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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-02-04
Curious Cure.

In one of the back counties of Texas
is a negro doctor who enjoys an extern
sive practice among the colored popu-
lation.
A white physician accosted him on
the road one day. saying:
We'll. Doctor Sam. where have you
been?"
Been to see Bill Johnsing, sab. He
was wrastlin' wild Moses Jones and
busted blood vessel"
Indeed. that's serious. What did
you prescribe"
ooh, ! fixed him all right. sab. wild
alum and gum arabic. Alum vas to
draw de parts togedder and de gum
to stick EN-" It may be interesting
to add that Bill Johnsing completely
recovered.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-02-04
OUR NATIONAL DISEASE
Caused by Coffee.

Physicians know that drugs will not
correct the evils caused by coffee and
that the only remedy is to stop drink
Ing 1t.
An Arkansas doctor says:
Il was coffee drinker for many
years and often thought that ! could
not do without it. but after years Of
suffering with our national malady,
dyspepsia. attributed It to the drink
ing OF coffee. and after some thought.
determined to use Postum for my
morning drink.
Il had the Postum made carefully
according to directions on the pkg. and
found 1t just suited my taste.
5 AT irstI used it only for breakfast.
but I found myself getting SO much
better. that had 1t at all meals, and I
am pleased to say that have been re
lieved of indigestion. gained 10
pounds in 4 months and my general
health is greatly improved.
II must tell you of a young lady in
Illinois. She had been In Ill health for
many years, the vital forces low, with
but little pain. wrote her Of the good
that Postum did me and advised her tc
try It.
"At the end of the year, she wrote
me that she had gained 40 pounds in
weight and felt like herself again"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Well
ville." in pkgs.
Postum comes in two forms
Regular Postum-must be well boiled
15c and 25c packages.
instant Postum-is soluble powder
A teaspoonful dissolves quickly In
cup of hot water and, with cream and
sugar. makes delicious beverage In.
stantly. soc and soc tins.
The cost per cup Of both kinds 10
about the same
There's Reason" for Postum.
sold by iGrocerA
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-02-04
Proverb Didn't Apply.

Mrs. Brown was in the kitchen help
ing Nora, the cook, prepare supper
Its an old saying" she remarked
to Nora. that too many cooks spoil
the BROTH What do you think?"
Sure, num-" she replied, there's
nothing to worry about. There's only
one cook here."-Nationa Monthly.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-02-04

In wreck due to the breaking of
the cable hauling cars at the Altoona
Coal company's mine near Gallitzin.
Pa. two men were killed and two in.
jured.
Mrs. Lorena Wheeler Beresford-
Snyder, formerly musical composer
and singer of Chicago. was murdered
in the Baptist sanitarium at Houston,
Tex, by her second husband, Ward
M. Snyder, a millionaire formerly Of
Pittsburgh. Snyder took poison and
is dying.
The New York board of education
voted to reinstate Mrs. Bridget Peixot-
! to, a teacher who was dismissed after
she absented herself from her duties
to become mother
With only one of its members oppos-
ing, the committee in charge of the
woman suffrage bill in the Texas legis-
lature favorably reported that meas
! ure to the house.
Mother Jones. friend of the min
ers. after an interview with John ID.
Rockefeller, Jr., in the Offices of the
Standard Oil company in New York,
declared Rockefeller has always been
misunderstood and that he promised
to help the miners. Rockefeller end
ed his testimony before the federal
commission.
Tin plate manufacturers from all
parts of the country are holding a
conference at Pittsburgh, Pa, to dis
cuss with representatives of their en-
ployees proposed changes in the wage
scale.
Woman suffrage passed the West
Virginia legislature at Charleston.
The vote in the senate was 2S to 1,
and in the house 80 to 6. The meas
ure will be voted upon by the people
at the next election.
A boy robbed the Guarantee State
bank of Houston, Tex, Of $4,000. He
was killed before going half dozen
blocks.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-02-04

France asserts 10000 Germans were
killed, wounded or missing during
three days fighting against allies;
kaiser directed several attacks that
We're ,repulsed. Berlin says French
were defeated at Craonne with heavy
losses. ESfh a c94
& y aAg i9hW ai& 200 20
Antiwar riots spread In Austria
Hungary; mobs in several towns and
cities meet troops in sanguinary
clashes.
A dispatch received from Berlin
says British aeroplanes dropped
bombs on Dortmund. Considerable
damage was done and great panic
was caused. Twenty-one public build
ings were damaged
An agreement was signed In Lon
don for the loan of 95,000,000 (s25,-
000,000) to Roumania Will use the
money for the purchase of war mate
rails.
Reporting the Germans lett l,uUV
dead in fighting west Of Craonne,
French war Office claims successes for
allies all along battle line except at
one spot, where landslide impris-
oned two companies of French. Ger
mans made them prisoners. Allies
announce German lost $500 men at
Ypres. $3.50
The capture of nearly a mile OF
French works in the Craonne region
and French support southeast of St.
Mihiel is announced in an official Ber-
lin report. Saxon troops captured S65
wounded Frenchmen.
Turk menace to Suez canal: Ho-
deida incident and occupation Of Az
Iona bring Italy on verge of joining
allies in war; Turkish advance force
defeated by British Suez canal.
Austrians after three days fighting
take Uzsok pass in the Carpathians
by storm, routing Rassiane; cars
forces begin new drive in East Prus-
STA.
Aeroplane raids and bomb-dropping
expeditions. the Carranza agency an
nounced at Washington, are to be
conducted against Mexico City. Gen.
eral Hills army has joined General
Obregon for the march on the capital.
Austro-German forces have occu-
pied Kielce, Russian Poland. Kielce
is the capital of the Russian province
of that name.
The British battle cruiser Lion was
struck below the water line and had to
be towed to port by the cruiser In
domitable, one British destroyer was
struck and towed to port, one officer
and 10 men were killed, and three off,
GERS and 26 men wounded in the Hell
goland naval battle in the North sea,
according to additional reports given
out by the official press bureau at
London.
The German cruiser Gazelle was
torpedoed by q submarines in the Bal
tic, according to information received
at Malmoe, Sweden The iGazelle
was able to return to the port Of
Sassnitz rs
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-02-04
Mexican Revolt

Carranza's army entered the City
of Mexico. The forces of General
Zapata retreated without fighting.
Provisional President Cara o; Mex
leo and his government left the cap
ital for Cuernavaca, where new seat
of government will be established.
The army of occupation, the Carranza
force, fingers on the outskirts of the
city, but is expected to enter soon.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-02-04
Weeks Break Up-A-CoId Tablets

A guaranteed remedy .or Colds and
La Grippe. Price Csc of your druggist.
IT'S good Take nothing else.--Adv.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-02-04

President Wilson signed at Wash
ington the bill creating Rocky Noun
tain National Park in Colorado. and
the emergency deficiency bill. carry
ing $5.000.000.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-02-04
Personal

Maj. George ID. Sherman, veteran of
the Civil war, was made defendant in
a $4,000 breach of promise suit filed
at Geneva by Mrs. Loretta Mantanye.
a widow, of Elgin, Ill.
News that the crown prince has
been seriously i'll with influenza for
ten days was made public at Berlin.
DR.. James Henry Parker. former
president of the New York Cotton ex-
change, died after an operation on his
knee. His widow is president of the
United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Mrs. Helen Kelly Thomas, formerly
the wife of Frank Gould, inherited
100000 estate of her second hus-
band. Ralph Hill Thomas. when his
will was filed at Mineola. L. |. Y
John d. Rockefeller, Jr., told the
United States committee on Industrial
relations at New York that his father
contributed s200.0O0.000 to philan-
thropy.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-02-04

President Wilson at Washington
sent congratulatory cablegram to
Emperor william of Germany on his
fifty-sixth birthday.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-02-04
Foreign

Queen Mary of England has just is
sued invitations to luncheon in
buckingham palace in London. Lady
Ethel Beatty, daughter of the late
Marshall Field of Chicago and wife of
Admiral David Beatty. whose dashing
check to the German raid in the
North sea it is desired to celebrate,
will be the guest of honor.
General Noriel, insurgent leader.
and two aids convicted of the murder
Of political enemy in 1912. were
hanged at Manila, P. !.
I'VE must maintain under the colors
our entire army, for at any moment
incidents are possible which may rem
der 1t necessary for us to make an ap-
peal to arms" said p. w. A. Van der
Linden. premier of the Netherlands
to the Dutch parliament.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-02-04
Washington

At the request of Doctor Dumba,
Austro-Hungarian ambassador at
Washington, Secretary Bryan directed
American Ambassador Marye in Pc
trograd to renew his requests to the
Russian foreign Office to send relief to
their imprisoned soldiers and other
nationals in Siberia.
A summary OF increases in ocean
freight rates show total of $311 1884,
600 yearly extra toll on American ex-
porters should the present rates con.
tinue.
President Wilson vetoed the immi.
grafton bill at Washington and sent
with the veto message to congress
explaining his reason therefor. Clos
ure OF the open door" and the use of
the literacy test and other restrictions
were given as causes for his action.
Secretary Bryan issued at WaS ing
ton a warning that Americans who 60
to Mexico do SO at their own risk.
He said that no provision had been
made for continuing to transport
American citizens from Mexico at
this governments expense. ~
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-02-04

Percy B. Sullivan, convicted In the
federal court OF using the mails to de-
fraud, was sentenced to two years
and six months in Fort Leavenworth
penitentiary. at Springfield. Ill Sui
livan was head OF fire insurance
company.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-02-04

President Wilson nominated at
Washington Robert Emmett jeffrey of
Newport Ark. to be minister to
Uruguay.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-02-04

william Travers Jerome was re-
moved from his position of special
deputy attorney general Of the state
Of New York by Attorney General
Woodbury., and at once ceased his
fight to have Thaw sent back to Mat.
teawan.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-02-04
Domestic

Edward NJ. Breitung of New York,
owner of the steamship Dacia, which
the British government has announced
1t would seize II it sailed from Calves.
ton, as contemplated, with cargo OF
cotton, is negotiating with the Ward
line for the purchase of the steamer
Seguranca.
Marquette Chicago train on the NIL
waukee road went down an embank.
ment near Iron Mountain, Wis. Three
cars were wrecked, but no one was
killed or seriously injured.
The stockyards at Buffalo, N. Y.
Pittsburgh, Pa, and Richmond, Va,
were closed by orders from Washing
ton to permit them to be disinfected.
The will of the late Eugene thinner.
man, millionaire railroad magnate,
fled at Cincinnati. o.. makes no pro.
vision for the duke of Manchester,
husband of Helena Zimmerman. The
estate, valued at six to ten millions,
was left to the duchess of Manchester.
Three hundred fishermen were in
danger of being carried down the
Niagara river on an ice foe. Fire tugs
rescued all.
Seven cotton mills at Fall River,
Mass have been placed on full time.
= Rca8 &ssi sifs
John Young, former auditor OF the
Farmers Deposit National bank OF
Pittsburgh. died In the western peni.
tentiary at Pittsburgh. Pa. Of tuber'
culosis. Young was convicted OF steal.
ing s1.o50.0o0 from the institution In
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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-02-04
Long and Short Haul Bill.

Long and Short Haul BIZ.
The "long and short haul bill was
introduced in the house by Brady OF
Dallas. II would give the railroad
commissions the right to allow rail-
roads with competing lines between
points within Iowa to compete in
rates. At present the railroads must
fix their rates strictly on the mile
age basis. while in interstate com.
merce they are allowed to compete
upon rates sctween points which more
than one railroad makes connections
between.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-02-04

Four-Year Governorship Term.
A four year single term for the
governor OF the state OF Iowa was
proposed in the house In joint reso-
luton introduced by Taylor of Blu
chanan. h+t tf
The resolution provided that an
amendment to the constitution should
be submitted to- the people for their
approval. which would fix the gov
ernor's termIat four years instead OF
two as the constitution now provides,
and would make him ineligible to
election forl a second term.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-02-04
Amend Road Law.

NmeHo Hoau Law,
A movement has been started
among some of the senators for the
repeal OF that section OF the road
law which requires boards OF super
visors to pass resolutions Of neces-
sity for the building Of bridges and
culverts costing more than 5000. 9th
ers would modify the law to the ex.
tent OF making the passage of resolu-
lions Of necessity compulsory only
when the. bridge or culvert tsIrnore
than $1,000. ~ 81 ~
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-02-04

Three hundred fishermen were in
danger of being carried down the
Niagara river on an ice foe. Fire tugs
rescued all.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-02-04

Would Repeal Weed Law. aa a
Repeal advocated In the senate.
This measure was adopted by the leg
islature prior to the enactment Of the
new road law and requires townships
to see to it that the weeds along all
highways are cut at certain periods
of the year. 1t is proposed that the
supervisors be required to cut the
weeds along the county system of
highways. leaving only the township
system for the township trustees.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-02-04

A boy robbed the Guarantee State
bank of Houston, Tex. of $4,000. He
was killed before going half dozen
blocks.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-02-04
NEWS NOTES OF
GENERAL INTEREST
KERNELS cuLLED FROM THE
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS.
STORIES FROM OVER GLOBE
iterns From happenings Of World
8 Arranged In Their Briefest and
Most succlnet Form forithe
saa& f0sssl9 Busy Re ader. Siie f4ra
E.iropeEarl Var Mems J.

France asserts 10000 Germans Mere
killed, wounded or missing during
three days lighting against allies;
kaiser directed several attacks that
We're repulsed. Berlin says French
were defeated at Craonneswith heavy
losses. Esfa ta Gu
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-02-04

Seven cotton mills at Fall River,
Mass have been placed on full time.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-02-04

Antiwar riots spread In Austria.
Hungary; mobs in several towns and
cities meet troops in sanguinary
clashes.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-02-04

Favors Election Change.
Miller moved in the house to re-
turn to election of county superin-
tendents by vote OF the people in
stead OF by school board representa-
tives. Taylor fled bill In the house
to make registration necessary in
cities OF more than 5000 population
instead OF more than 1000, Senator
Wilson wanted the primary changed
from June to the third Monday in
August. r
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-02-04

A dispatch received from Berlin
says British aeroplanes dropped
bombs on Dortmund. Considerable
damage was done and great panic
was caused. Twenty-one public build
ings were damaged.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-02-04

Turk menace to Suez canal: Ho-
deida incident and occupation Of Az
Iona bring Italy on verge of joining
allies in war; Turkish advance force
defeated by British Suez canal.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-12-21
LUMPKIN LADY is
HUNDRED YEARS OLD
Mrs. Louise Singer, Who Has Lived
a Century, Celebrates Birthday.
Healthy and Enjoys Life.

LUMPKIN. Ga.-Mrs. Louise Sing
er. of Lumpkin. will on January T.
.1916. claim the unusual and distinct
privilege of celebrating her lOOth
birthday. Born in Germany in 1916
she came to America at the age Of
nine. where she was a resident Of
Baltimore. Md, until 1886, coming
from that place to Georgia, where
she has since been a loved and useful
citizen. rearing a family of eleven
children, six of whom are Messrs. j.
G. and f. S. Singer. Mrs. A. l.. Raj
eigh, Misses Carrie and Alice Singer
of Lumpkin, and Mrs. J. NJ. McNab
of Eufaula, Ala. All are well known
citizens of this section.
She remembers a time when the
country had no railroads, and wit
messed the running of the first rail-
road locomotive, which was operated
between Baltimore and Washington,
d. C.
Healthy bright and cOntented she
enjoys life with the rest of us. Mirac-
ulOus would seem the progress that
has come to pass in her time-the
unthought of accomplishments that
she has lived to witness.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-12-21
THE WALDORF EXPELS
ALL CHAIR WARMERS
ONE CLAIMED TO BE A BARON
DETECTIVES CANVASS PEACOCK
ALLEY AND SQUATTERs AND
CROOKS ARE VAMOOSED.

Famous Hotel Gets Infested With
undetermined and Nimble-Fin-
gered Gentry, and Ii Becomes Nee
essary to Thin Them Out.
NEW YORK.-They held their ear
w winter house cleaning at the Wal
dorf-Astoria yesterday, and a partlc-
ularly good time was held by House
Detective Joe Smith. Twice year,
in the late spring and early winter,
it becomes necessary for George Z.
Boldt to remind undesirables that the
Waldorf does not provide nice big
leather chairs exclusively for the
comfort of persons with designs upon
the cash of respectable beings; that
Peacock alley is decidedly more than
clearing house for bunco artists,
and that while the Waldorf is always
hospitable it insists upon the prlvl-
lege of choosing it's company. For
the Waldorf by reason of its very
fame suffers, as all famous hotels
suffer, from the presence of those IN
search of a gilded opportunity
John Smith was trained in Scotland
Yard where diplomatic astuteness is
regarded as a necessary adjunct OF
the business of detecting. Mr.. smith
can be as guileful as serpent, put
he can kick with the heautlful pre-
cision and violence characterlZln9
Young Mr.. Otis Guernsey OF New Ha-
ven, Conn. :,
The combination Of these useful
Qualities rid the Waldorf yesterday
of about twenty very we'll dressed
affable persons who never go to
looking glass when they want to see
an honest man. Assisted by his Sc
cret service staff, which Mr.. Boldt
maintains at an expense of S25, 900
year for the protection of patrons,
Detective Joe beat the covers and
shikarried into the open this numer-
GUS company of fleecers and bilkerS
and plain. unadOrned grafters.
All Done Without Racket.
II was ali accomplished smoothly
and quietly, with no scandal or up
roar. Perhaps some Of the patrons
of the hotel observed Smith about
the middle of the afternoon gently
ease down the corridor that leads to
the mems cafe and bar Baron Helm
rich Schmidt Cat least that is what
the individual calls himself) and pro-
pei the baron through the revolving
door giving upon Aston court. Per-
hans some lookerson heard the bar
on's high indignation drown the NUT
ter and hum of tax traffic, for the
baron threatened Mr. Smithe with the
ven geancp of the Kaiser and promis-
cd narSOnallv to command the firing |
squad that would some day back Mr.. |
Smith up against the ell. /
The baron was, in fact, typical Of
the crew that was elected. In past
years the loafers that stretched tnelr
legs in the corridors of the Waldorf
practiced the old buncO games when
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-12-21

ever they managed to scrape an ac-
quaintance with rich and inJudiclous
persons-the sick engineer game, the
Spanish prisoner game, the wireless
wire tapping game, and so on.
But in the last year, and growing
out of the war abroad, an even more
dangerous species of bunco has APP
peared. More than half of the men
who were compelled to leave the Wal
dorf yesterday have pretended to be
war brokers anxious to make big
deals with manufacturers stopping at
the hotel. Several of them displayed
papers purporting to be credentials
from England or France or Russia,
documents that were obviously forg-
ed Their method was to make use
full mountaineering lead up to the
topic of how quickly large fortunes
were to be made in these days, If one
were on the inside of things, and then
offer to swing a big contract for war
supplies or munitions.
Every One Well Dressed.
Others of the eVicted ones were
| just cheap grafters, loating about IN
! the hope that some one would buy
them a drink or a meal or lend them
i$5 or that Mercury, god of thieves,
would send them a victim ripe for
picking. Some of them had been
lhonoring the hotel and Mr.. Boldt by
a generous use of the Waldorf's sta
tionery, going to the point even of
stuffing their coat pockets with letter
paper when they finished monopo-
lizing writing tables and chairs.
Still others We're of the type of ras-
cal perfectly we'll known to the mouse
| detective - transatlantic CROOKS
Undetermined and nimble-fingered,
whose trade has been ruined by the
war and the consequent interruption
of steamer traffic And all Of them
were we'll dressed.
The method of election was enter
tanning. Smith, for example, went
into action in the long corridor that
leads from the office desk to the
/ mems cafe. Observing two persons
whose absence was earnestly desired
/ nv the management Smith planted
himself squarely in front OF them ana
remarked to an assistant just Iouu
enough for the two to hear:
Bill, you and I are going to the
bar. If we find certain pair OF
crooks sitting here when we come
back l will bet you shilling that
can kick one of them harder than
you, Bill, can kick the other. How
about it?"
You are on, Mr.. Smith, said Bill
instantly.
And when they returned from the
bar and passed the empty chairs they
grinned at each other with perfect
satisfaction.
In other instances Smith or his as
sistants merely bent over the sus-
pected ones and said positively ana
coldly:
The Waldorf-Astoria can get
along without you. 1t intends to get
along without you. Go! Git! scoot;
/ don't like your face and I will
never learn to like it, One! Two!
Three, All right"