davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-13

What is the result of your putting
your shoulder to the wheel so manful-
ly? 1t hasn't made him long to do his
part and tighten some Of your bur
dens; not at all. He stays ava three
nights in succession, n uses all the
money that should nave been set aside
for household bills. No cause for him
to worry He had the game, and none
Of the blame. He knew that the home
you provided was there for him to
come back to, and that with your little
earnings you would manage somehow.
why should you ever consult him
about such trifles as taking walks or
going to the pictures? Air and change
Of scene, even n you only go to the
next block. are just as necessary to
your well being as food and clothes,
And as to the pictures? Surely, If any
woman ever earned her right to a
!ittle recreation, you have,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-13
SOUTH CAROLINA S0L0NS
BEGIN ANNUAL SESSION

COLUMBIA. S. c., Jan. I3-The South
Carolina general assembly began its
annual session at noon today, Ratifica-
ton Of the federal suffrage amendment,
a state highway act and the providing
of a constitutional convention are three
of the most important measures expect
ed to come before the solons. A radical
revision Of the system OF state finances,
carrying the abolition Of several state
DEPARTMENTS. is expected to he one of
the results of the 40-day session.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-13
JAP SHIPS TO LEAVE.

PARIS, Jan. 1~3.-Japan has decided
10 withdraw her warships from Fuchow,
China, where they were sent some
weeks ago, owing to the maltreatment
of JapaneseNsgbiects, according to in
formation rneeived here by the JapR-
nese delegation to the peace conference.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-13

Tombs Prison.
Dear X. Z. b. don't know how you
spent your time seeing the New Year
come in, but | suppose you saw a lot
OF things that | did not sec, a. ! am
in the Tomhs, But ! think | saw
something that you didn't soc, for |
suppose YOU were indoors-not like my
self-~but at some banquet or gather
inc.
While lying on my cot things were
running through my mind as to the
past. present and future. The whistles
started blowing, and something told me
To pray the old year out and the new
year IN. This ] started to do with my
eye looking out and upward through
a grated window The clock on the
New York Life started striking. and
on the second stroke the MOON, which
had been obscured by a cloud, came
out In all It's glory and seemed TO shine
like II never shone before.
A happy feeling came over me that
| can not describe, and with the fell
low who sleeps On the cot next 10 me
/ spoke of It and we wished each other
q happy New Year, saying that the
moon must be a good sign for us.
/. PRAYED again. and the o seemed
to get brighter and brighter, and |
could not go to sleep for q long while
thinking OF 1t, so | am writing to you
ana dskii&E YOUR blliAibl no W "titNi''
IL was a good omen, for I have not
been sentenced yet. | thank you.
NO. 26,6Il.
Tombs Prison.
-
MY DEAR Ne. 26,61l,
WHOEVER you are
AND WHATEVER III name.
AND WHEREVER you came from,
AND WHATEVER you did,
l SEND to you.
THIS WISH Of mine.
THAT WHEN you are through.
AND HAVE paid the toll.
THAT YOU must pay.
FOR WHATEVER yOu did.
AND ARE free again.
THAT WHATEVER it a
The public ledger., 1920-09-04
!. i + \ !. !. /. 1. i. i. !. i. i. .
T0DAY'S EVENTS
+ + + 4 1. !. i. \ !. !. i. i. !. I.

Grand homeward rush fthe cum
mer yacationists.
France today will observe the 5Oth
anniversary of the establishment of
the Third Republic.
Six months from today a new Presi-
dent of the United States will be form
ally installed in office.
State chairmen of the Republican
Ways and Means Committee arc to
confer with Candidate Harding at
Marion today on the subject of cam
paign funds.
Gov, James M. Cox, the Democratic
presidential nominee, is scheduled to
speak today at the Wisconsin State
Fair at Milwaukee.
Richmond, Va, is to he the scene TO-
day of the first annual reunion Of the
veterans of the Eightleth ("Blue
Ridge') Division.
The California State Fair will be
opened today at Sacramento and the
MINNESOTA State Fair at Hamline.
Canadian Provincial exhibitions will
be opened at Vancouver, B. c., and st.
John, N. B.
The public ledger., 1920-09-04
TODAY'S ANNIVERSARIES.

lSO3-Sarah Childress Polk, wife of
President, Polk, born near MUIR
freesborough, Tenn. Died at
Nashville, Tenn, August IA, 1891
lS24-Phoebe Cary, the younger of the
two sisters who become famous
as poets, born near Cincinnati
Died at Newport R. l., July 81
1871.
1S26-Treaty of Akerman, by which
Russia secured the right of nav
igation of the Black Sea-
1S37-The Twenty-ffth Congress met
in special session to provide
some relief to the country from
the existing financial crisis.
1S7O-Empress Eugene left the Tul-
leries, and escaped from France.
lSs5-British Trades Union Congress
adopted resolutions favoring the
abolition of the House of Lords.
iS9S--Coronation of Queen Milhelmina
took place at Amsterdam.
19ll-A vast number of people were
drowned by floods along the
Yang-tse-Kiang River in China.
The public ledger., 1920-09-04
WOMEN SHOULD TAKE WARNING

York, Assembly of women, that healthy
American women are so rare that they
are almost extinct, is true, it is time
for the women of America to take
warning and look to their health. 1t
may be headaches, backaches, drag
ging down pains, nervousness, mental
depression that are e'tell-tale symptoms
OF some organic arrangement for
which Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound simple remedy made
from roots and herbs-is specific and
may he relied upon to restore women
to healthy normal condition.
The public ledger., 1920-09-04
PECULIAR PENALTY
FOR THE MURDER OF
HIS OWN FATHER.
Ohio Boy Must Spend Three Days on
Each Anniversary Of His Crime
In Solitary Confinement
Contemplating.

Hillsboro Ohio, Sept. 3. - Russell
Gotherman, charged with murder in
the first degree for killing his father,
entered plea of guilty to murder in
the second degree Monday morning.
He was sentenced to Imprisonment for
his natural life in the Ohio peniten-
tiary by Judge Mcbride, Judge Nc
Bride placed an unusual condition in
the sentence. On each year at the an
niversary of the terrible crime for
three days and four nights Gotherman
is to be placed in solitary confinement
The crime was committed on Decem-
ber l, 1919. On November 29th of each
year at p. m. Gotherman is to be
placed in solitary confinement and
kept there until December 3, at a.
m. The Judge recommended that he
spend his time in meditation on his
crime and urged that he repent his
awful sin and pray for forgiveness.
The crime to which Russell Gother-
man pleaded guilty is one of the most
brutal and inhuman in the history of
this county. His father, James Goth
erman. was a wealthy farmer of the
East Danville neighborhood. He was
a recluse and very peculiar. He had
been confined at one time in the state
asylum for the insane and had halluci-
nations that people were trying to kill
him and rob him. He thought once
that his well had been poisoned and
built an enclosure around it and kept
the door to it lockd. He carried re-
volver strapped around his waist.
He was divorced from his wife, who
with their two sons lived near Will
mington.
The first of last March the body of
Gotherman was found dead in his bed
at his home near East Danville. He
had not been seen since the Thanks
giving before. 1t was thought that he
was visiting relatives in Illinois. An
examination of the body showed a bull
let hole through the center of the fore
head and that he had been dead for
months The body which was covered
with bed clothes was frozen.
1t was great surprise when Russell
Gotherman was arrested in Dayton
few weeks ago and the missing bonds,
amounting to S17400 found on him. AT
that time he confessed to killing his
father but claimed that it was done in
self-defense during quarrel He
gave no satisfactory explanation as to
why he took the bonds.
The public ledger., 1920-09-04
TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS.

General Count Luigi Cadorna, who
commanded the Italian armies in the
late war, born at Pallanza, 20 years
ago today.
Rear Admiral Corwin p Rees, U. s.
N, retired. born at Reilly, Ohio, 72
years ago today.
Simon Lake, inventor of the eeven-
keel type of submarine boat, born at
Pleasantville, N. j., 54 years ago today.
G. BascmO, representative in Con-
gress of the Ninth Virginia district,
born in Lee county, Va, so years ago
today.
The public ledger., 1920-09-04
PASTIME NEXT WEEK.

Monday - VIM. Duncan in "The ST.
lent Avenger." Harry Myers in Rang
ers and Rustlers," also News.
Tuesday - Gladys Brockwell in "A
Mother of His Children"
Wednesday - Dolores Cassinelli in
"The Right to Lie."
Thursday = VIM. Farnum in "The
Last of Duanes."
Friday - Art Accord in "The Moon
Riders also big western and a good
comedy.
Saturday - BOSS of Copperhead,
western; Lion Jaws and Kitten
Paws comedy and Screen Magazine.
The public ledger., 1920-09-04
Third Street VI. Z. Church.

The pastor will return in time to
preach Sunday. Services at 1O::45 a
m. and 7:3O p. m. Sunday school at
$3.50 a. m. The pastor will be in
charge of the Brotherhood class and
desires a full attendance. A most cor
dial invitation is extended the public
in general to attend all services
WORTH S. PETERS, Pastor
The public ledger., 1920-09-04
First Baptist Church.

Sunday school at $3.50 a. m, Ben n.
Greenlee. Superintendent. Preaching
by the pastor at 1O:45 m. and at Z: 80
p M B. Y. p. U. at $3.50 D. IN. All
members are urged to be present at
all OF the services. Strangers are made
welcome. JOHN A DAVIS. Pastor
The public ledger., 1920-09-04
Sedden VI. 4. Church.

Sunday school at 9:45 a. M. G. N.
Harding, Superintendent. Preaching at
lO:45 a. m. and 7:30 D. m. The pastor
Will preach at both services. As we
have only two more services, it is
earnestly requested that the entire
membership be present at both morn
and evening services. Catechism class
at 2:3O p. m, Miss Lizzie Fristoe in
structor. Epworth League at Z D. m
All are invited to worship with rs.
The public ledger., 1920-09-04
TODAY's CALENDAR OF SPORTS.

Racing = Meeting of Westchester
Racing Association lat Belmont Park.
Meeting of Montreal Jockey Club, a:
Montreal.
Meeting of Connaught Park, Wind
sor, Ont.
Trotting - Close of Grand Circui
meeting at Readville, Mass.
Opening of Great Western Circuit
meeting at st. Paul.
Tennis - Indiana State champiun-
ship tournament opens at lndia' apolis
Golf = California mems cha n
ship tournament opens at Del Monte.
Manitoba championship tournament
open; at Winnipeg
Cana-United States international
match, at Roslyn, l.. /.
Automobile - One-hundred-mile
track a. Galesburg, Ill.
The public ledger., 1920-09-04

King George is an enthusiastic
yachtsman, and as Prince of Wales
was a much more frequent visitor to
the big regattas than the heavier du-
ties of state now permit.
The public ledger., 1920-09-04
Church of the Nativity.

During the interium the church is
without Rector, services will be held
by lay-readers, A full attendance of
the congregation is requested. The
public cordially invited Sunday school
at $3.50; morning prayer 1O:45.
VIM. H. cox, Senior Warden.
The public ledger., 1920-09-04
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY.

Gen. Denikine, anti-Bolshevik, took
Kieff after two days fighting.
President Wilson opened his Peace
Treaty spech-making tour at Column
bus, Ohio.
The public ledger., 1920-09-04
Bethel Baptist Church.

Sunday school at $3.50 a. M. Pastor
will preach morning and evening at
the usual hours, l. a. m. and 7:3O d. m.
b. Y. P. L. meeting from $3.50 to 7:3O D.
m. All are welcome to each of these
services R. JACKSON. Pastor.
The public ledger., 1920-09-04
Christian Chrch.

Bible school at $50 a. m, Commun-
ion at 1O:3O a. m. Preaching at II a..
M and 1880 p. m. Prayer meeting
Thursday, 1870 p. m. Everybody well
come to all services.
JOHN MULLEN Minister
The public ledger., 1920-09-04
First Presbyterian Church.

Sunday school at $50 a. M, ]. B.
Wood, Superintendent. Pastor preach
e5 at lO:45 a. m. and 7:SO D. m. En-
deavor meeting at GAS D. m. All cor
daily welcomed to all services.
JOHN BARBOUR. Pastor.
The public ledger., 1920-09-04

In Denmark bill was recently in
trOduced to admit women to all public
offices, including the priesthood.
The United States is the only coun-
try where women have gained real
footing in the higher branches of the
civil service.
The public ledger., 1920-09-04
AT the Washington and Gem Theaters All Next Week Col

Lord Dunsany, one of the most sue
cessful of English playwrights, de-
clares that he never sees his own plays
and never meets the producer of
them.
The public ledger., 1920-09-04

Miss Dorothy Cunningham, who has
been appointed active head of the Re-
publican women in India, is in the
road contracting business.
The public ledger., 1920-09-04
Holiness Church.

Sunday school at 2 p. m, Mrs. H. H.
Bolender, Superintendent. Preaching
service at p. m. and at 1880, by the
pastor. Everyone cordially invited.
H. H. BOLENDER, Pastor.
The public ledger., 1920-09-04
MAYsv|lLE'S CHURCHES


Christian Science services Sunday
morning at II o'clock in G. A. r. Hall,
Cox Building.
The public ledger., 1920-09-04

In Hungary the women do not vote
until they are "a, and then only if they
can read and write.
The public ledger., 1920-09-04
Elite Confectionery
10 MAKE A GOOD FINISH YOU
MUST START IN TIME

There is a certain amount Of pre-
liminary work about every kind OF
business, and ii you want to finish
what you have started you must start
in time. If it is to sell your house,
your farm, or anything in the prop.
erty line you want to place 1t in q live
agency. Our method Of handling deals
ior our customers has been satisfae.
tory for twelve years, SO why experi-
ment! We are passing through the
preliminary work Of getting our list
cad 70 hand our to the public. Don't
you want your property in this llstl
OF course you do, because You know
We viii get you results. Come In and
list nov and let us get 10 work.
ThOS. |. EVAN & co.
Real Estate and Loan Agents.
Farmers and Traders Bank Bldg.
MAYSVILLE. KY.
The public ledger., 1920-09-04

Chinese girls are, 1t Is said, to be
taken to Europe to act as domestic
aerYanta.
The public ledger., 1920-09-04
MONDAY

In THE Grim Came and Fatty
Arbuckles in Black Stage"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-19

Customs officers uncovered yester-
day what is believed to be plot to
smuggle hundreds of thousands OF
dollars worth Of bird of paradise
Emanuel Ciscara and Giovanni Ponce,
two ffremen on board the italian
liner Duca degli Abruzzi, were caught
leaving the boat at Pier 81, North
river, with feathers concealed under
their clothes.
Inspector McGuinness, who was on
the pier, noticed that the two men
remarkably fot bodies and round
legs His principal business being to
investigate discrepancies of this kind,
he stopped the two men, called other
government emploes and started to
search them. The two men put up
When their coats and shirts were
taken off it was found that each
had about forty fine bird of para
disc plumes strapped tightly to his
Inspectors Lynch and Barron then
hunks of the fremen:. They found
plumes hidden in pillows, in mat
tresses and other hiding places.
While they were at work, other mem
bers of the ships company, who were
apparently in the feather business,
tackled them. The two inspectors had
to draw their revolvers and threaten
to shoot to avoid being mobbed while
they hunted the precious plumes.
About 10 sets of feathers were re-
covered, their value being estimated
between $4,000 and $4,000.
Two Men Locked Up
The two men who were caught
leaving the pier were locked up in
the Tombs, while the investigation
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-19
Pure Bred Stock Paid
This N. Dakota Farmer;
Read These Figures

GRANDIN, N. D.-B. w. .Aylor, a
farmer near Grandin, one of the
pioneer Shorthorn breeders of the
state, recently sold at auction fifty
six head of cattle of this breed for
$66,575. The average of $1,888 a
head was the highest in the history
of North Dakota. The first ten fe-
males sold for $29,S75, and the prices
received for the first twenty head
averaged $2,068. Naemoor Stella,
with a heifer calf at her side, brought
$500, the top price at the sale, while
Bellina with bull calf, sold for
$4,000
Most of the animals disposed of
were sold to North Dakota farmers, a
fact that demonstrates the wide in
terest in pure bred live stock
throughout the state. Once almost
exclusively a wheat-growing state,
North Dakota is now a diversified
farming country, in which live stock
represents an important part of farm
wealth. Many pure bred herds of cat
tie, sheep and hogs have been estab-
lished in the last few wears.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-19
Costly Paradise PlumeS
Seized After Hot Battle
W2ith alleged Smugglerj

was continued under the direction
of Surveyor of the Port Thomas e.
Rush and Assistant United States
District Attorney John E. Walker.
The prisoners were charged with a
violation of a federal act of 1918,
which forbids the importation of the
plumage of wild birds.
Edward Barnes, acting solicitor to
the collector of the port, said yes
terday that bird of paradise feathers
and other plumes from slaughtered
wild fowl were being openly exhib-
tied and sold in shops in this city
and elsewhere and that the federal
authorities were powerless to pre-
bid the purchase or possession of
such feathers, unless it is proved
that they have been struggled into
the country since the passage of the
act in 1913. When the federal au-
thorities have attempted to investi-
plea of the merchant has been usually
that he bought them from a dealer
who arrested that they were old
stock which he had had in his pos
session for years and years. The
traffic in forbidden feathers, which
gled articles and the most difficult
to detect, is said to amount to mil
lions of dollars annually
"The mere fact that a dealer pos
sesses them" Mr.. Barnes said. "even
though six or seven years after the
passage of the act, does not raise
a legal presumption that they have
been struggled, the burden being
upon the government to prove prob
able cause for seizure, and probable
cause must be established by sus-
picious circumstances and by other
facts than the mere lapse of time"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-19

Walter White, a prominent mer-
chant of Gainesville, who has been
in business in that city for many
years, and is we'll known throughout
Barlow county, has written an open
letter to Governor Dorsey on the
subject Of the famous tobacco tax,
about which complaints are being
state. His letter follows:
"Cartersville, Ga, Aug. 16, 1920.
Dear Governor Dorsey:
II am one of the hundreds of mer-
chants in the state from whom you
through your appointed special tax
collectors, collected in 1919 the IL
legal tax for selling tobacco.
was collected in all, and the collec-
tion of $4,000 of this amount from
the merchants of the state was who'll
ly illegal and without any lawful
right; that the state Of Georgia has
already paid back some of this mon
ey illegally collected to some of the
merchants; but that where it has
paid back any money to any of the
merchants, it has paid only 80 pei
cent of the amounts those merchants
paid; and that they will never get
the remaining 20 per cent that they
paid.
IT paid the amount demanded from
me by your collector because
thought / had to; and it did not oc-
cur to me, governor. that you-and
a lawyer, too-would demand from
the citizens of the staet money, even
as a tax, which they did not owe.
Even if l had employed a lawyer
to protect me from this unjust anc
Illegal demand. he would not have
charged me as much as you paio
your specially-appointed tax collec.
tors, 20 per cent.
"It has now developed:
Scores Special Collectors
THAT the collection of 100000 Of
this money was illegal.
THAT you appointed special inves'
tigators and tax collectors to col
lect this money.
"That two-thirds Of these tax col
lectors you appointed lived in the
city of Atlanta;
ecutive secretary and 1 presume was
receiving a salary from the state.
THAT you paid each collector q
per cent of tl4e amount he collected
THAT $4,000 was collected in al
and 100000 of it was illegally col
lected.
"That $4,000 of fees or commits
sions was paid your specially ap'
pointed tax collectors, $4,000 OF
which was illegally and unlawfully
paid on money illegally and unlaw'
fully collected.
"That some of the merchants from
whom you collected this illegal tax
have taken steps to have the money
repaid to them.
THAT some money has been repaid
some Of these citizens. but that wher
any Of this illegally collected money
has been repaid, only 30 per cent OF
the amount they paid has been re-
turned to them.
THAT the state through you as
governor will repay only 80 per CEN
and will not repay the full amount
collected illegally.
THAT because your special tax
collectors got 20 per cent of this
money illegally collected, the state
through you will repay only 80 pei
cent, although your special tax col
lectors were agents Of the state.
THAT before any merchant can gel
back even 80 per cent of the amount
he paid, he must make an affidavit
which will compel nearly all of then
to employ a lawyer and pay him 6
fee.
"That you did not use the regular
ly elected tax collectors of each coun
| ty, but appointed special collectors
two-t thirds of them from the city o.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-19
Bathers Elechocuted
By Deadly Current as
They TriAe With Death

After a swim at Coney Island. last
evening Edward LaWlor, aged IL. and
his chums, Richard McOmlad and
James Resch, II and 10 years old
respectively, decided to walk to their
homes, about half an hours distance
from the beach.
The boys started out along the
bridge of the Fourth avenue subway,
Sea Beach line, and had got but
little way when Lawlor stumbled
against the third rail. He fell,
sGrsa naed The other boys ran back back
mour Construction company, work
ing on the structure. Henry Cray
and Thomas Robinson used their
belts, looping them about the boys
body, to get him off the rail. He
was dead
The boy was the son of William
Lawlor, of ISL West Ninth street,
Brooklyn, a warehouse supefintend-
George Geese, % years old, of 55S
East Twenty-third street, Brooklyn,
was electrocuted yesterday when he
ing from the Boardwalk, near, Trou-
vile Court, at Long Beach, L. L
Geese, with Gustave Hulbrandt, of
383 East Eighteenth street, Anna
Roth of Is Sixth avenue, and Louise
Clark, of Chicago, had just left the
water.
In their bathing suits the quar-
tet walked over the sand toward the
Boardwalk. AS they reached it they
noticed an electric wire hanging
down. 1t is believed Geese tried to
remove the wire to a place where
pedestrians would not be in danger
for his right hand clutched a rubber
| lieved the cap would act as a non
conductor, but the cap was wet
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-19
Peanut Importation
From China Threatens
Industry in America

Warning the farmers of the south
that the importations of peanuts
from the Orient threatens to ruin
the peanut-g growing industry in this
country, the United Peanut Associa-
ment urging southern farmers to
cooperate for their own protection.
1t is asserted that the production of
peanuts in China has increased ire
mendously during the past few years
and that for the twelve months end
ing June 80, 1920, the importations
were in excess of 100000 pounds
The gradual decline in the price Of
domestic peanuts Is ascribed to i'm
portation of Oriental nuts, which are
produced at cost much les than
that of domestic nuts.
The remedy proposed by the assoc
citation is a restrictive tariff on i'm
ported peanuts and vegetable oils,
for it is declared that the production
of cotton in China is also on the in
crease, with the prospect that the
price of both the staple and seed
will be reduced materially in this
country.