any mention
OF the place can be found in the chron-
icles that have been consulted.
Trinity has two cemeteries which the
great corporation of the church has
kept in the best condition possible and
which will remain undisturbed for a
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-11

which stands on the grave of child in
Trinity churchyard. 1t is the oldest
one known in that burial ground and
possibly the oldest original record of
the kind on the island.
IL reads.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-11

HEAR Ives THE BODY
OF RICHARD CHURCH
Err SON OF VILLA
VI CHtRCHE WHO
DIED THE OF APRIL
1851 OF AGE YEARS
AND 5 MONTHS
Still another in the same yard Is
worthy OF being quoted. though not
so old it having been put there so late
as 1867. The stone marks the resting
place of sydney Breese, New York
merchant who was in early life a Brit
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-11
Hardly a Trace Remains of Visible
Evidence That Civilized White Men
Were Established Here More
Than Three Centuries Ago

NE who looks in New York city
for tangible or visible evidence
Of the fact that it has been a
civilized community for three
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-11-02
" ~ ~ 80 u q
Ti0O Ballots

ASons In Mcysmbsr when ehili ~. =
Two eaiiS S were cast In ths ~ ~
rssy Ss:!isd up clos. me sresher 4
Ton ecSidst ten one ~ * d. vesss ~
They were both rum votes ana 1neoro
the license plan. .<'. H.
BUT one was cast BY . whisky fo11@
And the other by Sunday school m0<|
the sunday school man hAd olW0I
For n yas.S s.loons, s1ssbt whsa
He piled up his praysrs, Win Z -
And tore :, :, them All down . ~ -
The sSndsy school man. no naa sspl
Kept busy ~ summer s>aounesae -
But his ardor cooled on WIN .
change I'm the weather
ana Aionc IN the aufumn they 49,
The Foxy old brewer wss yeiiy -
Said h:: . Admir-. that ss.day s.Ae
Hes tru. g his ahursA, . ~ -
He talks OF the Lord ana veeso -
Mrs. NARY xzzxPArR1q
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-11-02

the stockyards In Michigan. Indiana,
Ohio and Illinois. had not been re-
ceived by the big Detroit packing
houses. early Monday afternoon.
though they had received word that
the Chicago stock yards had been
closed, both as to incoming and out
going cattle. for q period that was
expected to last from seven TO 10
days.
informed that the ban had been
made to include the Michigan, Indi-
ana. Ohio. and all Illinois stock yards.
T. w. Taliaferro, OF Hammond, Stand
ish q Co., declared that the order
would be OF great moment to the
Detroit meat markets. but he said
that there would be no danger Of q
meat famine here.
TELL the people that they need not
worry, we will take care OF DETROIT"
he said. The closing OF those
sources OF supply, win simply mean
that we will have to get our meat
elsewhere, but the matter viii be ad-
justed without great dificulty, and
we will be able to get plenty OF meat
elsewhere. II will simply mean that
the meat dealers here will have to
transfer their orders, but the coun-
try IL too big. and there is too great
q supply Of cattle. to make Il prob
able that any meat famine will re-
suit from the government order"
Chicago 10 the greatest supply sta
ton for Detroit packers, but with the
market In Kansas City unhampered
by the government order, the great
stock yards there win be put. on q
rush order basis.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-11-02
PLAN BIG CAGE FOR
BELLE ISLE BIRDS
Huge Structure Will Cost About
$6,000-City Ferry Line
Also Planned

An enormous flight cage, rs feet
high. 200 feet long and 100 feet mide.
- being planned by Park Commission
or Dust to house the eagles. cockatoos
owls. pigeons and other flying birds
now on exhibition In the big park.
Within the big cage the commits
siCner will construct an artificial lake
or lagoon. The lagoon will be con.
tinually supplied with fresh water by
means Of piping system.
This flight cage will cost IN the
neighborhood OF $4,000" said Commits
sioner Dust" and will be fine thing
for the birds. AT present these birds
are cooped up In cages and get alb
soiutely no chance to exercise as they
should. Within this flight cage they
can soar from tree to tree and have
the freedom OF the open air. II will
also permit the public to look at the
birds TO q much better advantage"
The commissioner In also planning
on three ferry boats OF capacity Of
about 200 persons each to take the
place Of many little ferry boats that
private owners are now running under
city license. The fare to Belle Island
Ia now Ave cents and the commission
err says the city can operate Its ferry
boats at a charge Of cents and make
money.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-11-02

little ones must not also face q Christ
mas morning without q single gift. A
little thing you may think compared
to the other horrors that hem them
In; but D child.s heart is q tender
thing and to them Christmas IL Q
great and wonderful time and Q
wound on that day win burn long in
childish hearts.
So let's do something tcday--take
advantage Of this last chance and
send ray Of sunshine across the
November seas In the great war ship
the government has loaned. There
II an example for you by the way.
The government has given . ship, the
great railroads have offered to carry
gifts free, down In Texas the com
mercial clubs are giving thousands Of
pounds OF peanuts, everywhere not
only individuals but great commercial
organizations are giving to the
Christmas ship. II railroad has q
heart surely you have. Send In your
contribution today.
The total IN date.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-11-02

Osborn will get the other hall,
less the Progressive vote, what.
ever that may be, making Gov.
Ferrls' plurality the amount OF
the Progressive vote"
Chairman Gilman NJ. Dame, Of
the Republican state central COM
nlttse, says:
1.-THE Republican will win, from
governor down, and win by q big
majority. That's all we care TO
say about the coming election.
One thing that the members Of
this committee take pride In 10
the fact that we have worked for
all the candidates on the ticket.
We haven't centered our efforts
on one man, nor have we attack
Cd any one candidate on the other
side, 40 Chairman Shields OF the
Democratic committee has at
tackled Osborn. We've gone out
10 beat the Democratic ticket, and
we've got u beaten.
1.-THE only individuals that this
committee has anything 20 cay
about are such individuals Ne
Fred NJ. Warner and John Bod.
gett, who pose 40 Republicans,
and say that they, being good Re-
publlcans, are going 20 vote for
Democrat because they have sus-
piclons about the RepubIIcanIsm
Of the candidate OF the RepublI
can party.
"We'rs satisfied to leave u TO
the people OF Michigan to decide
what sort Of good Republicans
such individuals are"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-11-02

lection Of the labor portion Of the
party.
While this support Is undenia bly,
valuable. Il has served, Republicans
assert, 10 ALLEVIATE the 'dry" support
which the governor received two
years ago.
Republican state Affairs have been
complexity personihed.
The entrance OF two Wayne county
men. one OF them the leader OF the
powerful county machine, into the
primary tight. was the FIRST complicat.
ing factor.
The eleventh-hour entry OF Chase
8. Osborn. former governor. was the
second. His ultimate primary victory.
with its consequent alienation of the
Wayne county machine, causing, as II
did. q complete reorganization OF the
state central committee, and the de-
lection OF considerable portion OF
the old-line Republication of the
state, made the situation an espe-
,cially intricate one.
The majority Of the party differ
ences were ironed out In the Kalama-
ZOO convention. although considera-
BILE portion OF the older element in
the party remained openly hostile to
Osborn.
A conservative campaign, In the
course Of which Osborn emphasized
the idea OF party rejuvenation as more
important than personal differences.
and In which he made comparisons
between state expenditures of the
present administration and those dur.
ing his term, which ended two years
ago. tended to heal the wounds of the
party, still gaping from two years
ago. and slightly aggravated by pre-
convention differences
The detection Of the wet" element
from the Republican standards has
been. partially at least. overcome by
the adherence Of the "drys." Os-
born's characterization of the saloon
an social saprophyte" and the fact
that Dickinson, his running-mate, has
been dry leader for years, has
served to attach that element to the
q. o. p. candidate. 1t Is claimed.
The campaign has been, bitter
throughout, although all candidates,
with the exception Of two or three oc-
casions. have refrained from person
alities.
This much Is certain. The cam
paign. which ends today, has shifted
political ties In Michigan In q man
ner almost unprecedented. and has
made impossible repetition of old
time Republican machine" methods
of conducting political affairs.
Both parties have learned that the
other does not possess either horns
or q tail and, az q result; the straight
ticket" DOGGY has lost much Of its
terror to the average voter.
What the result of Tuesdays bal
loting will be none can tell
But the Progressive party occupies
the position Of the child In the GEN.
ter of the "teeter board" swinging
either end up or down. bringing sue
cess or failure to one or the other Of
the old parties as 1t preserves or
loses its own equilibrium.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-11-02

Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Jas'
nowski, Judge Phelan said: prose
cutor Frazer does not have 70 con-
suit me regarding these cases." again
repeating that he was ready TO pro
coed at once.
Joe Theissn was represented BY
Murtha and Mistershy. Alois Deimel
by James Neil. and AID w. H c.
Hindle by Frank Watson, former u.
8. district attorney.
Eddie" Schreiter was the only one
not represented by counsel He ad.
dressed the court.
This matter had resulted In great
financial loss to me-" began Eddie"
but the court interrupted him.
Il don't want 10 hear that" snapped
Judge Phelan. When will you be
ready for trial?" Schreiter said he
would be ready at the discretion OF
the court
Attorney J.'shurly Kennary spoke
for Tom" Gilman.
THAT case should be dismissed o
said kennary. "in view OF HIS acquit.
tai on the felony charge. Further
the conspiracy merges into the felony
ANU cahhol as matter OF law, DC
tried now"
we do not believe that to be the
law" said Assistant Prosecutor Jas
nowski, addressing the court.
We will file our formal motion,
said Kennary.
The court chuckied when Attorney
Hunt In replying 70 Judge -Phelan'l
question AZ to whether he aid no,
know from experience what the prose
cutor would do In the aldermanic
cases. replied: mo. your honor,
don't know what's N HIS mind. When
! was associated with. him I used q
keep him righs but that was several
years ago" = $780,.
'Quite true, Brother Hunt" said
the court. and the Judge reached dowr
for . glass Of buttermilk preparatory
to continuing the hearing OF ordi
nance cases.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-11-02
IN WHICH THE BRITISH
LION EMITS a R0AH

The Wayne county courts ina1vo1@
emily stepped on the tan Of ~ -
ish Hon. Monday, and roar vont -
that caused the sheriff 70 turn pn1& =
Howard Meredith, British v1coor
sui. was summoned a. . juror -
was scheduled TO appear Mon6G
morning along with others vho1
names appeared on the panel HoF O.
not appear. but . letter aid.
It was an imposing letter II . -
envelope with an engraved lotc1
head a. full OF dignity 90 possible. IN
letter started on by saying the oi0n4
was sorry, Jove, yes. but really a NJ
most extraordinary that = subject q
his royal highness should b asho6 |
serve on jury.
The writer was not even . cit11(
Of these here United States. -
Meredith admitted that he 0W1o|
real estate in Detroit and paid tn1c
but I@.s.y e. &. q
And then there was the war. -
said the war had added 20 his dutlc1
such q vast amount Of work thnt q
was quite impossible for hi INTO etv[
his time to the decision Of whethc@
John Jones or Tom Smith was on)I
tied to damages. 81
The sheriffs deputies looked - G.
seal and the coat Of arms and ~
title and one thing or another an
then FASTENED to excuse him.