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New Britain herald., 1919-01-23
CITY ITEMS.
Dance tonight, Grange hall, Berlin. 6Vt.

Dance tonight, Grange hall, Berlin. -advt.
 An automobile driven by Mrs. slo- per skidded this morning West Main street near Cedar street with damaging results to the car.
 Lieutenant Burdett Bassette of this city writes to local friends that he Is at present located about 200 miles from Paris, and expects to be sent home at an early date. He en- tered service in July, 1918, going overseas in the Ninth regiment mili- tary aeronautics.
 Corporal Otto Miller son of Mir and Mrs. F. B. Miller at 12 Woodland street, is spending a seven days fur tough at his home. He is stationed at Camp Devens.
 An important meeting of St. Joseph's Tierney Cadets will be held in the parish hall tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock.
 Rev. Patrick Daily. will read his annual report to the parishioners of St. Joseph's church next Sunday morning.
 Mrs Annie Mccall of Bristol, well known in this city. is a, patient in St. Francis hospital, Hartford Fred Brady and Albert Volz have received their discharge from the army.
 John Shulsky, was taken into cus- tody last evening by the police, and is being held pending examination as to his sanity.
 Angelo Bush of g North street, has complained to the police about boys breaking windows and the roof of his building.
 Engine Company No. was called out at 6:45 o'clock last evening for a bonfire in the yard of the New Bri- tain Machine company.
 Big bargains in shoes at Lo1g's.- advt-
 The Nah-Tah-Nam club will meet this evening at 7:30 o'clock at the ITO Arch street.
 MT. and Mrs. Clinton Farnhan of Lincoln street are receiving congratu- laions on the birth of a daughter born yesterday. Mother and daugh- ter are both doing we'll MT. Earn ham is the headmaster of the Academic High school.
 John M. Heffernan. who has been appointed postmaster in Torrington, IS well known in this city. He was married several years ago to Miss Mary McNerney. of this city.
 A meeting of the embership com mittee of the Y. M. T. A. B. society will be held tonight In the society parIor.
 The Third Ward Republican club will have a meeting tomorrow night at 267 Main street,
 William Botticelli and Frank Egan are spending the mid-year vacation at their homes in this city, They are students at St. Bernard's seminary in Rochester.
New Britain herald., 1919-01-23
BEATON s, CORBIN ANNUAL.

The annual meeting Of the Beaton S; Corbin company was held yester- day afternoon at the office of the concern in Southington. The follow ing directors were elected: F. N. Wells, H. A. Timbreil, of this city; Albert P. Wells, C. E. Smith and Judge T. F. Welch, of Southington. Tho directors at a subsequent meet ing, elected the following officers; President, F. ". Wells; vice-president, H. A. Timbrell; secretary and treas urer, Albert F.. Wells, auditor c. E.. Smith
New Britain herald., 1919-01-23
Mrs. WaIfred Snygo.

Mrs. Esther Snygg, wife of Walfred Snygg of Pleasant street, died last evening after a long illness. She was 21 years old. Besides her husband she leaves a son, Kenneth, and brother, Hugo Carlstrom, of 401 Stan ley street; her parents and two broth CTS and three sisters in Sweden. The funeral will be held at ? o'clock to- morrow afternoon from the home of her brother. Rev. J. F. Klingberg will off1ciate and burial will be in Fairview cemetery.
New Britain herald., 1919-01-23
Mrs. Minnie Read NerHyin.

Mrs Minnie Read Merwin, aised 3o years, wife of Robert Clifford Merwin, died at her home at 220 Lincoln street, this morning. Mrs Merwin had been confined to her home for several days and, her condition becoming worse Tuesday, her death had been expect ed hourly. She is survived by her husband and two children. ~
 The funeral will be strictly private. Rev. Dr. G. W. c. Hill will officiate and interment will be in FairvieW cemetery. \
New Britain herald., 1919-01-23
TALCOTT IN TURKEY.

George H. Talcott, formerly of this city has been heard from in Turkey where he is doing Y. NJ. C. A work. He is director of the local r. M. C. A, and for years he was one of the officials of the American Hosiery company Later he retired from active business and opened LID a private office in Hartford
New Britain herald., 1919-01-23
HURT AT FACTORY.

An employe of Landers, Frary & Clark company, whose identity has not been disclosed, is in the New Bri- tain general hospital in an uncon- scious condition as the result of fall ing down stairs at the factory this afternoon. The injured man appears to be suffering from a concussion of the brain.
New Britain herald., 1919-01-23
WHALEN BEATS GRIFFIN.

In a game featured by many bril- liant shots and high runs, John Whalen defeated John Griffin in the T. A. B. pool tournament, in the society pool room, last evening. The final score was 100--84. Other games played last evening resulted as follows: Edward McEnroe, 100, Charles McNamara 62; Hugh Coyle 100, Francis Hartney 93. -"..
New Britain herald., 1919-01-23
Card Of Thanks.

We wish to thank all kind friends and relatives who aided us in any manner at the time of the death of our beloved daughter, Gladys. We are especially grateful to the Fore mems club of Traut~ & Hine Mfg. Co.,. for beautiful floral tributes.
 MIR. AND MRS. W. T. YOUNG.
New Britain herald., 1919-01-23
tAdOIph Johnson.

The funeral of AdoIph Johnson will be conducted by Rev. J. E. King afternoon at his home. p Webster Hill. The service will be private and will be conducted by Rev. J. F. King berg. Services will also be conducted at the Erwin Mortuary chapel, h. torment will be in Fairview cem metery.
New Britain herald., 1919-01-23
Financial
WALL STREET STOCK
 EXCHANGE REPORTS

Wall Street, close Shippings, feathers and food specialties made further gains in the last hour but rails, steels and oils reacted one to three points. The closing was irregu- lar.
 Sales approMmated 425,0O0 shares.
New Britain herald., 1919-01-23
GROCERS TO SPEAK.

President Phillips of the Connecti- cut Grocers and Butchers association will be in this city tonight to address the meeting of the local grocers as will President Evans of the New Ha- ven association.
New Britain herald., 1919-01-23
Robert Victor Carlson.

The body of Robert Victor Carlson, who died Sunday at the Charleston, $. C., navy yard, reached this city to- day The funeral will be held at o'clock tomorrow afternoon and will
New Britain herald., 1919-01-23
AbaSaP Najarian.

The funeral of Ahasar Najarian was held at , o'clock this afternoon at the Center church. Rev. G. M. Missirian officiated. Burial was in Fairview cemetery.
New Britain herald., 1919-01-23

be private. Services will be cSf1 ed at 2:30 o'clock at the Sw4S Lutheran church. Rev. Dr. S. c. 0.B man will officiate. Burial will be N Fairyiew cemetery.
New Britain herald., 1919-01-23

FOR SALE-GIickory and oak wood; 4-foot lengths; SIP per cord. The Berlin Farms, Tel. 66S-4,
 I-23-tf
New Britain herald., 1919-01-23

Challenge milk, 16c, Russell Bros.~ q dvt.
New Britain herald., 1919-01-23

Fresh eggs, 69c, Russell Bros.-
New Britain herald., 1919-01-23

OVER in London, England-in the workshops of Henry Heath" they make the finest caps in the world Scotch Tweeds, Homespuns and Woolens are made by careful workmen into these caps
 Before the they sold for $500 Last year they S3.5O and they sell for S4.50.
 They wear for years, keep shapely and dry clean like new.
New Britain herald., 1919-01-23

Orizaba r<
 erican soil
 or woundadH
 sgd ammun
 12 casual o<
 corps, chenai8
 other branehAS
 sel left Brest
 The hoSpItAI1
 sick or woundedx together with tIla4
 36 officers.
 The battleship LII troops, reported by
 pected to make SandNM m., and dock here t017 the battleship New Ha1nr1 expected to arrive with GG8
 Washington, Jan. 23.t-Th& port Martha, Washington has from France with 2,400 troops. cluding 250 sick and wounded and expected to reach Newport News JarN uary 2S. The battleship Connecticut also is due at Newport News Febru-i ary 1 with about 1000 men and the. transport Mallory is expected to reach New York January 31 with 1900 men of the 327th field artillery and a number of casuals and wound- ed
 Units aboard the Martha Washing ton the war department announced today, are the Second and Third bat talions comprising Companies P, F, c, H. I, K, l. and M of the 330th it. fantry; with the supply company di- vision headquarters and medical de- tachment of the 83d division. The First battalion of this regiment al- ready has sailed. The ship also Is bringing home a number of casuals.
 Aboard the steamship La Lorraine, lue at New York January 31. are Battery F and a detachment of the 339th field artillery of the S8th divi- sion.
 The 162d and 490th aero squadrons lnd sixth company, Second regiment ] air service mechanics, all bound for l Camp Meade; casual companies of 1 marines: Iowa troops and southern l ,egroes, sailed on the Connecticut.
 The transport Fl Sol is due at New ,ort News February 3 with six casual f1cers and 59 civilians, and the l Bremerton at New York 5, with five officers of the 14th Pioneer infantry and nine cas- al officers
New Britain herald., 1919-01-23

FOO LATE FOR CIAAssIF1CATION.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-31
BURGLARY OF ' RADIO OFFICE
 DURING NIGHT
The Sum of $147.4O Taken, Entrance Having Been Effected From the Rear
 Door of Place

Stealing $147.4 from the cash drawer and leaving only $245 in nickels and dimes anw two person al checks, a burglar entered the Naval Radio office some time be tween II o'clock last night and day light
 The office was entered through the back door which was found unlocked this morning, with the key pushed out about a foot inside of the door The cash drawer was opened with a jimmy.
 A small light was seen burning in the wireless office between and 4 o'clock in the morning by Mrs. Tur- ner, proprietor of the Friendly Rooms above Britts Pharmacy across the street from the wireless office.
 As much more money than usual was in the cash drawer last night 1t is thought by W. E. Apple, in charge of the office, that someone was aware of this fact took the money.
 MT Apple conferred with the off cers of the Vicksburg and it is thought that a board of investigation will be appointed,
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-31
GOOD TIME PROMISED
 AT ELkS TONIGHT

At 9:30 sharp, dancers are expect ed to be at the Elks informa dance at their hall tonight to start to shuf he their feet to the strains of the Scotch Orchestral
 In between dances, entertainment will be offered in the form of a vocal solo by Miss Mary Kashevaroff anc violin solo by Miss klondy Nelson together with other musical numbers
 Though good punch will be served during the evening, at 10:45 ice cream, cake and coffee will be served in the banquet room, to the accom- paniment of the Vicksburg's stringeG orchestra.
 Mrs. R. F. Robertson, Mrs Guy McNaughton and Hrs. Sidney s Jacobs will have the banquet room in their charge.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-31
WICKERSHAM WAS
 NEARLY 100 PER
 CENT. OUT OF WAY

Correspondence of J. J. Under wood from Washington in the Se- attle Times carries the following un- der date of July 24th:
 John w. Hallowell. assistant to the Secretary of the Interior told the House Territorial Committee that the cost of construction of the Alaska Railroad did not exceed SIP 900 a mile and not $140,000 a mile as has been asserted by James Wick ersham, former Delegate to Con gress from Alaska.
 MT. Hallowell appeared before the committee to urge the passage of a bill appropriating $17,0OO,OO0 to complete the construction of the road. He was followed by J. L. MacPherson of Seattle, who gave the committee detailed information pertaining to the cost. equipment and other matters having to do with the construction of the Federal Railroad"
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-31
HOUSEBOATS PROVE MOST POPULAR ON
 WILLAMETTE RIVER

PORTLAND, Ore, July 31-Hun. dreds of white-painted bungalows built on floating logs or pontoons and moored to piling driven in the bed of the Willamette river some dis. tance from the shore furnish all-the. year-round homes for perhaps five hundred Portlanders and make an at tractive sight along the Willamette, within three or four miles from the center of Portland. The houseboats. moored in groups of from 10 to 100, are reached by floating sidewalks also build on logs, leading from the shore and along the rear of the houses Gang blanks connect the individual homes with this float
 Telephone and electric lighting wires. was pipes and city water mains extend along the float and are connected with each houseboat, giv- ing these river dwellers "all the comforts of home," including running water from mountain streams so that river water need not be used for drinking and cooking &as meters, furnishing gas for cooking and heat
 ng, are placed for each house and gas and city water are led into the homes by rubber garden hose con neeted with the mains along the float.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-31
ERNEST STAGE IS
 RELEASED AND IS
 AGAIN ARRESTED

Ernest Stage, freed of charge of larceny in which he was accused of stealing fish from a cannery trap at Admiralty Cove on July }, was re arrested this morning on a charge of grand larceny, accusing him of robbing fish from a trap on the Paci. fic American Fisheries Company al Strawberry Point on June 3.
 Stages preliminary hearing will take place before Judge Newark l. Burton on August ,. His bond is $1,500.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-31
FORMER ALASKANS HONOR
 FORMER LEADING CITIZEN

Former Alaskans were prominent at the funeral of James J. Daly formerly of Skagway and later oi Ketchikan, who was buried in Cal vary Cemetery, Seattle, July 23 The funeral was from St. Joseph Church
 Pallbearers at the funeral were: c. II. Frye, Judge Thomas R. Lyons E. J. Ives, Charles F.. Farrell, c. B Haradan, S. A. Keenan, Dr. I. H Moore, and Maurice D. Leehey.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-31

Every lady has a chance to win at A. B. Hall Saturday night.-adv.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-31
INFORMATION WANTED

Obrien Cerevich, supposed to be in or near Juneau, is being sought by his brother, Mike Cerovich, who is sick at Fort Lawton, Washington, according to word received by R. E Robertson, chairman of the Home Service section of the Juneau Chap ter of the Red Cross.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-31
MINING MAN COMING

Among the passengers who will arrive in Juneau tomorrow morning on the Princess Alice wiN be F. E. Ludwig, successful mining man of Dawson He is on his way to his home in Southern California, where he has many relatives.
The mirror., 1919-10-30

duce new foods into the world
than to propagate new religions,
change the forms of government
or build great cities. Take pota-
toes as an example. In the latter
part of the 18th century Spanish
explorers found the potato grow
ing near Quito and introduced it
to Spain. About the same time
returning English colonists brought
it to England from what is now
North Carolina, and the first pota-
toes in Europe we're planted in
1885 on the big Irish estate which
Queen Elizabeth had just given to
Sir Walter Raleigh. Sir Walter,
who was one of the best press
agents of his day, became a food
reformer, and during the rest of
his busy life preached the virtues
of potatoes. He succeeded in hav-
ing them served at the royal table
once. The guests we're polite
about it and nibbed at the new
disn but Queen Elizabeth, who
was a good politician, didn't re-
peat the experiment. Ten years
after Sir Walter Raleigh began his
campaign he received his first
recognition, when a herbal pub
lished in London contained a brief
mention of the Virginia potato. :"
1t was included in section de-
voted to rare and freak plants.
The fact that potatoes we're eaten
by the Indians prejudiced the Eng
lishmen against them, and they
looked on them much as we look
on birds nest soup something
rather curious and interesting, but
food we would rather see others
eat than to eat ourselves.
A half century after the first po-
tatoes were planted in Ireland they
were being used by confectioners
and fancy bakers. But there was
q great difference of opinion as to
whether or not they we're fit to be
used as food. While some main
tanned that they may be eaten
without harm and that they actual
ly contained some food value,
others insisted that the potato was
a "malignan" plant to be eaten
only on the advice of the herb doc
tor. The former idea gained
ground until the appearance of
leprosy in London when the dis
ease was associated with the in
creased consumption of potatoes.
Learned medical men declared that
potatoes caused leprosy. and the
consumption dropped to nothing,
while the new prejudice thus
started lived on for generations.
In 1868 the Royal Society got in
terested in potatoes and stoutly
urged their use as food. Adam
Smith was one of the men who
realized the possibilities of pota-
ltoes as q cheap food and advised
The mirror., 1919-10-30
PASS THE POTATOES
Unknown IN Bible Tmes-Discovered Wild tn America
Took the World $50 Years to Adopt Them.
Eschange

people to eat them. At the time
of the American revolution pota-
toes had become rather popular in
the British Isles though it was not
until some time later that they
formed an important article of
food.
Strangely enough tobacco and
coffee were introduced into Eng
land at about the same time as po-
tatoes, and, while every effort was
made to discourage the use of to-
bacco and coffee, the campaign
against them had no effect. Pious
King James threatened the users
of tobacco with the knout, excom-
munication and capital punish
ment, with no result except to
make smoking a secret vice. King
Charles II made equally deter
mined efforts to stamp cut coffee
drinking. because coffee-drinking
meant coffee houses. and coffee
houses meant places where men
congregate together, and that
meant politics and statements
directed against the king. Mean
while many eminent men tried to
encourage the use of potatoes,
with little success, and the drink
ing of coffee and the smoking of
tobacco increased each year at q
rapid rate.
While potatoes were making
this slow progress in England they
were with equal sIowness edging
in on the dietary of Spain. From
Spain they spread to Italy and
thence to France and Belgium. No
one cared very much about them.
In France various food reformers
became the champions of the pota-
to and proved conclusively that
people should eat them. They
changed the name from the un-
musical potato or batata to the
pomme de terre. Under the new
name the French we're just as in
different as before. At length q
reformer of genius took up the
task of popularizing potatoes.
Logic and the usual high-brow
forms of propaganda had been ex-
hausted. The French public would
not eat potatoes merely because
they were cheap and a good food,
so the reformer tried making them
fashionable instead. With the
connivance of Louis XVI be
planted q large field of potatoes
and had the field Ostentatiously
guarded by large number of
troops. When the crop was har-
vested he invited a distinguished
gathering of Parisians to the most
remarkable dinner of the season.
It started with potato soup and
ended with potato pudding, and
between them every course COM
prised of some form of potatoes.
The novelty of the dinner made it
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The mirror., 1919-10-30
The Abandoned Road

One day as rambled O. 'er meadow and wood,
chanced on highway Of old
That for decades had laid in state of decay,
And covered with MOSES and mould.
Where man had once travelled is travelled by beast
The deer is the master of all,
And the voice of the farmer is no longer heard
There is only the wood creatures call.
The bluejay and crow fly noisiiy by:
The partridge is deep in the brush,
And there through the the hum of wild bees
And the song of the shy hermit thrush.
midst the trailing arbutus and violet coy
The lowered pyrola grows,
And the sweetbriar climbs the rocks and the trees
With it's cousin, the pinky wild rose.
And the banks of the lane are brilliant in spring
With the cowslips and gay, yellow woad.
All the children of Nature are helping disguise
The wreck of the abandoned road.
Kenneth BrStt0n.
The mirror., 1919-10-30
NCE upon a time-but no,
this is not a fairy story

l
| lHxSgS@yx this is not fairy story
J )HEg0NlH just story of one of
aGGy the most romantic foods
that grace the table-coffeel
How few of us know the mar
velous tales that every food can
tell! AS we linger over a cup of
coffee, telling Of adventures of
ourselves = our friends - making
merry-who would think that the
mere cup of coffee before US could
tell an erstwhile legend SO inter-
esting that our own prosaic chatter
would pale in comparison9
Once upon time, way back at
the close of the third century,
some monks fed from the persecu-
tions of the Egyptian Pharaoh TAX
ing refuge in the highlands of
Abyssinia where they supported
themselves by their flocks and
agriculture, goes the story in
Folk Lore of the Holy Land"
One night one of the brethren,
whose turn it was to care for the
sheep, went to the prior and very
excitedly told his leader that his
flocks would not go to their fold.
They kept frisklng about in such
a lively manner that be feared that
the enemy had bewitched them.
Several days of prayer brought
no relief and finally the leader of
these refugees decided to herd the
sheep himself. AS he led them
out to pasture he watched care
fully to see what they ate.
He noticed that every one of the
herd ate the leaves of a certain un-
familiar shrub, which, he con-
cluded. accounted for their rest
lessness. Then he chewed some of
the buds himself and discovered
that he was better able to keep
awake for the long night services
of his form of religion. In short,
coffee was discovered
The superstitions and many
other legends connected with early
coffee-drinking show that its early
career was most hectic one.
At first it was eaten in the form
of a paste and was not used as a
beverage.
The origin of coffee drinking
comes to us in various legends as
told by several early writer's.
Nevertheless coffee comes to US
bearing the romance of the Ara
bian Nights and the fragrance of
Oriental bazaars. Its name is de-
rived from the Arabic ''Kahwek"
which was pronounced 'Kahvee"
by the Turks, which, interpreted
meant wine or an intoxicant.
In Perisa, it is said, the berries
were first pulped. roasted, ground
and infused. This interesting in
novation was discovered by a
drowsy Mufti of the City of Alden
when on pilgrimage, in the mid
die of the fifteenth century. Short
~ after it was introduced in Medi-
ma and Mecca, while a half a CEN
tury later it was used in Cairo.
Many controversies and ira
gedies followed in its wake. Two
doctors in Persia. we're executed by
the order of the Sultan because
they proclaimed it to be injurious
to the health.
The wandering tribes of Ara
bians lived chiefly on coffee for
ages. They pulverized it and
mixed it with butter, making balls
of it about the size of golf ball,
placed it in their leather bags and
thus maintained their strength and
spirits for days of weary. desert
travel.
When coffee-drinking days were
introduced. much pomp and relig-
ious ceremony were enacted by the
religious Arabs.
Women were not allowed to
brew it-only q man who would
exercise the greatest care.