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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-06-08
BY j. w. T. MASON,
, ~ rttteu for th., I nIted prcesl.

NEW YORK, June S.-The return
TO Rome OF Counsellor Hindenoerg
Price Won Buelow's collaboration in
the Italian negotiations. suggests
that after authorizing semi-ofiicial
announcements In Berlin Of a state
Of war between Italy and Germany
the German government has not as
vet officially sent declaration OF
hostii'ies To Italy. Between an
nouncing the fact OF war through
the newspapers and the actual dis
patch OF the formal notice 10 Rome
IT seems as IL the German govern.
ment changed its mind. and decided
for the present, at least. 10 remain
technically at peace with Italy.
This confused result OF second
thought is coupled With the appar
emily supplementary fact that Italy
sud Turkey are formally al peace,
too. Austro-Hungary seems to be
ltaly's only Official enemy. Diplo
matte relations between Germany
and italy have been severed. hut
this is not an act OF war In itself
incidentally, however, q precedent
Is thus established for recalling an
ambassador in protest against a
foreign country's actions without a
state OF war necessarily following
Whether even diplomatic inter.
couise between Italy and Turkey
has been broken IL not accurately
known The Italian ambassador "a
Turkey Is reported TO have left Con
stantinople. but the Turkish embas
sador TO Italy IL said to be still at
Rome. The Turks undoubtedly are
acting under German advice. and an
effort which Is being made at Con
stantinople 20 create an impression
OF Indifference toward Italy must
be due TO German influences. Many
indications point In fact 20 deliber
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-06-08

tendency on the pare Of health Off
GERS TO utilize the public and TO
work along recognized psychologist
lines Probably every boy OF from
- 10 10 desires above all things to
be a policeman and TO wear badge.
II he canont fight crooks, the next
best thing is fighting flies. II the
enthusiasm engendered by severa!
generations OF old Cap. Collier
dime novels can be utilized in fight
ing flies. or, better still. in fghting
the filthy conditions under which
flies breed, the public health propa'
ganda will have gained a valuable
ally"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-06-08
SERBS IN
ALBANIA
Invade and Occupy
Towns In NeighbOr
Country

ROME. June SERBIAN troops
have invaded central Albania. ocCu
pyIug several towns in the lower
UDra region.
-Four Serbian battalions occupied
the region OF Hissi and Suma.
Around the lower Dibra the Serbs
entered the villages of StereNa and
Golobardo without opposition.
The Serbians, it Is believed here,
are cooperating with Italian troops
landed in Albania before the Aus
tro Italian war ana are moving 10
eject "a junction with the Italian
force. Occupation OF the Albanian
towns was also measure OF retail
iation for an Albanian raid into Ser
bian territory several months ago.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-06-08
Gets 90 DAYS For Assault.

Gus Romaski recently from Utica
y Y, and OF late sojourning In the
McGregor institute. was sent TO the
House OF Correction for 80 days. by
Justice Carney, Monday, In default
~ n 800 fine for assaultlng Ray
Reese. a l9-year.old youth, as he
was passing the institute. Reese
said the assault vas entirely unpro
voked. He said that Romaski walk ID
up and hit In the Jaw. then struck
him again. knocking him down;
then trampled on his face with
heavy soled shoes
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-06-08
The Scottish Kilt.

The Scottish kilt as an article of
dress, dates back 10 historic times.
and wa originally. as far as can be
figured out, merely plaid blanket.
worn about the shoulders with one
end gathered about the loins in cold
weather. The mountaineers of the
Palkans wear the kilt, and students
say that the soldiers OF the Asyrian
kings wore a costume very closely
akin 10 the kilt of Scotland.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-06-08
Tao DAY coun, 4, Now $4,000.

so far as the count has progress.
al. the Blue Star tag day boxes
have yielded $4,000 In round NUN
bers for the continuation Of the
fight against tuberculosis for anoth-
or year The boxes are still coming
N and IL may be Wednesday or
later before the count Is completed.
Several OF the boxes have yielded
$40 bills and many $40 and IS bills.
One box. and the one that holds the
record thus far. contained ss7.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-06-08
Water Bound to Be-
come Polluted, Health
Officer Believes
DANGER WORSE AS
DETROIT GROWS
Settlements Are Being
Made Above the
Present Intake

1T IS true that We have not beer
able 20 trac" typhoid fever 10 the
Detroit water supply ON tn con
trary, many indications point "a
other sources O! the disease bat
we have no guarantee for the IN
lure, so long as Sg take 40 further
precautions iHsn "a" so, taking
said Dr William II PriDs. health
officer OF Detroit Monday, discuss
ing Supt. Lessons statement thai
Detroit's water Is safe.
Il have said. and .ay again. that
che man who located nctroirs in
taka at its preseu, place showed
genius He found tile very spot
where, according 20 Tho government
surveys. the water is most free from
reproducing germs"
pr Price displayed "A government,
report which showed a nnding OF
only % colon bacilli per 100 cubi,
centimeters az the intake, while a
few rods toward shore tho count
was as high as 9t2. and short dis
lance up-riyer IL was "a. II Is IA,
colon bacillus which causes typhoid
fever
Our own reports show. con
tinucd Dr Price. that typhoid
deaths are more frequent In sum
mer than they are AT any other time
OF the year This indicates that tho
typhoid comes not from our river
which is more stirred mp in sprinr
than in summer. but that Il is picked
up outside the city, by people on
vacations. who bring the dis aas,
back with them from drinking i'm
pure water in other places
But a rapid change Is taking
place in river conditions, a change
that believe is likely 10 ondanEei
our water supply. Many large man
utacturing plants have been eStab
lished above the intake There H.
a large settlement along Fox creek
which drains into the river above
the intake Recently an island ha.
been constructed below Windmill
Point, and great deal OF earth has
been dumped into the river Al
these facts have made changes IN
the currents and In the character oil
the water ! don't know that they
have had any bad effect. so far. buj
what | do say is that va have no
longer the assurance OF good water
that we had before the population
OF Detroit began moving up.river
las long IA Detroit was n small
city. tho Orleansst. intake provided
good water. but when the city's
growth extended east of that point
the water became dangerous W,
are now going through Just such
another period OF growth, which. II
seems To me, cannot help havinG
some effect on the water which
comes TO the present intake. Will,
our reports indicate that in the past
We have had nothing to fear from
our water. have not the same con
fdence IN the future don't want
10 scare anybody; don't want q
make predictions: ! merely say thai
n seems reasonable that with al
the growth up-river, the water sup
ply must he Affected TO some extent
sooner or later"
Or. Price believes that the only
safe solution Of the water problem
lies in filter plant.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-06-08
$20,00O,0O0 WH|SKEY
REVENUE SCANDAL LAID
BARE IN WASHINGTON
TAKES POISON
IN MISTAKE FOR
MEDICINE; DIES

III for long time, Mrs. Adoline
Nagel A. years old. wife OF Fred
NaSeI Wholesale produce dealer
on the western market. swallowed a
quantity Of poison in her home, 40
572 Warren-ave. west Saturday, and
died before a physician could save
her
Coroner Burgess. who investigated
the case, accepted the statement OF
relatives that the sick woman had
probably taken the deadly poison in
mistake for some medicine
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-06-08
RUNS DOWN BAB
FLEES; GIVEN
DAYS IN PRISQ

Ralph Schneider, OF No. 22s1
sell-st.. found guilty by Judse
molly. OF a charge OF driving On
on a motorcycle after injuring IA
three-year-old child. and falling u
stop and offer assistance, was ~
fenced 20 80 days in the House
Correction. In default OF 500 a.
Monday. ;
Judge Connolly declared that !
intended TO make examples OF a
florists who fed after iniuring 9TH
persons.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-06-08
THIEVES STEAL.
JEFFRIES' AUTO

That auto thieves are no respect.
ers OF persons was again demon
strated. Saturday night. when mem.
bers OF the clan stole Police Justice
Edward J. Jeffries' auto from in
front OF his home. No. 1904 West
Grand blvd
The machin. was found Sunday.
abandoned at Michigan and Camp
behaves.
The thieves had stolen tho horn,
and Justice Jeffries now drives with
ears straining for the note OF that
missing horn. which may yet cause
trouble for the Joy riders.
Tasmania imports practically all
its hosiery.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-06-08
BLIND TIGER HEAD
GETS BARRELFUL

BLOOMINGTON, Ill, June s.-A
Monroe county Jury dealt out poetic
Justice TO Tuck Pendergraft, tried
here on a blind tiger" charge on
a change of venue from Lawrence
county, and gave him barrel OF
DAYS" at the state penal farm At
Putnamville and a fine OF $50.
A barrel of days" according to
the verdict returned by the jury, is
the same number OF days that bar.
rel of beer contains bottles-144.
Pendegraft was charged with run
ming a blind tiger" at the halfway
house" between Bedford and
Mitchell.
Charles Goss. Of Sanders. enter I'd
a plea of guilty OF running a blind
tiger" at Sanders, seven miles south
OF here, and was sent TO the penal
farm for 80 days and fined $50.
James Strange, on an habitual
drunkard charge. was sent to the
penal farm for 60 days.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-06-08

Willlo-Paw, what Is militant
suffrasct?
Paw--A female whose mouth you
can't cpen when she IL IN jail and
cant close when she il out of jail.
my son.---Cincinnati Enquirer
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-06-08
Goa.

Three hundred tons. moro or less
anthracite. stove or egg. or smoke
less lump 90 be delivered ~ tho
Clara Bath House when required. and
choice OF coale 90 he optional with
the Commission.
The right lie specifically reserved 10
reject any or all bids.
THE RECREATION COMXss1oN.
Ira W. Jayne. Superintendent
A iS52.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-06-08

Telephone lines are to be extend
cd 70 Tromsoe, Norway. 200 miles
north .! the arctic circle.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-06-08

Sealed proposals Will be received at
the above office until as y. IN Wod-
nesdey, June l6. 1915, for furnishing
the following.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-06-08

The British salt industry centers
in Cheslfe and Gloucershire.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-06-08
Supreme Tribunal Sus-
tains Ruling of
Lower Court
DETROIT MUST
ALLOW USE
Compensation Allowed
City Is Slightly In
creased

LANSING, Mich, June s-(Spe-
cialJ Michigan supreme court
Monday affirmed the decision OF the
Wayne county circuit court in the
Highland Park sewer case. This
means that Detroit must continue
10 allow It's northern neighbor the
use OF the city sewers.
The court slightly increased the
amount Of compensation to be paid
by the village for the use OF the
drains. but In practically all other
respects upheld the lower court.
Highland PARK village petltioned
The C.ry over year ago tor permits
sion 20 connect with the newly con
ftructed Morrellst sewer, offering
10 pay the city 500. 900 in cash Tor
'hc connection which the village
agreed 10 make at its own expense.
The OFFER was refused by the city.
The state Board OF Health then or
dored the city 10 provide an outlet
for Highland Park sewage Refusal
was again made on the ground that
the aorrell and the Woodward-ave.
srWcr were both over.taXed, and
could not accommodate an additional
f0,v Of sewage. The village went
itto court and secured a favora BILE
decision from Judge Mandell The
city then took the fight 10 the SUI
prcme court Mayor Marx used his
influence. with avail. to have the al
dNrmeu grant the Highland Park pc
titiou.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-06-08
OFFICE OF THE DEPARTMENT
OF RECREATION or THE CITY
OF DETROIT.

Room SIS. Farwell Rldg
June 1913.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-07

mail for such thing. 1t further proved something
of even greater Importance. Nine out of ten in
quries were for summer cottages rather than for
boat house.
Mr.. Sovereign at once saw field far
vast than even he had imagined He drew designs
for dwelling house and some garages, and issued
a catalogue
That year he sold eight houses of various
kinds. In$he fall of 1908 he spent $50 advertising
in some local farm papers, and more business came
At the end of the second year his brother Otto
gave up good job and went to work with him at
SIS week. A stroke of genius supplied by the
partner was the name aladdin Houses"-you say
what you want, rub the magic lamp of advertising,
and your house springs into being.
On April S, 1902 the firm became national
advertisers, with half-nch each in Golfers, the
Associated Sunday Magazines and The Saturday
Evening Post. The campaign" cost $93; they
sent the money by post office order.
Again the advertising paid, and the following
spring larger and more frequent advertisements
were carried in several publications-the largest
amount being in The Saturday Evening Post.
The advertising had to be skilful, because it
had to break down the idea that this was just
another portable house. 1t was not a portable
house. 1t was complete house-ready to build,
and permanent once it was built. Frame, siding,
cIapboards flooring, inside and outside finish nails,
plaster, bricks hardware, paint, varnish-every-
thing supplied but the foundation.
The advertising also had to instil in the reader
confidence in the firm. People not going to
send the savings of a lifetime cash-in-advance
unless they were convinced that they would get
their moneys worth and square deal Every act
was carefully planned to inspire confidence. Ship
ments were made promptly Money refunded
without question if customer was dissatisfied.
All possible advice and information given to
the purchaser while the house was being erected.
The customer always right Plans for grading,
suggestions for landscape gardening suited to
various climates, were given free. Perhaps the most
striking feature has been the "doar-a-knct" guar
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-07
SELLING HOUSES BY MAIL
Hov Advertising Built Unique and Romantic Industry
from 5000 TO $It5OOOOO

This is the business romance of $1,5O0000
industry which nine years ago did not exist
1t was built out of an idea $500 capital and
the power of advertising. The idea was selling
house by mail. Not temporary or portable
shack but regular house such as you live ina
house that is home, which represents the pride
and happiness of a family for lifetime.
This company sells the most bulky mail order
article in existence, the largest most important,
most critically studied purchase made by the
average family.
And it does this without statesmen, without
retailers, without personal touch of any kind de-
pending absolutely upon confidence, upon faith in
printed advertisements, to persuade and
wife to go to the bank and draw out the savings of
lifetime and send them off to unknown firm in
distant city.
This industry had it's beginning in the winter
of 19o6o7 on top of square piano in little house
in Bay City, Michigan. It's first equipment
bread board and ruler. With these an imaginative
young mana dreamer, if you withdrew the plan
of boathouse.
He had an idea that it would be cheaper for
people who wanted to build to buy not merely the
lumber and materials, but lumber ready cut ac-
cordng to plans and other materials in proper
quantities. all marked and indexed like steel and
stone for sky-scraper teady to be shipped any
where and put together by local contractor
The young man-his name was w. T. Sover-
eign-hrst drew the plan for boat house. He took
it to mill, and to Dealers and found out how much
it would cost to cut the lumber, buy the hardware
and make shipment.
His brother Otto, also very young man, was
in the advertising business This brother helped
him prepare an advertisement which in the spring
of 1907 they inserted half page in Motor
Boat" magazine, at cost of few dollars.
1t talked about boat houses, but at the bottom
was this line, placed there on long chance, I'VE
also sell summer cottages"
The response to this advertisement soon
proved that people really wSuld send money by
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-07


Today that company's houses stand in every
part of the world from Saskatchewan to the Tahiti
Islands, in hot and cold climates There whole
communities built of Aladdin houses. AS many as
200 homes have been sold in three months to the
purchasers-large industrial concerns which
house their own employees. In the offices 120 girls
employed to handle the correspondence, which
has amounted to more than 100000 pieces of mail
in one month.
The company is adding other lines to its cata-
logue. You buy from the same source not
only the house. but the plumbing, the heating, the
furniture, the interior decoration The business is
growing tremendously. The lumber mills (sorne of
which it owns) working at top speed, producing
forty houses day, at prices ranging from $138 to
$4,000 EACH
But it has not been easy 1t has required cour-
age, faith and willingness to invest money and
wait for results.
More than half of the sales are to people
whose inquiries are a year or more old. People do
not buy houses in hurry.
Competition has developed-and has been met
with more advertising.
For one advertisement recently-a single in
sertion-the firm paid $4,000.
And apropos of the Advertising Mr. Otto
Sovereign says this:
"We have neUer used single adUertise-
nlent, of any size from a haF-inch up to a
two-page spread, that has not been profta-
bic for u.s."
Perhaps part of the answer to the whole
story is found in quotation from Kiplng that
hangs over the desk of one of the brothers-the
first two lines of which are these:
st didn't begin with askngs; took the Job and
I stuck
"And took the chances they wouldn't an now
they're calling it luck"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-12-13
MISS READYMADE, HERE'S WHAT YOU WILL
WEAR NEXT SPRING! COSTS S. MORE. TOO

CLEVELAND, Dec. 13.--Miss
Readymade, your $25 spring suit
is going to cost So more this
year!
And here's what you'll looh
like for $40:
Your jacket and skirt will be
short-so short you'll have trou-
BILE telling one from the other.
And your 7inch skirt is going
to flare at the bottom--so full in
fact that you'd better be careful
on breezy days.
Your sleeves, by the way will
bell out at the wrist-the design.
ers had to do something with the
material saved on jacket ant
skirt.
AND THE COLORS--
"Oi yoi," exclaimed the dele
gates at the convention of the
National Cloak, Suit and Skirt
Manufacturers association. Hard
ened style veterans they were, yet
it was a shock even to them.
Reseda green will predomi-
nate. 1t can't be helped. II
would subdue parrot.
High rose tints, delft blues
tango tans and black and white
zebra stripes will be some of the
other staples"
They are all colors that
nobody had the nerve to
wear IN former years. But
they're all the imported dyes
that are left I'm the country
so garment makers have
to use them now.
American dye merchants are
making the other kind. and
they're all right-unless you gel
caught in the rain.
At the annual convention the
Manufacturers delegates pass
Judgment on several hundred sug-
gestions for spring suits.
Hundreds of relatives Of Pot
ash and Perlmuter sit down in
long rows OF chairs. The Or
chestra strikes up lively tune
and q troup Of living, breathing
models come mincing out wearing
the suits your wife and mine will
be wanting soon.
Hardly word Is spoken
as they parade past the rows
of men--just one perfect
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-12-13
AGAINST DEFENSES

SEATTLE Dec 13-Announeeme that petitions
cuiated asking military
u s. yesterday
many of Seattles leading
Among those signing
are Dr. Mark Matthews First
Frank McDermo merchant; Robert Bridges
attic port commission T. Lppey capitalist; j. Col
man capitalist George F. Coerl former Seattle Ebert
r. Ban Sidney
gregatona church, Rev. j. D. o. Powers the Boyston
Avenue Unitarian Brown, pastor
Pilgrim Congregational
engineer Julius Shafer merchant Erskne
the Seattle ice par
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-12-13

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Dec, II.
The day Congressman G. :.
Dill from Washington state rises
up In congress and makes his
maiden speech it's going to cost
him 25 cents. No, more than
than 30 cents plus compound in
terest thereon for IA years.
The congressman, this sessions
youngest, has owed that quarter
ever since he was 16. His cder-
itor is Mrs. Fanny Berry Bell.
Mt. Gilead, o., and she has his
note to prove 1t. 1t reads:
Here's the Note.
"Fredericktown, o.,
| Mar. 10, 1901.
IS ,25.
For value reed l promise to
pay Fanny Berry Bell the sum
of twenty-five cents with com
pound interest at 6 per cent when
| shall have made my first speech
in the State Legislature or the
U. S. Congress or shall have won
my first fight in either.
&c. c. DILL.
That note may account for the
fact that Dill is a national law
maker at SO earl yam age. He
simply couldn't wait any longer
to get that debt off his mind.
The circumstances were these:
Dill lived on rented farm
near Fredericktown, o. Mrs.
Bell was the wife of the owner.
On one corner of the farm was
the Salem NJ. Il. church and one
day a box social was announced
for Saturday night at the church.
Mrs. Bell asked young Dill if he
were going. Nope, didn't have
the necessary quarter, he ex-
planned cheerfully.
How II Happened.
"I'll lend 1t to you,' she said.
Don't know when can pay
it back" he demurred.
Pay it back when you make
your first speech in congress-
she suggested.
Dill, being a terribly earnest
young man, had made no secret
of the fact that he was going TO
congress some day. The farm
lad accepted the money and drew
up the note.
He had a good time at the So
cial, untroubled by his new finan-
cial burden. Five or six years
later he fell into the camp of
Tom Johnson and became one of
his secretaries during his guber-
Material campaign. After the
campaign Johnson asked him
what he was going to do.
I'm going to congress" said
Dill.
"All right" said Johnson;
'you go out west and pick out
some good, growing town and
stay there till they send YOU"
Dill went to Spokane, Wash.
And here he is.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-12-13

grapes. 81 bskt; Malagas, $1.3s;
Concords. % q 2Tc psKt; Tokays,
$3.50: lemons. $3.5O@4; Grave
stein apples, 75c pox: cram
berries. 5000 barrel; ounces,
$1.25 box.
Vegetable - onions. Wnlls
Walla, 91.25: California, S1.65
cwt.; Oregon onions, t1.60Cl
1.65: head lettuce. 92.40 crate;
cNbbaxes. 5000 sk. Chilli pep
pers, e2.3b; rutabagas, c1.8S;
Cali tomatoes. >1.36 crate: ogq
plant. n box; beets, II; MERGED
ewoot potatoes, 80 ib.; Squash u
u. pumpkin, 1-4c; Hubbard
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-12-13

the suit herself, sinks back to the
dressing room as quickly as she
can.
A pretty suit" to the trade
means one that will sell at least
in 1000 lots. When such a one
appears, everybody seems to ar
rive at the same conclusion at the
same time. Pudgy hands reach
forward to feel the texture of the
goods as the model passes. In
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-12-13

the art of constructing modern
highways. IL is said that owing
to the boys large feet he demands
the same salary as would be paid
for steam roller.
A shoe factory has made him
a pair of No. 10 shoes, with thick
soles, and "Soda" is employed in
packing dirt and gravel. lie works
by merely walking.