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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-09
WHEN WEITSkEY
WAS PRESCRIBED
Facetious Writer in New York Paper
Explains the ! wenty-one Steps
Which viii be Necessary
TO Take.

Getting whiskey on a doctors pres
cription for the "flu" or some other
trouble has tickled the funny bone of
a writer in the New York Globe. A
Keokuk doctor who has received the
ci'>,0iag from the Globe passes 1t
along:
,,G.cctor Edwards has announced
the rules under which liquor may be
purchased, for medicinal purposes,
under the revised, revamped, and re-
inforced, prohibition amendment. The
complete proceeding follows:
/. Patient develops slight cold.
2. Speaks to wife about it; ex-
presses opinion that hot whiskey
might cure it. and suggests hurry call
for the doctor.
g. Wife suspects taking, and admin
listers white pine syrup and hot
lemonade.
A. Patient develops grippe.
5. Wife becomes alarmed and sends
for family physician.
g. Family physician satisfies self
that patient is not camoufIaging, but
calls in nine other physicians, as re-
quired by law. to verify his findings
and endorse the prescription for a
half-pint. ..
7. Bertillon expert is called to take
finger prints, foot prints, nose prints
and breath prints Of patient, all Oh
which must be affixed to prescription
for purpose Of Identification.
s. Patient is then reffuired to fill out
whiskey prescription questionnaire,
giving date of birth, color Of fathers
hair, number of cousins Who were ad"
dicted to drink, date on which he took
first sip of Intoxicating liquors, num-
her of times arrested for drunken
ness. complete list of severe colds,
etc, etc, etc.
Q Patient develops Spanish influen-
"a. - a.
10 Physicians then send finger
prints. QUESTIONABLE, etc, to Wash
ington to the senate. committee for
the investigation of prescriptions for
ccIds in the head and lungs.
II. Committee will summon patient
to Washington for a congressional
hearing.
u. Congress will hold two-weeks'
diliz. and then require a tWo-thlrds
vote before prescription can be en-
dorsed.
13. Patient will develop diphtheria.
IA. Senate and house will finally en-
dorse prescription, but send it to the
war department, navy department,
postoffice department, and commit
tee on Indian affairs for filing pur'
poses.
Is. Patient will then return to home
town on q stretcher, and present lin
ger prints, prescription and photo
graphs, QUESTIONABLE and congress
sional papers to druggist.
49, Druggist will then require eleven
good-character witnesses.
II. Druggist will then notify local
revenue agents that prescription has
been presented and revenue agents
will require carbon copy for card in
dexing.
18. Patient will develop pneumonia.
10. Druggist viii. go to cellar to fill
prescription and find that his stock is
exhausted.
20 AntfSaloon league will raid drug
store.
Il. Patient will expire.
(Slow music.)
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-09
labor Purity to Govern.

united Press Leased Wire Service.l
MONTREAL, Que, Feb. 9.--Great
bFltain will be governed by a labor
administration after the next election,
according to the rrophesy Of S. K. Rat
ciiilc, OF the editorial staff of the Man
chester tEngland) Guardian, while adj
dressing meeting here.
Although labor will win by an over
~ncllnlng majority, Radcliffe said, he
ieit certain drastic changes would not
oe made. as the labor party was at
present led by the conservative ele.
ment
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-09
OFFICIAL COUNCIL
PROCEEDINGS

There being no further business,
Council upon motion adjourned.
ED 8. LOTION.
Attest: Mayor.
O. w. sANDBERG, City Clerk.
January 20, 1920, 8 a. m.
Council met in regular session with
all members present, Mayor Lotion
presiding. Minutes Of meetings OF
January 20 and 2S, 1920. were read
and approved.
Resolution No. 981.
Be. It Resolved, By the City Coun
Gil of the City of Keokuk:
That the salary Of e. c. Mcpherson
plumbing inspector, be, and the same
is hereby, increased, from $3.50 to
s1O5OO per month, effective January
/, 1920.
Roll call:
Aye-Lofton, Hemmy, Hickey.
ED S. LOTION.
Attest: Mayor.
O. w. SANDBERG, City Clerk.
Resolution No. ee2.
Be 1t Resolved, By the City Coun-
ell of the City of Keokuk:
That the City Clerk be, and he IS
hereby authorized to issue Warrant
No. 10046, in favor of E. C. McPher-
son, for the sum of $4,000, to cover
expense of trip to Des MONIES to at
tend Housing ommissioners' meet
ing, January %, 1920.
Roll cal:
Aye-Lofton, Hemmy, Hickey.
ED S. LOTION,
Attest: Mayor.
o. w. SANDBERG, City Clerk.
There being no further business
Council took a recess until January
81, 1920, 8 a. m.
ED S. LOTION,
Attest: Mayor.
O. w. SANDBERG, City Clerk.
January 81, 1920, 9 a. N.
Council convened after recess with
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-09
WOULD ENLARGE
AIRPLANE MAIL
Postmaster Praeger ASKS For Three
Millions to Open UP New
Routes Through
the Sky.

limited Press Leased Wire Service. ]
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-Plans FOR
vastly extending the airplane mail
service were laid before the senate
postoffice committee today by Assis-
tant Postmaster General Praeger.
Praeger asked for $3,400,OOO for air
mail service to be used on. the present
New York to Chicago and New YORK
to Washington routes, and on the fol
lowing proposed routes:
New York to San Francisco via
Omaha.
Pittsburgh to Kansas City via st.
Louis.
Detroit to Cleveland via Toledo and
ST. Louis to ST. Pau[Minneapolis
via Chicago.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-09
HonoIuIu's lncongruous Christmas

New York Evening Fost: Honolulu
on Christmas eve consoles herself for
the lack of snow and other traditional
YuIetide fixings with what local
paper calls "a conglomerate festivity
impossible to counterpart anywhere
else in the world" with an aban-
donment of hilarity equalled only by
the pure fncongruity OF the thing,
Americans, Japanese, Englishmen.
Filipinos, Portuguese, Koreans, sol
diers, sailors and civilians, men,
women and children, took part in the
pageant of the streets, throwing con-
fetti and lighting firecrackers. q. After
all, it is the incongruity that makes
the celebration Of Christmas in Homo
lulu unique. Here in the melting pot
of the Pacific, where those who melt
are matched by those who resist the
alchemy, all nations of the earth meet
in common observance" Followers
of Budda and Confucius take part
in the christian festival with zest
inst as christians there help to cele-
brate the religious holidays of others.
But this is a strange Christmas pic
tire: Horns were everywhere, fire
crackers snapped and scattered, and
above the din at times could be heard
the plaintive tones of Hawaii's uke-
lele and the steel guitar.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-09

Aye-Lofton, Kenny, Hickey.
ED S. LOTION,
Attest: Mayor.
O. W. sANDBERG, City Clerk.
Resolution No. es4.
Be It Resolved, By the City Coun-
ell Of the, City of Keokuk:
That the City Clerk be, and he Is
hereby, authorized to draw the fol.
lowing warrants:
No. 1925, nineteen coupons at $40,
State Central Savings Bank, $4,000,
January 5.
No 1928, four coupons at $40, State
Central Savings Bank, $50, January 7.
No. 1929, nine coupons at 500, State
Central Savings Bank, $3.50, Janu-
airy 8.
No. 1890, two coupons at $40, State
Central Savings Bank, $4,000, Janu-
airy 8.
No. 9931. twenty-six coupons at $40,
State Central Savings Bank, $4,000,
January 9.
No. iOO23, one coupon $40, State
Central Savings Bank, $4,000, Janu-
airy 13.
No. 1oO24, six coupons at $40, State
Central Savings Bank, $4,000, Janu-
airy II.
No. 10O33, one coupon $40, State
Central Savings Bank, $4,000, Janu-
airy %.
Roll call:
Aye-Lofton, Kenny, Hickey.
ED S. LOTION,
Attest: Mayor.
o. w. SANDBERG, City Clerk
There being no further business,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-09

terry, superintendent Of poor, Keolrul1
to $3.50, and the county auditor is in
structed to pay same monthly.
On motion the minutes were ap
proved and the board adjourned tc
meet Tuesday, Feb. 3, at o'clock a.
m, 1920.
A. KAMME RER,
Attest: Chairman.
R. A. GARDNER,
County Auditor.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-09

The man who becomes reformer
after he's been tough until he's SO
IoId there's no longer any fun in it,
may some day walk the golden street,
hut If so people who've been decent
all their lives should take to the
Ialleys.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-09
Resolution No. 983.

Be 1t Resolved, BY the City. Coun-
ell Of the City Of Keokuk:
That the following payrolls be, and
they are hereby, approved and or
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-09
Seals of Nature.

Nature has carved on our fingers
these seals and they should be put
TO civilian as well as police use. I'm
doubtedly they have been the means
Of detecting thousands of criminals.
Hundreds of individuals who came
70 New York and are swallowed up
IN this great city. their bodies finally
landing in the morgue. might never
be buried in the potter's field if we
had national finger print registry
Of civilians"
The New York. finger print organi-
zation officials say that despite Mr..
Carson's charge, genuine finger
prints are an invaluable aid to iden-
tlty victims of train wrecks, or other
disasters and for ascertaining the
identity of persons who have tenn.
Pofartjy lost" themselves.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-09

all members present, Mayor Lotion
presiding.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-09
sunersede Old systems.

Handwriting experts may attempt
10 dscredit finger prints because
their use detracts from their bust
ness, but the TACT remains that
human seals as the finger prints are
called, are an unfailing test so far
as identity is concerned. They have
practically superseded the Bertillion
system in New York state, but, until
the law is changed, the Bertillion
must be used in the penitentiaries.
When the lines are blurred, as Often
happens, finger print is worthless.
but If they are clear it is infaliibie
evidence 1t has been shown that II
the finger ridges were shaved Oil or
sandpapered they came back.
III is popularity supposed that
finger prints usually are only SHOWN
in blood, The fact is that you leave
a finger print upon everything you
touch II is quite invisible to the
naked eye. The expert. however, Will
take bit Of powdera dark powder
on a light surface or a light powder
or dark surfaceand will quickly
develop the print. : The powders
used are lampblack, graphite, chime
bar, red and mercurious sulphide and
dragons blood.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-09
FINGER PRINTS
CAN BE FORGED.
!, vestiaatien Of This Charge is Being
Made by Association Of
Identification Off
cials.
ARE SEALS OF NATURE
rxnerts Can Develop Them in Easy
Fashion by Using Powder on
Substances Nc
Tcu,.

oHcials of the International Asso.
teton for Personal identification
~ organization having for It's
nhiact the afinger printing" of every
w woman and child in the United
s ts' and Canada, have started an
,nnnirv into the charge made by Mil
i'm Carlson, a Los Angeles hano'
writing expert, that flnser prints Can
carlson says he forged" the finger
,rints of a convicted murderer ~
Nov, Jersey in human blood on a
butcher knife, making perfect
,bpmb impression of man 3,O0O
niles away. Experts, it is said, pro-
bounced it perfect. So far as known,
the Californian is the first man to
onnopnce successful duplication OF
finger prints, used for the past l,0oO
Years as an infallible means of iden-
tfcation
Forged finger prints are possible
mt. ineffective, it is said by officials
If the international Association Tor
Personal Identification. GRIM
iral." said the secretary OF the
association, would not have one
chance in million of success in
fastening a crime upon an innocent
nerson by means of forged finger
print. Our researches show that IN
every case of reproduced print the
lines are too palpably false to deceive
skilled eye They show UP under
strong magnifying glass like rub
Der stamp or wood engraving and not
like the original finger lines which,
BY reason of perspiraticn and oil are
clear and sharply defined.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-09

Read The Daily Gate City.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-09

A resolution was passed raising thu
salary of James Low, third deputy
sheriff, to $1,000 per annum; r. H.
Hart, superintendent county home, to
] 200 per annum, and Charles Stat
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-07-22

Frank ZolnoWsky is moving to LAX
Andes where he purchased house
some time ago.
Mr.. Whipple of Mason City, Ia, ia
here this week visiting his sister,
Mrs. B. B. Cobb.
Mrs. Stransky, mother of Mrs. Guy
Brown. was here this week, AMI left
for her home in Chicago Wednesday.
w. D. Griffitha came over from
Sioux Falls Friday and joined party
of Scotland anglers who spent Sunday
at Lake Andes.
The farm never looked better, time
to get photograph made. Phone to
Wilcox, he'll come out and make it
for you. Don't put it f.-Adv.
Arthur Koepnick of Bancroft. Neh.,
was calling on Scotland friends We'd
nescay. In June he purchased half
section of land near Aberdeen, and
had received word from his agent that
it was again sold SO he was on his
way to complete the transfer.
Mr.. Frank Johnson, who lectured
Sunday evening, renewed former &C.
quaintances while here. A few years
ago ne was manager of this circuit,
and visited Scotland as advance man
for the Redpath.Vawter people to
make preliminary arrangements. He
is now successful platform speaker.
Mrs. ]. P. Serr of Creighton, Neb.,
arrived Monday, and was the guest of
Mrs. Chas. Treiber and other Scot.
land friends. She brought with her
little girl, three years of age,
whom Mr.. and Mrs. SER have recent
ly adopted. The child is the daugh.
ter of friends in Creighton. The
mother was victim of the flu, and
at the time of her death the child
was cared for in the Ser home, and
they became 40 attached to. her that
they succeeded in adopting her. They
went to Rapid City Tuesday where
they will visit Mrs. Serr's son.
Mrs. S. B. Miller went to Sioux
City Friday morning to enter the St.
Vincent's hospital for an operation
for gall stones. She was accompanied
by Dr.. Leighton. her son RAMSAY.
and Mrs. A. H. sprowl. She had |
been suffering from this attack for a
week previous and was so exhausted
by this and the trip that the OPERA
ton was not performed until Monday
morning. The operation was serious
but the patient is recovering.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-07-22

A fuse was burned cut at the trans
former, and a part of town out of
lights for several hours Tuesday ev-
ening. when derr;cE. OF. steam
shovel struck one of the big wires
and made short circuit. The steam
shovel had been working on the track
on the road to Tuscan, and was being
brought back and put on the switch
track The derrick was too high to
go under the wire and struck it. One
of the workmen had narrow escape
from instant death. Not realizing
that the wire carried voltage of SO.
600. and that it was not insulated.
be started to climb :.;r aud I'D II the
wire up out of t1e way Of the derrick
but the machine struck before be
could get up. As it was he got a
shock, as the current passed thru the
engine.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-07-22
Card Of Thanks

We wish to express our deep-felt
thanks to the many friends who chow.
ed 80 much kindness to our beloved
wife and mother during her illness,
and to US in our bereavement.
John Isaak
Mrs Ed Beyerle
Mrs Ed. Jungman
Mrs. G. w. Meisenholder
Mrs.. Dan Resner
Mrs. John Resner
John Hoffman
Jake Hoffman
L. Hoffman.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-07-22
Enjoy the Summer Breezes
Build a Porch
On Your House

-Our IIouSe Before that, however the average
house did not have porch People then did not appre
ciate the heahulnes and the joy of the great outdoors
If your house was built in the days when porches
we're not put houses you should build one mmedi-
ately 1t will make your home more inviting more
saeable, easier to rent, and more enjoyable.
porch is no longer considered useless ornament
but necessity that all the family will enjoy.
Any carpenter add porch to your house, and,
by using standard designs of Curtis exterior woodwork
as are used in the porch illustrated here, it can be built
at small cost and without the sacrifice of beauty
. Come in and talk over plans for porch with us
now and be ready for summer comfort We can give
you helpful suggestions for remodeling and for
adding porch to your home at reasonable cost
Arizona republican., 1920-12-27
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THROUGH A WOMANS EYES
BY JEAN NEWTON

stuff of them become our very bread and meat. Is it a true friend who would tear them assuder, who would wrench them from us dripping with our hearts blood?
 Under the skins of the plainest, the most prosaic of Us runs a gipsy strain. We are not what we show to the world, not placid individuals laboring that we may eat, drink and sleep, and eating, drinking, sleeping that we may labor again.
 We dream.
 We weave romanees in which no longer mere insignificant cogs in a great wheel. no longer bartered for a mess of pottage, no longer chained to the galleys for the right to live, we rule in scarlet and ermine and hold magic scepter. Is it a friend that would take the crown from my head. that would steal but one preciouss jewel?
 No! That I may do my part to make a garden of the galley. let me dream on. Let me draw the curtains and shade the lights and see my fairy castle: then I will be strong to ride toward it?-perhaps. But what mat ter, so long as can draw the curtains and shade the lights and see it?
 Copyright, 1920, by Public Ledger Co.,
Arizona republican., 1920-12-27
Confessions ofaBridg
NCPT'I1 l9SO bI Doe Neaspa Per ErG1rs Asoeia&on)

pretend, is always. in my husbands phrase-'home
 Some men need homes more than wives, perhaps; for the sense of home, and the need for it, which springs up in the heart of a boy, never dies out in the man. Better homes" is doubt less the great cure for divorce.
 Certainly. when Bob was sick, he needed me. his wife. He required the comfort I could provide, and the easy round of habits which I recognized. I was the place of his rest.
 But even as my husband turned to me. the self in me which was the ex- perienced wife framed another Jealous doubt:
 Why did Bob. still very sick, so plainly cringe before that gay con- tralto laugh Could it, by any horrid chance. remind him of the lost hours which preceded his collapse?
 When his strength returned, when his energy was restored, and his in terest in the outside world revived, would be still shrink before that laugh as if it hurt him?
 Or would he go forth to seek it, per haps to arouse it?
 dared not think. By mighty ef- fort of will. put aside the wretched thought and came back to my best self
 I must have courage told myself I must strive for the courage some one has thus described:
 Courage for oneself: sympathy for others. Courage for ones destiny. Courage to bear it or break under it. But always courage to wait for it.
 Gro be continued.)
Arizona republican., 1920-12-27
NEW PARLIAMENT |S
 NEEDED BY CHINA,
 PREMIER BELIEVES

PEKING. Nov. 23-6By maiI)- China needs new parliament and a foreign loan 10 reorganize the gover;l- ment. Premier Chin Yun-peng told newspaper men at the capital recently in a verbal statement. The premier outlined to the correspondents a whole program Of reorganization which the government hopes to put into effect The parliament, he said, should draft a proper constitution for reunited China, now that the mandate of Inc president has gone forth declaring peace between the northern and south ern factions.
 The premier said the government de- sired to reorganize and reduce the army and to separate the civil from military Jurisdiction. This last he said, might appear ridiculous to for eigners. but he added in China "the military have overstepped civilian powers so that one finds difficulty in drawing a clear line between the two"
 The premier referred to q report that the main reason for issuing the mandate announcing a reunion of the north and south was the desire of the central government to secure loans from foreign countries. T emphati- cally state that the government has no such thought" said Premier Chin. The mandate was entirely free from such a desire. On the contrary. 1t was only after this unity and in view of the gov ernments measure fer reorganization of the whole country that 9 necessity for the loan arose.
 The idea of a foreign loan was only to spare the people from making that loan themselves to the government Capital from abroad might be brought into the country and thus save the peo- pie from using their own capital al- ready earmarked for their own individ- ual undertakings'
 The premier declared. however. that the Chinese government would not make a foreign loan. although the necessity was pressing, except on such conditions as would not endanger the sovereign rights of the country or in volve any danger to it's political status If the loan could not be made on such terms. then he believed the Chinese government could rely upon the people themselves to come to it's assistance
 Everyone is aware of the govern ment's difficult position with respect to finances. he said. Many of the troops have not been paid for several months and government departments were almost unable to pay their staffs.
Arizona republican., 1920-12-27
WOMEN OF TEMPERAMENT SAY WILD
 ANIMALS ARE MOST STIMULATING PETS

who keeps a bear. a real honey bear, naming him harmlessly Jim"
 T have had many animals" she says, but none of them can compare with the little bear. He is an animal that cannot be tanned, and that's why love him. There is something wild in his blood, something caught. un- domesticated. He will never trust me -that's his charm"
 Then the lion cub belonging to Irby Marshall prima donna-a thing of magnificent black and yellow stripes, and with the gleam of the jungle in his eye-little as yet
 But" says Miss Marshall. nothing to be sure of-he will grow up, and begin to pace slowly. back and forth across the floor of my boudoir with a
Arizona republican., 1920-12-27
THE BOOK OF MARTHA Many Errant Men Want to Get Home" After an Erotic
 Excursion.

ms tinctively, clasped my husbands i'sIld d when Katherine's low laugh reached our ears. That laugh was uNe rich music, soft and low, but it's eCno o made me stiffen and left the
 it hurt mel could endure that. but ! could not bear to see how it hurt my husoand. He shrank from its sweet ness. He turned to me as if for pro- tecuon from it as if his nerves were 100 raw to endure the thrill of 1t, or as IT IL reused some regrettable asso- ciation in his mind.
 He turned to me, the wife, and l cuddled him in my arms as if he were child, and with a careless gesture, orew the coverlet across his head, so that his ears could not easily catch nose careless happy notes.
 As he hid his head upon my heart, my husband murmured, Home
 And just so, I thought. it must be with many errant men. They want to set nome after every erotic excur- slon. They are always, in the end, glad to be rid of the excitement of wandering romantically. The very fact that they must pose as heroes before each new flair gets irksome. The 1lattery grows stale. And so the wife, with her exact knowledge of a mans whins and moods and breakfast habits. her patience with his weak neSSeS. before whom a man need not