The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-04-09

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Pittsburgh police, after exhaustive ex-
periments. said yesterday that music
will convert the crook and calm jags."
He has arranged that the police quar-
tet, which sang in the Philadelphia
Tabernacle at Billy Sundays services,
will discourse music nightly in the
central station in an effort to better
the lives of hayward ones.
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81 would rather spend four years in
hell than four years in a turpentine
camp said Len F. Greer, associate
member of the Alabama state board
of convict inspectors recently in de-
scribing to the legislative investigat-
ing committee conditions in the tur-
pentine camps of Alabama.
Nearly ten thousand men are work
ing now in the steel mills of Chicago
Heights for the first time since the
first of the year, when business de-
preston and lack of materials caused
the mills to close down.
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1t is the opinion of farmers and fruit
raiser is the Missouri White River
country that the prospects were never
better for big crop year-especially
for the fruit crop. The continued cool
weather has held the fruit buds back,
and no trees are yet in blossom.
Billy" Sundays hymns have been
adapted to 1.step and fox trot time,
and two of them, Brighten the Cor
ner" and The Brewers Big Horses
Can't Run Over Me-" are now the most
popular dance tunes in the cafes and
tango parlors of Philadelphia.
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Roofs of Chicagos skyscraper office
buildings will be swept of dirt and rub
bish, ii is announced as a part OF p
campaign for cleaner streets and side
walks. Fourteen wagon loads of dirt
were removed from the roofs of three
structures recently.
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John Brisben Walker, formerly a
magazine publisher in New York, now
retired to a Colorado estate, has an
nounced through the Editor and Pub
Usher an offer to give a site of forty
acres at Mount Morrison, Colo, to es-
tablish home for newspaper men.
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Four persons were drowned in the
Duwamish river near Seattle when a
motor car belonging to Mrs. Morgan
j. Clarke ran off bridge ten miles
south of the city. Mrs. Clarke and her
Japanese chauffeur were the only per-
sons saved.
A movement for the calling of a con-
vention of legislators from every state
in the Union for the purpose of advo-
eating and obtaining more uniform
state laws throughout the country, has
been started in the Illinois legislature.
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Isaac A. Ketcham, inventor Of the
Civil War time alright submarine
mine with clockwork for exploding 1t
against the side of a ship, is dead at
his home. Brooklyn, at the age of So.
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Mrs. Anna Manley, a Divorce and
medium shot and killed Peter Mcclure
of Madison, ILL.,, who she says tried to
force a window of her room in st.
Louis. The shooting occurred a few
minutes after Mrs. Manley had closed
a seance.
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A Boston insurance firm has insured
the famous Mclean jewels for three
million dollars. The fortune in jewels
belongs to Mrs. Edward b. Mclean of
Washington. Included in the array
of gems is the famous Hope diamond.
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An Appleton, Wis, motor car con-
Germ has announced that 1t had receiv-
ed an order from the European Allies
for one and a half million dollars
worth of machines.
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Missouri produces so million dollars
worth of poultry products yearly, and
these are sold to consumers all the
way from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
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Foreign Affairs.
That tuberculosis may be contract
ed because Of the aversion to expec-
toration was the statement made by
Doctor Reynier in paper read before
the French Academy of Medicine re-
Gently The mucous matter contains
tuberculosis germs, according to the
doctor, and women who refrain from
splitting when they have colds incur
great danger.
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British War Secretary Kitchener is
among the first widely known men Of
England to respond to the suggestion
of abstention from the use of alcohol
contained in the letter sent recently
nv King George Tn T,lOyd-G George chan