Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-12
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California, who had his apartment
in Washington sold from under him
that congress should meet elsewhere
than in Washington until there is
a drop in high prices of real estate.
Mr.. Kahn, when congress reassem-
bles' in December. Will offer a res
o!ution proposing that congress ad-
icurr to meet in Baltimore, Phtla-
delphia or some other city to es-
cape payment of heavy rentals in
the District of Columbia. Many 9TH
er members ~ congress sympathize
"The rent situation here has sim
ply reached a point where we can
should remain away until the prof
iteering ceases. Congress has moved
before in an emergency. we can
nav lust so much rent and no
more"
Miguel de Palactos, a widely known
author, is dead in Spain. He was
born in Manila sixty years ago and
during his career published more
than 200 works.
The average man, if told the
shoes he was buying were of part
paper, no matter what the price,
would probably seek 6o. another ahot Pon shoe
Mechanics magazine in an illustrated
article. And yet, on the authority
of shoemakers more than half of
the shoes sold today contain per-
centage of paper. But like many
have improved. and the honest man.
ufacturer of paper shoes has real
excuse for substituting paper ~or
leather wherever he can.
But undoubtedly some manufac-
turers have taken advantage OF the
general use of paper in shoes 10
obaopap tho ,r0dl1ct and swell prof
Two simple tests will help in de-
termining whether shoe Is All
leather or not. One Is to press tne
layers OF the heel. If they are or
paper the blade will readily sink
in The other consists in pressing
down the counter or toe; II OF pa
per, it will not recover Its shape,
but if leather it will spring back
again.
Petroleum production in the Uni
ted States has been on the increase
during the summer months, accord
ing to statistics made public by the
United States geological survey: IN IN
August production w vas aoo S ~ 4,1W
and 1926. 900 in June. For the
eight months of the year, including
August, the total was 246,111,00O.
Domestic stocks in storage also In,
creased during the summer and stood
against 126,76S,OOO June 80.
gallons Of lubricating oils for the
use of government owned and con-
trolled merchant ships for the year
beginning November "a, were lETlteo
tonight by the shipping board. De
liyeries are to be made at Atlantic
and gulf ports.
Tho Italian government has re-
fused permission to former King
Constantine, of Greece, to enter Italy
according to information reaching
the French foreign office. Constan-
tine. some weeks ago expressed
desire to visit Italy.
Capital from the United States Is
being invested in Canada at the
rate of $2O0,O00,000 annually, gov
The money is not going into in,
dustry alone, but is being invested
in Dominion' provincial If and exc mnnle
favors influx of American capital.
Of $275, 100000 invested in the
Canadian pulp and paper industry
about 80 per cent was American can
lars worth of Canadian loans, ex .
elusive of war securities, were held
in the United States.
The discovery of a violent case
of typhus among the steerage pas
sengers of the Holland-American
liner Noordam has resulted in the
detention of that liner at quarantine
/ dam has been in quarantine since
Tuesday night. All of the Storage
| passengers were sent to Hoffman
| and Swinburne islands, where they
The typhus case was that of a
woman steerage passenger. Or. u.
E. Cofer, the health officer who ex-
amined the steerage passengers,
pronounced the case violent. The
first and second class passengers
after rigid examination by health
officers. The vessel Will be thor
oughly fumigated before she pro-
ceeds to her pier.
AS a climax to Investigations
made by a large force of dry. field
deputies on, the staff of H; c. Mayer
all the breweries of Chicago, more
| than twenty in number, will be
shut down by the government. III
has been found, these Investigations
are declared to prove, that all nave
good old-fshioned brew! which
| knows no Eighteenth amendment, for
more than three months.
Twenty-Five members of the So
called Vengeance Gang, which Is al
legged to be an anti-British society
organized to conduct assassinations
of political personages, in Cairo,
Egypt, have been convicted of con-
spiracy by a court before which they
had been on trial for several weeks.
| The sentences will be promulgated
later. Four of the accused persons
were acquitted.
Half a million dollars for the re-
lief of famine sufferers in the Pc
king, China, district has been appro-
priated by the American Red Cross.
Three men were rescued in an ex-
hausted condition at Atlantic City, n.
j., last week. after spending the night
dashed to the masts of the yacht
Akista, bound from New York to
Florida. The craft encountered gale
! off the New Jersey coast and both
her sails were blown away. There
was an auxiliary engine aboard, and
this was employed to some advan-
tage. Slow progress was made, how
ever, and the sea swept over the
boat, flooding her cab.
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