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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-15

THERE is character behind that pout
i of Peggy's. 1t is not entirely her
fault that she feels the Importance of
her desire so strongly. When she was
very small she used to want things with
her whole being. as every small person
does. If she couldn't have them, she
pouted prettily. If that worked she
smiled If it didn't. she drew the pout
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-15
Yesterdays Answers

Yesterday Answers
[ Miss Esther Schwartz, Of New
York city, is a Y. W. c. A.
nJnker who is to be national
Office secretary of Y. W. c. A.
work in Russia.
.. When a hatpin is rusty. push
ing it up and down in earth or
sand will smooth it off quickly.
B. A dainty girdle for the all black
or all white net dress is of black
net with u butterfly bow in the
back. At one hip there is a small
cluster of embroidered flowers in
pink, blue and green.
4. Grease from an automobile can be
removed with lard.
5. When a husband and wife are
calling ON mother, father and
daughter, they should each leave
one card.
8. An easily made cover for the
telephone book is made of Gre
tonne with pasteboard inserted in
the two pockets to keep the back
stiff.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-15
The Question Corner
Today's Inquiries

|. How can rust be removed from a
pen point?
,. Describe a pretty, easily made
camisole.
;. In what pretty way may the radi-
ator in a bedroom be made less
conspicuous?
4. How is white ink made?
5. What style of umbrella is conven-
lent for the person who travels?
g. How can a hat that is shabby,
but in good style, be made new"
again?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-15
CHAPTER "

TNHE magenta light of declining day
L lay on the water and Redeemed it as
if monsters were spilling gore in sub
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-15

NDUT / toont to!'' exclaims Peggy
ID with an easy pout. And that
settles it. She does. 1t makes no diff
ference if ''it" is buying ten cents worth
of candy, or going out on a rainy day
in thin satin slippers with nothing over
them. 1t has always been that way
with Peggy. No matter how big or how
foolish or how impossible her desire was,
if she wanted it she had to have it. AS
long as she wants the world to go on
revolving it probably will, but l hate
to think what would happen if Peggy
ever got dizzy and wanted it to stop.
She calls another girl on the telephone.
what are you doing today?" she asks
in descending scale that is almost II
whine, well, come on down town to
lunch with me. Yes, you have to,
want you to. You don't have to do
anything else, you know"
The other girl may be compelled to
refuse the invitation on account of her
own illness, of illness in the family. OF
being'too busy, of another engagement.
But Peggy won't take no for an an
swer," and she puts the full force of
her pleading whine into her voice, and
involuntarily assumes the pout, which
cannot be seen and does no good over the
telephone. but you must, / want you
to- she insists.
And if the other girl sticks to her
duty and does not go, the pout changes
to straight angry line, and Peggy
slams down the telephone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-12

And just d few blocks away are tome of the lowest elements in the .ity. We couldnt. leave lot of furni-
 ure, which had been in the family wen before the children, t their
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-12
Omaha 66 Years Young

Charles Phelps Cushing, in LesHes.
 You catch an impressive notion Of how young the city of Omaha IS when vou hear that when a certain woman of forty mine was born Omaha was flapper of only seventeen. This woman of forty nine, who, as yet, asks no odds of youth confesses that she can remember how in her childhood m Omaha red-skinned Indians used to frighten her by poking their faces into her mothers pantry window ana ue- manding in broken English, san wich' pleesei" or "Gimme pie And when she was a debutante of nineteen, no longer ago than 1890 she recalls the con siderable uneasiness that Nepraska felt when the Sioux went out on their last rampage. They were not supdued until General Miles rounded them up, just across the state line In south Dako : ia and slaughtered Sitting Bull and 300 or more ghost dancing braves anu souaws at the Battle of Wounded Knee.
 The woman who tells me this plays golf at the Omaha Country Club on nrairie turf that never yet has been broken by a blow. The city of which she is reminiscing is this summer only sixty-six years old, but it has popu- lation greater than that of Athens, Greece. or Venice. Italy. When the territory of Nebraska was thrown open to white settlement in the summer of 1S54 Omaha became town overnight. ITp to that time, the only building on the site of the present city was one long log cabin. The government census report just issued for 1920. shows Omaha today with population or l9l 60l
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-12
Like Toy Paper Village

On the seashore at Long Beach, Caif.' group of forty-eight curious houses has just been erected. in blocks Of SIN resembling in arrangement and con struction the toy villages that children make out of pasteboard.
 Each house outside it's timber frame- work, consists of wall of one-fourth inch plaster board coated on both sides with building paper, rising four feet from the floor a similar wall drops four fee~ from the floor; a similar wall drops four feet from the highest point of the rocf' and So-inch space between. in when there is no wall whatever. Into this girdle of open space is fitted band or canvas, waterproofed with benzine- beeswax mixture, according to an H. iustrated story, showing the exterior ot the cottages and the floor plans. which appears in Popular Mechanics Magazine. This strip of fabric. collectively, is the windows.
 The outside dimensions are only twen- weight by eighteen feet, yet each house accommodates two families. with com fortaole three-room apartment for each. The living rooms are thirteen by ten feet. the bedrooms nine by eighteen. and the kitchenettes eight by six.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-12
The Man in he Van
By JAMES J. MONTAGUE

We've been moving. In fact We are moving still. Still is right IL would be impossible for us to be moving any stiller Our goods and chattels and bares and Penates, and davenports and dishes are in the exact center of a busy suburban street.
 IT you want to know why they are there, ask the van man He won't tell you, but it will annoy him to ask him, and the more he is annoyed the better we will be pleased
 We didn't like the van man from the first. You get impressions of people that way. and when they are bad they are usually right. You sometimes have to revise good impressions. but never bad ones
 When we asked the van man how tions. continues the report the question arises What are you going to do about 1t There seems 10 be no concerted effort to deal with il as the govern nent has dealt with alcoholic liquors. . says Dr. Stanley. The manufacture transportation and distribution of mar cotics has not been curtailed, except as to dispensing by the Harrison law
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-12

and such blemishes. Her ambitions are first home, then children and then her appearance.
 One of the greatest blessings she can have is a fine, fair skin on face, neck and arms. The use of Stuart's Calcium Waters now and then for the blooo con dition makes this possible. Women are great sufferers from skin disorders and heRce their compilations are marred be- cause of this fact.
 Stuart's Calcium Waters give you a complexion that rivals the ideals of an artist to produce. By acting upon the skin and blood they thus contribute to mere beautiful complexion.
 Get a 60-cent box of these wonderful uafers from any druggist anywhere. Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-12
MUNICIPAL SALE OF
 NARCOTICS ALLURE
Dr. Stanley Makes Report on Outcome of Recent Experi-
 ment in America
By Associated Press

Chicago. September l1.-Municipal dis rensation of drugs through narcotic drug clinics is generally conceded to have been a failure, reports a committee on narcotic drugs and crime appointed by the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology
 The report was written by Dr. L.. l.. stanley, resident physician Of the Cali fornia state prison at San Quentin for presentation at the twelfth annual meet ing of the institute a Indianapolis Sep- tember 16-lS
 pr. stanley adds that probably no more municipalities will establish clinics of this type"
 Government monopoly of the manufac- ture of opium derivatives is recommend ed in the report. Dr. stanley urges that it be put on a plan somewhat similar to the minting of money.
 Narcotic drug clinics cited by Dr. Stanley ere those established at New York, New Orleans Los Angeles and San Diego He characterizes the failure of the New York clinic, which closed early this year after eleven months op- eration, as "oneo the two outstanding features in the past two years edvelop ment in regard to the drug addiction problem"
 Reasons for the discontinuanee of the .,ew York clinic are thus summarized in the report:
 Tt was found that Of the 2, 400 addicts who attended the clinic for their nar- cotics, less than 1000 were willing to go to a hospital for treatment, with ultimate cure in sight. The officials of the de- partment were convinced that 1t was not the proper procedure to give narcotic drugs to addicts for self-administration
 Some addicts sold the excess obtained at the clinic to other addicts or peddlers. rrrua nd tn -tAt fv.fre fIN.a lrt,a~ Friends of addicts became habitues through association with beneficiaries Of the clinic With very few exceptions. no cures were known to have been effected by means of the reduction system used. Ambulatory treatment was found to be vicious in principle and in effect; there is no need for prolonging addiction by continued supply of narcotics
 With the failure of the clinic and the aroused interest in narcotic drug addic-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-12

much 1t would be to move us into the new house he inquired how the some thing could he tell. The second word rhymed with the last. yet there was a $ little poetic about the van mans aspect as there is about that of a Mex ican peon.
 Pressed for some explanation of this abysmal ignorance of his own busi- ness the van man said that rates were going up day by day--even hour by
 hour They might go up while the
 furniture was on the van-probably would.
 In that case we would have to meet the advance when We met the furni- ture-met it and pay it.
 We told him to come anyway. There wasn't anything to do The man who had bought the other house over our heads was there with q court order instructing us 10 get out. If we didn't get out We would be in contempt of court, and have 10 go to jail.
 That would be all right In jail you are fed and sheltered and provided with plenty of company. But our
 lawyer told us that the court order wouldn't send the furniture to jail. That would have to be left out in the
 street. at the mercy of the clements
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-12
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him. So we paid the s1o2, and he and his vans drove away.
 What happened after thaesswe don't rightly know The vans didn't come to the new house that afternoon, nor the next one, nor the one after that and having no furniture nor any place to sleep nor any piano 10 play we be- gan to worry.
 So we went back over the route the vans were supposed to take and found them They were just off the car track on a nice street with cars and automobiles going by--in fact, very pleasant surroundings. even for higher class furniture than ours.
 The van man was there watching them. His help was gone. He wasn { disposed to be communicative at first. But he finally told us that his men had struck, and he'd have to stay there till the strike was broken.
 We suggested that breaking a strike out to be easy for a man as gifted at breaking furniture as he was, but he
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-12

said he had tried and he couldn't d4 And he cursed the strikers roun for lot of good-for- nothing ext tionists. who were robbing him off birthright f That is all the story. The furnf is sfflf there and the van man '1st moved about t. And we are iusts man enough to be glad that someb is annoyed besides us. We haven't furniture but the van man hasn't additional s2O0 or $500 we would h to pay him if his help came back work. And anything that makes miserable makes us happy. even if have to be miserable ourselves in or to be happy.
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rnE BIRMINGHAM AGE-HERAID SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 12 1920

mounted on beer ksgs-which- are plentiful nowadays--or small dry goods boxes.
 After the piano was slowed in the van the davenport followed along. It was only necessary to, break two legs off the davenport The other remained for a time projecting from the rear Then the other truck backed into them and broke them off. giving symmetry to the davenport that it lacked with only two legs.
 Gradually our furniture was all put aboard. When one layer was in, the van men jumped on it and packed it down. This didn't do the mirrors or the dishes a great deal of good. but it saved us the expense of a third van so We were really ahead in the end. You would understand why if you d
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-12
2 FI FtIINt et7- ' 1II VIII FU MIXTURE NOT WORTH
 MOVING PRICE

When everything was ready the van man wanted his money. He said that this was absolutely necessary. Often in the past people had let him take the furniture for the bill and the fur nitupe was never worth more than 50 per cent of the moving price, so he always lost money. He said he was tired of losing money.
 Of course we couldn't pay him the whole bill, for neither we nor he knew how much it would be. But after a while he figured that the furniture plus s102 would indemnify him in case we decided to leave the furniture witt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-12
WHY THEY NEEDED POWER

The van men came the next day with two Vans, and eight powerfully developed moving men We couldn't at first see why the men should be so powerful for the furniture is not heavy and they brought blocks and tackle 10 moye..it with. Hfj
 But we found out shortly, They needed their muscular development to put the furniture into the vans-to stow if properly.
 Take the pIano. for example. When it was presented to the rear door of the van if wouldn't fit The legs were in the way. It is or rather was, a grand piano. There is nothing grand about 1t pow
 The legs as l said. were in the way.
 The man who was moving the piano behaved admirably under the circum- stances. He didn't call for assistance. He didn't even stop and puzzle out a way to proceed. He just took the legs by the ankles and brokeathems off. one by one.
 The piano. went in very nicely after that. And, when you stop to think about the matter. pianos really don [ need legs. for they are carried about when they are travelling. and when they are standing still they can be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-12
Beauty's Ambition
To Rid the Face of Pimples and Such Blemishes Is Step Toward Life's Chief
 Accomplishment.

One of the most aggrayating conditions to any woman is the presence of pjmpes
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-02-26
|Peary, Discoverer Of
North Pole, Dead

Washington, Feb. 2O.-Rear Ad-
miral Robert Edwin Peary, retired,
Artic explorer and discoverer of Nor
tn Pole, died at his home here today
from pernicious anemia, from which
he had suffered FOR several years.
Arrangements for the funeral have
not been completed but he win be
buried with naval honors
He submitted to a blood trans
fusion here ten days ago. He was re-
moved to his home and his condition
was reported improved. He gradual
ly grew weaker and the end came
today. DIR. II. f. Strine, the admir-
ale physician, disclosed that the
TRANSMISSION this month was the thirty
fifth to which admiral Peary had SUBJ
mitted within two years.
Admiral Peary was GA years old and
entered the navy as a civil engineer
on October &c, 1881.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-02-26
LIBRARIANS join
FIGHT ON UNREST
American Library Association In
augurates Nationwide Books
for Everybody" Movement.
WILL AID FOREIGN BORN.
Social Problems Can Be Solved
by Teaching American Ideals
and Traditions.

The spirit Of unrest that has been
sweeping the country indicates that
the foreign born, who have fiocked to
the United States from every corner Of
the globe have not been given the
proper help and encouragement, in the
opinion of the 1900 librarians who
make up the American Library Associ-
alton and who are now enlisted In a
Books for Everybody" movement.
The effort is a concerted movement
to carry out the Enlarged Program
which the association has adopted.
There are approximately fifteen mil
lions of foreign born in the United
States and of this number six millions
do not read or speak the English Ian
guage. One phase Of the Enlarged
Program will be to bring the publisher
and translator together with the view
Of furnishing the proper books In suf-
ticient numbers to carry the message
Of American ideals and traditions to
this vast army OF uniformed peo-
pie. They have been largely dependent
upon the foreign press for their writ
ten messages. Many men who live
with their fingers on the pulse OF cur
rent events are firmly convinced that
4 sound foundation IN Americanism
can be easily built among the foreign
horn If the proper literature is placed
within their reach In a language they
can understand.
No Drive to Be Held.
In order to carry out the Enlarged
Program two million dollars will be
required. This money will not he
sought through the medium of a cam
paign or an intensive drive. but will
he obtained through the individual eff
forts of the librarians, library trustees
and friends Of libraries. The Amer
lean Library Association will bend
every effort to bring about the ma
tion-wide adoption of each Of the
cardinal points in the Program, which
includes the extension Of the county H.
brary sytem and the establishment Of
more Industrial and business libraries.
II now has in operation book service
10 the United States Merchant Marine,
Coast Guard, Lighthouse Service and
hospitals of the United States Public
Health Service. The needs of the
$4,000 blind persons In the United
States will be cared for. At present
the number Of books available is woe
fully inadequate. This will be rene
died and the joys Of good literature
will be brought into lives that are
darkened by a veil which will never
be raised by any other method.
Not all the work OF Americanization
lies in the great centers Of population.
Great sections Of the country where in
dustry is carried on by foreign work
ers do not know public library service.
There are important mining states
where less than a score Of Libraries
exist. One mining state has but tive
public libraries.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-02-26
GOOD BOOKS AT
ALL CROSSROADS
American Library Association
Urges Adoption Of County
Library System.
IDEA PROVES SUCCESSFUL.
California, the Pioneer--0ther
States Adopting the
Plan.
IDEA PROVES SUCCESSFUL.

The American Library Association,
In announcing its Books for Every
body" movement, which is to be nation
wide In Its scope, advises and urges the
extension Of the county library system
as a solution Of the problem of supply
ing good literature 10 the rural dis
tricts. Its intention is to persist In
advocating the nationwide adoption
Of the Idea as successfully applied In
California, Ohio and Maryland until
every one Of the 1894 counties in the
nation have adopted the system and
regular shipments Of good books are
being made from the central point In
the county to the designated outposts.
California stands out as the highpoint
in the successful application of the
idea. or the So counties In the state
42 have adopted and are supporting the
system at a trifiing cost. This 1t urges
as a part of its enlarged program which
aims to promote q better citizenship
and to combat the social and industrial
unrest through the teaching of Ameri-
can ideals and traditions to the foreign
born.
The book needs of the sixty million
or more Americans who live outside Of
the big cities will be called to the at
tention Of those In a position to serve
them.
County Libraries Urged.
The county library system provides
for establishing one central library at
the county seat or In the largest town
in every county. This does not mean
necessarily the erecting of a library
building and the stocking Of it's shelves.
In many cases the tools already exist
From this central station books will
be loaned to designated outpost sta
tions. The books will be delivered by
trucks, parcel post or whatever method
may be adopted in any given county to
the country stores, ~tollgates, post Of
fees, schoolhouses and private homes.
when one shipment has been circulat-
ed and returned another will be sent
out. Also, in communities of any size
in the county, branch Libraries will be
maintained.
The American Library Association,
with it's 1000 active librarian mem
bers and Its 10 years OF practical func-
tionlng, is In a position TO know the
needs Of the country and in the fight
for wider knowledge is a force to be
reckoned with.
The Enlarged Program calls for an
expenditure Of ST. 600. There will
be no drive or intensive campaign.
The money will be raised by the libra
rians, library trustees and friends Of
libraries. The movement for better
citizens and a well read population is
on and the slogan is Books for Every
body"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-02-26

The following bids for doctoring
tho County Poor. were presented:
Miller, s. D., Jan. 10. 1890.
To The Honorable Board Of Co. Com,
Hand County. South Dakota.
Gentlemen:
/ beg leave to submit to you for
consideration, my bid for doing all the
medical work for all persons who r
county charges during the year 1920.
I hereby certify that for the sum Of
tive hundred twenty-five (s225.o0)
dollars. / will do all medical work
during the year 1920, for colnty
charges, said work to be in accordance
with requirements Of the County Com
m~lssioners.
Respectfully,
J. r. Paddleford, NJ d.
Miller, s. D., Dec. 6, 1913
To the Honorable Board OF County
Commissioners Of Hand County:
hereby make application for ap-
pnintment as County Physician for
Hand County during the year 1920.
and agree to furnish to the poor OF
Hand County. when 30 directed BY the
Commissioners. all needed medical
and surgical attention. expect major
surgery. and furnish all medicines and
Dressings, except anti-toxins. and SER
ums, for the sum Of $250.00 per year.
Port Mcwhorter."
January ~. 1890
&C .sc Board g Comfy Communication
err. Hand County. South Dakota:
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Notice TO Township Voters
Miller. s. D.. Feb. 23,

Miller, s.. d., Feb. %, 1920s
Notice TO the freeholders and voters
of Miller township that We are going
to take action on the partition fence
law and other important business Of
Miller township. In regard to better
roads and other important business
for the benefit of the township. We
want all voters to come out the End
day OF March, 1920 TO the voting pre-
cinct. It's hard for the township
board to do any business without the
help of the voters of the township. (.
All turn out on the End day Of
March, 1920 and boost for the better
ment of the township.
We thank you very frankly.
Miller Twp. Board.