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The Alaska daily empire., 1923-08-08

CHICAGO, Aug. S-This is the story of an ectoplasm that scaled oil and deals with vicissitudes of Edgar Jones. a negro whose occupation is the peddling of ice.
 "Mistah Jones" was attempting to deliver a ten-pound block of ice at the residence of "Mistah U. G. Kaye also African. who lived in one of those ina bediam apartments. The portable stove does valiant duty on top of the improvised ice box, and in trying to place the ten pounds of ice Jones upset a skillet of peas, the piece de resistance of the Kaye sup per.
 Between the scalding hot peas and the application of a rolling pin in the hands of "Missus Kaye" Jones emerged loser.
 Someone telephoned to his wife trying to tell her that his head had been injured, but she understood the message to say he was dead, where
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-08-08
CHOSTLY LOOK WEARS AWAY AS DAzED NEGRO RECOvERS;
 INSURANCE CLAIM CANCELLED

upon she hung up the receiver and dashed for the life insurance office matrimony is such an uncertain thing, at best.
 Meanwhile a sympathizing neigh Dor had plastered the bruised head of Jones with a preparation that turn ed a dazzling white as it dried. He arrived at his home in the dusk, when the gaslights were fiickering.
 His wife took one look at the white apparition and fainted-a 250 pound faint across the threshold. A policeman rushed in and began using his club on Jones's head without asking questions. The prostrate wife revived and took another look at him.
 Why, it's Edgah. He ain't no ghos-whuffo' yoa'll beatin' up nah lovin' husban'?" she demanded as she drove the policeman from the build ing and sent a neighbor to tell the insurance company that the stuff was all off,
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-08-08
FIND NEW USES
 FOR U. s. WOOD

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3-The age of wood has not been left behind us, but Is ahead of us. according to the forest service of the U. s. Depart ment of Agriculture in a statement issued here. Chemical research is revealing new uses for wood that were not dreamed of a few years ago, the forest service says.
 The forest service advances the opinion that as wood is being re- placed in one field its uses in other fields are being extended, and that therefore it is all the more neces- sary to treat our forests as crop lands rather than as timber mines with no thought of replacement. The forest service says:
 "One example of the extension of wood uses is the expanding use of pulp wood, not only for paper pro ducts of various kinds, but also for fibre containers, wall board, and simi- lar forms of material. and recently even for making artificial boards. The chemical utilization of wood for the production of various byproducts is still in it's infancy.
 "The next few years may see the use of wood for the production of alcohol on a large scale to take the place of gasoline.
 Wood is also used for the manu- facture of artificial silk, rope, car pets and other fabrics"
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-08-08
Borrowing Procession Escorts Remains from White
 House to Capitol.
TWO FORMER PRESIDENTS
 JOIN THE CORTEGE TODAY
Body Is Borne Down Pennsyl- vania Avenue Between z
 Lines of Mourners.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.-A swell ing tide of honors today bore War ren c. Harding back over the road by which he came to the Presidency, two crowded years ago for him, at the urge of ambition and which ended in the compelling call to duty, stilled by death. Amid tens of thousands of silent countrymen grouped along the way, he passed in such state as only the great dead of nation may know and beyond, the brief hour of cere- mony awaited for him to rest eternal on soil that gave him birth.
 IEGI0NS TRAMP AHEAD.
 Down the wide avenue he was carried today with marching legions tramp;ng ahead to lay him under the dcMe of the Capitol for a while ere he goes back to his native state forever
 With General John J. Pcrshing marching thousands of the escort lead the way with tho steel of bay onets glittering.
 Soldiers, sailors, marine citizens, still bowed with grief, followed.
 PROCESSION OF SORROW.
 It was a few minutes past 10 o'clock this morning when the grelt procession of sorrow swung out from Room of the White House.
 Tenderly the President had been carried for the last time from the portals and placed again on the ar tillery caisson that had borne him last night from the funeral train to lie for a few hours in the East Room of the House. l As the funeral hour approached, Inc casket was opened so the near relatives and friends might spend the last moments there with the dead who lay with peaceful smile.
 Wilson in Cortege. Woodrow Wilson, himself broken ] by the cares of office. came to the portico just before the hour of de- parture to take his place in the cortege
 William Howard Taft was also waiting when the casket was borne to the caisson.
 10ltl EAetullRb AOolluSc diIlscu just at the moment the cortege was 1 to start.
 1 As the procession was forming underneath the shadows of the White House trees. the bell of St. Johns church, across Lafayette Square. began tolling the requiem.
 Was Alone with Dead.
 Only as the procession started did 1t become known that Mrs. Harding spent half an hour, alone with the dead, at one o'clock this morning. She was alone In the rooms at times and at other times was attended by relatives.
 In Pennsylvania Avenue. as the cortege moved along, the silence was 1 broken by strains of Chopin's Fun eral March played by the Army band. At the same time a bugler came to the portico and sounded 1 Attention
 l
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-08-08

eral nights around the campfires in Maryland with Ford, Edison and Firestone.
 The spot in Marion cemetery where all that is mortal of Warren c. Hard ing will be consigned to final rest is one of the most beautiful in the vicinity of the quiet town to which he oftimes said he hoped to return as an ordinary citizen"
 Situated at almost the exact center of the shady expanse of the old burial ground. the Harding family plot, where a president of the United States will resume his place among the kindly folk he knew and loved as neighbors, lies cupped in a tiny valley.
 Two giant elms cast, deep shadows over slabs of granite which mark the resting place of the presidents mother and of his sister Mary Cralis e'eaming gravel roadway winds through perfect archway of fo- liage fashioned by fthe interlocking branches of virgin elms.
 To the rear whore the tiny de- presaon levels Itself out stretches quiet vista of gently rolling grass land dotted here and there by the gray blot of tombstone. all deep ened into somber tints by the shade of forest trees-a fitting background for the shrine of a dead president.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-08-08
Definite Naval Policy For
 United States Being Worked
 Out by Army and Navy Board

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 8.-Congress- man James 0'Connor, of Louisiana, in a statement of deep significance tt' the people of the Pacific Coast, said today:
 Congressional appropriations for increasing the navy and for all means of national defense on the Pacific and Atlantic coast was pre- dicted largely on recommendations of the ioint Army and Navy Board now functioning at Washington" 2
 In addition, Admiral Coontz said : "For the first time in our history we have a definite naval policy and a 25-year program outlined by the joint Army and Navy Board. We are at last getting down to real thinos. Our country is learning fast"
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-08-08
CANNERIES AT
 WESTWARD HAVE
 AVERAGE SEASON
Large Part Salmon Run Up Stream Before Fishing Start
 ed Says Capt. Whitney.

An average season has been ex- perienced by the canneries at the Westward according to Capt. George H. Whitney. of the local U. s. Inspectors Office, who returned on the Admiral Evans after spending several weeks in the Westward dis trcit, inspecting ships. A large part of the salmon run had made it's way up the stream and into the spawn ing grounds before the fishing sea- son was started Capt. Whitney said.
 The packs Tn tne Kodiak and Cook Inlet districts are limited and the canneries in the Nushagak and Igushak district have only one fousth pack The canneries in the Igagik. Naknek and Kxichak dis tricts have a normal pack. East of the Alaska Peninsula there has been little fish. In the Prince William Sound districts the canneries have fairly good packs.
 The season is about ended at the Westward, except in the Kodiak and Cook Inlet districts and Capt. Whit ney said the Carlisle Packing Co and the Pioneer Packing Co., plants at Cordova have completed theiI packs for the season.
 The weather throughout the en tire Westward country has been ex ceptionally fine this summer. witt little rain, and there have been nc
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-08-08

wind storms along the Peninsula, which is most unusual.
 Capt. Whitney brought word of tho death of John Henry Winters, superintendent of the Alsaka Pack CTS Association Quichak canneries, June 27 last, rom apoplexy He died on his way from one cannery to the other. MT. Winters was about 45 years of age. He had been gen oral superintendent of the canner- ies for the past six or seven years CTS Association since he was a young man.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-08-08
PROCESSION OF SORROW FOLLOWS REMAINS OF HARDING TO CAPITOL
Simple Funeral Services at Marion For Late President

MARION. Ohio, Aug. s-The de- tailed plan. approved by Mrs. Hard ing. for the funeral services here, pro pides for the arrival of the body about 10 o'clock Thursday morning and it's removal to the home of the late Presidents father, pr. c. T. Harding.
 \ The body will lie in state until 2 o'clock Friday afternoon when the funeral cortege will form at the residence and march to the Marion cemetery where services will be held upon arrival at the vault about 3 o'clock.
 Only one service will be conducted for the late President in his home city, and that will be at the receiv- ing vault. This service will be con ducted by Rev George NJ Landis. pastor of the Trinity Baptist Church. which the President attended, as- sisted by Rev. Jessie swank. pastor of the Methodist Episcoptl Church Rev. Swank was a personal friend of Harding.
 Four distinguished citizens, close friends of the late President, will attend the funeral here Friday. They are Thomas A. Edison, Henry Ford. Harvey s. Firestone and Bish2p w. F. Anderson, accompanied b, H cir wives.
 Two years ago, Harding spent sev-
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-08-08
Soldier of Fortune Quits;
 ** Going to Prospect For Oil

NEW ORLEANS, La, Aug Seen eral Lee Christmas. Jr., after pull ing one foot from the grave" as he expressed it, lies in a hospital here with the prospect of being out this week. He is planning another ven ture into Central America.
 This man, who has had a finger in the Latin-American revolutionary pie for 30 years, and around whom Rich ard Harding Davis wove his Clay, hero of Soldiers of Fortune" is gun
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-08-08
PROMINENT MINER DIES

Roy A. Young, manager of the Dome Creek Mining Company, which has sixteen men working on Dome Creek, a tributary of the Fortymile River, died suddenly while at work July r, according to word from Daw. son. Young was a prominent Wash ington State mining man with lead mines near Spokane. He was one of the organizers of the Dome Creek Mining Company and has had active charge of it's operations. He was AS years of age. native of Washington State, and is survived by his widow and daughter. residing at Seattle. The body was sent to Seattle in charge of his brother, Chester Young
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-08-08
Canadians Selling
 Picnic" Rum, Charge

DETROIT, Aug. S-The federal gov ernment is expected to take up with officials of Canada the charge made by Earl J. Davis. United States dis. trict attorney for the Eastern Michi- gan district, that passenger steamers of Canadsian register are taking on crowds of Detroiters, steaming into Canadian waters and there selling liquor to the thirsty excursionists.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-08-08

ming for oil in Guatemala. He Is done with revolutions" he declares.
 I'm in Guatemala entirely for pros pecting for oil have convinced the Latin-American republics that I'm not out for any more disturbance. I'm a peaceful man these days"
 The General is convalescing after a battle of Il months with tropic fever and with a bullet within an inch of his heart. relic of jungle fray.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-08-08
PIONEER DIES ON TRAIL

The body of Ed. Thompson, pioneer of Alaska dating back to 1887, was found dead on the trail at the head of Katchemak Bay, Bristol Bay coun- try, June Is. according to the Nenana News. Thompson and his partner. Ed Parks, had been developing the latter's homestead near Nenana when the former left for the coast about three years ago to prospect in the Bristol Bay country. Thompson was a native of Minnesota, and was a stampeder into the Black Hills coun try before coming to Alaska 35 years ago.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-08-08
'OIL INDUSTRY
 TO BE PR0BED
I. GOLDsTEIN, Mayor.

CHICAGO, Aug. S-Three sub-com mittees to ascertain costs of produc- tion, refining and marketing of crude oil and it's by-products have been ap- pointed by A. G. Mcclure. Chairman of the committee selected by l.. ". Nichols, President of the National Petroleum Marketers Association to investigate various conditions in the oil industry of the middle continent oil field
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-08-08
RAILROADS MAY
 GET GOAT ISLE

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug S.-Goat Island. in San Francisco Bay, for merly a naval training station, will not be used as the main operating base for the Twelfth District, ac- cording to navy men here, who state that lack of adequate transporta- tion facilities make the abandoned island useless for an operating base.
 ''The Rodman board report recom- mended Alameda as the proper site for the naval operating base, said
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-08-08
A PROCLAMATION
TO THE CITIZENS OF JUNEAU:

TO THE CITIZENS OF JUNEAU:
 WHEREAS thc mortal remains of dearly beloved late Pradcnt, Warren G. Harding will tc laid to rest at Marion, Ohio August 10, 1923, and
 WHEREAS National Proclamation has been issued seting that day apart throughout the United States and its Territories of mourning and prayer,
 NOW THEREFORE, Isadore Gold gin. Mayer of the City Juneau request that all business the entire day that the citizens of Juneau bcftngy cbcrv the day IN WITNESS WHEREOF, have hcreunto ss my hand and caused the ofa oca of the City of Juneau t. be affixed this 9th day of August 1923
 l. G0LDSTEIN, Mayor.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-08-08
Wealthy Man Kills His
 Young Wife and Another

BATTLE CREEK. Mich. Aug & John Wells, aged 75 years, wealthy and retired, killed his wife. aged 2S years, and himself He left word that he had also slain Mrs. B. H. Stewart. of this city. and placed her body in clump of bushes five miles outside of the city. Jealousy was the cause of the tragedy, the police claim
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-08-08
Broken Neck Knits.
 Mans Life Saved

BEDDING, Calif, Aug S--A month ago w. H. Hollister. Gas Point farmer, broke his neck in runaway accident.
 His neck was placed in plaster cast and his physicians announced the shattered vertebrae had knitted together and his recovery was as- sured as far as the broken neck is concerned,
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-08-08
Former Alaskans in Seattle to March
 In Memorial Parade

SEATTLE, Aug. S-All former Alaskans here will march in body with the Alaska Pioneers Association in the Harding me morial parade here Friday after noon.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-08-08
Widow of Inventor of
 Reaper Leaves Big Estate

CHICAGO, Aug. S-Mrs. Nettie Mccormick. widow of the inventor of the reaper, left an estate of $S.- S96,000 of which more than a mil lion goes to church, education and charitable institutions. This was dis closed when the synopsis of her will was published today.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-08-08
To Close at Noon Friday

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. S-The Board of Directors of the Standard Oil Company. of California, has or dered all offices and oil stations in Washington. Oregon, California, Ne vada and Arizona to be closed at noon on Friday for the remainder of the day.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-08-08
Society Woman Fined
 $4O0 on Rum Count

DENVER, Aug. S.-Mrs. Katherine O'Connor, Denver society woman, pleaded guilty in United States dis trict court here to illegal possession of liquor. She was fined $400 which her attorney paid.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-08-08
COURT AT ANCHORAGE

Judgee E. E. Ritchie convened disposed of naturalization and pre- liminary matters for the fall jury term that will be held there later.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-08-08
THEATRES MAY
 CLOSE FRIDAY
Steps Are Being Taken for Complete Suspension of
 All Amusements.

NEW YORK, Aug. S-Steps are be- ing taken to have all motion picture, vaudeville and legitimate theatres of the Nation remain closed Friday, the day of the funeral of late President Harding.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-08-08

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Phoenix tribune., 1923-12-15
DOCTOR IS ACCUSED
OF Being LOVE Thief
SUED FOR $4,000

NEWTON, N J.-Suit was started
in the New Jersey Supreme Court by
Orison H. Thorp, of Newton, N. j.,
against Dr. Blase Cole, a Newton
physician, charging alienation of the
affections of Mrs Lillian R. Thorp.
Damages of $4,000 are asked. Mrs.
Thorp is now an inmate of the Tren-
ton State Hospital, wnere she went
soon after the trouble between her
husband and DR.. Cole last year.
DR.. Cole denies the charges made
by Thorp and asserts the situation in
which he is placed is one in which
any doctor is liable to find himself
any day. William A. Dolan, his coun-
sci, calls the case an attempt at
blackmail.
On October % of last year, Thorp
swore out warrant for the arrest
of DR.. Cole. Before a hearing could
Phoenix tribune., 1923-12-15
Bring court ACTION
TO GUST PRINCIPAL
OF COLORED SCHOOL

BOWLING GREEN, Ky.-Suit was
filed in Warren County Circuit Court
Tuesday morning by Attorneys Rodes
and Harlin, representing Clarence M
Ray, W. s. Marlborough, VIM. Wolfe,
John T. Porter, John Brown, o. D.
Porter, William Nelson, and E. l.
Smith, all Negroes against the City
Board of Education, seeking the RS
moval of e. E. Reid, president of the
Kentucky Negro Educational Associa-
tion and principal of the Colored pub
lie schools of the city. The petition
charges Reid has been guilty of gross
ly immoral conduct and drunkenness,
and that Notwithstanding affidavits
have been filed with the board show
ing these facts, it continues Reid in
the position of principal, acting arbi-
trarily and unreasonably to the hurt
and detriment of the women and chill
dren attending the Colored schools
in the city.
Phoenix tribune., 1923-12-15

proclamation setting aside a certain
Sunday for the citizens to pray the
boil weevil away. comes the story of
a Negro, approaching so years of age,
who eats razors.
There is no trick or necromancy to
it, the man eats the steel blades and
enjoys them. One of the leading doc
tors of Columbia, DR.. c. w. Barron,
has made an X-ray of the Negroes di-
gestive system and the plate revealed
bits of steel scattered all along his
intestinal tract
Phoenix tribune., 1923-12-15

for the telephone exchange. 1t did
not faze him. Wood alcohol, it seems
is as so much water to him.
Thomas had eaten about Is razor
blades when DR.. Barron took the first
X-rays. DR.. Barron will make fur
ther investigation of the strange case
Phoenix tribune., 1923-12-15

be he'd before Recorder James Mills.
of Newton, Thorp withdrew the
charge with the intention of starting
new proceedings" as he expressed It,
The case is creating much interest
throughout Sussex County.
Phoenix tribune., 1923-12-15
Excites Comment


The Negroes peculiar appetite has
been the subject of comm ent for some
times A newspaper man, inclined to
doubt the tales, made an investigation.
The Negro was found, answered all
questions with polite replies and ad-
mitted that he did eat razors, liked
the taste of them and had feasted on
them for years. He was found at
work on boiler He grinned a grin
that displayed his strong, white teeth
when told what information was
wanted, and told his story in words
strongly favored with French express
sions and French accent He is from
Thomas.
Three Blades Are Eaten
The newspaper man still was skep-
tical He left Thomas at his work
and purchased a package of safety
razor blades. He returned to the
scene of the Negroes labors and with
out word handed them to the black,
who quietly tore the wrapper from
the package and ate three of the
blades, one at time. The thin steel
cracked in his mouth with sound
not unlike freshly parched peanuts,
ard in a few seconds Thomas asked
for another blade
Like Soda Crackers
Several BARRIERS of Columbia have
Offered straight-edge razors to this
human steel mill, and they now pre-
sent for inspection old blades, with
big gaps chewed out of the edges. He
bites into steel blades as an ordinary
man might MUNICH soda cracker.
Thomas does not confine himself to
steel; he also eats glass Further, the
newspaper man watched him run
long pin through his arm without
flinching He declares that doctors
examined him and report that there
is no circulation in his arm. He was
in the British army during the war
and for a short period in his majesty's
navy. He says that he was wounded
several times, but he did not bleed
at all
Weird Tricks AS Boy
Thomas recalls that he ate his first
razors when he was a boy of eight.
He is now near so, although some-
what younger looking in appearance.
He declares that in his younger days
he used to lick red hot iron, dance on
glass and sharp swords, eat tacks and
do many other parlor tricks of similar
nature. While talking to the newspa-
per man he swallowed a lighted Gig
arctic which he was smoking to prove
that he can stand such pain provok-
ing acts without flinching. He ap-
pears not to feel pain at ALL When
he chewed the razor blades, not one
drop of blood appeared from any
wounds that might have been inflict-
ed within his mouth.
Negro acquaintances of Thomas re-
peat stories that seem more impos
sible than the razor eating act. They
tell of him drinking a pint of embalm-
ing fluid just before going on an
eight-hour shift of stoking the furnace
Phoenix tribune., 1923-12-15
SOUTHERN BLACK MAN
EATS RAZOR BLADES
LIKE SODA CRACKERS

SPARTANSBURG, S. C.-From Co
lumbia, capital of the state that
boasts Cole Blease as a former gov
ernor and a state that tells the world
that the present incumbent issued
Phoenix tribune., 1923-12-15
Literary Assembly

Literary Assembly
Thursday morning, December 20, at
8:15, the regular literary assembly
will be held at the Colored High
Phoenix tribune., 1923-12-15

FOR SALE-Baby Chix; Golden
Buff and White Leghorns, Anconas,
Black Minorcas, Barred Rocks, R. |.
Reds, Buff Orpingtons and TURK
EMS. ENOCH CREWS,
Seabright, Calf.
Among the Kabyles of Algeria,
only sick men may carry canes.
Phoenix tribune., 1923-12-15

school. Parents and friends cordial
ly invited.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-04-26
If Stomach is Sour,
Food Won't Digest

No stomach filed with sour poisons
can digest food. Everything you eat
turns into more poison and gas, max
ing you nervous and weak. Simple
buckthorn bark, glycerine.- etc., as
mixed in Adlerika, expels all sour poi
sons and gas from BOTH upper and
lower bowel. Removes foul. decaying
food-matter you never thought was in
your system which caused sour and
gassy stomach. Adlerika is EXCEL
LENT to guard against appendicitis
Frank w. Bucknam, druggist. Sold
in Jackman Station by W. L. Barney
Co., druggists.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-04-26
EUSTIS

Lewis and Dana Potter were in town
Sunday and drovea car back to STRAIT
ton.
Mrs F. D. Stubs Is recovering from
tonsilitis.
The friends of Mrs. w. M. Stubs
are pleased to know she Is fast re-
covering from her illness.
Lester Sylvester has returned from
Round Mt. Lake Camps.
Mr.. Berry of Stratton preached in
Eustis, Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Goodwin have
returned to Stratton.
An athletic association has been
formed with Lloyd Mcdonald as cap
tain; Hugh Sylvester, treasurer; Her
bert Ryan. business manager.