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New Britain herald., 1924-06-14

More than 100 counties were shown to have declined in population at the time Of the 1920 census.
New Britain herald., 1924-06-14
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New Britain herald., 1924-06-14
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 ...runt For Colds I-fp

,.,. ,.,.1.-The New York 'Ss 'SsdicaI school ,'i,,a and 'il.,.,sd today the opening ing i,','ssl ',ich will provide e..,aie .ie
 'h.,tment for certain rI,,.,ary r' at diseases recently t s'1ry'' n, yedder and pr. a I.nited States army ies rhs necessary appar- F ,,.ta,led. It was also ss no danger to pa At ',ss of the gas. The
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 ,, i, is reasonable 10 a .r inhalation of the gas
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New Britain herald., 1924-06-14

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New Britain herald., 1924-06-14
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New Britain herald., 1924-06-14

Mir and Mrs. George kimhall of South Burritt street are entertaining MT Tynam of San Francisco.
New Britain herald., 1924-06-14

Miss Hazel Egan of Court street and Miss Helen Janswick Of Broad street will spend Monday and Tues day in New York.
New Britain herald., 1924-06-14

field Manor. Bedding, Conn.
  Members of the Maple Hill Bridge club will hold their annual luncheon and thcater party on Tuesday, June 17th.
New Britain herald., 1924-06-14

Miss Constance Grant of Maple Hill recently entertained number Of hel young friends at her home in honol of her Sth birthday.
New Britain herald., 1924-06-14

Mrs. George Rogers entertained a company of friends al luncheon and bridge at her home on HaWlcy street Wednesday.
The Alaska daily empire., 1924-07-29
NECK is BROKEN;
LIVES Z MONTHS

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, July 80.
Living for two months with a
broken neck without having known
1t was the experience of James
Scott, farmer living near Boyne
City
Scott came to a hospital here re-
Gently to have an examination made
after suffering pain in his mech
and after paralysis had developed
In one of his arms
An X-ray photograph showed five
fragments of SCOTS spine were frac
tured and the spinal cord was in
jured at the seventh vertebrae. He
was placed on cot and warned
not to move lest his life be endan-
gered
Scott was thrown from wagon
two months ago when he turned
his team sharply in the road neaI
his home. His neck struck one OF
the wheels of the wagon and he
was unconscious for about two hours
but when he recovered consciousness
he said he had little trouble in
driving home.
The Alaska daily empire., 1924-07-29
WRITER SHOT
BY SWEETHEART
Author Pleaded with Girl to
End His Suferings
She Did So.

PARIS, July f29.1Slowly dying
Jan Zoznowski, a wellknown Polish
writer. repeatedly begged friends and
attendants at the hospital at Vile.
juif to put an end to his sufferings
Today his fiancee, Mile. Stanilwa
Unicuska, visited him and was sc
overcome at the sight of his agony
that she could not resist his pitia-
BILE pleadings. She shot him in his
head and he is not expected to re
cover. Following the shooting Mile
Unicusko collapsed and1 officers who
were summoned to malSe the arrest
left her in the care of the hospital
She is % years old and noted for
her beauty She had been a constant
visitor to her fiancee's sickroom.
Zuzonowski, a talented writer is
35 years old. He came from Warsaw
to Paris to seek medical advice.
The best French surgeons operated
on him twice but were unable to
give him relief.
The Alaska daily empire., 1924-07-29
CASE
PRESENTS new
ANGLES OF LAW
Confessions Are Read Today
of Boy Slayers :
Plans of Darrow.

CHICAGO, July 9.-Stenographic
reports of the confession of Nathan
Leopold and Richard Loeb, following
their arrest, were read at the hear
ing this morning. Tho defendants
listened listlessly until passage in
which Leopold used a passage of
profane expression at his brother
at the news that his eyeglasses were
found at the culyert.
The prisoners showed amusement
at Leopold's expressing hope he was
an automobile mechanic and doubted
whether gin was his favorite bey-
erage.
Leopold is quoted as saying there
Is no God. do not believe in
future life. When | die l die all
over"
Unprintable matter was reached
for the third time and the reader
body in the court room but the court
stenographers could hear
The court adjourned this after
noon after United States District
Attorney Grove announced he would
conclude with five minutes testi-
mony tomorrow
Captain of Police Shoemaker, re-
called late yesterday afternoon. was
questioned in regard to the search
of evidence of the portable type
writer telling OF trips with Leopold
and Loeb to the scenes of the crime.
He said Loeb told him they had
scattered the keys like seed so
did not look for them.
The stenogfapher's notes on the
confession included information that
Leopold studied Is languages. hav-
ing a reading and written knowledge
of ten and speaking five.
Attorneys for Loeb and Leopold
announced they would not dispute
the object of reading the record of
the unsigned confessions.
New Angles in Case.
II became known today that Dar-
,Continued on Page Two,
The Alaska daily empire., 1924-07-29
BRITISH JAIL
YANKEE ARTIST

LONDON. July pa sensation
has been created in artistic circles
in London by the arrest of Harold
Jacobus an American art dealer
charged with making counterfeit
treasury bills.
The police raided his home in
the Black Friars district, seizing
an elaborate counterfeting plant and
number of unfinished bills. The
police declare that when they had
seized the plart Jacobus cried:
you have found it."
At this exclamation his wife
Bertha, an English woman, said to
him.
Harold. hold your tongue. If
they keep me in prison all my life,
I'll say nothing.
She had been arrested with him
and Jacobus. who has been a habftue
of the Bohemian Cafe Royal with
other prominent artists. was in the
habit of telling friends that he
worked with Charles Dana Gibson.
His black and white work has been
extensively printed in London maga-
zines.
The Alaska daily empire., 1924-07-29
Ex UNKISSED
CHAMPION NOW
after DIVORCE
Kirby Merrill Lived 48 Years
Without Being Kissed
Was, Proved Failure.

KANSAS CITY. Mo. July % -
Kirby McRill lodged women's kisses
for forty-eight years. Then. for
lack of a kiss, he languished.
Kirby, until recently the worlds
champion. nnkissed long distance
hiker, has brought suit for divorce
from Daisy Belle Hicks Merrill. whom
he alleges Is his trail marriage
bride, and all because of kiss
Daisy Belle, according to Kirby's
divorce petition. won't even speak
to him now, let alone kiss him. She
denies she was a party to the mar
riage contract which McRill de-
clared he will produce in court.
Kiss His Undoing
The kiss of woman, Kirby says
was his undoing
That was just after he had hiked
up to Chicago from Kansas City
and had announced that he was 4S
years old wealthy and unkissed
Immediately he was deluged with
proposals from women in all parts
of the world Girls pursued him
offering to kiss him in spite of the
fact that he wore a soup strainer
mustache.
Kirby managed to fight off the
women for two years. Then he
succumbed to the charms of Daisy
Belle Hicks. daughter OF farmer
near Tonganoxie.
The Alaska daily empire., 1924-07-29
Science Rechristens in Vain
Well Known Family Pest

IOWA CITY. Iowa, July 29.-The
bed bug, variously and many times
profanely named, has only within
the past year, after 166-year search
received a monicker that will satisfy
sticklers for scientific exactness, ac-
cording to DR.. c. w. Stiles, assistant
surgeon general of the United States
Public Health Service, who is sum
mer session lecturer at the Uni
versity of Iowa. Hereafter on the
roster of science the bed bug will
be known as "Cimex lectulariius." !"
AS secretary of the International
Commission on Geological Nomencla-
ture. DR.. Stiles took prominent
part in the baptismal rites.
The Alaska daily empire., 1924-07-29
NORSEMEN were
IN NORTH WEST
D U rim C 1Q1 0

SPOKANE, July 20, ~ Norsemen
crossed the continent and settled in
the Pacific Northwest in 1910 Ammo
Domini according to history which
the Daily Chronicle began publica-
tion OF today detailing the discov-
cries. of Oluf Lauritzson Upsjon,
Norwegian scientist. visiting this
country. Upsjon reported the dis
covery of carved stone tablets in
Northern United States showing
Norsemen under Lippon settled
Puget Sound in 1910, whipped the
Indians and went to the Rogue
River Valley. The second party
came in the fourteenth century
under Nicolayson.
The Alaska daily empire., 1924-07-29
L. A. BOASTS 10000 BOOTLECCERS,
1000 OF Them WOMEN, AGENT SAYS

stitnte the thorn in the side of the
Federal agents. Shoop asserted.
"Any of us would rather work
on cases involving half a dozen
men. with the possibility of having
to lie out all night by a roadside
waiting for a truckload of booze.
than TO go after one OF those fe-
males the dry chief declared with
a sigh of painful remembrance. Gen
orally the bootlegger women will
fight us with everything they've got
and for the most part we've got to
take II"
The Alaska daily empire., 1924-07-29

Los ANGELES, July 30. = Ten
thousand bootleggers are operating
in or about Los Angeles alone, and
of this number one thousand are
women.
These figures were revealed in
a comprehensive liquor survey com
pleted by Federal Agent in Charge,
J. Harper Shoop. and submitted to
State Prohibition Director Samuel
F. Rutter.
The thousand women who are
actively engaged in the Igor indus
try in and about Los Angeles con
The Alaska daily empire., 1924-07-29
Release of Minors
Upheld by Navy Rule

WASHINGTON. July 29.-Minors
who enlist in the Navy or Marine
Corps without the consent of their
parents may be released provided
a parental request is filed with the
Secretary of the Navy within sixty
days after the date of enlistment
says a department order issued to.
day.
If the enlistment Is made with
the written consent Of parent ol
guardian, 1t is not revocable.
The Alaska daily empire., 1924-07-29
Chinese Girl Gives Life in
Cause of Martial Freedom

NANKING. China. July pa Chin
ese girl student at the government
normal sohol committed suicide re-
Gently by jumping into the school
we'll rather than go through with
a marriage her parents had arranged
for her.
It appears that the girl had done
all In her power to dissuade hei
parents from forcing the distastefu
cided to take her own life In the
hope of helping In the fight which
Is being waged by many modern
young Chinese women against this
ancient custom,
The Alaska daily empire., 1924-07-29
Aged Murderer Is
Killed by Posse

PUTNAM, Conn, July 29.-Ben-
jamin White. 80 years old, was killed
in the woods yesterday after he
was shot three times and fired once
at his pursuers He had killed his
brother Edwin r. White, aged ~
years. and wounded David Mairson,
of Hartford at his brothers farm
and then eluded posse, state po-
lice and trained dogs for "a hours
Mairson was soon TO wed Sadie
Phyllis White. daughter Of Edwin
White.
The Alaska daily empire., 1924-07-29
STAGES HOLD-UP
FOR SWEETHEART

MONTROSE, Colo. July 20
Wyman Welk. 19, of Pueblo, chased
the parents of his sweetheart, Gladys
Swearinger, 800 miles in an auto,
The Sheriff and Deputy pursued
the couple and brought the girl
here.
The hold-up occurhed when the
Swearinger family, enroute to the
Pacific Coast to get away from
Welk. stopped in canyon to view
the scenery.
The Alaska daily empire., 1924-07-29
u. S. Oil Men Seek
Mexican Properties

MEXICO CITY, July 29.-Repre-
sentatives of the oil industry from
the United States have arrived here
70 enter into negotiations with Mex
lean interests for the operation of
large oil properties which have been
inactive sice the constitution of 1917
went into effect This constitution
caused the oil lands to revert to
the ownership of the Mexican gov
ernmcnt,
The Alaska daily empire., 1924-07-29
Lion Submits to Operation
And Greets Visiting Doctor

HAMBURG, Germany, July pa
veterinary recently lanced and treat
ed big boil that had developed be
tween the eyes of one of the lions
in the Zoo here. The attendants
feared trouble, but the lion submit
ted quietly to a 15-inch incision. suf-
fered the veterinary to clean the
wound and when released quietly
resumed its cage life.
On subsequent visits it met the
healer with every evidence Of pleas
ure and without being roped sub
mitted to the application of disin
fccting and healing ointments.
The Alaska daily empire., 1924-07-29
Uses Shin Bone to
Fill Hole in Skull;
Receivers His Speech

SPRINGLAKE. n. j.. July 29.-
successful performances of two un-
usual operations have been perform
! on John Hansen. As. A section
of his shin bone was taken off and
used to fill a hole in his skull and
the subsequent recovery of his
speech is announced at the Ann May
Hospital
The Alaska daily empire., 1924-07-29
1900 Volts Shocks
Lineman; /; He's Alive
But Has Burns

ANACORTES, Wash, July
29.-IWhile workmen prepared
to take down from a high pole
the apparently hfeless body of
c. f. Bird, lineman. after
1900 volts of electricity had
passed through his body, dis
covered he was conscious. Bird
climbed down the pole himself.
unaided. He suffered burns
on the hands and hips.
The Alaska daily empire., 1924-07-29
Want Bear for
Floating Museum
Alaska Exhibits

SEATTLE. July 29.-The Chamber
of Commerce has created a commit
tee of five headed by Capt. Howard
Payne to take up with the govern
ment the feasibility of preserving
the Coast Guard Cutter Bear as a
floating museum for Alaska exhibits.
The Alaska daily empire., 1924-07-29

DALLAS, Texas. July 29.-Re-
turns from the Democratic primaries
for Governor held last Saturday
give Felix Robertson 1929. Mrs.
Miriam Ferguson 121,263 and l..
Dawson 117,813
The Alaska daily empire., 1924-07-29
HOGS ARE HOGS

CHICAGO. July 20 - Desirable
hogs. weighing 160 to 240 pounds,
went to $11 today. which is ten
cents over yesterdays high prices.
CLEVELAND, o., July 29.-Mixed
hogs reached $3.50 per hundred
weight here this afternoon, the high
est in years.
The Alaska daily empire., 1924-07-29
INDIANS MAKE
BIG COLD FIND

PEACHILAND, B. c., July 29.-
InGians returning from frequent
excursions in the Okanogan district
ere bringing pouches full of gold.
They refuse to tell where they Sc
cure the treasure and this has caus-
ed Peachland prospectors to begin
an earnest search
The Alaska daily empire., 1924-07-29
Announcement Of Close
Yukon Navigation Made

SEATTLE, July 29.-The Alaska
Railroad has advised shippers that
the last boat will leave Nenaua for
Tanana and other lower Yukon
River points on September II.
The White Pass & Yukon Route
announces the last boat of their sys-
tenn will leave Nenana for the Up
per Yukon about September 20.
The Alaska daily empire., 1924-07-29
This Horrible
Death Couldn't
Happen in u. S.

BUDAPEST, July 29.-Mar-
tin Romler, barkeeper and
cashier, drank a glass of beer
from a newly tapped keg to-
day and within few seconds
dropped dead, The keg was
opened and the body of a snake
was found which had crawled
into the bunghole before filled
at the brewery discharging
poison in the beer when strug-
CLING against dying
The Alaska daily empire., 1924-07-29
Note to Persia Concerns
Murder and Not on Insult

Is WASHINGTON, July 29-it is
learned that the State Department
In the note sent to the Persian gov
ernment last Saturday concerned the
murder of Vice-Consul Imbrie. The
note was sent before the State De
partment had been informed of the
insult to Mrs. Imbrie.
The Alaska daily empire., 1924-07-29
Crook Robs
Detective Bureau
Of $400

SAN FRANCISCO. July 29.=
A crook entered the Assembly
Hall of the Detective Bureau.
Hall of Justice, sometime yes
terday, and escaped with $500
OF the widows and orphans
fund The robbery was com
mitted within range of so
policemen and detectives.
The Alaska daily empire., 1924-07-29
CONFESSIONS OF BOY SLAYERS
READ; PARTS ARE UNPRINTABLE
HUGHES is IN
PARIS; TALKS
Of CONFERENCE

PARIS. July 80. Secretary of
State Charls f. Hughes, of the
United States. said today he hoped
for ultimate success of the Inter
allied conference in London be-
cause the alternative of success
would be SO grave"
Secretary Hughes was given a
most demonstrative welcome on his
arrival here.
The Alaska daily empire., 1924-07-29
Refuse to Endorse
New Grain Company

DES MONIES, Ia. July 2a.-The
National Farmers & Grain Dealers
Association with 5000 grain elevators
in the Middle West, has refused to
endorse the recently organized Grain
Marketing Company of Chicago.
The Alaska daily empire., 1924-07-29
Winter Wheat, Seventh
Distict, Falling Of

CHICAGO, July 29.-The Chicago
Reserve Bank today reported winter
wheat in the Seventh Reserve dis.
trict slower in maturing and the
harvest under way will be % per
cent less than last year.
The Alaska daily empire., 1924-07-29
Panama Canal Business
To June 30 Breaks Record

NEW YORK. July 29.-The tenth
fiscal year of the Panama Canal
ending June 80 broke all records
said the Panama Canal report made
public today. Six hundred and for
ty-eight ocean ships carried in the
year "a total of s24.290.429 in tolls.
The total cargo which passed through
the canal was 27,01S,92s long tons.
The Alaska daily empire., 1924-07-29
TOURIST MAN
COMING BACK
!. NEXT SUMMER

SEATTLE. July ga. L. Som
mers, of Sheboygan. Wisconsin, edi-
tor of the magazine, See America
First" said here today on his way
home after a vacation trip to AL
aska with friends. that he has been
delighted with the trip and will
return next year with larger
party.
The Alaska daily empire., 1924-07-29
WANTS FLIGHT
TO END IN CAL

LOS ANGELES. July 29.-The
American world flight will be for
ever clouded as globe circling trip
unless 1t ends at the starting point
here" instead of Seattle was the
gist of telegram sent to the Air
Service by the local Chamber of
Commerce.
ROME, July 29.-Major Zanni.
Argentine world fier. reached here
France.
The Alaska daily empire., 1924-07-29


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Olympic odgsaG
L. S Lynn
Iadd
Coolidge
lete Presidency Wheelwght
of canon Valet freed
freedom
The Alaska daily empire., 1924-07-29

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Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1924-08-07
F0RFEFTURE NOTICE

Neihart, Mont. July /. 1924
To Dr. W. R. Smith. his heirs, axecu.
tors, administrator and assigns;
You are hereby notified that / have
expended during the Fiscal Year be
ginning yuly list At IL o'clock nerid-
ian, 1928 end ending 5uly lat meridi-
nn, 1884. Cor the following purposes:
Representation. Litigation, and Sur
vayins, tbs Sum Of 1901 90. on the
following uuArtx lode mining claims:
AIsce s. recorded IN book 10 q lods
lorasaons, page -. Alice s. Extsmsssn.
seeersad b beck 10 page ~ Dsaasd
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lossA oeaaena, psas ~ Judge kvsxs
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Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1924-08-07

hundred (ss.5OO.OO) Dollars. bearing
interest at the rate Of not to exceed
six (6) per cent per annum. payable
semi-annually. said bonds being pay
able in ten years tlo) and rsdesmabls
in five years 90. and issued FOR the
purpose Of funding outstanding and
unpaid bonds.
The said bonds win not be sold for
less than their par value and the
Board Of Trustees reserve the right
70 rniact any and al bids, and to sell
the said bonds At either public or pri-
vats ssle. All bids other than By or
% behalf o. state Bosnd az Land
Commissioners. nauat be accompanied
By certified cheek b sise surn o. ssss
hundFed sagenkv sive (sl7Boo) Del-
lars payahl& 10 order Al che undsr-
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1924-08-07

signed clerk which win be forfeited
BY successful bidder in the event he
shall refuse 10 purchase said bonds.
An bids shall be addressed to the
undersigned clerk Of said School Dis
trict at Belt casesds County. Mon
tana.
DOMINIC SPocEN.
Chairnann.
Attest:
J. s. PEARSON. Clerk.
(lst Pub. July 17--last pub. Aug. y
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-07
SCHOOL OF DRAMATIC EXPRESSION GIVES PROGRAM

Programs were given at the school of dramatic expression, Watts building, Friday and Saturday afternoons, by the Children's classes.
 The following selections were read: Betty At the Party" Riley and Lois Shrbert.
 When de Folks Is Gone," Riley Maxewll Crabb.
 Naughty Zell's New Dress" Louise Huffstetler.
 See Things" Field, John Malone. Especially Jim," Frances Shurbert. Dead Puusy Cat Marion Short, Leila Mae Keith
 Kentucky Philosophy" Martha Hare.
 "Olc, Shoot! Ma," Lucille Metz. "Grandfather's Love-" Sara Teasdale, Billy Pittman.
 Jane Jones' Ben King, Mildred Winters.
 "The Colored Laundress," Katherine Story of the Daisy" Sara Beth Pittman.
 Rags" Mildred Russell.
 Moo Cow Moo," Edmond Vance Cook, Lillian Ruth Edney.
 When the Train Comes h." Nixon Waterman, Alberta Stradford
 In the Usual Way" Mildred Win ters.
 America" Van Dyke, Mildred Rus sell Bill Thay." Lillian Ruth Edney.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-07
Little Theater To Have
 Reading

Wednesday evening of the ensuing week the first readings will be held at the Little Theater for You and l. the production slated for presentation next by this group. Much interest is being manifested by talented people in the Little Theater offerings, and it is believed that large number of readers will try out for parts in You and I.'
 You and r. is drama of married life, in which an artist has given up his vocation in order to pursue busi- ness career, but, though forced to aban- don his painting, he still yearns towards his art This role is one requiring sub tie handling, and will give an opportun- ity for splendid work.
 The story revolves around Maitland White, the artist who abandoned his career, his wife, a charming feminine creature affectionately called Mamie" even by his son, Ricky. Ricky is in love with Ronnie, lovely young girl, and he faces the same problem his fath- CT had that of choosing struggling career as an artist, or of following some utilitarian profession and marrying his sweetheart.
 Other important characters .. in the pldJ are Eltd lhe Hdlu, WuoSe role IS one filled with dramatic possibilities; Nichols. the journalist. who is the life long friend of Maitland's, and Warren, the manufacturer.
 The public is invited to attend the readings and try out for parts. Read ings will be held each night of the week, beginning Wednesday, and re- hearsals will begin on Monday of the following week, after Mir. Szold has selected his cast
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-07
GIRL SCOUT COUNCIL TO MEET TUESDAY

The Birmingham Girl Scout council will hold it's December meeting Thurs day, Dec. II, at the home of the Com missioner, Mrs Herbert Stockham, on Argyle road. After the regular business meeting Mrs. Stockham is to entertain the members of the council at luncheon The council which directs the policies of the Girl Scout movement here is composed of the following membership : Mrs. Herbert Stockham, Mrs. A. k. Moody, Miss Winifred Collins, Mrs. Louis Mckenzie, Mrs. Elwyn Ballard, Mrs Clarence Bonham, Dr. Lola Taylor, Miss Rosa Strickland, Mrs. Winfred Ager, Miss Helen Bethea Mrs. Percy Cowin, Miss Frances Youngblood, Mrs. Hill Ferguson, Mrs. J. E. Chapple, Mrs. T. b. Temple, Mrs. Scudder Ryall, Mrs. R. l.. Totten, Mrs. Carl Landgrebe.