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The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-12-08

turkey feathers could be removed
easily before the bird got cold
even if death was awaited.
"This is a warning. Continue
your inhumane methods and you
will be liable to arrest without
any formalities," said the officer.
Last Monday, Mr.. Ross made a
second visit to the poultry houses.
He was satisfied that great i'm
provement in methods was the re-
suit of his first visit.
One proprietor told humane
agent Ross that he ought to read
up the government rules on tur-
key slaughter. He replied that a
continuation of cruel and in
humane methods would compel
the poultry merchant to tell his
story to the judge, utterly regard
less of government bulletins.
A professional plucker states
that he often makes from So to
$40 a day plucking fowl by the
piece work system. He says that
he often has seen turkeys jump
up and run around the room after
being stuck and then plucked.
The aim is, of course, to cut the
jugular vein, but an imperfect
operation causes bird to die very
clox1,1,,,
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-12-08
SOME SORRY SETTLERS.

It was difficult the past week
to find a settler along the Hib-
bing-Bear River road who would
admit of having voted for Com.
missioner O'Neill,, Be charitable,
fellows ; the, weather man had
something to do with those awful
roads, the worst since gas wagons
made their first, appearance in the
Bear River country.-Bear River
Journals. r.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-12-08
HANDSOME PROFITS ARE BEING MADE
i FROM WOOL, MUTTON AND HIDES.

Interesting History of Sheep Industry in Douglas
County, WiscOnsin-NOrthern Climate Pro-
duces Maximum of Wool and Superior Mutton
Douglas County Lambs Sell for Highest Price
Ever Paid in South st. Paul Market-SuperiOr
Aspires to Become Sheep and Wool Center of
this Region
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-12-08
.SAWDUST
AND
SHAVINGS

| SHAVINGS |
King Winter is bucking King
Odin for public attention.
Doubly cursed is he whose coal
bin is empty these days.
Little Tammany, just like Big
Tammany, has strong leaning
towards judges.
How would "Sheriff Troyer''
sound to you, dear old voter?
Konge Odin is using every bit
Of his heavy supply of cunning
He needs it.
Konge Odin has not yet seen the
handwriting on the wall but it is
there, just the same.
x
This is rather cold, windy
weather for a tender little shriev.
atty boomlet like Fred Wards.
Superior seems to be drunk and
dressed up and glad of it.
-
=. If your dear old war garden got
prematurely frosted, try, try
again next year.
"God Save the King" is said
to be the favorite prayer of M 'sieu
Benoe, the mayor of Kitzville.
The rough riders of the Com.
mercial club seem determined to
break the steel plant broncho.
If you have any interest in the
inside of local affairs, subscribe
for the Rip-saw and do it at once
Cast thy garbage in the can SC
that it may return to thy table
in the form of pork chops after
many days.
That mammoth Mormon car can
take a most welcome rest while
Uncle Bob attends the Washing
ton convention.
Superior is just about as good
a human dumping ground for Du
luth as Pennsylvania has been fol-
Hungary.
The feeling is strongly i'm.
planted that the Architects and
Builders unions are mighty hard
losers.
After praising the Rip-saw
make good by handing in your
subscription to the great family
journal.
No one ever heard of a tele-
phone girl getting rich and break
ing into financial circles by means
Of savings from her wages.
There are some able blind pig
stickers on Duluth's police force
if they are but given the word
and then properly backed up.
Transient sports who recently
tried to make New Duluth a port
Of entry from Oliver for old John
Barleycorn, sadly came to grief.
The time draws near when New
Duluth will have street railway
facilities, thereby becoming really
and truly part of Duluth.
Duluth's blind pigs object to a
diet of city garbage. They squeal
for foamy swill or the potent
product of corn mash.
It's a sight for sore eyes to see
the collector; Of. the great Port
of Duluth amble down to the
municipal courtsto plead for an
Austrian blind, pigger. The, same
: & .
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-12-08

There Ouc6 DoIOfe 10 pledQ IOI
special favors for a bunch of old
| redlight ladies but he was not SO
successful in picking judge.
If Bobbie Burns were yet in
this vale of tears, he undoubtedly
would write An Ode to that Nor.
mon Car.
Morally speaking, Rev. T. K
Leech seems intent on making the
Mesaba iron range the spotless
place of Minnesota.
Some Of the men most active in
the sheep business back of Supe-
rior seem to be trying the hardest
to make mayor Konkel a goat.
Thanks to the Rip-saw's news
columns, commissioner SLIDER
stein has discovered a new ami
mal-the blind pig on wheels.
If your money burns your peck
ct, there are a few places in dear
old Duluth where you can ex-
change a big iron dollar for one
bottle Of beer.
Mayor Konkel is whistling
loudly to keep up his courage but
the tremulous notes show that he
is rather nervous over the future.
Organized labor is splendidly
loyal and refusal to recognize the
union button does not taste good
to most of the plain, common peo-
pie.
There are grave suspicious that
a few union men here and there
think more Of the welfare of Old
John Barieycorn than they do of
their real friends.
X 4
Any druggist competent to
conduct licensed drug store
should have enough intelligence
and character to try not to turn
it into blind pig.
The Austro-American vote in
Duluth is not large but it proba-
bly, is worth cultivating Every
little helps, especially with canny
politicians.
With Old John Barleycorn
kicked out of Minnesota, one
powerful prop will be taken away
from German sympathizers in the
North Star state.
Duluth needs and desires more
comfort stations. The city com
'missioaess will make no mistake
in recognizing that fact in a
pratical way.
Blind pigs last but a day, COM
paratively, but Food Hogs and
! Food Monopolists seem to be per-
manently established in this neck
o. the woods.
Navigation soon will close and
then lot Of us will have nothing
to do but sit around and twiddle
our thumbs until it opens again
early next summer.
If the Dry Minnesota advocates
put Senator Richard Jones at the
helm for 1918, they will make nc
mistake. He's the boy who can
beat old Moses at the cold water
business.
Wake up, dear old citizen. At
tend the meetings of the city
council, the board of education
and the county commissioners
Both you and they will profit
thereby.
| Cheap sports and degenerates,
formerly making hangouts of Du'
luth's pool and billiard rooms.
seem to have gone to Superior
greatly to the welfare of clean
pool and billiards.
4 X
! If county auditor Halden wishes
to save the waste and win the
, war, he can refrain hereafter
from sending out clerks from his
office to work private politics at
county expense.
Old John Barleycorn, despite
his Punishment, likes Duluth 50
well that he tries to crawl under
the barbed wire fence. Old John
never did have any manners or
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-12-08

It's a sight for sore eyes to see
the collector of. the great Port
Of Duluth amble down to the
municipal court to plead for an
Austrian blind pigger. The same
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-27
Christley Pleads Insanity
of Three Cousins to Save
Himself From EIectrocution

Argument for a new trial for John
o. Christley, convicted of first degree
murder on a charge of killing his
wife, was based by counsel on the
fact that three first cousins of the
defendant were insane and that the
court erred in not admitting this evi-
dence at the trial. The court at that
time ruled that the evidence of in
sanity was too remote and not ad-
missable as evidence upon objections
raised by District Attorney Michael
L. Stroup. John r. Geyer, Christ
ley's counsel, cited number of cases
in which rulings had been made on
the question and called attention to
the fact that in no other case had
three cousins. all in one family, been
insane. District Attorney Stroup ar
gued against the motion. The court
will make a decision later.
During the argument President
Judge Kunkel said in speaking OF
testimony submitted to prove insan-
ity: ITO many persons are found to
be medically insane who are thor
cughly responsible under the law.
Alienists even can't tell positively
legal sanity and their testimony is
admitted with reluctance"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-27
MILLION DOLLAR
CONTRACT SLET
HERE BY US.
Gun Carriages to Be Made in
City For Coast De-
fcnSc Work
GET NEW MACHINERY
Entire Output of Boiler Com
pany Taken Over by
Government

Announcement was made to-day
that the Harrisburg Manufacturing
and Boiler Company, Nineteenth and
Naudain streets. has been awarded
Il government contract to manufac-
ture gun carriages to be used for
coast defense.
The statement was made to-day
by Samuel +. Dunkle, president of
the company, and retiring city COM
missioner Mr.. Dunkle said that he
will now devote his time entirely to
the business of the firm.
The contract for the gun carriages
Will mean an expenditure of almost
a million dollars and will keep the
big plant running for about Il year
at least. President Dunkle said. New
machinery is being installed and in
order to get the machines and othC"
supplies here at once the govern
ment is communicating whatever is
needed and is rushing 1t to the cit
at once. 1t is understood that ever
tually the government may take owe"
the entire output of the plant whicl
may mean that additional contract
would be awarded. The carriages
which are to be turned out by the
company weigh approximately thirtJ
TO thirty-tiVe tons when completed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-27
WOMEN COME TO
AIDOF PENNSY AS
WAR LABORERS
Work on Tracks and Road
beds, Handle Freight and
Work in Shops

To date the Pennsylvania Railroad
has found women u valuable ac-
quisition to their working forces.
While the weaker sex have not fit
we'll into some positions they are
more than meeting expectations III
many branches. The total number
of women employed on the Penn
sy November l. it was said to-day
was 5000.
An interesting feature reported,
is in the success of the women in
branches that have heretofore been
looked after by men, and it was tre
general belief that women would be
unable to stand hard work.
About 1000 are employed as
clerks. There are at least $500 en-
gagged in fairly hard work, 8 hours
each day, which includes the un-
loading of cars, helpers in boiler
shops, engine cleaners, car cleaners,
chain women, gang leaders, hammer
operators, machinists, crossing
watchmen, signal women, bridge
tenders, shop hands, painters and
many other vocations requiring hard
work. Many are employed as
agents, clecks, ticket examiners and
heads of women forces in offices.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-27
BYNG FORCES BATTER
HINDENBURG SUPPORT

terattack which involved still more
furious hand-to-hand lighting
through the streets. The battle con-
tinued here to-day.
The fight for Bourbon wood and
village will long be remembered as
one of the most bitterly contested
and sanguinary yet fought along
the British front in France. Amer
lean officers visiting the Cambrai
sector have been thrilled at this re-
newal of the old type warfare and
with one accord say:
That's the kind of fighting Amer
lean troops would like TO be in, for
YOU are in the open where you can
set at the enemy with cold steel"
The Germans have been concen-
trating all efforts in the attempt to
oust the British from this elevation.
which is vital for the enemy to hold
if he is to maintain himself in the
present positions farther north and
northwest.
The British have clung tenacious
~ to Bourbon wood, defending part
y by tanks, which have taken po-
sitions at advantageous locations
from which they can work their
guns. Fontaine Notre Dame was be-
ing hard pressed by the British at
latest reports. Throughout yesterday
this hamlet remained unmolested.
for it in no way hampered the oper-
atoms about Bourbon wood.
In a certain British casualty clear
ing station on the Cambria front
there has been working for several
days well-known New York ~ur-
geon, who belongs to the America 4
Medical Corps and who volunteered
his services for the present battle
Most of his work has been done
among the German prisoners, who
have come to look upon this big,
cheerful officer as almost superhu-
man because of several remarkable
operations he has performed. The
Germans all swear by the big
American and treat him with ut
most Difference. 1t fell to the lot Of
this surgeon to operate upon a Ger
man who had left the Russian from.
only thirty-siX hours before. He Was
among the reinforcements rushed
from the east. 1t took him twenty
four hours to get into the battle be-
fore Cambria and twelve hours later
he was a prisoner in British clear
ing station.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-27
Knickknacks Made by
French Soldiers to Be
Here During Holidays

Fer perpleXed Christmas shoppers
who want to buy gifts for their
friends, and help the soldiers and
the women of France, Miss Anne
Mccormick and her corps of CO.
workers have devised way out of
their dilemma. Through the agency
of French women, Miss Mccormick
recently secured a large number OF
various articles for Christmas shop
ping, all being the handiwork of
French soldiers and war-widows.
Among the collection are beautiful
French soldier dolls nesting side by
side with American soldier dolls,
dressed in the khaki. Writing port
folios. black moire bags, dollhouses
and sets of furniture, cigaret boxes,
bridge boxes, bonbonnieres. and a fine
little donkey with his cart,-these
are some of the articles which will
be sold.
A sale of the articles will be held
at the Civic Club, Wednesday after
noon, from to 6. The proceeds
will be sent to Lex Abeilles de
France, a society for the relief of
wounded and disabled soldiers, and
war widows.
The patronesses are: Misses Anne
Mccormick. Katherine Etter. Mar
garet McClain, Eleanor Darlington.
Catherine Moss and Mrs. Thomas A
Baldwin.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-27
Bread Cards VIII Be
Issued in Paris; Price Set
at Five Cents Per Pound

Paris. Nov. 27.-Brcad cards will
be issued shortly. They will be in
the form of books with detachable
coupons. each emitting the holder
to purchase a certain amount of
bread The daily allowance has
been fixed at 800 grams (about 10
ounces) per capita. Men engaged
in hard manual labor will have n
double allowance.
The system will be applied only to
towns and cities, not to country dis
tricts. The authorities also have de-
cided to abolish the obligatory mill
ing rate of So per cent. Henceforth
millers will be expected only to eX-
tract all the -four of the wheat berry,
to the exclusion of the bran.
% Bakers will be permitted hereaf-
ter to bake loaves of any shape or
size they please. instead of the loaf
of standard shape and dimensions
now obligatory. 1t is probable a
uniform price of five cents a pound
for the whole country will be fixed
for bread
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-27
EVERY POSTMAN
TO SELL NEW
LIBERTY BONDS
Five-Dollar Certificates For
S4.12 to Be Put on Sale
Monday

Better than the Liberty Bond" is
the way that post office authorities
to-day described the thrift cards. =
which arrived in Harrisburg this
morning. much to the interest of
the government employees. This
thrift card is the latest device OF
Uncle Sam for saving money in small
quantities and it is principally m
tended to attract the boys and girls
of the nation.
These coupons will be ready for
distribution bright and early next
Monday morning, along with the
iive-dollar certificates which can be
bought for S412. Postmaster Sites
said to-day that he anticipates no
difficulties from the rush. No es-
pecial preparations have been made.
Every postman will carry blanks
with him; every branch office viii
be supplied. and at the main office
the money order department bears
the responsibility. The certificates
have much the appearance of a five
dollar bill. The government expects
to raise $4,000, 100000 with these be-
fore spring.
Thousands of these latter cards
were being distributed over the city
to-day. so that they will be ready by
Monday morning to be purchased.
on each card are sixteen square
[Continued on Page Il
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-27

British Army Headquarters in
France. Monday Nov. 26.-(By the
Associated Press) British troops.
including some from London. last
night continued to bore their way
forward through the Hindenburg
support line west of Moeuvres. There
was vigorous fighting at close quar-
ters in this region, and, as a result
the British to-day We're in possess
SIGN Of a further section of support
trenches 1000 yards long running
east and west lust south OF Pronville
and Inchy- -Artois. The British
advance in the last few days had
made this section of the line virtu-
ally untenable and the Germans were
forced TO withdraw when pressed
by a new attack.
Fighting was renewed to-day be-
tween Bourbon wood and Cambria
about FOntaine Notre Dame where
the Germans were still installed and
continued to work machine guns
from roofs and windows. West of
here. at Bourbon wood and Bourbon
village the situation remained much
as it was last nighr after the Ger
mans had forced the British out 0s
most of the village in a fierce coun-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-27
Three R. R. Crossings
in Dauphin County
Dangerous to Public

Highway Commissioner O'Neil to-
day brought formal complaint against
three grade crossings on the Phila-
delphia and Reading Railway lines
in DaCDhin county as dangerous to
the people. This is the second time
the head of d department of the state
government has asked the Public
Service Commission to take steps to
abolish crossings, and in his letter
the commissioner says that he makes
formal complaint TO facilitate action
to obtain better conditions.
The crossings complained of are on
state highways and include that on
the main road to Reading one mile
east of Hummelstown, where a num-
Ler of accidents have occurred, and
crossings fifty feet west OF Swatara
Station and 800 feet west of that sta
tlon, which are also on a much-trav-
cled highway from this city to east
eTn counties.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-27

on the right bank of the MeuSe
whore the French gained the 'irst
and second German defenses on q
two-m'e front Sunday. German eff
forts to attack have been checked by
French artillery. while the enemy
guns have been bombarding the
new French positions. The activity
of the big guns also has been vio-
lent in Belgium and north Of the
Chemin Des Danes.
French and British soldiers have
reached the fighting. zone north of
the Venetian plains to aid the Ital-
ians in their brave defense against
the lnva ding Austro- German forces
Between the Brenta and the Piave
the Italians are withstanding sue
Cessfully massed enemy attacks. The
invaders attempted TO rush the de-
Tending lines tho left, in the CEN
ter and on the right OF the short
front between the rivers. but We're
crushed everywhere by the Italians.
British cavalry is now three and
one-half miles west of Jerusalem and
is closing in on the Turkish defenses
from the southwest. The Turks are
Offering some resistance and are
holding the Jerusalem -Schecham
road 10 the north in strength. North
of Jaffa British patrols have been
driven back to the southern side Of
the Mahr- r-el-Auiel.
/ rhe situation in Russia shows
'ittle Improvement and the country
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-27
KALEDINES HAS
CONTROLO FOOD
SUPPLY IN RUSSIA
Head of Cossack Troops Now
Believed to Be Master
of Situation
ARMY WITHOUT BREAD
Employees of Finance Ministry
Walk Out Rather Than Sup
port Rebel Government

London. Nov. 27.-General Kale-
dimes. Hetman of the Don Cossacks.
according to the Petrograd corre-
- Uroent of the Morning Post. is the
master of the situation. With "A
trustworthy and diciplined army he
is reported to control the bulk of
the Graingrowing territory and is
rapidly capturing the remainder.
The Russian gold reserve, which
the correspondent says. was removed
to the interior of. Russia in 1913
is now held by General Kaledines.
The Russian reyolutionists have
made a "ghastly failure" of their at
tempt at administration. the corre-
spCndent SAYS. lie adds:
But behind or beyond all this ap-
PAL entity hopeless chaos, the forces
which made Russia an empire are
no.. idle and those who know Rus
sian history understand perfectly
wen how matters will end.
THE elections to the constituent
assembly will take place but the
constituent assembly will not meet
the success of the Bolshevilli move
Continued on Page Is.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-27

is described as being on the verge
of civil war. Efforts of the Boil
sheviki government to arrange an
armistice continue and Berlin and
Petrograd are reported in communi-
cation by wireless, presumably in
connection with the peace offer of
the MaXimalists. The second army,
on the Russian northern front has
removed its officers. agreed to the
Bolsheviki armistice proposal and
pledged its support to the eX-
tremiSts.
The American government has
received the armistice note from the
Petrograd government and it is un-
der consideration. The ministers of
the allied powers in the Russian
capital, it is reported unofficially,
will demand their passports if
Russia enters into separate peace
negotiations.
General Kaledines. the Don Co.'S
sack leader, a dispatch received in
London says. is master of the situa-
tion in Russia. He is in control of
most of the grain-growing territory
in the south and is said to hold the
Russian gold reserve. reported re-
moved from Petrograd a year be-
fore the war broke out. The Rus
sian soldiers at the front are re-
ported as desperate from hunger
due to the exhaustion of food sup
plies and mutinies are said to have
broken out.