davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Milford chronicle., 1923-03-02

IT WILL SOON BE problem to collect and remen-
holidays which provided by acts OF the egsa
re in Delaware very latest act in this list estab-
fishes all general election days legal holidays for the
public schools It is up to Governor Denney to
the bill and it will law. There sentimental
arguments made favor of this latest of all legal ho
days for the schools It claimed that the children will
have opportunity election methods and how the
people their officials in state and county government
Children may of election day, but Of its methods it
is certain that they will gain information that will be
either useful beneficial to the public; unless plans to
inform them are adopted through instructors at least cap
able It seems that most and women more for
the saving of ten dollar bill for the Of voting place
in holding the elections and that is Of weight than
education of children However if the children to be
the benefcares by making another holiday for the schools
let there be an organized effort to instruct the higher
showing them the boohs the methods OF con-
Quoting the elections and the final opening of the ballot
boxes counting the votes Finally have these higher
classes of children themselves after all the work
has been accomplished how the papers filled out
signed and ready their return to the canvassng
board which the Judges of courts Provide some
thing practical to get object prossed to be desired in
making general election days legal holidays for the public
schools The teachers would have interesting duty to
perform the lines of real education of the children
while the expense of doing the work would not be one
penny more-because the teachers paid for the
vice of that day anyway It will be necessary for the leg
isature to adopt Joint Resolution which would be sign
cd nv the Governor and all the force of law to
force to get what the advocates of the holiday profess to
want to accomplish. It's started-now finish it.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-14
SWEET GRAFT

sugar famine this year? Not unless housewives sta
pede shortage by stocking up win vi
so pounds for each family. Remember that's What started
the sugar shortage several and shot ne price up
around 80 cents pound -
Cba this wear will produce 1877 900 tons more sugar
than last year. according leading trade auhor
Cruma- Meier The European beet sugar crop VIII tota
nearly 100000 than IN the l91lzl sedson< ~
America we started 1928 with wartime size stocks Oh sugar
in storape-ohcal government report Much depends Oh
course on the size of the 1923 American crop
But Cuban sugar is the main regulator OF wha we pay
tappears to be practically the same as was aVsa ~
1921 saws the letter which the American ouga "
fnine Company sends to its customers
In 1921 five to eight cents pound was consloereu eoo
wholesale price refined sugar here in the United STATES
It's hard to get at truth about the sugar situation Tor
it's an industry of highly complicated statistics Let Ae
a bit of unfavorable and analyze 1t:
The American Sugar Refining Co. estimates tnat 'ne sur
plus stocks of Cuban around the nrs Oh Inc year
1928 were 1925 900 tons less than year before 40
Half of this decrease couneraced by the 1S11-Ao gam
in Cuban and European sugar produetlon go 81,
And it's reasonable expect that most OF the oaance VIII
b cancelled y the fact Americans this coming
will make less wine than last summer ana Inc on
before The enormous the amount OF sugar useu
bv Americans during few years. has been due
to wines Fifty pounds OF sugar ooesn LOOK Like
much to a cellar chemist Wine making Is Oh the "ane
"too much trouble not worth the fuss.
We dig into the newspaper files and in 1920 find Edgar
Watkins counsel for the Southern Grocers Association
uoted as sayng Renery prices for In the rst four
months of this year ranged from IA to IL cents pound Wh
most brokers quoted them 81 and 80 cents pound
AS Won II recall sugar led all other commodities when 1t
to speculation and exhobtant prices During the sugar
"famin the law of supply and demand was temporarily
reneaed The surest quickest to play into SPECTATORS
hands is to buy lot of sugar and store it in the attic
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-14
EXAGGERATED REPORTS

every believe that the reports booteggng
vicinity the landing of large quantities of booze the
Rartan bay greatly exaggerated While not to
denied that smuggling going all the time the wild rumors
aoa frequent intervals about shpoads of liquors
being brought ashore single night must be dscredted While
there may corrupt officials who would obgngy turn
their while being violated hardly possible
that any authority would take such chances allow
such open defiance as is reported.
Nevertheless Mayor Wilson and Chief Tonneen do well to
every precauton protect the of the city in connection
Illegal traffic Perth Amboy reputation
bootleggng height two and we
want it. There be booze landed the shore
in Amboy without the authorities knowing it. This should
be made very unhealthy place for this awess element The fact
hat none are caught would indicate that the reported landing
IF large quantities of contraband goods is not true
Amboy has stood for this sort of thing long enough tt
the city helping correct those things which
is believed wrong but refusing permit the city bel
efamed just for the sake Of making good story.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-14
REPUBLICAN HONOR is UPHELD

At last the state has highway commission After wasting
greater part of the session partisan fight the senate
confirmed the four appointments of the While the
can be no defeat of Senator Edge His attempt
leadership rebuked by the Republican senate in
ner that he will not forget.
Much the eight Republican senators who refused
then another according the whim of petty politicians These
eight men have upheld the of the Republican, party Para
doxca as it may SEEM defeating Senator Edge it turn
ont they have helped him. The senator poorly ad
ed and these eight Republicans Trenton by using their
Judgment showing independence that highly commend
able, are, in reality Senator Edges best friends
Of course the confirmation of the four named by Gov
ernor Szer the highway commission will primarily be looked
uon as victory Iha been his fight from the
beginning willingness compromise however, to
firmly by his governor has shown himself to be real
fighter and power to with He has off vic
orou in this fight right and being right he had
the people with him.
eight Republican senator's who refused to stuy them
selves by going back their have established repu
aton honesty purpose and fair dealing By refusing to be
party to political game that planned in connection with
the $80OO0O00 the highway department they have won the
confidence people They have shown high degree of states
anhip that seldom legislative halls these days New
JERSEY may we'll feel proud 1t gratifying indeed
to know that the senator from Middex is of them
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-14

Canada? G. A.
A. 1t has been estimated that
there are 900 motion picture theatres
in Canada, representing an invest
ment of 30,000,000. There are thirty
film exchanges valued at $750.000.
Q. How thick is a silver dollar?
N. S. T.
A. The Office of the director of the
Mint says that the thickness of sill
yer dollar is .114 E an inch.
Q. How many electric railways are
there in the United States? c. w. w.
A. At the close of 1921 there were
S3S companies, operating over 47.55a
mile sof track, with gross earnings
of $70S,S25,092.
@. How old is Tyrone Power? NJ
e. l..
A. Tyrone Power was born in Lon,
don, England, in 1869. He is the
grandson Of an actor of the same
name.
@. What breed of dogs make the
best coon hunters and bear hunters.
o. G. 8.
A. The experience of many coor
hunters has been that the best re.
suits are obtained by using cross
bred dogs, the fasis of the cross In
variably being hound. A cross be
tween an airedale and a hound or q
setter and a hound both make good
coon dogs, and specially good results
were obtained by one coon hunter
with one-fourth setter and three.
fourths hound. The same type OF
coon dog is valuable for tracking
bears. Bloodhounds, when old, are
also good. The kind of dog required
is a small naggfng animal.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-14
TRIBUTE WELL DESERVED

The tribute paid f. Frank Appeby by James A. Buchanan
president Of the Press Association upon the retirement
Of Mr. Appleby after serving congress- well de-
served Few accomplished short time than
Mr. Appleby put while he in Washington.
This district and particularly this vicinity will always have
reason to remember Mr. Appby The dophns the bay making
possible navigate night well during the day.
will ever to Mr. Appeby Furthermore, when the
rtyfoot fact from Sandy Hook to this port work
that assured the people of this section will have additional
reason for remembering the excellent services of Mr. Appeby
while in congress-
congressional district lost valuable representative
when Mr. Appeby retired He has set fer his sueeesef
that will Be beat In Congressman Geran however he
peope have capable who be counted make
his influence felt before is through We ask nothing better
though than that footsteps of Mr. Appeby
derng service to his district and the country a
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-14

@. Which of the screen stars Is
the richest? A. r. w.
a. Photoplay says that probably
Mary Pickford is the richest, with
Charlie Chaplin. Norma Talhadge,
Mary Miles Minter, Anita Stewart
and Harold Lloyd well up in the
amount of savings.
@. How wide is the Washin. ton
Boulevard, Baltin- ore? x. f. X.
A. It is 20 feet in width.
@. What is tht origin Of the ex-
preston playing 'possum' p. M.
A. Opossums are known Tor thelr
habit of lying inert as II they We're
dead-and this fact gave rise TO the
descriptive phrase. ..
@. Is it against the law to use
stage money? j. S. ...
4. The Treasury Department says
there is no regulation against the use
of stage money as suchS but II a per
son attempted to pass such money
as lawful currency he would be vio-
lating the law.
O.. Is the consumption of candy
and soda increasing? B. x. w.
A. Reports e available for 1921
| These show that sales of confectlon-
cry had fallen below the 1919 level,
but ice cream and soda equipment
have reached higher mark.
Q. How can Fahrenheit tempera-
lures be transposed to Centigrade
I. S. Mem.
A. Subtract SO, multiply by FIVE
niaths.
q. Does Easter fall more often in
March or in April? I. M. G.
A. In the 100 years from 1850 I'd
1850 Easter falls In March but "a
times.
@. Should a fork be held with
prongs up or down when eating veg
etables? L. S, X.
A. When eating meat one should
hold the fork with the prongs down
Vegetables should be conveyed to the
mouth on the fork the prongs OF
which are up. At the end of g. mea
the fork Is placed with the knife t.
the right of the middle of the plate
with the prongs up.
| @. How many movies are there II
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-14

Seattle man was sentenced to stay
at home three weeks, but why pun
ish his wife that way?
One tax that never will get a kick
out of most of US is this Inheritance
tax.
When the worm turns he meets
either a chicken or a fisherman.
In starting spring garden al
ways make it small enough for your
wife to finish.
Half of the men who can whistle
tune learned to do it on payday.
The trouble with the modern
dances is they are out of date before
you can learn them.
Entirely too many people think
equality consists of swapping places
with those above them.
Pennsylvania game commission
wants to protect groundhogs. Nc
doubt a. great many people have tried
to shoot them lately.
The only reason one can't marry
and live happily ever after is be-
cause it takes two.
This country of ours has toe
many people who are making money
without making anything else.
Daily reports indicate Germany
and France are on speaking terms
Not being able to break out in any
other way, Sing Sing prisoners have
broken out with the mumps.
Germany is making gasoline from
coal. Some day a bright scientis
will make gold out of platinum.
It's charged sugar gamblers have
been cheating the public and thii
wasn't very sweet of them.
Boston woman admits to the cop
that she may have shot her HUSBAND
1t does sound plausible.
One prophet without honor in hi
home town Is weather prophe
| during the month of March.
Girls Keeping their eyebrows thil
find it takes a lot of pluck.
Things never are as bad as the
could be. ,Flivvers cannot be mad
fast enough to supply the demant
Oscar Egg is a six-day bike race
who is considered hard boiled.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-14
Ouestions-Answers

Any reader can get the answer TO
anv question by writing The eerth
Amboy Evening News Information
prraou Frederick J. Haskin, Direc-
.s. Waehirgton. D. c. This offer ap-
nIies rIe strictly to Information; Fhe
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troubles. nor to undertake exnaus.
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postage. All eplies ae sent d1reet
to the inquirer.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-14
CAPITOL
A. JOKES
BY w. w. CHALMERS
7. S. Representative From Ohio


u. S. Representative From Ohio
Ninth District
Early risers are always very proud
of themselves.
Two farmers were boasting o1
their achievements in that particu-
lar, and one of them resolved to
show up the other. So he rose one
morning about 2 o'clock, went over
to his neighbor's house and knockT
on the door. The neigheors wife
called out:
"Who's there?"
"It's jim Place." replied the Wis
itor. 'Tm looking for your husband
Where is he?"
The wife scented mice.
"Why, 1 don't know" she an.
wered. II guess he's out around
the farm somewhere. / haven't seer
him since early this morning"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-14
Bible Thought For Today

- SELF another praise thee, and not
mouth stranger thine lipsProverbs
272
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-14

Half of the men who can whistle
a tune learned to do it ON payday.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-14

When the worm turns he meet
either chicken or fisherman.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-14

The trouble with the modern
dances is they are out of date before
you can learn them.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-14

In starting a spring. garden al
ways make it small enough for your
wife to finish.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-14

One tax that never will get kick
out of most of US is this Inheritance
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-14

Entirely too many people think
equality consists Of swapping places
with those above them.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-14

Seattle man was sentenced to stay
at home three weeks, but why pun
ish his wife that way?
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-05
WOMEN PLAN To.
GARD INDEX
CONGRESS
National Party Delegation to
Present Situation There
to Coolidge.

Congress is to be card-indexed, by
the National Woman's Party in its
campaign for an equal rights amend
ment to the Constitution, it became
known today.
The drive will open with the visit
of a deputation of the party to
President Coolidge November II. 1t
is the intention of the party, ac-
cording to Maud Younger, Con-
gressional chairman, to have the
card index completed before the visit
to the White House, using the data
to show the President the situation
at the Capitol regarding the pro-
posed amendment.
The use of the index is a revival OF
one of the high lights of the suffrage
campaign. Miss Younger says it
contains complete list of Senators
and Congressman and record of an
Interview with each of them by
Representatives of the party.
Washington women who are to
present the party's views to Pfesi-
dent Coolidge November IL are Mrs.
Nina E. Allender, Mrs. Florence B.
Boeckel, Mrs. Manolah Brennan,
Ms. Elizabeth Murray Byers, Miss
Alice Gaylord, Miss Clare Graecen,
Miss Carrie Harrison, Mrs. John
Walker Holcomb, DR.. Cora Smith
King, Mrs. Lucy B. Shaw, Mrs.
Richard Wainwright, Mrs. Harvey
Wiley, Miss Martha Goebel, Mrs.
Adele G. Guthridge, Mrs. H. L. Ny
man, DIR. Sophie A. Nordhuff- Jung.
Mrs. Peter A. Drury, Miss Agnes
Minnick.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-05
Untagged Charity.

'This morning at 3 o'clock, your
honor, we got a call from the Sib-
ley Hospital. There was a man
coming in there with his head all
carved up. AS we approached the
hospital we say q man driving
away in a Ford touring car We
talked with him a few minutes
and then figured we'd better lock
him.. up. He was driving with
wrong tags"
Cellar Therapeutics.
"I bought the machine a week
ago, your honor, and have been
!. keeping it in shed until I could
get tags for it. But last night
a man that boards at the same
house I do came in late and
heard noise down in the cellar.
He got a little suspicious and
started an investigation. He went
down stairs very quietly and
the rest Of the way profniscuous
like, but mainly on his head. We
poured water on him and brandy
in him but he didn't come to. So
they asked me to run him to the
hospital. thought under the cir
cumstances I'd be justified in
using my. car for that purpose
even though hadn't got the new
tags"
THE traffic regulations don't
say anything about hospitals, but
they have quite a bit to say about
tags. However, under the cir
cumstances, the court will let
you off with a $5."
HOw's Your Headlights?
est was about 2:15 this morning
on Seventh street near New York
avenue that saw the defendant
running towards me about five
blocks away. His headlights were
so bright that they nearly blinded
me at that distance. His muffIer
cutout was open and making an
awful racket. took him around
to No. One"
Whats the idea of running
around the city with your head
lights in that condition? You
might blind another motorist and
cause a bad accident"
"a set screw dropped out of the
exhaust pipe near the mufeler,
and that caused the trouble"
whats your muffler got to do
with the headlights?"
Two Birds With One Stone.
well. the lights are run by
the magnetic, and when the set
screw fell out that relieved the
hack pressure and the engine
went SO much faster it made the
lights very strong. That's the
only way I can explain it right
now.
you've had since 2 o'clock this
morning to think up an alibi.
You ought to have a better one
than that by this time"
Glaring headlights, $40; open
cutout, IS.
The RetOrt Numerical.
"I paced him from Thomas
Circle to Sixteenth and M at
'2S miles an hour"
81 didn't know I was speeding,
your honor"
Don't you know the difference
between Is and 28?"
: Eyes, sir. Ten"
"Tell it to the finance clerk"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-05
TEACHER CLAIMS "BOBS"
DENOTE LOVE OF THRILL

ATLANTIC CITY, Nov. 5.-A
check by Principal Henry p. Miller
of the local high school, reveals that
ninety per cent of the girl students
wear bobbed hair but long skirts.
He said:
1T is ridiculous to say that a girl
with bobbed hair must be regarded
as possessing a flighty nature. In
most cases the girls who wear
bobbed hair are possessed of restless
energy and are fond of thrills. These
are the very qualities that we should
want to find in them and our re-
sponsiblIity and that Of the parents
and the community is to give them
the right kind of thrills"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-05
Negligible.

HE was hitting it up at twenty
eight miles an hour on Sixteenth
street from Kennedy to Decatur,
your honor, about 1890 last night.
He went over the cross streets
without slowing up"
"It was nearly IL o'clock at
night, your honor, and no traffic
to speak of. don't consider twen-
ty-eight miles an hour excessive
speed under such circumstances.
1t wasn't an International VIOLA
ton. / wasn't in a hurry at all.
I was just out for a ride. We're
allowed twenty-five miles an hour
in that locality, and the difference
between twenty-five and twenty
eight is negligible"
In the WrnOg Pew.
The court: you can't make the
traffic lawsuit you can obey
them. You think twenty-eignt
miles an hour is a safe speed.
Someone else might think thirty
eight is the right limit. If each
one were to fix the speed limit to
suit himself, the result would be
Observation-Disclosures control. of So
cial relations. If six is negligible,
four is negligible, too, and you can
pay negligible fine OF $40"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-05
AUSTRALIAN LABOR MEN
EXPELLED FROM PARTY

SYDNEY, N. s., W., Nov. 5.-A
political bombshell crashed into the
midst of the labor movement in
this state with the announcement
Of recommendations of the execu-
tive, which have been adopted, as
the result of the discovery of the
use of alleged crooked ballot boxes
in certain elections at party head
quarters.
It was found that a number of
boxes had secret panels, enabling
manipulation of ballots. The affair
caused q sensation on the eve of
the annual conference of the party,
and a special committee was APP
pointed to ascertain the facts. It's
decisions touched some Of the most
prominent figures in the party and
their expulsion, four without limita-
ton Of time, and two others for
two years each, has resulted.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-05
ADVERTISEMENT.
HypO.COd Rid Him of Cough
And Other Ills.

Many people can keep themselves
free from coughs and colds this
winter If they will build up their
systems with Hypo.Cod. If you
have one of these hanging on
coughs or a cold, rid yourself Of
1t as A. c. Marsh of 612 o st.
N. w. did He writes: II suffered
with one of those stubborn bron-
cbiaI colds. / was so bad that I
could not sleep at night, and had
lost weight and was very weak
One day read where Hypo.Cod
would help just such cases as mine
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-05

starvation of the blood-with its
never-ending train of symptoms of
nervous irritability, general weak
ness, fatigue, upset stomach, head.
aches, pains across the back, etc.
Scientists realized that some new
way must be found to supply this
lack of iron, because the old metal.
lie irons blackened the teeth and
upset the stomach. After years of
experiment they discovered this
newer form of iron, which is like
the iron in spinach, lentils. and
apples, and now thousands of ply.
sicians are advising weak, run
down people that they either go
back to Nature or take organic
iron. This newer form of iron IS
sold under the name of Nuxated
Iron at all
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-05

For many years doctors have
known that three people out of
every four are deficient in iron con-
tent in the blood stream. Thou
sands are ailing and complaining
and suffering from all kinds of
alarming symptoms, when the real
cause of their trouble is iron star
walton of the blood. These people
were literally starving on three big
meals a day because modern meth
DDS of cookery throw away the
very part of grains, fruits and
vegetables in which nature puts
strengthening iron. Without iron
in the blood nothing you eat does
you any good. You cannot get the
good out of your food because il
simply passes through you like
corn through a mill when the roll
ers are too far apart Hence the
alarming increase of anemia-iron
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-05
STUBBORN COUGH LEFT
HIM MIGHTY QUICK

ana ann ! started to take it. After TAX
.ns several bottles I feel like a
ne" man. 1 can now eat and en-.
10y IT, sleep Well at night and my
1ousn mas left me. I have gained
81 ~. weight and strength and never
ielt Detter in my life than I do
nov Hypo-Cod is a pleasant wine
. .n tasting medicine with none of
Tue taste OF the Cod Liver Oil. 1t
Is helping thousands daily and it
WIN help you. Get a bottle today
from the Peoples Drug Stores and
ENJOY rugged, robust health.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-05
Laborers Flee Britain.

LONDON, Nov. 5. - There has
been a general flight OF laborers
from the land, according to figures
Of the ministry of agriculture,
which show that on June /, 1923,
there were 772, 900 laborers EN-.
pioyed in England and Wales, as