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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-02-12

twice on Sunday. / got the Xma
0. K. The chocolates were just fine
they were firm and had not melted
at all
Tell Mrs. E. Cook / wish to thank
her many times for those fine choco
lates she made.
We had 81 turkeys for Xmas and
26 geese for New Years-sure had
some feed.
We are not drilling any more but
are working every day, Sundays and
ALL
We are painting the barns and
shops at the remOunt. We have paint
ed about 80 and have 80 more to
paint. 1t is hard to paint as the rain
washes so much of it off.
l wrote to Grant Shok about a
week ago and just got letter back
from him. He is at Brest. l wrote
to Ira Kinman too, but haven't heard
from him yet.
Well | guess this writing letters
home will soon be over, for we got
word last night that we would sail
about the goth of February and that
time can not come too soon to suit
us for we are through over here and
there is nothing more to hold us here.
We are entitled to our first service
stripe tomorrow and will get the 91st
insignia in a few days.
| was at the movies New Years
eve, at one of the Y's.
| haven't received any mail from
home for over a week and none of
them have in the company. | guess
they are holding it at the 91st head
quarters till we get there.
Well l am room orderly today so
am not at work, but have to keep |
the fires going and it is time to fill |
the stoves again so / guess | will
close for this time. With lots of love
to all.
Your son,
Pvt. Harvey G. Bunney.
P. ST. am sending few card
pictures. The one where the truck
ell through the bridge is where Holt
Cushing was killed. | was in the car
,ehind him; there is where l got my
niger broken.
Mrs. E. w. FELTON, of Avon has re-
eived the cheering news that her
on, Byron, who has been with the
rmy in Europe, has returned and is
t Newport News. His letter fol- ,
oWs:
Dear Mother: We will arrive in
Iewport News, Va, with 1000 SOL S
iers on Tuesday evening, January S
5, if we run per schedule for the S
ext three days. l will now try and t
i've you a general outline of our trip. a
Te left Hampton Roads, Va, on the o
vening of Tuesday, December II, t
18th the U. S. S. Virginia. We had S
retty rough weather for the first h
,uple of days. out. There was quite 7
bit of water coming over. Waves a
lme clear over the bridge. After this p
e had fine weather. 81
Sunday we had the ship decorated ly
} with trees and holly, brought from tt
rginia, and colored lights and trim tt
It's. 1t looked fine. We had a swell fc
rkey dinner, with nuts, candy, and OF
anges. Each man got Red Cross CT
rsey and pair of sox for Xmas. &C
lat was all Santa brought us. We il
IL get our Christmas mail as soon Us
we arrive in port. fl
We sighted land at 7 o'clock on the sc
)rning of December 10. We went th
rough the narrows into Brest har- &c
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-02-12

Your particular attention is called to Il
range of Georgettes, Crepe de Chimes and P
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1919-01-15
P|MPLY? WELL, DON'T Be!
People Notice It. Drive Them Off
with DR.. Edwards
Olive Tablets

A pimply face will not esnharrass you
much longer if you get @ package OF Dr.
Edwards Olive Tablets. The skin should
begin to clear after You have taken the
tablets few nights.
Cleanse the blood, the bowels ard tteliver
with Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets, the sue
cessful substitute for calomel; there's never
any sickness or pain after taking them.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets do that
which calomei does, and just as effectively,
but their action is gentle and safe instead
of severe and irritating.
No one who takes Olive Tablets IS
ever cursed with ga dark brown taste,
a bad breath. dull, listless, no good,
feeling, constipation, torpid hver' bad
disposition or pirnply face.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets are
a purely vegetable compound mixed
with olive oil: you will know them
by their olive color.
DR.. Edwards spent years among pa,
tients afflicted with liver and ooWel
complaints, and Olive Tablets are the
immensely effective result
Take one or two nightly Tor a WeeR
See how much better you feel ana LOOK
I0c and 25c per box. ALI druggists
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1919-01-15
THIN PEOPLE
SHOULD TAKE
PHOSPHATE
Nothing Like Plain Bitro-Phosphate to
Put Firm. Healthy Flesh and
to Increase Strength, YigOr
and Nerve Force.

Judging from the countless preparati ons
and treatments which are continually
being advertised for the purpose of maxim &
thin people feshy, developing arms,
neck and bust and replacing ugly hollows
and angles by the soft curved lines of
health and beauty, there evidently
thousands of men and women who keenly
feel their excessive thinness.
Thinness and weakness are usually due
to starved nerves. Our bodies need
more phosphate than is contained in
modern foods. Physicians claim there
Is nothing that will supply this deficiency
80 we'll as tie organic phosphate known
amongst drug gists bitro-phosphate,
which is inexpensive and is sold by Clark
& Brainerd in New Britain and most all
druggists under a guarantee of satisfaction
or money back. BY feeding the nerves
directly and by supplying the body cells
with the necessary phosphoric food ele-
ulents bitro- phosphate quickly produces
a welcome transformation in the appear
ance; the increase in weight frequently
being astonishing.
This increase in weight also carries with
1t g general improvement in the health.
Nervousness sleeplessness and lack Of
energy, which nearly always accompany
excessive thinaess, soon disappear. dull
4eyes become bright, and pale cheeks glow
with the bloom OF perfect health.
CAUTION: Although bitro- phosphate
IS unsurpassed for relieving nervousness.
s!eepessness and general weakness it
should not, owing to it's remarkable
lesh growing properties, be used by any
one who does .lot desire TO put on flesh.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1919-01-15
STRIKE PROBE ON.
Public Hearing Opened in Pittsfie1d
BY Arbitration Board.

Pittsfield. Mass, Jan. 14-The state
board of arbitration and Cancellation
is today holding a public hearing into
the reasons which caused the en-
ployes Of the local plant Of the Gen
era.l Electric Co. to go on strike De-
cen1ber 10 and also AS to why they are
still out, on lockout AS the EMPLOYEES
now contend. Chairman Charles G.
Wood of New Bedford and Edward S,
Alden of Holyoke are hearing the
matter.
Present for the company are C. c.
chesney, general manager; A. r.
Blaisdell, manufacturing superintend-
ent and Attorney Charles WRIGHT
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1919-01-15

Seven witnesses were sworn in to
speak for the employees. Thomas F.
Murray, chairman of the com nlittee
of appeals of the local General EleC-
trio shop committee was the only
witness heard during the morning.
He informed the board that the
manager of the local plant is trying
to break down the system Of cOllec-
tive bargaining with his employees,
but is not big enough to- admit it.
There is no use of his beating about
the bush any longer" The municipal
building was crowded when the hear
ing opened and the conference COM
mittee of the union received Il great
ovation as it entered the hall.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1919-01-15
HUNGER RIOTS Tn pETROGRAD
Bolsl1evik Troops Fire on 10000
People Parading Streets and Crying
For Bread-Unground Oats Eaten.

Stockholm, Jan. 15.-Hunger riots
took place in Petrograd on Saturday
and Sunday according to advices re-
ceived here. Ten thousand people
paraded through the streets shouting
for bread and were fired upon by
Bolshevist troops, who are said to
have been Let's. Desperate from hun
ger, the crowds are reported to have
asked the soldiers to fire upon them
Dispatches state that not single
piece of bread is to be found now in
Petrograd and that unground oats are
being given to the people.
Propagandists, disguised as refugees,
are said to have been sent into Fin
land by the Bolshevists, The police
there recently discovered several or
CARNATIONS which are alleged to be
plotting a. new instruction.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1919-01-15

penses have increased but little. AT
the present time and for some time
past the city had done without its
deputy city clerk who is with the col
ors in France. During his absence
the work is being carried on by the
other clerks in the office and their
work is recognized as highly efficient.
1t is probable that the deputy's place
will be given him when he returns
from France. A. l.. Thompson has
seen many changes since he has been
city clerk and during that time the
work of the office has increased stead
lily with the rapid growth of the city.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1919-01-15
WEAK, DISCOURAGED WIFE
Advised by Friends to Try Who'll
What It Did for Her.


Florence, S. C.-"I was in a weak,
nervous, rundown condition, took
cold easily, could hardly keep around
and do my work-and was all dis
couraged. I had taken cough syrups
and tonics without benefit, until a
friend asked me to try Who'll
gained rapidly by it's use, SO I am
now in good health. Mrs. Addle
Wilkerson.
The reason Vinol was SO successful
in restoring Mrs Wilkerson to health,
is because it is a constitutional rem
edy, which enriches and revitalizes
the blood and creates strength.
Sold by The Clark & Brainerd Co,
Druggists, Liggett's Riker-Hegeman
Drug Stores, John J. McBriarty, Ma
than Noveck w. Fl. Russell, and
Druggists everywhere.
P. Sour Saxol Salve stops itch
ing and begins healing at once.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1919-01-15

brought to light which would prob
ably go unknown to the general pub
lie. AS the day for his retirement
grows nearer city officials are realiz-
ing the loss to the city in the resig-
nation of Bernadotte LOOMS as tax
collector. During his short term of
office Mr.. LOOMS has wrought many
changes in affairs in the Office. The
strange part of it is that he takes no
credit for this work but gives the
credit to his assistant. One of the
first things learned, by a little inves-
tigat1on of figures, is that Mr.. LOOMS
has cleared up an enormous amount
of back taxes. When he entered the
office there were taxes due the city
back as far as 1890. These taxes were
also numerous. During Mr. LOOMS
term he has cleared up eight years Of
these back taxes and the date of back
taxes Is now 1898. In connection with
the taxes paid and salaries paid city
officials, it is interesting to learn that
the money which Mr.. LOOMS collect
ed for interest alone during the past
year was enough to pay the salaries
OF the town clerk and his clerks, the
tax collector and his clerks, and the
assessor and clerk. The amount of
money collected on interest was $10.-
519.11. In comparing the salary of
the tax collector of this city with
other cities the comparison shows all
cities beyond this one. If Mr.. Loomis
were to be paid at the rate of one
half of one per cent. on his collections
for the year he would be able to pay
himself a, salary Of $4,000, his first as
sistant $1,000, and his second assist
ant, $1,000. Already, for the present
year, which does not end until April,
over 100000 has been collected.
The office of the town and city
clerk is also one of interest. 1t is one
of the few city clerks offices where
everything can be found filed up to
the minute. The Office Is just about
self supporting at the present time.
The work of the Office has grown
steadily for the past few years yet the
number of clerks in the office re-
mains the same. The clerical ex-
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1919-01-15
CLEANS Up BACK TAXES

Collector LOOMS Leaves Office With
Excellent Record for Securing
Money Long Owed to City.
Now that there is so much interest
attached to affairs in City hall there
are many interesting things being
New Britain herald., 1919-08-20
FIFTY FIN N fLGAN.

tifty-ffty Finnegan was our top
 kicker's name, Fifty-ffty was the way he played
 the army game. Half the dirty work for you And half of it for me. Half the time a-Cursin' blue, Roarin' like Old Timers do Half the time as silent as a silent
 man can be. Here was Sergeant Finnegan, a.
 dressin' up the line, His face a pinkish purple like 8
 splash of madame's wine. Come up; Come up. You're away
 behind,
 And stick that belly in. I'll teach you dam recruits to Stand up. You're deef as we'll as o God, give me some patience or I'll do a mortal sim" Fifty fifty Finnegan was liberal with
 his francs Never. though of payment back nor
 wanted any thanks. If he had a tWenty-spot,
 Then half of it was yours; The ten he'd split as like as not With any Buck to get shot Of Rhum-which has a pleasing 2
 taste and cheers as we'll as
 cures, Fifty fifty Finnegan Wes hated, loved
 and feared, Until Coal Box bumped him off, and
 then he was reVercd That's the way it always goes It's after you are dead, Friends are yours who once were Buddies praise you to your toes And chisel out monument
 above your broken head! Fifty fifty Finnegan is absent with
 out leave He's struttin round in Heaven with
 his chevrons on his sleeve, TeIin' off the first platoon Of angels on the line. PoIicin' up around the moon, Busy in the afternoon
 Postin' winged sentinels around
 the throne divine.
 WILLIAM V. v. STEPHENS, York Times.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-20
BAY STATE FACES
 NEW CAR STRIKE
Public Trustees to Stand Firmly by Wage Award of National
 War Labor Board
W ar Labor Board.

Boston,, Aug. 20.-Intention to stand firmly by the National War Labor Boards wage award, by which the public must pay $1,00O,00O more in wages this year to our men," was announced yesterday by the public trustees of the Eastern Massachusetts Railway company.
 In q letter to the presidents of the 15 local unions of employees, the trustees called upon the men ito CO., operate with us in protecting the public from such an outrage as the Wilful repudiation of the award"
 It was requested that the letter be read at meetings tonight at which the men are to consider whether to ac- cept the award The War Labor Board awarded to the men approxi- mately 10 cents an hour less than the employees Of the Boston Elevated Railway obtained by independent arbitra ton.
 A subcommittee of the conference board of the Eastern Street Railway employees answered the trustees letter by a statement that there had been no agreement by the union to abide by the decision of the War Labor Board. Failure of the trustees to bind themselves was responsible for this fact, it was said.
 James H. Vaney, counsel for the Car Mems union, yesterday cele- graphed to international officers at Detroit that critical situation ex- isted on the Eastern company's Hys- tenn and that faction of some kind" was needed. It was reported the .el- cgram indicated that the men were likely to vote for a strike.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-20
FREE STUDENT
 ACCUSED OF MURDER
Cazenovia Court Finds Insufficient Evidence of Crime in Habeas
 Corpus Proceedings. h

Syracuse, N. Y, Aug. 3O.-Donald w. Fether of Los Angeles, student at Cornell university, charged with mur- der in connection with tho death of Mss Hazel Crance Of Ithaca, in Cayu- ga Lake oil July 19, was ordered re- leased on the ground of insufficient evidence by Supreme Court Justice Michael H. Riley at Cazenovia last night,
 Justice Riley reviewed the evidence yesterday afternoon in the proceed ings on a writ of habeas corpus. $u- thorities of Tompkins county had or dered the student held for the Sep= tember grand jury at Ithaca. Attef- neys for the accused claimed that the proceedings under which Fether was being held were illegal and that as yet there was no evidence of crime
 tether had known Miss Crance but a few days when he invited her for a canoe ride on Cayuga Lake. from which she never returned. He claim ed the boat was accidentally upset and that he was unable to rescue his companion. His trousers were found near the spot with two knots in them a foot or so apart. The prosecuting authorities emphasized their argu- ment on this feature of the evidence. There were marks on the canoe Sid the au .horities alleged these indicated a strug gle
New Britain herald., 1919-08-20
PARIS FEARS RETURN
 OF FLU" EPIDEMIC
French Scientists Discover Symptoms of Return %f Dreaded NaIady and
 Issue Warming to Public. Al

Paris, Aug. 20.-The recrudescenee of last years epidemic of Spanish in- t1ucnza in Europe is feared here. French scientific men have discovered symptoms of a return of the dreaded malady and are preparing, with the aid of the French Academy of Medi- cine, to issue d warning to the public.
 Although the influenza persisted throughout the whole of last winter and through the spring and summer in a more or less serious degree, nothing like d real epidemic was in evidence except in southern Europe and Switzerland, where the total numbe of cases was two million.
 Scientific men here still are baf- fled by the disease and causes attrf- buted for it's recrudescence in one country are disputed by the facts ill another. Theories tending to show that atmospheric conditions are the cause are not accepted by one section of the Academy of Medicine, it hav- ing been shown that the germ of grip breeds and f1ourshes as we'll under very different climatic conditions and that the raVages of the disease are not less severe in one part of Europe than in another.
 A German professor predicts universal grip scourge in the next few years.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-20
rs The power will be there though

ears The power will be there though it will be only a "moraI' power.
 As far as the alleged Shantung grab" is concerned. It is our be- lief that Japan is not acting in good faith with the proposed League. deal The insignificance of the clause has been repeated many times. China has lost nothing, she had already lost ShantunG, and she has gained nothing, Has Japan gained, in the requirement of Shantuns, too much for her part in the war? Ostcnsibly she has We believe that she is misrepresenting matters as she seems to be pretty busy clearing her skirts by promising to return to China her lost province. But why did Japan threaten to with not have the province? Why did she work so hard for it if she intended to give it up within a few months? President Wilson admits that Japan was DOUSlJ Wltn SndulullS. tO enter the League and that she, at practical ly the same time, promised to give it up. There is something wrong here. It is not the Presidents fault, but seems to be Japan's. What is the an- swer?
 We have obtained light on two much discussed subjects from the conference. Possibly further inVes- tigation by the Foreign Relations committee will give us further satis- faction. As it now is, as far as we are concerned, the score is about even. Score one for the League in the elim- ination of the 'forsake America" bugaboo and score one for the Reser- Vationists in the development of a queer contradiction anent the Jap Chinese problem. The willy Jap must have some cards up his sleeve. But that is no reason for forsal1ing the covenant.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-20
Sunday Prohibitions.

(NeW Haven Journal CourierD
 Massa chusetts is indulging in a dis pute which pretty well illustrates the reductiO ad abSurdum of the blue-IaW order of legislation. We take it that on the one side are the staid guar dlanS of the laws that be, while on the other are the golflacs who don't see any good reason why thy shouldn't be permitted to take care of them selves on Sunday according to the same reasonable self-imposed re- strjctions which serve throughout the rest of the week. The delightfully."- ridiculous argument appears to be over exactly what constitutes indul- ging in sports on the Sabbath. Here recently was an inoffensiVc youth who with some difficulty managed to ''knoCk out flies to himself without the customary assistance of at least one fellow sportsman. A Worcester county judge found the young man guilty Of violating the Sunday law and visited the penalty for that vio- lation upon him. Now the nice ques- tion is raised of WhetheG a man who is playing golf by himself on Sunday is violating the law. Not a great while ago MiddleseN county judge ruled that driving a bail around a course on Sunday without competition was not the equivalent of enga ging in a game and was therefore not viola ton of the quaint laws of the state. But there is the knowledge that talk ing bat and ball in hand and knock ing 'em out is all wrong: and natur- ally the sportloVers of Massachusetts, to whose shores our foTefathers fled from oppression, are on pins and needles. One cannot help but won der how much progress would be made in carrying this sort of thing to it's logical conclusion From the preying eye of such laws as life is constituted today nothing would be safe, not eve15 the subtle sport of matching for }he extra hunk of Sun day cake. These must be stirring times in historic Massachusetts
New Britain herald., 1919-08-20
25 YEARS AGO
August 20, 1891.
(FrOm the Herald of that Date)

M. J. Kenny won the quilt raffled by the German Baptist society on Saturday evening.
 J, T. O'Connor spent Sunday with his family in New Haven.
 Thomas Er>dy and Daniel Edwards spent Sunday at SaVin Rock.
 N. M. Cohen spent Sunday with his family at Central Park. West Haven.
 E. N. Stanley of the First National bank, has returned from an outing at Long Island.
 D. A. NiVen returned SatUl day eve- ming from his hunting and fishing trip in the AdirondackS.
 F. H. Johnston, of the City Coal x Wood Co.,, is spending his vacation in Massachusetts.
 Mir. and Mrs. F.. N. Humphrey, of East Main street, are on d trip to Walnut Beach, Milford.
 William Weld, of II. p. Humphreys dry goods store, left this morning with his family for the shore.
 A camping party left town this morning for Twin Lakes, consisting Of the following: Bert Andrews, Louis Dyson, Fred Forrest E. Forrest ana John and Will Porter of Pennington.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-20
THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO.
covenant.

With an armed force pursuing the bandits responsible for the recent holding of two United States Army aviators, with aviators returning from a scouting expedition into the country of the near enemy, and with the troubles between ourselves and the Mexcans rapidly approaching a head, there comes a report from the State Department that our policy in the future is to be "bare-fisted' one. There is to be no more fooling. no more after you, old thing" express sion of mutual sentiment between us and the ones who are presuming upon our good nature to the extent of sev- eral underhanded sIaps in the dark every week or so. The MeXicans- or those of them with whom we come in contact-have put themselves i'll the class of the cats on the alley fence who howl themselves into our deepest consciousness when our brickbats are unavaila ble, and retreat in hurried disorder as soon as we give evidence of a supply of ammunition.
 The United States has now given notice that it has a supply of brick bats and intends to use them. It is our wish that the first opportunity that we mean what we say. We hope that the slippery bandit will give us a chance soon
 Our expedition into the country of the hold-up man is a step in 1hs direction. Let Us hope that it will meet with success and make a hor- rible example of the law brea kers. If it does not, let it stay there until something is accomplished If a murder is reported from the extreme southern part of Mexico, let us march down the whole country with our whole Army, if we have to, to get the persons responsible. That is the only kind of language that the peon will be able to understand He has every thing in his favor, unfortuna tely; he has the opportunity of an individual or small band of hiding himself in the brush and the mountain passes. He will be hard to find. But unless l! he had these advantages, and knew it, he would not attempt his holdups We have to get the guilty ones whether they are in the Mexican Presidential chair or hiding in the most remote arroya. That is our job; let's do it.