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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-10-24
CONDITIONS
FOR the
WAIST MEASURE PRIZE
CONTEST

Under The auspices OF the County
Nha'fman or OF the local captain. or
vi any representative they NAV dos,r.
nate groups of twenty or moro women
may hold waist measure contest
Each woman present to contribute :
cents per inch, according TO the sizs
Of her waist.
This will ent!tle her to con,ce, for
the prizes should she so desire. Ono
prize will be awarded for the smallest
"alst and one for the largest.
Ohicial measurements 10 he rocor,
cd OF each prize winner. |, arroo.,,ia
10 me committee. gentlemen NAV ~
'eha these gatherings, upon the nav.
ment OF an admission. tho nricn ~
winch to be determined by the com.
mittce in charge 'o''i'
Inc committee TO act as cbannrors
ana all measurements TO be taken I'm in
public '"heh III
Should any gentleman aspiro % Tho
hohor OF being the official mcaeu,or
ne must pay 4 tax OF 10 cents for n,ch
measurement he takes.
Music. light refreshments AND o,r,,,
hours recommended. '' y
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measuring for us. We will take contribu-
tion for the cause from even such person
as that, but do not think he would be a
proper person to turn loose at a waist
party to do measuring, do you?"
DO you expect to enter the contest?"
the reporter asked Of Miss Marbury.
Expect to enter!" she replied briskIy.
why. was one OF the very first to enter"
For the slimmest waist?" the reporter
inquired.
Certainly not"
What is the official record of your own
waist measurements"
"rhat ia already on record in the con-
test. My waist measurement is officially
recorded as 40 inches. have been watch
Ing tho returns as they have come in and
/ am delighted 10 say that so far no con-
testant has been able to match my figure"
WHO holds the record 80 far in regard
to the slimmest waist?" the reporter in
quired.
ooh, do not know" replied Miss Mar
bury But lot of things have been de-
vcloped during the competition which are
very interesting.
I'VE have been told OF young woman
down in Dallas, Texas, who has waist
Then, too there is the circus fat lady, who
has waist measure OF five feet, hut
have entered protest against her because
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-10-24

for instance Miss Marbury, the mother
oi inc plan, has measure OF forty-ninc
inches OF waist. She would have to nav
s2'a5 admission. But II Miss Adelaide Bay
hss' another organizer, attended the party
sle could only be taxed ninety cents for
After The woman has paid her admis.
,,nn rec sue may DO "a she likes" Miss
Marbury explained. ar she wants r. have
her waist measured she can and II will helm
the lhnd. If she doesn't. she can sit about
&c, 1870, international Feature Service Inc
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-10-24

q facetious letter raising this same point.
Wait, think have 1t here in my desk.
Yes, this is it:
4" Chairman Waist Measure Prize Contest:
"I note by your printed circular you
state that gentleman who aspires to the
honor of being the official measnrer OF
the waists must pay n tax Of 10 cents for
each measurement he takes. | write to
inquire whether the official measurer is
supposed TO take measurements outside OF
the contestants costumes or otherwise.
Grcat Rritnin Rirhis Rcacrxcd
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Annette Kellerman, Whose
Waist Is a Trifle Above
Standard.

and watch the
fun. Go ahead
and We q
waist party. L
will vouch for
It's propricty."
But how are
t II o measure
ments taken
out S d G tho
clothes Or
"Of course,
I Il Q measure
III e II t S are
taken outside
| II @ clothes!"
Miss AIarbury
instantly re-
piled. Some
body wrote us
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-10-24

How much do you expect to raise for
the Democratic campaign fund.-"
well, if everyone of the thousand waist
measure parties in New York State aver.
aged $25 each, that would -be $25 900 from
just one State alone. You can figure what
we ought to get from all the States II the
idea Is carried out all over the country"
"One question more" pursued the re-
porter. Exactly what is the waist lne?"
"My definition would DO that it is the
smallest circumference of the thorax be-
tween the hips and shoulders
"And now what is your own waist liner"
Miss Marbury asked.
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"Alice from Dallas" Who Might Win Prize

This would make a con-
siderable difference as
to whether my wife
would permit me to be
an official measurer In
my town. Please send
your, answer marked
"Confidential" to
Yours truly
"Of course, the man
who wrote that letter is
a frivolous or worse sort
Of person, and we do not
want such to do our
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Kindly notify our hcadonarters
"hen parties have taken place, giving
the date, the locality, the number Of
thoso present, tho full amount col.
lected and the names and addresses
OF the prize winners. After the cleo.
ions, all local prize winners will auto.
malica!Iy become the contestants for
the two silver State champion Guns.
The above Information and rcturns
10 be sent before November .. 1920, 10
ELISABETH MARBURY. Chairman.
Woman's Democratic State Head
quarters.
Suite lO7. Waldorf.Astoria.
r New York City.
conducted, Miss Marbury said:
Ever! woman who attends must nav
ADMISSION That admission is five crnia
an men or waist. II She is slender her
pocke,oook remains fairly plump. If She
mas large waist the purse is reduced"
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che is professional, and think this con-
test ought to be confined TO amateurs,
don't you?
Somebody brought In a picture and
sworn statement OF the waist measure Of
that French beauty. Mile. Polaire. She has
waist OF only fourteen inches. But. there
again. she IS not an American and think
she Will BIO disqualified by the judges"
Professor Sargent, OF Harvard College,
has worked out the dimensions Of the per-
fectly formed American woman of the aver.
age height OF feet S inches. and this
shows waist measure OF 25Is inches.
Here is his complete table OF figures:
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w Amcrica-and the most generous
waist?
prize contest has been started by
Elisabeth Marbury and other women Of
The Democratic Womens Association
which may determine one or both of these
Unknown facts.
The prize competition Is really scheme
. raise money for the Democratic cam
align fund. The very able women behind
MS movement, with shrewd appreciation
II what will appeal to the vanity of their
Wn sex. have hit upon this competition ms
'aering probably very handsome financial
eturns for their cause II Is even thought
nat many Republican women who would
'ate to contribute under ordinary circum-
-tahces TO Democratic campaign fund
'i!l ma that this opportunity to register
heir slender or robust beauty proportions
ill prove overwhelmingly Irresistible.
In every State in the Union il is recon-
Aended to have State competition and
ward handsome silver trophy to the
Goman who proves TO have the smallest
vast, and another equally valuable silver
up 10 the woman who boasts the greatest
firth OF waist. Having established the
tate champions OF each State n sort 81
World series final competition might be
IN of and special prize given to the two
omen throughout the whole length and
'readih OF our forty-eght Statcs-to the
!enderest and to the most generously pro-
.ortioned waist.
But Will there be any entries in the con.
est for the biggest waist? Miss.Marbury
nd other members of the committee in
'haree of the contest have already re.
SiVed not few, but hundreds of letters
rom what are vulgarly called "stouts"
VINO insist upon registering their bulky
ropor'ions with apparent pride.
me announcement OF the initial contest
mas been sent out from the Woman's Dem.
ocf"nc State Headquarters in New York
CITY, in this form:
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Great Britain Rights Reserved.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-08-23
Confessions ofEaBride
Copyright 1920 By Neuspa Enterprise As5ocaon

Ann around the curve of the boule-
ward, toward the suburban station
and a new stage of welded life, l ask
ed Deborah to go into my garden
where my gladioli were showing some
marvellous freak colors.
But Deborah didn't hear my invi-
tation. She was standing at the edge
of the terrace with her eyes on the
empty road between the. pillars at the
end of the Lorimer drive. | had to
speak to her a second time.
She seemed to come out of daze
as one comes back from the fade-out
finish of an absorbing film drama
and she turned to me as If she didn't
quite understand what it was all
about. She put her pretty fingers to
the neck of her thin smock and pull
ed it down as if it were choking her,
which couldn't possibly nave been the
case.
''My gladioli! Gomez repeated.
"You must see my blue blossoms
freaks-never to be seen again per-
haps:"
why HUI again hCAI yCaI oAS
asked inconsequentially.
Because gladioli are like some hu-
man families" / explained. "They
dwindle. Next years blossoms will
not be nearly as fine-they will be
dull and streaked. The stock runs
out"
"Ohw Deborah's eyes turned back
to the gates through which the man
she adored had just disappeared with
his bride. She repeated my words as if
she scarcely knew what she was say
ing: "Gladiolus-like human stock
runs out. F."
And coming back to me from the
lips of that beautiful girl, the words
sounded like a prophecy from the lips
of some splendid sybil dedicated to
eternal virginity.
Ito Be Continued
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-08-23
RICHLAND

HIGHLAND, August %. - Miss
Jennie Warren returned home Thurs.
day after four weeks visit with Mr.
and Mrs. j. F. Bass, of Atlanta.
Miss Marie Norris returned home
Thursday after a visit in Americas
with, friends and relatives.
Misses Bell and Ruby Jones, O!
near here, spent Friday afternoon
in town.
Mrs. Pearl Brightwell returned
home Friday night after visiting Mr..
and Mrs. R. E. Brightwell near here.
Messrs. C. J. and John Spann. of
Weston, spent few hours in the
city on business Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. E. Brightwell and
children motored to Richland Friday
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ras BealI have re-
returned home after visiting several
northern cities.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. NJ. SneIliag and
children are at home now, having
spent last week on a visit to north
Georgia.
James Patten motored to Colum,
bus Friday.
Charles Miller visited Mr.. and Mrs.
W. B. Miller last week.
Miss Maudie Statham, who has
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-08-23
PAGE THREE

September 6. The building has been
remodeled and a bigger year than
ever before is expected by Richland
Sitizens.
Miss Mamie NJ. Holloman was
hostess at party at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Abel Thursday
night given in honor of Miss Jones.
Miss Mary Chappell delightfully."-
entertained at her home on Church
street Friday night.
Mrs C. R. Littlejohn and Miss
Bessie Carter returned home Satur-
day after several days visit to Mr..
and Mrs. C. K. Parker, of Attapul-
gus.
DIR. John Eunsford, of Preston, was
in the city short while Saturday.
Messrs. Frank Brightwell and
Frank Spann, of near Weston, were
here Thursday afternoon.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-08-23

There are more motors for hire
than private cars in Japan.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-08-23

been away for several weeks is in
Atlanta with friends.
Arthur Richardson, who has been
at school quite a while, is at home
on a short visit.
Mr.. Merritt spent several days here
last week with parents.
Misses Florry and Lee Bell are at
home on a visit this week.
Miss Mildred Lide is at home again
after a visit in several nearby cities
Miss Mertle Davenport spent last
week in Bridgeborough. She was
accompanied home by Miss Vera Da-
venport.
Miss Nellie Mae Suddath is away
on a visit this week.
Miss Mary Ruth Goare has accept
ed a position as teacher at Penia, Ga
Miss Lena Bush returned home
Friday after a few days visit with
friends in Warwick.
The young folks are beginning to
make ready for school which begins
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-08-23
THE BOOK OF DEBORAH
Deborah and Recognize Each Other
as Twin Souls

Deborah and Recognize Each Other
as Twin Souls
IF | had not been angry with my hus-
Il band, perhaps Deborah Burns and
l. Jane Lorimer, never would have
become such close friends. 1t was De-
borah, so unhappy in love, who taught
me how to cure the jealousies which
were continually upsetting my matri-
monial bark. Not that / ever have
held myself responsible for my last
quarrel with Bob, who also learned,
through Deborah. when he was able
to see past the tawny tresses of
Katherine Miller.
Deborah Burns and l have often
commented upon our sudden recOgni-
ton of each other as twin souls. We
had known each other ever since
Bob had brought me to his people; we
had liked each other; we were sympa-
thetic in matters like war literature
and Irish terriers; we avoided the
same rouge pots; but we were not at
once real "buddies" because we are
both self-sufficient and undepending
upon other persons for occupation
and entertainment.
And then, of course, l had Bob
until he and embarked on a domes-
tic fued of unusual length-he with
all his characteristic silences and /
with new and painfully acquired
indifference to his perversity-an in
difference which never modified his
moods in the least but which con-
fused him considerably.
1t wasn't until the morning that
Deborah Burns and l stood on the
terrace and saw my adorable broth
er-in-law, Jim Lorimer, start off for
his delayed honeymoon with his bride
that we, Deb and I, suddenly broke
down the wall of reserve which stands
between most females of the species.
After the car had carried Jim and
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-08-23

The library of Dion, France, has
more than $4,000 volumes and 900
manuscripts.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-08-23
RAILROAD SCHEDULES

Central Time.)
Arrival and Departure of Passenger
Trains, Americas, Ga.
The following schedule figures
published as information and not
guaranteed:
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-08-23
HOLD TOCOTTON
BROWN ADVISES
Commissioner Denounc-
es Bears; Says Grow
ers Can Break Them

ATLANTA, August %. = "Stop
the bear raid by holding your cot
ton" is the advice to Georgia farm
ers by ]. j. Brown, commissioner of
agriculture, in a statement.
In the past few weeks the price
has declined about $50 bale, as the
commissioner points out, "yet cotton
manufactured products are selling to
the consumer at prices which yield
a tremendous profit on the basis of
40 cents"
The decline has been caused, he
says, by Speculative" estimates of
a $4,000, 000-bale crop. He asserts
with great emphasis that there is no
foundation for any such extravaganza
predictions as to the size of the crop.
He warns the bear spectators that
the farmers will refuse to sell the
consumers of raw cotton a single
bale unless they and the spectators
show a disposition to be fair and give
the farmers square deal"
In this connection he calls atten-
ton to the fact that the cotton acre
age and price reduction committee
of the American Cotton association
will hold a meeting in Montgomery
on September 1-3 for the purpose
of recommending to the farmers
price to be observed as a minimum
in marketing their Forthcoming crop.
AS chairman of this committee, Com
missioner Brown urges the producers
to sell no cotton until the committee
has announced a price. He declares
the cost of producing this years crop
has been more than 30 cents pound
While the railroads are increasing
freight rates and prices are beng
increased in all other lines, including
the price demanded by the laborer
whom the farmer must pay, there is
nothing for the farmer to do but
stand together and protect himself,
says Commissioner Brown.
s'You may sell future contracts a
thousand points below the market,
saws Commissioner Brown to the
SPECTATORS. "You may sell gamb-
ling contracts 1000 points below the
legitimate price for raw cotton, but
before YOU deliver this cotton you
will pay the price fixed by the pro-
ducers. or you will not get single
bale of cotton"
To the producers of cotton he says.
"Let the gamblers and bear specu-
lators sell all the cotton they, may
desire, and when they have sold mil
lions of bales more than the South
can produce this year, let US put on
a holding movement that will break
and bankrupt forever the greedy
SPECTATORS and teach the world a les
son that board contracts and gamb-
ling slips of paper cannot be spun
into cotton fabrics. Let US show that
hereafter all legitimate manufactur-
ing interests must buy their raw cot
ton direct from the men who grow
it, giving them a profit commensurate
with the profits made by the manu-
featuring Institutions"
In conclusion Commissioner
Brown calls on the federal reserve
bank to extend loans on bonded
warehouse receipts at 6 per cent SO
as to assist the producers IN OBTAIN
ing fair price for their staple.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-08-23
WHO'S WHO IN THE STORY

WHO'S WHO IN THE STORY
JANE LORIMER, who writes the
story, finds present-day married life
battling and difficult owing to the
strange conflict between the old and
the new in all humanrelationshi and
conditions. In trying to find a safe
and sane solution of her own jealous
problems, Jane achieves the great
JOY of choice friendship with an
other girl, Deborah Burns, and in
watching DebOrah's secret mad love
for a married man, and her strug-
giles and triumps, Jane discovers the
cue. to her own married happiness.
DEBORAH BURNS, a typical Am
erican girl of sterling character and
refinement, meets her romance with
the confusion of the half-informed
average maiden, awakens to the con-
seriousness of what true love means,
sees the vision of what life might be-
come for her-or any woman
through the love of her mate and
then-but find what comes next in the
story.
BOB LORIMER, James devoted
husband, has an unfortunate habit
of taking their mutual love and trust
too much for granted las is the case
with some other husbands) and in
consequence he tolerates, in fact,
seems to seek and enjoy, the compan-
ionship of beautiful woman, who is
selfish and INSCRIPTIONS because she
is really a moron" that is, an adult
woman with the mind of an eighth
grade school girl. AS her next-door
neighbor, Bob has known Katherine
Miller all his life without realizing
her true nature.
jim LORIMER, whom Deborah
adores, is an ex-air service man of
the effective chivalrous type every
girl pictures as a possible ideal hus-,
band. Jim was about to propose to
Deborah Burns when the war took
him to the flying field and Deborah to
the ambulance service in France. At
ter the war, Jim suddenly eloped
with Ann Best, a little nobody, for
reasons a few men but no girl would
ever understand.
ANN, jim Lorimer's bride, and the
third angle in Deborah's triangle, is
the modern sophisticated, rouged,
bobbed 1920 composite ingenue,
whose present fetching pose is ex-
cessive innocence in spite of her
makeup. The friends, Jane and De-
borah, girls of genuine modesty and
sincerity, are both jealous of Ann,
Jane because she fears her little sis
ter-in-law may provide the Lorimer
fortune with its senior heir and in
cidentally acquire for her child set
Element of $1,000,000.
KATHERINE MILLER, the tiger
woman, is actually James rival for
Bob's interest to a greater degree
than either Jane or her husband sus-
pect. At least, her interest in Bob,
although evident to his wife, is UNI
acknowledged by him and is perhaps
unknown to him. Katherine is call
ed by Jane "the tiger woman" be-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-08-23
THE BOOK OF DEBORAH, NEW EPISODE IN
CONFESSIONS OF A BRIDE STARTS HERE

ex-movie actress. Other characters
will explain themselves as they APP
pear.
Into the warp of her own domestic
life, Jane Lorimer weaves the bril-
liant pattern, of elemental human
experiences-the ancient loves, and
rivalries and hates of her sex, lived
over in joy and in sorrow, in triumph
and in despair by each generation of
women.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-08-23

cause of her peculiar tawny colored
hair and tinge of complexion, seen
only once a century, as well as for
her cat-like cruelty and feline per-
sistence.
CHRYS, Bob's twin sister, is in
terested in the advanced thought
of the day, whether it be ouija, spir-
itism, Taoism or politics for women.
"a .
MRS. BEST, AIMS mother. is an
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-08-23
TO THE DEMOCRATIC
VOTERS OF SUMTER COUNTY:

The friends of G. C. Thomas
hereby respectfully announce
him a candidate for Represent
alive to the General Assembly
Of Georgia from Sumter county
subject to the primary to be held
September 9Th, 1920.
The friendship and support Of
all voters is earnestly solicited.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-08-23

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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-01-21
Practice OF Candy
Makers Is Denounced

II st. Paul. MINI, Jan. 2l.-'-rhe
state department Of agriculture de-
nounces the practice OF candy manu-
facturers OF the Twin Cities during the
sugar shortage! and It has no apologies
to OFFER for taking such an attitude 2
said J. II. Hay. deputy commissioners
OF agriculture. today. I'VE have made
Inquiries at warehouses and have In
yestigated reports Of sugar {; on the
tracks in railroad yards and have
found that wholesalers and jobbers
have little susar on the tracks or In
storage. a zss F4g2
Tint the candy manufacturers have
plenty Of sugar. "A number Of them
shaSs more sugax than they need to
stSde them over until the Cuban cane
sugar arrives. arocers hays! told 5us
that whom the j0bbers no longer were
ahis to sfurnish them with sagsr tho
cxndy fiAnufactnrers have o4ered to
supply stheir needs 1T prices higher
thiaathoae quoted BY jpbber1, thereby
Insssaltng tlss price 70 the c0lissimer." /"