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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-02
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE
Business Property

BRICK BLoCK--0n Water street, Gar
diner, Maine. Large cement base
mneanat, s.story, building. Rents for
Si325 per year,. Price $500. Very
SKOWHEGAN - Special opportunitv
for someone looking for groceries,
meat and fish business combined. One
OF the best locations in Skowhe "a !, :,
Two large show windows. modern fix
lures. new refrigerator installed
three months ago. Glass front, 10 fl.
square. An old established grocery
store for 80 years Lard and sausa ee
room; also stofehouse. No one need
apply without capital and experience.
.Inat was the trouble with last occu.
pants. 9, 4. z. Btsson (owner Of build
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-02

Fuel, Feed, Fertilizers 66
GOOD HAY-$14 ton at barn; also an
almost rev 12-can ice chest. Tel.
Monmouth 1912. r. T. Richards, r.
81. Winthrop.
HAY-About IS tons standing. Excel
lent quality. Price right. For par
ticulars inquire D. S. McNaughton. 277
Water St., Gardiner. Tel. SO.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-02
Plate Glass.
Door Plates
MADE. TO ORDER

ssa,s and dust proof aiuminum
% karat gold letters. Plate size 4 bv
HSsIImethins different. These are not
IKE IKE the other plates on the marfst
p Ttn the ne tinfoil letters. This 10 1 real
and sl;5e and ! will send Won . n nay
'nat VIII please you and car, susrantex.
J. W. ccxx1xG, xa,,evsu. - : +,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-02
Little Notices Of Big Bargains Make This Page Of Vast Value t. Everyone
LIVE STOCK
Horses, cattls. vshielea

1925 lbs, been used
in our business and right out Of hard
work. Good roader and useful mare
Tor anyone. Waterville Steam Laun-
dry. 145 Main St., Wateryille.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-02

ORONA-Typewriters are the light
est (6A lbs.) and best for all uses ].
Frank Pierce store. Augusta.
OVENS-Two gas baking. Capacity 80
loaves each. In perfect running or
der. with motors. Augusta Food
Shoppe.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-02

SPEED BOAT-33-foot cedar hull. ma
hogany deck and trimmings. equipped
h. p. dual double ignition. full electric
equipped self starter, revolution indi-
Gator, marine speedometer clock. etc.
For information, John Conroy, West
Gardiner.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-02

IL years. good worker
ana driver, safe anywhere. 500.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-02

WILL EXCHANGE-For small house
of rooms or more in town. my equity
in farm Of IS acres. house, barn and
big wood lot. Telephone and electric
lights installed. ]. w. Cullen, r. 1,
Augusta. Tel. 1874.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-04
PLUG FOR PEACE AND KEEP POWDER DRY

EV7E world peace trimming ornaments
wv bone But if the world going go armed the United
States unarmed. And if carry all they
re good as the best.
other words if ornaments reduced pop
gun country should popgun like
popguns and piece of popgun but the afredest
slcke hniest readiest popgun Yankee ingenuity de-
wise
Indianapolis has fire department One of the best Sup
pose however the city council should talk things and
Oh, maybe there won't be any fires Let's not buy
any spark plugsfor engines and money. We
some somehow
You'd be angry You'd have right be- You'd get righ
after that council and you'd tell it something
'See here!" you'd say. What's the of saving
spark plugs and drivers wages9 If fire department
ready from fire, than no
gives him protection Always be ready scrap the
whole thing"
So our navy must be as good as the best or
might well scrap the whole thing.
But don't dare scrap the whole thing Japan as The
Times has stated secretly aiming her reorganzed feet
the United States That is Japan gnary enemy
against whom her army and her navy being reshaped
America
And France and England armng against each other
particularly in the air. Europe has under today
than she had in 1914 The world in fact but armed
hostile and ugly. .
So let's keep up the good fight world peace ultimate
disarmament Meantime must gauge powder by what
the other fellows got and keep that pretty darned dry
THE public service throw wet blan-
ket on the water company's increased hopes.
LET'S hope all the members of the public
sion do not resign before the water is decided
IT is time for the city
oe oat- -
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-04
Animal Facts

In Japan and China they breed
goldfish that assume strange shapes.
The variety known as Celestial has
eyes on the top of its head, the
Velescoue has protruding eyes and
the Tumbler has such a curious
shape that it cannot maintain its
equilibrium in the water.
There is a tribe Of apes living on
the rock Of Gibraltar, and they are
protected by law.
A writer in Izaak Walton League
Monthly says the only living thing
he never could get to understand
friendship were two bobcats caught
while they were kittens. They were
hell-cats at the beginning and they
remained so for two years, when he
had to kill them. He says it takes
three days TO teach a wild alligator
to be friendly, a cougar two years,
a horse thirty days. and snake a
week, although the latter has to learn
1t all over again after each hiber-
nation. A bear viii be friendly in
a week, while puppy is friendly the
moment 1t is born. A wolf and a
coyote are capable Of friendship, but
they are treacherous.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-04
Science

Psychologists are interested in the
latest craze called ''pram-pushing"
now affecting some parts Of England
In this form Of amusement, mothers
load the family baby into perambu.
lator and race each other for long
distances. Several of these races have
extended over thirty miles and a few
Of them have gone nearly sixty miles.
The psychological theory Is this
craze is one Of the offshoots of the re.
cent mania that affected nearly the
entire world after the great war. This
wave swept over the United States
and eliminated in marathon dances"
Dancing manias are old and well
defined forms Of mob-hysteria. One
Of the most striking instances Of this
mania occurred in the middle ages,
when the populations of entire towns
danced en- masse from their homes
The craze came to a crisis when the
dancers armed themselves with whips
and beat each other. This, presum-
ably, was the reason for it's sudden
ending. In more recent times the
Dukhobors OF Russia and Canada suf-
fered from a similar mass hysteria
They wandered away, naked. In the
dead Of winter and persisted in droves.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-04
INCREASE NOT JUSTIFIED

HE Indianapolis Company hearing the
public service commission did make for in
creased rates.
This fact be apparent any impartial observer
followed the
The water company making money this than in
almost its history This indicated the face
its figures 1t paying dividends stock and
meeting its interest and dividend payments bonds and
ferred stock Besides, it shows surplus.
The company is not making per cent return the
$1800000 valuation it claims But there is little evidence that
by stretch of the figures the property worth $S00O00
There too theories and fances involved in that
figure At best going value structural overhead rights
and several other of the values into the figure
merely estimates These figures represent millions of dol
lars the valuation There believe the estimates
too low
The company argues present cannot
borrow make extensions This does sound
able financial statement such the company able pro-
due should permit borrow money This
pecay of dealing absolute necessity with
monopoly in its field
Indianapolis higher those nearly
every other city of comparable size the country Most of these
other cities have municipality owned plants That may be the
only solution in Indianapolis
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-04
Castles
By BERTON BRALEY

BY BERTON BRALEY
The castles of marble or granite
stand fast
For ages, but finally crumble.
The wind and the weather destroy
them at last
And over their ruins we stumble.
Though high be the battlements,
thick be the wall,
Though lofty their chambers and
splendid,
Yet sooner or later they topple and
And all of their splendor is ended.
Oh, men must build castles of iron
and stone
To house their material glories,
Strong castles whose beauty and
wonder are known
And told in the bravest of stories {.
Yet these, too, shall pass as the
centuries beat
Against their great bastions and
towers,
And they shall be dust meath human
ity's feet
In ages far distant from ours.
The castles of granite and steel fade
away,
But ever more brilliantly cleaning
Our dream castles stand with their
parapets gay
And all Of their bannerts stream
ing;
No foe can destroy them, time storms
them in vain
They glow with enchantment SUI
pernal,
The castles Of stone turn to dust of
the plain,
But Castles in Air are eternal.
Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc }
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-04
CROSSING PROTECTION NECESSARY

OR real constructive legislation nothing excel the
ordinances grade crossing and other accidents
to be introduced in the city council
Indiana has been the recently Of unusual
decreasing tragedies Among the
Mrs Mary Coy at the Tbbs Ave- crossing of the T. H. l. E.
traction line.
The real solution of the elevation of tracks the
sinking of This must be worked slowly In the
meantime possible pecauon against accident. should be
taken
One of the proposed ordinances requires employment
wachmen at the Tbbs Ave- railroad and nterurban
The other would prevent the growing of shrubs
three feet high any
If the council never does than pass these
dnances will have been of great the community
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-04
SCOTS LOVE
LIBERTY BUT
ARE CURBED
Prohibition in U, S. Seems
Funny to Them While Own
Activities Are CurtaiIed.
BY JOHN W. RAPER

N LASGOW Scotland C'Funny
IL people. you Americans, say
III all the Scotch vets with whonl
have talked. Very strange. Pose
as loving freedom and liberty, yet you
take away a mans individual liberty
by denying him the right to take a
harmless drink. We Scotch wouldnt
stand for it. Not much. We love lib
erty too much ever to adopt prohibi-
ton, And it couldn't be enforced If
adopted"
That only gees to show what a
difference there is in the viewpoint.
To me, and to the Americans have
met over here, Scotland seems "prohi-
bitioned' to death now and 1 can't
conceive of the people in the u. S.
submitting to what the Scotch submit.
to-and probably half of them like 1t.
Regular Clock Schedule
Saloons in Scotland can be open
only eight hours day, from IL a. m.
to p. m. and p. m. to 9 p. m. Six
teen hours OF prohibition.
On Saturday the saloon may keep
to remove temptation from the work.
ingnan who Ia on his way home with
his wages
The saloon may not be reopened
till 8 p. m. on Saturday and must
close at 8. More prohibition.
Saloons closed all day Sunday.
More prohibition.
Then there is the "shopkeepers'
act" It's a wonder.
The "shopkeepers act" provides
that every employer must give en-
ployes one-half day off in each week.
Merchants in downtown Glasgow
decided on Saturday afternoon clos.
ing. That settled it for everybody.
Many merchants preferred other days
for the half holiday. but the majority
had said close" and close It was.
Wicked Cigarettes
And these extremely ingenious
wicked men have found a way to de.
feat the ends of justice and still be
within the law covering the sale of
cigarettes. Here and there you will
find cigarette vending machines. You
drop coin in the slot and draw out
a package Of cigarettes. The courts
have held this is not a Violation of
the law.
And then there are what many
Scotchmen call the grandmother
laws" They. of course. are the
wicked Scotchmen. I don't know all
Of these laws. but I can give you
one or two. No tobacconist may
keep open on Sunday and he may not
sell after p. m. on any day Thea.
ters, once permitted to keep open
bars during performances. must OBJ
serve the same hours as the other
bars.
Can't Buy F1rewood
You can't buy f1rewood after p. m
on any day.
You may buy ice cream till II D. M.
through the week, but not later than
p. m. on Sunday Until few years
ago there was a law that permitted
an ice cream shop to keep open few
hours on Sunday, but the law pro-
vided that nothing could be eaten on
the premises.
Then came the ice cream cone, one
Of the Ubiquitous inventions Of de-
cadent civilization. Men, women and
children bought cones and stood on
the sidewalk and ate them.
Next: Raper tells about an ex-
petition to buy some underwear.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-04
Magnus Speaks

Senator Moses. of New Hampshire,
Is one of these ante-mortem polite
ians. He likes to size UP men and sit
uations before fell blow, Hence, he
went out to Minnesota, several days
before the late senatorial election,
and it didn't take him long to dis
cover that the Republicans were In
for drubbing. They got it. Now,
Moses mournfully adds to the somber
returns the prediction there will be
another vacancy in the Senate soon.
THE first time Magnus Johnson
gets up to speak" he says, Senator
Lodge will drop dead"
Senator Moses is a well-informed
man, generally speaking. He may be
right. He may be wrong. Anyway,
his proposition is Interesting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-04
(OM SIMS
Says
IT, sEEP away from Munich. Price
TX of beer has gone up in Mu-
[ N Mich

sEEP away from Munich. Price
TX of beer has gone up in Mu
- Mich.
Boston doctor has crossed the
ocean eighty-six times Isn't Ii
about time he was making up his
mind?
Golf balls may have killed two
birds on a London course; anyway
the men swear they did.
Pafis is trying motorcycle side car
taxis Wouldn't do here. Two can't
hug in a side car.
Womens rights are carried SO far
in Pana, ILL.,, rooster tried to hatch
some eggs.
Mt. Etna> has quoted down now
and real estate men are selling nice
lots all over again.
Berlin doctor has a new way to
make people thin, when just living
in Berlin doesn't succeed.
Russia will build the worlds larg-
est air fleet, but we don't know about
its upkeep.
About forty-fve women are study.
ing politics at Columbia First les
son should be smoking cigars.
Three car loads of beer were
seized in Philadelphia, and here's
August and September yet.
If streak passes you, it may be a
Tulsa, Okla. pitcher. First four UP
got home runs.
Miners are striking in Mexico.
Maybe It is our strike that we are
not using this year.
People who have seen bum shows
may be glad to learn a New York ac-
tor is In jail for sixty days.
Two young girls Of Newark, n. j.,
paint. The strange part is these two
girls paint buildings.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-04
Heard in Smoking, Room

race. Don't let black man whip you.
Get on your feetD
Three: Qisten to what I'm telling
you, boy. Get up and give him a real
fight. On your way nowD
-Four: Come on now. That's the
boy! Get on your feet and tear into
him.
DANNY recuperated by the long
count. rose from the floor, took a
haymaker and dropped his opponent
on the mat.
The referee quickly counted.
Two and two are four and six are
ten. You're out.
And ths decision stuck.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-04
Shock in Mid-Ocean

The public prints. few days ago,
carried the announcement Of the birth
Of twins to Mrs. w. H. King, wife of
the Senator for Utah. The same dis.
patch closed with the naive but sig
nifcant statement that Mr.. King,
father of the new-come babes. was in
mid-ocean on his way to Russia.
Whether or not the glad news from
home was wirelessed to the sailing
Senator has not been revealed. If it
was. it would be interesting to know
whether Mr.. King shouted Justify and
insistently for a quick retdrn to these
shores, hoarsely and sternly demanded
full speed ahead, or despairingly and
hopelessly begged that the vessel be
stopped and allowed to Adft aimlessly
sn mid-ocean.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-04
BUDGET SHOULD BE CUT

N1AYOR SHANK has promised to insist reduction of the
yl city budget which if adopted will increase of SO
cents the city rate The budget should be reduced if
reduction is possible without hamperng efficiency 1t is to be
hoped Shank what he says when he says will
reduction
City department heads should
people of why they believe increased budgets
They should allow the budget be submitted the
scrutiny and they should welcome any suggestion
During the told would be reduced
the conflict ended After the told would
have be increased because of initiation of the dollar but
the dollar started debate would debate
with it. They didn't Now department heads tell still higher
rates necessary
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-04
Observations

Judge Gary approaches the eight
hour day as if it were a major opera
ton with all the chances against the
patient.
Mr.. Harding's pledge that he will
always refrain from mistreating horses
or dogs ought to win Laddie Boys
support for the Administration.
Colonel Harvey is going back to
England, perhaps a sadder and wiser
man.
Mr.. McAdoo thinks the next Demo
cratic presidential candidate should be
moderately radical" About the near
beer per cent, or less?
Those superstitious Filipinos are
knocking on Wood.
Oh, they can't get away with it all
of the time. Lightning struck Kala-
niazoo woman the other day while she
had a menacing revolver in her hand.
Golf is like life seys the Detroit
News. Yes. one birdie three after an
other.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-04
Sixteenth st.

To the Editor of The Times:
FLOR new business locations desiring
TO get out Of the jam and congestion
on Washington St, let me suggest
Sixteenth st. 1t is wide and has no
street cars 1t is centrally located
and runs straight through from east
to west, and is pierced by street cars
that run north and south, making 1t
easy of access. Already business
sites are being erected filling
stations, etc.
In Cincinnati forty years ago the
same congestion existed as is now
here. Then a leading store moved
several blocks out of the then
crowded district This solved the
problem at the time.
J. E. WHITE,
Is E. Sixteenth st.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-04
Novels

Discussion of the fate of Tom
Harbaugh. prolific writer of ol6time
Beadle dime and ickel novels, dis
closes that the first of all the dime
novels was "Malaeska. or the Indian
Wife of the White Hunter" 1t was
written by Mrs. Ann S. Stevens in
1850.
Historically important. The Anne
lean craze for sensations found its
first outlet in dime novels, later in
Barnum's circus, and now in jazz. We
toy with our nerves like boy picking
up a fiddle and bow for the first time.
then puzzled when strings snap.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-04

HE recent heavyweight fights
| brought this one from tho
IL cigar salesman, who had
passed the stogies around in the
Pullman smoker:
An Irishman and a negro were
fighting for local championship, and
the referee. also Irish, was prejudiced
in favor of his countryman. A wild
swing by the negro put his opponent
on the mat. The referee started.
slowly. to count the ten seconds.
"One: Danny. get on your feet, me
boy. Get UP and haAd him a
wallopD
1.-TWO; Remeuber tho prdds Of Jour
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-04
More Later
Wincennes SUM

Senator-elect Magnus Johnson OF
Minnesota. in an interview. declares
IL conditions confronting the labor
ing man and the farmer are not
changed" the country faces a revolu-
ton. even 10 the extent OF a resort
to arms. To accomplish the desired
result. he continues, It viii be ''neces
sary for Congress to proceed carefully
but right now temporary or emer
gency legislation is needed to take
care Of the situation" His interview
seems to have about It the air OF
more later"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-04
From the
Referees
Tower
E d
BY ALBERT APPLE

Here's a coke worker who buys a
Sopwith airplane to carry him to and
from his job at Uniontown, Pa. He
is Edmund HenriQues. Ed learned
to fly during the war. On Sundays
he will use his plane to attend base
ball games in Chicago and Cleveland.
It is a more exceptional item of news
for an airplane to be bought by coke
worker than by the owner of coke
ovens, which demonstrates that the
theory Of equality in a democracy
slips a few cogs when applied to
money. Democracy Of wealth is far
in the future, but not as far as many
think
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-04
A Thought

Better it is that 1t be said unto
thee, Come up hither. than that thou
shouldst be put lower in the presence
of the prince whom thine eyes have
seen.--Prov. EST.
xvi HENEVER you see a man VINO
lWI is successful in society. try
L---l to discover what makes him
pleasing and If possible adopt his sys.
n----Bsaconsfeld-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-04
Water Rates
Decatur Democracy

Facts and figures brought out In
that Indianapolis water rate case in.
clines one to think that the water
company is trying to get more than
its share. The city of Indianapolis is
fighting the company's petition for
increased rates and figures brought
out show that the water plant Is q
splendid paying proposition. the divi-
dends being from 8 to 80 per cent on
tho original investment. What moro
do they want?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-04
Wheels

More than two million passenger
autos and trucks were turned out by
American factories in the first six
months of 1928. Which is at a rate
Of about four million cars year.
Ford this year expects to build l..
100000 cars and trucks.
We are On wheels, as a nation, and
the penalty of not exercising our legs
enough is showing up in bad digestion.
fretful nerves and lessened powers of
resisting disease
Life is becoming too automatic and
soft" for health.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-04
Family Fun
Ponular

Sam was colored gentleman. very
popular with the ladies. One night,
Mirandy. his wife. was going through
his pockets and found a card In
scribed:
Louise No. 81"
On inquir1ng from her spouse its
meaning. she was informed its was
the name and number OF race horse.
A few days later Sam was Weakened
from sleep by the stern tones of his
wife, saying:
Niger, your 'hoss' wants you on
the telephone. Judge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-04
Pittsburgh Plus
(Michlgan Clty plspatchl

At last Indiana oflcialdom has
awakened to the Importance OF the
fight being made by the midwest
against the Pittsburgh Plus" rates
on steel and Attorney General Lesh
has been directed to join in the legal
battle. A decision in this important
case is expected by the end of the
year and IT is confidently predicted
that the rate will be abolished. II
this is done numerous iron and steel
industries will be forced to move from
the East to the central West.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-04
The Wise wife

Your husband seems always to re-
member your wedding anniversary.
Eyes. but don't give him the credit.
take pains every year to see that he
doesn't forget 1t. Detroit Free Press.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-04
For a Rainy Day

IT he pc you are saving that money
that was left you, George. With care
you ought to be be able to live COM
fortably for the rest of your life"
"Oi means to. Squire-Oi be a-goin'
to use some of 1t to get a divorce,
be"-London Opinion,