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The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-12-09
General Plan Of the Robber Trap.

cage, who will at once release the Gus
toner If everything is all right, and
admit the next in line. The cashier
or teller cannot release the cage and,
therefore, it would be useless for a
hold-up man to pull gun on these
officials. If the teller or cashier has
any reason to suspect the person in
the cage, he can, by depressing with
his foot an electric button, flash a
red light on the desk Of the man con-
trolling the cage, and simultaneously
every cage in the place would become
automatically locked and the police
communicated with.
It will be seen from the drawing
that the cages stand separately, the
entrance and exit turnstiles being at
the sides. Cages can be joined to-
gether where desired and the exits
made at the front Of the cages.
1t is claimed that the invention will
also prevent inside jobs" as not only
bank employees, but prospective rob-
bers, will readily appreciate the diff
culties to be encountered in success
fully holding up bank equipped with
the system of this invention.-New
York World.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-12-09
hen TAKES 25-MILE
RIDE ON AUTO AXLE.
Takes Refuge Under Car From
Storm and Has Thrilling Trip
Over Bumpy Road.

Taking 25-mile ride under an auto
mobile over bumpy road on dark
night was the experience Of an old
frazzled hen.
: Raymond Shiffler and family, near
Boonsboro, Pa, motored to the farm
Of Manassas Young, Mason and Dixon,
Pa, and while there storm came up.
driving alt the barnyard fowls to shell
ter in the shed that housed Shiffler's
automobile. " r-" ~
When the journey home was begun
Shiffler "shooed'.. all the chickens
from his automobile, as he thought,
but on the road peculiar sound float
ed up from beneath the car, and Shift
fer thought he had strained a spring
or bent an axle or something.
He got out and looked, but in the
darkness he could find nothing wrong.
He drove the balance of the distance
very slowly. fearing breakdown.
Reaching his destination he procured
a lantern and hunted for the damage
he thought had been done to his ma
chine, when the old hen was found
snugly perched on the rear axle, in
which position she had ridden Is
miles.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-12-09
HOLDS ROBBERS FOR POLICE
Ingenious Device That Should Do
Away With the "HoIdino Up"
Of Financial institutions.

A safeguard for clerks, tellers and
officers of banks against robbers and
hold-up men has been invented by
George Robinson, , director of
Brooklyn school, who is expecting to
receive a patent on it from Washing
ton any day.
The invention consists of a cage
outside each of the tellers' and cash
iers' windows, into which cage per-
son must enter in order to approach
the window and in which there is
room for only one person at time.
The entrance to this outside cage is
through a turnstile, operated erectri-
cally by one Of the bank employees.
The person entering the cage will
transact his business in the ordinary
way, with the advantage of being Sc
Guided from the public gaze or inter-
ference, and as soon as he has finished
his business the teller or cashier will
indicate this fact to the man who
controls the entrance and exit to the
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-12-09
Why It Pays to Dress Well.

A good appearance is capital, and
our clothes are an important part of it.
1t pays to dress well, to wear attrac-
tive clothing of good material. 10 buy
cheap material Of any kind is poor
sort Of economy. 1t gives you poor
service, and it doesn't look we'll. It
will not do you credit and is not a
good advertisement of yourself and
what you are trying to do.
First impressions are immensely
valuable. If your dress and bearing
are. good. this fact will make people
think we'll Of you, respect you. 1t will
give tho impression that you can
finance yourself; that You are doing
well, and this adds to others conf
dence III your business ability.
Not only wear as good clothing as
you can afford, but see that it Is well
kept and well carried. i, Fold up your
head, throw your shoulders back. look
the world in the face; 60 about among
your fellows as winner. Show that
you have the courage If your convic-
lions: that you have confidence and
assurance. This will invite prosper
fty and success.-New Success.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-12-09
WANTS TO TRADE BABY
Would Exchange for an Aireda'e Dog
and Says Child 10 Objected To.

Would Exchange for an Aireda'e Dog
and Says Child 10 Objected To.
"Swap-An eight-pound baby boy,
In good health for dog; preferably
an Airedale. J. S. Moriarity, 927 Hud-
son avenue"
This is the text of an advertisement
prepared by the father Of Jack Mo-
Rarity, Jr., six weeks old, to call at
tention of the people Of Los Angeles
to what he styles "a heartless, cruel
and inhuman condition there"
He says bitter and disgusting ex-
perience has convinced him that dogs
are more welcome than babies in
South Hollywood, and that parents
are being classed with criminals and
undesirables.
II have been required to move 26
times in six weeks" said Mr.. Mortar
ity. 1--WE were invited out of our
apartment on Castle place because
the baby cried. In the same house
there are two Airedale dogs, Foxy
and Gyp by name, and these animals
are not only allowed to live in the
house from which we were evicted,
but they eat at the same table with
their owners. I decided that If Mrs.
Moriarity and are to have any peace
we should exchange the baby for an
Airedale dog" H.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-12-09
Why We Raise Glasses.

well. here goes'-and every glass
was swung upward and held for q
fraction of second before II
went How started custom, q
mannerIsm now so general that no
one drinking in company would think
of emitting it even in these days of
ginger ale and sarsapurilla?
American sportsmanship demands
that boxers shake hands before the
bou::. Autre temps autres moeurs.
The time and temperament that
sanctioned duels decreed that before
the mortal combat the antagonists
driuk glass of wine. To avoid the
suspicion of attempting to poison each
others liquor both raised their
glasses aloft and poured little from
each into the other.
In these unromantic days poison
has passed out of fashion. but the
custom Of raising glasses with its
Significance and Implication of sim
certify has remained. +
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-12-09
stinoiest Person.

A man in our neighborhood recently
became Independent by receiving a
good position and at the end of the
first weeks pay his father presented
him with bill containing the expense
of the young man ever since he was
born, including the expense Of the at
tending physician when he came into
the world; this was all added up and
compound interest was charged. The
boy without a murmur has begun to
pay 1t all back to his father. The
amount would buy a nice home.-Chi-
cago American.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-12-09
WHY:
Flattery Is Easily Swallowed
by Most People

It is impossible to tell the whole
truth to an average human being and
still to remain on terms Of friendship
with him. Is the opinion Of the New
Statesman, London. There is little
friendship without make-believe. II
two men are close friends, you may
take it that they have been pretend
Ing to a considerably higher estimate
of each other than they would set
Down in perfectly honest diary.
It is not necessary that they should
deliberately lie to one another, but
they must discreetiy conceal q. GER
tain amount of the criticism that is
going on all the time behind the bones
Of their skulls.
What is said In spirit of truth is
set down to malice. Can a man be
your friend If he steals the crown from
your head? Can he be your friend
even If he steals a single jewel from
your .crown-especially the paste jew
ell? We have all--the greatest and
the meanest Of us-paste Jewels in our
crowns. Will true friend point them
out to a world that Is already over
much inclined to scott? Or will he not
rather organize claque that will pre-
tend to DC dazzled by diamonds?
Man is not only realist. He is al
so lover Of romance. He dreams
of what he would be quite often as
he deplores what he is. He cannot
help being attracted by people who
make his dream appear true. There
are some men who are such intense
cyclists that they can believe in the
truth of their dreams without any as
sistancc from other people. Southey
agreed that his "Madoc" was 1.-THE best
English poem since Paradise Lost ="
There was no need to tell him so,
he knew it already.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-12-09
Turtle Colonies.

Strange groups of mountain tops
barely emerging from the Indian
ocean, Aldabra,> Assumption, Cos
moledo, ,Astove, Farquhar, Providence.
st. Pierre. Alphone. the eight little
Amirantes. Coetivy, Platte, Agalegas
and Tromelin-who ever heard that
they exist? But, tiny and obscure
fractions as they are in the multitude
nous British empire, they have much
economic value. ~
From each islet in succession heavy
deposits of guano are being removed
and coconut groves are being planted
on the soil thus cleared. Phosphate
rock will still remain, as London
paper tells, and all the bits of land are
frequented by one Of the best known
colonies of "shel1' and green sea tur-
tles.-New York Evening Post.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-12-09
FULL MANY A MAN.

Full many man has jumped to get
The spotlight on the stage. a..
Where human beings storm and fret,
The actors Of their age. -,3
Full many a. man with conscious pride
Has leaped into the glare, .--
And thought the world was satisfied
To have him linger there.
Full many man detected gropes
Back where the shadows TEEN.
And finds his self-approving hopes
Are but an empty dream.
Full many man Fate puts on view
, Where all the crowd may look;
Then let's him speak line or two,
And murmurs. Get the hook" :.
Z Washington Star.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-12-09
Pornoise 4 East Swimmer.

There is another mammal that is 80
fast no one has ever been able to find
out how fast he is. This is the por-
poise. The porpoise can do stunts in
front of the fastest boat that travels
the bounding wave and when he is
through after several hours of clown
ing he flirts his tail and nonchalantly
speeds beyond the horizon. The por-
poise will do his tricks under the bow
of nine-knot cargo tramp or O.
knot ocean greyhound He is like the
antelope in that he sets his pace &C.
cording to the speed Of the pursuer.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-12-09
T00sFAT TO MARRY
Answer Given by New York Man In
Suit for Breach Of Promise.

Answer Given by New York Man In
IT Suit for Breach Of Promise.
Henry Abelson, who admits his
weight Is between $50 and 300 pounds,
appeared before Justice Tierney in
the Supreme court in New York to de-
fend breach of promise of marriage
action which Miss Clara Diamond had
filed against dim. AS Miss Diamond
did not appear, the case was dis
missed.
Abelson cited his heavy weight as
one reason why he would not have
been suitable husband for Miss Dia-
mond. He said she weighed only 100
pounds. Then, too, he said Miss Dia-
mond had represented to him that she
''had money enough to support three
husbands with ease"
Although he did not admit the
promise Of marriage. he was of the
opinion that he was justified in not
continuing his friendship for the plain
tiff.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-12-09
Beginning Of BaIlooninQ.

To lnclose smoke in bag so that
1t would lift the bag with it's own
ascending power, was the idea Of the
paper makers, the brothers Montgol-
fer, and they got so far in their inven-
ton as to cause the bag which they
invented to rise to the ceiling, and i'm
proving upon this they invented a
machine that was balloon, and was
the forerunner of the inflammable air
balloon.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-12-09
DIAMOND BRINGS BAD. LUCK
Famous Hope Gem Causes Disaster to
lts Latest Owner and His Family.

It's Latest Owner and His Family.
Misfortune continues to accompany
ownership Of the wonderful blue stone
known as the Hope diamond, which
has changed hands at frequent inter-
walls because Of the "hoodoo'' sup
posed to be attached to it. ~ y.....
, Following the death Of his little son
in an accident in Paris, Edward b.
Mclean Of Washington disposed Of
the jewel and it fell into the hands
of the De Hautville family Of Paris.
Disasters quickly overwhelmed the
De Hautville family. Nine. De Haut-
vile was killed by an automobile three
months after her husband bought the
stone. Then the eldest son drank
poison and died under distressing cir
cumstances. A sister was drowned a
few months ago, and recently the
youngest son Of the family was killed
by the bursting Of gun. ii
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-12-09
GhouIjsh,

A set Of small dice supposed to have
been cut from the molar teeth of no.
torious French criminal and profess
sional gambler, who died by the gull
lotine, together with a dice box made
from a toughened piece of his skin,
was one of the curiosities disposed of
by Paris curiO dealer.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-12-09
Avjators Hard Fate,

Foxes do eat human bodies at times |!
At least they had bitten all the flesh
from the head Of long-lost aviator.
and .devoured great part Of his body,
before he was found in Rochnerich
glen. on the west side of Ben Lomond
in Scotland. No doubt the man was
dead when he cached the bottom Of
the ravine into which he had fallen.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-12-09
The Raccoon,

The raccOOn, or coon, as he Is more
commonly called in the United States,
where ne makes his home, has the
odd little habit of dipping his food
in water as If to wash it perfectly
clean, before eating. Coons den up
for the winter. like bears, sometimes
singly, sometimes several together as
if for company, in hollow tree or
other convenient place.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-12-09
China's Mail Service.

In the interior of China, except in
few districts, there is no regular let
ter delivery, and consequently no post
men. But many of the officials MAN.
tain semipublic services Of their own
and keep their runners up to the mark
by simple expedients known best to
the Chinese.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-12-09
PAINTING on Spider Web.

Painting on spider web is done In
Norway and the pictures are framed
like any other drawing. The webs en-
ployed, which are of very dense
weave are found only in few localities
difficult Of access and the supply Of
them Is limited.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-12-09
Why He Didn't Go Back.

do you ever visit the little town
where you were bornf' ,4
NO" said Mr.. Grabcoin. There
isn't particle of resentment in my
makeup.
"What do you mean?''
Il don't want to 60 back there and
enbarrass all the old fogies who said
I would never amount to anything
Birmingham Age-Herald.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-12-09
One of Natures Acrobats.

The weasel has been called the aero
bat of nature, and performs every kind
of acrObatic feat The blOOdthirsty
little villain is no coward. 1t will at
tack human beings. The weasel can
climb as easily as run and is at home
on any surface.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-12-09

Bolt Killed 100 sparrows in One Tree.
One hundred and sixty sparrows
were killed when a bolt of lightning
struck a cherry tree in front of the
home of J. w. Small Of near Martins
burg, Md.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-12-09
SUNDAY Her Unlucky Day,

Empress Eugene is said to have been
haunted by a dread of Sundays. Sep
TENDER 4, 1870, the day the mob in
vaded the Tuileries, was Sunday;
It was on a Sunday that she learned
the news of the death of the prince
imperial, and she herself died on
Sunday.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-12-09

Doctor Robbed on Visit to "Patient."
DR.. Emil Hartung Of Brooklyn was
held up, beaten and robbed of $1,000
by two thugs when he went to the
house of sham patient. AS the doc
tor leaned over the bed of the faint
ing man an accomplice beat the ply
stefan to insensibility with hammer
and chiSel.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-12-09

Boy Scouts Earn $500 Killing Rats.
Boy scouts at Corpus Christi, Tex.
have killed more than 6,OOO rats, al
an average cost of five cents rat
officials conducting the campaign
against the rodents have announced
No bubonic plague germs were found
on any of the rats.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-12-09
POLAND FACES
TYPHUS SC0URCE
600 Victims Are Dying Every Day
in Warsaw
DISEASE SWEEPS COUNTRY

Polish Bureau OF Information Tells
Plight Of People Of New Republic
Deaths Of Thousands Predicted This
Winter. in Spite Of the Relief From
America--Bo lsheviki Tried to Solve
Own Problem by Foistino Thousands
Of Their Sick on Poland. .5.,. ~
Evening journal., 1920-12-18
BRAIN TESTS.
By sam Lloyd.

- MINUTES TO ANSWER THIS.
No. 596. y
Evening journal., 1920-12-18
OUT,
child BURNS
Two-Year-Old Baby Burned
to Death Near Seaford,
Sussex County
CHRISTMAS RUSH
FOR OYSTERS
Special 20 The Evening Journal.

Special to The Evening journal.
SEAFORD. Dec iS-Christmas or
ders for oysters have begun to pour
into the Seaford oyster packers, and
from now until after the New Year,
they expect to be rushed TO capacity.
Thanksgiving and the Christmas and
New Year holiday season are always
a harvest for oyster packers in the
oyster centres Of the peninsula.
The whole output OF one OF the
packing houses on the Delaware Bay
is handled by the Seaford packers, be-
ing brought here from Bowers Beach,
where the packing house Is located.
Motor trucks are used to get these
oysters here and several OF them are
kept busy plying back and forth to
Delaware Bay points. A local packer
said yesterday that the oysters COM
ing in now from the Chesapeake Bay
and its tributaries were the finest he
has ever seen and that a fast opener
could make as high as $40 per day II
he worked ten hours. So far the sea
son has been a profitable one for
both packer and the opener.
Mrs. Nellie Srott Valiant Of Seaford
and Elmer NJ. DuVall Of Baltimore
WIZ NNA'NiN AiNAiA A'N 9'oN'AihN AAlt
noon at l.3O o'clock in Wilmington by
the Rev. George Lewis Wolfe, OF that
city. Mrs. Nalient is the daughter OF
Edward NJ. Scott. Of Boston. Mass, a
form II postmaster OF Seaford
Certificates OF "Pcrfect" and Good
attendance for the month Of Novem-
Der were handed out to the school
children OF the Seaf0rd public schoo
this week. In the school for white
children $50 pupils received certiil.
Gates for Perfect" attendance and ~
received certificates for Good" at
tendance. The cOlored school award
ed % Perfect" and 81 Good" attend
ance certificates.
The two-year-old child OF Mr.. anC
Mrs. Harley Conaway, livins between
Concord and Georgetown was burned
10 death yesterday The child's cloth
| ing caught fire while her parents
/ were out OF the house for a few min
ules and when they returned the chil'
was burned so badly that death re
suited
Evening journal., 1920-12-18
HOOVER HERE
TONIGHT With
HUNGER TALE
iContInned From FIrst Page J


ington In time. II VIII be an infor-
nal dress function
The campaign will be ushered In
tomorrow With the tolling OF church
bell prior 10 ihe morning service.
Following the iolling the bells viii
ring out the news. that American
money : being ra,5ei for the support
Of The 10000 children Of Europe
who are starving. Ia all churches
tomorrow pastors. ,ect0rs and priests
wi. refer TO the movement undertake
in delaware TO try and save 1900 OF
these un5erfed children from now un-
Oh the next harvest
10 is expected that at the dinner
tonight, Henry p. Scott, chairman,
viii announce, that several thousand
children will be cared for through
contributions already made. Begin
ginning tomorrow, the effort will be
made to collect smaller amounts than
$40 which Is the sum required to
keep q child from starving between
now and the next harvest. While II
Is desirous that as many as can shall
give so or more, if there are those
who cannot afferd that much, smaller
contributions from them will be well
coined
Mr. Hoover is today making the
following appeal 30 all Christians
In this country:
Il is not wise nor proper for
men 10 claim indiscriminatcly the
blessing of Christ on the tasks
they undertake Yet surely cOn-
cerning the vital duty to the per
! formancc Of which American char
ity has dedicated itself this win
tcr-the protection OF 3.5O0OOO
children from the indescrihable
miseries Of starvation or death by
disease-it is not presumptuOus
TO call on His followers in His
name. Quoted word and recorded
act assure us that Jesus has no
passion more intense than HIS
love OF children.
Eight organizations, working
among every race and creed, have
come 20 the unanimous conciu-
sion that three and one-half mill
lion children in Eastern and Cen
trail Europe have no alternative
On disaster between now and next
harvest except American aid. The
European Relief Council, compris-
ing eight great relief agencies,
was formed in the deep conVic-
ton that this heartrending peril
TO helpless children should have
absolute right OF way until the
situation Is met
know America has tasks and
needs at home, hut ! make no
apology for seeking to lay on
your hearts our obligation to
avert the Incredible tragedy That
threatens those children. They
are no more my children than
they are yours. Neither OF us
can dare let them suffer through
our Indifference and then claim
stewardship TO Christ.
Evening journal., 1920-12-18
THE GROWING CHILD
Series of Articles Prepared Especially for The Evening
journal
BY the United Public Health Service Washington D.
LATERAL CURVATURE OF THE SPINE

TONED unequal vision and hearing
habit or occupation, rickets, paralysis
and empyema. II one or more Of
these causes are present in a child
with weak muscles and yielding
bone. bad school conditions, such as
unsuitable chairs or desks, improper
lighting, long periods Of inactivity,
and the nk9. VIII naturally tend TO
argravatc the trouble, though II prob
ably began before The child entered
school
Since IL is true that lateral curva.
iure may be associted with either
round shoulders or a Nat back, the
mother can not use these conditions
as evidence for or against the exist
cnce OF lateral curvature. But she COR
the dressmakcrl may notice that the
child's shoulders are not the same
height or that one extends farther
backward than the other, or that one
side of the back is fuller or more
prominent than the other, or that the
hips are uneven. In all cases, the
chllds spine should be examined, and
since it Is OF great importance to
know whether the curve Is functional
or structural, the examination should
be made by one trained TO dliferen-
tlatc between these TWO types. IL IS
uffdNl OndlIA ulllthlNt tNil iNl oi ~
pert, 10 make a sharp distinction be-
tween these two forms OF curvature
4 functlonal or postural curve,
though II may Increase somewhat,
viii probably not affect the health Of
the Individual though the lack OF
symmetry detracts In a measure from
the appearance, particularly In the
case Of a girl. But the postural curve
may change to a structural one, and
since the latter may lead TO very Sc
ri0us deformity and impaired health,
competent medical advice should be
secured I'm all cases where possible.
The treatment OF postural, or func-
tional, lateral curvature Is mainly by
means OF corrective gymnastio eXer-
cises. Hence, since this condition Is
very common in children, every pa
rent is. naturally, vitality concerned In
/ the establishment OF adequate phys.
lcal education for all the children OF
/ the country. -.
4 Questions relating TO Child Health
| and TO related problems Will be an
swered by experts OF the u. $. Public
Health Service. Address
CHILD HEALTH EDITOR,
u. S. Public Hualth Service
Washington, ID. C.
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