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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-17

essary to draft a prec:ae text of this
article.
Canada's proposed amendment to
the famous Article Ten is creating
WIDE interest. CGna0aS position is
that she wants to know exactly what
her responsibilities and obligations
arc. She insists that her suggestion
does not weaken the peace cove
nant, but merely emphasizes the
sovereign right of states
Presumably preparing an Italian
defense for the refusal to recognize
the competency of the league of ma
tions in the ltalo-Greek conflict,
Italy had come forward with the
view that many of the articles Of
the covenant are somewhat vague,
and hence it is impossible to inter
pref them strictly as jurists would
penal codes. The Italian spokesman
take the stand that only a perma-
nent court of justice can intel pref
any article which may seem to bind
nations in any contingency and vet
which is open nevertheless to doubt.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-17
Eclipse Frightened Greek Army

The ancient Greeks and Romans
believed firmly in signs and por-
tents, and they regarded an eclipse
of the sun or moon as an evil omen.
Nicias, the Athenian general, was so
terrified by an eclipse of TIE moon
that he dared not defend himself
from the Syracusans, in consequence
of which his whole army was cut to
pieces and he himself put to death.
The Romans would never hold pub
lie assembly during an eclipse. \
very general notion obtained among
barbarians that the sun or moon
when in eclipse has been devoured
by some monster, and hence the GUS
tom of beating drums and brass
kettles to scare away the monster
The notion of the ancient MeXicans
was that cclipses We're caused by sun
and moon Quarrels, in which one of
the combatants was beaten black
and blue.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-17
Mov;es in Swedish Educ atom

That motion picture films will be
extensively used as medium of edu-
cation in the public schools of Swed-
en- is now assured. The superior
board of education has been won over
to the idea and, in conjunction with
the national bureau of motion pic
lures. it has issued instructions to
make the plan operative.
From now on, Swedish children
will learn their geography lessons
from the screen. by which they will
also be informed concerning the GUS
toms. industries, etc. of the princi-
pal countries of the world. Films
will be used In teaching natural sci
ences and in giving instruction in
the technique of various trades.
Physics can we'll be taught through
wmotion pictures and, as stere-
ographic projection becomes more
perfect, solid geometry can be taught
in way not otherwise possible.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-17
Bull Fights Way to Freedom

The verdict, TOO vicious to be
killed" gained freedom for a bull.
which made a gallant fight before
several thousand spectators at the
Plaza de Toros, in Matamoras. Mexico.
After it had injured a matador. two
picadores and a banderillo. 1t was
permitted to leave the ring without
being sacrificed-the first time in ten
years that a bull has entered the
arena at Matamoras and lived.
The bull entered the arena furious
ly and without stopping killed the
horse of the first picador and
trampled the man.
Wheeling quickly. the bull attacked
and injured the second picador,
knocked the matador down and
trampeled on him, and gored a ban
derillo. Then it jumped the six-foot
Stockade.
1t will be returned to the ranch il
came from. The edict was that 1t
had earned its right to live.
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similar to the Rocket in many re-
spects except that 1t did not have
the multi-tubular boiler, the pattern
for the more famous engine.
The America was brough to New
York by the Delaware q Hudson
Company in January, 1929. and
after being demonstrated under
steam was sent up to the company's
new canal near Honesdale. Here IT
was tried out on the first railroad in
the country, connecting Honesdale
and Carbonate. From the time the
America passed the eastern terminus
of the canal all documentary record
of it ceases.
A short time ago IN official OF the
Delaware & Hudson Company ar
ranged with the National Museum at
Washington for the loan of q model
OF the Stourbridge Lion. another
Delaware & Hudson locomotive,
which was one OF the first to be
tested on railroad track in
America. While searching among
the unmounted locomotive parts
which were supposed to belong to
the Lion he found cylinder, the de-
sign and measurements of which
showed it beyond question to be one
OF the cylinders of the missing loco
motive America.
Curator c. w. Mitman of the divi-
sion of mechanical technology Of the
museum, declared, after a careful
comparison of this cylinder with
historical data, that the identinca-
ton could not he questioned.
1t is hoped that with this clue es-
tablished. other parts of the Amer
lea may be recovered, as the Stour-
bridge Lion itself has been gradual
ly reassembled in nearly all its parts
from various sources along the
lines Of the Delaware & Hudson
COMPANY.
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JEWELLERS DIE
Continued from Page One)

patrol driver, who was unconscious
from a fall: DR.. Bernard Feinberg of
the city hospital staff, slightly burned
about the head and face; Margaret
Perkins. Is, shock; John Perkins, 10.
overcome by smoke; Catherine Breen
and Anna Breen, overcome by smoke ;
Ethel Morgan, burned about the head
and left ankle broken after jumping
from foruth story window; Stephen
Wiesowski. alias Steve Kelly"
,. back, body, arms and forehead
burned; Joseph Wiesowski, years
old. right arm burned. overcome;
Joseph kolasienski, seriously burned
about body and face, treated by city
hospital physicians and sent home ;
Anna Briczny, burned back while
saving three children; Ernest A.
Lemken, fireman of truck No. l, right
hand sprained.
Flames We're first discovered about
o'clock this morning squirting from
the first floor hallway, by trainman
who was passing in a locomotive on
the Lehigh tracks nearby.
When firemen arrived they said the
fire had been under way fully 10 min
uteS and had gained considerable
Roadway. Most of the dead were
found burned to death or suffocated
in their tenement rooms.
Fireman Feehan was found on a
fire escape on the floor above.
The tenants were trapped by the
blazing Railways and also by flames
which prevented their exits at the fire
escape.
The fife, which was extinguished at
6 o'clock this morning, burned out the
interior OF the brick building, but
none of the wooden floors collapsed.
One fireman reported having
smelled keroseen On the first floor
hallway and door after the fire.
Other firemen said that the halls
were full of rubbish, that the tene-
ment house had no janitor. and that
supposition was that some one
dropped match into the inf1am-
mable collection in the hall after
lighting cigarette.
Firemen made thrilling rescucs by
way of the fire escapes and from lad
ders. All the occupants were taken
out by the fremen, with the excep-
ton of one woman and her three
children, on the first floor. who had
escaped before the firemen arrived.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-17
Mr.. Landry SURPRISED.

Z. Z. Landry was pleasantly sur
prised yesterday while visiting at the
home of Mr.. and tIrs. Harry Sawyer
in Gardiner. Mr.. Landry and family,
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Bragg and son,
L. Bernard, and their guest, Mrs.
Teresa MacNeil had arrived at the
Sawyer home and upon being invited
into the dining room, Mr.. Landry dis
covered the table set with a beautiful
birthday cake in the center, made by
Mrs. Sawyer and adorned with can
dies. The room was attractively dec
GRATED with pink and white in true
birthday style. Mr.. Landry was the
recipient of many useful and pretty
gifts. A pleasant day was spent and
the party departed in the late evening
for their home in Waterville.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-17
FROST DAMAGES
MANY GARDENS IN
nearby FhRNlANlS

Friday NIGHT was NOT n wholly nIoas-
ant time IN ronoen,hor from, tho noint
Of view If MANY farmers The tbar-
mometer dropped below 81 degree Fab
ronhet in many places in this vicinity.
killing squash. pumpkin and other
vines and in some instances killed
whole gardens. After the cool sum-
rner everyone was hoping for a warm.
late fall with plenty of time for crops
10 ripen, but the cold morning put a
camper on any such hopes. Many poo
PIE had not Yet tasted a ripe tomato
or green corn on account of the late
planting, and now they will have to
ioFego that pleasure for another year
BECAUSE of the carly frost.
About S o'clock Saturday morning
the air was hittor cold and everv-h ming
was covered with white frost Water
in shallow dishes was SKINNED with y
coating of leo and ear1v rieors insnoct-
ed the drafts on tho furnaces and
looked dcspondentIv AT tho wintor's
coal supply Gf thov had any,
Acrto o 80,
throuobo,,t >'"l 81 u"lioil mas p','i
w.atbnr hro,,'. 9ul'tIi'ct, .Hc eoIu
nany = ho,'1a.., lIar I" the hearts OIL
night w.. " iic!uei 'li"C me supply
the rirto, ie'i' ~ l"St 'htoush
now 70 ~ tol Ii Is long TIME from
..'' 81 Oh May IVA
"a, nsccorolng to newspaper reports, the
s WV wave came across the country
n ,,u". 'he northwest, caused by the
s s,sae areas of high barometric pres
sure but 1t is promised that the cold
ave IaVe mas passed out to sea and will
0e closely followed by warm weather
~ Is not very cheering to learn that
experts expect several more cold snaps
IN september after thee ouinox on Sep
'emoer followed by early billiards..
Weather prophets of this vicinity ara
always strong in predicting that the
nfst frost will come On the fuII of the
moon, which bannons -, contom,hor oh
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-17
HIGHWAY POLICE
MAY MAKE STRICT
HEADLIGHT RULING

While the State highway police have
been wa SinW war against drunken driV-
1 ers and speed maniacs all summer,
now that the traffic is getting thinner
each day their attention will turn to
! more strict enforcement of the other
traffic laws.
The glazing headlight problem is
bothering the law officials in many
states. A year ago about this time
autoists found that they could not
drive on the highways with anything
from boat lanterns to no lights at all.
for the officials made campaigns
( against such law violations and every
driver apprehended was made to have
his lights properly focused. This is
easily done. as printed directions can
be procured at almost any garage and
many garages are equipped with de-
vices for the proper fOscusing of
lights. 1t was about this time last
year that the officers paid particular
attention to the headlight law and it
would not be surprising if again this
year they made a similar drive.
When the officials start paving par
ticular attention to the headlight law
it is probable that they will start par
ticular enforcement of the other minor
traffic laws. and those who have forgot
ten their tail lights should be lighted
at night and that number plates are
necessary on both the front and back
of the car even though they may have
escaped in the huge rush of traffic
that has prevailed throughout this
section during the summer months.
Drivers of teams might remember
that they are not exempt to all traffic
laws and when they start out al night
without a light should remember that
pair of headlights coming toward
them may mean that a traffic officer is
out watching for law violators and
that same teamster may be asked to
appear before the judge.
Last night team moved slowly
down Silver street and under the street
lamps the autoist had no difficulty in
discerning the object. but on the dark
lroads where the auto may be going 35
miles an hour and may have glanced
around for an instant, the team. which
without a light is almost invisible UNI
til too late. may be in smashup and
the driver may wake up in the hospital
or may not wake up at all, and the au-
toist can hardly be blamed in such an
acrident.
little different ASPECT Of the traffic
laws concerns the driver who thinks
his license and registration slips are
perfectly good as they come from the
department office in Augusta. In court
the other day a driver was asked to
produce his credentials. With per-
fectly confident air the driver who
happened to be up for speeding. dug
into rs wallet and produced his license
and registration card. Those are no
good" snapped the official. Next time
you had better read them through. You
see those black lines? Sign your name
there at once" Perhaps some drivers
do not known that such credentials are
worthless when produced unless signed
by the car owner and driver
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-17
"Weinie Roast" Much
Enioyed by All

Barton brook, Sidney, was the scene
NJ merry campfire party Saturday
evening when 25 young people gath
srcd a little after o'clock with a
eoodly supply of frankfurts, rolls and
mustard, to hold a ''wcinie roast" A
hin campfire was started on the upper
lodges Of the spot which soon lighted
IN the clearing as bright as day. The
smaller boys busted themselves in the
process Of manufacturing picked sticks
while others prepared for the roast.
After cooking and eating the hot
dogs" the group sang songs and enjoy
eddancing with music from harmon
lea. After rendering n series of syn
copating jazz melodies of the past. as
we'll rs Of the present, the owner of the
mouth organ called a halt to the fun.
and everyone descended to the valley
below where games of various kinds
were enjoyed until a late hour.
Around the glowing cmbers of the
dying fire everybody gathered for a
few goodnight songs and cheers be-
fore departin A waiting automobile
carried the happy crowd to their va
rious homes, all declaring the affair
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-17
Had to Repudiate Old Home

my little girl" observed the old
New Yorker, wanted to see the
place she was born in, the other day,
so I decided to revisit the old scenes
and l took her with me up to the
Bronx and sought out our old number
on umpty-umpth street. When 1 got
there l found the old neighborhood
had changed considerably since the
old days and didn't have the nerve
to point out the building-although
it still stands-in which she was
born.
II walked her around for a while
and then picked out the best look
ing place l could find and told her it
was there that Mrs. New Yorker and
I were living when she was born.
Knowing how neighborhoods in this
city have changed in recent years,
can you blame ?"-New York Sun.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-17

81 was so nervous that could not
sleep whole night" writes Mrs.
Susan Kipp, RID. No. 4, East Allen
town, Pa.
81 was not able to eat good hearty
meal. I have been doctoring right
along for over year, but still felt the
same.
''But since I started to take Paw
Paw Tonic I have surely felt fine. I
surely cannot say enough for it or
begin to tell how wonderfully It
helped me.
"My stomach trouble Is gone as
well as my nervousness. Ihad a pair,
all the time In my back, and that is
gone too. My weight has increased.
have a better appetite, sleep better
and have more pep. +.
lfe."
Are you distressed after eatinsa
Does food seem to lie like ball In the
pit of your stomach? Do you have
dizziness and heavy headaches? Does
your stomach seem bloated after
eating and full of gas? Do you have
throbbing or palpitating of the heart?
Do you have sour stomach or heart
burn, with water coming into your.
mouth? Are you nervous, irritable,
respondent and sleepless1
If one or more of these cases Ats
YOU, you should be glad to know that
thousands upon thousands of men and
women have gotten rid Of the same
troubles by taking this Strengthening
stomach, heart and nerve tonic.
Munyon's Paw Paw Tonic. It costs.
only 81 bottle. All frst-elass
druggists sell it. Start :. todayi
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-17

town Thursday leaving later for
Skowhegan to attend the fair
w. S. Spaulding has sold for c.
B. Chase his farm in Cornville' to
John Wood of this town. Mr..
Spaulding has also sold the John
Wood home in this place to c. b.
Chase. Mr.. Wood and family will
move to their new home in a short
time
Rev. f. L. Converse, pastor of the
Free Baptist church went to Water
vile Thursday to attend the lay
mans conference being held in the
Baptist church in that city.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-17
AUTO INJURIES
WINSLOW MAN
RIDING BICYCLE

Roland Quirion of Clinton avenue.
Wiuslow. suffered injuries about the
head which necessitated the taking OF
Is stitches, when he collidcd with an
automobile at the corner of Main and
silver street Saturday afternoon about
1915. Mr.. Qurion was riding hi
cycle down Main street towards Wins
low when a car driven by Wilfred
Matthew. cofing up Main, started to
turn into Silver street. The two met
with some force and Mr.. Quirion was
thrown to the street. He was taken by
Mr.. Matthew to the Office of DIR. j. f.
Poulin. who administered medical at
tention. At last reports the victim of
the accident was restin comfortably.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-17
For Happiness and Life

There ought to be a course of civic
esthetics in every college, and youths
should be taught that Beauty is
worth while, declares a writer in the
Chicago Herald and Examiner.
There. ought to be at least one
artist employed by every manufac-
turing company to idealize and glor-
ify the work.
Esthetics is not a niminy- piminy,
sissy affair. 1t means happiness. II
means an interesting life.j And han
pipess and life are what we are all
after.
America is the richest country in
the world. There is no reason why it
should. not be made the most char
ming.
Beauty and art are fed by the sur
plus means of people. We have the
surplus.
We cannot maintain the leadership
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-17
New Diamond Mines

The domination of the Kimberly
mines in South Africa in the diamond
industry is likely to be challenged by
newly opened mines in the Belgian
Congo. According to the Engineer
ing and Mining Journal-Press of
New York, the Societe Internationale
ForeSticre ct Miniere, or Forminiere
company. which is operating placer
diamond mines in the Kasai basin.
put its greatest efforts during 1922
into improving transportation condi-
tons and assuring an adequate food
supply for it's native labor SO that
production may be increased.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-17
Mystery in Finding
Wrecked HVdrODlane

Belmar, n. j.. Sept 16-A cap
sized hydroplane with two broken
wings was found floating bottom
side up two miles off shore here to-
night Coast guards who investiga-
ted the wreck reported there were
no signs of life about the plane and
that in the darkness they could find
no identifying marks.
inquiries revealed that no one had
seen the plane fall and that it was
believed it might have fallen at sea
and drifted in.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-17
PITTSFIEL.D

Mr.. and Mrs. F. s. Andrews were
guests of relatives in Detroit, Thurs
day.
Mrs. Mary Gray was a business
caller in Bangor Thursday.
George Frost was in Waterville
Thursday, for the day.
Miss Addie Phillips. who has been
passing the summer at the Weirs.
N. H., arrived home Friday after
noon.
Services will he conducted at the
Univcrsaiist Church, Sunday. the
18th. with Rev. Hannah j. Powell
as minister.
Harry Williams Of Hartland was in
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Police Grab 100 Gallons :,
Alcohol at Stonington. Ct.

StoninGton, Conn. Sept. 16-Four
mon of Westerly, r. l. were arrested
here early today when they were
transferring 100 gallons of alleged
alcohol from truck TO a motor
boat. Local police also seized the
truck and its load.
The men Cera La PETRA. Joseph
Barcella, Frank Stilletto and Saliva
tore Taldum, were held in bonds Of
$4,000 each for the town court Tues
daV
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Our Only Wounded General

In 1917 Wood went overseas with
other Cantonment commanders, on
observation duty. In France lie was
standing near field gun which sud
denly burst, killing a number of men
and officers, and wOunding General
Wood, who though he had been de-
MED the active service at the front
which he craved, yet has the honor of
wearing the wound stripe-the only
general in the American army who
can claim such distinction. Nc
Cures Magazine for February.
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Charles E. Weller, Oldest Living Typist.

THE original typewriter op-
orator attended the semi
. centennial celebration of the
invention of the first practical
typewriter. which the Herkimer
County Historical Society held
at lion, New York, on Sep
TENDER II. He is Charles f.
Weller, Of La Porte, Indiana, Sec
rotary of the National Shorthand
Reporters Association and Secre-
tary-Treasurer of the Sholes Mon
ument Commission.
Mr.. Weller, who is in his
eighty-fourth year, is still active
and is engaged in raising a fund
for the erection Of a uonument
over the remains Of Christopher
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Identify Woman Killed
In British Plane Crash

London, Sept. 1G.-Tnc woman pas
3cngcr on the airplane which crashed.
with the loss of five lives, near Ewing
hoe Beacon Friday, who was at first
supposed 70 be the life Of a British
passenger, was today identified as Mrs
Eothel Russell ArTitage. She is be-
lieved to have been the wife of an
American naval officer stationc dat
Boston. Mrs. Armitage had been liv-
ing for some time in London.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-17

Latham Sholes, inventor of the
typewriter, to be placed in Forest
Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wis
consin. He reports that this work
is nearing completion.
For fifty years Mr.. Weller was
shorthand reporter in the courts
of St. Louis. He is the author of
a little book published two years
ago entitled "The Early History
Of the Typewriter" which is an
intimate picture of the character
and struggles of his friend Sholes.
Now in the evening of his day he is
glad to make his pilgrimage to lion
20 participate in this notable trib-
ute.
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Macks Win Exhibition

Brooklyn, n. Y, Sept. 16-The
Philadelphia Americans defeated the
Brooklyn Nationals in an exhibition
game today by 10 to 4. The Athletics
pounded Dickerman for IL hits in six
innings, rolling up a safe lead. The
score:
Philadelphia (AmericanS)
0 / 0 l 0-10-16-1
Brooklyn (Nationals)
0 | 0 / 0 O. all 5
Ogden and Bruggy; Dickerman,
Smith and HargraveS.
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Find Lost Locomotive

Wholly lost from sight for nearly
a hundred years, part of the first
steam locomotive seen on the Ameri-
can continent has been found re-
Gently in a pile of unidentified junk
at the Smithsonian l Institution at
Washington.
This locomotive, the America, was
built in 1928 by George Stephenson
of England, who later built the
famous Rocket. The America was
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SIiaht Fire

The fire department was called to
.,a home of Mrs. Pollard, Is Union
s s4 Sunday morning about 1890 for
email blaze in a bedroom. A burn
~ he'd was thrown out of the window
, md a chair and part Of the wall was
burned a little. The occupants of the
souse had practically extinguished the
blazs when the fircmcn arrived, and
m chemicals were used.
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of the world If we are only vulgarly
rich.
And let US use our riches not to
fill museums with old world frag-
ments, nor to build gingerbread freak
houses here and there. but to make
every town and city and farm thing
Of beauty and so joy forever.