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The Washington herald., 1917-11-07
Christmas Mail for American Forces Abroad

to the army In Europe observe closely
the following directions:
I. Malls to reach the soldiers in
France by Christmas morning muse
he posted not later than November
Is.
2Evcry package must bear conspic-
uously the words Christmas Mail,
the complete address Of the person for
whom it IS intended. and. in the upper
left-hand corner, the name and ad-
dress OF the sender.
3. Every parcel must he so packed
and wrapped as to admit Of easy in
spection by the postmaster. No parcel
will be dispatched to France which
has not the postmaster's certificate
that II contains no prohibitive arti-
Cles.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-07
HARLEM OIL CAPSULES
If YOUR BACK ACHES

Do you feel tired and "worn-out2 80
Are your nervous and irritable. Don't
sleep well at night? Have drag
sed out" unrested feeling when you
get up in the morning? Dizzy spells?
Bad taste in the mouth, backache.
pain or soreness in the loins. and alb
domen? Severe distress when urinat-
ing, bloody, cloudy urine or sediment?
All these indicate gravel or stone on
the bladder. or that the poisonous
microbes, which are always in your
system, have attacked your kidneys.
You should use GOLD MEDAL
HaarIem OIL Capsules Immediately.
The oil soal;s gently into the walls
and lining OF the kidneys, and the
little poisonous animal germs. which
The Washington herald., 1917-11-07
DISTRICT GUARDSMEN
HELD AS JOYRIDERS

There are two disappointed soldiers
in the First Separate Battalion of the
District National Guard. These two
boys, Harrison L. Gray and William
Folke. will not see the trenches for
long time. and then maybe not at all.
Against each are three charges OF
ioyriding. Folke is charged separately
with taking an auto valued at S,0OO
from in front of the National Theater,
and charged Jointly with Gray In TAX
ing another machine valued at 1900
from the Capitol Park Hotel.
Gray is charged separately with TAX
ing a $1,000 auto from in front of 14lO
Pennsylvania avenue northwest and
going on a Joy ride with 1t.
Both pleaded guilty when arraigned
before Judge Pugh yesterday morning
in Police Court. Prosecutor Given
asked bond in the sum OF 5000 for
each for the action OF the grand jury.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-07
need SIXTY.FOUR
MENTOR D. c. QUOTA
Additional Selectiyes Will Be Sent to
Camp Within Week.

sixty-four men are now needed to
complete washington's quota drafted
into military service, according to an
announcement last night by Acting
Adit. Gen. OF the District Donovan.
Arrangements are now being made
TO send this number OF men to Camp
Meade within the next week.
Thfrty-two Of the District con-
scripts left the Union Station yester-
day morning for Camp Meade.
Eight Of those men who were sent
to Camp Meade yesterday were fur
nished by registration board No. /.
nine by board No. ?, one by board
No. 4. three men and the name of
one in other than the cantonment
branch by board No. 5, five men and
the names of three in other than the
cantonment branch by board No. s,
two men by board No. Z, three by
board No. 10. and one by board No. IL.
out of the seventy-four negro reg
istrants who are said to have failed to
report to Camp Meade on October =
two have been arrested and are held
at the Washington Barracks. The two
alleged deserters are ]. NJ. Mcclellan
and Henry Edward Williams.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-07

The time is approaching to give
thought to bringing Christmas cheer
to the American soldiers and sailors
abroad.
Arrangements have been perfected
whereby the Christmas mail to the
American EXpcditionary Forces in
Europe is TO be delivered by Christ
mas morning. Without the fullest
cooperation on the part of the public
it will he impossible to accomplish
this result.
The three essential respects in which
the public can aid in assuring a happy
Christmas at the front arc: Mail
early, address intelligently. and pack
securely. For this reason it Is urgent
ly requested that all persons having
Christmas mail for the soldiers and
sailors and the civilian units attached
The Washington herald., 1917-11-07
|FERMENTED Cider
under BAN OF LAW
Corporation Counsel Syme Warns
Agains Indulgence in Tipple.

Don't let your cider ferment, y-
hoarders and drinkers of the sweet
juice of the apple.
/ If you do, and drink too much of
the delicious beverage you'll be in the
same class with the too-exuberent
mourner Of the late dear departed
John B.
Conrad II. Syme. corporation coun-
sci of the District, yesterday said the
"hard cider souse" would be prose-
cuted with as much energy as the
dringer of lager or rye.
In ''bone dry" States the keeping
of hard or fermented cider is a viola
ton of the law.
Dry State residents who stock UT
cellars with sweet unfermented cider
do not violate the law.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-07
OLD-TlME COLD
CURE-DRINK TEA!

Get a small package OF Hamburg
Breast Tea, or as the German folks
call it. Hamburger Brust Thee" at
any pharmacy. Take a tablespoonful
of the tea. put a cup of boiling water
upon ii. pour through a sieve and
drink a tcacup full at any time. 1t
is the most effective way to break
a cold and cure grip. as it opens the
pores, relieving congestion. Also
Ioosens the bowels, thus breaking a
cold at once.
IL is inexpensive and entirely vege-
table, therefore harmless. ADV.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-07
INDIANS RETAIN LAND.

Titles to 5000 acres of land in the
Omaha Indian reservation valued al
81, ,500, 900. are involved in a decision
by the Supreme Court. which reversed
Federal DEGREES, holding that the
treaty of 1S55 gave the tribe clear
title to the land. preventing Congress
from allotting the same land under
an act passed in 1852.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-07
IMPALED ON A FENCE,
BOYS LIFE In PERIL

Eight-year-old Francis ]. Wiener
and some OF his chums were playing
about the fence on the Twelfth street
side of the Cranch School during re-
cess yesterday. Francis was walking
on top of the pickets. He fell anu
one of the irons punctured his side.
According to DR.. S. S. Arnold. of "a
Second street northeast, who treated
the child, the iron went so deep into
his side that ii required several of
his playmatcs to draw the boy from
the sharp picket.
The child was rushed 10 the home
of DR.. Arnold. and was later removed
to his own home. 73S Tenth street
southeast.
DIR. Arnold said last night that his
principal fear for the child was that
pneumonia might develop from the
wound.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-07
PROBE CRIME MYSTERY.

Ilayerstraw, y. Y. Nov. 6.-The
authorities here are investigating a
case of murder or suicide as a result
of the finding OF the body OF an uni
Identified man. The man was shot
through the head. He had been dead
about year. His clothing had
been of expensive material.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-07

are causing the Inflammation. are In
mediately attacked and chsrod out %
your system without incouycn'euce cr
pain.
Do not delay o minute. GO 20 your
druggist and insist on his supplyil 2
you with a box OF GOLD MEDAL
Haarlem oil CGpsgies in - hou-s
you will feel renewed health ara
vigor. After you have cured yoCr-
self. continue 10 take one o. two Cap
sulos each day so as TO Keep in ni-s.
class condition, and ward or the dam
ger OF future attacks. Money Ic-
funded IL they do not help you. A.
for the original imported GOLD
MEDAL brand. and thus be sure Of
getting the gCuuinc.-Adv.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-07
GERMANS DEMAND TRIBUTE.

London, Nov. Ga dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph from Amsterdam
says that. according to a frontier cor
respondent. the German authorities
in Belgium have imposed a fine of lO,-
OOO, O,OO0f. on the Province of East Flan-
ders because it failed to place 1000
laborers at the disposal of the Ger
mans by November /.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-07
TROOP TRAIN UNcOUPLED.

Moronville, Cal, Nov. 1.-TWO cars
Of a Western Pacific troop train filled
with soldiers were uncoupled as the
train stood on a siding In the Feather
River Canyon, officers reported today
Prior to the discovery that the train
had been cut in two a gang OF men
singing songs of the Industrial work
ers OF the World hooted and jeered.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-07

punch got caught in the railing the
car went on down Ninth street for .
few feet and stopped ROs5on 4 N
Got OF the car, ran over tO tho a.1e-
walk and assaulted Mansfield with hls
punch. beating him over the head 40
badly that hospital treatment was
necessary.
In the fight the conductor got a black
eye, which the court said Mansfield
was entirely justified in administering.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-07
TROOP TRANSPORT
ST0KERS WANTED

The Navy Department yesterday
called for men to stoke troop trans
ports.
In an appeal for recruits by secre-
tary Daniels Il was declared expert
ence in firing engines g. not necessary.
What the Navy wants e men physi-
cally qualified for the rrihc work.
They will be trained sftC -1listmcut
There is a special wage 81 c fer fire.
men.
The call was made necessai. hs the
new regulation whereby the ~
takes over all ships employed ~
troop transports. These vessels pre-
viously had merchant crews
II Is being rlaimcd that women
make best soldiers
The Washington herald., 1917-11-07

Munition makers in this country
claim they can operate their plants
successfully with 20 per cent of women
as employees.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-07

Mary Pickford. the motion picture
star. has subscribed $4,000 for liberty
loan bonds.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-05

accused told lurid story of how the
officer entered the house, did not
show his badge and then seized Mrs.
Wercernszky by the throat.
1T was testified that the officer
went to the home of the accused on
Ridge avenue on July 10 last to see
why the dog had not been licensed.
After a dispute with the accused, the
latter set the animal on Agent Cough
lin, whose hand was severely mang-
led. In the city court Wercernszky
was fined 500 and costs. He took
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-05

dent Wilson the following Zionist res
olution witch was adopted at the
Minneapolis conference of the organ
ization.
THE American Alliance for Labor
and Democracy expresses its unquali-
fled approval of the avowa1 by Presi-
dent Wilson that one of the motives
for Americas entrance into the war
is to secure, for the small rationale
ties the right to live their own lives
on their own soil and to develop their
culture under free, national auspices.
sInasmuch 81 as among all these
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-05
an appeal. The trial was still in pro-
gress this afternoon.
LAIS.

Lais was celebrated courtezan sup
posed to have been the daughter of
the courtezan Timandra and Alci-
blades. She was born at Hycranial,
Sicily, and was carried away by Nj
cias, the Athenian general. In
Greece she began her conquests by her
musical talent. Almost all the sreie-s
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-05
ated courtezans of antiquity Ne

musicians. Lais spent most OF her
life at Corinth, and from that fact
is often called the Corinthian- Do
genes and other philosophers were
among her lovers. She is said to
have corrupted the youth of all Cor
NTH and Athens. Then she went to
Thessaly, to see a lover of hers Here
she was stoned by the women who
were Jealous of her power over their
husbands. This took piaeo IA the
stemples venus =4nSs4o n
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-05
Tells Weird Story
of Dog Agent Who
Attacked His Wife

Dog and Liquor Agent Joseph Cough
lin was made by Julius Wercernszky
when he was arraigned before Judge
Walsh and a jury In the criminal
common pleas court yesterday on the
charge OF resistance-to an officer. THE,
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-05

small nationalities, the Jews alone
have no homeland of their own, we
urge upon the President and the in
ternational congress which will nego-
tiate terms of peace, the legitimate
claims of the Jewish people for the
establishment of a national Home
land in Palestine on a basis of self
government.
President Wilson received the reso-
luton favorably.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-05
Organized Labor
Asks Countryland
For Jewish People

When Samuel Gompers presented
to President Wilson Last week a dele
CATION which included DR.. N. Syrkin,
|H. Slobodin, Morris Kass and Robert
Maisel as part of the delegation
(which the American alliance for Labor
ana Democracy proposed to send to
Russis, he also presented 80 Rresi-
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-05

Farmer Want Ads. One Cent Word
The Washington times., 1917-10-01

The system has been condemned by both recent emf
Hughes President Lawrence Lowell of Harvard and Harry
A. Wheeler President of the Chamber of Commerce of the city Of
Chicago) dealt with the matter as follows:
The Hughes Commissions Decision
policy pursued history
Post Office and has been in favor of uniform rate
the Commission to be entirely mpractcabe attempt to
tablish system of zone rates for secondclass matter
This the latest commission The next latest the Pen
Overstree Joint Commission of Congress SecondCass
report of this Commission the rate principle is considered
follows
The Penrose-Overstreet COMMISSIONS Decision
Neither equally obvious
found of charges + which would arif-
gence Would not be politically and socially
create arbitrary barriers against the of national
fcation and solidarity?
Apart from the social and political considerations which
minds conclusive there administrative difficulties
in the way of a system of charges"
Woodrow Wilson on the Last Proposal to Charge
Higher Rates on Magazine Advertising
In interview given the occasion the last effort
anes Woodrow Wilson, then Governor of New jersey quoted
as saying:
1T must be that those who proposing this change
onot comprehend the effect would have tax the bu
of the widely circulated magazines periodicals
would be tax their of living and performing
functions.
They circulation by appeal to the pop-
thought Their advertisers
semens enable them their writer's and enlarge
terprSe and influence.
The Washington times., 1917-10-01
Death Sentence on this Evidence?
Advertisement No. S
Why Zone System on Advertising, or Zone System At All

This proposed postal rate would drecttax and very
serious the formation and OF opnon
deliberate formation and just at time when
opinion concerning actively effectively with the deep
est problems of our politics and our socialme
TO makesuch change whatever its intentions in the
minds of those who would attack and embaTaS
the free opinion Surely sober second thought will
prevent any such mischievou blunder."
Why then, magazine publishers at the time of their
greatest need faced with destruction by high system
postal increase their ADVERTISING supplemented by fur
ther postal increase on their reading matter!
considered proposals. gave hearings the publishers
u and desuctveness the and elm
mated all postal increases from the Revenue Bill.
through
Congress would and the
passed subject soy arrayed against this
radical innovation should increasing the postal charges
the West and South by 800 cent be decided on?
considered xpeden increase the rates magazines and
the practically untouched which automatically
plished by such arrangement?
Hughes
the absolute relative costs the Post Office of the several
secondass mail matter blouse Document 559 14)
THE Commission further opinion would be
and
other periodicals. So educational value concerned
sfacor distinction be made And we have no basis for the
conclusion that the comparative cost transporting and hand
ling would justify difference in rate
And again blouse Document $780, page 145):
These figures basis have for judgment the
comparative cost OF transporting handling the different kinds
publications menioned and is evident that they
nh sufficient foundation discrimination nrates between
newspapers and periodicals. ,
testimony furnished Congressional Record
which the magazine industry has been sentenced DEATH
a of By
and authority that has
study to the matter.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1917-08-17

school and its needs considerable
study and attention and has spent
some time in observation of prac-
tees and methods followed at the
Preston School, at lone, California.
This school is considered at least the
equal of any of its kind and in it
Calvin Derrick's system of self-gov-
eminent of the boys has been car
ried out and developed to a spendid
degree.
The introduction, into the Elko
school, this year of the system so
successful in California. is made pos
sible through the employment of G.
B. Hoag as disiplinearian and boys
manager. Mr.. Hoag has been lead
ing member of the faculty of the
Preston school for some time and has
been granted a years leave of alb
scence so that he may introduce the
work in this state.
Mr.. Hoag has had considerable ex-
perience in teaching manual training
and is fully competent to introduce
that required branch into the Nevada
school. He is also an accomplished
musician and band master He and
his wife will be the teaching force
under the new arrangements. which
at this time will provide, not adj.
ditional teachers, but specialists
who are qualified to undertake and
carry out work along the lines re-
quired in the instruction and hand
ling of boys of the class with which
they will have to deal Carson
News.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1917-08-17
MINES EXHIBIT AT CALIENTE

The Lincoln County Fair will be
held at Caliente next month. The
Phoebe mines should be represented
there with an elaborate display of
camp in Lincoln county. We have
minerals: as well as every mining
not learned that any concerted
plan has been laid to collect the min
erals for this exhibit: but every mine
owner should take an interest in
this matter and send in specimens
for this occasion. We would suggest
that those having mineral exhibits
for the fair 10 either bring them in
or send them TO Mr.. A. l. Scott.
secretary Of the Pioehe Commercial
club. who we feel sure. would see
that they are properly iAhulAtsi be-
fore sending them TO CAiieate-
An elaborate exhibit O. minerals
should by all means be sent 10 Cali
ente fair and II oce1rs 10 Us that
II would be = splendid idea 10 make
the exhibit permanent one After
the close of the fair these mineral
should be placed in q conspicuous
place at or near the railroad hotel
where they could be seen by travellers
passing through Calienge on the over
land trains.
There is no doubt bat what the
railroad company officials would be
glad to cooperate in this matter and,
In time, this exhibit, together with
Their Lincoln county products. would
become a decidedly attractive feature
and the county would receive 3 great
amount of beneficial advertising. The
net result would be that new peo-
pie would come to make investments
and also make their homes.
A suitable building to house these
products could be erected at small
cost and IL is Just possible that the
railroad company would put UP such
. building, il they were assured that
the residents OF the county would
enter into the project with the proper
spirit.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1917-08-17
SPEED BOAT
TAKEN BY GOVERNMENT

E. D. n. Lehe of Tahoe, Calf, has
been notified by the war department
that the powerful engines of his
valuable speed boat are needed.
Lehe replied at once that the govern
ment was welcome to his boat and
that, had he known the need, he
would live vClultee-',., it.
The Lehe boat while only thirty
teet long is of 25G horse power and
uahes fifty miles an hLhr 1t was
tr.lt for the p. q. | r.. races. The
speedster taring across the lake
towing a surf boat ridden by trim
bathing girl has heen the source OF
much entertai, ment fer the suevts
.nf Tohoe tayerr.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1917-08-17
DODGE AGENT COMING

]. W. Woodland, distributor for
Dodge Brothers Motor Cars in Clark
county. has recently taken the agen-
cy for Lincoln county, and will ar
rive in Phoebe. by way of Hike, Al
amo and Caliente within the next
two weeks in the interest of the sale
or Dodge Bros. cars The new chassis
has much heavier frame and the
clutch perfected, leaving nothing un-
done 10 make it the best car for the
desert roads. Adyt.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1917-08-17
Summer Complaint

During the hot weather of the
summer months some member OF
almost every family is likely TO be
troubled with an unusal looseness
of the bowels. and it is of the great
est Importance that this be treat
ed promptly, which can only be done
when the medicine is kept at hand.
Mrs F. F. Scott, Scottsville, n. Y.
states, Il first used Chamberlain's
Collie and Diarrohea Remedy as much
as five years ago At that time |
had a severe attack of summer com
ing card from which this county will
profit
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1917-08-17
IN THE JUSTICES COURT OF CAL

IN THE JUSTICES COURT OF CAL
iente Township, County of Lin
coin &C utv. State Of Nevada.
Gale e Mere. Co., w. b. Paes
Manager i'laintiff, vs.. Roy Tompki...,
Defendant SUMMONS.
You are hereby directed to appear
before IN, at my Office. at Calients.
in Gale LtC Township. in the Col "
of Lincoln and answer the compl
in tie above entitledaction w't'lA
five days. IL thesummons be seryat.n
the townshipor city, hut within the
county in which the action !
brought: 'and within twenty di,s
in the above entitled action within
five days, If the summers be servei IA
the township or city. lat within the
appear and answer, the plaintiff VA
take Judgment for any money or
damages demanded In the complaint
as arising Upon contract. or viii 40
ply To TIE cru, cor the relief Il.
lrapded in tn { mplaint.
To tie Shesil. or any Constabls
or any couaty, Greeting: Make le-
gal service and due return hereof.
Given under my hand this 18th
day of Ma-ch y. l.. 1917.
FRANZ PALMER,
Justhe vi lie Peace Of said Town
ship.
First pub. Jdly 20 1917.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1917-08-17
IN THE JUSTICES COURT OF CAL
iente Township, County of Lin

IN THE JUSTICES COURT OF CAL
iente Township, County Of Lin
coin County. State of Nevada.
Denton Bros. Plaintiff, VS.. B. F..
Lilly. Defendant. SUMMONS.
You are hereby directed to appear
before me at my office. at Caliente,
in Caliente Township, in the County
of Lincoln and answer the complaint
in the above entitled action within
five days, if the summons be served in
the township or city, but within the
county in which the action is
brought; 'and within twenty days
il served elsewhere" and unless you
appear and answer. the plaintiff will
take judgment for any money or
damages demanded in the complaint
as arising upon contract. or will APP
ply to the court Tor the relief de-
manded in the complaint.
To the Sheriff or any Constable
of any county. Greeting: Make le-
gal service and due return hereof.
Given under my hand this 10th
day OF March, A. D. 1917.
FRANK PALMER,
Justice OF the Peace of said Town
ship.
First pub. July 20 ,1S17.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1917-08-17
GOVERNOR BOYLE SOON
To PROCEED TO ELY

Governor Boyle and Attorney Cen
eral Thatcher. who have been visit
ing Portland, Ore. the past few days
attending conference of western
governors, oStensibly TO discuss fuel
questions, but in reality to provide
measures to stop further enehoach.
ments of the l. w. VS. in the west
ern states, will arrive in Reno to.
morrow. il is believed. and either
one or both of the officials will al
once proceed to Ely TO look into the