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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-01
NEW YORK CITY SAFE
 PLACE FOR BABIES
Fly Associated Press

New York. December s1.-Nev York is the safest place In the world for baby to be born, Health Com missioner Copeland declared tonight In making public mortality statistics for 1921.
 The general death rate in 1921 was 11.17 per 1,000-a new city record as compared with 1923 in 1920. The effect of the drop of practically 9 points from last year means that S.992 persons are alive who would have died under the conditions ot 1920. Fifty years ago the rate was 80 per 1000.
 Even more striking was the de- cline in the Infant death rate from S5 in 1920 to 71 I per 1000 in 1921.
 The rate for children under years of age was 23.S as compared with 30.S in 1920.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-01
CONDITION FAVORABLE
Selma Girl Injured in Anniston Un-
 dergoes Operation


 Anniston, December 30.-(Special.) ) Miss Philomina Heinz, 15-year- old Selma girl. who was thought to be fatally injured by falling from a horse Friday afternoon near the cor ner of Eleventh street and Quintard avenue. this city, was reported to be in a more favorable condition this morning. an operation having been performed last night at local hos pital following an x-ray examination of . dangerous wound on the head
 Miss Heinz. who Is visiting MT. and Mrs. o. P. Ward in the city, received the injury about 3 o'clock Friday aft ternoon while she was riding with another girl and two boys. her horse becoming unmanageable and running several blocks before the fall. The other girl also fell from her horse, but escaped uninjured.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-01
HUSBAND KILLS DIVORCED
 WIFE AND ANOTHER MAN
Fly Associated Press

Portland, Ore, December sl.-Po- lice today found the body of the di- verced wife of Charles wesly Purdin and the body of man they believed to be H. W. Sigsby shot to death in Mrs Pnrdin's home and found Pur- din on the kitchen floor with a gas tube in his mouth. Purdin was taken to hospital In a critical condition
 A note was found in the house in- dicating that Purdin had gone there to get his clothes and found the oth- CT man there. The note said: They tried to kill me and so I did my best to protect myself and got wounded, but l think l was justified in doing what I did"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-01
STEALS RUGS
By Associated Press

New York, December 31.-A new type of robber. with a penchant only for rugs and baby buggies. Is Law renee Finn, say the police, who ar rested him today while rolling some Of the former in one of the latter. He is alleged to have visited a mum Der of apartments, first ringing the dumb waiter bells to discover which were unoccupied.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-01
LEAVES FOR NEW YORK
Rev. Cameron to Serve Little Church Around the Corner"

Anniston, December 3o.-(Special.) Rev. Dwight F. Cameron. rector of the Church of St. Michael and All Angels here, will leave during the next week for New York city, wh ere he will serve as curate in the Lit tie Church Around the Corner" that congregation having recently been rended by a ritualism dispute which has attracted wide attention throughout the metropolis.
 MT. Cameron will be granted four months leave of absence at the an- nual parish meeting of the St. Mi- chaels congregation on Monday eve- ming. and will take up his duties in New York on January 1.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-01
UNIFORMS REyIsED
By Associated Press

Washington. December S1.--Rei lations for the army uniform h. been revised, Secretary Weeks nounced, in conformity with the z eral policy of the war department eliminate all differences between three components of the army of United States-the regular army national guard and organized serves-so that reserve corps o cers will wear the same collar signia as regular army officers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-01

40 and A inches bust measure. Size S6 requires 3% yards 32-inch material
 No. 9S6s--Girls' Dress-Cut In sizes s to IA years Size requires 2h yards 3s-inch material with 9A yards binding. Price 15 cents
 No. 9s52--Ladies Dress-Cut in sizes 36 to 42 inches bust measure. Size 36 requires 3A yards 36-inch ma terial with % yard S6-inch contrast ing. Price 16 cents
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-01
RUSSIAN VOL YES ALSO
 SUFFER FROM FAMINE

New York, December 31.--The wolves of Russia. like the people, are starving, and are leaving their wood land haunts for the towns. so that it is necessary for American relief ad- ministration workers to go armed. said a message to that organization today. Packs of wolves described as man eaters menace travellers and tho population at Elabuga in the Tartar republic. it said.
 Emaciated children of Elabuga gather acorns from which a bitter bread Is made. American relief kitchens are being installed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-01
ENJoYABLE SOCIAL EVENT

Anniston, December s1.-(Special.) The housewarming given Friday night by the Women's auxiliary of the Anniston post of the American Legion in honor of the legionnaircs was one of the most enjoyable social events ever entered into by ex-serv- ice men of the city and their friends. A short prgoram of music and read ings was rendered. followed by con tests, games and dancing, legion- naires, wives. sweethearts and moth- CTS to the number of at least 100 en- tering whole-heartedly into each part of the evening of fun and frolic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-01
LEAGUE OFFICIAL DIES
by AssOc .ated Press Moscow, December 29.-Dr. [

Moscow, December 29.-Dr. Regi- nald Farrar. representative of the epidemics commission of the League of Nations, died here today. Death was due to typhus contracted during recent visit to the Sanara and Saratoff famine districts with Dr.
 Fridtjof Nansen, commissioner of the interallied Russian relief Commission
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-01
BARON ROSEN DIES
 IN NEW YORK C|T
Former Russian AmbaSSado to United States Suc- !
 cumbs After Illness
By Associated Press

q
 New York, December 3I.-Barq Rosen. former Russian ambassador the United States. who recently wa knocked down by a taxicab in t1 city, died today in his suite at qlI Hotel Netherland. With him at fi 1 end was his wife, who hastened to h bedside from Paris on receiving woi of the accident.
 Baron Rosen, formerly Russian an bassador to the United States, al one of the peace envoys who settlt the war between Russia and Japal for more than four years had bed an exile from his native land.
 A one-time world famous ..ipIomat, ne spent the last days of his iiIe III the United States, where he engaged III writing for magazines and news papers. He came of very ,,ld Sweu- Ish stock, was born in ls4s' and eau cated at the University Of DorpaC and the Imperial Academy of Laws Tn Fetrograd. HIS ancestors IoIIoweu the banner or GusIayus AdoIpnus lu the invasion or ALuSeoVy avv years ago and settled in Litnuania, wnere ,ue family maintained vasl esIaee. me Rosens gave Russla faany u.s- tingulsned generals, diplomats anu writers. A proLntr oI BarOn rsoae.s achieved eminence ln scIence. He Was d member oI the Russlan Academy VA fmmortals anu was, pernaps, at ollS time the greatest authority o4i Arabia.
 Desire of Peace
 Baron Rosen. because or his schOI- arsnip and oeslre TOT world pe,ce, was a trusted adviser or the late E4n- peror Nicholas. he hau ueen d s,a,e councillor. chamDerlaIn or the iIn- perial court and Knlsnt oi lne Order of St. Vladlmlr, ot. Am and D.. olanislauS.
 A talented musician. he spoke Ene- fish, French, German, luallan a..d Japanese. For many years ne as n. the foreign service of Russia .-S nrst entered the kussian aepilI enl, li. of justice and later In turn peats.,,s Russian vice consul at Nokona nie. secretary or legation at Iokio- anu consul general al San .trancisco. A.> was Russian enarge d altaires h Washington from lSS6 lo loSJ auu consul general in New 4uli> in 1884. Subsequently,, he Deeaa.ie Russian minister to .uexico, Sefo4u. Greece and Japan and seIs~A as ambassador to the United oeae~s from 1905 to 1911, when he was sa-- ceeded by Boris Bakhmetetf
 Baron Rosen arrived in America lA the spring of 1919 from Stockho. a, Sweden where he had fled with aIs wife and daughter following eas coup detat which overthrow e4e Kerensky administration and est..5- lished the bolshevists in power. lie said at that time that Russia as a political entity has ceased to exist.
 He declared that it was the deadly poison of bolshevism" wh.ca brought on the defeat of Russia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-01
MRS. RAMON MARRIES
 BANKER IN CHICAGO
By Associated Press

Chicago. December 3l.-Mrs. Geor- gia Hamon, widow of Jake L. Hamon. slain Oklahoma oil man, was mar ried here today to William L. Ro- herer. a banker. Mrs. Hamon moved to Chicago shortly before the murder trial at Ardmore, Okla, in which Clara Smith Hamon was found not guilty of killing Jake L. Hamon. MT. and Mrs. Roherer will probably reside here, 1t was announced.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-01

The Age-Hera1d mas arranged with
 leading fashion designers of New
 York to furnish its readers a daily
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 little in advance of the time you will
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 Birmingham, but all orders will be
 forwarded to the pattern department
 in New York for attention.
 No. 1206-Ladies' and Misses Coat Gut in sizes Is years, a6. 40 and A inches bust measure. Size 36 reuires 6 yards 4o-inch material with Az yards braid banding. Price Is cents
 No. 116S-Ladies' and Misses Dress Cut In sizes 16 years, 36 to 42 inches bust measure. Size 36 requires 2| yards 36-inch material with z yards S6-inch contrasting, and 6h yards binding. Price Is cents.
 No. 1075-Ladies' Dress-Cut in sizes 36 to 46 inches bust measure Size 36 requires Sh yards 36-inch material Price 15 cents.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-01
RAD|CAL|SM| |S
 NO CURE FOR THE
 ILLS OF MEXICO
Life Is Now as Safe in Mexico as in America, But Property Is
 Not
By II. E. LAuFMAN

Assistant Editor the Pittsburg Leader special Dispatch to The ARe-HeraId Copyright. 1921. by The ge-Herald)
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-09-17

lova MS Wife About Polly she had no IN
timaton.
Before she had come into Fosdicks office Jane
Locke mad been a girl of clean ideals Many men
had liked her and few had loved her. But sac
had never been nicked She had tut-tutted at the
notorious divorces she had nursed a cold con.
tempt for Other women. Now? She would have
married Fosdick in a dancehall II he were fres
and wanted her She would have submitted to any.
thing TO rive him grounds for dvorce-anything,
eyen public disrepute She would have fed poison
to his wife IL she were assured he would come
to her afterward. 1t was unreasoning uncom.
promising passion; her whole being burned with 4:
And she knew that she meant nothing to him.
It would have been less than natural had she
been able to confne herself, in this mad mood,
within the formal proprietes of office discipline
One night in the Fall when all others had left the
office, just before six, Fosdicl had been lightly
amusing himself by twtting Jane, The tears burst
to her eyes, She threw herself impulsively at his
feet embraced his knees and begged him to take
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-09-17

and the axis of the EARTH but to him they wero
Just office props necessary as the desk but not
as important the telephone
And Jane Locke had answered an agate at
calling for an efficient secretary with references
and experience, and had been accepted after u
glance at q letter she carried.
Which conventional process had revolutionized
her whole existence, and turned carefree ordi-
narily sensible and sane young business woman
into ovesick aching disconsolate and almost
desperate girl
Fosdick had never given thoughfsto Jane until
one night, when he returned TO his office after
hours In search Of paper, he had run through
Miss Locke's desk seeking It. And there he had
found a surprising thing-his own picture
II startled him He sat down and thought Il
over Where had it come from? He surely hat
never brought into his office: he was man
who was consttuQonally careful about where his
photographs might be discovered. He had sent one
to Polly Marlin, but that one was thoroughly ac.
countsd for--her own maid had tipped him, after
r.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-09-17

her, to destroy her II he would, but to take her
to own her to beat her, to abuse her.
Fosdlck yanked her to her feet. With all the
righteousness Of rascal, he told her she
wicked girl had made herself nuisance, and na1
lost her efficiency as an employe. He drew out
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-09-17

Nances or a bushleague curh hp,kor who stin
houEht taxi was an automobile That he was
married meant nothing TO her-all men are mar.
rled' practically; and any man that might have
been regarded as within plausible consideration
OF Polly Marlin would be married for that sort
OF hsh cant'Rrow old enough to be big enough and
free enough to be caught without having some
Where been pulled up on appetizlng little worm
or tantalzing scarlet fly.
She knew that Fosdck was alive because no
had given her ruby. Il wasn't much Of ruby,
but Fosdick had cleaned his bank account to It's
scrap!ngs for II. Polly had thrown It into her jewel
box with a sneer--just another trinket. When
Fosdick telephoned her she rarely answered ana
when she did she outspokeny told him that no
was "A piker and was wasting his time-which was
his own atfair--but would he please stop wasting
hers which was valuable? Fosdick took 1t. resery.
ing to himself the comfort OF the Broadway phIlos-
nphy that no may probably mean yes as no,
that women arc coy and want to be pursued ana
that something would yet happen to throw her
into his clutch And then
Then, sometimes, he would think of Jane
Jane Locke a little stenographer
She had come into his life through that great
medium OF intercourse which has brought about
more romance and drama and pathos and comedy
and matrimouy and heart break and ruin and for
tune and misery and Joy than any other instrument
of chance or predestined circumstance--the wantad
Fosdick employed several stenographers In his
bucketshop, And they came and they went To
some man, somewhere each was perhaps the sun
Copyrish
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-09-17

he had tipped her, that It had gone into
the beribboned waste basket, to be dumped
with yesterdays paper and the begging
letters.
He remembered that he had dictated
a letter to the photographer or~ering six
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-09-17

prints of his latest sitting, all or which,
however, had been delivered at his home.
The mystery was lightened, yet deep
ened, whsn on the following day he tele-
phoned to the photographer from an out
side point and learned that Miss Locke,
his secretary, had ordered one additional
print, foa which she had paid and which
had been surrendered TO her when she
had called in person for It.
It puzzled Fosdick. What could she
possibly want with his picture? She must
have wanted it~bady, and she must have
given it considerable thought to go Nfter
it in the manner she had employed, and
she had paid for It. Now, what the
wha-oh, no, It couldn't be that! And
yet-and yet
AS he delved back into his memory he
now recalled many sidewise' glances, signs
not otherwise explicable. By the cats
whiskers!. The girl was In love with
him.
Fosdick watched her cannily after that.
Yes It was so. Now that he suspected.
the certihcation was simple enough He
sweetheart and Jane choked and flushed
until he had finished, then hastily ran out
of the room and gave unmstakable evil
dence of tears through her studiously
thick coat of powder when she returned.
He didn't know Just what to do about 1t.
1he girl didn't exercise any allure for
him. That sort was dangerous, too, from
Every angela nuisance, at best. Yet,
pretty girl at his elbow, to be had for the
snatchlng Fosdick was too much
"chaser" to miss at least having her tell
him about It and seeing her suffering.
So, without committing himself he be-
gan to steer their conversations about to
personal things. Jane yielded with pitiful
acquescence The practised and corner
cutting Fosdick rapidly drew her around
to utter her sentiments. The girl had
gone wildly enamored For months that
endured, Jane eating him up with her
eyes, waiting and longing and feverishly
hoping and feebly striving that he might
put his arms around her. that he would
tell her he cared--or at least tell her
he wanted her to care. But he kept up
his light joshing, his flip banter
Jane knew that he was married. She
knew, moreover, that Fosdlck did not
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-09-17

some bills and paid her ofr-and
discharged her She staggered
Imply to the door, leaving the
money on the desk. Once she
turned. but he stood frigid and un.
moved. And she faltered instead
lily out OF his life.
Not 80 long afterward Il 80
chanced that Fosdick was walking
up Broadway, Trinity Trail, with
his handsome wife. 1t was Of Sat
urday, half an hour after the
matinees had let out. The streets
we're jammed with the limousines
OF the luxurious. the rafting road
sters OF the semis and the snappy
towncars OF the dennis.
Traffic along the sidewalks was
even more congested. crowds ebb.
ing south and flowing north, turn.
ing in and out Of the Sits OF door
ways and Off and on at crossings.
Fosdiok and his wife had ended
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-09-17

WIN iHo o1Nh vi Hu hhhoi
and tho attributes sOf a
bandit.
Tho public worshIped
her. for she registered
virginia., wide.eyed, maid
only adolescence, a timid
and dinIdent romanticism,
"A fragile and lily-like
girllshness. In her own
person she was an egotis.
teal. nasty. envious. III
bred, aggressive. I'M.
ashamed, unafraid, skep.
teal blase. quarrelsome,
raucous tyrant, who lived
for applause, Govern.
ment bonds, the adulation
and contribution OF grovel.
Ing big men. the hot
hatred OF all other women
except those who sighed
over her across the foot.
lights, the chagrin OF all
other performers, and
beatihc pictures OF her
self in the papers.
Fosdiok knew all that.
But he was infatuated.
Being Of Broadway. being
hard-hoiled. he was a
child as against the pow.
erful personality and the
brazen technique OF Polly
Marlin. II Ism. the back
woods sap who falls hard
est for the most obvious
shines on Broadway-he
may go under, too. but the
most logical bird whom
the snake enchants Ia tho
nearest bird, bo he eagle,
crow or sparrow. The men
who go into raptures over
the hard-grained chorus
vamps are often their own
managers, the actors who
strut beside them, the
gamblers and crooks and
scalpers aud sharpshoot-
ers who work the same
side OF the street. .
FosdIck would have sur.
rendered his immortal
hereafter for Polly. But
she never gave him a
tumble. She was too far
behind with men who
could do her some good.
get her somewhere. give
her something worth
while, TO even hesitate
over the meaningless ad.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-09-17
\ 1't' 7 'e1i'ff, IL

A CERTAIN scrfbbler OF periodical fiction wrote
~ line several years ago that brought him q
busbel-basketful Of letters, indorsing ana
disputnE his proposition. The line, verbatim. said:
into the life OF every man come threo women
The Lamar register., 1922-05-17

Born-On Tuesday morning to Mr..
and Mrs II. c. Thoman, bouncing
fine boy.
l.. Writ Markham is attending the
meeting of the state board of immigra-
ton in Denver this week.
Mrs. L. NJ. Willoughby left last FRI
day for Iowa where she will visit with
relatives for several weeks.
Mrs. ]. NJ. Williams, who has been
severely sick for the past week, has
been much improved the past two days.
j. A. Stinson and daughter, Mrs. A.
A. Hagerman, came up from Spring
field Tuesday called by the sickness OF
MIR. Stinson's brother, J. X. Stinson.
Lieut.. Victor NJ. Hovis, who has been
away for several weeks in his work
as an organizer of Lions clubs, return
ed the first of the week to lamar. He
has had very successful trip and
covered lots of new territory.
Mrs. Les A Cook, formerly of La
mar, but now of Aurora, Colorado, has
been here the past week to prove up
her desert claim north of Lamar. She
still has a large circle of warm friends
here who were glad to welcome her.
Mr.. j. X. Stinson has been quite
sick at his home on South Main street
the past week. He has for many years
been one of the leading stockmen of
the great southwest and thousands of
friends from all sections of the west
earnestly hope for his recovery.
Word has been received from Chap
pell, Nebraska, of the marriage there
of Miss Ann Buckley to Mr.. Frank
Hahler of Sidney, Nebraska. The bride
was formerly Of Lamar and has many
friends here who extend congratula-
tions. They will make their home at
Sidney.
The Lamar register., 1922-05-17
DAMAGE DONE BY ICE STORM
the Worst Part Of the Whole
sale Devastation.

One Of the most distressing conse-
quences Of an ice storm is the IRE
parable damage done to trees. The
telephone and telegraph poles can be
replaced. Wires can be restrung
Train and trolley schedules can be re-
stored. One and all these are insni'
mate things. But trees are living things
and can no more be restored without
a lapse OF time than any other living
thing. II takes a generation to grow
a fine tree, remarks a writer In the
Worcester Telegram. 1t takes de
cade to line residential district
street with shade. a second decade for
that shade to Increase and become an
asset to the neighborhood a third de-
cade sees the trees which have grown
up with the children become. Instead
OF subsidiary attraction, the princi-
pal one in the neighborhood.
Yet In a single night the careful
sollcitude. the care and nurture OF
the trees is destroyed. The great
limbs which residents have watched
grow for years. the towering tops
which twenty years before barely
came to the porch roof and which for
the last ten years have given gratefui
shade through the summer and au-
tumn are broken, split and sundsred
The thirty years have gone for
naught.
Other ephemeral things. such as
telephone service, trolley schedules
and trains will resume their accus-
toned routine within day or two
after the skies clear.
Only the shattered trunk or the
trees untimely cut down by the Ice
will remain as reminder
Ii takes generation of man TO
grow fine tree.
The Lamar register., 1922-05-17
NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO LEASE
STATE LAND.

Office of the State Board of Land
Commissioners. Denver. Colorado. April
Il. 1922.
Notice is hereby given that Harty
Pilloud whose postoffice address is
Granada. Colorado. has made applica-
tion No. B-3s46. to lease the following
described School Lands. situate In
Prowers County. Colorado, to-wit:
All of Sec. 80. TWP. &c s.. Range 46
W.;(grazing lease).
Notice is further hereby given that
all persons desiring to file an appllca-
ton to lease all or any part of this
tract OF land must file same In this
office prior to May "a. 1929. no other
application to lease the above describ-
ed lands viii be considered after said
date.
GEORGE STEPHAN.
Register State Board Land Commrs
First Pub. April &c, 1922.
Last Pub. May II, 1922.