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Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-09-15
No, No, Bosco

bank. The over printing on the
silver certificates will be blue; on
the United States notes, green; on
the federal reserve notes, red.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-09-15
Special Meeting Common Council
O. e I..Inn. 49, o. 1nnp

City of Hurley, Aug. "a, 1928.
The mayor of the city of Hurley,
w. r. Lennon, called the aldermen
of the common council of the city,
together in a special session at the
city clerks office on the afternoon
of August oath, 1928, at 200
o'clock P NJ. The purpose of the
meeting was to listen to and take
action on the report rendered by
Engineer ]. H. A. Brahtz, who had
been engaged by the council to in
vestigate and render a report on the
problem of a supply of water for
the city.
Present were: Aldermen Bonino,
Carter, Lancer, Erspamer, Secor
Emunson, Davia, Collosimo. Alder
men Friola, Coach, Calligaro,
DeFero absent.
Meeting called to order by Mayor
Lennon.
The Engineer was called upon to
explain in detail the working of the
proposed preliminary plan of his
report. To this the council mem
bers listened attentively.
The reading and explanation of
the report being to the satisfaction
of the council, it was moved by
alderman Carter, that the prelimi-
nary report be accepted and placed
on file, and that Engineer J. II. A.
Brahtz be authorized to furnish
detailed plans and specifications for
the erection of water works
pumping and supply station for the
city of Hurley. Supported by
alderman Erspamer. Upon roll
call all members of the council pre-
sent voted Aye, and for the motion
except alderman Bonino, who was
temporarily absent, and did not
vote.
Upon motion duly made and
carried, the council then adjourned.
Jno. A. Emunson, City Clerk.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-09-15
Headaches From Digestive Trouble

Headaches From Digestive Trouble.
"My stomach was in bad condi-
ton and resulted in pains in the left
side that penetrated the whole body.
1t also caused headaches" writes
Rev. W. Victrum, Augusta, Ga.
Used Foley Cathartic Tablets and
have not been troubled since" A
wholesome physic Refuse sub
stitutes.
Sold Everywhere,
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-09-15

Tobacco crop is good in some sec
tons, so you can put that in your
pipe and smoke it
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-09-15
Cut This Quit Is Worth Money.

Cut This QUIT Is Worth Money.
Send this ad and ten cents to
Foley 4 Co, 1886 Sheffield Ave,
Chicago, H., writing your name and
address clearly. You will receive
a ten cent bottle of Foley's Honey
and Tar for Coughs and Colds, free
sample packages of Foley Kidney
Pills and Foley Cathartic Tablets.
Try these wonderful remedies.
Sold Everywhere.
The social butterfly steers clear Of
the wall flower
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-09-15

Vampire movies are staging
comeback. Same old plots are
used. just been re-vamped.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-09-15

The oyster returns from its vaea-
ton in September, but shuts up ike
q clam about It.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-04-28
Corydon Men in Atlanta Pen
May Get Chance to Make Good

were the most Important people IN
Corydon. Old Benjamin Appreciate
was the banker in the town and
young Ben and George were his eons
Cook was his sonIn-law. The senior
Applegate died and his sons and son
in-law took up the business
AS bankers they failed. Finally
they went before Judge Anderson in
Federal Court for misappropriation of
funds. They were guilty although
every one who knew OF their bust
ness, believed they were not guilty
ut heart. They went to prison at At
lanta a year ago. Their wives
started in to assist their creditors.
Homes and furniture, all beyond the
law, went on the market in the effort
to make good.
Herbert II. Votaw, superintendent
OF Federal prisons and ex-officio mem
Der of the parole board, has heard
something Of the story He is now
starting on tour of inspection OF
Federal prisons. When he reaches
Atlanta, he Is going to consider the
cases OF the Applegates and Cook. AT
this time he is very favorably i'm
pressed and the belief is the Corydon
men are going to have their chance
to make good.
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our minds and our hands busy. They
are kind to us here-yes. But,
Godl what are we to do? Every day
Is the same. The men in the prison
have work We have none. Nothing
but ourselves. Why, we can't even
have candy. Now, know it would
make a great newspaper headline,
'Convicts Howl for CANDY But
please don't put it that way. Say
the ladies who are the guests Of our
State institution on San Francisco
bay crave sweets"
I looked at her and wondered IL
she really were guilty.
OF a sudden the smile faded from
her lips. Her eyes filed with tears.
She did not turn her face away,
but allowed me to look upon the
sudden grief that swept her
features and drove away the at
tempt at roguish gaiety-
On the bureau of hag bedchannber
was the picture OF a littla girl.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-04-28

Here butterflies from out of the
gay night life of our cities have
found rest and quiet for the first
time since childhood. Here dope
fiends from the dens have become
strangers to the drugs that en-
shaved them while they were free.
Mrs. Robert Peete, Mrs. D'Agos-
tint, society woman and housewife,
and to their kind. shut away from
the world of responsibility, from
home and husband children
These are the women who really
suffer
Mrs. Peete, whom hundreds packed
a stuffy courtroom to see and hear,
central figure of one of the most
celebrated murder trials in the
States criminal history, the talk of
every tongue In Los Angeles. two
years now and serving a life term.
Strikingly handsome is Mrs.
Peete. The plain prison gown can
not dim the charm of this woman
who was ravshing beauty in eve
ming gowns she onoe wore. A skin
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-04-28
Henry Ford Plans to Keep Toilers on
Farms; Great Cities Doomed He Saws

operated by water power. where farm
lads CHLn earn good wages during the
otherwise idle months of the winter
while during the summer they can
turn their attention to farm labor
the production Of food for the Nation
FOrd's plan has just become gen
orally known through a bill intro
duced into the Michigan State Senate
which would make water power avail
able for the Ford project.
But Ford himself told mo the germs
of his plan in an exclusive interview
here in January, 1929. which I passed
on to The Indianapolis Times readers
through NEA Service.
THE great cities are doomed" Ford
told me at that time. Il don't mean
they'll fall to ruins Immediately. A
few will stay. They'll be big hstrib-
uting and assembling points - not
congested oenters Of population.
THE people will go back to the
farm and small town. They're headed
that way now.
1.-THE city has served a useful pur-
pose. It has taught people how to live
in groups. When they go back. they
won't tolerate unpaved streets, badly
equipped schools, defective sanitation.
Factory workers won't commute TO
and from work-the1r work will com
mute to and from them. They'll
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-04-28

exposure after drifting at sea with two
others in a launch loaded with eighty
three cases OF waisky; two men were
wounded one shot four times. during
a quarrel among bootleRgers in Brook.
lyn, and Bridgeport police reported
$40 stolen automobiles still unclaimed
Of some 400 PICKED up by Connecticut
State police since January and most
" said TO have been used by rum run
ners.
River pirates. afoat in motor boats
scooting In and out among the pio-s
in every port along the Atlantic sea
board. have been responsible for even
more killings and battles than rum pi-
rates who sail the twelve-mile limit.
Ocean liners tied at piers and cargo
ships anchored in harbors are the pi-
rates prey a fatal duel In the Hudson
River was the latest Of many sorim-
images; previously there was a muir
Der in g New York harbor smuggling
plot. another when detectives de-
scended upon pirates Iooting a ship at
Hoboken. q battle in a Florida port
when ono gang betrayed another to
Government agents. q pistol fight In
which twenty men were seized as they
boarded a schooner In New York Bay
and a gun tight when pirates attacked
a rum runner in q New Jersey port.
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manufacture parts in their village and
rural workshops and these parts will
be assembled at big distributing
points"
Ford said he had already tried this
plan out and found 1t worked.
I'm experimenting in several small
Michigan towns" he said. Not
thirty miles from Detroit I've estab.
Hshed a small shop run by water
power from an old mill Work is sem
down there. finished and sent bach.
here.
The workmen live under semi.
rural conditions. They have gardens.
They may keep chickens and COWS, If
they wish"
OF water power, Ford said:
Let me tell you water is the gold
en- fluid of the future. We can't ex-
haust It, AS long as it rains, rivers
viii flow and they'll supply power
ceaselessly.
"A river charges you nothing for
flowing And 1t costs but little to
produce the power and deliver it to
the user"
When I visited Ford last year he
was busy with experiments for better
ing rural lfe-chief1y with devising
means TO enable farmers to use the
water power in brooks and rtls to
run their farm machinery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-04-28
WATSON HAS
NOTHING AT
ALL TO SAY
RiIey's Poem PaTaphrased in
Connection With World
Court SQuabbIe,
BY JOHN CARSON.
Times Gfaff Tg-rot-,,c,,, q %,


w 7 ASHINGTON. April 2S.-The
w day after President Harding
made his speech In New York
defending his proposal for participa
ton in the international court. the
doors to Senator Jim" Watson's or
flee were closed and locked. The
Senator had nothing to say. Immedi.
Otely Riley's lit Of verse was para
phrased:
Nothing at all to say, boys.
Nothing at all to say
Presidents that are in love. boys.
Usually have their way.
Billy Taft did before you.
When Teddy objected so strong.
Nothing at all to say, boys,
Nothing the whole day long
It was limited and rumored and Ieft
10 be understood. however. that Sena-
tor Jim" was going to be a peace
maker in the party He was going
to try to find n way out.
Having led up the hill in the charge
on Harding's court. the next policy
was to lead down the hill
But if the rumblings from the
White House are 10 be properly APP
praised, all this win accomplish moth
ing. There IS more than one report
Of pique from the White House be
cause of Senator "Jim's" leadership.
assumed and not conferred.
At the same time. It was to be
noted that Postmaster General New
was with President Harding when
he made his Now York speech. New
was on the Harding train. perhaps as
as roter He was with the President,
physically, mentally and politically.
And ~ this connection. II Jim Wat
son is right that Harding IS knock
ing at the doors of the League OF
Nations, it might be recalled that New,
as the Senator from Indiana. was
named a member Of the Foreign Re.
lations Committee q few years ago
when Senator Lodge recruited his
battalion of death. But President VIII
son was Offering the league and a
policy of international intercourse
then and Wilson was a Democrat.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-04-28

prison also have killed, but because
of circumstances and the strange
twist of the law theirs are defined
as ''manslaughter" cases and their
sentences are Hghter-one to ten or
one to twenty years.
All Of them, save the very lesser
offenders, must subtract at least five
to seven years from their lives. In
that time they are making a fight
against two thines-insanity and
age.
was privileged, through the
courtesy of Warden Johnston and
the matrons Of the prison, to look
in upon these women and their lives
for the moment, to come upon them
Unexpectedly and find them at
their homely tasks in their cells.
They did not know a man was in
the tomb that is their home. They
looked up from their work. some with
dull, despairing eyes. in which the
light of their very souls shone in
misery; others With a defiant, half
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-04-28
5000 MALE
CONVICTS IN
THREE PENS
Women Prisoners, 400 in
Number Scattered Over
Nation,

BY United Press
WASHINGTON. Apil 27.-There
are 5000 male prisoners confined IN
the three big Federal penitenuaries of
the country-McNeiu Island. in Puget
Sound; Leavenworth. Kan. ind AT
lanta, Ca.
But the 400 women Federal prison
ers are scattered all over the country
In State prisons and SO badly crowd.
ed are most of these institutions that
the women cannot be properly housed
or cared for and their moral and
physical condition suffers greatly in
consequence. according to Herbert II.
Votaw, superintendent of Federal
prisons and chairman OF the Federal
parole board.
At the next session of Congress,
Votaw. who. by tho way, is a brother
in-law Of President Harding, viii, with
the consent Of his chief, Attorney
General Dauherty, press this need and
ask for a suitable appropriation to
cover the cost Of On adequate Federal
prison for women.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-04-28

Thirty-three Federal dry agents
have been killed since enforcement be
gan. not counting police and otter city
county and State officers.
Booze directly or indirectly killed
seventy-two persons in New York in
the first four months Of 1923. accord
ing to records of the medical exam
iner's office; that's more than four
deaths week
Fights with the law and internal
feuds have cost the lives of many
bootleggers and rum runners. Unnst-
ed numbers have died Of poisonous
liquor.
Here's a fortnight's characteristic
booze record: Five men murdered.
five drowned, one burned TO death. one
driven insane, two wounded, nine
mysteriously missing.
Those two April weeks began with a
story Of piracy from Vineyard Haven.
Mass. Eight bodies were washed
ashore after a battle at sea- noisy
Head life saving station. The pirates
vessel got away in the fog. but the
steamer John Dwight. loaded with
bottled ale, sank after her boilers had
blown up.
Pirates were blamed also for the
mystery shrouding the fate Of nine
members of the crew OF the schoo At
Patricia NJ Beman, found with sails
set and anchor dragging in Great
South Bay. Long Island.
Decks had been spuntered by bull
lets and were Uttered with cartridges.
Cabins were in disorder. as II captain
and crew had left hurrtedly. Were
they carried away or driven into the
sea? Empty whisky cases and burlap
sacks were found in tho looted hold,
and a notebook showed notaGons Of
sales Of 3.91S packages OF liquor. There
was a case to d package It seemed, AZ
$48 OF $50 case. or some 500, 600
worth OF booze.
During the same two weeks a Long
Island man was found insane from
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-04-28
You Like
to Go There?
BY BERTON BRALEY

By BERTON BRAL4EY
THIS hero Is a ditty
OF Lallygag City
Which stands on the Island Of Wan
Where, clad II pyla1nas,
The people ride LIa1as
And live upon sherbss and hsH.
THEY dance In galoshes
) And old mackintoshes.
Which they throw away vhsn Il PahCss
So, knowing no better,
They daily grow wetter
And water seepS into their bRAEnA
THE women, for bang1eS
Wear laundrynens mAnEgea
Although they are hesvy and ho&s
And use market baskets
For tewelry casketss
A rather quaint sty1e - - no4R
T-HE mems occupation
And chief recreation
Ia mixing hos sausage WITH cT@ErA
Beyond any question,
II wrecks their digestion
And, heavens, the Nightmares snane GH9aasal
THE folks Of both sexes
Have neuro-complexez,
They think they arc bats, s0d eAeY hani
Head-down, from the ceiling.
Thus clearly revealing
Themselves as q queer sovs o4 gaGa
THEIR troubles are many,
Their pleasures-not any,
And, with this description. I am
Concluding this ditty
OF Lallygag City
which stands on the Island q ygsn
Copyright 1923, EEA 6erv1cA fnal
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-04-28

as smooth as the texture of finest
velvet. Eyes soft and bright A
brain that works rapidly, fever
lshly. A speech that runs swiftly
and bellies its nature.
Outside men would admire and
pursue She would enjoy the chase,
the clash of wit; the nimble play Of
mind against mind.
There she stood. straight, head
high, chin finely nodded, brilliant in
repartee. playing upon mo all the
things that were pent up in her
heart and calling for the love OF
life.
She wanted me to stay. was
from the outside. I was something
from the world she had known. Her
eyes hungered. Her lips trembled.
What do you do to kill the timer
asked.
'Do?" she laughed. That's just
It'll We don't do anything
I'VE have nothing to do" she
went on. There Is nothing to keep
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-04-28
BY FRED WILLIAMS

CAN DIEGO Cal, April Is
- Convict women, forty-six of
- them, mostly young, many
handsome. spending their lives be-
hind stone walls, are in San Quen-
tin, Cal. penitentiary today cling
ing to the petty vanities dear to
them in freedom and, here and
there over their checkered lives, the
cause of their fall
They primp before their mirrors.
They curl their hair. They pat the
folds Of their plain blue gowns this
way and that. The stockings they
wear. where they can afford them,
are silk. And the shoes? Dainty
toes. neat insteps, tidy ankles. All
Of these to the women upon whom
no men can look.
The hands of seven of them are
stained with the blood of as many
men.
These are ''lifers."
Not a few OF their sisters in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-04-28

MY baby" she explained. SHES
older now"
A rollicldng voice rang out be-
hind me:
Interview me, why don't your
killed a San Francisco man-ths
dog! I'm doing life. And I'm not
sorry I bumped him off. The"
1t was the spark that famed the
flame long gathering. Slow resent
ment against men. Men. for the
most part, had been the cause,
direct or otherwise. of sending these
women here. And they began to
resent it bitterly.
A chorus Of femme voices rang
from the cells. Derisive cries, curses
on the heads of men, nat-calls.
shrieks of rlaniacal laughter. Ono
o. those strange outbursts amonE
prison kind that go as suddenly a.
they come and cannot be explained.
I'VE had better go" suggested
the matron. we nd
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-04-28
How to Become
Hero in Eyes of
War Officials
BIZ Times SpeciaI

=
IN 1ASHINGTON, April IS
w What does ono have to do
to be a hero in the eyes
Of the War Department?
Merely this and nothing more,
the War Department says, in
GROWING Private Daniel r. Ed
wards. Of Bruceville. Texas, a
machine gunner, as that States
outstanding hero in the recent
conflict:
No. Charge with a machine
gun on your shoulder, get bay
onetted in the wrist, but keep
going Hold an advance position
to protect your infantry, see
your three machine gun pals
killed, get wounded. dress your
own wounds and keep at II alone
all day until relieved. despite
repeated attacks with liquid fire.
No. Return to duty. with a
shattered arm, crawl einto an
enemy trench. Kill four oppon-
ents IN fighting at close quarters.
capture four more and get your
leg blown Off by a shell.
For the first feat, Private Ed
wards was awarded the Dis
tinguished Service Cross and for
the second he was given the
Congressional Medal OF Honor.
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glare or sullen hate.

Crazed glare or sullen hate.
The walls of their cell-like rooms.
painted sky blue, were covered with
clippings from fashion magazines
and here and there the picture Of a
movie star.
Now and then tiny shrine to
some patron saint was in a little
room that harbored two women con
victs. On the walls Of one Of these
rooms, where hung the pictures Of
the Sacred Heart or the Virgin
Mary. found one woman upon her
knees and in her hands a rosary.
learned she killed the man who
she claimed betrayed her daughter.
In the two hours I spent in their
midst these women, one by one,
hungrily snatched at the opportu-
nifty to talk to and be seen by a
man.
[ came upon them suddenly, yet I
found them primping before their
mirrors, arranging their hair, Civ
ing 81 tuck here and there to their
plairzSS1HSzxAxns
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-04-28
GERMANS INVENTED TANK
Patent Records Show Idea Originated
First i'm 1912

WASHINGTON, April 2S.-Ger-
many, while introducing poison gas
in the World War, overlooked one of
the most effective weapons of modern
warfare patented In Germany two
years before the conflict began. A
search of the records OF the American
patent offices has disclosed that the
armored tank, first used In the war
by the British was patented in Ger
many by Gunter Burstyn, an Austrian.
in February, 1912. The invention was
practically a duplicate Of the type used
later by the British. American Off
Gals are puzzled by the failure Of the
German government to use the tank.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-04-28
THEIR
LEAGUE
AND OURS
THERE is much that we Americans can learn
about the League OF Nations from Lord Rob
RS u ert Cecil, British spokesman for the league,


AND OURS u er Cecil British spokesman for
who is visiting Not the least in his
message to Americans the Qualification of point which
probably be blamed than anything undign
fed fear of the league.
Europes conception of the league and entirely
ferent pictures Europe the league explains
merely instrument of peace It is simply method of
undertaking to end international disputes they lead
war The league after ALL but international round table
In their frenzy the of "entangng alliances
reconabe Senators have conured up for league straw
with bogie behind him. They stood him up and
knocked him down much that what the
league really is These Senators have believe that
the League of Nations up to threaten
sovereignty
is not that at all and Lord Robert does
Ice to point out to Americans what League Nations actually
IS In word the league is merely only existing machine
which today undertakes international differences with
out the resort OF 1t not be perfect adj
mts But it the best instrument today and it is nc
tonlng for fftywO member nations. when better plan
for fostering is invented the league give v
to It, if we understand Lord Roberts message.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-04-28

FIer frontier is almost impossible to
defend
"Czecho. Slovakia isn't a country
It's fish" That is what President
HanIsoh OF Austria joshingly re-
marked 70 President Nasaryk. his
friend. Of Czecho- Slovakia.
He meant. OF course. the absolutely
unique shape Of the country-594
miles long from East to West and in
places not more than forty-fve miles
wide.
italy Is q long narrnur- cnllnt1.v- So
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-04-28
OLD BUCCANEER TALES TAME AS PIRACY j
GROWS IN MODERN RUM WAR ON SEAS
Land Gunner Rival Water Bandits in Illicit Booze Trade
-33 Government Dry Agents Have Been
Killed in Enforcing Law,
Bv EDWARD THIERRY

FEW YORK April 28.Piracy and murder writing pages
picturesque and violent the booze history off America No
complete statistics available of this growing crime phase yet
thrills surprising fiction found in brief and
vey
Smuggers pirates ''hijackers gmmen booteggers and
bandits today furnish battle blood be
the o yesterdays dime novels
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-04-28

Delicately poised
in the very cen
ter OF Europe.
part Of her hay
ing been carved
out Of Austria
and part out Of
Hungary, with a
CT escent shaped
border of Ger
mans on her
western edge, any
European quarrel
would almost sure
~ be the signal
for a lot Of en-
vious neighbors to
attempt q coup
against CzeCho-
SloNakia-