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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-05-18
Wilmington LEADS,
IN STATE ACCIDENTS
OF So in Delaware Last Two
Weeks in April, 4o Were
in the City.

The accident report OF the statistics
committee of the Delaware Safety
Council for the period of April 1G to 30,
inclusive. shows q total of So accidents
in the state, 40 of which occurred in
Wilmington.
Two fatalities occurred during this
perind one man was burned to death
under hot cinders. Another mas died
as a result of injuries sustained when
he fell from a ladder TO the pavement.
Automobile accidents head the list
with total of Ia in the State. Twelve
occurred in Wilmington, one at Holly
Oak and one at Rockland. Several per-
sons were injured in a collision of autos
on the pike near Holly Oak and one
man was injured at Rockiand by a
passing car while unloading coal from
a wagon. OF the automobile accidents
in Wilmington. six resulted in injury
to persons and six caused damage to
property.
Twelve accidents due to falls are re-
ported all of which occurred in Viii
tninrton. one being fatal One unusual
accident reported under this heading IL
that of a year-old boy. who was
badly cut about the head and face by
falling from bed on milk bottle. An
other child, a three-year-old girl, frac-
tured her right claviele by falling out
of bed. The majority of accidents due
to falls were caused by persons falling
down stairs
Dog days seem to have overtaken the
community rather early this year. as
six persons were bitten by dogs during
this period The recent ordinance re-
quiring the muzzling Of dogs is a safety
measure that will insure the public
against injury from rabid dogs and win
protect dogs and other animals from
similar injury.
The advent of the baseball season
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-05-18
ron wonKnorsH INMATES.
Ella Thncher Union w. &. r. Z. Olive
Entertainment for women.

The Fila Tbacher Branch Of the W.
G. r r entertained tho women inmates
OF the New Castle County Workhonse
last night. a devotional service pre-
ceded the entertainments features Of
the program.
Warden Plufnmer, who thanked the
women for their interest IN the Jnst1-
tufion. The entertainment Nss In
charge of Mrs. s;chofield
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-05-18

Ny JOsephus DAhIeN.
Former Secretary OF the Navy, ls1,
to 1921.
Copyright. 1921. by John r. Ollie. Copy
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hidden.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-05-18

brings with II n1ishaps which are aften
due to the carclessness OF the players.
During the period rcporteds, one boy
WAS injured about the face when struck
by a baseball and another sustained a
broken nose when hit by q ball man
waa injured about the face when struck
with a baseball bat. Accidents OF this
kind are usually caused by spectators
at amateur games getting too close to
the batter.
Detailed report of accidents during
this period is MS follows.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-05-18
SEVENTH WARD WOMEN.
Meeting of g. o. l.. Women af High
School.

A meeting of the Republican women
Of the Seventh ward was held last night
I'm the community room of the high
school. The meeting was presided over
by Mrs. G. =. M. Rumford.
The chief address Of the evening was
made by Leroy Harvey. candidate for
Mayor. He said Wilmington wgs on
the threshold of o ne.v day. and that
IL Is dependent upon the ambition and
ideals of the people whether the city
takes rank with the great cities of the
country.
Charles Warner, chairman Of the
state Republican Committee spoke on
the status Of the women's organization,
and told of the way they are 10 work
for the success of the party.
-
Call 22oo--it reaches every ad taker.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-05-18


Nova Scotia to the gulf was maintained.
The navy built and operated It's own air.
craft factory ut Philadelphia At the
end of hostilities our aviation equipment
included 1866 flying boats, 242 lapd
planes. fifteen dirigibles. 2oh kite bdi-
looms and ten free balloons. We had
sent to Europe $40 aircraft before the
armistice
Took 9I1,000 to Europe.
The navy transported to Europe in
naval transports 911,000 American
troops. and brought back from Europe
some 100000. OF the 2.079,Sso American
troops sent TO Europe tt72o 800 -S2.f5
per cent sailed under escort Of United
States naval vessels.
The navy built. transported and cp-
Grated with the American and French
armies six naval railway batteries OF
fourteen-inch guns, the most powerful
artillery used by the allies On the west
ern front. and the largest guns that up
to that time, had ever been placed on
mobile mounts.
The navy supplied 5.352 guns TO l.S6S
vessels, of which guns 2,6e2 were of
three-inch caliher or larger. In addition
it furnished 326 guns of various caibers
to the allies.
The navy organized and operated the
most extensive radio system in exist
ence. maintaining communications with
Europe to the east and Asia to the west,
and extending north and south from
Panama TO Alaska. High-powered sta
tions were built at Annapolis. San
. Diego, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and cavite,
p. l.. and the navy erected in France the
most powerful wirless station IN the
world. The naval communication service
handled in a single year, by wire and
radio, 71,347.s6s words
Great Lakes World Beater.
The navy carried out a shore-con-
struction programme involving over
s346 900 900 including the building of a
score of training camps. with the largest
naval training station in the world at
Great Lakes, ILL.,. with a capacity Of 50,-
600 men: fleet operating base at Hamp-
ton Roads. Va; a vast projectile and
armor plate plant at Charleston. w. Va;
the largest of mineSloading stations at
Yorktown, dry docks at Norfolk. Phil
adelphia, Pearl Harbor and other points
immense machine shops and storage
Warehouses. and the erection in Wash
ffngton of the largest of concrete office
structures. having a floor space of forty.
! one acres.
! The appropriations for the navy
amounted to s3,692. .354.32 Of which
/ s334 ,36o.4 .446 was returned TO the trea.
sury. This vast sum was expended with
such economy. the navy securing ma
terials. fuel and supplies at so muci
lower prices than generally prevailed
that there has been no charge what
ever of graft or wastefulness.
The organization of the navy depart
ment and the feet. put into effect il
1915. proved so efficient that it eS1pande'
easily to meet all war requirments
and no basic change whatever was fount
necessary during the entire war period
These are only a few Of the outstand
ing things that were done by our navy
The record speaks for ftself--and 1t is
record of which every American ma,
well be proud.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-03-24

The Woodman dance at the ArmoN
Easter Monday. March 2Sth Every
body invited Good music and
good time
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-03-24
Special SERVICES

Good Friday services will be held
at Christ Episcopal church tomorrow
from l. to 2:30 O'Clock.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-03-24

800 Lolita Ware dresses of gingham and toedenord
ing superior fabrics and excellent workmanship for
which Lolita Ware is famous characterize every dress
IN this remarkable collection and they pretty any
dresses you ever saw.
hey are infants misses and wonens sizes and are
sale at less than the actual cost of the yardape
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-14
NEGRO WANTED FOR
DOUBLE MURDER IS
SEEN In LAKELAND

Charlie Anderson. alias Houston
Ti!ls, cOlorrd man. wanted
in Plant City for the murder Of has
wife and another negro named Isaiah
Leonard, was seen in Lakeland Tuei-
day night at about ten or tcn-thirty.
according to the Lakeland police. lie
is well known in Plant city and sur
rounding country, but is said to have
come originally from Georgia. The
bodies Of his alleged victims were
found at SIX o'clock Tuesday morning.
the wife's being found in Il house at
Cor0net, and the mans in the woods
Il short distance away. Jealousy is
said to have been the motive.
Anderson is said to have been seen
a corpt2 q times II Lakeland and
Lieut.. Sinrath picked UP the trail
Int lost it at the ice plant where il
is thought the fugitive may have
boarded freight train headed for the
west coast.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-14
MORE FENCE CUTTING
HIGHLAND OAKS FARM

Bartow, Sept. lion Monday
night some party or parties cut about
one half mile of fence ON the Hiph-
land Oaks Farm near Brewster. We
learn from Purfctte LOOMS. r.. this
morning that special efforts are bpine.
made 20 catch the guilty parties. II
VIII De remembered that the Polk
County Cattle Growers Association
Joined with the State Association in
ollering Il reward for the arrest and
conviction Of parties guilty OF such
atricitieS and with the combined ef-
iorts OF the sheriff, these associations
ana Mr.. Loomis, we predict the gull
~ ones viii soon be behind tho bar.
We are Glad to know that the cat
ne men are almost a unit against this
klnd OF work whether they are for or
against free range and cattle ticks
Such action as this is only tbe
more convincing that free range will
nave to be abolished in Florida and
We hope that soon all the cattle men
VIII ioin in the fight for a no-fence
law, for the sooner it comes the bet.
ter for all.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-14
CONDITIONS In SOUTH
ARE GREATLY IMPROVED

Washington, Sept. Il .--Conditions
throughout the South now reflect n
greatly improved tone, officials said
ia8t night both the treasury and the
Federal Reserve Board reporting a
leSsencd demand for credit from that
section. The view was expressed bv
hlgh treasury officials that the mr.
CHASING power of the south should be
sustained through the winter as a re-
suit OF the improvement in the cotton
market.
Better business in the south. it was
asserted, could be expected to have
us erect upon the country generally
ana by reduction in the credit needs
OF the cotton states, make available
more money for other sections.
IN coal and steel, however, accord.
ing to the treasury. little Improvement
Is IN sight at present. Oderrs are few
IN these Industries, officials said. with
little prospect of improvement or bet
terment.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-14

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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-14
AMERICAN LEGION AT
WINTER HAVEN LEASES
PARK ON LAKE MARTHA
CWinter Hayen Chiefl

Tho park on Lake Martha has bcen
leased to the local unit OF the Amer
lean Legion and the boys will improve
and beautily it and hope at no dis
tant date To have place where the
people can enjoy themselves that Will
be second 10 mono in the lake region.
The Chief is glad the city has leased
this plot of ground to the boys as il
IS fine setting for a beautiful little
park, convenient to town and we he
lierc the Legion will put this matter
over i'll manner to reflect credit ON
themselves, their order and the Citv
of Winter Haven. They deserve the
support and announcement of MI
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-14
LECLESS DEVIL IN RE AL LIFE
FASCINATE 5 IN THE PENALTY"

child had left a bone pressing on the
brain.
When the detectives and Barbara
break into Billiards. house with their
man, they find a new personality in
the legless man.
Il was devil he said, Il did
things that | shudder to think Of
in behalf Of Blizzard. DR.. Ferris
pleads with the police that this man,
let alone, may become as great a
power for good as he was for evil .
aud II is decided to give Blizzard a
chance to make good. But fate over
takes him and he is killed by one Of
his former accomplices, paying the
ineXorable penalty of his career Of
evil.
The mirror., 1921-04-07
THE MARVELLOUS GULF STREAM

Sixty-fve years ago, Lieutenant M. F.
Maury placed new and majestic figure
before the Imagination of mankind:
"There is a river in the ocean. In the
severest droughts it never fails and in the
mightiest foods it never overAows. The
Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its
mouth is in the Arctic seas. Its waters
as far from the gulf as the Carolinian
coasts, are an indigo blue, so distinctly
marked that their line of junction with
the common sea water may be traced by
the eye. Often one-half vessel may be
perceived floating in the gulf stream
water while the other is in the common
water of the sea-"
Lieutenant Maury (of the American
navy) was the literary godfather of the
Gulf stream. He gave it the psuedo per-
sonality that immortalizes Oceanus, Atlas
and the other ancient nature gods, yet it
is in on sense myth, or a generalization.
The Gulf stream actually exists, vir-
tually as Maury described it, and plays
an enormous part in the physics of the
earth's surface. 1t is perhaps true, as has
often been asserted, that the British is
lands would have an arctic climate if the
Gulf stream ceased to flow, or greatly
changed its course, while if it forced its
way between the cold Labrador current
and the American coast, it would make the
northeastern United States bloom like
tropical garden-and thereby, perchance,
untemper the steel of American manhood.
The mirror., 1921-04-07
ugh for several chariots to drive


abreast.
This outer wall is estimated as not much
less than two hundred feet high. But it
was the first and external defense of the
city. Inside of it was second double
wall, built on the same plans, with a total
thickness of about fifty feet. Along both
walls were placed towers at short inter-
walls, in which defenders could be advan-
tageously stationed, or from which the
operation of formidable war machines
could be directed.
An enemy breaking through the city
walls would find the royal palace still far
from his reach. He would have to cross
a deep moat, to scale wall twenty feet
thick and perhaps sixty feet high; then
second wall still higher; third, fourth
and a fifth, each stronger and higher than
the others, and surrounded by towers; and
finally, a sixth wall of enormous height.
The walls rose higher and higher, one
after another, like a terraced, turreted
mountain. Between them were wide spaces
where foot soldiers and charioteers might
fight. Herodotus says that the height of
the loftiest wall was 335 feet.
The walls about the palace were not
mere masses of dull masonry. The Ishtar
gateway, leading to the house of the king,
was adorned with beautiful blue-glazed
bricks, and decorated with sculptured re-
liefs representing bulls, lions and dragons
in white and blue and yellow and black.
Some of these decorations still remain on
parts of the walls that are standing An
ancient historian wrote of great bronze
gates and statues of bronze, but it is pre-
sumed that these were carried away as
loot by Cyrus.
While the work of constructing a sys-
tenn of brick quays was undertaken, the
Euphrates, to facilitate the project, was
temporarily drained off into an artificial
lake outside the city. Incidentally, the
bed of the river was paved with brick.
Then the stream was turned back into its
course, the artificial lake, or reservoir, be-
ing thereafter maintained for purposes of
irrigation.
Cyrus, helped by traitors within the
gates, and taking advantage of the too
festive doings in the city, turned the river
into the reservoir that fatal night de-
scribed in Daniel V, and marched his
men along its dry bed to the very palace
before anybody gave the alarm.-Ex.
The mirror., 1921-04-07
GREATEST BUILDER IN THE
WORLD

Some years ago an observant French
man, travelling down the Euphrates, cast
curious eyes upon some oddly-shaped sand
heaps on the banks of the river.
He landed and began to dig into the
little hills to see what lay underneath.
Beneath the heaps of wind-driven sand,
buried under the dust of centuries, lay the
ruins of once mighty city, of which a
world-conquering king once boasted: "Is
not this great Babylon which 7 have
builded?"
For the past twenty years systematic ex-
cavations have been in progress on the
site of that ancient city.
In places the excavations have been
made to depth of one hundred feet, and
enough has been learned of the wonderful
city to prove that the descriptions of it
written two thousand years ago were SUBJ
stantially correct.
The city was almost square in shape,
and the Euphrates flowed through it, with
the greater part of the city east of the
river.
The lofty, half-bulit Tower of Babel
stood in the east, and is today represented
by mound of ruins, so large as to look
like small mountain.
1t is called Babel by the native Arabs,
who have, under Layard and other arch
aeologists, dug deep into it and revealed
massive walls and arches.
The ruins of the Palace of King Nebu-
chadnezzar-wherein may have been Bel
shazzar's hall, where the hand of doom
appeared upon the wall-with its enor-
nous surrounding walls, has been partly
unearthed, two miles south of Babel.
Nebuchadnezzar was, according to
present day archaeologists, the greatest
builder that ever lived, and there is hard
ly ruin mound in Babylon that does not
contain bricks with his name or signet on
them.
The famous Hanging Gardens were
constructed to please his wife. The
famous walls, which had been started by
his father, had been completed by him.
The city of Babylon, which was built
on the level plain, was frightfully hot in
summer, and in order to gain comfort and
cool air for Nitocris, his bride, Nebuchad-
nezzar erected an artificial hill, four hun
dred feet high, with terraces resting upon
columns, the whole embraced by retain
ing wall % feet thick.
At the summit were huge tanks kept
filled with water by pumping from the
river close BY which served to irrigate
the aerial gardens, and to streams which
fell from terrace to terrace in miniature
cataracts.
The outer wall surrounding Babylon
was "a feet thick, and was built of bricks
burned and stamped "Nebuchadnezzar,
King of Babylon" The inner part was
of sun-dried bricks and was equally thick.
The distance of 36 feet, which separated
the inner wall from the outer, was filled
with rammed earth, to make road wide
The mirror., 1921-04-07

Inventors in Riga have devised ma
chinery for stamping nails out of the wire
found on Eastern European battlefelds
and it is hoped this method will relieve
the shortage of nails in the Balkan States.
Also the piers at Riga are stacked high
with wire suitable for nail making.
The mirror., 1921-04-07
RELATA REFERO
INTERESTING READING AND INFORMATION
GATHERED FROM MANY SOURCES
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Only five of the United States have no
workmen's compensation laws.
In the United States 81 acres are cult
waited for each person engaged in agricul-
ture.
Kentuckians are planning to extract
petroleum from shale found in abundance
in that state.
Before they are two years old seven
hundred and seventy-nine of every thou
sand babies in China die.
Boot heels originated in Persia where
they were originally attached to sandals
to keep the wearer's feet above the burn
ing sands
Twenty-Five thousand of the $4,000
babies born in France during 1919 have
died, according to the census of the min
lister of labor.
Eight billion dollars in various classes
of credits have been extended by the
United States to Europe in the reconstruc-
ton period since the armistice.
The declines of the beaver in Canada
has resulted in the establishment of many
beaver farms in that country from which
the owners derive immense profits.
A plant growing in the state of Michoa-
can, Mexico, affects the human organism
in such manner that the subject is made
temporarily insane from breathing the
perfume.
Experiments in the Soviet hospitals of
Russia have produced an anesthetic which
can be used with practically no danger
and the patient awakes from sleep with
out nausea or i'll effects.
The Boston Bicycle Club is the oldest
organization of its kind in America. For
81 years its members have participated
in "The Wheel About the Hub" a 100
mile trip in the Boston region.
This year, for the first time in the his
tory of the sessions of the Hawaiian ter
ritorial legislature, every member was
able to understand English, enabling them
to dispense with the interpreter.
Each member of the Usage Indian tribe
who has inherited oil rights will receive
$4,000 for the year 1920. There are now
2,22S original shares in the Usage tribe
according to officers of Indian affairs.
Palmyra Island, 1000 miles south of
Honolulu, has no mosquitoes, no scorpions,
no centipedes, and has plenty of fish in the
surrounding water, thousands of birds,
luxuriant vegetation and cool climate.
Experiments conducted in the research
laboratories of the army signal corps prove
that a number of messages may be sent
over submarine cables simultaneously
through the use of alternating current.
The trunks of living trees may be
utilized at times in the place of sending
and receiving antennae for radio appar-
atus. This will be of great benefit to
aerial forest fire patrol companies in time
of fires.
Dye from mask worn at ball entered
through an abrasion on the nose of a
young girl of Newark, New Jersey, re-
Gently, with the result that blood poison
ing developed and total blindness fol-
lowed.
The mirror., 1921-04-07

The business community of Germany
believes that the German fleet betrayed
the Fatherland and caused its ruin and
consequently no German trader or ship
owner will employ former naval officers,
even those who served on warships in the
battle of Jutland.
The mirror., 1921-04-07

A movement is on foot to preserve the
sand dunes lining the Indiana shoreline
of Lake Michigan. The Indiana legisla-
ture will be asked to appropriate $1,000,-
900 and an appeal for similar sum from
public subscription will be made.
The mirror., 1921-04-07

Kentuckians are planning to extract
petroleum from shale found in abundance
in that state.
The mirror., 1921-04-07
Only five of the United States have no
workmen's compensation laws.

In the United States 27 acres are cult
waited for each person engaged in agricul-
The mirror., 1921-04-07

Dye from a mask worn at a ball entered
through an abrasion on the nose of a
young girl of Newark, New Jersey, re-
Gently, with the result that blood poison
ing developed and total blindness fol-
lowed.
The mirror., 1921-04-07

The declines of the beaver in Canada
has resulted in the establishment of many
beaver farms in that country from which
the owners derive immense profits.
The mirror., 1921-04-07

Eight billion dollars in various classes
of credits have been extended by the
United States to Europe in the reconstruc-
ton period since the armistice.
The mirror., 1921-04-07

Before they are two years old seven
hundred and seventy-nine of every thou
sand babies in China die.