davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Imperial Valley press., 1917-12-15
MONEY TO E.D.N

IEY TO LOAN at Z per cent on inn
bved land anywhere in Imperial
lllev Apply TO Peter =. HoYely'
Ia W lev.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-12-15

New stock or picture frames and
Evan Davias Studio.-Adv.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-12-15
POGI.'fIs L,

WANTED--Pacific Poultry
Farms Co, p. o. Box 212, Phone 81 !;
on Broadway opposite Oregon hotel.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-12-15
FOR SALIc-REiL ESTATE.

FOR SnLE-LiVE s'T0'rf
SALE striches. }. Mayo, Bard,
Imperial Valley press., 1917-12-15

I SnlE-One Jersey milch COW;
lod mixer; averages q lb. of bnt-
+ per dav. w. G.. Russell, 42S Hell,
q Phone Is.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-03
Guard-Army
Game Will Be
Notable Event

National Quarts crack football
team, finishing i triumphant season,
will go to Schofield Barracks next Sat
urday to tackle the All-Army team.
which is said to have five West Point
coaches and plenty Of brains and
Drawn in the lineup.
This will be more than a football
game. II will be an event. A special
train, leaving Honolulu at 2, will
take the National Guard team to the
big army post Governor Pinkham,
Brig. Gen. Johnson, head Of the guard,
and many OF the militia officers will
accompany their football proteges.
Gen. Johnson will probably be in a
football suit and II he is called on to
play he will be ready to jump into the
fray.
The militia team is in fine condition
Ii is not confident of victory, in spite
of its good record. but is going to give
the best fight that is In 1t, and will
be ready to congratulate the army
players first II they get the long end
of the score. III
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-03
TUBERCU 0SlS DEATHS =
TN YEAR NUMBERED AIS

Figures compiled at the anti-tuber-
culosis bureau of the board of health
and made public today show that the
total of deaths for che calendar year
1916 from the disease which that de-
partment is combating were AIS. This
is an increase over the previous calen
dar year by 3S
Registered cases for 1916 were 79S,
while for 1916, cases registered
amounted to SS5. This comparison
shows how rapidly supervision OF
the disease by the bureau is being &C
comp lished, as more cases are being
put under care continually.
In 1914 the per cent of registered
cases under supervision was 27; in
1915 1t was 47.6, and in 1916 62.3.
December showed an increase in
registered cases over the month pre-
.yious, being, in fact, higher than any
other month except February of 1916
The December total was 113 for all
the islands, of which number 70 were
males and 40 were females. Deaths
in December were 80, evenly divided
among males and females.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-03
'MOBB'S Millions CASE NEARS END
when AUCTION SALE Will Be HELD

proVidently over the greater part Oi
whole thing to a merchant named
Sturt. The greater part of the MObbs
meadows thus fell into the hands ot
the Sturts. the head of whom is now
Lord Arlington.
Euiiding began on the Mohbs mea.
dows in 1923 and ?" years later they
we're ell covered with houses and fac
tories, wharves and coal yards. canal
basins and timber sheds. The golden
acres have ever since been so occu-
pied. IIideous slums grew up there,
too. which the taxpayers had to buy
up at high prices in order to replace
them with parks and healthier dwell
ings. AS London increased in value
the value of the property went up,
and various descendants. OF John
Nobbs went into the court. carried on
lawsuits. seized empty houses and
otherwise endeaVored TO assert their
alleged claims.
Many TechnicaIities involved
Many of the original leases did not
expire until 1870, and there was then
a great reOpening Of legal hostiiities.
The attempts to regain the property
for the descendants of Mobbs always
failed. however, although there seem
ed to be plenty Of legal technicalities
to justify their pleas. At one time
professional ,pugilists we're employed
to garrison the empty houses, but the
Sturts won in the end and the Mobbs
meadows are now to be dispersed by
the .auctioneer's hammer.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-03
IBy Associated Prass1

NEW YORK, N. 1.-TWO years
study of original insurance statistics
indicate cancer is neither hereditary
nor contagious. according to Taper
presented to the Association of Life
Insurance Presidents by President
Arthur Hunter of the Actuarial So
ciety of America.
After referring to the annual toll OF
$4,000 deaths from cancer in the
United States, SIR. Hunter said:
mo sooner do We become inter
ested in the wide prevalence of DIS
ease like cancer, than we begin to
wonder whether it is contagious or
hereditary. Such questions lIust be
in the minds of hundreds of thousands
of relatives. of persons who have died
from this disease and of others who
are, suffering from it. 81
Probably. - Not Contagious. ) -
tsThere seems little to support fhe
view that cancer ID the result OF con.
tagion Twenty thousand applications
for insurance were reviewed anG Il
was found that in 48s cases one Only
OF the parents Of the applicant Was.
stated to have died from cancer and
in four both parents were stated to,
have died of Ahat disease. There were
122 times as many cases in which one
parent had died OF cancer as OF those
In which both parents had died OF
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-03
MAKING II PLAIN

The Pure Food and Drug Laws aim
to protect the public by preventing
mis-statements on the labels of prepa-
rations but some people continue to
accept EXTRACTS" Of cod liners think
ing they viii get the benefits of an
emulsion of cod liver oil.
The difference is very great. An
"emulsion" contains real cod iuer oil,
which has had the hearty endorse
ment of the medical profession for
many years, while an %extract" is a
product which contains no oil and is
highly alcoholic.
- SCOTS Emulsion guarantees the high
est grade of real Norwegian cod liner oil,
skilfully blended with glycerine and
hypophosphites. SCOTS is free from the
false stimulation of alcohol and is en-
dorsed by good physicians everywhere.
-, scott& Bovine. Hloom6elds Nj. T., t-E
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-03
u7.7A-7Tn A-no
WEIyI@-ZD'
WANTED.

Young women wanted, who have had
experience in pressing mems
clothes. Apply 685 S. King opp. Ala
pal 6673-2t
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-03
CANCER PRObABL NOT HEREDITARY
NOR IS IT FOUND TO BE CONTAGIOUS

that disease. There. could hardly be
a stronger test than the case of hus-
band and wife"
AS to heredity, MIR. Hunter said:
my first investigation consisted of
cases of persons insured in six com
panies, both parents having died OF
cancer prior to the date of application
for insurance. OF Az grandparents Of
the insured, the cause of death was
given in 234 cases, of which two were
from cancer; the cause of death was
stated in 1874 of these as old age the
average age at death of which was SO.
In Y of the grandparents the cause Of
death was not known, but the age
was given, the average being 81; in
1856 cases neither the age nor the
cause of death was known. 1t is rea-
sonable to conclude that if only two
died of cancer out Of ga parents Of
persons who died -6f cancer, that dis
ease 10 not Hereditary
Little Data on Heredfty
HThe possibility OF heredity in car
Ger has generally been studied by ex-
periments on animals. In the case of
human beings there has been no pre-
vious attempt, so far as am aware, TO
investigate the problem in families
where there has evidently been can
Ger strain, If such:a thing exists. In
the present Investigation, one of the
groups consisted 0f cases sfn which
both of the parents had died from
cancer, and in another OF the groups
parent, brother or a sister of the
policyholder had died from that dis
ease. 1t might be expected, therefor, 4
that if cancer were hereditary { il
would be shown very clearly in the
family records of these persons, bat
this has not appeared.
Men and women who are in anxiety
of mind on account of the appearance
of cancer in their ancestry or imme-
date family, may dismiss such ankle
ties, as there is no statistical evidence
at the present time that the disease
of cancer is transmitted by inherit.
ance in mankind.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-03
IBy Associated Press1

LONDON. Eng-I1egal wrangling
which has been going on for so years
over John MObb's Millions will be
ended next spring with the sale at
auction here Of the immense proper
ties which have caused SO many heart
burnings.
The auctioneer knows these proper.
ties as the "LOndOn estates OF Lord
Arlington and their value is some
where in the ueighborhCod of $1,000
go. ley INCLUDE factories and docks
covering scores Of acres on the Re-
gent S canal in London, together with
more than $500 houses, rented for
various terms of years to working
class tenants.
Mobb's millions have for nearly a
century been a glittering bubble to
hundreds OF 'rightful heirs" who have
either turned up in quest of them or
been turned up by lawyers in quest
Of the large fees.
John Mobbs was Northampton
shire coachman. In 1857 he married
the daughter OF his old master. rich
London distiIler. and thus became the
OWNER vi ldISe agricultural estate
in the then outskirts Of London. But
Mobbs use of the land was restricted
by certain ancient rights" which the
citizens of London possessed to prac-
tise free archery" over them. and
there were stone "archer's marks"
dotted over the fields when Mobbs
became their owner
Mobbs Loses Lands
Mobbs, however, granted leases i'm
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-03
urges HONOLULU
CIVIC BODIES Be
/ ORGANIZED WHOLE
Resolution at AID Club Gather.
ing Points Out Need for
United Effort

That all the civic organizations in
Honolulu at present should be cen
Tered In one civic body was the text
fot a New Years resolution offered by
President harrington at the Ad Club
lunch today.
President Harrington pointed out
that at the present time there are
many organizations in the city work
Ing towards the betterment of the
city, and a majority Of the members
of the clubs are members Of all or
most OF the organizations. He argued
that more concentrated effort could be
obptained by uniting the clubs, with
The Chamber of Commerce the hub in
NE wheel.
Clubs mentioned in this plan were
Ihe AID Club, Commercial Club. Pan
Pacific, and Automobile Club. These
Examinations would work toward one
aim through 3 central body. which
would be the Chamber OF Commerce.
Zach organization would have to con-
cede something to the other in order
q work out the plan for the best in
terests of all concerned He said that
with the various members correlated,
more real work could be obtained.
& George W. Smith, president of the
chamber of Commerce, in HIS resoiu-
tipn brought out the point that the
citizens should work for the best in
terests of their city. and should do
Justice to their fellow men, in addi-
ton 70 being contented and aiding all
public projects.
Alexander Hume Ford told OF the
progress being made on the plans for
Pan-Paeific Day at the Carnival, and
urged that Honolulu do something
that would please the tourists and at
he same time benefit the residents
81 the city. Charles r., Frazier
brought out the point that all should
take care Of today and forget the yes
ierdays. George Curtis said that he
hoped TO be present at the. Ad Club |
more often In the near future.
Maurice Brasch resolved to De pre- |
sent at the AID Club more often, and |
John Effinger urged betterment OF ]
civic conditions. j. X. Butler brought |
tut the points of making good" Cap
tain Beger told of the resolution OF
public servants working for them. /
selves and gave D number of incidents
Qf the musical life here in the 70s.
Albion Clark reported on the good
loads conditions IN Hawaii.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-03
us. JURY PROBES
COMMUNICATING

An Investigation OF the cases of
nine Ffffpinos, charged with counter
feiting, issreported to have been made
this morning by the federal grand
Jury: The jurymen we're In session
from $50 until after noon and EVIL
dence secured by. police, detectives
and federal officers was taken before
them. The defendants are JOAQUIN
REYES. Sancho Quino, Bonifacio Ser.
rapo. Fernando Ferrer, Faustfno Es-
trelIa, Sipriano Enriquez, Jose Regf
dar, Andres de Ia Cruz and Crfspolo
Bagsic.
-Four OF the defendants were arrest
ed Tuesday morning by police and de-
tectiyes and later turned over to U.
s. Marshal j. J. Smiddy. Shortly
after o'clock Tuesday evening Smfd'
dy arrested i've more: two IN Aala
street, two In sIwi1ei and one in Kakaa-
ko. H.
Evidence secured as result OF the
arrests includes dies, lead and other
paraphernalia and 24S
imitation SO gold pieces which, IL
genuine, would be valued at $24,S00.
Reyes, one OF those indicted, is said
to he an engraver It is alleged he
recently. served a prison term on
Kauai for manufacturing spurious
plantation coupons He has confessed
TO having made the dies taken as
evidence. According to a story he
told federal officials Tuesday, he was
threatened with death by other mem
bers Of the gang If he did not make
the dies and otherwise assist them in
making the fake coins.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-03

$40. the cities ranking in the order
named.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-03
DEFICIT OF 1915
kEEPSCITY Still
|NH0LEfOR 1917

CONTINUED nvm page one)
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-03
NEW YORK LEADS CHICAGO
lN POSTAL REVENUE ss4ss, go

CHICAGO. Ill.-New York and Chi
faeo are the only cities In the coun-
irS whose postoffices showed a stamp
revenue Of more than $4,000, 900 for
the last year, according to compare
tive figures compiled by Daniel A.
campbell, postmaster here. Accord
ing to the figures made public New
York leads with $S2,159.Ss0. Chicago
reached a total Of s26,670.746. Phila-
1eIphin ss,i40.l4s, and Boston $500.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-03

year ESTIMATED $735, 741.SO), from
which must be deducted actual over
draft in warrants drawn in excess of
the 1915 revenue, $74,91420. This
leaves an estimated net fund of $780,
$3.50.
Total probable expenditures for the
year against this fund will amount to
STA, 55199, leaving a deficit in the
1916 account directly chargeable
against the revenue account of 1917 of
$50, 72439. u, -...-=.
THE other funds, with the exeep-
ton of the sewer fund, viii be in bet
ter shape. The deficit OF 1915 OF
$40, 510,S5 in the general fund was
the result. of 1915 overappropriations
Had this not existed the board during
the present year would have been we'll
within it's income. - =
The water works fund will show
substantial balance at the close of the
year, which, however, must be set
aside to meet the sinking fund due
July /, 1917.
Yours very truly,
JAMES BICKNELL,
Auditor"
> When Mayer joan Lane was shown
the figures this morning he admitted
they were correct and gave the rea,
son for the deficit as additional equip
ment for the fire department, the con
struction Of a new electric light plant
in Nuuanu Valley and an increase of
expenses in the police department.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-03
LIONEL R. A. HART
SECURITIES
Fort Street
MARKET QUOTATIONS

AT CLOSE OF BUSINESS TO-DAY
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-03

Union suffering from the disease. it
is announced. The house win be re-
modelled and transformed within a
few months into a haven. for the girl
victims OF the plague. -es. -
Miss Hentschel, 20, contracted the
disease when. doing settlement work.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-03
DEEDS HER HOME WORTH
$4,000 TO GARMENT WORKERS

NEW YORK, n. Y.-Miss Martha
Hentschel of Kingston, ~ Y, herself
victim Of tuberculosis. has decided
her home, said to be valued at $4,000,
to three trustees here to be used us
sanitarfum for members of the Inter
national Ladies' Garment Workers
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-06-03
ANTI-LISTER ARRESTS
HERE DUE TOMORROW
Governments Officers, However,
Look for Quiet on tuesday.

Arrests OF antireEistration agitators
in Washington are expected tomor-
row. although Government officials in.
dicated today that the situation here
will doubtless be calm on Tuesday,
Two different sets OF propagandists
here have been virtually stihed by
the Secret Service and the Department
of Justice, and the main activities Of
the disIoyal elements are now CEN
tered in New York, where trouble Is
expected tomorrow night and Tues
day. Prompt action by the authori-
ties in checking the operations OF the
characterization agitators in the Ma
tIonal Capital shifted the sources Of
the propaganda to the metropolis.
One development expected tomorrow
Is the arrest OF the anarchist leaders
in New York. They have been con
spIcuously active and defiant in urE-
ing that men resist registration. The
climax will come with a mass meet
ing tomorrow night, II the leaders, in
Guiding Emma Goldman, are not
taken into custody before that time.
William J. Flynn, chief OF the Sc
cret Service. is In New York. and will
have personal charge OF the force that
will round up the offenders.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-06-03

To Mrs. Christian Hemmick the
city Of Washington owes very great
debt. Few men and a lesser number
of women could and would have IN
dertaken the management Of detail
which accompanied the dedication
and initial performance at the Sylvan
Theater last night.
Despite the vaEaries OF the
weather and the disappointment oc-
casioned by the absence Of artists
who were here for Friday night but
could not remain for last evening, the
performance was, nevertheless, OF an
extraordinarily high character and
presented without the delays and in
consistencies which usually charsc-
terize first night productions.
No more beautiful stage picture
was ever presented than that which
began with the prologue, beautifully
delivered by Miss Jewell, and devel-
oped into q series Of ballet figures
which with the backing Of the trees
and shrubbery from whose dense
shadows the dancers appeared, gave
a fairyland effect impossible Of ac-
complishment on an enclosed stage.
Every feature Of the whole even
ing was satisfying and the artistry
Of setting and production was re-
ceived with the highest expression Of
approval by the thousands who saw
it.
With SO suspicious a beginning
Washington may expect much from
the genius of Mrs. Hemmick and her
ASSOCIATES.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-06-03
Coal

The Federal Trade Commission has
reported to the Senate that there is
"coal enough" and that no reason
for excessive prices exists except the
anxiety Of the public. During the
autumn Of 1916 this investigation
was in progress, and at that time
buying panic" developed which re-
suited in enormous increases in re-
tail prices. The commission sees
signs Just now Of a renewed outbreak
of this character, and it has therefore
called the attention of the Senate to
the fact with a view to obtaining
legislation if necessary, to check the
panicky tendency. Its investigation
shows that there is no real occasion
for any present increase in the SELL
ing price to consumers, and that, on
the contrary, the retail prices gen.
orally asked today are unwarranted.
The report states that the leading
operators have agreed not to make
prices higher than the increased ex-
pense of between "a and 80 cents a
ton involved by the wage increase
agreed upon on April 26 of this year.
The new wage scale is considered to
be beneficial and steadying factor
in the industry. Unusually large
production is looked for, and it is
thought that the MAY price" should
continue for the season and be sub
ject to the usual Summer discounts"
In general. the consumer is en-
couraged to depend upon a pretty
stable market. Enough coal can and
will be mined for an adequate supply
in regular flow, and so far as con-
slant scrutiny and publicity are eff
fective the Federal Trade Commits
sion will maintain careful oversight
and can be effective in greatly re-
stricting, if not preventing COM
pletely, the speculation which made
so much trouble last year and has
threatened again this spring. Par
ticularly the commission has been
able to break up the indefensible
practice Of using railroad cars as
warehouses. For a time last winter
Spectators held the coal in the cars
while shortage of cars was claimed
as the reason for coal shortage. The
commission has taken steps to pre-
vent the recurrence of this intoler-
able situation. .
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-06-03
DISTRICT TO BENEFIT
BY SUNVDRY CIVIL BILL
Senate Agrees to Conference Re-
port on Measure.

The conference report on the sun
dry civil appropriation bill has been
agreed to by the Senate. The bill
carries approximately $4,000. 900.
and has been in conference since
April 4. when It first passed the SEN
ate II carries q number of impor-
tant items for the District. among
them 100000 for the construction Of
the Key bridge to replace the Aqus-
duct bridge across the Potomac.
Another item provides S35,0OO for
public bathing beach in the Tidal
Basin, with suitable lighthouses
Equipment for purifying the water
will be installed.
An amendment agreed to by the
conferees provides a is per cent wage
increase for park laborers in the Dis
trict. for which $4,000 II appropri-
ated
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-06-03
Making Taxation Painless

In cutting out the provision Of the
tax bill that imposed a Federal
charge upon the consumption of gas
and electricity, the Senate committee
was doubtless inspired by the consid-
GRAFTON Of such a tax's wide unpopu-
laritv. The same thing applies to the
proposed new tax on various forms
of tobacco, reduced at :he same time.
How far should Congress go in
cumming the unpleasant expedients
Of taxation? Hitherto, facing only
light fiscal burdens, the country has
got along by tapping the least OBJ
jectionable sources Of revenue. The
income tax has fallen heavily and
solely on a well-to-do minority, but
It is plain that war cannot success
fully be carried on at the expense Of
the productive fraction of the ma
tons wealth. There is a limit to
what it can pay without ceasing to
be productive. The "conscription Of
wealth" soon becomes the destruction
of wealth.
An impost on gas, electricity, or
tobacco is, on the other hand, a tax
on consumption. It belongs to the
class Of methods that the country
has long sought to avoid. Such taxes
are felt directly by all, and indirectly
they affect production. In normal
times large consumption makes for
better times and more business. At
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-06-03
SOLDIERS INSURANCE
PLANS ARE ADVANCED
Assistant Secretary Of Commerce
Has Favorable Report.

The United States may insure its
lighting men free OF charge in lieu Of
pension II the plan OF Assistant
Secretary Of Commerce Sweet IL ap-
proved By the Council Of National
Defense.
The Council took up the plan some
weeks ago and turned the whole sub
ject over to the Commeree Depart
ment- The report to be submitted
shows q long list Of advantages to be
derived by the lighting man which
should. It says. be adopted before
American lives are lost In the war.
A nat insurance rate OF $4,000 on
the life Of every officer and private
in the service with the privilege Of
his taking more and paying for It, q
offered.
Insurance companies are said to Be
in accord with the plan II 1t is to be
dropped after the war. It has been
suggested, however, that the men
who remain in the service may retain
their Insurance as long as they stay
there.
Partial or total disability Is also
provided for In the plan.