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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-02-01
MT. VERNON

The cold winds made the snow
fly and drift quite badly and the
breaking road teams were out today
for the first time this winter. One
school team could not get through
until after the roads were cleared
then it was too late.
Reuben Higgins and Norman Per-
kins have finished their work haul
ing shovel blocks to Belgrade Depot.
Mrs. Leeman Turner has just fin
ished a very successful term Of
school in Rome
Mrs. Muchmore has Just returned
Saturday from Massachusetts where
she has been visiting friends and
relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. McOrcutt have gone
to Massachusetts for the winter, with
relatives.
Merton Jacobs
Merton Jacobs passed away at Il
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-02-01
Commissions for
Two GuardSmen

Two commissions as officers of the
Maine National Guard have just been
issued to two men, one in Bangor
and one in Portland. according to
the announcement made Thursday ut
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-02-01
Governor Makes
Two Appointments
To West Point

Governor 1odAlel Has uppoihuch
Roland T.. Butler and Robert Hark-
ness, both of Brunswick, to West
FONT Academy and has written the
following letter to each of them:
Augusta, Maine,
January 81, 1924.
"To-day | have signed the Of
fetal papers recommending you for
appointment TO the West Point Mill
tary Academy. ! do this because |
am informed that You are young
man of good character who wants to
succeed in the world and who is
willing to work for success.
IF YOU pass your examination and
enter West Point. YOU will in every
sense of the word be n representa-
tive of Maine. and your scholarship
record and personal conduct will re-
fleet or defect upon the good name
of your State.
II am placing my confidence in
YOU and extend to YOU my best
wishes.
"PeIieve me
'Faithfully yours.
PERCINAL j. BAXTER.
Governor of Maine"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-02-01
FOR BAD
COLDS

1.-THE quickest, suresf and
safest relief for colds that has
ever been compounded"-
Munyon's Cold Remedy il prepared for
relieving colds In the head, threat or
lungs and for checking Fever, nasal dis
charges and the aches and pains caused
by colds, grippe and bronchitis Don't
trifle with cold. Don't take unknown
cures" Let Munyon's Cold Remedy
make you well. At ali druggists.
Il, 1>;;xuI~&S&
hunyoa's Horoeopaihie Hons M
Remedy Co. w
SCRANTON. PA. ~
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-02-01

gram, Of which several hundred have
come to me-"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-02-01

Sunday for n chimney fire at the
home of Ben Harding. Middle road
No serious damage resulted.
Mr.. and Mrs. Maynard Leach
passed Wednesday in Thomasion.
Oscar Starrctt has had the tcIe'
phone installed in his home.
Miss Carolyn Baker is the guest
OF Mrs. Charles Paul this week.
Earl RobinsOn's dog was 1ouhl
dead Monday.
Tho Eastern star will hold thetr
installation Friday night.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-02-01

Umbrella handles are now made
detachable so that the handle may
bC changed to match the costume
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-02-01
Merton Jacobs

Merton Jacobs passed away at IL
O'Clock Thursday morning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-28
RESTORE GATE MOSES USED
Pennsylvania U. Experts Reconstruct
 Portal of Pharaoh's Palace

The portal that Moses and Aaron en- tered in the palace of the Egytian Paharoh Merenptah in order to protest against the captivity of the Isrueites is now being reconstructed in the museum of the University of Pennsylvania. The portal consists of six massive pillars, 2S feet high and weighing five tons. Carvings on the blocks that form the pillars represent the Pharaoh threat cning the Israelites held captive by him.
 This portal, together with 12O tons of additional material, was brought to this country from the burial site of the ancient Egytian city of Memphis, where it was excavated by Egyptolo- gists of the university. This material will be constructed in its original form in a new wing of the museum.
 The Egyptian authorities have given ths university the entire throne room of the Pharaoh's magnificent palace, which was built of sun-dried brick with columns and doOr-frames of limestone. The palace contained great open court, so feet wide and 115 feet long, surrounded by colnnnadc of 34 col umns. State apartments were at each end of this court.
 The six columns of the portal now being erected formed vcStibule to the throne room in which archeologists be- lieve the Pharaoh refused to yield to Moses and Aaron's pleas to free the Israelites from bondage until the visit of the plague that killed the first-born in every Egyptian household, after which the Israelites were suffered to depart.-Popular Science Monthly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-28
Wonderful For Piles
 Says Peterson

If you received every week dozen or mere letters like the one below from peo- pie who have suffered torments from piles, wouldn't you feel happier than the man whose life is devoted to money grabbing?
 "Gentlemen-I have been suffering with a fistula for the past twenty years. During that time l have tried numerous remedies. all of which have failed.
 1.-TWO months ago I determined to give Feterson's Ointment a trial. The improve ment was so decided after using one box that have continued, and on the comple- tion of the fifth box am now entirely bet ter.
 This is written with the view of pass ing along the good word to other suffer CTS" Very truly yours. Chas. E. Casweu. 2S2 Third Street. Albany. N. Y.
 Here's another from Mir. Edgar Thomas. age 76, of Hemlock. N. Y. He writes:
 "I had the itching piles. also high blood pressure. saw Petersons ad in the paper. used one box and half of Peter sons Ointment for itching piles and the piles disappeared, also the high blood pressure" 35 cents bo at all druggists.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-28
CALIFORNIA WILL
 HAVE GOLD TRAIL
Highway Designed To Pass Through Famous
 Old Mining Camps

The history of events and epochs is often preserved in old roads and drives over which men and machines moved to win decisive battles or blaze the way for empires says San Francisco letter to the Christian Science Monitor. Rome has its Appian Way, New Eng land it's Lexington-C Concord Road, Oregon it's "Trail' and now comes California with plans to build the Mother Lode Highway, a historic con nective threading Placer, Fl Dorado Amador, Calaveras and Tuolumne coun- ties, the 'gold countless" conquered by a mighty race of men in the '50s and held forever vivid and splendid by the chroniclers of the time.
 This proposed highway will stretch from Sonora to Auburn, a distance of 1O7 miles through Towering fields, past scraggly orchards of ancient plant ing and over little hills, those sentinels guarding the gateway to the lofty Sierra in the background. Here over these red roads, macerated into red dust troughs by wheel and hoof and boot, the gold seekers whirled along; here under the garish sun plodded Bret Harte, the school-teacher of Futile town; here mining towns flourished in
 
 summary justice.
 Commerce And Sentiment Unite
 Today witnesses change in this his toric country. With the Mother Lode vein largely exhausted, the restless, flowing tide of gold seekers ceased, and rrceding, left shrunken little towns. Along thier main streets prophets, basking on sun porches, talk of the golden days and argue with the un- dimmed hope of the .prospector that some day the faithful will strike a new lead and bring back the boom times.
 Very recently the California railroad commission granted an application of the MOkelumne River Water and Pow CT company permitting abandonment of it's service as a public utility. The com pany began operation in 1852, its ditches supplying water for hydraulic mining in the Mother Lode region of the Sierra foothills in Calaveras coun- ty. The antidebris act of 1888 forced the discontinuance of hydraulic min ing; quartz mining dwindled and so did brave Mokeumne-from a hustling metropolis of ten thousand popula tiOn to four hundred inhabitants today.
 Economics, commerce and sentiment have induced California to begin the in corporation of the Mother Lode Road into the state highway system. The : mile strip from Placerville to Colma where Marshall discovered gold, has been taken over by the state for build- ing with gas tax money. The estimated cost of building is 213 million dollars
 Names That Recall Days Of '49.
 Along the proposed course of the highway are names that conjure up whole history of early gold seeking and mining; Sonora, Tuttletown, Melones, Carson Hill, Angels Camp. San Andreas. Mokelumne Hill, Suttel Creek, Drytown. Fl Dorado, Placer vile, Colma, Pilot Hill and Auburn. Jackson was the business center of all the Mokelumne river rigon. It marked the northern extremity of the famous
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-28

SALVAGE IN BIG PLANT. Ford Company Recovers Scarps Worth Nearly 2 Million Monthly.

The value of thrift around large industrial plant is vividIy illustrated by the work of the general salvage depart ment in the Ford automobile works. The salvage squads of this department hunt around for everything that is not used and generally termed scrap ma terials. They not only collect this ma terial, but make repairs, remake and dispose of their collections at a return therefrom that runs into the astounding figure of nearly a million dollars a month. Nothing is too small to ham, dle. They take anything from broken mop pail to q discarded factory build- ing.
 The extent of the work is indicated by the salvage departments records, which show that about four hundred tons of steel trimmings are disposed of every day, while two hundred tons of baled steel stampings and waste, and 150 tons of castiron borings are gather ed up and converted into usable mate rial. Other items in the daily clean- per, three. tons of factory sweepings, two to eight tons of baled tin, hoops and wire, etc. About $1,OOO worth of belting is reclaimed every day for use again or made up into leather aprons, mitts, and hand made pads into gas kets and cup washers for pumps and the like. Repairs to broken tools run into a saving of nearly $700 per day and something like two thousand gall Ions of oil per day are returned for reuse from passing steel turnings wiring etaoin shrdlu etaoin etaoinnu nu through centrifugal wringers.-Indus- trial Engineering.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-28

Mother Lode, said to be one of the most extraordinary metalliferous veins in the world. The average length of a lode is six miles. The Mother Lode fol lowed plainly in southerly direction all the way to Maraposa, GO miles, reaching q maximum width of 30 feet of hard white quartz loaded with high grade gold.
 The nearly deserted little village commemorative of this lode are now held suspended between lost industry and the development of agriculture. The golden tradition yields slowly to the inroads of agriculture, prosaic but more dependably profitable.
 It is these changes that are fast dem- onstrating the need and utility of the Mother Lode highway. This resultant alliance of sentiment and commerce is happy circumstance for the motorist, interested in beauty more than in speed. One may not know that Futile town was the original abode of Bum mer Smith," that Bret Harte portrayed himself as the school-teacher in his first great mining story, "M'liss," written in 1866.
 Geography Of Bret Harte.
 Like most writers, Bret Harte was not particular about geography, but ingenious map makers, using Sandy Bar as q key, show the traveller, eager for details, just where Roaring Camp, Red Dog and other famous settings" were. Sandy Bar is the modern Riverside, five miles above Robinson's ferry OH the Stanislaus River, and Roaring Camp is 40 miles from Red Dog, they say. Jimtown, Murphy's, Columbia, Chinese Camp and Coyoteville are actualities rich in reminiscence of "the olden, the golden, the days of '49."
 The Native Daughters of the Golden West recently made a landmarking ex- curison through the Mother Lode coun- try. They marked one hundred places identified with gold rush days, includ- ing Angels hotel, where Bret Harte found comfortable lodging, as does the traveller today; Murphy's Main street, and Log Cabin at Sawmill Flat. where Bret Harte's "Three Partners lived. Likewise the state library has been ac- tive in much cataloguing and research to preserve these monuments of the gold era.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-28
ANTI.CLIMAX

The bus was crowded and the occu- pants were listening with interests to night toned conversation of two stylishly dressed women, one of whom was accom- panied by small boy. Soon everyone knew that the speaker had recently moved into larger house, farther west"
 Do you know, dear," she said. Eve had such trying time getting things into order on the last occasion we moved that this time we just handed the house over furniture store company and they did everything. My husband and I went touring until things were ill order"
 At this point the small boy shouted: Look, mummy, look :"
 "Such an observing child !" smiled his mother.
 Look, mummy'-and he pointed to man on the sidewalk-''there's the man who comes every week for the fur over to a furniture store company and niture money."-Pittsburg Chroncile- Telegraph,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-28
(By Leased Wire To The Age Herald.

(Dy LeaSeu NFe lO 1Hc ASc-hcantusJ
 NEW YORK, Nov. "7.-Henry Ford is as simple as A-B-C: He merely goes after everything he wants in the most direct manner and with disrgard to un- essential details, and that's how he made his success, according to W. E. Woodward.
 Wooward, a vetern business man who has turned into a novelist, has created sensation among New York's intelli- gensia second only to crossword puzzles by coming out flatly and telling peo- pie just why some are successful and some arent's. He has discovered what he calls the Fredudian simplex, which appears to be precisely the opposite of the well-known Freudian complex, and thereby hangs one of the secrets of suc- cess. ne says. Now New Workers are dis carding their complexes and developing the more lucrative simplex and Judge Gary may again predict, an era of un- paralled prosperity.
 Easy To Acquire
 The Freudian Simplex, pronounced Fraudian in Greenwich village and its environs, by it's very nature is easy to acquire and even the most ignorant can get one and put it to work. Un- like the complex with which Dr. Sig mund Freud donated to an already suffering humanity maze of inhibita- tions, repressed desires. symbolic dreams and involved mental construc- tions, which stand in the way of suc- cess, the simplex is useful and easy to understand.
 A man, or woman, with simplex, goes after what he or she wants with amazing directness, simplicity and vigor. They are not bothered with com plexities and have no misgivings at all.
 According to Woodward, an analysis of the character of a man blessed with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-28
LucratiUe Simplex Urged
 As Complex Substitute
Henry Ford Cited By Author As Best Example
 Of His Theory

the simplex, as he explains in Lottery, his latest novel, shows reticence ap- peraing only in thin streaks, and re- morse in microscopic traces-egotism and vanity in large quantities and bullet-proof."
 Ford Best Example
 The best example of the simplex, ac- cording to Woodward, is Henry Ford. Next, he thinks, is John D. Rocke- feller, Sr. Both these men go right after what they want and don't care about side issues. Ford wanted to build the cheapest car in the world. He did and now he is one of the worlds rich est men.
 Woodward, who is safely entrenched behind a comfortable bank account, can speak with authority on how to make money--and he does while the ann bilious listen.
 Nearly everyone wants to get rich" he says, "but they don't want it bad enough. That's where the trobule comes. Their complexities, inhibitions and side-issues get in their way. But if they want hard enough to develop a Freduian simplex, they can become rich"
 And then the author, who last year in his book Bunk" invented the term 'debunking," which has been used by political parties this fall, tells the world ho wto get simplex and points the way to riches.
 It is simple. Here it is.
 Forget all about culture, romance and history. Don't bother with art. If you want to make money, think of it simply and directly. People will call you bore, but don't mind that, for when you get big enough bank ac- count that won't make any difference, After you make your fortune you can get rid of the Freudian simplex, and compete with the metropolitan museum .as buyer of art"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-28
ACTION ON BILL URGED

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.-Action on a bill proposing the consolidation of management under the veterans bu- reau of all soldiers homes and hospitals will be urged at the impending session of congress, it was announced today by Representative Johnson, of South Dakota. chairman of the house veterans committee.
 He said he also hoped for the passage of legislation at the coming session which would give more permansacy to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-28
MORE COTTON GINNED

Figures today on Montgomery county cotton ginnings to November 14 showed an increase over the amount ginned for the same period last year. There were 1G,039 bales of cotton ginned in Montgomery county from the crop of 1921 prior to November II, as compared with 14,379 bales ginned to November 14, 1923.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-28

the medical staffs attached to the va rious veterans hospitals. A partial re- port by subcommittee which has been investigating the management of soldiers homes and hospitals, he said, was expected in December, to be fol- lowed with complete report later.
The Washington times., 1924-01-10
VISITING NURSE
PATIENTS Up
To 6,748
Total Shows Increase Of
1926 Over Those Treat
ed in 1922.

A tremendous increase in the
number of patients cared for during
1928 as compared with 1922 was
reported last night at q meeting Of
the Instructive Visiting Nurse 90.
ciety. An Increase Of 1895 patients
was noted for the year, the total
being 6,74S.
In addition to these visits the
visiting nurse in charge Of the pre-.
natal clinic Of Columbia Hospital
gave treatment to 769 patients and
made 8O3 home visits. The society
announced that 1t had taken over
the skin and venereal disease ana
prenatal clinics Of the Georgetown
University hospital.
Five new members OF the society
were announced as follows: Mrs.
Sarah Lee, Mrs. George Myers, Mrs.
Dean, John Ihlder and Col.
r. 8. Huidekoper.
Those present at the meeting were:
Mrs. Whitman Cross, presiding; Mrs.
A. G. Miller, Mrs. q. Brown Miller,
Mrs. Franklin Ellis, Mrs. Frank
Weeden, Mrs. Louis Frothing CHAM,
Mrs. william M. Grinnell, Mrs. Sarah
Lee, Mrs. John Davidge, Mrs. David
Potter, Mrs. r. M. Kaufman, Mrs.
Frederick Delano, Mrs. Charles Gold.
smith, Mrs. William II. Wilmer,
Mrs. Corcoran Thorn, Miss Tayras.
Smith and Emile BerlinOr.
The Washington times., 1924-01-10
DISTRICT GIVEN
s1,647,700 IN
HOUSE BILL
interior Department Measure
Reported Carries Total Of
$261, 1,727, 1865.

Tho first appropriation bill affect.
ing the District Of Columbia was
reported to the House yesterday.
This is the Interior Department
bill, which carries total appropria.
ton Of $261, ,727, ,065, of which 81, ,647,.
700 is for institutions within the
District Of Columbia. This amount
Ia divided between st. Elizabeth's
hospital. the Columbia Institute for
the Deaf, Howard University and
Freedman's hospital.
Where Money Goes.
The st., Elizabeth's Hospital ap.
preparation carries 100000 for
maintenance. This is 100000 be-
loW tho current year and s46O,O0O
below the budget estimate. The 70.
Port shows that the inmates Of the
institution have increased. The 70
dnctiO6 ordered by the committee
was made with the expectation that
patients cared for In the hospital
upon the order Of the Veterans Blu.
reau shall be paid for out Of funds
Of that bureau.
An additional $4,000 IL given for
repair Of buildings and grounds. In
lieu Of the item Of $4,000 for be.
ginning Of remodeling Of the heat.
ing, power and lighting plant, the
bill carries an authorization for the
use OF certain other funds which
will make possible the entire work
or remodeling at an early date.
The appropriations for the Co
lumbia Institute for the Deaf total
100000 for maintenance and $4,000
for repairs, in accordance with the
budget figures.
Items Eliminated.
Items for additions to the medical
school building at Howard Uni.
versity, totaling 100000 recon-.
mended by the budget were elimi.
mated by the committee. For sal.
aries and general maintenance an
increase Of $4,000 above the budget
estimate was allowed. A fund of
$1,000 for equipment for the manual
training department is allowed and
appropriations were made for the
assembly hail and gymnasium,
tOtaling $157.500.
Only $127.600 was allowed for this
purpoSe by the budget bureau.
The committee appropriated $780,.
600 for salaries at Freedmen's Hos.
pital. This is $4,000 above the cur.
rent year and $1,000 below the
budget estimate.
The Washington times., 1924-01-10
Mental Bootleggers'' :
Are Denounced
AT Harvard !"

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Jan. 10.
intellectual bootleggers" was
the term applied by Dean Ches-
ter Noyes Greenough today to
the Harvard students who have
printed copies made Of the
notes they have taken at va
rious college courses, and then,
just before examination time,
sell these to less industrious un-
dergraduates.
The passing Of examinations
by this Iapid-fire method, Dean
Greenough pointed out, is really
more unfair to the supposed
beneficiaries than to the "boot-
leggers" who trade upon their
laziness.
Declaring that only the arous-
ing Of undergraduate opinion
could cure the situation, he
pleaded for suppression Of boot
Logging Of mental wares.
The Washington times., 1924-01-10
D: c. BOX PRIZE.
CONTESTANTS
|RR|TATED
Feel That League Is Too
"Haokneyed" Subject to
Be Considered.

Washington contestants for the
100000 Box peace plan award are
sore Of heart.
They thought the League Of Ma
tions idea. insofar as United States
participation was concerned. had
been neatly put under the sod some
time ago. Consequently, they
offered progressive theories, only
to discover. Al few days ago, that
the league was a prominent COM
ponent part Of the prize-winning
plan.
Among the aggrieved Washing
toniane are William Atherton Du.
Puy, whose popular "HumAnisms"
appeared in The Washington Times
daily, before his more recent con-
mection with the League OF Nations
in GOneva-and Christian A. HeTter.
assistant to Secretary Of CommercS
Herbert HoOver. Both had sub
mitted plans.
'The chief purpose Of offering q
prize was, Of course, to thrust the
League Of Nations into the arena
OF discussion" DuPuy said. ''Those
in charge of this enterprise have
defeated their own purposes by
giving the award to SO hackneyed
q theme."
Herter expressed surprise. Being
a Government official, however. he
was not intrigued by the idea Of
arguing with the judges.
The Washington times., 1924-01-10
THRIFT SLOGAN
COMPETITION |
BEGINS
Contest for Best Motto Under
Ten Words Lasts Till
January 20.

The slogan contest OF the Thrift
Week committee will begin today
and close January 90. The winner
Of the contest win receive a $50
prize, and other awards of $40 and
$40 will be made. The slogan must
not exceed ten words. Participants
may send in as many slogans as
they wish. They should be adj
dressed to the thrift headquarters,
Masonic Temple building, Thir.
teenth street and New York ave-
nue. northwest.
The budget day committee yes
terday began the distribution of
budget books, personal account
books, thrift cards and other thrift
promotion matter to the various
banks Of the city, who will dis.
tribute Il to their customers.