davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-08
DROWNED
IN KITCHEN
WASH TUB
Alexandra coroner's Jury Alb
solves Railway Company in
Death OF Hopkins.

ALEXANDRIA, Va, May ST.
Virginia Jean, the infant daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles L. Edge,
81 South Patrick street, was
drowned yesterday afternoon in a
wash. tub in the kitchen of her
home.
Virginia had been playing with
Beatrice, her sister, and several
neighbors children when the older
children left her and went into the
back yard to play. 1t is thought
that the little tot was attempting
to play with the clothes when she
fell in. striking her head on the
edge Of the tub.
The sister returned from the
back yard and found the baby lying
in the water, and when her mother
returned from an errand she found
Beatrice trying to resuscitate the
baby.
DIR. T. Marshall Jones, city coro.
ner. held an inquest last night
over the body of Wallace Hopkins
who died on the way to the hospital
after being hit by a Richmond
Fredericksburg and Potomac rail
way train Thursday afternoon. The
4
avoidable on the part of the railway
company.
The following officers were in.
stalled by the Epworth League OF
the Methodist Episcopal Church
South: r.. NJ. Stonell, president
III. w. Davis. vice president; ,Ashby
Bladen. first department superin.
tendent; Miss Hilda Lewis, second
department superintendent: Miss
Helen Davis, third department
superintendent Miss Laura PeveriH
fourth department superintendent.
Clyde Smith, secretary: Milton
Grigg, treasurer; James HUMPHREYS
lsEpworth agent; Miss Sara Nicklin
Junior league superintendent. Miss
Nellie Pierpont, pianist, and w. e
Run, musical director.
The business and professions
women of Alexandria will have 9
supper tonight at the chamber OF
commerce at o'clock.
The Retail Credit Mems Associa
ton will meet tomorrow afternoon
at o'clock in the chamber OF
commerce
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-08

of all movements which will adj
vance the city's interests" said DR.
l.. D. Walter, LIST vice-president
I'VE are not A member Of the fed
Grafton but the other citizens as
socia tons know that when it comes
down ito effective cooperation they
can count on us just as we find
we can on them in furthering
projects in which we are inter
ested. In our opinion the school
situation is, the big problem Wash
ington must solve and we are doing
all in our power to insure a. PRO
gressive policy in school develop
ment and administration"
The association officers are:
Evan II. Tucker, president; DIR. l..
d. Walter, first vice president; Dr;
Starr Parsons, second vice president
G. Fl. Ashenbach, secretary; Roscoe
Jenkins, financial secretary, anl
Samuel Thomas, treasurer.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-08
CLUB EMPLOYEES SKULL
FRACTURED IN FALL

Suffering from a fracture of the
skull as a result of a thirty-fo
fall down the elevator shaft at the
Racquet Club, Sixteenth and l.
streets northwest, last night, Frank
n. Collins, twenty-three years old,
an employee, living at 1924 Eleventh
street northwest, is at Emergency
Hospital in serious condition.
Thinking that the elevator had
assembled to the floor on which he
was standing, Collins pushed aside
the door and stepped into the shaft,
plunging to the concrete basement.
Physicians at the hospital said
they have hope for his recovery.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-08
&c" CLUB TO HOLD
MEET NEXT SATURDAY

The fourth annual track meet
under the auspices of the &c" Club
Of Central High School will be held
in the Emory Wilson stadium next
Saturday afternoon. Five hundred
individual entries from eleven
schools in the District, Maryland,
Virginia. and West Virginia have
been made.
Nine local graded. schools have
entered teams for three events that
have been carded as special fea-
lures.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-08
GEORGE c. SHINN NAMED
TRADE BOARD DIRECTOR

George c. Shinn, chairman of the
committee on streets and avenues
Of the Washington Board Of Trade,
was elected a director of that organ
ization at meeting of the board
OF directors yesterday afternoon.
Shinn fills the vacancy created by
the death OF Thomas Bradley The
board Of directors adjourned until
autumn.
Plans were discussed for the
printing of booklet of the work
of Mr. Bradley while a member of
the board Edward p. ColIaday
presided.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-08
THREE BOYS SUSPECTED
OF STEALING MACHINE

Three white bows are suspected
Of having stolen the automobile Of
John A. Kane. 81 s street north
west last night from in front of
9iS Tenth street northwest. The
car bears license number D. c,
20.122.
Pedestrians told police OF the
First precinct that they saw three
boys in the machine, but as thay
did not act suspiciously no notice
was taken of them.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-08
FOUR ARE FINED $225
ON LIQUOR LAW CHARGES

Pleading guilty to charges OF
violating the national prohibition
law and withdrawing demands for
iurv trials. four persons were fined
s225 Yesterday by Judge Mattingly
in Police Court.
Virginia Myers was fined $75:
Henry Perkins, Thomas L. Lomax
and John Booker, each $50.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-08
Women Lawyers to Meet.

The Women's Bar Association of
the District of Columbia will hold
its annual meeting. Tuesday eve
ming at o'clock at the Washing,
ton College of Law. 1915 K street
northwest Election of officers and
consideration of amendments to
constitution and bylaws will take
place at this meeting
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-08
Asks Right to Issue Bonds.

The Central of Georgia railroad
today asked the Interstate Com
merce Commission for authority to
issue $3.50, 900 Of per cent equip
ment trust certificates. These will
be sold at 95R per cent of par and
the proceeds used in the purchase
of twenty-five locomotives. 500
freight cars and other equipment.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-08
Navy Pay Checks Vanish.

Disappearance of So navy pay
master checks, easily negotiable.
from, the office of the disbursing
officer at Norfolk Navy YARD 1sIoe-
ing investigated by the United
States Secret Service, it was learned
TODAY
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-08
ADVERTISEMENT
Hypo-Cod Put This Washington
Fireman Back on the Road
to Health and Happiness

Mr.. VIM. E. Weston, Washing
ton Fireman, who lives at 1853 LIST
st., N. w., writes, II was over
worked, broken down and in a very
bad shape before / started to take
Hypo- Cod. My symptoms were
congestion with a hacking cough
in the throat and lungs; pains in
the back and had night sweats.
would awake in the morning all
tired out as if ! hadn't been to bed
One day | read about Hypo-Cod
and decided to try it. The first
dose took was during one of my
severe coughing spells and it sure
stopped my cough. After taking
the first bottle. l began to fee
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-08

The business and professional
women of Alexandra will have a
supper tonight at the chamber of
commerce at 6 o'clock.
Evening star., 1923-05-06
iui,'i'n.IiIt'iI.I

Washington first national church, the Church of the New
Jerusalem (Swedenborgan) where the hundred and
ond of the of the Church
of the New Jerusalem of the United States of America will be
held this week. Rev. Paul Sperry, pastor
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-06-21

reaction from the vaccine Is said to
have given favorable indications that
the erum will give persons complete
immunity but the test will not be def
initely proven until the subjects have
been inoculated with the virus.
These experiments have been con-
Quoted successfully on the guinea
pig, the virus having no effects on
the pigs after the vaccine had been
used.
DR.. Butler worked with DR.. Nog-
uchi while he was here and has been
in communication with him for sew
eral years. DR.. Butler is confident
that the Japanese scientist has dew
eloped a preventative for the dread
fever and states that many of the
employees of the forest service and
other state departments have been
vaccinated with the serum which DR..
Noguchi developed.
DR.. Noguchi has not announced
when he will inject the virus in his
patients, and it is said, has not fully
decided to carry the experiment that
far.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-06-21
WOLF POINT STAMPEDE
TO BE WILD AND WOODY

The shaggy buffalo no longer dot
the hills and plains of eastern Mon
| tana, or impede the progress OF
steamboats, up the Missouri river.
Doughty Sioux warriors no longer
rtide down their game and shoot
their winters supply of meat with
bow and arrow, using the hides of
the slain buffalo for tepees or moe
casins and robes. Those days of
trial and adventure have gone, but
each year the spirit of those days is
revived in rodeo and stampede, when
the nerviest cowboys and the widest
outlaw bronchos are pitted against
each other in riding and roping con-
tests that thrill the spectators.
The big stampede at Wolf Point
this year from July IL to IA bids
to be wilder and woolier than any
previous stampede ever pulled off.
Last year the stampede at Wolf
Point attracted celebrated riders
from Oklahoma to Canada. This year
the stampede comes just after those
at Miles City, Sidney and Shelby and
it is expected by the management
that the competition for the liberal
prizes that are being offered will be
keener than ever before.
Beside the regular contests there
are going to be a number of new
features introduced into the STAN
pede, such as wild coyote and goat
roping, etc. Jack Goldberg and wife,
celebrated trick riders and rope spin
ners, will be there with several rope
spinning and gun juggling specialties.
ride 'em Sioux" is the slogan ap-
Dearing on the posters advertising
the Wolf Point stampede, and the
management promises 70 hours of ex-
element and thrills for those who
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-06-21
WOOD TICK BITE
NOT SURE DEATH
STATE VETERINARIAN BUTLER
SAYS TICK DANGER CAN
BE AVOIDED
Bitter Root Tick is More Deadly than
the Idaho Variety; Takes a Tick
Two Hours to Fasten Itself in the
Skin of Victim.

Dermacentor VerustuS are not to
be feared by fishermen and auto
tourists in Montana, according to
DIR. w. j. Butler, state veterinar-
ian and member of the state board
of entomology. 1t is not DIR. But
ler's idea that the average angler
or mountain camper leaves the city
with dread of this creature in his
heart but nearly all who ~ not
experienced woOdsmen fear the
spotted fever carrying wood tick
which is the American alias for
this tiny insect that often carries
death in its bite.
There are many reasons why they
are not to be feared, the chief one
being that it takes a tick more than
two hours to imbed itself in a human
being, DR.. Butler states, and if the
person who frequents the mountain
forests, sage brush plains or grass
lands will only make an inspection
of himself or have a fellow member
Of the party do it even scores of ticks
be brushed off without serious
results. In case the tick has gotten
started under the skin, however, it
Is better to c~auterize the sore.
Old time woorsmen or those whose
keeps them in the forests
much of the time make it a point,
DR.. Butler states, to examine them
selves for ticks every time they get
back to camp. A bath will not suf-
ice alone, he states, because the lit
lie insect hangs on tenaciously.
Even though a person is not care
iul to brush off ticks which have got
en- onto him, the percentages are all
n favor of his escaping without
atching the spotten fever, DR.. Butler
ieclares. There are two kinds of in
ected tick, those carrying the Bitter
root strain, which is very virulent,
nd is credited with a 80 per cent
record, and the Idaho strain,
yhich is usually mild, the fever sell
ON proving fatal to adults and never
D children, it is stated. The Bitter
.oot strain of infection is confined
lmost exclusively to the west side
the Bitter Root valley but the
1aho strain is found throughout this
ate, Idaho, Washington, Nevada,
dorado, Oregon and Wyoming.
Investigation has developed the
slief that they seldom climb higher
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-06-21

than Is inches or two feet on a tree
and hal they do not drop down on
a person from the higher branches as
once was thought. They confine
themselves to sage brush and other
shrubbery or haunt decayed logs, the
floors of old buildings and often
times cling to wet grass.
Need a Grip First
They cannot get INTO a person I'M
less that person brushes against
them so that they can get a grip with
one or both of their tiny front legs.
Once getting hold of clothing, they
start climbing upward, never down
ward, DR.. Butler states. The neck
is usually the first place where they
encounter flesh, consequently this is
where they usually begin burrow-
ing to get at blood, and it takes two
and a half hours to get under the
skin, according to experiments.
The female tick lays from 5000 to
5000 eggs a year and from 10 to 20
per cen of an infected females eggs
are infected but the mortality rate
is high and the insect must pass
through two stages, sometimes TAX
ing two years before it becomes an
adult and is a menace to human be-
ings.
After July 4, except in the very
high attitudes where the weather is
cool, ticks are not to be found for
they are in Information. Ticks can
live in warm weather.
DR.. H. Noguchi, the Japanese sci
entists now in New York, is thought
to have found a vaccine serum which
will render human beings immune
from spotted fever. Recently while
working near Missoula, he inoculated
a dozen countrymen with this serum
and later it is said plans to i~noculate
some of these, if they are willing,
with the spotted fever virus. The
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-06-21

ing this unique contest should apply
by letter to the It. C. Power Motor
Car company, Helena, Montana, be-
fore June Is, and should mail stories
to the same address before July is,
on which date the contest will close.
There is not a boy orgirl in the
state who hasnot written dozens of
essays, on some given subject, in the
course of ordinary school work
That is all this contest is. Get in
touch with some local Studebaker
a owner, and ascertain, through an
interview with him, of the merits of
the Studebaker car, write your story
or essay, and forward it to Helena.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-06-21
SIS In GOLD TO BOY
OR GIRL FOR ESSAY

Seventy-five dollars in gold will be
paid to the Montana boy or girl, I'M
der Is years of age, who writes the
best story, of from SO to $50 words,
on the subject: "Why We Should
Buy a Studebaker." For the second
best story $25 will be paid and for
the third best $40. The offering is
made by Roy L. Diggs, manager of
the T. G. Power Motor Car company
of Helena.
Applicants who contemplate enter
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-06-21

TT ILING g%rasshoppers with poisoned bran mash is by far the most
~ effective and satisfactory method of controlling this pest, &C
cording to R. A. Cooley, state entomologist at the Montana State
college experiment station. s
In a booklet recestly off the press, MI. Cooley says:
During the extensive grasshopper campaigns of 1870 to l92Z
over 10000 tons of poisoned bran mash were used IN Montana with
uniformly good results and it is now settled beyond a doubt that in the
great majority of cases this method will give almost 100 per cent con-
troll of both young and adult grasshoppers at comparatively small
cost.
"There are several different formulas used in preparing poisoned
bran mash, but the one found best suited to Montana conditions is as
follows:
Coarse bran, 100 pounds.
Crude arsenic or paris green, four pounds.
Salt, four pounds.
Low grade molasses, two gallons.
Amyl acetate, three ounces.
Water, 10 to II gallons.
Dry Method of Mixing
"n mixing patches of 100 pounds or less the so-caued dry method
is used, the arsenic being sifted over the bran and the two materials
smooth, tight floor or in a wagon-box. The salt is dissolved in the
full amount of water and to this are added the mo1asses and amyl
acetate, after which the mixture is thoroughly stirred. The liquids
are then worked into the dry bran and arsenic by a thorough raking
Wet Method of Mixing
I'm preparing large amounts of poisoned bran mash by the dry
method, continuous contact with the arsenic dust which arises as the
dry arsenic and bran are shoveed back and forth is liable to cause
of the eyes and considerable irritation of the skin, which
alarm the mixing crew to the extent of their refusing to work
Where large amounts are to be mixed, it is therefore recommended that
the arsenic be added to the liquid ingredients instead of being mixed
the bran while dry. This avoids danger to health and reduces
by doing away with the shove1ing of the dry bran and arsenic
Looking for Results
"Crude white arsenic is a slow poison and results must not be e-l
pected too soon. Many dead grasshoppers should be found the frstI
lay after the application of the poison. Others will be sick or 1ogy'i
out complete results will not be secured for three or four days.
eff materials are purchased in large quantities the cost of poison i
ng, exclusive of labor, should not exceed IS cents per acre. In all
counties carrying on grasshopper control work in Montana in 1921
he average cost of materials at the rate of 20 pounds of the prepared,
at 90 pounds of dry bran) per acre was u IL cents. The appica-
ion of more than that amount, which under most circumstances is I'M
n 1922 the cost was rs cents per acre. Where materials are purchased
" Individual farmers at current prices the cost per acre is tripled"
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-06-21
MONTANA PUPILS
WIN FINE AWARDS
CONRAD GIRL, WINNER SAFETY
ESSAY CAMPAIGN, TO GET
GOLD MEDAL AND CASH
Silver Medal Goes to Great Falls
Student, While Baker Girl is Win
ner of Third Prize; Grand Prize
is Trip to Washington.

Four checks and four medals, in
tended for Montana pupils whose es
says were selected as best of those
submitted in the last national safety
campaign, have been mailed to Mis-:
May Trumper, state superintendent
of public instruction, according tt
announcement by the highway edu.
cation board.
A gold medal and check for Sic
will be given Madalen O'Brien, Con.
rad, for preparing the best safety
essay in the state. She will also com
pete for one of the three national
prizes.
Other pupils to win prizes are Lii
liam Warren, Great Falls, a silver
medal and check for $40, second
state honors; Felicia McLeMore, of
Baker, bronze medal and IS, third
state honors; and Richard T. Brice,
Lewistown, a bronze medal and SIS,
also third state honors.
47S Checks Mailed
In the lesson competition, conduct
ed simultaneously with the contest
among pupils, the best safety pro-
ject teaching safety on the highways,
was prepared by Mrs. Lillian Lewis,
Garfield school, Billings. Honorable
mention was accorded a paper by
Miss Mary Baker, of Conrad public
schools.
Four hundred se~venty-eight checks
and medals are being mailed by the
board to elementary school pupils of
the nation, winners for their re-
spective states in the safety contest.
These prizes have an aggregate value /,
of $4,000, the gift of the National
Automobile Chamber of Commerce
and a part of its contribution to the
encouragement of safety education
throughout the country.
May Get Washington Trip
One pupil in each state receives a
gold medal and a check for SIS, rep
resenting the first state prize. The
state award is a silver medal
and a check for $40, while the num-
Der of third prizes given each state
is based upon the elementary school
enrolment. New York, for instance
receives 29 third prizes, while Hawaii
receives only one third prize, in ad-
dition to the first and second awards.
Pupils winning first state honors
are eligible for one of the three ma
tionnl awards offered, and their pap
ers will be graded by a special COM
named by the United States
commissioner of education. The
first prize is a gold watch and a trip I
Washington, in 1921 won by Stan
ey Newcemb, San Diego, Cal. Teach ;
RS also are entitled to three nation
i awards, but to no state prizes. :
The teacher contributing the best t
ractical safety lesson receives a ;
heck for $500 and a trip to Wash :
1gton with all expenses paid. The I
best national lesson entities C
le writer to a check for $500, while t
ne third lesson wins 5000 for the e
uthor. r
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-06-21

Sofia-The Bulgarian cabinet has
been forced out of office by IN army
cabal.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-06-21
KILLING G~rasshoppers

Montana State College Experiment Station here explains the
best methods of Graduating this crop-eating pest, which costs
farmers of the state millions of dollars loss every year.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-04
REV. ARTERS IN fine ADDRESS
AT METHODIST CHURCH MEETING

States, We're not wanted to NEEDLE
with the rum situation for if Great
Britain wanted to drink beer they
should and it wasn't any of Amer
ica's business. He gave the United
States to understand that the alb
sence of Americans on British soil
would be more appreciated than their
presence. Then we have France,
armed to the teeth. I made that re-
| mark recently to 4 man who thought
he knew, he said that France had
to keep armed and prepared on ac-
count of the dislike that the Ger
mans had for them. 1t seems to me
that the situation could be covered
and still have disarmament. We do
not want another outbreak like the
/ past as the world is on ebb tide now
land another struggle would ruin it.
We have Germany, Austria, and it's
Allies. all morally corrupt and in Il
turmoil. In Russia we have a ma
ton which is well enough but whose
government is not making it's coun-
try prosperous. Then the Turkish
situation, with it's massacres, where
ever it places it's foot.
One of the most disheartening
things to me was Il statement made
Wy OuI TISSluSuls NIL I1dIulIlS, WIN
stated that the burning of Smyrna,
he could look upon with personal re-
gret but officially with very little
interest. The speaker then explain
cd his views on the subject stating
that he could not conceive how a
man could have one feeling in one
function and not the same in the
other. Saying that he did not like
the watchful waiting when the world
is in such turmoil and distress, but
thought that what it needed was
Christianity to bring it out of it's
trouble. l want Americas place in
the Sun to be known, and this is
the time for her to take the place.
1t is time to be the umpire think
that Senator Borah is at the pres
ent time right in his wanting to
have a world conference to adjust
the situation and 1 think that the
people of the country also want it,,
and in my opinion President Hard
ing also wants it and will have it
presented to him in the future but
not under the name of Borah. 1 wish
also to say that the game that we
should play is the game of cooper
alton, and that America should be
the umpire. with it's great influence
power, wealth, and love of humanity
it should strive and could in my
estimation bring peace on earth to
mankind, but this can never be ac-
complished without a greater UNI
pire than America and without a
greater President than we have ever
had. It must be wrought from tho
heavens through the channel of
Christianity, with the all-seeing eye
of God taken and accepted by all
individuals and countries in the uni
verse as their supreme Umpire, and
to let His Judgment and His word
stand for all.