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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-25
Avoid Suffering by Needing
These Warnings

Pimples, scaly. itching skin, rashes
and burning sensations denote with
unfailing certainty a debilitated,
weakened and impure state of the
blood. The trouble is in your blood
and no matter how you were in
fected, you must treat it through
the blood. 1t is a blood disease.
You must use S. S. S., the standard
blood tonic. if you expect certain
relief. For purifying the system.
nothing is equal to it. The action
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-25
ThC Now BOY

On the first day of school in an
Ohio town the teacher of the first
grade was securing the names of
her pupils.
She came to one youngster whose
father was noted for his profanity,
and said: What is your name?"
"Bobbie Hughes" was the reply.
do you know wour a-b-c's?"
Hell, no! I've only been here five
minutes" was the astonishing an
swer.-Everybody's
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-25
CHILDREN ERECT MEMORIAL

A beautiful means OF honofing q
dead playmate was adopted by the
pupils of a fourth grade school in
Louisville, KY, when they planted a
tree in the school yard in memory
of their former companion, and
this is in line with the nationwide
planting of memorial trees for SOL
diers and sailors which was sug-
gested by the American Forestry
Association of Washington. The or
ganization advocates also the plant
ing of trees on any other suitable
occasion and points to the fact that
many persons and events can be
most appropriately remembered in
this manner.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-25

men and rainbow-t tinted dresses
everywhere.
The hundreds of young Americans
at Oxford and Cambridge are learn
ing university life new to them,
where students come to do every
thing but study in term time, and
save their books for vacations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-01
BOYS AND GIRLS MEET
Session of Farm Club Opens at Kan.
SaS City.

Kansas City, Mo-, March 1.-The
annual national conference of the
Boys and Girls Farm Club of Ameri-
ca, in regular session here is being
attended by about $50 college men and
women of the country, who have been
acting as leaders of branches of the
club thruout the United States. Assis-
tant Secretary of Agriculture Christie
and o. H. Benson, director of the club,
together with about twenty national
officers, will address the conference
on various subjects. Delegations from
states thruout the middle west are in
the city.
The Boys and Girls club now has
membership of more than 100000
embracing 33 states of the union, ac-
cording to a member of the local COM
mittee, which has been making ar
engagements for the holding of the con-
ferences. One object of this years
meeting is to organize bra inches of the
club in the states now having no Boys
and Girls clubs. Further objects of
the conference are to further state
and county organization; adopt plan
sOf cooperation with county farm
bureaus; take up different lines of
work for boys and for girls, and dis
cuss a general campaign for increas-
ing membership during the coming
summer. Reports from the various
state officers will be heard.
The convention will adjourn Mon
day, March 3.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-01
WANTS FRIGHT ABOUT
That Is Soldiers First Thought When
He Hits New York Hospital.

(By Union Pacific r. r. Press Bureau)
New York, March When a wound
ed chap from the middle west is
carried from the ship that has brought
him from France, he usually goes
either to Debarkation Hospital No. 8
or No. 5, where he is bathed, outfitted
with clean pajamas and promptly put
to bed. He usually looks around, takes
in the scene in the big ward and then
beckons to his nurse.
Say he says, ''can you get me a
Right-About ?"
The Right-About is the newspaper
published in the hospitals by soldier
editors about the things that concern
the fellows from overseas and its
fame has spread far and wide.
Some months ago, Sergt. Leigh
Danenberg, a former New York news
paper man, and Sergt. Jack James,
aminer, were called up before Capt.
w. w. Smith. morale officer of the
surgeon generals office.
go to Debarkation Hospital No.
8, in New York, and start newspaper
for the men there" they were ordered.
Armed only with that order and
transportation, but with all the nerve
in the world they went, and their first
issue appeared in December. 1t paid
for itself from the first appearance
doubled in size and is fast gaining a
countrywide circulation.
Cleverly illustrated with photograph
and drawing. and CHASING up editorial
ly with far more pretentious publica-
tons, it was at first intended only for
the amusement of the men in the
wards. However it was too good to
keep, the public demanded it, and now
while the men in the hospiti.ls are
served first, the public comes next-to
the tune of many thousands of copies.
Danenberg is now managing editor,
James is city editor and they preside
over soldier-operated editorial, circu-
lation, and advertising departments.
the force totalling fifteen or twenty
men and non-coms of the medical
corps. all of whom have had previous
newspaper experience.
The Right-About is the only New
York paper whose street circulation is
handled mostly by newsgirls. Once a
week, a corps of pretty New York
girls, volunteers in helping the wound
ed boys, take bundles of papers under
their arms and rush out the extra
in professional style.
The paper publishes lists of names
of every wounded man arriving in the
New York hospitals and also carries
a department called THE Port of
Missing Men," which aids in finding
men who have not been heard from.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-01
HAYDEN FED SOLDIERS
Topekan To Rescue of Hungry Men
on Way Home.

Thursday afternoon, late as a num-
Der of Red Cross canteen workers
were waiting at the canteen hut in
North Topeka. two soldiers came in,
looking for "makin's," which of
course, the canteen was unable to
supply. The boys were invited to take
apples as a substitute, and to sit by
the fire and make themselves at home.
One of them, a New York boy, wore
two gold service stripes. having been
overseas, in the air service, for year.
The other, from Denver, had been in
service a year on this side.
As the workers sat around, waiting
for a late troop train, and became hun
cry, they began to talk. as hungry
people will about food. Each woman
present had something to add to the
conversation, as they talked of their
favorite dishes, but the larder was alb
solutely bare. the janitor having been
given the crumbs from the table they
had spread for the noon meal.
AS they spoke on this mouth water
ing subject, one of them fancied that
she detected a gone" look in the
faces of the two soldiers, and sug-
gested that they talk of something
else. But food was the lodestone
which drew them. They talked about
the war, and grand opera for a min
ute, but they were too hungry to re-
main highbrow, and back they gal
loped to the discussion of good things
to eat.
Finally, some one thought to ques-
ton the boys. and it was learned that
they had eaten nothing since morning,
and the canteen workers gathered that
it would be some time before they
would again taste food, if it depended
upon their pocketbooks to procure it
One of, the women had a happy in
spiration, and tefphoned the Elks
club, where a willing host was found
in Jack Hayden. They were driven
over, and filled up for once Now
the canteen workers are wishing that
every town boosted a Jack Hayden
until all the soldiers are home. hold
ing down good Jobs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-01

Corporal Quaney IS a son of Mr.. and
Mrs Don Quaney, of Oskaloosa. and
a nephew of ]. D. Quaney. 622 West
Eighth street. He enlisted from Oeka-
loosa, Kan.
In his letter to his uncle he states
that the drive at st. Mihiel. IN which
he evidently took part, was a foot race
compared to the Argonne show. He
stated in his letter that he was in the
Argonne for the first two days of the
fight. He went over the top with his
company the first day and stayed with
them until the second day when a
shrapnel shell burst near him. broke
the stock of his rifle and inflicted a
wound. He asserts that he applied
first aid, Immediately crawled UP out
of shell hole where he took refuge,
picked a rifle off of the ground
there were plenty of them lying about
and resumed fire. Corporal Quaney
also paid high tribute to the boys who
fell during the battle. He says they
all fell with their faces turned to Ber-
Inland that the Germans were fac
ing the same way when they felt the
chill of death.
Quaney expresses his feryent hope
that he wants to get home and back
to the farm as soon as possible"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-01

were thousands of them in our svicin-
ity. The workmanship of the Germans
who housed their vast armies under
the wet, sticky soil of France. and
housed them well, is wonderful. Eiec-
trio lights and all the luxuries of home
were found in the trenches and under
ground barracks running hundreds of
feet underneath the trenches.
MY entrance into those dugouts
was as apprehensive of catastrophe
as a 2 a. m. entrance into my fathers
home during my high school days. A
false move in either instance would
have been equally disastrous. A friend
wrote me some time ago asking me
to pick up some battlefield souvenir
for him. Some of the boys did pick
them up. Some of the same boys a
few minutes later had an opportunity
to pick up bits of their hands and
feet. I picked nothing on the bat
tlefield. excepting to pick my way with
caution.
Returning Doughboys Tired.
AFTER the armistice was signed thou
sands of doughboys and artillerymen
passed thru Varennes on their way
home 1 never saw men so tired and
hollow-eyed in my life. They're thu
fellows to whom we must take off our
hats.
"All of the combat divisions are out
of that country. nothing but negro
salvage troops and engineers left. The
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-01
Truly, twill Be If Taxes Are
Not Promptly Paid.
Of 1900 Topeka CANNES Only
az Officially Decorated.
MALE SPECIES IN MAJORITY
Only Two "Lady" Dogs Have
Received SMedaIs."
All Not Tagged by April 1 Go
to City Pound.

Based on the figures available in
| the office of the city clerk, there are
said to be 1900 houn's of various
genealogy within the precincts of the
city. This total does not include the
varieties not honored and decorated
with dog tax medals, nor the elusive
ones that escaped the vigorous en-
deavors of the dog catcher.
Up to the present date the owners
of only II dogs have looked with suf-
ficient favor upon their canine friends
to honor them with the distinction of
a dog tax.
From the figures indicating what
dogs have been supplied with medals"
it might be inferred that lady dogs
are scarce articles in Topeka. Sew
enty-seven gentlemen dogs have been
registered while only two of the fem
mime species have been considered val
liable enough to be decorated.
However, it is more expensive to
be the owner of a lady dog. The tax
is SIS. After March 81 it will be raised
to ST. Male dogs may be equipped
with tags for the sum of 81. AS they
are not considered as valuable as lady
dogs their tax will jump only one
dollar.
About April 1. Lige Edwards. To-
peka's expert dog catcher, will declare
war on all dogs not sufficiently decor
ated to establish their value as useful
citizens. He will sally forth armed
with dog catching equipment and pro-
coed to take into custody all dogs
found gallivanting about the city with
out the proper license for such activi-
ties. They will be taken to the pound.
Forty-eight hours. in the dog "hold-
over" is all the time granted for their
redemption. In case they are not re-
deemed, summary execution will fol-
low at once. They will be shot at sun
,-iS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-01

The bill accompanied Paul Marks,
formerly of Topeka, and who served
in France with the Rainbow division
(42nd) and bears on it's face the
names and dates of the various battles
which Marks was engaged in, as well
as autographs of many of his friends
in the division.
Topeka Woman Gave 1t.
Mrs. Pugh, of 1924 Van Buren,, who
sent the bill to Marks as he went
overseas, received the bill from him
this week and was quite surprised to
get it back. She sent it to Marks as
he was in camp, with word to spend
it for whatever he needed. Instead of
spending it, even tho he was without
money even to buy cigarettes at times,
he kept it thru all of his thirteen
months of fighting, and writes Mrs.
Pugh that he will prize it highly as
long as he lives.
Marks who formerly lived at 1900
Topeka avenue. was employed with
s D. Flora at the weather office. He
moved from here to Florida and then
to indianapolis, where he enlisted and
was sent over in one of the batteries
Of the 42nd> division, going thru all
of its battles. Ee was injured by the
recoil of one of the hattery's guns ana
was sent back to this country. He
las relatives in Topeka. Mrs Shad-
dtnger is a cousin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-01
To MAKE COLLEGES STANDARD
Surgeons Gather to Talk of the Medi
cal School Changes.

Fort Worth, March Surgeons,
biologists and sanitation experts from
all over the United States were in Fort
Worth today to attend the conference
for the Standardization of American
colleges of surgery.
Col. John A. Hornsby, who planned
the army's big base hospitals. and DR..
John G. Bowman, of Chicago. founder
of the American College of Surgeons,
will be principal speakers. The con-
ference is expected to adopt a resolu-
ton fayoring the standardization of
Texas hospitals.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-01
HARRISON INTO RACE.
Former Chicago Mayor Due Back to
Get Into Mayoralty Run.

Chicago March 1.-Chicago's mu-
nicipal political situation was further
complicated today by the announce
ment that former Mayor Carter Harri-
son is on his way from Paris to Chi
cago. Petitions nominating him as an
independent candidate for mayor may
again be placed in circulation. it was
said. after they had been pigeonholed
several days ago.
Harrison cabled his son that he ex-
poets to arrive in Chicago within two
weeks. Friends of the former mayor
professed to believe the message
makes certain Harrison's candidacy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-01
SENT OVER MOULDY GRAIN
Congress VIII Investigate Charges to
That Effect.

Washington. March 1-Senate in
vestigatfon of charges that mouldy
and decayed wheat vas sent to Bel
GUM is provided for in a resolution
introduced today by Senator Calder,
New York.
The resolution was the result OF
charges made by two former en-
pIoyes of the commission for relief in
Belgium who recently testified before
a New York City magistrate that
many Belgian refugees had died as a
result of eating the rotten wheat flour
and wheat sent from the United
States
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-01
LET JAIL INMATES WORK
Senate Favors Sending All Sentenced
Men to Lansing.

Kansas may get a state employment
home for inmates of jails. The senate
passed thru the committee of the
whole the senate bill to establish a
home of this kind at Lansing, where
men sentenced to Jail in the various
counties may be sent and put to work
making brick, Irvine and other ma
terials in the shops at the state peni-
Tertiary. Few, if any, counties now
have any work provided for men in
the jails, and the bill is intended to
provide a way for giving these men
something to do besides eating and
sleeping.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-01
ABOUT THAT TAX LOSS
Oppressed Taxpayer" Thinks Rebate
System May Be of Value.

System May Be of Value.
To the Editor. Of the Topeka State
journal:
1 noticed an editorial in the State
Journal read 'em all regularly with
profit-touching the alleged cost to
the state of 100000 as rebates to
taxpayers who pay all their annual
taxes on or before December 90. Isn't
that figure a little high? The rebate
is 5 per cent on the second half of
the taxes which need not be paid until
the following June. How many people
pay all their taxes in December? No
body knows. but suppose SO per cent
of the taxpayers pay the full amount.
That means that such taxpayers would
be entitled to a rebate of per cent
on rs per cent of the taxes, then it is
1.25 per cent of all the taxes, which
would therefore amount to two hun
dred and forty million dollars! Now,
can it be that Kansas raises that enor-
nous SUN annually less this loss CD
of 100000 in taxation? But figure
it out for yourself.
Again. if the taxpayers do not pay
this 100000, how does the state
lose it? The state can and often does
lose the money paid to it by the tax
payers, but it Is hard to see how the
state loses what it never collected
from them. Furthermore, taxing boards
make their computations on the finan-
cial needs of the state. county, town
ship. city and school district, and ap-
proximate from experience how much
of margin must be allowed for nom
collections, error, rebates, etc, and
the levies are made accordingly. It
takes just so much money to run the
state. and it takes no more and no
less because of the rebate for prompt
payment of taxes.
1 have all can do to pay half my
taXaG I'm nanQnlhar and half in Tune
and the rebates are no benefit to me,
but cannot figure out how / am hurt
by the rebate. That it stimulates
prompt payment of taxes by those who
can pay at one time as well as an
other is probable, SO the rebate may
do some good
OPPRESSED CD TAXPAYER.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-01

Chicago. March ALBERT Johnson,
slayer of Policeman Martin Corcoran,
was hanged in the county Jail here at
9:32 a. m. today. He was pronounced
dead two minutes after the trap was
sprung. The execution ended one of
the bitterest legal fights for a con-
demned mans life ever staged in Cook
county. Johnson shot Corcoran while
trying to escape after looting resi-
dence. He was to have been hanged
last June but obtained several delays.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-01
PAUL MARKS THE OWNER
Carried the Bill Thru All Rain
bow Division Work.
Given Him by Topeka Woman
Before He Went Overseas.

There is a dollar bill in Topeka
which, If it could tell of it's adven-
lures, would have some wonderful
tales to relate. The bill has been thru
thirteen months of the hardest fight
ing in France and now is back in To-
peka, so it's former owner may see the
change wrought
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-01
POWELL IN TANKS
State Journal Reporter Tells of
Experiences in France.
Yanked From Warm Office To
Work Machine Gun.
NOT FORGET ARMIsTICE NIGHT
Underground Quarters of Hun
Army Were Luxurious.
Search for Souvenirs on Battle.
field Dangerous Occupation.

Percy Powell, formerly a State
Journal reporter. who enlisted in the
tank corps, has written some of his
experiences to. a friend. from Bourg,
France. After an admission that he,
too, had qualified as an American SOL
der by acquiring cootyitis, he says:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-01
FEELING IN BATTLE
Corporal Quaney Tells. of Sensation
In Argonnc.

when I went into the battle line I
felt just like I did when I stepped on
the track in an athletic meet at hon e.
That is the way Corporal Lawrence f.
Quaney, of the Thirty-fifth division.
describes his sensations on entering a
battle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-01

engineers are blasting the mines left
by the Germans and building railroads,
the negroes are cleaning up lost equip
ment and all such junk. We left there
two weeks ago, riding in box cars. We
brought back two hundred tanks
which we would probably have used
had the war lasted two weeks longer"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-01

1.-THE 100000 is not the State
Journals figure, but was borrowed for
the occasion. Whether the amount be
100000 or $500. the principle re-
mains the same.-EDITOR.1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-01
Hun Dugouts Luxurious.

1.-THE dugout and trenches and
barbed wire entanglements and she'll
holes and hand grenades (potato
mashers) have been described by ex-
perts who drew hundred of dollars for
their efforts. I'll just say that there
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1919-10-08
LOFTHuS.PuT
IN CHARGE OF
SEAMAN. BANK
Order of Supreme Court Com
pels Temporary Receiver
and Assistant Attorney Cen
eral To Surrender Control:
(By The Associated Press.)

L
Fargo, Oct so E. Lofthus, stata
bank examiner for North Dakota this
morning assumed charge of the Scan
dinavian-American Bank at Fargo re-
lieving Receiver P. E. Halldorson, un-
der an order of the North Dakota su-
pfeme court issued late yesterday.
Examiner Lofthus, who has been alb
sent from the state since the closing
of the Fargo bank, arrived in Fargo
last evening prepared to assume con-
troll of the institution, pending the
disposition of injurction proceedings
brought on his own relation, and or
the relation of the Scandinavian AM
erican bank.
Halldorson and Assistant Attorney
General Albert E. Sheets, Jr., who
have been in charge Of the bank since
last Thursday, surrendered control
shortly before 9 o'clock this morning.
They are barred under the supreme
court order from exercising any pow
ers or perogatives IN connection with
the closed banks affairs under the
courts order, which is returnable Oc-
tober Is, when they must show Gauss,
why they should not be permanently
enjoined from interfering with the
banks affairs, and the powers Of t:ls
state bank examiner.
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1919-10-08
Minnesota Pioneer
Reaches Century Mark

Taylors Falls, Mimi, Oct. e.
"Uncle John" Daubney, of Taylors
Falls that last Of Minnesota's fam
GUS "Forty-niners," lis hundred
years old today. A celebration was
arranged by the Minnesota Territor-
ial Pioneers association, and pioneers
from several states accepted invita-.
fons to attend.
John Daubney came to the St. Croix
valley in 1s45 and has lived here ever
since. He was a lu1nberman for TWEEN
ty years and then became farmer.
Dau'bney is the only survivor Of the
st. Croix Valley Old Settlers associs-
tion, which once had membership
Of 364 persons.
Daubney has been in good health
He spent two lively days days at the
Minnesota State Fair this summer.
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1919-10-08
No. Phone Reports
OF Games Until They
Have Been Concluded

It is with regret that the Devils
Lake World requests it's patrons to
cease calling up over the phone for
reports on the Worlds Series base
ball games. Such calls interfere with
the reports being received from the
Western Union Telegraph Co.
The World desires to give the peo-
pie the results of the game as quick
ly "as possible, and for this reason
the result in each inning is posted on
a bulletin in front Of the office within
two seconds after it is received.
Hereafter no information will be
given, at least until after the game
is over, and it is hoped that refus-
al on the part Of any member of the
Worlds staff to give the "dope" will
not be considered as an offense.
Any and all information will gladly
be given after the game.