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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-05-19

CE&c Discount on all mirrors and
IO ~ and medicine cabinets, tele-
phone stands, smokers, Gateley tables.
cedar chests and dining room chairs in
sets not advertised.
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High Grade Bedroom,
Suites 5000

These beautiful suites are of
walnut and mahogany. If you
want to furnish bedroom with
good furniture at a low price
now is your chance. Have
been selling at 3oo.oo-now
just half price.
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Rugs for Every
Purpose
Tapestry Brussels Rugs
/ 0E m

Tapestry Brussels Rugs
I $500
Suitable for bedrooms and din
ing rooms, size ox12. Bought
at an unusually low price and
ordinarily would sell at $3.50
to 42.5o-now $500.
Tapestry Brussels, Velvet
and Administer Rugs
$3.50
Most of these rugs are ox12, a
few 6xo rugs in the lot, a good
variety of patterns from which
to choose, now $3.50.
Administer Velvet Tapes
try Rugs 1915
6xo, 7.6xo and 9x12 sizes. This
is a broken assortment of rugs
that sold at $500 to 1900.
While they last 1915.
Velvet and Administer
Rugs 1915
These are room size ox12 rugs
in a large selection of very
chioce patterns. Originally
1850 to $3.50 values now at
1915.
Velvet and Administer
Rugs 69.75
Beautiful patterns, size ox12. 4
factory clearance lot that
should sell at $500 to 1880.
We will clear away the entire
assortment in this sale at CO.'S.
Grass and Wool Fibre
Rugs 9.95
Light weight with Grecian
stenciled border, size 6xo, Sxro
and oxI2. Fine for the porch
or summer home, each o.o5.
Granite Carpet 69c Yard
Floral pattern granite carpet,
SO inches wide, sold at o5c
yard, buy it in this sale at yard
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-05-19
Velvet and Administer
Rugs 69.75

Beautiful patterns, size OxI2 \
factory clearance lot that
should sell at $500 to 1880.
We will clear away the entire
assortment in this sale at 60zs.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-05-19
Velvet and Administer
Rugs 1915

These are room size Ox12 rugs
in a large selection of very
chioce patterns. Originally
77.5o to $3.50 values now at
40.75.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-05-19

good furniture at a low price
now is your chance. Have
been selling at 3oo.oo-now
just half price.
DaUenporfs and Duofolds
1875
Upholstered in imitation leath-
er. One table bed in the lot.
1900 to $500 values. Priced
for immediate disposal at 4o,75
Diningroon, Suites
10000
You will better appreciate the
value of these beautiful suites
when you see them. We have
decided to clear the floor of
these 10000 and 10000 suites
at 10000.
Library Tables 1915
Finished in fumed or golden
oak and mahogany. An excel
lent assortment of styles to
choose from. Take your choice
now at 1915.
Tabourettes acc
We have a few fumed oak ia
bourettes, Is inches high,
worth 85c each, now only ACC.
Flo.Der and Fern Stands
.79c
These stands are 16 to Cd
inches high and have been SELL
ing at 1.25 to 400. You can
buy them in this sale at each
79c.
Library Tables 1875
Fumed oak finish tables. well
made and worth the full price
OF 5000 to $500, now only
1875.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-05-19

rs GREET! NeS
|DCIIURcnMEET


81 WlnnnA LAke, Ind, Nay H.
1rool6eut Hafding was cheered, and
~ commisaionefs from Presby-
tes1an ehurchss Ill over the coun-
~ roo 70 their feet In homage to
IL ONES, Vhaa 3 massage Of greet
- and tnsptr1kion fru0 him was
lSod b. the moderator. Dr.. Sam
~ 8. Palmer, Of Columbus, Ohio.
g The opening session OF the gen
eSal assembly Of the Presbyterian
church In the y. s. A.
NJ President Harding In his mes
sage said:
II an very Glad. indeed, TO ex-
press my interest IN every such
good work Surely there II no In
.fsilectual and moral body in the
country TO which We may more
sconfidently turn for wise assist
ancs and sage guidance than to the
Christian people who make up the
body Of our churches.
Whatever may stimulate them to
greater activity. and, l feel, to In
creasing recognition Of the concern
of Christian citizenship with the
administration of our public affairs,
must necessarily be Of service to
the nation.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-05-19
DaUenporfs and Duofolds
1875

Upholstered in imitation leath-
er. One table bed in the lot.
1900 to $500 values. Priced
for immediate disposal at 4o,75
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Administer Velvet Tapes
try Rugs 1915

6xo, 7.6xo and ox12 sizes. This
is a broken assortment of rugs
that sold at $500 to $500.
While they last 1915.
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Co1goleu,r Art Squares
100
2OT Discount on Gold
Seal Congoleu,1 Rugs
Not Advertised

Rugs in many practical Sizes.
6xo, Z7xo, oxo, ox1o.6 and
ox12. This is the time to save.
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Grass and Wool Fibre
Rugs 9.95

Light weight with Grecian
stenciled border, size 6xo, Sxro
and ox12. Fine for the porch
or summer home, each o.o5.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-05-19
Inlaid Linoleul7,s 1876

Our entire line of Blabon's lin
oleums, worth 3.25 to $50
square yard, priced in this sale
at square yard 1.o5.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-13
Dinner Stories

Charles Smith. who used to lamp
ties on the Kearney section, was sum-
moned as a witness at an inquest. He
had been cautioned that he must be
very exact in his statements.
After duly bordering the question.
he replied: He was what I should
call a partial stranger"
Either you knew him or you did
not said the coroner sternly. There
is no such thing as a partial stranger"
"Well," he answered. ST don't know
how else to describe him. He was
one-legged man."
An ignorant chicken, IMMERSED in
the appetites of American darkies.
crossed the road in front of a col
ored detachment. A soldier broke
from the ranks and started off in pur-
suit.
"Halt!" beloved the officer in
charge.
Both fowl and negro only quickened
their pace. -
Halt! Haiti" repeated the off
Ger.
The dusky soldier made one plunge.
seized the chicken by the neck and
stuffed it, still struggling, inside his
shirt.
"Dere" he painted. "Ah'u learn
you to halt when de captain says
halt, you disobedient bird"
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JUST FOLKS

BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

HIS WORK.
There isn't much fame on q farm, an the
farm doesn't pile up the wealth,
1t gives you an appetite early and late, an.
its usually lavish with health;
The world travels by in ita cars, but the
men and the women don't see
Any reason TO cheer anything that DO or
But I'm dom my work just the same an
at night time the Lord an know
That the wheAt's lookin' fine in the acres
out there. and I-well, helped 1t to
grow.
could rise with the great,
an wish could point something out which
my hands have builded or helped to
create;
Then the orchard looks over to me an the
fruit~la trees seem to say,
IF it were not for you an the care that
you've given, we wouldn't be bearin'
An the acres OF corn over there, planted
'em all, row by row,
The good gift O. nature" the poets de-
elare-but the Lord knows I helped
it to grow.
reckon I'm film my place, tho workin'
An standin' the heat of the merciless sun
isn't listed as glorious toll;
There's little Of briiliance here, an there's
nethin' to brag Of, guess,
A farmers a farmer, an that's ell he is
an his crops are bis only success;
But the Lord knows, an knew 1t, too, as
/ plough or harrow or hoe.
That these fields would be barren OF wheat
an Of corn, IL hadn't helped 'en TO
Copyright, 1921. by Edgar a. euestl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-13
George Mdfthew Adams
Daily Talk
HUNGER.


There is a keener hunger than that
of the body. And that is the hunger
of the soul.
Most of US have had them both
and so understand each.
Sometime ago read a very beauti-
full sentence. Here it is: IF had but
two Ioaves OF bread, I would sell one
Of them and buy white Hyacinths to
feed my soul"
Many of the greatest tasks of the
world have been performed on empty
stomaehs-notably so in the fields of
art science and literature.
In like manner, some of the noblest
conceptions of life arise from the hun
ger of the soul
In loneliness and want are we So
bered
We crave while we lack.
It is comparatively easy to satisfy
the ordinary physical hungers, but to
the soul there seems to be an ever
lasting hunger. So much of the world
hides "behind the dim unknown"
There are no laws within the king
dom of the soul. 1t is the only free
place to be found anywhere. Or else
how could the soul hope to crave out
sufficiently it's bursting reach?
We find ourselves where our purest
affections are.
The running fingers playing across
the strings of Gods harp, tell us that
we may find in the music of the spirit
the one thing which is able to soothe
the restlessness of our physical frame.
How fortunate are they who hunger!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-13
NoRNIA1CY NEAR AT HAND.

A general revival or business daily
is becoming more apparent on every
hand. It is evident that the strong
dustrial structure has not been seri-
ously shaken by the long continued
storm of readjustment.
The decline in prices has caused an
extended line of losses some OF which
have been Iiquidated and others are
being carried as deficits, constituting
burdens which must be eventually
Charged off. Many concerns have
come thru without profits, and 9TH
ers with capital impaired. Failures
have resulted-large in the aggre-
gate, but smaller in number and
amount than expected.
The era of initiation, out of which
we are now passing, was ushered in by
a somewhat similar period of disturb
war. when normal conditions were
erupted and the period of depression,
which lasted for nearly a year. began.
1t is recalled by the National City
bank that in the winter of 1914-15, as
far as unemployment was concerned,
the situation was even more serious
than it is now.
Agricultural products thought to be
selling at distressed prices now, were
selling then at less. The steel indus
try, then much below present capac-
ity. went down to about 35 per cent
of employment, and other industries
suffered in the same way. Then the
furious war demand began to grow,
initiation of credit came with rising
prices, and for four years or more the
demand continued. The a-mistice
stopped this only temporarily, and
the wave of extended buying and
speculation continued to a point
where the buying power became ex-
hausted. The brakes were put on
credit and the unloading of specula-
tive holdings began to shatter prices.
The public suddenly awoke to the
fact that it had been spending furi-
ously at exorbitant cost, aud the buy
ers' strike set in.
There is no question that this alb
stention. from buying, coupled with
the decline in prices, has increased
very largely the power of the coun-
try to buy. This is favorable factor,
which will show itself when stability
of prices comes about. 1t would seem
that a large vacuum must be slowly
developing in goods needed by the
world-steel. iron, cotton, copper
which must eventually create a re-
this condition will only become evil
dent GRADUALLY
If we take this country alone. we
find that the usual causes OF depres-
sion are absent: famine, sickness, over
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LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
The Park Ave. News.


weather. Unknown.
Spoarts Sid Hunt wasent allowed
out last wensday after supper on ac-
count of practicing the law OF gravity
by dropping a apple on his little
brother Berts- he'd, the 4th time he
dropped 1t Bert starting to yell Ike
enything.
Sissiety. Mr.. Benny Potts. Mr.. Lew
Davis and Mr.. Skinny Martin all re-
seeyed postal cards from Mr.. Sam
Cross in the country last week, each
postal card saying something different
on II. Mr., Pottses saying The Waiter
is fine, wish you wash heer, Mr.. Da-
vises saving / wish you was heer, the
waiter is fine, and Mr.. Martins saying
The waiter Is fine.
Pome by Skinny Martin
Hunting Song
o a harpoons the thing FOR a vale or
a shark
And a trap for a bear or a otter.
A gun for a berd and a hook for .
fish.
But the thing for a fly IS a swatter.
Intristing Facks About Intristing
People. Pubs Simkins is thinking OF
being a life saver wen he grows up
but his mother ana father are think
ing of having him go in the shoe big
Mss with his father.
Things You Awt to Know. Sharks
wont RELY bite people in the waiter,
people jest thinking they will on ae-
count of superstition, but 1t would be
foolish to stick your leg In a sharks
mouth jest to prove it.
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Questions-AnsDers

Q. What was Pastor Russelrs real
name EN- N.
A. Charles Tazesell Russell, who died
in i916, was known as "Pastor Russell
Q. When did the custom of funeral SER
mons, together with various other rites in
connection with the burials may be traced
back to antiquity. Even the primitive peo-
pies had certain ceremonies in connection
with the burial of their dead. In ancient
Greece and Rome the custom of eulogizing
the dead was very popular.
9. Is there such a word as "somewhen"?
4. This word is given in dictionaries
with the definition Eat some indefinite
time" aud is marked rare" H. G. Wells
ss Il 9ed pseee IN Engs6 sRs
O.; How large is the Pacific oceanf-
A. With its bordering seas, the Pacific
ocean has an area of about 55,O000OO
square miles, which is equal to the entire
land surface Of the globe.
A. This was Sanskrit sacred syllable
similar to our Amen. According to Manu-,
the syllable had to be uttered before every
otherwise the sacred knowledge and its
merit would be lost.
q; How ola was Jesus when he began
A. In the Gospel according to Luke,
is the statement that when Jesus began his
This is not definite and may have been
so mentioned because the Jews had a
theory that a teacher should be at least 40
o. was any part of the United States
ever called New Sweden?
A. New Sweden was an early name for
the region between New York and Vir-
o. How can forgeries OF pictures be de-
tected IN. A. n.
a. Photogrh ply reveals many differ
ences Of brushwork and medium between
old and modern paintings. Photography
has also been used with success.
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around Custer. S. D., the Custer
Welt" killed stock valued at SIS, 1000.
The bounty on his head was raised
from 500 to $500. Professional hunt
ers sought him for gain. Sportsmen
sought him for glory. He laughed at
crime Nunscathed. The ranchmen tried
a big roundup after dogs and poison
failed, but this failed, too, and Will
liams, the government hunter, was
called In to do the job, with instruc-
lions to stick to it until the wolf was
dead.
williams located the wolf around
tains. He scented up the soles of his
shoes, and started etringing his traps.
He got his first sight of the wolf after
several days. The willy beast was
thanked by two coyotes, ranging from
100 to zoo yards on either side of him.
These beasts he tolerated but would
not let them come near him. They
were welcome to his kills after he had
eaten his fill.
Williams shot these bodyguards, and
still the big prize was too elusive
Twice the wolf stepped on the jaws OF
traps, and one night rolled or fell into
one, but pulled away. leaving only
hair to show that he had been there.
Once he cornered the beast in a can
yon after he had killed several cattle
and eaten his fill, but two horsemen
riding I'D gave the wolf the alarm, and
he escaped again. Finally, after an
other successful escape from trap
which held part of his foot, the Gus
ter Wolf got into a trap last october
which held him fast. He broke the
swivel and ran away with the trap on
his foot. Williams trailed him three
miles. got a chance at him with his
rifle, and brought him down.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-13

Recently Comptroller of the Cdr
rency Crissinger, before the bankers
of Ohio, said: High interest rates
and prosperity were never bed-feI-
lows" The comptroller's statement
indicates a lack of familiarity with
the facts, for high interest rates and
prosperity nearly always go hand in
hand. Prosperity almost always in
creases the demand for money and
causes an advance in rates. The in
debtedness of the country is increas-
ing enormously under existing inter-
est rates and nobody will say that the
rates are not high.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-13
rs YEARS AGO IN TOPEKA
From the Columns Of
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL

August 1880.
There was a deluge Of small toads dur
ing the rain Tuesday might along the Santa
re track west Of the city. The toads con-
tinued to fall for several minutes and lit
tered the ground for miles. Engineer
Charles, in charge of engine 107, was on
his way to Topeka with freight train No.
30 and was to meet passenger train No.
at Papline. At the foot of Wakarusa hill
be found the track covered with teads to
such an extent that the engine wheels were
unable to stick to the slippery rails. He
put on full stream OF sand but this had
no effect, and he finally had to back into
the siding at Wakarusa station and meet
No. z there. The passenger train cleared
the rails coming down the hill, and he was
then able to continue on the way to To-
peka.
Miss Jessie Perkins will leave Tuesday
for Decatur, Ill, to visit her sister for a
month.
Mrs. p. c. Goodell and daughter, Miss
Belle, of Newton, Kan. are visiting the Rev.
and Mrs. Holman of North Topeka.
Miss Carrie Merriek, Miss Daisy Smith
and Miss Clara Ebright will leave tomor-
row for three weeks visit in the City OF
Mexico.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-13

building. each would cause depression
in any country where one or other
OF them prevailed to any extent.
We have none of these sauSes ex-
listing here. Crops have been good.
Health statistics are highly favorable.
Building operations are some years
behind requirements.
Other things than these have been
holding us in the depressed area. One,
which is fully recognized, is the tax
situation. 1t is now fully appreciated
that the destructive character of this
wholesale and discriminating levy On
current funds during the past three
years has disturbed the industrial
credit situation to a dangerous de-
gree. Six and one-haIf billions of dol
lars were collected in taxes in the
United States during 1919, and this
collection was in cash. This, in itself.
would prove potent in bringing on
commercial stagiation. This huge
burden of taxes is being reduced aud
further reductions are promised.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-13

From this distance it looks as tho
the governor of Illinois is indulging
in an unnecessary and uncalled for
amount of buster. If he be innocent
of the charges made against him, he
should go into court and prove it like
any other citizen. The facts and the
records should be readily available.
The findings of the grand jury have
nothing to do with his administration
as governor but relate to his conduct
Of the office of state treasurer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-13

The people of the United States are
paying the government $253,OOo.OOO a
year for the privilege of using the
railroads. This explains why so many
are making long Journeys in motor
cars. Fares already are too high
without this additional cost, which the
roads do not get. Yet the ways and
means committee is planning to re-
tain this tax until next year. The
program will be expensive for the
transportation lines.
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he'd get serious; they don't. you know,
at such places; but cid he--has he
oh, Beth. didn't think! Was he sim
pie enough for that? hope he
WON'T
mo. L don't think he will; and I'm
not angry with you; for. well. you see.
mo you won't and you never will
but like the idea of IA honeymoon
in South America"
Copyright 1921, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-13

President Harding's secretary of the
treasury does not seem to be popular
anywhere. not even in the White
House. His suggestions regarding the
financing of the government fail to
meet the approval of the president,
congress or the public.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-13

President Harding's invitation to
the nations of the earth is to do vol
UNFAIRLY what Germany has been
compelled to do-disarm and go to
work. ----,--.-s.-...-.s 80
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-13

The railroad refunding bill re-
ceived a big boost on wednesday
when Senator La Toilette appeared in
opposition to the measure.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-13

love that Erma has every day I would
have been willing to die"
pear child. Try to trust Him who
loves you. You tried to do your best.
He knows that, my dear. He will not
LET YOU be unhappy-always."
(To be continued.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-13

The most dramatic death was that
of "The Custer Wolf" The most
concealed trap seemed as
clear as daylight to him. He would
kill in one spot one night, and be re-
ported fifty miles away the next.
Dead shots missed him clean time and
again. The superstitious credited him
posed by the credulous to be not
merely a wolf, but a monstrosity. half
wolf and half mountain lion, with the
craft and cruelty of both. Public
opinion credited him with all the
qualities of the werewolf OF ancient
legends.
In the nine years of his eutlawry