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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-06-21
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April. May and June 'babiess and
members Of tho Blue. Triangle club
had q most delightful time at the
birthday party 1t the 7. W. C. A.
Watch Tower camp last night.
Supper was served on the roomy
front porch and games, contests
and victrola music were enjoyed.
Members Of Mrs. H. W. Tremann's
committee and tho membershjp
committee acted as Possesses. The
Blue Triangle girlS spent the
night at the cottage.
Swimming opens today with the
following program:
Tuesdays and Thursdays.
2 to 3-Younger girls.
3 to 4-Women's class.
4 to 5-General swim.
to business girls int. and
advanced.
to 8-General swim.
I to 9-Business girls beginning
class.
Wednesday.
10 to 11-Women's class.
The meeting Of the Allegro Girl
Reserves was postponed yesterday
afternoon. owing to the rain and
will be held today at $3.50 at Long
View park.
Miss Mueller Entertains.
Miss Frances Mueller of McClel-
Ian Heights, Davenport. is giving
an afternoon bridge-tea today al
the Outing club. Davenport. A
company Of 30 girl friends are her
guests.
Davenport Couple Wed Here.
The marriage OF Miss Vera X
Gaghagen. daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. F. C. Gaghagen of 2509 LIE.
Claire street. Davenport, and Her
bert C. McCauley, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Sam. McCauley OF East Elev'
enth street, was quietly solemn
! lied at 10 o'clock this morning il
Rock Island at the Broadway Pres.
byterian manse. Rev. John Nc
Gown Stevenson officiated.
! The bride wore suit OF nav.
blue tricotine with blue blous,
and a blue taffeta hat. Her now
ers were sweetpeas. The home viii
be in Davenport, where the bride
groom is a trainman with the Tri
City Railway company.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-06-21

An Girl Scouts Of the city are
70 afeend . mass meeting to BE-
Ased - Rock Island high school At
va eomorrow morning. DR.. Dan
= Peal. county physician, IL to
eve . denomination in frst aid
work.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-06-21

xWUely Beo0vohont Soc1ety.
Mn. ]. Marks of $40 Eleventh
avenue was hostess Sunday after
noon 70 the postponed meeting of
the TWin-City Benevolent society.
Twenfy-fve members were present
and . successful afternoon was
spent. The hostess served refresh
ment1
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-06-21

blue Rose: Say nothing about
marriage to the young man. You
are quite right in your attitude.
Doubtless he has marriage in mind,
but is mot financially able to marry
at present.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-06-21

Sigma Alpha Epsilon dinner dance for
With Mn. Ida Peacock. 1910 Seventeenth
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-06-21

Mis- Flofencs NcCooochie Of 1911
Twelfth avenue - home"
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-06-21

0ceue 1fOsps Have Jelnt Meet.
Girl Scouts from Center Station.
Frances willard and Edison schools
afo 70 attend meeting to be held
. 1:3o tomorrow afternoon at the
Centar Station school. II ID urged
that Al the girls b present.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-06-21

1A01DlWea wedding 6 1901R1n1
CR1a11na ehweA.
o. !. 3. eoelai nseting Win Mn. Nasy
Lid. SO Sixteenth street.
Hutchispn-N Martin wedding.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-12-22
PANAMA FISH STORY.

The large dry dock at Balboa, as the
Scientific American discovers from a
perusal Of the Panama Canal Record,
is showing an unexpected profit from
the fish entrapped.
During a recent docking a school OF
fish swan in. When the dock was I'M
watered the floor was covered with
them. In addition to those which the
men took, and some $50 pounds taken
by the Commissary Division, between
two and three tons were dumped over
the gates into the open sea. They were
scooped into large buckets which were
swung up and over the gates by a
crane operating from the side wall OF
the dock. Most Of them recovered and
swan away. The Commissary Division
realized 400 pounds.
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OZzo cUsEZYG5 ZDEH
OF. CA0ZzAZy L4R.SEY

his calculation except for medicinal
use, that Jack had accepted a drink Of
whisky before undertaking to shoot
the bad water. Tying their boat, Yu-
kon Belle, in the eddy above the Box,
the four partners walked ahead to in
vestigate, meanwhile consulting
book written by Miner W. Bruce,
Alaskan pioneer. They discovered
that hundreds were portaging outfits
on their backs.
But young London scorned the safe
and slow way. If he took the chance,
and ran through by water, in two min
utes they save two days of back-break
ing labor. A vote was called, accord
ing to their custom, which was unani-
nous for the two-minute route. Ac-
cordingly-
Jack, as captain, placed Merritt
Sloper in the bow with a paddle. Fred
Thompson and Jim Goodman. con-
fessed land-lubbers, sat side by side
amidships at the oars. The boat, 27 feet
in length, carrying over 5000 pounds
in addition to its human freight, did
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-12-22
Snakes as Source Of Profit.

Near Brownsville, Tex, W. A. King
conducts one of the largest snake
farms in the world, with hundred
hatchers constantly employed. The
farm supplies specimens, to museums
and poison to chemists and medical
men. Each RATHER yields about a
fourth of a turnblerful of the deadly
green liquid. Snake oil, as remedy
for rheumatism, brings a good price,
and hides and rattles are used in the
manufacture Of novelties.
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speedy withdrawal of himself and his
elderly charge from the mass of hui
mans that appeared to be falling over
one another. With open eye and ear
to every hint from the knowing ones,
he applied his faculties to getting hold
of the outfit, and pushing onward to-
ward the Chilkoot trail. The more he
listened, the better he realized that
there was no moment to lose if they
were not to be left behind all Winter
in the impending freeze-up. Only the
most alert and fttest could obviate
sucn unthinkable misfortune. How
his sisters husband could make it
through was the question. Not I'M
naturally the young man was in terror
of losing his own chance through the
others insuffciency.
But that night they slept on the
Flats five miles above Dyea. at the
head of canoe navigation where the
Dyea river narrows to torrent burst
ing from snowy canyon, fed by far
glaciers. For once Jack was willing
to own that he was dead tired. Captain
Shepard, of course, was of negligible
worth as a draft partner, and Jack,
soft from the inactivity of long days
on shipboard, ached in every muscle
and in his scarified shoulders, from
towing their thousands Of pounds of
belongings upstream.
Indian PrOfiteeES.
Everyone had been confident, from
reports, that the loading up-traD
would be done by Indians for sums
within reason. Imagine the chagrin,
CONSERVATION to many, when the In
dams, awake to their own idea of gold
rush, imperturbably demanded 80
cents a pound shoulder-portage for the
% miles between Dyea Beach across
the Pass to Lake Linderman. Six
hundred dollars a ton! Beaten at the
outset, vast numbers of the cruelty
chilled enthusiasts watched the few
physically equipped, born to victory,
attack the first stage to Happy Camp.
Sheep Camp, some miles northward,
was the next stop: thence on, scaling
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outfit, he dared to crack on sail Nell
son fashion when moments so counted.
Luck was with him when they came to
Caribou Crossing, for shift Of wind
at the right time sent them humming
down the connecting link between
Lakes Taggis and Marsh. Nothing
could stop them, and Jack, his expert
enced mittened hand nearly frozen to
the tiller he had rugged held on in
high fertile across the menacing Win
dy Arm, where in a stormy twilight he
saw two other boatloads of men turn
over and miserably perish. It was
sickening to be unable to lend hand;
but the very law of life in this inim-
zeal cold-crystal sphere of the North
land was to keep ones head in just
such temptation. And three other
souls besides his own depended entire
ly upon his sailor competence.
Into the Canyon.
Sixty-Mile river, really a head reach
of the Yukon, flows out of Lake Marsh,
its greatest breadth quarter of a
mile. Deep and swift, it suddenly mar
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-12-22
Largest Generator Built.

A 10000 kva. 7,O0O-yolt, three-phase
generator, rated at 1000 rpm, but
designed to withstand 80 per cent. in
crease in speed, has been completed by
the Siemens-Shuckert Works, in Ger
many. according to Electrical World.
The largest rating proved in any gen
orator previously built by this COM
pany was 21,500 kva. so that this or
der represented a big jump beyond all
experience.
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not possess the buoyancy desirable for
such an undertaking.
Alcohol on an Empty Stomach.
Jacks head whirled from the I'M
wonted alcohol upon an empy stom-
ach. and he caught himself wondering
if that head would servo in his need,
where again lives hung upon the per-
feet coordination of his faculties. But
the instant the bow swung down
stream into the jaws of the Box, and
his dashed steering-oar bore against
the cork-screwing anarchy of waters,
something went cool and calm through
him, and he rose to the work. Afraid
that the roWers might "catch a crab
or otherwise tumble disastrousIy, he
ordered in the oars. Then we met
it on the fly" and he went on to pic
ture how he caught passing glimpse
Of spectators fringing the brink of the
cliffs above and another glimpse of
serrated walls dashing by like twin
express trains. Then his undivided
energy was centered upon keeping
atop the racing hog-back. The deep
laden boat, instead Of mounting the
waves, went dead into them. Despite
the peril, Jack could not help giggling
at poor Sloper, who, just as he let
drive a tremendous stroke, would
quite miss the water as the stern fell
in a trough, jerking the bow skyward.
In transverse current Jack threw
himself against the sweep till it
cracked, and Sloper's paddle snapped
short off. They nearly filled, yet went
flying downstream breakneck, less
than two yards from the rocky wall.
Another instant, and they took head
er through smoking comber and shot
into the whirlpool of the great circu-
lar court that widens midway Of the
Box, thence spilling over into the Sec
ond half of the race.
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rows with a curve into Box Canyon,
only so feet in width, rock walls tow
ering on either side. The suddenly
confined volume Of water gathers ter
rife speed, marked by great boiling
and stiffly upthrust waves, and its &C
ton against the canyon walls causes
the water to rise in sort of hog-back
in the center. ......
1t was owing to a binding head
ache, for liquor had been cut out Of
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the whole Of Chilkoot's tragic trail,
along whose margin the weaker ones
fell and expired. One sour-dough as
sures him Chilkoot is 'the worst trail
this side of hell"
The Captain Quits.
1t was one of the happiest moments
of Jacks life when Captain Shepard,
of free choice abandoned the venture,
and the two parted in good feeling.
Now he was quit Of encumbrance
other than the lightweight of luggage.
He has told me how he experienced
with adding to and shifting his pack,
readjusting straps, and padding the raw
sections of his strong but tender
skinned back and shoulders until he
outpacked in honest pounds any white
man who made it through to Lake Lin
derman, and surpassed many an IN
dian. Indeed, such feat was boon
to the men who could afford lnolan
assistance to the summit, as could
Fred Thompson; for Jacks example
put the sly aborigines on their mettle
not to be outdone by this putting,
steaming. white human engine IN scar
let flannels. / give his own version:
A Days Work.
"This last pack into Linderman was
three miles. I back-tripped it four
times a day, and on each forward trip
carried $50 pounds. This means tnat
over the worst trails I daily travelled
"a miles. IL of which were under a
burden of $50 pounds"
The men had to ford swift and icy
rivers. and a swamp that some sar-
donic wit had yclept Pleasant Valley,
where the weight of a pack would
drive one to the knees in freezing ooze
and muck. The earlier stretches of
the trail assembled long mountain
slope largely covered with tundra
which did not afford solid footing. This
was superseded by sharp and broken
shale. Reaching "The Scales" at the
actual foot of the steepest aspect of a
mountain wall which looked to topple
over backward, Jack found himself
preparing for the most grinding test
of endurance. For sheer as was the
terrific rise, it was yet not sheer
enough to prevent huge boulders from
finding lodgment in the path, which
formed serious obstacles. "A mans
job" it was, and Jack London could
do no other than make good as real
man among real men.
At the summit, the young men faced
a fierce driving rain then negotiated
a glacier that descended to Crater
Lake; after which chain Of small
lakes compelled detours over rugged
hills, or the hiring of boats, of which
they availed themselves. The last lake,
however, before reaching Linderman,
was shallow alongshore and could be
waded, soft deep mud on the bottom
adding to the difficulties of travel. Lit
tie marvel that Jack London ever aft
erward eschewed protracted walking.
Mrs. Jack London recalls that it
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was Frederick Palmer who said that
any one who had crossed Chilkoot
Pass in the Fall of 1897 would have
good idea of what the British Tommies
were up against on the Flanders front.
She continues:
Eight or nine miles up-river from
Lake Linderman, where the timber
was good, the boys whipsawed their
own lumber and in company with an
other party constructed two boats,
Yukon Belle and Belle of the Yukon.
In this capacity Jack and Sloper were
in their element, for the latter knew
shipcarpentering and building from
keel to maintruck. 1t became the
pride of the owners that never were
their well-stored cargoes Of supplies
removed, though they shot every rap
ID on the perilous route. Jack. ready
shoulder-to-shoulder in any sort of
emergency, was yet especially invalu-
able when aqueous portions Of the
way were encountered. He loved to
tell the story of how he navigated the
infamous Box Canyon and White
Horse Rapids, that sank and drowned
crew after crew of doomed men.
A Race With Jack Frost.
BY unabating zeal the boys kept
ahead of the forbidding freeze-un that
set bar of iron to the progress of
the less forehanded Lakes froze on
their flying heels, so slim was the
margin. Jack learned what it meant
to pit ones Raging impotence against
the imperturbability of nature. Never
waking moment did they lose. and
allowed no more time for sleep than
was absolutely required. At the head
OF Lake Bennett news from in front
was of famine, and that the Northwest
Mounted Police stationed at the foot
OF Lake Marsh, where the gold-hunt-
ers entered Canadian territory. re-
fused to let past any man not fortified
with 700 pounds of grub. The resi-
were sent down river and informed at
Dawson.
Their sternest battle was across
Lake LIE Barge, the freeze-up Of which
threatened in the gale. Three davs
they had been thrown back by crest
ing seas that fell aboard in tfnsling
ice. On the fourth Jack said: To-day
we've got to make tor we camp here
all Winter with the others" They al
most died at the oars, but died to live
again" and fight on. All night, like
driven automatons, they pulled, and
at daybreak entered the river, with
behind them a fast-frozen lake. And
their pilot, from what I know of him,
/ can swear did not realize half his
WEAKNESS, so elated must he have
been to be thus forward-one of the
very few who had made it through.
Undaunted, without wasting precious
minutes in discussion, the trio pushed
on as one man. The blizzard luckily
moved into the south, and they ran
before it under huge sail Jack had
devised. With the heavy ballast of !
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y
and with optimism bred of a
\ ~ stomach which could digest
NJ scrap iron and body which flourished
; III on hardships." Jack London was
~ among the first adventures who led
Y the great gold rush into the Klondike
~ field. Chairman London, his wife,
III describes him in her extraordinary
II new biography, 1.-THE Book of Jack
Y London" published by the Century
Company.
The young adventurer dug little gold
n out of the grass roots, but there he
N found the great dog Buck" together
} n with the characters and surroundings
~ that appeared in 1.-THE Call of the
= Wild" the solid foundations of his
IN later fame and fortune. Jack made
.sU good his fathers prophecy that "Jack
= is going to make success out of the
,1A Klondike-whether he digs it out Of
|Y the grass roots or not"
IS Arrivals Were Like Lunatics.
M Mrs. London thus tells her story Of
\ N the latter part OF Jacks journey to
the land of gold:
~ Forty-two miles northwest of Ju-
n neau they reached the end Of their
~ crowded voyage and stretched them
= selves on the beach of the Indian VIII
< lage of Dyea, mere cluster of huts
IN above the reach of high tide on the
~ Chilkoot Inlet of Lynn Canal. The
\ party-now swelled to five, for Jack
N and Captain Shepard CHS brother-in-
M law, had formed partnership with
IN Fred Thompson. Jim" Goodman and
- one Merritt Sloper-found the beach
~ a shouting bedlam of gold-rushers,
amid an apparently inextricable dump
of ten thousand tons of luggage. Many
IN of the arrivals were like lunatics fully
sA as responsible as newly headless fowl
"a in this scramble into an unpitying
\ frozen land.
~ A Job for the Fit.
N Although a-tingle with his own ex-
= element, large share of which was
m from the stirring spectacle on the
~ beach, Jacks level head had counseled
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not possess the buoyancy desirable for
such an undertaking.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-08-07
Oil Fields DeflatiOn
Caused Real Tragedies,
Oil Bank Head Declares

ana purchases on the new market
basis. This process is slow. but II Is
surely occurring. OF course. there
has been real tragedy In the change.
Many good people have lost even TO
the point OF suffering White We
sympathize with these individuals
ye In a general survey Of the sltua-
tlon II must be remembered that
theirs are no greater IN proportion
AZ least than the Losses which have
been sustained IN every Industry
during tho periods Of dof'ation and
tnat, though the lndiyldual may lose.
the physical rcsuurccs Cf the coun-
try remain.
In considering business condi-
lions in the oil country it must be
bcrei, too, that ieflatiou has
not affected this industry to any
greater extent than other Industries
hut that the pvrio1 was delayed and
that tho oil country ~ now facing
the problems which were faced I'm
other localities months ago. Many
ot tho industries in other localities
are further on the road 20 rceov-
cry than is oil, owing 10 tho DELAY in
cffctt on this industry but the fact
that others have met and solved
'I 'Nl'lilN NfllAdl I'' ours lN lllItltAl I've
of the fact that wr viii meet ours.
and that N" solution wll come here
~ quickly II not uui0 kcr than In
other localities and Industries.
81 believe thr business in Okla
hoWa viii hc on q progressive and
steady basis hv 'wincr. base this
on my knuwiode" of general bust
moss conditions and the rapidlty with
which business is changing to a
profit instead of - loss basis.
Reports from industries in the
midd,oWcst further along in read
iustmout than tn" oil indicate a re-
awakening This has come through
natural sources The rcadiuumcu.
in oil Will follow along the game
channels Though individuals have
ana may yet take severe losses. the
fact remains thai the world at large
Is going to need oil products and
that we are going 10 supply those
needs and at a profit. After II
nancial adjustment is complete.
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The following statement relative
gu business conditions was issued
saturday by X. l.. Brewer, prceidcnt
pg the Exchange National bank. the
largest bank in the Mid-Continent
Oh fields.
an my opinion financial condi-
tions IN oklahoma and the oil coun-
frv IN general have passed the htgh
.,ak OF rcadjustmen and banking
u.re Is slowly but surely returning
'u d normal constructive basis. pre-
u,Hd ON rcadjustment values.
business in the oil country can
NOT open entirely on forward basis
.utu finances are on such base,
4u t is highly important that all
Nil depend upon oil, directly or
Otherwise. should kGOw the eitua-
tom financially AMI gauge them
selves accordingly to assist N the
src.oycry of nurmaldcy,
Y THAT the peak tas been passed
In oil finance read 'ustmcut can but
moan that tho iiv is approaching
when All lincs OF business in tnc oil
country will feel favorable offrcts
an. corresponding benefits.
\ Long Road. Thorsh.
"I' must be understood, 'houeh.
na' there Is vet long road 10
t.gcI hcfor, III" desired can be
fully attained lI'. how Ing viii
depend ON the co-upnrstion gwen
bv those ho >houll a,lr banks at.
tain thia rss'aG1i r"1diustmcnt
Much o. the trnualc has been
due 90 a genera, mIscunorpucn o'
rrnuc.ll proc ems. People hrvc
'H soi about usht money meaning
chat the backs alon" hal tlghtonei
lr i viewpoint which has caused
runy 80 lo,p = walnut !, line to
fault finding, which should have
'.ou gtvcr - soiv.rg n1ivilual
problems &: .IqI.i uiun ana CrrGt
tIu,twyr'.
"Thc real -'aJ,n ,pr ,irht money
hero. as I'm all financial centcrs. *
'.ry simpl'. n ,I@i II seems not
g-rrally IN .Oi As market
yl'.,a drr pr'd I 20. moro "cl-
lh,cral held in reserve for new ven
tur,s had tp be used TO cover shrink
az. and money turned over at a
slower pace. This. In brief. Is tho
real cause of sp-Callcd tigh: money
This situation brought about n
period Of business staganti1n, pend
ing slowed up liquidations. a situl-
ron which has been handled caro-
fully and with a rather small per
,cutagc uf actual loss
New Ventures Blocked.
Under the necessity Of divcrtinE
reduced earnings to meet past made
obligations, borrowers found 1t al
most impossible 70 undertake new
ventures or purchases Such con-
di'0n is but "a transitory one. how
ever. and will pass as finances are
rcadiusted.
problems Each day secs the pay
mcnt Of more loans OF the inflated
period and the consequent release
Of moro money for new ventures
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-08-07
Getting Too Fat?
Try This-Reduce

The dav ot the slim wonan's triuin ph
has arrived The thinner one is tho
more s'ylish." say the dr'ssmakers. and
~" wore comfortable" say those whose
fai makes summer intolerablc. This would
have been sad news for the tat woman
year ago. she would have had to try
dieting Or exercise Nowadays however
The woman who Is too fat for the style
goes 10 druFEist and gets box OF Mar
sho takns artkr each meal and at bedtime
and reduces her Huperfluous flesh
quickly. These tablets being made in
a'Du.dtnce with the famous prescription.
are perfectly harmless. even On the hottest
days Hul they are also the ruost econom o.
lcH preparation a person can buy. Tor they
cost only one dollar for FUN sized box,
oht uf which IL frequently enough 10 start
q person 90 losing fat at the rate Of two
every lfurgIst keeps this tablet in stock.
but should yours be sold out. YOU can
easily obtain q box by sending to the max
Sts the Marrola Co, iGlc Woodward Ave-
Detroit MiCh .--Advt.
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A CARNIVAL FOR FREE FAIR

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rur Oktu-kry Count, Show
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