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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-06-21

Tho knit dress is a stunning
thing and sponsored by women
who frequent the smartest resorts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-06-21

Brightly beautiful are the bathing
toys for Riddles.
New Britain herald., 1923-11-16

foreign exchange department cover- ing 400 square feet will be located. Adjoining the presidents office on the main floor will be the loan tcller's department.
 There will be several upholstered seats for bank patrons in the main lobby. The lighting will be of the new reflector or indirect type. A new 'hold-up alarm" for protection will be installed and the entire room will be redecorated. The room now oc- cnpied by President Atwood will be turned into q conference room. The Burritt Savings department will be towards the front on the left of the main doorway and will have fine windows instead of two. The safe deposit department will remain where it is and q new school savings depart ment with windows for two tells will be opened on the left side towards the rear. Three new fireproof vaults for the storage of records will be placed in tho basement. New plate glass windows. considerably larger than the present type will replace those now on the Main street side.
 The entire iob is expected to be fin ishcd some time in March or April.
New Britain herald., 1923-11-16
ing the fiscal year being placed al S745O.13l.
LOWER FREIGHT BILL
Reduction of Rates Since 1921 Result
 in Nations Expenditures Being Cut
 Down Si3t ,00O.0O 4

Washington, Nov. 16.-Because of reductions in railroad rates inaugur- ated since 1921. the freight bill of the American public was s431, 100000 less during the first eight months of the present year. than it would have been if rate levels had remained un- changed, according to statistical com pilations made today by the bureau of railway economics.
 The bureau also declared that had rates remained unchanged from the levels of 1922, which were lower than those of 1921 in number of partic- ulars. the freight bill of the country for the first eight months of 1922 would have been s2S2,75o,OO great CT than it actually was.
 The savings resulted chiefly from reductions in the rates on agricultural products. which became effective Jan uary I. 1922. and from the general re- duction Of ten per cent made in all rates on July I, 1929. They bulked so large. the bureau explained, be- cause traffic on railroads during the first eight months of 1923 was great CT than any ever before encountered in transportation service.
New Britain herald., 1923-11-16
SGtO,OO0 IS SAVED
Prompt Payment of War Department Bills During Year Netted Saving of This Amount To Government.

Washington, Nov. 16.-Prompt pay ment of War department bills during the last fiscal year nctted to the gov crnmcnt a saving of s2lo,00o. accord ing to the annual report Of Brigadier General kenzie W. Walker. chief of finance. In that period the depart ment took advantage Of 9S.j2 per cent of the maximum number Of con- mcrcial discounts available.
 General Walker placed the total cost of the sixty dollar" bonus act to the government Up to June 50, 1928. at S100. 0.127.460. The act was passed in February. 1919, and directed pay mcnt of S6o in addition to all amounts que to any person who served in the military forces during the war, Most payments were made on final pay yo1chcrs at tho time ot discharge, but other claims arc still pending. The total number of individuals who had received payment up to June So, 1923, was l,6G9.79i.
 Auditing of war time contracts made considerable progress during inc year General Walker said the amount found due to the United States through audit of 22.73S contracts dur
New Britain herald., 1923-11-16
CONTRACTS GIVEN
 FOR BIG BANK JOB
New Britain Trust Company to Spend S5O,OOO in RenOdeling

Contracts for the rcmodeIine of the Burritt Savings bank and the New Britain Trust company building, in ,olving extensive alterations to the first floor and basement of the Booth block at a cost Of approximately s50,- GOO have been awarded. The gen. eral contract has been given to A. D. Clifford. the plumbing contract to A. A. Mills and the contract for electric wiring and fixtures 10 Spring and Buckley.
 The new bank building will take in the former quarters Of the Outlet Millinery Co. on the north The lobby going into the Block block will be narrowed and will be lined on both sides with Italian marble. The part now occupied hy confectionery store will have new front. with a door opening from the street in- stead of from the lobby. The front will be of marble and statuary bronze finish.
 Plans for the new building. drawn by Delbert K. Perry. who designed the Washington school, show that the actual working space for bank pm- ployes and officials will be practically doubled.
 Instead Of the 10 windows now in use there win be total Of 2i. The present entrance to the bank win be used but the interior will he com pletely changed. The officers located to the right Of tho doorway will re- main where they are. The public telephones will be moved from the left of th" main entrance to the right and the office of President w. r. Atwood will br 10 the left of the door and will I0clulc small roccp- tlon room.
 Through the center Of the main lobby or concourse there will be mar ble check desks with reflector lights. The desks will be Of the double type, and will have bronze canopics.
 The same imported Italian Sienna marble now in use, will be used for the new departments. Tn the rearI there will be a marble stairway lead ! Ing to the. basement where modern
New Britain herald., 1923-11-16
10000 SWISS LEAVING.

Berne, Nov. 16--About 4o,Ooo Swiss citizens who are residents in GeF- many are leaving that country be- cause of the political and economic situation. Most of them aro returning home. Tho Swiss authorities arc making extensive plans for their as sistanCc.
New Britain herald., 1923-11-16
WANTS TO BE CITIZEN.

Chicago, Nov. 16.--Rosa Raisa, star of the Chicago Civic Opera com pany. yesterday flied petition in federal court asking to be admitted to citizenship. She said she was born in Poland in 1893 and had been in the United States since 1916,
New Britain herald., 1923-11-16
\. \. CENTRAL SIRPIIN \

New York. Nov. 16.--The New York Ceptral Railroad company reported a surplus of sld.1S7.o5j for the third quarter Of 1923 against s1.75G,75o for the corresponding period last year
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08
Up From The Death Cell

worked. when took from the mail basket that letter.
 What is it?" he inquired, gapingly, as was his habit.
 My First Check.
 That check for a story of mine, 1 suppose" told him. T haven't opened 1t yet"
 oh. the checks not yet in sight, eh?" he returned with kind of would be combined cynicism and wit. And something whispers to me that it won't be in sight anyways soon"
 I would have given s1O right then if that had insured my pulling a check from the envelope, but such gift was not necessary. I tore off an end of the envelope. jerked out the letter, and there. smiling up at me, was a purplish-t tinted check for Forty and no-100 Dollars.
 Here it is," I remarked, holding the thing out toward him. Do you see it?'
 He brought his feet down from the table and reached for the check. Then after a glance at it he looked to- ward me.
 "Wouldnt that beat you, though, 7" And his face was wreathed with smiles. You've broken the ice now and I'll Just bet that you surprise
 
 "Oh, that's worth having all right" returned, thinking ot the many inn llied half-slurrish mild rebukes that ne had sent my way before any mone- tary reccmpense he'd come. T appre- ciate l., but Pm not so certain of smooth sailing from now on"
 He rose and handed back the check
 " ou'Ve just simply got it in you Jack, that's all," was his way of help ing to prove that just a puny begin ming of success Is worth having. In dorse this, and I'll take It right back out for you to De cashed. And then dig right in On another one"
 did dig right in, as he expressed 1t. and put the finishing touches upon another story that I was intending to submit to 8 brisk little magazine that was put out in connection with the literature of a large correspondence school tn the east. And al the end of the twelfth day thereafter 1 received check for $50 for 1t, and the editor inquired whether or not 1 could do story on the order of one that was in print in marked copy of his maga- zine. being sent to me under separate cover,
 If my first check for creative work had cawsed a little ripple of glad hand-I-t old-you-so, that next one caused something of a mild sensation And then when I got busy and. through my greatest and most whole hearted effort up to that time, sue ceeded in doing story that quickly brought check for an even one hun dred dollars, there was simply a kind of suppressed riot-scream all over the place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08

was crying for. Since l have been taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta- ble Compound I feel younger than I did ten years ago, and my friends all tell me I look younger, and owe it all to the Vegetable Compound. I do all my housework for family of seven now. will be glad to answer any woman who writes me in regard to my case. Mrs. JOHN MYERS, 55 Union St., Greenville, Pa. n -
 Many letters similar to this have been published testifying to the merit of Lydia B. Pinkham's Vegeta- ble Compound. They are sincere ex- pressions from women who describe as best they can their feelings be- fore and after taking this well-known medicine
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08
ASTHMA AND HAY FEVER CURED BE-
 FORE YOU PAY

MT. D. J. Lane, chemist. located at 8o3 Lane Bldg, St. Marys, Kans., has discovered a simple home remedy for Asthma and Hay Fever. MT. Lane has so much confidence in his ability to cure that he will send a regular $1.25 bottle free, postpaid, to any sufferer who will write him. His offer is that he is to be paid for it is it cures. If not. your report cancels the charge. If you suffer from Asthma or Hay Fever write him today. Send money-just your name and address will do.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08

IL OlQ WOIluSIS 1OE me. I was down in bed when I started to take it and weighed 95 pounds. I had hot flashes and was so nervous and weak that everything would get black and I could not see. I would sit and cry and did not know what I
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08
BIBLE GOES TO ITALY
Famous old Copy Of Scriptures Bought By Milan Citizen

LONDON. July 7-(By Associated Press)-The famous Bible of the Borso dEste, valued at S25,000 and belonging at one time to the late Emperor Karl of Austria, has been purchased by rich Milan manufac- turer, who outbid an American banker for 1t.
 The Bible Is illuminated by artists of fifteenth century and is regareed by antiquarians as the finest speci- men of its kind in existence. During his stay in Switzerland Karl, being short of money, sold the rare book tc a London antiquary, who in turn dis posed of it to its present owner in Italy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08
By John ", Kane

the people at large ought to find out that such an idea originated in the state prisons But I did believe that for the most part things were made to happen. And I resolved in that year of 1912 that I would put forth a supreme effort.
 That was an unheard-of under taking for a life-serving convict. It was truly big job.
 Early in my Imprisonment I had discovered that the warden whom We seemed destined to have there for many years was a man that had to be approached in just the right way, and above all at an opportune time
 That Cpportune time came with one of the visits to the place of Maud Ballington Booth, who, because of her splendid work among prison ers-and particularly prisoners had won the sobriquet of "The Lit tie Mother" I had never met Mrs. Booth.
 She addressed the prisoners in the chapel at 1;30 p. m., and during her talk we were given to understand that she was to be the guest of, the warden for two more days. After the meeting I was called to the front office.
 To The Front Office.
 That was the first time had been outside the walled part of the prison since I entered there as life prisoner. That does not mean that I was outside in any sense; for I did net even so much as get a glimpse of the outside world. but was di- rected to pass from the office cor ridor just beyond the wall gate to the warden's private office. And there the head of the institution himself presented me. 7 Kane here" the warden explained to the Little Mother, lis by far the most highly intelligent man we have in the place." And then to me he turned:
 Mrs. Booth has net only read
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08

some of your writing, Kane, but she has received letters that number of your friends have written her. And she'll tell you about them, perhaps Just take that seat" t.s,
 (COntinued next weekl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08

will to do so, because of Murphy's in sistence l went along with him and left the negro lying there. I wanted Murphy to let me tell the whole cir Cumstances to the front office be- cause he feared the consequences of his spiking the crazy man would be at least a couple of weeks confine- ment for him, I promised just tC let it go as it was.
 Murphy went right on and played a fine game of ball, but I was too much unstrung to enjoy it as usual.
 The negro must have come around all right, because the word was soon going the rounds that he had been found by a guard over between the shops and the boiler room, and that he had either fallen somewhere and been cut and scratched terribly or someone had been working on him with a club
 Later that afternoon another guard found the wrench and some blood on the floor and that steam pipe, and he expressed an opinion that some mean prisoner had assaulted the poor, harmless darkey just because he could The only three persons who, so far as I know, ever knew the straight of 1t were Murphy, Steve and myself.
 Murphys sentence expired four months after that and against the advice of the warden, who did no more than advise me. I transferred him enough money to pay his fare fback to Chicago. The warden told me that he believed no man could make any poorer investment than l did in giving Murphy that money. But l knew something that the war den did not; and I knew that for what Murphy had done for me, a fare from there to Chicago was indeed poor recompense.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08
CHANGE OF LIFE LOSES TERR0RS For Women who Rely upon Lydia E. Pinkharn's Vege-
 table Compound

Greenville, Pa. -" I took your med icine through the Change of Life and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08
GULFPoRT, MISS. BILOXI. MISS,

Where Southerners Will Find Excellent Accom-
 modations
 AT LEADING NEW YORK
 CITY HOTELS AND
 RESORTS
 Hotel Marie Antoinette
 66th St. Broadway and 67th St. Rooms, with bath. ss.6o per day up. HOTEL GRAND s59asMsy an9 sSth St. Hotel Navarro ana sta Axs: sssb St. Hotel Endicott esa c0Iumsq: sqst Ays.
 Rooms. bath, s2.5o up.
 Special weekly and monthly rates. Hotel Chelsea 7ts Msss and i'S stb strsss, Hsss, fireproof. Rates S2.oo per day and up. European Plan. American Plan-$4. % per day upwards
 Hotel Cumberland 5ata Sail'say stfest < Hotel Hermitage ssa 4ssa Sxs, Street and Rooms. running water. s2.5o. Rooms. bath. $500.
 Hotel Wellington 55a 5ssh Aya; Street and Near Park. Rooms. $2.oo; Bath. s2.6o per day up. Special weekly rates. RALEIGH HALL nsss West ta sash St. A residence for men. Attractively fur nished rooms, with and without private bath or shower; club advantages and accommodations with first-class hotel service. Rates from S2 per day: slO per week.
 HOTEL MONTEREY B'way and 84th St.; new hotel; room, bath. S3 up; double room, bath. $5 up. Broadway Central Hotel Broadway, Sd St., midway between Bat tery and Central Park; only hotel in heart of Wholesale district; capacity 1000 guests; a hotel with comfort without extravagance; rooms $1 up; recognized southerners' headquarters. SHARON SPRINGS, N. Y. PAVILION HOTEL AND COTTAGES Adjoining the famous White Sulphur Springs and Bathing establishment Ask for booklet. White Sulphur Springs Co. of sharon Springs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08
SKNnTNSIS

In this life story. Curly Kane. a wild lad, kills two atreet car men in western state in 1904. A second trial changes the death sentence to- life Imprisonment. He decides to re- deem his life, wins adv ancement, stu dies law and is choseE for an office job. A chapel sermon leads him to decided to become writer. An editor gives him advice. Kane decides to buy a typewriter, giving up his com forts to raise the money.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08

Ffe CFetUs tp OH NEes
 up from my work to find that he had crept without making sufficient sound to attract attention. I had talked with him a little bit with a view of finding out whether he had a
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-12-19
NATIONS BUSINESS


Untitled steel orders show lowest
shrinkage since April.
Purchase of the Antilles Cable
Company by the All-America Cable
Company is announced.
United States merchant marine
vii be wiped off the sea in five years
unless aided, according to E. c. Plum
mer.
Governor W. H. McMaster. Of
South Dakota, ordered sale of gaso-
line from the states station at the
Fair Grounds at thirteen cents a gal
Ion. This is five cents under local
prices.
Presidents message a strong factor
In bolstering financial and business
sentiment during week.
Shipping costs offset by saving in
ocean freight rates.
Fate of tax reductions in hands Of
thirteen Old Guard Republican Sen
ators.
James E. O'Neill, oil magnate. de-
MES United States wells are nearly
dry.
Farm income of United States in
creased ST. 900, 900 in 1928.
Nationwide investigation of al
legged collusiye price-fxing by Stand
ard Oil by Department of Justice is
under way.
Aid from this country to Germany
should be on business, not charity,
basis, President Coolidge tells Ger
man Ambassador.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-12-19
Great Events That Are Chang
ing the Worlds Destiny Told
in Paragraphs.
ITEMS TO INTEREST ALL
Short Chronicle of Past Occurrences
Throughout the Union and Our
Colonies-News From Europe
That Will Interest.
WASHINGTON

President Coolidge recommends to
Congress $500, 900 900 reduction in ma
tional AK bill; urges cut of s275,OOO,-
900 in government expenses n OPP
poses bonus.
Secretary Hoover declared in a let
ter to Representative Fish, Jr., OF
New York, that the situation within
Germany is one Of acute break
down" He said that the middle class
and urban populations to the number
of 20, 900, 900 face famine this winter.
Educators renew petition for am
nesty made to Harding.
Coolidge candidacy officially pro
claimed by Frank w. Stearns.
Ability of Republicans to organ
lie the Senate depends on La Toilette
heading Progressives.
Formula for reparations solution
sought permitting United States to
cooperate.
Republican insurgency began to
manifest itself vigorously when Con-
gress opens.
Ways and Means Committee organi-
eztion complete.
Secretary Weeks expects to receive
new comprehensive offer on Muscle
Shoals. Not from Ford.
Business and industrial prosperity
which returned to the United States
this year after two lean years of post
wal depression can be continued only
through tax reductions, Secretary of
the Treasury Mellon told Congess in
his annual report.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-12-19
FOREIGN

Mexican bonds fall heavily. despite
optimistic reports.
Topic. capital of State of Nayarit,
reported captured by Mexican rebels.
France clearing way for U. S. par
ticipation in inquiry as to Germany's
capacity to pay PREPARATIONS.
Terms of a proposed France-British
settlement made public in London.
King throws influence to Labor in
British crisis.
Rebels begin advance on Mexico
City.
Earl Balfour denies Winston Spen.
Ger Churchill gambled with Jurland
Battle information.
London market slumps follow de-
feat of Conservatives.
Mexican rebels in two-day battle
capture Jalapa. capital Of State of
Vera Cruz.
King George decides to summon
Ramsay Macdonald when Baldwin re-
signs.
Prison train bears 200 exiles from
Moscow to Siberian wilds or White
sea Island OBLIVION.
Gold slaves, carved with Pharaoah's
image, found at Luxor.
German Reichstag votes authority
to Marx dictators to continue to run
country until Feb. l.
Ramsay Macdonald, Laborite, looms
as next British Premier, following
Conservative election debacle.
twenty-five thousand men now I'm.
der arms against Obregon, General
Sanchez says in appeal to Mexican
people to rise.
Lieutenant Grifis sentenced to
tventy-one months in prison and fine
Of three trillion marks fifty cents) BY
German court for Bergdoll kidnapping
attempt.
Eight women elected to House OF
Commons in British general election
Market responds to constructive in
depreciation of Presidents message.
The French Chamber of Deputies
gave another vote of confidence tc
Premier Poincare. The vote was 4Os
to 127.
Six thousand Mexican insurgents be.
gin march on Mexico City from Vera
Cruz.
Germany ready to sign accord with
French TO reopen rail traffic in oc.
cupied region.
Branding Grover Bergdoll, slacke:
as a coward, Lieutenant Corliss Z
Griffs. at his trial in Germany. as
sumed full blame for the attempt Il
kidnaD the American fugitive.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-12-19
GENERAL

Experts see mercury vapor boiler
IN commercial operation at Hartford.
Conn.
Lord Shaughnessy, chairman of
Canadian Pacific board Of directors.
dies suddenly.
State Comptroller to proceed
against Is New York theatre ticket
agencies for failure to pay license
tax.
The government spent SAT- ,648, $50
for the relief of former service men
during the fiscal year ended June 80.
according to the annual report made
public by Brigadier-Genera Hines, Di.
rector Of the Veterans Bureau.
Prizes offered employers, foremen
and workmen in statewide safety
drive.
New York State will have 80 dele
gates in the hex Republican National
Convention under the call issued at
the National Committee meeting in
Washington. This is an increase of
two.
Deportation of aliens convicted of
violating the prohibition laws, mar
cotics laws. and white slave act and
felonies or crimes involving moral
turpitude is proposed in a bill intro
duced by Representative Watkins,
Democrat, Oregon.
Federal Government asked to solve
gasoline rate problem.
Impeachment of Governor McCray
OF Indiana threatened.
Anti-Klan bill f%orbidding masks, but
Tot requiring publication of names is
passed in Oklahoma.
Governor Pinehot .onfers with farm
bloc member
Liquor valued at 800. 900, seized by
raiders in New York two years ago,
is returned to Jacks by order of court.
Mexican debt readjustment plan,
largest financial transaction of the
sort in history, is now operative,
Thomas w Lamont announces.
Presidents support Of tax cut plan
forced before Congress.
Disney. who led fight against Wal.
ton, demands Oklahoma adopt law
forcing Khan TO publish list OF mem.
bers.
New mercury vapor engine in
creases fuel power to so per cent.
Insisting Presidents clemency or.
der is a regular pardon. Comptroller
Craig of New York assails Daugh.
erty's action and repeats charges
against Judge Mayer.
Survey shows only 1869 apartments
out of 400. 900 in New York lily for
rent.