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and private charity shelters, and n
canvass made Of the men. women, and
children who are forced into those
refugees in, winters. The committee
found that there were 26,3a3 persons
thus housed. and OF that number 1881
were In the Municipal Isodg ing House.
26S in the Staten island Farm Colony.
founded by the Department OF Char
tiles. and 62s I'm the Ellis Island i'm
migration station mot including inn
migrants).
This left almost $4,000 people IN
the lodging houses. most Of whom
said less than a quarter a night for
their shelter. part Of this army
drifted at night between the lodging
houses and the back rooms Of saloons,
mission halls and employment
agencies.
There was nothing suggested in the
report of the Committee on Unem-
ployment to help this class of New
Yorker. He was left to work out his
own salvation. The committee couldn't
find out how many Of these persons
had Jobs, but there was evidence of
great distress and want among them
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MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS.

Arrived-Delaware at Vera Cruz: Dcs
Momos at Gonaives: Wyomin. at
Guacanayabo Bay; Pontiac at New
port: Annapolis at Topolobampo
Raleigh at san BartolOme Bay; San
DicRo at Tampa: Glacier at San
Diego: IA at 'riburon: Montana ut
Guantanamo: Lebanon at Lambert
Point; Wheeling at st. Marc.
Sailod--Delawarc from Tampico for
Vera Cruz: Nashville from Guam
tanamO for Puerto Plata: Flusser
from TortuSas for Kew West: Nero
from Mare Island for Tiburon;
Montana from Port au Prince for
Guantanamo; Supply from Guam
for Manila Tennessee from Jaffa
for Alexandria: San Diego from San
Bartolomc Bay for San Diego
OLYMPIA from Charleston for New
Orleans; Montana from Guantanamo
for GuacanaYaho Bay; Prairie from
Tampa for Pensacola.
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Sharks Tooth Found
In California Well

SANTA ANA. Cal, Feb. 8.-From a
depth Of s52 feet well diggers employed
by Joseph Mefford drew up a sharks
tooth in an excellent state of preserva-
tion. The serrated edges Of the tooth
are as sharp az the day the ancient sea
animal met death. possibly beneath a
great landslide. Attached to the tooth
is a piece Of petrlfied bone.
The relic was found south of Santa
Ana. In vicinity where well borers
have frequently found shells and water
worn rocks at a depth OF from $50 to
675 feet A few months ago a piece Of
petrified bone. three inches in diameter
was brought up southwest of the well
In which the shark tooth was discov-
cred.
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!, ALEXANDRIA MASONS
i TO HOLD BIG RALLY
Plan Spring Reunion at Which
An Scottish Rite Degrees
: viii BE Conferred.

ALEXANDRIA. Va. Feb.> S-A l,ig
rallv Of the scottish Rite Masons will
be held next Friday night in the lodge
room Of Alexandria Washington L-odse,
and will be under the auspices of Wasll-
'nston Memorial Lodge of Perfection,
No. Z. a. A. S. r.
A number of important plans for n
opring reunion. at which time all the
Scottish Rite degrees will be conferred.
will be discussed The lodge will be
opened in full form by Venerable Master
A. A. Paul and his officers. The COM
.nittee in charge Of arrangements CON
sista of Robert 8. Barrett. chairman:
Percy G. Cliff. II. Noel Garner, crank
W. Latham. and w. 8. Connolly.
= -------
The finance committee of city coun-
eli. of which Capt. Albert Bryan is
chairman. has fioated loan of $4,000
at per cent, the proceeds to be used
LOT the erection of tho new high school
building and to pay the cost Of the
recently completed house for the Relief
Hook and Ladder Company.
The infant child of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Franklin was buried yesterday
afternoon. the Rev. p. p. Phillips, rec
tor Of st. Pauls Episcopal Church, Of
ficiating.
The contract for building the Mt.
Vernon highway. between Arlington
Cemetery, where it connects with the
new military highway extending to the
south END OF the highway bridge across
the Potomac, and Alexandria. Is to be
let to the W. p. Mcdonald Construction
; Company, whose bid was $b4.lIS.9S.
: The February term of the corpora
tion court. Judge Louis G.. Barley pre-
siding, opened this morning.
The following committee has been
appointed to make arrangements for
tho visit to the Odd Fellows Of Alexan-
dria and vicinity next Friday of Park
p. Deans. grand master OF Odd Eel
lows of Virginia: o. w. Huliings. A.
}. Butcher. H. r. Webb. John s. Wat
kins. Roger Sullivan, II. c. Clark. !. S.
Groves, and c. z. Remington. One of
tho features Of the evening viii be the
comforting Of the fourth degree on four
candidates by Potomac Lodges deH.-
staf. under direction Of Capt. W. l..
Martin.
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Wholesale Produce Market

EGGS-Nearby fresh. &c per doz.; South
crn. 2oa2Sc per doz.
CHEESE-Ne York. new, lShc per lb.
Nat. isiac per 10.
BUTTER-- Elgin print: 36c per lb.; tub,
35C per H.. process 26u27c per III.
LIVE POULTRY l6c per ID. r"ost
ers lOc per ID: spring chickens l1Ilsc per
H.: live turkeys. 17dlSc per lb.
LIVE. STOck-Neal calves, best, Ia
per 10; ; heavy, salo, per ID fat sheep f=a
ETABLES-(Quotations furnished by
Taylor Wadc,--Potatoes, Sl.,5 per Dbl.
onions. 81 % per bu.: 81. 10 per sack sbbase,
81 y. per hundred lbs: lettuce. 81 50aS.oo per
basket; beets, 81 90 per 100 bunches.
DRESS ED PORk-Best 91S,ac lb.; heavy,
sgS.c per 10.
Receipts OF poultry light; market in good
shape
Receipts OF eggs heavy: mar ket easier.
Receipts OF calves light: market very nm
KREY. PRICE 4 co.
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Local Sales.
hington Gas Sc. s50oHl04l:.

Washington Gas 5's. $5Oo1l04is
Capital Traction SIS $l.ONdlO6'I.
Potomac Electric Cons. SIS, 81. 1.000ns97,.
Washington Market SIS 1850 $5UD1f96.
Washington Railway common. loa30.
2Jdly0. 2519O.
Washington Railway preferred. 25dS5.
Washington Gas. 10H74ts, 2n74is, 5n7iis
15di7r9.
Commercial National Bank. 5dl90.
After call--Caital Traction, 81 .0Dq 1864
After call-CapitaI Traction. 81, ,00O1 l05Ts
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Welded in Vault of Bank,

HOUSTON. Tex. Feb. SIN haste
40 be welded. in order to catch train.
the Rev. J. r. Jones located the Rev.
T. Williams at a local bank
Pastor Jones and Miss Edna Carraway
we're married in the safety deposit
yault Of the bank to insure privacy.
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Start at Beaver Dam.

BEAVER DAM. wis. Feb. S.-The
iitney bus fever has struck Beaver
Dam. A ten-passenser bus is ready for
operation between this city and South
Bever Dam.
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HYATTSVILLE.

Ihe Maryland Agricultural College
has provided new free short course
In roadmakins to begin on March s:
1t has been designed for the benefit of
county engineers. road supervisors. road
foremen. and road inspectors.
Funeral services for Richard A.
Crandall. seventy-seven. who died at
his homo on the riggs farm on
Saturday morning will be held tomor-
Creek Cemetery, and the Rev: D. g.
Keenan,. OF st. Jerome's Catholic
Church, officiating. Mr. Crandall was
a native of Prince George county. and
had been manager of the Riggs estate
for forty-nne years. He Is survived
by his wife. who was Miss Ella n. Dut-
ton, and ono son, Howard Crandall
The Baraca Sunday school class of
the Methodist Episcopal Church. South.
will meet tonight at the home Of its
president, M. II. b. Hoffman. on Raj
ston avenue.
Francis II. uShipley. of Berwyn. has
sold the Manning property. containing
seventy acres. at Branchville. to Oliver
Beach, inspector of boilers In vessels
at Manila. P. l.
Red Fox James. the Grow half-hreed,
who recently rode from Montana to
Washington on horseback to interview
President Wilson. will deliver lecture
on "Indian Life" at the First BAPTIST
Church tonight.
The Beltsville Grange will meet to-
morrow night at the Grange Hail. A
country dinner will be served. The
evening will be devoted to genera
discussion OF "Single Tax"
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NAVY.

Lieutenant 6. \. PEALL. to st. louis.
Ensign LORA1N ANDERSON, to Bag
Icy
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At the organization meeting of the
board Of directors Of the Washington
Gas Light Company today all officers
Of the company were reelected. They
are Howard S. Reside. presidnt: Will
liam B. Ormc. secretary; Lawrence
Townsend. treasurer: Sanford y. Whit
we'll. general auditor: George NJ. Whit
well. assistant secretary. and Rawlins
Hume. assistant treasurer.
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ANACOSTIA.

Announcement was made yesterday in
Emmanuel Episcopal Church Of the SER
vices to be held during Lent. Visit
ing ministers will occupy the pulpit, as
follows: February II. the Rev: w. G.
81. the Rev Herbert Scott Smith Feb
ruary "a, the Rev. G. w. Van Foseen !;
February 20. the Rev. George II. Nc
Grew; March 8, the Rev. J. H. w.
Blake; March Z, the Rev. william r.
Snyder March 10, the Rev. William r.
Calender March II. the Rev: Charles
ton. Rt. Rev: Alfred Harding March q.
the Rev. Robert Talbert March "a, the
Rev. e. g. Carpenter; March 2s. the
Rev. Caleb r. Stetson; March 20, the
Rev. Horace w. Stowell; March 80, the
Rev. H. ". Saunders; March 81. tho
Rev. G. 8. Abbott : April.1, the Rey..W:.
b. Dent.
On February 1s, the annual bail of
Mineola Tribe. No. IA, !. o. o. r. NJ, Is
to be given in the local Masonic hall.
The regular meeting of the Altar So
Ciety of st. Teresa's Church was held
last night with Miss Mary OLeary. pres
ident, In the chair.
A special meeting OF Electa Chapter,
No. ., Order of the Eastern Star, Is
scheduled for tomorrow night. A valen-
tine party will be feature OF the en-
tertainment. Charles A. Stevens, worthy
patron OF the order. has closed plans
40 Chesapeake Beach this year
The annual missionary rally of the
Anaoostia NJ. e. Church was held yes
terday. The pastor. Nhe Rev. G. Leroy
White, was in charge.
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The regular meeting of the Altar So
Ciety Of st. Teresa's Church was held
last night with Miss Mary O'Leary. pres
ident, In the chair.
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Boy Scout and Girl Scout troops OF
Congress Heights attended special
service last night in the Baptist Church.
when the Rev. f. f.. Richardson deliv-
cred q special sermon.
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At the anniversary service OF the
Mems Club of tho Methodist Episcopal
Church yesterday. an address vas de-
:ivered bv william Knowles Cooper,
.ecretary of the Y. NJ. G. 4.
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New York Stocks.

Quotations furnished BY ". 3. Hibbs \
Cos. members Of New YORK STOCK Exchanss'
Hibbs Building. "A. So.
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v. R. & {, COMMON
STOCK SELLS At 90
Point and a Half Advance on
Washington Exchange-0as
Freely Offered.

The strength of Washington Railway
and Electric common stock. which ad-
vanced q point and a half over the
price commanded at the last previous
sale was the feature OF today's ses-
sion of the Washington stock Exchange.
After the bid for quotations lots Of the
stock had been advanced to SO, sixty
shares sold at 80. There were no fur
ther offerings under IS. The Railway
preferred stock continued firm at "a,
a quotation lot bring that price.
Washington Gas stock freely onered
at 74k. and after thirty-two shares had
quotations were lowered from "a and
74h. respectively, to 70 and 74h. The
only other sale from the stock list con-
sisted of five shares Of Commercial
National Bank stock ut 1870.
Reports that Mergenthaler Linotype
stocks. much OF which is held by Wash
lngton investors. was selling In Boston
at 100. caused the placing. through
member OF the exchange OF several pur-
chasing orders for execution on the
Boston exchange at 1O. The minimum
purice for Mergenthaler on the Wash
tngton exchange has not been changed.
and consequently. trading Is forbidden
on the local board under 100.
Trading In bonds was rather limited.
The sales recorded included q Potomac C
Electric Power Consolidated ) at g9is.
&500 worth of Washington Market 5's
1850. at IS: 81 900 Capital Traction at
i06a;. and another at 1861. and a $3.50
Washington Gas 5 at 1O4la. and an addi-
tlonal 81, 900 bond at 10F4
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The Hillsdaln Citizens Association
will meet tonight in Odd Fellows Hall.
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The public Improvement association
will. meet tonight In the town hall.
The Washington times., 1915-02-08
CONGRESS HEIGHTS.

The Child Welfare Associa ton Of Con-
sress Heights will meet on February
). i'm the town hall to hear Superintendent
r.. l.. Thurston, of the public schools
and DR.. II. NJ Johnson. supervising
principal of the ninth division.
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The annual missionary rally of the
-Anaoostia NJ. E. Church was held yes
terday. The pastor. Nhe Rev. G. Leroy
White, was in charge.
The Washington times., 1915-02-08

On February 16, the annual bail of
Mineola Tribe. No. IA, I. o. Q. r. NJ, Is
to be given in the local Masonic hall
The Washington times., 1915-02-08

The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Franklin was buried yesterday
afternoon, the Rev. p. p. Phillips, rec
tor Of st. Pauls Episcopal Church, Of
ficiatinR,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-04-29
HIS UNLUcKY DAYS OFF,
Fireman Breaks Ankle, Leg, Foot.
Arm, and Head In Five Of His
Rest Periods.

His left ankle broken when caught
with several Other firemen under a
falling wall at the big fire in Ceilings
wood, Capt. George Wade recalled at
the Homeopathic hospital, Camden,
that all FIVE serious mishaps he has
sustained while in the Camden fire de-
partment we're met in responding to
calls on his day off. says the philadel-
phia Record. Such was the case the
last time He just dropped in at fire
headquarters to see how things were
going when the call for aid came from
Collingswood. OF course, he could not
resist the temptation to lead his com
pany.
On another Of his days of in 1907
he was thrown from the engine and
suffered a compound fracture OF the
left leg. At another time. in q like
accident. also on his day of, his right
foot was crushed. At still another
time, Captain Wade suffered a frac
ture Of his left arm by a fall at q
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Beautiful vpres.

The old Belgian city of Ypres.
which has suffered much destruction
at the hands of the Germans. was at
one time one Of the most flourish
ing cities in West Flanders, with q
population OF almost 100000. Like
other ancient cities Of Belgium. 1t
has many architectural and artistic
reminders Of its past greatness in its
Cloth hall, Guild halls, and churches.
the burghers' houses, many OF which
have now been laid in ruins by Ger.
man guns. The Cloth hall, which was
commenced in the year 1900. and took
q century to build, has q beautiful IA.
cade 100 yards in length; while there
are also the Meat hall, the Cathedral
Of st. Martin, and a number Of fine
old houses with the wooden facadey
Flemish architects we're so fond Of
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-04-29
ACCOUNTING FOR OLD MAIDS
Various Reasons Why Girls Of Home
burg Are Living Lives OF
Single BIessedness.

They say there r n hundred
thousand old maids in Massachusetts.
III bet that's Just about the number
OF Massachusetts young men who have
gone West or somewhere, and haven't
remembered the things they said at
parting as we'll as the girls did.
We've got plenty Of girls in Home
burg who are getting intimately ac.
duainted with the thirties-fne girls
still pretty, bright and keeping up
with the world. Young men come into
town and do their best to get on q
"thou-beside-me' footing. but somehow
the girls don't seem to marry AT the
root OF almost every case there's an
old Homeburg boy, Maybe he's msH
ing good somewhere, and they're both
waiting until he does. Maybe he ISM
making good and Is too proud 70 ash
her to walt. Maybe she's WAITING
alone-because some other girl wal
handler IN the new place And mayb'
II wasn't a care Of wait at all, only thu
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-04-29

self-hatred and secret immolaticn can
never undo the deed Of an Infatuated
moment. Eternity may console, but II
can never make me. innocent of the
blood Of my. hearts brother.
We had had our usual wordy disa-
greement over some petty subject in
which he was no nearer wrong nor l
any nearer right than we had been
many times before; but for some rea'
son l found it harder to pardon him.
For the first time in u long &C
quaintance, l let Algernon Etheridge
leave me. without any attempt at con-
citation.
If only 1 had halted there! If, at
sight of my empty study. | had not
conceived the mad notion of w~aylayfng
him at the bridge for the hand-shake
| missed, l might have been a happy
man now, and Oliver-But why dwell
upon these might-have-beens! What
happened was this:
Disturbed in mind, and finding my
self alone in the house, Oliver having
) evidently gone out while We two were
, ~disputing, l decided to follow out the
| impulse l have mentioned. Leaving
$ by the a l went down the lane to
B the path which serves as a short Gu
4 to the bridge.
That | did this unseen by anybody
is not so strange when you consider
the hour, and how the only person
h then living in the lane was, in al
o probability, in her kitchen. 1t would
have been better for me, little as
i. might have recognized it at the time
e had she been where she could have
witnessed both my going and coming
and faced me with the fact.
J. John Scoville, in his statement, say
d that after giving up his search for hi
little girl he wandered up the ravin'
H. before taking the path back which let
d him through Dark Hollow. This wa
false, as we'll as the story he told o
leaving his stick by the chestnut ire
ID in the gully at foot Of Ostrander lane
For l was on the spot, and know
Il. the route by which he reached Oar
IS Hollow and also through whose agenc
d. the stick came to be there.
It. Read and learn with what tricks tn
at devil beguiles us men.
b. | was descending this path, heav1l
Swallowed, as you know, by a skirtin
he of closely growing trees and bushe
IN when just where it dips into the He
ID low, | heard the sound of a hasty fo'
ID come crashing up through the unde
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-04-29

brush from the ravine and cross the
path ahead of me. A turn in the path
prevented me from seeing the man
himself, but as you will perceive ana
as l perceived later when circum-
stances recalled it to my mind, a
no need to see him to know who IT
was or with what intent he took this
method of escape from the ravine into
the fields leading to the highway. SEQ
ville's stick spoke for him, the STICK
which / presently tripped over n
mechanically picked up, without a
thought of the desperate use to which
| was destined to put 1t.
Etheridge was coming. | could hear
his whistle on Factory road. There
was no mistaking it. 1t was unusually
shrill one and had always been a
cause of irritation to me, but at this
moment it was more; 1t reused every
antagonistic impulse within me. He
whistling like a galliard, after a part
ing which had dissatisfied me to such
an extent that had come all this dis
lance to ask his pardon and see his
: old smile again! Afterward, long aft
erward, | was able to give another
Interpretation to his show Of apparent
8 dissatisfaction, but then | saw moth
: ing but the contrast 1t offered to my
> own tender regrets, and my blood be
gan to boil and my temper rise to sucf
9 a point that r~ecrimination took thu
: place of apology when in another mo
9 ment we came together in the opei
space between the end Of the bridg'
and Dark Hollow.
D, ITO BE CONTINUED
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"Cutworms are true burglars.
"As long as the day lasts they re.
main in hiding under sticks, stones or
trash--or even below the surface Of
the ground; and as soon as night falls
they come forth to steal the lives Of
tender plants.
ut Is a wise precaution on the part
OF these insect burglars to hide during
the day, for they are smooth and plump
and just the sort Of food titbit birds
are always looking for. II these night
prowling rascals would only stop and
satisfy their hunger BY eating the
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-04-29
Manted aNIoe, Dirty Mother.v

When Edward was five years old he
played with q boy named Adolph. One
muddy day they tried to run across
clean kitchen floor to get o ball.
| chased them out and afterwards
heard them talking out on the porch.
Adolph said, my mother doesn't care
E 1 run across the kitchen floor" Az
ter a long silence heard Edward say.
II Wish l had a nice. dirty mother like
yours. p-Nxchange.
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XVIII.
Dark Hollow.

Later, when the boards he had
loosened in anticipation of this hour
were all removed, they came upon a
packet of closely written words hidden
in the framework of the bed.
1t read as follows:
Whosoever lays hands on this MS.
will already be acquainted with my
crime. If he would also know its
cause and the full story of my
hypocrisy, let him read these lines
written, as it we're, with my hearts
blood.
/ loved A%lgernon E%theridge; | shall
never have a dearer friend. His ode
ways, his lank, possibly u%ngainly, fig
ure crowned by a head of scholarly
refinement, his ~amiability wher
pleased, his Feasibility when crossed
formed a character attractive to me
from it's very contradictions; and afte,
my wife's death and before my sol
Oliver reached a companionable age, |
was in my intercourse with this man
found my most solid satisfaction.
Yet we often quarreled. His dos
matism frequently ran counter to m
views, and, being myself a man @
quick and violent temper, hard word
sometimes passed between us, to b
forgotten the next minute in a hant
shake, or some other token of mutut
esteem. These dissensions-if sue
, they could be called-never took plac
except in the privacy Of his study {
| mine. We thought too much Of eac
other to display u differences
l opinion abroad or wen in the present
of Oliver; and however heated o,
: arguments or whatever our topic v
invariably parted friends, till one fat
full night.
o God! that years Of repentanc
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-04-29

boy who went away looked better to
some Homeburg girl than any OF those
who stayed at home.
There's Carrie Moore. She's our
prize maid and dresses like a mail
sack full Of government seeds. but
they say she was the prettiest girl in
Homeburg when young Cyrus McCord
went to Chicago to carve out his fu-
ture 80 that he could come home and
marry her. But Cyrus didn't carve
out his future. He married 1t instead,
and Carrie is almost sixty now, living
alone and getting peculiar, like &c
many Of our lonely old folks do
George Fitch In the American Maya
zine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-04-29
GREED OF THE W 0
Most Dreaded Robbers Of the Garden
That Work only In the
Night.

In Farm and Flreside a contributor
writes about cutworms. The rayages
Of cutworms are fully described AMI
definite suggestions al to how to get
rid of them arc reported. Some Of the
remarkable facts about cutworms are
Included in tho following extract taken
from the article:
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Godt that years Of repentance. GRO BE coNrINUEp)

fire at Eleventh and Cooper streets.
Fighting a fire at the Graves varnish
plant on another day when he Just
happened around, he sustained a con
cussion Of the brain when struck by
a falling cornice.
still it's all IL the game" said the
captain, forcing a smile.
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rhouahtIess EXPLANATION.

"You say this will be your farewell
appearance?" asked the interviewer.
YES" answered the eminent ac-
tress. II shall retire from the state,
never to return to it"
What is your reason for such a
decisionT'
my manager thinks 1t better for
business to make every other tour a
farewell engagement"