davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The north Mississippi herald., 1920-06-11
Nature Kind to Snake.

A queer African species of snake,
which lives on eggs has tooth-like
spike projecting downward from Its
backbone, just behind the head. which
Is tipped With enamel. When it swal-
lows an egg the latter passes down the
gnllet until 1t encounters the spike,
which breaks the shell. Thus no part
OF the fluid contents is lost as would
be the case II the snake we're obliged
to bike the egg with rs mouth-fangA.
The north Mississippi herald., 1920-06-11

It Is not only tie part of exped!ency
but morally imperative for every one
TO do all that lies In his power 10 De
well. steadily and joyously well.
Many diet reformers make the al
most fatal mistake Of overlooking the
sto,nach. Dilated stomach is due quite
largely to overeating.
The north Mississippi herald., 1920-06-11
Health Notes

One Of the principal benefits derived
from a vacation at the seaside Is the
comparative freedom one may have in
dress which may be adapted TO expose
the body to the suns rays
We must learn our limits; we are
all something but not everything. We
must not expect, too much.
The north Mississippi herald., 1920-06-11
How France Handles Her Forests-Her
Way Just the Opposite of Ours.


A lumberjack sergeant of the Twentieth engineers
remarked that the lumber business in France s..ned
to be concerned more with growing trees than cutting
between the tmberand owner in France and the tim
Der baron of America The conception of forest as
land producing crop after crop of wood extends from
the ntensivey managed public forests of France down
to the peasant who half hectare Of popars in
swampy bottom.
To us in the United States who are wont to think
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-01-25

as good for few cents less some
where else.
Where are nll those Old signs
pricing things at two cents below a
round sum asked
"Oh, that was in the cheap. line
Of goods
understood, There isn't any cheap
line Of goods any more.
II comes To this. It's an equation
American saiesmanship * 80 good
and Eve is so trustful that the an
swer is higher prices and always
higher prices.
Don't knock high prices. I'm told.
You get value received in America
today II You get II anywhere.
But where is IL going to end?
Look forward to the time when the
cheapest hat a self.respecting Eve
can wear is 500. shoes $50 those nice
simple evening gowns 800. In those
days milk will be dollar a quart,
eggs three or four dollars a dozen,
car fare 80 cents. letter postage
dime, ice cream sodas IS cents, mov-
les 81 for the once.upon-a-tmc nickel
shows-and all plus Heaven knows
what taxes.
And who cares so long as wages
ana salaries keep pace? II the whole
world moved at the same pace of
course fl would al work out at the
same rate. But other nations haven't
got American SaleSmanship and they
haven't got anything like enough
of American Ewes. 50 wien these
good times of quadruplc high prices
and princcly salaries come, America
will he in ring fence of prohihitiye
tariffs and her export trade will be
just nil Then what win happen?
Somebody will discover that you can
live abroad on about tenth of
what it costs at home and live just
as well mot TO mention whole ret
inues Of servants) and the great Amer.
lean exodus will begin. SEQ them
! troopins abroad by the thousands,
leaving their money invested in
America, and living like princes
abroad on their incomes.
( Down goes the population by hun
drcds of thousands a year Then
when all the wise people have gone,
some Of those agitatorS rise up and
begin picking bricks out Of the tar.
mcnt opens the sluicc gates. In
comes the FLOOD German goods
English goods. French goods Japa.
ncsc goods all at Il tonth. a twelfth,
L twentieth Of the American cost
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-01-25

Portable homes. clean good looking
clothes lots oi wholesome food and
all the Injuries OF newspapers, maga'
zines ana theatres.
But the standard OF living Is go
ing up at the same rate that the
cost of living is rising. And that's
all right TOO II the general standard
of the world is rising with It
But just supposing that the war
to-cnd-war didn't end war, imagine
for a moment that the League OF
Nations hasn't brought the millennium
and hold your imagination for Just
a second longer, and think what
would happen TO a nation that had
a standard Of living 400 per cent
higher than the present American
standard. fourfold luxurious Ameri-
ca. if that nation ever found itself
up against another nation that could
live on handful of rice a day and
other human necessities in proper
tion.
But that's Adams affair
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-01-25

same street clothes positively three
duys in succession. my dear.
II was great and heroic period
and people began to say thar Ameri'
can character was changing. Exies
in Europe heard the report and
thought II was true because they,
perforcc. were still living frugal lives
while the first complete histories of
he war were already being published.
They couldn't make out why AT the
same zine reports came over the
water that the American II. c. l.. Di'
vision had somehow lodged the ar
misticc an the peace and was stiil
breaking through daily on the west
ern front" They thought it must
have something TO do with Senator
Hitchcock or senator Lodge or some
of the politicians who wanted the
United states to have Il peace con
ference all to itself They didn't
know that Eve had doffed her uniform
and was trying TO buy up everything
before it went out Of fashion.
with proper escort went through
the dress department Of q big store
Eve was being shown a gown for
s175.
Haven't YOU got one for 5000 she
asked
Looking AT blouse display. Isn't
that lovely one" said Eve, hut il
mus, bc cheap material at that price
"Oh. | wouldn't shame myself by
wearing cheap stuff ike that" said
Eyes friend.
Escort learned that tho price of
tho cheap blouse was $35. 40 won
der she wouldn't buy" said Escort.
We've all just received cards toll
ing Of sale Of bouses at prices
from s3J TO Sl2j."
We'll why wouldn't she buy the
minimum"
The answer was the kind Of a look
a man must expect when he begins
to ask about Ewes personal affairs.
They're wearing cotton stockings in
London-o one hundred per cent two
legged Americans are-lge seen them.
Here I'm told, self-respectng wo'
man would hardly be seen doing
her housework in such. / don't know
whether the woman who told me
ever did any housework.
There's some women" a sales
woman told me, who ask the prices
TO De sure they won't pay too much;
there's others who don't ask the price
because they don't care, and there's
others that ask the price to be sure
they are not paying too litt!"'
should have thought tnat wds a
poor joke in Europe, but her" it
might appear III any truthful socio-
logical survey. The price Of q thing
means comparatively little in Europe.
The price doesn't tell you tine quality
OF the goods. Wei, ! suppose that's
due to poor European craftsmanship.
1t seems you can judge things by
their price here. Anyway Eve thinks
50, and that is all thar matters TO
American salesmanship.
That's a great victory for American
craftsmanship. No more bargaining,
no more time and temper wasted in
arguing whctbor something isn't just
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-01-25
COD MADE MAN AND
MAN MADE MONEY AND
EVE MADE MONEY FLY
by X. Walter.

Kansas City.--llercs the solution
Of the great American mystery that
has been flashed on an exile re-
visiting for about a weekend this
material Paradise Of the world
tbs highprced Garden Of Eden
short story, !a two words, eX
paming everything;
Watch Evel Somebody's told her
az auctions moro fun than bar
gain sale Watch her trying il out.
p. S.-The lrst nay !, was a puz-
9la. the way higher prices have en-
couragcd spending. The second day
happened to stand for . moment
among a group OF shoppers on Fifth
Avenue II hogan 10 dawn, In the
westward bound dining car Eve was
ordering dinner. The light grew
clearer. In. Chicago became one
ol the thousand Of window shoppers
or five minute. and it ".s ucaliy
da,ignL In kansas Ci'y ono glance
at Pctticoat Lane was "nou..h. I
had seen the light the key TO rho
American problem. Of chc cost OF
living.
American craftsmanship has pat it
oy.r as smartly and quietly ami gent
ly as the prohibitionists. BacE IN
az. lark ages of dollar-wheat, sales
m,rsh.p began to tell the Ameri-
cu woman that she was running
'u. country and that the proof of it
Was no, in her voting power but
in hai spending power.
The buying public determines the
customs and morals and finances and
po .ics OF a country and the buying
rtl.c'S name IN America, is Eve"
S.a began 10 spend before the war,
iy in the high placcs-showing that
sl surN how to spend. dressed her.
5,t Better than any other women
a. .hn world hired the best cooks
ai1 bull. the best houses. Europe
'r.acI on In ama2ement and talked
about ,hc fast set in New York.
.l. knowing that every city had
it, set Of beautiful wcll-dressed, well
sruamcl. wcIlfed Olympian, propa.
eauU.s,, spending Ewes.
it was just becoming popular before
thn war Never was there such a
country Of uniformly beautiful and
we, dressed well fed. well housed
fCu.ninity Women of all classes
p beginning 10 demand the best
N every y'hing and 70 know IL when
th. got 10. Then came war eco
nplnics and from the social heights
tho message ran that spending was
no longer the fashion Eve bought
Liberty honds, and Dragged about
wearing the same evening gown |
don know how many times and the
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-01-25

are IN a
How in a pad save
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-08
SLAYER
WINS ACQUITTAL

Tom Hunter, colored, tried yester-
day for the murder Of Wallace Ross,
another negro, near Sumter City last
February, was acquitted in short or
der by a jury in Superior Court on
Tuesday afternoon. 1t was the Sec
ond acquittal of the term on muir
der chErge, and disposed of the last
case of that class on the calendar.
In the case of Alf Brown, charged
with pointing a pistol at another and
carrying concealed weapons, a jury
this afternoon returned verdict of
not guilty.
Leroy Tullis, on a plea of guilty
of carrying concealed weapons and
carrying a pistol without license,
was fined SIS and $35 respectively.
Henry Brown, on a plea of guilty
of assault with intent to murder and
carrying concealed weapons, was CIV
en- IL months or so days and 500
on the first charge and 6 months or
$25 and costs on the second.
Clarence Stevens was on trial
this afternoon on charge of shoot
ing at another, while the jury IN the
case of Jesse Owens, charged with
simple larceny, was awaiting the
closing of the case to report its ver-
dict,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-08
"a BILLIONS And
10 MILLIONS, net
WAR COST TOU.
Secretary Houston An
nounces Final Cor
rected Figures

WASHINGTON. Dec. 8.-The net
cost of the war to the American gov
ernment was fixed by Secretary
Houston today at $24,010, ,00O, 900.
This, he said, represented the "ad-
justed" expenditure of the treasury
excluding all other outlay which had
no relation to the actual prosecution
of the war during the period of April
6, 1917, to June 80. 1920.
The total expenditures of the GOV
ernment during the period covered,
excepting only postal disbursements
from postal revenues, were $38,830,-
812,895, the treasury figures showed.
Of this, more than $16,708,800,0 900
was obtained in taxes and revenue
from sources other than borrowed
money.
Secretary Houston said reduc-
ton of $9,523, 100000, the amount
loaned to foreign governments,
should be made from the grand total
since these loans will be repaid and
consequently can not be charged as
actual expenditures. The secretary
made other deductions aggregating
approximately $4,500,000,000, which
he said represented the excess cost OF
actual government operations fol
three years and three months over
what they had been in normal times
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-08
27,871 Pensioners Of
North Die During Year

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.-Techni-
cal recommendation of the delegates
of five Allied and associated powers
who have been in session here at the
preliminary international communi-
cations conference, to be submitted
to the general conference of all ma
tions for approval, made public here
through the state department, show
the disposition of the former German
cables seized by France and Great
Britain and Japan in 1914 still re-
main unsolved. This was one of the
principal questions for settlement
with which the conference was
charged.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-08
FARM RELIEF
ACT TO WAIT

r WASHINGTON. Dec. 8.-With
preliminaries over and the presi-
dents annual message out of the
way, congress today got into its reg
ular business stride. In the senate
actual debate was expected to begin
with the taking late in the day
Of the measure designed to regu-
late the meat packing industry. In
the house. the days proceedings
promised to be confined chiefly to
committee activities.
The resolution proposing to re-
vive the war finance corporation as
a means of aiding the farmers will
not be calle din the senate until the
testimony PRESENTED to the joint SEN
ate and house agriculture committee
has been printed and made availa-
BILE to the senators. Senator Gronna
announced today
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-08
CANADIAN HITS
LEAGUE PLAN OF
EUROPEAN RULE
Saws $4,000 Dead Can
adams Price OF Eu-
ropean Methods

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.-Presi-
dent Wilson has completed recon-
mendations in regard to the bounda-
ries of Armenia and has forwarded
them to the League of Nations at
Geneva, it was said today at the
state department.
GENEVA, Dec. 8.-The plans
proposed for the information of the
technical organizations of the League
of Nations, dealing with finance,
health and transportation, were very
sharply attacked at today's session
of the assembly by Newton Wesley
Rowell, Canadian minister of health.
These plans, the minister contended,
tended to take such organizations
out of the hands of the assembly,
which should control them, and to
throw them under the influence of
Europe through the impossibility of
non-European nations sending their
best men to three or four confer
ences annually.
"Fifty thousand Canadian soldiers
under the sod in Europe is the price
Canada has paid for European
craftsmanship which drenched the
continent in blood" Rowell declared.
His energetic intervention in the de-
bate took the assembly by surprise.
The relations between the techni-
cal organizations of the league as
we'll as those between the council and
the assembly, were considered today
by the delegates to the assembly
here. It was expected the discussion
of tha Soma apd vonvuarc of +ba mill
tary, naval and aerial commission
might develop what connection it
may have with the leagues interna-
tional force that is being sent to su-
pervise the plebescite in Lithuania.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-08
EVERY OFFICE
HELD BY WOMEN
Oregon Town Men Out
witted At Election,
Resign In Body

YONCALLA, Oregon, Dec. 8-(By
Associated Rress.)- Matriarchal
government was in effect here today,
the women who recently were cleo
ted to all municipal offices, includ-
ing roavcr. having taken their places
last night when the men incumbents
resigned in a body at the council
meeting.
When the regular city election
day arrived November the women
of Yoncalle surprised the men by
suddenly putting a ticket in the field
consisting entirely of women. The
men did not have time to rally their
forces and the women won by large
majorities.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-08
ARMY CAPTAIN
CONFESSES HE
Was BOCHE SPY
Caught AS Deserter, He
Admits He Served
Kaiser

NEW YORK, Dec. 8.-Hans Will
let, alias Captain John A. Willars,
commander of Company l, Forty
eighth United States infantry, dur
ing the war, was held at Governors
Island today awaiting action by ar
my officials on the confession he is
alleged to have made to the police
that he was German spy.
Although he was sought as de
serter and alleged to have abscond-
ed soon after the armistice with So
600 of company funds, his confes-
sion of espionage came as a com
nlete surprise.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-08
Escaped Insane Man
Wounds Merchant

MILLEDGEVILLE, Dec. 8.--Rob-
ert R. Harper, merchant and post
master at Meriwether, was badly
wounded Tuesday afternoon as the
result of being attacked by J. E.
Kensey, an escaped iunatic from
the state sanitarium. His throat
was severely gashed by knife in the
hands of the insane man.
The affair took place near Meri-
wether, nine miles from Milledge-
Vile. After he had been wounded,
Mr.. Harper overpowered Kensey
took the weapon from him and placed
him in his automobile and brought
him to the city, where he was turn
ed over to the police. Mr.. Harper
weak from the los sof blood, collaps-
ed a few minutes after arriving here
His wounds were dressed by a physi-
clan and he was removed to his
home.
Kensey, who has been confined as
a dangerous inmate Of the sanitarium
for more than twenty years, made his
escape Monday afternoon.
Kensey is about 45 years of age
and during the long period of con
fnement at the institution has beer
regarded as dangerous. 1t is sale
that his home is in Atlanta.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-08
Horse Die, On Railway Trestle
After 16 Mile Runaway Here

In one of the most unusual runa-
ways ever occurring in this section.
a fine buggy horse owned by Cobb
Sumerford, of DeSoto. killed itself
by falling into a trestle on the Sea-
board tracks over Lockett's branch,
a short distance east of Americus last
night.
Mr.. Sumerford was preparing to
start from his home on an errand
shortly after dark, and had hitched
his horse, spirited but trusted ami
nal, to the buggy Just before pre-
paring to get into the carriage he had
placed some china dishes in the We
hicle and the rattle Of the dishes
startled the horse. AS Mr.. Sumer-
ford stood drawing on his driving
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-08

gloves, preparing to get into the
buggy the horse started toward Les
lie. Mr.. Sumerford was unable to
stop it or catch up with it until he
found it dead.
Getting into an auto, he trailed
the runaway through Leslie and on
the Brady road toward Americas. On
reaching the railroad crossing near
the Seaboard shops in Americas, the
horse still drawing the buggy turned
down the tracks eastward and con-
tinued until the trestle was reached
where he fell and tore hole in his
side from which he died.
The horse had travelled distance
of approximately 16 miles when he
met death.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-08
Hid HIS BREW
in COURTHOUSE
West Virginia Officers
Raid Room And
Find Cache

MARTINSBURG. West Va, Dec.
8.-(By Associated Press "A bold
violator of the prohibition laws, one
who stored his "home brew" in the
county court house, was being sought
today by federal and state authori-
ties.
Following tip, officers searched
a room in the court house and found
various containers brimful of Gambler
fluid" A test showed it to be beer
of home brew variety. There were
twelve gallons in all.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-08
MISS M'SWINEY
HEARD in PROBE
SAYS People Here Are
Uninformed On Irish
Question

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.-Ameri-
can aid for Irish independence can
best be exerted through "efforts to
gain the truth about actual condi-
tions," Miss Mary MacSwiney, sis
ter of the late Lord Mayor of Cork
testified today before the commission
of the Committee of One Hundred
investigating the Irish question
here. Mrs Muriel MacSwiney, his
widow, probably will be heard this
afternoon.
Miss MacSwiney said she felt most
Americans were uniformed as to the
real conditions. Outside of Ireland,
Miss MacSwiney said, the impression
prevails that the move for Irish indie
pendence is fostered entirely by the
Catholics. This she denied, assert
ing the Protestants and the Catho-
lies were equally represented in the
movement for independence. She
criticizd the system of education
established in ireland bv the British
declaring "most of the people of
Ireland don't know how to express
themselves" She said. "Long years
of British domination have not per
mitted the Irish as a people to de.
velop mentally.
LONDON, Dec. 8 (By Associated
Press) The British government is
considering wether it will request
the United States government in the
interest of Anglo-American friend
ship, to take official notice of the
anti British activities in Amerca of
Professor De Valera, "president of
the Irish Republic" according to a
statement in Commons today by An
drew BOnar Law.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-08
HUNT ENDSFOR
HAMON SLAYER
Much Sought Miss
Smith. Found; Not
Wanted Now

Ell PASO, Tex, Dec. 8.-Search
for Clara Smith Barton, wanted in
connection with the death of Jake
L. Hamon, of Ardmore. Okla, ended
last night, so far as the local officers
are concerned, they said. when Miss
Smith was almost within their grasp
at Juarez.
Sheriff Orndorff has construed the
answer to his telegram to Sheriff
Garrett, at Ardmore, to mean that
Miss Smith is not wanted there and
that there is no reward for her cap
ture He declared last night he
would not continue work on the
case.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-08
WILSON TREATY
PLAN PUZZLE

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.-Discus-
sion as to what action, if any, Presi-
dent Wilson will take regarding the
peace treaty before he goes out of
office has brought no information
from the White House. Officials who
are supposed to be in the presidents
confidence profess to have received
no word from him as to his inten-
tions, but are of the opinion he will
take some affirmative action, possi-
bly, in the form of special message
to congress.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-08
NO TIME SET FOR
EX-KING'S RETURN.

ATHENS, Dec. 8.-(By Associat-
ed Press.) )-The plan to have Ex-
King Constantine return to Greece
this week appeared to have been
abandoned today. The decision of
the government apparently was to
continue the "await and see" policy,
with tendency to leave the decision
on Constantine's return to the throne
with the ex-king himself.
Financial pressure of the British
upon the government appears to have
grown stronger. Former Premier
Gounaris, leader in the movement
which led to the downfall of Priem
Venizelos, has appealed to the Ven
izelist army officers to keep their
posts.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-08
PRESSURE FROM
GREAT BRITAINO ON
ATHENS HEAVIER
Venizelos Army Off
GERS Urged To Keep
Posts

LUCERNE. Dec. 8 by Asso-
ciated Press )-Ex-King Constantine
will not relinquish his claim to the
Greek throne in favor of his son,
George, it was declared today by
Prof. Georgios STREET, close adviser
Of Constantine here.
PARIS, Dec. 8 (By Associated
Press) The Greek government has
addressed note to former King
Constantine asking that he abdicate
Immediately in favor of the crown
prince, says dispatch from Athens
today.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-08
PEACE MISSION
COST $l,65l,l9O

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.-A spe-
cial message giving the complete ex-
penses of the American peace COM
mission during it's work abroad was
transmitted to the Senate today by
the president. The total expendi-
lures amounted to $1,651,19 from
December 1, 1918, to December a,
1920.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-08
Town 126 Years Old
To Give Up Charter

LOUISVILLE, KY, Dec. 8.-Af-
ter living a corporate existence for
1875 years the citv of Jeffersontown,
Jefferson county has petitioned the
circuit court here to revoke its char
ter and asked that its government
revert to county control. The city
obtained its first charter in 1894