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Imperial Valley press., 1923-12-08

ward the seat where Billie Wagtail.
the goat, was writing. All about,
on the floor, On the desk and or
Billie himself were spots Of black
ink. And on the desks all around
the goat boy were more spots OF
ink.
"Billie certainly is an ink-sHng-
er, thougbt Uncle Wiggily. He
watched the goat boy dip his pen
in the ink and take it out
"Oueh. Look what you did,
cried Sammie Littletail, who SAT
next to Billie. Look OUT
.'Quiet, please, samm.e, " squeak
cd the Lady Mouse.
: SAW, but look it! Billie got inl
al over mel SAID the boy rab
bit.
~ didn I mean to, bleated Bill
lie. my pen slipped
The Lady Morse looked at Unclt
NNiggilv as much as to say:
/ = You see how ii is, Whit are W.
to do with him?
Uncle Wiggily twinkled his PIN
nose and began 20 think. He saw
that Billie was trying TO write too
fast. and this made the ink spat
ter all over. The bunny WAS con
sidering the best way to teach Bill
+ lie to be more careful when, all o
a sudden, che door of the hollow
stump school opened and in poPpe'
; the Weasel.
! All in his beautiful white Goa
icf fur was the Weasel. The 81.
chan wore white fur in winter s.
] il could not 50 easily be seen OF
the white sno~ and he could thu
creep up close # rabbits AM
catch them before they saw him.
It happened that the Fox, III
Wolf and the Bob Cat had trle
! in vain to catch Urele Wiggily. >
at last they said TO the Weasel:
"You try! You are very sly
| Watch your chance and nibble In
| cie Wiggily's ears! -
So the Weasel watched his chanc
! and when he saw the bunny go i
the hollow stump school the Nease
said:
"In slip in after him and III
I1m!" Thus the Weasel was in tn
school. Up toward Uncle Wiggil
rushed the sly Weasel, in his beat
tiful coat of spotless, white fur.
/ ~ nave come 10 nibble you
ears!" hissed the Weasel, just a
Uncle Wiggilv had walked TO Bi
I lies desk to tell the goat boy hoy
to use his pen So he wouidn' t slim
so much ink.
i" You can't nibble Uncle Wigg
Tvs ears.' bleated Billie. "Thera
! Take that And filling his pc
overflowing with ink, Billie splasl
ed lot Of black spots Ill over ,l
white Weasel. Now the Wease
vas very proud of his white fu
and as soon os he saw himself a
spotted black with ink the Weas'
cried:
"oh, dear, This is no place fc
me! I must go to the laundry an
be bleaehed. III nibble your eai
some ether timci - ~
- don t care if yoa never nibb
them.'' laughed the bunny as IL
Weasel. dripping with ink, ran ou
Then Uncle Wlggily rhowed Bill
no 4u! oHlu Aluo dn d!p o4m Q
his pen, and after that the goa
boy wrote very nicely, not spatte
ring black spots at al.
1 But it 5 good thing he spallere
.he Weasel; isn't it? And if til
orange comes TO the lemonade
party and sits with the sugar cook
III tell you next about Uncle VII
gily and the disllpan.
4 CHICAGO.--Jack Dempsey ";
,,,,.tTa I'm min TnhOuv Never
Imperial Valley press., 1923-12-08
Bedtime Stories
Copyright, 1923, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
81 HOWARD r. GARIS
UNCLE WIGGILy AND THE
WEASEL

One day, as Uncle Wiggily was
hopping past the hollow stump
school, the Lady Mouse Teacher
opened TIE door and called to the
rabbit gentleman:
"oh, Uncle Wiggily. Could you
just come in here for little while,
If you please9'''
sswhy, / don't exactly know my
lessons answered the rabbit, shy
ly twinkling his pink nose, and
making believe he was a school bun
ny again.
..Oh, that S all right!'' squeaked
the Lady Mouse. 81 don t expect
you to say any lessons. l don t
want you TO come in for that rea-
yon.''
"Why, then?'' asked the bunny
"Are you having marionette show
in there, or movies orRsomething like
that2 Are the school children
speaking pieees?" asked the bunny,
Imperial Valley press., 1923-12-08
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
December 8, 1908

The El Centre band members met
at the opera house to practice for
the county agricultural fair to be
held here. next week.
The city trustees have just or
dered the fencing of number of
vacant lots so that hereafter there
will be no driving except ON the
streets and alleyways.
F. Centre camp No. 624, w. O..
W, held a big meeting, which was
preceded by a street parade. A
"umber of new members were in
itiated. = Las
Imperial Valley press., 1923-12-08

Clarence A. Wortham world S
best shows viii spend the coming
week in IL Centre. The shows arc
on their way to he Pacific Coast,
and they come on larger scale
than ever before. This is the first
visit of Show No. here in three
wears. What is offered will be en-
tirelv new to this section.
The principal feature consists Of
Violet and Daisy IIii.on, the ia
NOUS grown-together girls from San
Imperial Valley press., 1923-12-08

worke dout for improy yements.
The Farm Bureau has the assnr-
ance of the Feed Dealers Associa.
ton of the valley that they will
gladly cooperate with them i'll secur-
irg outside authorities who will to-
tend these meetings and encourage
the poultry industry so that the
proper interest and general infor-
nation can be given to ranchers
chat will add many additional dol
lars to their bank accounts.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-12-08
Looking Backward
What the Press Files Tell OF
Imperial Valley for This Date
in Past Years
NINETEEN YEARS AGO
December 8, 1904

F. c. Paulin of Los Angeles was
a business visitor in Calexico.
NJ. A. Mastick and family are now
at home in their new house on
Franklin avenue. Silsbee.
Varney Brothers bought out DR..
Hernannan s store in Calexico.
Miss Kate Underwood went to
Ocean Beach to visit with friends.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-12-08

CHICAGo.-Jaek Dempsey was
unable 10 pin Johnny Meyers,
claimant of the world middle
weight wrestling championship,
when the two met in mat workout
here
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-10
BIG CONTRACT FEE
 FOR BATON ROUGE
Contractors Pay $529,3O1 for Permit to Erect Costly New
 Building

BATON ROUGE, April 10. - The contract and bond filed by the Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Caldwell Brothers, contractors, for $529,3O1, covering a main engineering building and agri- cultural group to be erected at the Greater Louisiana State University is the largest contract ever filed in East Baton Rouge Parish and one of the largest ever filed in the State.
 This contract places the value of buildings being erected at the new university site at over $1,600,o0O. It is planned for the new university to be completed by the Fall of 1924 The State Legislature appropriated $5,O00,000 for the new university through special severance tax which the oil companies of the State fought bitterly in the courts
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-10
H0USEKEEPER, 72,
 BRIDE OF MAN 54
Married Him So She Could Have Company of His 12-Year-Old
 Son, She Says

LIMA, Ohio, April 10.-The time honored maxim that Hove that laughs at differences in age" was never more truly verified than when Philander William Parker, 54, car penter Washington, D. C., was mar ried to Mrs Mary Irene German, 72, housekeeper, here this month.
 The first time the couple met was on March II last, when Parker ar rived here from Washington. The wedding was the continuation of a romance originating through a cor respondence club, with headquarters in Topeka, Kansas.
 "You see, I was lonely" explained Mrs. Parker q have been widow 12 years. I reared a family of ten children, but they all married and left me. I wrote to a correspondence club in Topeka. They referred me to Philander. We corresponded three months.
 "Oh, yes, and he's a soldier!" Mrs. Parker continued eff he weren't l wouldn't have married him. My first man, Moses R. German, was Civil War veteran. married Philander so I could have the company of his son, Paul, 12."
 Parker said he served in the Span | ish-American War. He declared that, as soon as school is out in Wash | ington, his young son will be brought here to live. Parker said that for six years he had been a widower | He stated that he has an income Mrs. Parker is wealthy.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-10
WOOD ALCOHOL HAS
 KICK, SAY DRINKERS
Stuff Isn't "Beverage," so Man Can't Be Fined for Bone Dry Law
 Breach

KANSAS CITY, Kan, April 1O.- Wood alcohol, the demon concoction which has exacted such a terrific toll among those who have imblbed of liquid refreshments since prohi- bition became a law, holds no ter TOTS for Hugh Ragan and Thomas Webb. The men were recently ar rested on charges of drunkenness.
 Judge George H. West, before whom they appeared, declared he was sorry that it was impossible for him to fine them for violation of the Kansas bone dry law, because wood alcohol is not a beverage.
 "By all natural laws, both Of you ought to be dead but since you are not, each of you is fined $1o0 for vagrancy," Judge West ruled.
 Officers who arrested the prison CTS said they found the remainder of a pint of wood alcohol on each Of them. Ragan and Webb said they made their purchase at paint shop. Both of the men admitted the stuff had "quite a kick"
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-10

breeding and dispose of only the sur plus bulls.
 So it happens that the reindeer steak or roulade or steW-and reindeer meat makes excellent stew-that is placed before the guest in the ex- pensive hotels and restaurants in New York has been raised by the Eskimo.
 From Seward Peninsula the reindeer -droves of them-are driven by easy stages to Nome, where they are slaughtered. The principal slaughter house is owned by Carl Lomen, Mayor of Nome, who spends most of his time circulating between Washington and New York in the interest of the rein deer industry, in which he is pio- neer.
 Costs More Than Beef
 Reindeer meat is higher than beef considerably higher. It sells on a carcass basis at 35 cents a pound, as compared with the 12 to IF cents that the retailers have to pay for beef by the carcass. Moreover, the hind. quarters sell at as high as 75 cents a pound, while the forequarters sell at 25.
 One reason for the high price of reindeer is, of course, the long ard expensive transportation it takes tC get the meat here. But an even more important reason is that the product is as yet so limited that the exploita tion of the by-products of the animal is not practicable.
 The concern on West 14th Street a block or two from the waterfront that h4nfles the product for Eastern United States is authority for the pro diction that in a year or two reindeer will fall almost to the level of leef as the animals increase, slaughter be comes mere general and he economic utilization of the by-products become practicable
 For instance, the hide of the ami nal makes good leather The Eskimos tan it and use it for shoes, coats caps. dog-sled harness and a goct many OtEcr purposes. But the hide is at it's best when tanned fresh, anf the outpl of hldes is not heavy enougf to start tanneries at Nome. As the traffic is now carried on, th< after it has been inrefrigeration fol two or three month, it deterlorate: l considerably, and is not nearly as val uahIe as it is when fresh New Yorl World.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-10
PREDICTS ERA OF
 U. 5. PROSPERITY
Michioan Professor Says One More Year Will See Big Drop in
 Prices

COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 10. - "Prices will begin to fall gradually after one more year, as the natural after-War effect" declared David k. Friday, president of Michigan Agricul- tural College, addressing local au- dience. Predicting prosperity for the United States, President Friday said that wages are twice as high as be- for the war, while the cost of living is 65 per cent higher. ,'.
 People don't have to act as ser wants in the present age," continued President Friday. "They can make more money at some other occupa- tion. That Is democracy. It has been brought about by Americas industrial revolution, of which we were uncon- scious until the war called it to our attention.
 Before the war economists could prove conclusively that this country could not possibly devote more than $4,O0O,OO0 0O00 a year for the purposes of carrying on a war. Upon our entry into the conflict, however, we took 3,00O,OO0 men from productive occu- pations and turned them into soldiers and manufactured $15,000,000, ,OO0 worth of supplies for military pur- poses.
 "We did not realize we had had an industrial revolution. The foundation of this revolution lay in our taking science and applying it to industry. Further, economists have revolution ized business management, banking and taxation. America has added as much produced wealth to her resources since 1897 as in the entire period be- fore that time. That is why we have a surplus. That is the reason we could defect so many men and so much wealth to martial purposes said President Friday.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-10
REINDEER MEAT ENTERS SNEW YORK
 AS A DELICACY FOR BON WANTS
Price Is Much Higher Than Beef as Carcasses Are Shipped From Alaska via Panama-Demand
 Makes Good Business for Eskimo

Reindeer meat from Alaska has in vaded the New York market in quanti- ties, and the invasion will grow in vol ume unless something happens-like the plague-to stoy the increase of the increase of the animals.
 Fifteen hundred carcasses were shipped to New York via San Francis co trans-shipped by way of the Pan- anna Canal, unloaded in the vicinity of 14th Street and the North River. The demand for the meat was so great that the entire shipment is on the way to exhaustion.
 The basis of this influx of a new delicacy to the tables of New York bons vivants is an interesting romance of industry. Not further back than 1902 the United States Government imported a herd of twelve reindeer from Siberia to Northern Alaska, in the Seward Peninsula region, north of Nome.
 This is region of tundras, too far north to be of any use for agrlcul ture, and apparently lack in minerals The only use to which these tundras known as prairies further south, can be put is as grazing land for some anl maj far harder and more self-support ing than cattle.
 The dominant vegetation is spe cies of moss, which grows luXuriantly in the short, fierce Sumner ana ls preserved, so to speak, by the heavy snowfall of winter. This moss the reindeer get at by breaking througf the snow with their hoofs and crop ping it to their hearts content-a feat which the steer could not perform.
 Reindeer Throve There
 The conditions of life on Stewards Peninsula proved so well adapted te the reindeer that it is now estimated bv the firm that imports reindeer meat to New York and handles the output for the entire eastern part o] the United States that there are no" not less than 100000 animals in the herd.
 When the herd of twelves were i'm ported into Northern Alaska by the United States Government they were turned over to group of Esklmos As they multiplied the progeny was distributed among the Eskimos gen erally at the rate of one buck anc three COWS per Eskimo. The herderS became owners of the reindeer, or condition that thy put the COWS te
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-10
CALIFORNIA WOMEN GO
 IN FOR AGRICULTURE

SACRAMENTO, April 10-Califor- nis,'s women are answering the lure of the season in ever increasing num- bers, according to Walter c. Mathew son, State Labor Commissioner.
 Mathewson declares that a total of 5,981 California women are en- gagged in farm work, 3,519 of this number being classified as farm CTS" and 2,462 as farm foremen and laborers.
 In 1910 there were only 2,999 women farmers and 2,313 foremen and laborers.
 The total number of women wor- kers in all occupations in the State was fixed by Mathewson at 2S6,650.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-10
BABY CARRIAGE MARKET
 STRONG IN OREGON

PORTLAND, Ore, April 10-Heavy purchases of baby carriage are re- ported by local business houses. Five carloads of matrimonial jitneys" ar rived on the Crowell & Thurlow New York, which discharged the per ambulators here.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-10
SPEAKING PLAINLY

The principal difference between a man who adimts that he is anxious to get rich in hurry and the one who claims that he is willing to work his way up, depending upon his merit alone is that the latter is liar.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-10
THE AUTOBOOB

By J. Berg EsenWein I'm the original autofool, A pesky sort of animool, Fifty per is slow for me, I don't look out for the other fellow The chap who dies is simply yellow. drive in the dark without my lights. And suddenly stop on the blackest
 night.
 put on speed at all blind corners If smash-up comes, just page the
 mourners, go my darndest around the curve, And pass some guy, to show my nerve. I hit it up on the slippery streets, And step on the gas when it rains in
 sheets.
 I give no signal when I stop I don't respect the traffic cop I love my brilliant dazzling lights, coast the hills on winter nights. I scare the horses with my horn, My muffler cutoff rOars at morn I pass to the left of a trolley car, I never see a road closed" bar. I always drive on the street car track never signal when I back. love to speed where children play I always take the right of way. I laugh when I graze timid Rube, For Pm a reckless Autoboob.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-10
CANADA MAKES MAcARONI

OTTAWA, April 10.-Italy has a new arrival in the macaroni industry. aroni won grand prize and gold medal at the first International Mac aroni Exposition held recently at Rome, according to cable advices received here.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-10

"The Times office has new towel, confides an exchange. "Our old on' fell on the concrete floor last Weel and broke into three pieces"
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-10
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

FOR SALE - ONE CABINET V1C- trola, $15O model, with 100 records
 one year old, in good condition.
 Owner going outside. Will sell for 1885, Call at Northern Drug Store and see it. lO-tf
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-10

Baggs-Im worried. My girl is run ming around with that new doctor ir town.
 Jaggs-Feed her an apple day.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-10

Some people in Cordova smile in a way that makes you think they are bestoWing a favor.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-10

Noah has one advantage while sail ing ill his ark He didn't have to stop to monkey with any radio apparatus.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-10

Hollywood is not thought to be in terested in Dr. Coue's philosophy.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-10

Many a groom puts off the wedding until his father can afford it.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-10

A butchers wife is suing him for divorce because he locked her up in the cooler for two hours. ''Was the only way he could stop her talking" :" he declared.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-10

Judging from a want ad in the An chorage Times there were four big functions in that city during the past year. Here is the evidence. "For Sale--Tuxedo, worn four times."
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-10

The only way to make a friend is to be one.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-10

Lightning never strikes twice il the same place. It isn't necessary.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-10

FOR RENT ONE FURNISHED and one unfurnished cottage. Ap-
 ply Mrs. Chas. Cochrane. 10-tf
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-10

FOR SALE-141a FOOT SKIFF AND Evenrude, cheap. Apply to Fred
 erickson, at Blum-O'Neills. Act
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-10

Advertise in the Daily Times and get results.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-10

Advertising saves times and the money that time costs.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-10
THE REPAIR MAN SPEAKING

"What's wrong with the old bus?"
 Everything" said the auto repair
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-10

Dance Empress Cabaret April IA.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-10

"Is that so? I suppose you can find something wrong with the license
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-10

Sure. It needs tightening little"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-02

self with a sureness that has been
found lacking in many of his past
pictures and Betty Compson plays
with her usual dash.
George F'itzmaurice is responsible
for the picture and has put the Fitz-
maurice touch into it--that alone
would make it an outstanding picture.
The action is fast and convincing
the photography good and the char
acters have entered into their work
with an understanding of the type
they portray. 1t is not by any means
masterpiece but 1t Is good, whole
some and highly entertaining play
which will appeal to the entire
family.
The Plot
Chick Hewes. a crook. meets and
falls in love with the daughter Of the
district attorney. His brother. who Is
shot while in the attempt to steal a
diamond necklace, comes to Chicks
rooms for aid and dies there. Aided
by tho attorneys daughter Chick dis
poses Of the body and necklace and
goes west to start anew in a lum-
Der camp.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-02

Tearle and Elaine Hammerstein in
the leading parts are themselves
and they are both finished artists.
The supporting cast is we'll chosen
and complete.
The Plot
The story is of a wild, happyG
lucky girl who makes herself the
wager Of an airplane race and while
racing becomes lost in the clouds. A
forced descent in the mountains puts
her in the hands of three bandits
VINO gamble for possession and the
only white man of the three wins.
The winner takes her TO cabin in
the hills where she is a prisoner for
week after which shamed by her
eamencss he takes her back to her
people. The plot has a surprise twist
at this point which is too good to
be spoiled by telling of. but of course
the right man wins in the end.
The photography Is excellent. di
rection fine and the picture from be-
ginning to end is a real credit to
the industry.
fo ,,i11+ nj
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-02
What This Buffalo Physician
Has Done For Humanity

The picture which appears here
of DIR. Pierce of Buffalo, N. Y, was
taken in 1910. AS young man DR..
Pierce practiced medicine in Penn
sylvania and was known far and
wide for his great success in al
leviating disease. He early moved
to Buffalo and put up in ready-to-
use form, his Golden Medical Dis
covery, the well-known tonic for the
blood. This strength-builder is
made from a formula which DIR.
Pierce found most. effective in dis
eases of the blood. 1t contains no
alcohol and is an extract of native
roots with the ingredients plainly
stated on the wrapper. Good red
blood, vim, vigor and vitality are
sure to follow if you take this Al
terative Extract. DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery clears
away pimples and annoying erup-
lions and tends to keep the complex
ion fresh and clear. This Discovery
corrects the disordered conditions in
a sick stomach, aids digestion, acts
as a tonic and purifies the blood.
Write DR.. Pierce's Invalids Hotel in
Buffalo, N. Y, and receive conf
Dental medical advice without
charge. All druggists sell Discov-
cry, tablets or liquid. Send 10c for
trial pkg.-Adv.