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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-18
ABANDONING BILLBOARD
! Number Of Large Concerns Will
 Give Un Roadside Advertising

It really happens, sometimes, that news is too good to be true, says the Outlook. And this is such a case. When one can travel, let us say, from New York to Philadelphia, and see clearly that at times one is actually passing through woods or through mea- doRs, when one can occasionally see some real cows grazing in a real pas ture instead of gigantic painted wooden bovines eternally being milked by enor- nous painted wooden milkmaids, when you can see homely red barns as you pass instead of structures seemingly planned to carry notices concerning Timkin's Tinted Tablets or some other medieine--when, let us say, the land scape once more appears, then we shall :Eeally -belieEe that the signboard curse 4sIEen it's way to oblivion. lslssA4rs. W. L. Lawton, chairman of the national committee for restriction of outdoor advertising, has announced that 15 large users of highway billboards have promised to remove all objection able signs and those marring the scenic effect of countrysides.
 Herbert l.. Pratt, president of the Standard Oil company of New York, whose signs we have seen in innumer- able places, confirms Mrs. Lawtons an- nouncement as far as his company goes. He has stated that when all of the pres ent billboard contracts expire, his com pany will have concentrated all of it's signs to the vicinity of garages and stations. We will welcome" says Mir. Pratt, suggestions from any organiza- tion or individual as to ways in which our company can forward this impor- tant work ..
 Other concerns which have agreed to carry out the same plan as that pro- posed by the Standard Oil company of SSw York are:
 SEKirkman X Son, soap; Kelly-Spring- field Tire company, Pillsbury Flour Mills company, Washburn-Crosby com pRny, Standard Oil company of Cali EeTnia, Champion Spark Plug company, IF F. Goodrich Rubber company, Sun E1 company, Hood Rubber company, Asax Rubber company, Ward Baking company, Dodge Brothers, Gulf Refin- ing company and the Fleishmann com pany, yeast.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-18
HOW LONG CAN YOU DRIVE CAR? Automobile Driven For Five Years Most
 Economical
How long can a man drive a car?

How long can man drive a car?
 Answers to that question multiply with the asking. Here are some of the typical answers that can be ob- tained if the alley Saturday afternoon ::
 "Oh, about year, then trade her in."
 "A couple years. After that the re- pair bills run, too high"
 ''As long as her wheels Il turn around
 About five years is the life of a car, guess"
 The average motorist drives his car 10000 miles year. John Hertz. Chicago cab manufacturer, in a recent survey found that taxicabs in some in- stances run 300,000 miles or more.
 The most ecohomical way to drive car is for five years or more, according to Mr. A. '. Aydelott of the Alemite Lubricator company, Avenue G, at Twenty-fourth street The reason is simple. FoR the first six months, the resale value drops approximately 30 per cent, he said, and for the next six months, 10 per cent. The .next year the drop is 20 per cent, the third year 15 per cent and for the next two years 10 per cent each.
 eConsequently," said Mir. Aydelott ''If a man sells his car in the first year, it costs him 40 per cent of the pugchase price. But if he sells at the end of five years, the annual deprecia- tion has only been 19 per cent a year instead of 40 per cent.
 eNLotor car manufacturers claim that there is virtually no wear out to a car if it is properly cared for.5. Proof, the service taxicabs are giving.
 "The secret of long life of car is proper fabrication. MT. Motorist usually sees that he has safe level of oil in his crank case, water, in his radiator, gas in his tank and lets it go at that He forgets his springs and chassis bearings on which the very life of the car depends. If these are regu- larly and methodically fabricated they will minimize the vibration, make the car easier riding and take the shocks and jolts off the engine.
 tSpring fabrication is equally as inn portant as bearing fabrication. For when spring leaves become frozen by rust, it means they have no give, and the other parts of the car must absorb the bumps.
 Proper spring fabrication can be had by equipping the car with spring covers. They will keep the dirt and water out and the lubricant in the aeaves of the springs"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-18
Autos Haue Made Us A
 Nation Of Mechanic s
Interest In Motor Operation Is Outgrowth Ol
 Inauisitiveness Many New Devices

chanics, at least of an elementary nature.
 Just as it is almost a universal trait for child to be inquisitive regarding the workings, or insides, of a piece of machinery-a watch, for instance so does it naturally follow that a man, or, woman, who owns and operates an automobile eventually learns many of the principles of mehanics as exempli- fled in the car.
 On Saturday afternoon tour of the residential sections of any city hun dreds of motorists may be observed in their private garages, or in the drive ways leading to them, pottering around their cars-znot necessarily remedying troubles, nor merely polishing the car for the Sunday outing, but tuning her up."
 The average motorist has made a hobby of tuning up" his lcar-making it operate smoothly and quietly, and if the car should require the attention of a professional rpairman, or the use of tools which the motorist does not
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-18
EAST MEETS WEST

East met west when the Cosmopoli- tan club of the University of Michigan recently visited the plant of the Durant Motor company of Michigan at Lansing, Michigan.
 This group of Oriental students spent a day with the officers of the Durant company under the auspices of the Lansing Chamber of Commerce, making a thorough inspection and witnessing the process of automobile building from start to finish.
 Robert Y. Chew, Chinese student from the university. explained tho eagerness of Oriental students to take back to their countries knowledge of occidental industry, and representativeS from Armenia also stated their irten- tions to profit by experience and their satisfaction in the day spent at the Du- rant plant.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-18
COL0RED PAYMENT FOR MEN

Skeptics are receiving with their usual doubts the enthusiastic stories of mans appearance in brilliant colors this summer, says the Manchester Guardian. Those who attended recent exhibition of mems fashions came away, it seems, with the impression that the glories of century and a half ago. really are to be revived and that it is merely a mat ter of time before the exquisites take their walks again in brilliant shades of red, yellow and other cheerful colors.
 The skeptics shake their heads and murmur that we have heard all this before; that shortly before war broke out, mans abandonment of sad raj. ment' was declared to be actually in- minent and that the revolution" has never got beyond the exclusion of the dressing room.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-18
By FRED c. CHANDLER. President The Chandler Motor Car
 Company

Company
 The fact that there are 15,O00.000 motorists in this country who drive their own cars not only exemplifies the penchant of the average American for doing things with his own honds but also is remarkable tribute to the efficacy of automotive engineering.
 Years of training are required to fit man to become licensed station ary engineer yet, because of the deyel- 'opment of the automobile engine to it's present state of perfection, girl is enabled to become an expert operator in few weeks.
 Although the modern automobile is as near fool proof as it is possible to make, any piece of machinery, and practically no mechanical knowledge is necessary to operate it, nevertheless the motor car may be credited with be- ing a big influence in the education of virtually millions of persons in me
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-18

which was in such great demand that in a very short time 1t ran through half a dozen editions.
 A few years ago 1t was essential that the motorist be handy with tools. To- day the automobile has been protected to degree that has minimized trou- bles almost to the disappearing point but conditions sometimes develop that make knowledge of it's operation of great value. And if the owner-driver himself be at loss to diagnose the trouble passerby is likely to voluh- teer both diagnosis and remedy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-18
RUMANIA IS "IN BAD"
sIy And Spain Not Eager To Re .

Italy And Spain Not Eager To Re ceive Her SOvereigns
 4tumania has been placed in an em- barrassing position by the hints re- ceived from Italy and Spain-and, it is ,rumored, from Belgium-that the proposed visit of the king and queen to those countries would be inoppor- tune, says the Living Age.
 Corriere della Sera explains lucidly though with studied courtesy, the real points at issue. Rumania has default ed upon bonds owned by Italian sub jects, she has refused-or at least de- layed-to compensate Italian subjects for appropriated land they owned in Bessarabia before she took over that province, and Rumanian importers have refused or neglected to pay large debts contracted with Italian firms.
 A minority of the Italian bondhold- CTS has consented to rather unfavor- able settlement with the Rumanian treasury ,son the basis accepted by French and English creditors, but a majority has refused the offer.
 Italian citizens whose estates in Bes- sarabia were appropriated are espe- cially indignant because subjects of Great Britain and France holding sim liar claims have been paid. Among the overdue debts owed Italian ex- porters, which amount to nearly one half billion lire. are bills for agricul- tural machinery which was imported into Rumania duty free. However, after the goods were in the country the government decided to collect the remitted duty and as a consequence the importers refused to accept deliY- cry.
 A recent conference between repre- sentatives of Rumania and Russia at Vienna broke up because the Russians opened the Bessarabian question. which Rumania refused to consider The Rus sians demand that the populat tion. there be permitted to hold plebiscite, under conditions that will assure an honest vote. to decide whether the province shall belong to Rumania or to Russia. USEFUL LITTLE DUTCH FIGURE
 A quaint little wooden Dutch figure with large skirt of black is exceed ingly useful in the kitchen, for the black skirt turns out to be a slate upon which many items may be jotted dawn with the white slate pencil that accompanies it.
 Eost articles are found, work is ob- taihed, help. is secured, teal estate is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-18
USEFUL LITTLE DUTCH FIGURE

Eost articles are found, work is ob- taihed, help. is secured, teal estate is sold, through Want Ads placed in The Age-HeEald.-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-18

~ Since the Chrysler Six brings quail T
 ties TO other car can offer, you
 could we'll afford, in order to gain
 those qualities, to discard your
 present car lUithout recon1pense Do expect long trading allowance any you approach the purchase of a Chryser Six. cannot be granted for that they speak for themselves. In the first place. despite steadily growing on the public the satisfied But that not the long impossible that the buyer gets the Chryser something other offer Any other offered exchange instantly depreciate with the Chryser because ChrySler qualities. want the results the Chryser gives any good will answer-f you want them you will realize that the Chryser Six renders ordinary types obsolete No fine closely Chryr and has the riding driving branq acceerane and speed qualities peculiar to the Chryse Ten minutes at the wheel of the Chyler Six will you that the ownership of such that this ton involved. The Chryler Six beyond anything of performance and reaches maintenance that could we'll afford to your 0Out getting order gain advantages which only the Chrysler offer.
 3 @ @
 We are pleased to extend the conUerience of time
 Ask about ChrysIers Gtracive
 Doninick- Murphy Motor Co.,
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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-10-01

The earthquake yesterday morning
was felt in Ellsworth
Irene chapter, o. E. s., will hold
its regular meeting Friday evening.
Mrs. Harry E. Rowe has returned
from visit of a few weeks in Port
land.
Miss Persis Meader, now of New
port, is the guest of Mrs. Carroll
Meader.
Betty, little daughter of Edward F.
Small, broke one wrist while at play
at school Monday.
Mrs. William Grant and two
daughters, of Rockland, were guests
of Mrs. Alice G. Finn recently.
David Shapiro is in Boston this
week on business. He is accompa-
MED by his wife and little son.
V Mrs. Mabel Webster and her niece,
Miss Cora Haskell, left to-day for a
visit of two weeks in Boston and
vicinity.
H. A. Styles of Boston, of the Ellis
worth Hardwood Co., is in Ellsworth
his mother
V DR.. and Mrs. e. H. Baker left to-
day for visit in Brockton, Mass,
during the fair They will return
home Sunday
j. A. French and J. H. Linnehan
have been drawn to serve as traverse
jurors at the October term of su-
preme court.
Y Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Weymouth of
Newport are guests of Mr. and Mrs
Owen H. Treworgy at their camp at
Patterns pond.
Mrs. Edward Aver, son Glen and
granddaughter, Roberta Aver, of
Dexter, were guests of Mrs. John p.
Eldridge Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leon Tilden are re-
ceiving congratulations on the birth
of daughter, Margaret, at the Hur-
ley hospital, Sept. 25.
u Mrs. John J. Duffy, president of
the Ellsworth woman's club, is at
tending the meetings of the State
federation of woman's clubs in Port
land.
Mrs. Frank Herrick of Brooklin,
who ran the Jordan house on Pine
street last winter during their abb
sence, has leased the Phillips house
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-10-01
WEATHER IN ELLSWORTH.

For Week Ending at Midnight Tuesday
September 30, 1924.
station of the Bar Harbor e Union
River Power Co. in Ellsworth. Pre-
twenty four hours ending at mid
night
Weather Precip-
Temperature conditions itation
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-10-01

on upper Main street, of P. j. Phil
lips, and will conduct it as a board
ing house. Extensive improvements
on the building are contemplated.
Miss Charlotte Armstrong, who has
spent the summer with her aunt, Mrs.
Ellen Crockett, at her bungalow on
Union street, has returned to Bos-
ton.
A literary and business meeting Of
the Woman's Alliance of the Unitari-
an church will be held this evening
at 7.30, at the home of Mrs. e. E.
Rowe.
V F. c. Scott accompanied John S.
Fogg of Fogg's orchestra on his re
turn to Brockton Friday, by auto,
and is enjoying the sights of Brock
ton fair.
u Mr.. and Mrs. E. P. Jordan left Sun
day by automobile for Miami, Fla,
for the winter. They will visit on
the way, making the trip in about
two weeks
There will be business meeting
of Lejok lodge, l. O. o. F., Friday
evening, when business of impor-
tance will be considered. A large at
tendance is desired
Capt. and Mrs. Allen c. Holt and
son Carl of Rockland, who have spent
a two weeks vacation with relatives
in Ellsworth and Bar Harbor, re-
turned home Monday.
The schools of the city will be
closed tomorrow, for the teachers
convention. The high school will re-
main closed Friday, and the day will
be made up some Saturday during
the term.
Bayside grange will present the
three-act comedy, THE General
Manager" at it's grange hall next
Friday evening, with a local cast.
The play will be followed by a dance
and supper.
There was but a small attendance
at the meeting of the board of trade
last Thursday evening. a proposition
for establishing a canning factory
here aroused no enthusiasm, and no
action was taken.
The annual meeting of the Els
worth masonic club will be held at
the club rooms this evening at 7.30.
There is important business to be
considered, and a large attendance
of members is desired.
The Hancock County Ministerial
Association will meet at the Baptist
church in Ellsworth next Monday
morning at 1890. This will be the
annual meeting, and officers will be
elected. All members are expected
to be present. Evangelist Felix will
be the principal speaker.
The New York-Bar Harbor express
was discontinued for the season this
week. A through sleeper for New
York will be attached to the morning
train west Mondays and Thursdays
only until October %, and returning
from New York Tuesdays and Fri
days only until October 81.
y Mrs. Phyllis Campbell, who for the
last few years has run a boarding
house at 235 Main street, has moved
into the Chrome building at the corner
Continued on page 81
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-10-01
LOCAL AFFAIRS
SCHEDULE OF MAILS.
Ellsworth POstOffce.

MAILS RECEIVED
Week Days.
From West-6.47 a. M; 4.31 p. m.
From East-1111 a. M; 627 p. m.
Sundays.
From West-S.16 a. m.
No mail from East Sunday.
MAILS CLOSE AT POSTOFFICE
Week Days.
Going West-10.40 a. m. $50 p. m.
Going East-6.15 a. M; 400 p. m.
Sundays.
Going West--4.5O p. m.
No mail East Sunday.
Registered mail should be at post
office half an hour Before mail closes.
Evening star., 1924-08-03

Prof. William Beebe, curator of or
anthology of the Bronx Zoo, leader OF
the scientific expedition into British
Guiana. with the first giant armadillo
captured at Kartabo.
Wide World Photos.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-08-27
Sloop with Cargo
Alcohol Goes Ashore

Newport, It. T.. Aug. c6.-The sloop
Cuyagaute. fleeing the force of the
northeast gale which swept this state
today. piled up on the rocks near Fort
Adams in Narragansett Bay with a
cargo of about 200 cases of Belgian al
cohol.
Captain Vogle of Fort Adams seized
vessel and cargo. Under direction OF
Deputy Sheriff Frank P. King. the al
cohol was transported to Newport po-
lice station in army trucks with armed
artillerymen as guards.
AS all available storage space and a
number of cells at Newport police sta
tion are filled with seized liquor, at
tempts were made to reach Acting Pro-
hibition Director Harry G. Sheldon ut
Providence to induce him to take
charge of the haul.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-08-27

Plymouth, VT, Aug. 26-President
Coolidge today gave over some of his
vacation hours to brief visits with
party spokesman and listened to vol
untary reports from visitors from d.
vers sections.
Representative Tilson, of Connect
cut, director of the national commit
tee speakers bureau in the east, re-
Nealed plans for a speaking tour t.
cover the nation, starting from here
Sept 9.
John Barrett OF Grafton, Vt, as a
member of the Coolidge independent
Information group, brought a report
OF gains by the president in the
northwest as shown in survey COR
Quoted since he delivered his speech
of acceptance and compared with n
similar survey made psfore his nor :
nation.
Members OF the First National
grange tour met President and Mrs.
Coolidge this morning and the party,
representing farmers OF twelve mid
die western states, predicted Repub-
liCan success in November.
Shortly after noon, despite driZ2i-
ing rain. the president went to the
front lawn to pose with members OF
the Pittsfield, Mass, Republican club
II. T.. Hall. president, presented him
with certificates of honorary men,
bership.
Arrangements were made by Mr..
Tilson at n conference with Earl
Kinsley. national Republican COM
mitteeman from this state and other
state leaders this morning. TO open a
tour. which will follow the Lincoln
Highway from coast to coast with Il
meeting here Sept. 3. The expedl-
ton. to be known as the Coolidge
Dawes speaking tour will visit 300
cities on the five thousand mile
course, members of tho party travel
ing in six motor cars. under the dl-
rection Of A. w. Jefferies Of Omaha,
Neb.
States to he visited include Vel
mont. New Hampshire and Mass
chusetts.
Alva r. Johnson, chairman OF the
board of directors of the Baldwin
Locomotive Works. was another call
er. Afterwards. he issued a state
ment declaring the election of Coo
idge and Dawes sis assured ard
picturing a bright outlook for busi-
ness.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-08-27
Bancroft Named
Envoy to Japan and
Sheffield to Mexico

Plymouth. Vt, Aug. 26-Appoint-
ment Of Edgar Addison Bancroft. OF
Chicago, as ambassador to Japan,
and of James Rockwell Sheffield. OF
New York City, as ambassador to
Mexico, was announced today by
President Coolidge.
The appointments fill the two
major vacancies in the diplomatic
corps. Both men are prominent in
the legal profession. Cryus Z. Woods
resigned as envoy to Toxic in June
and the Mexican post was made va
cant by the resignation of Charles
b. Warren early this month.
Mr.. Bancroft Is a graduate of Knox
College and Columbia University.
He is also an authority and is a
brother of Frederick Bancroft. the
historian.
Mr.. Sheffield is graduate OF Yale
and of Harvard law school. He is
president of the Union League of New
York, a trustee of Bernhard College
and trustee of Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace. He was for
nierly a member of the New York
state legislature.
Negotiations have been under way
between the state department and
the two countries in regard to filling
of the two posts for several weeks
and definite word of the acceptability
of each was received today.
Mr.. Woods resigned soon after the
passage by congress of the immigra :
ton law carrying the japanese exclu-
sion provision but his action never
was definitely ascribed to that law.
Mr.. Warren resigned his Mexican
assignment as soon as the new rela-
tions between that country and this
were definitely established, as he pre-
viously had arranged.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-08-27
Says Is Frame-up

Eahey Immediately was taken be.
fore n federal judge and his bond
was fixed at $4,000. He made no
effort to raise the bond and was
placed in the county jail Mt Geneva,
Ills. Fahey declared his arrest was
the result of "frame-up" and as
serted his innocence.
Fahey has been instrumental in
clearing up some of the most fam
Gus postal department robberies. It
VS. through his efforts that "Big
Tim Murphy" former powerful labor
and gang leader here, was sent to
the Leavenworth. Kas.. federal peni-
Tertiary. for participation in the ST.
100000 Dearborn Street station mail
robbery.
The arrest was made by Chief
Deputy United States Marshal Sam
Howard, after Fahey mad been under
the surveillance of Charles II. Clara
han of the postal inspectors service
in New York for three weeks. ...
We have obtained enough evil
dence to convince us Fahey was tho
inside man in the robbery" Clara
han said tonight. I'VE can show that
he had leading part in engineerir.g
the robbery although no took no &C
tual part in the holdup OF the train"
The Rondout robbery occurred late
on the night of juno IL. A special
mail train of the Chicago. Milwaukee
and st. Paul railway was stopped b.
eight men "a miles out of Chicago
The clerks barred the doors to the
cars and turned out all the lightc,
but the bandits forced entrance BY
hurting tear bombs through the
windows. The bandits escaped in
two motor cars.
When news Of the robbery reached
Chicago, Fahey was one Of the posta
inspectors notified and he left his
homo Immediately, heading a posse
thr woods where, it was though, the
bandits were heading. a.