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The Jasper news., 1920-09-16
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Synopsis. s.--Spalding Nelson is oc-
cupying the apartments of his
great-uncle. Rufus CASTOR. The
Gastons. leaving on a trip. tell him
about mysterious noises and wills
pers" that have scared them. He
becomes acquainted with Barbara
Bradford, who livea In the same
big building. He nstinctively dis
likes and dlstrusts the superintend-
ent, Wick. The mysteries in his
apartments begin with the disap-
pearance OF the CASTOR pearls from
the wall safe. He decides not to
call In the police, but to do his own
investigating. II is soon evident
that someone has access to his
rooms. Becoming friendly with
Barbara, he learns that her apart
ments are equally mysterious. She
tells him that several years before
her sister Claire, who lives with
her, had made a runaway mar
Rage with an adventurer, from
whom she was soon parted. and the
marriage had been annulled. Claire
ie engaged to be married and some
one has stolen documents concern
Ing the AFFAIR from the Bradford
apartment and is attempting to
biackmail the Bradfords. Nelson
takes Miss Kelly, the telephone
girl, to dinner with the idea of
pumping her. German, a hotel de-
tectiYe, recognizes her as the wife
OF Lefty Moore, a noted burglar.
Nelson tells his story to German
and puts the case In his hands.
Nelson finds a secret passage, with
a panel door In his room. He real
lees he loves Barbara He and
Barbara hear a shot In the build
ing.
The Jasper news., 1920-09-16
CHAPTER VIII.

Inserting the key Mr.. Wick handed
me. turned It sharply and flung the
door wide. II revealed a luxuriously
Furnished apartment. the front rooms
lOf which were extravagantly abIaze
with light.
For a moment the three Of us, Mr..
Wick, the elevator boy and myself.
stood there with our ears alert for
any sound from the apartment. While
II do not admit to being a coward. the
F;nkno,.,r has Its terrors for all Of us,
sand must Confess hat the knowledge
that Mr.. Wick had his revolver drawn
was indeed comforting. All was
silence in the place.
/ "JOhn," said Wick to the elevator
boy, ~yOu stand here right ny the door
and keep your eye on the elevator. II
anybody tries to sneak past you, you
hoiler for u.s."
"'Deed l will, Mr.. Wick" Said the
boy, with chattering teeth. 'Tll holler,
all right"
"Go ahead, Mr.. Nelson" said the su-
perlntendent, "Pm right behind you
with the revolver"
7 Without waiting to explore the front
rooms. l turned at once and ran down
the long hall to the sitting room. II,
ms suspected, murder had been done
. here, was confident that the scene
of the tragedy would be the room d.
rectiy under mine. The screams had
heard--and the shot-had seemed to
come from under'my very feet.
Although the lights In the front oi
the hall were burning. the sitting room
wa ln darkness. As reached the
49,. ~ Angcrs sought the buttOA
The Jasper news., 1920-09-16

and such q bear
ing Wn feel.
irg that I could not
stand on my feet.
] also had other dis
t,ressinR symptoms.
At times ] had 10
give NJ work. 4
tried . number Of
remedies but Lydia
r. PinkhRm'a Yege-
table Compound did
me moro good than
ANYTHING 6I4n. lam
The Jasper news., 1920-09-16
Ladies Let CutiCura|
Keep Your Skin
Fresh and Young
TO EVERY READER

There Is no pure herb family medi-
cine in the world today that can equal
the power and give such grand results
Ia regulating the bowels, stimulating
the liver, flushing and cleansing the
kidneys, sweatening the stomach or
purifying and -enriching the blood
than
The Jasper news., 1920-09-16

head and muttgring under his breath
something that sounded like:
TO think ~ his telling me 10 cnll
in the pollcoi'
With the doctor summoned ana the
police sent fu. there seemed TO BE-
little else for De to do but wait, 20
Wick and I sat down together in the
rear sitting room with the elevator boy
still on guard Il the door.
"Who wns Hiss Eutanl'' I asked.
-Why, Daisy Lutan, the actress" |"
said Mr.. Wick IN surprise. Il sup
posed every one knew her"
1--WE heard about her. ! FASTENED to
say, ''but had no idea that she lived
In the Granddeck. Did she live here
aloner'
"She keeps maid, an old woman
that has been With her for years"
"Where's the maid tonightr
-0ut to the movies, I s'pose. That's
where she goes every night when Miss
Lrtan isn't playing. When she is, sho
goes to the theater with her."
Then Miss Lutan Is not playing
Lowr
sAyoA a.. A. 1t
Co. 49, ~ .ne last uion'n'
.eu,rss. Deen a"S JUG "eio VIZ"
'Tll ask the elevator boy"
"John says she came 10 alone about
fifteen minutes ago." said Mr.. Wick
when he came back. "She went out
sD',, ou E own Snauueur WE
S..,. q, "e. 1u' W. w"Sn 'e Sa..,o -
SeS'..s,', ~ !. ~ nleu ~N
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~ sou ouppoSo '''e
uo., w yns every venue ~ quss
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, 80 eOne ua"usue au'ss'vu'
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"prr "I,' 'lo
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Sos nNHo an r.a,Ia, Ano" rs 70 tial ne
nns I sone. ne certainty ai"t mere IN
'"e apae''nen.,
II was ou Tue up ol my tongue 10
susIesl una' We .oVA iu 'ne secret
passase"ay' ie.t .na' uie SHOCK u
wOuiu De 70 WicA 10 .earn tnat knew
ABOUT tnis misnt leau MN 10 open MS
ups Ie,l Set. t.ain ula' II was oy way
Oh slInilar Passage"ay 10 the one
nau olscovereu IN my room that the
muIuere. heu eseapeu' nut. oetore
couid MAKE up my minu 10 speak the
DOCTOR arrived
he made hasty inspection and then
said tersely: 7e1tt. ts1
There's nothing here for me to do.
This woman has been dead for some
time"
"How long" l asked.
ut Is impossible for me to Judge
maybe twenty minutes. perhaps an
hour. should say that death was
practically instantaneous. She was
killed BY bullet penetrating the heart.
Who shot herT
He looked sharply from me to Mr..
Wick, as II suspecting that II might
have been one Of Us.
"a burglar got her just few min
utes ago." Mr.. Wick explained. 'Mr.
Nelson and me heard scream and
shot. We let ourselves In here with
my pass key and found her here. II
The Jasper news., 1920-09-16
TOO
LATE

Death only . matter cf short TINA
Don't wait until pains and achss
becorns incurn',lo diseases. Avoid
palnsul eonssqnencee By taxing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-03

sent a telegram from San Diego, Cal.
to the Pelletier's store saying that he'll
arrive Saturday afternoon on the 2:40
o'clock train. He's going to stay from
now until Christmas and all the little
children who can't write may go to
Pelletier's and whisper to him what
they wish to find in their stockings
Christmas morning.
And Santa isn't coming alone either,
for he's bringing his little grandson,
Jack Claus, along with him. Little
Jack has been away up in Skagway,
Alaska, where it's real cold and he's
come all this way to help his grand
father Then besides little Jack, Santa
is bringing three truck loads of toys,
enough for all the children in Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-03
Santa Claus
Is Coming at
2:4OP. NJ. Sat.

Santa Claus. great big, jolly. Santa
Claus VINO sends the children the
things they wish for Christmas. is
coming to town. Saturday afternoon
the Boy Scouts band and a detail of
Girl Scouts and a whole lot of chill
dren are going to be down a the Santa
Fe depot watching for him, for he's
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-03
CHARGED WITH STEALING SUGAR

Two Negroes Implicated in Theft OF
Eight Sacks From Santa Fee.
E. King and c. NJ. Wood. negroes
were arrested and turned over to the
county Thursday night, charged with
stealing eight sacks of sugar from a
Santa Fe car set near the office OF
the Topeka Transfer & Storage COM
pany, Sixth and Adams streets. The
sugar was stolen two weeks ago by
thieves who sawed thru the locks on
the door.
King and Wood admit delivering
the sugar, according to the police, but
will not confess to stealing it. They
are in the Shawnee county jail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-03
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ASTHMA SUFFERERS
Free Trial of a Method That Any
one Can Use Without Dis
comfort or Loss of Time.

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We especially want TO send 1t to those
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-03
DICE STOLEN FROM POLICE
Evidence Against Crap Shooter Taken
From Desk at Headquarters.
Someone has fooled the hash

A pair of dice. kept as evidenIe
against an alleged crap shooter. we're
stolen from a drawer of the desk at
police headquarters Thursday. When
the loss was discovered Chief G. G..
Hannah ordered that the door of the
cage be kept locked and none admitted
but the jailer.
Hereafter when you want to see the
police blotter, "ooze" up to the outside
and the desk sergeant will shove 1t out
to YOU thru the window.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-03

Wocl Army Socks. .... .45f
Officers Light Weight Cassimere
Hose. .45C
Officers Dress Socks, in origina
packages, packed 6 pairs to the
box; per box. $3.50
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-12
Advertising Not Only in
., Precept but in Practice

Our Bulk Window" with it's trial dis
plays is responsible for some of the most
active cooperation on the part of Dealers
because by it's means we have been enabled
to produce some of the most powerful win
dow displays that have ever advertised
product.
Our section of street car to show designs
and color effects that make the most ef-
fective display in this form of advertising
-. our store shelves to enable us to see
the best package or carton display for
behind -the-counter" are all minutie of our
thorough-going methods =. all typify
the practical nature of our conception of
true advertising these were all sug-
gested to us to help our clients because we,
as advertisers, understood their true value.
Perhaps the most convincing proof of the
value of really knowing advertising by
advertising is our unusually long relation
ship with our clients. Our present clients
have been with us an average of seven
years and six months.
Our business in 1919 increased $50 per
cent over that of 1918 -ninety-six per cent.
of our total volume of business in 1919 was
from accounts that had been with us more
than one year up to twenty-five years.
If you have proposition that you believe
could be effectively merchandised let us,
who know how it feels to spend our own
money in substantiating our beliefs, con-
slider it with you and advise you as to the
best way to go about it.
Such conference would place you under
no obligation and might be very advan-
tageous.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-12

who claimed that pedagogue was a
peddler, an idiot, a teacher who will
not listen to reason, and that minarets,
silos and tarantulas were musical in
struments. Some thought that John
Drinkwater was a prohibitionist,
whereas he is only harmless play
wright. Others held that Theseus killed
the Monitor, that Buford was the ship
used to deport alienists who were un-
desirable. and that Sir Oliver Lodge is
the leader Of the Republican party
lkeeping them in good spirits, no
doubt).
One girl (probably the young lady
across the way) said that they always
make coffee in a perambulator.
Quotation artless aid was admirably
shown by selections like these Where
there is sidewalk there is a way"
'Brevity is the soul of France" "what
is sauce for the goose is gandcr for the
consumer
Woodrow Wilson was held to be the
author of "All's Well That Ends
Well" which is cheering thought at
least.
Sparta Fritz, !Jr.. a senior, led the
school with an average of so, and J.
Hartas Hedlcy had the highest grade
for the intermediate school, GO.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-12
FIRE DAMAGES PLANT
.,,,. in Basement Of Minee Meat
Dian, Does $4,000 Damage

Fire in the plant of Atmors 4 Bros;
,oincc meat manufacturers, Iasker ana
Front Front streets, early this morning, caused
5000 damage. A. ,..o,. -
,hc nlaut and burned through the first
aoor Of thc building to the Offices OF the
corcern. nUU Firemcn battled an hour be-
fore they got the fire under control.
Two alarms were sounded.
George Bennett. an engineer, DIS
,oycrcd the fire at q 80 o'clock. He
sent in an alarm and then. with Patrol
man lyin. smashed in the basement door
with an AK. Several hundred cases OF
mucc meat and several barrels of sugar
were stored in the rear Of the basement.
Origin Of the blaze was not determined;
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-12
SANDYHOOK NOT TSCOTCHlNAN]
PUPILS LEARN IN BRAIN QUIZ
Good Showing by Germantown Friends Students in Inte
igence Test With Boys Leading Girls, but Some
Amusing AnsiUers Are Giuen

General intelligence is one OF those
things that everybody thinks he has
until some one begins to ask questions.
Then lot Of people are apt to come
out with something that shows they
think Sandy Hook is a Scotchman, and
SO on.
The students of the Germantown
Friends School are preparing them
selves for these little emergencies in 1ife
when q person is supposed to have more
than faint knowledge Of what is stir
ring in the great world. They have
inst had their yearly intelligence test.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-12

and the boys and girls showed that they
are well up on that great mass of facts
that too frequently comes under the
head of general misinformation.
The boys of all the classes averaged
higher in the tests than the girls. The
senior. class average was 64.6; first,
class. 500; second, 54.2; third. Al:
fourth, 45.5; fifth, a. sixth, 24.4 and
seventh, 16.
Some amusing answers were turned
in as usual in contest of this kind
Before laughing too heartily. however.
it might be a good idea to take another
look at the list of sample questions.
There were those among the students
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-12
INJURED AVIATOR DIES
Man Who Jumped From Blazing
Plane Fatally Hurt

Richard w. Wright, twenty four
o'clock this morning in Cooper Hospi-
tai in Camden as the result Of injuries
received Saturday afternoon, when he
Jumped from an airplane near Marlton,
N. J.
The plane took fire at an altitude Of
100 feet, and Mark Hogue, of Port
land, Ore, the pilot, nose dived the
flaming machine toward earth. At an
altitude of 200 feet Wright jumped.
Both his legs and both arms were
broken and he was injured internally.
Mrs. Wright was at her husband 8
bedside when he died. Hogue had been
with him constantly since the accident.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-12
GRAVE DIGGERS STRIKE!
Want More Money and Won't Work
In Rain

IN Rain
The hi.h cost of living, not contented
with making life miserable, has turned
is attentions TO the dead.
saturday forty gravediggers employed
at Holy Cross Cemetery, at Ieadon,
went on strike. -,
More money is the principal demand
Of the men, Secondary is the demand
that they shall not be made to work in
the rain.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-12
New Black Crepe
GeOrgette Waists

Women who wear black, will be
delighted with these new Black
Crepe Georgette Waists and Over
Blouses, in vest, slip-over and
side-closing models, many richly
embroidered, beaded and braided,
others in lovely tucked effects.
Some especially intended for
mourning wear, in all-black and
black-and-white. Prices 1915 to
$4S.00.
Stra wbrldRe T. Clothier--
Second Floor. Centre
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-12
Fashionable Cdpes

Some new models just arrived
are of velour-tan velour with
blue satin lining that rolls back
forming deep hood collar and
graceful rever effect; another in
the same style is in blue, lined in
tan-$5O.OO. Also a great variety
of serges, plain and accordion
plated, fine twills and wool We
iours, $500 to $4,000.
StrawbrIdge 4 Clothier-
Second Floor, Centre
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-12
The Shorter Goats

Heavy tan polo cloth, in sports
length, $500 to $4,000. Tan
camel's-hair cloth in the longer
lengths, $4,000 to $500.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-12
In Preparing for Summer
New Bed Spreads

Favorite kinds are snowy white
or white with colored stripes, cool
looking and easily laundered:
White Bed Spreads - OF
pique in neat designs, 1880
inches, $3.50; S0x90, $4.00; COX
100, $500. Crochet weave, 7Sx
SO inches, 1886. Satin-finish
Marseilles, S0x90--$7.50.
White Bed Spreads 'cith pretty
Colored stripes, SOT90-$4.00
Dimity Bed Sets White
with blue stripes, including a
Spread, s0x90 inches, with seal
loped edges and cut corners,
Sham to match-$7.00.
In all-white, a Spread, 90x1OO
inches, scalloped, and Sham to
match-S7.50.
Strawbridge & Clothicr---
Aisle II. Filbert street
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-12
Decorative Fabrics
at Special Prices

Unusual values, of timely in
terest to people now Frightening
up the home for the coming
months.
COIOred Scrini-55c<
Bright and subdued allover
Foliage and narrow border effects
in backgrounds of white and
cream.
Army Khdki-55c
For Awnings. Khaki of Gov
ernment standard, S-ounce weight
and 28-inch width.
COLOred BurLdp-5Oc
Good plain shades of blue,
brown and green; so inches wide.
Strawbridgc & Clothicr---
Third Floor. Centre
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-12
NainsOOk and Other
Household Muslins

All those sturdy White Muslins
that are so important in outiitting
the members of the household.
Most-wanted kinds and qualities:
Fine Cambria, 36-inch-3Sc yard
Fine Nainsook, 36-inch-65c yard
Suiting Muslin. 36-inch, 5Sc; I'M
ported. 72-inch-Sl.65 a yard
By the 12-yard Piece-Nainsook,
$3.50; Long ,Cloth-$4.50
strawbridge & Clothier-Aisle g. Centre
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-12

TN the United States there are but five
= advertising agencies that show their
confidence in advertising by persistent ad-
vertising of their own business.
There are five agencies who when they
tell you to spend your money in advertising
express basic business principle that they
practice themselves.
If you hear of an extraordinarily success
full advertising campaign ask if one of the
five agencies who advertise their own busi-
nesses prepared it. Nine times in ten you
will find it so.
Genuine, successful advertising is more
than the mere vaunting of empty phrases,
or the protesting of ephemeral ideals =.
advertising is as intensely practical activity
that uses every legitimate opportunity
that turns every possibility to advantage
that weaves success out of elements that
the uninitiated do not know exist.
There is reason back of every advertis-
ing campaign we prepare from the earliest
investigation and research work to the
completion of the final piece of "follow-up."
We plan to uncover the vital appeal"
that is contained in each sound proposition
because in our ability to do this lies the
reason for our many successes.
Il
Our Experimental Kitchen is an impor-
tant factor in this direction, on food ac-
counts. Many food and kitchen products
are here tested as to their merchandising
availability. When they pass our severe
tests many new uses are discovered by our
cooking and domestic science experts =.
and advertising copy" is written that car
ries the full knowledge of its subject-a
feature that makes an instant appeal to the
keenly discriminating women buyers.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-12

with ample quantities and
variety at very attractive
savings. A large number Of
Rugs in discontinued designs
practically all grades and sizes
at a. reduction of 80 per cent.
Hundreds of Rugs - standard
wool and worsted weaves and
many Summer Rugs as we'll
at a reduction of Is per cent.
Thousands of other Rugs, of all
kinds and sizes, at reduction
of 10 per cent. from regular prices
already low.
IN THE Sale are also nu-
l. merous Oriental Rugs at
worthwhile reductions, and,
of especial Importance, a
number of CHINESE RUGS in
carpet sizes at a reduction of 20
per cent, and all other Chinese
Rugs in our stock at Is per- cent.
below present value. Many of our
most attractive patterns of In
laid and Printed Linoleum are in
the Sale at somewhat less than
regular prices. Every home fur
nisher should be interested.
The Washington times., 1920-09-01
The Fountain OF
Youth

II may not be generally known
that Bimini.T that small West In
dian isle so conveniently situated
in the Atlantic on the Florida coast
was at one time thought to cSn-
tain the Fons Juyentutis (fountsin
OF youth), IL was conquered and
explored by the early Spanisrds for
no other reason that this-they
fancied they had learned from the
half understood speech Of savages
In HispAniola that the wonderful
fountain to drink from which made
a young man out OF an old one.
nlowed there.
The legend of a fountain OF youth
had persisted from the first utter
ance of that lie by that famous liar
Sir John Vaudeville. who SO sue
cessfully hid his Identity that no
mody knows whether the author OF
his Book" WAS a man or a syndi-
cate. 1t has been proved that there
was no Sir John Vaudeville. Who
ever the writer was, he stole the
story from Marco Polo. who said he
got IL from another mythical per-
sonage, Prester John. 1t ran from
the twelfth century to the six
teenth. and 1t may be running yet.
Juan Ponce de Leon. who seems
to have disliked the thought OF old
age, always felt hopeful OF finding
this fountain on the Asiatic coast.
which he thought. like the dis
coverers before him. was what we
now call Florida. He had heard,
or thought he had, the Indians talk
of a marvellous fount which they
located in Bimini. and he sought
and obtained permission to go and
annex this island to Spain. This
was in March, 1913. He explored
Bimini carefully. but did not dis
cover the fountain, and then trans
ferred HIS asArch to the larger Is
land that he supposed Florida to
be.
Four hundred years have gone by
and the search for youth-tempor-
ary, IL not permanent-is again be-
ing made in the pretty little island
where IL is easily found, travellers
from a bone dry country aver. In
bottles.
The Washington times., 1920-09-01
If Your Skin Is Yellow.

Don't try to cover 1t with coat
ing of white powder. Try, instead,
to effect the whitening and clear
ing process from the'inside. 1t may
take a little longer. In all prob
ability It will take quite a little
while. But 1t will be more perma-
nent, and the whitening won't come
of with a rub OF the handkerchief.
One of the pleasantest ways to
effect this cure Is by means OF fruit
juices. Orange juice in hot water
taken before breakfast, or the more
common lemon juice In a cupful hot
water, will bring almost immediate
results.
Grape fruit has much the same
effect, but IL should be taken in
smaller quantities than orange
juice. The Juice OF half grape
fruit toe quarter OF n cupful hot
water Is a good proportion.
Peaches, grapes, plums, cherries
all have properties that qualify
them for the purpose OF clearing up
n yellow skin by stimulating the
liver and thereby helping Il to
throw of the poisons that accumu-
late in the system and discolor the
skin.