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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1915-01-16

Por $500 anticipates recibira usted
durante So semanas consecutivas el i'm
portante semanario LAS NOVEDA-
DES que Sc edita en- la ciudad de New
York, y en- ell cual colaboran escritores
de reconocida capacidad y mentalidad.
Dicha publication adquiere cada dia
mayor preponde1a1cia por la variedad
de asuntos que trata y por la amenidad
que saber darle sus redactores, princi-
palmente en- los asuntos relatives Es,
pafa Hispano-Am6rica, por cuyos in
tereses y por ell honor de la raza libra
brillantes campa1as IN magn1fcos edi-
toriales
Para informes sobre suscripci6n, etc.
dirigirse a CADIERNO HERMANCS.
San Juan, P. R.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1915-01-16
Aviso- i1nportante

Me permito recordar al p1blico ell ge-
neral la circular de este obispado, en-
que Sc advierte, que nadie puede reco-
lectar hmosna en- n0mbre de la iglesia
a no ser que presente una authorization
frmada por ell Cura de la Parroquia en-
que dichas limosnas Sc recolectan.-
Esta authorization debera llevar ade-
mas ell sello parroquial
Pbro. Carlos Ormaechea,
Secretario del Obispado.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1915-01-16
C'onato de incendio

Mientras jugaba con un pequeno apa-
ratio cinematografco ell nino Antonio
Fernandez, de nueve amos de edad, Sc le
inf1am6 ell aparato de la luz, originan
dose un conato de incendio que fue in
mediatamente sofocado, teniendo ell nino
la suerte de no sufrir quemadura algu-
ma.
No obstante, en- la parada tres y me-
dia, dOnde vive ell citado ni1o con sus
padres hubo la consiguiente alarma.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1915-01-16
Un choque

En- la calle A. Calimano esquina
Pales, de -Guayama, Ell autom6vil No.
321 propiedad de don Manuel Gonzalez.
de Salinas, y guiado por ell chauffeur
Evangelista Vega, choc6 con una calesa
que guiaba la senora Geronimo Leon de
Diaz, resultando este 1ltimo vehiculo
con desperfectos.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1915-01-16
AVISO

Aunque Ell Lcdo Huyke Sc ha trasla-
dado San Juan con motive de la session
Legislative, no por ESQ Sc alterara la
marcha de SUI bufete. Los asuntos a el
encomendados seguiran su curse sin min
guna interruption vendra a Humacao
cuantas veces sea necesario
La ofcina cuenta desde hoy con el en-
tendido protocolista de San Juan senor
Martin Gustavo, quien tiene mas de 20
amos de practica en- materias judiciales.
Humacao II de Enero 1915
Para un almuerzo suculento eco
.6mico, La CAFETERIA, famosa por su
cafe.
San Justo No. 6. San Juan, P. r.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1915-01-16
va tiene para |rascarse

Facundo Reyes (a) Johnson, ell suje-
to que penetr6, rompiendo la puerta,
en- ell domicilio de nuestro companero
Perez Losada, Sc declare culpable del
delito cometido, imponiendosele, por la
Corte, un ano de preside con trabaios
forzados.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1915-01-16
Casa de Espana
en- Puerto Rico
SECCION DE SAN JUAN.
Convocatoria a Junta General
ordinaria.

Por acuerdo de la Junta Directiva
tornado en- de los corrientes Sc con-
voca a los socios de esta Secci6n Jun
ia general ordinaria que habra de cele
brarse ell d1a 81 de este mes a las dos
de su tarde en- los salones del Casino
Espanol de esta ciudad.
Para tomar parte en- dicha Junta Sc
requiere indispensablemente estar al
corriente en- ell pago de La quota social.
San Juan, 8 de enero de 1915.
A. Sarmiento,
Presidente.
Advt
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1915-01-16
ADMINISTRATION.

Las solicitudes para los referidos
examenes tienen que hacerse en- los mo-
delos prescritos. Sc llama la especial
atenci6n de los interesados acerca de la
necesidad de ejecutar, en- debida for
ma tan pronto como sea possible las So
licitudes, y de que, bajo ning1n con-
cepto, Sc admitiran solicitudes despues
del d1a 13 de febrero.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1915-01-16
Esa bombilla...o

Hace algunos d1as dimos cuenta de
que la bombilla del final de la calle Ce
IRA no daba luz Y fu6 cambiada. Pc
70 resulta que la nueva tambien Sc ha
fundido, y los que trafcan por aquella
calle tienen que hacerlo oscuras. mo
podr1a arreglarse este?
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1915-01-16

Con la Cocoa "LEON DE ORC" SO
prepara la bebida mas saludable como
cida; es un alimento perfecto, de facil
digestion. Recomendada por los seno-
res medicos como t6nico excelente para
ell sistema neryioso.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1915-01-16
Jimenez MADEIRA & Benitez

1ngenieros y Arquitectos.
Consultores y Constructors.
Edificio Finlay.
Telefono 235-Apartado 881.
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-12-15
The First Christmas Tree.

4"The Christmas tree was introduced
Into England and thence into America
by the Germans. said u dealer in toys.
q am going TO sell Christmas trees this
year. and recently ] have been trying
co lind ont who the man was who first
exploited the tree outside of it's Ger
man motherland. l want to use this in
formation i'm an advertisement, but
have not completed my researches
yet l have got as far back as the
tire Of Henry VIII. / have copied in
INV notebook an account of Christmas
tree that was trimmed and set up be-
fore that king" The dealer then read
aloud the following paragraph. point
ting ont, rs lie proceeded. the quaint
ness and charm of the old spelling:
"Agaynste the MI daye. or the daye
CT the Epiphanie, ut nighte before the
Danket in the Hall of RichemOnde. was
= psCeaunt devised like a mOuntayne
Eg1isteringe 10y night. as tho it had bene
an Of golde and set with stones; on the
top of which mountayne was tree Of
gOide, the branches and bOwes frysed
WifE golde. SpredynSe on every side
over the mOuntayne with roses and
.somegarnettes. The wiche mountayne
was with vices (screws) brought up
towards me kynge; and out of the
same came ladye apparelled in cloth
0f golde, and the chyldren of honor
called the henchmen. which were fresh
disguised. and danced a mOrice before
The Kynge; and shat done, re-entered
she mOuntayne; and then it was draw
IN backe, the wRssRu or banket
brought in, and IS brake up Chris
MS"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-12-15

from this immemorial belief that we
must trace the present day faith in the
virtues of the bayberry candle.
The bay is a species of laurel, and as
poets and victors were crowned with
the laurel or the bay, wishing them long
life and happiness, SO is the same wish
conveyed in the bestowal of a candle
made of the waXen berries borne by
the sacred tree.
Bayberry dips are also made as well
as the nodded candles. These dips are
smaller and less even in shape and
show us how candles We're made by re-
pearedly dipping the wicks in the melt
ed wax of the bayberries and drying
each layer till the dip was of proper
Size That was before molds were in
troduced, early in the eighteenth cen
fury.
To accompany a bayberry candle one
should send in the little box in which
1t is daintily wrapped a card on which
is printed. in red and green lettering,
the legend:
ON CHRISTMAS EVE.
A bayberry candle burnt to the socket
Brings luck to the house,
Food to the larder
And gold to the pocket.
When these cards are not to be found
the luck rhine may be written on the
back of ones visiting card and wrap
ped with Il candle, but in that case it
must not be forgotten that the in
closure of writing necessitates extra
postage
Their color. soft olive green, blends
beautifully with other Christmas
decorations, and they burn with a
steady flame, emitting Il delightfully."-
pungent fragrance, and they are con-
sumed evenly all around without MAX
ing unsightly cutters or ridges of wax
down the sides as ordinary candles do.
From New England comes the tradi-
ton that if lovers separated by dis
lance each lights a bayberry candle in
honor of the other at the same hour
the aroma or incense arising from the
burning wick will drift III the direc-
ton of the absent one; hence the
candles make a strong appeal to young
people of romantic temperament.
A candle must be presented TO you,
not bought by yourself, in order TO in
sure good luck, and you must not light
your own; that must be done for you
by some other person. not necessarily
the donor
Christmas eve is the time for burn
ing, either at dinner or later, and to
follow out the old idea of the laurels
and the bays to the victor a candle
should surely be bestowed on the rela-
tive or friend who has recently
achieved some success or won a dis
tinctiOn.--Philadelph Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-12-15

greater extent than during
the past few holiday seasons. The rea-
son for this is that the people who re-
ceived them the past year or two-and
who did nOt?-thought that they really
did seem to bring them good fortune;
hence this increasingly rapid growth of
the candles popularity as substitute
for the conventional Christmas card
or as constituting in itself an UMPIRE
tentious little gift symbolizing every
good wish.
But, while q great many people hath
send and receive bayberry candles as
gifts, there are but few who know
whence they come or why the luck SUI
perstition is inseparable from them.
The candles, or dips" as they were
first called, are the product of a re-
vived industry started few years ago
in the old Massachusetts towns of Deer
field and bingham and in the kitchens
of the Cape Cod people, all of them
using the old pewter or tin molds that
have descended in the families from
colonial times. Old southern villages
have not az yet realized the opportuni-
ty offered its women in this revived in
dustry, although the bayberry candles
were made by the early settlers in all
the coast colonies where the berries
grew, never being found inland.
As to the origin of the good luck
idea, we seek it in vain among colonial
chronicles as applied to the candle
itself. Yet from times far earlier the
bay tree and the laurel were consider
ed sacred to good fortune, and it is
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-12-15

The best protest against the
abbreviatiOn Xmas is the
suggestion that it should be
changed to ''$maS." Or, to
most children, the day is
":mas" and mas" and to the
grownups it is "&c&0mas."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-12-15

/ VERY year the little green bay
berry candles are sent as luck
4 bringing gifts to an even
greater extent than during
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-10
HAS MANY FRIENDS HERE.
Los Angeles Acting Mayor Former
 Resident of Pine Bluff.

There will be many in Pine Bluff | interested in the announcement that Mrs. Estelle Lawton Linsey is the l first woman to serve as mayor Of a city the size of Los Angeles, as Mrs. Lindsey resided here previous to her marriage. and it was in this city that she began the career that has carried l her to fame.
 Col. John NJ. Oracle recently for warded from Los Angeles, where he was visiting, a copy of the Los An. les Examiner, in which appeared the following: | "Mrs. Estelle I.awton Lindsey, city councilwoman. yesterday invoked the muse against the critics of her pro- posed ''tin-tag" ordinance, and also in unrhymed but equally forceful sen fences answered what the detractors have to say. Here are her prose re- marks:
 "Mr. Betkousk has said that men and women have always lived togeth- CT legally and illegally, and always will Of course they have. l do not contend that the 'tin-tag' ordnance ] will end that state of affairs.
 "What the ordinance is aimed al especially is exorbitant rents. There is now vicious sort of piracy, ol which saloonkeepers and many who keep immoral houses are the victims | we are trying to bring out into the omen the man who surreptltlously | robs the most unfortunate person III the world, the woman of the streets, and poses very often as person ol high honor in the community.
 Several of these men already nave reduced their rents, which indicates that the agitation has had good effect. Whether the ordinance passes or not the public has been educated
 "There are 400 buildings in the city which are loosely run. do not cue this fact to show that Los Angeles IS worse than other cities. On the con trary. it is one of the cieanest clties of it's size in the country. Pnt this l showing of unde sirable coalitions proves the value of the 'tin-tag or dinance. IL,
 "The law would be ablow at the atrocious piracy in rentais lion
 which rich landlords are profitlng.
 "It is impossible to have the ordl' nance apply to residences. The prop lem there will take care of itself; the x decent element will soon discover 1 the objectionable place in their com munity and get rid of it. 1 But in the downtown district II l is different There it continues tt flourish, with huge profits flowing in to the coffers of landlords. The ordi. nance is necessary because it WI!
 strike vitally at a system which i' ! terrible menace-the bleeding O
 unfortunates by men who remair anonymous and respected"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-10
WEALTHY WIDOW DIES 0F FRIGHT;
 HOME IS. L007ED
Masked Men Obtain $10,000 Worth of Jewels from
 New York Mansion.

New York, Sept. 9-Owney Tallas, Finny for two and a half months a hall-boy in the home of Mrs. Eliza beth Nichols. the aged widow who met death at the hands of masked at $10,000 was arrested today after he had confessed, the police assert, to having played part in the crime. He was charged with murder. All other servants were cleared of suspicion.
 A preliminary examination of Mrs. Nichols body revea led the probabl- ity that she had died of fright and not of strangulation as at first Sup posed. Although the burglars strip ped their victims fingers and ears or diam onds and other jewels worth s1O.OOO they failed to rifle the strong box of her safe. in which she kept gems valued at from $250,000 to $3OO,- 900. The key which Mrs. Nichols car ried on a string around her neck IS missing.
 ,Mith Mrs. Nichols lying dead on the floor of her room, the hallboy, appar- ently unconscious from a blow on the head from the butt of revolver, ana the maid bound and gagged in the servants quarters, the masked rop- bers footed the premises and escaped undetected.
 Mrs. Nichol was the widow of James Edwin Nichols, founder of the wholesale grocery. firm of Austin. Nichols & company. She was reputed to be worth about s2.000,0Oo, and it was known that much of this was ln- vested in gems, which she kept in the house.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-10
ZEPPELIN RAID 0N LONDON RESULTS
 IN DEATH 0F 20
Eighty six Others Wound ed, and Great Property
 Damage Inflicted.

London. Sept. 9-We dnesday nights Zeppelin raid on London resulted in the death of 20 persons and the in jury of S6 others, according to official announcement made here tonight.
 This makes total of B persons killed and 129 injured in the raids Of two successive nights.
 The most alarming feature of this latest visit of the Zeppelins, however was that they invaded the heart of the city-the western part-wherein are located Trafalgar square, St. James palace. Westminster abbey, the parlia- ment buildings, the Charing Cross railroad station, the fashionable dis trict, and, on the edge, the great fac tories and warehouses.
 Berlin Gives News.
 This fact is not contained in the meagre accounts of the raid issued by the official press bureau, and, as heretofore, the newspapers are al lowed to publish only such informa- ton as is given out. The informa- ton, however. is given in the follow ing German statement received here tonight:
 ''Our naval airships attacked dur ing the nights of Sept. 8 and 3 the western part of the city of London, the great factories near Norwich, and the harbor works and iron works at Middlesboro. There were. heavy ex- plosions and numerous fires were ob- served. Our airships were heavily fired at by hostile batteries, but all re- turned safely"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-10
WILLING TO RANSOM
 FIVE WRECK VICTIMS
Anonymous Letter Writer Who Tells of Marowijne Survivors Invited
 tA PrAduce Proof.

tO ITOuUCc IVOls
 New Orleans, Sept. 9.-The United Fruit cempany,sin an advertisement in the "personal" column. of local newspaper today, offered to pay the ransom demanded by an anonymous letter writer for Captain McLaren, two members of the crew and two passengers of the lost liner Marowij- ne. who the writer claimed, were hold fnrisoners on an island in the Gulf of Mexico.
 The advertisement was signed py c. H. Ellis, vice president of the com pany, who said it was called forth by the recept of a second anonymous letter from the person who wrote the company August 23 that five men from the Marowijne were held TOT ransom and that the ships papers and the captains watch had been sent to the company's New York offices as proof. IL.
 we have received none Of the proofs you refer to at our New YorK office" the advertisement read. I'll YOU have any proofs present them i; we are willing to pay the ransom de- manded."
 MT. Ellis said he placed no faith in the anonymous writer's claims but he wished if possible to clear ul the matter.
 Recent search of the Gulf islands hv naval and United Fruit company's vessels revealed no trace of any Mor- owiine survivors.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-10
AUSTRIANS TAKE DUBN0, STRONGLY
 FORTIFIED CITY Landwehr Occupy Second of Triangle of Fortresees
 of Slavs.
 GERMAN ATTACK ON
 FRENCH LINE HALTS < Crown Prince nesiStS After Making Gain and Capturing Many Prison CTS and Gun>-Frrnch Credit ir- tiilcry with Stopping Drive.

London, Sept. 9.-Tho fortified city of DubnO, northeast of Icmbor2. in the Russian province of Dolhyna, has been occupied by Austrian land Wehl troops, according to an official report from Vienna tonight.
 Dubno, with l.outsk and Rovno formed a triangle of fortrcsscs which served the Russians as a base for their invasion of Galicia It is the second of the triangle of fortresscs to fall into the hands of the Austro- Germans, Loutsk having been occu- pied several we ks ago.
 The capture of Dubno opens the way for an advance in force on Roy no. the strongest of the three fort resses which guard the Vilna-Eem- berg railway. The fall of Rovno will expose the flank of the Russians operating further south, nccessitatina a nasty asst retreat in order to' the
 While von IIindenberg is st k helt stationary along the Dvina. Ger mans claim progress for other rmes of his group operating south of th' Niemen in the region of Skicdl. Thi! town is east of GrodnO .and on the apex of triangle, of which I4ida ant Baranovitch form the base The Germans are endeavoring to reacl the railroad at both of these points in order to settle the question of win ter communications. &
 Berlin Denies Russian Claim.
 While Prince Leopold is advancing east of Wolkowsk and Mackenzen re ports further progress through th' marshes toward Tinsk, the Teuton are being met With sevsre resistanc, in their advance on Tarnopol
 It was m these operations tha early today the Russian war offic' claimed an extended success, il which the Germans were reported tt have lost 5000 prisoners and 30 guns
 The German war office, however makes flat denial of the Russian claims, stating that the Russian statement is a Fabrication" and tha mo German soldiers retreated on step and no cannon ard no machin guns have fallen into the hands 0 the Russians. '-.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-10
GROWN PRINCE HALTS.
Attempt to Smash French Line
 Ceases Suddenly.

AtVNHpl tO cHASH FFeucn LIHe
 Ceases Suddenly.
 London, Sept. 9.-What appeared to be the final desperate effort of the German crown prince to smash the French line in the Argonne has come to sudden halt
 After penetrating the allies front, according to Berlin reports, to the depth of about quarter of a mile on front of a mile and quarter, capturing. more than HOO prisoners, 3S of whom were officers, the Ger mans ceased their attacks today as suddenly as they were begun. The German report details captures of AS machine guns and more than 60 mine throwers. Paris asserts that the French lines were maintained except to the east of Layon-de- Dinarville. where the Germans captured part of a trench.
 Unofficial reports from French sources credit the artillery with stopping the German drive, the French gunners inflicting such heavy losses on the storming columns that the attackers were forced to desist after their first furious assault.
 |. The German onslought, however, has had it's effect all along the line, and the artillery actions, which have | been of violent character during the past 15 days, during today were doubly intense: .3aE
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-10
MRS. SHELBY WARD MEETS DEATH IN
 AUTO ACCIDENT Popular Little Rock Matron Crushed to Death and
 Husband Hurt. TIRE BURSTS; CAR OVER BEREAVEMENT Mr.. and Mrs. Ward Were Driving on Little Rock Country Club Road About n. m. Yesterday, When ..., Mishap Occurs. '' tf"'

Little Rock. sept. 6.-'Mrs. Ruth Young Ward aged 24 wife of sibley l.. Ward and daughter of the late Capt. w. N. Young, was killed short ly after 1 o'clock this morning while returning with her husband in an au- tomobile from! the Little Rock coun- try club.
 The auto, in which she and her hus- band were driving, toppled over the steep embankment of hill between the city and the country club and she was killed instantly. MT. Ward also sustained serious injuries but was re- ported to be out of danger this even- ing. bursting tire is said to have caused the accident
 '"'' Mrs. Ward at Wheel.
 Mrs. Ward was at the wheel at the lime of the accident. When the auto mobile turned over. she was thrown out and caught under the rim of the rear wheel and crushed to death. MT Ward was knocked unconscious, and lay fer nearly an hour before he was able to go to the country club for as- sistance in lifting the automobile from Mrs Wards body, which was hurried to the residence of pr. C. P. Weriwether, who pronounced it life- less. / 4 Following an evening spent at the Majestic theatre. MT. and Mrs. Ward met Clarence Rose and together they went to Errett Hamiltcn's confection- cry at Third and Main streets. where lthey spent more than half hour, MT. Rose left them and went home, anl Mrs Ward suggested a drive along the river road before returning home. Returning from their drive, they | went through the country club grounds and down the steep and mar | row road which leads to the foot of ! the hill. Suddenly there. was loud explosion, caused by the bursting of a tire on rear wheel. The machine swlsrved and befare MT. Ward realiz- ed what had happened the car turned over the embanktnent. MT ward be- 1 lieves the machine turned over two I or three times before it finally struck his wife and pinned her, to the ground.
 Husband all, Hour Unconscious.
 He was knocked unconscious, and when he recovered found himself lying near the wrecked car. Gropins aroHnd, in the darkness he found the Ehody Of his wife, held under the Tim off the rear wheel. Unable to move
 the ear. or to determine whether she was dead or alive, MT. Ward hurried back up the hill to the county club fwhere he reused servants, wht helped him lift the. car and release his wife's body.
 Mir. Ward blames himself for let
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-10
PROTESTS INNOCENCE,
 BUT PLEADS GUILTY
"' T. smith Accepts Six.Year Sen tence for Amity Bank
 Rnhhnrv

E Arkadelphia, Sept. 9.-W. T. Smith N eorinne, Okla., who was one of e ;s ropbers connected With the loot ma ms or the Amity bank on August "A on was sentenced to six years impris- ohment today.
 ,ns smith pleaded guilty when impor- to,u tuned to do so by the prosecuting at nn;y' ,~aney' who recommended that the pssoner siI be given the short sentence hoonth alllth said he was pleading guilty aa., .sause he is 300 miles from home n's smss. friends. and realized that he had noni roniclent evidence to prove his in. inS, vu nee Smith is 62 years of age report. '-'e' ~ ''tNs i'fn