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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-18
4 Cause OF
W0MEN'S ILLS
WOMEN OFTEN THINK THEY HAVE
HEART TROUBLE. INDIGESTION, NER-
NOUS PROSTRATION, ETC. WHEN IT'S
SIMPLY IRON STARVATION OF THE
BLOOD

Many women believe they are weak
and nervous as result Of age, worry and
overwork: they think that their disturbed
digestion. headaches, heart papitation.
shortness of breath, pains across the back
etc, are due to some serious disease in
stead of the real cause-iron starvation
of the blood. This is proven by the fact
that when many of these same women
take organic iron for awhile all their
alarming symptoms quickly disappear and
they become strong, robust and healthy.
Iron is absolutely necessary to enable your
blood to change food irto living cells and
tissue. Without it nothing you eat does
you the proper amount of good-you do
not get the strength out of it.
If you are not strong and we'll do not
lapse in a state of nervous prostration.
but take some organic iron-Nuxated
Iron-at once. But be sure it's organic
iron and not metallic iron which people
usually take and which is made merely
by the action of strong acids on small
pieces of iron. Organic MINATED IRON
i5 like the iron in your blood and like the
iron in spinach lentils and apples and IT
often increases the bodily and mental
vigor of weak. WORKOUT women in two
weeks time.
Beware of substitutes. Look for the
word "Nuxated' on every package and the
letters n. /. on every tablet. Your money
will be refunded by the manufacturers if
you do not obtain perfectly satisfactory
results At all druggists.-Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-18
Catholic Men
Choose Officers at
Cincinnati Meet

Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 17.-With the
adoption of important resolutions, In
which the activities of the Ku klux
Khan were referred to indirectly, the
election of new directors and the re-
election of the entire list of officers,
the third annual convention of the
National Council of Catholic men
ended its business sessions here to-
day.
The council defined its attitude on
the repeated outbreaks against law
and order and rea affirmed its allie
glance to the principles of govern
ment, reiterated its faith in the Cath
Ollie school system, deplored abroga-
ton of powers granted each of the
three divisions OF, government, and
the growing tendency toward divorce.
The council expressed its joy at
the announcement of the Holy Faith
er, Plus XXI, that the cause of the
Qualification of the late Plus X be
introduced at an early date. 1t also
urged that the citizenship campaign
of the National Catholic Welfare
conference be made the special work
of the council during the coming
year. and called upon the Catholics
of the country ito answer the appeal
of the Holy Father for relief for suf-
ferers in the Near East and Japan
by generous contributions to the
Holy Fathers charitable relief fund"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-18
Richly CoIored Baths Of Java

Batik is a process long drawn out,
but, when it is finished. the Javanese
has a garment that after five years
of constant wear will still be beauti-
full and, if donned only on festive
days, will retain its magnificence for
a lifetime. 1t is no unusual thing for
one to see a girl in Java wearing a
batik that appears to be in its new
born glory but has actually been
worn by her mother and her grand
mother before her.
Even more characteristic of re-
Gion than its patterns are its color
combinations. The Standardization
of color scheme may be accounted
for by the use in given region OF a
single set of formulas, and the result.
if pleasing, may perhaps be more q
matter of chance than Of good taste.
If the people have the whole gamut
of colors to select from as they do in
the coast cities, where European dyes
are mostly used, the color scheme is
likely to be gaudy enough for any
savage breast On the other hand,
middle Java with its home grown
sega, tegerang and indigo produces a
cloth. of n quiet beauty Of color COM
blned with splendid richness of orna-
mentation, that does not fail of ap-
probation among people of culture.
The city of Jokjakarta, the batik
city prominent, blends soft browns
and blues with cream in an inimit-
able way said to be due to the happy
percentage of alkali in the water of
that region. Nearby Soho is noted
for the warm yellows and red browns
that make the cloth CLEAN and glow
with their gold. Some batiks are the
sunshine and shadows of monday;
those with a midnight back
ground dotted with a thousand points
remind me, when 1 look at them q
little obliquely. of a distant city re-
vealed in the darkness by it's myriad
lights. These varied effects are all
secured with homemade Javanese
dyes. concocted from the juices of a
hundred Javanese plants.
The batik patterns must decorate
large, fiat surfaces, a difficult form of
ornamentation. The motifs are
adapted from the fora and fauna of
the island more or less conventional
II treated. The semen patterns,
leaves and flowers alone or in COM
bination with other motifs. are the
most characteristic Javanese batik
designs.s Their graceful lack Of SYM
metry is relieved by just enough con-
standardization to create rhythm. In
this lies their charm. 1 had batiks on
my walls which l gazed at every day
during the three years of my stay in
Java, and I found that their fascina-
ton approached infinity rather than
zero as a limit. After three years of
saturation in the batik atmosphere I
feel myself in accord, so far as am
able to judge, with those who say
that the patterns Of the royal prov
inces of middle Java rival in magni-
ficence the decorations of the Italian
Renaissance.-From Batik. by Min
ME Frost Rands in Asia MAGAZINE.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-18
Propose Compromise
in Dispute Atlantic
Corp. and Ship Board

Washington, Oct. IA compro-
mise settlement Of the counter claims
which have existed nearly six years
between the Atlantic Corporation of
Portsmouth, n. H, and the shipping
board was proposed to both parties
today by Senator Pepper of Pennsyl-
vania, acting as referee.
The dispute grew out of legislation
by the New Hampshire concern of
war time contract for construction of
number Of ships at lump price of
about S14.000.000 the builders assert
ing substantial sum still remains
unpaid from the board and the latter
alleging over payment by at least
S1,O00,000.
Senator Pepper recommended that
the corporation recede from it's de-
mand for payment Of profit on the
contract, while the board agreed to
keep all other claims as compromis-
ing part of the direct cost of the
ships constructed. AS an act of JUS
tice to the city of Portsmouth, the
referee declared, both sides should
agree at once that the plant be made
available for acquisition and use in
industry.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-18
TOURISTS

Thousands, literally millions, of
people are making automobile tours
of varied distances. The instructive
urge to migrate has found its ready
answer in flivver or. twelve-cylinder
limousine. Any highway leads to all
the roadways in the country. One
can roll out of his own yard, along
his own alley, and strike the trans
continental, or ocean to ocean trail
and the land of the Nation lies
before him.
Never was adventure so complete
ly at the command of average hu-
mainly. The home bodies, who
twenty years ago regarded a fifty,
even a twenty-mile journey with
dread, now roll away forty miles
after supper to visit some sister,
brother or friend. Actually, it is
easier to drive an automobile five
hundred miles than it used to be to
drive horse seventy-five miles.
Some regions are and always must
be an adventure to visit; the Rock
les. the deserts, the Sierras, for ex-
ample, offer some highway ap-
proaches. But for all time preci-
pices must be skirted, thirst con-
fronted, and the possibility of cloud
burst or accident figured into ones
calculations on that stretch of
twelve hundred or so miles from
eastern Rockies to western Sierras.
No less interesting are the Cum
berlands. the Appalachian system
that reaches from katahdin to the
picturesque bluffs that mark the
Great Bend of the Tennessee. Fine
roads lead one to the forested noun
tains. but the ridges and the valleys
are forever the answer of the hui
man longing to climb. and no matter
how we'll the main trails are built,
side roads are sure to lead into diff
Guilty and make demand on the
tourists ingenuity and resourceful-
ness.
The marvel is that so few of the
automobile travelerS-men, women,
and children-do meet genuine,
rd-to-bear troubles. Lacking
money, husky manhood rustles a
job; a mother takes care of an all
ing child; and a break down or stall
in desert waste or bottom-la land flood
but seems to add to the JOY of ones
list of memories.
The water-tank on the running
board is sure sign of the tourist S
experience and preparedness. With
good water, almost any kind of grub,
and makeshift outtit-well, five mill
lion wanderers are answering the
road Call.-By Raymond S. Spears,
in Adventure Magazine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-18
Hearing Today in
Death Mrs. Webb

White Plains, N. Y, Oct. IL
Charles H. Webb. husband of Mrs,
Gertie German Webb, whose death
recently was alleged to have &C.
Cured under suspicious circum-
stances, and DR.. William ]. Meyer.
the dead woman's physician, will
testify before the grand jury inves-
tigating the case tomorrow-if they
are willing to sign waivers of i'm
munity, it was announced tonight
by District Attorney Rowland of
Westchester county.
Mr.. Webb has from the start of
the investigation, insisted that there
was nothing suspicious about the
death of his wife. DIR. Meyers ac-
ton in refusing to sign a death
certificate for her burial, and his
subsequent assertion that all was
not right. led to the calling in of
county officials.
William r. Hunter, uncle of Mrs.
Webb. also is expected to be wit
ness before the grand jury tomor-
row. He insists that an inquest be
held by coroner Fitzgerald to de-
termine the cause of his neice's
death.
The announcement that the three
would be permitted to testify. came
after DIR. Meyer and Mr.. Hunter
had issued indignant protest be-
cause they were not called before
the body today.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-18
Six Horses Out
of Endurance Test

Rochester, N. Y, Oct. 17-SiX
horses were barred or withdrawn be-
fore or during the third lap of the
1928 national 800 mile endurance con-
test at Avon, N. Y, today. With
Nintu disqualified yesterday, 16 re-
naming entries will take the road
tomorrow.
The stiffest course in the history
of the endurance rides was respon-
sible for the first big gap in the
ranks of the entries, officials said.
Kildare, big gray gelding, one of
the Irish Hunters entered by Her
bert j. Brown of Portland, Me-, made
a gallant fight to stay in the running
but was ruled out after breasting SO
miles of rocky hills.
Vagrant, an army thoroughbred
ridden by Major ]. M. Wainwright.
dropped out at the four mile mark
early this morning.
The contest is narrowing down to
fight between the army thorough
breds and the Morgans ridden by
cowpunchers under H. E. Fretz.
Two Morgans, Dude and Club,
were out before the ride started this
morning. The former did not start at
all and the latter was withdrawn two
miles out. Red Cloud, a stablemate,
is said to be hopelessly late and Fair
Lady, also a Morgan, was Withdrawn
at the start because Of lameness.
All other entries finished what was
said to be a heartbreaking course
within nine hours, the minimum
time limit. The absence of time pen
alties considering the number Of
- l.
in the history of the rides.
The breeds that showed exception
al WEAKNESS today are the Anglo
Arabs and the Irish Hunters, both
being seen to pant heavily on the
hills
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-18
Mortgaged

1t used to he considered a mis-
fortune. If not a disgrace, to be
mortgaged. Now, it is quite the
common and proper thing. From
figures just made public by the CEN
sus officials and the Department of
Agriculture we learn that the farm
mortgages totaied S7,S57. 100000 on
January 1, 1920. About $1,000 to a
farm, supposing they are all mort
gagged or. twice that much II only
half the farms have "plasters" on
them! And that was three years
ago. No doubt the mortgage debt
has increased in the meantime.
Heaven only knows what it will be
when the next census figures are
compiled, for right now, on account
of the activity of the joint stock land
banks and the Federal Farm Land
banks and the private bankers,
mortgages are being written at an
unprecedented rate. The minimum
government loan has been raised
from $4,000 to $4,000, and 1t was
never SO easy to borrow money. Is
this frightful? Perhaps it only
means that farming as great in
dustry is following the other great
industries into the new realms OF
credit. The farm lands aret worth
perhaps nine or ten times the
amount of the mortgages. and this
constitutes good safe risk, surely.
If the railroads, or mines, or public
utilities were only bonded and mort
gagged to one-tenth their value they
would be regarded as remarkably
solvent. Why should we be stag
gered at the fact that agriculture
has a permanent debt running up
INTO the billions? 1t is merely in
Keeping with general business meth
DDS of the time and doesn't indicate
anything tragic or DISASTROUS
Farm Life.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-18
WHY Can Sore Handle Animalse

l can approach and handle any
dog / ever saw and some that even
their owners could not handle. Some
so savage that no one else was ever
known to even approach them with
out them trying to break loose.
When l go near them I stand near
enough, if they are Gagged or chained,
for them to smell me. l stand quiet
and il a few minutes the worst sub
side and though they dom: always
wag their tails. / know | am accept
ed by them. Just why / don't know,
but ] can touch them 'heE. [ have
petted some of the wolves and coy
otes in the Bronx Zoo and In the
Philadelphia Zoo, to. I can also do
the same with most OF the cats
ESQ can my daughtcrsl. bis and
small. Surprised a guard once in
the Bronx by stroking black puma
that muZZled up to the bars a. me.
Lon't know Just why I can do this.
Don't take any special credit to nv
self for it, it just happens SO Nv
grandmother. mother and daughters
also have or had the same faculty
l saw guinea pigs tumbling over
place, Atlantic City. 1899. to get to
lily udus HlcI "ltil a CltAIu dDOuL
seven or eight. Later / gave her
two and at her call they would al
ways come to her. though they ran
from the rest of the family.
You will frequently find people
who are attacked by one species of
insect and attract others of similar
species 1t may be some of the sci
entific sharps could explain it. l can
not / only know il is so.
i could give dozens of other in
stances where it could not possibly
be anything else than the effluvium.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-18
Belgium Plans Centennial CsIebra.
ton

Belgium, which won the respect
and admiration of all by her magni-
f1cient wartime courage, is even now
planning to show the world how we'll
she has recovered from her battle
scars by staging an elaborate exposi-
ton. to be held in 1880, the hun
dredth anniversary of her indie
pendence.
The question of such a demon
stration in Brussels is being. dis
cussed heatedly throughout Belgium
today, Some favor 1t, others object;
some prophesy tremendous success,
while others claim it will injure
Belgian industry.
Many interesting ideas have been
offered for consideration. "L'Industre
Rationale" suggests that the success
of any exposition depends on it's
vitality. 1t should not consist merely
of a group of buildings filled with
old documents, which. however
valuable are dry and unattractive to
the people in general, upon whose
support the success of the whole
thing rests.
1t should represent the activity not
of single city, but of different sec
tons of the country. The people of
Belgium should be made amiliar
with life in the colonies through
motion pictures and pageants. Make
use of the principle of education
through entertainment.
Above all, the accomplishments of
modern industry, the different stages
of production of various COM
modties. should be brought before
the people by actual demonstrations
of machines and appliances, oper-
ated by skilled workmen.
If the plans now under considera-
ton come to fruition, the eyes of all
the world will be turned toward
Belgium in 1890 the year of her
"World's Fair"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-18
Wealth Comes Too Late

An old cutler named James Fred
erick Dunworth of Sheffield, Eng,
died of consumption. in extreme
poverty, while strenuous efforts were
being made to esta blish his claim to
a fortune.
Frederick Greenwood. recluse,
died at Collyhurst, Lancashire. last
year, and was found to have left
property valued at 100000 in the
centre Of Manchester. There were
156 claimants to the estate. but the
only evidence in support of claim
was brought in the case of Dun
worth.
The lost document which. 1t was
believed. would finally establish
Dunworths claim. arrived the morn
ing after his death. He left a will
in the hope that his sons and
daughters might benefit from the
good fortune which eluded him.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-18
Complete Jury for
Trial of COrcOran
EX-District Attorney

Boston, Oct. IA jury was COM
pleted in Suffolk County Superior
Court today for the trial of William
J. Corocran, former district attorney
of MiddleseX County, and seven
others charged with larceny and con-
sriracy. The other defendants are:
Leo Corcoran, brother of the former
district attorney; Harry e. Lcven-
son; Michael j. Lyons: j. Warren
Kane; Theodore Byers: Francis Dug
gan: and Mrs. Theresa Duggan, for
n1er, wife of Francis Duggon.
There are q indictments charging
William j. Corcoran and Levenson'
jointly with larceny Of $4,000 OF
which $4,000 is alleged to have been
obtained from man named Curtis
and the remainder from James l..
Donovan, Boston shoe manufactur-
or: and conspiracy to charge certain
persons with the commission of crime
in order to extort large sums OF
money from them. Two others in
dicted in connection with the cases,
Max Rothschild, alias Omer Kaldah,
a fortune teller. and Peggy Purdy.
, alias Partridge, have not been ap-
pretended.
An alleged confession by Corcoran
of completely in a number of black
mail plots was introduced as EVIL
dence in the trial of former district
attorney Joseph c. Pelletier of Suf-
folk County which resulted in the
removal from Office of that official.
The confession" later was made
public by former Attorney General
Allen in his final report on retiring
from office. An effort is to be made
to have this alleged confession used
as evidence in the present trial.
Corcoran when first called to trial
was defaulted as were tn etwo Dug
cans. He had taken up residence in
New York and later was arrested and
returned to Massachusetts. A large
number of witnesses, many of them
women, have been summond in the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-18
Soviet Calls Up
Military Classes of
Years 1898, 1899, 1900

Boston, Oct. II. (By A. P.)-Soviet
Russia today called up the three mil
itary classes of 1898, 1899 and 1900
for territorial army training. Sinful
taneously there appeared in the Off
cial newspaper Izvestia a striking
cartoon depicting a stern-visaged
Red soldier watching the Polish bor-
der, with the caption: They are
risking it to pass the frontier of my
patience"
The calling up of the territorials
is in line with the long-contempla-
ted militia training plan and probab-
ly has no particular significance, but
it rs obvious from declarations made
on all sides that the Moscow govern
ment. while seeking to avoid parti-
cipation in the German struggle,
nevertheless is taking no chances
that it will be unprePared for event.
ualities.
The so-called white Terror" in
Poland, where Communists are ap-
parently suspected of causing the
disastrous explosion in one of the
Warsaw forts, occupies prominent
space in the newspapers, and the eff
forts of the German reactionaries
to crush the budding workers gov
ernments in SaXony and Thuringia"
are occupying the close attention of
the communists here.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-18
Wednesday Brighton Market

Stock Yards, Oct. 1.-THE beef
cattle market continued weak and al
together unsatisfactory to sellers.
The weakness reflects the movement
OF the dressed meat market, where
killers have an excessive supply Of
the poorer cuts of beef. Few fancy
cattle were offered; l pair of seters
sold at 10c. and this was the top
price. The average top on COW beef
was 1-2c. and from this prices
dropped according to gradefi down to
the poorest bolognas, which in some
sales failed to bring above l 1-2c,
but 2@2 lac was the average
The veal calf market was easy with
buyers not keen in trade. due as in
the case of beef to excessive sup
plies. Hogs and sheep sold steady
with yard offerings light
The barn was filled with mich
COWS and as usual the trade was
dull for the poor and medium cows.
In good and fancy cows the demand
was active. Prices in the sales of
the morning ran from S35 to Sis.
Sales-V. A. Hanson sold 20 veal
calves-5c for drinkers and 12c for
veals; sheep and lambs, sheep sc,
lambs lie; % mich cows at S4O@
$l15. E. E. Cummings sold 81 calves
at &c. and 20 mich cows at 5000
Sis. r. L. Wormell sold AZ calves at
&c, and 10 mich cows at S75@s125
+. NJ. Dana sold l COW at $40, and
young stock bull at $50. Otis H. For
bush sold l COW at 5 1-4c; l COW at
&c. and 81; 3 COWS at lac, and 1
COW at 2 1-2c. r. D. Pickett sold 25
COWS at Sc, and 20 cows at $3.50
$110. P. Simon sold 9 COWS, 94SO lbs,
at Sac: 1 COW. 1870 lbs at 5 lee;
q cows, $3.50 lbs at 2 1-2c: 1 COW. $50
ID at 2 lee; ~ calves 1920 lbs at
1-2c; 10 hogs. $3.50 lbs at s 3-4c;
4 hogs 1920 lbs at SC. Robert Cannon
sold 80 milch cows at S1O00ds150. f.
G. Piper sold IS cows at s65@$10O
j. w. Brooks sold Gamers at
3-4c: 81 mich cows at s40@11o. c.
F. Gage sold 25 COWS I 5000:
40 calves at "a 10c; IS mich cows at
S60@11O. G. S. Lowell sold IS calves
av 115 lbs at 9 1-2c. 25 drinker calves
av $50 lbs at &c: % sheep av 80 lbs
at &c, IS lambs av 55 lbs at &c: %
hogs av 1S5 lbs at SAC: s cows av
$50 lbs at 1 1-2c: % mich cows at
S506115. T. D. keenan, sold 1 bull.
1850 lbs at 5 1-2c, 7 bulls av 1000 lbs
at 3 1-2c, 2 bulls 1900 lbs at 4c. 10
cows at 100 lbs at &c, 1875 Gamers
av $50 lbs at &c, Sc Gamers av 900
lbs at lac: % milch cows at $500
175 A. c. Warner & Sons % cows
at s50@14o.
r.. F. Hobbs, I OK, 1920 lbs at 20
1 OK. 1915 lbs at 1-2c, COW 1860
lbs at sc. 1 cow $40 lbs at : Ice, 1
| COW 900 lbs. and . 1-2c. A. F. Chick
ering sold 10 cows for $1,000 and "a
cows at $50 q 100. a. NJ. Baggs
sold 60 Gamers at 1.60c: o5 calves at
o 1-2c; and 6 cows at $50 q 40. Put
man Bros sold 10 Gamers at 1 3-4c:
| dressed weight. sheen and lambs,
sheen 6c-lambs 12c; So mich cows
at $50 a 40.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-18
Klan Chaplain
Arrested as Drunk

Atlanta, Ga, Oct. 17-Rev. Caleb
Ridley, known as the Imperial
kludd (Chaplain) of the I<u KluX
Khan, and former pastor of an At
lanta church, was arrested her
today on a charge of being drunk
and operating an automobile. The
arrest was made by motorcycle Of
ficer l.. f. Shumate, who said he
found two small bottles of whiskey
in DR.. Ridley's machine.
In police station. DR.. Ridley stated
that he had driven out into the
country when he was accosted by a
man who offered to give him some
whiskey. He stated that he had
accepted the liquor and took drink
before starting to town.
The Imperial kludd was relea sed
on bond Of $500 late tonight. His
case was scheduled for trial tomor-
row.
The minister denied that he was
drunk and that two bottles of whis-
key were found in his automobile.