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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-31
NEW SUGAR PRICE CUT

SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 2s-The California; Hawaiian Sugar Refining company, the Western Sugar refin- cry and the Spreckels Sugar com pany today announced a reduction of 20 cents per 100 pounds in the basic 2price of refined cane and beet sugar, Reflective at once. The new base price Nor refined cane sugar is $9 and the Rrice for refined beet sugar is $8.80. &his was the second cut within 10
 ays, the previous one having been 11r 30 cents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-31
STATIONS UNDER FIRE
Rusiness District May Be Made he- stricted Area For Gasoline service

BuSIness DispANt eo.-,s,,
 Prohibiting filling stations for au- tomobiles in the business district was a subject taken up at the meet ing of the city commission Tuesday
 Members of the commission ap reared to favor the idea, especially as unnumerable complaints nave been made about cars blocking Iral fic in their efforts to get fuel on much used thoroughfares, where curb pumps are to be found.
 From First avenue to Fifth ana from Eighteenth to Twenty fourth streets make the area under discus sions, where the stations may be prohibited
 The commission called on the legal department to prepare an ordinance on the subject for consideration, which is scheduled for adoption at the next meeting of the board.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-31

A species of date-fish has been known to burrow into submerged columns of African marble.
The Washington times., 1923-08-20
BUSINESS
BETTER IN
FRANCE
Commerce Department Finds
Conditions improving in
Other Countries.
Nv Cosmopolitan News Service.

The affairs Of five European
countries are the subject of cable
messages to the United States De
partment of Commerce. France IS
pictured as recuperating, IN the FOL
lowing cable:
..The economical trend in France
during the month of July was Iavor-
able. notwithstanding seasonal calm
ness and the instability caused by
political developments and ex-
change fluctuations. Government
receipts were in excess of estimates.
and railroad receipts were above
those of last year.
Horticultural prospects are prom
Using, foreign trade is active, the
cost Of living has decreased. and
unemployment is neglible. General
prospects for autumn, however, are
less encouraging. There is IN
creasing anxiety caused by de-
liveries from the Ruhr. The de-
clining franc stimulates exports, but
this will necessitate buying replace
ment stocks at high franc prices
since the stocks in many lines are
already low
Austrian Exports Grow.
Austrian exports to the Jnite'
States are increasing. A cable says
| Austrian financial and industrial
| conditions continued to improve duE
/ ing July. Decrea SEES were noted. II
the cost of living and in the number
of unemployed. There was a con
siderable increase in the value o.
exports declared for the United
| States
The cable from Germany start:
off with 1.-THE fall OF the mark, AM
SAYS: 1.-THE fall Of the mark, tbs
| late harvest, and increasing unem
ployment are serious factors in thu
situation in Germany. The idea -o
adopting gold basis for. trade Il
gaining favor. Recent increases !:
| taxes are insufficient to cover gov
eminent expenditures.
| Conditions in Rumania are giveY
las follows: 1.-THE agreement reached
between Rumania's debtors ant
English creditors has been the sub
ject Of protest ny creditors in othel
/ countries. Business and financia
conditions are unsettled, A com
mission for the liquidation OF enemy
property has been formed. The ex
ternal loan to Hungary has bee!
approved.
Treaty With Poland.
Treaties with Czechoslovakia am
Poland have been renewed. Tn
petroleum situation shows improve
ment, as does the lumber situation
The Washington times., 1923-08-20
ENGL|SHRULERS
MATCHMAKING
H|TSSNAG
LADY Louise Mountbatten Jiits
Swedish Crown Prince and
Spells His Plans.
BY MARGERY REX

Written for Cosmopolitan News Service
NEW YORK, Aug. 20.-PeoDle
rho think monarchs should go into
business might cast an eye over
the activities of King George OF
England.
George v it suddenly appears
to observers of his matchmaking
proclivities, might well consider
himself fairly successful marriage
broker. The King needs the money.
but not for himself. You mustn't
think George v takes tips or per-
centages off the wedding of his kin
to persons Of means-it's enough
satisfaction for his majesty to real
ize that if the King trade has
slump he won't have a lot of sisters
and cousins and aunts left to SUP
port. And in the manner to winch
they've been accustomed at that.
But now Lady Louise Mounthat-
ten, cousin of King George, las
Tilted Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf
of Sweden and threatens to marry
a poor artist with nothing to his
name but a beard. The king ex
poets any minute to have one of
the chamberlains pop in with the
news of Lady Louise's elopement.
King George Worried.
Since the Battenbergs-who chang
ed their names during the war to
Mountbatten-are the poorest rela-
tions of royalty, you can't blame
King George for being worried.
This Swedish crown prince, SO
The Washington times., 1923-08-20
TROUBLES OF SUBWAY LIFE
DRIVE GUARD TO SUICIDE

NEW YORK. Aug. 20.-The trou'
bled life of a subway guard proved
too much for John O'Connor. who
committed suicide yesterday in the
rest room of the Matheson Lead
Company factory, in Long Island
City.
O'Connor worked at the factory
until about year ago, when he
got a job as subway guard.
From time to time he returned to
the factory and told the worlxmen
that the rush of the crowds and
the jibes directed at him were
getting to be too much. Yester-
day morning he went back to the
factory and to the rest room. He
turned on all the gas jets Of the
kitchen stove. then sat in a chair
beside the stove. His body was
found by one of the workmen.
The Washington times., 1923-08-20
$133,847
ITIJRDAY's ARRESTS AND FINES
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
ASSOCIATION TO MEET

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j.. Aug. 20.
The New Jersey Weights and
Measures. Association will hold its
twelfth annual conference at the
Hotel St. Charles here September
s, 6, z, and 8.
These meetings, formerly closed,
will be open to manufacturers of
weighing and measuring machines
this time. Federal authorities Of
the Bureau of Standards at Wash
ington and weights and measures
officials Of States near New Jer'
sey are expected to attend.
The Washington times., 1923-08-20

King George is. reported to have
told Lady Louise, will be q good
provider.
King George, they say. is the
only man in England who is ex-
pected to do his duty toward him.
self and society on a pre-war sal
airy. He is only half as rich as
he was in 1914, because the cost
of living has doubled. And on top
of all that King Edward bequeathed
him nine million dollars worth of
debts.
Suppose Lady Louise does marry
Stuart Hill, the poor painter fellow
that she loves. Some day she'll
open up one of these illustrated
English magazines and see a photo
graph of her wealthy sister-in-law,
the former Edwina Ashley, who
married Lord Louis Mountbatten
better known to all of US as the
pal of Doug and Mary in Holly
wood. Edwina will be terribly
dressed up in the photograph and
Lady Louise will feel like asking
herself why-when she had the
chance-she didn't marry money as
her brother did, when he fell in
love with the charming Edwina.
niece of Sir Ernest Cassel, who
left her $5O,OOO,O0O.
Mary Married Well.
Princess Mary, on the other hand.
pleased her royal parents nightly
by falling in love with Lord Las
celles, just about the richest peer
in the whole United Kingdom He
is heir to the enormous estate Of
his father, the fifth Earl of Hare
wood. And Lord Lascelles has
around twelve millions on hand that
he inherited q few years ago from
his uncle, the late Earl of Clanri-
carde, a notorious Irish landlord
A Arrangements were made before
Princess Mary's wedding so that,
in case she tires Of her matrimonial
bargain, she can still live on merrily
without going back to her folks for
spending money.
English taxpayers are furnishing
the Duke Of York with $4,000 a
year because he didn't do so well
financially when he married the
comparatively poor daughter of the
Earl of Strathmore, who, If rumor
is to be believed, has more ghosts
than pieces of eight to leave his
daughter. Parliament raised the
Dukes income to the sum men.
toned. Taxpayers hope that other
representatives OF royalty who are
among the marrying kind" what
ever that is. will fall in love where
money is.
King Georges youngest son,
Prince George, is on the verge Of
being engaged to Lady Alexander
Curzon, whose mother was Miss
Mary Letter, Of the wealthy Chicago
family Of that name.
The Washington times., 1923-08-20
TUT'S, FAMED YALE BAR,
SUCCUMBS TO DRY LAW

NEW HAVEN, Conn. Aug. 90
The old oaken buckets gone, the
cocoanut ladle hangs on the wall, q
mute trophy of old days, and the
coppercovered sink is in the hands
of a junkman. That's the present
day tale of "Tut's," since 1848 a
favorite haunt Of Yale student and
graduate, a place known wherever
Yale menSare the world around.
When the fiat went forth from
the authorities that all bars and
every semblance of a bar must be
wiped out of New Haven, Tuttle's
was one of the first to obey the
law and strated dis1nantling. For
tunately the college was not in ses-
sion, else the shedding of tears had
been unanimous. A modest cash.
and-carry grocery now occupies the
old-time haunt of famous men. and
all over the earth men will be say
ing presently: ''Tut's is gone"
The Washington times., 1923-08-20

A decline in the exports OF cereals
and cattle is noted
Finland is experiencing the first
favorable trade balance OF the year.
according to another cable, which
says: June exports from Finland
rose sharply as the result Of heavy
summer shipments of timber, while
imports fell off slightly thus bring
ing about the first favorable trade
balance since the beginning of the
year. Industrial and labor condi-
tons remained satisfactory. The
financial situation continued stable,
with the Finnish mark maintain
ing a steady exchange. Although
the money market was. tight, the
bank note circulation did not in
crease. Cost IF living advanced
slightly. Better weather in July
improved crop conditions"
The Washington times., 1923-08-20
Daily Traffic Calendar


Total Tor year f%1ot
Total Tor Saturday.
Grand total .............. ................ $40:
The Washington times., 1923-08-20
EXECUTORS PROTEST TAX
ON PUBLlHSER'S ESTATE

NEW YORK, Aug. 20.-O Objections
to the State imposing the transfer
tax on certain legacies under the will
of the late James Gordon Bennett
were filed in the surrogate court by
Rodman Wanamaker and the Guar.
anty Trust Company, executors OF
the estate.
The petition recites that the re-
port OF Transfer Tax Appraiser Ed.
ward w. Buckley included $93.779.
representing .decedent:s Intangible
property In France and $9S 1855, the
present value of the widows annuity.
1t is said these two items passed to
the widow, Maud Gordon Bennett.
under the provisions Of her husband ,
French will = executed In Paris.
June %, 1916. and there was no
transfer OF this property under the
New York State law
The Washington times., 1923-08-20
LIEUT.. MacREADY TO TAKE
PHOTO or SUMS ECLIPSE

DAYTON, Ohio. Aug. 20.--Lieut.
John A. MacReady, the McCook
field record making specialist, Is
going to try q new one. Under
orders from Washington he will
nose out OF the field in. special
Photographic airplane and head for
the Pacific coast. With him will
be Captain Stephens, the expert
fighter Of the air service. He will
be equipped with special camera and
will photograph the sun during the
eclipse which the weather sharks
say is due to occur on SeptembM
10
The Sun will be shot" from high
altl. ude and that is where Mac
Ready win get his hand into the
photographing business.
The Washington times., 1923-08-20
Man Deserted By Pious
Wife Is Given
Decree

BALTIMORE, Aug. 90
Testimony that his wife desert
ed him six years ago because
he declined to join her religious
denomination won for Richard
H. Lewis an absolute divorce
from Hattie r. Lewis.
The decree was signed by
Judge Duke Bond, in circuit
court, after a perusal of lengthy
dispositions citing Lewis sud-
den abandonment by his "pious"
spouse. Her love, so Lewis
complained, waned soon after
she accepted the Holy Roller"
faith.
The Washington times., 1923-08-20
German Doctor Says
He Has Remedy For
tuberculosis

BERLIN, Aug. 20.-The claim
that his newly discovered to
berculosis remedy has cured sc
per cent of cases treated is adj
vanced by Prof. Johann Won
Weniger, Berlin physician.
He is sailing for New York
to sign a contract with an
American firm for a worldwide
monopoly for his cure, which
consists of treatments OF ura-
mum and thorium maccoduro,
the latter being extracted from
a South American plant long
used in fever cases.
The Washington times., 1923-08-20

once, and by the same token you
may discover new favorite.
We'd like you to compare Blue
Boar tobacco, TRIPLY blended,
with that which is blended but
once, the usual way.
Triple blending is new dis.
covery-a refinement Of refine
ments. If we take the quick
decision of over 100000 men as
decisive, Blue Bears are bound to
take a leading position.
Nearly every man who smokes
a pack of Blue Bears switches to
them Immediately. And one
man tells another: "It's the triple
Blend" o
The Washington times., 1923-08-20
SPECIAL CARS WILL RUN
TO ROCKVILLE FAIR

Special street car service will be
provided next week by the Wash
ington Railway and Electric Com
pany to carry patrons. to and from
the Rockville Fair, which opens
tomorrow and closes Saturday.
Beginning tomorrow night at 8
o'clock cars will run every half hour
until 1870 o'clock at night to and
from the fair.
On Thursday, the big day of
the fair, cars will run every ten
minutes from s o'clock to 2:30
o'clock and from then until 1880
the half hour schedule will be in
operation
The Washington times., 1923-08-20
Don't Wait
For Someone to Urge Yor
Learn now why one man tells
another about Blue Bears

Your curiosity, sooner or later,
will be aroused to the trying point.
and you'll smoke your first
pack of Blue Bears.
Why not hasten the day-com-
mence sooner to know a new
delight in cigarettes?
Don't wait to be told, ''It's the
triple blend.''
In fairness to yourself, sir, be-
cause otherwise you'll never
know what you're missing, we
ask you to smoke twenty Blue
Bears.
However welded you are to
some favorite cigarette, remem-
Der that you had to discover it
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-02-23

HENEVER YOU WANT THEM PREVIOUS TO REMOVAL.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-02-23

TEXOLEU-T

Good sanitary floor COW
ering for the Kitchen.
Guaranteed p G f G c t
throughout. Regular price
s5c. In this sale per 50.
yard
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-02-23

THE NEWS OF BUYING THE BIGGEST BARGAINS nj THIS GREAT SALE WONDERFUL Val
COVERINGS AT SUCH RADICAL REDUCTIONS FROM FORMER PRICES THAT THERE IS \
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-02-23
STEEL CRIBS

White enameled finish.
Complete with extra heavy
steel spring. Regular SIS
value. During this sale
$9.95
The Nevada County picayune., 1923-05-03
OZAN MERCANTILE co.
Prescott, Ark.

10 feet, s inches.
 100 yard dash-Sage. Graham, Mutt 10.3 seconds.
 1o0 high hurdle-Nutt, Orren. Sage 21 seconds.
 SS0 yard run-Thach. Erwin. Buch anan. 2.24.
 Standing broad jump-S. Jones. F Jones, C. Mosley. 9 feet. 41a inches.
 900 yard run Graham. Sage keelen 241 seconds. Pole vault-Elgin. Moore, Thatch $ feet, 6 inches.
 Discus-Griffith, 96; C. Moseley 94.6: Youngblood. S2. Running broad jump-Hernsberge F Moseley. Graham. 19 feet. 40 yard run-Graham. Keelen Mutt 56.1 seconds.
 Standing high jump - Moore, $ Jones. Thatch. feet, 3 inches.
 22O low hurdle-Nutt. F. Moseley $ Jones. 30 seconds.
 Running high jump - Woosley Thatch, /Moseley. 5 feet, inches.
The Nevada County picayune., 1923-05-03
DRS. BUCHANAN OFFER TO
 BUILD COMMUNITY HOSPITAL

Drs. A. s. and G. A. Buchanan, who have operated the Park Sanitarium here since it's establishment, have signified their intention to build a community hospital. TOT Prescott.
 They will build and equip a modern hospital costing from fifteen to twenty thousand dollars and turn it over to the people of Prescott to be operated as community enterprise, in which all of the physicians of the city and surrounding towns and communities
The Nevada County picayune., 1923-05-03
DEAL FOR PRESCOTT'S
 NEW HOTEL CLOSED

Dr. Robert Saxon of Little Rock, was in Prescott yesterday, and closed the deal whereby he becomes owner of the Park Sanitarium property. Drs Buchanan. Buchanan and Hirst to give possession May 15.
 1t is the intention of Dr. Saxon to immediately convert the building into first class hotel, and enlarge the building sufficiently to care for the great amount of business that
The Nevada County picayune., 1923-05-03

will come to our city as a result of the new oil fields.
 The building now contains 40 rooms, and was originally built for modern hotel. There is ample room for ad- ditions which can be made after the hotel is opened.
 In all probability it will be open for business in very short time.
The Nevada County picayune., 1923-05-03
ACTIVITY IS
 ON INCREASE
Good Showing of Oil in Wood ley Test Last Week. Work Resumed on
 Discovery We'll.


 ground, and drilling will start this week on the Ames X Zingg discovery well, quarter of mile from the Steel and Sandlin producer. Drilling was stopped on this well when only three feet in the sand, and it is be- lieved better flow will be secured at greater depth.
 Drilling was suspended on the Woodley we'll in 4-15-22, at 1,7S1 feet, when a good showing of oil and gas was encountered. As soon as some of the casing can be threaded, drilling will be resumed.
 Machinery has been shipped for Steel & Sandlin's second test, in the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section 13-1421. Derrick is up. and this will be started within few days.
 Machinery was hauled from Pres cCtt to the Nat Weissman test in sec ton 1-1O-23 early this week, the drill CTS being under contract to start drill ing before May 15.
 Haskell's test on the J. A. Mckenzie tract, in the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section 19-14-22. has suspended operations at the 250o foot depth. It is probable the test will be drilled deeper within 30 days. Derrick is being placed on More field X Tanners location in the north west quarter of the southwest quar- ter of section 10-12-21, on the Sam Westmoreland tract, seven miles south east of Prescott. .
 Houston Oil Company is erecting derrick on it's location on the F. w. Grove tract in section 36-13-21. this company being under contract for three tests in the Grove lands i'll township 1921.
 Smitherman X Mcdonald last week spudded in its offset to Steel X Sand lins well, Warmack No. l. in the northeast quarter of section 10-14-21. Night and day shifts are being used and it is said this well will be ready for test in II days after spudding in. This company has two other derricks on the same quarter section and will begin drilling within week. White Oil Company has derrick up on the A. r. East tract in section 13- 13-22 and machinery has been shipped.
 Several blocks of acreage near Lane burg and Mt. Moriah have been com pleted and contracts have been let for drilling three tests in that vicinity locations for which have not been an- nounced.
 A block has been completed three miles north of Prescott, and one near Boughton four miles northeast of Prescott, for tests to be drilled within 90 days. locations for which have not been announced.
 H. M Straughan and c. l.. Myers of Charleston. w. Va, representing the Kanark Oil Company, are making arrangements for the drilling of two tests near Mt Moriah and Gale, north of production. This company recently completed test in the edge of Ross ton, in section 21-13-21, drilling 2,325 feet.
The Nevada County picayune., 1923-05-03
PRESCOTT WINS
 TRACK MEET
Wins From Fordyce With Score of 83.6O. Lee Hale Griffith Highest Individual Point
 Winner.

Prescott high school track stars won the dual meet from Fordyce Mon day. with score of S3 to 60. Lee Hale Griffith, Prescott's weight man rOmped in with highest individual honors, having four first places to his credit
 On the 900 yard dash. Graham made the best time during the day making it in 24.1 seconds.
 The events and places in order fol low:
 Shotpu.-Griffith, C. Mosley, Sage.
The Nevada County picayune., 1923-05-03

shall have equal rights and privileges.
 A board of control consisting of [ members. named by the churches of the city and the chamber of commerce will have charge of the management of the hospital, the Drs. Buchanan taking no other part than to donate the building to the city, with the un- derstanding that should the hospital pay enough to justify it, they are to receive s per cent interest on money invested.
 Most of the doctors of the city are heartily in favor of the plan, and will aid in any manner in assuring the success of the undertaking.
 No definite action has so far been taken on the matter. but there is little doubt the people of Prescott will fail to take advantage of this very gener- ous offer.
The Nevada County picayune., 1923-05-03

Hammer throw-Griffith, c. Mosely Buchanan 114 feet, 5 inches.
 Javelin throw-Griffith, c. Mosely, Sage. 121 feet. inches.
 Relay-Fordyce. 4 minutes, l sec.
The Nevada County picayune., 1923-05-03

When a fellow tells all that he knows other people know more than he does.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-08-24
WA7ERvILLE
TRAIN COLLISION
HOLDS UP TRAFFIC
TWO ESCAPE DEATH

Two men narrowly escaped INJURY
and probably death last night about y
o'clock when extra freight No. SIS
pulling into Waterville. crashed into
shifter just below the Main street
crossing The main line between
Portland and Waterville via Lewiston
was tied up for several hours and II
was reported that five freights besides
the fast freight from Boston were tied
up behind the extra. To make matters
worse, the first train sent to the
scene Of the rescue, broke wnen the
power was applied.
II is understood that the freight had
received the customary signal and was
coming into the yard at about four
miles an hour. The shifter was drag
ging a string Of box cars off the main
line The big engine crashed in pc
tween the last two box cars, tore the
under rigging from both cars. locked
into the last car and tore up the track
for several feet.
Engineer George Bradford Of Port
land pulled his head into the cab
just in time. When the train stop
ped the second box car was within
six inches of the cab window. Percy
Frederick of Watcrville. a brakeman,
was standing on the end of the sec
Onu DOA car anu, ~ -
road man, he was just about foot
away from death. He managed
to hang on in spite Of the crash, and
was unhurt. Several of the men on
the train were thrown headlong by
the force of the impact.
Engine Number GA. hauling a big
load of coal. was coming round
curve and the engineer could not see
the flicker on this account. AS soon
as he knew what had happened he
gave his train 1.-The big hole" that is,
he TANNED on the air and showed into
reverse. The draw bars pulled out
between the fender and the first coal
car and the engine went ahead OF
the train about 20 feet before 1t
stonped.
When Engineer Bradford cltuched
his airline 1t broke and the engine
was tied up. Auxiliary No. 514 was
called out with a full crew. The big
sest crane in the yard with a capac-
ity of 20 tons was put on the job TO
separate the engine and the box cars
but the strain was too great and the
plateh gliding up the crane arm broke,
letting the arm down onto the track.
Another auxiliary was called out to
make repairs on the big train before
the work on the wreck could be con-
tinued The tracks were not cleared
for several hours.