davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-02
worId,s Greatest Loeomotive.

When 150 prominent railway men and engineers from many parts of the United States and Canada gathered at Erie, Pa. a few days ago to wit ness trial tests of a new type of gear less electric passenger locomotive they believed, most of them at any rate, that the exhibition would be of a perfunctory nature. Instead, they saw what F. J. Sprague, consulting engineer and known as the father of railway identification" described as ''the most magnificent exhibition of electricity applied to railroads that this country has ever seen"
 Indeed" added MT. Sprague during a dinner which followed; q think the thing has never been duplicated in this or any other country
 The feature of the exhibit. sprung at the last moment was unique in the annals of identification, for it was a test of brute strength between two powerful steam locomotives and the new electric-nothing less than a tug of war between three monsters of iron and steel to a finish.
 Throughout the greater part of a dark cold day in the works of the General Electric Company in Erie these engineers and railway eXecu- tives had been busily engaged in com pairing notes and figures and examin- ing with interest the great electrical monsters. Nearly dozen high speed tests had been run off over the com pany's test tracks, in which one of the new locomotives without gears or transmission hauled two passenger trains filled with guests over the four miles of track at a speed of more than mile a minute and carrying twenty passengers in the cabin each run.
 The stellar event took place just be- fore dusk. Two modern steam en- gines-the kind the New York Cen traI uses to haul it's limited trains were switched to thespur of the track and coupled securely to the electric locomotive. If the two contestants had hauled in opposite directions there might have been danger of pull ing out the drawbars and a resultant accident This possibility was avoid ed by having them push against each other.
 At a given signal from the super visor the steam engines got underway | and began showing the electric ehead of them along short piece of straight away track; then the current was gradually turned on the electric, while ! the engineers of both steam locomo
 tives opened their throtled to the last notch.
 What was the surprise of the crowd
 to see the steam engines slowly but
 surely lose momentum, and finally
 come to complete stop.still with i their throttles wide, ,Apuffing and chug' 1 ging as under an extraordinary strain i Then what appeared to be the impos-
 sible happened and a great cheel went up from the crowd as they saw the steam engines forced backward
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-02
CIRCULATION WEEK ENDING DEC. 27th. 1919
 1O,575
.wILL HASTEN TREATY ACTION.

Seemingly the activity that has been displayed among the senators looking toward the compromising of the diff ferences on the treaty, and the evil dent inclination of the democrats to get the best terms possible and then vote for ratification, has aroused the interest of the president. It is not disclosed that he has any plan for reservations, that he is in favor of the indicated course of those who follow ed out his directions or that he is ready to depart from the position that - he has steadfastly held. but it is indi- cated from the visit of his secretary to the capitol and his call on Senator Hitchcock that there is a. desire to get ia touch with the situation more closely.
 With the senators sounding opinion and getting expressions from those taking opposite views during the holi- day recess it is quite evident that there is a movement underway to re- conCjle differences but the strange thing is that the democratic leader is offering to compromise without know ing what the presidents plan is or what lie is likely to do should a com promise among the senators relative 10 reservations prove successful With out knowing what he will favor or plat fe will veto, further than the previous declarations regarding the pocketing of the treaty and the ap- peal to the democrats not to approve t with reservations the democrats are left to thelr own initiative without the - assurance that what they favor will go through. For that reason the diff faculties of eTecting a compromise are increased.
 Thus the outcome of the Humility visit will be awaited with interest for apparently the situation has created uneas.E ess at the White House If the president is ready to admit that it Is impossible to get ratiEcs tion of the treaty without reservations and is ready to accept the best compromise that can be effected in the senate it will not he long before the peace treaty will be finally acted upon.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-02
THIS WAS DIFFERENT

TT think you might tell me truly whether you are going to marry that Maynard Hillwright man," aggrieved- ly crged the girl in the suit trimmed with squirrel. Here I've known you since we played paper dolls together, and everybody keeps asking me about it and seems so surprised because I have to say I don't know. You ought -to realize that you owe me at least. that much. Besides, if I've got to save up for a. wedding present -
 You don't want much objected the girl who was ripping the drapery off her new turban in order to try it three other ways and finally put it back as it had been originally. I'd love to tell you, len, but how can I? It isn't as though things ever were as thought they were going to be-you know what I mean. Now, most girls know right away whether they are going to marry a certain man. They know he likes them and they like him, and everybody is willing, and that's all there is to it, but my affairs all ways get so complex or else something turns up that nobody expected. Do you remember Tommy White?'
 "Oh my good graciousi" gurgled the
 
 Could I ever farget him? He was all of IS when you were IA and he was so mad about you that he even gave up football so he could walk home with you afternoons. What has he to do with it ?'
 "He was the first" said her hostess. TT was so impressed with Tommy s 1 heroics that I agreed when he asked me to elope. Besides, mother had told me I couldn't have another new 1 hat and l decided my family didn't want me any more. I went out to 1 meet Tommy at the time agreed and he took my arm to pilot me down the steps and I slipped and stepped hard on his foot and he jumped and landed | on mine-and we just stood there calling each other names for being so l rude. He said 1 was clumsy and l told him he was no gentleman and we | forgot all about eloping.
 | "The end of that romance sort of made me suspicious of mans con- zstancy. The reason I liked Jack Deer fngson next was that he was so diff ferent. He-'
 Wasn't he a peach!e chimed in the caller enthusiastically. You were the best hated girl in the crowd when we
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-02

first only by inches, but gradually as the full power of the electric was brought into play. the procession be- came almost a rout.
 When the test ended few minutes later the steam locomotives were klovikg sdadily backward and Che electric locomotive was declared the victor Interesting and spectacular as this test must have been to the laymen present it was more signifi- cant to the engineers of the General Electric Company. who had devoted years of their life to the perfection of this powerful electric locomotive. It was a conclusive test of power be- tween steam and electricity.
 This new locomotive is said to be one of the most powerful passenger locomotives in the world It. uses 5000 volts direct current and has horsepower of 3.240. There are four teen axis on which are mounted mo- tors, each of which by direct connec- ton turns one set of driving wheels The locomotive is IS feet long, IT feet high and weighs 265 tons. of which weight 229 tons rest on the drivers. The locomotives have been designed for handling in normal service a twelve car train weighing 960 tons
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-02
Cleaned from Foreign Ex.
 changes

Tickner Edwardes writes There is something of mystery about the arbitrary way in which the hoar-f frost gathers upon leaf and. twig on these foggy, chill December days.
 Though from a distance, the whole wood-towering ree-top above, and tangled uidergrowth beneath-seens merged into universal white, nearer view reveals a curious quality about it.
 The hoar-f frost is not veneer, an encasing, upon everything, as though all had ben delicate fad, microscopic ice-crystaIsf of which the frost is composed, deposit themselves mainly 5on the edges and outstanding parts of things. Each of these dead brown leaves still banging in the oak-scrub, has it's rim and veinings eXquisitely pencnled with pure white, while the rest of the leaf remains almost as brown as ever.
 Underfoot, all the rich green and russet and crimson of the bramble foliage are still as vivid in hue as they were under the warm pattering raindrops of yesterday. But now the hoar-frpst4 has made a picture-frane 1 of tiny icicles round every leaf, and surrounded each harlequin blotch of glowing colour with a herring bone stitching of silver thread.
 Weighing fBrontosaurus"- Should some lucky hunter succeed in bagging the "brontosaurus'' which is believed to be roaming the Belgian Congo; an opportunity vii present itself of test 1 ing the degree of accuracy with which it's weight has been estimated. That was done by making a small model to scale based on a skeleton | 'fbronto" eXcavated in Wyoming, and finding out it's equivalent water dis l placement.
 The result gave a, total weight of
 38 tons. Heavy enough in all con i science, but only about two- thirds of
 the weight of a full -hized whale.
 0. c. Devastated Areas.-"He i spoke in French, but his ideas were i American, wrote an American inter
 viewer once of M. Loucheur the l French Minister Of Reconstruction who arrived in London Dec. 18th fo1 | important conferences with the French aGd British Premiers at Downing. street.
 That was obviously the highes praise an American journalist could give, and M. Loucheur is a remark able man who merits praise in what
 ever terms our nationality may leat
 us to phrase it. One of the most fam
 ous engineers in the world, he had t
 write 62 letters of resignation to a.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-02
TIE LYNcHINe RECORD.

In view of all the. sentiment that has been aroused in this country against lawlessness and disorder, it is plain from the lynching record that has been put forth from the Tuske- gee institute that much needed atten-- tion of a corrective nature is being given. in certain directions but neg lected in others. The record of S2 lynchings, including seven burned at the stake, shows an increase that is by no means creditable. What seem ed to have been a movement in the other direction a few years ago has been followed by a much worse per- iod and one of. the deplorable fea- lures is the large number of cases in which the offense for which the lynch ings resulted was of minor. charac- ter. There has been manifested a de- termination to deny justice to law berakers just because their skin was black and without waiting to have the facts in the cases proved. The fact that. an accused appealed a ten year sentence, that another made boastful remarks, that a 1ynching was discussed, that incendiary talk was indulged in or that robbery was com mitted is by no means 2 cause. for lynching or the thoughts of such ac- tion. Those accused of some of those things should undoubtedly be punish ed if proven guilty but in no instance did the offense call for capital pun
 shment even under the law :.
 The south as usual is the hotbed of such activity. There all but five of the lynchings took place and more than a quarter of all that occurred ir the country wore staged in Georgia where there were 21 cases. Thus Georgia continues 10 maintain an un- enyiable reputation, with Mississippi
 and Arkansas tied for second honors with twelve each.
 Frequently it has been maintained that sentiment in Georgia is agains lynchings, but with the number ir. ! creasing instead of decreasing i
 seems evident that it is not being used to check the 1aWless practice Even the country doesn't appear to b.
 exerting the influence it should t
 prevent such mob rlse.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-02

many boafds of directors of which he was chairman or member, when dur ing the war he joined the French Min stry of Munitions.
 Those who know the devastated tareas of Northern France will agree that their reconstruction calls for the efforts of just such man as this, whose word carries weight in every business and engineering center of Europe.
 Scottish Authors Death: The au- thor of those delightful books Gil lespie" and "Barnacles" has died in the prime of early man sod. The Rev. J. Macdougall Hay, who wrote these volumes, had not reached the age of forty, and much more work had been expected from his pen.
 He was one of the large company who have cultivated literature in a Scottish manse, and many will grieve to hear of his decease.
 Hats to Match Mems Hair-The lat. est mans fashion-a striking proof that vanity is not confined to one sex-is a hat to match his hair. And ne is sure of feminine approval if he buys just the right shade.
 This afternoon, for instance, writes a correspondent, I heard a lady in Regent-street, enthusiastically praise the hat of a stranger walking just in front of her. How lovely his velour hat matches his grey hair! Isn't he a l darling? But what are you to do if your hair is-well, auburn? A Youthful AdmiraI-Two interest ing sinecures are held by one of the Eton College prize winners, the Mar 1 quis of Donegal, who has just carried ! of fIo | This 16-year-o peer inherited with l his titles the post of Governor of Carriclzfergus Castle, an historic structure, now used chiefly as an aT- Inoury, near which William III land ed before the Battle of the Boyne Then he is also Lord High Admira. of Lough Neagh, which is the largest i sheet of water in the British Isles
 with an area of 5 square miles. The tough has been held, also, to be the oldest lake in our islands, extending
 back beyond the glacial epoch. Tht noble Etonian should be a wet bob | with such associations.
 Clerical Poverty-The poverty of tn,
 clergy, of which there are many mov ing tales today, is no new thing il English history.
 I In the time of Elizabeth they wer
 often driven to become shoemaker
 or tailors to earn their bread 9Th
 revenues of the English church,
 said a writer in the latter half of tn
 seventeenth century, quoted bs
 Lecky, "ass generally very small al
 insufficient, so that shopkeeper o
 common artisan would hardly chang
 their conditions with ordinary pastor ) of the church. Men think it is a stai to their blood to place their sons i
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-02

saw the rest of us hadn't a show. Why 1t didn't end in wedding bells always has been marked mystery to me"
 Tt was odd" agreed her hostess cheerfully, trying the drapery of another way around the hat crown. My family said. of course, I was too young to be engaged, but they liked Jack and iet 4l-A cal all he wanted and his mother said 1 was exactly the sort of girl she hoped Jack would pick out and he always brought me the right sort of flowers and my kind of candy and wore such nifty neck ties and had. such an air about him. l. guess it was because there wasn't a bit of opposition that we fell out There was no pep to the affair. We got so we yawned in each others faces and didn't mind and the more our families reproved Us for our care lessness of each other the worse we got, until in self defense we stated that if we were the last persons on earth we wouldn't dream of marrying each other, although we expected to be terribly good friends-and every body argued and wept distractedly ex- cept us.
 Before Henry White could decide whether he really like me that yellow haired girl from Minneapolis stitched nlIn away. Anu WniN3 was LnlnKlng that in Robert Holmes 1 had at last met my fate his company sent him to South America and forgot all about him in a month. So I kind of d1strust myself. Something always happens. I never shall be able to tell" But if you're engaged to him!' per- sisted the caller.
 .sHuh' said her hostess, pinning the trimming into its original folds, whats being engaged. That doesn't drive away the jinx But don't mind saying, Jen, that unless Maynard falls into a subway. or meets a girl he once 1 loved in the dim past" ."Oh, then you are-''
 "Or," pursued that hat trimmer dimpling, unless I discover it isn't 1 brown eyes at all I'm wild about, o1 unless I lost my complexion or change my mind, maybe some time unless Maynard loses his job or meets some one else he likes better-why l thre is a possibility that at last ] ] really am going to be married next 1 month";
 ''Well, that's conservative, to say the least" gasped her friend in gray squirrel l.-Exchange.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-02
waiting to be filled.

waiting to be filled.
 In many instances this lack of pro- duction is caused by the high prices and the unwfllingness on that account of the manufacturers to lay plans for an uncertain future. The demands are such, however, that production is bound to be the great need for an in definite period and when some idea can be formed regarding the point where prices, are likely to become fix ed then business can see it's way, and more definite plans for meeting pro- duction demands will be undertaken.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-02

trailing against a gread of per cent at twenty five miles per hour. Tests have shown that the gearless electric locomotive operates at 10 per cent higher efficiency at fifty miles per hour than the geared type.
 The center cab is occupied by an oil fired steam boiler for heating pas senger trains. with accessories, in cluding tanks for oil and water cir culating pumps and a motor driven power for furnishing forced air draft
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-02
ONLY A POWERFUL
 MEDICINE WILL END RHEUMATISM

It matters not whether you have had agonizing rheumatic pains for 20 years or distressing twinges for 20 weeks, Rheuma is mighty and powerful enough to help drive rheumatic poisons from the cost, small as it is. will be cheer fully refunded.
 Druggists everywhere are authorized Fo sen Keesh hsa,Stely pn ens after taking the small dose as directed once a day for two days you should know that at last you have obtained a remedy that will conquer rheumatism.
 For over ten years throughout Amer ica Rheuma has been prescribed and has released thousands from agony. The Lee & Osgoed Co. will supply you and guarantee money refunded if not satisfactory.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-02
A Historic Event.

The arrival at Colon of the Black Star liner Yarmouth, owned and manned by negroes, is a historic event. The old age when negroes were kidnapped in Africa anh sold as slaves is beginning to end. though it has been long time passing.- Springfield Republican.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-02

that function, and women are asham- ed to marry with any of them"
 At the time when Queen Anne's Bounty was granted Burnet assures us there were still some hundreds Of cures that had not a certain provision of e20 a year, and some thousands that had not $50-London Chronicle.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-02

Clothing is high because people de- rnand high priced goods. says an au- thority. If "good, substantial and durable" clothes can be had .at con siderable lower prices it is time pur- chasers began to ask for them.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-02

The railroads don't know just how they are going but they feel SO. cer- tain about going back somehow that they are looking over the timetables
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-02

It is not to be expected but if all the checker silarps should attend that contest for the championship of Greater Boston now on it would re- quire the Stadium to hold them.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-02

A Stamford judge says a man can make whiskey for his own use. but not to sell. But some would seem to be trying to embaln themselves before they die.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-02

The nlau on the corner says: Did you ever stop to think that the high CT your salary goes the. more the government is going to get out of it?
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-02

Being leap year there ought to be some interesting stories aside from those that the. census enumerators can tell.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-02

blasting powder into the stove to test it and blew his; family into the next world was certainly not an advocate of safety first.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-02

Nothing but increased worry seems to be promised by that new planet with which Professor Pickering is playing peek boo
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-02
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Probably the most surprised ones in connection with the poisoned liquor are those who have been arrested.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-02

Inasmuch as the calendar has been changed don't forget to write it 1920 or to put on your new auto numbers.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-02

Give the census enumerator the benefit of your help. To do other wise is to display the wrong spirit.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-02

That French economist who thinks the high cost of living will continue for the next Is years talks as if he was associated with the producers.
Marble Hill press., 1920-04-15
Chostner School District

Health is very good
Bernie BollinGer mad a business
TIP to town Friday
Ora Grader came home on a visit
Sunday
Mrs. K. l.. Tteters ANA little daueh-
ter. Helen, were guests Of Mrs. P B.
Cio,tncr SUNDAY
Nisfea Dessa and Lora Nancy
visited Miss Irene Jackson Sunday
night
Miss Nollle Robins belan teach
ine at Scopus Monday
Mr.. ard Mrs. Monroe Chostner
and children of Burior ivilIe visited
Mr.. ard Mrs. Pink ChoStner Sunday.
Gu, Tceters went - Advance
SATURDAY
Mis-. N.!ma Chostuer was the
guest of Misses Dessa and Lora
Nanney Friday.
Mrs. Elsie BoIineer visited Mrs.
Tom Grader Saturday.
There Will be Sunday school at
Marble Hill press., 1920-04-15
IRRITABLE
NERVOUS
Was Condition Of Indiana Lady
Before Beginning to Take
Card.u-i, the Womal's
Tonic.

Kokono, Ind Mrs. n. Hankene,er,
Of this town. SAYS Il look SO vel, and
I'M so well, iha; 1t does not seem as u |
.ver needed Careful But was no, al
yays tins way .. think have taken 2
Iozen bottles . before ny .!ae 60
same.
was feeling dreathIly bad, had head
lche. baokacac, SIX q, NY stomach. 10
energy e.. vas very irritable, too, and
nervous.
began taking Cardui about months
before my baby came. As a result all
those bad feelings LETT me. and just ic,t
grand, just As Il nothing al all was the
matter, and whcn the end came ! was
hardly sick at all
Since that have never taken Cardui
at all . i. It has done me good, and |
know it viii help others. il they will only
iyft.
Many women have written grateful lei
ters like the above, telling OF the good
that Cardui has done them. Why should
t not help you, too2 II you suffer from
any OF the ailments so common 10 women,
and feel the need Of a safe, reliable,
strengthening tonic, we urge you 10 be-
gin today and give Cardui tair trial.
Your dealer sells Card-u-i. EB-l(
Marble Hill press., 1920-04-15
Seduewickvillc

Health j. good
Uncle Henry .StatIer VI o has been
sick quite a while i>rep rtei bette
Farmers are getting anXiou, to go
TO pIowinl A few are don. SOWING
oats
The drama gwen by the young
people Of tins place vas not well at.
tended on account Of rain.
Mrs jeff St4tIer and grandchil-
dren visited at Judas SeabauGh'S
from Saturday until Monday
Herbert Hans. son of David HahS,
died at the hospital at Pennington
April and was brought to the
home of his parents near Gravel Hill
April 3 Weep not. loved ones,
earthly loss is Heavens gain.
Miss Ella Statler of Jackson visit
ed at the home of her parents, Mr.
and Mrs Dan Statler. Sunday. She
reported she is working in the shoe
factory at Jackson and says she
likes ii fine.
julius and Raymond Hammers and
Travis Marshal visited their grand
father, Dan Bollineer. Saturday
night.
Johnson & Woodbridge. our new
merchants. are doing a gooi busi-
ness. Everybody is delighted that
our small town is growing We have
two stores. one garage, hotel, restau-
rant, central Office, also a millinery
shop.
Mrs Caroline Seabaugh of Cape
Girardeau is visiting relatives here
Black Eyed Mary.