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Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1922-08-12
By Associated Press

~ Nts"tIhI0I Tf"H
Los ANGELES. Aug southern
California felt today for the first tmp
the fun impact of tho strik. of Ui
road shopmcn which had spread ON tH.
Atchison. Topeha and Santa ro UlH
road lines cont,ring in Los Angeles 90
include members OF tnc mg foui broth.
crhoOds. engineers fircmen .Ondu
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1922-08-12
Virgin island, ,'o,ernor

b. Asscciaifd Press
WASHINGTON Aus captain
Henry u nouen 4 :. ~ was nomin-
atod To-Day by President Harding u 10
governor Of the NiTsln Islands.
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1922-08-12
ACTION OF
BIG FOUR AT
WASHINCT
Wit H H ED

lh N..o.ial,I I0rs
WNC1. T,yge, Aug ll.-Whether OF
got n,mhci, ul thr big Four brother.
TOD, and 'hr sN.tchmeu ON the Katy
line viii ~ uui 0n strike In protest
giiii>i the ts, a. ARMED guards around
i.i.r .G property and tlc operation Of
alleged diugrruu, equipment II 10 bc
..ierwiurd at q statewide meeting Of
rptc.,n athr~ ut The hrOtherhOOds In
~ t', >undiA This announcement was
wld, iDtighi following a meeting here
oi the executive committee, which IS
..rd called meeting.
according 10 menrDer> who attended
thr meeting iodiN. efforts were made
90 cal q STRIKE immediately. but IL was
d. ,.ocd 4 finite action should DO re.
lrurd a. larger meeting
Nhilr action SUNDAY will affect only
ih, kutA lines Il !, understood that
''g Tom mruhrr> pn other Texas lines
49, VA, om Immediately after the
hat, m'n su uu., proVidcd this action
IS iil,'u. according 10 those who at.
f' d,d tod',', meeting. big -Four em-
l'o,c> "i i'l icNaS roads arc ordered to
,i'rrd ~Indll'~ meeting. ~ well as
u,iic,rs ~ the national hrotherhoods.
tllhnr az IA, sunday meeting follow :
/ % .imilr uu' held here July L., nc
/ Nh.th tmr attloriiy 10 strike was
l-hrd uum national officers.
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1922-08-12
MINERS REFUSE
PROPOSAL MADE
At conference
HARDING CRITIoISES MEN
FOR NOT ACCEPTING OF.
FER OF OPERATORS
By Associated Press.

CLEVELAND. Ohio. Aug. 1.-THE
United Mine Workers are ready to re-.
sumo negotiations to crd the strike in
the anthracite coal regions of Ponnsyl.
vdnia "un any date designated 10y the
operators Representatives. said . mes.
sagc sent tonight hy President John l..
Lewis 10 the Scranton board Of trade.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-12-29
DEVIL DANCE EXPELS SPIRITS
Tibetans Have Simple Methods of Get
ting Rid of "Demons" That Dis
turb Their Happiness.

The Tibetan lama, living on the
AroOf of the world" has presumably
discovered n magic for a%ppeasing and
expelling the demons who disturb his
happiness, and deny him pleasures
To the lama, the nomad, and the mer-
chant the high, barren Asiatic plateau
is peopled with ghosts, COLLINS,
gnomes, imps, demons and evil spirits.
The panacea for all troubles is a
devil dance. The TibetanS' dance is
as weird an incarnation as N could
find i'm any part Of the world. The
lamas wear hideous masks represent
ing every known and unknown demon,
ghost, spirit and goblin that frequents,
inhabits and resides i'm Tibet. These
are carefully enticed, decoyed and
gathered up and, Oh the last day of
the three-day festival, escorted by the
lamas outside the south gate and safe
ly blown to nowhere.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-12-29
Must Go Ear Out to Sea.

Because the conclusion OF the big
naval guns shattered window panes.
and in some instances frightened to
death chickens and live stock in and
around Long Beach and San Pedro,
~dreadnaughts Of the Pacific fleet are
not permitted to fire turret guns until
they are "a miles Off the southern Cal
ifOrnia coast.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-12-29
n Changes Last Years Frock to New
VO Putnam EadeIess Dyes-dyes or tints as you wish
Fistic Ability Won Him Position.

An Egyptian prince has appointed
an American ex-welterweight cham
pion, rejoicing in the name of Blink
McClosky, as his private secretary.
Blink obtained the appointment by
knocking out the princes former Sec
rotary, who was 4 Cairo pugllist.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-12-29

mist who wasn't troubled with indi
geStiOn.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-12-29
The sal@rl sends me a scenario of society life; a ~bookkeeper tries to sell me
q tale of adventure in foreign lands

OMEONE has SAID that the United
States is a nation OF story writer's.
/ won't go quite so far as to affirm
that, but | do believe that of all the
people you meet, n out Of three
has either tried to write for the
movies" or has contemplated doing
so. And that, for the whole Of the
country, makes a vast total, writes
Richard A. Rowland, First National
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-12-29

Carelessness with parlor matches Is
the cause of few fires and many
divorces.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-12-29

A wasted opportunity always comes
home to roost.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-12-29

England has a population Of 701 t.
the square mile.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-14
OCALA TWENTY YEARS AGO

Evening Star, February "A, 1929
Mrs. R. A. Burford, seeing the need
of primary Sunday school training,
is organizing a class. Among the
pupils will be her honored husband.
The editor of the Star has been invit-
ed to join the class and he has accept
ed the invitation, feeling the need of
this primary instruction. The class
will meet next Sunday with Mrs.
William Hooker.
J. B. Webb, manager of the Stand
ard Lime Co., of Kendrick, was a
business visitor in Ocala today.
Mrs. o. M. Eaton has been in Jack
sonville for several days, the guest of
Mrs. Howard Rudisell.
Little Miss Alice Sexton will enter
tain a number of her friends tomor-
row afternoon at her home in the
first ward with valentine party.
J. F. Edwards, manager of the
Ocala House, went to Tampa yester-
day to attend a convention of hotel
men at the Tampa Bay.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-14
MARION COUNTY PREMIUMS
AT. SOUTH FLORIDA FAIR

Best display of dairy products, first.
Best exhibit of manufactured and
varied industries, first.
Best exhibit of grain and forage by
county, first.
Best collection of agricultural, min
eral and varies industries exhibit,
third
Best box of pineapple oranges, first,
Wartmann & Crosby, Citra; second,
Kendig Grove, Spar.
Best Lue Gin Gong oranges, third.
n W. Harrison, Lake Weir.
Best box of Parson Brown oranges,
second, Mr.. Roberts, Lynne; third,
Mr.. Albertson.
Best box of Ruby blood oranges,
second, n. ". Harrison, Lake Weir.
Best box of mandarins, second,
Mr.. Roberts.
Best six boxes of magumi kum-
quats, second, N. W. Harrison.
Best box of Royal grapefruit, sec
ond, Kendig Grove, Spar.
Best box of Ponderosa lemons,
third
Best and largest display of pecans,
first.
Nancy Hall potatoes, first.
Porto Rican potatoes, second.
Providence potatoes, other than
listed, second.
Largest and best pumpkin, first.
Patterson yams, first.
Best 50-lb. basket of Sea island cot
ton, first.
Best ten stalks of common Japanese
cane, third.
Best ten stalks of red cane, sec
ond.
Best exhibit of syrup, four quarts
or more, second.
Best display of beeswax, five pounds
or more, second.
Best bushel of ear corn, second and
third.
Best ten ears of large variety corn,
| first.
| Best bale of pea vine hay, second.
Best bale of natal grass, first.
Best bale of beggarweed, third.
Best bale of each variety not NAM
ed, first and second.
Best bale of oat straw, third.
Best peck of Valencia peanuts, sec
ond.
Best peck of Virginia bunch pea
nuts, first.
Best peck of Brabham peas, first
and second.
Best peck of yellow cowpeas, first
and second.
Best peck of black cowpeas, first.
Best half bushel of Florida velvet
beans, first.
Largest and best display of velvet
| beans, second.
Best peck of bolted grits, third.
Best exhibit of syrup by county,
third.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-14
FOR THE SAKE OF VOTES"

Your Uncle Henry Ford may not be
classically educated, but he prints a
good deal of good sense in his Dear
born Independent, all the same. Fol-
lowing is chunk of it:
"The lower House of Congress after
solemn deliberation recently passed
an 'anti-lynching' bill. The vote COIN
cided roughly with the partisan divis-
ion of northern republicans and south
ern democrats.
Theoretically, the object of the bill
was to reduce lynchings, which have
had for their most numerous victims
the negroes living in the South. Ac-
tually, the object of the bill was to
cater favor with negro voters, who
are numerous in some of the northern
voting centers.
Theoretically, the opposition to the
bill was inspired by the altruistic be-
lief that federal interference with
state officials for shortcomings in pun
ishing lynchings, is an unwarranted
and dangerous extension of federal
paternalistic rule. Actually, the oppo-
sition felt that the southern voters
would resent any vote which might
be construed as catering to negroes.
"Negro voters may look forward
with confidence to the appearance
shortly of some franked copies of the
Congressional Record in which the
sufferings of their race are eloquently
denounced. So, too, ardent upholders
of the Old South may enhearten them
selves with the thought that printed
patriotism, of their own particular
brand, will soon be delivered free.
GAS for the bill, if it becomes a
law, there are few southerners who
fear that it will have any more effect
than did the constitutional amend
ment giving the negro the vote
Neither do the northerners.
"But viewed simply as an arrange
ment of words, the measure is entire
ly commendable. So, too, would be
constitutional amendment prohibit
ing murder"
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-14

Dispatches from Ireland ran in reg
ular order last week. One day a cou-
pie of hundred Ulster men were kid
naped, the next they were not return
ed, the third a number of Ulster police
were shot down in cold blood, the
fourth deValera opened his large and
valiant mouth to denounce the prac-
teal measures for peace that a ma
iority of the Irish people seem to have
agreed upon for sake of their coun-
try-and on the fifth it was announc-
ed that the British troops had stopped
their movement out of the island. The
powder is lying around loose-all that
is needed is the spark.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-14
Ocala Ten Years Ago

Evening Star February ii, 1902
McIver & MacKay are building a
big phosphate plant at Groom for the
Buttgenbach company.
Miss Marion Futch, one of Gaines
viHe's pretty young ladies, is expect
ed in the city tomorrow to visit Mrs
T. E. Bridges.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. Clark, after q
pleasant visit with their long time
friends, Mr.. and Mrs. H. B. Clarkson
left today for Washington.
The citizens of Ocala are very en-.
thusiastic over the ladies of the
Woman's Club planning an Easter
edition. In a very short time this
morning the ladies requests for five
full pages of advertising and orders
for 215O copies of the edition and they
have hardly begun canvassing for adj
vertising. The proceeds of this add.
ton will go towards the new club
house.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-14

If every town in Florida made as
good a fight against confidence men
as Fort Lauderdale is making, they
would soon be scarce in our state.
Nor need the scarcity include conf
dence men alone. For once, we have
a governor who will back local au-
thorities up to the limit of the law
The stinginess and cowardice of the
so-called better element of many
Florida communities is responsible for
most of the bootlegging and gambling
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-14
NOTICE, EASTERN STARS

Mrs. Beulah NJ. Warner, grand
matron of the Order of Eastern Stars
of Florida, will visit Ocala chapter
Wednesday evening, Feb. Is, at eight
o'clock. All members of Ocala chap
ter No. %, o. E. S., are requested to
be at the hall at thi slime. Visiting
Stare are welcome.
Susan Cook, Secretary.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-14

The exploits of Ponzi in Boston are
rivaled by Raymond Bischoff, whose
name is a combination of Norman
Teuton and Slav, in Chicago. He has
hypothecated the savings of some six
thousand Chicagoese, foreign born, to
the amount of between four and five
million dollars. There's a thousand
born every minute.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-14

The list published elsewhere of Mar
ion county premiums at the South
Florida Fair should be very encourag-
ing to our people. 1t shows that our
section is strong for those products
that are worth the most in the susie
nance and comfort of life. Study the
list closely and realize what a good
part of the earth's surface you live on.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-14

NOW, you folks that are stuck OF
Frieda Hempel read the following
really sweet article about her from
the Miami Herald:
Jenny Lind Reborn
Jenny Lind is more fortunate than
are the singers of today. The latter
have only the photograph to record
and perpetuate the memory of THEN
songs. Jenny Lind has Frieda Hem
pei.
Invention has made remarkable
strides, and none of its achievements
is more remarkable than is the de.
velopment of the simple instrument
which recreates sound. But invention
stands baked in the present of hu-
man personality, which cannot be re.
born except in other human person.
alities. Something like this was what
Frieda Hempel did for the great
Swedish songbird, and that is why {
thousand people or more who heard
her sing the other night will forever
carry the memory of a wonderful
night. 1t was more than great sing
ing-it was a rebirth of a soul.
If she had not "gotten away with
it, the effort to reproduce Jenny
Lind concert would have been ranl
presumption. If the singer had pos
sessed nothing more than a remark
able voice, splendidly controlled
which, of course, she does possess, tn,
evening would have been burlesque
Frieda Hempel must somehow have
found the soul of Jenny Lind ant
made it her own. Perhaps no ont
was present who had ever heard the
earlier singer, but everyone who wa
in the theater felt that Jenny Line
was there also.
There was her endearing smile
there was her simple, captivating
manner; there was her personalit!
that could not be resisted. Jenn.
Lind reborn, with her bird-like melo
dies, became all tangled up in thu
heartstrings of Miami audience. l
was a er-to-be-forgotten expert
ence.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-14

Saw picture in an exchange of a
professor and professoress who were
travelling around the country, profess
ing to teach children to be healthy.
Both looked skinny and wore full
grown spectacles. Hard work and
good food will do more toward max
ing children, and grownups, healthy
than science.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-14

The army airship Roma, recently
purchased by the United States gov
eminent from Italy, was christened
with a bottle of liquid air. The bottle
was dropped from a free balloon on
the bow Of the craft. Champagne is
now too scarce to waste christening
ships, air or otherwise.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-14

There is less news coming out of
Tallahassee than out of any other
state capital in the United States, and
it is noticeable that seldom any of it
is of a quality to give any offense to
a state official. Either we have an alb
solutely perfect set of state officials
or the correspondents in Tallahassee
are afraid to write all the truth.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-14

The american Producers of Cuban
Sugar." whoever they are, are send
ing US propergander on "The Propos-
ed Tax on Sugar" We will print
some of it, but they must roll barrel
of sugar into the business office first.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-14

county. Certain it is that every good
tree that does not, and is not likely
to, interfere with the road should be
left standing. 1t is an American fail
ing to destroy fine trees and be sorry
about it afterward. The state press
should wake the road department up
on this subject.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-14

The French government will erect
a monument to the last American SOL
der killed in action in the world war
The American Legion will determine
the name of the soldier.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-14

A law banning cigarets as ina
tional curse" was urged by the master
of the New Hampshire State Grange,
at the forty eighth annual meeting re-
Gently held in Concord. We have so
many national curses that the nation
is becoming hardboiled.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-14

In announcing the visit of William
Jennings Bryan to the South Florida
Fair, the Tampa Tribune says:
Americas greatest. orator. will
speak. This leaves Park Trammell
out.-Orlando Reporter-Star.
Park has never been left out yet.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-14

Dispatch from Miami says an Am
herst scientist down there has seen a
large number of unusual spots on the
sun. Such news, coming from Miami,
is not surprising. 4.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-14

The native women of the Black
Forest of Germany still use the an
Gent spinning wheel for spinning
their fax. But the native statesmen
of that country ues the most uptodate
methods for spinning their yarns.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-14

A lady who has always been prompt
to realize the Importance of taking
advantage of all natural aids to i'm
provement, has spoken to the Star
about the folly of cutting down a
number of big trees along the Dixie
Highway, now being built thru our
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-14

Who is paying for all the stuff be-
ing sent to the newspapers as argu-
ment against the government letting
Henry Ford have Muscle Shoals? 1t
costs money to write it, money to
print, money to mail it. Somebody
with big money must have money to
lose-and unwilling to lose it.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-14

If the German scientist who claim
ed to have discovered synthetic gold
had lived in America we would have
thought he had been lighting up on
synthetic whisky.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-14

Americans do not require passports
to enter Mexico. But it sometimes
requires loud yell from Washington
to disenter them
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-14

Our Frank Shuts of the Miami
Herald is nominated for director of
the Associated Press. We see where
he has one vote cinched.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-14
LOCATION AND PHONE NOTICE

DR.. F. E. McClane is now located
in Commercial Bank building. Office
phone 113-two rings; residence
phone 151. tt
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-14

Floridians are hardly ever taken in
by wiretappers. But they make pref
ty good meal tickets for sellers of
phony oil, rubber and automobile
stock.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-14
SHOE REPAIRING

/ wish to announce that I have re-
turned to Ocala and have opened a
shoe repair shop in the Powers build
ing on West Broadway, where will
be pleased to, see my old friends and
customers. lost A. SLOTT.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-14

You can get the famous Day Dream
Cold Cream only at the Court Pharm-
acy. Phone 284. If
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-14
EAT AT THE MAXINE

Best meals in the city for so cents.
Twenty-one meal ticket for ST. Phone
260, 80 N. Main street. If
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-14
BARGAIN

One 1919 Ford sedan with starter;
newly painted; new tires; $3.50.
11-6t MACK TAYLOR,
Phone 349, Ocala, Fla.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-14

Good money is what the people will
accept as good money.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-14

They should write it "sinthetic
whisky"
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-14

Hunting seasons ends tomorrow.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-14
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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-14

This is a Studebaker year.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-14

Smoke Don Rey. That good cigar.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-14

666 is a prescription for Colds
Fever and LaGrippe. It's the
most speedy remedy We know.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-14
SHE'S JENNY LIND THE SECOND

Now, you folks that are stuck on
Frieda Hempel read the following
really sweet article about her from
the Miami Herald:
The Washington times., 1922-09-26
BLAST WRECKS
|. CHICAGO BANK
|. BE|NCERECTED
Five Of the Forty Workmen on
Building Hurt in Terrific
Air Tank Explosion.
by International News Service.

CHICAGO. Sept. 26.-With
crash which rocked the entire loop
district. terrific explosion oc-
CURED early today in the nearly
completed Illinois Merchants Trust
building at jackson boulevard and
Clark streets.
Lives of forty workmen were i'm.
perilled. Arthur Covert, air COM
pressor engineer, was taken to
hospital badly burned and bruised.
An investigation OF the blast re-
vealed that 1t was caused by the ex.
plosion of the compressed air tank
in the building.
No lives were lost, but in addition
to Covert, who was possibly fatally
injured, four others received serious
injuries.
The explosion occurred just as a
shift of boiler workmen were about
to work on the new boilers in the
basement.
Windows in sky scrapers in the
vicinity were shattered and a great
heap of smoking debris was created
Firemen and policemen were unable
to penetrate the thick black smoke
which covered the wreckage for an
hour after the explosion.
The tank was loca ted on the floor
above the boiler room. The men at
work in the boiler room fled up the
stairways and through cellar exits
to safety.
The Washington times., 1922-09-26
DISTRICT SUPPLIES
COST $2,712,67O.e5

NJ. c. HarGrove, District purchas.
ing officer. submitted his usual an.
nual report to the Commissioners to.
day. The report shows that s2,712.'
670.95 was expended during the year
under his department.
Construction material. used for
roads. streets and sewer work, head
ed the list with s547,227.69. Other
large, expenditures were as follows:
Fuel, $+46,933.59; hardware. plumb
ing supplies, paints, oils and lumber,
1929 ,6O6.4 food supplies. s2O2 .937.2S,
and fire fighting apparatus and sup
plies, S13S ,25S.03. An inventory al
the close Of business June 80 showed
that the District had stock and con.
struction materials in property yards
valued at $539. .5S0.66.