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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1920-02-10
Chicago Produce.

Chicago, Feb. 10.-Butter, lower:
creamery. 50Q5Shc.
Eggs. higher; receipts. 1896
cases: firsts. Sic; ordinary firsts.
42@48c; at mark, cases included.
4S@50c.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1920-02-10
Peoria Livestock.

Peoria. Ill. Feb. 10.-Hogs: re-
ceipts, 1900; strong to 10c higher;
active; top price, 1906; bulk, 1900
G1505; lights, 1t.90@15.05; me-
diums. 1435G15.05; heavies, 1475
@15.05.
Cattle: receipts, $50: slow; 25c
assoc lower than last weeks close.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1920-02-10
Liberty Bonds,

New York, Feb. 10-Prices of
Liberty bonds at 1855 D. m today,
we're: 3hs, $685.; first As, 91.00:
second Is. 1920: first 4As. 91.48;
second 414s, 9076; third Ans, 93. so:
fourth 4As. $3.50; Victory 3%s.
1856; Victory AIS, 97.6S.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1920-02-10
Peoria Graln.

Peoria, ILL.,. Feb. 10.-Corn: eye
65c higher: No. yellow, 1.34; No.
5 yellow, $50.
Oats: 1c higher; No. 2 white,
S3hc.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1920-02-10
A, j, SWenSsOn.

A. J. Swensson of 1924 Seven
teenth avenue, for many years a
resident of Moline and former
contractor, died at l o'clock this
morning at the Moline hospital,
after a brief illness Of pneumonia.
Mr.. Swensson came to Moline in
the spring of 1883 and made his
home here ever since. He was
obliged to give up his carpenter
work because of injuries received
is years ago.
Mr.. Swensson was born Oct. Is,
1912, in Sweden. He was married
to Anna Sarah Swanson on Dec.
II, 1875. Surviving are the widow,
three sons, ]. A. Swensson, Gilbert
Z. Swensson and 0. W. Swensson of
Moline and two daughters, Mrs.
Adolph Peterson of Rock Island
and Mrs. Emil Peterson of Quincy.
Private funeral services will be
held at 2:45 Thursday afternoon
from the home and at 3 o'clock
from the Salem Lutheran church 81
which he was a member. Burial
VIII be made in Riverside cemetery.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1920-02-10
Curse of Acid-Stomach
Millions Suffer from It
"Makes the Body Sour"

Why do you see so many
nck and ailing folks?
Why doesn't the food you
eat make you strong?
Why do you now suffer mis-
er'es no one had years ago?
Millions of people have asked
this.
Medical books tell the reason.
Its an Acid-Stomach-that is,
100 much acid causes food to
pass on a sour, ferrnenting
: mass This sends poisonous
germs and harmful acids al
over the body, instead of
strength and life.
Over seventy non-organic
diseases can be traced to Acid
stomach. 1t is excess acid,
not the food you eat, that starts
m's trouble. Day and night it
soes On, doing ceaseless dam
%e, breeding millions Of germs.
y you belch, if your food re-
peafs, d you have heartburn, q
miserable, tight puffed-up feel
alter eating. sour stomach,
aeadaehe, # you are losing
.e'ght. if you don't feel
Eppy," sleep badly lin fact,
aalng in any way
vet nd Of your Acid-s.cm-
n: Its the FIRST step to good
Eminent chemists, afeeryears
I = work, have found a way to
a.ay and naturally take up
Sls excess acid and carry it
cut of<he body.
"isa tablet called EATONlC,
~ 70 remember. Within two
s, over half a million people
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1920-02-10

Carl j. Becker, 1925 Tenth street,
Moline, succumbed at $40 yester-
day afternoon in his home after a
few days illness. He was born
March IA. 1S49, in Sweden and
came to Moline June 16. 1918. Since
that period he had made his home
with his son, Oscar Becker. He
had been employed as laborer by
Borg 4 Beck company.
Surviving him are two children !:
Mrs. John Erickson of Moline and
Oscar. with whom he resided: two
brothers, Oscar and Otto, both of
Moline and three grandchildren
Mr.. Becker was a member of the
Lutheran church.
Funeral services will be held at
) Wednesday afternoon in the Es-
terdahl chapel, the Rev. Edward
Ekstrom to have charge. Burial
will be in Riverside cemetery.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1920-02-10
IOtat0es.

Chicago, Feb. 10. = Potatoes
steady; arrivals 80 cars; Northern
Whites. $4.10@435 per cwt., car
lots. Western Russets, jobbing,
h.70@480 per cwt.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1920-02-10

Please do not forget Abraham's
Pecan Rolls All sold in one pound
boxes only.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1920-02-10

have used it with marvellous
benefits. You can prove this
in your own case-FREE.
Take EATONIC for Eve days
See how much better you
will feel. EATONIC contains
harmless clements that absorb
the acid and drive out the gas
in fact, you can fairly feel it
work
Because of its wonderful
merit, Is, 900 dealers have start
ed selling and have guaranteed
EATONIC for A6d-Stomach
miseries in the last two years.
Over half a million people
now clean out their excess acid
with EATONIC. This keeps
them well, strong. full Of pep,
gives them a good appetite,
makes them sleep wen.
No matter what you have
tried-don't give up hope.
Call on your druggist and get .
big boz Of EATONIC. It costs
hr,t a <rifA-
Give it a faie, honest trial
for FIVE days-let your own
stomach BE- the judge.
If you are not pleased take il
back. It won't cost you one
penny unless it proves its
worth to you.
Sicily. ailing peopIe-with no
pep, nervous, worn out, an in
should try EATONIc-it 10
guaranteed to help you It 10
30 easy to get rehef-why feel
bad any longer? You WIN never
feel wen with anAcid- Stomach.
Get rid Of it-see how much
better you win feel
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1920-02-10
Silver.

New York, Feb. 10.-Bar silver
1899; Mexican dollars, 1924.
The fool-killer., 1920-01-01
How do you like that as a def

How do you like that as a def
milton of Americanism, Mister
Nick? Sorter dangerous kind
of propaganda, amt it? I'll just
bet John Hancock and all them
other fellers who signed that
seditious document were rank
Bolshevists. I'll bet they got
their ideas from Lenine and
Trotsky. Why don't some
of you "patriots" introduce
a bill to have their cussed bones
dug up and burnt? What a pity
that the patriotic plutes of 1919
can't raid" that Bolshevist Con-
gress Of 1776 and capture a few
tons of it's red" literature!
Now, laying aside all irony and
other mineral resources, let's try
to find out who the A is
that we hear kissing in the
American grass-patch, and let's
examine the things it is kissing
at-the things that Americans
hold most dear"
The common average Ameri-
can holds life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness about the
most dear of anything on earth.
And these are the very things
that the plutocratc snake is hiss
ing at. But the plutocrats hold
power, bossism and the pursuit
of money more dear than any,
thing else. And in their mad
scramble for these things they
have disregarded and trampled
under foot the very principles of
liberty and justice upon which
the government was founded.
When we realize how far the
~money-madness of our bosses
has led us away from the origi-
nal Americanism of 1776, it isn't
any wonder that there has to be
a re-defining of the term.
eve hear the hiss Of a snake!'
We certainly do.
And when the workers get
done with that snake you are 60
ing to see a good many plutes
going around with their heads
tied up.
The fool-killer., 1920-01-01

did the most hard work had the
least to show for it, and suffer
ed most from hunger and neg
lect. Of all the. millionaires
whose tracks in the sands Of
time have been uncovered, the
most noted was .Rockydee Oily
teller, who fourished at about
the time Georgadore Washvelt
wrote Shakespeare's works..
The fool-killer., 1920-01-01

Now just suppose that Adam,
when he was naming the var
minis, had called the COW a toad
frog. | bet we never would have
known the difference. But just
think of milking a toad.
The fool-killer., 1920-01-01
RED o

The plutes of this country are
getting to be very much like a
bull-anything RED gets their
dander up-unless it happens to
be red likker.
The plutes did not object to
RED when the color was pro-,
duced by the blood of poor
American boys on the soil of
France.
The plutes are perfectly will
ing for the workers to be
but the fat is in the fire
right now when a worker shows
signs of being RED. For my
part, I would rather be red than
green. Which are you, Rube?
A RED thing in the shape of
two towels laid across each other
is not a bit dangerous; but a
RED thing in the shape of one
towel is wusser than q mad-dog.
Funny what q difference a little
shape makes in a red thing.
Since RED has become so dan
gerous in the eyes of the plutes,
our fashionable preachers are
not saying much about salvation
through the blood Of Jesus. Be-
cause the blood Of Jesus was
RED. The plutes will not agree
to be saved until somebody
comes along and offers them a
BLUE-BLOODED Savior.
| look for somebody to sug-
gest that the RED be taken out
of our flag and GREEN put in
it's place. "Hurrah for the
Green, White and Blue!" How
do you like that, Rube?
What a pity the plutes cannot
admire a beautiful sunset any
more, because there is nearly
ALWAYS some RED in it.
The fool-killer., 1920-01-01
4 SNAKE IN THE GRASS!


umbia Varsity, has opened his
gab-trap and let some mighty
big-sounding words fall out. Let
me throw a few of them down
here and show you how they rat
tie:
"It is an amazing thing that
after 1875 years there should ap-
pear the necessity of redefining
Americanism, but today we hear
the hiss of a snake in the grass,
and the hiss is directed at the
things Americans hold most
dear"
That's right! You shore did
speak a parable, Mister Nick.
There amt nary bit Of doubt
about there being a snake in the
American grass-patch, but the
question is: Who is the snake?
Some of you fellers are trying to
make us believe that the work
ing people are snakes because
they refuse to be abject slaves
any longer. It seems to be a ter
rible crime when the people who
produce everything ask for
enough of what they produce to
keep them from suffering. Ii
they do that they are snakes.
And if they show any disposition
to be independent about it and
demand their rights as Ameri-
can citizens, they are the worst
kind of rattlesnakes.
But that is all just a big emp
ty bluff put up by you fellers to
try to keep the people from find
ing out who the real snake is.
The real snake, Mister Nick, is
the big over-bearing bully who
wants to deprive the American
common people of the liberties
set forth in the Declaration of
independence and guaranteed by
the Constitution Of the United
States as the unalienable rights
of the humblest citizen.
That is why it is necessary to
re-define Americanism, and there
is no better way to re-defne it
than to go back to the Declara-
ton of independence and see
what sort of Americanism it
talks about. In these days,
since the world has been made
so ALFRED "safe for democracy"
it is almost dangerous to quote
from the Declaration of indie
pendence, but I am going to risk
it. On the 4th of July, 1776, the
Representatives of the United
States of America, in General
Congress assembled, did solemn
ly attach their names to a mo-
mentous document which con-
tanned these following words:
eve hold these truths to be
,self-evident, that all men are
created equal; that they are en-
dowed by their Creator with cer-
tain unalienable rights; that
among these are life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness. That
to SECURE these rights, govern.
ments are instituted among men
deriving their just powers from
the consent of the governed
that whenever any form of gov
ernment becomes destructive tx
these ends, it is the right of tn,
people to alter or abolish it, ant
to institute a new government
laying it's foundation on sucI
principles, and organizing it
powers in such form, as to then
shall seem most likely to effec
their safety and happiness. Pru
dence, indeed, will dictate tina
governments long establishe'
should not be changed for ligh
and transient causes; and, &C
eordingly, all experience hat.
shown that mankind are NOR
aisnOcnd f0 cuHo,. uhilo oviIc az
The fool-killer., 1920-01-01
but it's a back-track, and a
mighty cold one at that.

NSAO W.
mighty cold one at that.
Ii arming for wal is the way
to have peace, why wouldn't
jumping in the river be a dandy
way to keep dry? Huh?
Old Satan has bought him a
new silk hat and paid his pew
rent. He will be at church every
Sunday this winter.
[ asked a fellow if he was in
favor Of Woman Suffrage, and he
replied: Yes, by gum! Let the
women suffer same as the men!"
A kiss is a big mouthful of
nothing that tastes like heaven
and sounds like a COW pulling her
foot out of the mud.
IF this fool stuff makes you
laugh it does you more good than
if it had sense to it. Amt you
satisfied?
Did you ever read about where
Jesus built q fine church, INSTALL
ed a pipe organ, and then charg-
ed pew rent? No, [ don't think
you ever did.
Save the people from a "rob-
Der tariff" and then turn right
around and rob the people with
a war tax" That's Democra-
cy's way. How do you like it?
One thing that consoles me
when [ remember what a fool
Republican [ used to be is the re-
membrance of the fact that [
never was fool enough to be a
Democrat.
Writing this funny stuff" is
I a serious matter with me. The
medicine it takes to make me
smile is a big fat club Of sub
scribers with a little blue money
order enclosed. Please tickle
me.
) People glance over other pa
? pers and throw them aside, but
every teller who gets his later
grabbers fastened onto The
Fool-Kilfer reads it from A to
lizard before he turns it loose.
That's the secret Of it's great
success.
The letters I. w. W., mean In
dustrial Workers of the World.
By swapping one period for a
! comma, they also mean, Il,
Woodrow Wilson," And they
are both disturbing elements in
the worlds life.
; They have at last learned how
to cure leprosy, according to
an Associated Press dispatch.
$ Now if they can learn how to
:, cure the Associated Press of it's
lying habits, that will also help
some.
It seems to be the fashion for
> all the High-Mucks to get con-
veniently sick along about now.
Wilson made it popular. Nearly
> every day now [ see q account
. of where one of them has piled
up and sent for the pill-peddler.
A sixteen~year-old boy in New
. York went blind from fright and
humiliation on account Of being
arrested for violating a postal
y law. But there are just lots Of
y big politicians and preachers
who are blind as q bat without
even that much excuse.
Y Everything considered, there
is no other American institution
quite SO corrupt and dishonest
as the daily newspapers. They
e have been hired to lie for the
e plutes until they would rather
e lie free gratis than to tell the
truth for pay.
= If you tell people what they al
S ready know they think you are
t smart. They consider them
selves smart to start with, and
the fact that you can measure
z -,o IN 4Lo;. OWN or4oo4o-
The fool-killer., 1920-01-01

Do some missionary work.
get your friends to subscribe fc}
The FOOl-Killer.
The fool-killer., 1920-01-01

the time GeOrgadOre WaShVelt
wrote Shakespeare's works.
EDITORIALS
Comfort is pleasure with the
juice squeezed out.
All great truths we're hooted
at somewhere along the line.
Never mind the ancestors
look out for the descendants.
And it SO happens that [ nm
still alive and publishing this lit
tie cid Fool-Killer.
When you stop to think about
it, people are awful funny things.
It tickles me
If a motorcycle is an automo-
bile's colt, then a pistol must be
a son of a gun.
Falling in love at first sight is
like stepping into a post hole
full Of custard pie.
Don't give up because you are
a little behind-that's where the
bees singer is.
A heated argument has, been
known to cause a GOODNESS be-
tween people.
when The Fool-Killer says it
there is no longer any doubt that
it has been said.
A diplomat is a man who re.
members a woman's birthday
and forgets her age.
Yes, honey, a duck with legs
three feet long would still be
duck-legged.
Nature never makes any
blunders. When she makes &
fool she means it.
You still have a right to say
nothing, but you must be careful
who hears you say it.
Red is just as much like white
as it can be, but it can't be very
much like it.
The difference between ;
statesman and a politician i:
that the statesman is dead.
The man who sells his vote i:
almost as mean as the man whe
buys it, but not quite.
If the church wants to prospe,
spiritually it must quit hanging
on to aristocracy's shirt-tail.
A man washes before he eats
and a cat washes after it eats
Is there any scripture for that
IF the razor-back hawg hadn'
been a razor-back hawg, what d,
you reckon he would have been
A woman can get most an.
verdict she wants from a jur,
if she only cries wet enough.
Did you ever hear a preache:
! tell his flock that the surest wa,
to get to heaven was to "prepar'
) for hell"
| If you and | looked just alik
and thought just alike, ther
t wouldn't be any use for but Oh
of us.
A humbug is like a bladder
, not worth anything until it i
t blowed up, and then it still ain
worth anything.
e It is human nature to cuss
! fellow while he lives and throw
, flowers on his grave when h
. dies.
: The rich get what the poo
: produce-everything. And tn
poor get what the rich produce
The fool-killer., 1920-01-01

This big: racket they have
raised about wanting to allow
the preachers more pay for their
chin-music reminds me Of the
old niger. Uncle Sambo was
going home one evening with a
peck Of sweet potatoes ina poke.
He met a white man who in
quired, "What's that you got
there Uncle?" "W'y, boss" re-
piled Sambo, "dis am jes' some
taters dat my folks gimme fer
preachin' to 'em." That's dam
poor pay" said the white man.
"Yas, boss, but hit wuz dam
pore preachin'," said Sambo, as
he waddled on.
The fool-killer., 1920-01-01

If arming for war is the way
to have peace, why wouldn't
jumping in the river be a dandy
way to keep dry? Huh?
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-08-14
g 9 6 6 CCC 100000
- ABERDEEN. e
9 g 9 g G G g g 9 10000

Mr.. Tom Madigan is confined to his
home on Third street this week on &C.
count of illness.
Mrs. w. E. Lewis has returned from
Poplar Flat. Lewis county, where she
was called by the illness and death of
her stepmother.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Carpenter have
been entertaining relatives from In
diana.
During the heavy rain, Tuesday
lightning struck the residence of Law
renee Slitz, on Ferry street, but did
no serious damage.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. R. Boggs have been
entertaining friends from Cincinnati
this week.
Mrs. James Fraley has been quite i'll
this week, but. is conalescing at this
writing.
The Baptist Sunday school will pic
me- SATURDAY, tne place TO be deter
mined when the school meets at the
church Saturday morning.
Mr.. VIM. Bierley is entertaining his
son from Indianapolis.
Mrs. Clara Clark, who underwent a
serious surgical operation in Gin
cinnati hospital, returned to her home
here few days ago.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-08-14
BILIOUS CHILDREN
Black raught, Long in Successful
Use, Praised by an Arkansas
Mother, "Soon Does
Its Work."

Marmaduke, Ark.-Speaking of
Thedford's Black-Draught, which from
long use in her household has become
regarded as "the family medicine"
Mrs. Mary e. Hill, Of Route /, this
place, says:
when the children get bilious,
give them couple of good doses, and
when we have sour stomach, headache,
or any liver or stomach trouble, we
use Black-Draught. 1t Is an easy laxa-
tive, and soon does the work. GER
tainly think it is one Of the best rem
edies made"
Black-Draught acts on the faded
liver, gently, but positively, and helps
1t in its important function Of throw
ing out waste materials and poisons
from the system.
In thousands Of households Black
Draught Is kept handy for immediate
use in time of need. Prompt treatment
often is half the battle, and will often
prevent slight ills from developing in
to serious troubles.
Its well-established merit, during
more than 70 years Of successful use,
should convince you Of the helpful
effects obtainable by taking Black.
Draught for liver and stomach dis
orders. Get package today, and
keep 1t in your house. See that
the package bears the words,
"Thedford's Black-Draught." NC-141
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-08-14

Trapshooters from all of the states
in the Union and four of the Provinces
of Canada will take part in the Grand
American Handicap tournament, which
will be held in Cleveland August 1928.
Officials Of the American Trapshooting
Association expect the tournament to
be the biggest affair of its kind in re-
cent years.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-08-14

Among American statesmen of late
years there have been innumerable
golfing enthusiasts, as well as tennis
players. baseball fans, horse owners,
and devottes of other branches of
sport and athletics, but strange to say
tn list of the outstanding figures in
public affairs will be scanned in ain
for the name of one who has been an
active as "a yachtman.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-08-14
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN.

Among the Filipinos women of even
the highest social rank seldom sleep
in bedstead, but prefer the floor, ly-
ing on petate, or mat, which is pro-
vided with a long bolster or pillow
and the conventional mosquito net
ting
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-08-14
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY.

Kilchak forces severely defeated in
Siberia by Bolsheviki.
State Department at Washington
warned Mexico that outrages against
americans must stop.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-08-14

Miss Zennie w. Tomlinson is pur-
chasing agent for the Birmingham
(Ala.) Railway Light and Power Com
pany. She began her business career
in 1876 as a telegraph operator at the
Philadelphia Centennial exposition.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-08-14

In earlier life the former Queen
Amalie of Portugal was renowned as
an athletic and is still considered the
most expert swimmer among the
women of European royalty.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-08-14

A Cincinnati club has matched "Wild
Burt" Kenny, the New York heavy
weight, and Henry Greb of Pittsburgh
for a 1O-round contest to be brought
off the night of August a.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-08-14

Officials Of the Inland Lakes Yacht
ing Association report a promising
outlook for the success of the associa-
tons annual regatta, which is to be
held at Oshkosh the week of August 16.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-08-14

In his recent bout with Joe Lynch,
Charlie Ledoux, the French bantam
weight champ, made bette rimpres-
sion on the fans than in any of his
previous contests in this side.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-08-14

Mrs. Henry B Harrie, widow of the
noted theatrical manager who was
lost with the Titanic, is to becomme
active as play producer in her own
name this season.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-08-14

Miss Edna Kemp, the first of several
Winnipeg school teachers who are to
exchange positions with teachers in
Australasia, has departed for Auck,
land. New Zealand.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-08-14

At the age of 100 years, a woman re-
siding in the town of Mansfield, Eng
land, went on an aeroplane flight and
then wanted to loop the loop.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-08-14

The nests of Southe American hor-
nets are used by the natives as baskets
being light, strong. and SO closely
made as to be waterproof
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-08-14

One of the streets in Canton is &C.
cupied wholly by druggists and den
lists. The name of this thoroughfare
is quite appraprite - Physic street
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-08-14

In Japan the bracoded silks for eX-
pensive dolls dresses are specially
women in miniature patterns on small
looms.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-08-14

Baked potatoes supply more nour'
ishment than those cooked in any
other way, and the flied ones are the
most difficult to digest
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-08-14

Travellers in Eastern Siberia carry
their coups in sacks. The soups are
frozen solid as stone, and keep for an
indefinite time.