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The Snowflake herald., 1922-10-20
HAIR-EATING CHILD is CURED
Stomach Trouble Goes as Mass 1<
Inches Long Is Extracted
From Girl.

Northampton, Mass.-What is said
by surgeons to be one of the most un
usual series of operations in their
memory, was successfully concluded
when a mass of human hair was re
moved from the stomach and intestinal
tract of an eightyearold girl, who
had suffered from acute stomach trou
BILE several years.
An X-ray photograph showed dark
mass in the stomach. Questioning re-
vealed that the girl had been in the
habit of pulling out her hair and swal
lowing it. One portion removed by the
surgeons was more then foot and a
half long. The child is recovering.
The Snowflake herald., 1922-10-20
OTHERWISE HE is PERFECT
Only One Little Thing Leaves Blot
on Character of the Ideal
Neighbor.

He is just old enough to suit the
husbands and young enough to suit tho
wives. He has money enough to do,
everything the neighbors want to do,
but not enough to make any of them
enviOuS.
He is busy enough to be an example
to the lazy husbands and leisurely
enough to make a good companion for
them. He can lend any kind of auto
mobile or garden tool can play chess.
checkers, cribbage, bridge, pinochle.
poker, golf, tennis and rogue. He can
dance, swim, and ride he likes to fish
and knows just where to go for bait,
canned or bottled. He can change q
tire and start an unstartable car.
He admire's everybody's children
and everybody's house. lawn, pictures.
books, cars, dogs and putters. He is
the ideal neighbOr. There is only ono
disagreeable thing about him. Nobody
likes him.-Life.
The Snowflake herald., 1922-10-20

be likeness of her dead sister etched
on the silver surface of the mirror.
Gradually the liken ess grew until
from top to bottom OF the mirror, a
distance of Is inches, the photograph
is now complete. The girl appears
with the bouquet clasped In the
hands. The boards on w.llch the body
rested, also are clearly visible.
1t is the accepted theory of local
scientists that the photograph is the
action Of sunlight on the window
panes and the silvered surface of the
mirror, although SO far as known there
Is no similar case on record. Some
are inclined to believe it to be a di-
vine manifestation.
The picture most closely resembles
an >old-fashioned daguerreotype and eff
forts to wash or rub it off the mirror,
both from the front and back, have
proved unsuccessful.
The Snowflake herald., 1922-10-20
In a BRGHTEHS RRESHES ADDS new DELIGHT TO OLD DRPERS
MALE SHOPPERS ARE "WlSE"
to Make Sales to Men Than
to Women.

whoever says that it is easier to
sell groceries to men than to women
Is not acquainted with the facts" said
a grocery clerk the other day. "Tve
seen cartoons in the papers of hus-
bands bringing home cleansing powder
instead of rat poison and forgetting
half Of their wives orders, but I've
never seen 1t in real life.
"Men are hard customers. I think
they read more about the cost Of foods,
particularly advertising, than women.
They seem to know the different
brands better, at any rate. I've often
substituted brands for a housewife,
only to be refused by her husband
when I tried it again. I'd rather at
tempt to talk a woman into buying q
new brand Of canned peas, for exam
pie, than to face her husband with the
same sales talk. The male shoppers
know too much about food-perhaps
because they do most of the eating."-
New York Sun.
The Snowflake herald., 1922-10-20
bOrtant to All Women
Readers Of This Paper

Lusands upon thousands of women
kidney or bladder trouble and never
let it.
|onen's complaints often prove to be
linz else but kidney trouble, or the
IN of kidney or bladder disease.
the kidneys are not in a healthy con-
n, they may cause the other organs
ecome diseased.
pu may suffer pain in the back, head
and loss of ambition.
Dor health makes you nervous, irri-
and maybe respondent; it makes
one so.
ut hundreds of women claim that DR..
hg's Swamp-Root, by restoring health
the kidneys, proved to be just the
'edy needed to overcome such condi-
b.
any send for a sample bottle to see
Swamp-Root, the great kidney, liver
bladder medicine, will do for them. By
csng ten cents to DR.. Kilmer & Co.,
EhamtOn, N. Y, you may receive sam
size bottle by parcel post. You can
phase medium and large size bottles at
drug StOres.-Advertisement.
The Snowflake herald., 1922-10-20
DEAD GIRL S FACE
SEEN IN MIRROR
Photographic Likeness Appears
on Glass Nine Months
After Death.

shreveport, La.-At Campti, La, a
Photographic likeness of a girl, dead
inne months, has appeared on the mir
III VI the room in which she was
piaced after her death, according to
report OF the phenomenon by C. NJ.
cunningham, former state senator.
Inc girl" was member of the
Aiichel family, who lived about five
,niies from Campti. The body was
iald IN front of the mirror with a
iarge bouquet clasped in the hands.
Next day she was buried and the room
mas been occupied since that time by
her older sister.
ABOUT a month ago, it was related,
the sister was thrown into violent agi-
t&tlon zen she saw what appeared to
The Snowflake herald., 1922-10-20
BOY COOKED ALIVE In VAT
Falls Into Boiling Water and Dies
From Burns Five Hours At
ter He Is Rescued.

Milford Del.--Norman Pettyjohn,
ten-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Pettyjohn, was cooked alive when,
while playing about vat Of boiling
water at the plant of the Ellendale
Basket company, he fell in.
He went under twice before his
screams brought rescuers. His condl-
ton was such that little could be done
to relieve his slfferings and he died
FIVE hours later. Nurses and surgeons
could not even remove his clothing to
apply ointments.
The Snowflake herald., 1922-10-20
His Version.

Little Franks parents have been
trying to impress on the lad the ne
cessity of saying eff you please when
asking the things he desired. One eve
ming at dinner the following conversa-
tion took place:
Frank-Mother, give me some
bread
what2
Frank (promptly)-If you can
reach it.
The Snowflake herald., 1922-10-20
Isn't Nature WONDERFUL

"Pa, l know why some fishes are
fiat"
"Why, my son?'
"'Cause in shallow water fish have
to be fiat or they'd get their backs
sunburnt' Boston Evening Tran
script.
The Snowflake herald., 1922-10-20
WILLS SELF TO
DIE, AND DOES
Astonishing Incident in London Is
Attributed to Auto-Sug-
geStion.
AGED MAN is VICTIM
Means Planned for Hanging Are In.
adequate, but He Perishes None
the Less-Head Hangs Imply
in handkerchief

London.-Can a man suggest" sui
eide to himself and die of the sugges-
ton?
1t is said that the natives of Samoa
In the old days could "hate" one an
other to death. But read on:
Something has been written of the
extraordinary effect of Doctor Coue's
mental suggestion treatment upon a
group of British shell-shocked soldiers
He delivered his lecture to them and
treated some of them as he had treat
ed thousands of more or less normal
people at his now world-famous Nancy
clinic. and the result was an outburst
OF hysterical excitement which was
deemed to be exceedingly injurious to
the sufferers. 1t was, indeed a mad
riot Of the shell-shocked
The episode created much criticism
of the whole idea of therapeutical use
OF mental suggestion
But it by no means decreased the
ever increasing flock of patients rush
ing to Coue clinic at Nancy, which this
summer has been greater than ever,
having been swelled to more than
twice its normal proportions by tour
lists, many if not most of them Ameri-
cans.
The Snowflake herald., 1922-10-20
Househy Quick Thinker.

The housefly is the cleverest Of In
sects, its intelligence surprising that
of the ant and the bee. An authority
asserts that 1t can think 100 times
quicker than man.
The Snowflake herald., 1922-10-20

great eagerness by pros and antiS and
there even has been some rather acri-
monious discussion among those who
believe and those who affirm and those
who deny.
But the most astonishing incident
which has been brought to public at
tention during the whole course of the
long g-drawn-out argument is furnished
by the tragic ending of one Alfred
Manning, aged SiXty-six.
He had been unable to get work for
considerable time and had been
much discouraged. although he had
not actually suffered in q dangerous
way from lack of food.
But he was old, tired and unsuccess-
ful-of a sort and in case which
often furnishes suicides.
Thrust Head Through Moose.
And he was found dead in his room
with his death declared to be suicide
by the coroner, although it could be
held to be that only by person ac-
cepting very fully the theories of those
believing that great power lies IN auto
suggestion.
When found he had been dead for
some time, kneeling at the foot or MS
bed
He had tied two corners of very
large handkerchief together, making
loop which he had caught over one or
the bed-posts.
Through the pendant cloth circlet
thus formed Manning had thrust ms
head and. when he was found, MS
neck rested Imply In it.
But the loop was large and loose !;
the handkerchief would not have
pressed tightly on his throat II MS
head had not borne its weight down
upon it and that scarcely couiti nave
been achieved TO the point of strangu-
lation by his own wtll-poWer.
The Snowflake herald., 1922-10-20
1 arrest SeaWeed

Largest Seaweed.
10 kind of seaweed known as kelp
sa 10 be the largest, or at least the
OSt In the world, sometimes at.
Inc q length of 1,500 feet.
The Snowflake herald., 1922-10-20
Mother Rabbit Kills
Large BIacksnake

Colonial Beach, VA rabbit
killed a flur-foOt blacksnake
near the home of w. r. Ward OF
Lyells, Va. The reptile had just
swallowed one of the rabbits Of
spring. After kicking the snake
into uncons ciousneSs the rabbit
finally killed it by gnawing two
large pieces out of its head.
The Snowflake herald., 1922-10-20

Tr,y time with pains ana nad TO
; o. q, Iiy 55ctor every month. One day
.-9 nT . little book in my yard in
9u " oklahoma, i and / read it through
PIE re then the lmedicine-Lydia E. Pink
3 gOS OTSo'retable 'a Compound-and took
totfIes SS and used the Sanative
|. lat once began to get stronger.
y y cot many women to take it just
N Niisg : them what it has done for me.
tra rl1s . Young sister whom it has
N n IN the same way it helped me.
= = q vou to know that | am a friend
u " jforvou were a friend inneed. ."
- : GEORGE HARDEE, 1043 Byram
los Il Angeles, California
! lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
rn,Ornd |, be a " friend indeed +" to you.
The Snowflake herald., 1922-10-20

No man ever becomes too shiftless
to give advice.
The Snowflake herald., 1922-10-20

Compound. l have
taken it off and on
for twenty years and
it has helped me
change from a deli
cate girl to a stout,
.he e althy WON a n.
When l was married
L was sick all the
time until / took
Lydia E. Pinkham's s
We ge able Com
.nO,1nd. I was in bed
The Snowflake herald., 1922-10-20
[R|END IN NEED
FRIEND INDEED
Me-. Hardee Regarding
e. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound

,.o.Ies. Calf. .-'G must tell ycu
Angettr,n,,e me friend to Lydia E. Pink
Il oTl VI ~ NJ n a + q n a
The Snowflake herald., 1922-10-20
U Can &: ;;;: a.; &: g: ;;;;! !!

90 y, IN good druggists, 75 cents, or direct
''uTSSIG ELLIS. Chemists, Memphis, Temp.
The Snowflake herald., 1922-10-20

Whatever enlarges hope will also
exalt courage.
The Snowflake herald., 1922-10-20
The Seine View.

Better come out to the courts
piS is great sport" "Yes, you're
lie to get caught in the net"
The Snowflake herald., 1922-10-20
Had immense Sale.

The CONe book had an immense sale
here in England and the discussion
of the subject in drawing rooms, at
clubs and in the newspapers since it
was first brought forward has rivaled
In enthusiasm the perennial political
debates.
All sorts of extraordinary phenom-
ena in this general direction have been
reported from all parts of England
and by all sorts of people.
Astonishing cures and complete
failures have been reported with
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-02-24
FARMERS INCOME
Low TIDE IN 1920
Interesting Figures Are
Made Public Today
NATION WIDE SURVEY
county's 6,45o,ooo Soil TiIIers
Earned Approximately ST.
100000, 900 That Year
limited Press Dispatch. ]

New York, February 2S.-The farm
ers OF the United States in 1918 and
1919 reached an unprecedently high
level OF total income. as compared
with the rest OF the gainfully en-
ployed. This Is true, whether the COM
parsons are made on the basis OF
absolute income, or OF purchasing
power in terms of dollars in 1918.
Then, suddenly in 1920 the farmers
share in the National icome dropped,
in terms OF pre- war levels, to a point
below that OF any previous year IN
the decade 1910 1920.
This fact was disclosed today by
the National Bureau of Economic Re-
search, on the basis OF an investiga
ton OF many months and covering
the whole country, with result set
forth in detail in the second volume
of its Report, now in press.
The farmers, who represent about
6,460, GOO. or 10 per cent. of, the gain
fully employed, have received during
the past decade, share in the total
1911, and ia in 1917 and 1918, until
1920. when it dropped to 1913.
The Farmers Share
The farmers share, in billions Of
dollars and per cent Of the total, is
estimated by the bureau to have been
in each year beginning with lsiv, as
follows:
Aggregate
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-02-24
Grant Longer Time
OnLoans, Urged Preus
Statement Is Issued BY Govern.
or In Interest Of
Farmers

Cooperation on the part of credit
ors Of farmers and others in extend
ing farm loans to avoid mortgage
foreclosures on property in the per
iod Of readjustment was urged in e
statement issued Saturday night by
Governor J. A. o. Preus. He asked
that every reasonable opportunity be
extended to liquidate loans at a later
date when conditions are more OPP
perfume.
'"The last two years have been
most disastrous to agriculture and
most kinds of business" he said.
The high prices of farm products, in
the war and encouragement from pr
vate and governmental sources in
duced many of our citizens to con
tract debts that would not have been
contracted for under ordinary circum
stances. The readjustment of prices
which had to come has hit, agricul-
tural products beyond expectations
making 1t difficult if not impossible
for many to meet interest charges,
taxes and living expenses.
Many mortgages are coming due
March l and much interest falls due
on this date. Where these obliga-
tons cannot be met promptly little
help and CO. operation on the part Of
the creditors will go a long way to-
ward assisting many in making read
iustments that will help in saving
their earnings of a life time.
First mortgage loans coming due
at this particular time should be given
every consideration before foreclos-
ure proceedings are started and every
reasonable opportunity extended to
iQuidate the loan at later date when
conditions are more opportune.
"All good citizens are anxious to
get on to a basis where agriculture,
Industry and commerce shall be on
more equal footing. Patience is nee
essary. The signs are hopeful and
there Is every reason to eblieve that
economic conditions are improving.
Good crops and fair prices this
season will make it possible to liqui
date many loans at later date that
could not possibly be liquidated now"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-02-24
Slash Binding TsOine
Price, Is State Notice
This Will Be Saving of Million
Dollars To Farmers OF
Northwest fs-
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch

st. Paul, February 21.-Reductions
in the price Of binding twire which
will save the farmers of the north
west between 100000 and S1.00e, 900
were announced today by the state
board of control Price reductions
on different grades of twine range
from Il to cents a pound.
Ralph w. Wheelock, a member or
the board, said that lower prices or
raw material his made possible these
reductions. The raw material is being
purchased through brokers and the
So called twipe trust of few yeats
ago has been broken up, Mr.. Wheel
ock said.
Reductions in the prices of farm
machinery, manufactured at the state
prison, where twine also is manu-
ractured, were decreased several
weeks ago. Mr.. Wheelock estimated
that the saving to the farmers OF the
northwest through these reductions
will be between s3,000,000 and s4..
90e, 0oG.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-02-24
Major Clemans Spoke
For Real An,ericanis,,,

The anniversary of the birthday of
George Washington, "The father of
our country" which will be nationally
observed tomorrow, was obserbed by
members Of the Kiwanis club at its
noon day meeting today. Major Ezra
Z. Clemens Of Owatonna, state chap
lain for the American Legion, was
the speaker for the day and gave a
splendid address on George Wash
ington."
In his remarks the major declared
that an Americans should speak the
American language and stated that IL
he had the power every newspaper
which was printed in the foreign lang
uage should have the reading matter
published In the American language
in order that the foreigners who could
not speak the American tongue could
become educated in the language of
this country. He also advocated that
every minister OF the gospel should
preach at least one sermon every
Sunday in the American language.
A glowing tribute was paid IN
George Washington for the high ideals
he espoused and referred to him the
greatest man of his day.
The Kfwanians were certainly well
repaid for their attendance at today's
meeting. The majors talk was inter
sperced with numerous humorous in
cidents in connection with his activi-
ties with the soldiers en- the border.
The speakers viii be on the program
at the Parent Teachers meeting
which will be held this evening.
The club members were also fay
cred with brief talk on sSouth
America" by B. III. Shuman of Buenos
Aires, South America, who was a
guest OF the club Mr.. Shunap 10 an
gagged in Y M. C.. A. work in South
America and told of conditions in that
country.
Mr.. Gregg OF the National Cash
Register company. furnished the sil
ent booster today. a folder on report
ing ones income tax. ]. C.. Coyinston
of the Crane Ordway company donat-
ed six pensils as attendance prizes.
They were awarded to Messrs. j. II,
Brett, w. W. Reid, F, G. Thomas, w.
e. Lloyd and Rolf JRlsrud.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-02-24
BRING FEDERAL SUITS
More Than Eight Hundred .North
State Settlers Seek Fire Damages
ascria fAH Press Cis,a fch 1

SIatc settlers seek ffFe damages
IAssociated Press Dispatch
Duluth, Mimi, February 22.-Suits
for damages totaiing between ST.
0o0, 900 and 100000 are being com
menced by more than 500 settlers liy-
ing near Woodland, Lakewood and
Rice Lake, Duluth suburbs, against
the United States railroad admins
tration, the Duluth, Winnipeg and Pa
cifc, the Duluth and Iron Range, the
Duluth and Northeastern, the Cloquet
Lumber company and the Gloquet Tile
in one final effort" to recover for
losses suffered in the forest fire OF
October IL, 1918. f..2
This is the first time anyone be-
sides the railroad administration has
been named as defendant. The terri
tory in which damages are sought
lies east of the region in which the
government La now making settlement
on a so and 40 per cent basis, in &C
With the agreement reached
in Washington last month.
Complaints against all defendants
jointly are now being served.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-02-24
Fell Faster In fsz

FeU fdSICT IN iSES
II will be seen that in 1920 the far
mers fell faster than the rest of us.
They had further to fall.
What the result may have been in
1921 canLot yet be determined, be.
cause while farmers again suffered
heavy losses, the rest of the country
also ran into a period OF severe de-
preston.
At the recent. annual election Of the
N;~scnal Bureau of Economic Re-
search, John P. Frey, editor of the
international holders journal, was
chosen for the newly created posi-
ton of chairman of the Board of Di-
rectors. The other officers of the Blu
reau are President, Malcolm Z. Rorty,
vice president American Telephone
& Telegraph Co.; vice president, Gray
Silver, of the American Farm Bureau
Federation; treasurer, George e. Ro-
berts, vice president National City
Bank, of New York; Secretary, DR..
Oswald w. Knauth; Director of Re
search DIR. Wesley Clair Mitchell.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-02-24
ARREST FARGO MAN
Walter A. Wei Held In st. Paul o
EmhexziAmenf charne
IAssociated Press Dispatch.I


ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch.I
ST. Paul, February 22.--Charged
with the specific embezzlement OF
S139.4S, which authorities said, would
involve sums amounting 10 $1,000,
Walter A. Wei, real estate man OF
Fargo. N. D., was arrested here last
night after being trailed for FIVE days
drought southern Minnesota.
The arrest was made by Dan Nc
Donald, sheriff at Moorhead, Clay
county, and Tom Sullivan, deputy
sheriff in the Hennepin county sher-
iff's Office. Viel was taken to MN
neapolis by the officers and lodged in
the Hennepin county Jail. He will
be taken to Moorhead Thursday.
Garfield Rustad, county attorney at
Moorhead said today that the com
plant against We'll was made by Leo
Enske, a farmer living at Ulen, North
east of Moorhead. Sheriff Mcdonald
said Viel disappeared from Fargo
six weeks ago.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-02-24
Meeting Of Farmers.
ISnecinI Ia Tha Frae Pr,

Especial to The Free Press.
" Tracy, MINI. February 22-Farmers OF
the surrounding territory will assemble
for mass meeting here on February %.
when an interesting program will be car
ried out. James Reed. president Of the
Minnesota Farm Bureau federation win
tell of the work of this organization and
e. y. BicrnSon CT Minnesota, will speak
oa Tx ;ccie II Present Day Conditlots."
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-02-24
Basketball Tournament.

tCp0CIdI 10 q IIS FFCC TIGSS. u
basketball tournament will be held here
on Wednesday evening of this week In
which four American Legion teams OF
Morton. olivia and Redwood Falls teams
will enter the contest and the final game
win decide the Legion basket ball cham
pionship for this section Of the state.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-02-24
Aggregate
of Indivi- Percent of
dual In Farmers Total re-

The final figures for. the total in
come in 1920 can only be approximat-
ed. owing to the delay In publishing
the Income Tax returns.
When these figures are translated
into terms of the purchasing power
OF 1913 dollars" it is again seen
that the purchasing power Of tho
farmers was at it's lowest ebb IN 1920.
Here are the comparative figures In
billions OF dollars.
Farmers Income in billions OF
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-02-24


at good profit to themselves. Good
cow and efficiency Is the reason
they are getting these results.
II. e. Brush, vice president of the
Blue Earth County association, talk
ed on cooperation OF the business
men and the farmers.
Charles Mullen, the live wire auc-
tioneer, talked on improvement of
the herds in the local community.
- w Eoesch, cashier OF the Firs.
Nst;atGi Rsni OF .irtbov In short
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-02-24

The per capita income Of the com
try as q whole, and the per capita in
come of the farme, both measured in
dollars of 1913 purchasing power, was
as follows:
Average income Average in
of all gainfully come Of
amnlnued in 1919 farmers in
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-02-24
DAIRY cow GIVEN

[Con.inued From Page onel
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-02-24
chasing power of 1918.

Farmers Income in bllllonS OF
dollars at the uniform pT-