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Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1914-09-11
Solfet ifal iamles til Bon

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iteot Proclamation initiat Senong
BEN 4bc Sftober iom Ell nlminbelig
9enneoag Tor oct Belle 2ai,b % OPP
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at foriamlc Jig / line @uoSbuie oe
%iorelic Jig / irQcS @sn til oen aImpe-
tiae @lto on GSreoens Giclpprettelie
/ Gllropa.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1914-09-11
Sorulyffet Nmerifaner,

@Gni Shlpci5, 20en September.
Siact al l5aul @rape3 &illinma ira
@ilmot, 2. 0of., Ser bar ppret inps
net iioen / &uli, ianbteS iong al en-
Gsrcr pna @unoen al Ell $3.50 500
onb HliGruno. San ltubcreoc peo
Grioro l~lniperiitet / gnQlono.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1914-09-11
$500 fontamt pr. 0lar

al en- 800 Aeres Oieieriiarm i eitlise Golos
rooo, lanao Rod SSlanb SanenS Sinier.
Gn ltabis tontatt SuotG9t ira ben Gag bu
beSpnoer. lloe i oitlige Colorado er aItins
etter en- itor Maoleltot. ge brebe beloeiors
mige SIetter itrGfter fig Ell neiten uenoe=
Zig 6el9erptte Sneie eiter Sneie al Wtil.
Gen blua \9immel lpnes Der at bGtte ct
mango Sarge lterre ElooeinDbolp enD lGns
9ere elipao. Oct itorilaene pGfter ems 'Sor=
ban'elle % @eunoring. 9tetop bet rette
Step Tor big at bprte Sorben. ganD til lap
lrtS uobpbes III al Stoten. sSor iulbltGnz
big llnoerretnin9 "trip til eaer beles g. M.
allen. z. :. M., 6ot Sslano zines, Room
us "a Gale Citation, Gbicago.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1914-09-11
enmo i e,ortb eafoto. 9ireftc til &isberem.

l~loiisterne for Ell COB apIing Nprtb Safpta har
al6ria n0ret beore cub III. Sanbpriierre err Stigen.
be. Tor at erhoIhe Settlere Ianes ppr 1900 Wil lanae
Ginie her bar ri erhperpet 9pntrol pper flere Sufinb
NrreS nboolqt 2anb. fGrotg for Ylpeen. % bill '1lec
bet for bpoo bet fplter. griiern ne nil atrig iaien blipe
ioo Iope. Ter er etabIeret @eie. Stoler. &irfer pa
Sernbarer. Oeeet lape ertnriionS @lnstpriier boer
ManbaQ pg Tirsoag. Gpm ieio oa ie 9orbet, ener
'trlp inoo efter 'nlhft9nbiqe SpIpSuiueer. J. S.
Murphy. Inzr. Agent. SOD Linz Ry.. MnneapoIis.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1914-09-11
HiHal9s.-@n so Icres Sarm

- 10 Acres rpobet. Nrdmes Sous, dob
"Sarn" o9 Sreuo, 4 TiI iii Su, l aRil til
Stols. Gooe Marteoer, Gbieaso 0riier.
Sannsi er rpsoet. Soroen bsliaar al tort
Isrblanpet Mulo mao gere unoer. Gris
81, 200. 90. s,nluneleu f%putant, Refieu paa
lang srepit. Sfrip iii z. y. Ssrbee, @rano
Repies, &iS.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1914-09-11
Net eewtralc Wtimue5ota,

Nct ccWfr0Ic WiMWc5Ota,
- Stter Suit os ~tiais9enoe Gountper /
%eltet Tor Mais, Mleper % alialia. ct
i%tprartet Stre9 for Merteriorift. ri bar Ell
lang Viite oper 9oot opoprfeoe % bebpggebe
Tarnle, o9 Nriierne or enbuu lope, 9'etinoel=
ierne lette. 9iu Ell bet Sipeu at fiebe. De
Jog os eler ifrip for nGrmers Splpsnins.
Scandal Land & Investment Co.,
InkOrporeret, Kapital $50, OOO, 90.
Fergus Falls, MINI.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1914-09-11

s,Guser te en- epmapiRe: -Susoenuen.
boDbeIie Grtk
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1914-09-11

SiNales.-S9 Ncre, Il Mil fra
uprit Airfe. en- 0fiI ira Sfolebus, 21%
@il ira ceSernbaue, 5 Seres opburfet, Geiten
srat os gus. Npt sus meb greno oe liben
Stalo. Grin Yaa gu9ellt til SrebSrins-
meier. llarp. Minn.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1914-09-11

SiiiaIgs.-Win Sarm paa 100
acres IL MiI ira oawlep. Iris $50
pr. acre. ,Sor nGrn,srs Splpsninser ~tilitrip
eiereu @briitian Snutiou, y. 2, oaplsp,
Minn.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-02-05
inns PROSPECTS WERE GOOD
Prophecy, However, Reflected Slightly
on integrity Of Judge OF
Flower Show.

The village gossips were discussing
prospects of prize winning at the ap-
preaching flower show One rather
fancied that Bill Smith would do we'll
because Bills brotherin-law was EN-
ployed at the Hall gardens. Tom
Brown seemed a probably winner. too,
having been seen in the nursery gar
dening districts OF Cheshire at early
morning. and Joe Robinson was notori-
ously friendly with a certain noted
grower who was not showing this
year.
When all, or nearly all, had thus
spotted the winners" an ancient who
had not yet spoken remarked;
"Yo're aw rong; none OF them's got
a chance. Jim Jones is t winner"
Jim Jones!" What's e bin doin'7"
Wen heard nowt abeawt 'im." we're
the derisive responses
But Ell win for aw that" declared
the ancient with conviction. and made
as though that was all he had to say
Not until his prophecy was fatty de
MED did he play his trump card:
"Jim's bowt Is plants of L Judge"
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-02-05
San Franchises Founder.

The two hundre1th anniversary Of
the birth OF Father Francis J. Sierra,
the founder OF San Francisco, will be
celebrated In that city and by many
Catholic societies throughout the ma
ton on November "a. Father Sierra.
a Franciscan, was born in the Span.
ish island OF Majorca, In the Medi.
terranean, November "a. 1913 He frs,
went to Mexico, and reached the pal
ace Of the Montezumas on New Years
day. 1850 His first labors were among
the Indians of the Sierra Gorda He
was afterward superior OF a band Of
priests In Lower California. He ac.
companied the military expedition Of
Galvez into what Is now the state OF
California, and established the first
mission at San Diego At the time
the Declaration of Independence
was being drafted in Philadelphia.
Father Sierra and the three priests &C
companying him were. on June Z.
1916. founding a mission three thou
sand miles away on the present site
of San Francisco. which was named
by them In honor OF their order lie
died on the 29th OF August. 1854. At
the age Of seventy one.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-02-05
Taata for salt

Concerning the African craving for
salt, Livingstone gives Interesting ties
timony Only the rich among Bak-
wants could afford to buy II, and the
poor suffered from indigestion for lack
OF II. Native doctors accordingly
made salt usual ingredient OF their
medicine. and Livingstone successfully
gave sufferers teaspoonfuls OF neat
salt, But now comes a notable point
Either milk or meat had the same
effect, though not so rapidly. as salt
Long afterward. when was myself de
priyed OF salt for four months, at two
distinct periods. felt no desire for
that condiment. but was plagued by
very great longing for the above artl'
cles OF nod This continued ~ icns
as | was corfined to an exclusively
vegetable dist. and when | procured a
meal Of flesh. though boiled in perfect
ly fresh rain water. II tasted as pleas.
antly saltish as II slightly impregnated
with that condiment"
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-02-05
ONE BOYS BRILLIANT IDEA
Younsster Told HIs Father to Try
Scissors and So invented Reap
Ing Machines.

In 1880 Obed Hussey of Ohio was IN
venting a reaping machine. the FIRST
ever designed In this country.
His chief difficulty was the cuttina
DEVICE. which was three large sickles
se~in n frame and revolved 10 as tc
cut into the grain. II would not wUrb
satisfactorily.
A young son. watching the expert
ment. asked his father why he did moi
use a lot Of big scissors, with one
handle fastened to one bar and the
other handle to sliding bar. thul
opening and closing them.
Hussey instantly adopted the idea
substituting for scissors the two saw
toothed blades which are in common
use today on harvesters. the cutting
action being quite similar to that OF
scissors.
From the boys suggestion he per
fected In one week a machine or
which he had In vain exercised nj
his ingenuity for the preceding two
years
The principle OF the cutting device
is the principle OF all OF the great har
vesting machines. and it's benefit Il
the farming industry OF the entire
world has been unsurpassed by any
other invention for use on the farm
Saint Nicholas.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-02-05
Explaining Telepathy.

There are numerous well authenss-
Gated cases on record In which per-
sons. suffering violent death, aw-
peared az phantoms to persons wh@
we're dear to them at the moment ee
death. The emotion which a persaw
who is conscious suffers at the 80
ment when violent death 10 ofFenem
him In the form OF murder or aces
dent, beggars every other emotksm-
Science, proceeding on the lines imds-
Gated above, hopes to unravel khe
mystery attaching TO telepathy- hw
showing how the electric currents -
the air, when implnged upon By th@
electric currents OF the body No q mDs
ment OF supreme emotional exsttaasszs
will transmit that shock over Ezi,sN
and miles, and deliver II safely to thm
receiving instrument In the form ID AM
other human electric current, stsunef
TO the first in some way which aEiansss
has not yet explained.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-02-05
New Cause for Divorce.

Why 10 divorce? There's n question
capable OF pulling most of US. don't
you think? or course, some OF us can
answer II In a single sentence or two.
More of us require large volumes to
contain a full reply. And when we
get them written some one Is sure to
supply fresh cause for divorce. Take
the case OF that OF New York man
who Is demanding the dissolution OF
the marriage tie because hia wife put
soap In his soup. He has added some
what TO the literature OF divorce And
he has revealed a new form OF cruelty.
Soap as an article OF diet Is not to be
highly regarded BY most persons II
Is considered not only offensive but
dangerous. And, what Is more, the
average man probably feels that he
eats enough soap In the barber shop
to satisfy his needs. Any added by
his wife 10 likely to be regarded as Eu.
pertuous and to arouse a peevishness
that may not easily be stilled.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-02-05
FRIENDLY TIP.
Restored Hope and Confidence.

After several years OF indigestion
and It's attendant evil influence on the
mind. II is not very surprising that
one finally loses faith in things gen.
orally.
AN. Y. woman writes an interesting
letter She says
Three years ago suffered from an
attack Of peritonitis which left me in
most miserable condition. For over
two years | suffered from nervousness,
weak heart, shortness OF breath. could
not sleep. etc.
My appetite was ravenous but ]
felt starved all the time ] had plenty
OF food but II did not nourish the be-
cause OF intestinal indigestion Medi-
cal treatment did not seem to help. !
got discouraged. stopped medicine and
did not care much whether | lived or
died.
One day a friend asked me why |
didn't try Grape. Nuts food stop drink
Ing coffee and use Postum. had lost
faith in everything. but TO please my
friend began to use both and soon
became very fond or them.
Tt wasn't long before got some
strength. felt decided change In my
system. hope sprang up in my heart
and slowly but surely ! got better. ]
could sleep very we'll the constan,
craving for food ceased and l have
better health now than before the at
tack of peritonitis.
My husband and | are still using
Grape-Nuts and Postum"
Name given BY Postum Co. Battle
Creek. Mich Read The Road 20 Well
vile" in pkgs. There's a Reason.
Ever read the above letterf A new
one appears from time 60 time. They
are wrnulna. frua. nnd fall NJ human
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-02-05
Iensmenta lmnroxsa

Into the homes of the people light
and air have penetrated, and they havw
acquired legal claims. The first census
taken under the new tenement hossser
law found $4,000 dark and afrIesEs
rooms in houses UNIT to live in. nalC
OF them without any windows at an
There are still more than 60.00a win
dowless rooms left in Greater Aew
York; but they are going. When sh@
last OF them is gone we shall be xAls
to tight tuberculosis, and vn- Thss
dark halls have been lighted. k.fae IN
the tenements has been made measmr
ably endurable and safe. Not In tis@
ten years since the new Law was
passed has human life been kost by
fire In any OF the hundred and od6
thousand houses for lack OF means az
escape or other faults In constructson-
In the ten years preceding 1894. 2sG
persons persisted In tenement house,
nres. not counting the fremen who
died In efforts to save them.-Jaecas
A. Riis. In Century Magazine.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-02-05

go who expected to be the boss some
day. He'd go home at night and sleep.
and he'd save a little money, But
soon the bug would start working on
him. The first symptom would show
in his buying a cane and discovering
Broadway. The next downward step
would be learning to eat spaghetti In
Italian restaurants. After that the
rest was simple. The young man
would go home in the evening. but
only to change his collar and get his
stick. Sometimes he would eat and
sometimes he wouldn't, But no mat
ter, when you'd see him uptown at
night under the lights you had to ad-
init that he looked like a typical New
Yorker. and that was what the young
mans soul craved. After that he'd so
home and feel that the day had not
been misspent.
by this time II you ever asked him
II he hadn't come from Oskaloosa, or
Chicago, or some other American city
he'd be ready to fight. He was a New
Yorker by this time. and II he got as
far as Coney Island he thought he was
travelling. And with this we close the
book on young but misspent life.
For nobody ever recovered after the
bug had done its work. They were
sealed to Manhattan island then. They
would rather live there thirty minutes
than any other place thirty years;
they said so themselves. That was
why the park benches always were SO
full.
What became OF them all! Nobody
knew-or cared. New York WAS the
FIRST city in this country to discover
that It could do away with its heart
and soul. People used to talk about
the heart OF New. York II had none
Other cities tried to initiate II In this
but they looked like nice little school
children playing robbers. II person
had money all OF New York knew
where he was. You bet It did 1t need
ed him in its business. II he had nc
money. nobody except perhaps the po
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-02-05
NEW YORK BEFORE IT WAS DE.
MAGNETIZED

Beneath the big receiving float OF
the F. c. & A. Aerial line twinkled the
scattered night lights of New York
city-the new New York, the New
York of 1862. Capt Martin MacManus
master Alligator. retired. and the
young float superintendent pulled lux
uriously at their midnight cigars and
gazed down into the vast silence.
Hundreds Of tiny air craft. their
single white turret lights marking them
as private. streamed to and fro along
the passenger lanes. The traffic lanes
were empty, save for the inevitable
numbering newspaper carriers bearing
the hours papers to the express floats
at the lower and Of the island.
No hum of crowded humanity came
upward through the night TO the float
for the humanity that once had packed
Manhattan island now was scattered
over the new 200 mile Metropolitan
area. a feat that had been made pos
sibie by Durang's mastery Of the law
OF gravitation and the consequent de
velopment OF cheap, safe and swif,
aerial transportation.
And they tell me-" said the super
intendent musingly, that once upon 9
time that island was crowded so tight
ly that people were pushed OF the
piers"
Aye" said Captain MacManus. ''Ir
the days of my youth. the year OF 1911:
and thereabouts, such was the cage.
But why" persisted the younger
man. why did the people swarm 30 t.
that little island when there was the
whole open country all aroundf"
Because" said MAcManus. 1T wal
New York.
New York. my boy" continued tn.
veteran, New York was-New York
II you had lived in that time 20,
would have understood what tina
meant. Now that people have stoppet
initiating sheep and moths. It Is har'
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-02-05

liceman on night duty In the parks
knew that he existed. So long as
ones money lasted fellow was fol-
lowed by a procession usually headed
by prosperous looking young woman,
then. In order. a head waiter, a chauf-
feur. bartender and a crowd Of
friends After his money was gone
the procession consisted Of one past
The order of Friends was strong in New
York in that era: you couldn't get
away from them-if you looked like
you had the gelt But II you failed to
make a spectacular front: Good night!
Who ever saw you before?' You didn't
have to have any money. understand.
you only had to look like H. A typical
New Yorker who was good at the Job
could look like a millionaire and owe
for laundry at the same time You
have heard of New York art. Charley =?
Well that was It: New Workers were
all artists In that line
Two kinds OF people came to that
/ city In those days: people who wanted
TO make money and people who want
ed 10 spend It. II was the FIRST kind
that kept the place crowded like a
/ present day cut rate Greenland sum
mer excursion. but II was the second
crowd that paid for the lights The
lights were most Of them down there.
+ Charley, under that long passenger
lane you see below you. They called
. II Broadway. because II had nothing
10 do with the straight and narrow
path. Now We have lights guide US
around the heavens. but there was
nothing like that In old New York
, Then they had them to trim the spend.
ers by
I've heard Of that place they used
TO call Broadway" said the superin.
/ tendent Lillian Russell sings a song
about II at the Z & T Aerial theater '
u know, said the captain. "and she
was just as beautiful and youthful
then as she is now. She was one Of
the things that helped make Nex York
the hypnotic-magnet II was EEe1y
/ laundress In the country said 10 her
self al night: Lily Russell went to
/ New York. and look al her now. Why
cant I IN and do the uama1"
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-02-05

to explain. New York was a sort OF
hpynotic-magnet that mSsmerised all
the young people and lots OF the old
ones in this country and put into their
heads the delusion that they had TO
go to New York to live Can you i'm
agine such a thing. Charley? Thou
sands and millions OF people laboring
under the delusion that they had TO
live in one certain place TO be happy
and that place New York city,"
81 give it up" said the superintend-
ent. What was the matter with
them
They were afflicted with the New
York bug" replied MacManus. The
place had them hypnotized, as say. no
1t didn't make any difference who or
what or why they were. at some time
or other the bug was sure to str.A e
them. and they began TO look up time
tables to Manhattan island Milliners.
artists and anarchists. writer's or
waitresse>. they were all alike. II was
New York or bust with them all The
fact that the place already was packed
tighter than a dynamo made no differ.
ence Always room for one more
they said. There was. too. II they had
the price. but the room was apt TO be
at the end Of hall. and 6 by S In
size
Did that discourage them. you ask
II did not You see. after anybody had
lived in New York over two weeks in
those days they developed what was
known among our iorefathers as the
New York point OF view II vas a
strange thing. that point Of view II
made a man talk OF his little eubby
hole on the fifth floor OF tenement az
my apartments 1t made him put az
a front as near to a miIlionaire's as
he could initiate. and he'd live on pork
and beans In other words. the New
York point Of view was calculated to
make everybody and everything look
Ike money. and that was all any BODY
ever looked for there at that time.
"A young man would come from the
hinterland to New York and get job
and FOR the first few weeks he'd &c
alopU hts nav as q vot.n1 man Ehnuid
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-02-05

There was place calIad Cuney
island. too, wasn't there" said the Bu-
perintendent
Yes. Coney island was the most
crowded spot on the globe in summer
time. On Sunday 1t was packed
tighter than Manhattan island The
New Workers. idea Of a change of
scene was to get out OF one crowd into
a bigger one When he was jammed
in so tight that his lungs couldn't work
he was happy. The straight front cor
set was invented in New York at this
time for obvious reasons"
The people coming into New York
from the rest of the country must
have felt strangely out of place.
unused the superintendent.
They did" said the captain. IF
they came from the United States,
The visitor from Kalamazoo would Try
to get chummy with his neighbor In
the theater. 'KalamazooY the neigh
Dor would say. It's in Africa. isn't it?'
No, Michigan oh. yes. Michigan,
That's one of the western states.
what?' The best part OF II was that
the other fellow has just got in from
Muncie Ind. the day before, But
suppose you came from London-oh'
| deah chap. then sou were at home, re-
ally, New York always felt ashamed
| OF the fact that IL was located so near
to America. English styles used TO
come out there before they did In
London. When the president of the
United States paid the town visit
they sent a traffic policeman to the
depot to see that his taxi-cab didn't
break any speed laws. When any
member OF English royalty deigned TO
come over the mounted police were
swept away like chan by the surge
OF free-born New Workers rushing for
ward to get In the moving picture OF
Crowds Waiting Arrival OF Duke of
Con-Naught' II the royal machine
would hit a citizen the man would
die happy, Such was the patriotism
OF that great city at that time"
Didn't they ever go out and see the
rest OF the country" said the superin'
! tendent
only when they had to. The only
time they enjoyed themselves then
was when they stepped up and regis
tered from New York city. The rest OF
the time they were wishing they were
back In the crowd"
The superintendent stared musingly
down into the silent space below.
There must have been something
about the town. after all. to make such
a strong attraction" said he.
There was" said Captain Mac
Manus. About Ave million people"
Copyright. by w. q. chapmanD
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-02-05
VIII penounes Fake curs,.

AS a special feature Of the Tubercu-
losis day campaign. December I. the
National Association for the Study and
Prevention OF Tuberculosis will urge
clergymen in all parts OF the United
States TO denounce fake consumption
cures from their pulpits
Millions OF dollars are spent by
church members and others on value
less remedies OF this character &C
cording TO the associations records
Literature showing in detail the meth.
DDS Of fake cure vendors will be- sent
on request to any clergyTaen by the
National Association for the Study
and Prevention Of tuberculosis. l0s
Fast Twenty-second street. New York
city.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-02-05
Some Sport.

Isn't 1t your son, madam, who is the
adept in physical sports? A champion
swimmer. If l remember right"
Dear me, no! My son is not a swim
mer, swimming is commonplace.
Everybody can swim. There no glory
in that My son is interested in sports
of the air"
oh, an aviator?"
Not exactly. He fills the balloon for
the parachute jumper.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-02-05
Takec The kIno.

Now, children said the sehonS
teacher. "can any OF you tell mo -
a greater power than a kingy~
Yes. ma'am." cried a 1ttle Boz
eagerly.
Very well, YOU may tell the cIanss
replied the teacher.
AN ace" was the unexpected rspfy-
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-02-05
ProVid Dental.

A man was being shown over a
trout farm.
"Ah!" he said, thoughtfully. "Provi-
dence knew what IL was doing when
II made fishes voiceless."
How do you mean?" he was asked.
We'll. | understand that fishes lay
millions OF eggs every year. What If
they cackled.like hens over every egg
they ?"-Pittsburg Chronicle
Telegraph.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-02-05
Predicts Another Flood.

Segundo Sanchez. a native Of Pan
anna. Is prophesying another Noachian
food and the destruction OF humanity
by II. having apparently been un,
hinged by the magnitude of the opera
tions which joined the Atlantic and
the Pacific. lie has. il is reported.
produced such an impression by his
exbortations that his followers have
built an ark and are engaged in col
lecting animals. two by two" for