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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-03-04
Germans Renew Tremendous
Efforts to Break Way
Through to Paris
FIERCE FIGHTING
ALONG WEST LINE
Britons Start an Offensive
Which Receivers Parts
Of Lost Trenches

! Paris, March 3. - The violent Ger
man offensive on verdun has been re
sumed, the fighting taking on an ex
tremely desperate character north o1
the French stronghold.
The Paris war Office claims that the
French repulsed all the German at
tacks, except the west Of FIT. Douau
, mont, the Germans reaching the vii
lage of Douamont where the struggle
is being continued.
Apparently the Germans have been
able to bring up some of their larger
pieces, for the French war Office hat
reported considerable increase in the
Intensity of the fire along the whole
front at Verdun, north and northwest
and along the Woevre region east and
southeast.
Significance may be attached to the
development Of heavy bombardment
of the French positions on La Mort
Homme (the dead MANI. This hill lies
a mile and half west of the bend in
the Meuse to the northwest of Verdun
from which 1t is eight miles distant
No infantry attack on this flank posi-
tion has yet been, reported. Renewal
Of the assaults are taking place in the
Douaumont region, on the northeast
front, where the French last night re-
ported Z German repulse.
Possible development of a German
movement in the Argonne still further
to the northwest Of the fortress Is in
dicated by the Paris report that the
French have directed a concentrated
fire on hostile positions there.
German military writer's are laying
stress on the large amount Of terri
tory wrested from the French in the
first week of the advance on verdun
pointing to the advantage which the
reduction of the defensive front of the
fortress gives the Germans for their
concentric artillery fire.
Britons Become Active.
Activity OF the British along the
front in Belgium has begun to attract
increased attention with the delivery
of the thrust which yesterday won
back for them the 800 yards OF
trenches they lost last month along the
Ypres- Confines canal. From various
sources have come accounts of heavy
artillery play along the User front
Comparative inactivity prevails on the
other war fronts.
On the Russian and Austro-1talian
fronts no notable changes have been
reported for several days.
The Russians are still maintaining a
strong offensive against the Turks in
Asia
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-03-04
SHEA FOR cHILE POST.

Washington, d. c., March 8. Jo-
seph H. Shea. of Seymour, Ind, was
nominated today by President Wilson
as ambassador to Chile. succeeding
Henry P. Fletcher, appointed ambas.
sador to Mexico. 5S
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-03-04
GERMAN REPORT.

Berlin. March g. = German troops
cleared the village Of Douaumont and
pushed their lines to the west and to
the south of the village and Of the
armored fort yesterday, according to
the official announcement issued today
by the German army headquarters
staff
The statement adds that more than
] 900 prisoners were taken and also
that number of heavy guns were cap
tlred.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-03-04
MORE SHIPS ARE SEIZED
Portuguese Answer German UItin,atum
BY confiscating Vessels IN
All Colonial Ports

London, March - Lloyds' agent at
Bombay reports that the Portuguese
flag has been hoisted on all the Ger
man steamers lying at Mormugao and
that the Germans who were aboard
have been interned at Panjim.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-03-04

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-11-27
Do Not Go On Stage Unless You Are
Willing to Deny Yourself, Says Actress

wise (outside Of the hours I spend
In the theater) / am MERELY
studying! No society diversions,
no anything.
So being a star doesn't seem 80
wonderful a thing to me now as 1t
did when / first decided upon my
stage career at the Joyous age of
Is.
BIT Their IS one joy in all this.
and the only sincere Joy believe
that of a thinking person can get
out of acting as a profession. And
this is the Joy that comes Of doing
good.
For making people happy IS
doing good. And ! will NOT act
In a play that doesn't make people
happy; in which the motives are
not constructive; in which there
does not emerge eventually a mes
sage of hope that after all Goods
in His heaven and all's right with
the world"
1t is this feeling-that In
my small way, / am a ''still,
small voice" telling a dark,
gray world that all is not IL
,lusiOn-that gives me strength
and courage to go on; GER
tainly 1t is not the original
motive had Mt is that keeps
me ION the stage''-the mo-
tive to wear bright dresses
and shining Jewels, to carry
from the foOtlights great
sheaves of roses anil tumul-
tuous applause! to be, in
short, a star whose name Is
on all tongues.
No, it is only this now
that what I have been given
shall be used in the one way
It ought to be used-to help
people believe In people!
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-11-27


Alice came running
us anything serious Margie?"
door, ~
Nothing but raging headache, darling replied
along Alice and be happy and don't
your wedding dinner in quite
right Only
as have had this afternoon"
Won't before York, Marge? You
know Pat and going there
I'm afraid not dear; but don't
the least bit about
and tell Pat I'll you
Alice went from the door up
letter from the desk and read
to the paragraph, Honestly Marg
woman that could live with daily weekly monthly
rs no other woman whom should
are both in that quiet place
You and in the graveyard quoted myself
then thought why anything to live for To-
days wedding has convinced find another
another wife with little trouble make happy
that another woman make Dick happier than
II
Life something love- book and when can
place of eternal rest there
may love and make his wives in the meantime.
This sound fppant little book, really
that To tell the truth have reached
that the farce about played out and 1t time
curtain
splendid resolves such great love- Oh little book
this there must
happy and conented husband wife
red life.
little book, Dick husband to
me-when back In the meantime winding
affairs with grand thrill before he settles down
responsibility
Why it, wonder that a for her
husband before she attractive
Be COntnued)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-11-27
BY Elsie Ferguson
FAMOUS AMERICAN ACTRESS.

Copyright, 1916, by Newspaper
Enterprise Association.)
There is no task master so rig
i'd In its likes and dislikes as the
great public. and 1t is almost al
ways more interested In the me-
dunn through which 1t beholds the
heroine of the modern drama
than in the heroine herself-more
interested in the actress than In
the characters they portray!
Therefore the girl who becomes
an actress must know that she Is
to deny herself all the lururies of
the appetites.
She must give upafter-midnight
dances, rich foods. devastating
emotions and things that wear the
nerves. the complexion and the
figure.
She must remain, at any cost,
the ideal" the public first knew
her as, and demands that she al
ways be!
l got my first notices" as the
ingenue type.
| must remain that suppose
forever! The public will associ-
ate me with no other kind of
heroine.
l must be eternally youthful.
with just the first, faint aroma of
sex about me.
What does this mean--in prac-
ticability? 1t means that I must
eat-yes, three times a day but
NOT three MEALS a day! Here is
how l eat to remain "the de-
manded medium:
Breakfast-Fruit and cof-
fee.
Lunch-Meat, two vegeta-
bles, salad and dessert.
Dinner-A nap.
Midnight Super-Bowl of
soup.
Also l walk five miles every
day and when l say five miles I
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-11-27
Deaths.


Mrs. Lydia e. Chezum, 81, res
ident of Tacoma 32 years, Sunday
at family home. Body at c. C.
Mellinger's.
Mrs. Mary N. Sinnock, 70. resi-
dent Of Tacoma 80 years, Sunday
in Seattle. Funeral at 3 d. m.
Tuesday from Buckley-King's.
Miss Annie Mynning, SO, Sun
day at local hospital. Body at
C.. G. Mellinger's.
Mrs. Louisa Hitler, 81, Sunday
at home of her son. A. e. Hitler,
3S0S 9Th ave. Funeral at Long
Branch Tuesday under direction
of G. o. Lynn.
Caswell Phelps, 20, Sunday at
family home 2014 9Th ave. Body
at G. G. Mellinger's.
Albert Rurdon, 2-months-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Tony Rur-
don, Saturday at Anacortes. Fu-
neral Monday morning from st.
Patrick's church.
Funeral of Paul Weckstrom
Monday afternoon from Buckley
Kings. Interment in Tacoma
cemetery.
Funeral of Proctor ]. Ferguson
at 2 p. m. Tuesday from George
w. Piper's. Interment Oakwotd
cemetery.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-11-27
ON CARE OF TREES

Inc iose Oh trees is as ancient as the human need OF
trees put their care is matter of of
the responsibility for the preservation of this
country should not be left entirely graduates of schools
OF agriculture Whoever has the
opporunythe prviege-of caring trees upon his
property and of planting others.
Probably trees would be better attention
the and Information
what do. The American
out these suggestions for late fall work,
Prune trees and the dead branches
Do whatever fall spraying be to
sucking scale
Prepare . compost Of leaf mold in a with
manure and SOIL This compost will o. great
value in all planting and gardening work.
Prune the roots Of the trees which to be
moved during the winter; base OF the
r1ee and fill the trench with straw.
Ia especially exposed places protect the rhododen-
drons and other tender plants and shrubs with
bouehs.
Trees DO not care but what they require
should be gfvel the right time
Of books about few would
make Fascinating of winter reading home.
some member OF the family would take little
provide them.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-11-27
S0cie ty
nd
Personal

Tacoma chapter, o. Il. S., will
meet Friday evening in Masonic
temple for election of officers.
Tacoma Moose circle will give a
card party at Moose hall Tuesday
evening.
Tacoma Review No. 1, w. Ii. Il.
T. NJ, will entertain with cards
and dancing Dec. 1 in Fraternity
hall.
The Ladies' Auxiliary, o. r.. O.,
will lentretain members and
friends at cards Tuesday after
noon at Odd Fellows hall.
The wOmen's auxiliary to the
Railroad Conductors will enter
tain members and friends at cards
Tuesday afternoon in Odd Fell
lows temple.
The Officers Council of the
Mothers Congress will meet FRI
day in the board of education
rooms In the Central school at 2
o'clock sharp.
The Ladies' Aid society of CAL
cary Presbyterian church will hold
Its annual bazaar In the church,
South d street and Division ave-
nue., next Tuesday. Dinner will
be served from 5 o'clock on.
The Seventh Ward w. O. T. u.
will meet tomorrow afternoon at
2 o'clock at the home of Mrs. L.
A. Blair, corner of South Pine and
Twelfth. A full attendance is de-
sired, as important business is to
come before the meeting.
~raE1
The Lowell School Child Study
club will meet at Rhodes at 8
o'clock Friday afternoon for a
pre-holiday program, dealing with
Christmas as 1t affects the little
folks. Mrs. Myron II. Houston
and Mrs. w. A. Reynolds will be
hostesses, assisted by Mrs. A. v.
Love and Mrs. Roland Bornek.
Mrs. G.. w. Cain will speak.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-11-27
FEEL fine! TAKE
"CASCARETS" FOR
LIVER, BOWELS
Spend 10 cents! Don't stay
bilious, sick, headachy,
constipated.
Can't harm you! Best ca
thartic for men, women
and children.

Enjoy life! Your system is fill
ed with an accumulation of bile
and bowel poison which keeps
you bilious, headachy, dizzy,
tongue coated, breath bad and
stomach sour-Why don't you get
a 10-cent box OF Cascarets at the
drug store and feel bully. Take
Cascarets tonight and enjoy the
incest, gentlest liver and bowel
cleaning you ever experienced.
You'll wake up with q clear head,
clean tongue, lively step, rosy
skin and looking and feeling fit.
Mothers can give a whole Cascaret
to sick. cross. bilious, feverish
child any time-they are harmless
grippe or sicken.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-11-27
WHAT NO. ~ is

we nave mad good many requests from Times
an explanation OF the ground by initiative
the nomerue measure that being circulated
No. 2S, the nonpartisan bill.
concise statement of the aims of former bill that
had been drafted by its friends hereby
The supreme court has decided that city councils
absolute control in the granting franchises
provisions which permit a referendum
and void Initiative referendum on
franchise grants possible in all cities and counties.
1T also gives local authorities sole regulate
hire
which left under the of
This home rule feature extent the diff
Guilty that every legislature in this state
ting legislation for the differing needs of the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-11-27
UNMARRIED FATHERS

The age-od problem children born of wedlock is
again receiving the attention people
grappled with it solved members of the
Equal Suffrage Association. Chicago paper This is
apropos of DR. Lucy Wates proposal
ilegitimae child the marriage bond give the
mother and child legal standing in the community.
Everybody who thinks straight must agree with DR.
Waite. but by what crookedness thinking
to make this reform peculiarly the burden women?
Every time make the assumption indicated above we
release few towards from the conscience
1t is only by placing the illegal child light its
economic relation to the state that
Ing to that they also suffer through present
Indifference and federation o unmarried fathers
Most Illegal children must be supported by the state
Taxpayers forced provide maintenance and
education.
Most married find 1t hard enough raise their own
children the living Sometimes
they limit the number offspring on account of
economic Meanwhile the rearing of
other mems unacknowledged children without protest.
When they discover that as taxpayers
and as phianthropss doing this all will
less tolerant of which. man and man they
have always winked
Evidently men who believe that wiring this
reform from the state altogether the tax which
the unmarried fathers married fathers pocket
books. f
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-11-27
WHY GUY KELLY?

An energetic revolt among legisators-elect
has broken out against the frame-up to elect Guy
Il. Kelly, of Tacoma, as speaker.
And why nota. Why honor Kelly, anyhow9
Not only does he drip with "wet" association
but also with the cheapest and pettiest kind Of
small politics.
Kelly was disturbing factor in the last legis-
lature and one of the men who brought it into
disrepute.
He belonged to and was dominated by the CO.
terie of statesmen" whose aim rose to no
higher level than to put the governor ''in hole"
because he was a democrat
He is today being sponsored by Jimmy Davis,
OF Tacoma whose claim to fame is allegiance to
booze interests and special privilege generally
Kelly himself is the man who tinkered with the
election laws and attempted to abridge the right
of the people to direct legislation. The over
whelming defeat of the referendum measures
should be sufficient proof of how the Kelly
brand of politics is looked upon by the people of
this state.
The state wants to stay dry. Why take
chance with Kelly as speaker?
The state does not want petty peanut politics.
Why, them consider Kelly9 He doesn't fit in for
leadership in dry, progressive state.
Nor is he the man to restore confidence in the
republican party, discredited in Washington by
men of the Kelly and Jimmy Davis stamp.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-11-27
SOUTH TACOMANS
ALL WROUGHT UP

South Tacomans are wroth over
the decision to eliminate their
branch library. 1t is said every
body will be encouraged to say
what he thinks, and suggest plans
for action, at a meeting Monday
evening under the auspices of the
South Tacoma Commercial and
Athletic club.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-11-27

Dear Miss Grey: I have
read your letters In The
Times, and cannot help
saying a few words to IN. r.
L." and | hope his wife will
read nay letter.
I wish to give my own ex-
perience and let them COM
pare it with theirs. We have
been married over three
years. l am 10, my husband
Is rs, and we have two chill
dren, a girl 2 years old and
a boy 2 months old. We pay
$1,000 per month for rent.
We pay for our piano in
monthly installments and
pay on debts contracted
while my husband was out
of work, which was about
half the time until the mid
die of last April. Since
then he has got his SIS per
week regularly, and we have
paid nearly up, and still we
put a little in the bank now
and then.
1t seems that Mrs. IN. r.
L." cannot take much in
terest in her husband and
home or she would do bet
ter. She should keep an az
count of all expenses and
every week go over them
with her husband, and to-
gether they should plan on
how much they could put
away. My husband and l
keep strict account of every
cent. OF course We don't
have much for fine clothes
and expensive amusements;
but We are as happy as can
be and our financial prob
lens are few.
MRS II NJ p
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-11-27
AUTHORS TELL WAR
STORY AT CHURCH

1.-THE White-Robed Stranger" q
story of the war, written by Mr..
and Mrs. William Morton Ras-
mus, dramatic Biblical readers,
was presented by the authors at
Mason Methodist church Sunday
|evening.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-11-27

To live with small seek elegance rather
rather than fashions worthy
ropectabe study hard think quietly talk
babes
cheerfuly all bravely await
spiritual unbidden and
through the comnonhs to be symphony
e-W Henry Claiming
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-11-27

My heart stopped beating. ct can't
go to dinner with them, can't, can't"
cried Historically.
1t seemed to me could not possibly
sit down to the table with those two men,
listen to their compliments, pretty speeches
and congratulations on my renewed health,
knowing all the while that they knew
that Dick was at that very moment dining
with another woman.
l quickly undressed and got into bed.
Then ] sent for a messenger to get word
to Alice that / did not feel we'll enough to
dine with them Az I WAS SIRE sha would
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-11-27

u course 1t lis Of business II the
Kaiser would galOp straight our military
Tapping and spank going sleep the
DWttch.-GavestOn Daily - -
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-11-27

As understand Colonel Roosevelt during q
president in
Of because the afraid Of hi-es
u0nes Register.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-11-27

Q.-What is a young man
to do when he is escorting
a girl whom he likes very
much, and tries to show q
good time whenever he can
afford to do SO; but the
mother of the girl always
seems to find an invitation
to go? l cannot always at
ford to pay her way, but she
thinks she must go and she
wants me to pay her way.
II you can give q satisfac-
tory answer for this, / will
consider 1t great favor.
A. s.
Alt is the girls duty to re-
lieye you of this embarrassing
II she will not explain
to her mother, you must
either do SO, or cease acting ~
the girls escort.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-11-27

Europe's making Twin more expensive in America
but worth if.-Chicago Daily News.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-11-27

Apparently the Mexican joint commission
hurng he negotiations
ore paying the hotel blIs-Des Mones Register.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-11-27

Gould you tell me
Thomas A. Edison's home
address? My father and Mr..
Edison were born and raised
in the same town and went to
school together. My father
has been dead five years
and business makes 1t nee
essary that l should find
out just where he was born
and raised. G. p.
AIR. EdisOns' home address
IS Llewellyn Park, Orange, N. ].
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-11-27
Local Improvement District No. 5OO7.
Third Annual Installment.
To Whom Assessed:

Local Improvement District No. 1877.
install Iment.
SECOND SCHOOL
j. r Madison .......No " Blk 1ss 9447 2ss
Local Improvement District No 50N6
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-11-27
MARClE DESPAIRS OFLlFE
after DICKS IHFIDELITY

mo- time, - ~--
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-11-27
|CYNTHIAI
GREY'S
LETTE RS

Q.-Can l wear a suit and
pretty waist to a dance?
ELEANOR.
Alt would be more apprO-
pirate to wear dress even
though IL be very simply made.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-11-27

Tacoma chapter, o. Il. s., will
meet Friday evening in Masonic
temple for election of officers.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-11-27

Tacoma Review No. 1, w. Ii. l..
T. M, will entertain with cards
and dancing Dec. 1 in Fraternity
hall.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-11-27

Tacoma Moose circle will give q
card party at Moose hall Tuesday
evening.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-11-27

The Ladies' Auxiliary, o. r. O.,
will lentretain members and
friends at cards Tuesday after
noon at Odd Fellows hall.
The Alaska daily empire., 1916-04-25
STRIKE IS
 CALLED AT
 ANCHORAGE

ANCHORAGE. April 25-rhc strike called Saturday afternoon by the AL aska Labor Union against the Alas. ka Engineering Commission has talk en on most serious aspect
 So great has become the tension that soldiers from Fort Liscum have been sent for and some will leave that place on the Aleska Wednesday.
 Judge Fred M Brown and J. J. Munley assistant district attorney arc now enroute here in response to Q cablegram sent by District Attorney Spence.
 The nrst blood ln the labor trouble was shed when Q carpenter, going to work for the Alaska Engineering Commission this morning hit George Baker, @ member of the strike com mittee over the wrist with the tooth part of a saw. Deputy Marshal Anderson. who was on the scene. grabbed Baker and pulled him out of the reach ot V second swing Of the saw which would have struck him on the head. Two small tend. ons Of Bakers wrist were cut, noth- Ing serious
 Opinions differ as to who started the trouble. Eye witnesses say that Baker did not attack the carpenter but others claim he grabbed the man and the trouble started. Both were arrested.
 The Alaska Labor Union will hold parade this afternoon at 2 o'clock.
 Public sentiment condemns the la- bor comisslon sent here from Wash ington for not making an attempt to settle the trouble So far as is known the members are making ab- solutely no attempt to pacify the trouble. They say they are here to do certain things and will do them if 1t takes all summer.
 The Alaska Labor Union will ham de the commercial freight from the steamers when they arrive but will not discharge any freight of the En- gineerlng Commission.
 Nearly an the laborers in the rail- road yards have quit but the skilled men are not walking out to any ex- tent About fifty per cent have struck.
 The commission lhs posted notices treating as trespassers any who go into the railroad yards across ship Creek from here