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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-01-15
NEW QUEEN or LAWN TENNIS
molla EJurstedt Of Norway, Captures
National Women's championships
Defeats May Sutton.

Miss Molla Bjurstedt Of Christiania.
Norway. now q resident Of New York,
has swept everything before her in the
tennis events Of this past summer, cap
turing the women's national indoor
championship and outdoor champion
ship. along with many other slgnifl-
cant titles. And If any doubts re
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-01-15
LIBRARY BULLETIN.

Open hours, 70 .. N. gun0 vs.
~ 3 .. IL Phone 1924.
Yarmerg bulletins IN the loan 1e
sartment AZ me piIblic library. Cop
~ Will BE- sent free az long az the
gopply lasts 10 any resident of The
United States On application 10 his
senator or representative IL congree
Dr % the superintendent Of docu'
meDte, government printing office,
Washington, D. G., who has fbe bulle
llns for sale 81 . cents each
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-01-15

Since the cold weather. has set IN
along the Osonzo. Il IS reported in Ber-
lin that General CadOrua, the Italian
commander. has ordered SET UP to
serve as heaters IN the trenches large
numbers Of the chestnut and peanut
roasting machines which had beer
relegated 10 idIeness when their pro
fessional operators were called TO the
colors.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-01-15

F%TTbs.4 was the Only Cffareffe
4 <~s15e9tie CrsndPrizes fhs high
est 4vsyd Efven 70 any cigarette
81 the Panama r Pscfhc Inferna-
tion4I ExPosiaea.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-01-15
RAILROAD NEWS,
Rock Island.

= = = 4. + = = + - + ++++ : 4
A. c. Bradley, division engineer Of
Fl Reno spent yesterday in Chicka-
sha
Geo. Tolley district boiler Inspector
Of Oklahoma City, was in Chickasha
yesterday.
Y. w. F. Burke, division storekeeper.
returned today from business trip to
Enid
II. Fairman, trainmaster, from El
Reno, is in the city today.
G. w Hayman, general foreman, Of
El Reno, was in Chickasha yesterday.
r. L. Stewart, mechanical superin.
tendent Of El Reno, is in town to-
day.
C. A. Chincholl, w p. Harkins, John
Clark and Herbert Powell attended the
Safety First meeting in Ell Reno Thurs
day.
Again we must remind our friends
that we positively will not accept
want" rent and sale" ads by
phone. Do not embarrass us by asking
us to do &C. DAILY EXPRESS.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-01-15
GRADY COUNTY EXPRESS
25c A Year.

+ This great offer is made for
= an indefinite period. We will
Z send the GRADY COUNTY
: EXPRESS for one full year, to
subscribers in Grady county
only, on receipt of only Is
cents. THINK OF 1T, the Off
cial county paper, rock-ribbed
Democratic, with all the local,
political and official news
every week for 25 cents a year.
Start todayi Remit in coin
. to-
; GRADY COUNTY EXPRESS,
ChIckasha, Okla.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-01-15

McDonald-Fritz In Germany.
McDonald-Bous in Russia.
McDonaId-Betty in Canada.
McDonald-Josepa in Spain.
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WESTERN.

James Whicomb Riley, the Hoosier
poet, died at his home in Indianapo-
lis.
Six persons we're killed and forty
three injured by the explosion at
San Francisco of a timed bomb in the
midst of a throng viewing a prepar-
edness parade.
The will of Mrs. Hetty Green was
admitted to probate at Bellows Falls,
VT, without contest, leaving the en-
tire estate to her son, Col. Edward
H. r. Green, and daughter, Mrs.
Matthew Astor Wilkes.
Impeachment of Pat Daniel, sheriff
of Russell county, Ala, in whose home
a quantity of liquor is alleged to have
been discovered during the recent
Girard raids, has been ordered by the
Alabama Supreme Court.
The two-year wage increases for
the $4,000 coal miners of Missouri,
Kansas, Arkansas and Oklahoma,
agreed upon by a subcommittee of the
conference of miners and operators,
was accepted at Kansas City by the
full conference and will become Oper-
ative Aug. 1.
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JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY DEAD

indianapolis, Ind.-James Whitcomb
Riley, 68, died while only Mr.. Riley's
nurse, Miss Clement:a Prough, was
awake in the poets hcme. He suf-
fered his first violent attack of paraly-
sis July 10, 1910.
James Whitcomb Riley, born of the
Middle West, sang the joys, sorrows,
fancies and humors Of its folk, large
ly in it's own dialect. The world was
so touched by his inspiration and the
realism of his homely symbols that he
was one of the few devoting their
lives to poetry who gained fortune
In 1902 he received the degree of
master of Arts from Yale University
and in 1904 the University of Pcnnsyl-
vania conferred upon him the Degree
of doctor of letters. Indiana Uni
versity conferred the honorary de-
gree of LID oh him in 1907
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WASHINGTON.

Chicago has been selected for the
campaign headquarters of the Wo-
mans party.
The McGillicuddy-Kern workmen's
compensation bill was passed by the
House by vote of 286 to 8.
The Senate passed the House bill
appropriating $125,OOO to finance the
public health service campaign
against infantile paralysis.
A joint resolution to extend leaves
of absence with credit to homestead
ers on public lands who are with the
national guard in federal service was
adopted by the House of Represen-
tatives.
The American schooner Prince
Valdemar was captured by German
warship while on it's way from Phil
adelphia to Sweden with cargo Of
OIL
Speaking on business conditions in
the United States, Senator Shafroth,
addressing the Senate, emphasized
the present prosperity of the coun-
try.
Denouncing the British blacklist as
an Outrageous assault on citizens OF
this country" Senator Thomas of
Colorado, in Senate speech, advo-
Gated reDrisals Of severe nature.
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SPORT.

Frank Kramer, national cycling
champion, holds worlds record for
every branch of the sport.
Heinrich Schmidt of the Claremont
Golf and Country Club of Oakland,
won the Western golf championship
at Del Monte, Cal.
Before a throng of spectators on
the beach at Washington park in
Denver the first A. A. U. swimming
meet to be held in the West was
marked throughout by scores Of
thrills.
Confederation of the reports that
Francisco Villa is personally directing
a campaign that has for it's immediate
object the capture of Torreon was
contained in a report from Gen.
Pershing to Gen. Funston, according
to a San Francisco report.
The 1O0-mile motor derby, dedicat-
ing the new dirt speedway at Kansas
City, was won by Ralph de Palma.
His time was 1 hour AZ minutes and
So seconds, an average of 58.48 miles
an hour, almost eight miles an hour
below the worlds dirt track record.
O'Donnell was second. Buozane was
third.
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Join them His death ended weeks
illness, from which his near relatives
believed that he would recover, al
though they knew that apOplexy at
any time might end his notable life
His wife, Mrs. Katherine Grafton
Patterson, died July 16, 1902. A num-
ber of years before his wife's death
his only son, James Patterson, a
young attorney, died.
A daughter, Mary G. Patterson, and
an infant child also died a number
of years ago.
Thomas Macdonald Patterson was
born in the county of Carlow, Ireland,
on Nov. 4, 1889. He was a son of
James and Margaret (Mountjoy) Pat
terson His ancestors were numer-
Gus and prominent family in the north
ern part of Ireland.
Mr.. Patterson is survived by his
daughter, Mrs. Richard Crawford
Campbell; his son-in-law, Richard
Crawford Campbell; two grandsons,
Richard Crawford Campbell, Jr., who
is d SCuuSAC dC Oca1 I1uOu OO1lO6O, anu
Thomas Patterson Campbell, a stu
dent at. Exeter Academy; a grand
daughter, Katherine Campbell, and a
sister, Mrs. Malin V. Johnson of 2145
Williams street. Two nephews and
two pieces also survive him. They
are Fred P. Johnson, Arthur C. John
son, Mrs. P. M. Pease of Rye, N. Y,
and Mrs. Frances Porter, formerly a
resident of Denver but now living
near Byers, Colo. A brother-in-law,
Samuel Grafton, also lives in Denver.
The Rev. DR.. John H. Houghton of
st. Marks officiated at the funeral
and interment was in Fairmount
cemetery.
The Benson signal., 1916-07-29
SWkMP.ROOT STOPS
SERIOUS BACKACHE

When your back aches, and your blad-
der and kidneys seem to be disordered, re
member it is needless to sufer-go to your
nearest drug store and get bottle of DR.
Kilmer's Swamp-Root. 1t is physicians
prescription for diseases of the kidneys
and bladder.
1t has stood the test of years and has
q reputation for quickly and effectively
giving results in thousands of cases.
This prescription was used by DR.. Kill
mer in his private practice and was 80
very effective that it has been placed on
sale everywhere. Get a bottle, Soc and
$lOO, at your nearest druggist.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to DR..
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y, for =
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.-Adv.
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GENE RAJ.
third.

Sixty thousand garment workers Of
New York locked out or on strike for
more than three months, will return
to work.
One guardsman YVES killed and an
other badly injured by lightning at
the state mobilization camp at Macon,
Ca, during a severe electrical storm.
Basil B. Elmer and William P.
Phillips, representing New York
bondholders, purchased the st. Louis
& San Francisco railroad at auction
at st. Louis for $45,70O,20O.
The Prohibition national conven-
tion, after a three-day session at St.
Paul, Mimi, adjourned sine die after
nominating J. Frank Hanly, former
governor of Indiana, for president of
the United States, and DR.. Ira D.
Landrith of Nashville, Tenn, for vice
president.
A searching investigation into
every department of the United States
government is to be made by the In
stitute for government research. 1t
was revealed in New York that this
new bureau for federal inquiry was
formed and is backed by the Rookie
feller interests.
The national convention of the
Ancient Order of Hibernians was
brought to a close at Boston with the
reelection of the officers of the past
administration and the selection OF
San Francisco as the place of the
next convention.
An order amounting to the prac-
tical reputation of CarranZa cur
rency in Sonora was issued by Gen.
P. Elias Gales, military commander
OF the state, when he announced that
no merchant would hereafter De
forced to accept it in exchange for
goods
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FOREIGN.

Prof Eli Metchnickoff, the famous
bacteriologist, died in Paris.
At Madrid the government revoked
it's declaration of martial law.
Ten thousand Canadian soldiers are
to proceed overseas soon, it was an
nounced at the militia department at
Ottawa.
Nearly 1000 cases OF alcohol, con-
tanning twenty gallons 10 a case, were
destroyed by warehouse fire in
Juarez.
Sergius Sazonoff, minister of for
eign affairs, at Petrograd, has re-
signed. He is succeeded by Boris
Vladimirovitch Sturmer, the premier,
who has taken over the office.
Walter Hines Page, the American
ambassador, expressed himself to the
Associated Press as fully alive to the
possibility of trouble arising from the
publication of the statutory blacklist
of American firms.
The latest son of the heir to the
Hungarian throne was formal.
ly christened with great pomp at
Schoenbrunn near Vienna and given
the modest total of fifteen names to
carry.
Food riots which broke out in Bel
gium and northern France have been
suppressed by the German military
authorities. The rioting was especial.
ly severe at Liege, Verviers, Roubaix,
monde.
An imposing celebration presided
over by the first chief, who was ac-
companied by the members of his cab
met, was held at Mexico City in hon
or of the anniversary of the death
of Biento Juarez, the national hero Of
| Mexico.
Closer and closer are the Gordon OF
Carranzista troops being drawn about
| Villa, and the remnant of his main
band, beaten and scattered in the re-
| cent engagement along the Nazas
river, in northern Durango, according
to private dispatches at Ell Paso.
Anticipating acceptance by the Unit
| ed States of it's suggestion for dis
| cussion of the border question by q
| commission, it was informally indi-
| Gated at Mexico City that the three
commissioners who will represent
Mexico will be Roberto Pesquiera
formerly the first chiefs representa-.
tive in Washington; Luis Cabrera
minister of finance, and Alberto PAM,
| director of railways.
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GERMANS MOVE FROM VERDUN
Australian Detachment Drives Kai-
ser's Troops Out of Pozieres.

Australian Detachment Drives Kai.
ser's Troops Out of Pozieres.
London.-The Australians were in
furious fight Monday with Germans
for possession of Pozieres. Most of
village in their power.
French capture German battery
south of Estrees. Calm prevails
south of Somme Redoubt west of
Thiaumont lest by Kaiser's men.
Berlin declares British attack on
Thiepval- Guillemont line was minor
success, won at great COST of men.
German troops moved from Verdun
to fight along Somme Berlin and
Petrograd silent about fighting near
Riga.
Russians drive Germans from vii
lage of Galitetanie on Lipa river,
while Germany repulses attacks in
Galicia.
Italy reports continued advances
against Austrians in Artico and Aviso
regions.
The Benson signal., 1916-07-29

Born in Ireland November 4, 1889.
Came to America in 1849.
Moved to Charlottesville, Indiana,
Enlisted in the Civil War in 1861.
In 18621863 a student in ASbury,
now DePauw University, at Green
castle, Ind.
In 1868 entered Wabash College
at Charlottesville, Ind.
In 1854 began the study of law.
Admitted to the bar in 1867.
Moved to Denver in 1872.
Served as City Attorney of Den
yer 1S73-1874.
Elected Territorial Delegate to
Congress in 1874.
While in Congress helped secure
passage of the act admitting Colo
RADIO to the Union.
In 1S75-1878 served the State of
Colorado in the 45th Congress.
In 1888 ran for Governor and was
defeated
In 1892 elected a delegate to the
National Democratic Convention;
left party on account of it's failure
to accept a free silver plank. In
same year purchased the Rocky
Mountain News; later acquired the
Denver Times.
In 1896 was delegate to. the Ma
tional Populist Convention.
In 1900 served as chairman of the
National Populist Convention.
Elected United States Senator
in 1901.
Ran for Governor in 1914 and was
defeated.
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Denver.-Thomas M. Patterson, for
merly United States senator from
Colorado, editor and lawyer of ma
tional reputation, died suddenly Of
apoplexy while asleep in bed at his
home, 1875 Pennsylvania street, short
ly after 1 o'clock Sunday afternoon,
July %. With him at the time was
his daughter, Mrs. Richard Crawford
Campbell, other members of his fam
lily having gone to Grand Lake, where
former Senator Patterson expected to
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FROM TELEGRAPHlC REPORTS
THAT COVER THE WEEKS
EVENTS.
OF MOST INTEREST
KEEPING THE READER POSTED
ON MOST lMPO RTANT
CURRENT TOPICS.
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ABOUT THE WAR.

Russian army in Armenia captured
Gumuskhaneh and now is forty miles
northwest of Baiburt.
Belgian troops reach Lake Victoria
in German East Africa and disperse
Teutons in seven-hour battle.
Fierce engagements have taken
place south of Riga, and Russian
troops have penetrated the German
first line at several points.
A new advance of Turkish forces
on the Sinai peninsula to within about
thirty miles of the Suez canal has
been reported to the British authori-
ties.
According to Rome reports, the
violent Russian offensive has been re-
sumed in the Carpathians, at Kovel,
Vladimir-Volynski, and in the Riga
sector.
The German army headquarters
staff in the official statement claims
that the great uniform Anglo-French
attack on the Somme sector in France
has been abandoned.
One of the most striking episodes
of the great Somme offensive was the
taking of the field fort at Biaches and
the garrison of 113 men by nine
French soldiers.
The Russians have driven the Teu-
tonic forces facing them south of the
river Lipa, in Volhyna near the Gala
clan border beyond the town OF
Berestechk to the west.
Germans stop new British offensive
near La Bassee and claim 1000 Eng
lishmen were killed. Berlin admits,
however, British have captured first
line trenches near Hardecourt on two
mile front.
J. Beltran, one of Villas chief lieu
tenants and participant in the mas
sacre of eighteen Americans at Santa
Ysabel, Chihuahua, last January, was
killed in the engagement at Cerro
Blanco July II, reports to General
Jacinto Trevino at Chihuahua City
indicated.
Berlin reports that the enemy lost
seven aorOplaHoS, lOuf VI CAOH Sou'AA
of Bapaume, one east of Arras, one
west of Combles and one near Roye.
Lieutenant Wintgens disabled his
tenth and Lieutenant Hoehendorff his
eleventh aeroplane. The emperor be-
slowed the Pour le Merite on First
Lieutenant Won Althaus, who con-
quered biplane near Roye.
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Overrefinement.

William Dean Howells, the novelist,
was talking about a poet.
His work is Overrefned, Overdeli-
cate, overnice," he said.
"In short, his work reminds me of
the young husband who said to his
bride, at the end of the honeymoon:
Darling, I'll have to leave you ev-
cry morning hereafter to go to busi-
ness; but, to make the parting less
abrupt, I'll no longer take the S:15
express, as l used to do-I'll take the
8 go slow accommodation
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Some lnducement.

band fell into the river the other day?"
interrogated Jones.
Eyes; a regular virago," said Smith.
"Well, she has offered twenty
pounds reward for his body" re-
marked Jones.
"And yet she hadn't a good word
to say for him when he was alive"
aye" acquiesced Jones; ''but you
mustn't forget that he wore gold
watch and chain and two diamond
rings"
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Wise Precaution.

Mrs. Jones was about to go away
for a couple of weeks, and her hus-
band said to her:
"My dear, 1 want to ask you one
favor before you CO."
'What is it?'' questioned Mrs. Jones.
"Don't try to put the house in order
before you CO." replied Jones.
"Why, it isn't hard work." contin-
ued Mrs. Jones.
Perhaps not" replied Jones, "but
think of the expense of telegraphing to
you every time I want to find any
thing"
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Deutschland Ready to Sail.

Baltimore. - Communion services
were held Monday night aboard the
interned North German Lloyd steam
er Neckar, lying alongside the sub
marine Deutschland, for the captain
and crew of the submarine. The Rev.
Otto Apitz, German immigrant mis-
sionary, conducted the service In his
prayer he asked that the vessel and
her crew may have a safe voyage
home. The service was brilliantly
lighted The Deutschland is partially
submerged, ready to sail
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EIGHT BURN
IN TRAIN CRASH
PUEBLO WRECK CLAIMS TOLL
OF LIVES WHEN FIRE DE-
STROYS OIL CARS.
BLAST BUR|ES SIXTEEN
DENVER MAN DIES AND FOUR
DAUGHTERS HURT IN AUTO
WRECK NEAR GREELEY.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Pueblo. Colo.-Eight persons are
believed to have lost their lives in
wreck of Denver & Rio Grande freight
train No. "a, eastbound, six miles west
of Pueblo, Monday night. Two per-
sens are known to be dead, but it is
believed that ct least six others per-
ished in the flames which consumed
the wreckage. The wreck was caused
by a broken wheel. There were three
oil cars on the train and they ccught
fire from a burning hot-box. Eleven
cars and their contents have been
burned and the fire is still raging.
The dead men were tramps beating
their way east to the harvest fields.
There were at least twenty on the
train.
Cleveland, Ohio.-Impriso1ed in a
new waterworks tunnel under Lake
Erie as a result of terrific explosion
of gas in the tube, sixteen men are
believed to be dead The explosion
occurred nearly 100 feet toward shore
from the outer crib Life-5avers pene-
trated the tunnel distance of fifty
feet but were driven back by the
deadly gas fumes.
Denver, Colo.-Harry A. Brilliant
of Denver was killed and four daugh-
ters were seriously injured, two per-
haps fatally, in an automobile accident
near Mum, Colo, twenty miles north
of Greeley The rear axle of their
seven-passenge automobile, in which
they were travelling at high speed,
snapped in two, with the result that
| the car was swung completely to the
opposite direction in which it was first
| headed and was turned upSide down,
| pinning all five occupants under
| meath. The victims were removed by
| passing autoists to hospital at Gree
| ley, where Mr.. Brilliant died, and
where his daughters are undergoing
treatment. Mr. Brilliant's skull was
crushed when the automobile pinned
him underneath, and five of his ribs
were broken, several of them pene-
trating his lungs. He died without re-
gaining consciousness. He was 81
years DID, Ruth was crushed between
the gravel roadway and the bodies of
her sisters who were thrown together
under the car in pile. She sustained
a compound fracture of the skull, two
broken ribs, internal injuries and
gashes and bruises on her head and
face. 1t is thought she will die.
Five in Auto Drowned by Flood.
Cheyenne, Wyo.-Five persons, Mr..
and Mrs. G.. E. Talbot and baby OF
Hartville and Mrs. Frank Pine and
Harold Myers of Sunrise, were
drowned near Sunrise, Wyo.,. when a
torrent from a cloud5urst in the hills
above that place swept down Eureka
Canon and carried away an automo-
bile party of nine. Four of the rid
ers, tossed about and frequently sub
merged in the thick, muddy flood
water, were swept to the bank and
managed to climb to saftty
Five Injured by Motorbike.
Boulder, Colo.-One woman is seri-
ously hurt and four others are injured
as result of double accident, in
which motorcycle, automobile and
| buggy figured
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ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

Oct. 36-Meeting New Mexico Bank
erS' Association at Grand Canyon.
Nov. 13-18-Arizona State Fair al Phoe :
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English Writer Dies.

London.-Miss S. MacNaughtan, an
English author, died in London.
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T. M. PATTERSON DEAD
FORMER u. S. SENATOR FROM
COLORADO DIES SUDDENLY
FROM HEART FAILURE.
Noted Editor, Lawyer and Political
Leader Succumbs After Weeks
illness at His Home in
Denver.
THOMAS M. PATTERSON.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1916-09-21

U. S. Treasurer John Burke,
candidate for U. S. Senator, will
address the people of Hope and
vicinity at the Hope Opera
House, Friday evening at eight
O'Clock sharp. Everybody turn
out and hear the facts of the
case discussed by one who
knows.--Adv.
Mr.. and Mrs. Porter Kimball
arrived Friday in their Hudson
Super-Six from their trip to the
Yellowstone National Park.
They were delayed a few days
by bad roads between Aberdeen,
S. d., and LaMoure, that section
of the country having been visit
ed by a rainstorm in which
from two to four inches of water
fell.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1916-09-21
How TO Give Good Advice

The best way to give good ad.
vice is to set a good example.
When others see how quickly
you get over your cold by TAX
ing Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy they are likely to follow
your example. This remedy has
been in use for many years and
enjoys an excellent reputation.
Obtainable everywhere.-Adv.