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Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-05-13

hEAD THIS-Classy new room
bungalow, double construction,
fireplace, basement, dutch kitch-
en-, paved street, Price $500,
1lOOO down, balance easy pay
ments. w. G. Krueger, Oregon
0ldg. phone PIT. a115+
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-05-13

RUSSELL Window Cleaning Co.
House cleaning and janitor SER
wee specially. We go any place
at any time. Phone 1924. ia
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-05-13

WANTED-By reliable party furn-
ished or unfurnished house to
rent. Call 327 during business
hours. i115
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-05-13

STOCK and grain ranch Tor saIS; es
200 acres miles n9rtheasfb 9ns, harm. Gi
Stayton; small house, ne" VA he ~,
Moved Mo- Close to out range for
Stock win take part Salem prop,
erty. Price 10000; $4,000 Sol,,+ viii III
handle It. Call at 1lS7 Court OF u
phone 1403W.
WANTED-Men to act as pern9sa- "a
nent resilient representative Io5 o1
HFarion W. county to sell Metal
Grain era bins. metal tanks. hog
feeders, watering troughs, watsI .li
tanks, and other farm eohtsti tSei-
ences' Products best In ., tnelr
eiass eS nriced fairly. real money
makers and time savers Ior "
farmer. Fun time work PefIirS- ..i,,t-
nent proposition; real oPpoTIurii- oTnsri-
~ for hustler. Give age eSPs.ii- SPS.,i-
snee and references. Coast - ~
vert & F1une Company P9rt1 ,1
land Or.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-05-13
FOR SALE-FARMS

JUST now we can sell you nearly
acres 2 blocks from car line,
II acre in berries. for $3.50. 800
cash. Magees room l, Patton
bldg. NJ
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-05-13

a,.i dUR RENT-At 112 N. CONNER
val second floor, large room,
Isx56, well lighted, toilet, wash
oasln, reasonable rent. Inquire
at Ed Chastain's upstairs mems
Ssnnop, 122 N. Coml st. telephone
lis. 114*
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-05-13

F0R SALE-5 room new house,
bath, etc, considerable furniture.
E22OO $3.50 down, balance $50
month which includes interest,
pay rent to yourself. P o box
1877, Salem, Or. a116
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-05-13

NEW 5 room modern plasstneoroeoa
bungalow, for quick sale $28O0'
your own terms Nice room cot
tage, l acre ground, close in on
paved highway, fruit and gar
den, some equipments, Only
S140O, easy terms. Joseph Bar
ber & Son, 200 Gray bldg.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-05-13

GooD BUY room house at 705
north 17th st. has fireplace. cor
ner lot 75x95, cement walks in.
Frlce $4,000, SITS down. balance
monthly. w. H. Grabenhorst &
Co, 275 State street. a115"
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-05-13

4 ACRES, 7 room house, barn
~ ssage' chicken house, yard for
~ chickens, 8 acres logans,
~. 0.i.iiy orchard. new greenhouse,
hs $1,000; lights. water two
yhs o,'N,s TO school north. A man
snt to make s25O0 every year
~ this place. Price is $4,000, X
rsl' owner getting old wants to
blSIe NJ. ]. Hunt, Ladd & Bush
Sog BE-
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-05-13
REAL VALUES

REAL VALUES
room plastered house. close in
on N. Front street. bath, electric
lights. fireplace, large corner lot,
barn, $4,000.
room cottage. furnished, mod
ern conveniences. paved street,
$4,000.
room cottage, modern conven-
fences, two large lots. newly paint
ed, anattractive home for $2100.
Strictly modern room bunga-
low. new. in best residence section
of the city, hardwood floors. $4,000.
WINNIE PETTYJOHN
921M State street
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-05-13

RFATTTTFT7L home in Salem's new
desirable residence section, drive ,7
out S. High street and see an
the new homes then look at the
very attractive home at ls4O - ,.
High. 6 rooms. completely oullt
in. wonderful bath, garage
laundry trays, fine lawn, flow-
ers and garden. Becke & Hele+
ricks, 2O5 L. S. bank 6ldg-@ ~ II
FOR sALE-Cobbler tools ana
stock, carpenter tools, whel3ar. ar
row and cart. grindstone; wv, tWo
hand power grinders, tub. buck ,1
cts. clocks, umbrellas siLldlI
electric motor, shotgun and many
other small articles Must be soIo
to settle up estate. Ielepnone
3S4W evenings. Calls IhursuaS
or sundays 260 w wilson 80
4
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-05-13

AARRY IF LONELY; for results,
9y me; best and most success
Iui Home Maker" hundreds
- iIch wish marriage soon; strict
CONFIDENTIAL; most reliable;
sears experience; descriptions
'5tee The Successful Club, q"
MS. clrs, Nash, box 556, Oakland,
The Washington times., 1922-04-23
Prof. Locard, the Handwriting Expert, Who
Testified That There Was No Doubt
That Mile. Angelo Laval Wrote
the Vicious Letters.

walk. They rested twice on the way, for
The road was long and Madame Laval was
goting old, At farm house they asked
for drink Of milk and the way TO the
Cid Oak Pond
Two hours later passing woodsmen saw
lonely black-clad figure sitting shivering
on a tree trunk by the waters edge. II
was Mile. Laval Her mother had taken
the fatal plunge. She had not been able
to steel up her resolution to the tragic
point When she saw them she jumped
into The water, but they We're in time to
save her. Her mother however. was dead
and tho poison letters had one more death
10 their credit.
Still, however. there are people who
refuse to believe that Mile Laval is guilty.
There is another theory and that Is that
tho original Culprit is some obscure per
son, tawdry hag from some back street
cafe or drinking dCu-suCh women and
such places exist, even in TullC.
With a drinksOdden brain and a vi
ciousncss born Of hcr associations, II is rea.
soncd that she wrote the first series OF
letters and distributed them broadcast, but
especially to those elderly ladies whom she
saw so often on their way to church or
taking a Summer walk along the outer
boulevards-prim and upright old ladies
who drew in their skirts when she passed
she wrote the first letters, and then, little
knowing what seed she had sown passed
from the vile cafe in Tulle to another
equally vile IN some other provincial town,
The Washington times., 1922-04-23

pfoyed a hypnotiSt and a medium in his
search. The government ruled that such
methods had no place in a judicial ,inves-
tigation and removed him from hiA posi-
tion. On the other hand, many scientists
and serious thinkers reason that the mag
iStrate acted very properly in employing
psychological methods.
1t appears that the Magistrate had a sus.
picion before he employed the medium
that Angelo Laval was the author of the
letters but could obtain no evidence The
declarations of the medium confirmed his
suspicious and led him to turn the in
ouiries Of the handwriting expert toward
her Thus. If Angelo Laval should be con
victed her conviction will have been the
result in a sense of the mediums super
normal revelation.
MademOselle Angelo Laval was charged
with being the author of something like
three years supply Of anonymous letters
which through the post or delivered by
hand. had besmirched the reputation OF
everybody in the town.
Some of the letters, the expert said.
were doubtless written. by Jealous imita.
tors, some Of them, too, by practical jok.
ers, by people whose heart was not really
In their job, and whom il ought to be easy
to find out. The majority, the real letters,
however, he ascribed to Mile Angelo
Laval
Why had she written the letters? The
young girl II appears, during the war.
when clerks we're away with rifles in their
The Washington times., 1922-04-23
Photograph of Mile Angelo Laval Walking in Her
Little Garden, Mediating the Poison Pen Sit
uation Which Confronted Her.

hands worked in one Of the departmental
offices. There she fell in love with her
immediate chief and he had the bad taste
to marry another girl.
Jealousy then. so runs the accusation,
started Nile. Angelo on the downward
path Of anonymous letter writing, and
having once started she found the pastime
so amusing that she could not stop Mile
Angelo laughs at the charge and says it
is absurd, and many thinking people who
have gone TO Tulle to investigate this
strange letter writing mania say the same
Justice, it must he remembered has lis
tened to the expert and read his reports
but so far has not adopted them or fol.
lowed the path he indicates.
But public opinion in Tulle once set on
the track Of possible culprit, was very
severe. Mile. Angelo and her mother
could not take step in the town without
being hissed at and booed at. Street
urchins threw mud al them, and their
neighbors Stunned their very presence
When they went 10 church the pew they
occupied cmptied as if by magic.
Besides hanging over both their heads
for Madame Laval was also included in
the accusation, was the dread or puDnC
and legal charge which would bCsmirCh
their regulations forever. That was all
For French law does not view the offcnsc
Of writing scurrilous letters very severely.
A fine of a dollar would have been all that
would have been inflicted, and so, even if
Justice had taken each alleged letter sep.
arately the mother and daughter would
have been free with fine of some three
hundred dollars.
But the perpetual suspicion and hatred
OF their fellow townsfolk preyed on their
minds French provincial towns are very
narrow and very Jealous in their aspects.
And so Mile. Laval and her mother
formed gradually the resolution to end all
by taking their own lives. One bright
Spring Sunday morning they put on their
bost clothes and set out for a country
The Washington times., 1922-04-23

being manufactured there went by the
name Of "tulle," but it lost this industry
Until the beginning of the poison pen mys.
terry it was very old-fashioned Nearly
every window showed that familiar
weapon of provincial gossips, the tell
tale mirror" Scandal and gossipping were
obviously the only resources in this town
with little manufacturing activity, and
houses the administrative offices OF the
COrreze department.
Fully half the wellto-do middle classes
of Tulle are officials belonging to one or
other branch of the administrative or
judicial system.
Since the publicity which has been
gained for it in the French press, bordeaux
and other larger provincial towns have
tried to initiate It, but without success
The seed must have been nurtured and
coaYcd into life in the hotbcd OF Tullo
gossip with an efficacy which failed in tho
bigger and more active Industrial and trad.
ing centres,
Young girls of Tulle society are brought
up to wear gloves every time they 60
out, forbidden to read Dumas, and never
even allowed to see Douglas Fairbanks on
the screen. Despite their retired and
guarded life their vocabulary. as judged
from the famous letters, seems to have
been as complete as that of any Paris gut
er urchin, and their knowledge OF human
frailty and vice would have shocked even
such a pessimistic novelist as Zola.
The Washington times., 1922-04-23

strokes. After examining
two hundred specimens OF
handwriting he decided that
the letters were written by
Angelo Laval.
It was only after stormy
scenes that Angelo Laval
was forced to give a speci-
men of her natural handwrit-
ing.
Then it became known that
Magistrate Richard had en-
The Washington times., 1922-04-23
Mile. Angelo Laval, the
Accused Writer Of the
Vicious "Tiger's Eyes"
Poison Pen Letters.

slanderous sanders. After many un-
Ihtelllglble answers she said
they are written by young girl She
IS the sister of an official in the office of
the prefect Of the Correze."
This information confirmed the magis.
trate in the suspicion he had that the
writer was Mile. Angelo Laval, young
girl whose brother was captain of gen.
darmerie, the national military police
force which is under the control OF the
government and at the disposition of the
prefect In the department Eventually the
mediums Information led to direct charges
against the girl, but in the meanwhile
other measures were taken to unravel the
mystery.
At a conference of officials it was sug.
gested that the letters he examined for
traces OF finger prints, and that an effort
to find the culprit be made through these.
The next day n letter was received from
Tigers Eyes" stating that this measure
was useless, as the writer always used
rubber gloves. This statement appeared
tc ne correct.
After this DR.. Locard, the most noted
handwriting expert in France director OF
the famous Technical Police Laboratory"
Of Lyons, was called upon to unravel the
Tulle mystery. He employs an elaborate
system OF enormously enlarged photo
graphs OF handwriting to discover forg.
cries and disguised writing He also
identifies handwriting by mathematical
calculations based on the Al gle OF the
The Washington times., 1922-04-23
Photograph of the Funeral of Mm
Pond Near Tulle She Could
Suspicion Which Surrounded Her Daughter Angelo Laval

The climax of the
plague occurred a
few m on I his ago,
when a letter signed
Tigers Eyes" was
posted on the Muni-
cipal T h e atre of
Tulle, giving the
names of no less
than fourteen promi-
nent married men
and women of the
city who were ac-
cused of secret liai-
sons. The charges
affected the rights
and happiness of
many children.
The names were
pasted in the most
public place in the
city, near the Cathe-
dral, the City Hall
and the law courts.
Il was then that a
local defense com
mittee was formed
10 aid in bringing
the wicked writer TO
justice. AT the same
lime a magistrat e,
VI. Richard, was in
structed by the gov
ernment. in accord.
ance with French
procedure, to search
FOR the culprit or
culprits, but these
m sures while
they have concen.
trated suspicion on
a charming young
W o m an. Angelo
La val, have led to
new tragedies and
h a e complicated
the mystery.
Just after the in-
vestigation began a
ri g ht journalist
from Paris proposed
to the examining
magistrate that a
Paris notist
might very well sue
ceed W h ere the
Sleuth-like detectives
or Tulle had failed.
A medium of con.
siderable celebrity
was called in. TO.
e q t h er with a
physician who Is
well known as a
student Of psychic
subjects. In tho
private room OF the
Judge she was put
INTO a hypnotic CON
ditfon by the doctor
and asked to tell
W h o wrote the
The Washington times., 1922-04-23
No Respectable Woman and Feto
Men Escaped the Vengeful Finger
Of Suspicion Pointed at Them by
the Mysterious "Tiger's Eyes"

or perhaps she drfted to the hospital and
died
Her letters, meanwhile. had not been
lying idle. She wrote, maybe. but few
dozen, and before the years end they In
creased and multiplied to many times that
number-anonymous and scurrilous. How
many Gossips Of the town saw in the first
letter they received just that longed-for
chance to tell Madame Dupont next door
what they really think of her married
daughter in Lyons. And then again, how
nice to be able to inform Mile. Durand
that they know the exact relationship be-
tween her and her pretty niece"
The vocabulary was furnished for every
weak minded person TO copy in the first
letters. They suggested how one could
disguise ones handwriting by using only
capital letters So, like the tarantula dance
in Italian towns, the mania would spread
from house to house.
That is one theory of the letter writing
epidemic OF Tulle and one which is favored
by medico.legal experts. They say justice
has no place there but only the brain
specialist II you wanted to arrest the
criminal you would have to arrest half the
old ladies of Tulle.
Soon after the tragic death of her mother
Angelo Laval disappeared from Tulle She
The Washington times., 1922-04-23

was lost for several
weeks, but was found
again in a neighboring
town. She explained
that she simply could
not endure the shame Of
facing the people o.
Tulle after the charges
against her.
Since this episode the
belief in her innocence
appears TO have in
creased in France. Sew
eral men of good posi-
tion have written to her,
offering to marry her as
a proof of their belief
in her innocence. At the
same time many citizens
of Tulle demand that
she shall be put on trial
for writing the wicked
letters.
This is a little town
whose appearance agrees
with its picturesque name.
Two centuries ago it
was a centre of weaving,
and the finest veilings
The Washington times., 1922-04-23

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The Washington times., 1922-04-23

Gu'r' rria,u r'gh,H rs arv-1.
The Press., 1922-03-16
PARAMOUNT THEATRE

THURSDAY Gloria Swanson in Under The Lash Superb story South African Neldt. From the Famous novel "The Shulmite, by Alice and Claude Askew Also EIOlmes
 FRIDAY Buck Nothing" Battling Ranch Ro- nance by J. and Clyde Westover Also Ches- terCOmedy, You'll be Sprised,' SATURDAY, Negri in "One Arabian Night First Ma tionaI Production. News and Topics. SUNDAY Pauline Frederick Jade Also News and Fables.
 MONDAY Gibson Also The Second Chap "Winners of the Vest The Real History Serial Featuring Art Accord.
 TUESDAY, Tom Mix in "The Rough Diamond" Romance O Modern Chvalry Also Magazine reel WEDNESDAY, Jack Holt in "The Grim Comedian Action Terror Pathos Movement Suspense Action Action Acon-that up "The Grim Comedian one startling pictures of night life Broadway made. Story by Rita Weiman Also White Eagle Episode Four with Ruth Roland
 TOWN HALL Clayton in Her Own Money Photoplay Dramatic Interest and Heart Appeal, by Mark Swan Also a Chester Comedy, You'll be Sprised" WEDNESDAY, Wilson Milton Sls Theodore Roberts and Ferguson in Miss Lulu Bet" The Play that half of and talked about. The book that half of America about! Now the world enjoy picture of universal appeal be- with lives of American people picture did before. From the novel and play by Zona Gale
The Press., 1922-03-16
DULL AND BRILLIANT YOUTHS
Bright Boy Does Not AIways Fill EN- pectations of Friends, While
 Stupid Lad SuFpTiSeS.

An. ex-headmaster of 25 years eX- perience has confessed that he was anything but a model boy at school.
 He is not exceptional. Some boys who have no lack of brains have not the examination mind," and in some the intelligence is too vivacious and original to be interested in routine work There are boys who are really dull and will never be anything else, but there are also boys who are mere ly unconventional and boys who are apparently dull only because they are slow.
 Human beings are like plants. It is not always the tree which grows and fruits the quickest that gives the best crop in the end, says the London Daily Mail. The brilliant boy does not al- ways fulfill the expectations of his friends, while the boy who was sup posed to be dull occasionally surprises everybody in after life because his mind was of the sort which takes Q long time to mature.
 No 4hard-and-faSt rule can be laid down. But, as pr. Chalmers Mitchell has pointed out, it is general rule in nature that the longer the period of youth the greater is the intelligence of the adult.
The Press., 1922-03-16
Atlantle eainina Water.

A curious result of q study of the Blue Ridge mountain region in North Carolina and Virginia is the showing that the Atlantic is slowly gaining some of the waters that have heEeiO- fore flowed toward the Mississippi. This arises from the fart that the Blue Ridge, instead of being crest with strong slope on each side. Is an escarpment separating mountain ous upland on the southeast; and the high-level headwaters of the streams that flow toward the Mississippi are continually losing length by the re- treat of the -escarpment, through the retrogressive erosion of the low-level headwaters of the Misunderstanding streams. From a practical point of view, of course. inc change is very S1oW
The Press., 1922-03-16
CORNERSTONE cAskET DATA
EngIlsh HistoFlan suSsOsts MOst ueo. fuI Thlnas and Data to hO
 Placed in Cavity.

The manager of huge building that is being erected in EnglaR6 has, says the Manchester Guardian, been con Sidering the idea of foundation stone casket to be imbedded in the great mass of ferrO-concrete on which the building is to stand. As a reader of Mir. Wells Outline of History he has been struck by MT. Wells difi- culty, through lack of significant ma terial, in dealing with the worlds his" tory 5000 years ago. As he was told that the concrete foundations would last at least that time, he thought that it might be of use to the MT. Wells of A. D. 1921 if he found the in- formation about our time neatly pre- pared for him. Accordingly he wrote to MT. Wells and asked him to sug- gest what would be the most useful things or messages to be placed in the cavity. Here is MT. Wells reply: ' Difficult to make suggestions. Prob ably commonplace things with their current prices will be of as much value as anything. Safety razor, cotton reel, bottle of pickles and that sort of thing. A mail-order catalogue, pre- war medicines and what they profess to cure. Dietary for ordinary citi- zen; typewriter, sewing machine, and so forth. Dressing bag with fit tings. Current book on How to Be- have A kinema reel Of current events. Whitaker's Almanac and Bradshaw's Continental timetables (prewar and post war). Baedeker's England. Town maps and plans"
The Press., 1922-03-16
THE PRESS.
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The Press., 1922-03-16
Missed Sosnetiaino.

Thomas, the five-year-Old son of a northern Indiana editor, attended a communion service with his parents last Sunday. The service was long. and the editor and his family were in the last group that went to the altar. Thomas went along. He had been curious.
 Following the service there was no comment from Thomas until he found his Aunt Edith, a member of another church waiting in the editors auto outside, to go to dinner with them. 'Oh, Auntie Edith,' he chortled, "'you missed something" -~ "Why, what was it?" was her indul- gent question.
 we had bread and grape juice" he replied triumphantly.-IndianapoliS News
The Press., 1922-03-16
THEORY OF ORDINARY COLDS
Doctor Maxwell Expresses Opinion Trouble 10 Due to Development
 of Bacterial GroVSths.

have believed for some years that common colds are due primarily to the development of bacterial grOwths in the accessory nasal sinuses and that this development is caused by the ob-
 struction of the drainage of these sinuses by the swelling of the nasal mucOsa, writes Dr. G. M. Maxwell of Roanoke, Va. Swelling of the mucosa is due in turn to irritation from some foreign substance, such as dust, 'bac- teria and pollen. The bacteria are those ordinarily found in the nasal cavity and cause trouble only when the free access of air into the field is prevented by the swollen mucosa. This opinion has been strengthened by the 4act that. continuous treatment or
 spraying with a mild nOnirritant as- tringent will in the majority of cases arrest an acute cold. When a cold holds on for as much as a week have nearly always found clOudiness in one or more of the sinuses, and get imme- diRte relief by washing out these si- nuses with a mild alkaline solution.