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WHOLESALE MARKET REPORT,
The wholesale market prices this
morning ranged about as follows:

The wholesale market prices this
morning ranged about as follows:
EGGS-strictly fresh, sass; average
receipts, 63a64; southern. 60.
CHEEsE-New York state factory,
new, 81.
BuTTER--Elgin print. 81: Elgin tub.
s.; process, As.
GAME-Rabbits, No. 1, per doz, 5O0a
500: No. 9, 3.00a4. 90; squirrels, each,
10a20.
LIVE POULTRY-Roosters per h.,
20: turkeys. per h., 36a3S; chickens,
spring, per h., 28a30; hens. per h., 27a
Is: keats, young, each. 50a60.
DRESSED PoULTRY-Fresh killed
spring chickens. ISAAC per lb.; turkeys,
per h., 3sa42; ROSTERS, per h.. rs; hens,
per lb., 36.
PORK-Sman and neat. 81: medium,
19a20; heavy, 18a19.
GREEN FRUITS-Apples, per Dbl.
l.50aS. 90; per box, 1.00a2.50 western, per
box, 2.50a4.25; California lemons. 7.00a
500; grapefruit, per crate. 4.00a5. 90:
MIA oranges, 9.00a10.00; Florida, 5.0Oa6. so.
NEGETABLES-Pota No. 1, 3.25a
$50 per standard Dbl; No. 2, 1.75a2 90;
western, 2.S0a2.35 per cwt.: string
beans, per basket. 2.50a4. 90; peppers, per
crate. 3.5oa5.O0: okra, per quart, 2Oa25;
radishes. per 100. l.50a2.5o; cucumbers.
per basket, 4,0oa5.0o eggplant, 3.50a4. 90
per crate: cabbage. new. per 100 lbs.
l.75a2.oo; beets, per bunch. 4aS: lettuce.
1.50a4.50 per basket: New York celery,
per dozen, 75a1.25; per crate, 5.00a7. so;
romaine- lettuce. 1.25a1.5o; squash. 2.5oa
$50 per crate; spring onions. 1.50a2.50
nor 90 lunches: onions. Der lOO.lb aacl<
i.s5ae.Oo; spinach. s.ooa4.oo per Dbl. ::
kale, 1.25a1.50: tomatoes. Florida, 4.00a
6. 90 per box: peas. 2.50a3.50 per basket.
LIVE STOCK-Sheep. per H.. SAT:
lambs. spring, per h.. Is; calves, per
Ib., 16a1S: medium. per h.. 15a17; COM
mon. per h.. 10a12.
GRAIN-Wheat. milling. per bu.,
z.20a2.35; corn. per bu., 1.90a1.95; oats,
white. 8oas2; mixed oats, 76a78; hay,
No. l. 3o.00a32.00: No. .. 2S-0oa30.o0.
SEEDS-Red clover. 25.50a26.50 Der
bu.: timothy, 4.65a4.s0 per bu.: red top,
1s. 00a17.00 per 100 lbs; bluegrass. 6.00a
|s.5e; orchard grass. s.ooas.7s per bu,
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AFFAIRS IN ALEXANDRIA

ALEXANDRIA, Va, December 81
Damage estimated at $4,000 was
done by a fire which at $3.50 o'clock
Yesterday afternoon destroyed the
storage garage and workshop con-
Quoted by ]. E. Downer on Pitt street.
Fourteen pleasure cars were Destroy
ed. William H. Baugher, chief me-
chanic, and William Conway, me-
chanic, received burns. The loss on
the cars is estimated at $4,000 and
loss to the building, owned by r. l.
Myers, $1,000. and loss to Mr.. Downer,
$4,000, including tools and shop fix.
lures. The fire started when a me-
chanic was engaged in working with
a lighted burner. Several carriages
in the rear of the building. belonging
to Duncan Brothers. liverymen. were
destroyed.
The following is a list of the owners
whose cars we're destroyed: John D
Normoyle, Carroll Pierce. Maury W.
Gaines, Alexander Suter, c. N. Jenkins,
Marshall Haynes. Thomas Waddy. s.
T.. Clarke, w. C. Miller, Charles Cath
cart, Leonard Chesser. ]. E. Downer
Mr.. Stevens, Washington, and MI
Bauch, this city.
Samuel r. Kelly, for the past twelve
years general foreman Of the South
ern railway shops in this city, today
was presented with a gold watch by
the shop and ONCE employees, the pres.
entation being made by w, e. Latham
and a response made by Mr.; Kelly
position of master mechanic. with
headquarters in Lawrenceville. Va His
successor here has not yet been
chosen.
with the ringing Of bells and the
Moving Of horns Alexandria will
Usher in the New Year. New Year
lay here will find many open houses"
One Of the big affairs planned Is the
reception to be given tomorrow by the
chamber Of commerce from until
o'clock.
Last rites for Walter Roberts were
held this afternoon at his late resi-
dence, $500 Duke street. and conduct
ed by Rev. DIR. 8. A. Wallis Of the
Episcopal Theological Seminary. Re-
marks were made BY Mrs. Daniel An
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Cattle Queen.
From the Alamakee County journal.

From the Alamakee County journal.
We hear of profitable livestock
transaction carried out this spring by
a Waukon young lady. Miss Lizzie
Mitchell. Last week she sold to Len
Miller of Ludlow township forty-sev-
en- head of two-year-old cattle, for
which she received the sum of $6,44o.
She purchased these cattle herself
about three months ago and has had
them on pasture since on the farm
north of Waukon. owned by herself
and her sister Julia. Dur informant
claims that Miss Mitchell cleaned up
over $4,000 on this deal. ard we claim
II entities her to tina title of cattle
queen OF Alamakee county.
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Records for Twenty-Four Hours.

The following were the readings of
the thermometer and barometer at the
weather bureau for the twenty-four
hours beginning at pm. yesterday:
Thermometer-Yeste rday, 4 PM, So;
pm, SO; IL midnight, "a; today, I
am, SO; 8 am, "a. Maximum, 3S, at
2e30 pm. yesterday; minimum, 80. at
am. today.
Temperature same date last year
Maximum, IL; minimum, 2.
Barometer-Yesterd PM, 30.32;
pm, S0.35; IL midnight, 30.31; today,
am, 1925; s am, 1921.
Tide Tables.
Compiled by United States coast and
geodetic survey
Today-Low tide, am. and 10:5S
pm. high tide, IA am. and $3.50 pm:
Tomorrow-Low tide, Al am. and
1 40 pm; high tide, 7:15 am. and
1929 pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-sun rose, 1927 am. sun
sets. 4 :55 pm.
Tomorrow-sun rises, 1927 am; sun
sets, 4 Sc pm.
Moon rises, 1852 am; sets. 1886
pm.
Automobile lamps to be lighted one
half hour after sunset.
Weather in Various Cities.
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:urity Storage Company and Wash

curity Storage Company and Wash
ington Market Company.
The local national banks, trust
companies and savings banks dis.
bursting their semi-anEual Dividend
tai. Columbia, Commercial. District,
Farmers and Mechanics, Federal, Lin,
coin, Second and Washington national
banks; American Security and Trust,
Union Trust, the Home Savings Bank,
Commerce and Savings and the Sc
Interest is payable in January on
the general bonds of the washington
Railway and Electric Co.., and on the
following miscellaneous bonds: Pc,
tomac Electric Power consolidated
mortgage, Potomac Electric Power.
Potomac Electric Power general
mortgage. Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone and the washington Mar
ket Company.
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THE WEATHER.

For the District of Columbia, rain
and warmer tonight: tomorrow rain,
colder in the afternoon; moderate
southerly winds. shifting to north
west tomorrow.
For Maryland, rain tonight, warmer
in east portion; tomorrow rain in
east, rain or snow in west portion.
colder by afternoon; moderate south
erly winds, shifting to northwest to-
morrow.
For Virginia. rain and warmer to-
night; tomorrow rain in east, rain or
snow in west portion, colder; moder-
ate to fresh southerly winds, shifting
to northwest tomorrow.
For West Virginia, rain tonight; to-
morrow snow and much colder.
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No Appreciable Loss.

From the Boston Transcript.
In New Jersey q man recently
smoked cigarettes an entire day with
out any particular harm resulting.
The only visible effect was the death Of
the smoker.
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Invariable,

Tr,in the Boston Transcript.
There's nothing certain. folks declare
Yet sure as you're alive
he good things on the bill Of fare
Are gone when you arrive.
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MONTHLY FOREIGN TRADE.
Record of Oversee Commerce of the
United States.

Copyright, 1918, N. Y. Evening Post, Inc.)
The governments returns of mer-
chandise exports and imports of the
United States in 1918 made the fol-
lowing contrast with 1917 and 1916.
the returns of December this year be-
ing estimated:
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One Too Many.

From the Boston Transcript.
cassidy-Do yez think thirteen is
really an unlucky number
O'Bien-Begorry, OF know It Is
OF thried wan tonne to lick thirteen
men In a boonch.
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BANK CLEAR1Ncs IN TIE UNITED STATES
Copyrighted by New York Evening Post, Inc.
s1s 1917. 1916. 1915.
CoUNTRY's TRADE IN GOLD.

Copyright, 1918, New York Evening Post. Inc.
Exports and imports of gold from and
into the United States during 1913 have
been as follows, compared with one and
two years before:
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RAILWAY EARNINGS FOR 1918
How Gross and Net Revenues Va
ried in the Past Year.

Copyright. New York Evening Post, Inc.)
Railway earnings in the United
States for a series of months past
make the following comparisons with
the corresponding months in the pre-
vious year, the compilations being
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-31

Versailles first became a royal resi-
@encs about the year 1882, when
IDuis XIII built bunting lodge
there
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NET EARNINGS AFTER TAXES

tDefcit. Earnings from January to June,
inclusive. are those Of the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
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The total fishing area Of the North
sea is about 100000 square miles,
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The Treasury reports as follows on
the amount and kinds of money held
in the Treasury itself, exclusive of
amounts pledged against outstanding
gold and silver certificates:
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IS .sas, ie7 900 ss,ss sol, III ss,oss, $40, sse

Per capita circulation was $55.s4: in 1917,
$40 1914 1915 saas 1872 sss4 1871
s345i: 1910. $3.50; 1909. $34.9s; 1905. SIS. SO;
1907. SA.71.
Money circulating in the United
States on December 1. for series of
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MONEY CIRCULATION.
Total on December l in Excess OF
Last Month and Year Ago.

Copyright New York Evening Post. Incl
The Treasury Departments month
" statement of the amount and kinds
of money in the United States on De-
reuber l shows the following i'm
,,nrAant chances during NoVemher.
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Analytical Laboratory

~. w.': :s;.n, .,1t t fed s., s,ss.
logioal and chemical. snalysis
s sassn oa ai,snS o. BLOOD s. .:o%.ss
zeal Department, National Vac
cine and -Antitoxin Institute,
K13-E You Street n. W. Gerth O.
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.retal SAG ssa ooO sase a.l, rs seas 1s7 lis

Combining the amounts of money in
outside circulation with the above
stated amounts held in the Treasury
as assets of the government. and with
the gold held against federal reserve
notes, the figures of total general
stock of money in the United States
are as follows:
Dec. !. rs. Nov. !. is. Dec. I, 1T.
told
s3.osU,o4S. 900 $3,O7s, 1884, 66 3o4O, 472 90
silver
li,5I4 OO 100. s46,9So 56s, e6s. 513
Sut'Sininry silver
237 800 600 235 oO4 eO6 o14.465, 800
L. y. notes
Ji6.tisl.ooo 34s.ss1,Ol SAG. ssl. 0l6
l>-deral reserve notes
:,.77d.s-a 900 2.7O5.7s7.sa c6.cA. $40
L.drral reserve ba nkEotes-
9s.e54,OoO 71.o47.s0 12,s43. 1856
National banknotes--
71H, $3.50 O 7a1,471,l3s 1909, oe5
SI,G5J, $4,000 37.59O.l73,171 50. Oa6 l27 800
Total on December ], for a series Of
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Explanations for Depressions.
Traction Stocks Weak SPOT.

Ifactlon stocks are weak spot in
the situation. Many Of the traction
companies nave reached the point
where disaster threatens them unless
relief can be obtained through higher
fares or shorter rides for the same
rare. GROSS income may show in
creases because of heavier traffic. but
because of a relatively greater in
crease In operating expenses due to
higher wages, expanded service and
much higher costs for all material
required In maintenance and opera
tlon, net income approaches the van
lsnlng point with many of the trac-
ton companies and in the case OF
some systems has reached it.
II IS not possible for the companies
cost OF living the employees generaiIy
require the advanced wages they
receive. The prices of materials used
by traction companies may come
down, but that is conjecture, and of
course the companies cannot bring
the current prices. The only solution
Is reduction in public service. which
is not to be thought of, or an increase
IN fare charges which Is usually Bit
terIy resented by the riding public.
whose attitude toward traction com
that it will not look fairly at the
problem which the companies face.
The great mass of traction patrons
seem never to consider that disaster
to the companies means incalculabIe
Inconvenience and loss to the public
and to business.
Companies to Disburse Dividends.
The local companies. and those COM
panies important amounts Of whose
stocks are held In Washington. which
will disburse dividends in January
are the Capital Traction Company, the
Norfolk and Washington Steamboat
Company. American Telephone and
Telegraph Company. Mergenthaler
Linotype. Corcoran Fire Insurance
Company. Firemen's Insurance Com
pany. Real Estate Title Company, Dis
trict Of Columbia Paper Manufacture
ing Company. American Graphophone
Company Common stock). Merchants
Transfer and Storage Company. Sc.
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EXPORTS.
IMPORTS.

Totals-1s1s. s5.oss 495, 1Oa; 1917, Sc, 22s
11s.037; 1916, $3.50. 651 ,1O1.
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Totals. $50, Al 22s 1871 ,sss 1884 $685. 1872 1927

Totals. s57,s7s,sos s5s7, $50, s74 $685., 800 2s4
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sICss,5 $4,000 s7.ssoI7s.171 $s,oes, 1e7. 800

Total on December ], for a series of
. follpWS.
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" statement OF tne amount anu Minus
of money in the United states on De-
rember l shows the following i'm
poreant changes during November:
TOTAL money supply ---..... Inc. 49.S26,O 600
tTOId COIN lee. o,Stt,oOp
FEDERAL reserve notes. Inc. 75.S0l 900
National bank notes. Dec. APT 600
As compared with December 1. 1916,
changes in the same items have been
as follows:
Total supply ..---..--. Inc. $9os. 257 600
cold coin Dec Ia, lo-,Up
Federal reserve notes. Inc. 1855. 1877 600
National bank notes. Dec. SAG, 600
The amount in actual circulation.
and excluding holdings of the ma
tional Treasury, compares as follows:
Dec 1, rs. Nov. 1. rs. Dec. 1. II.
Gold coin:
$685., DOS, 900 $945, SS5,7 TT $106o, 17o,S19
Gold certificates:
.0,, 2S6, 900 724, 716 139 1,154,9l ,9S9
Standard silver dollars:
S2,757, 600 81, 800 800 76,S15,3 07
Silver certificates:
c9i, 10000 315, 132S26 474. 467 ,405
Subsidiary silver:
IA $4,000 81, 129,675 212,502. 353
i,sOs, 900 1.s11.41s 1s12.s5s
United States notes:
Ss7. 7se, 600 sss, 1871 sss.ss2.125
..sn, Ali 900 a,5s1.s4o.e47 1.o44,so4 ,1s1
Federal reserve bank notes:
as4a2. 900 7o.sss.421 12.75s,ss5
National bank notes:
697 ,.I4.OOO 7o1, EsO,741 ZOE ST., 22s
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-09
STORE-DOOR DELIVERY
TO END FREIGHT JAM
Consignee Must Remove
Goods From Station Within
"a Hours of Notice

Saving of time and prevention Of ter
minal congestion are assured. experts of
the Chamber of Commerce declare, by
the new "store-door" system of freight
delivery. soon to be inaugurated by the
Federal railroad administration.
Under the proposed plan consignees
will be given twenty-four,hours in which
to remove freight shipments. II they
fail to do so within that time the freight
will be loaded on trucks, sent to the
consignee's address and dumped on the
sidewalk. He must pay the truckman.
and, in addition, the police will see to it
that he promptly removes the goods.
This scheme is a step in advance of
ruling put into effect early in the sum-
mer by which consignees were given tele-
phone notice of the arrival Of ship
ment and allowed forty-eight hours in
which to remove the goods. At the end
of that time the consignment was sent
to the man or firm to whom 1t was ad-
dressed and the latter paid the truck
cost.
Before this country entered the war
custom decreed that a consignee should
be given written notice Of the arrival of
a shipment Then he was allowed to
take his own time to send for the freight.
Sometimes five or siA days elapsed be-
fore he did 50. The first step to remedy
this condition was the substitution of
telephone instead of mailed notices. Next
came the forty -cight-hour time-limit. and
now a twenty-four-hour limit Is in sight.
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BREWERS HERE SEA-
TO AVOID SHUTDOWN
Means Of Dodging Order to Be
Discussed at Meeting This
Week

Plans to have the food administra-
tion's brewery.closing order, which be-
comes effective December 1, rescinded or
modified will be made when the men,
bers of the Philadelphia Lager Beer
Brewers Association meet here this
week.
Edward A. Schmidt. president OF the
association, who has been out OF the city
Is expected to return today and issue
call for the meeting.
Many saloons in the city may pc
forced to close few days after the
breweries cease operations because OF 4
shortage of beer. Saloons that would
be thus affected are those where beer
and light lunches are served principally
These saloons. it Is said. carry only
light stock of liquors. because of the
slight demand for them, and depend
upon their day-to-day supply OF peer
from the breweries to keep their places
Thousands of bushels of grain held In
storage by the brewers of this city
probably will be diverted to essential
food channels when the breweries close.
The grain was purchased by the brewers
some time agp in the belief that they
would be permitted to operate all winter
on the basis of 20 per cent OF last year, 8
production.
1t is said an effort will be made to
have the limitation orders, both as to
fael the use of which was cut down to
SO per cent of normal recently. and
production, lifted between now and De-
cember 1. This, it Is said. would permit
the brewers to use up nearly all the
grain on hand.
Beer will be off the market two
months after the closing order goes into
effect"
This is the statement of Frederick w.
Schmidt, brother of the president of the
nsaociatipn
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having difficulties with help. Heretofore,
the whlte-aproned servitors who bawled
out FRY half" were content with
wages of from $40 to $15 week. Tips
added considerably to that amount. But
now they want SIS and $40 a week and
mere "jitney" tip is unappreciated.
Wholesale dealers in oysters deny
there is scarcity but admit they are
not as plentiful as in the past. And
they have to charge retailers more.
l.. p. Timmons, one of the largest
wholesale dealers in the city, estimated
today that in normal times PHILADELPHIA
consumed about 5000 bags of oysters
weekly. As each bag contains 900
oysters, the modest total is $500, 900
oysters or 375, 900 dozen
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REA'S YACHT FIXINCS BURNED
Costly Furnishings of Other Ships
DESTROYED in Brooklyn

I. Costly woodwork and furnishings re-
moved from seized German liners and
from private yachts loaned to the Gov
ernment, including the yacht Of Samuel
Rea. president Of the Pennsylvania RAIL
road. were destroyed last night in a
fire that swept a six-story building In
Brooklyn. \. Y.
Mr.. Rea loaned his yacht. the Mono
loa, to the Navy Department. AS were
other vessels, the Monoloa, In being
prepared for war service, was stripped
Of valuable woodwork and costly fur
nishings which were stored red,,-i in ,vtht the
into service commanded by President
Rea's son, Henry c. Rea, Of the naval
reserves.
Among the fixtures destroyed We're
those from the following yachts: J. r.
Morgan's Corsair, Howard Gould's Nj
agara and Henry Ford's Sialia. valu-
able paintings from the saloons OF the the
Vaterland, now the Leviathan, and the
famous grand staircase from the same
liner. as well as paintings, fixtures and
silver services from the President Lin
coin. the George Washington and the
Kronprinz Wilhelm, also were ruined.
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1t. Harold d. Speakman
"Met Measure of a Man"

He met the measure of a man."
This eulogy of Lieutenant Harold
d. Speakman, Narberth, Pa, unofn.
cially reported killed in action, is
in a letter written his family by
Sergeant Charles J. Zigner. Com
pany L, 112th Infantry.
While, according to the letter,
Lieutenant Speakman met death
the last Of July, no word has been
received from the War Depart
ment. Friends still hope he may
he living.
II spoke to him the day he met
his DEATH" wrote Sergeant zigner,
land his cheerful Conversation still
holds a sweet place in my men,
ory, and that pleasant good.by and
handshake just few hours before
1t all happened will ever abide
with me-"
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IRON DUKES KIN HERE
Creat.C Grandson of Wellington Off
to Join Lord Reading

Lieutenant Colonel Lord Wellesley,
great-grandson of the Duke Of yelling
ton, the Iron Duke" who humbled
Napoleon at Waterloo, left this city this
for Washington, where he Joined
the staff of the British ambassador and
high commissioner. Lord Reading.
The British officer, son Of the present
Duke Of Wellington, Is one of the most
renowned flying men in the Allied
service. He took up flying in 1913 and
shortly before the war began Joined the
British Royal Flying Corps.
my experience" he said today before
starting for Washington, has impressed
on me the great value Of the airplane
as an instrument of warfare. l had the
honor Of taking part in the first air
engagement. of the war at the battle of
the Marne"
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YFUEL-WHY WASTED!

TOEL0"E1 "
BY adopting smalt's Patented d.. Hestins ting
~ oniv This system is systematically ar.
coal T. bT1nsS u b. 5s seatns ans
Xtevr evratSr IN front Of the fre box makes
and back Of the box. thus heating three
ways-NT SMART, Patsntss
7:oe EEIS..Sstl, EI%.ssd ,A,sG@Ps @s.
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HUNTS HOUSE BY CIRCULARS
Desperate Flat Dweller Sends
Form Letters broadcast

Tired of fruitless house-hunting. Ju-
lius C. Oswald, Forty-fifth street and
Springfield avenue. mas put his friends
md neighbors and many persons he does
not know to work helping in the search.
The Oswald family now lives on the
to escape the long flights Of stairs and
the danger Of insufficient heating that
they want to move.
When all his other efforts failed Mr.;
Oswald had a form letter printed and
passed around from house to- house in
the neighborhood.
MY thoughts in circulating these few
requests" the letter says, was that pos
sibly you would know of Cne of these
houses being vacated soon or that you
might be made acquainted with n va
cancy to occur somewhere nearby, and
that you would be kind enough to get
into communication with me-"
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TO SAIL AS Y. M. c. A. AIDES
Chestnut Hill Girls Enlist for
Canteen Work in France

Two Chestnut Hill girls will sail soon
for France to be Y. NJ. c. A. canteen
workers They are Miss Gertrude Fl.
Henry. daughter of Mrs. Charles Vol
colt Henry, of Stonehurst. and Miss
Mary C.. Lewis. daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Francis d. Lewis, of Moreland
avenue.
Mrs. Henry and her daughter have
just returned from their summer home
in Rockport, Me. Two of Miss Henry's
uncles in the aviation service were killed
recently in France. Lieutenant Henry
Howard Houston, Cd, met death in an
airplane accident and Henry II. Houston
Woodward was shot down on the west
ern front.