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TOM SPRING

Tomorrow will be the 121st anniver- sary of, the birth of Tom Spring, one of the greatest champions in prize ring history. It was nearly century ago that Tom was in his prime, and it is interesting to compare the coin he fought for with that demanded by Jess Willard and other modern champs. In Springs great battle with Jack Carter, which attracted 25,0o0 people, the stakes were $750 a side. He fought Bob Burn for $500, and whipped Tom Oliver for the same sum. His cham pionship battle with Bill Neat was for $1. .0OoO a side. Spring got $2,500, out Of which he had to pay his expenses, for whipping Jack Langan. the pride of Ireland, in a. bare-knuckle contest which lasted seventy-two rounds. Throughout his ring career, in which he demonstrated that he was one of the greatest fighting men the game has ever had, Tom Spring received less money than Willard demands for a ten-round glove exhibition. In those days tremendous sums were often wagered on fights by the dead game sports, but of the vast amounts that changed hands very little reached the pockets of the fighters.
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The Hoars of Concord

This is the centenary of one of the many famous sons of old Concord, Ebenezer Redwood Hoar, jurist and statesman, and a scion of one of the most distinguished families of the historic Massachusetts town. Eben- ezer was the son of Samuel Hoar lawyer and Congressman. an tshe elder brother of the late George F'risb1e Hoar, long a leader in the United States Senate.
 Samuel Hoar. the father of Eben- ezer Redwood and George Frisb1e, was a native of the Bay State, and, after graduating from Harvard, began the practice of law in Concord. After serving in the state Senate he was elected to Congress as a Whig in 1885, He was engaged by the Massachusetts legislature in 1S44 to go to South Car oIina to test the constitutionality Of the acts of that state, authorizing the imprisonment of free colored people who should enter it. The proud peo- pie of the Palmetto state, bitterly re- senting what they considered the inn pertinence of the Yankees in interfer- ing in matters which did not concern them prepared to give the Bay State emissary a warm reception. Hoar was driven from Charleston by an inr furiated mob and expelled from the
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state by the legislature. Samuel Hoar died in Concord in 1856.
 The mother of Ebenezer and George Frisbte Hoar was a daughter of Roger Sherman, the cobbler who became lawyer and judge, and who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, a document which he helped to draft. According to Jeffer- son, Roger Sherman never said a foolish thing in his Iife''-a statement which, if true, entities Sherman to rank with that, other eminent states man who never told lie. Ebenezer Hoar, like his father before him and sion in Concord. He was a justice of his brother after him, was educated at Harvard. and, also like his father, began the practice of the legal prOfes- the Massachusetts Supreme Court from 1859 to 1869, and in the latter year he entered the cabinet of Preei- deat Grant as Attorney Gene<2I- 1LIe retired from the cabinet in 1870, but soon afterward was made a member of the joint high commission which framed the treaty of Washington, which decided many matters at issue between the United States and Can ada. He was a member of Congress from 1873 to 1875, when he retired from public life. He d-9d in Concord in 1S9b. George F'risbie IIoar. 10 years the junior of E1benezer, was United States Senator from 1877 until his death in 1904.
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PROHIBITION FOR NEwFoUNDLANo

ID PROHIBITION SCORES victory Newfoundland which with the adjacent settled portions dry December 3d Newfoundland island governing colony Brans portion its jurisdiction 900 miles, than twice the of New England
 population of 50O0O twenty-five thousand ballots in favor prohibition five thousand against habants Newfoundland hardy fishermen a life full of peril danger They the ity which this section the world would thought likely to register for prohibition.
 The movement of slow growth. early fishermen drinkers option community after another dry, until at last the cepting comparatively persons icy of total abstinence The Newfoundland prohibition the drastic prohibits ture and sale, as we'll as the importation of spirits
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GENERAL ToWNsHEND

Gen. Charles We're Ferrers Towns hend, commander of the British forces invested at Kut-e1-Amara, in Mesopo- tamia, was born ffty-five years ago today, Feb. 21, 1881. He. is the cousin and heir r-presumptive of the sixth Mar qufs of Townshend, and comes of an i1lustrious family, one of his ancestors having commanded at the surrender of Quebec after the death of Wolfe.
 It has been just two months and half since Gen. Townshend's troops were isolated at Kut-e1-Anara, after the Generals masterly retreat from the ervirons of Bagdad. Kut was chosen
 by Townshend as a place to make a stand because of it's strategic value.
 1Il his retreat he took with him 2. l11 Turkish prisoners as well as hundreds of the sick and wounded of his own foy ce. His experiences in the little Arab town, witb temporary hospitals filled with suffering men, must when fully told make a thrilling and terri b1e chapter in the history of the world war. If he had received proper rein Agreements and supplies Gen. Towns hc1.d would doubtless have taker Bag dad, for he Was on the very friHgesc
 O. the city when the failure of his colleagues forced a retreat. Gen. Tcwnshend Is tl4e great-great gra n7s,1r1 of the celebrated warrior who fought a+ Quebec, Fontenoy and Cullodeu. His IaJneF was a sort or Dlack sheep C1 the TownShel.d clan, and marrie,i a
 woman who had been a circus per former. Gen. Townshend began his active military career in 1884; when he served with camel regiment in the
 desert fighting in Egypt. He cou1- manded the garrison of ChitraI Fort during the siege, for which he was highly honored by the government of India. He also served sgallantly in
 South Africa. Gen. Townshend mar ried an heiress. Alice, daughter of Count Cahen <d'Anvers, the Paris
 banker, and if he survives the present Marquis of Townshend, who is a
 dwarf, he will be financially able to
 restore the fallen fortune of the family.
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Brander Matthews, GA Today, Apostle of
 Simplified Spelling

Brander Matthews, dramatist, es- sayist, critic. university professor and l apostle of simplified spelling, was
 born in New Orleans sixty-four years ago today, Feb. 21, 1852. In his young manhood he was admitted to the bar, after graduating from Co., lumbia University with the degrees of A. B., LL- B., and A. M, but he soon turned to literature, and attain
 ed international fame as an author
 and as professor of dramatic litera- ture, at his alma mater. Prof. Mat thews has won wide recogniti on | abroad as we'll as at home, and receiv- ed the decoration of the Legion of Honor from the French government. When the Simphfed Spelling board was organized ten years ago by An 1 drew D.. White, Andrew Carnegie, Mark Twain, Col. Roosevelt, Thomas Wentworth Higginson and other dis tinguished men, Prof. Matthews was
 since he has been considered the chief apostle of the movement for re- forming the orthography of the Eng fish tongue.
 Summing up the results of the pro-
 paganda carried on by the board dur ing the first decade of it's existence, Prof. Matthews says that about 200 newspapers and periodicals now use
 some or all of the simpler spellings advocated by the board. Among
 these are about forty daily newspa- pers with a daily circulation of more than four millions. The Literary Di-
 gest, The Independent. and other per iodica1s of general circulation, are also among the converts.
 Prof Matthews and his associates have been equally successful in con vincing college men of the desira- biIity of the simp1ified spelling re-
 form. About a hundred colleges, un- iversities and normal schools encour- age or permit the simpler speIlings. The central and middle western states appear to be most hospita-ble to the movement, and among the institutions which have admitted the simple spell ings are the universities of, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Minnesota, Ne
 braska, South Dakota and North Da-
 kota.
 To rid spelling of it's useless com p1exities, Prof. Matthews believes, will be to lift a. great burden from
 the minds of young people, and of foreigners who find the English lam guage painfully difficult because of tour chaotic spelling.
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Fairfield Civic Asso.
 will Dance Tuesday

The members of the Fairfield Civic association will hold a dance Wash ington's Birthday, at o'clock, in Sherman's hall, Fairfield Invitations have been sent out by the members to their friends
 Any member wishing more tickets may obtain them from the committee or at the door. The hall has been deliberately decorated for the occa- sfon Refreshne ents5 will be served during the evening. Hutchinson's s full orchestra will furnish music. The committee is J. I. Flint, l. H. Mac Bride. B. L. Tarlton and H. H. Hen
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THE STRIKE IN ANsONIA

HEY HANDLE strikes very badly in the Naueatok Val demand for pay by baron the a4th century when of his serf away other town
 With respect to the sources of publicity which so ably serve the Naugauok Valley the strike Company plant exhibition of mob spirit but of hny organized American purpose to get pay
 or five thousand persons who joined in the strike speak several languages Some place the number SIX or seven Perhaps never in the history of their stay in this country had these men been remote from the mob spirit spite of their diverse which confusion they might subject them to much distress
 They to have conducted their speed published reports what took place confused as they are tn the vague errors Of naoclstomed emplover one needs io read carefully to that the strike really managed
 only thing in the nature of a casually was sust inc by General Moody somebody him and he painfully bruised That is say, eye or something of the kind inflicted perhaps attempted to meet the situation undipomacay possibly by somebody who took advantage of situation to work out anei mt
 At any rate, up and down sipging the songs peculiar to the language of the several they assembled in meeting and appointed mitee to present their to their employers
 In the meantime these employers were snding out hurry up calls for police protection and of them made demand Governor Holcomb to have the militia called to commit that folly N
 Ansonia employers Governor Holcomt has saved them from the of their ndcretion, will remain passves the sense of the strikers will probably settle the dispute within hours
 The very simple. Naugatuck Valley Mills rolling in work which they have taken high price Help growing sky high workers sec ing all of this prosperity their strike The to settle the strike to let the workers the ground floor, just Bridgeport
 Brdgeport4has been through the mill It the ton terrible Employers down this way regard themselves having feuda rights in their fellow citizens workers Employers in this part of Connecticut admit the right strike They admit the validity of the collective bargain They willing the should bargain through accept abI m
 Consequently disputes ten times the agnude of that Ansona settled here within days Bridge port growing is making and is gradually to her indusresth best help
 The Naugatuck Valley might well learn that labor 0 Andn What the Naugauck Valley ying higher but losing it's picked and skilled ablest through the competition employers progressive and with better knowledge labor tions brass and it's products be along the lines lowered stationary for labor So let's settle the lines, the and prosperous state States.
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SEEING BLACK

nopo top tandp the erghtso the to ebeenta tn An beenin
 
 anl-C Courier. fI
 Nonsense! A few thousand workers taking little vacation while they negotiate for All the sonia represented by the black optic ndscreet upper servant who got poke in the something of hat kind MT Meen's management of the New Haven monopoly had of anarchy it. mob rule, threat institutions than Connecticut
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THREE FIRES YESTERDAY.

The fire apparatus of this city was called to three fires yesterday. Early yesterday morning a chimney fire in the hom estead of Henry A. Bishop was extinguished without material damage Gasoline on the floor of James Coughlin's garage at 72 Drew place, ignited, but was extinguished without damage to property. An in secure gas mantle fell upon the bed of Mrs Frank sharon, 28 Leberty street, last night, doing $50 worth of damage.
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uTNEy HTTs DEMERGJAN,

Nicholas Stack, aeresident> of Water street is a patient in St. Vincent's hospital today, suffering a possible fracture of the left leg. He walked from behindw a trolley car into the path of a jitney driven by George Demergjan, 1902 Map1ewood avenue, by which he was struck. Demergjan reported the incident at police head quarters.
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PHYSICIANS REFUTE
 BELIEF OF POISONING

Physicians in Bridgeport hospital said that alcoholism was the cause of the illness of Miss Elizabeth Fry, a maid in The Stratf1e1d hotel, and not poisoning, when she was brought to the hospital Saturday night The po- lice also investigated and have come to the same conclusion. She was found in what apepared to be a serious condition in one of the rooms of the hotel
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since the war began.

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 contemporary looking things through magnify when it if this strike which just ordinary Tt differs the European only in it's locality and dimensions"
 What perfect nonsensei Who is shot wounded? left the works they good naured They and paraded They meeting raised negotiate with the employers Where is the in Where is the tragedy? What has happened to usually intelligent sensible contemporary to make it foolish terrors. and unwarranted comedy
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This being Motor Week

Much attention will be given to Motor Goats, Hats, Ves and other apparel together with such accessories needed for the road. Warm Goats models of exclusive style including several designs by Poiret and Paquin-
 Frs for the open car Sweaters, Silk Vests that are padded Scarves and the long protective Ves of chiffon
 Second floor Travelling Cases Luncheon Kits and Baskets incud- ing all fittings for ncheons the road Thermos Bottles, Boxes and Carrying Cases
 Basene
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Piles Cured in to 14 Days Druggists refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure Itching. Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles. First application gives relief. soc.
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New and Artistic Pottery
 stWelIer Muskota''

Some beautiful Pottery has arrived in the shape of Flower Bowls Vases tall Candlesticks Bird Baths Along with it quaint little pottery Birds which may be attached the of bowls win bit of clay
 In dull shades of blue, green and gray Ideal for the loggia conservatory.
 In the bas
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-21

Charles Barrett, captain of last years Cornell varsity team, twice chosena, member of the AlI-American eleven, has been dropped from the university because of poor scholar
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Palm Beach Pongee

This rich and heavy Pongee, every thread pure silk will win it's way directly to the notice of woman in elegant distinctive fabric for coats and inch-wide stripes, rose emerald, cerise old blue with the natural sShantung color.
 S250 40 inches wide Evenly striped Rainproof Very distinctive slk Section nain floor
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New Patterns at the Art Section
Evenly striped

Ceners, oval designs for stitch, in sizes, 7, 9, and 12 to 54 inches
 -7s1ST9 Scarf to match 75 cts FudGe Aprons new coors new patterns, 50 cts Centers, butterfly basket, buebird, all sizes nfoSsil An' ~ p pa'or sc9rffpi's M f - . ts 75 cts
 pillow slip 5O cts Con,hnn Jacket of buck. 50 cts -7 The department very attractive, and see,
 lain door east
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Handkerchiefs, Boys

White Hemstitched, all linen, 10 cts $ for D cts
 Better quality, cCs Borders, all linen, Is cts, z Tor 70 GUS Xxzover, Colored Borders 5 10 cts Boy Scout Handlerchiefs, box of three, 25 cts
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Silk Floss Mattresses

During this weeks sale up to closing time Saturday the 26 sha in connection with the sale of Brass Beds offer famous satisfactory Silk Floss Mattress which priced all other times at $40o and considered very well worth that sum- for
 S1l75
 This mattress made of the finest grade of silk hoss n either parts, and covered with the best quality of ticking Considering the present unsettled state of the market and the fact that prices all needed commodities soaring sward without notice every day the rises the Read House very pleased to offer these household furnishings at reasonable prices such prices as it is feared cannot be duplicated.
  This week.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-05-13
SUEz CANAL IN
SERIOUS PERIL
SHARP RAIDS BY OTTOMAN CON-
MANDERS MAY BE ExPEc.
TED ANY TIME
ny A.-ocInted Pre...l

Carlo, Egypt, May 49, Serious
Turkish attacks on the Suez Canal
and Egypt, with the coming OF the hot
weather and the drying up of many of
the desert water-holes, are now said
to be only remote possibility though
sharp raids may, il is thought by the
allied military authorities, be attemp-
ted by the Ottoman commanders.
Turkish troops are still on the Sin
al peninsula, an arid tract of Egypt
ian territory lying between the Suez
Canal and the nominal boundary of
Turkey in Asia, stretching across from
Rata on the Mediterranean to Akaba
on the gulf Of the same name forming
an arm of the Red Sea They are,
however, the object of repeated OBJ
servation on the part of allied airmen.
and accommodating parties have kept
in touch with them and made them
selves fully acquainted with their dis
positions. Only recently the occupa-
ton by allied troops of Jaffa, about
sixty miles to the east of the Suez
Canal. placed an obstacle in what
would have to be the main line of a
Turkish advance towards the canal
This runs from FL Audja to Ismailia.
Two other practicable routes lead
from the Turkish positions across the
desert sands towards Egypt proper
! The first runs almost parallel with
/ the Mediterranean coast line from RIA
! Ia through El Arish and Katia to f.
Kantara. but some time ago the Katis
district with its water supply came
into the allies possession and render
ed difficult any attempt by the Turks
( to force their way along the cana
banks and Port Said
The second remaining line of posi-
BILE approach is further to the soutl
from Akaba by way Of the oasis of f
| Hassana towards Suez. 1t was thi
oasis, occupied by Turks and Aral
horsemen, which was bombarded b,
allied airmen In March.
Nothing Is permitted to be recorde'
Of the preparations made by the allie
to meet any effort at Turkish offer
sive movement
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-05-13
SUBMARINES MAY
STARvE ENGLAND
ovee a BILLION AND A HALF
IMPORTED EVERY YEAR
INTO BRITAIN

LONDON. May 3.-ilostile submar-
ines have been sinking each week
about 60 coo tons OF shipping with the
rseularity OF clockwork and the con
seauent scarcity OF tonnage is causing
,he Englsnmen TO LOOK forward to a
,ood crisis in This country which is be
reyed by many to be not far off.
About $1,50O.o00,0O0 worth of food
has TO be brought TO these shores
every wear. In normal times, with the
helm of neutral shipping, the British
mercantile marine can just about man
,oa II But not now he underwriters
view is that the odds against making
a safe passage are more than ten
fines as great as before the war; and,
with the Increase of enemy submar-
mos so the odds increase, neutral
shipping becomes more and more shy
~ eutering British waters, and food
hecomes scarcer and dearer.
Estimates of the 1916 crop in for
Dion countrieS are not encouraging
and The question is raised as TO whe-
ther the foreigner is in a position to
supply the demands here even II con
ditions we're normal. The following
shows the decrease in wheat land es.
timated by the international Agricul-
mral institute for 1916: Canada, l4.s
per cent; United States, ll.s per cent
and France SO per cent. In other
countries the decrease is said to be
in the same proportion.
Although every effort has been made
TO remedy the situation by giving up
all available land to crop raising, the
British Board Of Agriculture has been
hampered by lack OF labor. True, thou
sands Of women have replaced men
called to the colors hut the board
finds that they are not sufficient 70
utilize the land TO the full.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-05-13
WORTHLESS MEDICINE
SOLO BY GRAFIERS
sERBlANs WcTiMiZGD BY GROSS
FRAUDS IN FURNISHING HOS
PITAL SUPPLIES


NISH, Siberia. May IT, Huge sup
plies of medicines furnished the Serbs
long ago by the Italians, and found
here by the Bulgarians recently, nave
on examination been declared to De
badly falsified 80 badly as to be abso-
lutely worthless as medicines. Five
hundred quinine tablets, for instance,
proved to contain no trace of quinine;
other medicines" supposed to con
tain various ingredients were found
to possess little more than magnesia
and chalk; disinfectant tablets label.
led as containing specific quantities OF
certain chemicals proved to have only
a small percentage of the labelled dis
infectants.
Bulgarian doctors. in eondemning
the entire lot OF medicine as having
little If any value, have forbidden theiI
use by the Bulgars
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-05-13
MINER COMMITS SUICIDE
BY SHOT GUN ROUTE

Andrew Jackson. one Of the leasers
on the Nevada Bunkerhill property at
Bullion. committed suicide this morn
ing al eight o'clock by blowing the top
OF his head off with shot gun.
He was seen leaving his cabin with
the gun across his shoulder, and soon
after shot was heard from up the
canyon. He had entered the portal
of the big tunnel. and placing the
muzzle Of the gun against his fore
head. blew his soul into eternity.
Flko Free Press,
reeted TO the president and to con
gross. so he advised his VISITORS t'
present the matter direct TO Washing
ton.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-05-13
Application No. $500
Notice OF Application for Permission
10 Appropriute the Public Waters
of the Stnfe of NeyndR

Notice is hereby given that on the
18th day of April. 1916, in accordance
with section SO, Chapter 140. of the sta
tutes OF 1913. the Clay Springs Cattle
Company, corporation. of Indian
Springs, County OF Clark. and state OF
Nevada made application to the state
Engineer of Nevada for permission to
appropriate the public waters. OF the
State Of Nevada. Such appropriation Is
to be made from Cane Springs, at q
point on unsurveyed land, approximate
ly in the NWh of NWh of Sec. 20.
T 10 s. r. 81 T., NJ. ID. b. & NJ, by means
Of an open cut and Y cubic feet per
second Is to be conveyed to n point on
ursurveyed land, approximately in the
NWh of NWh of Sec. 23, T 13 5: II
So t.. NJ. ID. b. a. NJ. by means of pipes
and troughs and there used for stock
and domestic purposes. Water not to
be returned to stream.
(SignedD w. NJ KEAENEY,
State Engineer
Date of first publication, Apr. %. 1916
Date of last publication. May 20, 1916