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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-04-03
Obituary
Mrs. Sarah Edwards.

Mrs. Sarah Edwards died Saturday
at 1920 p. m. at the home Of hel
daughter Mrs. G. w. Cummings or
Rutledge road.
Mrs. Edwards was the widow OF
Louis Edwards who was a member OF
the 25th Iowa Volunteer Infantry, Com
pany b.. She was 81 years Of age and is
survived by two sons II three
daughters, L. N. Edwards Of Ottumwa,
j. l.. Edwards Of Davenport, Mrs. G.
w. Cummings Of north Of Ottumwa,
Mrs. Rosa Wilson Of Melcher nj Mrs
Ellen Patterson of Des Moines.
The funeral will be held at 2 o'clock
Wednesday afternoon from the resi-
dence of her daughter Mrs. G. w. Cum
mings on Rutledge road, conducted by
Elder C. E. Willy. Interment will take
place in the Ottumwa cemetery.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-04-03
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Emerson.

Word has been received by friends
here of the recent death Of a former
Ottumwan. Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Emer-
son, which occurred at the home of her
son, Ralph w. Emerson. at Omaha.
Neb., after an illness of arterioscler-
osis. She is survived by, two sons,
Ralph W. Of Omaha and John T. of De.
troit. Mich. Mrs. Emerson came to
Ottumwa in 1850 and resided here I'M
til fifteen years ago. She was prom
inent among the Colonial Danes and
in D. A. r. work. The funeral ser.
vices were held from All SAINTS Epis.
copal church, Rev, T. J. Mackey off.
ciating.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-04-03

WANT BATHING BEACH.
Bellevue, March 81. A grand ball is
to be given soon to raise money to
equip a city bathing beach here.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-08-09
Varied Uses of the lemon.

Baked lemons for colds and faxseed
lemonade as used by New England
grand mothers are well known. Many
a diva threatened with hoarseness beats
up the white of an egg with the juice
of a lemon, with sugar or honey, for
quick and sure remedy. And for head
ache a famous writer often takes the
juice of one whole lemon squeezed in
q cup of strong black coffee.
California and Florida both produce
wonderful lemons, which in size and
quality compare with any imported
from the tropics. The sweet lemons
of Spain, which are eaten as freely as
oranges in the southern part of Spain,
and in Morocco, where they also -four
ish, are delicious, indeed. In Italy,
southern France and Sicily the lemons
attain an unusual size.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-08-09
Chinese Women Dress Neatly.

The women of San Francisco's Chi
natown are especially neat and trim in
their traditional dress that is surely
the simplest as we'll as the most beau
tiful in the world. The square coat
one knows so well on porcelain is often
sleeveless and black, worn over a
sleeved and trousered underdress that
is dull pink, perhaps, or ash colored
with a bright blue lining to the coat.
The exceeding spruceness of the wom-
en- may be due partly to the fashion of
wearing the hair, tightly brushed back
from the forehead and covered merely
with fiat band Of black silk at the
front, decorated sometimes with cou-
pie of gilt balls or pins. The entire
costume is innocent of the "bfts Of
pieces so beloved of the occidental
dressmaker, all the beauty being in
the dignity of line and severe perfec-
ton of edge THAI gives a sense of dis
tinction to the cheapest cotton.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-08-09
That Trousers-Pocket Joke.

The fellow who invented that joke
about wives burglarizing the pockets
Of friend husband while that innocent
and trustinglobst slumbered on should
have had his invention censored before
it was permitted to occupy place
among Jokes of that period. For thirty
years the latchstring of my small
change trousers pocket has been dang
ling from the bedpost and have yet
to record an unaccountable disappear
ance of loose coin. I am not always
eager to champion the wife's cause.
for that would be robbing married life
Of IT'S spice and seasoning, but must
and do denounce this jokemonger, this
defamer of our noble married wom-
an. 1t is quite evident that he was
not in the habit Of bringing home his
weeks wages and dumping them into
the lap of her calico apron, as I have
done ever since the fatal knot was
tied. The wise man will not wait to
be held up. He will fork over the
change before the gun is placed against
his Stats. Unless you are willing to
follow such a course, you should never
have struggled beneath the arch of or
ange blossoms and pronounced your
nviction.-Cartoons Magazine.
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half ago, quietly and deliberately at
first, but as he neared the end of the
speech even the immortal Patrick
Henry himself, could he have heard,
need not have been ashamed of the
humble old orator, who, as he pro-
crossed, became more impressive:
A." The war is inevitable-and
let it come repeat it, sir, let it come
It is vain, SIR to eXtenuate the matter.
Gentlemen may cry 'Peacen Peace!
but there is no peace. The war is
actually begun. The gale that sweeps
from the North will bring to our ears
the clash of resounding arms. Our
brethren are already in the field Why
stand we here idle? Is life so
dear, or peace so sweet as to be p1r-
chased at the price of chains and Slav-
cry? Forbid it Almighty God! I know
not what course others may take, but
as for me; give me liberty, or give me
death 10
Patrick Henry's life was full to the
brim. AS governor of a state that ex-
tended as far west as Illinois, as one
of the most eminent jurists in Virginia,
his time was we'll taken, and he was
glad enough to retire early to Red Hill.
During the last years of his life Pat
rick Henry's fame drew many visitors
to Red Hill and he welcomed all with
gracious hospitality. In 1894, Gov.
Henry Lee appointed him United
States senator to fill an unexpfred
term. This he declined as he did also
many other fattering offers.
One June morning in 1899, Patrick
Henry realized that his end was near,
and drawing his silk cap over his eyes
he prayed earnestly for his family, for
his country and his soul, then his great
spirit departed even as he sat in the
three cornered chair.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-08-09
GaIicfa.

Galicia is the most northern portion
of Austria-Hungary. 1t lies on the
north side of the Carpathian noun
tails. It's northwestern frontier is
formed by the Vistula river; its east
ern parts are drained by the rivers
Dniester, Pruth and Sereth. 1t has an
area Of 3O,321 square miles, which is
5000 square miles larger than the
area of New Brunswick. It's pOpula-
ton is S,O25,675, or about equal to the
population of all Canada. The coun-
try exports timber extensively, but
agriculture is backward. SO also are
the people, both educationally and So
cially. Apart from the manufacture
of spirits, and the extraction of pc
troleum and salt, there is scarcely any
Industry. Over So per cent of the pop
ulation are Poles and % per cent Ruth
enians. Lemberg Is the chief city.
population 215.OOO.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-08-09
ITALY TO LIMIT DOMINATION
Can Gain No Advantage by Undue Ex'
pansion on Eastern Shores of
Adriatic, Declares Writer.

It is, of course, evident that Italy
has no advantage to gain from an I'M
due expansion of her territorial hold
ings on the eastern shores Of the Adj
Ratio, Guglielmo Ferrero writes in the
Atlantic. Here the Italian population
lives only on the coast, OF near 1t, and
for this reason Italy cannot spread
her domination far into the interior
without mourning the risk Of coming
into serious and severe conflict with
the subject Slavic population, or with
those Slavic states which will be in
position to intervene in their defense.
italian mastery of the eastern coast
would therefore be limited to q thin
littOral strip of land and one need not
be a great strategist to understand
what disadvantage 1t would be for
Italy to have to defend a long line of
frontier a few dozen kilOmeterS from
the coast, behind which would lie q
vast hinterland occupied by people
seething with discomfort at being cut
off from the sea.
If Italy, then, does not wish to be.
come involved in long and arduOus
wars for the conquest Of this hinter-
land, her purposes will be best served
by reducing to a minimum her terri
torial annexation on the further shore
Of the Adriatic.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-08-09
American Discoveries.

The Mortimer visited Greenland as
early as the tenth century and planted
a colony there, with which they main
tanned an almost continuous inter-
course. They also sailed for some dis
lance down the Atlantic coast. The
historical period of America began
with the discovery of the West Indian
Islands by Columbus in 1892. In 1897
the Cabots discovered Newfoundland
and coasted as far down as Florida.
The Spaniards took the lead in con-
quest and partial colonization. With
in half a century they took possession
of the Indies; Cortez conquered Mex
leo; Balboa and others, Central Amer
lea; and Pizarro and AlmagrO over
ran Peru. They reached New Mexico
before 1887. Brazil was formally Oc-
cupied by the Portuguese in 1919,
while the French took formal possess
sion of Canada in 1884. The first per-
manent settlement by the English was
at jamestown, Va, in 1907. g.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-08-09
Gold Only Universal Money.

Students of finance remind us that
gold is the only form of international
money that is universally accepted; in
fact, that gold, in the last analysis, is
the only commodity that passes freely
as real money. All other forms of
money derive their acceptability as a
medium of exchange from the fact
that they are believed to be exchang-
able into gold at some rate, through
some process or other. The solid es-
tablishment of confidence makes posi-
BILE the use of money symbols which
in their own face value are worth lit
tie or nothing. Thus, imbued with this
confidence, many of us pass through
our whole lives, receiving and giving
the more convenient money symbol,
never using the actual gold.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-08-09
The Lost
Purse
"
%
BY Hi Akers
BY Hi Akers
Copyright, by w. G. Chapman.)

The girl at the long table in the
cheap restaurant seemed to be enjoying
a pretty substantial dinner. She was
giving her undivided attention to it,
only occasionally glancing at table
ahead at which sat four men whose
backs we're toward her, and several
women facing her way.
She finished, took up her punched
check, looked at it, and reached for
her muff in the chair beside her. She
fumbled in the muff, then Mortified
expression came in her face. 1t could
mean only one thing. She had lost
her purse. She beckOned to a waiter
and asked him to bring the man in
charge. Soon a very consequential
young man with a rather unpleasant
expression appeared.
"You see," SAID the girl, ''my purse
must have slipped out OF my muff en-
my way here. l certainly had IL when
/ left the office. will come in AID
pay it tomorrow"
Him. said the man doubtfully.
''Let me see yoIr check"
She handed him the bit Of paste
board.
Seventy cents" he read. "If It
had been a small amount we might
have let it go. But that's a good
deal to order when you've nothing to
pay for it," And he eyed the girl with
growing suspicion.
"But I thought I had the money"
she answered with rising indignation
at his insinuation.
'This thing is happening too often
lately. If you've got anything you can
leave for security, all right. IF not,
I'll have to call up the police"
"Police!" she gasped. "You don't
mean"
81 do mean just that" ne retorted
with emphasis. 'But If you can
leave something"
She removed her glove, and took
from her finger ring, which she
handed to him. He looked it over, and
then shifted:
"Huh! L couldn't get twenty-five
cents on that!''
"What do you mean? It's solid
gold" she protested.
"Maybe-and maybe not" and he
handed it back to her.
The girls look Of distress evidently
had no effect on the restaurant mana
ger. Two or three of the men at the
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about the entrance at closing unne, ana
not have always hurried away till he
saw a trim figure in a tailored suit
leaving the automobile place. At any
rate they became acquainted. Ethel
lived with her father and mother in
modest little fiat, her father earning
only a moderate salary, and Hill was
asked to call, and did so, repeating at
regular intervals. Ethel found her
self looking forward to these visits
with great eagerness, but she could
not tell whether they meant so much
to him.
One evening he said: 81 was in that
restaurant today-where we first met,
and a fellow chaffed me, and asked
if I were still rushing to the aid of
naidens in distress, also if had ever
got my money back I could have
given him a swift kick-especially
when he said he knew you, but didn't
happen to notice you till you were go
ing out. His name is Arthur Burt"
eyes, I know nm. And he did see
me. He pretended not to, because
money is more to him than his immor-
tai soul. Ever SO many told me that,
but liked him pretty well, and-and
I didn't want to believe it. That little
episode proved it. I was not at home
the next time he called, and I have
not been at home since. SO he dared
To ask if I had paid VOug'
eyes" answered Hill with something
like a sigh of relief, for Ethel's words
had cleared up some other insinuatiens
Burt had made and which had prompt
ed his desire to-l1ick him.
"YOu have never told me-" he went
on, what kind Of purse you lost, but
I've always wanted to replace it. Per-
haps this one WILL" and he drew from
his pocket little box which he hand
ed to her. It was q dainty little silver
mesh bag. She looked at it admiring
ly, then handed it back to him. She
broke in on his protest with: "Wait
wait till | have told you something.
Then if you wish to give it to me you
may. I cared a great deal for Arthur
Burt-but, as I told you, his terrible
closeness in money matters / feared
might lead to the kind of obsessiOn
that makes money grubbers and misers.
I determined to know more surely
what 1 had begun to fear. Well, that
episode proved it."
"What?" asked Hill, evidently f1Oun-
dering. "What do you mean?"
81 mean I meant to prove him.
never lost the purse"
"Ethel Hicks !" cried Hill in aston
ishment. "You-"
eyes, I did. I can't won't de-
ceive you-even if you hate me-" Then
she added in low tone: Besides,
had seen you often coming and going
-and-I wanted to see if / could kill
two birds with one stone"
He held out the little bag. '"There's
something wish you would take with
it-just little trife-my heart"
She put the shining purse to her
lips, and his lips answered.
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table ahead were looking around, at
tracted by the talking, and curiously
watching the scene. Every one at her
table had stopped eating, and were
also watching. At the moment when
the man handed back the ring, young
man about two seats away rose quick
ly and came to her.
"Will you allow me to lend you the
amount?' he asked politely.
She gave him grateful look and
more grateful words, and asked for
his card that she might repay him.
''Why," she said, looking at the
card, ''you are only two doors away
from my office. I am in the Haides
automobile place."
"Indeed!' he said pleasantly. Il am
in the real estate office"
She wrote her name on a slip of
paper, and promised to call the next
day, and pay her debt. AS she walked
to the desk with her check she looked
back at the man who had not turned
around when the others did at the
other table. He did not see her. A
kind of inscrutable look came into her
face, and she paid the check, and left.
The man who had come to the res
cue of the lady in distress, once out
side of the restaurant, drew the scrap
of paper which she had given him
from his pocket, and studied it. Miss
Ethel Hicks he read. Then he said
to himself: 81 think she'll come. Yes
i know she'll come"
AT the same moment Ethel was ex-
amining a card which read: ''Mr.
Jarvis HILL"
'Hm!" she soliloquized, engraved.
And he must be only clerk in that
Office. Well, he believes in doing
things right"
The next day she called promptly
and paid Mr.. Jarvis Hill Mr.. Hill
being a good-looking young fellow, it
was not entirely improbable that
Ethel may have occasionally fingered
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-08-09
RECOGNIZED END WAS NEAR
Old Man Ready to Give Up When He
Could Not Bite What He Thought
Was "PIuq."

One day last month when trade was
dull. a grocery clerk procured piece
of sole leather from a shoemaker,
painted it black and laid it aside for
future use. Within few days an old
chap from back in the country came
in and inquired for a plug OF chewing
tobacco. The piece of sole leather was
tied up, paid for and the purchaser
started for home. At the end OF the
sixth day he returned, looking down
cast and detected, and walking into the
store he inquired of the clerk: Mem
Der that terbacker got here the other
day?" eyes" "Well, was that new
brandt" 'No, same old brand" reg
ular plug. terbacker, was it?' Yes"
"Well, then, it's me; it's right here in
my jaws" sadly replied the man. i
knowed I was gittin' purity old, but l
was allus handy in bitin' plug. l never
seed a plug afore this one that l
couldn't tear to pieces with one chaW.
I sot my teeth on this one, and bit and
pulled and twisted like a dog at root,
and I've kept a biting and pulling Tor
six days, and thar she am now, the
same as the day you sold her to me =
Seems to be good plug" remarked the
clerk as he smelled of the counterfeit.
"Shes all right; it's me that's failing !"
exclaimed the old man. 'Pass me out
some fine-cut and I'll go home and
deed the farm to the boys, and git
ready for the grave" From an aged
Bostonian's scrap book.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-08-09
Burglary.

Miss Vocolo-rm never happy un-
less I'm breaking into song.
Bright Young Man-Why don't you
get the key and you won't have TO
break in?
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-08-09
ThnIInhtfIII Dad.

Young Officer-Well, goOd-by, dad
I'll write you in day or two.
Father-But, my dear boy, you must
make that check last longer than that
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-08-09
Proof Of 1t.

"Gwendolen's color is entirely natu-
raj, tell you, she was actually flush
ing"
"Of course, she was-four flushing"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-08-09

Some men go abroad to complete
their education. Others marry.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-08-09

England employs $4,000 woman
clerks.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-08-09
RED HILL

OWN in Virginia on the Staun-
ton river, at the dividing line
of Campbell and Charlotte
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Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1917-02-06
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pielen onberen @~onoerheiten bat Der
aries audi Die sebradt, baB eine @n<
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ten. IS banbelt fid um friibere
Sffisiere, bic aus Dem 5~eertsbtenit
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our1 ben Raifer gu 2eutaants err
nanrlt tpurben, pabrlia Elm &urtofum
gang eigener Mrt. Manh elmer bon
ibnen 1T jebof aud Dor feiner ers
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setporben pon einem .OffiSiersteapers
treter 8leden BON Smelling, 2eutnant
a. D. Der Dor einissr 3eit I'm Often
fiel. SEPT erfolgt bic 9efanntgabs
zines gleiden Sales, oenn Is tpiro ge>
meIbet: Den 9elbentob itarb 5aupts
mann a. .. Gruft BON Woeotte, Wi5es
felbfpebel in Der Sediten aompagnis
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Moebtfe ipar 3ulebt nls !9uuptmari
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Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1917-02-06

nenoen beranpirihten, idaute lidl
Ser Gentleman iel6it nad binten
I'M. l1eberol nm i'm mar in Ser
9allenfnng binter Dem ShIoB BON
0oper iebt, III oieIen eriten Nad)mit-
tagltlnben, Der Sport I'M Sang. Sic
Solbatcn aus DER nabe1 aaicrne
traten lid ben luudtigen 5llBbau
5r, iunge 2ellte ans Der Stubt iibten
bas Gridet. Burden ans Dem @oIfe
tummelten iid) init 2eoerbaaen, Sic
fleinen 8olffugelu lboiien mie Die
ManIe bnnoerte BON Shritten melt
5luilden ben rotten 5Gbnd}ell iiber
ben laftigen griinen RaIen, junae
Mdoden itanoen in Neib uno @lieo
uno idoiien NIT Efeilen nod Der
Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1917-02-06

Usuoeruer Ndb : ilnterriht. 3nfGneis
GhiiIeriunen MAIDEN ibrc eigenen sleis
ben, 4nprpbieren uno Ndben seIehrt.
Der, ipdbrcns file Icrncn. Wir fpreden
9eutif. ,Tbe Daubcrn Sreemniina
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MIC. Scras.
Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1917-02-06

~.eater eeratd Jeeb" nno gsa-
ter Gaa WnIb" madt bic 9en1,en legsn
,,nS rentabe. Reu unb @etreioe: 2i9<
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