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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-05
Licensed to Wed at Elkton

ELHTON. Md July 5. The following
marriage licenses We're issued here today:
Walter Vaughn and Frances Kenney stan
ley NJ Wicker and Margaret Helms Rich
ard r. PAU and clara Chicaviel. Nick Alta
relli and Jennie DClusia Joseph II. Barton
and Lydia Thompson william stewart
and Margaret Scott, John HendricksOn and
Grace Boyer Thomas McGTath and Cath
crime V. Hassler, all Of Philadelphia /;
Charles J. Smith, Philadelphia, and Joseph.
Inc y. Hasskael, Lincoln. Neb. Ernest
Schubert and Lotte Hoffman. Pittstown 4:
Charles =. Sheppard and Bessie g. Tice.
Salem, y. j.: Edward Ryan and Dollie
Brogg. Trenton; Howard O.. Plasket and
Mary e. Griscom Salem Richard Snyder
and Ethel Satterson, Milton.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-05
FIRST EXEMPTION BOARD
IN CITY COMPLETES WORK
Thirty-second District Body Forwards
List to Provost General
Crowdcr's Office

The exemption board Of the Thirty-second
district the northern part OF the Thirty
fourth Ward. comprising Overbrook has
completed numbering the men who reg
istered on June 5 for military conscription
and forwarded the list to Provost Marshall
General Crowdcr Of the War Department.
orders were received some time ago by
the boards TO make out the lists alpha
beticaliv and with numbers. Most Of tn"
boards here had completed this work when
the Government sent second order to the
boards to make the lists after the cards had
been well shuffled. The orders are for the
mailing of the lists from this city not later
than tomorrow. so that they will be In
Washington not later than July Z
The Thirty second district is probably the
first district in any Of the large cities to
report its work completed. Tho board Is
composed Of John +. Dwyer. william X
Nicholson and Dr. Frank 3. Hancock.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-05
CHARGE HE HAD DRUGS
Federal Authorities Hold Man for Trial
Under $500 Bail

United states Commissioner Long, in the
Federal Building today held harry Harrin.
Of New York and Philadelphia. in $500 bail
for court charged with having dope in his
possession and on suspicion Of selling the
drug. When Harm was arrested by Walsh
and Eiselman, Of the vice squad, at Eighth
and Wood streets he had upon him fifty
eight packages and four bottles Of drugs
valued at $3.50. they assert.
Harrin told the police that he was merely
holding the drug for another person who
was to give him so. that he was not selling
them. Upon advice OF viii Gray Beech,
Federal dope agent he was arrested upon
belief that he was the partner Of an Illicit
dealer. United States District Attorney
Kane asked for the unusually high bail be-
cause he said that when small amounts were
fixed the bail was jumped
Harrin gave his ADDRESS in Philadelphia
as 42S North Franklin street
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-05
RAILROAD WOMAN HURT
WHILE AT WORK
Falls While Cleaning a Car and Suf-
fers Internal Injuries That Send
Her to Hospital

One of the first women OF the large num-
her who have taken mems positions on the
West Jersey and Seashore Railroad was
injured today while cleaning a car and
was taken to the Cooper Hospital where
u was said that she had internal injuries
mat might prove serious. She is Sarah
Mundorf, thirty-ive years old, Of 4O6 Mickle
street, Camden.
The womap was standing on the back Of
car seat trying TO clean the top Of the
car when she lost her balance and fell on
the back Of another seat.
There are about sixty women now doing
work formerly done by men on the West
Jersey road including fagwomen, car clean
erA telephone and switch operators and
others in clerical places. allowing the men
rom these positions to assume heavier
tasks
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-05
EN-JUSTICE MOODY BURIED
Former President Taft Heads List Of
Distinguished Palbearers

hNN EItHIlL, Mass, July 5-WiIliam
~. Moody, mrmer Associate Justice of thp
hlted States supreme Court and Secretary
or me Navy under President Roosevelt was
buried today in ByGeId Cemetery at New
some OF the most prominent men in the
CountrN attended the simple funeral service
o. o. @,'t nne Moody nome Among the honorary
II. Taft Chief Justice Edward d wbito 90
the United states Suprme Court: Cbief
justice Arthur =. Rugge Of the Massachu-
SeuS supreme Court. and Congressman n
Frederick H. Gillette, Of Springfield.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-05
POMERENE DENOUNCES
COAL BARONS IN SENATE
Sweeping Charges by Senator Prompts
Demand for Federal Investigation
of Alleged Trust

WASHINGTON. July 3. Sweeping
charges Of price boosting were made against
Ohio coal operators by Senator Pomcrene In
a speech today i'm the Senate. His aCcusa-
tions were so strong that Senator Reed inn
mediately demanded that the Department
Of Justice prosecute the operators under the
Sherman antitrust law.
Pomerene asserted that the coal barons
wecr combined in restraint Of trade. lie
explained some Of the alleged criminal
methods which ran coal prices up from 81 10
cost at the mines to as much as $9.25 a ton
to consumers.
Car shortage has nothing to do with high
coal prices. POmerene declared. He gave
statistics showing that more coal was mined
and delivered in the first six months of
1917 than during a similar period in 1916.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-05
REscUEs HIS GRANDCHILDREN
But Cigar Stock in Kaplan's Store Is
Destroyed by Fire

When FIRE broke out today in the home
candy store at 2024 South Third street
ne flames spread so rapidly through the
store that It with great dificulty that
kaplan was able to make his way 10 the
tnird MOOR where his two small grandchIi-
qren were sleeping. He picked up a child
n each arm, after wrapping them I'm their
bedciothes. and rushed through the smoke
20 the street. where the children were taken
care OF by neighbors.
The damage to the property was $500.
The stock in the store was destroyed The
origin Of the fire was not determined.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-05
Allentown Business Man Dies

ALLENTOWN, Pa, July 5.-William q.
Fogelman, hfty-three years old, one OF AL
lentown's best-known business men, secre-
tary and treasurer of the Ebbecke Hard
ware Company, bank director and promi-
nent Mason, died last night at the Sacred
Heart Hospital after an operation He was
a native Of womelsdorf and a graduate OF
Ursinus College.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-05

Philadelphia's celebration Of the Fourth
Of July was the safest and sanest on rec
ord IN this city Not a death occurred as
the result Of fireworks or explosive toys
The number of accidents totals 1877. only
seven persons were injured seriously
Officials in commenting on the record.
said that II was not only an enviable one,
but that the war. the police and several
years Of persistent warning and advice evil
IDENTIFY had been important factors In keep
ing the toll of accidents TO a minimum.
Those injured seriously we're:
MULLEN. JOHN. fifty years old. 1908 Sam
som street. struck in the mouth by bull
let four teeth knocked out. jaw broken
and tongue cut; Methodist Hospital
PRAY, RUSSELL, nineteen years old,
Worth and Kinsey streets thumb and
two fingers blown OF by explosion Of toy
cannon; Franldord Hospital
HENDERSON, REA. six years old 271l
carp street; struck in face by stray bull
let while standing on street; Polytechnic
ANDERs. JOSEPH. ten years old, s27
South Second street can, under which
charge had been placed blew up and
struck him in eye may lose sight Mt
Sinai.
GEORGE, JOSEPH. forty-six years old,
1889 Thompson street; struck by bullet
as he sat on doorstep. of home West
philadelphia Homeopathic
MASSMAN, EDLIA, six years old. 27i4
North Hemberger street burned on body
when dress became ignited from fire.
works.; Samaritan; mother severely
burned on hands trying 20 eXtinglish
flames.
oALLAGHER JOHN, twenty-four years
old. Wendell street near Lehigh avenue !;
shot In leg in Episcopal Hospital.
MOST ACCIDENTS THRILLING
One man died in the Methodist Hospital
after having shot himself accidentally in
the head with a revolver. The case, how
ever, was declared to be purely accidental
and was not classed under the category
OF Fourth fatalities
The victim was Francis Donnelly. twenty
four years old. OF 22lS South Sixteenth
street His death was the result Of a Joke
According to the police he thought the
weapon unloaded and laughingly put
the barrel between his teeth and pulled
the trigger. He had removed four bullets
from the revolver, but overlooked a fifth, II
was said.
OF the 1876 accident cases treated at the
hospitals, the great majority were triling
The habit Of children Of holding irecraclSers
In their hands when setting them of was
again responsible for many burns.
Several persons were hit by stray bullets
In Philadelphia and vicinity.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-05
500 WiIIed to Ethical Culture Society

bequest Of SlOO to the Society for Eth
ical Culture is a part OF the will Of Mercy
n. Sterett. 5S06 Knox street, which, as pro-
hated today. dsposes in private bequests
of property worth $4,000 Other wills pro-
hated were those Of Christianna b. Bell
1908 East Allegheny avenue $4,000 VIII
IInm A. williams, 4s14 Wyaiuslng avenue,
$500; James Mansfield. $50 Preston street
$4,000. and John o. Fairhurst 473S Grlscom
street 1880.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-05
Interest on Edueation Board Fund.

The Board OF Education received $7iI7
interest from the school fund repositories in
the second quarter OF the year, II was an
hounced this afternoon. The fund was
hemfsed as follows, Central National
Bank S1I19; Farmers and Mechanics
faf4s; Franklin National Bank, SlO56 I;
Market Street National Bank. S64S Com
inerclal Trust Company. t42S; PennsyI-
vanilla Company. f42e The Interest pay
r.sl,fa for SIX months aggregated 31e,2Ho
nt aeainst f2t.es1 n. ne nrat half -of, 1919.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-05
Trolley CRASHES Into Store; One Killet

YOUNGSTOWN, o., July 5.-One person
was killed and thirteen injured when
suburban car jumped the tracks and crashed
into a fruit store here today, The store
building caught fire. Edward Sculley, Of
Cleveland, caught beneath the wreckage,
was killed. Oficials say the brakes failed
20 work.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-05
Norwegian and French Woman We'd

Captain Marcus Toftidal, Of the Norwa.
CLAN steamship Wascana, and his bride
who was Miss Martha Bonna Vie. Ar.
spending their honeymoon in this city. Can.
tain Toftidars ship is loading at this port
The bride is a French woman and lost her
parents during the early days OF the war
The couple were married in New York YES.
terday.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-05

Flre OF undetermined origin today caused
uaI',age ,,, estimated at $500 to the rear or
the saloon Of Timothy McCarthv IOot ~,
mount avenue, The fire started i'm the roof
OF a shed and was put out with chemicals
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-05
CHICAGO, July 5.

The Chicago Tribune, which annually
collects Fourth of July fatality statis-
tics, today says five persons were killed
and 1876 injured in the celebration
throughout the United States yester.
day. This compares with thirty killed
and 800 hurt in 1916.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-05
Child Slightly Burned With Matches

Mary Cauachuta, FIVE years old, 4l45
Paul street, while playing with matches in
the kitchen Of her home today was burned
on the arms and face. She was removed To
the Frankford Hospital. Her condition is
not serious
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-05
|l37 ACCIDENTS,NO
DEATHS ON 18th"
Only Seven Persons Injured
Seriously in Celebra-
tion Of Day g..
CITY MAKES NEW RECORD
Figures in Citys
Safest Fourth"

'CITY'S celebration of Fourth of
~ July safest and sanest on rec
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-05-25
l2-Year-Old Heroine
OF Fire Worked Too
Hard; Now Paralyzed

Displaying the character of courage
and heroism shown by her father a year
ago. when he sacrificed his life in an ef-
fort to shield others from danger,
twelve-year-old Avis Hurst is paralyze
as the immediate result of too strenuous
work during the big fire last Monday.
Mrs. E. g. Hurst, VINO lived at 263
East Pine street until the fire destroyed
her home. is now looking out upon a
sunless world Her twelve-year-old
daughter, Avis. while trying to remove
articles of furniture from the house be-
fore il was reached by flames Monday
afternoon. she strained her back and
her injuries are very serious. She is
now a patient al the Davis-Fishcher
sanitarium.
If the little girl had hurried away as
most of the other little girls did; if she
hadn't stuck by the ship" and busted
herself removing household goods until
the fire almost reached the front door
STEP she wouldn't now be lying so help
lessIS on a bed in a hospital.
The husband of Mrs. Hurst was killed
last May by an electric wire at the At
lanta Wooden Mills. and gave his life
to keep others from danger
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-05-25
Money-Saving
C1ub
Combinations

Below we give you selection OF
the hishest-class club combinations
ever offered BY any paper. They
are made UP of absolutely. the best
publications of their class and the
prices We quote gives YOU these pa
pers at a saving of Is TO IL OF
the regular price Get your order in
today before we are compelled 10
advance the price
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-05-25
DID CHILD WAKE UP
CROSS OR FEVERISH?
Look, Mother? If tongue. is
coated give "CaIifOrnia
Syrup of Figs"

Mother. Your child isn't naturally
cross and peevish. See If tongue is
coated: this is a sure sign its little
stomach liver and bowels need a cleans
ing AT once.
When listIess. pale. feverish, fun of
cold. breath bad, throat sore. doesn't
eat. sleep or act naturally. has stom-
.ach-ache. disrrhOes. remember, a gentle
liver and bowel cleansing should always
be the first treatment given.
Nothing equals California Syrup of
Figs" for childrens ills: give tea
spoonful. and i'm a few hours all the
foUR waste. sour bile and fermenting
food which is clogGed in the bowels
passes out of the system. and YOU have
a we'll and playful child again. All
children love this harmless. delicious
fruit laxative" and it never fails to
effect good inside" cleansing. Di-
rectiOns for babies. children of all ages
and growu-ups are plainly on the bot
tie.
Keep il handy i'm your home. 4 little
given today saves a sick child tomor-
row. but get, the genuine. Ask your
druggist for a 5O-cent bottle of cali
fOrnia Syrup of Figs" then look and
see that il is made by the California
Fig Syrup CO."-tAdvtn
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-05-25

newspa pers SO we'll was the secret
kept by the volunteer censorship by
which American newspapers are coop
Grating with the government. that the
French commissioners generally were
supposed to be still in Washington and
up to Yesterday invitations 10 them to
visit various sections were received in
great number.
The party slipped away on the same
steamer which brought them over, and
convoyed by a French warship.
The departure was attended by as
much secrecy as the government could
throw around it.
On Monday, May IA, the French men
returned to Washington on special trains
from their tour.
II was presumed they were returning
to take up their conferences. but they
really returned TO make their farewell
visits to President Wilson and other
officials. Their special train was held
i'm waiting and late that afternoon the
mission sped away again, reaching New
York before midnight.
Tugs were waiting and the French
men were taken to the liner in mid
stream. The ship sailed out through
the harbor guards in the early hours
of the morning.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-05-25
HAD PELLAGRA, IS
SAVED FROM GRAVE
Her Grave without Baughn's
Treatment.

Mrs. Harriet Lowe. Aberdeen, Miss.
writes: Il am more than grateful TO YOU
for YOUR valuable Baughn's Treatment
am doing fine and can't say enough
10 your credit I am quite sure I would
have been in the grave without it."
Don't YOU suppose this letter made US
feel good TO know we had saved a life.
Many such lives have been saved.
Baughn's Pellagra Urea tmeul has saved
many from the grave. SO sure are we
that il will cure pellagra that we sup
ply the treatment on the basis of re-
funding the money in case the customer
is not fully satisfied.
Your worst crime il delay. Don't
delay. Write today. right now. 10
American Compromising Company, Box
SSH, Jasper. Ala. and get Baughn's
big free booklet on pellagra, remem-
bering the money is refunded in any case
where the remedy fails to cure dvtD
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-05-25
Plans Construction of
81 Soldier Cities, With
Streets and Accessories

WASHINGTON. May 23.-Plsns for
construction of thirty-three great can
Torment cities to house the new ma
llonal army were under consideration in
the quartermaster's department today.
Engineering men from every big con-
struction company in the country have
been called TO aid the department as
volunteers.
Secretary Baker assigned Colonel Lit
tel to oversee the construction of the
semi-permanent camps.
Each of the cantonments will accom-
modate between 10000 and $4,000 SOL
diers They must be completed within
two months They require roads, sew
age and water systems. heating and
lighting systems and adequate railroad
connection Each will be a model city
Each camp will require 1000 carloads
of freight for construction alone and
construction force of 1000 to 5000 men.
The soldier cities" will require $50
miles of roads within the camps.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-05-25

full. healthy women without iron. Not
long ago a man came to me who was
nearly half a century old and asked
me to give him a preliminary eXamina-
tion for life insurance. ] was aston
ished TO find him with the blood pres
sure of a boy of twenty. and as full of
vigor. vim and vitality as a young man;
in fact a young man he really was
notwithstanding his age. The secret.
he said, was taking iron-Nuxated Iron
had filled him with renewed life. At
30. he was in bad health: at IS he was
careworn and nearly all in--now at so.
after taking Nuxated Iron. miracle of
vitality and his face beaming with the
buoyancy of youth"
DR.. A. J. Newman. late Police sur
geon of he City of Chicago and for
mer House Surgeon. jefferson Park Hos
pitsl Chicago, in commenting on the
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-05-25
Nuxated iron Should Be
Used in Every Hospital and
Observation-Disclosures

ouod York and formerly Al"
PhydudnB Brooklyn Hospital
the
Hoh
of Hcatene un-down p
late Surgeon
Park HosihIC hcago, tested
Nuxated in hei op
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-05-25
Uncle Sans Regulars
Get Increase In Pay

Captain G. V Heidi. in charge of re-
cr7IitinE In Atlanta and the state of
Georgia. was in receipt OF telegram
Tuesday morning from Adjutant Gen
ersl Mccain in Washington. suthoriz-
ing him to announce that the pay of
enlisted men would De increased from
SIS per month to $50 The increase
goes into effect June l.
The telegram further stated that men
receiving a base paw of So would be
sincreased to SIS. and men receiving
SIS up 10 $40. their pay would be in
creased SIS per month This applies
10 base pay, that is what a man re-
Ceived when originally enlisted
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-05-25

most common foods or America, the
staUches, sugars. table syrups. candies.
polished rice. white bread. soda, crack
ers. biscuits. macaroni, spaghetti. tapi-
oca. .ssagO. fariha, degerminated corn
meal. no longer is iron to be found. Re
filming processes have removed the iron
of Mother Earth from these impover-
ished foods and silly methods of home
cookery. by throwing down the waste
pipe the water in which our vegetables
are cooked are responsible for another
grave iron loss, Therefore. if you wish
to preserve your youthful vim and vigor
to a ripe age, you must supply the iron
deficiency in your food by using some
form of organic iron-Nuxated Iron
Just you would use salt when your
food has not enough salt.
NOTE-Nuxated Iron which is prescribed and
recommended above by physicians in such a great
variety of cases is not a patent medcipe nor
secret remedy, but which is well known IL
druggists and whose iron constituents are widely
prescribed by eminent physicians everywhere
Unlike the older inorganic iron products it is
easily sssmiated, does not injure the teeth
make them black. upset the stomach; on the
all forms of Indigestion. az well as for nervous
rundown conditions. The manufacturers have
such great confidence in Nuxated Iron that thew
offer to forfeit $4,000 to any charitable insti-
tuition if they cannot axe any man or woman
under so who laCkG iron and increase their
strength 100 per cent in four weeks
time provided they have no serious organic
trouble. They also offer to refund your money
if II does not at least double your strength
and endurance in ten days time. It's dis
PenScd in this city by all good druggists tAdrt.j
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-05-25
Wood Pulp Entered Free

WASHINGTON. May 23.-The house
late today adopted an amendment to
the rtvenue bill to admit free of duty
printing paper not taxed under the ex-
listing tariff act, and wood pulp.