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BROOKLYN

Miss Rachel Cole has gone to Warren tc
teach.
Elmer Leach, who has been employed at
Addison, is at home.
Miss Nina Stewart of Providence, X. L,
is visiting her brother Fred.
Frank Barnes of Camden visited at
Roland Carter's last week.
Mrs. Staples OF Portland is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Frederick Emerson.
Miss Esther Pease entertained her little
friends Friday, her fourth birthday.
Fred 5. Herrick, ir., has been commits
stoned second lieutenant, and has arrived
overseas.
Joseph Tspley of the electric depart
nent at Camp Devens is at home on a
snort furlough.
Alex S. Porter, jr., gave an interesting
four-minute speech Saturday evening at
Old Fellows hall.
Miss Eta Bridges, who has been the
guest OF Miss Florence Hinckley at Blue
hill, returned home Thursday.
e. K. Tsples of Islesboro, keeper OF
GrindIe Point light, who spent his vacs-
tion here, returned home to-day.
Carl Brown, wife and little son OF Ar
lington, Mass, who have been visiting at
A. w. Bridges, have returned home.
Mrs. Sarah Darling ana daughter OF
Winchester, Mass, who have been visit
ing her sister, Mrs. Mary Gott, have re-
turned home.
Karl Batcheler, who is employed at
Winterport in a csnnery, came home Sat
urday. He returned Sunday, accompanied
by Charles Choate, Fred Nutter, Wallace
Kane and II. L. Freethey.
Lookout chapter, o. E. S. will hold its
regular meeting Friday evening, Sept. 10,
after q vacation of two months. II is
hoped every officer will be present.
Schools open to-day. Miss Copeland
OF Warren is principal Of the high school,
Mss Merrill OF Bluehiil will be assistant
until the fall term of college opens. Mrs.
A. B. Herrick of Bluehill is principal of the
grammar school, and Mrs. Margaret Bar
bour of Stonington will teach the primary.
sept. 9. UNE FEMME
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animation. Last winter he enlisted in q
Canadian regiment, but vas discharged
two months later for physical disa oiliiy.
The young couple left at once for Port
land, where they III make their home.
The common schools began Monday
with the following teachers; Village
grammar, Augusta Leighton; inter
mediate, II. Fannie Msddoeks; viii
isge primary, julia saunders; East
Bluehill grammar, Ellen Mcintyre; East
Bluehln primary, Ethel 5, over; Beech
Hill, Sadie snoS; South Biuehill,
Eliza beth GrindieS Morgan's Bay. Nina
Horton; Hinekley, Bertha Hlnek ley;
Witham, Marian Myrick; weseott, Mary
B. Hinckiey; Eastward, Nellie Leach /;
Grind!eville, Gladys Leach; Mines,
Annie vesEie; seaville, Ruth SWEET.
BIuehill- George stevens academy will
open to- morrow, with Charles c. Phillips
- principal, w intred "a. Clark and Nina
Z. Roberts as assistants.
At the annual meeting of the Village
Improvement society, the following Of
feers were elected: President, Mrs E. 4.
Chase; Independents, Mrs Ethelberg
Nevin and Mrs. F. p, Merrill; secretary
and treasurer, Miss Alice A. Holt; mem
bers of executive committee, above officers
and W. IA. osgood. F. P. Merrill, e. j..
Brooks. The executive committee has
appointed the following subcommittee (:
Ways and means, II. Il. Krehbiel and W
: Il. osgood, chanmen; W. P. Palmer, Mira.
Lucy hinekley, Mrs. \. P. TwinIng, Rev
X. M. Trsfton, Z. L. Linsco,t; sanitation,
DIR. Otis Litueield, Harry Hinckley, E.
E. Mcintyre; schools, Mrs. r. p. Merrill,
DIR. II. T. Fowler, Mrs. e. l. Insaott;
roads and walks, George 5. Mason, Max
Abrsm, DIR. Z. c. Barrett; trees and
planting, Mrs. E. c. Barrett, Pearl 9.
Emerson, Mrs John Tesgle.
Sept. 9. s.
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EAST FRANKLIN.
HUBBARD.

Judge BIaisdell, wife and son Tediord
of Newport are visiting his parents, T. NJ.
Blaisdell and wife.
Miss veiva Scammons is homs from Bar
Hsrbor, where she has been employed.
Miss Hazel Biaisdell has gone to Peter
boro, n. H., to teach.
Misses Hattie and Elise Gordon are
home from York Beach where they have
been employed.
Sept. 2. b.
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MARLBORO.

School will begin here to- day; Miss
Susie Allen OF Eden teacher.
Rev. Frederick Pslladino and wife of
Bucksport, with some friends, were at
their cottage last week.
Herbert Allen and wife aud William
StraIton, who were guests OF Mrs. Annie
Remick last week, have returned to their
home in Dexter,
Frederick Frost and family, Luther
Frost and family ana Miss Lorens Frost,
who have spent the past month at the
Frost cottage, have returned to their
homes.
Sept. 2. ARE.
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PARTRIDGE COVE.

Mrs. Alice Young Is having a telephone
installed b: her home.
t'ersis Young is attending high school
in Ellsworth, and living with her uncle
keuel.
George and Russell Mcdonald, Kenneth
Young and Neal Walker have gone to
Presque Isle to work.
Thomas Walker died Wednesday night,
after long illness. He Vas a veteran of
the Civil war. He leaves one son, Free
man, who cared for him in his last illness,
and four grandchildren.
Sept. 9. HUBBARD
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COUNTY NEWS
WEST sCRRY.

WEST sCRRY.
Miss Martha osgood of BiuehiII is visit
ing here.
Albert Carter and family are visiting in
BrooksvIile.
Roy Hatch OF PeDobscot recently wish ed
bis uncle, Charles Carter.
Mrs. Hollis Saunders is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Ralph Torrey.
Mr. and Mrs. Auiston Newton of Brewer
recently visited Mrs. Lulu Z. CoBary.
Frank WLiins OF Chapman Crossing re-
Gently visited bis mother, Mrs. Susie
wilkins.
Benjamin Trnpdy OF Bangor spent the
weekend with his mother, Mrs. LIZZIE
Trundy.
Edgar Holt Clsrk OF East Hampton,
Mass, called on friends here Saturday.
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ECHO.
VI ALTMAN.
sepl. 8.

Rev. Chester Wood OF West Somerville,
after visit OF two weeks here, left last
week for Auburn, to visit his sister before
going 70 military training camp in Ken
lucky. Mr.. Wood was pastor here last
summer, and was much liked. ALI we're
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SEAL COVE.
Sept.

Miss Bernice Ashley is home from
Northeast Harbor, where she has been
employed.
Miss Spsulding, who is supplying at
the Baptist church, held cottage prayer
meeting at Mrs. E. B. Stickney's Thursday
afternoon.
Sept. Z. N.
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1t was bis frat visit here IN tsenly-ninf
years.
Msdam Hollis OF Bangor. VINO ass oeea-
pied cottage owned by Fans Iran0y
this season, has returned to Bangor
Mrs. Augustus Moore OF BUckspoH'
who has been visiting her daughter, MT
Albert Wiliins, has returned home.
Sept. 2. SPEC
John Avent and family have retnrnsu
TO White Plains. n. Y.
Mrs. Emma Moore OF BuckspcFt is 'is''
ing her daughter, Mrs. G,ace WHINE
w. c. Bowden and family Of BTe~ ''I
were the weekend guests OF / + Lu'N'N'
Miss Evelyn Carter. who has spen. 'I ~
summer In Bar Harbor, Is teaching -
Lakewood.
Maurice Cunningham and sls;ef nt 80
left tor Blooms burg, Pa, "edneaIs,
called there BY the illness OF their no'N''
Mrs. Cora Cunningham,
Sept. 9.
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ARR.
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pleased to see him again. He held inter
esting meetings while here on his visit.
Everyone will be interested to know
the three Waltham boys, Newell g. Har-
olson, Ivory G. Kemp and Leon e. Goog-
ms, who are in the 18th division, have
written home since their arrival overseas.
They say they are well and getting on
fine.
Mrs. sarah A. Jordan is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Eugene Clough, at Ells-
worth Falls.
The Help-Some- How club gave an en-
tertsinment and presented the farce,
1.-The Modern Sewing Society,"" at town
hall Aug. 30, to a large audience. The
entertainment was success socially and
financially.
Sept. 2. L.
The Hsslam reunion will be held at the
town hail Sept. Il.
Mrs. sigfried Hanson, u ho is employed
in Boston, visited here last week.
W. B. Young, who has been a guest at
Asa Colby's. has returned to Boston.
Miss vsrs E. Jordan, who has been
home on a vacation, has returned to her
studies in Bangor high school.
Miss Msdylene Jordan is teaching IN
Pittsfieid high school. Miss Minnie Jor-
dan has resumed Der studies at the Maine
Central institute.
The contributions taken at the church
here at the meetings conducted by Rev.
Chester Wood OF Wohurn, Mass, were by
him turned over to the Y. NJ. c. A. as
from the town OF WRltham.
Sept. y. l.
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The Spanish Flu.
(CordoYa Times.

The appearance in Alaskan towns of num- Der of of influenza has resulted in decision to close churches schools theatres, and all other places of public aSsemblage.
 The prompt action of Dr. w. w. Council assistant federal health commissioner, and Dr. w. H. Chase, city health officer taking every precaution pre- vent the disease getting foothod here has with general approval. As yet of influenza have spread the disease than to wait until such time there might be possibility of an epidemic and pro- portionate mortality.
 It has years since epidemic of this charac- ter crossed the country, and when one realizes that within fortnight approximately one million cases have recorded in the United States the measures by the authorities, though seemingly drastic entirely justified Spanish influenza has not been prevalent in the country for many years but it all ways in the form of epidemic and at such time this when everyone is needed to work o1 fight it be stamped out matter what the in- dvidual sacrifice may be-
 While the majority of doctors and nurses know how to handle disease it has not been the subject of a great deal study owing to the fact that it has swept the country at such inervals. Of course is very hard every concerned We must all do the under the circumstances and trust to the good judgment of such men as Dr. Council and Dr. Chase and their associates to do everything within their power to eliminate any danger of con tagion and allay the alarm that has in many cities amounted to something akin to panic
 It took lots of people about a year to wake up to the fact that in the If the proper meas ures it should take only short time to bring them to a realization of the danger of this disease
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Home Food Supply.
(DaWSOn News.

(Dawson News.)
 The large supply of the caribou in the vicinity or Dawson timely hour to help klondlkers sup ply themselves for the winter and thus to aid the na ton in relieving the stress the ham, beef and other fresh meat supply.
 Since the started Klondkers are eating d vastly greater proportion of caribou and na- tive fish than before, and now moose and caribou steaks and roasts chief in demand in the restau- rants It also has been discovered by many that the moose or the caribou roast pot roast rivals the prime ribs of beef, as the native meat always can be depended upon for tenderness and is not so heavy form of diet for many.
 The prejudice which used to obtain to the eff feet could not work moose or caribou also seems to have been dssipated Cold and cold caribou now cut quite figure the menus in the different restaurants and is found always tender and toothsome.
 In pre-war times the restaurants scorned the use of such meats Now they not only use much Of It, and get it at third to half of the cost of beef or pork but also find steady demand for it among the customers.
 certain article of food popularized and to what extent the campaigning in favor of native foods and the keep e-money at home movement has succeeded in the Northland.
 The demand for native potatoes and other vege- tables has also become great and scarcely outside products of that kind is now consumed in Dawson past.
 The facts are vndication of the careful observ- who the beginning of the Klodinke's pre- dicted that in time the Yukon valley would be able to almost if quite feed itself. Cereals the chief article of food not yet produced in this region but even they have been cultivated in some degree gagged in the Pey and the Tanana and in other DOT tons of the great Yukon basin
 The time coming when Yukon will be self-contain- ed and her herds and her farm products will of tremendous economic value. These auxiliary to the mineral wealth of the region, that the Northland will become land of permannt occupancy and that the builder of the home, that cornerstone of success of all countries will not be without means of sustenance at reasonable costs
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a smart wife can manage a husband without letting him know she is do ing it.
 Anyway, the man who expects the unexpected to happen is seldom dis appointed.
 You would imagine that when a man has lived 20 years with a wo- man he would know something about her. But she is as great mystery as ever.
 Another damli. Once upon a time a couple bought lot in a residential suburb and didn't build a bungalow on it.
 Every wife believes that when she dies her fool husband will supply the children with a stepmother who will beat them until the blood runs all over the house.
 The reason why woman can save two more pennies by doing the
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RECORD THAT SEOUL APPEAL TO WORK
 INGMLN
INGMLN.

In 1914 Charles A. Suzer ran for Territorial Sen ator In the election that year there 5S votes cast at Suzer and Mi SulZer received 5S at that place In 1914 Mir. Sui1er to Delegate Con Rress There 74 votes cast at Suzer, and MT Sulzer received 72 of them. In April 1918. Mir. Sul- ger was candidate the Democratic nomination for Delegate to Congress at direct primary election There 31 votes in the pemocra tic primary at Sulzer and cast in the Republican primary MT. Suzer received, 31 votes all that were cast in the Democratic primary. in the fall 1918 MT. Sul- ger was candidate for Delegate to tengress. There were 46 votes cast Sulzer, and Mir Sulzer got 43 or them. In three of those contests Mr. Sulzer was not at home to vote, or 10 influence the voting
 These men who voted s0 unanimously for Mir Sul- ger in four contests were miners-workng men. Most of them employees of Mir. Sulzer. They are reg ular union men-belonging the Western Federation of Miners and America Federated Labor They have not always been the men, for there as else whsr, there have ben changs the personnel of the employees, though probably place in the coun- try have stuck closer to their jobs than the Sulzer mine.
 This is record that speaks for itself-t is a rec ord that should carr! its lesson to every workngman in Alaska. It is record that would not have been possible had it that MT. Suxer has treated kis men fairly and complied with all the regula-
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Germans Waking Up.
Seattle Times.)

The German people commencing to realize ono fact which the President has made clear since America entered the war--that only their rotten au ocracy between them and the peace they crave
 A Bavaran newspaper, speaking with unaccustomet freedom presumably because of the reported lifting of the censorship ban, is quoted as declaring tho Kaiser not thank the German masses goine to continue the war for months to please him.
 If the Emperor must go, 1t is declared to have said, let him go at once"
 Not only the Kaiser but all of the 'old gang must go before there be peace, but the fact that Hundom is coming to appreciate the circum stance that it get rid fthe Plunderbund the be brought to end. is interesting and encouraging.
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Luke Mcluke Says

The trouble with throwing care to the winds is that the winds blow it all back to you.
 You can't always tell. A lot of men are honest because they are afraid to take a chance.
 Most of us imagine that we lack the ability to do things when we merely lack the energy to do them.
 Any father can tell you that if a mother had her wa. cry kid would by a pollycoddle.
 A man would ii, if he thought that he was being npecked- But
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shopping herself is because her hus band buys at the nearest place while she buys at the cheapest place.
 Maybe you have noticed it your self But, on the level, isn't it hard to get chummy with a man who wears long whiskers?
 When a girl wears a dress that exposes her elbows you know why those yellow points are called fun ny bones. Funny is right.
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of the Unions It is record that should make workingmen in Alaska think good deal.
 Whether reelected defeated, MT. Sulzer mas made a record in Alaska that is monument that should be matter of pride to any man and to the Territory of which he is citizen. He has been true to all the trusts of citizenship, and to the public trusts of the Terrtory-and he has been true to his trust employer.
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Gosh!

We hate to bar anybody from the Club. But where tha Hek are we gonna put George Devibliss of Xenia, Ohio?
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The late Kasers entrance to Holland in, an automobile He lost his high horse sometime ago, and then an automobile goes faster anyhow.
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For a little cnar an0 . bite to eu there's no place like THE 0A8Tl- NEAU = ANY TIME. ALL THx TIME. ANY TIME. ''s
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North Carolina newspapers 'all poets who love drink in the sunshine ought spend October in the mountains" Those mountains also wonder ful for such poets love to drink in moonshine- Houston Post)
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Tips from Texas

Dallas News)
 The best thing about running a newspaper these days is that it re- lieves the publisher of all worry over
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Paw Knows Everything Willie-Paw, what is a hermit? Paw-A hermit is a person who minds his own business and doesn't gossip about other people, my son Willie-Are there any women her mits?
 Paw-No, my son. I should say not.
 Maw-Willie, you get to bed this minute.
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Mean Brute!

Mean Brute! ''It is feminine instinct to look for trouble" sneered MT Gabb ''Is that so," replied Mrs. Gabb. "Yes, that's so," replied Mr. Gabb Even a hen does all the breeding for the family"
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Betcha l

"Bulgaria's done, we hear her squeal" Remarked old Uncle Blivving; Austria will take the count and we'll Have Turkey for Thanksgiving"
 -(Billie Wood)
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ONLY PLACE IN TOWN serving Mallard and Teal ducks. Your way is the right way.
 THE ALASKA GRILL.
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Wonder if Bill Hohenzoern and the Clown Prince spend any time reading those German DOCKS which tell what glorious thing war is
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If the German armies get out of France and Bel gum any faster with armistice to aid than they were going before they'll have to bear down hard the gas.
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We wonder if the Kaiser thinks nowadays about the which Theodore handed him that lemon about being able to conquer the world with such army and navy?'
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Our Daily Special

When You Kill Time, You Assas- sinate Opportunity.
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Alta Girl

Maybe you knew, or didn't you, that Miss Alta Legg lives in Norton. Kans.
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That dizzy, whirled-out feeling in your head for the first week after you've begun to get well from the Spanish inhuenza-that must be the way Bol-
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The Kaiser probably realizes now that he spoiled pretty good job by over-working it.
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Yes, But Whaddy Va Mean?

(NOrwood epublican)
 We are still proud to call Nor wood our home and we hope to do so for large number of years to come, for we are all here united to stand and divided to fail.
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Police! They placed the moose around the neck of the horse thief, and had hoisted him up close to the limb of a tree.
 My" gasped the horse thief, who was something of wag This sus- pension is awful"
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And the girls probably would pre- fer the man in uniform even if his clothes didn't look like they never needed patching.
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Eooey!

Fooey! A big-mouthed dub is Oswald Bone His life is one long quackle; One day he laid a corner stone, And you should hear him cackle
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Those who criticse the way the war is ending should not forget that it has been said that ven geance is the Lord's'
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BITS OF BY- PLAY By Luke McLuke Copyright by Cincinnati
 Enquirer
Sports

Sports It is funny circumstance, How sportsmen get the name; While one seeks a game of chance One seeks a chance of game.
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Furthermore, the Hun war horse is manifesting symptoms of epizootic.
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Three Kings are reported to have gone down be- rising tide of democracy in Europe yesterday "a tide which had the breath of life breathed into it by President Woodrow Wilson, who is already very orator of the world.
 People may vision with satisfaction the triumphant entrance Berlin armed divisions bearing proud ly aloftthe standards 3Ae Allied Nations, and Ger many richly deserves witnessing such demonstra- tion of the might of justice But far greater in the end will be the satisfaction to all Americans, that will result the flight of abdcated Emperors and Kings before outraged subjects coming to under standing through the precepts and teachings of the great President of the American Republic.
 There is doubt but that the speeches of Roose- welt and Taft and Hughes and Lodge and Knox, in which President Wilson denounced for presenting the peoples of the Central Powers with opportun- ity settle the war for democracy themselves rather than to have it settled for them with alien shot and n caused stampede during the last few days of Oea-- nd the first few days of November, which 7anublcan Congress. But when the Apsr rc,1 wider viewpoint, which will t., aItratl of usea they will again see tha. pr-z5a @is0T. 7d the keenest vision, a4-. 4'5as aHIlar ehenson of what America stand eiea.a.t.
 That the American people a-r.e 4td that very soon, with the btef but forcel It of Her bert C. Hoover the great engil IS directed the Food Administration since entered the war, when he said, in letter fred ok R. Coud ert, the great New York la her of Mrs Riggs, wife of thel Governor there is no to doubt
 Mir Hoover said
 q am for 'Presiden leader
 ship not only | tl of the
 war, but alS) u t.. tions of
 Hfaco. aud aferW ards u direction
 pf a"rl.-s ehabilita-
 1an tt lts nal tow aze ae 4t cracy
 t ac. nF54 *H v at4 tle German srs fa"i- RI j4 At lselves the
 President will oal s.ee the lives of million Ame 3ye and count less innocent .hildren but ! will have attain faore complete vic | tory and faaaHant guarantee l of peace than eH. per means"
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Thinqs To Worry About

The night police in Seville, Spain, carry spears.
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Huh

Huh Do not give credit to that mutt,
 His name is Ignatz Kettle; I know he's in the fast set, but
 He's mighty slow to settle.
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Firms Ia Firms

Swifth & Stiff run moving pic ture theatre, at Middleport, Ohio.
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Hoorayl l

Hoorayl Against the Belgian sky we see Old Glory proudly soar, The dirty rag of Germany Is gone evermore.
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Oh. Joy

Even though you are a stranger in strange city, you can always meet an A. Quaintance in Washing ton, D. c.
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his income tax.

his income tax.
 Our guess is that when Old Scratch is out of hearing the inmates of his hothouse refer to him as von Devil.
 Another reason why a suffragette is all right for Red Cross work is because a sick man has to be bossed for his own good.
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