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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27
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Summary of observations made at Uni ted States weather bureau stations dur ing the 24 hours ending at p. m, 7oth meridian time October 26 1916:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27

Servus Grocery products all contain coupons redeemab1e in steele-smith's toy contest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27
A WAR FOR MARKETS

Back of the war in Europe is the con test for markets for the products of their labor; millions of men are fighting today for markets. In the face of this, Alabama and Georgia are handing their markets for farm products, corn, flour. meat and hay, to the north, chunking away mil lion dollars year in Alabama, 25 per cent more in Georgia.
 ''When Esau sacrificed his birthright he put a burden upon his posterity for all time and we by the prolonged blum der of trading awsE our soils fertility. fortell the effect upon generations yet un- born?" Instead of farming our lands we have mined them; we have swapped their fertility for pottage from the cor ners of the land, until now the mother state of Alabama, largely stripped of her crop producing powers, is calling upon us to resort to other and better methods, to rescue her from the situation that we have allowed her to fall into"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27
LADEN STRESSES
 NEED OF MARKETS Alabama Has for Years Neglected This Feature EXAMPLE IN GEORGIA Burden Rests Upon Cities of Show ing Farmers How to Dispose
 of His Crops to Best
 Advantage
EXAMPLE IN GEORGIA
By HERvEY ". LAIRD

Montgomery, October 26.-(SpecIal) '"The thinking business men have been for years calling for diversified crops; now the thinking farmer Is calling for diversi- fled markets" asserted Charles J. Haden, president of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce. at the banquet of the Alabama Chamber of Commerce here tonight.
 ''We, in the cities and towns, have every facility for handling the corn from Illi- nois, apples from Oregon, potatoes from Maine, but what facilities do we offer to handle these and other products grown in 10 miles of us, and brought to market by wagon?" asked MT. Haden. The farmer must be a peddler or allow his products to rot.
 You answer that he should pack and sack and classify as does the producer in other sections. This is true, but how can he do this unless the dealers teach him? Has not all education, all circulation of books and other vehicles of instruction proceeded from the towns ana the cities? Is not the town and city duty bound to lead in progress in all lines? Such is the law of gravity itself, and 1t is no part of ours to shun or shift the responsibility.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27

The United States has sso piano fac tories.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27
STRIKING STATEMENTS

Among the many striking things pre- sented by MT. Haden as he went along were the following:
 That prior to 1870, not a car load of food supplies was shipped to the south from beyond the Ohio river; that in 1911, 12O,Oo0 cars passed south through the gateway of Nashville alone; that Georgia has re- ceived 200 cars of alfalfa hay from Col orado a year, the freight on which was alone S14 ton while just as good cari be raised in the state at cost of sl2 ton; that brood SOW has two filters or pigs year in Indiana and three in, Geor- gia.
 The business men of Coweta county Georgia, organized so that e''ery time a farmer went into a store or bank he was advised to raise food crops. In two years time the people had done so well that they were able to hold 5000 bales more of cotton for high prices than ever before the banks of Newman had $500 GOO more deposits than at any time in their history, with the smallest number or farmers notes. The campaign in the county Is conservatively estimated to have been worth at least a million
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27
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FOR GROUP. ASTHMA ANU CulDS Take doses times day and on going to bed Stops Coughs. Colds the stranglina in Whoopng Cough Cures Asthma. Group and Bronchitis. Best all around cough mixture made Costs only 25c at drug stores.-tAdvtl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27
SOILS OF ALABAMA

Measured by it's power to produce the needful things of life, the soils of Ala bama exceed those of California; yet they buy water, transport their stuff 5000 miles and fill the grocery shelves of the east, while the fruits and vege- tables of the south rot upon the idolatrous altar of all cotton. Fourteen years ago Los Angeles county was occu- pied for the most part by prairie dogs; today It has a taxable value as large almost as the whole state of Alabama.
 The one crop plan has had fair trial Sixty days after the war was declared in Europe 1t was began, holding out It's hand for it's own people to give charity in the Buy Bale" movement.
 With the high price of cotton in the postbellum days our farmers got away from grain and grasses, flour mills routed down and smokehouses passed away. Pretty soon Mother Earth, robbed of her vital qualities on single diet, showed signs of nervous prostration. Commer- cial fertilizers, the Red Cross of the Land, came to the rescue. But this Is not cure, only first aid We must get back to rotation, to giving the soil what it needs in the way it needs 1t, or We must perish.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27

Stations and Weather at 5 n. I'll.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-07
DOES AWAY WITH TRUSS

!. The PLAPAO-PADS are entirely different
from the article commercially known as
TRUSS" In fact they are designed to do
AWAY with bands of steel and rubber that
chafe and pinch. Their remarkable sue
cess is due to the principle of keeping con-
stantly applied the scientifically compound
a absorbent stringent medication called
PLAPAO The purpose is to contract and
Strengthen the weakened abdominal mus
.cles thus closing the nernial opening as
nature intended SO the rupture CAN'T
come down.
Being self adhesive. and when adhereing
closely to the body slipping or shifting is
Impossible, therefore they are an important
adjunct in retaining rupture that cannot be
held by truss.
Demonstration Babcock, whose wide eX-
perience in this counry ana Europe makes
him an authority ON matter pertaining to
the application of PLAPAO-PADS to any
particular rupture. will be ut the National
Hotel Sunday, Jan 9th, only. Hours 10 a.
N. to : p. m. and he will be pleased to
give WITHOUT CHARGE, to all who call,
rSpert advice and trial for home treatment.
10 not fan to call on Mr.. Babcock during
his stay In the acknowledgements.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-07
TRAINMAsTER ON SATURDAY.
Hetherington Takes Over New Office
Latest Il. L. Gossip.

On Saturday George B. Hethering-
ton takes over the duties of trainmas-
ter for the Kansas division of the Rock
Island Lines. No other changes in
Topeka are expected for some time to
come.
There have been several Rock Is
land rumors afloat, such as the NOV
ing of the freight auditor from Chi
cago to Topeka. or the car account
ants office. The local office building
of the road, over the station, is not
large enough to accommodate d large
force, it is said. BY remodeling it, and
possibly building an addition, this
could be easily remedied providing
the powers that be- in Chicago saw
fit to favor Topeka in this way
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-07
SCARCE
Uncle Sam Receives Slim Evil
dence in Persia Affair.
American Consul Gets 81 Aft
davitS From Survivors.

Washington, Jan. cabinet and
congressional councils today consider
ed Americas policy regarding the
sinking of the liner Persia At the
first cabinet meeting in a month. Pres
ident Wilson and Secretary Lansing
presented the scant evidence gath
cred regarding the catastrophe The
senate and house foreign committees,
acting for the first time since the re-
converting of congress. took up the
Persia situation informally and map
ped out a plan of cooperation with
the White House and state depart
ment.
Consul Garrels. at Alexandria.
Egypt, today advised the state depart
ment that he had secured affidavits
from twenty-one survivors of the Per-
STA, including Charles H Grant an
American citizen, and that all con-
tirmed previous statements that mo
warning was given and no vessel was
seen"
The Austro- Hungarian government
until yesterday was without informa-
ton concerning the sinking of the
Persia according to a dispatch re-
ceived today by the state department
from Am bassador Penfield at Vienna
Am bassador Penfield's dispatch wa:
dated yesterday and contained only in
1 formal information in response to hi.
/ inquiry as to whether the Austro- Hun
/ garian government had knowledge Of
! the sinking of the Persia and if so
what the circumstances were.
! Officers and crew of the Persia
| Consul Careless dispatch said, have
left Alexandria for England. where
/ their affidavits probably will be OBJ
! tanned on arrival Consul Garrels ha.
! Deen instructed to forward summarize:
! of the affidavits he has obtained
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-07
Renew PILL FIGHT
W. A. Mckeever Heads Move
ment Against Coffin Nails.
Drafter of Kansas Cigarette
Law Offers Prizes to Boys.

Lawrence, Kan. Jan. John A
Edwards of Eureka has put up fund
of $3.50 to be used as prize awards to
the boy clubs which develop the most
successful method of combating cigar
cites. This matter has been arranged
with William A. McKeever of X. u.
who will direct the anti-cigarette
movement. as head of the child well
fare department.
Mr.. Edwards was formerly MEM
Der of the legislature and was the
author of the present radical anti
cigarette law in Kansas. At the time
he put this measure through. certain
big interests supplied a fund of several
thousand dollars to defeat it. The law
is being strictly enforced in some parts
of the state, and not at all in others.
Mr.. McKeeVer will make list of
all available means of combating the
cigarette and will try to create local
sentiment in favor of the enforcement
of the law by the definite organization
of boys clubs
Governor Capper has shown much
interest in this movement. as has also
Attorney General Brewster, who re-
Gently addressed a letter to all county
attorneys urging stricter enforcement
of the anti-cigarette law. The w. c.
r L and the State Federation of
Womeu's Clubs have taken radical
stands regarding the same matter, and
are actively at work in behalf of the
S4 me nnrDOS6.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-07
If BACK HURTS
TAKESALTSTO
FLUSH KIDNEYS
Says BackaChc is sure sign you
have been eating too
much meat.
U-.c Acid i'm meat clogs Kidneys
and irritates the
bladder.

Most folks forget that the Kidneys,
like the bowels, get sluggish and clog
gcd and need flushing occasionally,
else we have backache and dun mis-
ery in the kidney egion, severe head
aches. rheumatic tWingeS, torpid liver,
acid stomach. sleeplessness and all
sorts of bladder disorders.
= You simply must Keep your kidneys
active and clean, and the moment YOU
feel an ache or pain in the kidney
region, get about four ounces of Jad
Salts from any good drug store here,
take n tablespoonful in a glass of
water before breakfast for a few days
and your kidneys will then act fine
This famous salts is made from the
ecid of grapes and lemon juice COM
bined with lithia. and is harmless TO
flush clogGed kidneys and stimulate
Them to normal activity. 1t also neu-
tralizes the acids in the urine SO it no
longer irritates, thus ending bladder
disorders.
. lad Salts is harmless; inexpensive;
makes q delightful effervesccnt lithia-
Avatcr drink which everybody should
take now and then to keep their kid
news clean, thus avoiding serious COM
plications.
A well known local druggist says he
sells lots of Jad Salts to folks who be-
iieve in overcoming kidney trouble
while it is only trouble--Advertise
Tncnt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-07
An Easy Way to Get
Fat and Be Strong

The trouble with most thin folks who
wish to gain weight is that they insist
on drugging their stomach stuffing 1t
with greasy foods rubbing on useless
flesh creams" or following some foolish
physical culture stunt, while the real
cause of thinness goes untouched. You
cannot get fat until your digestive tract
asstmilates the food you eat.
There is preparation known to re-
lia bic druggists almost everywhere which
seemingly embodies the missing elements
needed by the digestive organs to help
them convert food into rich. fat-ladden
blood. This modern treatme is called
Sargol and has been termed the greatest
of flesh builders. Sargol aims through
regenerative. re-constructive powers to
coax the stomach and intestines to liter
ally soak up the fattening elements of
your food and pass them into the blood
where they are carried to the starved
broken down cells and tissues of your
body. You can readily picture what re-
suit this amazing Transformation should
produce with increased weight the
shoulders and bust disappear and from II
to 20 pounds of solid healthy flesh is
added to the body. Sargol is absolutely
harmless, inexpensive, efficient. Arnold
Drug Co. and other leading druggists OF
this vicinity have it and will refund your
money if you are not satisfied, pei
the guarantee found in every package.
NOTE ;-Sargol is recommended only
n flesh builder and while excellent
results in cases of nervous indigestion. etc.
have been reported care should be takeT
about using it unless a gain of weigh
is desired.-Advertiseme
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-07
NOT IN The JAM
Kansas Railways Are Not Al
fected by Eastern Blockade.
Santa Fe Shops Are Working
$500 Men to Stem the Tide.
EAST ROADS BORROW ENGINES
Oil Stoves in Use in Kansas
During the Cold Spell.
Other Items of General Interest
in the Traffic World.

Thanks. in a great measure, to To-
peka, the Santa Fe railway isn't Grip
pied for lack of power due to the ire
mendous freight traffic this fall and
winter.
With freight trains, minus locomo-
tives, backed up for miles along the
Hudson river and with railway yards
damned with loaded equipment. the
east is rapidly reaching the embargo
stage in shipments out of the big
ports.
OF course Kansas conducts no ports
Of any note, but this state is great
commercial highway in transcon-
production of food and grain for eX-
port and the eastern half of the United
states. Despite this traffic, the Kan
sas railways are keeping things NOV
ing.
In the Topeka shops of the Atchison.
Topeka & Santa Fe railway today
nearly $500 men are working-more
than 100 men above the force employ
ed here last year. In maintaining a
large force during dull times this road
is able to have power and equipment
in shape when the rush begins. Now,
with freight revenues smashing winter
records, the ships are pushing their
repair and construction work to the
limit that the Santa Fe will not be
caught mapping when business pre-
SCENTS itself.
The borrowing of locomotives has
begun in the east. The shops are un-
able to turn out engines quickly
enough to take their place at the
head of the munition and export
trains. There is a possibility that the
eastern roads, soon. may appeal to the
roads of the west for power. To date,
superintendent Drury of the Santa Fe
states this district has not been called
upon for faVors of this kind.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-07

commodities. In one of our Missouri
freight offices the foreman came to
his superior with problem. He had
a car loaded with potatoes, wine and
old butter II the air in the car
reached an extremely low temperature
the butter would not be damaged but
the wine and potatoes would be If a
stove We're installed the butter might
melt but the wine and potatoes would
be kept in good condition. The agent
glanced at the weather forecast and
said: Use the stove. Pile the butter
as far away from it as you can
1t is reported that those soldiers of
fortune. the railway buns. are unan-
imously in favor of the oil stove. 1t
makes things more comfortable for
them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-07
AGENT CALLED BLUFF
Lawyer Sold Pants: Prisoner in Office
for Ten Hours.

New York, Jan. THAT book
agents here to see you again." said
Abraham Ablowitzs stenographer.
Tell him I'm not in" replied Mr..
Ablowitz, a lawyer at No. Pei Broad
way.
But he saw you come in" ex-
planned the typist.
Then send him in"
IsidOr Feurst entered.
'F'eurst, I've told you a dozen
times" said the lawyer. Il don't want
to buy any encyclopedias. I'm toe
poor. I'd sell the trousers I'm wear
ing to get hold of few dollars
What do you want for them?'
Ten dollars
you're on" said the book agent,
take EN- off,
Ablowitz took off the trousers and
handed them to the book gent Then
he locked the door. told the stenogra-
pher to tell clients to wait and tried
to call up his home by telephone
1t seems the house telephone was
out of order, in consequence of which
he was a prisoner in his private office
for about ten hours. Finally his wife
learned of his predica nent and sent
him another pair of trousers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-07

Sparkling and Vivacious-merry,
bright, alert-a good. clear skin and
natural rosy, healthy complexion are
assured only by pure blood. If only
tAery woman could be induced to
adopt the morning inside bath. what
q, gratifying change would take place.
Instead of the thousands of sickly.
anaemic-looking women and girls,
with pasty sallow, Ifeless or muddy
t,omplexions; instead of the multi
tudes of nerve wrecks" 'rundowns,"
tsbrain flags" ana pessimists we should
see a virile. optimistic throng of rosy
checked people everywhere.
u An inside bath is had by drinking
each morning, before breakfast, a
glass of real hot water with a tea
spoonful of limeetone phosphate in It
to wash from the stomach. liver kid
1leys and ten yards of bowels the pre-
Nious days indigesuble waste, sour
lamentations and poisons, thus
cleansing, sweetening and freshening
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-07

the entire alimentary canal before
putting more food into the stomach.
Those subject to sick headache, bill
iousness, nasty breath, rheumatism
colds; and particularly those who
have d pallid, pimpled or sallow com
plexion, and who are constipated very
often, are urged to obtain a quarter
pound of limestone phosphate at the
drug store, which will cost but a trifie,
but Is sufficient to demonstrate the
quick and remarkab BILE change in both
health and appearance, awaiting those
who practice internal sanitation. If
you want to see the glow OF healthy
bloom in your cheeks, to see your skin
get clearer and clearer, be sure to try
this for short period. We must re-
member that inside cleanliness is
more important than outside bathing
because the skin does not absorb inn
purities to contaminate the blood
while the pores in the thirty feet OF
bowels dO.-Advertisement
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-07
OIL STOVES IN CARS.
Kansas Railroad Men Prepare for
Present Cold Snap.

The railroads operating in Kansas
and Missouri brought into action a
battery of oil stoves for this present
cold spell. Officials. after reading the
weather bureau announcements, ac-
lively enlisted in a campaign for pre-
paredness. Cars containing perishable
goods were equipped with oil stoves
or charcoal heaters and general prep
arations were made to resist the cold.
The proper heating of cars often
presents a serious problem" said a
Santa Fe man today, ''and station
agents are required to use good judg-
ment to prevent damage to perishable
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-07
SAFETY ON SURFACE LINES.
Chicago Men VIII Show to Students
Dangers Of PUBLIC Highways.

II. L. Brownell. safety commissioner
of the Chicago surface lines. will be
in Topeka for two days. probably
February II and II, to show his safety
films to the local school children. He
comes here under the auspices of the
Santa Fe safety department and the
Topeka Railway company.
H. b. Wilson. superintendent of
schools, has agreed TO let Brownell use
the high school auditorium. Shows
will be arranged so that all grade and
high school students can see the street
car pictures. On the last night the
show Will be thrown open to the
DnbTic
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-07
SIMPLE HOME TREATMENT
FOR RUPTURE
Free Trial and Demonstration
At National Hotel.

Rupture sufferers in and near to this city
will be given the opportunity of witness
ing most remarkable demonstration OF
what STUART'S PLAPAO-PADS do Tor
also begiven a liberal trial Of PLAPAO for
home treatment absolutely FREE.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-07
CONTRACT Is LET.
Kansas City Firm to Rebuild Argcn-
tine Car Shops.

The contract for the construction of
the Argentine car shops of the Santa
Fe, destroyed by fire last year, has
been let to the Central Concrete Con-
struction company of Kansas City, ac-
cording to an announcement made to-
day by r. A. Rutledge, chief engineer
of the Santa Fe eastern lines
The work will be completed in about
three months, if weather conditions
are favorable The contract amounts
to about $4,000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-07

Chicago, Jan. Miss Jane Adams
of Hull house, who was prevented by
illness from being a member of the
Ford peace expedition to Europe, left
today for Washington. D. c., to attend
the first annual meeting of the Wom-
ans Peace Party of America. With
Miss Adams were Mrs William l.
Thomas, S. Arthur Walther and Miss
Ella ]. AbeeL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-07
CAN'T FIND DANDRUFF

Every bit of dandruff disappears
after one or two applications of Dan
derine rubbed well into the scalp with
the finger tips. Get Il 25-cent bottle
of Danderine at any drug store and
have your hair. After a few applica-
tons you can't find a particle of dand-
ruff or any falling hair. and the scalp
will never itch.-Advertisemen
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-07
SHOWS DID NO DAMAGE.
Roads Report That Fall Was General
No Bad Drifts.

The SHOWS over Kansas and Missouri
did not tie up any railroad traffic. on
the Missouri division, the Santa Fe
reports the heaviest snowfall 1t was
general but not heavy enough to do
any damage.
The Rock Island had no trouble The
Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific re-
ported general snow but no bad drifts