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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-03-01

The Ship Owners Association OF
the Pacific coast, together with the
Sailors Union has requested the gov
crnment to close the 100 saloons along
The San Francisco water front. These
aloons are held largely responsible
or the delays caused by trouble in
tanning vessels. 1t is pointed out by
The sailors and ship owners that the
usiness of the sea boards cannot pos
IDLY go on with efficiency as long as
ne saloons remain.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-03-01

want to say whisky took some of the
bug juice and died soon after.
The following telegram was sent to
Fuel Commissioner Garfield last
week: "Inasmuch as our schools
and factories are closed for FIVE days,
owing to the shortage of coal, the
Rock Island Women's Club, composed
of 1000 representative women, urge
the closing of saloons and liquor
houses during the same period" The
same organization also sent tele-
gram to Secretary of War Baker, as
follows: 1.-THE Rock Island Women's
Club, composed of 1000 representative
women, urge you to Immediately
close the saloons in Rock Island as a
war measure"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-03-01
A Glaring Waste

In Chicago other large cities huge electric signs advertise
various Is this of judgment when fuel
needed in war What than
advertisement?
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-03-01
Register Over Agan-The Only Safe Course

The only safe for every dry who registered under
the Central Registration Law is register again on
March 18TH in his her precinct between the hours of
A. NJ and P M. Anyone who voted in the presidential
election in the spring election of 1917 and who has
moved since need register again until October 1913 All
ton.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-03-01

1t is estimated by the editor of the
lack Diamond of Chicago that the
oal saved on heatless Mondays cost
lmerica $223.21 a ton. But for the
'quor traffic, this enormous expense
10 the country could have been largely
avoided.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-03-01
LIVE ITEMS

The Washburn-Crosby Company, OF
MINI, has leased the mill
of the Corning Distillery Company, at
Peoria, ILL.,, and will use it for the
of corn meal.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-03-01

The only place dry in the ballot box election
ay.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-03-01
THREE CHAMPIONS KNOCKED BY BOOZE

Drink Downed Fighters w no Had Whipped the World
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-03-01

A man at Morrison, ILL.,, ordered
whisky by telephone from Fulton. Not
wishing to use the word whisky over
the telephone, he said, "Send me
some bug juice" The friend who took
the order filled it according to what
was said and not what was meant. So
he sent the thirsty Morrison man a
bottle of nicotine used by florists in
killing bugs. The man who did not
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-03-01

A message received at Camp
Grant from Washington announced
that in no branch of the military ser
ice could the authorities find use for
yhisky which has been confscated
since the training of the new army be-
can. Even in the manufacture OF
smoke1ess powder according to the
Ordnance Department, whisky is use
css as it costs too much to extract
the pure alcohol.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-03-01

S-All notices for change OF address dscontinuance
an Issue-Iinois Edition. 1900 Security Bldg.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11
ALL KINDS OF TALENT
FOR HOSPITAL THEATRE
Actors Actresses, Scene Shifters Stage Carpenters
Costumers and Playwright Are Recruited
on Short Notice

The question of a star was quickly
settled One OF the non-coms had played
several hundred roles as a preliminary
to enlisting, and stufing his part into
his pocket he was able to memorize it
as he tore about the countryside on an
ambulance. But what about costumes?
After brief silence the .wardmaster of
the first surgical ward shyly confessed
what he had kept dark up to that mo-
ment-that in civil life he had been
Fifth Avenue dressmaker.
Found-A Real Stage Hand
1t took him no time to make the
chosen nurses look like the society wom-
en- in a five-reel "movie" drama Fired
by this example, corporal of engineers,
enlisted as a carpenter, admitted that he
had been a stage hand for twenty-five
years and knew more about scenery than
any other living man except the night
Waterman of Gains storehouse in New
York.
The workmanlike centre door fancy
set he then proceeded to execute out of
some wood and canvas substantiated his
claim, which was proved beyond all doubt
when you heard him shaping the ropes
on the opening night You had only to
shut your eyes to think yourself back
stage at the Grand Opera House in
Chicago.
1t all had to be done in hurry. It's
not safe to daily with rehearsals in the
A. E. f. Select cast for a performance
two weeks later and by that time your
company is all over the map of France
Select p. m. as rehearsal hour and
you will find your leading heavy has
been put on night duty and your ing6mue
has just been isolated in charge of a
scarlet fever shack. Rehearsals must be
held when chance offers. The ambulance
driver and his orderly can go over their
scene together while burning up the
local highway; the nurse and the ward
master can rehearse their song while
giving an ear irrigation at night-if the
patient is helpless. 1t had to be that way
this time.
At the eleventh hour, the well-laid
plans went all to pieces when it was
found that neither the scenery nor the
audience would fit into Che mess hall. A
theatre must be found in twenty-four
hours. 1t was. A detachment of engi-
neers found it. They pitched their tents,
evacuated their own barracks, knocked
out one end, put up stage and installed
as professional set of electric head
lights, foots and spot as any tragedienne
could ask
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11
I'LL SAY so!

When you ride a thousand "l<ilos' on a
French troop train,
And then tramp hundred further
through the mud ana drizzling rain;
When your pack feels like load Of
bricks, your feet and back are sore,
And you haven't drawn a nickel's pay
for ninety days or more,
And you haven't got centime left to
buy fresh cigar
You're kinder out of luck, Feller--
I'll say you are!
When you hit the hay at midnight, as
tired as you can be,
Just to rise again at daybreak at the
sound of reveille;
When you drill from early morning till
the sun is going down,
Then get assigned to K p when YOU
crave pass to town,
And you spend your leisure moments
scrubbng kettle, pan and pot,
It's not the kind of life you hoped for
III say it's not!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11
DOUGHBOY DOPt:

I've heard that talk about Democracy,
An a lot more O this here high-brow
stuff,
Pm here to say it mostly got past me,
But, | know we gotta call the Kaiser's
bluff.
He started somethin' that we gotta stop,
We're all in the same puddle here in
France,
Tommy, Froggie, Ozzje, Yank an
Wop
or Fritz is tiddlin', an we gotta dance.
Because,
| gotta dame, an she's awaitin there
For me to can the Kaiser toot de sweet.
An believe me. DO, I'd not be anywhere
With her if we should happen TO get
beat.
O course that couldn't happen. Just the
same,
This Fritz'll take some cleanin'. an I
We gotta fight like hell an play the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11

And | wasn't really satisfied
Till on my way to France.
We've been here now about six months,
And if l had kept track,
I'll bet I've said thousand times
81 wish that | was back"
And when | was a corporal
bellyached around
And thought a better sergeant
Than I'd make could not be found
I've had three stripes for eight long
months,
And still curse my luck
And threaten that III tear EN- Off
And go back to a buck.
When they try to please me
And dish out first class chow,
And there's sugar in the coffee,
III boiler anyhow
And if | was sent to Heaven
And up there was doing well
wouldn't yet be satisfied
Till I'd got look at hell
Sgt. H. H. HUSS, Inf.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11
THE MEN OF THE WEST

THE MEN OF THE WEST
From the great West where, with do
and dare,
Their fathers went they come;
From great cities fair and the forests
where
The great fir grows they come;
From the Puget Sound and the hills
around
The Golden Gate, they come;
From the shop and store and the col
lege door
And the jungle camps they come;
From the myriad mines, where the muck
er finds
The wealth of the world, they come;
From the burning sands of the arid lands
And the sagebrush plains they come,
From the cattle trails, where the coyote
walls
To the midnight moon, they come;
From the golden West, with hearty zest
For the fighting fierce, they come;
With a purpose bold and a faith untold
In their fighting strength they come;
In righteous cause, for freedom and
laws
Of human right, they come;
With a courage rare as their mountain
air
And rivers free they come;
And the foe shall know wherever they
go
That the men of the West have come.
GEORGE L. CHAMPIE,
Troop, NJ. P.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11

TT MAY be some time before r. II.
Sothern and his troupe are ready
Il for the A. f. F. circuit, and Elsie
Janis Embarrassment cannot
be in every y. M. c. A. hut every night
of the war, but in the meantime every
camp and post behind the lines can put
on it's own show. And most of them do.
Not long ago Base Hospital No. Blank
decided, apropos of nothing, to go into
the theatre business for one night only
and discovered upon investigation, that
all Of the dramatic lights necessary to
stage complete show were hidden under
olive drab somewhere about the premises.
The director, bred in that celebrated
dramatic school, Dartmouth College,
proved, with bowling success, that you
have only to scratch an American
soldier to find a playwright, a scene
painter, an orchestra leader, costume
designer or what you will
1t was decided that there must be a
play, real play with scenery and cos
tunes and dialogue and plot and every
thing, for at least one part Of the pro-
gramme. Did any one have play in his
barrack bag? A canvass was hastily held
which yielded nothing but one water
soaked copy of "Macbeth" and this was
rejected as being a little too elaborate
and not quite so full of surefre laughs
as the occasion seemed to require.
There could be no recourse to the
familiar custom of telephoning Samuel
French & Co. to send up twenty short
and snappy comedies for selection.
There was no way for it but to detail an
enlisted man to write a piece at once, so
poor wretch, who had once published
an article on the decline of the drama,
was obliged, for his sins, to retire with
typewriter and, some time between re-
treat and taps, come forth with the
Great American Play.
Plenty of Feminine Talent
He did--thoughtfully making six car
bon copies while he was about it so they
would not compel him to type the parts
for distribution among the cast. Know
ing that there were many dazzling
nurses in the hospital he was free to
have as many feminine figures in that
cast as his heart desired. Knowing that
about the hardest thing to find in France
would be not a bowl of sugar but a
suit of Kampurkut, we-make clothes for
young men apparel, he thoughtfully
made the male characters all soldiers
and, just to give the story special glow,
he laid the scene back home shortly after
the declaration of peace.
You could see the handsome Young
sergeant opening up once more the
apartment he had locked behind him
when he went off to war. You saw him
renewing acquaintance with a pair of
silk socks and watched him studying as
a curiosity copy Of New York news
paper that had been left at the door the
day he shook the dust of New York from
his feet
why, its front page is all about the
Kaiser" he unused: 81 wonder whatever
became of him. Thus stealing Will
Rogers's stuff.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11
GETTING TT OVER

My place is here, far down this little street
And here labor at my desk til dark:
] do not hear the tramp of marching feet.
! do not hear the rifles angry bark.
My work is business, All the long day
through
I deal in quantities and talk by weight
] struggle to secure the shipments due
And fight like mad to get them whs.
they're late.
My job is just to see that wrghtstosn
Camp
Shall not go hungry when it wants its
bread,
And note that Yaphank, when it goes on
tramp.
VIII need some shoes to fit its martha
tread
| often sit in some brief seconds lull
And wonder if Godsent chance viii
To call me from this task not that rs
dull,
But OH long to hear again the drum
know that some may fight while Others
The things an army needs to eat and veal
And still it breaks my heart to stay behind
And know that comrades of old times ar
there
Yet why repine? Why envy those who 50
To fill our legions for the Great Advance
|. too, am fighting hard against the zoe
That battles may be won IN far off Frsno
New York. @. c. A. CHILD
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11
A SONG FOR THE A. E. F.

n
For in o an land
And to foreign
the broad Mississippi that flows with
from the o
fields Alabama; the hldes of bleak
liberty-oving and we've forgotten
to o brave
There's hearts
There's
IS return;
they ssan
oh o ifs malt
O. of
MOTTO the O
For edom hasso
nted. shall alter in
n
GEORGE E. PARKER L.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11

AS lonesome as guardhouse without
a rat.
AS cheerful as wounded captain go
ing home to 'instruct.'
AS futile as the majors attempts to
speak French.
AS ignorant as war news editor back
home.
AS noisy as barracks on payday
night.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11

The sky's the limit in this all-star shor
I've seen a lot O. things I'd rather mot
Remember when I've got back hmm.
again;
Things | don't want to happen round In.
spot
Where my girl is. You see, I can't A.,
plain
Just how / feel but thev 20,
talk a book
About them treaties, terms, indemnity
But me, I've come across. an took .
look
They can patch them up when Fritz i
through with me-
Because,
I gotta girl back there at home, an V,
Are tigurin' on fiXin' up some day
A little home for two, or mebbe three
An then, if Fritz amt licked, there
hell to pay.
We gotta fix him so he can't come back
! want my kids to talk United States;
Our jobs to run this Dutch stuff off tb
track
An damn the man that crawls. o
hesitatesi
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11

But you're playing position in the
worlds great game of ball,
And you wouldn't miss this chance to
see the biggest game Of ALL
So when they call strikes on you, grit
your teeth and show some steam,
And remember that you're signed up
with the pennant-winning team
And that all the knocks you're getting
army chow, fatigue and drill
VIII make a man out of you, Feller---
I'll say it will!
JAMES A. DUFFY, A. S.
BEEFING
1t seems Pm never satisfied
No matter where | 60
My job is easy, my duties light,
still find grief and woe.
If Pm stationed in training camp
Where drills are very light,
| holer to be sent up front
To get into the fight.
When we were in the u. S. A.
thought we had no chance,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-19
Coming OF
The Sunbeam
How to Avoid Those Pains and Distress
Which SO Many Mothers Have Suffered.

Too much cannot be said for wonderful
preparation, familiar to many women as
Mothers Friend.
It is more effective in It's action than all
the health rules ever laid down for the
guidance of expectant mothers. 1t Is an
external application that spreads its in
fuence upon the cords, tendons and mus
cles of the abdomen, rendering them plant,
and they expand gracefully without that
peculiar wrenching strain.
The occasion Is, therefore, one of un-
bounded joyful anticipation and too much
stress cannot be laid upon the remarkable
influence which a mothers happy prenatal
disposition has upon the health and for
tunes of the generations to come.
\ The pain at the crisis is infinitely less
when Mothers Friend is used during the
period of expectantcy for the muscles ex-
pand easier and with less strain when
baby Is born.
Mothers Friend is for external use only,
Is entirely safe and may he had of your
druggist. 1t is prepared by the Bradheld
Regulator Co., Lamar Bldg, Atlanta,
Ga. Write them to mail you their interest
ing motherhood Book" They will send it at
once, without charge, and you will find it
very helpful. Do not neglect for single
night and morning to apply Mothers Friend
according to directions around the bottle,
and thus fortify yourself against pain and
discomfort.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-19
BEAUTIFUL HAIR
Thick, WAVY,FREE
FROM DANDRUFF
Draw a moist cloth through hair
and double its beauty
at once.
Save your hair! Dandruff dis
appears and hair stops
coming out.

Immediate? - Yes! Certain? -
that's the joy of it. Your hair be-
comes light, wavy, fluffy, abundant
and appears as soft, lustrous and
beautiful as a young girls after an
application of Danderine. Also try
this-moisten a cloth with a little
Danderine and carefully draw IL
through your hair, taking one small
strand at a time. This will cleanse
the hair of dust, dirt or excessive
oil, and in just a few moments you
have doubled the beauty of YOUR
hair a delightful surprise awaits
those whose hair has been neglected
or is scrasS1 FADED, dry, brittle or
thin. Besides beautifying the hair,
Danderinc dissoIves every particle
of dandruff cleanses, purifies and
invigorates the scalp, forever stop
ping itching and falling hair. but
what will please you most will be
after few weeks use, when you
see new hair-fine and downy at first
-yes-but really new hair-grow-
ing all over the scalp.
Danderine is to the hair what
fresh showers of rain and sunshine
are to vegetation. 1t goes right to
the roots invigorates and strength
ems them. It's exhilarating, stimu-
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cause the hair to grow long, strong
and beautiful.
You can surely have pretty. charm
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you will spend a few cents for a bot
tie of Knowltons Danderine from
any drug store or toilet counter and
try 1t as directed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-19
|Old French
Beauty Secret

Mile. De Lores, the famous
French actress, who recently ar
rived in this country and who isl
/now in her 65th year, has aston
ished everyone who has seen her.
Sby her exquisite complexion and
clear. smooth skin which is mott
(marred by Il single line or wrinkle.
When asked to explain how she I
J had retained her marvellous girlish
Sbeauty. she replied that she had
always practiced one of the oldest
>of French beauty secrets: a secret,
which for years was iealously
Sguarded by the court ladies of Ma
}poleon the First, 1t consists of,
5 leach night before retiring for,
about one minute and then when
$the cloth is removed, a generous
amount of ordinary am-o-niZed,
cocoa cream should be applied over
the entire face and neck, massage
Sit gently into the skin with the
finger tips for about two minutes.
then wipe off the surplus with a
soft dry cloth. Mile. De Lores says
Sthat any American woman who has,
wrinkles and large pores or flabby
>loose skin, can easily and quickly,
Sovercome these destroYers of,
Sbeauty- by the use of this simple
lyet delightful and natural Beau
}tifier. which is inexpensive and can
>be found at almost any good drug
5gist's.
s The above coming as it does
Sfrom such a connoisseur of beauty,
Sshould appeal strongly to every
$lady who appreciates what fair
Race means to the gentler sex.
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-19

nounces in it's latest communication
that the situation is unchanged"
Inc French success on the Pr
Caruy battlefield was gained on Il
three-mile front running from the
north to the southwest of Moreuil.
The apex of q sharp-pointed salient
west of Castel was within three
miles of the railway running south
from Amiens and was the nearest
the Germans had got to Amiens in
the offensive which began more
than four weeks ago. The Germans
have been driven from Senecat wood
and the French have reached the
outskirts of Castel and progress also
was made south of Castel. Five hun
dred prisoners, including fifteen Of
ncers, were captured by the French.
Ireland Is CalmeP
Italian troops will be sent to the
western front to aid the embattled
allied troops against the Germans.
announcement to this effect has
been made in tht Italian Chamber
of Deputies by Premier Orlando,
The various political parties in
Ireland have patched up their differ
ences and will resist conscription
by the most effective means" at
their disposal. The Irish bishops
and conference of political parties
presided over by the Lord Mayor of
Dublin, both have signified their
purpose to resist. The government
manpower bill, including the Irish
conscription clause, has received the
assent of King George, but no home
rule measure has yet been submitted
to Parliament.
Cessation of all work in Austria
on May 1 to hold demonstrations
FOR peace has been ordered by the
German Socialist party in Austria,
according to Amsterdam reports.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-19

eye is at once drawn to the sanctu-
AIRY with it's vaulted ceiling, dec
GRATED with a ground of blue encir-
cled with gold and mellow colors.
In the center is great boss. into
which the ribs of the Vaulting ter
inmate. The walls of the sanctuary
are frescoed in deep tones and har-
monize with the beautiful marbles of
the altar wainscoting and floor.
Contrary to the almost universal
custom. the altars are constructed of
tan-colored Cenere marble, carved
and imported from Italy. as also are
the ten statues. The detail of the
altars and sanctuary rail with it's
bronze gates is worthy of note.
The New school
The paneled wood ceiling of the
nave is one of the church's most
striking features, elaborately dec
grated in primitive colors, black,
white. red, blue and gold. The eff
feet is impressive and, while brill
liant of itself. it harmonizes with
the rest of the interior and gives
that warmth of tone needed to set
off the stonework. Polychrome work
of this kind has been hitherto little
known in this country. nevertheless
there is positive proof that nearly
all. if not quite all, medieval church
ceilings were so treated.
a beautifully decorated Cross with
a bronze figure of Christ more than
lifesize is suspended in the sanctu-
airy arch, claiming the attention and
veneration of all who enter the edi-
flee.
The piers and arches of the clear
story walls. the large sanctuary gal
lery arches are of solid limestone
construction, the arches being re-
lieved of their simplicity by delicate
ly carved mouldngs. The aisle
wainscoting is of Indiana limestone;
in this stone panels of the fourteen
Stations of the Cross in high relief
are set. The aisles of the church
are laid with dark tire-flashed quar-
ry tile, the ceiling of the aisles cor
responding to the ceiling of the nave.
To the left of the main entrance
and in the base of the tower is To-
Gated the baptistry. which is to be
furnished correspondingly with the
church proper. At the opposite side
are the stair tower and the confess
sionals in an arched recess.
The sacristies lead to the church
aisle as well as to the sanctuary and
are well equipped throughout
Through the sacristies entrance is
also given to the school, situated in
the rear of the church, a splendid
arrangement for professions in in
clement weather.
The new school contains four class
rooms of regulation size, equipped
with cloakrooms, book closets, run
ming water, etc. Splendid light
reaches every pupil from the left. \
parish meeting room is located in the
basement of the school and is so ar
ranged with n kitchen that festivals
and gatherings may be held there.
The entire plans for the buildings
and furnishings were drawn by Pau
Monaghan, of Philadelphia.