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Putnam patriot., 1917-04-13
MRS. KERNS' ADVICE 1s Weak, Nervous, Rundown Women

SA Cumberland, Md.-"For . long ene suffered from a nervous break oo%n. l could not eat or sleep and was so weak could hardly walk. My hus- oaoc heard about vinol and got me to Gy 1t Now l have a good appetite, sleep soundly and am well and strong. EFery nervous, weak, rundown woman should try Vinol--Mrs. D. W. KERNs.
 tinol is delicious cod liver and iron .efnc. without oil, which we guarantee .e create healthy appetite. aid diges- oas and make pure healthy blood
 1F Donahue, Druggist, Putnam
Putnam patriot., 1917-04-13
The commonest Generosity

The commonest Generosity
 Some men are not only eager to give the devil his due, but they insist on adding a fat bonus It is the Lord who usually finds collections poor.- Houston Post.
Putnam patriot., 1917-04-13
Connecticut Crops.

Connecticut Crops.
 According to the government crop report for April, Connecticut's rye crop was 90 per cent. for April 1, with the average for ten years 95 per cent During the year ending April l, 1.5 of the hogs in the state were lost by disease. being II per cent below the ten-year average. Cattle losses during the year up to April l were 1 per cent. from dis. ease and i per cent from exposure. Sheep losses during the year were 5 per cent. from disease and I per eefft. from exposure. Horses and mdies showed loss of 1.2 per cent. from disease. In grain, the price of corn April 1 of this year was SPA a oushel as compared to 90 cents a onshel a year ago. Oats were 90 cents bushel this month and yeae ago were 60 cents a bushel. Pota. foes were s1.37 a bushel in 1916 and s16s a bushel this year, these prices oeing average. Hay was $1720 on AHh 1, and s23S0 a ton last year Ssgs are 30 cents a dozen this year ana were 2s cents last year.
Putnam patriot., 1917-04-13
Military Census Work Completed

Notices have been sent out from the heao quarters of the Military Census Bureau at Hartford that the work has been completed. The first notice fol lowing has been sent to the press and the second to local ceusus sheadquart- CTS:
 "Dear Sir:
 The Connecticut military census is now complete and the results have been placed in the stale library, ready to give any information that is wanted at that time. One of the large factors in the success of the census has been the loyal cooperation of the press in Connecticut. Please accept the thanks of the spe clal assistants to the govern or for what your newspaper las done in putting information concerning the census before the people and keeping them interested In the work. Every inch of census information used in your paper has helped make the cen sus success; every line has been ap- preciated.
Putnam patriot., 1917-04-13
With cordial regards, Bureau of Military Census,

Charles A. Goodwin.
 "Please let it be known throughout your district, if you have not already done so, that the governor desires every man who has not answered the questions to obtain from your local bureau blank and fill it out and send it to the state library.
 It is impossible for the governor in person to write 10 all the men who have aided in the tnking of the census, but he asks US in lnis letter, in his be- half, to express to yoa and to all the men who have worked under you the deep sense of obligation which Connec- ticut feels
 Those of us who have worked at headquarters desise also to express their satisfaction of the fact that this census is not the work of eny ne man or group of men, but the mbination of the ten thousand men throughout Connecticut who have labored early snd late to make the census possible. This little state has given an example of leadership that is the more encour- aging becGus it is evidently the result of an effort by all her people
Putnam patriot., 1917-04-13
suso Bureau Prepares.

smo Bureau Prepares.
 Preparations are already being made ny he automobile department to meet whatever changes will be re- asned in the bureau when the gov erhor appoints the automobile com. missioner. whose appointment Is pro- Ffaed for in measure recently pass es by the Legislature Much of the pfhthg matter of the automobile omeau will have to be changed as 8 Ieeur of the new place created by me General Assembly. No radical Nhanges are expected in the depart meht report that Chief Clerk Fred s'hk Wetstine would be appointed nepaty commissioner could not be vert ned This appointment will be made o' me commissioner, but the gover- noi aas not yet announced the appoint roeni The measure requires the com in'ss sioner to take office on June 1.
Putnam patriot., 1917-04-13
April 1917
July 1870

The death of Mir. F. w. Perry ends a pleasant as- sociation of nearly forty seven years and the busi- ness of Perry & Brown is now for sale.
 If not sold out in one lot, special sales will be made. Watch for Later Notices
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-04-04
NeUer Better Blow
Struck for Freedom
discount Bryce Lauds Lofty
and Impressive address,
Of President Wilson.
IRy Assncia,ed rrcss 1

N
LONDON. April 3.--Replying to the
question Of the Associated Press as to
what difference Americas entrance in
the war would make to Europe now
and hereafter. Viscount Bryce, the
former British ambassador at Wash
ineton. said to-day:
Il would say that i! will be Of the
highest Importance in three ways. and
II gives the keenest pleasure to Amer
ica's warmest friends here. Firstly.
it must bring the war to n spcedicr
close. not only by the material aid. in
money and men and in the supply OF
food to the allied Countries America
can render. but also b? the moral cf-
feet her participation will produce on
the German people and the German
armies They now Will see that sue
cess has for them become impossible
Demora liZation must increase and re-
sistance weaken.
Secondly, America comes in from no
selfish motives. but as the champion
OF international justice and humanity
outraged by The German methods Of
conducting the war. She stands by
the allies in their effort to vindicate
human rights. the respect for which
the success Of Germany would give a
fatal blow.
Thirdly. the world has for nearly a
century and half known and admired
America as country which has pre-
eminently loved and priced freedom
and given sympathy to all who strove
for ii. She now is rendering help
OF incalculable value to the cause Of
freedom.
president Wilson. in his lofty and
impressive address. worthy OF the oc-
casion that called II forth. has rightly
dwelt on the fact that 1t is the Ger
man government rather than the Ger
man people that is responsible for the
series Of crimes committed on land and
sea during this war. The German peo-
pie. hitherto fed by their government
upon lies. now will begin to realize
that IL is the military caste which
dominates them that has by it's ruth
less savagery reused against Germany
the horror and Indignation OF the new,
as we'll as the old world. We now
may hope that they will shake off the
yoke and bring themselves. as the Rus
sian people have done. into the fellow
ship of those free nations whose gov
ernnents would not dare TO perpc-
trate such crimes.
Never has better blow been
struck for Democratic freedom than
that which America is now dealing TO
the last of despotsms that remains in
Europe"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-04-04

propaganda and cxilcd without trial by
order of the secret police. gendarmerie
or tho Minister of the Interior; finally
some tens o. thousands Of peasants
killed with,v' trial by DEGREES OF tho
Village communal councils
Many Will remain I'm Siberia volun-
tarily, where conditions of life and
work are now excellent. One of the
largest convict settlements was in
Yak uba, In northeast Siberia, where
about $1,000 exilcs and conyicts lived
n Semi-liberty. In the mining district
0f Ncrtchinsk 100 cXiles. including
seven women. convicted Of conspiring
uS;,inst the Emperor have been re-
leased. The first to be freed was the
famous Marie Spiridonova. who killed
q colonel OF gcndarmes for torturinr
prisoners.
FAMOUS TERRORIST
CHEERED ny CROWDS
AZ Tyumcn the correspondent met a
second trainload of cXilcs from the
Iixutsk prison and penal settlements
" Toboisk. and Tomsk. The crowds
at tie station chcered the famous ter
rorist. Nicolai Anuikhin. who shot and
killed the chief of the Petrograd-
Warsaw railway in 1905. His victim
General Fuchloff was about to kidnap
100 railroad strikers and send them
TO Siberia.
Anuikhin introduced himself a. "a
released gail bird" lie said: After
one year II. European convict prisons
Silent ten Years in the .tlcxandrovsls
prison, hfty miles from Irkutsk This
~ the IiSgest convict jail in Russia.
and coaia lined 10000 ordinary crimi-
mails and about 500 political prisoners.
mostly sentenced TO lives katroga' the
stNcr"St form Of Russian punishment
short o. Death | spent the first f-e
years in the so-calIcd probation class
viii, hands and feet manacIed and
chained TO wheelbarrow which
had 10 take everywhere In addition
was repeatedly logged.
THE badly overcrowded prison was
divided into dormi,ories. each of which
vas intended for thirty prisoners but
usually contained from sixty to eighty.
haif or Nhoin had consumption or
riie uniatia:n. ", convicts mad a secret
organization winch we called the col
lective. Tile occupants OF the different
dorini,orics communicated by means Of
tappini; and other systems Of signaling
We knew nothing OF the revolution un-
I'll tn" morning oil our release. The
provincial state attorney suddenly APP
pcared and announced TO our amaze
ment: Russia is t. republic and you
aie free.
DEMAND FOR ni.ACKSMITHs
20 RELEASE PRISONERS
among the political prisoners from
TobolsE is Alexander Popon who was
sentenced TO death for an alleged plot
aG:inst the Emperor. Pouoff. who is
highly intelligent artisan. was
chained by the wrists and ankles for
four years. In describing his release.
he said: - most remarkable feature
of amnesty day in Tobolsk was the
sudden demand for blacksmiths The
prison blacksmith. fearing the Ven
gcancc OF tie couvicts. fed and private
hlnclssniths In the general orgy could
not be found. The newly formed COM
mittec OF public safety drove the still
chained concicts TO the dismissed gov
ernors palace where banquet had
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-04-04

| 5ccn prepared and VIC had our FRS.
free meal. !.buve the din OF speeches
and cheers for the republic could be
he;trd the jdnElinG OF our shacklcs."
| From Tobolsk prison there were also
released fifty soldiers. sentenced to
lite for mutiny during the revolution
oil 1905, leaders in the Lironian peas
ant riots and others who were sen
fenced for aErarian offenses. Another
liberated exile was Sophia Libnaitsky,
pretty girl of nineteen from Nitcbsk.
VINO WAS arrested a year ago on sus-
picion OF being engaged in political
propaganda and was spirited away to
the remote Siberian village Of kiutun.
She was allowed 81 a month for living
expenses and managed to exist by
teaching adult peasants TO read and
write. She said:
In my village the police wearing
red badges announced the revolution.
There was a frantic competition among
the cNiles to get home. The first two
girls who started were without proper
equipment and were overtaken by a
blizzard near Nrekolensk and frozen to
DEATH
Another girl eXilcd to 4 place near
Lake Baikal said that the news OF the
revolution was first given out by the
village priest in church. Al once nifty
cNiles. who were in the congregation
rushed oct determined on vengeance
on the local captain who was.a wanton
tyrant. The policeman's ten-year-old
daughter. standing before her father,
exclaimed
XIII me FIRST" The child's action
saved the captains life
In Tyumen arc convicts and admin
istrative exiles on their way to exile
when the revolution occurred These
immediately started back Among them
was Basil Muravin. sentenced to death
1907 for belonging 10 the militant
organization OF the Social Revolution
AIRY Party. Muravin spent the first
five years in the Schlusselburc fortress
on Lake Ladoga. then four Gears in
other European prisons. He was then
dispatched TO Siberia to end his days as
an exile on the Upper Lena Muravin
said:
When the revolution occurred / was
in the small Udinsk transport prison
awaiting the arrival Of other convicts
ior dispatch together to the east
lad long lost hope OF pardon. when
learned was free. The discovery
came IN most dramatic way. was
N chains IA newcomer OF unknown
character. ! heard sudden shouting
and afterward terrific rife firing. 1t
sounded as II million cartridges had
exploded Next bullets began TO fly
over the prison yard. Finally a bulle,
cut the halyard OF the Russian flag
which waved over the prison building.
The flag dropped on the roor and
I
prison and hoisted there revolu-
ttonary faG. My last experience OF
tie old regime was visit By the for
mtr governor of the jail. who. fearing
retaliation, begged me to sign a state
m"nt acquitting him OF i'll treatment
Though his treatment had been bad /
agreed, not desiring to mar Russia's
new freedom bx acts Of patty ven
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-04-04
SPEAKS AT ART CLUB
Miss Iinttic Belle Gresham Makes In
tcrestimE Address On "Mlssion

OF Poetry"
~ song that nerves n nations heart
Is in itself {: deed was tho quota ton
with which Miss Hattie Belle Gresham
opened her address at the Art Club
OF Richmond yesterday afternoon on
tho Mission of Poetry"
The heroic words of the warrior
Hector to Andromachc. TIomer'a con-
ccption oc the hero husband and fla
ther. was Miss Greshams first Illus
tration. Tho speaker then reviewed
several great cras of poetry, but her
specific instances were drawn largely
from modern writings.
In group of lyrics from Tcnnyson.
Miss Gresham called attention TO an
essential characteristic of this poet in
using as subject matter natural things.
and drawing from them a spiritual con-
clusion
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-04-04
GERMAN JEWELS FOR SALE
Berlin Dispatch Says Empress Has Sent
Treasures for Disposition I'm
Foreign Country.

AMSTERDAM. April 3 via London).
"A Berlin dispatch to the Cologne
Gazette says that the Empress has sent
her private Jewels to neutral coun-
try 20 he sold The jewels arc valued
at a large sum.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-04-04
INDIAN MURDERER TO HANG
Secretary baker at Inst Finds Place
for Execution OF CrIminal-Niu
Die on AnrfI Id.

WASHINGTON, April edwin May
berry. tho Indian murderer who has
encountered so much difficulty in find
ing q place TO be hanged. to-day was
accommodated by Secretary OF War
Baker.
Mayberry was sentenced TO be
hanged at Spokane, Wash. Washing
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-04-04

military reservations. Tho reservation
has not yet been decided upon. Tn.
death sentence is for April 10 1870
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-28
American Troops
To Wear Name Tags
Aluminium Disks Will Furnish
Complete Identification
of Each Soldier
lSpccial orrospondencel

WASHINGTON, Sept. q. - Every
American soldier who goes into the
trenches in France will wear suspended
from his neck beneath his clothing an
aluminium tag bearing his name, COM
pany and regiment. according to the
present plan of the War Department.
The proposal to tag each man with a
number only. as is done in foreign
armies, is not favored.
A comprehensive card index system
will be inaugurated by the War De-
partment following passage Of the
General Deficiency Appropriation bill
supplying the necessary funds. Plans
have been practically completed for tho
creation in the department Of "sta-
tistical division with foreign
branch in Paris.
This division will keep card index
record Of every soldier Of the United
States, whether on duty in this coun-
try or on the battlefelds Of Europe,
Every man in the army will be indexed
by name and the records filed in alpha
betical order for immediate reference
should the names appear either IN
army orders or casualty lists. WITH
the description Of each soldier will be
given the name of his next OF kin. with
emergency address.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-28

least ono meeting in every theatre in
the city during the campaign. Speak
ers will invade the large restaurants
nightly as well AZ the movie houses.
and motor trucks and automobiles will
be pressed into service for street corner
gatherings.
The campaign in the movie houses
will be conducted by the Four Minute
Men, an organization commissioned by
the government. Topics In bulletin
form have been prepared by the Treas
ury Department for four minute
speeches and have been distributed
among 5000 orators throughout the
country.
I'VE have no time TO lose" reads a
plto issued Yesterday by Alexander J.
lI"mphill. chairman of the board Of
directors of the Guaranty Trust Com
1any. "War is battle of men money.
materials and minutes. Your saving is
he governments ammunition to-day.
livery cent you invest with Uncle Sam
is spent in this country. You really
use your own money while the govern
mcnt pays YOU interest"
N this connection f. b. Sweezy.
vi,c-chairman OF the Distribution Com
r!i;tee, yesterday sent letter e. the
herds of each of the | ,S07 banks in the
ID Reserve District advocating a uni
form plan for partial payments.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-28
Vessels of More Than $500
Tons Are Ordered
Requisitioned
Charter Rates Fixed
At Sharp Reductions
Plan Is to Allow Neutral.
Owned Craft in Coast
wise Service

WASHINGTON, Sept. q. Every
American merchant vessel Of more than
$500 tons dead weight capacity avail
able for ocean service will be requisi-
toned by the government October 10,
the Shipping Board announced to-day
in a statement giving the charter rates
at which the vessels will be taken over.
American ships available for ocean
traffic total slightly more. than 1000
600 tons, but some Of them already
have been taken over for the army and
navy.
In most instances, except where re-
quired for actual government service.
the ships, it was said, will be turned
back to their owners for operation on
government account, subject at all
times to any disposition the Shipping
Board may direct.
The rates announced will cut sharply
the present charter rates charged by
American vessels carrying government
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-28
Guynemer's Fate in Doubt
Officially Frances Great Air
Fighter Is Marked missing"

PARIS. Sept. 27.-Major Brocard,
commander OF the "Storks," the ssca-
dr!le 10 which Captain George Guyne-
mer belonged, in a statement to the
"Natin" says that the last fight Of the
great French aviator occurred four or
five miles inside the German lines
no~theas, Of Ypres and opposite the
British lines. Captain Guynemer was
accompanied by Lieutenant bozon Yer
dlraz, who says that they were Aging
at a heigh. OF $4,000 feet when Guyne-
mer sighted an enemy two-seater, which
he attacked.
Amos. at the same moment Yer
duraz saw four German monoplane ap-
preaching and turned toward them in
stantly so as 70 draw them off. They
circled around for a while and then
disappeared Verdursz then returned
to the place where he had left Guyne-
mer engaged with the German biplane,
but Guynemer had vanished
This is all that is known Of Guyne-
mer's fate and exhaustive inquiries
have failed to add any information.
Officially he is missing"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-28

on any revision that appears to be
necessary for fair and equitable treat
ment for the vessels owners. Re-
visions will be made, IL found neees-
sary, at intervals Of mott more than
ninety days.
To Assume wY Risks
The government will assume the war
risks on the ships requisitioned. and
in some instances the marine risk as
well. Where the marine risk is as
sumed. the usual rate for this insur-
an.e will be deducted from the char
ter price.
Within less than six months vir-
tuafly every one Of the 45s American
-cs7els now available for ocean SER
vice, including regular liners, will be
either in The service OF supplying
American troops and warships abroad
or in trades considered vital 20 the
conduct of the war. The intention OF
the government is to replace ships
drawn from regular trade routes and
from The coastwise service with neu-
trail tonnage, for which negotiations
are row pending with neutral govern
merts. Foreign ships will be admit
ted into the coastwisc service by sus-
pension of the coastwise shipping laws
A bill to make this suspension possible
is before Congress.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-28
Government Applies
Proft.Sharing Plan
To Shipbuilding
Men and Yards to,Share With
United States All Savings
on Vast Contracts

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 27.-Proht
sharing as a business, economic and
social proposition, is recognized by the
United States, and has been made the
working basis in the construction OF
the mighty merchant feet which the
government has set out to create.
Never before was the theory given such
practical application.
In about two years the United States
expects TO have 1900 steamships and
ton 81, 500, 900 at least
In the building contracts there is a
proft-shaling arrangement, the pur-
pose of which is TO save for the gov
eminent, benefit the men employed, and
give added profits to the shipbuilding
concerns.
All three of these things depend
upon the skill and efficiency of those
having the ship contracts. To be re-
allied. the cost Of the ship, as COM
plcted, must be less than the base price
set in the contract.
For example. suppose the base price
is 100000 plus Is per cent Should
NHt NtSscl Ne piOuuCtu loI SoOu,OVU lHe
difference between that and the mini
mum price goes into the proft-sharing
arrangement. One-third of $4,000
is saved 70 the government. making
the ship cost the United States s950,000
instead of 100000.
Another third goes to the shipbuild-
ing concern as added profit and be-
comes a bonus for efficiency. The re-
naming third goes into wage fund
to be distributed proportionally among
the workmen.
Employees, therefore. will share in
the profits accruing from combined eff
forts at efficiency.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-28
Approves Plan to List
Woman Power of u. S.
Defence Council Sets Dates for
Registration-Ages To Be
Kept Secret

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.-Defnite
plans for the registration Of the ma
tion's woman power were approved to-
dav by the Woman's Committee OF the
Council Of National Defence.
Dates for registration have been set
in sixteen states, ten of them by Gov
ornors' proclamations. In three the
work already is under way. In some
states registration will be carried out
gradually through the local organiza-
tons.
# was made clear to-day chat, while
listing o. all women is desired. regis
tration is purely voluntary, and only
V omen who seek government service
VIII assume any obligation. Ages will
not be required, although it is sug-
gested that they should be stated in a
general way. such as under forty or
cover thirty"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-28
Passenger Vessel Ratings
CLASS Is

Some OF the vessels TO be requisl-
..oned. which will be used exclusively
for army and navy service, will be
taken over on bare ship basis. These
vessels will be manned and operated
by the army and navy instead of by
the owners, and the rates fixed for
their use are S4I5 for cargo boats and
1915 a ton gross for passenger steam
ers Of eleven knots speed, with an
additional allowance Of so cents a
ION for each knot in excess Of IL M
70 Is knots.
All of the rates are tentative. The
board, IL was announced, will exam
inc carefully the results Of operation
under the rates, and Will determine