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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-10-19
All Fat People
Should Know This

The world owes debt OF graft
tude to the author of the now ia
nous Marmola Prescription. and is
still more indebted for the reduction
OF this harmless. effective obesity
remedy to tablet form. Narmola
Prescription Tablets can now be OBJ
tained at all drug stores. or by
writing direct 10 Marmola Co, SEA
Woodward ave. Detroit, Mich. and
their reasonable price t7S cents for
large easel leaves no excuse for
dieting or violent exercise for the
reduction OF the overfat body to
normal prnYu lions.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-10-19
Hermit's Treasure Is
Guarded After Death

PONTIAC. Mich, Oct. 19.-The
Radtke farm OF ten acres was
placed under guard as the result
OF a statement by two Troy boys,
who said that a year ago they saw
Radtke, a farmer, who was muir
dered with a Ratchet. two weeks
ago, burying a trunk In a cornfield.
The boys said they could take
searchers TO almost the exact spot
where the excavation was made.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-10-19

WILMINGTON. N. c.. Oct.
fe.--Wealshy widows, beware
Of North Cardinal
Such . warning 70 reIicts q
millionaire may follow u the
state sdds 20 It's collection Of
death mysteries.
The secrecy shroudino the 10
sulno Of permit 10 eshurs
the body Of Mrs. Lila FlaGler
Bingham. whose first husband,
n. N. Fiaaier. Standard oil
mapnate. left her millions. fol-
lows closely the mysterious
death Of Mrs. Msude A. King.
wealthy Chicago widow.
Both women had originally
married rnillionaires we'll along
In years. MRS. FlsgIerBina-
ham by a second marriage was
the wife Of an old oIrihood
sweetheart, Judge Robert w.
Bingham. when she died.
Mrs. King had not remarked.
but there was man In the
case Just the same--oaston
Means, who had been her sec
rotary, and who was q member
OF the auto party which Mrs..
King 10 said 20 have LEFT just
before her body was found In
a lonesome spot near Black
welder Spring.
Both women. while widows. spenl
much time travelling and enIoyini
life.
Young Ones Remsrry
That, II seems, 10 what most
wealthy widows do. And In
many Instances the widow and
her wealth are rapidly parted.
This. however. does not hols
good In the case OF the wealthiest
as witness Mrs. J. r. Morgan. sr.
Mrs. Mary Hartman. Mrs. Russell
SAGE, Mrs. Phoebe Hearst. Mrs
Potter Palmer. and Mrs. J. J. Hill
They. OF course. were past mid
die age when they acquired wealth
and lost their husbands.
The younger ones marry. I
seems that Dan Cupid hasn't mucl
else TO do but sit around and shoe
arrows at widowed hearts.
Just the other day news floatet
across the Atlantic that Mrs. w. u
Leeds. widow of Americas "tln
plate king" was engaged to /,
Greek prince. She has been wooet
by half the worlds bachelor noble
men. J. J. Astor's Titanic widow
Madelaine Force Aston. IL nov
Mrs. William X. Dick. and Twins
Mrs. Leila Post. widow
OF the Battle Creek cereal foot
married tho manager
OF the hotel she inherited from hel
Years ago Mrs. Marshall Field
jr., married Maldwin Drummond. .
Britisher. and carried $4,000. 00t
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-10-19
MIMERS-.BUT CARS
Are NOT PROVIDED

Editor Tho Star; Every one is
bowling about the coal shortage
aud also shortage OF coal miners
So short Of labor are the mines
that some one suggested bringing
In 5000 Chinese TO this country TO
work the mlnes.
II want TO inform YOU that there
are three mines here at Cumber
land that are closed because they
cannot get cars TO transport the
coal to the market. Ask the rail
road company about that.
TON GLEASON.
Cumberland. Wash"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-10-19
CALLS LINCOLN NEGRO
Physician Will Face Malicious Libel Charge

staff Special
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. Oct. 10
That Abraham Lincoln had
negro blood, was a traitor and
the worst "tyrant" the country
has ever seen, that he was an
infideI, biaspher,ous, and a liar
these are few OF the
charges Or. Wilhelm T. Won
knappe. eminent homeopathic
physician, makes IN a pamphlet
he has published. Won knappe
Is under arrest on an lndict-
rnent charging malicious libel.
Won Knappe. OF Scotch descent
claims John Wilkes Booth was the
patriot OF his day. and that w. II.
Seward wrote the Gettysburg
speech.
Ida NJ. Tarbell. Robert T. Lin
coin. Charles NJ. Thompson. head
Of the history department Of iii
nois university; James NJ. Wood
burn, head of the history depart
ment OF Indiana university. Or.
Horace Ellis. state superintendent
OF public instruction OF Indiana.
and other eminent people are en-
dorsed on the true bill. and depo-
sitions from them will probably be
taken.
Says Grandfather Was Traitor
Won Knappe, among other things,
charges:
That Lincoln's grandfather was
traitor during the revolution.
That Lincoln's mother had negro
blood and was an ex-chattel.
That Lincoln was spittoon
cleaner In a lawyers office In
Springfield, H.
That Lincoln was n pronounced
traitor 10 the United States during
the Mexican war.
That Wendell Phillips wrote Lin
coins replies to stephen A. Doug
las.
That Lincoln drove the South
out of the Union.
That Lincoln was rank infidel.
That Lincoln was blasphemous.
That Lincoln was blackballed
three times In Masonry and would
have joined a negro lodge In Wash
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-10-19

That had Lincoln not been sho,
In Ford's theatre. he wow4d have
been shot In a colored dive in
Washington city after the play.
That John Wilkes Booth is the
"bravest patriot of his day
That Lincoln had two churches
torn down in North Carolina and
the contents Of the cornerstones
destroyed to cover up the negro
ancestry OF his mother.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-10-19
Mystery Solved; Body
Found Hung in Tree

FOUNTAIN CITY, Wis, Oct. 10.
The body Of Frank Humid. prom
inent farmer. mysterIously missing
since Aug. rs. has been found by
hunters. II was suspended IA feet
from the ground In a tree. q razor
grasped In his hand
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-10-19
PLAY ZONE PLANNED
Sammies at Lewis to Have a Gay Resort

sssff Correspondent,
CAMP LEWIS. Tacoma. Oct.
70. - The government has
placed an official boycott on
the city that built itaef out OF
soldiers money around the
oates Of this camp. and Ia keep.
Inc every soldier cut OF u. But
not for very long will Sammy
BE- forced 20 keep his money
and foreao the pleasures Of civ.
ilisatlcr.
Within q week construction
will be started. II is thought
now. on the great amusement
rome that 10 TO keep the sol.
dlsrs supplied with fun.
Almost daily the citizens com.
mittee OF Tacoma men. which have
charge OF the always un.
der the watchtul eye OF Mai. Gen.
II. A. Greene. commanding the
camp. Is meeting TO consider the
bids OF those who would establish
AeuaSelves within reach of
my's pocketbook.
. Many Want Concessions
Everyone. Il would seem. wants
toncession OF some kind or other.
Everybody IN the world was Ia
erc this afternoon" said Capt. II.
}. Weity. aidede-camp to the gen.
Dral. yesterday. and they all want.
- concessions"
The citizens committee will de.
hand OF every concessionaire suit.
blo guarantees OF honesty and
financial backing. and will charge
small ground rent for the land.
Ind, in addition. commander a
PERTAIN percentage OF the profits.
What this percentage viii be will
liiffer with different businesses and
Win be set later.
To Call II Liberty Park
The excess profits will be turned
into q general fund and used for
the benefit of the men. II may
90 Into their mess funds or I, may
b used for library books. or the
|beautifying Of the cantonment.
Tho pleasure none viii be known
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-10-19
Chance Of a Lifetime

For Sale-A scholarship at West.
ern military academy at Alton, M;
also 325 feet OF 10-inch sewer pipe.
See Fred Reinhardt. Eighth St.
Lincoln Courier-Herald.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-12-13
ACalendar PartyIs
jolly at New Years

a CALENDAR party makes a novel
IA and informal entertainment for
the evening of New Years day
or any night during holiday week. 1t
is very pretty idea to make the invi-
tations look as much like the first page
possible. Paste on a sheet of white
note paper leaflet from the calender
bearing the date on which the party
is to be held. Below this write:
This is an invitation hearty
To my little calendar party.
Next Monday night at eight O'Clock
Bring all the wits you have in stock.
Be sure to come whateer the weather;
Well have jolly time together.
When the guests have arrived an
nOunce to the assembled company that
they have been entered as contestants
in a calendar race. To prepare fol. it
take one of the single leaf calendars
which you can buy anywhere for few
cents. This contains 365 leaves, or one
for every day in the year. Tear the
leaflets from the cover and hide them
all over the house or apartment, in the
living room, hall or spare bedroom or
wherever you want your guests to go.
At given signal, the blowing Of
whistle or the ringing of bell, every
body starts on q search for the leaflets.
This can be continued for as long or
as short a time as desired.
The first prize should be given to the
person who nas collected the greatest
number of days represented by the
calender leaves. This can be an orna-
mental calendar Of some sort. The sec
Ond prize should go to the person who
has the most calendar leaves for any
one month, but it is forbidden for play
ers to swap leaves to accomplish this.
A little diary makes a good second
prize.
There should be special prizes for
the people who find the dates of the
most Christmas, New Years,
Washingtons birthday, Lincolns birth
day, Memorial day, Fourth of July,
Labor day (the first Monday in Sep
tember) and Thanksgiving day (the
last Thursday in November). A differ
ent prize should be given to the holder
of each holiday date and should be
something appropriate to the occasion.
For instance, the prize for finding De-
cember 25 should be a tiny figure of
Santa Claus or a small stocking made
of tarlatan or net and filled with tiny
candles. New Years day prize could
have a small red blotter decorated with
the figure of Father Time cut from
card
After the prizes have been awarded
there is usually time before supper for
the date game. To play this it is nee
essary for the hostess to prepare in
advance q number of slips on which
certain well-knoWn historic dates have
been written-for example, 1902, 1866,
1910, 1914, etc. These, of course, stand
for the discovery of America by Co
lumbus, the battle of Hastings Nor
man conquest of England), the Dec
laration of independence of the Ameri-
can colonies and the beginning of the
great world war. Each player draws q
slip, reads it aloud, and whoever first
names the event that makes it famous
receives the slip.--New York World.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-12-13

InUite him to enter and drdaO ap his
chair.
Come, open goar hearth There's q
friend a0Giting near
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-12-13

II az IOUe and
prosperity 1eU-
er gToW less.
May e Gch gear
t h at f0IloWS
b e h Gpp& err
too.
Nay Time and
CRIT m SOrrO10
deal q e n tEy
Witb ycN."
Come, run to the
d OO7! There's
q friend a0dit-
ing there.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-12-13

Who is GnTions to
share in yONr
SOrTOa1 q n d
cheer.
He longs for y0ur
friendship, and
fdin 1OOuId he
1Cin
The aCGy TO yoltr
h e art. w i'll
goU not let him
inP
He knocks OF the
q 0 0 r. WOUtd
yoH send him
G9cay
Or greet him gCitl
him to stay?
DE
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-12-13
A Soma for the New Year.

\ song for the New Year! Exultant its
hours.
The dust of defeat hath not sullied its
flowers,
But fancy hath dipped them in roseal dew,
And brought them, all blooming in beau
ty, to you!
A song for the New Year! A clarion
strong;
Achievement through service, refreshment
through song!
No mountain too mighty for faith to re-
move;
No labor too lowly, TRANSPORTED by Lowell
song for the New Year! A message of
joy;
May never a discord It's music alloy!
But, growing in sweetness and melody
clear,
May l. ever lnspirit and strengthen and
ct.aeri
Ernest Neal Lyon in Reader.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-12-13

Wdltang thcfe.
Go bid him to en-
ter az, d drGa0
up his chair,
Come, I'LL up ms
tOinegzGsS O n d
pass h i M the
cake,
For fe 10 e r and
fea0er are calls
that fT&e 70 d s
make.
Come, shout in
r p w 10 has
M e S s q q e OF
cheer,
Long life to gON,
Nea0 yeGr"
"a happy Nea0 Ye
oar GoOoo
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-12-13
Hog'nanay,
TroIlOlay.

Give US of your white bread
And none of your gray!
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-12-13
Some New
Year Customs

TINE sole record of the observance
/ of the New Year by the pilgrims
in the new world, named New
England. was most prOsaic most brief.
eve went to work betimes," said Alice
Morse Earle, the famous investigator
Of Old-tlme American customs. Many
of the good Puritan ministers thought
the celebration or even notice of the
day in any way savored of improper
and unchristian reverence for the
heather god Janus. Yet they came
from land where New Year was Sec
0nd in importance and in domestic OBJ
servance only to Christmas. Through
out every English county New Years
eve was always celebrated. In many
Singing Fen, from the custom which
obtained of singing the last of the
Christmas carols at that time.
In Scotland the last day of the year
was called by the uglier name of Hog
manay, name of unknown and in.
applicable derivation, and in Scotland
it was regarded as the most popular
VI tIIC AdyS, dO l11S O1A AoC-
mas holidays were termed. Scotch
children Of the poorer class in small
towns still ask on that day from door
to door at the house Of weather. fami-
lies for dole of oat bread, calling out
''Hogmanay' or some of the local rimes
which are given in Chambers "Popu.
lar Rimes Of Scotland" such as:
Hogmanay,
Trollolay.
Give us of your white bread
And none of your gray!
They also ask for cheese, which they
call "nog money" and Brands "Popu-
lar Antiquities gives this begging
rime used by Scotch children:
Get up, guide wife, and binno sweir
Deal cakes and cheese while We are here,
For the time will come when yen be dead
And neither need your cheese nor bread.
AS the children on these fOrayS are
swathed in great sheets formed into
deep bag or pouch to carry the oat-
cake, they form quite mumming and
fantastic appearance.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-02-01
POSTAL SAVINGS TOTAL s54.44s.
Report of Local Bank Shows Big In
crease in Deposits During the Year
1916 and in the Present Month.

War made prosperity is being re.
flected in the deposits of the Kenosha
postal savings bank and today the re-
port of the cashier of the bank
shows total of more than $4,000 on
deposit as compared with little over
$4,000 at the same time last year.
The increase of more than fifty per
cent in the amount of the deposits is
largely attributed to the cutting off of
the sending of money from Kenosha to
the various countries in Europe. On
the first of January 1916 the local
bank had total of 222 depositors ac-
counts and this number has been in
creased to 276. The increase has been
notable Notwithstanding the fact that
many of the depositors have with
drawn large sums to make investments
in real estate and homes. Examina-
ton of the foreign money order ac
counts show that there has been a very
large reduction in the amount of
money which has been sent abroad by
foreign born laboring men.
This unusual gain, that has been ex-
perienced not only in Kenosha, but all
over the country, is explained by the
local officials through the change made
in the postal laws. Under the old sys-
tenn no one depositor was allowed to
put in more than 800 each month and
the total amount of his savings could
not exceed $500. Under the present
law man can deposit $1,000 at any
time and the deposit will draw interest
but he is also allowed to deposit an
other $1,000 which viii not draw in
terest.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-02-01
PAY BACK MONEY IN WISCONSIN
Men Who Sold Titles 60 Sand Piles
in Movie Theatres are Caught
by Milwaukee Officials.

A lot of Kenosha people who ex-
pected to gain a fortune through the
purchase of Michigan lots through a
moving picture theatre campaign, viii
be interested to know that the promo
tiers of this scheme in Milwaukee have
paid back to a lot Of "investors -
there the money that they put into the
scheme. In Milwaukee the amount
paid for deeds and abstracts amounted
to something over six hundred dollars.
The district attorney of that county
made an investigation and found that
the lots in question were piles of sand
and brush and of no value whatsoever
and that the taxes on the property
was for the most part a lot more than
the property was worth. The promo
tiers of the scheme when threatened
with arrest, paid back every cent they
had collected. The district attorney
here has not as yet received any COM
plants, but he will probably be ready
to act on them when the people make q
demand for the return of their money.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-02-01
American Brass Co. Gives
Thousand Dollars to Equip
N e w Department for
Vocational Training.
MAY ISSUE SCHOOL PAPER

The Lincoln school just being conf@
pleted, is going to have something
found in few schools in the United
States. 1t is going to have com
plete printing department installed in
the basement of the building and how
to set type and how to make up the
forms and how to run the press, is to
be among the subjects taught ia the
new school. This highly interesting
addition to the vocational training in
the schools of the city is to be in
stalled without a cent of expense to
the city as on Monday afternoon Ed
ward E. Randall, the principal of the
school, received a telegram from
George H. Allen in which he announc.
ed that the directors of the American
Brass Company had voted to contri-
butte thousand dollars for the in
stallation of the new printing outfit at
the school. Many of the children of
the employees of the American Brass
Company will attend the new school
and President Charles T. BROKER of
the company, has taken an activs
interest in the building of the school
and its equipment.
One of the largest rooms in the base
ment Of the building win be set apart
for the printing department. With
the contribution made by the brass
company it win be possible to install
a modern printing plant. It is ex-
pected that the plant will take care of
all the demands of the school for
printed matter and it is possible that
the students will also be able to do
some work to aid other schools Of the
city. Even with the high cost Of
paper and other printing materials
the principal feels that the print
ing department will be real addi-
ton to the school.
The money for the installation Of
the printing plant will be available at
once and when the new school is open
it is probable that immediate plans
will be made for the issuance of a
school paper. This will make it pos
sible for the school to offer not only
a course in printing, but it viii
be able to give the boys some idea of
the journalistic work.
For some time the printing press
and the type stick has been urged as
one of the necessities of the continue
ton and vocational schools, but the
members Of the school board have not
been able to see their way clear to pro-
vide for the rather large expenditure
necessary to equip the department.
The gift of the American Brass Com
pany has solved the problem. The
Lincoln school will be the first in
Southern Wisconsin to have such
printing outfit.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-02-01

The income tax law is not sacred
tablet handed down by the Almighty
and if the legislature wants to cut out
that provision to put handicap on
thrift by making man pay taxes on
the rental value of his own home, there
is no reason to suspect that the rest of
the tablet will be broken. The sooner
this provision is eliminated from the
law, the sooner it will get lot of sup
port from people who now oppose it.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-02-01
ALL CLASSES ARE WELL FILLED
Four Hundred Birds on Exhibition This
Afternoon-Late Entries Expected to
Swell Total to Half Thousand-De-
lay inCoops Handicaps Committee.

Kenosha's biggest and best poultry
show is on in full swing at the Coli
scum this afternoon. A big crowd was
disappointed on Monday night on ac-
count of the fact that the officials of
the association failed to open the show
but prevailing conditions made a
Monday night opening impossible.
The coops for the show did not arrive
from Milwaukee until late in the af-
ternoon and in order to get the
"house in order' the members of the
show committee worked until long af-
ter midnight Monday night. At noon
today every coop had been filed and
the full show was ready.
it is a notable display of feathered
stock and complete in every way.
The members Of the committee de-
clare that the finest displays Of barred
rocks and Rhode Island Reds ever
made in Southern Wisconsin is offered
at the Kenosha show. The coops for
the barred rocks take up an entire tier
in the big Coliseum and the display Of
cocks and cockerels in this division
alone is declared to be worth the
price Of admission.
While nearly all of the chickens on
display are from the Kenosha county
poultry houses, large exhibits have ar
rived from Waterford, Racine, Zion
City, Waukegan and Libertyville.
George Hackett, the presiding judge,
got started in his work this afternoon.
Notable displays in the show in adj
dition to the barred rocks and the
Rhode Island Reds include a great
number of coops Of the various strains
Of the Wyandottes, more than twenty
coops of Buff Orpingtons, large num-
Der Of Brown and White Leg
horns and smaller representation
of the "Buttercups,' Hamburgs and
Black Minorcas.
Utility poultry rules at the show
and there is only small showing of
fancy stock. Featured is the large
display of the bantams several
strains of the little fellows being
shown in the coops.
A clever display of pigeons is GER
tain to attract lot of interest among
the thousands of visitors at the show
during the remainder of the week. 1t
is the largest aond best display
of the pigeons ever shown at the
Kenosha shows.
The show committee has made good
in staging the show and every feature
for the comfort of the visitors has
been taken care There is going to be
music at the show and when the doors
are opened this evening it is certain
that the local committee will be able to
offer the best show Of the state for
the year with the possible exception of
the national show in Milwaukee.
At noon it was declared that the
birds actually in eoops had passed the
four hundred mark and number of
late entries are expected.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-02-01

And just looking over the annual re-
port of the regents of the University
of Wisconsin, one is forced to admit
that Governor Philip has not made
much Of an inroad on the funds Of the
university. If he can direct the ex-
penditure of the funds so that every
dollar is going to bring dollar s worth
Of education for the young men and
women of Wisconsin, not single OBJ
lection is going to be raised by any
right thinking person.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-02-01

Attorney General Walter G. Owen on
Monday rendered an opinion to District
Attorney Grady of Port Washington in
which he ruled that desertion of wife
about to become mother could be
combined with charge of child aban-
donment. Grady sought information as
to whether he could prosecute a man
who deserted his wife while she was
confined there. The man went to Min
neapolis and the child was born later.
Grady is expected to apply for extra
dition papers.