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The Washington herald., 1922-05-06

the comment on the current att
tude on drugs. comparing IL 10 the
long outworn premise for the treat
ment Of insanity. DR.. Williams Oh
jects emphatically to treatment Of
drug -addicts as criminals, and asks
that they be viewed sympathet-
ically. as unfortunate victims He
also urges not persecution of users
O! drugs. but public clinics where
the addicts not only may obtain
their drugs in steadily decreasing
quantity. and thereby be cured NJ
their disease. hut where they will
be free Of the mulcting peddler,
who fattens on their infirmity
NJ. n.
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CHURCH NOTES
Continued from Page Ten.

nezer" began by worshipping In a
private dwelling located on Green
leaf's Point. in the southern part of
the city. Later, in 1907, owing 10
the increasing population in the
direction of the Capitol. another
place was chosen and while more
commodious than the one at the
Point. was certainly not more at
tractive as II was the 'Old Tobacco
House, owned by Dudley Carroll.
who was the owner of large propg
critics south of the Capitol, and To-
Gated on New Jersey avenue south
of ID street. In 1910 lot was pur-
chased on Fourth between e and G
streets southeast, and our first
building erected. This was still
known as Ebenezer and served
them we'll until 1851 during the
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UNITARIAN.

All Sours-Announces that on
Sunday mornings in May in b. F.
Keith's Theater the minister. Rev.
Ulysses G. B. Pierece, Will give a
series of sermons suggested by in
scriptions in the reading room of
the Library of Congress. The sub
Ject for Sunday morning will be
'Life's Unearned Increment" a
theme suggested by the inscription,
I'VE taste the spices of Arabia. yet
never feel the scorching sun which
brings them FORTH At this serv-
ice Charles Trowbridge Tittman.
bass. will be assisted by Daniel
Breeskin. violin. with Lewis Corn
ing Atwater at the piano.
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SCIENCE AND TRUTH.

1914 II Street-Miss Villa Faux
ner Page, of New York City. will
speak for the National Science OF
Truth Association next Sunday at
IL a. m. and p. m. Miss Page is
leader of the Fellowship of the
Life More Abundant. of Brooklyn.
and has large following in both
New York and Brooklyn. She
speaks in the evening on THE
Friend of God" T.
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For the District
OF Columbia and
Maryland. gener-
ally fair today:
tomorrow unset
tied. probably To-
cal thunder show
ers; n OF m u c h
change. in tenn
perature: moder-
ate v a r ! a b ! s
winds, becoming
south and south
west. 544
F. or Virginia.
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= : BOOK REVIEWS
Most Popular Books in
Washington This Week

AT THE BooksHoPs.
Non-Fiction.
My Memory of Eighty Years.
(Chauncey Depew).
Ny American Diary.
(Claire sherdian).
Fiction.
Gentle Julia.
(Booth Tarkington).
Doors of the Night.
Drank S. Packard).
AT THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Non-Pfction.
Mirrors OF Washington.
Wells American History.
Fiction.
II Winter Comes.
CHutchinson).
Hours OF Tomorrow.
(Mrs. Burnett).
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PRESBYTERIAN.

Church Of the Covenant.-The
Children's Day service at the Church
Of the Covenant will be held Sunday
afternoon at $40. when the children
OF the Sunday school and of Peck
Memorial Chapel and Washington
City Orphanage will take part, each
child receiving a towering plant.
Everyone is cordially invited to be
present.
Rev. DR.. Charles Wood. pastor of
the Church of the Covenant. will
preach at the evening service on
THE Ministry of Music to the Soul:
Miriam. Gregory. Handel and WaG-
ner." The musical program at this
service will consist of both vocal and
instrumental numbers.
The Society of the Covenant Will
hold its last meeting Of the season
in the lecture room OF the church.
Tuesday, Nav Q, at IL o'clock. the
speaker being a. c. waung of China.
who will tell of THE Effect of
Christianity on China"
Judge Willis Brown, nationally
known for his work with and for
boys. will address the mems society
OF the church on Tuesday. May 3.
at S p. m. All men and boys are
invited to this meeting, where boy
movie will be shown.
New York Avenue-Dr. d. S.
Kennedy. editor of the Presbyte-
rian, Philadelphia. Pa, VIII preach
the. sermon at IL a. m. DIR. Ken
nedy will preach again at s p. m.
He will occupy the pulpit of the
New York Avenue Church for the
next two weeks. Through his edi-
torial columns Kennedy is a house,
hold word in every Presbyterian
family. He has previously been a
summer supply for one or two
Sundays in the New York Avenue
congregation.
Northminster Rev. Edward
Wright, of Ballston. Va, will hold
evangelist!c services in Northmins-
ter Presbyterian Church. Rhode Is
land avenue and Eleventh street
northwest. from Sunday evening
until Friday. May 12. Mr.. Wright
as an Evangelist has travelled over
the world and has conducted cam
paigns in England, Australia ana
Japan.
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generally fair and slightly warm
er today; tomorrow partly cloudy,
probably local thunder showers:
moderate west and southwest
winds.
The Washington herald., 1922-05-06

The local organization has for
its officers Mrs. william Fraser Nc
Dowell. president: G. Ellis Will
Jams. executive secretary; Charles
5. Cole. treasurer: executive COM
Dowell. Mrs william Fraser Nc
Dowell Mrs. william Fraser Nc
Dowen. John r. Edwards, Charles
5. Cole. Lucius c. Clark. Harry Hos
kinson. Edward Hayes. DIR. L. A. C.
Christie John E. Fort. G. Ellis
Williams.
The present home for children
has a capacity of thirty. Ninety
eight children have been turned
away because of lack of room.
The appeal for membership in the
American White Cross will be made
through all Methodist Episcopal
churches of the city. All persons
interested in the care of homeless
are invited to haye a mem.
bership. Application for member
ship can be sent to the American
White Cross. Grant Circle and New
Hampshire avenue.
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Highest. "a degrees; lowest, Go.4
degrees.
Relative Humidity--s a M. 7s
per cent. p. m. g. per cent: s
Up. M. 80 per cent.
Rainfall (S p. m. to s p. m.).
20 inch.
Hours of sunshine. SO.
Per cent of possible sunshine. SO.
Departures From Normal.
Accumulated excess OF tempera-
ture since January 1, 1922. 292 de-
Grees.
Excess of temperature since May
/, 1922. IS degrees.
Accumulated excess of precipita-
ton since January /. 1922. i.9l
inches.
Excess Of precipitation since May
l, 1922. 1.53 inches.
Temperatures same late last year
Highest. SO degrees; lowest. As
degrees.
Forecast of Flying Weather.
Washington to Long Island-Most-
iy cloudy Saturday: gentle to mod
crate northwest and west winds Up
to 5000 feet.
Washington to Norfolk. Va. -
Partly cloudy Saturday: gentle to
moderate west and northwest winds
up to 5000 feet
Washington to Dayton - Partly
! cloudy Saturday: gentle to moder-
ate variable winds up to 1000 feet
and moderate west and southwest
at 5000 feet
Tidal Chaures
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pastorate of w. II. Chapman. when
the growth and needs of the con-
gregation resulted in second
building on the same site and the
name changed to Fourth Street NJ.
f. Church. Being large and well
located, 1t was used during the
civil war as hospital.
In 1896 we moved to our present
beautiful location at Fifth street
and Seward Square. This made it
necessary to change the name and
1T then became Trinity. a name al
ways appropriate but with special
significance. being the third time
the Lord had prospered us and re-
quired US to build accordingly.
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BAND CONCERT.

AT Potomac Park. this evening, at :
p. m. by the L. s. Marine Rand,
william III. Sanicimann. leader; Taylor
Branson, second leader
PROGRAM:
March. with Shot and SHELF Bilsa
Overture Tampa ... IeroId
Song Of India. ...... .Rimsky-Korsskov
Suite, LES Erinnyes''. Massenet
tab Danse Grecque. Allegro moderate.
tbl Ia Troyenne regrettant sa
Patrie. Andsnte.
tc) Finale. Allegro marcato.
Nalse de concert. Dream on the
Ocean" c,r-,
Excerpts from Eileen Herh,rt
The Star Spangled Banner"
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THE WEATHER

Fsree..t for Toa.y a.A ro..rrow
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1922-06-02
OBJECT LESSON FOR YOUTH
Old Gentleman Couldn't See Why the
Youngster Considered He
"Had No Chance"

Wealth is variously estimated in
different parts of the country.
Jimmie Glover had grown to man.
hood in one of the most inaccessible
little country villages imaginable
Wearying at last at the monotony
Of his life, he grew eager to leave the
fields and lanes of his childhood.
His father was a quiet old man Of
much local renOwn and stoutly op-
posed to his sons desire to go to the
great and wicked cities.
'But what chance has a young fell
low got TO get on in little place like
this, I'd like to know?" gloomily de-
manded Jimmie.
"What CHANGER" calculated his IA
Their. "Why, just look at me. my son.
When I first came here / didn't have
nothing,-not nothing! And just look
at me Gow-I have got nine dogsv'
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from his Quaker training not inclined
to perpetrate lie on the public, when
he in 1870 prepared a paper on the
Flag which he read before the Penn
sylvania Historical society, also told
the story, not from tradition, but as
told by Mrs. Ross to Mr.. Candy"
Then follows the REPUTATION, among
the papers of Mr.. Alrich, as he used it
on previous occasions. 1t contains the
following:
"a myth exists only in the imag
inatiOn. Is Betsy Ross a myth? Did
such person live, and did she make
the first Stars and Stripes which we
now reverently speak of as old
Glory?
"It is recorded that some time be-
tween May % and June z, 1777
Commander in Chief George Wash.
ington, accompanied by the committee
Robert Norris and Col. George Ross
Ga relative of Betsy called on her
and there after consultation, in
structed her to make the Flag. The
American congress resolved, on Sat.
urday, June IA, 1777 that the Flag
of the United States be 10 stripes
alternate red and white, that the
union be IS stars, white on a blue
field, representing new constella-
ton This was substantially the
design agreed upon by the commit.
tee and made by Betsy Ross.
"But who was Betsy Ross? Her
maiden name was Griscom, Elisabeth
ents, Samuel and Rebecca Griscom
Samuel was descendant of Andrew
Griscom, who brought the first cargo
Of bricks from England, of which this
famous house was built. Elisabeth
married John Ross, an Episcopalian
was expelled from the Friends soci
ETY., and becoming an Episcopalian
with her husband, worshiped in the
Old Christ Church, only short dis.
lance from her home, and where the
pew she occupied (No. 12) is still
marked to designate it as hers, as is
also her grave in Mount Moriah Gem
etery, beside her husband, ClaypOOle
General Washington also worshiped in
the same church, and his pew is also
marked, and both are shown today
"Two children were born to John
and Betsy Ross, one Zillah dying in
infancy. The other was named
Eliza. Ross died when young man.
his widow being at the time of the
episode twenty-five years of age. Ross
was an upholsterer, his widow con
tinuing the business, was so occupied
when the committee called upon her
Widow Ross married Joseph Ash.
burn, who was devoted to the cause OF
the young republic, and was cap
tured by the British and died In Mill
prison at Portsmouth, England. Dur
ing his Imprisonment he told fellow
prisoner, John Claypoole, his story
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1922-06-02

Auxiliary. 1t is the duty of local units
OF the Auxiliary In towns where ex-
service men are in hospitals to keep the
disabled men supplied with little COM
forts and delicacies not provided by
the government. The women write
letters to the patients, send them
newspapers, books, magazines, fruit.
bathrobes, bed slippers, candy, cigar
cites and special articles that they
desire. Under Mrs. Cudworth's SUPER
vision, as president Of the national
welfare committee Of the Auxiliary.
this work is being done in the middle
western states over which she has
supervision. Mrs. Cudworth personal
ly visits disabled service men in the
hospitals of her territory, hears their
complaints and takes them up with
the proper government officials.
A Legion post of 1000 men in Mil
Waukee adopted Mrs. Cudworth as
Mother because she lost her only
son during the World war.
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Carrying On With the
American Legion

Farmers gave 200 trees and the vii
lage gave a lot to the Elizabethtown
Und.) post of the Legion when it
wanted community home.
A "Gold Star" Legion organization,
open to parents, sisters and brothers
of men who gave their lives in the
World war, has been proposed.
A total of SS3,0O0,00O yearly renew
able term and converted government
insurance. is being carried by ex-serv-
ice men in the state of Washington.
Wartime draft dodgers are prohibited
from holding public office in New
York state, bill sponsored by the Lee
gion to that effect having passed the
general assembly.
Legion posts have been formed in
Calcutta, India, New Zealand and Den
mark, making a total of 1850 posts
located in practically every civilized
country on the globe.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1922-06-02

about wife and child In Philadelphia.
"ClaypOole with 215 prisoners) was
placed on board the ship Symmetry
and was exchanged on reaching Amer
lea. He sought out Mrs. Ashburn,
who was so favorably impressed with
him, that they were married, May
s, 1888. Five daughters were born
to them, one, Clarissa, married VIII
son, and succeeded her mother in the
Flag making business.
"The original number and street Of
the Flag house was SO Mulberry
street; but Mulberry was changed to
Arch. The numbers began at the
Delaware river, alternating on north
and south side Of the street. In
1856 the present system Of number
ing in all cities originated in Phil
adelphia, giving 100 to each block
Cor square, in local parlance Of that
city,, the Flag house becoming $50.
The writer lived below the old house
a short time before the new system
of numbering was adopted, when
Mrs. Mund then kept a tobacco store
Ill IL, anu lCluSCO &c BULLS VI
money for parts of the house as
relics"
Then follows william ]. Canby's
statement"
'It is not tradition, it is report from
the lips of the principal participation
in the transaction directly told not
to one or two, but to a dozen or more
living witnesses, of whom / am one,
though but a little boy when 1 heard
it. / was eleven years old when Mrs
Ross died in our house, and well re-
member her telling the story. l have
the narrative from the oldest of my
auntS, reduced in writing in 1857.
This aunt, Mrs. Clarissa Wilson, sue
ceeded to the business of making flags
which had been exclusively held by
Mrs. Ross, and she continued to
make flags for the navy yard and the
arsenals for many years until, being
conscientious on the subject of war,
she gave up the government business,
but continued the mercantile business
until 1857. Washington was a fire.
Quent visitor at my grandmother 8
house, before receiving command of
his army. She embroidered his
shirt ruffies and did many other
things for him. He knew her skill
with the needle. Colonel Ross, with
Robert Norris and Central Wash
ington, called upon Mrs. Ross and
told her they were a committee of
oonoroSS epd wanted hor IN mako tho
Flag from a drawing, rough one,
which upon her suggestion was re-
drawn by General Washington,
chiefly because the stars were six
cornered, and not five cornered. I
fix the date to be during Washing
toms visit to congress from New York
when he came to confer upon the af-
fairs Of the army, the Flag being, no
doubt, one of these affairs"
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| 1l5iH0
AMERICAN
0lL.I::;Gk)NO!
copy for This Department Supplied by
the American Legion News Seryice)
CHERISH WORLD WAR RELIC
Pillar From Altar of Church in Ruined
Village of BeIleau at National
Headquarters.

One of the most treasured of the
many World war relics being gathered
at the American Legion's national
headquarters, Indianapolis, Ind, is
that just received from the battlefields
of France. 1t is pillar from the
altar of church which once stood in
the ruined village of Belleau, adjacent
the famed wood of that name, near
ChateauThierry.
The wooden pillar bears honorable
scars, those suffered when scores of
German high-explosive shells crashed
into the little church. One shell frag-
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1922-06-02

dition. Her husband worried about
her lack of bloom till Cousin Helen
came from the East for visit. Mar
tina improved wonderfully with bright
companionship. Her husband was not
slow to express his gratitude to his
wife's cousin. Helen, you can't mag
inc how much good your visit has
done Martha. She looks ten years
younger" well, / am so glad. Cousin
George" Helen babbled. "And if she
keeps or using that rouge Pm leaving
her she'll always have that healthy
complexion. like mine. Exchange.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1922-06-02

seventh division during the World
war, Mr.. Roberts has been employed
in the Carnegie Steel mills in Youngs-
town. His selection by the state sink
ing fund commission was regarded as
a victory for the American Legion,
which has endeavored to keep the pay
ment operations of the compensation
law out of politics.
Ohio is paying $40 for every months
service to a maximum of $3.50 to all
World war fighters.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1922-06-02

"
Mr.. Alrich died in the year 1917.
"As 1 could not lift the forms alone,
and everybody was gone to war; !"
says Mrs. Alrich, II was obliged to
close business.
'"The statement was made in the
National Tribune, Washington, d. c.,
that the story of Betsy Ross and the
flag is a myth I want to get the
refutation of Mr.. Alrich before the
public. 1 shall send copy to every
historical society in the United States.
The Kansas D. A. r. state convention
took it up and Endorsed it and placed
1T in their records
Mr.. Alrich, in the Civil war, was
a member of Company B, Bakers Cali
fornia regiment (Seventy-irst Penn
sylvania Infantry. Mrs. Alrich is
senior vice president of the National
Woman's Relief Corps. Alaric G. AL
rich, their son, is past division CON-
mander, Sons of Veterans of Kansas.
Mrs. Alrich has printed a pamphlet
with the title, History, Not Myth"
which contains her husbands "refuta-
Mrs. Alrich's pamphlet begins thus ::
1.-THE statement recently made that
the story of Betsy Ross and the Flag
is Myth aroused a feeling that I
would not be loyal to the memory of
my late husband, Levi L. Alrich of
Bakers California regiment (Seventy-
first Pennsylvania infantry, who en-
rt n
is battles in Is months, unless pub
licity was given to his response to the
same remark several years ago.
Born and reared in Philadelphia,
Pa, he improved the opportunities
of research, in the State Historical
Esociety; the records of the Friends
meetings; also of the Holland Society
of New York; the latter in the de-
scent from Jacob and Peter Alrich,
Dutch governors of Delaware, under
Peter Stuyvesant of New York.
SIN 1868, when frequenting places
of information, he met William J.
Candy, who had the only genealogical
tree of the Candy family in America !:
beginning with Thomas Candy, who
came from Thorn, England, in 1885.
(which has on it all of his 16 children
and their descendants down to
1868. One Susan Candy, married a
Peter Alrich, who was the paternal
grandfather of Levi L. Alrich, while
ISusan was the maternal grandmother
lof William j. Candy.
"This tree is tangible evidence that
William ]. Candy is not a myth; and
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1922-06-02
Chinese Compliment

In China, if one desires to express
high compliment of person, the
right thumb is stuck up above closed
fist. To extend the little finger,
though, is to suggest that the person is
beneath contempt When the Chang
lsha man refers to his fellow citizens,
he always resembles a patient about
TO have his thumb bandaged. Long
before Yale established the "Yale In
China" college In Changsha. the city
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1922-06-02

goOd-the service
men of LIE Sueur,
MINI, claim. One
of the latter lives
in lie Sueur and
wears a cannon
metal decoration
for the work
which she did
during the war
to aid the various
drives and the
service man. She
Is Mrs. Henrietta
A. Starkey, own
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1922-06-02
Rats i'm the Cellar,
Mice i'm the Pantry,
CockrOacheS
i'm the Kitchen

What can be more disagreeable than
home infested with pests! Destroy them
with Stearns' Electric Paste, the standard
exterminator for more than 43 years.
Kill rats, mice, cockroaches, waterbugs
or ants in a single night. Does not blow
away like powders; ready for use: better
than traps. Directions in IS languages in
every box. Money back if it fails.
2 OF. size 35c. IS OF. size $3.50.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1922-06-02
Listened In" on MacNider.

Listening in" a thousand miles
away, American Legion men at Chat
field, Mimi, heard Hanford MacNi-
compensation before an audience in
Pittsburgh, Pa. If the speaker had
known how large his audience really
was he probably would have spoken
louder,
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1922-06-02

was closely ressted to America. FER it
was here that many of the firecrack-
ers which formerly announced the In
dependence dar celebration were
made Among the great mer who have
been among Changsha's chief products
was Gen. Tseng Kuo Fan. whose CO.
operation with Chinese Gordon" was
largely instrumental in putting down
the TAPPING rebellion.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1922-06-02
The Silent Partner.

'Does yo' take this woman for thy
lawfully welded wife?" asked the
colored parson, glancing at the diminu-
tive, watery-eyed, bow-legged bride
groom, who stood beside two hundred
and ten pounds Of feminine assurance
"Ah takes nothin',' gloomily re
sponded the bridegroom. 'Ahs bein'
looked. Legion Weekly
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1922-06-02

in Indiana, Illi-
'nois, Iowa, Wis
conSin, Ohio,
West Virginia,
Kentucky, Kansas
and Missouri
know or are 60
ing to know be-
fore the year is
out of Mrs. Maud
r. -Cudworth, Mil
waukee, Wis, a
national vice
president of the
American Legion
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1922-06-02

tHdt 'IIIc hdIoeI IsIU d IUIdI OF IGUUU,-
600 men under arms during the war,
of which 1,S0S,548 were either killed
outright or died of wounds or sickness
incident to their service. The largest
figures are those Of the number of
Germans wounded which General Alt
rock places at 4,246,779.
German deaths, directly traceable
to the war, are placed at about 12,-
100000.
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er Of moving picture theater, whose
the doors of her amusement house
for Liberty bond, Red Cross and
other campaigns won her the plaudits
of all and caused her bank account
to diminish.
One of the things which Mrs.
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ley did to arouse wartime morale
Ito show the pictures Of all the
from lie Sueur who were in the
ce-237 in all. Lights and heat
r theater were all furnished gratis
wartime community gatherings
cost of the films which were Of
hown at the Starkey theater was
by it's proprietor and the funds
elp the service men were aug
I'D so much more.
Sueur LegiOnnaires hold Mrs
fey up as the unusual who prof
I'D in their good will instead of
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1922-06-02

former V1co-cOL0-
mander Of the
Ohio department
of the American
Legion. Mr.. Roe
erts is director Of
adjusted compen-
sdtiOn in Ohio.
A sergeant ma
iOr in the THIRTY
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1922-06-02

Healthy Complexion Assured.
Martha was pale little wife whose
white cheeks indicated her istless con-