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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-04-17
PRESS PRAISES MICROBE

IS
The following notice from the
press of the country indicate the pop
ular1ty of the musical comedy, "The
Microbe of Love:"
With the Lyceum theatres seating
capacity taxed to the last available
seat, Fernandina home talent played
the musical comedy, "The Microbe of
Love" with extraordinary success,
says a dispatch to the Jacksonville
Times Union.
Acclaimed the best OF a long list
of successful local theatrical efforts
last nights entertainment will live
IN the memory of its audience as a
play whose every word and action
was interpreted perfectly from be-
ginning to end. Replete with excel
lent local hits and extremely ludi-
crous situations, it will long be re-
membered as one great mirth pro-
ducing comedies that has ever been
offered here by either professional or
amateur performers.
Douglas, Wyoming:
"The Microbe of Love" drew a
great house and every one was SO
well pleased with the play that we
understand it is to be repeated soon.
Alderman, Miss:
We presented "The Microbe of
Love" Sunday evening, and everyone
was delighted with it. 1t is a charm-
ing little comedy, and the fun clean
and high class.
Wilcox, Arizona:
The presentation of The Microbe
of Love" was a success in every way.
Everyone thoroughly enjoyed 1t.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-04-17

The Tallahassee chautauqua, which
will commence on April 30th, was the
subject before the Boosters Club at
its Friday night meeting, and de-
cision was made to invite the aid OF
Evening star., 1917-10-11
Sales Despite New Tax.

Trade has kept up during tho last few
DAYS. in spite of the war tax on dis
titled liquors, which has averaged TO
the retailer an advance of about so
cents a quart. The demand for cham
pagneS has not been very large. Most
of the people are stocking UP on whis-
kies. brandies, gins ard distilled wines
and so much difficulty in getting new
supplies that one of the largest whole
sale wine merchants in the city closed
out his stock and locked his doors more
than week ago.
Some of the places now occupied by
harrooms will be opened as drug stores
and others will be kept open with soft
drinks sold over the same bars as an
experiment. There is good demand
for barroom locations, especially those
attached to hotels. which for the most
part, If not used to extend dining
rooms. will be taken for drug stores.
One of the we'll known places on New
York avenue is to be opened for the
sale of soft drinks. Most of the first
class downtown barrooms which are
planning to continue open for the sale
of soda and soft drinks will install
elaborate soda fountains, but many
others will use the same bar and fix
lures.
There will be a heavy loss to many
license holders on their equipment
Some of these have mahogany bars,
polished by years of frequent rubbing,
and expensive mirrors and other para
phernalia. These will have to be sac
riflced. Dealers in other cities where
there is still chance to sell drinks un-
der the law are fearful to buy UP this
equipment, for they all are expecting
that the wave of prohibition will con-
tinue until 1t has engulfed them also.
Evening star., 1917-10-11
SIGNAL CORPS IS IN NEED
OF LENSES FOR CAMERAS
Faces Serious Problem to Supply
Fleet Of Airplanes Being Built for
q. 8. Army in France.

The Signal Corps Is facing such a Sc
rious problem in supplying lenses for
cameras for the great fleet of observa-
ton airplanes now being built for serv-
Ice with the American Army in France
that the chief signal officer today Is
sued an appeal to private owners to en-
list their lenses in the Army.
German-made lenses no longer are
available on the open market. Great
Britain met this situation early in the
war by requisitioning from private
owners the lenses needed, and since
then has perfected a suitable lens. Its
maximum output, however. Is needed in
equipping it's own airplanes.
The bureau of standards of the De-
partment of Commerce, it is announced,
is perfecting a substitute for the Ger
man crown barium' glass used for
lenses and will later be able to supply
the air fleet. In the meantime. how :
ever. the Signal Corps must depend on
American owners for lenses with which
to equip the airplanes soon to be ready
for service.
Evening star., 1917-10-11
7os, as compared with s,7s5 during =
similar period last year,
September Sales Quoted.

Postmaster Chance announced today
that the business of the local post office
for September showed a greater In.
crease of paid business than that Of
any other office in the country. Sales
transacted during September, 1915. to-
tailed s15s.294, as compared with $780,
211 worth of business done this Sep
tember.
Despite these great increases In busi-
ness and the amount of mail handled.
due to the increasing population Of the
city and the enormous increase of mail
sent out by governmental agencies
since the war began. the city post once
is getting the mail out each day
The only mail that is held at the post
Office is what is known as terminal cir
culars. which are redistributed here for
points in the south. Officials of the
post office feel that the mail to and
from the people of Washington must
receive first consideration at the hands
of the force
Evening star., 1917-10-11
Many Clerks Have Resigned.

More than 125 clerks at the post Of
flee have resigned since the war began,
many to enter the service branches OF
the government. These men have been
replaced. Seventy-fve of those who
left We're trained mail distributors.
Mail this month, officials stated, will
run particularly heavy, on account of
the second liberty loan campaign. Dur
ing September, 1917. 10,9S3,277 letters
were cancelled. as compared with $780,
G29 in September, 1916
Post office officials stated that seem
ing delay in the delivery of mails was
more apparent than real. and that pro-
tests to the effect that carriers were
delivering mail later and later in
Washington usually came from persons
living at the end of routes.
Evening star., 1917-10-11
To Handle Gifts to Seamen.

The Philadelphia navy yard has been
assignated by Secretary Daniels as the
clearing station for comfort gifts for
enlisted men of the Navy. An officer of
the Pay Corps has been assigned to
handle. distribute and keep records of
Al donations. The Secretary recently
announced that such gifts could be for
Warded to the Navy personnel only
through naval auxiliaries being formed
- connection with each chapter Of the
YmorlcAn Red Cross.
Evening star., 1917-10-11
.Seuerest Truck Tire Test on Record

A few weeks ago former u. S. army transport
expert, who, during the recent mobilization of
American troops on the Mexican border, was in com.
mand of an Army motor truck company put these
United States Pneumatic Truck Tires [size 36x7)
the severest test any tires have been put to-
This expert said:
II made up mind that in order give the tires the
hardest kind of transport testwhich the sevefest
any truck could be to would spare the
truck, even if had to wreck it,
Evening star., 1917-10-11
Samuel Elliott, Publisher. Dead.

NEW YORK, October 11.-News has
been received here of the death in Lon
don of Samuel Elliott, publisher of the
Spectator, an insurance journal in this
city. His death was the result of injur-
les he suffered when he was run down
by an automobile while crossing Ira
falgar Square on October 4. Mr.. Elliott,
who was seventy-three years old, was
born in Scotland. but had sp ent most
of his life in New York
Evening star., 1917-10-11
NO OPPOSITION TO WAR
BY FRENCH SOCIALISTS
Majority Section in Complete Control
Of the Congress at
Bordeaux.

BORDEAUX. October 1.-THE social
ist congress has ended in a complete
triumph for the majority section. Their
resolutions. drawn up by NJ Renaudel,
leader Of the majority socialists in the
chamber Of deputies, were passed by a
vote Of 1900 to so. The resolutions.
which take up two newspaper columns,
favor the Stockholm conference, and
affirm the determination of the social
ist party to obtain the necessary pass
ports for delegates to attend 1t.
The resolutions also approve of So
cialist representation in the cabinet a
more vigorous national defense policy
and a revision of the war objects Of the
allies. Finally the resolutions declare
that the socialist party should vote in
favor of Frances war appropriations
in order to demonstrate that it Is the
unanimous will of the party to assure
national defense.
Evening star., 1917-10-11

truck, of substantially army specifications, with an
overload of ton and quarter (2s4 tons load in a,
from Detroit to the Mexican border and back, with
the following results:
-4,2SS miles for the most part over the most
primitive roads the American continent;
at an average of over miles per gallon Of
gasoline;
at average of over 33 miles per quart Of
oil;
yet at the end of the trip the truck was still
IN practically good condition as when it started.
Evening star., 1917-10-11
Among the
Con1ptometer users in
your Uicinity are:


Washington
Southern Ry. Co.
Dept.ofAgric. Farm Management
S. Kann Sons & Co.
U. S. Bureau of Efficiency
Treasury Dept, Auditorium Dept
Treasury Dept, Auditor Navy
Public Utilities Commission
U. S. Food Administration
U. S. Dept. of Agriculture
Barber & Ross
Auditor Interior Dept.
Board of Inspection, New Post
Office
Auditor
U. S. Quartermaster's Dept.
Interstate Commerce Commission
D. of c. Repair Shop
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Washington Steel& Ordnance Co. |
American Ice Co.
Carroll Electric Co.
First National Fire Insurance Co. !
Goldenberg Dept. Store
Holmes & Son
A. Lisner (Palais RoyaD
Smithsonian Institution
Capitol Trac. Co. (Storekeeper)
American Funding Corporation
Auth Provision Co.
B. F. Bond Paper Co.
Robert Berberich Sons
Ford Motor Co.
w. T. Galliher & Bro.
Johnson & Wimsatt
Lenoir Car Works
E. P. Schwartz Real Estate Co.
Anacostia
St. Elizabeth's Hospital for Insane
Evening star., 1917-10-11

John Powers, owner of Harry Shaw and
one of the best known trainers of thor
oughbreds. died Sunday night in New
York of acute indigestion.
Evening star., 1917-10-11
Selections Eleventh Week.

Selection of men for special duties
will not be made until the eleventh
|week. Up to that time courses will all
|be the same. Then the platoons will be
picked over and the bombers, rife gren-
Ladders. snipers, sketchers. signalers,
runners. observers. estimaters and light
machine gun men will be selected Each
man will go to the work which the
general drill has shown him best fit-
tied to perform.
A typical day by the clock would be
this: Reveille, $50 am: mess, 5:45;
police and sick call, $50: drill call ZOO;
|recall, 11:30; mass. noon; drill, l pm
recall. 400: quarters inspection, 1890;
|mess, 500: retreat or evening parade,
|E:30; guard mount, 5:45: tattoo, $50;
|call TO quarters, 10:45; taps, 1900. In
addition to this would be the night
|drills as ordered and upon which great
stress is laid.
| Oficers and non-commissioned officers
will have their own daily schools in
addition. These must be fitted into the
day or night and the men will have lit
tile time to themselves throughout the
,eutire course.
Evening star., 1917-10-11
WASEIINGTONIANS WELL STOCKED
FOR DRY" DAYS AFTER NOV.
Large Reserve Supply in Cellars Of Residents.
Bars Already Are Beginning
, to Close
Will Go Out of Business.

many invitations extended to come and
inspect nly cellar.
Evening star., 1917-10-11


The Revolutionary Pneumatic
Truck Tire
its relation to today's
nelu transportation problems
The motor truck today the second largest factor IN
the transportation of the nations supplies.
Every manufacturer, every merchant every who
employs motor truck in his business or receives mer-
chanse by truck should pause and study this vital
factor in today's transportation problem.
And the problem of truck maintenance
kinds trucks thousands o trucks
One should Ny
One clasc
Every mile tha rain trucks
To .ord rasens denH Gy;,c
neumahct truck tire stdfor
markabe conservation gasoline and oil
We
stud econdi nnder
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market its wonderful Nobby Tread Pneu
matte truck Ire of this United neumatc Tire
on trucks that should use pneumatic
nattne eo o!as le mas nao
rr Nobby Tread Pneumti, he will be
y" own "ukS oF years.
Every tes actual can give
Nbby 1T ne should stick to solid truck dre he
Truck will be told s
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it will United States Solid
the o uks Sates
the o tucl,d ddeg raiT Truck Tne maka
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Evening star., 1917-10-11


Nu
United States Tire Company
broadway, New City
Evening star., 1917-10-11

Vegetable Growers Want to Serve.
SPRINGFIELD. Mass. October Ii
Eagerness to serve their country
Evening star., 1917-10-11
TRAINING CAMP WORK
PLANNED LIKE SCHOOL
Courses Mapped Out to Make Men
Efficient in Shortest Pos
sihle Time.

Courses for the great military schools
at divisional training camps have been
mapped out as carefully as are those of
high schools or colleges. The whole
scheme of the sixteenweek course, to
its minutest detail. is based on what
Gen. Pershing and his officers already
have learned on the other side. 1t will
be varied as new lessons are learned
at the fighting front. The plan is cal
culated to produce infantry divisions
uniformly organized, equipped and
trained.
1t will cut down materially the train
ing time abroad. The first division to
graduate from the home training school
1 and reach France will need but few
weebs' additional instruction to fit it
for duty at the front.
To Learn Their Rifles.
For the first five weeks the men will
learn all about the mechanism of the
rifle. how to keep it clean, how to load,
sight and fire; the theories of windage.
elevation and the like. With the sixth
week they viii begin spending sixteen
hours week battering away at tar
gets of all sorts While one platoon or
company is firing, the others will be at
work estimatinb distances to train their
eyes, studying the use of fire control
Instruments. range finders and observ-
ers' glasses. Divisions having passed
through the schooling VIII be remark
ably effective in action. every man
RETAINED will have had rife work
enough to make him a qualified marks
man.
The sample schedules show a full
IdAy of work from 7.30 a I'm. to 4.30 pm.
Except. on Wednesday and Saturday,
when the men will be allowed to do as
|they please after l pm. Saturday morn
ling is inspection day, when all the
work covered will be reviewed and
individuals units be measured by
higher officers for efficiency. If below
|standard they will lose their afternoon
leisure until thew catch up
Evening star., 1917-10-11

WHEN you put it all on the
w Comptometer, that's exactly
what you do.
And in doing it, you multiply the
effectiveness of the human unit two
fold - threefold - even fourfold,
depending on the kind of work.
No matter what it is in figures
Proving Postings; Balanc-
ing Accounts; Footing Trial
Balance; Extending and
Footing Invoices; Figuring
Pay Roll, Cost, Inventory,
Estimates; Taking off Dis
counts; Adding and Figur-
ing Fractions
the Comptometer will make a
quick, easy, and dependably accu-
rate job of it at worth while saving
in time and labor.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-03-01
BRIDCEP0RTER
IS DETAINED IN
TEUT0N STATE
Louis r. Browne Among
Americans Not Given
Passports for Switzerland
(Specia1 to The Farmer.)

New York, March dispatches
from abroad indicate that Louis r.
Browne, formerly correspondent for
the Chicago Daily News and more re-
Gently attached to the staff of the
New York World in Europe is num-
bered among correspondents in Ger
many who have not been given their
passports for Switzerland Whether
held in that country or having elect
ed to remain there of his own Volt
ton is not stated.
Louis r. Browne, the son of Mr..
and Mrs. Edgar w. Browne, formerly
of 235 Bunnell street, now of Park
avenue, left for Europe prior to the
war, having command of the battle
ship Hilkas of the Imperial Greek
Navy, which had been purchased from
America.
His mother in telephone interview
stated that she last heard from her
son through a letter written Jan. g.,
delayed about six weeks in transmits
sion. At that time he was in Sa-
1oniki, having been with the British
forces in the defense of Suez. He
stated in the letter that he was leav-
ing for the front" Whether this
was to mean that he was journeying
towards the Western theatre of war
or merely was to again go to Suez is
not determined from the letter.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-03-01
JAP SHIP HERE
WITH STORY. OF
GERMAN HAVOC
Hudson Maru, Prison Ship
of the Victims, Arrives
in Port.

New York, March AFTER voy
age in which she was captured by
German sea raider believed to have
been the cruiser Vineta and after
ward sent to a neutral port with the
crews of many vessels destroyed, the
Japanese steamship Hudson Maru ar
rived here yesterday from Pernam-
buco, Brazil.
According to Capt. T. Fakeshima
the sea raider which worked such
havoc in South American waters early
this year was so we'll manned and
equipped that he was convinced she
had been built in German port
especially as a commerce destroyer.
Raider 1S-Knot Ship.
Capt Fakeshima said he saw that
the two big guns and two torpedo
tubes had been placed in the vessel,
presumably q converted cargo car
rier,- with such care he believes it
must have been done in a German
port where guns and material were
in plenty. The raider was a 5000
ton vessel, with a speed Of 18 knots,
with two masts and one funnel.
Capt. Fakeshina said the Germans
put an officer and five men aboard
the Hudson Maru. which followed the
raider for six days. During that time
he saw three veslsels SUNK, he said,
the first Of which he believed to have
been the Radnorshire, British ves-
sci.
Sunk by Powerful Bombs.
The Germans, he said, placed two
bombs aboard her, took off the eleven
members Of the crew and exploded
the bombs by electricity, causing the
ship to sink almost at once.
Capt. Fakeshima said he believed
the bombs contained some new and
terrible explosive because of the great
violence Of the explosion and the fact
that the bombs were not large.
He also saw the Minieh and another
vessel, whose name he did not learn,
sunk in the same way.
/ The Hudson Maru was bound from
Bombay for this port when, OH Jan. 5,
the raider hove in view and took her
captive. The German craft had de-
stroyed so many vessels that their
crews crowded her, so a week after
Selling the Hudson Maru, the German
commander decided to place the cap
tured crews on board the japanese
ship and send them into a neutral
port. =
Saw -Four Vessels Sink.
In all 24O officers and men were
transferred. These were from the
steamships st. Theodore, Nantes, ORA
matist, Radnorshire, Asnieres, Minieh
and Neitherby Hall.
While cruising about under the
guns of the raider Capt. Fakeshima
saw the German vessel sink four
steamships.
The Japanese skipper said the pr1s-
oners were kept in small groups,
which were forbidden conversation
with one another and that so strict
was the guard that not one Of the
captives learned the raiders identity.
They believed, however, she was
the Vineta, which is credited with
having sent to the bottom II mer-
chantmen flying the flags of the en-
tente allies.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-03-01
Boy Scouts Aid
Military Census

Hartford, March Along with the
hundreds of others who are helping in
the Connecticut military census, now
in progress, the Boy Scouts Of Amer
lea are doing their part to help in this
great endeavor to make Connecticut
prepared for any emergency.
BE Prepared" is the motto of the
Boy Scouts, and when the call for as
sistance in the military census work
came, members of this organization all
over the state volunteered 70 do cny-
thing they could to help the local com
nlittees.
At the state headquarters in Hart
ford, dozen boy scouts in their uni
forms of khaki are at work every
day doing the errands, working in the
office and serving every way they can.
The boy scouts are to-day living up
to their motto, and in a larger way the
State is trying to carry out the Boy
Scout motto in this military census.
Tor the object of the whole thing is
that Connecticut may always "be pre-
pared
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-03-01
winner AT CARDS
SHOOTS man WHO
SHOUTED FRAUD,
Quiet Game Ends in Brawl.
Following Which Player
Goes to Hospital.

Three Portuguese negroes, Peter
Borgs and DER Dunning, both of 2S
Columbus place and Forlence Perry,
OF 90 Tom Thumb street, sat in a
little poker game, using the room of
the hrss named, early yesterday
morning.
Borgs was having rather hard lucb,
while Perry who laid a rabbits foot
on the table with his stakes. seemed
unable to lose
Dunn1ng finally opened the pot on
pair. Borgs who held a pat hand
of four aces raised it and Perry, who
was dealing just stayed to draw to
an all pink" hand, which had the
markings of a straight or straight
flush. Dunning drew his three and
'chlpped' the bet, making only two
pair. Borgs reached for his money
and bet quarter with the abandon
of John D. Rockefeller lighting an
Havana
Perry took one. Whether he saw
it coming off the pack and knew what
card ne had drawn, or whether he was
dealing from cold deck will proba-
bly, never be known. According to
the police he didn't even look at his
card remarking, 1.-TWO bits and two
bits better" Borgs with his four
bullets had visions of recovering his
losses and he bet everything but his
shirt
When he finally called" Perry
laid down a straight flush in a suit
of his own complexion. Borgs called
Fraud" and Perry admonished him
not to be squealer. The former
however, persisted in his claim OF
crooked dealing and demanded his
money. Perry refused to give it up.
so Borgs drew his gun; plugged Perry
through the shoulder; took $27 from
his victims pockets and dove through
the room window carrying the sash
with him. This occurred about 4:3O
a. m.
Perry is at the Bridgeport hospital
where he is reported as quickly re-
covering and attributing his rnisfor-
tune to the fact that q rabbits foot
is no protection for colored man.
when he holds spade straight.
The police are looking for Borps
Dunning was arrested as a witness
and charge Of breach of the peace
is lodged against Perry.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-03-01
.CORNS ACT LIKE
PUSH BUTTON
Tells why they are 50 painful
and how to lit -
right out


If you push on an electric. button
you form contact 18th live wire
which rings the bell. When your
shoes press against your corn it
pushes its sharp roots down upon a
sensitive nerve and you get a shock
Of pain.
Instead of trimming your corns,
which merely makes them grow, just
step into any drug store and ask for
Il quarter Of an ounce Of freezone.
This will cost very little but is suffi-
cient to remove every hard or soft
corn or callus from ones feet. A few
drops applied directly upon a tender,
aching corn stops the soreness in
family, and soon the corn shrivels up
so it lifts right out, root and all,
without pain. This drug is harmless
and never infiames or even initiates
the surrounding tissue or skin.-Adv.