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The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-11-18
RHODA ROYAL CIRCUS
Coming to Punta Gorda Friday,
November Goth.

Every man, woman and child who
knows anything about circuses, and
who ever saw the Rhoda Royal
Enormous l. S. Shows, will be de-
lighted TO know that the big shows.
in all their magnificence and exalted
grandeur, will surely exhibit at Pun
ia Gorda on Friday, November Goth,
and precede both exhibitions with the
grandest morning street parade ever
seen since parades were first exploit
ed. In the great shows will be seen
several new features which cannot be
seen elsewhere. Those who have
seen the monster bovalapus pro-
nounced it the greatest, the strangest
and most unique marvel to which the
deep ocean ever gave birth. The
shaggy, fierce though beautiful, horse
riding lion, Wallace" is par excel
lence the premier quadrupedal. per-
former
The baby lions, four of kind, in
Ffants of the forest, are a strange and
lovely sight. The Roman hippo
drome, an extra reproduction of the
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-11-18

A few years ago the avocado or
alligator pear WAS an unknown fruit
in most parts of the United States.
In tropical countries the avocado has
been grown for centuries; in fact, in
many Of the tropical portions Of the
world the avocado is one of the prin-
cipal foods of the natives. There is
no ether fruit grown that has the
food value of the avocado. 1t is said
THAI person can live on avocado
alone for months. In food value it
is more valuable than tho best beef
steak, mutton or chicken, pound FOR
pound, beside this fruit is easily di-
gested, so that persons with the
weakest stomacA3 can eat it without
causing pain or sickness.
Early in the history of Miami the
early settlers had a few trees in their
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-11-18

The Children's Home Society of
Florida-"Florida's Greatest Chart
iva Statewide and undenomina-
tional work for homeless and needy
children, with State Headquarters at
42S ST., James Building, Jacksonville,
Florida.-in spite of the MOST UR-
GENT appeals for financial aid dur
ing the past two months, has failed
by several thousand dollars to secure
funds enough to provide for MORE
THAN A THOUSAND little ones that
have received the aid and care of
the Society during the PAST TEN
MONTHS-and RIGHT NOW is in a
very CRITICAL CONDITION, for not
q dollar can be borrowed, and unless
more funds can be secured the great
work MUST BE DISCONTINUED.
This would mean that SCORES of
HELPLESS litt G
children from tiny babies on up
would have to be TURNED OUT IN
TO THE STREETS-for every other
children's home and orphanage in the
State is crowded now.
Hundreds of last years contribu-
tors to this great work have not sent
in their contributions as yet-and
thousands of men, women and bust
ness firms all over Florida have
never given a dollar to keep these
little orphans from starvation and
death.
SOMETHING MUST BE DONE,
ABOUT THIS MATTER, AND TT
MUST BE DONE RIGHT NOW if
this absolutely necessary work is to
.go on. What will you do about it,
EVERY DOLLAR
will help a WHOLE PILE. Please
send it to r. V. Covington, Treasurer,
.428 St, James Building, Jackson
willie, TODAY WITHOUT FAIL.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-11-18

Course of Ancient Rome, and the
modern races attached to it, are at
once exciting, exhilarating, and in all
things equal to the best races run on
a modern race course. The circus,
which consists of one hundred and
fifty superior acts, given by one hun
dred superior arenic stars, requires
three full hours in which to give
them.
The menagerie will be delightful
study for all, because it comprises
more wild, tame and strange beasts
than many people have ever before
had an opportunity to, see. The show
is great in everything and small in
nothing. adv.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-11-18
Must Scores Of Little Orphan Homeless and Helpless Children From Tiny Babies
U be Turned Out Into the Streets in Florida Because The Good
Poodle Of Florida Have Weared of Well Doing? "

Meats and Turkey or two for
Thanksgiving. All such articles
should be sent to 1914 Riverside
avenue, Jacksonville, Florida
AND LISTEN AGAIN-Can't you
get YOUR Church, or Sunday School,
or Day School, or YOUR Club OF
Lodge or Society, to take up a special
offering for our little ones--and get
up a box or barrel, or Parcel Post
package of children's clothing, pro-
visions, etc, for us? Won't YOU
ask them to do it?
AND DON'T FORGET-we have
dozens of fine little homeless boys
and girls just waiting eargly for a
good home for Thanksgiving OF
Christmas. Can't YOU and YOUR
WIFE take one or two?
NOW DON'T BE LIKE THE
PRIEST AND THE LEVITE-AND
READ THIS AND PASS 1T BY
BUT BE A GOOD SAMARITAN ANI
DO SOMETHING FOR OUR LITTLE
YOUNGSTERS IN DISTRESS ANL
NEED, WON'T YOU?
EARNESTLY PLEADING for All
from YOU TO-DAY, We are your fell
low workers, Doing YOUR job,
THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY
OF FLORIDA,
1928 St. James Bldg,
Jacksonville, Fla
Judge w. II. Baker, President; r. V
Coyington, Treasurer; Marcus c
Eagg, State Superintendent.
N. B. Your own THANKSGlV
ING DAY will be MUCH HAPPIET
if you show your APPRECIATION
of YOUR BLESSINGS, by doinl
SOMETHING for the little ones VIII,
are absolutely depending On YOUl
aid and support.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-11-18

The U. s. Postal Department con-
tracted on August IS, 1920, for sea-
plane mail service between the Unit
cd States and Cuba. the mail to be
transported by rail to Key West and
thence to Havana. Mail for this
route must be marked via seaplane, .
the postage to be cents per ounce
or fraction of an ounce, This is the
first United States contract to SEND
foreign mail via seaplane. Tho mail
will be carried in on flying boats,
which also are equipped to carry
Passengers and freight.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-11-18

The American Jewish Year Book,
just published at Philadelphia, shows
that the total number Of Jews in the
world, on estimates made before the
war, is placed at 1874, 662; in North
America, 1878, SOS; in South Ameri-
ca. .116, 557; in Europe, 1,435,9 1858;
in Asia, 433, 1892; in Africa, 359,722,
and in Australia, 1915.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-11-18
VIII Observe Thanksgiving Day

The Herald will try hard to be
printed and mailed next Wednesday
evening that thesprinters and editors
may have rest on the following
day, which VIII be Thanksgiving
Patrons are requested to help to this
end by handling, or sending in their
orders for advertising and job print
ing as early as possible, say not later
than Wednesday noon.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-11-18

AND LISTENING are in DIES
PERATE NEED of children's wear
ing apparel, of every KIND, SIZE
and SHAPE--and will warmly well
come Staple Provisions, Vegetables
Canned Goods-Jellies-
Preserves Syrup or Chickens
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-11-18

States unless the price of paper. is
reduced. Anyhow we are very
wasteful with paper in this country.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1920-03-25
B0l|VANS MODELLING
Peru Asks United States to Pre-
vent Clash With Neighbor.
Chilean Agents In Bolivia Accused Of
Being Active In Stirring Up
Hostility.

Washington.-Peru, through Ambas-
sador Pezet has asked the American
government to use it's friendly offices
to prevent a breach of the peace in
South America growing out of the at
tack by Bolivians on the Peruvian
legation at LaPaz.
The American government has sent
two notes to Bolivia and is preparing
to send a third requesting that there
be no breach of peace in South
America.
At the State department it was
said that the representations made to
Bolivia had been urgent and that a
second note had been dispatched and
a third prepared because no reply to
the first had come from Bolivia.
Official dispatches from Lima re-
ceived at the Peruvian embassy here
said Bolivian hostility toward Peru re.
suited from the influence of the Chile.
an government and the activity Of the
Chilean agents in Bolivia.
At the embassy it was said that
Peru apparently was being forced in
hostilities with its former ally in the
wal with Chile over the africa and
Tacna provinces and that General
Monies, as a candidate for the presi.
dency Of Bolivia, was being supported
by the Chileans.
Peru has a standing army of only a
few thousand soldiers and, it was said,
will be compelled to call out the re-
serves if Bolivia calls out her available
military force.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1920-03-25

Says Publicity Prevented Capture.
New York.-The widespread pub
licity given the search for Jules w.
("Nickey") Arnstein, wanted in con-
nection with a plot to steal SIS, 900, 900
in securities in the financial district,
prevented his surrender in Rochester,
N. Y, several days ago, Eugene F.
MCGEE, his counsel, testified. Because
of failure of the police to capture
Arnstein, for whom they sent three
detectives, accompanied by MCGEE,
the lawyer was summoned to testify
at bankruptcy proceedings against
Arnstein.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1920-03-25
Sane; 10 Years In Asylum.

S~TTSJ n SUTS TIT 0SyTUITs
New York.-Hundreds of cases un.
doubtedly exist wherein persons alb.
solutely sane are i~n@arcerated in mad.
houses throughout the United States,
according to Clarence Alexander, at.
torney, who has secured the release of
Phoebe K. and Ada Brush, 6S and SO
years of age, respectively, from the
State Hospital for tho Insane at Kings
Park, Long Island. The sisters had
been in the asylum for 10 years, when
Supreme Court Justice Tompkins de.
clared them n and ordered their
release.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1920-03-25
Minneapolis, Mi
TRAIN HITS AUTO; 5 KILLED
Party Of Young People Were Return.
ing From Dance.

Party Of Young People Were Return.
ing From Dance.
Ardmore, Okla.-Five young people
of Wilson and Long Grove, Okla, %
miles west of here, were killed and
one fatally injured and another hurt,
when the automobile in which they
were returning from an American
Legion dance here, was struck by a
freight train at a crossing.
Among the victims were a brother
and sister.
"repper' Bandits Steal $4,000.
Cleveland. = Fighting off three
guards and throwing pepper into the
eyes of Louis Newman, treasurer of a
Cleveland silk company, two armed
bandits robbed Newman Of $12,400 and
escaped in an automobile. The money
was the company's payroll.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1920-03-25
Two Days Only
No Charge For Examination

DR.. Mellenthin is a regular gradu-
ate in medicine and surgery and
is licensed by the State of North
Dakota. He visits professionally
the more important towns and
cities and offers to all who call on
this trip consultation and examina-
ton free, except the expense of
treatment when desired.
According to his method Of +reatr
ment he does not opel s ) 70
chronic appendicitis, gall s,onesr
ulcers of the stomach, tonsils O
adenoids.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1920-03-25
CLOSE GUARD OVER KAISER

MISUNDERSTANDING that an ex-
tremely close guard has been placed
by the Dutch government over former
Emperor William has been obtained.
Police officers we're detailed to follow
him a few steps in the rear as he
walked about the garden Of the Ben.
thick castle here.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1920-03-25

He has to his credit many Won
derful results in diseases of the
stomach, liver, bowels, blood, skin,
nerves, heart, kidneys, bladder,
bed wetting. catarrh. weak lungs,
rheumatism sciatica leg ulcers and
all rectal ailments.
If you have been ailing for any
length of time and do not get any
better do not fail to call, as impro-
per measures, rather than disease
are very often the cause of your
long standing trouble.
Remember above date, that ex-
aminations on this trip will be free
and that his treatment is different.
Address:
1876 Boston Block,
Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1920-03-25
SHOWS LARGE WET VOTE

Twenty-Five of % Towns In One Yer
mont County Vote License.
Rutland, Vt.-Twenty-two of the 2S
towns in Rutland county voted for Ii.
cense as compared with a total Of
eight towns voting we last year.
While the trend toward license in.
Dictated by the returns was held signi.
ticant by local option advocates, lead
ers of the antisaloon element insisted
that it means nothing except that, in
view of the national prohibition
amendment, the "drys" had made no
effort to register sentiment at the
town elections,
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1920-03-25

Another demand of the time is for
some mar powerful enough to enable
a fellow to put down two pounds Of
beefsteak where now he only deposits
four ounces of liver.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1920-03-25
FORMER JURIST HANGS SELF

Hammond, Ind.-Judge John H. Gil.
lett, GO years old, formerly chief jus.
tice of the supreme court of Indiana,
hanged himself in the garnet of his
home with a clothesline. The body
was discovered by his son Gerald.
Judge Gillette had been respondent
since his wife's death a year ago, &C.
cording to friends.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1920-03-25

"Some OF the men who profited
most out Of war contracts are famed
for their piety." writes n Washington
correspondent. We suppose they felt
that they ought to excmplify the truth
of the p%rovcrh, "The Lord helps those
who help themselves" and they
helped themselves to everything In
sight,
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1920-03-25
FOOD sTUFFS ARE SP0lLlh.
Southern Supplies Face Ruin Because
of Gotham Strike.

New York.-An immense amount Of
foodstuffs in Southern states is facing
ruin because Of the tieup of coastwise
shipping here by the strike of long.
shoremen, William Ripley, professor
of economics in Harvard university
and chairman Of the National Adjust.
ment commission, said. Railroads are
unable to relieve the situation because
of a shortage of refrigerating cars.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1920-03-25

Montreal.-Five lives were lost here
in a fire which destroyed the home OF
PHILIPPE Lariviere. The victims were
his wife, three little children and his
wife's brother-in-law. They were all
asleep on the upper floor of the two.
story wooden dwelling.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1920-03-25
FIVE LADS HELD FOR MURDER

Dying Boy Declares Others Beat and
Kicked Him.
Pueblo, Colo.-Ted, the 11-year-old
son of Mrs. H. A. Kuykendall, in a
statement shortly before his death,
charged he had been kicked and in
jured by five school boys. Physicians
say the lad died as a result of these
injuries.
The K%uykendall lad, suffering from
severe injuries, was found behind a
bill board. He died an hour after,
ward. The police are Withholding the
names of the boys who are under ar.
rest.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1920-03-25
DENIES ANGLO-BELGIAN PACT
London Paper Says England Has Not
Agreed on Military Support,

London.-The Paris correspondent
of the London Times says he is in a
position to state hat there is no truth
in a report from Brussels that the Brit
ish government has guaranteed mill.
tary support to Bergium Tor five years
in case of an attack by Germany, and
also that France and Belgium have
signed Internationally a treaty of ALI.
ance for an indefinite period.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1920-03-25

If, as the pessimists predict, an
other big world war is coming, it is
to be hoped the present peace treaty
will be ratified before the next one
comes along or things may be com.
plicated.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1920-03-25

Former Villa Leader Executed.
Aqua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico.-Jesus
Alvarez, formerly a colonel in the
army of Francisco Villa, and more re-
Gently operating as a bandit in So
nora, has been executed by Carranza
officers, according to the military here.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1920-03-25
LETS FUEL OIL CONTRACTS
Shipping Board Makes Purchases o
100000 Barrels.

Washington.-The Shipping board
announced that contracts had been
signed for more than 12,0OO,O 900 bar
rels of fuel oil for delivery at Atlantic
and Gulf ports during the next six
months. The contract prices ranged
from $1.27 to $1.56 per barrel.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1920-03-25

The Germans are said to be resent
full towards France, to whom they
ascribe much of the hard terms OF
the peace treaty. Why they gave
France particular reason to love
them after the war Of 1870 and the
terms then imposed on France. they
more American. Perhaps they think
that, like the roses which bloom in the
spring, 1t has nothing to do with the
case.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-08-23
Our Suicide Statistics.

| Attention is called by the Save
Life league, which has its headquarters
in New York City, to the fact that
suicide is on the increase in the Unit.
ed States. During the first six months
of 1919 the organization received re-
ports of 2063 suicides for the whole
country; this year the six months
returns show a total of 277l. The fig
ures indicate that while few years
ago only ne-fourth of all suicides
were of women the proportion of wom-
en- has now increased to one third In
the past half year So boys and 1877
girls, averaging in age from Is to 10
years, killed themselves, marking an
increase Of 50 over the number OF such
suicides reported in the first six months
of 1919. And it is stated that since
January last "l6l returned soldiers
have in despair taken their own lives"
A painful detail in such records is
the choice of weapons. Visitors to
Notre Dame in Paris are still shown
places on the cathedral's gargoyled
tower from which unfortunates have
plunged to the square below, and in
the large cities of the world self de I
struction is often accomplished by a
fall from high buildings or bridges.
Frequent alternatives are drowning,
poison. shooting and turning on the
gas; statisticians say that men Of
middle age shoot themselves, while 9th.
err people resort to the rope. IL is
also asserted that "desponde1Ycy" leads
as the cause of suicide in the United
States, itself traceable TO such con-
crete causes as disappointment in love,
domestic unhappiness. business adver-
stiles, incurable diseases. extreme pow
ertv, or the sense, however produced.
as one victim expressed IT, that there
is nothing TO live for In some of
the Oriental countries personal devo.
tion or point Of honor suftices It
was the first of these which led Gen.
Nogi, hero of Port Arthur, to COM
nit "hari-kiri" in September 1912,
during the funeral Of his departed
sovereign, Mutsubito; il was the sec.
ond which led 40 soldiers Of the Japs
nese army to protest by suicide against
the cession of territories to China aft
or the war OF 1898.
Suicide has been practieed from the
earliest times, and neither obscurity
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-08-23

on the increase, affecting poor and
wellto. alike, the effort to elimi
nate its causes, so far as they can be
understood and reached, is worthy
enterprise. When Masaryk, now presi.
dent of the Czecho -slovak republic, was
a university lecturer he wrote book
tracing suicide to the decline of the re-
ligious sentiment. Others look for
the remedy to improved social condi-
tons. to mental hygiene and to the
simple life" II is meanwhile signih-
cant that to organizations for the pre-
vention OF disease and agents for the
reduction OF industrial accidents there
should now be added what il practical
~ an anti-suicide league. Its pro-
gram Of offering advice and financial
assistance to respondent persons" will
not cover the whole field. But if It
meets one of the saddest of the con
ditions out of which suicide arises il
will not have been formulated in vain.
Boston Herald
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-08-23
UNCoLLECTED TAXES
An overworked Treasury Department
the Cause


Prof. r. S. Adams of Yale, mar
who combines theoretical knowledge oi
taxation with extensive, practical ex
perience in the business of laying and
collecting taxes, has been doing the
country service recently in his papers
on the tax problems now confronting
the United States.
Not the least interesting of these is
one on the astonishing volume of un.
audited tax returns with which the
treasury department is now embar-
raised. These unaudited returns &c
back TO 1917. As they are audited
they bring into the treasury an aver.
age of about Slo,00o,000 a month and
Prof. Adams concludes that if the
treasury had sufficient expert aid about
ST ,500,000000 could be added to the
revenue in the next II months. But
the department has not the force neces-
ssry to keep up with the accommodating
mass of unaudited returns and the re-
suit is that literally billions of dollars
Of back taxes will continue to hang
over the business of the country un-
less Congress takes hold of the prob
lem at the next session and provides
means for the rapid settlement of all
pending tax claims.
II is clear also that there must be a
simplifeation of the tax law such as
will prevent the recurrence of q situa-
ton in which the business men of the
country will owe the government
enormous but uncertain sums of money
which they will be called on to pay at
any indefinite future time when
swamped treasury department finds
out how much it intends to claim.
Until that lie done, as Prof. Adams
points out, any talk about new com
plications of the tax law which would
add new burdens 10 the treasury de-
partment without relieving the pres
INT enormous overload is entirely pre-.
mature Detroit Free Press
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-08-23

Decision by the Boston & Maine
railroad to reopen the Barre branch
of the Montpelier & Wells River rail
road on Sept. to freight transporta
ton will come as pleasant news tc
Barre manufacturers and others who
are dependent upon the railroads foi
shipment of goods. The resumption OF
the freight service may mean that pas
senger service viii also be resumed on
the Barre branch within short time
But for the time being the opening up
OF the freight service will bring some
needed relief.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-08-23
CURRENT COMMENT
The Anglo French Oil Agreement.

While the Washington authorities
do not see any occasion for formal
protest against the agreement which
the French and British governments
have concluded with respect to oil de-
velopment in territories which have
been opened to exploitation by the
war, it is highly desirable that the
United States should keep a watch
full eye upon all such understandings.
| OIL bearing areas of great extent and
value have come under the supervision
of Great Britain and France as the re-
suit of mandates which have been
handed to these countries by the terms
OF the peace treaty. Other countries,
notably Roumania, have been placed
under heavy obligations to London and
Paris as the outcome of the great
struggle Germany, Austria and Russia
have no zest for any form of foreign
industrial exploitation at the present
juncture, so that France and Great
Britain are for the moment in posi-
ton to settle such matters to their
own advantage by mutual under
standing if they choose to do so,
The eagerness of nations to possess
themselves of coal bearing territories
has led to no end of international ieal
ousy and friction in the past, as wit
ness the instances Of Silesia, Alsace-
Lorraine, the Saar Valley and Tesehen
For the future it looks as though oil
would be quite as important as coal in
the struggle for industrial primaey,
and in guarding the future peace of the
world it is essential that it should not |
be permitted to become trouble-ma |
er of the same dimensions if full |
and frank exchange of assurances can |
prevent that outcome The inquiry as
to what the Anglo. French agreement |
means is not intended to be in any sense
unfriendly. But international agree
ments looking toward the mutual ex-
ploitation of natural resources in any
part of the globe have had rather du-
bious reputation in the past and we
would like to be assured that the
world has entered new era in such
Boston Transcript