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Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-08

"I suppose some day I'll learn not to pretend" sighed Loretta, T ought really to have known better. anyhow"
 "What, may I inquire" her brother asked lazily, have you been up to now? If you have any fines to pay for parking in the wrong spot please break it to me gently for I am hard up just now"
 Tt isn't anything Nike that" Loretta told him. q only wish It were"
 That's a kind sister i her brother de- clared scornfully. "She wouldn't mind in the least if I had to give up $25 for her speeding, not she!'
 q haven't driven long enough to speed" Loretta said. "But this hasn't anything to with the car. It's about a benefit concert
 That lets me out" her brother said in a relieved tone. q don't go to the con- eerts and you can't get me to one unless you chloroform me and tie my hands,
 Nobody wants you to go," Loretta sniffed. Tt was Molly Ainslie I was in viting'
 By the way,' her brother said, sitting up quickly in his easy chair, when are we going to call there? She's a beuty.
 "No use," Loretta told him crushingly She's going to be married next month to a man who's on his way home from Aus tralia now"
 'eYes, maybe, but she hasn't really seen me-" said her brtller. I'm sure she is a maiden of taste who would like me better than any Australian savage like that"
 lille isn't savage" declared Loretta indignantly. Besides I am telling you { story"
 q wonder if you don't mean a fib?"
 'I knew her when I was away a sohool,7 Loretta went on unheed. "Ant once I spent week end with her in 2 l A aaghtful home where she was per feetly lovely to me. So of course I wa. anxious that she should have good tim, here and think I wus at least almost al well situated as she is.' Vanity! :"
 q know it." Loretta confessed with {; l laugh. 'I said I had learned a new les son on the foolshness of pretending. Well Molly went to stay at a hotel with som aunt who lives there and I gave tha luncheon for her. One of the other girl we knew at school gave that theater par ty you went to, and altogether we di
Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-08
To PREVENT CONTEMPLATING
 OF LIQUOR PERCEPTIONS

Washington, Nov. 7.-Orders 10 change all physicians blanks prescription books to safeguard against msiuse and traffic in liquor prescription were issued today by Prohibition Commissioner Haynes.
 The kind of paper used for liquor pre- scriptions. May Haynes said is to be all tered, thus tending to prevent counter feiting and forgery.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-08
ADVICE FOR WOMEN WHO SUFFER.

T advise every woman who suffers with kidney trouble to try Foley Kidney Pills,' writes Mrs. Bessie Brawner, 2522 Scoville Ave, Cleveland. O. q could not do my homework, but since taking Foley Kidney Pills I feel like new woman and am able to do my work" Rheumatic pains, swollen ankles, backache. stiff joints. sore muscles and sleep-disturbing bladder ailments indicate disorlered kid- neys. Foley Kidney Pills act promptly. Lee Osgood Go.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-08

New York has its election today and for the good of the big town 1t Is to be hoped that the voters have sufficient courage to render a service to themselves by insisting on better government of the city.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-08

New Britain.-The directors of New Britain General hospital announce the resignation of Supt John E. Fay. to take effect Nov. IS. MT. Fay has been super intendent of the hospital for the past two years. having come here from the Hart ford hospital. He has no plans for the future.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-08

The cold north winds have been bring ing us the effect of the snowfall in the northern New England states and giving us warning of what is to come mild win ter prophets to the contrary notwith- standing.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-08

The steady climb of the Liberty bonds isn't anything more than those who held onto them expected, or that some, who had to dispose of them, knew would be 'just their luck"
Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-08

Now the fall of the Lenine government is predicted in few years. Something like two years ago 1t was given six months in which to expire.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-08

The refusal to permit the soldiers bonus to become part of the tax revis- ion bin, as voiced in the senate, was in accord with good judgment.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-08

Having elected him 1t is probable that the people of Georgia are sending con- gratulatory messages to Tom Watson for the talk he indulges in in the senate
Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-08

It will take Florida 8 good part of the winter to overcome the effect of the re- cent tropical storm so northerners ought to find plenty to do down there.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-08

Locomotives and cars have been
 built for the French railroad in the
 Sahara that are specially designed to withstand the force and cutting ef- fleets of the sandstorms.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-08

Wheat is under dollar a bushel, and fish bring so little fishermen are not very active. But are you getting cheaper flour and cheaper fish?
Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-08

The very thought of being exiled on old Madeira would bring joy to the hearts of many an individual if prohibit tion is enforced.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-08
EDITORIAL NOTES.

hunger of the furnace will keep many
 people busy for the next few months.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-08

It may be a bit cheering to former En- peror Charles to repeat that slogan Though man may be down he is never out"
Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-08
PUTTING ON AIRS

all we could to give her a fine time. It happened that my money gave out just about them
 "Cruel and unusual ? scoffed her broth er How could such a thing ever happen to you?'
 Tt was all on account of the oculist," Loretta continued. T had paid him one bill and was still going to him because of that trouble in my right eye. And 1t used up al, my spare cash. Besides, he told me must not go out at night until I was better I was in luck, however, because just then some ono sent me two tickets for the benefit concert with note say that they were paid for and could not be used by any member of the family, so | 1t was hoped that might be. able to go." "Of course I could not, so sent them i off to Molly post haste nd she and her aunt went I WI ,te a note to my friend | thanking her for the tickets but I did not say 1 wasn't going, heinz afraid she'd never send me any others if she thought so little of thenA She's always getting | tickets to things and often sends them to me-
 l 70 convenient soul to have around, I should think" her brother declared. I wish I knew somebody like that"
 q didn't tell Molly that the tickets were given to me-" Loretta went on ruefully, because I knew it's human nature not to appreciate a thing that's too cheaply gotten. ThRt's' where I made my mis- take.'
 And now" intoned her brother grave iy, now beginneth the second lesson" "It's about the fifteenth lesson" Lo- retta laughed Molly and I had lunch downtown yesterday and along came Alice Drew. She had never met Molly
 and was charmed with her and Molly was lovely. Molly praised Chicago and
 everything in it and said I had been SC
 good to her all the time of her stay. She
 said a lot about how much she and her aunt had enjoyed the concert and what
 good, seats they had. It was really aw-
 full.
 T don't call that awful,'' demonstrated
 her brother. q like such gratitude
 '"The gratitude was all right" said Lo.
 retta witf a grcan. "It was the concert
 I minded her taxing about. You see
 she was speaking to Alice Drew, and ii
 happens it was Alice who gave me the
 tickets. ."-Chicago News.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-08

gEnBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The AzsodAtrd Press is ercludvey entitled to the for rspubneatioa of all nsws dsspateh- ereditsd to n not otherwise 1fsdlted to shis paper and also the local asUs Dubhshsd herein.
 An nKfss Of republication of special dss- patches Darrin also ro1erTed-
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1921-03-25
CONDEMN HIGH PRICED
STOCK FOODS
Prominent Hog Raiser Says
Prices Charged Are Unwar-
anted-Malses His Own
Food With
Better Results

THAT he is all through paying fancy
prices for stock foods and hog RENE
dies and that he is raising some of the
best hogs ever placed on the market
was the statement made recently by
e. H. Beckstead, Well known hog rails
er and authority on live stock.
Mr.. Beckstead's, hogs are the envy
of his neighbors, and have topped the
market for several years in Iowa.
He states that for years he bought high
priced-hog foods and hog remedies. but
he is all through paying extravagant
prices for what he can make himself.
He statss that what the hogs need are
minerals, and tells the secret of his
wonderful success by explaining that he
tskes about five pounds of ordinary
mineraline (which is pure concentrated
minerals and costs only couple of dol
lars) and mixes same with enough bran
or filler to make hundred pounps. All
hogs, and especially brood sows require
minerals as they keep them free from
worms, and In the pink of condition. and
are essential to the hogs growth and a
well balanced ration. This inexpensive
mixture placed in sheltered box where
the hogs can get it when they need it,
will produce for better results than any
high priced so called stock foods.
Send two dollars to the Mineraline
Chemical Co., 1888 North Wells st.
Chicago, III. and they will forward you
by prepaid parcel post. enough miner
aline to make full hundred pounds.
tAdv.)
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1921-03-25

AnAus ~ csntnsiss have - -
hoosg - . laxative and oh heosy -
- astrlRgsat Aboetginss q puFuAn
s9srsd honey 10 IL suA sorssks -
mig n With miik Of water - - Z
- . fhAttoa 70 the Asal h 90
section q India milk and hsnay ~
haa1sd 70 al bridsgreons - thsy -
rive q the door Of IL hides fsthsR,
- N Ancient Egypt honey vns -
shtsf ingysdisne Of smbaimina ~
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1921-03-25

-DrAnss what difference thsv - :
nxl the household phiiosoShsr. -
tween things We need and things ~
vast There are many things Ne Dssl
b the house. but never eaA Anl IL
mccoy cor. while somshov - caA -
vays and the money for tAiAu ~
vuDa that We personally fAAny.'
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1921-03-25

Little Forsncs climbed upon her n
thsrs lap on her birthday and put hel
arms around his neck Fsther AWAY
called her 'Toodles.' and until nov
ste had answered to the name. But
now she looked at him In surprise
why, I'm three nowi I should thfnh
you'd call me 'Thrsediss-' she said
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1921-03-25

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senger-"Certainy. sir. Here n the key
Of my trunk. which IL In the haEgags'
ear In the pocket Of my seconi-bsss
dress IL my mileage eook"--Har1srs
Bazaar.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1921-03-25

Il 10 not writtsn blessed h ~ u
eesdtk the poor. but he that consie'
srsth the poor. A little thought and .
little Kindness are often worth mers
tAan . great deal Of monsy.-JoAn
xuskin-
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1921-03-25
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-07
a Type of "Good Time"
Which Is Now Extinct

On another interesting and CORY occasion
this reporter reached picnic park on an
ambulance, in response to an urgent tele-
phonic invitation to send at least two sur
geons with all the sewing material they could
gather up in hurry. This time the boys
were throwing beer glasses at each other The
beer glass of the dollar racket days was a
heavy affair, but when it struck something
heavier and harder, like "scoover's" head, it
certainly did break prettily. And it could in
fct some of the bloodiest scalp wounds that
the ambulance surgeons were ever called upon
to suture. There were six patients awaiting
their ministrations on this call. They opened
dressing station in a small room adjoining
the barroom, and we all went to it. With his
sleeves rolled up the writer went ahead of
the surgeons with razor and pair OF scis-
sors, removing the hair from around the
scalp wounds. BY the time this job was done
he could have qualified as barber in the best
shop in the city, with plenty Of experience as
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-07
ambulance came

a recommendation. Fresh victims were brought
in every few minutes. The police reserves
were there, but every time they rushed up to
one end of the hall to stop fight the lads
at the other end would renew hostilities.
Altogether about twenty-four lacerated
scalps were sewed up before we drove back
to the hospital, and good time was had by
all. That was one Of the compromising
features of the milder picnic park riots Hard
feelings vanished when the ambulance sur
geon took charge, and many time two
youths, stretched out side by side as the out
of injuries they had inflicted upon each
other, would argue with the doctor as to which
one he should first attend, as the more serious
ly hurt.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-07
This, in the Old Days,
Was Crimes Busy Season

Summer in the good old days of booze was
the busiest and most profitable season of the
year to the police reporter. But now all is
changed since the enforcement of prohibition
authorities. The Federal enforcement agents
in New York City at least were a joke No
body ever gave them a thought. The liquor
business not only went on as usual, but it
actually improved considerably, because the
man who had never drunk before thought it
mildly devilish to do so after he was told he
mustn't. SO January and February of this
year, for instance, were good months from the
police reporters point of view. In one city
borough alone there were eight bully good
murders in eight weeks. Then the police COM
menced enforcing the prohibition law
Oh, no, it isn't just temporary slump in
crime, such has been experienced before.
No such luck. This slump is here to stay.
Never before have three months passed with
out the commission in a borough of nearly
oOo,000 population of a serious crime The
ponce reporters are mortgaging their houses,
pawning their watches and looking forward to
cold hard winter--those of them, that is,
who aren't seeking new jobs
We might think business would pick up
again later if it weren't that things ought to
oe nummlng right now. The merry clang of
the ambulance bell should be ringing in our
ears almost continuously, we should be leaping
mmoy out Of the way of the speeding police
paVroi at every corner. The morgue should
DC chock full of the remains of victims. And
'.ne medical examiner and the District Attor-
ney should be working themselves to death.
why! Because the population is increasing
rapidly In every section of the city, and the
borough considered as an example here is no
exception. There are more automobiles driven
IN rev York City to-day than ever before
ana tnls borough is literally overrun with them
IN saturdays, Sundays and holidays. Labor
'0aoislons are said to be poor and getting
worse with hundreds out of work The young
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-07

and Sunday night, usually both, the reporters
were kept busy obtaining the details of stab
bling and shooting affrays at picnic parks fea-
turing dollar beer rackets Some "scoover"
would insult some other "scoovers" 'lady
friend" or, worse yet, would ALLEVIATE her
tickle affection. Thereupon out would come
the "gat," the razor or the stiletto, depend
ing upon the preference and nationality of
its possessor, and then if the gent" who had
lost his "lady friend wasn't too drunk to
shoot, cut or stab effectively, it was time for
the news hounds to get the Job.
The writes never attended dollar beer
racket" except in his professional capacity, and
yet he believes he was the most regular attend
ant over period of several years of any resi-
dent of New York City. If he happened to be
in police station when the riot call came he
would ride to the scene in the patrol wagon
with the reserves. If he was at one of the
local hospitals he would hop up beside the
ambulance chauffeur. He usually managed to
be one of the earliest arrivals after the cas-
ualties started. On one occasion he arrived
well ahead of the police. A special officer en-
ployed in a picnic park, better known as a
"bouncer," had foolishly and overzealously in
terfered while two "gents" were shooting out
their troubles. They had promptly forgotten
their own dispute and made common cause
against the natural enemy, as a consequence
of which the "bouncer" was shot dead. Before
the precinct sleuths reached the park the re-
porter had procured statements from all the
witnesses and one of the principals, who had
himself been shot, but not seriously injured,
by brother officer of the slain Special" But
instead of being grateful to the news gatherer
for Offering to share his information with
them the detectives were angry because he had
beaten them to it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-07
Reporters Seek IN Vain
The Old, Old Stories

cav. put 'em away" yawns the bored
police lieutenant. 1--WE amt turned wheel
all night"
Promptly at we step into our local
magistrates court. The room is crowded.
We feel encouraged. Maybe the day isn't
spoiled, after all. Then we glance at the
prisoners detention pen. The door stands
wide open. There is no one in it. Our soar
ing spirits do nose dive into shoes
"Why the crowd?" we ask the clerk.
ooh, they didn't keep to the right or they
bent somebody's mudguards," is the doleful
response.
Nothing good?" we quaver.
Don't make me laugh. We haven't had
felony case in month"
This particular police court is one of the
busiest in the city in the number Of cases
handled. But most Of them involve minor
attractions of the corporation ordinances or
highway laws. The reporters have sat down,
not once, but many times lately, and listened
to between forty and eighty arrangements in
a session without hearing described a single
incident that would be worth relating in a
newspaper.
1t must not be imagined, from all this, that
drinking is thing of the past. "Drunks" are
still arraigned in our city police courts, but
they are charged with toxication-nothing
worse. And the explanation of that, as given
to me by veteran police official Of the city,
is as follows:
1.-THE stuff they get now knocks 'em cold.
They can't get beer, so they have to drink
hard stuff. And after one or two snifters Of
that they lie right down where they are and
go to sleep. They can't fight any more when
they're drunk. They can't do anything.
They're dead to the world
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-07
Sometimes Guns and Kniues
Followed Beer Glasses

Some of the more deadly fights, however,
when guns and knives were employed, were
not quickly forgotten. Gang wars fire.
quently resulted, particularly if the 'lady
FRIEND" who almost always was involved, in
enc way or another, was insulted by or went
with member of rival outfit. This would
mean reprisal shootings or Standings, and oc-
casionally there would be series of these
ARRAYS on successive Saturday or Sunday
nights.
Until few reformers inaugurated a crusade
against picnic parks, which, however, did not
prove successful until beer lost it's kick by law,
every one took these battles as a matter Of
course. Some picnic park proprietors consid-
cred it good advertising to have the names Of
their establishments mentioned in the news
paper accounts of the casualties. 1t added a
sort of tone to the place. Others, attempting to
cater to less volatile spirits, used to request
the reporters not to identify their places of
business. But none of the latter really ex-
pected that we wouldn't, and so none was Of
Tended when we did, and | have never known
of g case where reporter, If present on legiti-
mate business, was interfered with or ordered
out of a park. On the other hand, if he en-
joyed cheap beer and unfragrant cigars he
could have his fill of both before he left
Murders and felonious assaults outside of
the picnic parks, but usually the result of
visit to one of them used also to be common.
"Drunks' often fell in front of or from street
cars and trains. Such crimes as wife beating,
hold-ups and small thefts were too usual for
much consideration, and the wife beaters were
SO invariably drunk that the possible exception
would prove the rule.
The real news features of the Monday
papers, however, were the automobile wrecks,
in which from one to half dozen were killed.
The really good" ones, from reporters point
of view-which, of course, were really very
bad ones from humanitarian standpoint
occurred, as rule, between and 4 a. m. on
Sunday or Mondsy mornings. Overindul-
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al b


er men, however--the very ones who used to
bring the most joy and simoleons to the police
reporters-still have enough left from their
fat wartime wages to indulge themselves dur
ing their spare time Every condition but one
is exactly right for busy season. And that
one condition is prohibition
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-07

-a HE millennium has not arrived as yet,
but it is on its way. One can still be
II drowned. stabbed. shot, hit by train
or otherwise killed. but records will
.voye that it isn't being done nearly as often as
s,ruerly. And the reason is
Prohibition.
rrnon the accuracy Of this statement opinion
~, not be unanimous. Yet there has never
hsen less crime or fewer serious accidents and
o.hsr calamities than now. and this has been
time ever since Governor Miller played his
little April fool joke on the people of New
yosk State by signing the Mullan-Gage law.
which is to the state presumably what the Vol
siesd act is to the country at large. Actually,
.hcugh the Mullan-G Gage law has done more to
ssop trafficking in liquor in New York State
than the volstead act could ever have accom-
ulished. While it has not put an end to drink
ing in New York City, it has put an end te
the accidents and crimes that formerly re-
suited, to a large extent, from overindulgence
in alcoholic beverages.
II you don't believe it ask any police detec-
tive. Ask him if this isn't the best summer
he's ever had, as viewed from the amount Of
work he has had to do And then ask the
newspaper reporter assigned to crime news
whether this isn't the worst summer he has
ever experienced, as judged the same way
When the police officials are happy the police
reporters are miserable and vice versa.
The writer claims to know, for he has been
covering police news in one of the largest
boroughs of New York City for fifteen years,
and he is dolefully positive that this is the
worst summer that has ever happened
Whether it is the worst that will happen is the
question that is keeping him awake nights.