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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-10-07

Another railroad is proposed for
South Dakota in the South Dakota &
Western company, which has head.
quarters st Yankton and is capital
lied y million dollars, for the
construction of line from Mitchell
to Platte and then northwesterly TO a
poilt neaf Brule, in Brule county.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-10-07

Reports that the Turks are killing
Armenian Christians are regarded by
Germany as products of imagina-
tion. It is strange that any imagina-
tion should deem it necessary to go
out of its way to invent horrors dur
ing the present war.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-10-07

Panama canal slides take place
with . frequency that may compel
e rev sion of estimates of the cost of
upkeep.
Kaneas City has been selected as
the place for holding the 1915 en-
campnlent of the Grand Army of the
Republic.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-10-07

Th- farmer who has a silo this fall
viii! not be borrowing money at the
bank with which to buy feed to WIN
ter his stock.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-01-28
WAR STORIES
IMAGINARY Blu T
OFTEN BACKED UF

tAssociated Press Correspondence
London. Jan 5.-There' are certain
stock war stories which persist IN
cropping up under new guises -
regular intervals, and which find Wild
credence among some classes Of peo-
pie who believe everything that is
printed to the discredit Of England s
enemies.
One of these stories is about a Ger
man governess in whose trunks
bombs were discovered wrapped In
cotton. Never has such a case been
reported to the police, yet the story
hobs up time and again. Punch has
suggested that it would be interesting
to gather her various employers
around the same table.
Another is the postage stamp yarn.
In this the writer, British subject
detained in Germany. writes rosy
letter to a friend in England, tells
how happy he is in the camp and
calls his friends attention to the
curious postage stamp affixed to the
letter.
The friend soaks off the stamp and
finds written in a minute hand un-
derneath, Don't believe a word OF
what l have written-it is all lies
The latest version of this yarn comes
all the way from Nova Scotia.
The story of the Belgian joker pre-
tending to betray grave military Sc
cret to the German commander at
Brussels, who thereupon placed 4
permanent guard at the aquarium,
has been banded back and forth be-
tween the British and French papers
for two or three months. The Bel
sian's story was that the pixies in the
aquarium had been trained to carry
MESA ges down the river to Antwerp.
Only the other day a London after
noon daily paper printed the story as
translated from a provincial French
contemporary.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-01-28

Oliver P. Merryman, 81 years old
died Monday at his home in Orono.,
He was one Of the first to manufao-
ture sash and blinds on the riveN1
having a factory in Bangor. Later hel
had saw mill in Kingman. Two
sons and daughter-survixr,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-01-28
OLD and new WORLD
MEETAT SALISBURY
PLAINS, ENGLAND
Weather Anything but Beauti-
full and the $4,000 Canadian
Troops Welcome Rumor that
They May Be Sent to South
ern France-Sone of the Dis
comforts of Salisbury

ASSOCIATED Press Correspondence
t Salisbury. England, Jan. 5-The old
world and the new world met when
the War Office assigned troops from
Western Canada to the great man
oeuvre grounds on Salisbury Plain,
one of the most historic places in
England. Huts of corrugated iron
and wood alternate with tents and
give the various soldier colonies the
helter-skelter appearance of Goldfield
in its boom days.
To add to the primitive appearance
Of the camps suddenly hurled into the
midst Of a country which was the
scene of rural peace and quiet, the
War Office is constructing a railway
through the center Of Salisbury Plain
to supply the big army encamped
there.
Graders and steelmen are camped
along the right -ofway. Horse tents
and commissary shacks line the cuts
whose banks are slipping and sliding
Under the effects of driving rains
which hinder the work nearly every
day.
diaries for the twelve weeks they
have been on Salisbury Plain report
they have recorded only four sun
shiny days. The weather offices at
many south coast towns not far from
Salisbury report rainfall of, nearly
seven inches for last month. the rec
ord for twenty-five years. While the
main roads through Salisbury Plain
are macadamized, the heavy traffic
incidental to the care of more than
two hundred thousand troopers en-
camped there at various times since
the opening Of the war. has worn
holes in the roads and torrential rains
have covered them with liquid mud
many inches thick.
The fields in which the tents and
huts are located are so soft that
troopers sink to their ankles. Sup
ply wagons are hopelessly mired even
in highest portions of the camps and
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-01-28

upon by the Pure Food Town OF
Westfeld as adulterants. Some OF
them are harmless to be sure, but
nearly all Of them are unnecessary,
and some are actually dangerous,
containing chemicals prohibited IN
der the terms OF The Westfield
Standard.
Inscriptions manufacturers still
persist in using harmful chemicals
in their products, and very often
omit a statement Of their presence
on the label. The housewives real
protection therefore, lies largely in
familiarizing herself with the name
and maker of products which stand
for purity. quality and food value.
Not every one realizes what val
liable possession to the public the
trade mark really is. 1t must rep
resent a value to the public before
1t is worth a dollar to its owner.
A trade mark must render an i'm
portant service to the consumer in
aiding him in his choice before it
represents cash value to the man
ufacturer. Most foods are worth
the price you pay for them. but
some are not. Anything that helps
you to distinguish between them.
that enables the consumer TO tell
the foods that are good and fit to
eat from those that are not, IS OF
value to you. The very fact that a
certain Trade mark suggests pleas
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-01-28
CHANCES His Plea to Guilty.

George Atwood, who was alleged to
have obtained $40 from the Westbrook
Trust Co. on worthless check, sud-
denly Withdrew his plea of not guilty
and pleaded guilty Tuesday in the Su-
perior court at Portland.
Grain Shipments from Portland.
The steamship 1rishman arrived Tues
day at Portland and will take a. full.
cargo, mostly grain. 1t is expected that
ut least 1850, 900 bushels of grain, large
ly wheat. will be shipped from Portland
during the week.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-01-28
The Westfield Pure Food PAGE
Reef each Thursday Food Standards wsehe Pure Food Town
How a Trade Mark Helps You to
Identify "Westfield Pure" Foods.

antly familiar associations Is very
often-but not always-presumptive
evidence that 1t is q product OF
quality and worth.
The maker Of adulterated prod
ucts does not generally care to in
vite the Nme-lght to himself or to
the low grade goods he makes. 1t is
the man with the product that he
has reason to feel proud Of, that is
made right and sold honestly. who
welcomes the lime-light Of public
ity. The fraud prefers the dark
as a rule. As between brands
which you recognize and those that
are unfamiliar to you, the chances
are always in favor Of the former.
Unknown merchandise may be good
known merchandise is likely to be
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-01-28

good. In this connection nothing
has been OF greater advantage to
the food buyer than The Westfield
system Of analysing food products
and listing them by trade mark
names in The Westfeld Book of
Pure Foods.
This draws q line plain and clear
between those trade marks which
indicate a product known to be
good, and those which indicate q
product Of unknown quality. 1t is
a positive and simple solution Of
the food problem. Not even by in
ference, does the Westheld Book
condemn any product. 1t is the net
result Of over twelve years Of hard
work in the chemical laboratories of
the Pure Food Town, classified under
1T different headings-the result
of'over $4,000 food analyses. There
are pure foods that are not named in
The Westfeld Book but there are no
products named in the Westfeld Book
that are not pure. 1t is not rogues'
gallery Of food products-it Is roll
of honor that contains no name Of
product or maker that Is undeserv-
ing of public trust
Buy foods by trade marks and ask
your grocer for only such products
as meet the e1acting standards of
Westfield, Massachusetts,. the Pure
Food Town.
ITO be continued
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-01-28

opment of the new troops has been
hindered so seriously. that the Cana
dams gladly welcome reports of &
probable movement to the south OF
France. where sunshine and dry
camps are promised.
The thirty five thousand Canadians
are scattered about the great plain
into a circle probably six miles IN
diameter. While Salisbury is the
chief railway center, the Canadian
camps begin at Amesbury. six miles
north from Salisbury. and extend to
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-01-28

it is necessary to shift the roads con-
stantly.
Much of the canvas has rotted and
water trickles through upon the SOL
diers who protect their blankets with
rubber ground sheets. Only a small
proportion of the Canadians are now
under canvas. however, and shacks
are being constructed for these as fast
as material can be hauled to the vari-
Gus camps.
Drill grounds are moved every few
days and it is almost impossible to
find any place where the artillery and
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-01-28
More exactins than Government F

Foods shall not contain added
ALUM, COPPER, FORMALDEHYDE.
SULFURCCS ACID or its Salts, Dor
&c ACID or its Salts, REEZOIC ACID
or its Salts. FORMIC ACID or its
Salts, HYDROFLUORIC ACID or its
Salts, SALICYLIC ACID or its Salts,
nor any other non-condimental pre-
servative
Foods shall not be colored with
COAL TAR DYES. nor with poisonous
VEGETABLE COLORS. nor be con-
taminated with inert filters, nor shall
any substance be taken therefrom or
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-01-28

added thereto so as to injuriously az
feet their quality. strength or purity.
Foods shall be packed and sold un-
der sanitary conditions and package
goods shall bear no DISHONEST
LABEL nor labels bearing any EX-
TRAVAGANT or OBSCURE state.
ments."
For protection to yourself and your
family. see that you buy only foods
and beverages that are certified under
1.-The Westfield Standard"
You will then be buying only prod
ucts Of high food value-wholesone
and pure.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-01-28

Bastard Camp, at least twelve mics
from, salisbury. General Sam Hughes
troops from Calgary and Edmonton
are encamped near Stonehenge'
prehistoric ruin supposed 10 GATE
back to the bronze age.
Part of the huts used by the Cana
dams are canvas on wooden frames
This type is being abandoned, how
ever. as rapidly as possible in favor
of corrugated iron huts placed on
permanent brick pillars which rise
several feet above the ground.
The spirit of good fellowship be-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-01-28

TEARN to read the labels careful
l. ~ for this is one Of the all
important points OF successful
marketing. The label is the one
safeguard the housewife has to pro-,
tect her against frauds and subsh-
tutes.
Not all labels are truthful. Far
from it. But by careful study OF
the small print on food containers
cans, bottles and the like-the
housewife may learn to discriminate
between the foods that are pure and
wholesome and those that are not.
The present Government food laws
require the manufacturer to state
upon the label the presence Of GER
tain chemicals which are looked
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-01-28

tween the officers and the men In tho
Canadian contingent is the source of
surprise to officers of the English
regular army. At times they are in1
clined to charge the Canadians with
lack Of discipline.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-05-18
GIVES LIFE FOR RECORDS.
Lothrop wilmington, GenenioEisf
nu~ nj Iusttauia Victims.

The Lusitania took with it to watery
grave Lothrop Wilmington. famous se-
neaIocist who has made more than thirty
trips across the Atlantic in tracing the
ancestors of aristocratic families in this
country. 1t is the belief of his brother.
David wilmington. of Honolulu, that IT
was his desire to save certain ancestral
records which he was taking to Europe
that caused him to be left on the ILL
fated ship.
Although born at Newburyport. Mass.
Mr. Wilmington spent much of his early
life in this CITY, working in the Govern
ment Printing Office. While here he be-
came interested in genealogy and soon
deserted Uncle Sans print shop to be
come a tracer of ancestors. He received
an elementary education at Drummer
Academy. but on his trips to Europe
studied extensively at the University OF
Paris and a number of English univer-
stiles. Mr.. Wilmington was 80 years old.
a week before the Lusitania sailed Mr..
wilmington. I'm tracing the ancestors OF
a certain family. photographed the town
records of Newbury. Mass. to be used
as evidence. 1t is probable that some OF
these valuable papers caused him to re-
turn to his stateroom when the crash
came on the Lusitania, and that he
reached the deck too late to be lowered
with the boats.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-05-18

with absolute prodigality for "thc general better
ment of the people,; and if the truth must be stat
ed this idea has prevailed with greater or less ex-
tent in the country at large.
Socialism, in its most extreme form, could
hardly have suggested more expensive undertake
ings than were inaugurated in New York Now
the people of the State and city have become alive
to the fact that all this be paid for and they
are filling the heavens with their cries of alarm
and disgust over the situation that they them
selves have created. AS rank outsiders and not
concerned with the matter in any way we are
bound to observe that the people OF the city, as
distinguished from the State, chiefly to blame
for what has happened. In the last twenty years
most OF the bond issues which have been the cause
of New Yorks present difficulty have been carried
by the votes OF New York City, while the country
districts OF the State have been generally opposed
to them. The OF the great barge canal
through the State is a specific instance in point
When this project talked OF only one news
paper in New York City opposed it. The other
papers all madly in favor despite plain proof
that it would represent a public work of fairly
enormous cost and of the most doubtful expedi-
ency. At the popular election at which the mat
ter decided the upstate districts voted against
the bond issue by majority OF $4,000. In the
city of New York the majority in favor Of the
plan was 100000. The people of the city did not
give the matter any grave consideration whatever.
The great body of laboring voted for it be-
cause at would make work. Other people so
far they had any reason for voting for it at
all said that 1T would make business No one
really estimated the real cost. Now there are tears
because of it and the newspapers Of the city arc
all abusing other people than the real authors of
the difficulty who in large measure the news
papers themselves
We wonder il New Works experience will be
considered worth anything to the Congress OF our
country when it meets in December next These
social service" programs of later days cost an
enormous sum Of money. Everybody is glad for
anything that makes for the general bcttcrmcnt
of the community, but the community must realize
that there is no fund anywhere out of which the
expenditure for these programs be taken
ccpt the pockets OF the community itself. With
a working balance in the Treasury reduced to low
figures, it there is any working balance at ALL will
the Willingness of members OF Congress to make
for all OF expenditures and un-
necessary enterprises be abatcdo Perhaps il may
be abated if in the meantime great national short
term note issue OF emergency nature has to be
ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury in order
to meet national financial sxgency.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-05-18

1t seems TO have occurred to few to compare
the present situation with that OF 1907, says the
New York Times. The clements OF the present
situation have greater capacity for harm in the
proportion OF confagration to an ordinary fire,
This is world crisis SO far dwarfng the relatively
petty domestic incidents OF 1907 that if the results
were similar ruin would be nearly universal And
1t by evil chance the world war had broken out
under the conditions OF 1907 the events of that
aforementioned year would have challenged the
imagination of the boldest to depict. Imagine the
result il now every bank in the country were hold
ing fast its reserves and reaching out for more
Imagine that every city was writing please re-
nit letters and refusing to remit itself Imagine
that domestic exchange, in 1907, were now in
the condition of suspended animation of foreign
exchange. That is what might have been
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-05-18
n5zh<

public works made possible. the financial
aspects Of the constructive work. put
within the power of the State comptroller
very great responsibilities and equally
great opportunities. | suppose there is
no doubt that the canal patronage was
used to further party advantage. but it
was at a time when public opinion toll
Grated such use of patronage. On the
other hand. there was not one OF these
Comptrollers who personally profited to
the extent of a penny. The comptrollers
revealed very great ability. They demon
strated that. while exceedingly adroit
Politicians. they were nevertheless men
OF the highest personal integrity. an~
that is the reason why so many of the
State comptrollers who reached distin-
guished Objective of them the Presi-
dency. others the United States Senate,
and the post of Secretary OF State. and
three of them governor of New York
were able to gain public favor and powc.
sufficient to secure these honors."
Copyright. 1915. by Z. ]. Edwards All rights re-
prvedl
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-05-18
HISTORY BUILDERS.
A Stepping Stone to High Position.
Written EXIr": 5,y for The Washington Herald
By DR.. r. }. EDWARDS.

There came at one time to me an OPP
| portunity to gain information which
had been for some years anxious to Sc
cure which would explain why the of
| fice Of comptroller of New York State
was in the early part of the past century
\ so influential and why il was held by
so many men who afterward gained dis
| tinguished public recognition as to be
called stepping stone to high political
honors of the nation.
l was chatting with the late Charles
{. Clarke. who was for some years as
sistant treasurer of New York State
and in that service was brought in con-
tact. in the early fifties. with the lead
ing public men and many of the in
duential business men of the time. /
asked him what the explanation of the
prominence and influence which were
associated in the early years of the past
century with the office of State comp
troller
That is a question a good many per-
sons have asked me-" said Mr.. Clarke. -
At the present time. especially among
the younger generation. few know that
many of the distinguished citizens of New
York practically began their public
career as comptroller of the State 1t
was as such that Martin Van Buren, per-
formed his first important public service.
It was as comptroller of the State that
William l.. Marcy first gained national
recognition. Few pople nowadays know
that Willard Fillmore went from the
office of comptroller OF New York to the
Vice Presidency. And ii was by reason
of his brilliant service as comptroller
that Lucius Robinson gained such favor
as made II possible to elect him. as the
successor of Samuel J. Tilden, governor
of New York.
The reason is n very simple one. In
the early years OF the last century. New
York State. inspired by the leadership
of DE Witt c. Clinton undertook to con-
meet Lake Erie with the navigable waters
of the Hudson River and also Lake
Champlain with the Hudson by means
OF a canal These public works were
undertaken before George Stephenson
had demonstrated the commercial prac-
ticability OF the steam locomotive.
1T was made clear to business men
not only of New York. but the nation
that IL artificial waterways were CO.,
structed which connected the Great
Lakes with the Hudson and the. st. Law
renee by way OF Lake Chaplain with
the Hudson, then the State of New
York. and especially the city. would re-
ceivc impulses which would establish
the pre-eminence of both State and city.
Now the construction of these canals
the enormous patronage which these
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-05-18

An unfortunate situation has arisen with re-
gard to granting contracts to American manu-
facturcrs owing to the failure OF even the big
houses to deliver goods upon sample. Several i'm
portant American contracts have been cancelled
Two cases in point were the delivery OF monthly
consignment of $4,000 pairs Of boots below sample
tho soldiers tore the footwear into strips-and
100000 pairs o. socks delivered and found to be
OF 80 per cent wool and 20 per cent cotton while
the contract called for the OF the twenty
h'o OF the largest American houses with which
the French government is doing business only one
has record OF never falling below sample The
worst deliveries those OF boots stocks and
underwear. The deliveries OF cloth arc much bet
ter