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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-07-22

How many farmers have asked for
a duty on hides and who are they?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-07-22

Comparing Mormons with modern
matrimonialists one editor rema rks
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-07-22

that no matter how many wives the
Mormon has he stays married.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-07-22
Light and AXv
Dictatorja

D1CtatorIa1
He married Miss Amanda
Alas the poor mans life
Amanda she turned out to be
A mandatory wife.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-07-22

A little lady up in Norridgewock.
who is nine years of age and named
Miss Hazel Withee, is more blessed
with grandparents and great grand
parents than any other child i'll the
State of Maine. She has four great
grandparents and three grand
parents The four of the older gen
ration range from the age of 10 to So
and are all unusually active mem =
bers of the community
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-07-22

The United States Senate on
Wednesday confirmed the nominal
ton of Stillman Z. Woodman OF
Machias as United States marshal
for the district of Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-07-22

The new draw for the famous
Arrowsic bridge has been completed
and the bridge is again open for
travel.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-07-22

The first man to harvest ice for
commercial purposes on the Saco
river was Foxvell Bryant. who lived
on the Boom road and who about IS
years ago put up a little and sold it
in summer from a cart drawn by a
pair of oxen. He was in the business
for years and was succeeded by his
sons. He was nearly 100 when he
died.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-07-22

The formal transfer of the office
of Prohibition Director for Maine by
Director James B. Perkins of Booth
bay Harbor to Seth May Of Auburn
will take place on Saturday. July p;
at Bath, a government official com
ing to Maine to complete the formal
tiles. Mr.. May will continue the
headquarters at Bath.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-07-22

The veterans of the handful Saga
Baxter handful boys to a friendly
squirt. The Baxter boys came back
with an acceptance, provided the vet
Grams put up from $500 to $500 on the
result. The vets reply that they don't
wish to buy the Baxter, have not that
amount of money, are not million
aires, their membership is limited and
they cannot raise that sum-and
again ask that the Baxters meet them
face to face, playing nozzle in hand
and may. the best tub win.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-07-22

Poor old Mr.. Automobile has one
charge against ii removed. 1t now
developers that 1-year-ol Willard
Eiolette, son of Mr.. and Mrs. George
Niolette of Auburn, thought to have
been injured by an automobile, fell
from piazza to a cement sidewalk
when the piazza rail gave way.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-26
AT THE FAIR

The county fair has grown to be something
more than a miscellaneous display of big apples
Dotatoes and pigs delicately interspersed with
patchwork quilts and cheap sideshows. The fair
today is a dignifed demonstration of every
phase of the life of a community.
Home and school are as vital as farm and
Garden. One big fair soon to be held in the
Middle West is to feature displays dealing spe-
cincally with these two great factors.
Two homes will be shown, one poorly ar
ranged for comfort and efficiency, the other
well arranged and with modern equipment to
make work easy. Two schools will be displayed
one badly lighted, seat, ventilated and equipped
the other arranged in the best possible advan-
tage of teacher and pupil. The wrong kind OF
school is painfully prevalent everywhere ana
much is hoped from this vivid demonstration.
Well balanced meals and good cookery Will
be a feature Of the home exhibit. Proper school
lunches ought to be a part of the school display.
Both exhibits are to be in charge OF persons es-
pecially fitted to answer questions and make
helpful suggestions.
A fair run on such lines becomes more than
an annual merrymaking. 1t helps to make
everyday life easier and more effective, and it
gains in Importance proportionately.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-26
WILL You GET c

How are you getting along in a money way?
Is your income, when you have a job, better
than the average? Before you can answer that,
you want to know, what is the average?
Nobody knows what the average Americans
income is now. No way of finding out.
But in 1919, according to B. M. Anderson, Jr..
economist of the Chase National Bank of New
York, the total income of the American people
was 6 s,000,0 600, 900, or nearly three times
enough to wipe out the national debt.
That seems a whale of a lot of money. But
it's only s645 for every person in the country.
That is, in 1919 a bachelor who made $645 was
getting along the same as the average. A man
and wife, to be up to the average, had to have
an income of 81, 200. If there were children.
seas must be added for each child. Otherwise,
the family's income Jagged behind the national
average.
Think back, into 1919. How did you stack up
with the average?
How difficult is it to get rich? You often won
der. Sometimes it seems next to impossible.
If you want to figure out your chances of
becoming wealthy, it's an easy matter. The in
come tax tells the story.
The latest and most complete income tax fig
ures are for Illinois. These figures show that
only thirteen in every 200 people admitted, in
the last tax returns, that they made more than
81, 900 a year. OF course, there were a lot of
dodgers.
The average family is supposed to have five
members. That indicates that thirteen out of
every forty heads-of-families make $1,000 or
more q year.
observe how the list is weeded out when 1t
comes to large incomes, as shown in the follow
ing table giving number of those enjoying the
larger incomes in Illinois:
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-26
Learn One New Thing Every Day
Bulletins BY
THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

Bulletins BY

extends for a short distance toward
the interior. and from the rail head
the journey by mule back to Tegu-
cigalpa occupies five or six days.
The capital Is as quiet a place as
its inaccessibility would indicate.
Its population Is v~ariously estimated
at 10000 to $1,000. Most of its
buildings are OF o%ne-story with walls
of adobe or masonry and roofs OF
tile.
Though it is isolated now, Tegu-
cigalpa eoes not mean to remain so
and perhaps It's choice as capital Of
the new Central American Fedora
ton Is an earnest that 1t will soon
have rail connections with the out
side world. The government of the
state adopted an ambitious rail build
ing program a generation ago, but
financial ruin overlook the enter
prise. In recent years a number Of
railroads have been built from the
north coast by large banana COM
panies, and some of these are being
slowly extended toward the capital.
"The Federation of Central Amer
lea. consisting now of Guatemala,
San Salvador. and Honduras, hopes
in the near future to enroll Nicer
aqua and Costa Rica among its men,
bers. If these two countries to the
south. join Tegucigalpha will be al
most exactly at the geographical cen
ter of the new f~ederation's terri
tory"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-26

This table shows that, after your income pass
es SO, 900 a year, you get into real competition.
Up to then, it's relatively easy.
After you reach the $4,000 mark, you begin
to get lonesome. 1t $40, 900 you are a phenom-
enon.
Illinois, with a population of 6,485,2S0 has
only 60,116 who admit they make more than
S 5000 a year, even during a boom.
This looks rather discouraging for the aver
age person.
Wealth however. is not a matter of how much
you make, but of how much you save.
Not one man in 10O, 900 ever gets rich by in
creasing his income, his earning power alone.
Geniuses can do it, but for the most of us the
only road to financial independence is through
the receiving tellers window at the savings de-
partment of some good bank.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-26

O. How many aliens foreign-born
and unnaturalized belong to labor
unions in the United States, or is 1t
! required that members be citizens?
Z. H.
A, The American Federation of
Labor says there IRE no statistics
compiled showing the number or
aliens that are members of labor
organizations in the United States.
Some local unions require that mem
bers be citizens.
O. What is the name and nation
atty of the man who plays the part
of Julio in the motion picture, 1.-The
Four Horsemen Of the Apocalypse?
I. M. c.
A. Rudolph Valentino, who takes
the part of Julio Desnoyers in THE
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
is a native of Castellaneta, Italy, and
received his education at the Mill
tary and Agricultural Colleges in
Italy.
@. When was pulverized coal first
used? c. H. T.
A, The experiment of using pull
verified coal was made about forty
five years ago, when it was tried as
a fuel for heating the kilns in which
the raw materials for making Port
land cement were burned. 1t was
not successful at the time, but
methods have since been devised
that make pulverized coal a success
full fuel.
@. How many copies of h BLDG
| have been printed? M. w. G.
A.. While it is not possible to say
how many copies of the Bible have
been printed, it is shown that the
British Bible Society, in the last 100
years, has published 244,444,S55
copies and the American Bible So
ciety ~9S,O00,00
O.. When I use pen and ink In
writing, my first and second fingers
become ink marked. What Will re-
move these stains? G. A.
A. To remove ink stains from the
fingers, dampen the head of an ordi-
nary match and rub briskly on the
stains.
@. What state has the most Ford
cars? A. M.
A. Ohio has the most Fords, 190,-
SOC being registered there. Iowa is
second with 1886, and Pennsyl-
vania third with $4,000.
@. Was the mummy or Harnesses
III. ever exhibited in this country? J.
Med.
A. The Metropolitan Museum of
Art says that, as far as it can ascer-
tain, the mummy of Rameses II has
never left the museum at Cairo.
Egypt, where it was taken in 1881
after it's discovery at DER ell Bahri,
O.. What can be put in a refriger-
ator to keep it free from odors? w.
l.. s.
A. Frequent washing of the ice
box is important. A small saucer OF
a~ir-slacked lime set in the bottom
Of the refrigerator will absorb odors
caused by food.
@. How many telegraph poles are
there per mile of railroad tracks?
T. E. l..
A. The number of poles to the
mile depends upon the number of
wires carried. When there are six
wires or less, there are 80 poles to
the mile; Z to so. there are Al poles;
81 to 10, SO poles; II to so. so poles;
in places that are particularly ex-
posed to wind and sleet, many more
poles are used.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-26
Health Talks
"The Human Body"

The hint of colder weather in thu
brisk autumn air these days warns
dad that the furnace will have to be
put in order 500 so that winter
will find the house warm and COM
Portable inside.
The furnace is theoretically a
machine for the economical produc-
ton of heat. When the proper
amount of the proper kind of fuel is
properly put into it, when the ashes
are cleaned out properly, and h
drafts properly adjusted the chances
are that it will heat the house prop
erly.
How like the human body is a
furnace! Food is taken into the
human body to produce heat. If too
little fuel is put into the furnace 1t
will operate inefficiently. So, too,
with the body.
II too much fuel or the wrong
kind is put into the furnace tn
ashes will soon clog its efficiency
unless promptly removed. So, too,
with the body.
We must first feed ourselves the
right amount of food Of the right
kind and then must see that the
waste material are removed in or
der that the valuable materials may
have their chance to supply the nee
essary heat to the body. II too
great an amount of this debris is al
lowed to remain the fires of the
body are in danger of being put out
by these poisonous materials. The
removal of these materials is one Of
the functions Of the intestinal
canal.
The hurry and haste Of today is
too often apt to result in constipa-
ton. Chronic constipation is one of
the most common ailments flesh is
heir to. It may not eem serious at
first but as grows older 1t is
liable to reduce the body resistance
so as to permit it's inroads of disease
germs. Thus it is necessary to train
the intestinal apparatus so that it
will function regularly.
Chronic constipation can usually
be cured by some setting up exer-
cises each morning and care in the
selection of a diet. Fruits and green
vegetables and bread made from the
coarser grains are helpful. A glass
of warm water upon arising will act
as a natural and harmless laxative.
Too many physics are harmful as
they make the bowels move only
under stimulation. If constipation
cannot be cured by a careful diet
and good exercise, a physician
should be consulted.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-26
@EE3sO
THE CITY MENACE

American pride in America has often led to
the expression of qualification over the aston
ishing growth of our cities. OF late years urban
population has increased more rapidly in the
United States than in any other country. and
frequently we arc tempted to regard this as
necessarily an evidence of genuine progress. The
Old World is wiser. 1t knows that while it is
good for small cities to grow larger. the process
cannot continue Indefinitely without danger.
General Pietro Bagdolla, second in NINA
of the Italian armies in the World War. voices
the point of view of his more experienced coun-
trymen. american cities are growing at an
amazing rate" he told interviewers in Chi
oago. This growth must be checked at all
costs. / have seen between Chicago and New
York great stretches of farm land devoid of
habitation. This land must be cultivated to
keep I'D the balance between industry and agri-
culture"
The balance to which the general refers has
already been sadly disturbed. The 1920 census
showed that more than half of the people of
the United States are now city dwellers. For
decades the trend has been appreciably in that
direction. Latterly the influx Of aliens who
prove increasingly difficult of assimilation has
accelerated our cities gains.
There are some who find comfort in the be-
lief that the city is the hope of democracy"
but they have not read their history. The story
of the ancient world, of medieval Italy, of
modern France and still more modern Russia,
gives their theory the lie.
General Bedoglio is althosether right; but his
statement, Which concerns itself largely with the
econimic phase, is hardly broad enough. The
political history of cities has usually shown first
the rule of business, then of mobs, and then OF
tyrants or corrupt oligarchies. No tyrant has
ever long oppressed a race which owned the
land 1t cuitivated-and no mob.
1t is worth thinking about, this Italian SOL
dier's warning.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-26
RIPPING RHYMES
BY Walt Mason
The Railway Crossing

He reached the railway crossing
the same time as the train, L saw
he engine tossing his auto Ger the
plain; an epitaph engrossing was
placed above the slain. With DUCK
OTIS and valises the undertakers
came, and gathered up the pieces
of his poor mortal frame, n
while his weeping nieces declared
Il. was a shame. He speeded up MS
lizzie. and tried to beat the train;
his speed was surely dizzy, and
certainly insane; why be so all-nred
busy. when all such haste Is vain !
He had all week to travel to junk
town-in-the-Hole; but he must
score thu gravel, the poor, mis-
guided soul; and now no druggists
salve'll restore this Peter Pole:
"Oh, stop, and look, and listen,
TIE railway signboard said; he saw
the wise words glisten, in fresh
paint. Just ahead and he worked
every piston, and to the crossing
sped. They scraped him from the
cedars, they raked him from the
plain; the public prints had leaders,
that showed his curse was vain,
a warning to all speeders who try
to beat the train Alas, for poor
old Peter!- Much grief my spirit
feels; and as I downward teeter; no
more he rips and reels to show his
lizzie's fleeter than anything on
wheels.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-26
MERCER SCHOOLMA'AMS
By DIR. w. e. BARTON

This is the way it was told to me,
and it was a good story when I heard
it:
In 1866 Asa Mercer went from Sc
attic to Boston to buy goods. Seattle
was young in 1865, and Asa Mercer
and his brother were of her leading
citizens. For one of them is Mercer
Island named, and if that island were
much larger there would be no Lake
Washington.
Asa Mercer bought for himself
and other Seattle folk goods in such
quantity that he chartered a
schooner to convey them home; and
the Panama Canal was not then in
good working order.
There was room for passengers,
and he filed the boat with school
ma'ams. He told the young women
of New England that they could get
Massachusetts, and that was no lie.
They pay better wages now to school
teachers there than in the east.
How many young women he sailed
with / do not know. He appears to
have had no difficulty in loading the
vessel full. 1t required five months
to round Cape Horn and reach a
Francisco, and some of the girls
were ready to go ashore by the time
they arrived in that port. He
reached Seattle with about 40 of
them still on the boat.
1 am told that every one of those
40 girls was engaged to be married
before she got off the dock. I sus-
pect that some people will think this
statement an exaggeration. and they
must reckon with Judge Everett
Smith, who told me the story. 1 re-
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-26

fuse to censor it or to admit that
two or three of them may have
waited for a week or two. The story
as 1 heard it is highly creditable to
the men of Seattle, and I prefer to
leave it as it was told to me.
Those young women did some
teaching. How much they did, I do
not know. But they became the
mothers of Seattle. They married
men of character and enterprise, and
their children rose up and called
them blessed.
The more. I think about this Incl
dent, the more it seems to me that
Seattle has done we'll to honor the
name of Asa Mercer. I believe that
it is for certain civic and commercial
achievements that he is chiefly re-
~membered, but I doubt If he e did
anything else SO potent for good as
in the collection of that fine bunch of
schoolma'ams and taking them from
New England where they were not
needed to a place where there were
children waiting to be taught and
young men waiting to establish
homes.
If there should be another cargo
of that sort, 1 think I could find a
captain for the cruise. But every
captain must look up his own cargo
as Asa Mercer did.
1t is quite possible that the school
ma'am in your own home district,
perhaps beginning her first term this
fall. is every whit as good a teacher
and just as pretty a girl, and is
capable of being just as good a wife.
as any of the young women whom
Asa Mercer conveyed to Seattle.
This is a matter worth inquiring
into.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-26

"If the United States, according to
criticisms in 1871. selected a site for
it's capital far from the beaten path,
the newly formed Federation of Cen
trail America has selected one that
Is even more remote and inacces-
sible," says a bulletin issued by the
National Geographic Society.
~"Tegucigalpa Ca name which when
properly pronounced brings to mind
the 'goosey-goosey-gander' Of nurs-
cry rhymes) is now the capital of
Honduras, n Of the members of
the new union" the bulletin con-
tinues. ut might be termed the
Lhasa of the West but not because
it is a forbidden city by the edict Of
man. Its citizens have their share
Of the hospitality for which Latin
America is noted; but Nature has
placed rough country between the
city and the two ean that battle
the shores of Honduras, and man has
done little to overcome the handi-
cap. 1t is the only capital on the
North American continent that has
never echoed to the more or less mu-
steal blast of a railroad locomotive,
and one of the few railroadless cap
itals in the Western Hemisphere.
Nor may one yet travel to the new
national capital by automobile.
"Tegucigalpa is some eighty miles
inland from it's Pacific port, San
Lorenzo. on highlands more than 81
900 feet above sea level. A road
which is more than a trail but less
than a highway connects the two
points. The most ambitious name
that it can lay claim to is cart road
Travellers do the eighty miles in
three days by mule back, and II
they are travelling light may take
their belongings along by pack mule.
Trunks must follow rel more slow
ly by ox-cart. In the interior of the
country. with it's tanks in the air.
as a military man might describe 1t,
is a fifty-mile highway in good con-
dition extending between Tegucigal-
pa and the second most important
town of Honduras. Comayagua. over
this road automobiles operate regu-
larly.
"Tegucigalpa is more than 100
miles from the Atlantic-or rather,
the Caribbean Sea: but Americans
can reach the capital more quick
ly from the Atlantic than from the
Pacific side, due to the fast steamer
service from New Orleans and Mo-
bile. Puerto Cortez is the north
shore port. From there a railroad
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-26
VIEWS AND REVIEWS
Editorial Comment From Other Newspapers.
TEACH NEW JERSEY IN SCHOOLS

County Superintendent Decker, or Sussex, is
putting in use a suggestion often made by the
late Calvin n. Kendall, State Commissioner OF
Education, that the children in the schools
ought to be made familiar with the geography
and history of their own state.
He is planning to have the children of Sussex
during the coming year learn about the lmpor-
tant features of that county.
Residents of this section, who have come here
from distant parts of the United States, recall
how greatly they were thrilled when children
in school in some distant state by the story OF
the battle of Springfield. Interesting was the
account of how an aged minister, when the mill
tia were out of wadding, brought out the hymn
books from the nearby church and tearing out
the leaves handed them to the defenders OF Jer-
sey with the injunction to give their enemies
Watts. Watts was never put to better use than
onists.
The episode stands out as one of the most
dramatic of the American Revolution. And
what boy or girl in far-off Ohio or Massachu-
sets was not thrilled when reading the story
of Molly Pitchers dramatic act? How many
county. can tell these stories of the Revolution
as we'll as they were taught in distant parts, ana
have been likewise impressed?
This section of New Jersey is rich in tradltion-
al and historical occurrences. 1t Is a WONDERFUL
section because of the fact that it was a stage
in days gone by familiar to some OF the most
important actors in the long, intensely inter
esting drama of American independence. WASH
ing, Hamilton, Burr, Molly Pitcher, heroes ana
heroines of the colonial period, are names lntl-
mately associated with the history or TINS state
There is enough material of engrosslng IN
schoolgirls to any part of New Jersey ana 10
arouse in them a desire to know their own
state. Union county played a prominent part III
history.-Elizabeth Journal.