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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-08
HOW TO FIGHT
SPANISH INFLUENZA
BY DIR. L. w. BOWERS.


Avoid crowds. coughs and towards,
but fear neither germs nor Germans
Keep the system in good order, take
plenty OF exercise in the fresh air
and practice cleanliness. Remember
a clean mouth, a clean skin. ana
clean bowels are a projecting armour
against disease. To keep the liver
and bowels regular and to carry away
the poisons within, it Is best to take
a vegetable pill every other day,
made UP Of May-apple. aloes, Jalap,
and sugar-coated, to be had at most
drug stores, known as DR.. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets If there is a sud
den onset of what appears like hard
cold, one should go to bed. wrap
warm, take hot mustard foot-bath
and drink copiously of hot lemonade.
II pain develops in head or back,
ask the druggist for Anuric (ant1-
uric) tablets. These will flush the
bladder and kidneys and carry OF
poisonous germs. To control the
pains and aches take one Anuric tab
let every two hours, with frequent
drinks of lemonade. The pneumonia
appears in a most treacherous way.
when the influenza victim is appar-
emily recovering and anxious to leave
his bed. In recovering from bad
attack Of influenza or pneumonia tn
system should be build up with a
good herbal tonic. such as DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery,
made without alcohol from the roots
and barks of American forest trees,
or his Irontic dron tonic) tablets,
which can be obtained at most drug
stores. or send 10c to DR.. Pierce's
Invalids Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y. for
trial package.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-08

pan end China, and arriving in San
Francisco, October so.
1t is ten year since size Tas last in
America.
DR.. Kugler is missionary sent out
by the woman's mission brand OF the
general synod of tie Lutheran
church
She is in country IN the interest of
not only her own mission, Dut also OF
the Observation-Disclosures Mission
Medical school for won.en, recently
opened in Welfare, South india. This
school, Is the first of its kind ID be es-
tablished in south India The Trinci-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-08

is RELEASED
He Is Let Out of the PenitentIary
After Serving elk Years, by
an Executive
Order.

Final discharge of the sentence OF
Charles Cavanaugh was filed today,
the discharge having been signed by
Governor Harding on November 4.
Cavanaugh was sentenced to the
penitentiary at Ft. Madison for rape
in the October 1912 term of court.
He was paro1ed by the board on
October "a, 1917, and on November 4,
1918 his pardon and release was
signed by the governor and filed here
Yesterday.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-08
MISSIONARY is
HERE FROM INDIA
|Dr. Anna s. kugler, Who is Doing a
Great Work for East indian
Children, Waiting Her Sis
tor In keokuk.

DIR. Anna 8. Kugler has arrived in
'Keokuk from GuDtur, Insloa to sIeLd
a few days with her brciher-iI,-la.y',
and sister, Rev. and Mrs. T. c. Fran.
zen Of 1107 Orleans ave.
Dr.. Kugler has spent thirty-five
years in India, and has built up and
been in charge Of the largest mission
hospital for women and children in
southern India. She left India AM"nst
10 coming to Americ: by way Of ia
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-08
HERE'S WARMING, SOOTHING RELIEF
FROM YOUR RHEUMATIC ACHES

Sloan's Liniment makes rubbing need.
less. 1t is easier and cleaner to use than
plasters or poultices. 1t does not stain
the skin or clog the pores. A bottle Of
Sloan's Liniment is all you need for
quick rest and relief from the pains of
sprains, bruises, backache, stiffneck,
and most forms of rheumatic twinges.
Generous size bottles at druggists
everywhere.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-08
FORT MADISON
TOHAVE Y. M. c. A.
Movement Started to Give the Other
County Seat One Which It
Has Not Had Hitler

A meeting of citizens last evening
decided to organize Y. NJ. c. A. at
Fort Madison, something that town
has been lacking hitherto.
A committee composed of ]. r. Per
kins, C. C. Korschgen, George B. Stew
art, John H. Freligh, Charles H.
Finch. T. T. Hitch, G. E. TinEwald> 4
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-08

For prompt relief from Rheumatism,
Neuralgia, or Lumbago, you can
depend on Sloan's Liniment. The
warming, soothing, counter-irritant
effect is the quickest way to overcome
the Inflammation, swelling or stiffness.
A few drops go right to the sore part,
draw the blood from the congested
aceandremove the cause Of the ache.
The great penetrating power Of
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-08

w. Fish, e. E. Severn, o. R. John
ston and w. H. Kay was formed to ar
range the organization, secure mem.
bers and pledges from citizens to con-
tribute to fund of $4,000, of which
amount $4,000 will be raised this year
and the balance In 1919,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-08

no doubt that majority of the reich
stag parties will demand unanimously
the kaisers aSbdication, which &C
cording to the Politken may be ex-
pected today or tomorrow.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-08

pal of the school is DR.. Ida C. Scud-
der, granddaughter Of the first med
ical missionary from America to In
dia.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-08
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FLAGS AT HALF MAST.

All flags on municipal build :
lngs will be placed at half mast I
and remain so until sunset on !
Monday. November IL, to show
honor to the late Private Henry
Young, a Keokuk soldier who
has made the supreme sacrifice !
for his country.
1t is hoped that all private I
, flags displayed in Keokuk will I
conform to the above order to I
city employees.
ED. S, LOTION, Mayor. Z
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-08
IN MISERY B YEARS
Mrs. Courtney Tells How She
Was Cured by Lydia E.
Pinlxham's Vegetable
Compound.
Oskaloosa. Iowa" For years was
simply in misery from weakness and

awful palnS-a n q
nothing seemed to
do me any good. A
friend advised me
to take Lydia E.
Pinkham's V g e.
table Compound. /
did SO and got re-
lief right away. 1
can certainly re-
commend this valu-
able medicine to
other women who
suffer, for it has
done auch Ooo n
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-08
ABANDONED BOY
BADLY INJURED
Man with Wagon Loaded with Gro
ceries Runs over Small Boy
and Severely Injuries
Him, Drives on.
is TAKEN TO HOSPITAL
Leg Badly Cut and Perhaps Broken
and He Will be Confined to
His Bed for Consider
able limo.
Is TAKEN TO HOSPITAL

Little Frank Alberts was run over
and badly wounded just after noon,
and the man who drove heavy Wag-
on over him went calmly on Ills way
and left the boy writing in the road.
The boy, about ten years old, was
playing in the road below the Electro
Metals plant and this side of the Dea
Moines river bridge, on the road into
Missouri. A wagon heavily loaded
with groceries came along. and IN
some way the boy got under the
wheels The heavy load ran over his
leg cutting a long deep cash in MS
calf and perhaps breaking a bone.
Found by Missouri Man.
Despite the cries of the boy, which
attracted others from the railroad
tracks, the driver of the team did not
stop. The time was just litter noon,
and there was little traffic there
then, but later John Ketter and
Charles Blakenore, Of Clark county
came along in an automobile.
They picked up the Afberts boy and
took him to Graham hospital where
he was given surgical attention.
He is the son Of Frank Alperts, ST..
Of A and William streeto, q figher
man.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-08

!, minneapolis Journal: We are liv-
IN wonderful time with buck
|as a, CAKES and honey sausages and
-upkin pie to spur US on to yet
|sere noble endeavor.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-08
New York Money Market.

NEW YORK, Nov S.--Money on
call. per cent; six months, 6 per
cent.
Mercantile paper, per cent.
Bar silver. New York, S1,017 "a.
Demand sterling, s4.76 9-16.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-08
REVOLUTIONS
IN GERMANY
Spreading Into Various Parts OF coun
try With Red Flags Waving
and Riots in

try With Red Flags Waving
and Riots in
Streets.
UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.J
COPENHAGEN, Nov. S.-The revo.
luton in northern Germany which be-
gan Wednesday with a revolt OF sail
ors at Kiel, is reported to have spread
throughout Schleswig Holstein and In
to Mecklenburg- Schwerim Riots also
are reported in the city of Bremen
southwest of Hamburg.
| A traveller arriving here from Ger
many today said the revolving sailors
have seized the majority of the Ger
man high seas fleet at Kiel and that
the warships operated by mutinous
crews have steamed out OF the mar
Dor under the red flag
Another report said the revolution.
lists dominate Warnemunde.
Early reports told of the seizure OF
Altoona, F1ensburg and other cities and
an artillery battle in the streets OF
Hamburg. A workmen's and soldiers
council was reported to have taken
over the government Of Kiel.
| Bremen, free city of 175,000, is
on the weser river, sixty niles south.
west of Hamburg. Warnemunde is a
Baltic port lying at the mouth of the
Warnow, seven miles northwest of
lRostock It has a population of 1000
Revolt is Spreading.
COPENHAGEN, Nov. S.-The Ger
man revolution was reported TO-DAY tc
have spread into observation-disclosures,
in and east Prussia. thus extending
across practically the whole northern
portion OF the empire.
Dispatches said the cities OF
Schwerin, capital of the grand duchy
| of Mecklenburg- Schwerin and Tflsit
one Of the principal cities of east Prus
STA had Joined the revolt.
The revolutionists are reported tc
| have seized Sonderburg, thirteen
miles northeast Of Flensburg. The rail
way between the latter city and kel
is said to have been destroyed.
The newspaper Politken says it has
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1918-08-02
SOUTH RIVER MAN
DIES IN BATTLE
Private David GezeIeak Killed
In Action--Wa In Co. G of
311th Infantry at Dix.

In the casualty list announced
yesterday by the government the
name of Private David Gezeleak, of
South River. was included among the
names OF those killed in action. Geze-
leak was in the 811th infantry, in
which there are many local boys, and
the announcement OF the South River
mans death brings the fighting near
er home.
Private Gezeleak was twenty-seven
years old and married. his wife living
in Russia. His mother and father are
both alive and they too are in Russia
Before going TO war Gezeleak resided
in Levison avenue, South River, with
his brother-in-law. He was drafted
and went 10 Camp Dix for training
last September.
In March OF this year GezeIeak
was sent TO France with Company @,
S11th Infantry. The residents in the
neighborhood IN which he lived were
shocked last night when the telegram
telling OF his death was received. A
family by the name OF Goldstein lives
across the street from Gezeleak's for
mer home, OF which one son is al
ready IN France and another Is on
the way.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1918-08-02
AMERICANS ADVANCE ENTIRE LINE DURING NIGHT
TAKING TOWN OF C|ERTES AND ALL MEUN|ERE
.FREEHO[DERS AWARD
PARL|N ROAD CONTRACT
AN APPEAL TO CITIZENS
LIVING IN PERTH AMB0Y

The proper housing of war
workers in the city of Perth AM
boy is now a serious problem. The
federal government therefore, ap-
peals to public-spirited heads OF
families to rent room or two
those unused spare rooms
which should be listed with the To-
cal branch of the United States
Homes Registration Service.
The government issues an appeal
especially to families who have
never let rooms but who are willing
to do so, for patriotic reasons, to
help relieve a serious situation.
We MUST have munitions and
munitions means workers, and
workers mean homes. A study will
be made of the workman that he
may be placed IN a home with sur
round'--gs congenial to HMM
other words, to fit the person to
the room, thus insuring mutual
satisfaction.
It Is not expected that proflteer-
ing in rents shall prevail but that
owners shall receive a fair price
for their rooms. What Is wanted
Is full-fledged Americans with
American ideals to do their part at
rooms are needed by the Perth
Amboy Branch of the United
States Homes Registration Blu
reau-rooms in the home of every
nationality.
A room canvass will be made
during the week OF August by
local canvassers. Every family in
Perth Amboy is asked to aid in
every way to the end that every
available house and room may be
properly registered.
Citizens of Perth Amboy, an op-
portunity for effective war service
is here. What are you going TO
do about h7
List your unused rooms with the
United States Homes Registration
Service,
Board of Trade Rooms.
213 Smith Street.
Herbert Grant, Field Agent, Bu-
reau of Industrial Housing and
E Transportation. United States
Department of Labor.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1918-08-02
NO NEW SCHOOL; TO
HOLD HALF SESSIONS
RENT CASES AGAIN :
COME BEFORE BOARD

had glaxer making repairs about the
property. He anticipated that the cost
OF the improvements would reach
$500.
This case was postponed until next
Wednesday night in order to allow
each side to produce further evidence
concerning the amount OF rent
charged.
Tho next case was that of Aaron
Kaufman, OF 3S2 State street The
tenants who complained were: Domi-
nick Bernard. 3S5 Market street; NJ.
Bushin, 887 Market street; Oluf Sc
vensen, 3S3 Market street; Peter
Beauregard, 387 Market street; Au-
gust Molnar, $50 Market street; j.
johnson, $50 Market street; Mrs.
Margaret Moore. 395 Marker street
and Mrs. William Conover, Ss1 Msr-
ket street.
The rent in almost all of these cases
had been raised from s12 TO $17 by
landlords who owned the property be-
fore 1t was purchased hy Mr.. Kauf-
man. All the tenants stated that the
houses needed repairing, the roofs
leaked, the cellar filled with water,
which backed up sfrom the sewer,
some of the stoves, were out of order
and the service pipe from the water
main was so small that 1t was impos-
sible to receive a good supply of
water through 1t. The only improve
ments being done at this time they
stated. was the placing of bricks about
the cellar window and fencing off the
back yard, between the different fam
lilies.
CONTINUED on page ~
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1918-08-02

The second hearing on rent prof.
teering complaints made by tenants
against landlords of this city was
held last night in the Board of Trade
rooms. There were four cases placed
before the rent profteering commit
tee during the evening although in
one of these cases the complaints
were made by a number of tenants.
Satisfactory agreements were reach
ed In one case and the others were
postponed until Wednesday night,
when another hearing will be held.
The first case was that of Mrs.
Joseph Adamrayk and Mrs. A. Urdzik
of 5e1 Elizabeth street VS.. landlord,
Samuel Mandel OF 871 New street.
In the cases Of both of these ten
ants. they stated that the rent had
been advanced from $11 and $12 per
month to $40. They claimed that the
property was unimproved. except for
water and toilets and that they used
oil lamps for illumination and al
though there was tin bathtub in the
property 1t was not used. Mrs. Adam
rayk said that she had resided in the
house for the past nine years.
Mandel. IN stating his side of the
case said that he had just purchased
the property and he had been told
that the tenants were paying a rental
of SIS, which he considered a normal
charge for the rooms. He told the
that he had a carpenter
and painter working on the property
and had informed the tenants that he
would fix and clean the cellar He also
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1918-08-02
TAKE HEIGHTS
IN SUDDEN BLOW
In Hand to Hand Combat, Ger<i
man Machine Gun Nests Are
Cleared of Enemy.
GAINED FIRST DETECTIVES
Intense Fighting Now Going on
Beyond CierteS- Advance In
Smoke Screen.

Omitted Press Staff Correspondent)s
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES
IN FRANCE TODAY. Aug. 2 (s:46
A. M.):-American troops advanced
their entire right wing during the
night as far as Bomplery. They hold
Ciertes and all of Meuniere Wood.
Intense fighting is proceeding beyond
Ciertes, where the Americans gained
dominating heights from the Ger
mans by a sudden, heavy attack. The
American gains were made in the
face of stiffening opposition.
Yesterday morning our left wing
attacked northeast of seringes and
sergy following smoke cloud which
partially concealed their advance
from enemy machine gunners which
were planted thiciSly in the fields.
The doughboys went forward in
groups. flltering through the German
positions and gaining all their first
detectives without pause. The fight
ing centered in Nesles Forest Our
infantry quickly dispersed the outer
line of German machine guns in q
hand TO hand combat. The advance
was discontinued here during the ar
ternoon owing to the sharp salient
created.
The Americans right wing, adj
vancing simultaneously. moved east
ward in Ranking movement around
Meuniere Wood. French troops Coz
operated in this assault. r By easnE
the German resistance had been
wiped out and the wood was cIaared..
the Allied troops progressing almost
to Goussancourt.
The fighting in Meuniere Wood was
the artillery raking the
boches while the infantry charged up
a steep hill into a row of machine
guns. driving out the defenders with
the bayonet.
The American artillery continues
to pound German strongholds along
the road leading to the northward.
exacting heavy casualties.
Latest indications are that the
boches are massing in increasing
numbers to oppose further advance
although no additional defenses have
been encountered other than scatter
ed sections of half dug trenches and
increased barbed wire entanglements.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1918-08-02
CHANGE
IN DRAFT ACES
Bakers Program, Said to Be
1885, Now in Hands of Chair
man OF House Committee
By unitsd Press.

WASHINGTON. Aug. chairman
Chamberlain OF the Senate Military
Committee. expected back in the city
from a vacation today, was 10 see Sec
retary Baker as 10 draft extension
plans
Bakers program, already presented
70 Chairman Dent OF the house COM
mittee, Is understood TO contemplate
a request OF Congress for extension
from nineteen or twenty years up 10
thirty-five or thirty-six years.
Provided the lower limit is set at
nineteen there will likely be a deter
mined EFFORT IN Congress 10 make II
twenty. AS for the upper limit II ap-
pears there will be an effort 20 expand
Il 10 at least forty though II Is by no
means certain that Congress finally
will do other than what the War De
partment asks.
The sole announcement from Sec
retary Baker on the subject is that his
proposal does not run nineteen 20 forty
and that he will present his plan 10
Congress next week SO the committee
can start work before the full mem
bership returns
In this connection there was a tend
ency here today 70 be critical OF the
fact that Congress still stays on its
vacation.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1918-08-02
PRESS RECALLS
HUN PROPHESY
Won CapeIIe's Statement Shown
up In German Papers, Telling
of American Participation
By United 7ress.


LONDON, british Admiralty Wire
less), Aug. 2:-In February. 1917, Ad-
miral Won Capelle. secretary OF state
for the German navy. permitted HIM
self the unwise luxury of prophesy.
He said: Prom a military stand
pofnt. l regard the effect on, our en-
envy OF the entry into the United States
as nil. First of all. the oft-mentioned
hundred thousands Of volunteers will
have to be found in America. Suppos-
ing even the hundreds OF thousands OF
men are readily gathered in America,
how can they possibly get to EnglandY ?
II they did contrive to secure the men
what a magnificent quarry they would
offer 20 our U-boats."
The Breslau- -Volks Zeitung performs
the unkindly act OF recalling the gal
liant admirafs words and adds:
To-day there are many hundreds of
Americans on French soil and OF the
American transports which conveyed
these troops not single one has been
torpedo ed"
The Arbeiter Zeitung also calls at
tention TO the American menace. 1t
says:
more and more effect upon the allies
military position, as we'll as on the po-
litical situation. From various and
latest sources OF information IL Is not
possible TO doubt that million Amert-
cans are now in France. Organizing
genius of the kind that created the
British army has obtained astonishing
results. All the forces now landing In
France are recruited, instructed and
equipped within eighteen months.
The participation Of the Americans
enormously increases the effort Ger
many must make. Germany finds her
self In the unprecedented position OF
having 70 fight three nations whose
population Is three times greater than.
hers and whose powers OF organization
are equal 70 those OF the German ma
ftnm
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1918-08-02
British Garry on Successful
Raids and Take Prisoners

LONDON. Aug. Successful raid
ing operations and hostile artillery
fre in various sectors OF the Picardy
and Flanders front were reported by
F1sld Marshal Haig today. Prisoners
were taken IN raids north OF Albert
ana near Festubert. German artil-
iery shelled British positions south or
the somme, south OF Ypres. north OF
Bethune and east of Haycbr0uck.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1918-08-02
French Advance Further.

B1 United Press.
PARIS. Aug. 2 (noon. Further al
lied progress in the s-Rheims
salient during the night was annotfnc-
cd by the French war Office today
North of the Marine the Frercn
progressed during the night the
statement said.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1918-08-02
Admit American Audacity.
D~aa.

ZURICH. Aug. ACCORDING to =
general opinion along the whole 'front.'.
the combative angle OF the Americans
is such as not TO be despised," declared
a battlefront dispatch 10 the Berlin
Vorwaerts. '~phey leap TO the assault
with the most ardent audacity, re-
gardless OF the deadliest perils."
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1918-08-02
Capture Goussancourt.
By Omitted PTes=.

LONDON. (i:15 p. m.) Aug. All
lied troops have captured Goussan-
court north OF Meuniere Wood and
are advancing steadily north of cier-
ties (three miles west Of Meuniere). It
was learned this afternoon.