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New Britain herald., 1924-09-17

OVERLAND. 1s2l-touring car, driven only 5000 miles. looks like new, new tires and has many extras. Price Se50, slO0 down. balance in six months M
 Irving Jester ls7 Arch St aPhona sI1
New Britain herald., 1924-09-17

ED. KENNEDYs--auto exchange, full line of used cars and parts. 2s Willow street, Phone 2093
New Britain herald., 1924-09-17

PAIGE. 1slS-touring car. new paint and in good shape Price s2oo, easy terms This is an excellent buy at the price quoted. NJ. Irving Jester. i;7 Arch St. Phone si1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-01
TEUTON VISITORS.
 INVADE BRITAIN
Many Seem Anxious To Adopt English
 Styles

LONDON, May --(By the Asso- ciated Pres, )-The waves of Teutonic tourists which spread over France, Italy and Spain in recent months have begun to touch the shores of England, now that spring is here.
 Since the pound sterling has depre- ciated little as compared with the southern continental currencies, the in- vasion of Britain is not likely to be- come extensive. but the numbers of Germans among the shoppers in the Strand, in Bond street and among the sightseers at the Empire exhibition are already large enough to be distinctly noticeable. One sees them daily in the little mems shops putting aside their characteristic green felt hats with bow in the back to catch up with the latest London ideas or what the well-dressed man should wear.
 With the rentenmark worth more than a shilling it is no surprise to Londoners to see the visitors from be- yond the Rhine lifting their glasses of champagne in the most expensive night clubs, tripping the light fantastic in the bathrooms of the big hotels or hay ing their ample anatomies measured in the famous tailoring establishments along Savile Row and Sackville street, where previously German customers have been few and far between since the early summer of 1914.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-01
BEGGARS PROSPER
Sisters, IF And 15, Years Old, Have Husbands Making $50 To $75 A Day

Sisters, IF And 15, Years Old, Have Husbands Making $50 To $75 A Day
 A beggar used to mean pauperized person, driven by hunger and dire mis- fortune to beg upon the streets. Today it means a person who drags in from S10 to $50 day by assuming paraly- out a dirty hand to the hurrying cago Herald Examiner.
 Recently two small fortune hunters were found in Chicago, married to wealthy beggars earning from $50 to $15 a day. The mother of the girls told them to shift for themselves. The fam fly numbered fourteen and the girls had better get themselves husbands. It was time. The father, a painter, couldn' t earn enough to support them all.
 The girls looked around. If it had to be done, better do it quickly, they reasoned, and Margaret, 13, solicited the interest of Carl Farmer, 24, a leg less begar near their home. She asked him to marry her, and not only did he c6mply but he got a friend, Cheenan Kichi, 34, whose limbs were paralyzed, to marry the sister, Hattie, who is 15.
 Hattie said Kichi went out each day with a box of gum, but their sympathy was so great people dropped their money and wet away without the gum. He took in from $50 to S75 a day, his shriveled limbs and his old blue army uniform doing the work.
 Margaret's husband sells pencils and makes only about S150 a week, so she feels a bit jealous of Hattie.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-01
8 NEW RECORDS
 FEATURE GAMES
Western Boys Clean Up
 In Interscholastic Meet At Chicago

CHICAGO, May 31.-(By Associated Press. )-Washingt High school, Ce- dar Rapids, Iowa, and St. Johns Milf tary academy, Delafield, Wis, swept the field today in the twentieth annual running of the national interscholastic track and field meet at the University of Chicago.
 The Cedar Rapids entry headed the high school list with 25 points. St. Johns carried the day in the academy division with 51 points.
 Lake Forrest, Ill.,, with one of the largest teams in the field, was second in the academy division with 39 points. Culver Military academy. Culver, Ind, was third with 24% but Allen academy, Bryan, Texas, was close by with A even in the final standing, Others finished: Shattuck, Faribault, Minn,, 33 Bacone, Oklahoma, 14; Mooseheart, I'll, 1215; University High, Cleveland (an academy), 3; Morgan Park, Ill., A.
 Eight records fell in the meet. High school entries smashed five marks and the academy contestants broke three more. The new records follow:
 High School Divisipn--Running broad jump: Fred Hamm, Lonoke, Ark, 24 feet 2ss inches. Worlds interscholastic record.
 Javelin-C. Heins, Flights Senior High, Houston, Texas, 1S7 feet ? inches. Worlds inte salcsritohrcd. rcoe., Worlds interscholastic record.
 44o-yard Run-Frank Cuhel, Wash ington High, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 90 4-5. National interseholastic rec ord.
 Running High Jump-R. Omsted, Victoria, III, 6 feet 1 inch. National interscholastic record.
 Three-quarter-mile Relay-Washing- ton High, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, (Stamats Heath, Loftus, CuheD 2:27 1-5. Ma tional interscholastic record,
 Academy division:
 220-yard Low Hurdles--R. Dunson, Bacone, Oklahoma, 25 3-5. National interscholastic record.
 Javelin-A. Hill, Allen academy, Bryan, Texas, 167 feet 10 inches, Ma tional interscholastic record.
 Discus-D. Kidd, Lake Forest, H.. 124 feet S1a inches, National inter- scholastic record.
 More than 10000 enthusiasts watched watched the game. A. few minutes of rain early in the afternoon were fol lowed by cloudless skies for most of the events. ..,
 The madals were awarded tonight following q banquet to the participants at the University of Chicago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-01
By JOHN O'BRIEN

(Bv Leased Wire To The Age-Herald::
 PARIS. May When the first d. vision of the army of American Olym- nicers is sighted from the lookout sta lions in Montmarte, the army Of vol. unteers for the defense of the franc will he mobilized to the last chasseur and his girl. The war will be fought "Jusou' au Bout" that is, to the very last dollar. The franc will be safe.
 Let not the oncoming minimize the reception prepared for them. Years of preparedness have brought the vali- ant boys and girls to the pink, or rouge. of perfection. They may have hailed originally from the banks of the Volga or the Fiber or the Guadal- ouivir, or learned to dance the tango in the shadow of the Andes or to bang the drum down on the Swanee-but they are all 100 per cent dollar-getters nowadays. o.
 Supose we take a look at them. Ot course, no real Olympicer far from the eighteenth amendment will be long in Paris before he wanders into the old red mill, the Moulin Rogue, rougher and wincier than ever, with Its great new addition topped by a real set of waving crimson wings to re- place the diminutive affair which did duty after the building was thrown to- gether following the disastrous fire eight or nine years ago.
 Yvonne, Elsie and Kiki may not be known to the visitors, but they will give very plausible imitation of the gay queens of the Quadrille in the days when milords and majarajahs rivalled nabobs and grand dukes in flinging resonant golden coins on the shining
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-01
Spirit Of Lenin Pleads
 Tn Conan Doyle Seance
Dead Russian Leader Bespoke Russo-Britsh
 Friendship, Noted Author Says

LONDON, May S0.-A strange and dramatic story of how the spirit of Nickolai Lenin, dead ruler of soviet Russia, conversed through table tapping with a group in a haunted room in London, has been revealed by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
 In a signed article which will ap- pear in Fridays London Daily Ex- press, Sir Arthur declares that he and five others held communication with Lenin's spirit in mansion near Pic cadilly, London.
 in the mansion began when the Daily haunted room, which was alleged to be phere.
 Raps were heard in the room, lumi- nous rays were seen on the stairs of the house, and the figure of an elderly man with an evil face was seen sev- eral times by a young woman employed on the premises, the newspaper re- ported.
 A Ghastly Silence
 Conan Doyle tells how, in order to test the reports, the group assembled in the haunted room at II p. m., Wednesday. Outside the streets were crowded with people going home from theatres, but ghastly silence hung over rooms of the sinister old building.
 The young woman who had first seen the evil face spirit was in the party. Conan Doyle describes her as "the clairvoyant' in the group. There was young Danish artist, who claims psychic vision Horace Leaf a medium !; a Wimpole street physician, the Rev. Vale Owen and Conan Doyle.
 To guard against practical jokers the doors were locked and twine was tied across the only staircase leading down ward from the room.
 The party grouped themselves about a table so as to be able to obtain table messages, and turned out the lights. There was utter silence in the musty room, except where voices echoed hol- lowly when some members of the party spoke. All was dark save where dim light penetrated from the staircase.
 Taps, creakings and rattling sounds came from about the dark building, but at first they were no stronger than those usually heard in old rat-ridden mansions. Members of the party placed their hands on the table, which shook occasionally. Perhaps it was the rumble of London's subways beneath roaring Piccadilly. For a time the party feared that no spirit would materialize.
 Suddenly, says Conan Doyle:
 "The clairvoyant on my left whis- pered agitatedly:
 "'I see. him-he is there-he is stand ing on the stair looking down at us 7 "
 What the trembling girl described as
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-01

looming before her eyes was "an elder ly man, bearded, with rather slit eyes and a cunning expression"
 Could See Light
 Another member of the party cor roborated her testimony.
 T could see a faint luminosity" Conan Dolye writes, "but nothing more. However, I am no tpossessed of psychic perceptions"
 The two seers reported that the man had descended the stairs. They spoke, begging the unseen figure to tell how thy could assist it. Conan Doyle de- scribes the conversation as follows:
 Tn minute the table began to move. It rose and fell with steady rhythm. Having explained the code, the dialogue between us ran thus, the answers coming swift and clear cut:
 Are you Spirit| Yes
 "A many Yes
 Are you the spirit who has haunted this room" Yes.
 T then explained to the spirit the conditions under which he lived and the need to run thoughts away from worldly matters" Conan Doyle con tinued. Il begged him to cease to an- noy innocent people, and told him that he would only work out his own sal vation by being unselfish and striving for higher things"
 The Rev. Vale Owen prayed for the spirit, and then Conan Doyle asked if the spirit had any message, and would give his earth name" Then, the writer says:
 The following letters came out:
 "L-e-n-n.
 "'Is that right? l asked.
 "'No,' was the reply.
 "'Is Lenin the name" Yes
 "Yes"
 ".Are you Lenin, the Russian lead er?' Yes
 "'Have you message for us?' Yes
 Then the spirit spelled out: Artists must rouse selfish passions" In fur ther attempts by the party to converse with the spirit Conan Doyle says they gathered that the rest of the message was an expression of desire that Rus sia and Britain remain friends, with warning that unless they could come to some terms they would drift into war in which Russia would be very strong"
 'T6en the table turned dead" Conan Doyle writes. Ut cannot be said that there was anything objective to which the senses of all of us could testify. On the other hand, we were all in earnest, and there was no pressure on the table.
 T do not know Vale Owens con. clusions, but I am convinced, and every one else was convinced, that we were in touch with a real entity with a real message"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-01

tists and dig into the history of the past through the lenses afforded by shelf after shelf of fossils in the work room of his office. There he works at one until he is tired, when he rests by taking up another. He is constantly ae- tive yet never hurried.
 Not many men of seyenty-four could take horse in the summer time and ride up trackless mountains as far as the horse can go. Then walk and climb the rest of the way. He thinks nothing of 1t. To be more precise, he thinks everything of 1t. His summers in the Canadian Rockies have invested him not merely with strength and vigor but with certain high courage that is even in casual contact. Yet he is not what is often called rugged" He may have little actual weight-lifting strength. But of endurance and kind liness and clarity-no end, plus calm philosophy and a gentle ,humor.
 It's pity that the Smithsonian in- situation should be so poor in this worlds gear. It is barred from play ing the independent part in the world of science that it might if its purse were only a little better filled. Yet it can match honor for honor with every other scientific institution in this coun. try and have an abundance left. James Smithson. builded we'll.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-01
Paris Gold Diggers'
 Prepare Big Welcome
Of Americans Assured Of Every "Favor" During The Olympic Contests There

dance floor. The gold coins are a thing of the past, but paper money is vel come-and don't think they don't know the exact bourse-closing-hour quota tions of the dollar, and the florin and the gulden and the rest of them.
 If the three or four or ten thousand Americans who try to edge or rush their way into the perfume and smoke laden air of the historic mill find the place thronged, or the atmosphere too stifling, a few thousand of them can move a couple of hundred yards along the boulevard Clichy, turn south once and east once again and bob right up against the very same thing in minia- ture-miniature, that is to, except for the dazzling display of electric light and the blare of the rasping, banking jazz bands surrounding and permeating from the Bal Tabarin, the north of the Seine parallel of the Latin quarter bal bullier A lurid sign will tell the stall wart skirmishers that here the Paris can-can" was invented and is still danced. So it is, but nobobdy pays much attention to it. The boulevard theatres have gone so much further. /
 The Bal Tabarin won't keep the visitors long, however, because it closes at an unearthly hour-2 o'clock in the morning, just when everybody who is out to listen to the popping of the corks, jazz and all other kinds of noise incidental to night rollicking, have only started to enjoy themselves, They won't have far to go. It's only a step to pig alley" as the Rue Pigalle has been rechristened, and straightaway the Monico, the Imperial, the Savoy and a dozen other places run by the amuse- ment purveyors of Paris after dark in trude themselves on the wanderers eyes.
 And these are but few of the many rendezvous available for a Paris cele- bration,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-01
NAH JONG AND DOMINO BOXEs

Small and compact in size are boxes of violet, rose, green or blue leather just large enough to hold a set of domi- noes. Other fascinating boxes of gold and black lacquer contain an especially handsome nah jong set.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-01
POLAND CUTS EXPENSE
SO,0OO Names Removed From National
 PavpoII

WARSAW, May 24.-(By Asso- ciated Prass.) the policy of letting go state employees whose services are not actually needed, 3O,00O more names have been removed from the national payroll. The campaign for economy now counts 60,000 dis continued positions 70 its cred't
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-01
DECORATIVE RIRRONs

Nothing could exceed the beauty of ribbons of the recent season and their possibilities in the way of decoration are almost endless. Unusually smart is a black and white striped ribbon faced with bright color such as green, rose, French blue or yellow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-01
Workers At NatiOnnL Capital
Q NEssERr cosEy

3I.--One sketch the life history Doos Wc Or might through the story Of the Smithsonian institution of which he the secretary and the actual scientist nan happy througa life because himself the work in which he most inter scientists throughout the world hallmark mintAd metal. ] :.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-01

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 Ratio Of total reserves to deposit and Federal Reserve note liabilities combined. TIA per csut. Contingent liability bills puEehaSsd for for aLgn. eoEFoapondantI, &liISs. s.2A6.Na. ff
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-12-13
NO. 2z2-

AN ORDINANCE amending Section ] of
an Ordinance entitled An Ordinance
providing for Salaries and Fees of Ger
tain officials of Pleasantville", approved
June /, 1914.
Section l. Be it Ordained by the Com
mon Council of the City of P~leasantville
that Section l of an ordinance entitled.
An ordinance providing for salaries and
fees of certain officials of P1easantville"
approved June ], 1914. be and the same is
hereby amended so as to read as follows:
Section l, That the salaries and fees
of the hereinafter named officials of Plea
santville shall, commencing with January
/. 1924, be as follows:
Mayor, Five Hundred Dollars per an
Clerk, Fourteen Hundred Dollars per
annum
Treasurer, Five Hundred Dollars per
Collector of Taxes, Fourteen Hundred
Dollars per annum.
Solicitor. Six Hundred Dollars per an
nun
Engineers fees upon work as ordered
Section 2. BE it further ordained that
the salaries of the Assessors shall. com
mencing. with July /. 1924. be at the rate
of nine hundred dollars per annum.
Section 3. Be it further Ordained that
all ordinances or parts of ordinances in
consistent with the provisions of this
ordinance, be and the same are hereby
repealed and that this ordinance shall
take effect after final passage and publ
cation.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
above Ordinance was passed on first n
second readings by the Common Council
of the City of Pleasantville on Monday.
December /, 1924, and that said Common
Council of the City of Pleasantville will
consider the final passage of the above
Ordinance at its meeting to be held in
the City Hall, Pleasantville. New Jersey,
on Monday evening, December Is, 1924.
BY order of the Common Council of
the City of P~leasantville.
NEHEMIAH ANDREWS.
CitV Clerk
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-12-13
NO. 273.

AN ORDINANCE to provide for the cree
ton and completion of a Public Com
fort Station in the City of ~Pleasantville,
New Jersey, making an appropriation
therefor and providing for the
of the cost thereof.
Section l. Be it Ordained by the Com
mon Council of the City of Pleasantville.
New Jersey. that there shall be erected
and completed upon the property of the
City Immediately adjacent to the present
City Hall, upon the Southeasterly side
thereof in the City of PleasantvilIe, New
Jersey, a public comfort station in accor-
dance with the plans and specifications
therefor repaired by Bertram Ireland,
Architect, which salt plans and specifica-
tions have been presented to and approx
ed by this body, and a copy of which is
on file in the office of the City Clerk.
Section 2. Be it further Ordained that
there be and is hereby appropriated for
the erection and completion of said public
comfort station the sum of Twenty Thou
sand Dollars.
Section 3. Be it further Ordained that
the work of erection and completion of
said public comfort station shall be under
the supervision of Common Council as
provided in the said specifications referr-
ed to.
Section 4. Be it further Ordained that
the cost of all of said work herein pro-
of the sale of bonds of the City of Pleas
antVille duly authorized by ordinance.
Common Counc during the progress of
said work may by resolution issue and
sell from time to time temporary improve
ment bonds or temporary Improvement
notes or renewals thereof pursuant to the
statute in such case made and provided.
said notes or bonds to be retired from the
proceeds of the sale of the bonds issued
for the payment of said work or any part
thereof.
Section 5. Be it further Ordained that
prior to the passage of this ordinance.
the chief financial officer of the City of
Pleasantville shall make and file the sup
Elemental debt statement required by
subdivision 2 of Section u of Chapter 252
of the Pamphlet Laws of 1916 as amended.
Section 6. Be it further Ordained that
all ordinances or parts of ordinances in
consistent with the provisions hereof, be
and the same are hereby repealed and
that this ordinance hall take effect i'm
mediately upon final passage and publica-
ton.
Passed third and final reading Novem-
Der 10, 1924.
CHARLES NJ. PECK
President pro tenn. of Common Council.
Attest:
NEHEMIAH ANDREWS.
City Clerk.
Approved this 14th day of November,
CHARLES E. JACKSON.
Mayor.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-12-13
PUBLIC NOTICE.

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
You are hereby notified that Raymond
p. Thompson. City Engineer of the City
of Pleasantville, and the Street Commit
tee have filed with the Common Council
of the said City of Pleasantyille a true
and accurate account of the cost and ex-
pense of certain curling and paving i'm
provements made in the said City. which
report apportions among the several prop
critics improved in proportion to the 'front.'
age of their respective lands. the cost
and expense of such curbing and paving
and contains, under oath of the said Ray
mond p. Thompson. a true statement Of
such cost.
You are further hereby notified that
Common Council will consider the said
report at its regular meeting to be held
at the Council Chambers. Pleasantville,
n. j., on Monday, December IS. 1924, at
8 o'clock in the evening. for the purpose
of determining whether the same shall be
confirmed and that all persons interested
in said improvements may attend at the
time and place stated. and be heard pom
the question of the assessments in said
report recommended.
NEHEMIAH ANDREWS,
City Clerk.
Dated November II, 1924.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-12-13
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