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Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-17

MEN WANTED-To learn auto
p trades. Ignition experts, mecha-
nies, lathe men, battery experts,
ETC., earn big pay after short
training. Easy and quick to
learn under famous practical
shop methods. Work guaranteed
when qualified. Write for free
catalog. National Automotiye,
-. Dept. 80, 4004 S. Figueroa, Los
Angeles. - ,,.t 1t27
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-17
For SaIe-Redl Estate
BY ALTMAN

FOR SALE OR RENT-40s acres,
very reasonable. Medium soil.
Good drainage. Immediate deIiv.
cry. Close in. A bargain for
some one. Owner P. j. Storms,
Seeley.
May Is II 10 % "a 26
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-17

WE HAVE 40, also 80 acres splen-
did soil, good location and ready
for vegetables now. Can be
bought very cheap and easy
terms. Come and see about it.
Real Estate Exchange. 664 Main
st. Phone 424. -16t3
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-17
"cets-It" Tames
the Widest Corr
You Can Peel Them Right OF

No matter how long you've had your coenss
what YOU have tried, believe this-"Gets-It"
will end corn pains at once. and quickly you
IAN lift the corn right off the zoe or foot, with
the fingers. It ends callouses. the same simple
way. Millions use it. Money back guarantee.
4 Co, Mfr, Chicago. Sold in this city by
Lloynd Drug Co. Ell Centre. Adv
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-17

WANTED-Furniture to haul to
Jacumba and Live Oaks. Whites
Service Station, Seeley. 11t6
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-17
Wanted tn BuU

WANTED-Any Kind lumber OF
building material in any quanti
ty. Collins Wrecking Go. Phons
572. 270 No. 18th. 24t26
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-17

. cape, Wednesday
night, May 11th, between. Ell
Centre and Shepard s bridge
Please notify Mrs. f. Q. Has
tings, Calipatria. Phone 57J.
1916
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-17
FOR EXCHANGE

318 acre farm in famous Red
River Valley, Minnesota. All good
land, well improved, 7 room house,
barn, 2 graineries, well, etc. Price
800 per acre. want Imperial Val
ley land or business.
r. J. DUNN,
Adv. Redlands, Calf.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-17
For Sale-LNeStOck

FOR SALE-Several heavy spring
ers, the pick out of 60 dairy cows.
A .Vellinga, 2 miles southeast of
Jasper store. 15t6
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-17

LOST-On road to Jacumba, black
handbag. Finder return to Press
office and receive reward. 16t6
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-17
Lost or Found

STRAYED-From Brawley, l bay
horse, l brown horse, l black
mule. Please notify A. l.. Mack
ey, Brawley, Calf. Box Ills.
16t3
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-17

FOR SALE-Comrlete house fur.
nishings for four room house, all
in excellent condition. Inquire
$50 Park Street. 11tl
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-17

FOUND-Small purse containing
money with Identification num-
ber of Minnesota bank. Will be
delivered to, owner upon identi-
fication. l.. E. Cooley, 519 State
. st. 1872
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-17

WE HAVE some wonderful bust
ness opportunities. See US. Ed
gar Bros. Realty Co. 10tf
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-17

WANTED-A few gooo ranch loans
= 10 years time. L. P. Sargent
Phone 321J. 500 Main. 1tf
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-17
For Sale or Exchange
For Observation-Disclosures

FOR RENT-Furnished tent house,
$12 a. month. Also a complete
furnished room. 753 State st. 16tf
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-17
T0DAY'S WANT ADS

WE CAN GIVE Permanent employ
ment, at good wages, to several
experienced Ford mechanics. Ed
, gar Bros. Co. 17t2
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-17

FOR SALE-Pasture for 80 head
dairy cows, Az miles west. B. /.
Difani. . ' 9tS
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-17

FOR RENT--3 room neatly fur
nished house. Inquire 753 State
st. '' 16tf
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-17

WANTED-Married ranch hand
916 So. Fourth st. 13tf
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-17

FOR SALE-Old newspapers. just
the thing for packing. Imperial
Valley Press. 14tf
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-17
Help Wanted

WANTED-Married man for milk
ing. r. Swart, 5H miles south
west of FL Centre, y mile west
and u mile south of McCabe
school. 15t3
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-17

WANTED-Grapc packers, girls to
pack grapes at Meloland Ex-
perience preferred. Write to p.
o. Box 971, Brawley. St10
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-17

FOR SALE--Nice lot at Live Oak
Springs. Very suitable for sum-
mer camp. Inquire Imperial Val
ley Press. 14tf
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-17
Miscellaneous

FIRE! FIRE! Three in "a hours.
Protect your property by insur-
ing with Chas +. Johnson. 664
Main st. Real Estate Exchange.
16t3
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-17
PRESS BUSINESS
DIRECTORY
AutOInotive Electricians

PHILADELPHIA BATTERIES
Automobile Electrician
Armature and Power Motor
Winding
RICHARDSON & ODGARD
773 Main Phone 511
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-17
For Rent-TOOnaS and
Apartments

FOR RENT-Large cool front bed
rooms, private entrance, very de-
sirable. Close in. 528 Olive.
Ms.~ 15t6
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-17

FOR RENT-Rooms and apart.
ments. Hollywood Hotel, Sixth
and He'll. Febb 1880
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-17

FOR RENT Front room. 673
Brighton. Call after S p. m. lift
New Britain herald., 1923-04-20
LAND IS ACQUITTED
 ON MURDER CHARGE
Seli Defense Plea Satisfies Jury
 in Cromwell Shooting Case

Middlatown, Conn, April ?o---Julius Land, negro. Of Newfeld, charged with murder in second degree for the Killing of Walter R. Thorell and Arr thur Y. Swanson in Cromwell on tho night of February 90 last. was found not guilty by jury in. the superior court here last night
 The case was given to the jury by Judge C. l., Avery carly yesterday afternoon. The jury deliberated seven and one-half hours, Land received an ovation from the crowded court room when the verdict was rendered.
 The shooting of Thorell and Swan son occurred near the Cromwell sta ton as the result Of an alleged alter cation between Land and others on trolley car Land, who took the wit ness stand yesterday, testified that he was struck in the face twice. once by Swanson and the other by Daniel Bowling. who was q witness for the state. Land said that he did not shoot to kill, but that he fired tho shots to scare the men. He said that he ran away to give himself up to the Mid dletown police. When he was caught. he did not know that he had killed anyone.
 Land was defended by Attorney D. J. Donahus. Of this city, and former United States District Attorney Will liam H. Lewis of Boston, who put in plea Of self defense.
New Britain herald., 1923-04-20
DANGERS ARE FIRING.
Only tg of 39 Left in Washington at
 Dawn Today---Started Wednesday

Washington, April 2o,--The 3s long distance dance record aspirants who swung into the international race at BPS D. m Wednesday night on two local dance floors had dwindled 10 19 as the early hours of today dawned. Fluttering hearts. aching feet and parental threats had accounted for most of the abandoned hopes while the sturdy 1 9 persisted doegedly in the odd motions still reminiscent of the opening steps.
 Most of the remaining contestants now have white taped ankles to sup port the flagging members. which gives them somewhat the aspect of race horses. They were all pronounced by physicians to be in perfectly safe conditions physically at the "A hour mark.
New Britain herald., 1923-04-20

pleasant customs, They place their dead outside their settlements for the hyenas to devour hence that animal is sacred They bleed cattle to drink hot hloodi they kill game with pois- oned arrows; they drug their dogs before the chase te make them more forocious,
 Cease Raids to Farm.
 Sparse population of region where the altitude offsets the equa- torial heat and the fertility invites farming is due largely 10 those war rior Nnsai whose former livelihood was gained principally hy raids on their ncishhors, Many of them have settled down to filling the soil
 Another native tribe. tho Ando- rahos formerly lived largely upon flesh of the colohns monkey The skin has market value because of its silky black and white hair and the tail with an immense hushy plume at the end They. too, turned to tho soil as the British imposed restric- tons on monkey killing to save the from extinction,
 hellNh HhN h nalN' FhPHlhiloh ol about 4,n0n.0 .000 entirely negligible 90 far as the present political problem is The issue Is between 2 bout S.n0n Europeans and six times that many Asiatics, Arabs and In- Gians, The claim of the latter to British citizenship necessarily raises a uestion about the interests of the rTuronoan coIonists who have been pioneers in developing the country's resources"
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New Britain herald., 1923-04-20

She was at her home resting and com sidering some attractive offers, Miss Curry was In good physical con dition when she stopped dancing and the physicians said she could have continued for several hours longer
 Miss Curry with Frank Ward, also holds the championship for couples, they having danced together continu- ously for b7 hours and 20 minutes, ID to the time Ward was forced to retire because of his heart,
 The nonstop title changed hands here ten times between Tuesday morning and last night at 9;lo when Miss Curry left the floor, ending the marathon in Cleveland. Her mark is 24 hours and { minutes better than that established by Miss Magdalene Gootschick Tuesday. Chief Dance Hall Inspector Charles Johnson an- nounced no more endurance dancing contests would be permitted.
 The mems championship is held by Arthur R. Klein. He danced for SIS hours and IS minutes,
 Another record established this week was of 24 hours for one-legged persons made by Theodore Bert Sul- livan.
New Britain herald., 1923-04-20
NUDITY OF MAN IS
 SYMBOL 0F MODESTY
Men in Kenya Are Beautifully
 Formed Specimens

Washington, n. C.. April 2O,-- Ken va Colony, in Africa. which is nono other than cratwhlc British East Africa, appears In London dispatches because immigrants from India who settled there wish to retain their full British citiznnship rights in their new homeland.
 Though seldom heard from. Kenya is one of the most fascinating regions of the globe, geographically speak ing" says n bulletin from the Wash ington, n. c, headquarters of the National Geographic society,
 At it's southeast corner Is Lake Victoria. second largest fresh water lake in the world. Along its shores dwell a people whose nudity is s sym. hol Of their modesty and whose men ser as beautifully formed specimens of their sex as are the Marquesas women of theirs.
 Africa's Highest Mountain
 "Just across Kenya's southern hor- der Is kilmaniaro. highest mountain in Africa. and near its center is Ken va peak, also volcanic, which o'ertops Mount Whitney by some 5000 feet.
 
 famous Rift Valley, here from 2o 10 40 miles wide. and generally several thousand feet below the plateau's general level,
 However. If is as a zoo and a lnxuriant botanical garden that Ken va makes its chief appeal to the nature-loving visitor. Perhaps its most amazing single spectacle is the fan1ingo colony on the northern shores of Lake Huntington. The banks are dazzling white with the birds giano, their nests are mounds of mud spread like mole-hils on a fiat plain.
 FIamingoes Color Landscape
 'The adult bird has a rose pink neck and body the beak is purple and scarlet. the wing feathers are crim- son. For q mile or so before one reaches their haunt he can hear these hirds-the splash and the swish of million or so becomes tumultuous as he approaches,
 "Hippopotani swim in the shall low waters of this hay. antelope and gnu, infest its shores. Its port, ki- sun,u is the terminus of the Uganda steamship line. which lands rubber, ivory and hides here for railway shipment to the coast.
 From the time one sees a belle Of Mombasa, fully clad, with circles painted on her cheeks, and her hands dyed purple until he reaches the shores of Victoria. where dwell the ApolIo-Iike Kavirondo men, he IS amazed by the variety of human tribes. Travel there, says one en- thusiast, is like walking through miles of living statuary.'
 Wire Jewclry Popular
 Though unclothed the Kavlrondos are much bedecked, every circumter- ence the human form affords. from chest and stomach to ankle and wrist is wire-wra pped. The women add one other decoration. tailor like tuft suspended from their waist line in the rear. "The fierce Nasal trihesmen 20 Tn for wire iewelry, too, but their specialty is the earring. Soon after a child is born its ear is pierced with | a silver and the aperture is enlarged | from year to year until huge disc may be inserted therein.
 'tThe Masoi tribesmen have less
New Britain herald., 1923-04-20
NEW CHAMPION DANCES
 FOR 90 HOURS, 10 MINUTES
Title Has Changed Hands Ten Times Since Tuesday---Cleye.and Now
 Bars Marafhons.

Cleveland. April 2o.--Miss June Curry, who became tho worlds champion endurance dancer last night, showed no ill effects today as q result of her 20 hours and 10 continuous performance.
New Britain herald., 1923-04-20

Pure Lard lbs 25c. Russell Bros. a1yt
New Britain herald., 1923-04-20

Pure Lard lbs 2bc. Russell Bros advt.
The Washington times., 1923-05-31

Steamship Company, and is making
three round trips weekly to the
lower landings. This company's
other boat, the Endeavor, is NOT
now in commission. Her inspec-
ton is expected next month, and
the company is considering fitting
her with eight staterooms, which,
if done, will partly care for those
who formerly depended on the Ma.
jestic for down-river business trips.
What is to result from the fore
closure of the Maryland, Delaware
and Virginia line and it's purchase
for the Pennsylvania railroad. re-
mains yet to be disclosed. For the
present, at least, it means that their
flagship, the Northumberland, is out
Of the Potomac river service, and
that the old Dorchester making one
round trip a week, Is now the only
Baltimore boat" to serve the many
Washingtonians who have made
this trip a part of their regular
summer vacation.
The Norfolk boats continue their
regular schedule service, Of course,
but make no landings between
Washington and the river mouth.
The Washington times., 1923-05-31
POTOMAC RIVER
BOATS LEAVE
TRADE
Two Big Packets Have Quit
During Winter, Ousted by
Motor Competition.

Many disconcerting changes made
recently in the traffic to Potomac
river landings were disclosed to old
travellers who yesterday made the
holiday trip on the ST. Johns to
Colonial Beach opening the sum,
mer season.
Freshened up a bit and speeded
up considerably under the active di
rection now Of Gen. Mgr. B. D.
Strobecker, the st. Johns resumes
her position as queen of the river.
Captain r. B. Reed remains with
her as master, and he has retained
for the most part, the old STAFF OF
courteous officers.
But another period in the deterior-
alton of the once profitable Po-
tomac river trade is marked by The
dissolution Of the Majestic Steam
ship Company, formerly closely af.
filiated with the Washington-Colon
ial Beach Company, and the sale
of their flagship, the Majestic, into
the Chesapeake bay trade.
The Ocean View, last season the
day boat Of the Majestic line, has
been taken over by the Potomac
The Washington times., 1923-05-31

watch, and so ON for the second,
third and fourth prizes, etc. Here
are some of them:
Barry-Pate Motor Company, 1918
Connecticut avenue, Chevrolet tour
ing car.
Clinedinst, photographer, 1873 Four.
teenth street, one 12x7 tinted parch'
ment picture with frame, value 800
National Furniture Company, $50
Fl street, Pathe photograph and ten
records.
Young Ladies Shop, 111S G street,
one sport suit.
Miss Mueller, 1914 G street. choice
of hats.
Charles Schwartz & Son, 70S Sew.
enth street, handsome wrist watch.
Berry 4 Whitmore Co., F and
Eleventh streets, silver mesh bag.
Dodek Clothing Company, 829 Sew
enth street, one lady's dress, value
$50.
Goldenberg's, s12 Seventh street,
lingerie set.
VOLTS Walk-Oyer Shop, 800 F
street, one pair lady's slippers!
Kings Palace, $40 Seventh street,
three pairs ladies' best silk hose.
C. Schneider Sons, 1907 r street,
one electric curler.
Joseph Sporting, 1885 r street, one
stone marten choker.
Lorenz Jewelry Company, sos
Ninth street, birthstone ring.
The Washington times., 1923-05-31

Get a bottle of this grand stom
ach medicine today with the distinct
understanding that your money
will be promptly returned if it does
not stop the most acute stomach
distress quicker than anything you
ever used.
Your stomach may be so distend-
ed with gas that you think every
minute your heart will stop beating,
yet with one dessertspoonful of
Dare's Mentha Pepsin that dreadful
feeling of suffocation will vanish in
q few minutes.
With the same speed it stops gas,
acidity, belching and heartburn.
It's a wonderful formula-this
combination of Pepsin with other
good stomach inYigorators-so won.
The Washington times., 1923-05-31
Girl, II, Boy, 9, Say
Mother Taught
ShOplifting

NEW YORK, May 31.-A
mother who taught her hildren,
a girl of eleven and a boy Of
nine, to steal from department
stores was sentenced to the
workhouse for ten days in
special sessions yesterday. She
is Mrs. Mary Keel, thirty, Of
Mt. Vernon.
She was convicted of stealing
boys suit, girls hat and a
pair of roller skates from a
Fourteenth street store March
20. Detectives say the boy was
seen to take the skates. He
was wearing the stolen coat and
his sister the stolen hat when
the mother was arrested.
The children told the detec-
tives their mother had taught
them to steal and that they had
done so before without being
caught. The children were not
arrested.
The Washington times., 1923-05-31
AWOrld-Fanned

sc A LITTLE trip abroad" but close
L \ at home-within your own United
States. A trip that Europeans travel
here to take.
A rare vacation in an environment
that guarantees complete, relaxing change
which is the real Value in vacations, &C
cording to nine physicians out of ten.
A country unlike that in which you
live, in almost every way-So that it ab-
serbs you. A land of great, quiet vistas
and vast space, the sharpest nerve-tcnsion
being almost Immediately slackened and
worries and troubles dissipated by its
irresistible effect.
Two weeks here are like month or
more elsewhere in the real rebuilding
that they do, so it's worth your while
to come no matter where you live.
And Southern California is quite dif-
fcrent, too, in temperature than many
people who have never been here think
it is in summertime.
The Washington times., 1923-05-31
SEEKS MILLION ESTATE AS
SLAIN BOOTLEGGER'S WIFE

PITTSBURGH, May BIN an an
swer filed in court here. May NUM-
Burke claims she is entitled to a
share of the estate Of Martin Burke,
maintaining they were married on
October %, 1921. The date was ask
ed by Burke's heirs, who say the
woman was not his wife, but his
housekeeper.
Burke, convicted bootlegger, was
slain at his home here several months
ago by a gang of men who escaped
in an automobile carrying an Ohio
license. His estate was valued at
approximately 81 900, 900.
The Washington times., 1923-05-31

derful that in one small town in
New Jersey last year over 5000
bottles were sold.
Never mind what causes your in
digestion or gastritis or dyspepsia
or how long you have had it, or
how many other remedies you have
tried, this is the one medicine that
will make your old disabled stom-
ach so strong and healthy that you
can digest anything you eat with
out the slightest distress. ass,
And you know that when your
stomach is in fine shape, nervous
ness, headaches and dizziness won't
bother you. Every regular druggist
guarantees one bottle of Dare's
Mentha Pepsin. Peoples Drug Stores
sell d0zHns Of If
The Washington times., 1923-05-31
The delegation includes the mem

The delegation includes the mem
bers of Ell Kader Temple, uni
formed patrol and chanters. The
pilgrims are headed by Hal T.
Hutchinson, illustrious potentate Of
Ell Kader Prominent among them
is George L. Baker, mayor OF Port
land, whose name will be placed
before the convention as candi-
date for Imperial Outer Guard.
Ell Kader has an, entertainment
and expense fund of $4,000 and
plans an extensive program Of
merrymaking in Washington.
The Washington times., 1923-05-31
POPULAR GIRL
CONTEST WILL
END JUNE 6
Votes Are So Divided Accurate
Guess at Winner Seems
impossible Now.

Popular girls seem to have the
edge on beautiful girls in nun bers
judging from the number nominated
in The Washington Times and the
Washington Herald's contest to dis
cover Washington's most popular
working girl However, the votes are
very much divided and even seven
days before awards are to be made
it is hard to give anything like an
accurate guess as to the standing at
the finish. VIZ.
The contest manager is busy
counting up votes every day so that
there will not be any delay in
awarding the Chevrolet motor car
and other prizes donated by leading
Washington business firms. The
contest will close June 6, and the
winner will be announced at a
performance Of "Only Shop Girl
Polls Theater, prior to June 8.
Many of the girls were SO busy
yesterday in taking part in Me-
mortal Day programs that they
paigns, but others, taking adj
vantage of the day off from work,
were busily increasing the num-
Der of votes already piled up.
It is not too late to enter the
contest, but the campaign will
positively close the night of June 6.
A long list of valuable and at
tractive prizes has been posted by
leading business houses. They are
given below.
LIST OF PRIZES.
The first prize 70 a Chevrolet do.
mated to the most popular girl by
the Barry-Pate Motor Company.
There also will be a victrola, a
sports suit a lingerie set a wrist
The Washington times., 1923-05-31
PORTLAND DELEGATES TO
SHRINE LEAVE FOR CAPITAL

PORTLAND, Ore, May 81
Aboard the largest special train
that ever left Portland on trans
continental trip, the city's delega-
ton of 270 to the great Shrine
convention in Washington departed
Monday night for the Capital City.
The train Is scheduled to arrive
In Union Station, Washington, at
1890 a. m. Sunday
The Washington times., 1923-05-31
GIRLS FLEEING FROM
BURNING BOAT RESCUED

I VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass, May
31.-Miss Katherine E. White. of
Worcester, and Miss Mildred Manter,
of this town, fleeing in a small skiff
from the motor yacht Markay, which
had caught fire, narrowly escaped
drowning in Vineyard Sound when
the skiff tipped over. Miss Manter
was rescued by Capt. Herbert f..
Mayhem, of the Markay, and brought
back to the buring yacht, which Miss
White reached unaided.
The Markay, owned by John White,
The Washington times., 1923-05-31

You'll say, with us, when you've done
these things, that this is-what it truly
is-the one place in the 1Uorld where
such things can be done, and the great
est summerland you've ever seen.
If this is true you want to see this
land-you want this fun and rest, this
strange, complete, invaluable change. If
so, why not this summer?
The most certain thing Of all is that
you'll not regret it but will say that
you would not have missed it for the
world"
Special low rate round trip
fares are ir effect beginning May
18th and continuing through
October 31st over all Railroads.&c.
most interesting trip in itself
across the hiStoric.West.
You will find here fine hotels with
rates, on the average, less than in most
other sections, and in no other place will
you flnd wider range in accommoda-
tons. Plan this great trip today.
Ask any railroad ticket agent for fur
Their information about this glorious sum-
mer trip or mail coupon below.
The Washington times., 1923-05-31

banker, of Worcester and Vineyard
Haven. caught fire in. the engine
room, from backfiring. After the
young women were rescued the Yacht
was taken in tow by the fishing boat
Restless and brought here, where the
town fire department extinguished
the flames.
The Washington times., 1923-05-31

The authority is the forty-four year
record of the u. S. Weather Bureau
figures recorded in a great central city
in this section. They are:
66'-average mean temperature for ~ Junes
7o'-aVerage mean temperature for ~ Julys
T'-average mean temper allure for ~ AuRustS
6o'-average mean temperature for - September