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Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-10-29
BIG DROP IN BUTTER

BIG DROP IN BUTTER
BUTTER
Elgin Creamery; ID ...... Doc
Coffee special blend, lb. -. .25c
Pure Elgin Creamery Butter;
pound ................. &c
Lilly Farm Creamery, b.. 45c
Tea, very best Orange Pecoe 65c
Prunes; fancy California lb. 25c
Nut Uterine, lb. ........ 33c
Pears, extra fancy; can 80. Csc
Eggs Plymouth Rocks, doz. 65c
Star Milk; can .......... 22c
Eagle Milk; can .:....... 25c
CHEESE
N. Y. State Full Cream Cheese
Full Cream Muenster Cheese
Finest Swiss Cheese
Very Oh Sharp Cheese.
Just received
Very Fancy Limburger.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-05
CHAPTER "
The Giant Tran

MASH! Kerbang! A heavy rock
~ crashed thorugh the kitchen window
ana bounced across the floor. Peggy,
tS aot knowing where else to flee, climbed
PI stepiadder on top of which danced
belinda, the cook.
n,tS;pp stop that fighting! Stop, or I'll
i;nJs iTase It hot for you'll" screamed Be-
tbO tbuaa, put the two giants didn't pay
Ge Sue slightest attention to her. The
,o Snt OF the Woods kept on hurting
Tonsu TycSs through the windows and Fierce
tSa Snes kept on banging away with his
wv pistols. And at every bang and
Stery crash Belinda nervously danced
n'Eser and higher.
reggy was scared--not for herself, but
~ Ine Giant of the Woods. She was
TTTsiu ne might be hit by bullets from
'TrGe Fangs' pistols.
mat Htiae' screamed Peggy across the
1oaS aS 10 where the Giant Of the Woods
srOw sOOe with his pile of rocks, Glide
;iant' 'ne pistols of Fierce Fangs." The
bss ot the Woods and Billy heard
"Snd Ssnd Jumped behind trees.
srisS See p EN- scatter. Isn't that funny?"
sfrsid neslinda the cook. "They are
su sot OF the barking pistols"
p.rSH course they are afraid" said
aNc, barking pistols bite"
Pssa, giggled Belinda, and she showed
WHEY handful of little black pellets,
snron u.cu she took from a pocket of her
sgniai. rHn. They are bulIets,'I the cook
toIpaiaed, toIps as II took them from the pis.
|baS,st Giant Fierce Fangs. Big boys
ANU ! ought to play with loaded guns
AVA iore than little boys. He can bang
Inv sasa sai gay and not harm anything but
|tbs blss ~ then Fierce Fangs rushed from
|thoushs room into the kitchen. He
A' ne could get better aim at
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-05
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
A Detective Story by j. S. Fletcher

Ellis name? 1t was-Marbury.
] "Marbury-the same name. Where
did you know him."
"I-oh, here in London"
What was heY'
DO you mean--what was his occu-
patton 20
':What was his occupation?
| II believe he was concerned in finan-
cial matters"
| Concerned in financial matters. Had
you dealings with him?"
We'll, yes--on occasions"
What was his business address in
London?"
81 cant remember that
What was his private address,
That | never knew"
"Where did you transact your bust
ness wit him?"
| well, we met, now and then
sort?"
II can't remember particular places.
Sometimes in the city"
! In the city. Where in the city? Man
sion House, or Lombard street, or st.
Paul's ChurcRyard, or the Old Bailey,
or where?''
II have recollections of meeting him
outside the stock exchange
oh Was he a member of that in
stitution?'
Not that know Of"
Were you?"
Certainly not -
What We're the dealings that you
had with him?"
Financial dealings small ones.
! How long did your acquaintunceship
with him last--what period did it cx-
tend over?''
II should say about six months to
nine months
! No more?"
Certainly no more
1T was quite slight acquaintance
ship, then?'
"Oh. quite"
And yet, after losing sight of this
merely slight acquaintance for over
| twenty years. you, on meeting him,
take great interest in him?"
well, was willing to do him a
good turn. ] was interested in what he
told me the other evening"
II see. Now you will not object to
my asking you personal question or
! two. You are a public man, and the
facts about the lives Of public men are
more or less public property. You arc
represented in this work of popular ref
| crence as coming TO this country in
| 1902, from Argentina, where you made
considerable fortune. You have told
us, however, that you were in London
acquainted with Marbury. about the
/ years, say 1890 to 1892. Did you then
leave England soon after knowing Mar
| bury?"
II did. 1 left England in 1891 or
/ 1S92-I am not sure which"
I'VE "rc wanting to be very sure
about this matter. Mr.. Anymore. We
want to solve the important question
| who is. who was John Marbury, and
! how did he come by his death? You
seem to be the only available person
who knows anything about him. What
was your business before you left Eng
landT'
"I was interested in financial af
fairs"
Like Marburv. Where did yor
carry ON your business?'
I'm London. of course"
AT what address,
For some moments Anymore had beer
growing more and more reStive. Hi.
brow had flushed; his mustachc hat
begun to twitch. Aud now he squared
ais shoulders and faced his guestione
dehant!y. .--
II resent these questions about III,
private affairs !" he snapped out.
Possible, But ] must put them.
repeat my last question:.
And ] refuse to answer it."
Then | ask you another. Where dit
l,you live in London at the time you arr
telling us of, when you knew John Mar
bury"'
II refuse to answer that question
also !"
I
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-05

the Giant of the Woods from the kitchen
window. Bang Bang! went the pls-
tol. And Bang Bang! two more rocks
smashed through the window, making
Fierce Fangs dodge.
ITS queer, mighty queer, why nv
bullets don't knock those folk over"
muttered Fierce Fangs. I've shot 'em
and shot EN-. and yet they don't go
dead" Bang! Bang! Bang!
Peggy wanted to laugh--he was so
much vexed over not hitting anything
with his bulletless pistol-but she didn't
have time to laugh. She was too busy
hanging on to the stepladder, which
rocked and swayed as Belinda jumped
and jiggled at each bang of the gun.
Get out of my kitchen! Get out
or III make it hot for you" screamed
Belinda, and Fierce Fangs, in spite
of all his tierceness, jumped TO obey
her, he didn't shoot any more, but
hurried to a switchboard on the dining
room wall.
IF L cant shoot EN-. l can trap
touched switch. At once there was
creaking and clanking, as the draw
bridge let itself down over the moat.
The Giant of the Woods and Billy
dashed forward the moment the bridge
touched the ground. Peggy started TO
warn them, but before she could scream
the Giant of the Woods had leaped to
the middle of the bridge, heading for
the castle gates. Fierce Fangs touched
another switch and the bottom seemed
to drop out of the bridge.
Into the yawning hole dropped the
Giant of the Woods, and then as
quickly as it had opened the bridge
closed up again, catching the giant
around the waist. There he hung with
his feet below the bridge, and his arms
and body above it. He was caught
fast.
"Ho, no, no, my trap worked"
laughed Fierce Fangs. "Now / can
axe my time shooting this rock throw.
ng giant"
But Fierce Fangs didn't see Billy
dart across the bridge and into the castle
door.
(Iomorroto DW be told hOio Fierce
Fongs finds himself HE BY mvsteri-
ous bnlIefs.j t
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-05
CHAPTER XII
Ihe New Witness

THE voice of the coroner, bland,
L suave, deprecating, broke the silence.
He was addressing the witness.
Il am sure, Mr.. Anymore" he said,
there is no wish to trouble you with
unnecessary questions. But we are
here to get at the truth of this matter
of John Marbury's death. and as you
are the only witness we have had who
knew him personally
Aylmorc turned impatiently to the
coroner.
Il have every wish to respect your
authority, sir - he exclaimed. "And
l have told you all that l know of Mar
bury and of what happened when l met
him the other evening. But I resent
being questioned on my private affairs
of twenty years ago-I very much re-
sent it! Any question that is really
pertinent l will answer, but will not
answer questions that seem to me
wholly foreign to the scope of this in
quiry."
CONTINUED TOMORROW
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-05

(Tomorroto wiH be told hoio Fierce
Fangs fnds himself hit BY mysteri-
oas bnllets.J
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-05
DREAMLAND ADVENTURES
BATTLE or THE GIANTS

~, lPeggy, Billy, the Giant of the
oodS and their animal and bird
't'ends arc IN MoUieland, phere Pcggv
y carried array by Giant Fierce
ychgS, toho adopts her as his step-
oaIghter. The Giant of the Woods,
Nekln0 TO rescue her, attacks the
cuStte toith rocks.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-05
THIS STARTS THE STORY

: ,....,,bt.i 1890. Alfred A. .Knopt.
CopdybtI ibsO UI tho Public Ledger Co
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-06
Boosts Cattle Game

.I will leave Monday night for Nash vile where I go to to be one of the judges in the fourth annual fat stock show" says Jack Phillips" and by spe- cial request of F. l.. Murray, president of the Union Stock yards, l am going to take with me Frank Willis Barnett, as he is one of the biggest boosters of the cattle game in Alabama.
 "A prize of s1.O0o has been offered for the best carload of fat steers, and report comes that at least 20 cars will be on hand to contest. The prizes for other entries makes the total premiums run up into the thousands. The boys clubs will also exhibit. Last year they made a clean up. I had the good luck last time to bring home the prize steer along with a lot of other beauties for the Birmingham Packing company. which were photographed and put in The Age-Herald.
 Alabama has made a good start In the fat steer business, both the state and the Alabama State fair having put up handsome prizes"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-06

setting--c1ever jewe1Iership of words and thoughts; and, outside of all that. something the world has neither heard nor seen nor felt before. There is also. of course, the ever-varying library of humanity by which a man will inter- pret and test his reading. The wide world is his commentary--the heart ot man his whetstone. True, there is little left, after the first century or 60 of thinkers. for anybody to invent; but the new arises from fresh combinations of elements. Everything that was ever discovered or invented was made out of material already existing. with, as novelty the artists presenaton-some- times representation, certainly that re- combination which is creative-and above all, the artists own personality.
 Stevenson, by his consciousness of the artistic calling, and recognition of the artists duty, made himself an industri- ous seeker in the realm of phrase, so that his thought came forth to the world so clothed that the music of it and the form of it touched perfection of highest style while the truth of it was deepened. freshened, and personalized to a degree that made it arresting, and conveying a new power to words.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-06
",yIzARDo HAS A VISION

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 pr. Charles H. Steinmetz, sometimes called "the electrical wizard" may be more optimistic than the ordinary man or he may be letting the public into secrets of invention and mechanical developments, when he predicts that within the life of the present genera ton fires will be non-existent in cities. Heat and motive power for every pur- pose, including household labor, will be supplied electrically and make fires un- necessary, a pleasant dream even if the forecasts. Evolution in apparatus, he says, and inventions well on the way, will make this outlook commonplace, turning large cities into really beauu- ful spots cleared of coal, smoke, scots, ashes and dirt of all kinds by electrical machines supplied with low priced cur rent from gigantic central stations.
 Improvements and inventions in the electrical field have been numerous and thrillingly rapid. but with it all the conservative reader may suspend judg- mest on the Steinmetz prophecies until their essential features have been verified in the actual test of daily life. The electrical heating of cities seems to be no more difficult than electric lighting. and certainly as desirable yet we have had one for years and still wait for the other. Perhaps there may be necessary also changes in commer- cial and public psychology before the pleasant conditions Dr. Steinmetz says are almost at hand are allowed to really arrive.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-06
A CITY THAT HIBERNATES

sands flocked to the neighborhood in the summer of 1899 and the town was born. That season the remarkable dis covery was made that the sand of the beach at the edge of the town was rich in gold, and thousands of prospectors with crude equipment took out respec- table fortunes. The beach could not be filed upon, but anyone was permitted to dig there. This unique feature of the Nome gold fields drew more than 20, GOO people, to the region the follow
 ing summer and the town grew into a thriving city. Placer miners burrowed into the sand like moles for 30 niles or more up and down the beach.
 By the end of the 1900 season the beach was exhausted of it's easily ob- tainable gold and large part of the mushroom population turned away from the community permanently. Develop ment of the gold deposits in the creeks the town settled to a permanent popu- lation of several thousand, with a mu- nicipal government, water works, elec- trio lights, and other conveniences of civilizaton. In the years between 1919 and the outbreak of the World war there was a marked development in the use of dredges and other machinery in the exploitation of the creek deposits. This 1essened the number of miners em- ployed by the large companies and still further restricted the population of Nome, though 1t remained important as a gold field.
 With the disturbed conditions aris- ing from the war. Nome has been threatened with economic disaster. The country is still rich in gold, but the hign cost of operaton has brought about the closing of many mining &C., tivities.
 Nome took it's name from Cape Nome, nearby. which was named as the result of a misunderstanding. It means nothing unless 1t can be construed to signify the nameless' It was discoy- cred in the examination of an early chart that when the physical features of northwestern Alaska were named one cape had been overlooked. The pesciler query, 'namer was made be- side it. copyist transcribed the scrawled question as Nome and the name has stuck"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-06
---------------.o---
 LUKE M'LUkE SAYS

The honeymoon is over when the bride sits down and wonders if she might not have done better.
 Fools. children and trunks nave a bad habit of telling the truth at the wrong time.
 Another terrible thing about prohibi- tion is-that after you stay home dozen nights the old lady gets you tanned to an extent where you can't refuse to help her with the dishes.
 A man doesn't mind being invited out to dinner. But he sure hates to be company when he isn't eating.
 It is mighty hard for man to feel proud when Le sees how his worldly possessions look when they are piled on moving van.
 What has become of the O. f. dude who used to be a big enough devil to use the postage stamp method of fir tation? Remember it? And what has become of the o. f. girl who knew the code of signals employed in fan filtration? Them was the bad old days,
 | The trouble with the man who chews tobacco is that he looks as if he had a deckle- edged mouth. | We have compulsory education 1T ] this country. And yet any high schoo princess will cneerfully hand two dol. 1 lars to fortune teller in exchange fol the information that she is going te marry tall. handsome man with curly hair. and live happily forever after. ! And you do not have to have any gilt 1 edged A-A-A-1-1-1 security when yo, start out to borrow trouble. ! There was a time when friend hus | band killed his home with his club Now things have changed. and frienl wife is doing it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-06
STEVENSON INDUSTRIOUS

From Robert Louis Steyenson's Contri-
 button to Literature sand Life" by
 Lauchlin MacLean walt, in the De-
 cember Scribner
 (Cl TEVENSoN showed that a man can nN) be true artist, and yet be indus
 trious. That he had really chosen the better part was of course fully proved. His mother was always sure of it. She had been his first amanu- ensis, when he had dictated his His tory of Moses" for his uncles prize. He who had been looked upon as the Bohemian idler, in six years became the worlds creditor by three books. 26 critical and social essays, five short magazine and periodical sketches, two long serials to be reprinted, and tons of experimental stuff doomed to the flames. or to be held over for later use, all in the interest of good.
 He had, besides, been hailed as "a new artist of first promise" But what is a new artist?" It may not mean new truth, or even an altogether new message, but 1t must mean a new pre- sentation of indubitable and incon- testable certainties, the re-illumnat tion of forgotten inspirations, fresh march ing music callida junctura, or skilled
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-06
ANOTHER DAY

By William Dean Howells. Another day, and with 1t that brrt soS Or that prophets rapture of the boy Whom every morning brings as sla5 zss
 a breath As if it dawned upon the end of ssatas All other days have run the cemn.on
 course And left me at their going nsit1se
 worse Nor better for them; only a little older, A little sadder and a little colder. But this--it seems as If thls aaxt
 might be The day somehow always thou ght ss
 see, And that should come to bless nas past
 the scope And measure of my farthest-reashiae4
 hope. Today, maybe, the things that vera
 concealed Before the first day wAs shall be rs-
 vealed; The riddle of our mi ssery shall be reaa. And it be cleag whether the dead are
 dead, Before this sun sHaii xink into tbe u,ssx4 7e tired earth rnAy have fallen on thga
 breast ss@ nle heaven the w3I'{a have pagssa
 a4ay z Ans ate. it .2 ks,o{:icr Gay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-06
Rush to Develop
 Country's Waterpower

A $ might have been expected, GA flood of applications for the right to develop the waterpowers of American streams have been pouring in on the federal power commission. Eighty eight permits are on file and they come almost every day. Three are from Alabama, two representing enterprises of the Alabama Power company on the Coosa and the third the plan of the city of Dothan to draw power from the Ghoctawhatchie river.
 Waterpower, magazine devoted to hydroelectric affairs, says: of the members of Congress had any doubt about the desire on the part of Amer ican projectors to develop the water resources of the country, that doubt has been dispelled now"
 America wishes her every resource developed. There are some wiseacres who figure on paper that hundreds of years hence, in case the present con- sumption of coal and ore continues, we will have no ore land and no coal. What do they really know about it :? Considering the slow pace at which nature has been divulging her re- sources, who has the right to say that there is not more ore and more coal hidden and to become available through new discoveries than we now have?
 Who knows but that the time will come when the waves of the sea will operate the machinery of the world and the suns rays, caught by appa- ratus suited to the purpose and stored in vats capable of holding it, will fur nish all the heat and all the artificial as well as all the natural light? Our waterpower is here for us to use, not conserve. The advantage of it's use is that it does not suffer de- preciation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-06
God of Metals

'I was very much impressed with the possibilities of Vulcan, the big iron man that stands so stately at the fair ground" said S. D. Weatherford of New York city. "The Goddess of Lib erty, gleaming from subdued lighting, is New York's emblem, and is typical of the Gotham town. It seems to me that Birmingham could have one just as significant by placing Vulcan on Red mountain.
 This would be wonderful adver- tisement for Birmingham. This iron man should be lighted just as the God dess of Liberty is lighted. and he would be as representative of this city as the goddess is of New York. Vulcan Is a Birmingham institution, and the people here should let the world know about him by putting him where he can be seen.
 Tn my opinion it would be a good idea to place a smaller replica of him in some of your parks, where again the significance of the god of metals and his attachment to the metropolis of Ala bama could be made more public. Vul- can is splendid advertisement for Bir- mingham and should be exploited"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-06

which will be sold to responsible per- sons at moderate price and on easy terms.
 Local financiers promoted this or ganization, which has stockholders among the capitalists of Richmond New York, Philadelphia and other cities. Eighty acres of land have been bought in a residential suburb of Charlotte. It is planned to erect at least 50 residences within a year, and more if they are needed.
 Now that the cost of materials and labor is coming down, an undertak- ing of this kind can be made profitable to investors and at the same time per form a great public service. The only way to provide homes for homeless Americans is to build them. AS long as comparatively few residences are being built in city there is little in- ducement for people to buy homes, be- cause houses for sale are held at the highest market price.
 A large corporation with ample financial backing is in a position to build houses cheaper and sell them for less than individuals or firms merely in the business for what they can get out of it, usually more than the prop erty is worth. Where a little public spirit is shown, as in the case of the Charlotte corporation, there is an op- portunity for people who have been exploited by property owners to get relief.
 There are other indications that the profiteering landlord will soon be a thing of the past.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-06
WARRIOR LINE TONNAGE
From the New Orleans States.

From the New Orleans States.
 |M\n ITH s barges in service, 3 of
 wv them of 1000 tons capacity five
 big towboats in operation and another about to return to service, ana five more boats of 1,S0o horse power each contracted for. Col. John P. Mayo of the Mississippi-W Warrior service expects to see a sem-weekly tow of 5000 tons of freight between New Orleans and St. Louis on a transit time averaging P days.
 This was one of the chief points he placed before the Lumbermens club in a talk at the weekly luncheon Tues day. Of interest to the lumbermen was the United States engineers report on the practicability of placing six locks and dams in the Tombigbee river between bemopolis and Columbus. Miss, which would open billions of feet of hardwoods and loHoliy pine for exploitation and marketing through New Orleans.
 The engineers have approved this work as wholly practicable, but are holding up 1 final recommendation until assured of sufficient freight to warrant the ex- penditure. An effort, with every indica-
 tion of success, is being made to credit
 the freight carried between Columbus l and New Orleans and Mobile to that route
 as whole. When this is done. the way will be cleared to start work on the
 locks and dams.
 Colonel Mayo reviewed the water traf- | hc situation in detail. He then de-
 scribed the immediate and prospective