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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-23

MONTGOMERY. - jor f. f.
Winters, registrar United States land
office here, holds that island in Ala
bama river near here is government
property. Island has been claimed
bY several nartieS
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-23

TROY.-Robert Thrasher. negro
is given life sentence on charge of
numbering mother-inla law.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-23

MOBILE.-Mrs. Cora Laprade
Cawthon, widely known throughout
Alabama, wife of James Lee Cav.
thon, is dead.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-23

ROCKY MOUNT.-Season total
sales of tobacco were 13,375,000
pounds on December 6, averaging
price being $24S0 per hundred.
weight.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-23

MOBILE. - Federal, state and
county officers will cooperate in en-
forcement of prohibition laws in Mo-
bile county, according to announce
ment of Walter *. McAdory, chief of
state law enforcement department.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-23

WILSON.-Receipts of tobacco for
season to December s were 45.052.-
10 pounds, for which average OF
$26.75 per hundredweight, or S12.-
073179 was Maid
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-23

RALEIGH.-B r. Lacy, who will
be sworn in early in January for
seventh consecutive term as state
treasurer, is only man now living
elected in 1900 and is oldest state of
ficer in nOint Of service
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-23

ATHENS.-State highway COM
mission awards contract for building
state highway between Athens and
Florence, about so miles.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-23

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS to in
vestigators street beggers in Bir-
minsham are reaping rich harvest
One blind" beggar makes from SIS
to SIS per day. ii is claimed.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-23

ANDALU SIA.-Federal govern.
ment submit plans for postoffice
building here, one story high and IS
by "a feet
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-23

ANNISTON.-Fun services for
Wiley c. Tunstall, state senator,
who died suddenly at Greensboro
while visiting relatives there, is held
here.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-23

SELMA. Miss Addie Farley,
popular young woman, dies at her
home,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-23

WILMINGTON.-While DR.. Colin
Shaw and Julian Keith are hunting
for ducks. boat padded by negro
overturns. Helpless negro is brought
ashore by heroic efforts of Dr.. Shaw
after being swept far down river.
When found negro is dead and DIR.
Shaw is unconscious from exhaus-
ton.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-23

RALEIGH-M L. Shipman, COM
missioner of labor and printing. in
biennial report to legislature, urges
enactment of group of laws protect
ing interests of workingmen and
women, including industrial injury
law, limiting hours of work by wom-
en- and children and declare favor
OF eisht-hour day in industry
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-23

REIDSVILLE.-F shipment of
gold siXty-four ounces. from re-
Gently reopened Rich Cog mine is
shipped to federal mint at Philadel-
phia. Ore averages 81 per ton.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-23

ARLOTTE.-F'rank A. Hender-
son, n, Confederate veteran, dies at
home in suburb after attack of heart
disease
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-23

RALEIGH.-Co r. z. Posue.
fer 20 Years secretary Of state fair,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-23

MONTGOMERY coun-
ty pays more hunting and trapping
permits than any county in Alabama
during November, amount being So
1868.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-23

REIDSVILLE-Ja Collins, who
disappeared in September. 1917 is
heard from for first time since dis
appearance when telegram is re-
ceived by family telling brothers and
sisters not to think him dead and
advising them to write him at Rus
sell, Ky.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-23

COMMUNICATING Lou Mar
bury. colored, is in Jail, charged with
shooting and killing her husband.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-11-04
HEALTH BEGETS DIVIDENDS

I'D the of DR.. Maurice C. Hall to the roster of
~ heroes Experimenting in the United States Bureau of
Animal Industry with chemical hookworm animals
he rsked life find whether his might be
extended to
The chemical carbon tetrachord successful when ad
dogs but killed rabbits Dr. Hall did know
effect would have but he swallowed dose
proved be safe and has been used with great
success especially tropical countries where the disease is
prevalent
There another significant phase to the story Of the hook
The United States Department of Agriculture reporting
experiment made with employees of mining company all
afflicted with hookworm, says
Beginning months after the treatment the average
output of per per day increased 25 per This
in efficiency not explained any other way.
Although the manager Of the mine did give all the
credit for the ensuing increase production to the hook
treatment he did hesitate give of the
credit"
The difference the treatment made in the comfort of the
the happiness of their homes the health of their
the welfare of their souls important
mention. But the increased output important
That's why in few years. every employer is going
to it that the and working for him well
going pay doctors his keep them we'll
because it will pay him to do So
Some day greediness for gold is going result in APP
proximatey perfect health for all of US!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-11-04
A PUBLISHER AND HIS TRAVELS

HERE comes the desk Of the editor an interesting book
lust published by Brentanos Forty Years News
paperdOm, the autobiography Milton A 1Icae formerly
business head Of the Howard chain of newspapers
known until Mr. Mcae retired the Scrpps AcRae News
papers.
Mr. McRae talks Of the founding Of literally
fond grandparents tell of the surrounding
the births of their children and their chdrens children
tells of his contacts which brought him intimate relations
with scores of the prominent and women.
But Forty Years in Newspaperdom is a uisnomer for
this book MI McFae business and philanthropy
as well as publisher but traveller that readers
VIII remember him from his book In sixty years visited
almost every land the face the globe and he has brought
back and recorded briefly his autobiography outstand
ing impressions Of the peoples he during these n
and varied gIobetrottings.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-11-04

- DETECTIVE, notified by tel
| q ephone, picked up a couple OF
= youthful lovers, aged, 16.
when they arrived at Union Station
yesterday morning from Terre
Haute They were clipping.
Every day or so pairs OF clipping
turtle doves are plucked either at
Union Station or the Traction Ter
minaL
For romantic Lochinvars still per-
form. And the lure of an elopement
gets the lovers.
A couple of days ago Jefferson
vile police stopped, at the request
of the girls father, the marriage OF
a man 81 years old with a girl Of
IA. They had eloped from their Ken
lucky home. The almost bride was
the old mans granddaughter.
One Kentucky family tree nearly
became a brush pile
The determined Lochinvars no
longer lope out of the West on
spawned horses. Nor toss the dam
sells across their saddles, Ike sacks
Of meal, and away into the night
while indignant fathers I'LL the vtcin-
ity with buckshot and explosives.
But they still find way in In
diana. especially down in Clark
County. For that county ranked
third in the State in the number of
matrimonial ventures launched in
1928. And many counties exceed 1t
in population.
Marriage may be sodden and stale,
but an elopement is piquant ro-
nance. Tt will occur whenever
Cupid collides with hard facts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-11-04
Science

The British air ministry is offer
ing every possible encouragement
and inducement to make the English
race Of flying men.
Elimination events for the light
plane and glider meet Of the British
Empire are to be held soon d.
Lympne, Kent. Credit marks are
to be given for low speed as well
as high speed. All machines must
be two-seaters with dual control and
the flight must be made at a uni
form height of twenty feet above
the ground. The object of the meet
is to influence the treasury depart
vent to buy large quantities Of light
lchines and donate them to clubs
md various organizations. This Is
expected to increase interest in fly
ing, and, with a larger number of
persons using airplanes, important
improvements in the cheap. light ma
chimes are probable. One reason for
the British governments interest in
such matters is that the airplane has
entirely destroyed the protection
England once enjoyed through her
fleet and her location. Frances SUI
Ipremacy In the air is a constant
threat. .,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-11-04
The Messenger
BY HAL COCHRAN

What's il those envelopes under
your can. you lad in a messengers
suit? What sort Of messages have
you on tap that are making you
hurriedly scoot?
Flashes Of business and weighty
affairs. Wires Of just greeting and
such. Missiles of love when real
sentiment flares or maybe a wire
that's a touch"
You are the lad who is telling the
world OF the things to be told in a
bury Into your business, through
wires you are hurled. and the job
keeps you all in a furry.
Course you don't know what each
message may say.-but you ever must
carry the load that tells Of a birth
or a passing away that is flashed
Ger the telegraph code.
When things are important
enough for a wire they're bound to
he thrillers, indeed. You keep
flames Of interest in all things on
fire as you make people sit up and
read.
Copyright, 1924. NEA Service, Inc)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-11-04

Trousers and pays out the better
part Of his weeks wage for a set
Of china '1nlaid with acid-proof
gold
And the young man in the silk
shirt and tailor-made suit picks up
"a genuine French briar. smoked
amber smoking set. consisting of
four pieces, two pipes, a cigarette
holder and a cigar holder, ali
trimmed with genuine 14-karat gold.
cost ten dollars to manufacture, and
there's the tag on it to prove It,"
to another man who came to look
and not to buy, for $3.50.
The fellow who bought this did it
because the auctioneer told him he
didn't know a bargain when he
saw It.
For seventeen years Wallace L.
Conner and his wife lived in a mod
est apartment in Brooklyn. They
lived quietly, having no auto and re-
framing from social extravagances.
Conner has just been arrested.
charged with forging drafts. He was
manager Of the Sumner Savings
Bank and tried to dress the part.
His salary was $1,000 a year. or less
than. $50 a week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-11-04
WILL u. S.
CONTROL
WEA THEIR?
Scientists Debate Possibility
of Making Wind and
Rain,
Times W0sbin1t0n Bureau,
1872 Aego York AUe.

EWT ASHTNGTON, Nov. 4.-Con-
IlW gress may have to vote on
@ how much rain shall be
allowed each part of the country
for the next season
States that don't stand in with
the Administration will be punished
thoughts or floods, depending on
the locality.
Oldest inhabitants viii tell Of
actually remembering electric storms
in she heavens.
Children reading of the time the
Shenandoah was blown from her
mooring mast by a strong wind viii
say, But why did Congress let the
wind blow that hard? Was it some
more graft"
All Of which viii happen-per-
haps-if the newest invention to
control the weather proves effective.
DR.. L. Francis Warren Of HaY-
ward claims a device of his by
which electrically charged sand Is
! spTfnklel down on clouds from air
planes will dispense clouds Of pro
hbtt lnAiI4FLAA4 anu Ol@CtAS TIC NfN ~
| domination by man Of the heavens.
An electric storm was stopped by
this method last July. he asserts
With plenty Of money and perfected
facilities. almost anything can be
done, he believes.
But up at the United States
Weather Bureau they laugh politely
behind their hands
Man never has controlled weather
and never VIII, SAYS Prof W. J.
Humphreys, meteorological phySi-
cist of the Bureau, although al
tempts have been made by magic. 5y
religion and by science from pr.nd-
/ tive times down to the present day.
Over in Esth0nia. within tne last
hundred years, when it cot roo dry
to suit the natives, they'd send
three men out TO Sacred grove.
All three climbed tail trees. one
would light fire brands and wave
these around. and THAT was the light
ming. One would beat pan or
drum. and that was The thunder.
One would pour water from
sprinklinG can, and that was Inc
rain. And sometimes q storm would
follow. ard sometimes J; would nos.
Some other folks got the notion
that their dead could make l- rain
II they wanted to. They tried he-
seeching the dead. They t,el ma-
lgninE them. They trivl throwing
rocks AZ the graves. hoping If would
SO annoy the ghosts that thav would
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-11-04
Barrel

- ARL RAIDER of the Atlantic
i, and Pacific Tea store, Fair
- field Ave, had his head
thrust into a barrel Saturday night
scooping out crackers when
bandit entered the place.
He was ordered to maintain his
cramped position While the man
robbed the cash register and es-
capped.
The bandit arrived at an inoppor-
tune time. Had the clerk expected
robbery he would have been erect
and watchful. Which wouldn't have
prevented the hold-up While the
stores work would have been neg
lected
Most blows of fate come at awlt-
ward moments.
We all long to peer into the fu-
ture to see what's coming. It's q
common trait. SO fortunte tellers,
crystal gazers and other quacks have
clients and lucrative business.
But 1t is just as we'll man has de-
vised no way to pierce one second
beyond the immediate present.
If he knew exactly what would
happen the next minute or next week
life would lose its pungency. It
would be cut and dried-perhaps ter
.rifying He would he so engrossed
in the approach of late that the re
ahties of daily living would receive
no attention.
He accomplshes more with his
head stuck in the barrel Of his usual
tasks than expectantly watching for
seate TO come down the street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-11-04
Tom Sims Says
Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc

Trees have their limbs bare in
winter and covered in summer, diff
fering from women in summer only.
No woman is an old maid until she
dresses like one.
Our greatest kick against the
scenery in autumn is we run out OF
adjectives.
Well, they claim a man in Vienna
has forty-two wives, so all we can
say is he wins the loving cup.
a man who took drink in
Peoria, H., woke up in Miami. Fla.
Anyway, he was lucky to wake up
at all.
A Springfield (Mo) girl Of 10 mar
ried man Of So. and lawyers claim
he is crazy. while we claim she is,
Twelve were Jailed for tarring and
feathering a Maryland girl, a case
where fine feathers made sad birds.
It's 4 strange thing, but no matter
now an election comes out, the coun-
try never goes to the dogs.
Utah woman killed her husband
on their honeymoon, instead Of
putting up with him for a while.
Some people go hungry for fear Of
biting off more than they can chew.
The trouble with owning a
grouchy look is you seldom get a
pleasant one.
One meek as a kitten may grow
mp to be wild cat
Cold weather makes some people
feel so good they work.
Going to church is cheaper than
subscribing for fashion magazines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-11-04

through with necessary moisture.
II prayers and threats to the va
rious images brought 10 results,
they tried passing DEGREES formally
taking away sainthood from the de-
linquent one. Or. in other places,
they immersed their priests to sus-
gest the idea OF Wetuoss to the
gods. Or they took frogs. print
lively connected with water ana
rain, and spanked them. And If
that didn't work, they hung them,
mouths upward, and left them to
suffer, supposing they would pray to
their rain gods who would send rain
to relieve their favorites. And
sometimes a storm followed and
sometimes It did not.
The moral Of all this, according
to Professor Humphreys, is that
when airplanes go up with cleo
trtcally charged sand. sometimes a
storm VIII follow, or clouds be dis
persed and sometimes it win not.
Professor Humphreys believes
that airplanes can sometimes dispel
light clouds simply by riding
through them. He believes that if
enough airplanes went up with
large enough quantities of sand,
they might be able to dispel a fog,
but such an operation is too ex-
penstve to ever be practical, he
says. and small quantities could &C
complish nothing.
Laboratory methods of producing
and checking precipitation have
been successfully worked out, but
Humphreys believes it will always
be impossible to perform them on a
scale vast enough to affect nature.
Meanwhile, Army aviators are ex-
perimenting with the sand inven-
ton. They hope to be able to re-
move fog from harbors and landing
Acids, at last.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-11-04
Right Here In
INDIANA
BY Gaylord Nelson

FN1 OBERT H BRYsON, post
Tx master. reports that the re-
- ceipts Of the indianapolis
postoffice are growing. In October
the total was $378,936.59-an in
crease of 10 per cent over the same
month last year.
It is also an increase over Septem-
Der which was greater than the
corresponding period a year ago.
Some people in this city write let
tiers besides old Subscriber" ''Vox
Populi" and *. Y. Il" For if the
local postal receipts for last month
We're invested in two-cent stamps,
placed end TO end, the paper ribbon
would reach from here to st. Louis
That's why statisticians and let
ter carriers grow stoop-
Letters are nuisances. We hate to
write them, and many Of those we re-
ceive are not thrilling. But the pos
tage stamp is modern society's most
powerful tool
Today we vote for President, who
doesn't take Office until March 4
Because when the Constitution was
adopted returns seeped in slowly, due
to poor mail service. Now a man
in San Francisco transcribes a burn
ing thought and a mail plane deliv-
ers it in New York while it is still
glowing
The mail service has immeasurably
speeded up life and commercial in
tercOurse.
It makes possible much Of the
productive business Of the Nation
and most of the divorce and breach
of-prOmise business. So postal re-
ceipts are important for they are the
pulse beats Of prosperity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-11-04
Nature

The ability and habit of parrots
to talk led them to be made pets Of
by even the ancient savage people
Of Indian and Africa. The Romans
In Nero's time. too, thought much
Of them and brought them back to
Rome from those countries. Chris
topher Columbus. on his first expe-
dition, toted back some parrots, and
thus introduced them into Europe
In the old Roman times the price
Of a slave and of a parrot We're about
the same.
Scientists on the little observatory
on the rim of Kilanea volcano in
Hawaii are able to warn people in
the vicinity of danger in plenty Of
time for everybody to beat 1t to
safety. They predicted this years
ssEsra aruptions In 1919.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-11-04


fvv7 ASHTNGTON. Nov A. 1t
WI isn'S just housekeepers who
~ are attracted to Canada. be-
cause electric power there is gov
ernment-made and cheap.
According 60 the Department Of
Commerce, 500 American man
ufacturers have established branch
factories IN Canada.
Cheap power" states Consul
, General TIalstead at Montreal has
been a large factor in attracting
them. This has especially affected
paper manufacturers
The United States, in fact. has
been playing n star role in the post
war Industrial development OF
Canada. Onefourth the capital in
vested In Canadian industries is
United States money. About two
thirds is Canadian.
United States investors hold ap
uroXmatcly 80 per cent Of the cap
ital shares in the pulp and paper
business of Canada. and control tho
nickel and asbestos production there
rs well as many OF the timber prod
uctS
Canada has developed 1929, 900
horsepower Of her total minimum po.
tential is 100000 horsepower. The
Department Of Commerce points out
what this means to the manufac.
turer of electrical goods who seeks a
market not too far away nor too
complicated.
1t IS suggested that though Canad-
ian manufactured electrical goods
were valued AT $44.497, 26S in 1921.
and the business has been growing
ever since. here is a field which man
ufacturers Of electric goods in the
United States should not overlook.
The contrast in the rates paid
for electricity In the United States
and Canada IS apparent when one
realizes that 334 lilowatt hours cos.
the housewife Of Ontario $3.55 ana
one in Washington. D. c., $23.1S.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-11-04

D y e time this appears the early VIII have expressed
ID his choice and the late viii be hlrrying polls
The tImut and the shouting about over
Now let's get down business
The theory that campaign years necessarily bad bust
is mostly bunk The theory itself responsible any
slowing down there may be.
But that millions upon millions Of words been
spread upon the atmosphere over let's 90 to
work
Nothing serious VIII happen regardless of who is elected
President today
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-11-04
In Nez0 York

NEW YORK. Nov. Am auction
room on the west side. Remnants
Of another auction sale on Broad
way Cheap tinsel.
Negroes, Greeks. Italians. all
horny handed sons Of toll. there to
see and wanting to buy nothing.
Eleven dollars ] am bid for this.
Why. gentlemen, If you were TO melt
the gold on this one piece alone. this
sugar bowl. you d get that much in
gold. And I'm offered eleven dol
lars A fifteen-piece china set, hand
painted, inlaid with gold-and I'm
offered Ieven dollars.
why, gentlemen, that's an insult.
ieven dollars. You couldn't buy one
piece at that price. DO l hear more?
Eleven dollars once, eleven dollars
twice, eleven dollars, third and last
Why, gentlemen, that's a shame. a
crime 20 sen that fine merchandise
at such a price. Amt there a man
here who would say more? Who
viii say twelve dollars? Twelve dol
lars. who viii say twelve dollars? II
YOU haven't got the cash. leave a
deposit ON it and wen hold it thirty
DAYS for YOU.
Leven dollars once, Teven dol
lars twice
''ELENEN AND \ HALF
That's the spirit. gentlemen. Now
who says twelve? Who says twelve?
'Leven dollars and half once.
'lcven dollars and a half twice.
eeei"veu dollars ana nifty coats-
ard sa,d 10 that gentleman right
there
AID Chat Gentleman right there"
shoF"e a cal'oueed hand into the
greasy pocket Of his threadbare