davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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will dlstlll two gallons of gasoline per
thousand cubic feet.
Arkansas has the highest mountain
between the Alleghenies and the Rock
ies-Mount Magazine, 2,S63 feet high.
The largest nugget of zinc ever
taken out in one piece, weighing 20
tons, was quarried in Marion county
in 1893.
Arkansas has a marble which Is elas-
tic. bending under pressure, and re-
bounding when the pressure is re-
leased. This elasticity enables the
stone to adapt itself to variable eli
mates without ~dlsintegratiOn. 1t is
quarried in Independence county in
large quantities. =
Arkansas leading newspaper, found
ed in 1919, is the Oldest paper pub
| lished west Of the Mississippi river.
! Arkansas has the largest pontoon
bridge, the longest singlespan bridge,
and the longest concrete bridge in the
world.
Arkansas is credited by noted church
leaders as standing first in Sabbath
observance.
Two of the three founders of the
Sigma NJ fraternity were Arkansans.
The only man eve Invited to ad-
dress the New York lodge of Elks, not
a member of the lodge, was an Ar
kansan.
Authors of several of the best sell
ing books of the year are Arkansas
women.
Arkansas Is the native state of two
celebrated screen comedians.
The Ancient Concatenated Order of
Hoo Hoo, a national fraternal organ-
ization of lumbermen, was founded in
Arkansas.
AL railroads operating In Arkansas
serve pure spring water on their
trains. h
Arkansas is the only state with a
natural cold storage. 1t has a cave
Of considerable size that is used for
this purpose.
Arkansas has produced a machine
which shreds the top of growing oats,
wheat, barley and rice, removing the
grain and leaving the stalk standing.
The grain is less injured than by
threshing, and the process is more eco
nomical.
Arkansas is located in the center Of
the United States.
The famous Bowie knife originated
in Arkansas. The first knife of his
kind was manufactured by James
Black, a blacksmith, from a design
supplied him by james Bowie.
The Chi Omega sorority, one of the
largest college secret societies for
women, was organized in Arkansas.
Arkansas has fewer undertakers In
proportion to its population than any
other state.
Babe Ruth hits his home runs with
II bat made from Arkansas ash.
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Arkansas have named it the Wonder
State of the Union? Do you know
that it produces genuine diamonds,
hydrotitanite and ebert? Do you know
that an Arkansas concern prints adj
mission tickets for all the big circuses
and play houses? Do you know that
John Pearson, an Arkansan, was the
inventor of the Colts revolver?
Well, anyway, Representative Jaco-
way of Arkansas got up in the house
the other day and spoke about like
this:
Arkansas has now been incorporated
into the Federal Union for a period
of SO years. During that time she
has wrought wondrously and well. She
has achieved those things of which
all Arkansans are justly proud. and
the history of this achievement we
want to publish to the world at large.
II is destined that her status will be
equal to the greatest in every respect
and which will serve as a national
model worthy of the emulation by
each of her sister states and second
TO none. Mr.. Speaker, / ask unani-
nous consent to extend my remarks
In the Congressional Record by making
certain observations and detailing in
part a portion of the wonderful history
of that state from which l come and
which in part 1 have the great honor
to represent in the halls of national
legislation. In things undertaken and
carried to a successful ccnsummatlon
the name of Arkansas ranks high On
the scroll, yet when all the facts rela-
tive to this proud state are known
and appreciated for their full, just.
and honest worth convinced will be
the minds of all hat Arkansas has
been rightly named the "Wonder State
of the Union"
Mr.. speaker, this data, based
largely on government statistics, was
compiled by the Arkansas Advance
ment association, an organization of
the foremost business men of the
state, and not operated for commercial
purposes. 1t is with pleasurable pride
that l make certain recitals about my
native state and to commend the pa
trlotism and state pride of those COM
piling this wonderful data about a
wonderful state, TO the end that
those who essay to speak of her ex-
cept in terms most worthy, she will
prove by the record that over all
criticism an eternal traverse has been
written. Only two classes of people
speak of Arkansas except in praise.
These two classes are those who are
-y -
The certain recitals' occupied
about four pages of the Congressional
Record and contained about 1900
words. and included the following
statements in evidence that Arkansas
is the wonder State of the Union:"
Arkansas grows two crops of Irish
potatoes annually, usually on the same
ground.
Arkansas has originated and named
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| 50 varieties of apples, and stands fifth
in the production of barreled apples.
Farmers in the rice belt of Arkan-
sas paid more income tax han farm
ers of any similar area in the United
States in 1919.
Mammoth Springs has a flow of 1884,
100000 gallons daily. 1t supplies wa
ter for the operation of manufacture
ing enterprises and lighting several
small cities, and is the source of pic
turesque Spring river. This spring
flows 100000 gallons of water a min
ute-more thar Chicago uses for all
purposes. The flow never varies, and
the temperature is the same winter
and summer.
Arkansas had the first national re-
serve-Hot Springs. This is the only
self-supporting government reserva
ton. 1t is the worlds most noted
resort. There are 4S thermal springs,
with an average flow of radioactive
waters of over 100000 gallons daily,
ranging from 102 to 147 degrees Fab
renheit and averaging 142 degrees.
Arkansas has a population of 1,752,-
900, with only 1900 foreign-born citi-
Zens.
Arkansas has more automobiles on
Its farms than any New England state.
Arkansas County, Arkansas, has
more tractors on its farms than any
other county in the world.
Arkansas has the largest apple vine
gar factory in the world.
Arkansas has the largest a%pple-dry-
ing establishment In the world.
Arkansas is the only state where
pearl fishing is a permanent and
profitable industry. The finest fresh
water pearls. selling up to $500,
marketed in the past decade, came
from Arkansas streams.
Practically all of the aluminium
States today-100 per cent Of those
manufactured in America-have their
origin in the Arkansas bauxite mines
Of Saline county.
An Arkansan is national president
of the Tau Kappa Alpha, the honorary
debating fraternity.
Arkansas factory towns are abso-
lutely smokeless. and travellers on r.
kansas trains escape the smoke
nuisance, as Arkansas coal is smoke
less.
Scientists assert that the largest
prehistoric implement factory was To-
Gated in Hot Springs county. Exca-
vatlons show that a sufficient amount
of novacullte was removed at Magnet
Cave RI eOuin n nation with arrow
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Her Golf Lesson

Daughter had been out for the eve.
ming, presumably to a moving picture
show. Her mother heard them come
home rather early, but daughter was
nearly an hour on the front porch
before coming in. The next morning
her mother took her to task.
what took you so long on the
porch last night" she asked.
"Why. Fred was giving me a gclf
lessUILr
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Woman tauahs at Death.

Niagara Falls, N. Y.-An unidenti-
fed woman waded into the Niagara
river just above the falls, and was
swept over the horseshoe falls. She
left on the bank a note which said /;
am going to see the falls. If 1 get
dizzy and fall please notify William
Jones, Orchard Park, N. Y"
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Had II I'm EIaured one.

Little John had been promised a
sister, and 10 the CONSERVATION of the
three-year-old boy. the stork left n baby
brother. He vas keenly disappoint-
ed, because, apparently, he had abso-
iutely depended on a sister, and could
, 1922-09-13

not break himself of using the pro-
noun She" when speaking of the
baby.
When his mother reprimanded him
for 1t he replied Hirlly: "Oh, l am GO
ing TO call him she until he hasn't
amy more dresses on, then I'll call him
he.'"
, 1922-09-13

Nonsense, you can't play golf
after dark"
"0h, hut You see. mother, he was
showing M how to hold my hands
and my mouth so / could play prop
erly."
, 1922-09-13
Tommy,U obleot.

Tommy Jonesi Does your mother
know o are learning 10 smoker
"No; l want 1t TO be a surprtse."-
Boston Transcript.
, 1922-09-13

you know that

you know that
Arkansas is pronounced
Ar-kan-saw, with the ac
cent on the first syllable
by virtue of an act Of
the state legislature. And
maybe you have heard
the famous old tune,
"The Arkansaw Travel
err" with its accompany
ing dialogue. But do you
know that the nponle of
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Cow Gotten In Congo.
Between $4,000 and 10000 natives of
the Belgian Congo are raising cotton
on small farms.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-08
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BY LElE TAPE

We was eating brekfist this morn
ing and all of a suddin pop looked al
the china closit saying, By the way,
wen are we going to get rid of that old
that's wat / call a peece of junk
Willyum, how can you tawk in
sutch a hairless way about your own
ferniture? sed ma, and pop sed, 1t
wouldent be mine if 1 could find
somebody low enuff to accept it as a
gift. It's an eye sore and I never
come into the dining room without
being insulted by it in my own house,
he sed. And as soon as he went down
to the office ma started to look all
over the house for yestiddays paper,
saying, know 1 saw an add about an
auction sale Of household ferniture,
think Ill go rite down there and see
if can pick up a china closit and
serprize your father.
WITCH she did, and this aftirnoon a
Vaughn came up with a big china
closit about twice as big as ours and a
big man and a little man helped each
other to carry it in our dining room
and then they helped each other carry
the old china closit up to the store
room, the little man helping the big
one more than the big man helped the
little one, and tonite at suppir me and
ma and my sister GladdiS all waited
for pop to say something about the
new china closit on account of it be-
ing so big it made the dining room
look like somebody eltses dining room.
ony Pop jest kepp on eating with an
Impression as if he dident notice eny-
thing. WITCH he dident. and after a
vile ma sed, For goodnis5 sakes, Will
yum, for goodniss sakes.
Wat, wy wat? sed pop, and ma sed,
If a brick wall fell in on you would
you notice it? and pop sed, Well if it
fell in suddinly enuff CESS L would
ent, but wy, wat, wy?
Look erround you. for goodniss
sakeS, sed ma. Wich pop started to
do, looking everywars even on the
ceeling without noticing enything, ma
saying, Well I never herd of sutch a
thing, are you sure you don't see eny
relics of Noa's Ark floting GROUND the
room, for goodniss sakes?
Do you think I've got the blind stag
gers, wat the dooce, sed pop, and ma
sed, I refuse to eat another bite or
morssle in this room. of all the unap-
preciative men. I declare the more
trubble I take for you the more you
ack like ded wooden Indian. And
she got up to go out and pop sed, Hay
wait, wat did L do to you? Wich Jest
then he saw Nme pointing TO the new
china closit and he quick sed, o her
ray. CRATE, wonderful herray And
ma sat down agen and pop kepp on
taWking all the rest if suppir about
how crate the new china closit was as
If he thawt ma mite get up agen and
wawk out If he stopped.
WITCH she mite of.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-08
Questions-AnstDeH

Q. Where is the First Division or the
Army to be moved? *. r. T.
A. The First Division is to be moved
the transfer to be completed by April g.
9. What Is the difference between a
hedgehog and porcupine? Il. K. b.
tirely- different families. The true hedge
hog does not occur in this country. The
porcupine is found in both the old and new
world. The old porcupines are terrestrial
and fossorial, while the species found in
this hemisphere are arboreaI and not fos-
Q. How did Phoenix. Arizona. get its
A This city was built near the we'll
defined ruins of ancient pueblo Oar
rell Duppa, a scholar who was with the
men who chose the spot, said Let us call
It Phoenix, for here, upon the old. new
city shall rise and told them of the bird
in mythology called phoenix which arose
from its own ashes
Q. How is sheik pronounced I hear
people say sheek and shike. J. II. J.
A The accepted recommendations of the
word are sheek and shake. An acquaintance
who numbers one of the chiefs among bis
friends, pronounces the word sheek
O. What Shakesperean character has the
A Professor Rolfe gives the following
figures: Hamlet 1,J60 lines; Richard III.
1.161; Iago, LII Henry V as both King
in both Henry ~ and Henry V, 1,s95 lines.
tAHy reader can get the answer to any
Journal Information Bureau. Frederic J.
Haskfn, Director, Washington. D. c. This
offer applies strictly to information The
Bureau cannot give advice on legal u1e(i-
cal. and financial matters 1t does not at
tempt to settle domestic troubles. nor 70
Ject. Write your question plainly ann
briefly. Give full name and address and
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-08

body of no really great importance
except to the artist A heart with
blood smoothing its way thru, which
is just as sensitive to the warm touch
of the artists hand as is the cultivated
mind to a. noble thought.
The hours go by, yet the artist
works on at her masterpiece.
And she knows that she is at work
on a masterpiece. Therefore weari-
ness and the toll that toll takes from
her heart and body are as nothing.
Now the restless little body falls
asIeep-and lies across the seat where
the artists eyes may watch and love.
hke?N Who will look upon it? In what
gaIleries will it hang? VIII the critics
understand that a real artist put her
Hfe-blood into this supreme effort ?
And that her paints were mixed in her
heart?
Now the dreamer has come into day
again. And the work of the artist
goes on.
And it will go. on thru the years.
until the work Of this indefadgable
one is ended and the masterpiece has
been completed
For no artist ever mixed paints sor
wrote literature or builded structures,
which in beauty and expressed love
can compare with what mother puts
into her child
Just so long as time shall last, will
a mother remain the greatest artist in
the world.
Copyright 1922 George Matthew
Adams)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-08

While salaries OF school teachers
have advanced along with other
wages and salaries since we went into
the European war. they can not yet be
regarded as sufficient to attract to
our educational SYSTEM the best tall
ent and keep it there. One-third OF
the. elementary school teachers in
cities from 2.5oo 20 10000 population
are teaching for less than $1,000 a
year one-half for less than s1.Ioo:
and only one-fifth for more than
$1,7oo year. according to the United
States bureau of education. The re-
port shows, however. that as the cities
increase in size the salaries of ele-
rlentary teachers are higher. the av-
erRge for cities from 10000 to $4,000
population being s1.240; from $4,000
to 100000 population. $3.50; and in
cities or zoe. 900 or more population.
s1ss4s. Excluding cities OF 100, 900 or
more population the highest salaries
OF elementary teachers are paid in
California, Arizona, Montana and New
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-08

Jersey. In the group of cities of 1907
900 or more population the first honor
goes to New York state, the second to
Wisconsin. and the third to Pennsyl-
vania and Illinois. Junior high
school teachers are much better paid
than teachers in the elementary
grades. the average salary for Junior
high school teachers for cities of $500
to 10000 population being 1890;
from 10000 10 $4,000. $1.45O; from
$4,000 to 100000. $1.5s5: for 100000
or over, $2,O5O.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-08

with white trash instead of quail
ity.''
was called to the telephone Bob be-
came uneasy and perhaps justly.
Matilda, returning, wore puzzled
look as she studied the face of the
young man she had already grown TO
look upon as friend.
Whoever you are, anyway? she
asked. Aunt says that the young man
I am to be nice to base been delayed
in town. He will be here for tea" Ma
tiIda ended with a pout and a little
why the pout?" laughed Bob. at
doesn't seem to be hard for you to
be very charming
But I wanted you to be this I'M
nice to- you Matilda hadn't meant
to say just that She laughed a lit
tie, b1ushed little, and then de-
manded again: who are you, any
way?"
"Oh, I'm Bob Rogers. I came here
because Let me see, it's SO long ago
Oh, 1 was motoring along and needed
water. I went to the back door ana
you gave me pail'and tod me wnere
the water was. 1 thought you under
stood. Then along came Jenny and
ordered me to come back. And you
set me to scrubbing porches. My car
is still standing out off the road. I've
really had a delightful interruption"
confusion out of the window, trying to
see the car She spied it thru the
branches of the bare trees.
Have you anything very pressing to
do?"
Not a thing. Dads bought a few
hundred acres in the next county. l
started cut to look it over. We're the
Rogerses of Newton-maybe. you've
heard of u.s.
Well" said Matilda deliberately,
we've become so we'll acquainted and
you asked me to go motoring with you
some tiTne-and Aunt knows your
family--if you took me with you now
to see that property l wouldn't have
to be home when uncle's client
comes
Run along and get your things"
said Bob Rogers. Il don't think Jenny
will mind giving me water now"
And of course Matilda's aunt for
gave Matilda's absence when the I'M
portant young man came from town,
because, after. all, said Aunt Matilda
few months later, nothing could be
more appropriate than an alliance be-
tween the Rogerses and the Fultons-
copyright, 1922, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-08
THE ADVERTISING CURE.

Advertising during PERIODS of les
sened demand, declares the federal
department of commerce, has proved
to be one of the chief means Of reduc-
ing seasonal unemployment, today a
most serious handicap to American
industry. Hundreds of thousands of
men are laid off annually in the vari-
Gus trades because the sale OF goods
which they produce is limited to GER
tain months.
The presidents conference on I'M
employment, in its efforts to fornu-
late plans for reducing nationwide
toblessness, has found American re-
sourcefulness already mitigating this
evil. Inquiries have brought to light,
for example, that one New York COM
pany. which does a large business in
dried fruits. by advertising to the con-
sumner has heightened the season for
eating its products.
A Cleveland firm manufacturing
mems clothing. in which the styles
fluctuate by seasons. has kept up con-
tinuous production by standardizing
it's products and advertising induce
nlents to retailers for accepting deliv-
cries over an extended period. instead
of only at the opening of the season.
Another Ohio corporation which
makes women's clothing has achieved
the same results. It makes models
according to carefully laid plans. and
by advertising has inspired retailers
with confidence in its judgment as to
the goods and the seasonal demand
for them.
A Rochester mems clothing factory
fills in dull periods between seasons
by making a stock of conservative
models. and advertising mid-season
sales at prices which cover overhead
but leave no profit.
Pennsylvania manufacturers of
glass, formerly a very intermittent in
dustry. have stabilized considerably by
lowering prices of goods ordered at
certain seasons, and advertising this
reduction. Customers have taken ad-
vantage of this cut. thus spreading
work over the entire year and enabl-
ing the makers to keep on their en-
ployes.
In Brooklyn a shoe corporation en-
ploying thousands now advertises
thruout the year instead of only in
season. and has induced its customers
to cooperate by placing orders when
the firm most needs them. They also
advertise a staple shoe not subject to
seasonal demand, which helps the re-
tailers as wen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-08
JUST FOLKS
THE REAL PEOPLE.
BY DGARNA GUEST.

When everything is said and done
And all the 'fsms' talked about,
The freaks all counted, one by one
And catalogued and singled out,
We settle down once more to find
The mass of human folks is kind
A few there are who go astray,
A few live most unhappy lives.
Some women tread the scarlet way,
Some husbands quarrel with their wives,
But millions. when the day is sped,
See that their children go to bed.
The drab triangle doesn't rise
As commonly as some declare,
The average father daily tries
To meet with courage every care,
He's after things his own can use
His problems not OF sex, but shoes
He lives his life from day to day
According to the common pIan-
A time for work, a time for play
Content to do the best he can.
And by his side the average wife
Shares all the joys and cares of life.
The happy homes are countless here,
The honest men 0utnumber far
The shady, crooked and the queer,
On every street good mothers are,-
So ] am deaf to him who Ehrieks
That life is fashioned by the freaks
Copyright. 1922, by Edgar A Guest-l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-08

In business circles there seems to
prevail an opinion that money rates
VIII continue to decline. This is good
news for the railroads since they are
Acknowledged to be in need of large
sums for improvements and extern
sions. If they now can get into a pO-
sitfon where profitable returns are
reasonably certain. they should be
able to obtain what money they need
az an attractive rate of interest
Often it is said that the prosperity
OF the country depends on agriculture.
but it depends TO almost an equal ex-
tent on the railroads. Prosperous
railroads make prosperity general.
General prosperity will make pros
porous railroads. if the roads can be
freed from handicaps imposed by leg
iFlation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-08
THE WAGE PROBLEM.

Every effort to interfere with the
economic law OF supply and demand
must continue to prove a failure as it
always has done. The attempt to fix
a limit to women's wages will prove
no exception to the rule. Prices and
wages can be influenced by fluctua-
tons in supply or in demand but leg
islation can not do it.
The public would be glad to see
justice done to every wage Garner, but
how can there be an equitable basis
OF wages? Suppose a wage for work
ing girls be based on the cost of liv-
ing. Immediately there will appear
an unfair advantage on the side of the
girl WHIT lives at home She can wear
more expensive clothes and have a
better time than her less fortunate
co-worker at the next counter.
Another element in the situation
unfair to almost everybody concerned
is The constantly shifting cost of liv-
ing. Time has been when living costs
were no more than half what they are
today. The employer collects his Ia
Dor expenses from his customers
Pre-war prices may return. Is it
right that the public should continue
to pay on the present day basis?
The working girls best chance of
obtaining fair treatment may lie in
her union membership. and the means
II affords for frank discussion with
the employer. The attempt of the in
dustrial court to force a minimum
wage is likely to prove a disaster to a
large number OF girl workers.
Fixing q minimum wage probably
would result in smaller number Of
employees and fewer promotions. In
the proposed action there turks the
chance OF doing harm to the very per-
sons 1t is intended to help. Dozens OF
ways are found to defeat or svade al
most every law passed.