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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-08
Tuesday, July Q, 1924

Thought the people support the
government, the government should
not support the people. - Grover
Cleveland.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-08
GRAND TRUNK 81 81

CHANGE or I'M
Reflective June aa,a !
Two trains daily $40 a. m y
M for Lewiston. South Pars
Berlin. Island Pond. and Mm,,
nections at Montreal and ChIss
Angeles. San Francisco, Por,,..i
Seattle, Wash, Vancouver
other Pacific Coast Points
Local train 1.S0 p. m. daily s,,..
for Island Pond. VT, and All ~
stations. For further inform.,ssi
to any Grand Trunk Ticket ~
G. A. HARRISON. Gen'l AT q
Grand Trunk H,sl
p,o,o -o,o PorthaS|
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-08

The amplif1er also amplifies the
static.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-08
BOSTON AND PoRrrAMI
NAME STEAMSKIP q
PORTLAND, NEW YORK 4
9ERvYCH

Eastern Steamship ]
Inc.
Take advantage Of the
round trip rate between
and Boston during the we'd
EIks Convention in Bod
July 9Th to nth inclusive
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-08
Independence day. 1874.

The appropriation for rivers and
hafbors. maintenance. Improvement,
survey, etc, amounts to s37.eeo. 900.
OF this Maine is to get $4,000 for
Rockland Harbor.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-08

Frederick z. Hodge Of Kennebunk
has produced a strawberry weighing
three ounces which Is nine and bali
inches at its greatest circumference
and which quite covers the palm Of its
growers hand.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-08

Continued Tomorf's
The Dolores star., 1924-10-10
NEW CHAPTER WRITTEN IN AVl-
ALTON HISTORY AT WILBUR
WRIGHT FIELD
FLYING HISTORY MADE
AIRpLANE GETS AWAY ON OWN
POWER AFTER BEING
LAUNCHED

ol.-Characterized by Maj. Gen.
Mason VI. Patrick. chief of the United
States air service, us hnying written
new chapter in aviation, IN airplane
,or the first time In history was
aunched in mldulr nj Wilbur Wright
Held and got away under Its own
power. The experiment wns carried
IN with Il Sperry messenger plane.
hooked on underneath the car of the
army dirigible TC-5 ms stunt for the
second days program of the Inter
national air races.
1t was intended TO show primarily
how In war time dlrigibles c.n trans
port planes. The plane is hooked on
trapeze and may attach itself again.
Lieut.. c. V. Finter of Langley field
flew the Sperry and Lieut.. Frank Nc
kee of Scott field was the pilot of the
TC-5.
In formal statement. General Pat
rick noted the achievement and said
that the army air service is pleased
with the success OF this years races.
He said the building up of CONNER
cial air industry will he strong
factor in the success of the country
and will increase business facilities
Setting Of a new worlds record for
model planes, the thrilling last minute
loss of a race by Pilot Charles S.
Casey Jones of Garden City, y. Y,
and competition between "fliVvcrs' of
the sky were the outstanding points
on the program.
Easily of first interest was the race
between the flying buthtub" of
Etlennc Dormoy, technical engineer
Of McCook field, and J. NJ. johnson
Of the johnson Aircraft and Supply
Company. Dayton, Ohio, both pow
cred by motors Of l9.7 horsepower in
the Dayton Daily News light airplane
contest.
johnson won, travelling at an aver
age speed of Gi.7 miles an hour. The
"bathtub" went around the 2l-mile
course at the rate Of COL miles an
hour.
DOrmoy's plane, constructed and de-
signed by him, Travelled fifty miles on
II gallon of gasoline. 1t has no fusel-
age and the fuel tank Is up under the
wing, there being no other place for it.
The chief object of the small plane
race was 10 show what progress is
being made to develop ships that viii
carry more weight per horsepower.
Robert V. JarOs of the University of
Chicago, representing the Model Aero
Club of illinois, is the holder of a new
worlds record for model airplanes. In
competition for the MulvihilI trophy, "A
model constructed by him remained in
the air for ten minutes. fourteen and
TWO tenths seconds The best previ-
Gus record, made in England, was SO
minutes, Jaros tiny monoplane
Travelled mile and a half compared
to the former world record of 6.OOO
feet. First prize in the Mulvihill race
was $500.
The Dolores star., 1924-10-10
Purebred Cattle Killed in pIaou. Ei,h

Houston, TeXas.-Nearly 900 cottIo
approximately one-fourtl of them pure
hlood Brahmas, We're shot and killed
IN three major operations on conticu.
Gus pastures, twenty miles south of
houston in a concerted effort to check
the spread of foot and mouth disease
IN south Texas. Dr. lines office was
hotified by Washington that Great
Britain was prohibiting the importa-
ton of cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, hay
ana straw from the whole of the
United States. PENNSYLVANIA has es.
'i'Diished quarantine against the en-
tire state of Texas.
The Dolores star., 1924-10-10
Joke on Admiral

When the new swimming pool !,
Naval academy was opened Aa,s
Henry Il. Wilson issued order p
women were not to be perml,tN
swim in ii. The officers wives
their friends were TO use the ola !.
But the word was passed about
I reached the ears Of the admin,
hat a certain young woman had !
In the pool, not once, but freqVs}
And the admiral started an lnys,j
lion. 1t was quickly called Of n
he found the "youns woman Ia
pool was none other than Violet nj
means used to cleanse the wate
The Dolores star., 1924-10-10
Kidnapped Baby Found On peak

Durango. - After being kidnaped
from her home at Durango by some
unknown person believed to hive II
erudge against her father, little Mar
garet Turner, 20-month-old d.uoh,ar
Vi 'oiiH turner, roper employed
III 'he calumet coal mine, was found
on Isolated Barren peak, five miles
west OF town. The child Is too yo,,np
10 give an account of what happened
10 her and where she had been in the
more than tvrenty-four hours that had
passed between her disonn.,rn,
The Dolores star., 1924-10-10
Ban johnson Reveals srib. pIo.

Chicago.-President Ban johnson or
the American League made nuh,ic :.
'l'her'o secret affidavit revealing that
'rookedhess was attempted in the frs,
worlds series ever played when in
1915 Lou criger, famous catcher with
.ne M boston Red Sox. contesting with
'ne firates. was offered S12OOO to
throw games. The affidavit roIo,o.
Una, 'ne attempted bribe was made by
u professional gambler, introduced m
Nr'ser TWO years previous in the pres.
Robinson. "'our
The Dolores star., 1924-10-10
FOREIGN

Several werkmen have been killed
III clash between strikers and sol
diers guarding the property Of the
Mexican Gulf Oil Company. The
strike at this plant has been in prog
ress for some time and a general strike
has been declared.
Five hundred Hondurans lost their
lives and many others were wounded
in the battle between Honduran gov
ernment forces and rebels commanded
by Gen. Gregorio Ferrara for the pos
session of the town of Comayagua,
according to advices. The rebels claim
TO have captured Comayagua. The
Honduran government, however, while
admitting the rebels are in possession
of the town, asserts that they are
bottled up there by the strong gov
ernment forces who have surrounded
Comayagua.
MeNico's divorce mill. the state Of
Iucatan where a permanent separa-
tion can be secured in the same length
of time required to perform mar
riage ceremony, had q monkey wrench
thrown into the machinery recently.
While lawyers and rich clients planned
excursions into the unique community,
Mexican immigration authorities are
taking steps to prevent foreign in
vasion of this modern divorce Utopia.
The officials declare that persons at
to enter Mexico for the pur-
pose of securing divorces will be
turned back at the border. Already
the exodus from the states which is
reported to be under way would bring
enough divorce seekers TO outshine
Reno in its palmiest days.
Five aliens, being smuggled lnrS the
United States across the Canadian
border. We're murdered by "hijackers'
and their bodies thrown into the De
troit and ST. Lawrence rivers, in the
course of series of raids on snug
Cling parties this fall. Others may
have perished similarly, but these five
deaths in question were made the sub
ject of an official inquiry by federal
immigration headquarters. The "hi
jackers' in considerable numbers
preyed upon the smugglers and robbed
the aliens. If the latter resisted they
We're knocked on the head and dropped
into the river, according to inforna
tlOn in possession of the Canadian gov
ernment. The scene of the smuggling
operations and "hiiaCking" was the
border along the St. Clair, ST. Law
renee and the Detroit rivers.
The Dolores star., 1924-10-10

BILE Compound Tablets. / .n .t
very good now and shall con.;rn.i r e;
them for a while. | have has
my cousin about the medic;nae ea .is g
wants to take it, too. alr.e0 e IN
mend It. - Mrs. HENRY 2
RID. No. 3, Box 6, Bridaenno,,.S ", IS g
Lydia E. Pinkham's vegetayl.rJ
pound is a splendid medieinsa ass y.
conditions. 1thas in many case, ~ =.
those symptoms by removing ths
OF them. Mrs. Smiths e1pereas
In a recent Countrywide c,,,..
purchasers of Lydia K. Pinkhsm,.v
etable Compound, over l2l. .OIa ,'
were received. and 9S Der ce,s
ported they were benefited by n
For sale by druggists everyvb., =
The Dolores star., 1924-10-10
GENERAL

~
Eleven informations. Including
charges of making false statements to
the superintendent of banks, accent
ing deposits in an insolvent bank and
misrepresentation of funds were filed
against John Dahlgren, former presi-
dent of the American Bank and Trust
Company, which closed Jan. -. in the
two departments of District Court at
Missoula, Mont
james Eads How known as the mil
lionaire hobo, who is spending his
honeymoon in California, was sued for
100000 in breach of promise suit
filed in Circuit Court at st. Louis by
Mrs. Cora Victoria Harvey, his pri-
vate secretary during the last twenty
years. She asserts she had been en-
gagged to the uplifter of the migrant
worker for the last fourteen years
The southern Pacific company re-
ceived authority of the interstate com
merce commission to acquire control
of the carriers comprising the El Puso
and Southwestern system by stock
ownership through purchase of the in
terest of the FL Paso & Southwestern
company and by lease, subject to Ger.
tain conditions. Authority also was
granted to the Southern Pacific com.
pany to issue not exceeding S2S,0OO, 900
of Its common capital stock and not
exceeding 500. 100000 of per cent
twenty-year collateral trust bonds in
q for tho intaraSt Of hn
Ppso & Southwestern system and in
the Nacozari Railroad Company. The
Arizona Eastern Railroad Company
was authorized to construct as exten.
sion of its existing lines, road In
Maricopa, Yuma and Pimal counties
Arizona.
Banking, merchandising and all 9th.
| er business activities throughout Colo.
RADIO and six other states comprising
| the Tenth Federal Reserve district
/ have been favorably affected by the
| betterment of the financial situation
of the agricultural population, accord
| ing to the monthly business and agri.
| cultural review of the Federal Reserve
/ Bank of Kansas City. "The improve
ment has come through the production
| of large crops of wheat, corn, oats
| hay, cotton, fruit and other products"
says the review.
Throwing herself on the mercy O
the court at Frederick. Md, Mrs
Mary Shank, the 31-year-old wife OF
Lloyd Shank, who led the mob tha
] tn
old Dorothy Grandon last July, plead
ed guilty. Mrs. Shank's plea of GUILTY
was unexpected. Twenty men, in
dicted with Mrs. Shank, did not chang,
their pleas, and their trial went OF
before a crowded courtroom. Mrs
Shank pleaded guilty to tarring ant
feathering, but pleaded not guilty t,
assault and aiding and abetting riot
The penalty for her crime under tn,
state law is eighteen months to twent,
years in the penitentiary.
Louis Harlib, member of the New
York jewelry firm of Joseph Frack
man and Co., reported to the polio,
that he had been robbed u diamond
valued at s14O,0OO by three armed mel
who attacked him while he was ridinj
in taxicab near the business section
in Chicago.
Three bandits. using an automobile
/ disarmed Postmaster B. B. Houghtoi
Of Crystal City, NO.. who was return
ing from the railroad station to the
postoffice, and escaped with poucl
| containing 100000, mostly currency.
The Dolores star., 1924-10-10
King Hussein Abdicatcs

Cairo.-king Hussen of Hediaz.
who has been holding the holy clty
OF Mecca against the warning Wahabl
tribesmen, has abdicated, according to
dispatches received here.
The Dolores star., 1924-10-10

The only noticeable thing IN
some men is that they are unwOrAj !
notice.
The Dolores star., 1924-10-10
CONDENSED REC ORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DOM ACHIEVE
MENTs, sUFFERINGS, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND
WESTERN

Uncle Dick" p. Sutton. veteran
Snowman who brought the first
Uncle Toms Cabin" troupe TO the
west and known from coast 10 coast in
the theatrical circles died at Ocean
Park. Calf, his home for the past
four years.
George F. Rodgers, 80. president of
the First National Bank of Salem,
Ore, and Miss Claire Crewe of Port
land, died at a Salem hospital as the
result of injuries suffered when an air
plane in which they We're passengers
crashed 200 feet to the ground.
Fire heavily damaged portion Of
the warehouse of the Underwood
(Wash.) Fruit and Warehouse Com
pany, destroying 5000 boxes OF pears
and 1000 boxes of apples. The loss
exceeded 10000. The fire was be-
lieved TO have been caused from an
explosion of ammonia tanks in the
warehouse.
Two bandits escaped with approx
mately $4,000 after holding up the
Woodland (Calif) branch of the Bank
of Italy. The bandits, n white man
and negro, held up each of the sev-
eral employees of the bank as they
entered the institution and then forced
w. A. Hopper, the manager, to open
the vault.
The Goldfield. New. Elks' Club and
News building, occupied by the Cold
field Tribune, and four smaller build
ings, We're destroyed by fire few
days ago. These buildings were the
only ones in the business district of
Goldfield that escaped destruction in
fire year ago. The loss in the fire
was estimated at SlOOOOv.
Fire which destroyed the box fac
tory of the Bloedel-Donovan Lumber
Mills and swept through one-third of
the lumber yards of the Morrison Mill
Company's cargo plant at Bellingham.
Wash, caused loss of S4OO 600 IL WIS
estimated by officials -Four firemen
were injured or overcome by smoke
and three of them are in hospitals. All
will recover.
Documents Identifying him as Fred
Bell, circulation manager of the Ari-
Zona Republican, newspaper in
Phoenix, in 1917, and former manager
of the Bell Telephone Company in that
city, were found on a ragged and un-
kempt stranger who was arrested ut
Ell CerritO, Calf, after terroriZing
housewives for two weeks. The man
told the police at Martinez that he did
not know who he was, but believed
that he enlisted in the aviation service
during the war and was hurt in an
airplane fall. He said he had lived in
the hills for two months, foraging the
countryside for his food and clothes.
The Dolores star., 1924-10-10

A business mans idea Of touch
is to~be compelled to attend a I'd
function.
The Dolores star., 1924-10-10

A man doesn't always 10 his d
when he does something he waruI
do.
The Dolores star., 1924-10-10
WOMAN WEAT1
DIZZY, FII
Found Relief in Tak1, i'll
PinkA:n's Vegetable CO.
Always Recomu.sj,
Bridgeport, Connecticut ~
completely rundown. haS

dizzy. a faint T.,
aN and other r.
women of..so
As 4 |! b!hadtaie,i:
table table COmpaaio
sad s to takeit,
4 ma nave now r.
Lydia E Pirsts
blood blood Me- GM!edics.a
Liver Liver Pills ,,l1
boxes 8?,; Of L,S1
The Dolores star., 1924-10-10

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Secretary Weeks has accepted the
resignation Of Col. Jay J. Morrow, re-
tired, governor of the Panama Canal
Zone, effective Oct. IL.
A call for a national conference on
utilization of forest products, to be
held in Washington, Nov. 10 and 20,
was announced by Secretary of Agri-
culture Wallace
Proposed new schedules canceling
the through rates ON grain and grain
products from points in Minnesota,
Iowa, Missouri and Illinois to destina-
tions in Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska.
Colorado and Wyoming for the pur-
pose of permitting combination rates
based on the primary grain markets
to apply on this traffic, were ordered
suspended by the Interstate Com
merce Commission from Oct. ! until
Jan. %. The new schedules would in
crease the rates on wheat and corn.
The big packers, as well us traders
and other dealers, were called upon by
Secretary Wallace to furnish bonds
covering their business TRANSACTIONS at
all public stockyard markets. Hereto
fore, only commission men have been
required to file bonds, but under the
authority of the last agricultural ap-
preparation act. Secretary Wallace has
issued an amendment to the regula-
tions under the packers and stockyards
act, requiring that traders, packer
buyers and other dealers be bonded
The bonds will range from $1,000 to
$4,000, according to the volume of
business handled plus 10 per cent of
the amount Of business over $4,000
The State Department was advised
that Camayagua, Honduras, has been
evacuated by the revolutionary force
under the command of General Fer
rera. Provisional troops under the
leadership Of General Testa are in
possession of the city and the rebel
forces of General Ferrera are retreat
ing toward La PaZ.
The federal government will take
complete charge of the work of eraG-
icating the fOot-and-mouth disease
among cattle in Texas, in accordance
with the request made by Governor
Neff of Texas.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-02-04
HALLOWELL.

organized in this city. which will
! look after the senator's campaign
here.
"Of course | have only seen the
more favorable side of my canvass
since | have begun to 20 about" said
the senator yesterday afternoon, but
conditions certainly look well for my
candidacy everywhere | 90. real
iZe of course that my opponent has
been busily at work for several
months and that much must be done
to Offset the very effective work that
he has put in. | can now give more
time TO my own canvass and I have
been given every encouragement 10
believe that matters will take an
altogether different turn from now
on. | have no doubt whatever of my
nomination and II nominated ! shall
of course be elected.
Il have been in Somerset county
during the week and found things
there pretty nearly my own way. |
will carry this county without a ques-
ton. | was in Lewiston and Auburn
Thursday and found everything in
my favor in those cities. | have not
been in eastern Maine yet, but my
friends there are sending Ine most
encouraging news. | believe that |
shall get practically all of the Day
strength in PenobScot, Piscataquis
and Aroostook counties.
The news from Hancock and
Washington could not be better
las | say / have just begun to
work. If l continue to make the pro-
gram that already | have. shall
have no reason to complain of the
result oS the primaries.'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-02-04
HON, W.T.. GARDINER
SPEAKER At W0MEN'S
PHILANTHROPIC MEET

It Is seldom that an address holds
an audience riveted as did that OF Hon.
w. T. Gardiner before the Women's
Philanthropic Union on Saturday aft
ernoon. The subject. "What Our State
Does for Us" Mr. Gardiner laughingly
explained. was one no man would have
been brave enough to choose. adding
that Il was the choice OF a very brave
woman. indicating the chairman, Mrs.
Laura e. Richards. The choice. how
ever. was justified. for the subject-no
less a one than the presentment of
tions. with mention of all departments
was set forth with a masterly grasp
and clearness which. without confus-
ing, made each OF the multitudinous
items rendered as a living matter to
the hearers instead of bald official
statements.
Mr.. Gardiner explained that the fig
urcs given did not attempt to more
than approximate. before giving the
main headings of the expenditure OF
the States budget (aside from the tax
On gasoline and automobile fees) of
about 100000. One-third Of the
money is spent on education. one-quar-
Ter on health. charity and pensions, II
Ter cent on roads and bridges. and .
PER cent. on administration. In making
the statement that 81 per cent. or the
population those receiving State aid in
one form or another lat cost OF So
per capita for every inhabitant), Mr..
Gardiner said that the large figure Is
in part accounted for by Its applying
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-02-04
Harrington at
Portland in Interest
Primary Campaign

Portland. Feb. 2-IIon. Frank G.
harrington Of Augusta, candidate for
the Republican nomination for gov
ernor. put in busy day in Portland
yesterday, meeting many Republic
cans and making e preliminary map
ping out Of his campaign in this part
of Maine.
Early in the afternoon Senator
harrington ran out TO Biddcford.
where he met some Republicans and
at o'clock in the afternoon he had a
conference with Il group of women
voters at the Congress Square Hotel.
This evening he will speak at the
Bethany church in South Portland
and on Monday he will meet other
groups of Republicans. lie has a
speaking engagement Monday eve
ming which will compel him to leave
the city late in the afternoon, but he
viii return later. Sometime during
the week a Harrington club will be
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-02-04
. Hockey Pokey Fair Success Finan-
ciaIIy

Hallowell people. who made Ho-
key Pokey Fair possible by their
generous donations and equally gem
crQus patronage. will be glad to
learn that while an exact financial
statement is not possible at present.
since oil bills may not he in. IL is
hoped to have clear of expense near
~ FIVE hundred dollars. This is the
largest amount secured so far from
the annual fair. Such splendid
result could not have been attained
without the fine cooperation of the
townspeople. AS the item Of coach
Ing alone for the football team. the
tW basketball teams and the base
hall team will amount to consider
able sum. 1t can be seen how useful
and welcome this help Is. All Of the
proceeds Of the fair will 20 towards
athletics. These who have helped
IN the fair viii have hei. cd in Great
ing school spirit and in making bet
ter the general life ~ the school.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-02-04
RICH, RED BLOOD
BUILDS STRENGTH
AND NERVE POWER
To Renew Vitality We Must
Enrich the Blood Which Is
the Driving Force of Life

What gives the athlete his strength!
Red blood. What drives the worker,
and the business man. also. UP the
steep hill OF success? Red Blood
What makes The glowing. vital beau
ty of woman? Red Blood.
Rich, red blood is the supreme
driving force of life. II our bodies
no longer respond to Natures pro-
cesses that should rebuild strength
and vitality, then We should look 10
our blood. We should enrich u,
nourish II. Red blood feeds the
body tissues, stimulates the nerves
makes our systems Jingle with the
pulsing of life.
II we lack strength and nerye:
power we should always think first
of our blood. Discouraged or ex.
hausted men and women should get
from their druggists today d gen.
erous size bottle Of Wincarnis. star
this home treatment at once. ~
costs less than ten cents a day. ~
twelve days see the improvement
Wincarnis. the blood builder. brings.
No need to worry WincarniS VIII
give you new strength, vitality. nerss
force.-Adv.