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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-14
CORONER PRONOUNCES
 MORELAND A SUICIDE
Aviation Mechanic Found Dead in Lo-
 cal Hotel-Pistol Near

Suicide was the verdict of Coroner John R. T. Rves when he had com pleted his investigations over the body of Greedy Moreland of Leetonia. Ohio, who shot himself in the head in his room at the Hi1lman hotel about 9:30 o'clock yesterday morning.
 A muffled shot was heard by one of the negro maids who was standing in the hall near Morelands room. She notified the clerks office. The clerk notified police headquarters immediately. When the officers arrived Moreland was dead.
 Investigating officers say all the ev- idence available points to his having committed suicide. He was dressed only in his underclothing and judging from the position of the body on the floor. the coroner stated he had been standing directly in front of the mirror in the bureau when he shot himself.
 Police authorities here have wired the chief of police at Ieetonia to see if Moreland has any relatives living there. Moreland registered at the Hillman hotel Sunday night, though he has been em- ployed at the Dixie flying field as an aviator's mechanic for about five weeks.
 The body is being held at the Johns Undertaking company awaiting word from his relatives.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-14
BIRMINGHAM WILL
 HAVE AN ORCHESTRA
Meeting Tonight to Form New Musical Organization With
 Ample Backing

The Birmingham Orchestra association will be formally organized at a meeting to be held at Cable hall tonight at s o'clock.
 This movement is expected to develop into one of great importance to the mu- sical life of Birmingham. Mrs. Houston Davis stated yesterday that she already has a very substantial list of some of the leading business men of Birmingham who express their willingness to back the orchestra association and to do what is necessary to insure that Birmingham shall have a permanent musical organi- zation of this character.
 As president of the Music Study club, Mrs. Davis and her co-workers have been at work on the project for several weeks and they believe that the interest is now at such a point that the orchestra Will be an assured success. They have been especially pleased at the spirit of inter- est and cooperation shown by the mu- sicians themselves and it Is hoped and expected that as a result of tonights s meeting it will be possible to begin giv- ing regular orchestral concerts early in the spring.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-14
DR. LUPTON HEADS
 MEDICAL SOCIETY

The Jefferson County Medical SO ciety held it's annual election or ofri- cers last night at o'clock at meet ing in the clubrooms of the Birming- ham Civic Association.
 Dr. Frank A. Lupton was elected president; Dr. Grossbeck Walsh, vice president; pr. J. Ross Snyder and Dr. M Y. Dabney were elected to the board of censors. Members were elected to the other offices at an election held few weeks ago.
 About so members were present. pr. E. M Mason, the retiring president, made short address in which he told of the work that had been done during the past year. At the conclusion of his address a unanimous resolution was passed, urging that the Alabama public service commission refuse the proposed raise in rates of telephones Tn the Birmingham district.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-14
PETERSBURG PLUS"
 UP ID COMMISSION

According to advices from Charles l.. Harold, manager of the Birming- ham Civic Association. the Pittsburg plus issue Is now squarely before the Federal Trade commission and the forthcoming decision will be final so far as that body is concerned. An interesting excerpt from letter from MT Harold, who Is still in Wash ington, is to the effect that Judge Lindabury. counsel for the United States Steel corporation. declared that Chicago and Birmingham would be steel passing points in five years. Judge Lindabury also informed MT. Harold that the finance committee of the steel corporation will visit Birmingham In the spring.
 Mr. Harold writes!
 ''Pittsburg plus now rests with the federal trade commission for final de- cision.
 "It is alleged the practice known as Pittsburg plus in the steel trade Is in violation of the second section of the Clayton act and of the fifth section of the trade commission act.
 An interesting sidelight of the case was, the prediction of Judge R. V. Lindabury, director and general coun- sel of the United States Steel corpora tion. that Chicago and Birmingham VIII pccoiHe DdSlHG points ioT steei within five years. This statement came in connection with his economic argument explaining the Justification for Pittsburg plus, that is, that since the Pittsburg district produces sur plus of steel over its needs and other districts underprroduce for their re- quirements, requiring the latter to draw on Pittsburg for the deficiency. the price everywhere must be the f. o. b. Pittsburg price, plus the freight to destination, regardless of the To- cation of the mill making the ship ment
 Judge Lindabury said the finance committed of the steel corporation would visit Birmingham the coming spring.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-14
EIGHT-HOUR DAY

Consideration of the ordinance which fixes an eight-hour day for nIl persons employed on contract work for the city will come before the city commissioners at their reg uIar weekly meeting this morning.
 The commissioners have had the ordinance under consideration for some lime and each has individual 1y expressed himself as being in favor of an eight-hour day for all working people.
 Just what action will be taken on the ordinance fixing the eight-hOur day Is not known, but members of the commission expect to dispose of it finally a't the morning meeting today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-14
Feminine Diogenes LiUes M Dug Out Loues Nature;
 And Is AUording Charity
By EsTELLE BETHEA HALE

By EsTELLE BETHEA HALE
 Alone in a small dugout, made beneath her little shanty when II became uninhabitable, an old iaay with snow white hair is making the bravest fight of her existence Paradoxicai as it may seem. the struggle is not against poverty. II is the brave fight of a weak httie old woman to sustain an ideal. The ideal is that she is struggling 70 overcome by spiritual faith ana mental work a disease only caiied uoyerfy Her name Is Mrs. Sarah Holiday.
 The little underground room IS duc beneath n house surrounded by a small plot of ground out on tbe outskirts of East Lake, In tne wood near the most lonesome part of the Rugby car line. In such surroundings is q woman facinS fife in one of it's hardest aspects, and standing up for an ideal in way that is a living sermon to more fortunate and luxurious s1s- ters.
 ~Poverty is a discase,' said Mrs. Holiday yesterday, "something 10 be faced, fought and overcome. 1t comes on some people harder than it does others. The only cure for poverty is the ability to lift ones self above the physical condition into n world where there is every blessing. When I lift myself up there out of this little place. and the old lady looked about the lit tie room, Soh, nm so richs I have everything"
 Mrs. Holiday believes that this condition at present is only an epoch in her salvation, a bridging over to some attainment. Feeling toward the situation as she does with the belief that poverty Is only a disease, which she says cold, organized charity will ac- centuate, the little old lady is talk ing a brave and firm stand against the help of any and all organiza- tfons.
 sLoving help will help one bridge over the length of the diseases trial but a name on charity list is a wound that will not heal"
 Because of her stand for in- dividual and loving help and a re- fusal to take from organized, sys- tematized sources, she says she has been very much misunderstood. That she is perfectly correct was revealed in n research into the situation which showed kind of modern persecution that has been
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-14

the storm sewers is money thrown away" said MT. Kendrick Practically all of the storm sewers in the old part or the city converge near Smiths park and finally discharge at Fourth ave nue and Seventh streets into the Ely ron canal After the water is dis charged from the sewers the velocity is checked and large deposits of stone gravel and other debris are made in the head of the canal adjoining flat territory and forming a dam of sand bars which have become elevated above the middle of the sewers. This prevents the sewer from dischargiDg anything like their full capacity and consequently water is backed up for lcng distance through the sewers and into the city"
 cleaned out on numerous ccasons, but soon becomes filled again. The only permanent relief is to widen and deepen the Elyton canal and line it with concrete or some similar material so the flood water may be confined to the channel causing sufficient ve- iocity to carry debris through the channel.
 NO APPROPRIATION
 At the end of the last fiscal year l recommended that sufficient funds be appropriated to make detailed studies plans and cost estimates of renewing flooded conditions occurring after storms in both Village creek and Valley creek valleys. It is hoped that the commission will see it's way clear 10 make such an appropriation, but it has not been done so far
 Even after this is done the relief or one or two basins in the heart of tne city, such as Fourth avenue and MIneteehth N street and Fifth avenue and Twenty first street. may reolIire ev- pensive changes in existing grades of certain highways in order that water may flow away on the surface instead or bonding, as it does now, when cloudbursts occur"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-14

and stand ln some other store.
 But Birmingham will be drying off this morning. Weather Observer Hor- ton is a kind man. Yesterday after noon late, after all the rain was about over, he said the sun would be allowed to come out this morning and shine, and that for the next couple of days no rain was due here.
 Mr. Horton measured the rain with a yardstick, or something, TOT, he says, if the clouds had kept spilling themselves much longer they would have made d record.
 STARTED EARLY
 Managers of downtown stores, who, with a shudder, remembered the floods that arose upon Birmingham about three months ago, got all their em ployes together and started themA in putting stock up on the high shelves yesterday when the first dark clouds began to gather.
 It even rained around police head quarters and on the roof over the heads of the city commissioners. Po- lice alley was flooded, as usual. At one time the water nearly succeeded in getting in at the warden's office and the driver could hardly get to the pa trol wagon when an emergency call would come in.
 Percy Rosenberger of the Birming- ham Trunk factory, said the water only got about one inch deep in some parts of his store. The Birmingham Trunk factory suffered a s10,00o water damage during the last flood, but Mr. Rosenberger said this time he had all his trunks on stilts.
 During the hardest downpour, about 1:30 o'clock, the store of the Goodyear Raincoat company, 213 Twentieth street, north, was flooded with water about four inches deep. The water ran away rapidly, however, and only slight damage was done. The coats sold almost as rapidly.
 Sections along Twentieth street around First avenue and for half a block around Second avenue and Nine teenth street were torn up by the water It seeped under the wooden paving blocks when the sewers were unable to run it off causing the blocks to expand and bulge.
 PAVING BULGED
 The paving blocks Humping them- selves" caused an automobile to skid near Bromberg's store, Third avenue and Twentieth street, and collide with another car. No one was injured, how ever, and the drivers proceeded on their way after exchanging a few gen tlemanly cuss words aimed in the di rection of the city hall, the clouds, the paving, each other, and directly at the head of the unpaved street department.
 No appropriations for repairing the storm sewers and rendering impossible the street floods such as occurred yes- terday afternoon and last fall have been made so far.
 Ail the afternoon yesterday tele- phones at the city hall were ringing with calls from persons complaining about the deep water in the streets.
 Recommendations made by Julian Kendrick. city engineer, at the time the budget was made in october ask ing an appropriation be designated for preparations for this work were not followed by the board of city commits sioners, according to MT. .Kendrick.
 TEMPORARY WORK, WASTE
 Any money spent for temporary re- lief of the conditions now existing in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-14
WON'T ALLOW BOND

Lon Tyler is still being held in the county jail at Bessemer on a charge Of assault with intent to murder for the alleged shooting and serious wounding of William H. Alexander, about 4:3O o'clock Sunday afternoon.
 Sheriff Kemp stated yesterday that no bond would be allowed Tyler until AL exander is fully on the road to recovery.
 Alexander, an employe of the Sloss- Sheffield Steel and Iron company, was shot while he was talking in the Tyler home. Alexander is in a hospital in Bessemer in a serious condition. He was struck twice one shot taking effect in the abdomen and the other in his thigh
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-14

the director, in shaping the new and speciality numbers to be staged. MT Chambers is one of the composers of the song, "Gabrlels Horn" which will be sung at the Jefferson tonight.
 Miss Jolly has just moved to Alabama from Tennessee. She is regarded as one of the best pianists in the district. She will accompany MT! Chambers.
 Tickets for the minstrel may be ob- tained from members of the Yukpa club and at the Jefferson theatre. The en- tire proceeds will be given to the or phanage to use in making Christmas merry for the little motherless and fatherless tots in their care.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-14

and female, has been very faithfully rehearsing.
 Misses Mae Valley Ellen O'Hara: Messrs. James O'Hara, Rebel Zigler, ana Harrington are among those who Will sing the classical solos.
 At the second annual society minstsei given by the Yukpa club for the benefit of the East Lake orphanage this eve hing Wallace c. Chambers, assisted by Miss Alva-D Jolly, will stage sur prise act'
 Mr. Chambers is Birminghams we'll known song writer and composer. He has taken part in many local amateur performances and in the minstrel tnis year he has assisted Gordon Erickson,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-14

All arrangements have been completed for the second annual society minstrel given by the Yukpa club for the benefit of the East Lake orphanage at the Jef- ferson theatre this evening at o:So o'clock
 Gordon Erickson has had special scenery painted for the minstrel
 The Harmony F'our-Dobbs, Schaeffer Kernodle and Stone, have new and snappy songs, They have some speclai- ty numbers of their own composition
 The jokes of the end men are the lat est and have been studied to such point as the players feel they will go across with lots of snap The chorus which consists of about 80 voices, male
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-14
DoWntown Streets AWash
 From Curb to Curb Three
 Inch Rain Chockes Sewers
Some Cellars Are Flooded-Cty Engineer Says Enlarged Outfall Is Remedy and Has Made Such Recommen- dation to the Commisson-Nearly Inch
 Fell at Noon Here Yesterday

Nearly inch of hour hit Birmingham yesterday 
 Three inches of fell during the entire day. three hours around midday downtown streets flooded
 It good luck that only few cellars flooded pie stood in stores until they would get tired then they would Soon would start raining
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-14

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-14

Any money spent for temporary re- lief of the conditions now existing in
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1920-04-01
LADIES! LOOK YOUNG,
- DARKEN GRAY HAIR
Use the Old-time Sage Tea and
Sulphur and Nobody
Will know.

Gray hair. however handsome. DE-
notes advancing age. We all know
he advantages Of a youthful appear.
c Your hair is your charm. IL
makes or mars the face. When It
AIDES. turns gray and looks streaked.
lust a few applications OF g Tea
ind sulphur enhances its appearances
1 h~undred-fold. -,
Don't stay gray! Look young!
Either prepare the recipe at home OF
Eet from any drug store q bottle OF
sWyeth's Sage and Sulphur Com
pound" which IL merely the old-time
recipe improved by the addition OF
other ingredients. Thousands OF foiks
Recommend this ready-to-use prepare
ton. because It darkens the hair beau
tifuily, besides, no n can possiolS
tell. az Il darkens SO naturally AM
evenly, You moisten q sponge or sol
brush with It. drawing this through
the hair, taking n small strana a
a time. BY morning the gray ma
disappears; after another application
or two, its natural color Is restore
and il becomes thick, glossy n Jus
trous, and you appear years younge
Wyeth's Sage and sulphur CON
pound is a delightful toilet requisite
H Ia not intended for the cure. NIT
cation or prevention Of disease.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1920-04-01
In Case of Accident Think
of O.ZO.NOL

Accidents and sudden attacks
always happen when least e x
+pected. If the case is serious,
your first thought is aphysician.
If immediate first aid is requir.
ed, think of O 20 MOL the mo
dern antiseptic, healing ointment
that is fast becoming the most
popular home remedy in Ameri
ca.
OZO MOL is a clean white
ointment prepared from chemi
Gals and essential oils of the
highest purity and antiseptit
value and is the ideal first ait
treatment for Burns, Scalds
Cuts. Bruises, Sunburn, Insec
Bites, Poison Ivy, Colds, Group
Sore Throat, Eczema, Barber.
Itch and all inflamed or irritatet
conditions, Don't allow anotheI
day to go over your head with
out a jar of O.ZO.NOL in tn
house-you may need it tomor
row. 25c and SOC at all drui
stores. adv.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1920-04-01
Drink MORE WATER
# KIDNEYS BOTHER
Eat less meat and take Salts for Back
ache or Bladder trouble
Eeutralizes acids.

Uric acid in meat excites the kidneys,
they become overworked; get sluggish,
ache, and feel like Jumps Of lead. The
urine becomes cloudy; the bladder is irri-
tated, and you may be obliged to seek're-
lief two or three times during the night.
When the kidneys clog you must help
them flush of the body's urinous waste
or you'll be q real sick person shortly.
At first you feel q dull misery in the kid.
ney region, you suffer from backache,
sick headache, dizziness, stomach gets
sour tongue coated and you feel rheu.
matte twinges when the weather is bad.
Eat less meat, drink lots of water;
also get from any pharmacist four ounces
of Jad Salts; take a tablespoonful
in q glass of water before breakfast
for q few days and your kidneys will
then act fine. This famous salts is made
from the acid of grapes and lemon juice,
combined with lithia, and has been used
for generations to clean clogged kidneys
and stimulate them to normal activity,
also to neutralize the acids in urine, 80
it no longer il q source of irritation,
thus ending bladder weakness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive, cannot in
jure; makes q delightful effervescent
Whitewater drink which everyone should
take now and then to keep the kidneys
clean and active. Druggists here say
they sell lots of Jad Salts to folks who
believe in overcoming kidney trouble
while it 10 only trouble.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1920-04-01
Christian EndeavorP Program

Leader, Lulu Carter.
Subject, The power of an end
less life.
Prayer.
Scripture reading, Heb 16 Is
Lorenda Cantrell.
Why do not people think more
about the endless life? Mrs. Pet
ers.
What bearing should the end.
less life have on our choice of a
life work? Mrs. d. H. Kay.
Scripture reading,l John 81:
Julia May Behan.
What is the relation between
our occupations in this worlt
and those in the life to come? j
G.. Carter.
Why should the endless lif
make US more faithful in ser
vice? Blanche Moore.
What motive to effort for 9th
ers is there in the thought of tn
endless life? Mrs. w. q. Coday
Song.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1920-04-01
SAYS HOT WATER
WASHES POIS0NS
FROM THE LIVER
Everyone should drink hot water
with phosphate In It,
before breakfast.

To feel as fine as the p%roverbial
fiddle we must keep the liver washed
clean, almost every morning, to pre-
vent its spongelike pores from clog.
cling with indigestible material, sour
bile and poisonous toxins, says q noted
physician.
If you gel headaches, It's your liver.
II you catch cold easily, it's your liver.
If you wake up with a bad taste, furred
tongue, nasty breath or stomach be.
comes rancid, it's your liver. Sallow
skin, muddy complexion, watery eyes
all denote liver u%ncleanliness. Your
liver Is the most important, also the
must abused and neglected organ of
the body. Few know its function or
how to release the dammed-up body
waste, bile and toxins. Most folks
resort to violent calomel, which is a
dangerous, salivating chemical which
can only be used occasionally because
1t acCumulates in the tissues, also
attacks the bones.
Every man and woman, sick or
we'll, should drink each morning be-
fore breakfast, a glass of hot water
with a t%easpoonful of limestone phos-
plate in it, to wash from the liver and
bowels the previous days ~indigestible
material, the pOisons, sour bile and
toxins; thus cleansing, sweetening
and ~freshening the entire alimentary
canal before putting more food into
the stomach.
Limestone phosphate does not re.
strict the diet like calomel, because 1t
can not salivate, for it is harmless and
you can eat anything afterwards. 1t
is inexpensive and almost ta%steless, and
any pharmacist will sell you a quarter
pound, which is sufficient for a dem
onstration of how hot water and lime.
stone phosphate cleans, stimulates and
freshens the liver. keeping you feeling
at day in and day out.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1920-04-01
Obituary

Margaret Gideon was born in
Kentucky. January 81, 1916, and
departed this life March %, 1920,
aged "a years 4 month and % days
Aunt Margaret, as she was called
came to Missouri with her parents
when a small child. and in 1873
she was married to j. A. Gideon.
To this union were born six child
rem, two of whom preceded her to
the spirit land. She leaves a hus-
band, four children and a host Of
friends to mourn her loss. Funeral
services were conducted by Rev
Halrord and windsor at Fairview
after which she was laid to rest IN
the Fairview cemetcry--A friend.