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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-26
New Corn Remover In Big
Demand Say Druggists

Since the virtues of ice-mint as a corn
remover became known in this country
druggists have been having an extraordf-
nary demand for this product and it is
predicted that this summer women will
wear smaller and prettier shoes than ever.
The fact that this new discovery which
is made from n Japanese product will
actually remove corns-roots and all-and
without the slightest pain soreness, is of
course mainly responsible for its large
and increasing sale.
You apply just "A little on tender. ach-
ing corn and instantly the soreness is re-
lieved, aud soon the corn is so shriveled
that II may be lifted out with the fingers
root and all.
Ice-mint is a clean, creamy. snow white,
non-polsonous substance and will never in
flame or irritate the most tender skin.
Cutting or pairing cornS often produces
blood poison and people are warned to
stop IT.
Just ask in any drug store for a small
Jar of ice-mint which will cost little vet
is sufficient to rid ones feet of every corn
or callous. You'll like it immensely
Advertisement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-26
RECEIVE 100000 CANS
Promoters of Oakland Factory Getting
Ready to Start Operations.

Forty thousand quart cans are ready
and waiting for the installation of the
canning factory at Oakland. The cans
were ordered several weeks ago by
members of the Chamber of Com
merce and today j. Will Kelley, sec
rotary, announced that they had ar
rived in Topeka
Machinery for the canning factory
has been ordered and is en- route to
Topeka. Immediately upon its ar
rival it will be placed in the building
at Oakland donated by Crosby Bros.
About $500 or $500 in additional
stock must be raised before the pro-
motors will feel that they have suffi-
cient capital to make the venture
success. Now that the Red Cross drive
is finished, Mr.. Kelley and E. H.
Crosby will solicit the sale of the ad-
ditional stock.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-26
BROWNS AIDING CHILD
Woman Killed Saving Life of Boy in
Smoky River.

Bunker Hill, Kan, June 26.-While
attempting to rescue her 10-year-old
son, whom she thought was drowning,
Mrs. Carrie Fisher, a farmers wife
living south of Bunker Hill, drowned
Monday. Mrs. Fisher with three of
her young children, were picking wild
currents on the banks of the Smoky
river, the children, barefooted, play
ing in the sand and the shallow wa
ter of the stream.
The elder of three waded further
than the others, and his mother see
ing him Laundering in the water,
rushed in to save him. She was
caught in a whirlpool and sucked IN
der Mrs. Fisher was the mother of
six children.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-26
BATTERY F OFFICERS
Five Commissions Given Out Today
by Gen. Charles 1. Martin.

Charles I. Martin. brigadier general,
today announced appointments of Of
ficers of the new Battery F, field artiI-
lery, Kansas City, Kan. Phillip Hoyt
was appointed by General Martin as
captain of the battery. Lutte Slower of
lola, was named a major of the Kan
sas cavalry squadron, including vari-
Gus Kansas artillery companies.
Associated with Hoyt as officers of
the new Kansas City battery are Earl
Poindexter and Frederic H. O1ander,
first lieutenants; Roger L. Barker and
Glen A Russell second lieutenants.
All of the officers of the new battery
are residents of Kansas City, Kan
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-26
PREPARE FOR BIG FAIR
Workers Begin Remodeling Agricul-
turaI Building

Henry Bennett & Son today began
repairing the agricultural building at
the fair grounds. This is the largest
building on the ground, being $50 by
So feet in dimensions with a 1O0-foot
wing. 1t was erected thirty-four years
ago and has suffered serious deterior-
atoms but the frame remains in ex-
cellent condition, built of white pine,
h--possible to purchase now and wood
that never rotS.
The center part, now three stories,
will be reduced to two stories to es-
cape the wind. A new roof will be
put on and the outside will be stuc-
coed to make it water and windproof.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-26
LOADED UP ON CHICKEN
Over Supply in Cold Storage Causes
Slump in Price at Chicago.

Chicago, June 26.-The old fashion
ed chicken dinner-for several years
past the mark of affluence-is now
the cheapest of meat meals
Over-population of the chicken divi-
sions of the cold storage houses has
caused a sharp decline in the mark ct
and live fowls today were selling at
49, II cents a pound. Other meat pro-
ducts, in the same period, have ad-
vanced IL to 800 per cent
Forty million pounds of chicken are
now in cold storage and must be NOV
ed in the next three months. This is
ten million pounds more than is usual
ly held at this season and the stock
has been moving slowly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-26

New York. June ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
paper. 5@5K sterling 60 day bills. 4.72.
Commercial 60 days bills on banks. 4.71a.
Commercial GO day bills. 4.71A; demand
475as Cables. 4.76 1-16: Francs. demand,
574: cables 5.73 Guilders. demand, Az !;
cables. Al SIG. Lires demand. 7.21: cables.
7.19: rubles demand, 231& cables, 23a4 bar
silver. IS Mexican dollars. 61A. Govern
ment bonds weak. Railroad bonds irregular
Time loans strong. 60 days, 90 days and six
months, 515M6. Call money strong high.
g: low. 6: ruling rate, 6 last loan, g.;
closing bid, 5% offered at 6.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-26
HAD BIG ROLL ON HIP
Negro Accused of BootIegging Carried
$40 in His Pocket.

L. Branock, a negro express driver
was arrested by the police during the
night and is charged with attempting
TO denver a consignment of liquor to
an address on Kansas avenue between
Ninth and Tenth. When he was
searched at the police station the of
ficers were astonished to find $40
In his possession
His bond was fixed at $500 and
the officers were given another sur
prise when he raised the bond and
walked out of Jail a free man-free
at least until the day of trial.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-26

Wall St, New York, June e6.-STOCKS-
Uncertainty marked the course of todays
dealings, gains in rails and specialties be-
ing offset by losses in equipments. ship
ping and utilities Sales approximated
10000 shares.
Short covering contributed to the moder-
ate improvement of the final hour. with
marked strength in Pacific mail and Pitts
burg coal. The closing was irregular.
Liberty bonds ruled a par on fairly large
transactions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-26
MRS. REINIGER DEAD
Topeka Woman Was known as the
Queen Victoria of America.

The death of Mrs. G.. G. Reiniger
occurred Monday night at her home,
1875 Lane street. She is survived by
two brothers, j. w. and Ollie Meach-
EN- of Milwaukee, Wis; a sister, Miss
Halle Meacham of Green Spring, o.;
a son, Olin G. Reiniger, an attorney of
Orange City, Ia; and four daughters,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-26
Very RESPECTFULLY.
"ARTHUR CAPFER, Govern:


Washington, June 26.-The house
military committee today voted to re-
port favorably a bill authorizing the
secretary of war to take over North
Island. in San Diego harbor, for an
aviation training station.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-26

very few people called for permits
and when we went ahead ana charseu
them the regular rates they kicked.
declaring we showed partiallty py
charging them more than their nelsn-
bors. who had obtained permits IL
permits are not issued we Will charge
the regular rate for sprinkling lawns.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-26
Elect Successor for DIR. Hoffman,

Berne June 26.-Gustave Ador was
elected a member of the federal coun-
Gil today to succeed Doctor HOFFMAN,.
who recently resigned on account OF
his connection with the effort to ar
range a separate peace between Ger
many and Russia. Fourteen deputies
voted for Doctor Hoffman,, but there
was a large majority for M. Ador-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-26

Safety razor blades sharpened bet
ter than new 25c-35c doz- Brunt
Martin Drug Co.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-26
DEATHS AND FUNERALS

WESLEY f. MILLER. age 80. died Mon
day at his home. at 1916 Polk street. The
funeral will be held Thursday afternoon
from the residence. Buriai in Topeka GEM
etery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-26
New Orleans Cotton Market


New Orleans June 26.-COTTON-Spot
market steady, % points up Middling,
$3.50.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-26
Local Mention.

Lords Flowers ~atisfy Tel s27.-
Adv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-26

FURNISHED by the Topeka Board of Trade
New York. June 26
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-26
MARRIAGE LICENSES

Marriage licenses "
office of Ralph Cav.
to the following pers'
John A. Lewis, viii
Emma Holt, Grantvil
Pete Pusch. Elmont
Addie Lawless. Topel
Irwin s. Beck, Ware
May NJ Lii, Salina
Albert Peterson, ToI
Margaret Glinkman,
Alexander Newman, !
Anna A. Higgs. Tope
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-26

New York Cotton Market
New York June 26-COTTON-Spot
market quiet Middling, S2715.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-24
The Bleeding Cross

 large small of the Red There There which entered is ndspub righteous but there be nobody who bring just the Red Cross It shells cities fields expodes mines takes life it's vehicles schers ambulanc bring the wounded it's soldiers anaehcs 
 The aim of the them the of build desolatons .. to bind broken-hearted 0 that Its kingdom there ministry the harvess the fields of
 
 
 
 of the waters, is the impulse The before that parabs His the and before time mmutable service founded When to movement idea Here flaming signing defiance national
 SuIpeeq punoIs g 6IduIs Iv eIsE4
 M.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-24
AIRY pERs1FLAGE IN LoBsrERIA

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 They who live in other centers than those in which life gyrates around the rional poser. Where shall we eat to- night?' will take languid interest. per haps, in the fact that New York jurist sees no slander in calling a head waiter "a grafter" and the greatest scoundrel in New York" They do these things so neatly and deftly over in New York that abuse, to be libelous or slanderous, seem ingly must be laid on with a trowel, the ordinary Billingsate of invidious generali- ties, such as greatest scoundrel," being apparently merely airy persifiage, giving keen edge to an otherwise dull and monotonous experience among those who are after their table and place to scream at each other while listening to the noise of cembalos raked with pitchfork and the ragtime breakdowns. Of course, the decision rests in the inability of epithets to convey thought, the word 'grafter" being considered flexible and greatest scoundrel' not referring technically to any flaws in the art of head-waiting. Consequently, what with f1exibility of common words and the lack of a technical nomenclature to describe remissness in a head waiter it looks as if license to in New York as part Of the price one pays for being of or in Lob steria, since inI deed they also serve who only stand dulge in red-hot language were viewed In and wait' and get abused.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-24
A SUSPICIOUS CHARACTER


 There was mysterious gent here the other day." related the landlord of the Petunia tavern. Tile looked a good deal like anybody else, but his actions were might peculiar. He strolled the whole length of Main street and back, and folks believe since that he was measuring the distance by pacing it off. Every time he was asked if he was looking for land he replied that he wasn't Burt Burt said to him. Several fellers have asked me what your name was. Next time they do so, what shall tell em?' The stranger snapped out, Tell em you don't know! When old Riley Rezzidew remarked that 1t peared like he had seen the strangers face before. he replied that he had been wearing it that way for several years. Nacher'l enough, his conduct aroused con- siderable suspicion, and when he finally went to the depot pretty much every- body fiddled along after him. And when the train moved out with. the stranger on board without anybody having found out anything about him, there was solemn wagging of heads. The general opinion is that while he may have been all right, the chances were that he was German spy hunting a location for a concrete foun- dation for a big gun"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-24

and its population was 132,6S5. The Steel corporation had become thor oughly at home here. Without an- nexing any more territory Birming- ham should have a population of one million or close to it in 1880. It will have if we get rid of all pessimists. In the meantime the boosters will show no disappointment of the census takers count of 250,OO0 in 1920; and people in general will be disposed to let it go at that.
 But the expansion here between 1920 and 1930 will be the most pro- gressive in the history of any city in the south. One thing at least seems reasonably certain-that Birmingham will be the first city in the south to reach the million population goal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-24
DRAFT KNOWN TO MOSES
From the Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 Registration for selective draft was known thousands of years ago. The first chapter of Numbers tells how Moses in the second year after the exodus from Egypt was commanded to choose from among the various tribes numerators to tabulate the names of the men moro than 20 years old, who were able to go to war. The passage, in part follows
 Take ye the sum of all the congre- gation of the children of Israel by their families, by their fathers houses, ac- cording to the number of the names. every male by their polls; from 20 years of age and upward. all that are able to go forth to war, thou and Aaron shall number them by their hosts. And with you there shall be man of every trrDe. (Iere are mentioned the men who are to assist in the registration.)
 And Noses and Aaron took these men that are mentioned and they as- sembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month. and they declared their pedigrees after their families by their fathers houses. according to the number of the names from 20 years old and upward"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-24
A FALSE SCHOOL OF HUMoR

From the New York Herald.
 The women who are running from one place of registration to another rather than reveal their ages to the gossiping neighborhood in which they live have been driven to it by the gulf flaws of those fun lovers who regard gray hairs and all other signs of wis dom and worldly experience as fit sub jects for ridicule.
 The great heehaw school of humor loves shining mark, and indulges in uproarious mirth over everything that should not be laughed at. In the minds of the disciples of this witless cult it is funny to be married, and still funnier to remain single. It is funny to be fat and equally funny to be lean. A long haired man is quite as funny as one who is bald. The mother-in-law, who in nine f1cing mother of her brood of grand children, Is quite as ludicrous in the eyes of these jocose ones as the "old maid" who more than earns her keep by doing the marketing and relieving her married sister of nursery cares. Not even the bangs of childbirth are safe from the jibes and jests of these would-be funny men.
 Our national sense of humor is in woeful need of reformer who will teach us the difference between sacred things and the various forms of val garity and pretence that should be laughed out of existence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-24
THE RED GROSS NURSE-By Frank Willis Barnett

strength, and 5o0,000 other men shortly to be called to the colors. A great part of them will be young men. A number of them will be our own blessed Ala bama boys, and scores of them will be killed.
 Matted and damp are the curls of gold, Kissing the snow of that fair young
 brow;
 Pale are the lips of delicate mould
 Somebody's darling is dying now. Back from the beautiful blue-veined face Brush every wandering, silken thread; Cross his hands as a sign of grace
 Somebody's darling is still and dead.' The Red Cross nurse is an angel of mercy. It's her blessed mission to serve and to save. The wounded soldier boy looks up into her sympathetic face and knows a. friend has come to stand by him and give him a chance to fight for his life and, failing, to comfort him in death.
 Kiss him once for somebody's sake; Murmur prayer, soft and low; One bright curl from the cluster take They were somebody's pride you know. Somebody's hands hath rested there; Was it mothers, soft and white? And have the lips of a sister fair
 Been baptized in these waves of light?"
 
 Wait until you see the first casualty lists and find the name of some loved one there. Then you'll wish you had subscribed and had the feeling that you did something to make his last moments as happy as possible For the sake of your conscience give now
 The Red Cross nurse today in blood filled world torn with hopeless hate, alone walks in lanes of peace and gives herself unselfishly without thought of nation, race or creed She typifies the eternal woman carrying on motherhood's unfn-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-24
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

When a man grabs the woman he IS with by the wing and carefully escorts her across a street, and acts as if he was afraid something night hit her, the bet ting is that they are not married.
 Woman may be mystery to man the rest of the year. But he can always see through her in hot weather.
 A widow gets some consolation out of the belief that most of the married wom- en of her acquaintance would like to change places with her.
 If woman knew how she looks when she gets off street car backward she wouldn't.
 A boy is always wishing he were man SO he could do as he pleases. But when he reaches manhood he gets married and has to do as his wife pleases.
 No matter what you tackle always pro- ceed on the theory that a big league scout is watching you and you are bound to be successful.
 Woman lacks originality! She puts the door key under the door mat or hangs it on nail beside the door when she leaves the house, and then she wonders how the thieves knew where to find the door key.
 This Is a great country. If 8 man finds that things do not suit him he can always JOln pOiitlcal party tHat HroiiiSSS HiiiA what he wants.
 The fact that the June brides are so scantily clad this time of year Is no in- surance that they won't be demanding silk-lined coats and sets of furs next December.
 We don't know much. But we do know that if the skirts keep on getting shorter the corsets will have to be made shorter, too, to keep them from showing above the knees.
 Give woman a perfect complexion in this world and she will take a chance on gettingHa crown in the newt world. A bride Is led to the altar in about the same way that calf is led by small boy when it is running away with him. If people had to advertise for them every time they lost their tempers every newspaper would have to carry about 20o pages of lost ads.
 A suff may imagine that she Is as good as man because she has learned 10 |. smoke cigarettes But she'll have to learn how to stow pack of scrap vo- bacco into one cheek before we'll regard her as one of the gang. A man isn't a real rummy until he spends as much time thinking about liquor as a woman's does about clothes. Once in while a woman gets so promi- nent socially that her husband has hard time getting acquainted with her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-24

FINANCIAL EMBARRASSMENT. why don't you put your money in bank?"
 I'm too sensitive" How is that?"
 When the fellow just ahead of me shoves a bale of bills through the win dow I feel as If I were imposing on bank in asking it to bother with $10 or $15 of my money
 NEW LIGHT ON THE SUBJECT. q see where a former pugilist is now a successful bullfghter in Spain" That may explain term have never quite understood" said the man whose knowledge of slang Is limited. 'Yes?"
 q have heard it said that many prize fighters are bull artists.
 INVISIBLE.
 Pacific folk no longer seek
 To gain a public hearing;
 And new ones practice every week
 The art of disappearing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-24

A modern poet says of the Red Cross nurse,
 Her heart is a garden; by its fruits
 shall ye know.
 Her rewards are more priceless than
 kings can bestow."
 Yesterday I tried to show that the Red Cross was born in the hearts or mothers and that Its very life's blood was supplied by the maternal instinct which It has been beautifully said:
 "The Red Cross carries noble com mission <o the field of war. At the bot tom of it motherhood writes itself with trembling hand. The tear that ends that signature is never dry. Beside it wife hood and sisterhood-two other members of that human trinity that watches. waits and hopes-have bravely put their seals. And chidhoods mark is there" Unto a ward of the whitewashed walls, Where the dead and the dying lay Wounded by bayonets. shells, and balls Somebody's darling was borne one day. Somebody's darling! So young and so
 brave,
 Wearing still on his pale, sweet face Soon to be hid by the dust of the grave The lingering light of his boyhood' s
 grace"
 Yes, the Red Cross came into being to serve. Born of mothers love, 1t lifts it's head above the hell of the battlefield and lets in a bit of heaven.
 Upwards of 25,0O0 American men are now on the battlefields of Europe. fight ing as volunteers in the allied armies; soon 25,0OO American regulars will be added to their number. All our Ma tional Guard is to be mobilized; our reg ular army is to be recruited to full
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-24

ished ministry of aid. It's her high mis- sion to carry a breath from heaven into the hell that man makes Have you given loved one? Well. we will give one to watch over him out there. God knows best. He was somebody's
 love;
 Somebody's heart enshrined him here; Somebody waited his name above,
 Night and morn on the wings of prayer. Somebody wept when he marched away, Looking handsome, brave and grand; Somebody's kiss on his forehead lay; Somebody clung to his parting hand" Somebody's watching and waiting for
 him;
 Yearning to hold him again to her
 heart:
 There he lies, with the blue eyes dim. And smiling. chld-like lips apart. 'Tenderly bury the fair young dead. Pausing to drop on his grave a tear, Carve on the wooden slab at his head, Somebody's darling lies buried here.'" Yes, all over America far-seeing women are uniting girlhoods patriotism with girlhood's natural admira tion for a sol- dier in the right way, and capitalizing the combination for better manhood and better womanhood. The Red Cross maiden trained for action is ready to play her part in the drama of youth and find herself in sacrificial service. So here Is to the Red Cross nurse God bless her in her mission of love. Her heart is a garden; by it's fruits shall
 ye know,
 Her rewards are more priceless than
 kings can bestow.
 With Roosevelt we say:
 Let every man serve with his body, if possible and if that is not possible. at least let him do everything with his purse to help the soldiers at the front and all who suffer bodily i'll because of the war"