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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-03-06
HEADQUARTERS FOR Ali
KINDS OF PLANTS. f. I. FOSIEn'

Washington.-All Of the men select
ed by Harding to be members vi his
cabinet, arrived in Washington excep,
A. w. Mellon and he was expecie1
early Friday.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-03-06
KINDERGARTEN

ENROLL YOUR CHILD FOR
THREE MONTHS. OPENS MARCH
IA. GOOD WEATHER, EXCELLENT
TRAINING. TRANSPORTATION. 2OS
C ST., :. w. PHONE 414.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-03-06
Let's Go i!

Washington. Andrew NJ. Mellon be-
came secretary of the treasury with
a special ceremony in the office Of
Senator Knox. Other members Of the
cabinet will be sworn Saturday.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-03-06

Record Sale on all this month,
only limited number left.
BUKE'S MUSIC STORE
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$19.5O
DRESS SPECIAL

Choice new style Dresses, consisting Of all
the late ideas Colors are brown, black,
navy grey, in range of shades. Good
quality of Satins and Taffetas. These
Dresses you would pay $500 or $4,000 for
elsewhere. Our price $3.50.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-21
Seaweed as a Food

THE United States Fisheries Bureau for
l. some time past has been investigating
the possibilities of American seawceds us
producers of materials useful for food and
other purposes.
The first experiments were made with the
common Irish moss which is plentifuliy
found along the coast Of New England. 1t
yields IL gelatinous substance which, has Tong
been in use for the sizing Of paper and
cloth, in the manufacture Of soaps. paints.
dyes and hair ointments, and iItstiie prepa,-
ration of certain medicines and foods.
1t is found that the: geiatine derived from
this kind Of seaweed serves. admirably as
a medium IN which to pack fish that are
otherwise TOO soft to ''stand up in cans.
Gelatincs Of animal origin have proved nm.
available for the purpose.
We import from the Orient halt Il mil.
lion dollars worth annually 81 d gelatipous
product called ''ngar.aear." derived from
certain red seawleds. which is used in max
ing foods and corrections. Also it is the
best known substance, on which. TO groM
cultures Of bacteria, and medical laborn.
tories and hospitals could hardly get along
without supplies of it.
Recent experiments have proved that two
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-21
z Can Airplane Be Silenced?

RS 1T possible, to- ''silence',. the flying ma
- chinc?1 The question is one Of the ut
most Importance from n military stand
point. During the war the only means Of
defense against airplapes attacking at night
was to determine their direction by listening
apparatus on the ground, thereupon to throw
searchlight beams upon them, and to go after
them with pursuit planes.
II the airplane could be rendered silent
it would become, for night bombing work,
incomparably more formidable So
Some time ago an experiment station for
investigating. this problem was secretly
established at Butley, England. 1t has got
at some interesting facts not hitherto known.
The noise made by an airplane consists
of two parts, a musical hum and an
unmusical roar. The hum is usually heard
6rst, as the plane approaches, and the roar
very soon after.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-21

THE ''lowerator' is. u new contrivance,
: which has an important advantage over
the elevator, inasmuch5 MS it requires neither
operator nor mechanical power. 1t is for the
rapid handling of merchandise in factories
and warehouses, and already has been in
stalled in a number Of large manufacturing
plants and Wholesale grocery establishments.
The device works on an endless chain, the
weight Of descending merchandise furnishing
the motive power. 1t carries "a series of
platforms, each of which is "a row Of strong
steel rods extended outward in a horizontal
plane. a barrel and a~box, let us say, are
placed on one Of the platforms. at the sixth
floor. Their weight causes them to descend
at a rate controlled by a centrifugal gov
ernor to the ground foor, where the steel
rods, passing like fingers through an in
clined grating. discharge npon@tbc latter the
boz and the barrel. The barrel and the box
tlereupon roll down to the bottom Of the
atA
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-21

TIME fall is the season of forest fires.
l. In the national forests the business of
fighting them is today highly organized.
When there is q big conflagration in the
woods 200 or 300 men may be sent out to
do battle. At various suitably located cen,
ters-Denver is one of Observation-Disclosures
are maintained for this important purpose
and bedrolls to the number Of several nun
dred are kept on hand ready for expedition.
nry emergencies. Scattered through the
forests are boxes containing re-tighting
tools in order that when a fire breaks out
men may find the implements ready at
hand. These boxes are wired to trees and,
according to size, hold tools for five, ten or
twenty five men. They are sealed, but any
body Is at liberty to break the seal and use
the tools to Eight q. fire. Each Of the above
mentioned bedrolls contains three blankets
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-21

species of seaWecds common. on our Pacific
'Coast yield agar-agar equal or superior TO
the imported article. Before long, there
fore. we ought to be able to produce for
ourselves all of it that we MED.
1t is found that only the red seawecds
yield gc!ntinous products useful for food or
other purposes such rs those above men,
toned. They are not obtainable from the
green species. +
From the brown scawecds is derived Il
substance called 'saligin,' which may, it is
thought. become commercially important in
the preparation of waterproof fabrics.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-21
Soap and Washrag in One

A WOMAN, Cora Irene Shaw Wilson, Of
"A albuquerque, y. NJ, is the inventor Of
a combined soapbag and washrag' which
ought to be useful to housewives.
To make it, a rectangular piece Of suit
able fabric is sewn to the middle part of
a larger rectangular piece of the same ma
tcrial. The smaller piece is stitched or
quilted into a series Of small pockets de-
signed to serve as receptacles for powdered
or flake soap. When the soap has been put
into the pockets they are sewn up. The
"soap-rag' is now ready, for 1se. When
it is wet, lather will ooze through the fabric,
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-21
A Quick Turf

A courses with almost miraculous quick.
ness consists in stripping off good sod to a
depth of an inch and u half and running
it through a. feed cutter, so arranged as to
slit the sod into ribbons. The latter are
then shredded by hand, leaving u mass of
grass roots, which are sown broadcast over
ground previously prepared by blowing and
narrowing. This accomplished, the ground
is rolled. and within three or four weeks
the golf course is covered with a fine, thick
carpet or grass, without waiting for seed to
erow.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-21

The hum is due to the exhaust of the
engine. The roar is from the propeller.
Under ordinary conditions the, first sound
Of a plane coming up w,ud' is heard as IA
faint hum at about 5000 yards. Soon it
begins, to develop into a roar. apd after
about a minute it suddenly increases in
volume. The increase probably occurs when
favorable dir currents first concentrate the
sound upon the observer. p
The stays of the aircraft have an aeolian
song of their own, which occasionally Is
heard ut u greater distance than any other
sound. 1t may be that vibration of the
engine contributcsNo the noise of the air
plane, but this is uncertain.
1t is possible that means might be found
for silencing the ''hum." but Of what use
would that be if the ~''roar" could not be
silcnced? A puzzle; and that is exactly
where the matter stands at present.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-21

for applicationrto whatever is to be washed.
The. soap. contained in the fashion de-
scribed. cannot be wasted and the quilting
prevents it from shiftins> thus preserving
the hatncss of the rag. $40 ~
1t is best to cut away the corners Of the
larger piece Of fabric. in order that what
remains of the edges of the latter may form
winglike flaps which can be folded over the
'soap-containing portion when it is desired
to limit the quantity of latber cxudiug. When
the soap is used up it is an easy, matter to
remove a few stitches and refill the pockets
with new fakes. .
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-21
Inventions
BY Accident

. "A CClDENT rather than necessity seems
a.: most often to be the mother of inven-
ten.
Of modern discoveries; yet mere chance
revealed it to Rocntgcn while he was work
ing with a Crookes tube.
How should we get along without pneu-
matte tires? That wonderful idea sprang
from nothing more remarkable than a piece
Of garden hose which a man in England tied
around the wheel Of his wheclbarrow.
A Frenchman named Montgolfer, airing
one Of his wife's frocks, noticed that it
tended to rise when inflated with warm air.
When his wife came home she found him
sending up paper barioons--the first balloons.
ever made. +
a careless workman In a paper mill for
got to add ''size'' to a batch Of pulp and
the paper made from it had to be thrown
away Somebody used a scrap of it to write
on, and discovered it's absorbent quality.
Hence our blotting paper,
In 1925, the wife Of a blacksmith at Troy,
N. y, washing her husbands shirts, was
annoyed to observe the collars got dirty be-
fore the garments were much soiled other
wise. She made separate collars, the first
ever known, and sold them to her neighbors.t
A. few years later several collar. factories
in Troy were doing a profitable business,
and today that city is the collar-naking
center Of the United States. 3 d i
George Westinghouse accidentally picked
up on a train a magazine which contained
a description Of a compressed air drill used
in boring the Mont Gents tunnel. 1t gave
him the idea for his pneumatic brake, which
revolutionizcd railroading.
a glass cutter at N~urembefg dropped
some aduafortis on his spectaclcs. Very
provoking, for it spoiled them. But the ac-
cident gave ris. to the art of etching on
glass.
A railway switchman in England, in 1876.
had two station signals, some distance
apart, to mind. He fastened the two levers
together with a long wire, using a broken
: iron chair for a countcrweight, and ran the
wire on into his hut, where he sat nightly
by the stove comfortably, working the
signals without setting foot outside. Tho
management of the road learned of the trick,
-eprimandcd him for ~laziness, promoted aud
rewarded him for his ingenuity and adopted
bis invention.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-21
Metals i'm
Your Body

ONE reason why milk is SO excede1t :
~ food is that it contains much calcium.
which is the principal metal Of the Eunlah
body. contributing to the makeup q inc
bones and teeth. a grown person cnrfies
in his skeleton about four pounds OF ",
Your body contains about three ounses
Of sodium. which is q white metal SO HIGHLY
coombdstible that a piece Of 1t thrown lhto.
water will take fire Instantly. III the nv.
man system it combines with chlorine 70
form common salt. Hence the saitlness OF
YOUR Precipitation and the salty taste Of
your tears.
In YOUR skeleton there arc also about
ounces of masnesiln.. which IS a silyery-
white metal. In a powdered state, il ~
nited. it burns with a most brilliant glare
AS seen in u photographers Bashl'ght.
Another highly inAammab'e metal con-
8taiued in your body is potassium-apout
two and q half ounces Of it. Like sodium,
it is set OH fire by contact with water, dc:
%stroyins the latter. That is to say, 1t en-
tiers into combination with the oxygen in the
water. thereby liberat,ns the hydrogen,
which burns with violence and 4 rosy haIne,
the phenomenon winding up with M cx-
plosion and a shower OF sparks.
Your body contains about ffty-tlve OUNCES
Of phosphorus, Originally derived mainly
from milk, cheese. beans, fish and oysters.
At all events, those are the foods which.
above all others. yield this remarkable sub
s.ance. In a pure state it. will take fire OF
its oWn accord if exposed to air and, there
fore, has to be kept sealed in water. Seven
cighths of the phosphorus that you carry
about with you is in your bones (goins 10
form. phosphte of limc> half an ounce is
in your brain tissues; the balance is in the
red corpusclcs of your blood.
OF birthstone otherwise called SULPHUR
there are about four ounces in your bones
and teeth. 1t was originally n volcanic
product: But one should remember that all
fhc mineral clements here mentioned were
ut one time contained i'll the rocks Of the
earth's crust.
Your body is three fifths water and one
fifth carbon. If all the hydrogen it cou-
tains, or an equivalent quantity. were sepa-
rated out. it would ill 4 balloon big enough
to lift you above the clouds. r.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-21
Canned Salmon

'I'HRlFTY housewives gu the Pacific Coust
4 nowadays buy salmon when they arc
plentiful and cheap, and put them up in Jars
or cans for winter use. They find it as
The salmon. dressed aud the backbone
removed, are, cut in crosswisc pieces Of Q size
TO fit the jar or can. Salt is added, and
the process. which includes cooking for three
hours in the cans, II the. same as for vege-
tables.s
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-21
Electric Popcorn

T7HF pepper that pops popcorn by cleo
! tricity is q brand new invention; much
more convenient than the old style Of
pepper. aad less danger of scorching the
corn.
IL is. n small pan of aluminium with Il
rectangular wire cage on top and a wooden
handle. Through the handle passes an elcc.
trio cord, which has simply to be plugged
into the house circuit Then YOU are ready
to pop. IS
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-21
A New Help for the Housewife

TINE most laborious of all domestic tasks
J. is ~scrubbing floors. Any m will
testify ia that. 1t breaks the back ana
wears out both temper and stocking knees.
Hence it may be considered that Charles
F. Olivier, of Sherbrooke, Quebec (Canada),
has proved himself a Observation-Disclosures the,
invention of a stoopless scrubbing brush
which he has newly patented in this coun-
try. The brush has a long handle; there
fore the operator doesn't have to stoop. On
top of it is a rectangular box containing
water and q cake Of soap. Sharp meta
points projecting upward from the bottom
of the box scrape the SOAP constantly as
the brush is pushed back and forth. A
dribble Of soapy water falls continually in
front Of the brush through q row Of small
holes provided for that purpose. Thus the
scrubber has nothing to do but to shove the,
long handle to and fro, soapy water being
fed out in advance u tbe brush. The per;
Iormance is almost automatic. ~
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-21
Ever Hear of a "LoWerator''?

inclined grating. which serves the purpose of
a chute, and are ready to be loaded upon
hand trucks or otherwise dealt with.
There are enough platforms strung along
the endless chain 70 allow two or more for
each story. so that they are at all times
available on every floor Of the building
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-21

is fastened by a screw 10 q clamp that fits
over the plate edge. When the egg rests
thus i'll the holder, all one has to do is to
chop off the top with a shrewd knife blow.
Thanks to the above. mentioned screw, thc
contrlvancc can easily be taken apart for
washing and is then clamped back ON the
plate for the next breakfast
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-21

TN FORMER days one of the things that
no, fellow could find out Ito quote Lord
Dundreary) was the reason why of balanced
rocks. A good many such rocks are found
In various places-huge bouldcrs perched{
in such ticklish fashion that a child can
move them with a push. One of the most
remarkable is shown in the photograph pre-
scented herewith. 1t is about twenty FIVE
feet high and weighs some thousands Of
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-21

(NOLUMBUs is a back number. Richard
~ +. Schulzc, Of She.byville, Ind, has
got him ''bcnt Il mile" He balances an
egs OH the edge Of a plate. True, he uses
an eggholder for the purpose. Three arms,
of metal thin enough to be elastic, hold the
egg when inserted between them. The arms
spring from a small circular plate, which
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-21

and two halves of n shelter tent-commonly
called a pup tent Thus one of them will
provide for two men. The toolboxes con-
ain axes, mattocks. rakcs, shovcls, a cross
cut saw, a lantern and II water t,ckct. Also
Il can of kerosene. 1t was for some time Il
puzzle now TO transport the toolboxes (for
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-21
Photo BY U. s. Forest seryics B

tons, vet is 50 nicely balanced rs to jogsls
almost at q touch. This rock may Be seen
on the automobile road between Woodland
Park and Palmer Lake, in the Pike M
tiondi Forest, Colorado. How did It set
there and why is it pcrched in so curious !
way? The answer is that IL was fetched
BY . glacier. $4,000, years Or more -.
and Just accidentally lcftti 10 its present poa.
ton when the ice sheet melted.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-21

distributionl along forest paths. They are
clumsy and bulky things to carry. But
finally an ingenious forester hit upon the
idea of roping two OF them across the back
Of q mule. one on each side Of the animal.
and this is now the accepted method used
in preparing these boxes.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-21

Photos by l.. S. Forest Service
When there is a c0nAagration in
the woods 200 or 800 men may
be sent out with their bed1 oils
The New York herald., 1921-01-14
GRAND TRUNK SELLS
s12,O00,O0O ISSUE
Certificates Will Be Offered
at Price to Yield Z Per
Cent.

The Grand Trunk Railway of Canada
has sold to VIM. A. Read & Co. $4,000
900 hfteen year 61a per cent equipment
trust gold certificates. and Dillon. Read &
Co, the firms successor, Will offer the
new securities to-day at 95.40 and intT-
est, to yield approximately per cent.
The certificates are issued under the Phil
adelphia plan, and semi-annual sinking
fund payments Of 100000 provide for
retirement by maturity, but the issue
is not callable.
Frank Scott, vice-president of the
Grand Trunk Railway, which is being
operated in connection with the Cana
dian National Railways. in a letter to
the bankers says in part:
THE cash contract price of the rolling
stock Is s16.00o.0 600. of which the rail-
way makes an initial cash payment of
81, 900. 900. The certificates are issued
against the following standard equip
ment: 35 switching locomotives. 5000
10 ton automobile box cars, 1000 80 ton
steel underform fiat cars. 10 horse ex-
press cars. express refrigerator cars.
80 baggage and express cars
Under the provisions OF the statutes
Of Canada the rentals payable under the
lease Of this equipment rank as a rail-
way working expenditure and constitute
a claim against earnings. prior to both
principal and interest of mortgage debt.
The company has regularly paid ths In
tcrest on It's outstanding bonds for forty
six years. The Dominion Government
has agreed TO purchase the preference
and common stocks Of the Grand Trunk
Railway at a price to be fixed by the
board of arbitrators now converting"
The New York herald., 1921-01-14
DILLON, READ e co.
NEW NAME OF OLD FIRM
Three More Members Are Ad-
mifted to the Concern.

Clarence Dillon, senior partner or VIM.
A. Read & Co., announced yesterday
that beginning to-day the firm will be
known as Dillon. Read & Co.. and at the
same time the admission of three new
members to the firm was announced.
The new partners are William Angus
tus Read, Jr., eldest son of the senior
mariner, who died in 1916; W. NJ. L..
Fiske, formerly resident partner in Chi
cago, who retired one year ago on ac-
count OF i'll health. and z. j. Berming-
ham, associated with the firm for twelve
years and now manager of the Chicago
office The seven other members of the
firm are Clarence Dillon. r. l.. Taylor
of Philadelphia, Joseph III. Seaman, j.
w. Hornor. Jr.: James Dean OF Boston,
r. w. Martin and WilliRm A. Phillips.
The firm Of Carpenter & Vermilye.
founded about 1880 and changed prior
to the civil war to Vermilye & Co, con-
tipued under the latter name until April
l, 1905. when 1t was dissolved and sue
ceeded by Mackay & Co. and VIM. A.
Read & Co.
Clarence Dillon was born in Texas in
1882 and was graduated from Harvard
in 1905, became connected with VIM. A.
Read & Co. in 1918, after having en-
gagged in mining, coal, ore and steel
businesses until that time. He has been
active head Of the firm since 1916.
William A. Read, Jr.. is 20 years DID,
graduate of Harvard and was in the
naval aviation corps from November,
1917, until mustered out on November
80. 1918. His twin brother Curtis Read.
was killed in war service.
The New York herald., 1921-01-14
SHIRT COMPANY EARNS LESS.
Manhattan Reports Drop I'm Net
During 1890.

The earnings OF the Manhattan Shirt
Company IN 1920 showed n very decided
drop compared with those of 1919, ac-
cordlng TO It's annual report, made public
yesterday. The report. which overs the
fiscal year ended on November 90,
shows that the company had surplus.
after charges and Federal taxes. of
s574,ose. which is equivalent 10 $2.sf a
elierc on It's common stock after deduc-
tion OF preferred dividends In tho pro.
ceding year the cofnpany's surplus avail.
able for dividends amounted 20 Si,125,-
sos, or $500 n share on It's common.
Net operating profits OF the company
for 1920 were ss3s,473, against si.sss.-
Sill in 1919. Other income was y7.23s,
against s6,2si, and interest charges
totalled si5s,sO0. against si3.7ss. Fed.
crsl taxes aggregated $4,000. against
{526.000, leaving a balance OF s57s,0e6,
n hinst s1.ts5.302 Preferred stock aivi.
6ends were unchanged at $4,000, and
common dividends Of s3b0.003 we're only
a little In excess of those OF 1919. CON-
sequentiy the final surplus for 1890 was
$li2,0ss. as against $500, SOC In 1915.
The New York herald., 1921-01-14
BELGIAN TO Be FIRST.
FOREIGN FLOTATION
Brussels Seeks $5O,00O,0OO,
Although Wall Street Had
Talked Of 5000, 900.
EXACT SUM IS UNDECIDED
Likelihood of POstpOning
500, 100000 French Offer
inc Until Next Month.

The first OF the foreign Government,
loans to be fioated in this market will
be the Belgian Government issue. which.
IL present plans are carried out, will be
prepared for offering early next week.
possibly on Monday morning. Wall
Street had talked of loan for S25.000.-
900, but the Belgians want $50,000,000,
and>if present conditions continue it Is
probable that a bond issue for the
larger amount will be offered.
That the Belgian Government will be
the first TO be offered Is assured by the
fact that earlier in the week terms and
conditions for Belgian offering were
cabled to Brussels and that acceptance
unquali1edly of these terms and condi-
tions has been made by cable by the
proper Belgian Government officials
Consequently nothing remains but
preparation for the offering and the de-
termination of the exact size and pro-
pitious day for public announcement OF
the new issue.
So far as can be learned more prog
ress has been made In the Belgian ne
gotiations than in either the French or
Swiss and 1t was said yesterday there
need be no surprise If the French offer
ing of s10O,000.000 bonds was post
poned to the first week OF February.