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GENERAL.

A gift Of 100000 has been coAtrib-
uted by the Rockefeller foundation to
the commission for relief in Belgium.
Consul Lorrie reported to the State
Department the unwarned sinking Of
the Portuguese bark Argo, New Or
leans to London.
Efforts Of American farmers to
bring this years winter wheat crop to
record production for war time needs
apparently have been defeated by Sc
we're weather conditions and a crop of
only 430,000,00O bushels is now ex-
pected.
Capt. Alfred A. Fritzen pleaded
guilty In United States District Court
In New York to having conspired with
Capt. Hans Tauscher to blow up the
Welland canal and was sentenced to
eighteen months In the federal prison
at Atlanta, Ga.
A cablegram received In New York
by the Belgian relief commission stat.
ed that the commissions steamship,
Anna Fostenes, which left New York
March 3. via Halifax. with a $3.50, 900
cargo Of foodstuffs, for Rotterdam,
had been sunk.
Pro-American sentiment is spread.
ing rapidly in Mexico and Gen. Car.
ranza Is reported to be considerins
routing all Germans out Of the Mexi.
can army. according to information
sent to Washington by United States
Consul Johnson in Matamoros.
United States armed forces seized
all German ships In all American
ports Friday-ninety-one vessels. II
was Americas first act Of war.
A Columbia, Tenn. dispatch says
Andrew J. Armstrong. q negro, is In
custody upon the charge Of rebellion
and treason In default Of $4,000
bond.
Tho engagement was announced in
Boston Of Miss Grace lockwood, only
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas 81
John Lockwood Of that city, to Archi-
bald Roosevelt, third son Of Theodore
Roosevelt.
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country where he can buy land rrvln
5000 to 5000 an acre, which viii
produce as big or bigger crops as those
he has been accustomed to from lands
at $4,000 an acre. He wants this
land where social conditions will be
attractive to himself and his family,
and where he can look forward with
confidence to being In a few years In
dependent and well started on the
road to financial success.
All these conditions he will find In
Western Canada, and nowhere else.
The provinces Of Alberta, Saskatche-
wan and Manitoba. commonly called
western Canada" provide the one
and only answer to the land-hungry.
The land is here; 1t Is the kind Of
land he wants; the conditions are as
nearly ideal as is possible, and the
prices and terms are such that the
man Of moderate capital has an op-
portunity not available to him else
where.-Advertisement.
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SPORT.

The stakes which will be raced for
during the 1917 season In Austria and
Hungary will aggregate $4,000. 900.
Buck" Sterzer. who pitched for
Denver Club Of the Western League
last year and the year before. is q
free agent. He was handed his un-
conditional release by "Hughie" Jones,
owner.
The board of stewards Of the Inter
collegiate Rowing Association. by a
telegraphic vote. declared off the In
tercollegiate regatta set for Pough.
keepsie Thursday, June 81. on account
Of the war.
Northwestern University won the
440-yard intercollegiate swimming
race in the tanks Of the Chicago Ath-
letic Association. Only Northwestern
swimmers participated in the event.
The time was 1858 As, said to be 4
new intercollegiate record, the former
record, 400 3-5, being held by Yale.
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WASHINGTON.

Mammoth loan to allies is plan Of
administration.
Committee Of Congress hears war
plans from Secretary Baker.
The Senate military affairs commit.
tee decided to recommend the immedi-
ate passage of the $27S,O0O,0 900 army
appropriation bill.
The War Department cancelled the
schedule under which civilian training
camps were to be established this
summer throughout the country.
Herbert c. Hoover will be asked by
the Council of National Defense to
head q national committee on food
supply and prices, to stimulate pro-
duction and to prevent speculative
prices.
German brutality and vandalism
among women and children. young and
old. in their retreat through northern
France, were arraigned In scathiny
terms by Ambassador Sharp 1t Paris
in dispatch to the State Department.
A great. nationwide supply system,
with central depots and warehouses in
all the principal cities Of the United
States. has been organised by the
American Red Cross TO forward and
distribute al gifts and comforts for
American troops and military hospi.
tails.
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Up to Date.
Sunday School Teacher-WilllA who
was born In Bethlehem
Willie-Charles NJ. Schwab.
PROVEN SWAMP.ROOT
AIDS WEAK KIDNEYS

The symptoms Of kidney and bladder
troubles are often very distressing and
leave the system in rundown condition.
The kidneys seem to suffer most, q a.
most every victim complains Of lame back
and urinary troubles which should not b
neglected, as these danger signals often
lead to dangerous kidney troubles.
DR.. Kilmer's Swamp Root which soon
heals and strengthens the kidneys b .
splendid kidney, liver and bladder rem
edy, and, being an herbal compound, has
. gentle healing effect on the kidneys,
which is almost Immediately noticed h
most casee by those who use it.
A trial will convince anyone who may
be in need Of It. Better get . bottle from
your nearest drug store, and start treat
ment at once.
However, IL You wish frst TO test this
great preparation send ten cents 10 DR..
kilmer 4 Co., Binghamton, N. r., for .
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper. Adv.
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Boila Carbuncles, Enlarged nlands.
eases, from common blotch Or eruption
to scrofula, are benefited BY It.
In building up needed flesh and
strength Of pale, puny, scrofulous child
ren, nothing can equal It In liquid or
FOR GOOD HEALTH AND LONG LlFH
Do not eat meat more than once day.
Drink plenty Of pure water, exercise ont
doors, and take pleasant laxative u
least once week. Such one Is made
Of May-apple, root Of jalap, juice Of
aloes, sugar coated. and first made up
and sold as DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets
Fifty years ago.
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FOREIGN.

Conditions In Spain have become
normal again.
Thirty.four are killed In explosion
Of mine in British Columbia.
United States finds cause worthy Of
her traditions declares Lloyd George.
Kaiser orders that drafts Of proposed
constitutional reforms be submitted to
him.
The Lafayette Flying Corps, COM
posed Of American aviators, has shot
down thirty German airplanes. accord
ing to = semi-official Paris communi.
cation.
The complete text Of President VII.
sons message arrived In Berlin BY
wireless. After q careful study the
foreign office declared that there win
be no official reply.
President Wilson'S message align
ing the United States with the nations
fighting against Germany was warmly
welcomed and unanimously acclaimed
by the British people.
The French Cabinet at a meeting
presided over by President Poincare,
decided to have President Wilson's
war message to Congress posted on all
public billboards In France.
A Vienna telegram says that 1t is Of.
ficially announced that 6.234,610,000
kronen have been raised rs q result OF
the fifth Austrian war loan. The new
money is said to be 4.4G4, &c., 900 lro-
men.
The Norwegian steamer Camilla,
with cargo Of corn for the Belgian
relief commission. according to a Reu-
ter dispatch from Copenhagen, has
been sunk without warning, with tho
loss Of two lives.
Minister Of Justice Kerensky said In
an interview at Petrograd that II the
German people would follow the Rus
sian example and dethrone their en-
peror. I'VE offer the possibility Of pre-
liminary negotiations"
A herd OF nine American buffaloes
obtained from Hagenbeck In Ham
burg. has Just been taken to Sweden
through the efforts Of Prof. c. v. Hart
man of the ethnographic department
Of the royal museum.
President Wilson's appeal for dem-
ocracy in Germany seemingly has Gre
ated much apprehension In conserva-
tive circles in Germany. judging by
the energy with which the nationalist
and reactionary newspapers are cam
paigning against It.
France and America shook hands
across the sea. In every school in
the French republic teachers read to
their pupils two historic speeches.
that Of President Wilson to Congress
and that made by Premier Rlbot In
Parliament, greeting the United States
a. IN ally.
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HAIR MEANS
DANDRUFF IS ACTIVE
Save Your Hairl Get q rs Cent Bottle
Of panderine Right Now-AIso
Stops Itching Scalp.

Thin, brittle, colorless and scraggy
hair is mute evidence of q neglected
scalp; Of dandruff-that awful scurf.
There is nothing SO destructive to
the hair as dandruff. 1t robs the hair
Of Its luster, Its strength and Its very
life; eventually producing a feverish-
ness and itching Of the scalp. which
II not remedled causes the hair roots
to shrink, loosen and die-then the
hair falls out fast. A little Danderine
tonlght-now-any time-will surely
save your hair.
Get a 25 cent bottle Of Knowlton's
Danderine from any store. and after
the first application your hair will
take on that life. luster and luxuriance
which Is 10 beautiful. It will become
wavy and fluffy and have the appear
ance Of abundance; an Incompatible
gloss and softness, but what will
please you most will be after Just 4
few weeks use. when you will actual
ly see lot Of fine. downy hair-new
hair-growing all over the scalp. Adv
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CONDENSED RECORD or THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, Dol N q ., ACHIEVE.
MENTs, suFFERlNcs. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND,
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR.

German raider reported off Atlantic
coast.
Cuba declares war on Germany and
SEXES ships.
President Wilson issued war procla.
nation Friday.
Interned German ship at Guam Is
blown up by crew.
French make notable gain on six
mile front near st. Quentin.
Republic Of Panama resolves to as
sist the United States In war.
Army and navy being pushed to In
creased efficiency and number
Government orders arrest OF sixty
alleged German plot ringleaders.
Germans again lombard Rheims.
dropping 1880 shells within the city.
In operations near Ronsscy. ten
miles north Of st. Quentin. Field Mar
shal Haigs men have captured Lem
pire.
German positions In the region Of
Lombartxyde. Belgium. were penetrat-
ed at two points. the Paris war office
announces.
Under blue Easter sky, British avi.
ators BY the hundreds continued their
work Of reestablishing their suprem.
acy In the air.
French violently lombard German
lines at st. Quentin and to the south.
Attempts to recover lost trenches fail.
according to Berlin.
British troops report gains made
near st. Quentin, between Sslencya
and Jeancourt. Seventeen successful
raids carried out against enemy air
dromes.
The German successes at the To
boly bridgehead on the Stokhod In
Volhynia are reported by Berlin 70
have resulted in the capture Of 1870
Russian officers and $500 men.
Sinking without warning Of the un-
armed American steamer Missourian.
which left Genoa. April 1, with thirty.
two Americans among her crew of
fifty-three, was reported to the State
Department by Consul General Wilbur
at Genoa.
Aerial fighting Of unusual intensity
reported on French and British fronts
in France. Total Of rs aeroplanes shot
down iD series Of engagements and 10
German war balloons destroyed. Lon
don says 1,700 photographs were
taken behind the German lines, re-
vealing troop positions and artillery
emplacements.
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B0scHEE's GERMAN SYRUP

Why take ordinary cough remedies
when eoschee's German Syrup has
been used for fifty-one years in all
towns in the United States, Canada,
Australia, and other countries, for
coughs, bronchitis, colds settled In the
throat, especially lung trouble. It
gives the patient a good nights rest.
free from coughing, with easy expec-
toration In the morning. giving nature
a chance to soothe the infamed parts,
throw of the disease, helping the pa
tient to regain his health, assisted BY
pure air and sunshine when possible.
Trial size 25c. and 75c family size.
Sold In all towns in the United States,
Canada. Australia, and other coun-
tries.-Adv.
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BILIOUS; HEADACHY,
SICK ''CASCARETS''
Gently cleanse your liver and
sluggish bowels while
you sleep.
Get Q 10-cent box.

Sick headache, biliousness. dixxi-
ness. coated tongue. foul taste and foul
breath-always trace them to torpid
liver; delayed. fermenting food in the
bowels or sour. gassy stomach.
Poisonous matter clogged In the IN
testines, instead Of being cast out
Of the system II re-absorbed into the
blood. When this poison reaches the
delicate brain tissue It causes con-
gestion and that duh. throbbing, sick
ening headache.
Cascarets Immediately cleanse the
stomach. remove the sour, undigested
food and foul gases. take tho excess
bile from the liver and carry out all
tho constipated waste mattsr and
poisons In the bowels.
A Cascaret tonight will surely
straighten you out by morning. They
work while you sleep-A 1ocent box
from your druggist means your head
clear. stomach sweet and your liver
and bowels regular for months. Adv.
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EXPELLED D-every pot,on and N

on ana impuytsy
OF your blood,
BY Dr. Pierce's
Golden Medical
Disc ov or y.
Then there's 3
clear akin and
q clean system.
Tetter, Salt
rheum, Eczema,
IN Na-A~vAA -
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Humanity Is unequally divided be-
tween those who can't stand prosper
ity and those who can't get any to
stand.
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LADIES CAN WEAR SHOES

One size smaller after using Aliens Foot. Ease,
the antiseptic powder for the feet. Shaken into
the shoes and sprlnkled In the foot-bath, Ailen's
Foot. Ease makes tight shoes feel easy and gives
instant relief To corns and bunions. Try fedsy
Sold everywhere, 26c. For FREE trial package
address. Allen g. olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y.-Adv
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Small Ones.

'sThis writer does his best work in
the small hours"
"Those kind Of hours would suit
me-"
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1t Is sometimes difficult to dlstin-
guish between sympathetic person
and curious one.
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Suitable Excitement.
Current events are lively"
"Yes; sending electric thrills
through people,"
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Be happy. Use Red Gross Bag Blue;
much better than liquid blue. Delights
the laundres. All grocers. Adv.
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Anuric cures Backache, Lumbago,
Rheumatism. Send l0c. Dr.. v. NJ. Pierce,
Buffalo, N. Y, for large trial package
Adv.
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There Is more power In kindness
than there is in dynamite, but it takes
longer to develop 1t.
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"Glad to meet you." Is what one man
usually says when introduced to an
other-but Is he7
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The Gov Bean.

In 1915 the United States imported
more than 8,sS7.o 900 pounds Of soy
beans valued at approximately
$4,000; nearly 100000 pounds of
cake, valued at $4,000; and over
100000 pounds ef oil valued 1t
nsariy 100000
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It might be well to remember that
the lenthening Of the days doesn't
prolong the reckoning Of a thirty
days obligation.
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Their Argument,

Their Argument.
Mary-I spend as much as you do.
Alice-Perhaps; but I have less to
show for the money.-Life.
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Concurrent Opinions.
"Isn't that girl peachw
Indeed, she is; she is Just sweet
enough to eat"
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On High Gear Does the
Work Of Four Big Horses
WORKS DAY AND NIGHT
PULLFORD only $l35.OO
+. 0. B., Quincy, Illinois

Attached 70 any Ford or practically
any other car In 80 minutes. Re-
moved In less time. No holes TO drill.
All steel construction. Note steel
wheels, 10 inches wide. DOES all
your heavy hauling - coal, wheat,
hay, potatoes does your ploVing,
narrowing, seeding, harvesting, stc.
Lugs can b removed from wheels,
and larger sprockst ID furnished for
road hauling. Live agents wanted In
every county In Colorado, Wyoming,
New Mexico and Western Nebraska.
WrifA or vira Al onna for nlrcul.r =.
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Ten miles for . nickel. Always buy Red
Cros Bag Blue. have beautiful, elsar
whits clothes. Adv.
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The usuai Way.

The Usual Way.
He-How did this fire 60 QUIT
She-I guess 1t went out By the nre
escape.
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DEATHS

Mrs. Susan Thompson, age 80
years. died Sunday night at local
hospital. She had spent the last
ten years OF her life on the sick
bed. as she had been troubled with
rheumatism. Three sons, Paul,
Karl l.. and M. Roy Thompson.
survive her. all well-known in the
city. The body was removed to
c. G. Mellinger's.
After an illness of several
months, Emma J. Bulen, widow
of John Bulen. a Civil war veter-
an. died at her home, 2136 South
J street, yesterday. Mrs. Bulsn
had been resident of Tacoma for
25 years. She Is survived by one
son, h. II. Bulen of Missoula,
Mont, and three daughters. Mar
tina Bulen, Mrs. Ella King and
Mrs. Alice G. Seaman of Tacoma.
Funeral will be held from the
family residence at 3:30 p. m.
Tuesday.
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FILINGS GOLD

Los ANGELES, June II. -
Leaving a shower of gold behind
him as he gave twenties and tens
and fives away to those who cross
ed his path. Nathaniel S. H. Hill
man, 3S, of Belolt, Kansas, led
the crowd who followed him. hop
ing for more gold, to cheap
rooming house here.
While dozens waited in the be-
lief that he would reappear with
more gold, he blew out his brains
Fear of insanity is ascribed as the
cause in a note left to his family
in Kansas.
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Uni,ed Press Leased WireJ

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, June IL
1T feels like hell"
That's the way Claud Piersol.
accused of the Lloyd Keet kidnap-
ing. described the sensations of
hanging today. as he paced rest
lessly back and forth In his cell
at the county jail here.
Piersol and Cletus Adams we're
brought here from Independence,
Mo-, shortly before noon today by
Deputy Sheriff I. J. Harris.
Tired and worn after a sleepless
night. PiersOl stood the terrific
grllling administered by Criminal
Judge Arch Johnson and Spring
field officials here today without
weakening. He still stoutly main
tanned his innocense and declares
he has told all he knows,
Concerning his near-lynching
when he was cut down while un
conscious, he talked freely.
"Yes. 1t hurt something fierce.
he said. They told me that
had to die-and ! really believed
! it, But | wasn't afraid. If | hat
confessed to kidnapping Buddy
they would have killed me. and
believed they would anyway.
You can't describe the choking
sensation. or course, you strug
gle against 1t. None of us wan
to die and 1t is only natural. 1
feels like hell. But | honestly be
lieved my time had come.
thought | was goner.
81 don't know how high the!
stretched me off the ground, bu
IL seemed as If they never would
stop. As the rope frightened I fel
something clutching at my throat
| couldn't get my breath.
Then there came farawaI
ringing in my ears, n sort OF tink
ling of church bells. Everything
grew black before my eyes.
wasn't afraid then-more or less
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TeutOns Wait
For Decision

No Germans or Austrians were
examined this morning In the
naturalization hearing held in
Judge Clifford's courthouse by
u. s. Examiner r. w. Thomas.
Judge Clifford told the applicants
to come back within three months.
as he expects to have the deci-
sion of the U. s. supreme court
In their cases by that time.
BY noon. 10 had been admitted,
with 10 not answering to the roll
call of the clerk.
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LEGAL NOTICES

ISEALED PROPOSALS will be re-
ccived at the office of the Com
missioner of Public Works. City
Hall, City of Tacoma, between the
hours of IL M and 2 P. M. on the
18th day of June, 1917, for furnish
ID" Street from South 4Sth Street
to South 51st Street and South
49th Street from "E" Street to 3D.
Street, in Local improvement Dis
trict No. 977 according to plans and
specifications on file in the office
Works.
Amount of bond required will be
the same as contract price.
Proposals must be made on print
ed form furnished by said Commits
sioner and accompanied by certified
amount of proposal, made payable
to the order of the Clerk of the
Commissioner of Public Works.
Work to be commenced within 10
days after signing contract.
Work to be completed within 60
days after signing contract but IL
said work be not completed within
go days after signing of contract,
said contract shall become void as
per specifications.
to accept, at par, In payment of said
supplies and work. any and all of
the bonds issued in pursuance of
Ordinance No. 65S6 and shall have
no claim whatever on account there
of against the City of Tacoma except
solely upon such bonds and solely
from the special assessment made
and special fund by said ordinance
created
The Commissioner reserves the
right to reject any and all of the
bids.
c. d. ATKINS,
Commissioner OF Public Works.
Tune 6-7-a-0-11 1917
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: FlRST'--Because lit Develops Social Prestige
Prisoner Tells How
It Feels to Be Hung

resigned to the inevitable. Then
all grew dark and quiet. The
ringing gradually faded out in the
distance. That's about all | can
remember until | came to.
Il felt weak In the knees and
didn't know at first where IL was"
Weren't you afraid to die?"
Piersol was asked.
IL didn't want to-but I wasn't
afraid. had done nothing and
was innocent. My chief concern
was about the old folks back home.
] only wanted them to know that
their boy was not what the people
said he was-a murderer"
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Frederick Wilhelm Fay, 22. who
Is held by government officials
In Los Angeles. Cal. following a
spectacular arrest on the high
seas. He is charged with attempt
ing to evade the registration law.
Fay's arrest took place at four
O'Clock in the morning when Spe-
cial Agent Boden boarded the
steamer San Juan. bound from San
Francisco to Matzatlan, Mexico, on
which the young man was a pass
enger He was taken off In a
coast guard cutter and held for
investigation.
Fay declares he registered be-
fore leaving San Francisco. claim
ing exemption on the grounds that
he is of German parentage.
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TO Protest
Ferry Fine

Assistant Prosecuting Attorney
Harry Phelps left for Portland
Saturday night, where he will try
to remove the 81 100 fine that
was made on the county ferry
when it left the Columbia river
last week.
He will be Joined tonight by
commissioners Bellingham and
O'Farrell. They will meet with
the shipping inspectors Tuesday.
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Insane

Is the war or the high cost of
living making Tacomans go
crazy?
In the last five weeks, out OF
"a prisoners taken into the coun-
ty Jail, "a have been sent to the
Steilacoom asylum.
Sheriff Longmire shook his
head Monday and said IL was be-
yond him.
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To remain beautiful eat an
onion. half a pound of cabbage or
spinach, half grated turnip and
a handful of cranberries daily.
Mrs. Anna Peterson, domestic SCI
ence lecturer, told club women In
st. Paul.