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Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-15
0WA PHYSICIAN MAKES
STARTLING OFFER TO
CATARRH SUFFERERS
Found Treatment Which Healed His Own
Catarrh and Now Offers To
Send IL Free To Sufferers
Anywhere

DAVENPORT, Iowa.-Dr. w. o. Coffee,
Suite 1886, st. James Hotel BLDG, this
city, one of the most widely known ply
slcians and surgeons in the central west.
announces that he found a treatment
which completely healed him of catarrh
in the head and nose, deafness and head
noises after many years OF suffering. He
then gave the treatment to a number of
other sufferers and they state that they
also were completely healed. The Doctor
is so proud of his achievement. and so
confident that his treatment will bring
other sufferers the sa me freedom Ii gave
him, that he is offering to send a 10 days
supply absolutely free to any reader of this
paper who writes him. DIR. Coffee has
specialized on eye. ear. nose and throat
and is honored and respected by count
less thousands, IL you suffer from nose,
head or throat catarrh. catarrhal deaf
ness or head noises, send him YOUR name
and address today.-Adv.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-15
Thomas Coughlan

TOTTENvILLE, Nov. 15-The
funeral services for Thomas q.
Coughlan, ffty-two years old, who
died suddenly at his home, 81 Be-
dell street, Pleasant Plains, Tuesday
were held last night from his late
residence. Rev. William Burd, pas
tor of st. Marks Methodist church,
oficiated. The interment was in
Greenwood cemetery, Brooklyn, this
morning.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-15
GOSPEL MEETINGS
HELD AT METUCHEN

METUCHEN, Nov. 15.-Consider-
able interest is being taken in the
gospel meetings held in the First
Baptist church nightly except Sat
urday. Rev. w J.. Swoffield, oil
Plainfield, will speak at the church
tonight and tomorrow night. Rev
J. Madison Hare, a former chap
lain during the World War, will
speak on Sunday. Tomorrow night
Mrs. Frederick Erikson, an evan
g~elistic singer, of Brooklyn, will rem
der solos.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-15
Winter Coming For Sure

Winter is coming. At least this is
the impression gained by persons
who pass City Hall on High street,
for the winter doors have been
placed on the steps leading to the
various entrances of the building
where the business of the city is
transacted. The winter door has al
so been placed at the High street en-
trance to police headquarters.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-15
Judges Get an EarfuI

LONDON-A father summoned to
court at P%ontefract for failure to
SEND his seven-year-old daughter to
school told the judges the justice
they administered was "Satan's
law" He declared he could not obey
their mandates. The girl was COM
mitted to an Industrial school.
Whereupon the father declared she
was kidnapped.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-15

YOUNG MAN ABOUT TOWNS
your boss hard to work for, Sadie?
SADIE, THE STENOGRAPHER-
He used to be terrible. dearie. He'd
always put in ten hours a day at
the office. But somebody started him
playing golf. Call me up any after
noon.-Printer's Ink Monthly.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-15

LONDON-A new cork hat, as a
rival of the old bowler, has been
introduced by a West End London
dealer. 1t is guaranteed to be light,
waterproof and warm.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-15
School News

judges for consideration. Great anx
iety is being expressed by mem
bers OF the class of '25 as to tho
outcome of the contest.
Several members of the Junior
class are talking Of organizing their
class. 1t Is a usual custom al the
school to have the junior class or
ganize and elect their officers soon
after the first meeting of the senior i
class. Early organization is an abb
solute necessity in order to accom-
plish anything during the school
year. The juniors are expected
get busy" very soon.
The report cards or the "blue
tickets" have appeared once again.
Some brought a pleasing smile to
the nervous student, others a frown.
The record for attendance and
punctuality for the month of Octo-
Der was a splendid one. Mr.. Klein
hans, the principal of the school, ex-
pressed his delight because OF the
fine attendance record which had a
percentage OF 99.4. The principal
urged the students to keep up that
record.
The decision of the class ring will
be the chief feature at the senior
class meeting this afternoon. The
ring committee have many samples
of rings in their possession which
they have secured from ring dealers
both in and out of town. The COM
mittee yesterday afternoon had pick
ed out several rings which are to be
presented to the class for considera-
ton. In spite of the fact that the
rings to be submitted to the class
are samples from local dealers and
from out of town dealers, it is ex-
pected that the rings will be bought
from a local merchant. This Is no
more than fair because the mer-
chants contribute to the support of
local high school in many ways.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-15

Maurice Drukker of the Sixth Py-
THAN District of New York and DIR.
Felstein, who each gave inspiring
talks
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-15
CARD OF

I wish 10 express my heartfelt gratitude
to all our friends who have been SO kind
u Mr.. Sleight and to me throughout his
illness and for their sympathy to me.
Signed,
r JOHN NJ. SLEIGHT.
lC7-11-15-1t
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-15

The orchestra held another prac-
tice session Tuesday. Great prog
ress is being made by the orchestra,
according to Professor Henry, the
orchestra director.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-15

An interesting exhibition Is now
going on in the school library. On
several tables and shelves there are
new books which deal with many OF
the subjects studied in school. An
added feature of the library is an
enlarged bulletin board on which
may be found notes of interest hav-
ing reference to school work, notices,
pictures and book reports.
The following new books have
been recently received at the school
library:
Eight Cousins" by L. NJ. Abbott,
STORY of a Bad Boy T. B. Aid
rich.
"Greyfriais Bobby" Atlslusori.
Tennessee Shod," Johnson.
"Vermint," Johnson.
"Mr. Midshipman," Marryat.
Boys Life of Lapard," Nicolay.
"Vagabond Journey" Frauch.
prisoner of Zeuda," Hope.
Deep Waters" Jacobs.
"Stalky and Co." Kipling.
"Pere Goust," Balzac.
My %kntonio," Gather.
Seed of the Sun" Wallace.
The gift recently donated by the
Raritan Copper Works, consisting of
products made by the electrolytic re-
tining of copper, has been placed in
the school library for exhibition.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-15

The English or Persian walnut
tree is known in classical literature.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-15

A meeting of the Science Club will
be held this afternoon in room 2O7.
This will be the first meeting of
the year at which the new members
of the organization will be present.
Close to fifty new members have
been added to the clubs member
ship.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-15

First adhesive postage stamp wa
ssued in $780,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-15

The essays on the Book Week
Essay Contest" which have beer
submitted by members of the Junior
class, are now in the hands of the
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-15

The Triangle Club held a meet
ing in room 105 Tuesday afternoon,
Plans for the coming year were dis
eussed.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-15

judges for consideration. Great anx.
iety is being expressed by mem
bers OF the class of '25 as to tho
outcome of the contest.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-15

The report cards or the "blue
tickets have appeared once again.
Some brought a pleasing smile to
the student, others a frown.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-11
Da;ry;,,g Inv;tes Georgia

S state singularly rich in the natural
n resources of dairying, Georgia should
be Interested in the latest census re-
port on the output and progress of that in
dustry. Butter, cheese and condensed milk
produced in this country in 1921 had an ag-
gregate value of well-night billion dollars
$738,440, 900 are the official figures, exclu-
sive OF plants turning out less than five thou
sand dollars worth year. This represents
an increase of one hundred per cent over the
values of 1914, when the total was 1884,
25S, 900.
So large a gain in seven years appears the
more significant when we note the compare
lively smaller concurrent increase in volume
of products. In butter there was an advance
from 7S9, 809, 900 to Ills, 203, zoe pounds ;
and in cheese from S7O,27S,OO0 to 423,36O,-
600. In condensed milk there was decline
from about 100000 to 581 900 pounds; but
| during the same seven years evaporated milk
went from 273,647,0O0 to 1177,333, 900
pounds while the output of powdered milk
virtually trebed These comparisons are not
| altogether true to reality in that the reports
Tor 1921 take account of only those concerns
producing five thousand dollars or more,
while for 1914 they include those producing
tive hundred dollars or more. This, however,
serves but to emphasize the fact that values
have grown far more rapidly than volume
and serves, too, to remind all regions par
:icularly favored with resources for dairying
how pronounced their opportunities for
profit.
Georgia, as the most competent and disin-
terested judges often have testified, is exceed
| ingly well off in the essentials of this enrich
ing industry--in climate, in pasturage, in
convenience of approach to the country's
main markets. Much has been done in the
| asst few years to turn these advantages to
account. At least one community in the state
! has earned nationwide note by the develop
ment Of dairying in its adjacent districts,
while many another by the same means has
! lifted burdens of debt and multiplied its
prosperity. But only beginning has been
made; only the thinnest upper layer OF the
cream has been SKINNED. 1t is to the be-
hoof of every town and county to ascertain
and to utilize it's full opportunities in this in
viting field of enterprise.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-11
THE JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE

4
~ VERY day brings more of its horrors as
II the facts are made to appear, with
- more extended news service. The cause
of it may be volcanic, but all earthquakes
are not labeled with volcanic origin. Per
haps there were other causes joined to vol
canoes, and these conjoined influences have
added to the extent as well as severity of
the late disturbance.
Fire lent its horror to all the rest. The
destruction by a tidal wave has been noted
particularly severe. All the unusual
things appear to have made mighty desti-
tuition in human life along with the Others
Doubtless the Japs imagined the end had
come, and the end did come to many things
which were totally unexpected.
My reading acquaintance with Japan be-
gan nearly seventy years ago, when Commo-
dore Perry, commanding a fleet of United
States battleships, went over to Japan and
succeeded in getting the inside of things;
so to speak.
A Mr.. Lumpkin represented the Seventh
district in congress in 1857, and he was
gracious enough to send full and complete
story of this peaceful invasion after con-
gress had ordered the printing and distribu-
ton of the Perry embassy to Japan, to DR..
Felton, my deceased husband and this was
all of siNty- years ago. There were a
number of bulky volumes, furnishing a full
recital of what was found over there and
hitherto kept away from other countries and
forbidden to foreigners.
l was an omnivorous reader, always and
very much so in my young days, when books
were scarce and notable happenings less FREE
quent. | pored over the story of Japan, it's
flora and fauna, and there were highy-col-
ored pictures of fishes and birds of brilliant
plumage. Nothing was much like our own
country affairs. When DR.. FELTON, was elect
ed to congress in 1874 we found very CON
siderable number of Japs in Washin gton
City. They were progressive, small-sized
folks, but they were long sight more pro-
gressive than the Chinese.
1t was at the Centennial exposition COM
memorating the independence of America,
held in Philadelphia during 1875, that num-
bers Of the plain Japs and Chinese came over
to this country.
With my mind and memory full of the
story of Commodore Perry these brown
skinned tourists held a genuine attraction
for me. The Chinese in America went about
wearing the usual Chinese garb, but the lit
tie Japs Immediately adopted the, American
style of dress. They wore the silk hat shiny
boots and gloves and walking canes which
the smartly dressed American wore in polite
society. The attaches of the Japanese lega-
tion were frequent callers at the official re-
ceptions of the president and supreme court
ladies at that time. l saw a good many of
the women, for they also wore American
garb, and I expect J. knew considerably more
of their ways and doings in that period of
our history than the average Georgian
During the Russo-Jap war my sympathies
were with the Japs. When | was juror in
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-11
FLOWING GOLD
BY REX BEACH

What has gone before.-Calvin Gray,
an imposter and with only a few pennies
in his pocket, occupies the handsomest
suite of rooms at the Ajax, the largest
and newest hotel in Dallas. He init
mates to the hotel. manager that he
represents important financial interests
and is seeking to invest in oil. He tele-
phones the newspapers and tells them
he is clerk at the hotel and that they
should send reporters to interview Cal
vim Gray, the great financier, globe-trot-
ter and soldier of fortune, who has just
arrived on an important mission. He
calls on various bankers, "just to get
acquainted he says, and makes pleas
ing impression.-Now go on with the
story.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-11
DON'T FOOL YOURSELF
BY H. Addington Bruce
. I'D it ever occur to you that no man
J can quite SO easily deceive others as
he can deceive himself?

IN I'D it ever occur to you that no man
J can quite so easily deceive others as
he can deceive himself?
This. is undoubtedly fact 1t is so much
a fact that self-deception is among the COM
monest of all causes of inability to get on in
the world
I we'll recall in this connection a talk I
once had with an old friend. We had drifted
apart geographically, and had not seen him
for many years, when chance one day
brought us together in New York.
In the interim he had had, knew check
cred career. He had tried one occupation
after another, to succeed in none Then,
taking up again kind of work long before
abandoned by him, he had begun to make
astonishing progress. Now he was definitely
established.
Curious as to the early failure and the
later success, l questioned him. Frankly he
made answer:
81 began to succeed the moment / stopped
foolng myself. 1t took me years to dis
cover that 1 WIS fooling myself, and those
were the years I got nowhere
II used to think, for example that 1 was
uncommonly bright. used to think that I
was determined. l used to think that was
a model of diligence
zone night, when business crisis had de-
veloped and was bemoaning my hard luck,
the thought suddenly came to me-
"'What has luck to DO with it, after all?
There must he something the matter with
you yourself, old man.
For the first time in my life 1 really
studied myself. asked a friend or two to
help me by candidly criticizing me-
1.-THE revelation came that, because took
my brightness for granted, had never really
exerted myself.
II saw that the right name for my de-
termination was stubbornness.
"And it began to dawn on me that my
diligence was no more than a dilettante dab
bling.
Fortunately was able to appreciate that
all this would have to be changed if my
luck would ever turn for the better. Still
more fortunately, was able to change 1t.
That is the story in nutshell"
His is by no means an isolated instance.
Man after man owes belated> success to
the sudden discovery that he has been un-
consciously fooling himself with regard to
his psychic makeup.
But, unhappily, many man who might
have succeeded brilliantly had he made a
similar discovery, never makes it. Which is
why it never is wise to take oneself for
granted, but from time to time question, to
scrutiniZe, to analyZe
(COpyright 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-11
THE COUNTRY HOME
BY MRS. w. H. FELTON,

St Louis during the st. Louis Worlds Fair
exposition, there were many Japs in this
country. They were glad to talk with me
about the big battles, then in progress
(1904). One big victory was recorded while
| was there in ST. Louis
I recall the terrible earthquake that nearly
destroyed Toxic in the year 1881; the We
locity estimated at 1000 to 5000 feet per
second
Up to that time the most terrible earth
quake had occurred at Lisbon, Portugal, in
1851, exceeded 5000 feet per second. Japan
is rated as one of the earthquake countries
usually more frequent in winter months.
The earthquake at Lisbon destroyed S5-
900 lives Another destroyed Aleppo in
1922, a hundred years ago. South American
earthquakes were frequent from 1868 TO
1885. The Charleston earthquake came in
1886 thirty-seven years ago. San Francisco
earthquake in 1906. Buildings. have to be
specially erected to withstand earthquakes In
Japan and South America.
We, in Cherokee, Ca, distinctly felt the
charleston earthquake in 1886 1t was a
dreadful one in Charleston. There were three
/ in our sleeping room, my husband, myself
and small son. 1t woke all OF US. We had
a couple of large dogs on the back porch,
and all of us thought they were shaking
| themselves, until a harder quake came, and
noticed the motions of some framed pic
/ lures hanging from the WALL swinging vio-
| lently forward and back. Then we rushed
for the door, and out on terra frma. 1t mas
an uncanny feel to know the ground is
trembling under your feet-I cannot de-
scribe it. Tidal waves seem to accompany
these earthquake sensations. They have
been known to rise 210 feet in South
America.
The tragedy in Japan, with CONGREGATIONS.
| earthquakes, tidal waves and destruction OF
human life, makes a pitiful story of the UNI
certainty of human life.
The erection of handsome buildings has
added to the measure of devastation and
general ruin. The original Japs, those who
were ruling before Commodore Perry went
lover and opened door for foreign inter-
! course, built one-hoor lodging places. The
pictures of big skyscrapers tumbling down
7 like a stack of cards, tells another story now,
! for Japan. 1t has occurred to my mind very
often since the Charleston and San Francisco
| earthquakes that we are taking risks lnnu-
merable with skyscraping edifces. The risk
has been tested out in Japan this fatal week.
Imagine the topple even in Atlanta!
Doubtless there will be fewer high build
ings and many more OF the one-story kind
in the days to come, and our Philippines are
near enough to Nippon to give our people a
note of warning on that line. -
/ 1t has-been predicted that the end of the
world will come when poison gas machines
! can travel over in in airplanes and deluge
towns and cities with poison gas, which will
! burn up whatever is remaining after the
multitudes of once living men are spread
out, to be thus cremated in spreading fiery
! flames.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-11
QUIPS' AND .QUIDDITIES

Since Rex Beach himself laughed at this
story when I brought it to him, there is no
reason why the general public should be de-
MED the opportunity TO laugh at it, too. l
had ii at first hand from young lady who
figured in it.
This young lady is now engaged in news
paper work. But before she took up jour
nalism she was assistant at public Ii
brary in Pittsburg.
One day as she sat at her desk a sixteen
year-old girl approached her and told her
that she had come to pay for a book which
had been lost
what was the book?' aske dthe librarian
at was Mr.. Rex Beach's Going. Some L
took it out four weeks ago to read it but we
had some trouble in family and the book
was lost and I'm afraid I can't return it, So
under the rules, l suppose I'll have TO pay
for it,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-11
Hn16n Holland

y OY-MAKING over the twenty-fifth ami
versary of the accession of Queen Will
y helmina of Holland is not confined to
that picturesque and happy land. Wherever
~haman freedom and tolerance priced and
art is cherished, wherever the names of
Etasmus, of William of Orange and of Rem
brandt are known, heart-homage is paid to
the country that bore them.
Particularly cordial is Americas regard
for the people amongst whose forbears her
Pilgrim Fathers found eleven years of haven
sTe they sailed for New World shores, and
from whom the newborn republic of Wash
ington's day received invaluable recognition.
Motley has strikingly said that the revolt OF
the Netherlands against Spain and of the
English against Charles the First and of the
Americans against George the Third "all
form but a. single chapter in the great vol
ume of human fate" Certainly the ideals
OF political and religious liberty that have
lighted our own nations way drew much of
their strength and glory from Hollands he
roic annals.
Queen Wilhelmina's reign has beep>rich
in: good things for her beloved people, rich
ins peace and progress and service TO the
world. May the future ever copy the fair
past
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-11
F;r6o. the Man

n TO prize Fighter as rule approaches
Nj the supreme moment of his career
with anything of his record or psy-
chology left unbared. He is as thoroughly
known as a Derby favorite, and the betting
reflects it all. The men who gamble pro-
fegsionally on ring contests must know 1t
ali to keep in business. Sometimes even
/. that is not enough.
In spite of all that has been written about
Firpo, the Argentinian, he is still largely a
man of mystery. The divergence Of opin-
ion as to his possibilities indicates 1t, and
the divergence is widest among the experts
With the history of the ring at their finger
TIPS and accustomed to size up man by
points. Very little is known or has been
written of Firpo, the man. He was phar-
macist for while; he fought locally; he
fights as a whirlwind travels; he Is big
and mas fine left-hand punch, but does
net manage his right SO we'll; if he could
and so on But that does not tell much
Of the man inside of Firpo, and it's usually
the man inside that wins or loses.
iIn every man of every profession who has
encountered so-called instrmountable diff
ctilties, and at the supreme moment of dan
ger has plucked victory from defeat, there
Is something God-like. Or at least super
mortal and beyond human analysis. Gen