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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-06
James Curley.

James CurIey, former mayor OF
Boston and 33d degree baseball
fan. is now part owner of the Bos-
ton Braves. With Charles Daily
Boston banker. he has purchased
the club. They plan to make John
ny Evers manager but must take
are of George Stallings first. Stall
ings has an unexpired contract call
ing for $4,000 year. Percy
Haughton has resigned as presi-
dent.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-06
ATTEMPTS HOLD
UP, FRIGHTENED
Two Men Force Silvia SilVfanO
Against Wall 10 Rob Him
Passerby InTerferes.

Two supposedly unarmed men at
tempted to hold-up Silvia Silviano,
l06 Fourth avenue, Moline, Satur-
uay evening. The amateur holdups
forced their victim against a wall
at Second street and Railroad ave
nue and slugged him. meanwhile
attempting 10 rob him.
Silviano struggled with the two
men, but being overpowered, was
about to give up the money on his
person when an unknown man in
terfered. AS the stranger ap-
preached the trio, the stickup me2
we're frightened and fed.
Silviano had a large sum in his
pocket, and had it not been for the
appearance Of the other man would
Lave parted with il. II is believed
the holdups were moi armed.
This is the first holdup or at
tempted holdup registered at the
Moline police station this year.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-06

AAE - u > g
ness. and was in
a run down con
dition. T W o OF
our best doctors
failed to do me-
any good. I heard
SO much a b o "a [
W n a t Lydia E.
Pinkham's VeEe-
table Compound
h a d d o n q o =
others. I tried il
and was cured.
l am no longer
nervous. am reg
ular and IN ex-
cellent h ealth. I
believe the Com
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-06
How THIS
nervous WOMAN
GOT WELL
Told by HerseIf-Her Sin
cerity Should Con-
vince Others.

Christopher. IlI.-"For four years
I suffered from irregularities. weak
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-06
In The Lodges

r. H. Graham post No. 312, G. A
R. met in joint session Friday with
Graham post No. PSI, W. R. c., and
Past Post Commander F. B. Nc
keever, with S. S CromptOn act
ing as officer of the day, installed
the following officers:
Post commander. c. Scholes.
Senior vice commander A.
Golden
Quartermas w WOlever.
urgeon-Peter Lind
officer of the day-John Gault.
Officer of the guard
Johnson.
Owing to the absence of the jul
.1for vice commander, chaplain. pa
triotic instructor, sergeant major,
quartermaster sergeant and adult
ant. the installation of these Off
cers will be held at the next meet
ing. which is to be Friday after
noon. Decision has been made by
lhe post to hold its sessions on Fri
day afternoons instead of evenings
in the future.
vasa lodge. No. 139. Scandinavian
brotherhood will meet this evening
at Industrial hall. The lodge has
leased this hall for one year and in
the future will hold sessions on the
first and third Wednesdays of each
month, instead of Tuesday even
irgs. Tonight there will be cleo
ton of officers. Jan Is, these Of
ffcers will be installed by F. R.
ChuIIerstrom of Chicago, president
of District No. 6.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-12-17
National League Percentages.

United Press Leased WIRE Service. !
NEW YORK, Dec. IT. Dutch
Ruether, Cincinnati. and Grover Alex
ander, Chicago, were leading hurlers
of the National league last year
depending on how you figure the
standings Pitching averages made
public today by President John Heyd.
Ter showed that Alexander permitted
LIZ runs per game in 1919. Reuther
won nineteen games and lost six for
the Reds for an average Of 100
Vaughn, in average runs per game,
was next to Alexander, and Ruether
third, indicating the value Of the
Red pitcher.
Next to Ruether in percentage OF
games won was Slim Sallee, and the
third was Ray Fisher, Of the same
team. Jesse Barnes, Of the Giants
was third.
Barnes, of the Giants, won the most
games last season Alexander led in
shutouts. Meadows, st. Louis and
Philadelphia, pitched the most games
and lost the most, twenty. Cooper
Pittsburgh, pitched twenty-seven full
games, and Vaughn, Chicago, worked
307 innings.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-12-17
WE'VE ALL BEEN
IN SAME BOAT
And Newspapers Have Been the Goat
to Get All of These Numer
uos Calls for Money
Going.

The following halfhumorous, half.
serious plant comes from the Ohio
State Journal, and in the words OF
Dere Mable, most everyone in Keo.
kuk can read it and say that's me
all over. Mable." We've all been
there, and the newspapers have been
the ones called on to promote most
Iof propaganda for this giving stuff.
which is complained Of IN the follow.
ing:
| have been held up, held down,
walked on, fattened out
and squeezed-first by the United
States government for federal war
tax. excess profit tax, Liberty bonds,
thrift stamps, war savings stamps;
for state. county and city taxes; ror
the capital stock tax, merchants
license and auto tax and by every So
ciety and organization that inventive
mind can invent to extract whatever
/ may or may not possess, including
the society of John the Baptist, the
G. A. r., the Women's Relief, the
Black Cross, the Double Cross, the
the Jewish RELIEF, American Relief,
bSISidn ucilcl, cIC., tlC., du luunlluui
The government has SO governed
my business that l don't know who
owns it. am inspected, suspected,
examined and re-examined, informed,
required, restrained and commanded,
SO that don't know who l am, where
am, or why l am here. All / know
is that am supposed to be an in
exhaustible supply of money for every
human need. desire or nope of the
human race, and, because will not
sell all l have and go out and beg,
borrow or steal money to give away,
have been cussed, discussed, boy
cotted, talked to, talked about. lied
to, lied about, held up, hung up,
robbed and nearly drained; and the
only reason I am clingmg to life is
to see what in hell is coming Off
next,
All of US who have been here,
making modest livelihood, for the
last four or five interesting and
active years have our moments of de-
preston over the blessed privilege of
giving to the less fortunate, perhaps,
and the almost equally sacred honor
OF contributing to the support Of
orderly government In these times of
deep unrest and we feel Tor and with
our bedeviled and expressive analyst.
clusion Of the whole matter It is
interesting to stay here and see what
in hell If the gentle ana doubtless
sympathetic reader will pardon the
direct question, is coming off next.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-12-17
HAVE NO HEAT
IN THE HOTELS
London Is Without Fuel and Big
Hotels Curtail Heat Except In
Certain Cases, John w.
Young Writes.

London hotels are doing without
heat except in the public rooms, and
in cases where physicians order is
received for persons occupying private
rooms that heat is required. This In
formation is contained in letter re-
ceived by James Young from his
brother, John w. Young, who with
his wife and daughter are returning
from France where they visited the
grave of Henry Young.
Mr.. Young writes that the hotels
are heatless, except IN the public
rooms where CRATES are used A
physicians order can be secured
where persons are Ill or will become
i'll from lack of heat, but they are
limited to two scuttlefulls Of coal per
day.
Butter and sugar also are lacking.
and in place of sugar they are using
saccharine.
London, however. is crowded and
there is much congestion both on the
streets and in the subways. Mr..
Young writes.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-12-17
QUINCY DAYS
ARE RECALLED
Herald "reminiscences About Late
Christian Lock and His Father
and TWO Brothers When
They Lived There.

Quincy Herald: Christian ("Chris')
Lock, whose death of paralysis at
Keokuk. Saturday afternoon, was
chronicled in yesterdays Herald, was
the son of John Henry Lock, one OF
the pioneers of Quincy, arriving In
1897 when he was 81 years of age,
Iimmigrating to America. from his
birthplace in the principally of Hes
sen, three years previously and spend
ing the interim in New York. A
blacksmith by trade he graduated
from the smithy and became a con-
tractor, taking railroad construction
Jobs in grading and Cor eight years
filling the office of street commits
sioner. A brother, Jacob Lock, a
butcher, came ten years later and dur
ing the fiscal years of 1924 was an
alderman representing the Fifth ward.
Jacob died in 1871 and John Henry in
1873, the former at the age of SO and
the latter at the age Of So.
Some interest attaches to the name
of John Henry Lock as it was his
property on the northwest corner OF
Seventh and Maine that st. Boniface
congregation erected its present
church. Rev. Father Brickwedde had
arrived in Quincy in 1897, the first
Catholic pastor to locate north OF ST.
Louis. His first services were held
in the second story of frame build
ing located on the northwest corner OF
Eleventh and Broadway. John Wood
donated lot on Seventh street be-
tween York and Kentucky as the site
for a church Here church was
erected in 1888, frame structure,
2Sx1S feet in dimensions, with two
rooms attached to the rear, one the
home of Father Brickwedde and the
other the school room. The church
almost Immediately proved too small
and the location was found to be not
very desirable. 1t was then that the
congregation bought the John Henry
Lock property at Seventh and Maine
and erected upon it a brick church in
dimensions 6Ox32 feet. This building,
too, proved too small and during the
years 1S46-1S4T the present structure
was erected, building in dimensions
1OOx64 feet. Often crowded to capa-
city ii has sreved its purpose through
the intervening seventy-two years.
Mr.. Lock moved to Eighth and
Washington where he erected as a
dance hall the building that is still
standing. owned and occupied by the
Miller Bros Transfer line. Here he
had a magnificent vineyard and
spacious summer garden, for a long
term of years the leading resort of
pleasure-seekers in South Quincy 1t
was there that Chris" Lock and his
brothers, Ernest and William, spent
their boyhood days and it was there
that they were popular with the pa
irons Of the dance hall and the sum-
mer garden.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-12-17

"Ho, huml" yawns the head of
household as he picks up his ne
paper, Tets see what new crisis !.
have today"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-12-17
Before Lunacy Commission.

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Dec. IL
The lunacy commission appointed to
consider the case Of Mrs. Esther
Blake, charged with the murder of
her son Buddy" will make its inves-
LEGATIONS some time today according
to DR.. Lewis Souder, county physician.
The finding of the commission will
determine largely the states future
action in the case, e. c. Gaskill, coun-
ty prosecutor said. The prosecutor
conferred with DR.. Souder and later
announced that If the local commits
sion found Mrs Blake insane he would
recommend that her case be sub
mitted to a state lunacy commission.
II the state commission also finds her
insane he may not insist upon trial,
Gaskill indicated.
DR.. Souder already has said he be-
lieves Mrs. Blake a paranoiac and
subject to periodical insanity"
The body of the drowned boy was
taken to Baltimore today by James M.
Blake the father, and Miss Maud Mil
Ter. Mrs. Blake's sister. The funeral
will be held at Mount Washington, a
suburb, this afternoon.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-12-17
Daily Stock Letter.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. !
NEW YORK, Dec. 15.-The New
York Evening Suns financial review
today said
Under tho inspiration Of further
pronounced betterrnept in the foreign
exchanges and generally improved
sentiment in the financial community
aided by continued relative ease In
money rates, trading II today's stock
market had more frequent intervals
Of activity ON the bull side, In the
first hour there was considerable
ginger in the transactions. but the
sparkle was intermittent after that,
and while firm tone prevailed, net
price changes were slight, except in
especially favored quarters, like the
equipments, oils, tobaccos and leath'
ers.
Prices held well in the later SEES
sions, but there was little feature to
the trading.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-12-17
NEW EVIDENCE
is DISCOVERED
Charles White and Mrs. Jones Prob.
ably Released Soon In Case
Of Billy Dansey
Murder.

limited Press Leased Wire Service
ATLANTIC CITY, N. j.. Dec. IL
I'VE have discovered new evidence
which points away from Charles
White and Mrs. Edith Jones in the
BILLY" Dansey murder case," Prose
cutor e. G. Gaskill announced this
afternoon.
Release of the Hammonton man and
his fathers house keeper is only a
matter Of a few daye, the prosecutor
Indicated Friends of the accused
took the prosecutors statement as
verifying their contention that the ar
rest of White and Mrs. Jones was q
tragic mistake
''The prosecutor said he now had
evidence indicating the perfect baby
was killed by two men whose names
he refused to divulge.
These two men, he added. are
under surveillance and will be ar
rested.
Mrs. Hercules Dansey, mother of
the child, has been questioned at
length by detectives, the prosecutor
admitted He said Mrs. Dansey testi-
fled at the inquest October that she
followed BILLY" to the White dahlia
field and heard smothered cries COM
ing from a weed patch.
1.-THE cries were Of my son." Gaskill
said Mrs. Dansey testified
Mrs Dansey hunted several min
utes for the boy but failed to find him.
Gaskill said that his men now were
working on the theory Billy" was
taken to an abandoned house by two
men and killed there.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-12-17
for travel from Prince street to

for travel from Prince street to
present site of Union square, In
vember, 1882. Two horse-drawn
hicles fashioned somewhat like
stage coach Of the period were y
over the line on the day of the OPT
ing, carrying as passengers May
Walter Bovine, the city councilml
and other invited guests, The aff|
attracted many spectators and q
vinced the most sl1eptical that
new horse cars were certain to
a great convenience. The road y
extended to Murray Hill in 1888 g
reached the Harlem river in III
Fares were paid in silver sixpenf
of the old Spanish currency then
circulation, and one of the roa
original features still in existei
is the old Park avenue tunnel uni
Murray Hill Horse cars We're
continued in New York City on y
26. 1917, when a few officials of
New York Railway company boare
an old car of the Bleecker street /
and took turns in driving the al
ouated vehicle on its final trip.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-12-17
H.ir TO s1oo, GOO Estate.

limited Press Leased Wire Servtce.1
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Dec. T.-Fred
Toerring was back washing dishes In
a hash house" again today.
Toerring is awaiting word from
LAWYERS in Davenport, iowa, estab'
fishing him as heir of Dorothea
Toerring, who died leaving an estate
of 100000.
Police. after a weeks search found
Toerring in q cheap rooming house
here last night and advised him OF
his new wealth.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-12-17

objected and Knox then offered his
resolution for a separate peace with
Germany. To this Senator Nelson,
Mimi, republican, and Mcclellan both
objected and Knox began a speech in
support of a motion to refer the first
resolution to the foreign relations
committee.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-12-17
PERSONALS

Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse M. Marsh left
last night for Iowa City, taking their
little boy Thomas, to the hospital for
treatment.
Miss Lydia Rich. Miss Katherine
Elder and Joshua F. Elder will ar
rive tomorrow from Madison. Wis,
to spend the Christmas holidays.
Miss Helen Jenkins OF Kahoka,
Mo-, was in Keokuk To-Day shopping.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-12-17
sennnd Effort bY Knox.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.l
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.-For the
second time within a week, Senator
Knox, Penna., today made an unsuc-
cessful attempt to get the senate to
consider his resolution for ratification
of the peace treaty without the league
of nations covenant.
Senator Mcclellan, Tenn, democrat,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-12-17
Rank Is Robbed.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Seryice.l
CHICAGO, Dec. 17.-Four armed
bandits held up the Cicero State bank
here today and after forcing the
cashier to open the vault, escaped
with $4,000 in cash. A new alarm
failed to function.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-12-17
BID Street Car Strike.

TTJnited Press Leased Wire Service. ]
TOXIC, Dec. 16.-Thousands of re-
servists are in training ana are being
held in readiness to break the TOXIC
tram car strike.
1.-THE above dispatch IS the first
word received in this country of a
street car strike in Toxic.
Mail advices tell Of trouble between
the Yokohama tramway company
and it's employees. The men demand
ed wage increases amounting to 100
percent, and pensions.
The Yokohama service decreased
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-12-17

A woman will marry man
looks like cross between hick'
nut and a kangaroo and be ma
Jealous of him, but the other won
Just laugh at her because they
Jealous of their own pet bears.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-12-17
First Street Railway.

New York Sun: The first street
railway in the world was the New
York and Harlem road, built on the
Bowery in New York City and opened
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-12-17

gradually .until practically no cars
We're running.
All attempts to compromise had
failed, according to these advices.]
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-07-08
j. s. DIPLOMAT
To SEEK TRUTH
ABOUT RUSSIANS
Ambassador to Japan to Tour
Siberia and Recognition of
KoIchak Government to De-
pend on Report.


Washington, July finder In
structions to make a complete report
on conditions in Omsk, Roland s.
Morris, L. S. ambassador to Japan,
was expected by the state department
to sail today from Toxic on an ex-
tensive tour of Siberia. He will be
met at Vladivostok by Major General
William S, Graves, commander Of the
American forces in Siberia, who will
accompany him to Omsk.
Upon the recommendations of Mr.
Morris, it was learned, will depend in
great measure the time of the actual
recognition of the Kolchak govern
ment at Omsk as the government of
all non Bolshevik Russia. Mr.. Morris
previous reports on the Siberian sit
uation are said to have influenced al
lied and associated statesmen in Paris
IN giving quasi recognition TO the
Cmsk government.
Admiral kolchak, it was said today
by officials here, has met the request
fthe Paris conference relating to the
establishment of a constitutional gov
eminent in what is left of the former
Russian empire and the various for
eign offices were said to be satisfied,
that a constituent assembly election
would be held as soon as the internal
affairs of Russia permit.
The military operations of the Kol-
chalk armies are progressing satisfac-
torily, it was said.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-07-08
"ACE" SOUBIRAN TO
/ RETURN HOME SOON
Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publish
ing Co.
(The New York Worldly
,C-oo;o1 f,o hla JN;ona fn1 \
Especial cable Dispatch.l

Paris, July 7.-American will soon
have the pleasure of welcoming back
to her shores one of her flying heroes,
Maj. Robert Soubiran, who is the last
member of the Lafayette escadrille
left in France. He is an ace; he wears
the Legion of honor and the croix de
guerre with palms, denoting distin-
guished service in the French army,
particularly in the flying corps.
Soubiran was former driver of
racing cars. He came to France in
1914. Joined the French foreign legion
and fought In its ranks until 1916,
when he transferred to the Lafayette
escadrille. then in process of fornla-
ton.
Early in 1918 he was transferred to
the. American aviation corps and
fought all through the remainder of
the war. Having been away for five
years, soubiran is undecided as to
what he will do when he reaches the
United States, but his greed for adj
venture and his daredevil sentiments
will no doubt take him back either to
driving racing autos or flying. possibly
both. He thinks he may return to
France later, where a big field lies
open for him.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-07-08
QUAY co. OIL AND GAS
COMPANY INCORPORATES

ESPECIAL CONSCIOUSNESS TO MORNING JOURNAL
Santa Fe, July THE Quay Oil
and gas company has incorporated
with capitalization of $4,000, divided
into $4,000 shares. The incorporators
subscribed to 100 shares each. They
are: w. J, Eitzen, w. B. Rector, d. T..
Bent, c. b Hamilton, w. d. Hum
phries, Jr.; Eumer Edwards, M. B..
Goldenburg. W. f. Horr, T. n. Law
son, S. T. Lehman, r. e. l.. Montague,
w. f. Kirby, Adam Long. Bassett Col
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-07-08
WLLISTAS GATHER
AT Pillar De C0NCHOS

lei Paso, Tex. July 7.---Approxi-
mately thirty-five Villa followers have
arrived at Pillar lie Conchos. approx
mately forty miles north of Parral,
Chihuahua, according to American
refugees who arrived here today from
the latter place, The refugees made
their way out of Mexico VIC Ojinaga
to Eagle Pass, s'ex.
According to them the Villa men
now at Pillar de Conchos were stray
glers separated from Villas command
after his defeat ut the hands of Amer
lean troops at JuareZ They said
Villas main forces were gathering at
the town.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-07-08

Girard college, in Philadelphia. is
probably the only prominent educa-
tional institution in the whole world
which forhids clergymen of all de-
nominations to cross the Threshold.
This peculiar provision is IN compli-
ance with the wish Of the founder.
stephen Girard. who desired that the
students be kept free from all Sec
tartan controversies.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-07-08

Inns, J. A. Atkins, John M. Eager, B.
l.. Francis, H. e. Stansbury, r. A.
Corbin, James Conwell, ]. B. Taylor,
c. NJ. Stanfll, G. A. Eager, Ira j.
Briscoe, F. c. Hannah, j. w. Corn
and L. S. Devor.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-07-08
summer Complaint Quickly Relieved.

about two years ago when suffer-
ing from a severe attack of summer
complaint, took Chamberlain's Collie
and Diarrhoea Remedy and 1t relieved
me almost instantly" writes Mrs.
Henry Jewett. Clark Mills, N. Y. This
is an excellent remedy for collie and
diarrhoea and should be kept at hand
by every family.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-07-08

The average weight of the circulate
ing blood In the human body Is rs
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-07-31
nth DISTRICT.

Rev. J. W FINLEY of Plains, fill
ed his regular appointment at Rylan-
der Sunday. He talked on what he
saw and the impression it made upon
him at the Centenary celebration at
Columbus Ohio
Miss Annie Mae Thomas has re-
turned from a trip north. Among the
places of interest visited were New
York, Boston, Niagara Falls, Chi
cago, and points in Canada.
Earle Croxton and Grigsby Thorn
as have returned from France where
they have been with the American
expeditionary forces.
H. H. McLendon and John Ed Nc
Crea were in Americas Friday on
business.
Mrs. Pierce Bolden and children
of Ashburn, are visiting J. E. Hodge
and family.
Mrs. Herbert Farris, of Americas
and her mother Mrs Ann Christie
of Smithvile, are visiting relatives
in thi5 community this week.
Misses Ruby and Louise McLendon