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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-27
SELLING LIQUOR TO IS
SOLDIER MEANS TIRE ASON

San Francisco sept a. - Selling
.iq1or % soldiers constitutes Treason.
according o. United States Commission.
90 Kruu
Unless it is stopped" Kul ad
every saloon in San Francisco wu be-
closed b. the federal authorities ana
every silo0rkeeper and bartender um
be iutsrned
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-27
FORMER RUSSIAN WAR
MINISTER >OU KHOM-INOFF
l. SENTENCED FOR LIFE

F=-rc-rzf s=r- ---Gs1s-a- soak
--r--1- former -.--s-e- q war. vas
s---=-1=1 % hard labor t-- lf- after
c1-r-erl1r lt tr= charge q r-s- t-ezs
on -- ttz c11-- here
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General S5-.-r- r--l--1- 7zs c1-~.-.es
s-s9 ~ --- charges q. abuse g -11d-
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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-27
NEw CIIIzENs soon.

"asl--Et1r. sept ---se-s-1- Cal
Gers 1-l % admit % ctzs-s-.5 r----
ninety cal. about s.1s3. als-s uts
cave announced their i-ts1tl1- q TAX
-1r or -at---I I-zaf.1r papers vas re-
ilrt-l iaF9-s1E tE tl- senate ---
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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-27
Asronautie Board I>gsli,.d

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tl.= ac,l1r vas rak-r yesterday ts -r-
selat- o1 Senator srerrars. aL E.r
.lg q -zal status o. the a--o-s--.-
board Tr- senate agreed tl t1--a
am=1lrr-1ts and ne 6L v--t ,8 p-e.-
dent Wilson
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-27

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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-27
CONVENTION
CLOSEDyESTERDAY
RAIN PEEKESTED SESSION or
FIFTH DISTRICT CHRISTIAN
CHTRCHEs LAST NIGHT


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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-27

4-sr4D 4DE-lJA tn CAPT r ~ --- 80 b.
Lcud9-. s=Dt- -7.-TV9 zrgs German
seaD-z1es have been or0lgrt into
F.ls1ing Holland 0y Dutch t0lFelo
oaats. and l- q reported thzt they par
ticipated 10 the ar raid ol England.
says Dispatch ~ ths Evening News
fr0n Rotterdam.
one q r1s four German si-ma1 was
seriously u0115s1 Tns three others
have been .1terued
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-27

Throughout the world onefoufth u al
children Die before siz years " age one
tsif before they arc sixteen ard only
one perzon 90 zach hundred hfef 20 We
age n slKty.hye.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-27
Recommend Reiehmann'. confirmailon.

washington. sept Z1.-C0nhfmat.on
of Colonel Carl Reichmann. % the rsg.
ular army 10 DO "a bngal.er general
wa1 recommended b. TIE senate mill.
iary Affairs committee D. q vote u 5 10
O.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-27

-He-s== WIS., S- ---pzr- =
-ae ls=- y RE Great Lzzes Transit
C1TDo-ztlo1 lzs been taken over 5v -1e
zoFe-rrle1t and tls o9Ep1-a-51- vl
case accsptl-E frs-grt ~ IlEa1k=e
Dr Dc-91e- z-c1-ll-g 20 announce
uer- here.
L-s 20 er-ue-- cl---act -ra an
11--ce-cel- says. makes lt rec=sssrl
tLzt an eln1arg0 - PACED On al freight
east no.r1 - Chicago q Milwaukee
alt1 tae c-os@ ~ business Cc-od-r q
1TsE-1sg1f ~ Buffalo Ere and Detroit.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-27

Az. yoa On. ef The hundreds ~bo
hIr. iried nsay different toaio tnd nov
ay -DlndruE ean', be stopped!
II %. remember. Ponpeiin HAIR
Ms,saz. q not oaly toaie, 1t Is a Heat
-est This treatment is carefully described
"a q l.ahst The Hair ssd Is Care
e1c.osed in every package
Charlevoix county herald., 1917-11-09
An Inside Bath
Makes You Look
and Feel Fresh
says a glass Of hot water with
phosphate before breakfsst
keeps illness away.
This excellent, oommon-sense
health measure being
adopted by millions.

Physicians the world over recon-
mend the inside bath, claiming this Is
of vastly more importance than out
side cleanliness, because the skin
pores do not absorb impurities into
the blood, causing i'll health, while the
pores in the ten yards of bowels do.
Men and women are urged to drink
each morning, before breakfast a
glass of hot water with teaspoonful
of limestone phosphate In It, as a
harmless means of helping to wash
from the stomach, liver, kidneys and
bowels the previous days indigestible
material, poisons, sour bile and toxins;
thus cleansing, sweetening and puri-
flying the entire alimentary canal be-
fore putting more food into the stom-
ach.
Just as soap and hot water cleanse
and freshen the skin, so hot water and
limestone phosphate act on the elm
NATIVE organs.
/, Those who wake up with bad breath,
coated tongue, nasty taste or have a
dull, aching head, sallow complexion.
acid stomach; others who are subject
to bilious attacks or constipation,
should obtain quarter pound of lime.
stone phosphate at the drug store.
This will cost very little but Is suffi-
cient to demonstrate the value Of In
side bathing. Those who continue 1t
each morning are assured Of pro-
nounced results, both IN regard to
health and appearance.
Charlevoix county herald., 1917-11-09
NEGRO WAITER LOSES
APPETITE FOR EELs
Box Supposed to Contain Fish Gives
Out Bio Black Snakes

Box Supposed to Contain Fish Gives
Out Big Black Snakes.
Pittsburg, Pa.-The Joy of receiving
fresh cells from Southern mountain
streams was turned into excitement
at local hotel the other day when
Jasper Cook, a negro waiter, opened
the seal tin tank supposed to contain
the slippery cells. The Kentuckian
who designed the eel gift as Joke
thought 1t might work better by send
ing instead a small batch of young
black snakes just reaching maturity.
Jasper with much ceremony got a
Ratchet, after failing with q can
opener. A huge dishpan was made
ready to receive the cells. Jasper
made a good hole. A Shiny little fell
low slid out into the pan, followed by
q half dozen large snakes, when a
waiter recognized the type and shout
ed:
"Snakesl"
Il done gone lost nah appetite TO
eels." said Jasper, as he shot for the
hall door. In a few seconds the
snakes. not given to living 10 water,
began to crawl over the table. and
dropped to the floor. A policeman had
to be called in to arrest" the reptiles
and quiet the walters.
Charlevoix county herald., 1917-11-09
East Jordan
Lumber Co.
SALTS IF bACKACHY
AND KIDNEYS HURT
Drink lots of water and stop eating
meat for while if your Bladder
troubles you.

When you wake up with backache and
dull misery in the kidney region it gen.
orally means you have been eating too
much meat, says well-known authority.
Meat forms uric acid which overworks
the kidneys in their effort to filter It
from the blood and they become sort of
paralyzed and loggy. When your kidneys
get sluggish and clog you must relieve
them, like you relieve your bowels; re-
moving all the body's urinous waste,
else you have backache, sick headache,
dizzy spells; your stomach sours, tongue
is coated, and when the weather is bad
you have rheumatic twinges. The urine
is cloudy, full of sediment, channels often
get sore, water scalds and you are Obliged
to seek relief two or three times during
the night.
Either consult good, reliable physi-
clan at once or get from your pharmacist
about four ounces of Jad Salts; take
a tablespoonful in a glass of water
before breakfast for few days and your
kidneys will then act fine. This famous
salts is made from the acid of grapes
and lemon juice, combined with lithia,
and has been used for generations to
clean and stimulate sluggish kidneys,
also TO neutralizs acids in the urine so it
no longer irritates, thus ending ladder
weakness
Jad Salts is q life saver for regular
meat eaters. IL is inexpensive, cannot
injure and makes delightful, s6er.
yescent lithis-wster drink
Charlevoix county herald., 1917-11-09
BIRTH REGISTRATION
U. S. Department Of Labor
Children's Bureau
Washinuton.

Wash, d. C.-Suppose Legacy were
left you, native American citizen, by
a relative in a distant State or in a
foreign country. Could you establish
your parentage and receive the inheri-
lance? An Official birth certificate,
perhaps, would be the only valid evil
dence. Could you furnish it? Can
your child furnish it?
Suppose your son were living
abroad and military laws were about
TO force him into the trenches. Could
you send him an official certificate of
his birth, with his name, and yours,
and the place where he was born. SO
as to establish his American citizen
ship without question and save him
from the firing line?
Sometimes the laws of the United
States demand adequate registration
of births IL they are not to work hard
ship. There was the young daughter
of an immigrant Swede. He wanted
this child who was born In the United
States to see his home, and he took
her with him on visit to Sweden.
But the strain and excitement were
too much for his failing strength, and
he died soon after reaching his boy
hood home, leaving his daughter an
orphan. Her friends were al in this
country, and she determined to re-
turn. The courage that took her TO
Ellis Island was severely tested when
she was told there that as an unpro-
tected minor she could not enter the
country unless she could prove her
claim to American citizenship. Much
time and trouble were spent in look
ing for the record of her birth, but
none could be found. Kind-hearted
friends continued to search for some
witnesses, and finally they found the
doctor who had attended her mother
when she was born, but who had fail
ed to report the birth as the law re-
CURED him to do. The kindly fate by
which it happened that the doctor
was still alive and that this young
girl had friends willing and able to
search him out alone prevented her
becoming girl without a country.
Should we be so careless. OF losing
our citizens for lack of an Official re-
cord of their coming into the world
Only II States and the District of
Columbia have birth records which
the Census Bureau accepts as fairly
adequate. and even in this birth regi-
stration area" the records e seldom
1000 complete. The Federal hill
dren's Bureau urges each community
in the country to see that all the chill
dren born within its boundaries re-
ceive the fundamental protection of
an official record Of borth.
Charlevoix county herald., 1917-11-09
MAN EscHEWs so ,;
GIRL AGREES TO WE'D
= So When Groom Proposed She psold-
ed to clinch Diet OF Solid
Food

= So When Groom Proposed She psold-
ed to clinch Diet Of Solid
Food.
Zion City, ILL., There will be no
soup served in the home OF the Frank
L. Paxtons. Frank agreed to this
detail when he declared his intentions.
"Pll do your cooking" whispered
Miss Garnant. but there1l> never be
any soup in our. house. You must
agree to that"
And Frank thereupon eschewed
soup forever.
For twelve years Miss Ethel Gar
nant of Waukegan had soup for
breakfast, soup for luncheon. and
soup for dinner.
When 6 years old she suffered a
contraction of the esophagus. AS a
result she was unable to swallow
solid food and for months her life was
despaired of. Her weight decreased
to thirty-eight pounds and tho she
grew 10 be feet 2 inches tall. 1t was
not until physician sent her to her
uncle's farm to live on a cream diet
that she attained the obese dignity OF
ninety pounds.
Then came journey to sanitar-
ium.
They're going to dynamite you,"
nurse informed her one morning.
1.-THE doctors have decided 1t is the
only way to bring you back to health"
.tChnAtfv cai1 Mice nornont And
they did.
First, as the young woman herself
relates it, she was made to swallow
yards and yards OF tape. Then cap
sule containing mysterious powder
was threaded thru the tape and swal-
lowed. Soon the digestive juices dis
solved the capsule, and caused an
explosion" OF gas SO powerful that
Miss Carnant lapsed into insensibility.
She recovered consciousness and
looked at the doctor and nurses in.
quiringly.
Were going to give you little
light food" they told her. Say, a
planked Steak, lyonnaise potatoes, a
salad, and few other things like
that"
Then Miss Garnant broke down and
cried, for the hunger Of twelve years
was about to be appeased.
She didn't cry the other day, tho,
for N the meantime she'd had that
decisive conversation with Frank l..
Paxton, and together they had jour
neyed TO the county clerks Office for
a soupless marriage license.
Charlevoix county herald., 1917-11-09
GIRL sToWAWAY HIDES
20 DAYS IN SHIP cAek
Pretty French Miss, Struggled Aboard
by Dane Lover, WEEDS Him
at Sea

Pretty French Miss, Struggled Aboard
by Dane Lover, WEEDS Him
at Sea.
Philadelphia, Pa.-The marriage at
sea of a stowaway ide. who had
been hidden in cask In the hold Of
his ship for fCrty-five days, was q
story brought to this city. by Capt.
John Forsyth, master of a Philadel-
phia schooner, which has just return
ed to an American port son4 France.
after several days of waiting"
said the skipper. II obtained the serv-
ices of young Olsen as cook. Three
days after Olsen came on the ship
three French detectives came aboard.
They accused me of having a French
girl hidden aboard. They searched
the schooner from keel to truck and
left satisfied that they were mistaken.
1--WE were well out to sea when one
morning l was surprised to see a
pretty French girl strolling about the
deck. / learned she was the girl for
whom the detectives had been search
ing and had been aboard more than a
month.
1T appears her parents had object
ed to her marrying Olsen, whom she
had met only few ,Ieeks before in
Marseilles. where she lived. They
dc eide, to come to America and be
married. Neither had MONEY
"She and Olsen made their way
erland to Bordeaux where Olsen
jv.ned the vessel. He waited his time
and smugS,cd the girl aboard ar hid
her away in a huge cask which had
been stored in the lower hold of the
vessel. Twice Il day he brought her
food, and at night he watched for her
while she came on deck for exercise.
Il sent for Olsen and told him the
immigration authorities would not al
low the girl to land. They seemed de.
jected. l then happened to think that
the laws of the United States invested
me with the power to perform mar.
riage ceremony. l then announced to
all of the crew. that there would be
a wedding aboard the ship within an
hour.
There was loud cheer for the
bride and then all of The crew busted
themselves hunting up bunting to
decorate the schooner. While the
ship was how to ] made them man
and wife. 1t was the first time that
/ had ever played parson."
Charlevoix county herald., 1917-11-09
HEN FLIES INTO TREE
WHEN READY TO LAY
Jersey Doctors Fowl Is Good for ar
Egg Day, but It's a "Scram-
bIedv One


EGG Day, but It's "scram-
bIed" One.
Washington, N. DR. Thomas L.
Dedrick of this town has become con-
vinced that there is but little advant-
age in learning the ways and wiles of
animals. For, as he says himself, as
soon as, one knows all about some
Of them along come iome more that
one never even has considered, and
their peculiarities change the whole
trend of ones interest In animal life.
DR.. DERRICK has been In the Arctic
many times and is authority on polar
bears, walrus and SEAL However, the
present obsession of his usually well
balanced life Is hen that hasn't the
vaguest notion Of how to be one. She
has laid and sunk without warning"
one hundred eggs, and the physicians
farm hands are dizzy from their effort
to save one yolk out of the weekly
output.
When she is ready to lay an egg she
flies into the highest branches of the
nearest tree. Any one passing under
the tree is Immediately disguised as
an omel Vt. and IL no one Is passing the
egg merely explodes in spectacular
fashion for the scatter Drained hens
amusement.
The more DR.. Dedrick considers
his trick hen, he has explained, the
moro his heart goes out to the pie
faced walrus.
Charlevoix county herald., 1917-11-09
HE'S ACCOMMODATING
TO SAY THE LEAST, EH7

Quest Puts One over on House De-
teetlve In Omaha Hotel.
Omaha, Neb.- In one of the big
hotels here where reputation counts
80 much that house detective is en-
ployed to see that no one oversteps, a
prosperous-looking man, wearing a
big diamond ring, went to sleep in a
lobby armchair. Soon he was snoring
loudly and his heavy breathing was
laden with alcoholic fumes.
The house detective shook him.
beg pardon, sir. but hadn't you bet
ter go to your room?" he asked, shak-
ing the man.
"Huh7 Why, sure"
whats your room numberT
Room Eli" was the answer, after
some thinking.
The house detective obligingly got
the key to room I'll.
Still in an accommodating mood, he
escorted the bibulous one to room 211.
Now you'd better lock your room,
because you're wearing some valu-
ables which might be lost. Perhaps
you'd better check them"
The guest demurred.
".Al right" said the detective, walk
ing softly away, lest he disturb the
slumber of the already sleeping guest.
Two hours later the detective dis
covered that the guest" had merely
walked into the hotel. He ordered a
flock Of drinks and meal sent up to
his room and charged" them, running
up bill Of SIS. Then he left.
The detective settled the bill.
Charlevoix county herald., 1917-11-09
FREAK f|SH-SNAKE
CAPTURED IN.NET
HAD KILLED HUNDREDS OF BASS
IN OKLAHOMA RIVER
Unknown Species Four Feet Long
With Hook-biIIed snout and
Shark-lIke Teeth.

Fargo, Okla.-N. 8. (Nick) Smith.
. fisherman and poultry raiser living
on Wolf River north OF Fargo, has
captured the serpent or fish that for
the last two years has almost devas-
tated this small river of its enormous
supply of channel cat. bass and crop
pies.
Hundreds of big fish have been seen
floating upon the surface of the water
that had been killed by slight wound
or cash across the body just below
and back of the front fms, and had
the appearance of having had the
blood sucked from their bodies.
The freak Is about four feet two
inches long and about seven to eight
inches In diameter at the thickest
part Of he body. The head is shaped
like snake head. but the jaws are set
with huge sword-like teeth, with the
upper jaw tapering off into a hook
billed sword or snout. The body is
much the same shape as that of the
common buffalo fish with kind of an
impression of scales, which indicates
that 1t has cross breeding of diff
ferent kinds Of fish or serpents.
The body tapers of into a pair of
legs looking identically like those Of
the common green frog and which it
seems to use as its principal means Of
locomotion.
While he and his son were fishing
In the river Thursday Smith came
upon q small hole of water back of a
sandbar in which the water was surg
ing from what seemed to be pitched
battle. Upon investigating they found
the freak fish or serpent in deadly en-.
counter with a channel sat about two
and q half feet long. By quick work
they were able to get the two COM
batants into hand hoopnet and sue
ceeded in landing them with the freak
holding onto its prey like leech and
cutting its throat with its shark-like
teeth.
mick" brought the freak to town,
and as he IL a needy man, he was urg-
ed by the Fargo Commercial Club to
put his freak on exhibition and take
the proceeds as q reward for captur-
ing the thing that has almost ruined
the fishing in the river.
This he has done, and up to the
present "Nick" has collected almost
$500, besides having received bid
of $500 for 1t from the firm Of John
son, Whitehead & Ingle, fish and game
shippers of Fargo.
Charlevoix county herald., 1917-11-09
AGED MINISTER STEALS
BIBLE TO BUY A MEAL
Too Proud to Beg, Starving in Street
at 79, Former Preacher Falls
From Grace

at 70, Former Preacher Falls
From Grace.
Los Angeles, Cal.-An old man--79
years of age and a minister Of the
gospel-turned thief because he could
Withstand no longer the gnawing
pangs of hunger
In his downfall he turned to the best
friend he had had in other days when
from his little pulpit in England he
had urged salvation Bible. He
stole holy book that he might sell
it for food.
The Rev. Percival p. Stone, who
says he once occupied a pulpit in a
small hamlet in England, stood before
a First street lunch house craving
food. He had eaten nothing for
twenty -four hours. His years made
his hunger hard to bear.
Once or twice he started to beg the
price of a sandwich and then his de-.
determination failed him. He saunt-
cred along. A book store at First and
Broadway caught his eye. For a mo-
ment his hunger was forgotten as he
stopped to look over some old books.
A Bible caught his fancy. 1t was an
.old-fashioned affair, of the kind in
which family histories were written:
The old man slipped the ponderous
book beneath his coat and started out.
He was headed for the lunch house
when Detective King detained him.
At police headquarters he confessed.
He simply said that he was too old to
find work, that no one would employ
him, that he was hungry and that he
had hoped to sell the book for food.
He was sorry and he knew that 1t
was wrong.
They sent him to Jail, but before
locking him up he sat down to the
best meal he had eaten in many a
day. He refused to discuss his past
further than to say he had lost his
church some years ago and had
wandered about ever since. He was
unmarried, he said.
Charlevoix county herald., 1917-11-09
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