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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-11-18

w yHEN you were child did you make
w torches Of the cat-tail plants by soaking
them long time in kerosene? That was
fun but not especially useful There is a new
use for cat-tails which is more practical. 1t has
recently been discovered that the roots Of the
common cat-tail found in swampy soil furnish an
excellent -four much like wheat flour,
about $500 pounds Of which are said to be yielded
from one acre.
Food chemists have found, says Life Exten-
sion Institute, that this -four contains every ele-
ment of nourshment found in grain flour. 1t is
the underground stems that supply the -four AMI
the process of stripping them is not unlike that
Of peeling potatoes and quite as easy. The
starchy portion is then released and be sifted
into -four which has been made into excellent
biscuit and buildings, in the opinion Of brave
pioneers who dared to eat them. Brave" they
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-11-18

Such device has been invented
by l.. c. Nicoson of Alexandria,
Ind. 1t is described in the Scien-
tific American as consisting sim
ply of a cradle into which the car
can be run and in which it can
then be tilted to any desired an
gie' 1t is very plain from the
accompanying illustration show
ing the outfit in action that in the
last-named respect it is far SUI
perlor to any pit or elevated
track. No longer is it necessary
to work above ones head in tink-
ering with the bottom of the dis
abled car which easily can be
turned to any convenient angle
and so worked at from the mos.
advantageous position. If the
car is wanted in a horizontal posi-
ton it can quickly be so placed
with the added convenience that
the owner is then able TO work at
it from above, instead of break
ing arms and neck to work from
below.
The track on which the cir
cular member rolls should be
noted, as we'll as the chain and
sprocket by means of which this
rotation is accomplished The
car is run upon the longitudinal
tracks by means Of skids or an in
clined runway, and is held in po-
sitlon against the rolling by
chains which pass about the
wheels and make them fast to
these tracks.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-11-18

were, because to try any new thing requires cour.
age. Most people would hesitate, feeling, half
afraid to try cat-tail flour biscuits.
at Is only weed"-you probably saying
as you read this. And yet there is nothing new
in this process of turning weeds into food. Fo,
10000 years man has gradually been working
out agriculture, changing from creature thai
searched over rocks and in woods for all his food
to a creature that cultivated food in stationary
places. Long before there written history Of
any kind man had developed an abundance of
nourishing vegetable food and he is constantly
adding to the variety Of his supply.
Potatoes are an American product and wers
not cultivated in Europe before the 18th century
Bects as a source Of sugar were not known unit
quite recent times. Tomatoes used to he though
poisonous. Perhaps in the near future we shat
be passing fields Of cultivated cat-tails waving
the breeze and eating cat-tai -four pie crust ever
meal for desert.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-11-18

unual patrol. and patrol performed Win the
minimum amount Of engine work You never see
4 vulture Napping it's wings except when flying
low; once we'll mounted it is the most mechanical
looking object In nature describing endless circles
in the blue with rigidly outstretched and motion
less wings. 1t is obviously necessary that so large
q bird whose meals are few and very far between.
fhould have evolved some method OF patrollins
without expenditure of vital force.
"Apropos of bird and airplane question has
recently come up to stowage OF lumber in flight.
The foreparts and feet OF birds when the wing
are simply so much dead weight, and 1t is inter.
esting TO that OF the four possible ways Of
slowing this away all practised by birds, and
that to be found In all four sections.
Crows and all their little relatives OF tte 'passer.
inc group-sparrows, swallows, etc.-draw their
heads back to the shoulders and tuck up their
feet in front and it is well known that crows can
quite Will il they like albatrosses, gulls and
birds OF prey draw in their heads but stretch out
thcir feet am their soaring powers are notorious;
storks cranes. pigeons ducks gannets, ETC.,
stretch ont both head and feet. and the first two
quite well, while the common pigeon may
often be to voplane for many yards.
THE fourth possible pose, with head stretched
out and feet drawn up, Is very rare. being appar-
entity confined to woodpeckers and toucans, and
to the barhets which form the link between them"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-11-18

esssry for the producing company Is to install
a hgh-class wireless telephone outfit which can
be bought the market right now and which Is
Immediately available. The rest is up to the wire
less fraternity, which has nothing else to do but
listen in. How this Is done Mr.. Gernsback de-
scribes follows:
At the receiving end, the future up-to-datc
radio opera enthusiast will, of course, have
first-class receiving outfit, using vacuum tube
plifers, and a loud talker such as depicted in
the right half Of the accompanying illustration.
Then it will be simple matter to listen to
Caruso himself, though he be a thousand miles
distant His voice will come out loud and distinct
and the amateurs family will be enabled to
"listen in" to their hearts content
There is still another novel scheme recently
originated by Mr.. Gernsback which he also de-
scribes in Radio Amateur News.
The underlying idea is not only to give grand
opera by wireless listen to the music and to the
singers only, but actually to the operate stars
on the screen as well. This is how it can be
readily accomplished by means which are avail
able today, and without the slightest technical
difficulty.
Fly way Of example, the writer takes the opera
"Aida' filmed in its entirety. This may mean a
four or five film feature. The opera will be filmed
Just like any other photo-play.
The stars, singers, players, the chorus, or.
chestra conductor, etc. are then assembled in
moving picture studio and in front Of them Is the
usual screen. The opera "Aida," which had been
filmed before is now repeated on the screen while
the entire cast follows the screen picture closely
Each performer, every star, every member of the
chorus has his or her own microphone in which he
or she sings the regular score, watching closely
the film play as the action is unreeled on tho
screen. The moving picture opera through the
film operator keeps time with the singers. and
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-11-18
FRANCISCO

into the hgh-power vacuum pliatrons, which
finally amplify the original sound several million
times. These impulses are then sent out over thu
usual aerial located on top of the house and az
shot out all over the country instantaneously.
Five hundred to one thousand miles away
and for that matter all over the country-everJ
moving picture house will have been supplied
with the identical film at the stated performance
it having been announced days ahead that th'
grand opera "Aida" will be given at such and
such an hour
Of course, where the distances are large. the
hour Of rendering the opera will vary. Thus, for
instance, if Caruso singing in New York
and performance would start at o'clock in the
evening, New York time, it would start in San
Francisco at o'clock in the evening, matinee.
due to the difference of time In much such
performances would probably only be held once
month"; people would not mind to inconvenience
themselves due to slight difference Of time.
Every moving picture house will have it's
ceiving apparatus with it's usual amplifers and
anywhere from six to dozen loud takers
scattered through the house. Exactly at the
stated time the moving picture operator will be-
gin grinding away-the opera has begun. Simul.
tancousy the distant orchestra will begin play
ing, filing the house with music.
When the actual performance begins, 1t will
be all easy matter for the operator to keep time
with the incoming music. All he needs to do i.
to grind faster or slower, and in much as Ca.
ruSO WIFI MS performers III new i Ork Is watch.
ing the Identical hlm the distant operator will
have no trouble to have the music keep time with
his him. If he finds that he runs ahead for one
second. he readily slow up the next and vcs
versa. With little practice it will be easy foi
the distant operator to time himself perfectly,
thus giving patrons of his house an ideal per.
Torrance
From financial standpoint, Mr.. Gernsback
says that it would be good business for the opera
company. as we'll as for the moving picture
houses, both Of which would thus derive a new
income running into the hundreds of thousands
without hardly any expense whatsoever. He esti-
mates that grand opera with outlay of from
$1,000 to $4,000 could buy its high power radio
telephone outfit, while every live picture house
throughout the country would be able with an ex.
penditure Of less than $500 to buy its necessary
radio telephone equipment and this cost would
only be initial, because nothing except burnt-out
vacuum tubes need be replaced and there Is prae.
ticaly no cost Of upkeep.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-11-18

the singers themselves must keep exact time with
the performance 1t is unrolled the
before their eyes. In much as the identical
cast has been filmed. it will not be difficult for
them to keep time with their performance,
as may readily be imagined. In other words.
says Mr. Gernsback, when singer sees his own
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-11-18

actly how and when to sing into the microphone
in front of him.
All of TIE microphones go to the wireless tee.
phone station located in the radio room above and
there are of course, sensitive microphones in the
studio which pick up the sounds from the orches-
ira well. All sounds are then stepped up
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-11-18
TT is not surprising that

TT is not surprising that
airmen have tried to
L learn flying from the
birds, although there is
one essential difference be-
tween these land all fly
ing creatures) and the air
plane, in that the for
mer's planes are also their
propellers, while in the
latter the planes are mere
~ supports to an object
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-11-18

pulled or pushed along by a quite independeut
propeller.
There is, however time when the conditions
Of bild and airplane are the same: that "a when
the bird ceases to flap and the airpane's engines
stop, when both resort to a gliding motion held
up by the resstaI of the air to their supnortna
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-11-18

"The sort Of bird that
the airplane ought to take
lessons from is the vul-
ture," says Mr.. Frank
Finn, the we'll known Eng
lish ornithologist, in de-
scribing in the London
Graphic the four different
ways that birds "stow their
lumber" or carry their
feet while flying. "The
vulture's life is one con-
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-11-18
"CRADLE" Used for REPAIRING AUTOMORJL]

lying on ones back to work in a very awkward
position, with grease and other things falling on
ones face and even in ones eyes. This is, appar-
emily not to be avoided when repairs of this ma
ture have to be made the road, but when it hap
pens in the garage it seems that there should be
some substitute for the good old game of "get
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-11-18
Cradle That Is Ready

An Automobile in Position in the
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-11-18
Four Ways Birds "Stow Their Lumber"

out and get under" To be sure, the pit is found
in an occasional repair establishment; but this
has to go in when the garage is built or its cos.
Is excessive. and it is only a halfway relief.
There would seem to be a wide field for some
simple apparatus that would enable a workman
to get at the under side of the car
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-11-18

the mechanism located
under the car. This has
always meant scrambling
beneath the car and
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-11-18

n TOT so very long ago somebody wrote song
M about getting out and getting under"
i Someone promptly suggested that the song
was the result Of the extensive automobiling ex-
perienco it's author may have had at one time OF
another when he was confronted by an emergency
in which he had to effect repairs to the parts Of
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-11-18

Newspaper Feature Service. 1890.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-01

twenty days in which to file an ans.
wer Failure to do so will be folt
owed by issuance of the injunction.
w. H. Austin, council for the brew
ing company, announced no attempt
will be made to manufacture 2.5 per
cent beer until war time prohibition
is terminated. Austin commended in
arguing for the injunction that the
eighteenth amendment is void because
it is not in accord with, or germane
to the constitution Of the United
States, and that the Volstead act is
void because the power is not con-
ferred upon congress to legislate with
reference to what constitutes an in
toxicatins liquor.
He contended that the second pro-
vision of the eighteenth amendment
confers upon congress and the several
states concurrent" power to pass ap-
Dropriate legislation for enforcement
Of prohibition, and that under its po-
lice powers the state, before congress
took any action, passed the Mulberger
law for enforcement of prohibition,
and defined as Notwithstanding all
beverages containing 2.5 per cent al.
cohol or less.
The Volstead law is in direct conflict
with the state law, they argued, and,
in so far as intra state manufacture
and sale is concerned, the state is su.
perior to any act Of congress, so long
as the beverage authorized is not in
toxicating and that 2.5 per cent beer
is not intoxicating.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-01
ORIGINAL NOTICE.
State of Iowa, Lee County-ss.

State of Iowa, Lee County-ss.
In the District Court of Said
County. ....A
Luella Wood, Plaintiff, versus
Jesse Wood, observation-disclosures
notice.
To the above named defendant:
You are hereby notified that petit
ton is now on file in the Clerk 4
Office of the District Court aforesaid
at Keokuk in behalf of the above
named plaintiff. against you and
claiming judgment against you for a
divorce and alleging that said de.
PENDANT has deserted her, and that
you have been guilty OF such cruel
and inhuman treatment as TO en-
danger her life. And also asking for
the control and custody or the minor
children, Marie Wood and Dorthey
Wood.
And unless you appear thereto and
defend before noon of the second
day Of the next regular April Term
of said Court, to be begun and holden
at Keokuk on the 18th day of April
A. D. 1920 default will be entered
against you and Judgment rendered
thereon as prayed for IN said peti.
ton.
A. L. PARSONS.
Attorney FOR Plaintiff.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-01

sustained and its power OF controi
of it's subsidiary companies pc re-
tanned and exercised in the foreign
trade and given up in the domestic
trade? The government presents no
solution Of the problem, but we are
confronted with the necessity OF I'M
mediate judicial action under exist.
ing laws, not action under laws that
have not been and may not be en-
acted. We must now decide, and we
see no guide to decision in the propo-
sitions Of the government.
I'm conclusion we are unable TO
sec that the public interest will be
served by yielding to the contention
Of the government respecting the
dissolution of the company. or the
separation from it of some OF its
subsidiaries; and we do see i'm a
contrary conclusion a risk OF injury
to the public interest, including ma
terial disturbance of, and, it may be,
serious detriment to the foreign
trade. And, in submission to the
policy of the law and its fortify1ng
prohibitions, public interest is OF a
paramount regard"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-01
KEEP URIC ACID
OUT OF JOINTS
Tells rheumatism Sufferers to Eat
Less Meat and Take
Salts.

Rheumatism is easier to avoid than
to cure, states well-Anown authorl-
ty.a We are advised to dress warmly;
keep the feet dry; avoid exposure;
eat less meat, but drink plenty OF
good water.
Rheumatism Is direct result OF
eating too much meat and other rich
foods that produce uric acid, which
is absorbed into the blood. 1t is the
function of the kidneys to filter this
acid from the blood and cast 1t out
in the urine; the pores of the skin
are also means of freeing the blood
Of this impurity. In damp and chilly
colds weather the skin pores are
closed, thus forcing the kidneys to
do double work; they become weak
and sluggish and fail to eliminate the
uric acid, which keeps accommodating
and circulating through the system.
eventually settling in the joints and
muscles, causing stiffness, soreness
and pain called rheumatism.
At the first twinge OF rheumatism
get from any pharmacy about four
ounces Of Jad Salts; put table
spoonful in a glass OF water ana
drink before breakfast each morning
for week. This is said to eliminate
uric acid by stimulating the kidneys
to normal action, thus Kidding the
blood of these impurities.
lad Salts is inexpensive, harmless
and is made from the acid OF grapes
and lemon juice, combined with
Hthia. and is used with excellent re-
suits by thousands of folks who are
subject to rheumatism. Here you
have pleasant, effervescent lithfa-
water drink which helps overcome
uric acid and is beneficial to your
Kidneys as well.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-01

ceipts. 5000 head. Market Csc higher
Native beef steers. $8.00@15.50; year.
ling steers and Iheifers, $7.00@14.00;
cows, $4.50@1O.50; stockers and feed
ers, $700@1O.50; calves, $4.50@16.50;
cows and heifers, $4.50@S.00.
Hogs Receipts, 1880 head. Mar
ket 10 to 15c lower. Mixed and
butchers, $I4.50@15.25; good to
heavy, $13.50@14.0O; rough. $4,000
1915; light, $15.00@15.30; pigs,
Sheep Receipts, $500 head. Mar.
ket steady. Ewes. $12.00@13.25;
lambs, $19.00@20.25: Gamers and
choppers, $4.00@90o.
omahs Live Stock
OMAHA. March Cattle receipts
1900 head; market 15@25c higher.
Steers. $8.50@13.00; cows and heif-
|ers. $6.5001O.O0; stockers and feed
'ers. $6.00@l1.25; calves. $6.0O@15. 90;
bulls and stays. $700@950.
Hog receipts, $500 head; market
15ct clover. Bulk, $13.50@14.00; top,
.$14.25.
Sheep receipts. s,4OO head; market
.25Q50c lower. Yearlings. $4,000
lbs; wethers. $13.25@1425: lambs,
I$1775@19.35; ewes, s12.O0@13.25.
Kansas City Live Stock.
KANSAS CITY. Mo-. March L.
Cattle Receipts, II, 900 head. Mar
ket steady Native beef steers, $1,000
@15.25; cows and heifers, $1,000
1925; stockers and feeders, $500
1925; calves, $7.50@15.50.
Hogs-Receipts. $4,000 head Mar
ket steady to 10c lower Bulk, $13.75
@14.40; heavy, $13.65@14.15; me-
dunn, s1S.s5@14.45; light, $4,000
1850.
sheep-Receipts, 10000 head. Mar
ket steady to Csc higher. Lambs,
$1S.75@19.75: ewes, $12.25m13.75;
stockers and feeders, $16.oo@1S25. !.
Chicago Produce.
CHICAGO, March 1. Butter
Creamery extras, Csc; creamery
standards, CSC; dairy firsts, 57@64c:
dairy seconds, 49@53c.
Eggs-ordinary firsts, 42@4sc;
firsts, 495s@50c.
Cheese-Twins, &c; Young Amer
'icas, 30Ac.
pidtoeS- 5ItecSlpIS, ID cars; Wis
'consins and Minnesotas, per cwt.,
s4.50@4.75.
Live poultry Fowls. SEC; ducks.
36c; geese, Csc; spring chickens, 34c;
turkeys, 40c.
New York Produce.
NEW YORK, March -Flour-Dull
irregular.
rk-Quiet.s Mess, s41,Oo042.oo.
Lard-Easier. Middle west spot,
s20O0@21.10
Sugar raw-Firm.
Refined-Quiet. Graduated, STATS
@16.0O.
Coffee Rio No. on spot, 14Nc.
Santos No. 4. 24@241ac.
Tallow-Dull. City. 14Ac; special,
Hay Firm. No. i, s2.75: No. 8.
$2.40@2.60; clover, s2.35@2.s0.
Dressed poultry-Steady. TURKEYS.
44@55c;i chickens, 2G@2sc; 4 fowls.
ri " 0D40c; ducks, 36041c.
Live poultry Nominal. Geese. %
@22c; ducks, 30@35c: fowls, 4oc:
turkeys. 35@40c; ROSTERS, 20622c.
chickens, 26@33c.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-01
New Minister of Labor.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
LONDON, March 1T. J. McNa-
mara, NJ. P, financial secretary of tbs
admiralty, probably will succeed Sir
Robert Horne as minister of labor, if
Horne is advanced to the post of presi.
dent of the board of trade to succeed
Sir Auckland Geddes, the Daily Mail
said today. Geddes. it was understood
probably will depart soon for Wash.
ington to become ambassador to the
United States.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-01
). Department of Agriculture,
Weather Bureau.l
Weather Forecast.

III. S. Department of Agriculture,
Weather Bureau.l
Weather Forecast.
For Keokuk and vicinity: Fair to-
night and probably Tuesday; rising
For Iowa: Fair tonight and prob
ably Tuesday; rising temperature.
or Missouri: Fair tonight and Tues
day: rising temperature.
For Illinois: Fair tonight and prob
ably Tuesday; rising temperature
Tuesday and in south and west por-
tion tonight.
Weather Conditions.
A strong area of high pressure, cen.
trail on the Gulf of Mexico, is causing
unseasonably cool weather in the
southern Mississippi valley and gulf
and southeastern states; with ffeez-
ing temperatures extending as far
south as New Orleans this morning.
Low pressure areas appear in the low.
er lake regions, on the Pacific coast
and in the Canadian northwest. The
weather is generally fair in all dis
tricts except light rain was falling on
the Pacific coast at z a. m.
Owing to the Canadian disturbance,
the temperature is rising in the north
ern mountains and in the plains states.
Local Observations.
Feb Mich. Bar. Their Wind W'th'r
Feb. 90, 7 p. m. 5000 30 w Clear
,Mch. / q a. m. 30.13 % w Clear
River stage at Z a. m, KOS.
Change in "a hours, xO.6.
Mean temperature, %; highest 80;
lowest, 10; lowest last night, 3d.
Relative humidity, z a. M, 70; IL Ill.
10; Z p. M, 81.
CARL. e. HADLFY,
Official in charge.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-01
PASSENGERS Taken Off.

TUniteG Press Leased Wire Service. ]
HALIFAX, March I.---Sixty-four
passengers Of The IAyland liner
Bohemian which went ashore off
Sambro point at $3.50 this morning,
were taken off by the steamer Rob
ling and were being brought to this
port. The Bohemian was said to be
in no danger and was expected to be
released at high tide.
Later reports said there was water
in three holds of the steamer but
that she could be fioated if calm
weather continued. She struck bow.
on in a snow storm while trying to
make this port to recoal. There was
no panic.