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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-02
The New Edison Musical instrument
 extraordinary

Not talking machine-but a musical in strument extraordinary. A most won derful instrument, too.
 For 1t can sing soprano as sweetly as Julia Heinrich herself Or tenor with equal range and power of endurance as Jacques Urlus of the Metropolitan Opera Company.
 Shut your eyes and Albert Spalding, Americas s greatest violinist, is before you, interpreting his poetic selections as perfectly as the human Albert Spalding himself
 In doing these wonderful things the New Edison is not an imitator but repeater. An Arthur Middleton record on the New
 Edison represents countless hundreds of of Arthur Middleton s voice. Always in your home waiting for you to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-02
Many nelU arriUals haue taken their place m the neck lUedr store

Those deserv- ing spec a l mention are G e o r g e t t e crepe collars at 50c. These are exception ally pre- t t y
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-02
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play it. capable of playing it five hundred times just beautifully when originally sung in the Edison studio by Arthur Middleton himself An Edison record is kened unto photographic negative of singers voice. From it countless hundreds of repro auctions can be made every perfect likeness lacking not one single detail of beauty and volume The New Edison will be placed in your home at your quest Not for the purpose of having of saesmen demonstrate it, but that you yourself may put to the test Phone when will be convenient for you to receive this home test
 (Edison Monographs, Balcony, Main Foor)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-02
The blue pencil has crossed out he old prices on
 fish and game sets

And the prices nearly half of what the old prices These pretty sets perfect and desirable in every Those needing gifts of quality refinement and beauty couldn't choose wisely to better advantage from these reduced sets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-02

A 25.0o fish set, consisting of dish, five plates and sauce boat, hand painted, reduced to 12.50.
 22.5o fish set, consisting of dish,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-02
And Eppo petticoats
 $1. .25 to $5.95

pettcoat which has the confidence of every where and deserves the faith they place in them Special advantages result in perfect fit The patented elastic waist band the invisible glove fasteners and the smooth rect hanging such practical helpful features that have demonstrator who does nothing but display the ad vantages of the practical Eppo petticoats (2d Foor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-02
A petticoat shop completely ready to meet the spring
 Uogue for petticoats

seemingly ending display of the newest effects in petticoats which spring fashions demand.
 Messalne petcoats, jersey pecoats, fancy pompadour silk pecoats and the always popular taffeta silk pettcoas
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-02
YO SAN

To San silks combine an Oriental dash of color and design with the ruggedness of weave that is typically American.
 Some silks are beautiful be- cause of the weave, others because of the pattern, and others because of the colors. Yo San silks are beautiful from every angle which they are viewed-color, weave and pattern.
 Yo San silks have made the sports idea more popular than it ever was before.
 (2d Floor)
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-10-11
Al War With Yourself !
hELP NATURE TO DEFEAT the
DISEASE IN YOUR BODY.

Keep MP the fight. do not give up.
Nature is trying To serve yon IN conquer
ing the wrongs that may exist.
Red blood. vim. courage, vitality. all
seem hacking. No wonder YOU are nerv-
ms and discouraged.
Why not call TO vour aid strong,
dependable ally? DR.. Prrce'S Golden
Medical Discovery has Tor nearly fifty
years proven its merits rs a most power
~ cone and blood builder TO tn many
thousands who have been returned To
good health by its use.
Clear the coated tongue. get rid OF
nnsightly skin trouble Let this temark-
able remedy rid yuur body Of the inn
purlties ol the blood, let 1t tone aud
strengthen you. 1t often cures the linger-
ing chronic cough.
DR.. Picrce's Golden Medical Discovery
Is absolutely a herbal tonic, free from
alcOhui or dangerous habit forming
drugs. All druggists. Liquid or tablets.
BLUFFS. IiL.-"For a great many years
. have been troubled with NERVOUSNESS,
stomach and heart trouble. ! took several
kinds Of patent medicines and doctored
with five different doctors but nothing
seemed a. do me much good. About eight
years ago had tad Spell my heart
would ilutter and | thought | was going
10 die. NV folks sent for doctor and he
came and lief, me some medicine and Told
my folks that / had but "A short tiiac II
live. | took his medicine for Il while and
it did me no good, SO ! told my husband
to 90 TO town and get me some Of Doctor
Piercc's medicine as thought that weulC
help me. He Went and got L bottle .
/ f,altpu Nptip4l llsFDNpFV ami "A hDttIp q
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-10-11
CORONER FINDS THAT
BARKER KILLED SELF

Peoria, ILL.,, Oct. H. The coroners
jury investigating the mysterious
death of Jesse Barker, Peoria multi.
millionaire. who was found shot tc
death in his home last Sunday night
returned verdict late yesterday that
Barker committed suicide.
The verdict was returned shortly
after Mrs. Mary Barker fostermoiher
of Jesse Barker, had taken the Wit
nes stand and testified that She did not
believe her son had killed himself.
This morning representatives Of the
late millionaire and lawyers for Mrs
Chamie Wolf Baker. the widow. found
and opened the will 1t provides for
The distribution Of an estate of 81.
000,0o0 and upwards. the widow, for
merly of Louisville, Ky. receiving the
bulk Of the fortune.
The will Is long document and
provides that the widow maintain her
residence at the Barker residence on
Moss avenue. II also provides that in
case she marry again or moves her
residence from Peoria, that The entire
estate revert to other relatives.
The 7-yearold daughter Of Mrs
Chamie Wolf Barker receives s25. 1000
in cash
The original will was drawn and
certified in 1913. codicis TO the orig
inal will being added, one at the time
Of the birth Of their daughter Jessie
in March, 1916, and another in June
Of the same year.
The viii makes mention at one time
Of friction between the couple and q
later notation points out that the ten
ton has greatly increased. Another
notation makes provision for the child
Jessie, but details as 10 this beques'
were refused.
Today Mrs Barker had not regainet
control OF her child and indications
are that lively fight will be waget
for possession Of the little one, who Is
LOW living with her grandmother
Mrs. Walter Barker.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-10-11

Keats wrote his famous code tn An
tumn" In his sixteenth year and, IN
deed, MI his five great odes, among II
greatest In any language before he ~
tanned legal manhood He died a
twenty-five. Robert Burns wrote thai
scathing satire, Holy Willle's Prayer.
when he had barely passed his youth
and, indeed, the whole OF the poems III
the famous Kilmarnock edition wcrt
written before he was twenty-five. Bli
even the precocity VI Burns was put III
the shade by that Of Chatterton, who
committed suicide In a ut Of despair 1T
n London garnet when he was seven
teen. He wrote the whole huge vol
ume Of the Rowley poems when b,
was schoolboy at Bristol
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-10-11
Explorers Simply Groped.

II used TO be- told ~ the early ex-
plorers of the Mississippi that, after
entering the delta they never knew
how they got Inside, and that, after
passing through 1t to the gulf, they
never knew how they got outside. 1t
was many wears before the nayigat0rs
fXed upon landmarks which enabled
them to steer In anything like a
straight course.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-10-11
Old Sores, Ulcers
And Eczema Vanish
Good, Old, Reliable Peterson's Ointment
a FavOrite Remedy.

Had u ulcers on my legs. Doctors
wanted to cut OF leg. Ieterson's Oini-
ment cured me- VIM J. Nichols. 40
Wilder St. Rochester, ". Y.
Get large box for g cents at any drug
gst. says Peterson, and money back II II
doesn't help you al once. Always Keep
fetersons Ointment IN the house Fine
for burns, scalds. bruises, sunhurn, aud
the surest remedy for skin Diseases pin-
Pies itching eczema and piles the world
has ever known.
"retersun'a Ointment IN the best for
found, Major charles u. whitney, Vine.
yard Haven, Mass.
"petersons Ointment has given great
satisfaction for salt Rheuu. Mrs, J l.,
Weiss Cuylervilie, ", y.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-10-11
NEWS NUGGETS.

Peoria A new record price for
Whiskey has been established. Dis
hllers are quoting The unfinished
goods AT 81 50 a gallon, an increase
Of $3.50 The new war revenue law
Is given as the reason
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-10-11
ENGLISH SOLDIER IN
LETTER TO COUSIN
tI SHOWS HATE OF HUN

In a letter to his cousin depicting
his three years experiences in the
first line. Ernest IL Gufin, an English
soldier. writes to Mrs. o. 5. Weissen-
stein GLADYS Elli0ttJ. OF La Sale,
who is we'll known here as vocalist.
and who appears Friday night al The
Liberty Loan meeting At the o II. 5.
rs follows
"This life We are leading-and !
have lived il for three years-gets a
hit mOnotOnOus at times he writes.
and We are always pleased 10 get
letters. No matter where We are. our
regmental postman usually manages
10 find us and deliver the mail. Even
when we have decent battle on and
are perhaps lurking at the bottom Of
a shell hole and surrounded by cor
pses. he trots up with the letters.
We had deuce of time al the
beginning Of April advancing over
the country devastated by the Huns.
We had no sort of shelter and it
poured with rain and even showed
heavily. IL was very difficult 10 keep
cheerful under these circumstances.
Fortunately. have a cheerful temper
ament and like excitement, and | man
.f IN
OF it,
Has Been Wounded Twice.
Il have now done three years in
the front line. during which have
been wounded twice and knocked
down by the blast of shells three
times. Still | haven't taken much
harm | am bit deafened in the
left ear and have my right had par
italy paralyzed but with SO many get.
ting killed it isn't much to grumble at.
You can't possibly imagine what
these battles are like.
The hellish din OF the guns and
shells. the stink and checking smell Of
poison gas and the terrifying roar and
fare Of the boiling oil projectors.
AT the beginning Of the war the
Huns had it all their own way; we
had very few big guns and very few
shells. Now 1t Is our turn and we
give the enemy war worse than they
gave us. We all think that il IL
hadn't been for the breakdown of the
Russians We should have had the war
/ finished this year.
They're Waiting for U. S.
"As it is, we shall have to wait for
! Uncle Sam to take a hand tiny per-
sOnal opinion) Those of us who
know the States well were sure that
1t was only a question Of time before
America declared war No one with
any manhood in him could stand by
and see women and children illused
and slaughtered, without wanting &c
strike a blow. | have seen with m,
own eyes what these besital Huns
have done. and loath, hate and abom
mate them.
Il am glad to hear You are getiini
along so Wen. If you are doing Oni
ever so little 10 help on the war an
to assist the sufferers, You viii no
have lived in vain
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-10-11

Rhubarb leaves are not suitable for
use as greens because they contain sub.
stances which make them poiscnols t.
many persons.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-10-11
ILLINOIS BRIEFS.


Springfield amounting 10
S3,50O,000 pending before the state
courts of claims arising from the East
land disaster will not be acted upon
for another year The original claims
were considered al session OF the
court held in October 1916, but indi-
cations are they will not bee reviewed
and action delayed until The next SEES
sion of the general assembly
Springfield Here's an easy way To-
earn $50 Go out and arrest q Stacker
The United States viii pay reward
Of this amount TO any person turning
over TO the nearest army camp . man
who has failed to register or report
for military service.
Springfield a result of the ac-
,Vilies of uplift committees in Spring
field. moral conditions here have int
proved fifty per cent. according 10 a
report submitted by the main commit
tee Six hundred dollars was spent
in furthering the project. which had
for its object the safeguard Of morals
OF soldiers while encamped here.
Springfield number Of autom0-
biles in Illinois does NOT indicate any
depression from war conditions.
Fhere are nearly 10000 more automo-
biles in use this year than during the
entire year OF 1916 The automobile
department of the secretary of states
office issued 32G,524 licenses against
a total OF 24S,f24 last year during the
month of September This is an in.
crease over the total number last
year of 7S,lo0
Decatur. oct 0-Amalgamation Of
the United Brethren church and the
Lower Wabash conference will mark
The chief activities here October 90
to % OF the conference OF the United
Brethren church BY the amalgama-
ton the church will do away with
the northern Illinois conference The
combined conferences viii be called,
The Illinois Conference" At a meet
ing in Bloomington on October | the
following Oiiicerss were chosen for the
coming year. G. l.. McClanathan. re
cording secretary; W II Arbogast.
statistical secretary and +. Fowler.
treasurer
! Modesto. Oct. 10-This city will be
the center Of IA big farmers institute
and household science meeting Octo-
Der II, Is and 10 The citizens OF
The vicinity are making special prepa-
rations TO show visitors and dele.
gates the best hospitality during the
meeting. A large number of premiums
have been issued for those qualifying
with highest honors in the contests
Palmer Waters is president OF the
league and Edgar Turner. secretary
Other officers are Charles Vandeveer
treasurer. Mrs T. G. Allen, president
household science. Mrs l.. G. Brown
vice president and Mrs. O. w Feelel
secretary
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-01
GARDENING AND
THE RAILROADS.
illinois Central Offers Land Along
Right-of.Way to be Used as
Gardens. !,

The Illinois Central, as we'll as
some other railroad companies. are
Offering their employees the use OF
the land along the roads for gar
den purposes. These companies have
small parcels of vacant land all along
the lines suitable for gardening and
small farming. In pamphlets III
to their employees, they state they
feel it their duty to have produced
upon their lands, crops that will add
to the general storehouse which 1t
is predicted will be seriously depict
led in the near future by reason Of
certain adverse conditions growing
out of the war. 1t is the purpose
of the railway companies not only to
give to their employees free use of
these waylands but also to cooperate
with them, mailing valuable informa
tion to them periodically during the
season. The employee, however. is
asked to help himself as much as pos
sible. When the selection of the
plot of land is made, have it plowed
and otherwise prepared. Buy seeds
and tools and in other ways rely up
on himself. However. the company
will furnish seeds, bulbs, plants and
the necessary tools and accessories,
if desired, at cost, together with
free information as to planting, fer
tilizing, cultivation and harvesting
as we'll as personal supervision from
the Landscape Gardener in the work
of kitchen gardening and the beau
tifying of any buildings on railroad
property by the installation of flow
er gardens and flower boxes.
If the employees do not desire to
use the vacant ground it may be as
signed to the use of those not direct
ly connected with the company by
employment, preference being given
to pensioned employees or the famil-
les of former employees, or those
whose interests are allied with the
railroad company.
If it proves advantageous in some
of the larger towns to effect COM
munity method of gardening on the
railroad waylands the railroads Of
fer no objections, providing the pro-
position is handled by the railroad
agent or some other responsible en-
ploy.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-01
To Assist in Home Economics.

The president of the Association Of
Home Economics Teachers of Iowa,
has invited Miss Ethel Guthrie of
our high school faculty to act in
conjunction with herself to devise a
plan whereby home economics may
be rendered a more adaptable study
to the children of the rural schools.
She urged Miss Guthrie to get a re-
port upon the progress of the work
in Hamilton county and to formulate
suggestions that will lead toward
better methods all over the state,
adding Conservation of food supply
ought to be greatly aided by the
in the rural districts"
Miss Guthrie is planning to take
up the work which will be discuss
ed at the Economics Teachers meet
ing in Des Moines. next fall.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-01
PATRIOTIC MEET
ING At JEWELL
Neighboring Town has Big Doings
Band Music, Drills, Songs,
Speeches, Etc.

Jewell. April 2S.-A patriotic
meeting was held here Thursday
night, attended by nearly seven
hundred citizens and neighboring
farmers. The meeting was called by
the mayor in response to the recent
recommendation of Gov. Harding
that patriotic meetings should be
held throughout the state. The eve
ming was spent in band music, drills
by the young ladies under the super
vision of Miss Emma Knudson, pa
triotic songs by the glee club, and
a fine speech by Rev. Whistler of
Gilbert. The Boy Scouts were pre-
sent in body and the stage was
decorated with Old Glory and pict-
ures of former presidents of the Unit
ed States. There were no recruiting
officers here but Jewell will send her
share Of soldiers to the front.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-01

perience of the warning nations
which have not prohibited the liquor
traffic and the sentiment was vigor.
ously applauded by the audience.
Following the address, Rev. Arth.
ur Metcalf proposed that the minis.
ters present be appointed committee
Ito draft resolution to be forwarded
to President Wilson, expressing the
loyalty of the meeting and asking
that the president use his authority
and power to adopt prohibition in
the United States as war measure.
A stanza from The Star Spangled
Banner was then sung, closing one
of the most interesting meetings ever
held in this city.
The resolution referred to was
adopted unanimously by a rising vote
and was sent as night letter to
President Wilson Sunday night. The
resolution follows:
Honorable Woodrow Wilson, Pres
ident of the United States, Washing
ton, D. c.: A great patriotic temper
ance meeting tonight, representing
this. community, unanimously express
ses loyalty to the president and gov
ernment in this hour of need, and
strongly urges immediate establish
ment of total national prohibition as
a war measure.
Arthur Metcalf,
]. o. Staples,
J. w. Stiverson,
w. J. Todd,
]. M. Herbst,
G. v. Pence,
II. F. Shook,
Committee.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-01
ATTEMPT TO FIRE
kAMRAR ELEVATOR
charred Remnants Of Bundle Of Rags
and Some Oats Discovered
in Boot of Farmers
Elevator. ~
EMPTY KEROSENE CAN NEARBY.
Plot is Discovered by VIM. Stoppel-
moor When he Entered
the Building.
EMPTY KEROSENE CAN NEARBY:

The charred remnants of a bundle
of rags and some oats in the boot o1
the Farmers Elevator at Kamrar, anG
an almost empty kerosene can near
by, is very good evidence of plot te
rid the country of grain elevators
and feed mills.
Saturday when VIM. STOPPED.
moor went into the lower room of the
Farmers Elevator at Kamrar, he
found the above mentioned charred
rags and oats, but the plot had fail
ed in its diabolical mission, as the
continued damp weather had evi.
IDENTIFY made it impossible for the fire
to gain any headway.
A large amount of grain was stor.
ed in the building and the loss would
have been very heavy had the fire
gotten fairly we'll started, the con-
sequence being that the elevator COM
pany are congratulating themselves
upon their good fortune.
No suspicious characters have been
seen around Kamrar of late, but it is
probable that night watchman will
be placed in the vicinity of the grain
elevators and that the citizens of
Kamrar will be on the lokout here
after.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-01
BREAD PRICES ARE
SOARING SKYWARD
Webster City Baker Says "The Staff
of Life" Will Cost More in
the Near Future.

Inquiry of the bread bakers in this
city. on the present flour situation
and the likelihood of general in
crease in the price OF bread here,
grew out of the movement, promis-
ing to be national in scope, that was
revealed in recent dispatches.
when New York bakers proclaimed
that after Monday. the six cent loaf
|of bread, the cheapest loaf on the
market, would be discontinued. In
its place will be offered loaf cut
two ounces. which will be sold for
ten cents and new loaf weighing
twenty-four ounces and retailing at
fifteen cents, will be placed on the
market.
A Webster City baker, who has
been in business for some years and
is recognized as an excellent business
man with the good Of the consumer
as well as his own profits in mind,
expressed his belief that the increase
throughout the country will be but a
matter of short time and that he
would welcome the new priced loaf.
He gave as his reason, the unprece-
dented high price of any good grade
of flour, saying that such flour now
sells at $14 a barrel. just three times
as much as two years ago. He also
mentioned the one hundred per
cent increase in sugar as well as of
other ingredients in proportion. This
baker stated that his shop had dis
continued the making of the five cent
loaf some time ago and that the up
shot of prices had necessitated the
cutting in weight of the ten cent
loaf. until the bread was of inferior
quality, as he could not afford to put
enough dough into a loaf to make it
what it should be. Through the
pressure of existing conditions an
other Webster City baker has already
advanced the price on his products
and has a new loaf on the market
which he sells at the new price-fif-
teen cents. With the inauguration.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-01
Due Warning.

Elevator and storage house own
ers have had ample warning of late
to take extraordinary precautions to
prevent losses of their property by
fire. There have been many such
fires since our relations with Germ
any became strained and it is quite
evident that plotters are trying to
destroy as much of the food products
of the United States as possible. The
attempt to burn the elevator at Kant
rar ought to arouse owners of such
properties in this section of the coun-
try and they should take whatever
steps may be necessary to protect
their interests. However, perhaps
this has been done.