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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31
America Still Has Wild Dogs.

Although wild dogs are nearly ex-
tinct in all countries at the present
time there are several species still to
be found in the wilds of Africa and in
parts of Asia.
The Cape hunting dog of South AT
RIGA Is perhaps the best example of the
dog in his native state, and although
the dog resembles the wolf in many
OF his characteristics, he is essentially
canine in physical structure, etc.
He is a born hunter. and like the
wolves, he hunts in peaks. The dos
il very swift footed, and his pace is
neared a siding gallop than anything
else.
He is practically tireless, and will
run at full speed for hours when or
the trail. The dog is very inteihgen'
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31
poo ou.runs Express Train.

We always consider dog more in
the light of guardian or a Waterman
than a speed demon, yet there is one
variety of dog which is able to easily
outdistance an express train, in a short
run.
This dog is the Russian wolf-hound,
Or borzoi, who makes his living as
it were by his speed. He is allied to
the greyhound family, and besides be-
ing built for speed, has considerable
fight in him, as his title would tend to
indicate.
A member of this breed of dog re-
Gently ran an average Of so yards in
one second, the highest rate of dog
travel on record, and, although he did
not keep up this rate of speed for any
duration of time. he showed indications
of reaching an even greater speed II
he were pressed.
This rate when carried out to the
rate per mile, would mean mile in
a minute and six seconds, or over fiji
ty-four miles an hour. Some speed!
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31
Advertisement OF Town Lots in the
New City Of keokuk in Wisconsin
Territory Is Unearthed
in Old Paper.
HALF BREED TRACT LAND
High Values Of thes Farming Posi-.
biIities TcId in the Advertisement
Of Sale Of Very Many
Acres.

A big advertisement Of town lots in
Keokuk, Wisconsin territory, and of
over hundred thousand acres of
farming lands in what is now Lee
county, has been unearthed.
They appear in the issue of The
Carthagenian and Herald of the up
per Mississippi, dated Saturday, May
s. 1887, now in the possession of John
A. Gordon, manager Of the electric
company at Hamilton, and son Of one
Of the men who originated Hamilton.
The paper with the opposing name
was published at Carthage, Illinois,
by Thomas Gregg, as weekly for
three dollars year. On his masthead
he nailed the slogan:
While I have liberty to write,
will write for liberty"
Says keokuk is Never Overlooked.
The advertisements Of Keokuk and
Lee county real estate describe the
location at the head of navigation in
the Mississippi river. and alleges that
no part in Keokuk is overflowed. 1t
continues:
We would call attention to the sale
of lots in Keokuk, w. T. on the 14th
day of next month. Its great advan-
tages of location, have long made
Keokuk an object of notice to the
Western comm unnty-when 1t is re-
membered that large number Of val
liable quarter sections, throughout the
Half Breed Tract, will be offered at
the same time, we cannot be far
wrong when we say that this sale is
a matter of as great interest to the
community, as any similar event that
we have known in the western coun-
try.
Given Wide Publicity.
As this place and its great local adj
vantages are well known to the pup
lie generally, it is deemed unneces-
sary to enter more fully into particu-
lars. The proprietors prefer that those
who wish to purchase should examine
for themselves the merits of this
point. A part of this property will be
offered at public sale, on the ground.
on the Fourteenth day of June next.
1t is situated on the Half Breed lanus.
and the proprietors have so united
their interests as to enable them to
give good title.
Terms of sale. one fourth cash, and
the balance, half in two, and half in
three years, bearing interest at SIX
percent per annum.
A part of that portion of the farm
ing lands Of the half breed tract
which has been surveyed being 49,
600 acres, will also be offered at
public sale, but the quarter sections
at the same terms as above.
JOSHUA AIKEN,
ROBERT E. LITTLE.
Agents for the proprietors
The ST. Louis Republican. Weekly
Alton Observer, and Vandalia Regist-
er will please copy the above four
weeks, and forward their bills to this
office.
April 90, 1887.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31
He Went.

A sturdy tramp went into supur-
ban garden where the lady or the
house was occupied in attending to
her bulbs.
He took no notice Of her refusal to
give coppers, but continued to worry
her until small dog appeared, BARK
ing loudly. The lady seized its collar.
"Ycu had better so: it may bite
You amt got no right TO keep a
savage dorg." replied the tramp, out
ragged in all his most sacred feelings.
Perhaps / have not" she answered
cody "If you think SO l won't keep
him. I'll let him go"
The latch of the gate clicked VOL
ently and in twenty seconds the tramp
had vanished into snace.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31
THE BIG FOOD
SHIPMENT
Runs Into Billions Of Bushels and
lions of Pounds Of Meat Worth
Billion and a Half
Dollars.

During the fiscal year just cioa
the United States shipped S1,400.0N
900 of food to our allies in Euro
This included 3,011 100000 pounds
meat and fats and 340,S0O.000 bush,
of cereals. an increase of S44,660.
in the former and S0,900,000 in
latter.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31
WE ARE BETTER
OFF THAN THEY
In Belgium Prices Of Ordinary Food
are So High That the Cost OF
an Automobile viii Buy
Few Meals.

The price of meat has risen in Bel
gium from thirty-fve cents to 81 a
pound. A pound of butter which be-
fore the war cost thirty-five cents now
costs $3.50. One egg costs twenty
five cnets, and so does pound of
potatoes, which four years ago sold
for one cent
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31
WHY HOOVER
WENT ABROAD
To Confer With the Food Commits.
sioners Of the Allied Nations
and Determine Needs
and Possibilities

The purpose of Mr.. Hoover's trip
to Europe was to confer with the
food controllers of the allied nations.
The food needs of the allies and of
the United States was determined
and a program necessary to meet
these needs outlined both for the
allies and the United States.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31
GARBAGE CANS
SHOW SAVINGS
Collections In Cities Prove That the
Thrifty Housewife is Learning
the Lessons of Economy
Fast.

Food conservation measures which
have enabled this country to save and
export 141, 100000 bushels of wheat
in the past year also have been re-
sponsible for decreased garbage col
lections. indicating that the house.
wife has observed the food admins
tration's Injunction to put less into
the garbage pail.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31
AUSTRALIAN
WHEAT PRICE
Uncle Sam is More Generous with
His Nephews on the farm
Than the British Gov
eminent is.

The state government of Australia
has guaranteed eighty-three cents per
bushel for wheat, and the common
wealth government has allowed an
additional twelve cents per bushel for
the 1918-1919 harvest, making a total
of ninety-five cents per bushel.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31
He's a Dead One.

Kansas City Times: 1t is believ
that If the crown prince were to co
up for reelection right now he wos
not carry a single division of {
army in the Reims-Soissons salient
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31
The Proper Authority.

That man ought to be arrested! He
threw a lump Of coal at a dog"
Are you going tc tell the S. z. c.
AZ"
NO I'm going to tell the fuel COM
missioner"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31

Carolyn Wells. the authoress, says
that she can read her mail and die
tata q story at the same time.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31
Just Dogs

Dogs" in the general use of the
word, brings to mind usually only one
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-16
Know the world!

q. Since those days back in that little school room when you studied geography and history you have dreamed of the time when you would travel abroad to meet the quaint and absorbing peoples of interesting lands. Now your dreams are to come true. Travel with this newspaper of your daily routine and see the world.
 G First you shall look upon these entrancing islands of the tropics saddened Martinique, from whose warm, Caribbean Tapped shores came Napoleon's famous Josephine; red-roofed St. Thomas-our new possession-where, Tn the romantic days of the sea, pirates bold made rendezvous; .uI.kissed Grenada, whose verdant shores and picturesque bay form one of the beauty spots of the world; exotic Trinidad where EngIsbmen negroes and East Indians combine to create human-interest atmosphere uanscen- ding any other in the blue Caribbean.
 q, Travel with this newspaper and you also shall see all the other bewitching isles of the West Indies Then, continuing on your journey, you shall 20 round the globe to visit blossoming Japan; ancient China; lethargic Korea; thrifty Holland. On and on you shall go until you know the whole great world. This is the way you q, Once each week an entertaining travel story, describing an interesting country and its people, will be published in these columns. At the same time this article appears one-part travel film, showing the scenes and people described in the story will be released for projection in leading photoplay theatres. First, read the travel article in this paper; then see the pictures at your fav- orite theatre. The date when the first travel story and pictures will appear IS near. So make ready to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-16

many good water power sites upon Prince William sound, and the same is true of the Kenat peninsula and of other parts of the territory
 Indeed. we have all over our coun- try an enormous amount of white coal, as hydroelectric water power is some- times called, and if it could be used it would save hundreds of millions of dollars and the labor of hundreds of thousands of men now employed in the coal mines of the country. Accord ing to Mir. Hugh Cooper, the engineer who built the keokuk dam, the loss is enormous. Estimating it at 40,000,000 horsepower, it represents loss of about S00.000.0 tons of coal per an- mum. This at S2 per ton, the lowest government price, equals S600O0 900, or S5,000,000 a month, year in and year out.
 Moreover, MT. Cooper estimates that it takes 600,000 more men to convert that coal into energy than would be necessary for the production of the same amount of energy by water pow er That means that if we are using our waste water instead of our coal we would have not only $600.000.0 900 more in money to spend for Liberty Bonds, but we could release 600.00o miners and put that many more men in the trenches. The loss of $500, ,000,- 900 is equal to the loss of 6,00o,000 one hundred acre farms, an amount, which venture is far more than the land that has been destroyed in Belgium and north France during this great war with the Germans.
 Copyrighted 1918 by Frank G. Carpen-
 ter.1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-16

reservoir plans advocated by the late Senator Newlands,
 The greatest water powers of the highland and of the Pacific coast states They are several times as great in their aggregate available horsepower as those ing to l. N. Teal, chairman of the Ore gon conservation committee, the Des- chutes river is capable of developing a million horsepower, about twice as much as Canada and --e United States are now getting from Niagara The chief water power sites of this stream are within 100 miles of Portland and power could be taken there as easily as it is from KeolSuk to St Louis. The Des- chuteS has a drainage area about as large as the states of Massachusetts and Rhode Island combined.
 Washington has a number of great water powers, including those which supply Seattle. The power of Seattle comes frCn hydroelectric plants in the Cascade mountains, and that of Spokane comes from the River Spokane. Spokane falls are right in the city and the power goes by short transmission lines to the cars and electric light plants. The Spokane river, in addition to the 5000 horsepower which it can generate in the heart of the city, has several million available horsepower above and below Spokane. It flows for a distance of 90 miles through a gorge. where it has q fall of zoo feet, or more than twice the height of the Washington monument, The volume of the fall is such the po-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-16
How to Make Your Own Complexion
 Treatment at Home

com bination will work wonderful transformation in F hours at the most Thousands who have used it report the same results have had.
 poor and my skin rough My neck, chest, hands and arms were dark from ex- posture. The very first application of this wonderful Derwillo oatmeal com bination convinced me that my poor complexion and skin blemishes would soon be thing of the past. In few weeks all these unsightly defects had entirely disappeared and I shall always use it to keep my complexion at it's best all the time. l have recommended It to my girl friends and they are just as enthusiastic over it IS | am. We all use it before going to the theatre. dances or parties and it's wonderful what diff ference it makes in our appearance:
 Mrs G. V. writes: "Oatmeal and Der willo have worked miracles with my wrinkles and sallow, rough skin. My hands and arms were covered with freckles. After eight weeks use of Mae Edna Wilder'S wonderful complexion prescription these objectionable defects have entirely vanished. look ten years younger and advise every girl and woman to try it and l feel confident after one or two applications they will use it continually and he just as favor ably impressed with 1t as l am. recom- mend it to all my friends.
 NoTE-To get the best effect he to follow the complete directions contained package Of wiIo. You have only 10 get derwilo and oatmeal You need nothing else and 1t Is so simple that anyone can use it and so Inexpensive that girl or woman afford it. The manufacturers and druggists guarantee first application or they win refund the money It Is sold In this city under money refund guarantee by all department stores druggists. including Jacobs. Adama Parksr. Pa<ton-Pope and Hagau-Dunlsp-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-16

tential power is said to equal that of Niagara, and the gorge is Of such na- ture that turbines could be put in at short intervals along the whole 90 miles of its course, and each set of turbines would have fall of about 40 feet
 On four rivers in northern California there is available 500 GOO horsepower, and San Francisco gets power from electric plants in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Los Angeles has great power plants worked by water which is brought from high up in the mountains through steel and concrete pipes and conduts dis tance of 250 miles. and the fall is such that the most of it occurs within 50 miles of the city. It has potentially 120,- GOO horsepower of electric energy.
 There are enormous water power pos abilities in Alaska. For 1000 miles steep mountains which have a heavy rainfall and many of the islands have high waterfalls.
 The Alaska GastineauX Gold Mining company, which has some of the larg- est quartz crushing mills of the world, has established 8 power plant at Sal mon creek. about eight miles away. The plant can develop 12,000 horse- pow CT. and it is run so cheaply that the cost of mining aud milling the ore as far as the machinery is com cerned is less than cents ton. The port of Ketchikan, the first enc at which the Seattle steamers call in Alaska, is lighted by falls just back of the city, and there is enough power undeveloped in southeastern Alaska to grind it's forests of pulp wood into material for print paper. There are
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-16
A Free Oatmeal Prescription Does Its
 Work Overnight

New York: Tt is my own discovery and it takes just one night to get such marvellous results" says Mae Edna Wilder, when her friends ask her apout her wonderful complexion and the I'm, proved appearance of her hands and arms You can do the same thing II you follow my advice" she says. Il feel IL my duty to tell every girl and woman what this wonderful prescription dld fo1. me Just think of it. All this change in a single night l never tire of telling others just what brought about such remarkable results. Here is the identi- feet from my face, hands and arms: Until you try it you can form no idea Of the marvellous change it will make in just one application. The prescription which you can prepare at your own home is as follows. Go to any grocery and get ten cents worth of ordinary oatmeal and from any drug store a bot directed in every package of derwillo and apply night and morning. The first application will astonish you. It makes the skin appear transparent, smooth and velyety I especially recommend it for a sallow skin, freckleS, tan, sun spots, coarse pores, rough skin ruddinesS. wrinkles and in fact, every blemish the face, hands and arms are heir, to. If your neck or chest is discolored from exnosure apply this com bination there and the objectionable defect will dis appear as if by magic. It is absolutely Harmless and will not produce stin- Siiate growth of hair. No matter how rough and ungainly the hands and arms, or what abuses they have had through hard work and exposure to sun and wind this oatmea1-derwtllo
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-16
Travel with THE AGE-HERALD

"The Home Paper" Release Names of Theatres Will He Given In Few Days
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-16
SCHOOL TEACHER IS
 MEXICAN GOVERNOR
Vanderbilt Graduate Says His Motto Will Be Square Deal for
 Everybody

Mexico City,, June 15-"A square deal for everybody is the promise made for the people and industries of Tampauli- pas by Prof. Andres Ozuna, recently elected provisional governor of that state by the national senate after bitter fight for the post that involved two generals and caused the revolt of one of them. The naming of a school teacher to gov- ern state which, because of it's oil deposits is described as the keystone of Mexico's international relations. is in it. self an innovation in modern Mexican politics.
 ''The people of Tamaulipas expect a square deal" said the new governor, and they will get it. The foreign inter- ests need no special favors. They want a square deal and I'll do my best to give it to them
 Governor Ozuna, in addition to being one of the few non-military men who have held responsible governing posts in Mexico in the last decade, enjoys the added distinction of being virtually in- dependent in his state. The new con stitution for the state has not yet been formulated, so 1t remains for the gover- nor to designate what laws shall be en- forced.
 Governor Ozuna has spent eight years
 in the United States and was given ms degree at Vanderbilt university Tn iSl'. Since January 3, 1916, he had acted as director general of public education and during his incumbency he put into ettec' an era of efficiency by installing the merit system for teachers. lnauguratlns educational reforms, cutting down the or flee force of his department and eliminat- ing politics in the teaching force. These reforms were put through and the num- her of schools in the republic increased greatly. despite scanty appropriations.
 Governor Ozuna was chosen by the na- tional senate from among three candi- dates named by President Carranza The other two were General Carlos ozuna and General Rafael Cardenas. General Ozuna is a nephew of the new governor and will command the military forces oi at
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-16

to the Germans and they will fall upon you and crush you, convinced that your afraid to fight
 "The Germans are like the chap in the evening dress who went up to the box office man and said eagerly:
 Have you got two front-row seats on the aisle for tonght?'
 Yep. Here you are, said the box of flee man.
 But the chap in evening dress drowned
 s.Keep 'em. he said. The show can't be any good. "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-16

face and red in the toes. No more for me. Use .iGets-It." It never fails. Touch any corn or callus with two two sh drops Q, Of It's a relief to be able to stop cutting corns. making them bleed. wrapping them up like packages and using sticky clear and clean, leaving the toe as smooth as your palm. Yol can wear those new shoes without pain. dance and be frisky on your feet. It's great to use "Gets-It"
 "Gets-It," the guaranteed money back corn remover, the only sure way, costs but trifle at any drug store. Mfd by F. Lawrence & Co., Chicago, IL
 Sold in Birmingham and recommend ed as the worlds best corn remedy by Eugene Jacobs drug store; Gale Drug company @ stores), BOT First avenue, and Pratt Station. Pratt City. Ala Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-16
Step Lively! Corns
 Quit With "Gets-lt'

The Great COrn-Loosener or the Ase'
 Never Falls. Painless
 Watch my step? Whats the use 90. along right side up without care" even with corns. because 1 use 'Gets-It," the painless, off e-a- ba- nana-peel corn remover. tried otner ways galore, until l was blue Tn the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-16
Suspicious

From the Washington Star.
 Former Senator Bailey Of Texas said in Albany the other day
 ssThe Germans believe that pacihc nation is a coward nation Propose peace
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-10-19
ANOTHER VICTIM OF FLU"
Ralph n. Berg. Travelling Salesman
Dies After Short illness.

Another victim of pneumonia tol-
lowing epidemic influenza, and the sec-
ond to die in the city, passed away
Friday night. in the person OF Ralph
H. Berg. aged 80. West Grant street,
q salesman for Marshall Field & Co.,
Chicago. Mr.. Berg's death followed a
serious illness of four days. altho he
had not been feeling we'll for several
days preceding.
Mr.. Berg rrst began to feel badly
while out on his territory. He returned
home late last week and went TO bed.
When he began to feel better on Mon
day, he got up. and was about the
house all day. Tuesday he was strick-
en- with chill, and pneumonia devel-
oped. He died at 7:15 O'CLOCK.
Mr.. Berg was a native Of Benning-
ton Kan. where he was born Nov. 20,
1885. He was united in marriage with
Miss Claire Doyle. Of Omaha about
ten years ago. and came to this city
from Omaha about three years ago.
In addition to his wife Mr.. Berg is sur
vived by one daughter, Margaret, Is
months old. Three sisters also sur
vive in the persons of Mrs. Fl. r. Nc
Intyre, and Mrs. w r. Wilson. OF
Kansas City. Mo- and Mrs. F. c. Pier
son, of Quincy, Ill.
from the residence at O'Clock Sun
day afternoon. The body will be placed
In the receiving vault iE riverside
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-10-19
Leo Dixon Stars VI
With Artillery
Football Eleven

Leo Dixon. captain of last years high
school team, and a.star Of the back
field OF teams on which he played, has
made the team OF the coast artillery
men at TT. Baker Cal, where he il
in service. Reports of the two games
in which the artillerymen have so far
played this season indicate that Dixon
who was one of the fastest men ever
produced by local high school team.
and who was an especially valuable
ground gamer thru n broken field, is
starring at quarter back with the army
team.
In the first game the artillerymen
played this season against the Uni
ersity of California at Sacramento,
artillerymen won IA to !. One of the
touchdowns was made by Dixon when
he intercepted Harvard pass of the
opponents and carried the ball fifty
yards over the goal line. Last Satur-