davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1922-05-10
WISE COUNTY CIVIC
RETIREMENT CLUBS
VIII Hold Semi-Annual Meeting
at Wise May llth

The Wise County Federation
OF Civic Betterment Clubs will
noid semi-annual meeting at
Wise, Virginia, at Baptist church
al ~ o'clock a. M, May 18th. All
members OF the Community
League who expect to attend.
please telephone to Mrs. J. a. Gil
mer.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1922-05-10
MOTHERS DAY

The Public is invited to attend
the special mothers service a, the
Christian church. Sunday MORN.
ing Al 10 O'clock and Sunday cv-
emng al < O'clock. Special
music, readings and pageants
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1922-05-10

Little Boy Mother, are there
any men angels in heavcn?'
Mother - Why certainly,
dear"
Little Boy-"But, mother, 1
never saw any pictures OF angels
with whiskerS.'
Mother-"No, dear. the men all
get in with close shave
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1922-05-10

The fellow who goes through
life in a hurry is the first to slow
up at the other end
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1922-05-10
SCHOOL PROGRAM
IS BEST IN YEARS
SAYS LETCH BUM
Local School Excels in Every
thing from Athletics to Chapel
Exercises - Faculty Good as
the Best and Then Some
ASKS FOR COOPERATION
Coaches McFadden and Garrett
Will Hold Field Meet Saturday
20 When Students Will Try for
Times Dispatch Prizes
BY LETCHER BUM


BY LETcHER BUM
As a whole. the people OF our
town know that this years school
program has been one OF the most
important and best years work
that we have ever had Our
teachers are the best that can be
gotten We have the best liter
AIRY societies, the best school
plays, the best chapel exercises
and the best athletic teams. and
have had them for years. Our
High School base ball team won
out as the champions OF Wise
county. The track teams repeat
ed what it has done Tor the past
two years. This is all more OF
less minor in Importance when
compared with what is going To
happened Saturday May 20 at the
ball park
The people have backed the
school this year unusually we'll.
Now Tor the last event let us all
turn ont and see what the future
OF Big Stone Gap High School is
going to look like. Our High
school has sent ont into the
world some good athletes, but do
we know what we viii have next
year or FIVE years from now? The
Younger generation must be
trained and while they are Young
IS the time To start
Mr. Garrett, head coach Tor the
boys, and Miss Edna McFaddcn,
head coach Tor the girls. have
planned to have a local field day
IN which all grammar and High
school grades will enter. The
Richmond Times Dispatch has
set standard for all the sections
OF the school. This standard
consists OF the following eVents
winch will be tried field day
Events for High School Boys
oo-yard dash ..-, 6 30 seconds
lou-yard dash .''r, 20 seconds
zZO-yard dash .....|... 2 seconds
''''' -" ''N"''N''
oSV-yara run ''''2 nun 20 seconds
l-i'ile run ''..'o MN. IL seconds
iisn Jump IT, 8 inches
ahot put .''...'.'...29 It. iAchcs
Broad Jump -.......l6 #. inches
base pan throw '.'-f.,.. .loe IT.
r u.e fAu'' .'''''.'.'e IT, q inches
GINNING pole .......lh tines
hoP-s'ep-)ump .''...-..- % IT.
Events OF Grammar Grads
u'u unSh '.'''''.',o 80 seconds
s .toyIru uaSn ',,,..'iz 80 seems
pnnr;1 't LIZ, D,JAu Jump ''''o - !" y
prm,; s ,''sH lump ''''''S ~ ;" ~
~ ."s ?.o"u jump ''''i- y, ~
n.y. 81. pI' ., ''''''''''''a,.,zo y.
n nase pan throw .','.,'...2n" ie't
800
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1922-05-10

Every one in Big Stone who
loHes keen competition and the
Ihriis OF track will find a delight
iui day waiting Tor them Satur-
day, May 20. Come and bring Il
friend.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1922-11-21
SEEK IN LONDON
CRIME NAPOLEON
Scotland Yard Believes Super
man of Underworld Is Di-
recting Robberies.
GEM THEFTS ON INCREASE
Recent Big Robberies So Well Planned
and Executed That Police Can Do
Little More Than Suspect
Authors.

London.-POlice are seeking in this
city the head Of what Is said to be q
remarkable group Of international
| criminals. A veritable Napoleon of
crime" is believed to have established
his headquarters here. He is alleged
to command a well-organized band of
international crooks, every one of
whom is a past master Of every form
Of nefarious craftsmanship known In
the underworld. They include men of
education, scientific attachments and
social charm. Under leadership of
their mysterious chief they are cred
tied with conducting burglaries, crack
ing safes and committing costly jewel
rObberies that battle detection. They
are declared to work In accordance
with plans Of campaign prepared by
the master mind with all the skill of
a great military strategrsr.
Gem Robberies Increase.
Several papers print this story with
varying degrees Of sensationalism.
Of late there has been an increasing
number of jewel robberies. AS a re-
suit an insurance company which in
sures good deal Of valuable jewelry
has increased its premiums charged
on this class Of risks by 25 per cent.
j. w. Bell, one of London's leading
assessors, says that many recent big
rObberies have been so well planned
and executed that the police can do
little more than suspect the authors.
"The people who engineer these
crimes are not the ordinary type Of
thief" Mr.. Bell says. There is more
than one real Raffles in existence to-
day. They hunt society gatherings,
and in the hotels they are popular
guests.
II know one man who has a town
address, a country house near Bourne
mouth, and two fine motors cars, who
is more than suspected of completely
in some Of these great rObberies, but
up to the present there has never been
the slightest chance Of connecting him
with any Of them.
Thief Worth $4,000.
He is Of good appearance, always
well dressed and would, in the ordi.
nary way, be accepted as a guest at the
houses of wealthy people.
81 know one instance in which
director Of thieves is reputed to be
worth $4,000. Another successful
director is a woman who has q uni
versity education and a cultured and
charming personality.
'The victims, both in hotels and at
private houses, often are watched and
Swallowed for days before a suitable
opportunity for the robbery occurs. II
may easily cost $1,000 or $500 to
meet the expenses Of successful haul,
and the big thieves require frequent
rObberies to maintain themselves.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1922-11-21
STRIKE COST $45 A FAMILY
Coal Tieup Meant $1,1eo, 600, 00e
Loss, Says Mine Congress
Speaker.

Cleveland, O.-The recent strike IL
the coal industry caused a total loss o.
$1,190, 100000, ]. G. Bradley of Dun
don, w. Va, former president of the
National Coal association, declared
here in an address before the annua
convention of the American Mimi,
congress.
Resolutions condemning the pa
ternalistic attitude Of the government
deplOring the entrance Of government
into private business enterprises anC
urging industrial cooperation between
labor and capital as a means Of in
creasing production, augmenting pros
perity and lowering prices were intro
duced.
According to Mr.. Bradley, the loss In
wages by the United Mine Workers OF
America, as estimated by the American
Educational association, was $3.50, 600,
600, the loss to railroads over $780,.
100000, the loss to the public in the
cost of fuel $4OO,OO0,OOO and the los,
to the mine operators $4O,0OO,OOO.
IF every family in America were t.
pay S45 it would barely cover this
lOss," Mr.. Bradley said.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1922-11-21
FATHER AND SON
BOTH RESTORED
BY TANLAC

'Tanlac certainly gives lot for
the money" said w. E. Reese, we'll
known grocer of 313 North College
street, Carlisle, Pa.
Following a bad case of flu
found myself in such a weak, nerv-
Gus. rundown condition I could
hardly attend to business. was in
this shape a year and could make
no Roadway towards getting back
my strength. My stomach was all
out of order. I had no appetite.
and weighed only a hundred and
twenty-five pounds.
"A few bottle of Tanlac gave me
complete health with gain of
thirteen pounds. / also have a
twelve-year-old son in school who
had a nervous trouble and was in
very bad shape. Soon after starting
him on Tanlac his trouble disap-
peared and he also gained ten or
twelve pounds. Tanlac certainly
gives the desired results"
Tanlac is sold by all good drug
gists. (adv)
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1922-11-21
THE TR0LLY LINK

Development of the trolly sys-
tenn in Kentucky appears to be at a
standstill. Only an intervening
gap of twenty miles separates the
interurban service out of Louisville
from the trolly lines that radiate in
Central Kentucky. yet the project
Of connecting the system seems to
be more remote than ever.
The missing link from Shelbyville
to Frankfort has been built on pa
per many times, but never has a
single spade been used in actual
construction operations. At one
time it was announced that every
foot of the right. of way had been
obtained and the necessary finan-
cial arrangements made for the
early completion of the connecting
line. The project, however, fell
through and has been abandoned,
according to the promoters.
Nothing would bring Central
kentucky into closer touch with the
metropolis than the building of the
short stretch of track necessary to
connect the two interurban sys-
TENS. Sentiment has very little to
do with building railroad, but the
apparent certainty that this one
would prove a paying venture from
the start would seem to have made
it a reality long ago.
Eventually, in keeping pace with
State development, it is pointed out
that there must be unimpeded troll
ley transportation facilities from
one section of Kentucky to another.
This cannot come until trolly cars
run between Shelbyville and Frank
fort.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1922-11-21
"COLLAPSES" A BOYS LUNG
Doctor Removes Needle Successfully
From PIeuraI Cavity in Un-
usual Operation.

New York.-William Constable, a
twelve-year-old student at the Ethical
Culture school, was discharged from
Roosevelt hospital, where he had a
needle removed from the left side of
the pleural cavity.
On September 6, while getting off a
truck whose driver had given him a
ride to Central park, the boy rubbed
against the truck and a needle that he
had in his coat entered his body. He
was taken to the hospital and an oper-
alton was performed by DR.. Henry w.
Cave Of 81 East Fiftieth street. It was
a delicate piece of surgery, for there
was danger of the needle entering the
heart. One Of his lungs had to be "col-
lapsed," but both were functioning
well when he left the hospital.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1922-11-21

Ireland claims that one of her
sons discovered America and is be-
ginning to ask why the world gives
Columbus the credit for it.
1t is just 430 years since Column
bus claim was established to his
own and the worlds satisfaction.
Ireland claims, however, that St.
Bernard, an Irishman, made the
discovery nine centuries before Co.
lumbus even sighted the Bahamas.
The very earliest annals tell of the
voyage of st. Bernard to the west
ern world, and it is now claimed by
Irishmen that the traditions of this
great voyage inspired Columbus in
his great enterprise.
The Scandinavian chroniclers,
they say, support Ireland's claim
and tell of the Irishmen and Morse
men being visitors to Hintraman-
naland, which some called ireland
in Mikla," or Great Ireland.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1922-11-21
THE ARKANSAW, TRAVELLER
OUTCOME

The Arkansaw Traveller found a
man whose meat house had no roof
because no roof was needed when it
was not raining and when it was
raining it was impossible to put on
a roof.
The first heavy rainfall of the
season puts out sundry forest fires
in Southern Indiana, where consid-
cradle damage was done as long as
the weather remained dry.
Much of the blue haze which
esthetic wanderers across field and
woodland find fascinating during a
period of clear and unseasonably
warm autumn weather is drifting
smoke from forest fires which are
not put out till it rains.
States, which, because of made
quate forest service, cannot cope
with the seasonal forest fires, and
States, like Kentucky, which are
without forest service, Guido the
Arkansan in unthrift.
Kentucky outdoes all other States,
for Kentucky stands quite alone as
a State which took a step toward
by instituting a Forest Commission
and then took a backward step.
abolishing the commission without
any constructive purpose whatever.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1922-11-21
GOODNESS SAVES MANS LIFE
Catches Hold Of Feed Wire Carrying
$1,000 Volts, Keeps His Head
and Breaks Circuit.

New York.-George B. Wagner, ar
electrician of Dorchester, Mass, caught
hold Of a feed wire carrying 22,OO(
volts while working On defective wir
ing in the power house Of the New
York Central railroad at Locust ave
nue. and One Hundred and Forty-thir6
street.
The wire was loose and came tt
Wagner's chest, but instead of tryin,
to pull himself away he dropped slowly
to his knees, pulling the wire dowr
with him until he was able to touch
the concrete floor with his elbows
This broke the circuit and Wagner
was thrown loose from the wire.
He was sent to Lincoln hospital
where he was treated for burns abou
the hands, face and neck. He wal
able to work again few days later.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1922-11-21
MAMMA OLDEST WORD
Utterance by Baby Is Entirely
Mechanical, Expert Says.
Calling Of "Mother" by Infant Five
Minutes After Birth Due to Acct.
dent and Not Supernatural,
Doctor Declares.

New York.-"Mamma" is one Of the
oldest words in the world. 1t is the
first unconscious utterance given by
q child.
This is because I'm" is the simplest
consonant in the alphabet and comes
forth when the infant simply opens his
lips. The air rushes into his mouth
and goes through clearly, producing
the sound with no effort on the part
of the child. And "a" l. the simplest
vowel in the alphabet, which is re-
sponsible for the 'ma-ma," which
brings so much delight when it comes
from the lips of an infant.
1t is perfectly possible for many
children to repeat this syllable mama,
Immediately after birth, and has
often happened. 1t is perfectly pos
sible, too, that the newborn infant
son of Mrs. Peter Zoute of Mason
City, Ia, cried mother" five minutes
after he was born.
"That may have happened through
an accident, not for any supernatural
reasons. Although the letters TIL in
mother are unusually difficult be-
cause pronounced in the back of the
mouth, a slight twist of his vocal
chords may have brought it forth"
This is the explanation given by
DR.. Raymond Weeks, professor of phil
ology at Columbia university, Of the
remarkable incident.
Eleftheros, the Zoute infant, awoke
his mother from Inconsistencies and
caused the doctors and nurses to drop
their work in amazement by calling
Mother" three times in succession
FIVE minutes after he was ushered into
the world.
Doctors and nurses at the hospital
bear out the mothers words, who was
awakened from her anesthesia by the
call Of her infant, and can offer no
explanation for the remarkable phe-
nomena.
ut is combination of mother love
and telepathic communication with the
unborn" asserted the mother of the
child, in discussing the matter with a
reporter.
"When 1 went under the ether my
last word was mother I remember
that more distinctly than anything else
connected with the terrible ordeal that
followed. Suddenly I seemed to get
an answer, an answer of assurance
from some one. Now / am convinced
that communication had been set
up between me and my baby even
then.
II am firm believer in telepathy,
and l believe that it's basis is love.
Up to this time my mother has been
the only one who has been able to re-
ceive my psychic messages. She is in
Florida now. 1t is possible that her
reciprocal power has been transferred
to my baby"
An entirely different theory was adj
vanced by Dr. Albert Poffenberger, Jr,
associate professor of psychology at |
Columbia university, in discussing the |
event with a representative of the
World
'There is nothing startling about it,"
said Doctor POffenberger. ut is pure
ly a mechanical reaction when a new
born child cries mamma 1t is mere |
ly the air rushing through the vocal |
chords when the infant opens it's |
mouth. 1t is naturally the first sound |
uttered, and is not prompted in re-
Spouse to the maternal instinct. 1t |
is purely mechanical.
81 would strongly doubt, however,
that any child could cry mother"
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1922-11-21
Henry CIay's "BeIfry"
Really Full of Bees

Lexington, Ky.-In the days
when Henry Clay was called
The Great Pacificator" as we'll
as a perpetual candidate for Of
fee, his political enemies &C
cused him many times of shaw
ing bees in the belfry."
Today that became a reality
when it was discovered that the
hollow stonehead of the Henry
Clay statue over the tomb In the
cemetery here where Clay is bur-
led is full of bees. There is no
way in which the bees can be
dislodged unless a series Of lad
ders can be used by men expert
enced in handling bees, and this
may be done.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1922-11-21

Doesn't murt a bit! Drop a lit
tie "Freezone" on an aching corn,
instantly that corn stops hurting.
then shortly you lift it right of
with fingers. Truly!
Your druggist sells a tiny bottle
OF "Freezone" for a few cents, sufi-
cient to remove every hard corn, soft
corn, or corn between the toes, and
the calluses, without soreness or ir-
ritation. (adv-T)
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1922-11-21
SAY ''BAYER" when you buy Aspirin

Unless you see the name "Bayer"
ON package or on tablets you are
not getting the genuine Bayer pro
duct prescribed by physicians over
twenty-five years and proved safe
by millions for colds, headache,
earache, neuralgia, lumbago, rheu-
matism, neuritis, and for pain in
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1922-11-21
NOW IS THE BEST TIME

Now is the best time to select
Christmas and greeting cards while
all the lines are complete. We have
the finest line Of samples to be had
and will be glad to show them to
you. Come in now.
THE BOURBON NEWS JOB DE-
PARTMENT.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1922-11-21
Try to Use Waste Gases.

German experimenters are trying
to increase plant growth by the use
Of waste carbon dioxide from motors
and furnaces, fed to the soil as fer
tiiizer through perforated pipes.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1922-11-21
Uncle Henry Drites again to the home folks
about the trip to Cincinnati:

last I've tenmost buta
cards don't m ree tier this
We'll we've been the Zoo Mary she took to
from talking the might haveh
only too late
Walking around kind of watching
Sitting alongside lie kndo OF
OF course sitting there he and
farm Clinton to
"havebe
I 0 TINS m das on our Primarily James here to fill her
Ict from, just don't know to
Now wasn't that bad in to do
Shopping and not knowing where begin So told him about Mbey
without about where
coming this and not knowing about Mab1eys
dmysefns him
Mary and just used headquarters 70
tsralhom keiusto inside
there's home folks friendly friendly
m the sc1ohng tine
had That finished him.
"Wai till "and we'll eavei for
There she there talking with
about aI<ng
about Mbleys" right Mary his
and had been telling her all about the boys
departments
then utnoons 1--we alb
the Mbey Annex and visit the different
Mays calling a picture something
Henry.
+ The LOAN THAT NEVER COMES DUE nc
AND UNNTuT
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1922-11-21

general. Accept only "Bayer'
package, which contains proper d.
rections. Handy boxes Of twelve
tablets cost few cents. Druggists
also sell bottles of "a and 100.
Aspirin is the trade mark Of Bayer
Manufacture of Monoaceticacideste
of Salicylicacid. (adv)
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1922-11-21

What a wonderful world to live
in, where no two mornings are the
same.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-23
Chauncey Depe,u, Reaching SO,
Is More Optimistic Than Euer

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 22.-Former
United States Senator Chauncey NJ.
Depew, who will celebrate his eighty
eighth birthday tomorrow, is still a
Woodworking ortimist.
II see more hope for the future of
the world on my eighty-eighth birth
day than on any in the last seven
years" he said. Il am entering my
eighty-ninth year jubilant am
pretty well satisfied with this world
and mean to stay in 1t as long as l
can. have feeling that IT is filled
with mighty good people. 1t has al
ways been to me q garden to be Gull
tivated.
I'VE can't pull UP the weeds. but we
can find some places where we can
grow the things we like-men and
women. boys and girls. for instance. y
Apparently hale and hearty. Mr.
Depew made his daily visit today to
the offices of the New York Central
railroad, where he presides as chair
man Of the board OF directors. The
former senator expressed deep in
terest in world. national and state
and local affairs. business, society.
peninEs of the day. There was only
one subject that he tabooed--pro-
hibition.
~ always refrain from discussing
that subject" he said. because II
only makes people mad. If you say
tie eighteenth amendment is in the
and you can't get il out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-23

some one Immediately asks, why
not? and the trouble begins. i prefer
not to say anything about IT. "ahh
to keep all my friends"
Il never did drink hisky. ne
continued, referring to his persona
preferences in the matter. fouhd
out carly in life that whisky ana
brandy and such drinks were very
detrimental to good health, aud
let them alone. was accustomed
to drink little champagne. daily
tonic. a mild stimulant, and helped
me get through hard days WORK,
But two or three years ago ! gave
that up. since that time ! have not
drunk anything except, of course,
when ] attended weddings and had to
join in drinking toast to the bride"
"For~the last thirty years he said,
81 always have been able to put my
self Alright by eliminating the things
i liked best. Thirty years ago ! was
troubled with insomnia, nervousness
and indigestion. ! took stock, decid-
ed 1t was tobacco. and quit smoking.
No more insomnia. nervousness or in
digestion. Twenty-Five years ago
had rheumatism ] again took stock.
Red meat. ] dearly love red meat.
but there was no alternative. since
then ! have cut il out and the rheu-
matism has gone for good
Insisting that there was no formula
for old ape. he counseled moderation
in all things.
Don't overwork." he said. Don't
overplay Don't oyereat. Most OF All,
don't overdrink.
Learn to smile.