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New Britain herald., 1924-12-26

The celebration Of Christmas here was quiet and orderly, no arrests being made by the constabulary.
New Britain herald., 1924-12-26
Newark Also Enters List
 Of Drinking Fatalities

Newark, N. J., Dec. 26.-One man died today and thirteen others re- ceived hospital treatment during the night as the result of drinking poi son holiday liquor. The one fa- tality Jerry Taylor. 46. negro, died after being brought to the hospital during the night suffering from acute alcoholism.
 Plans for flights across the Pacific by Japanese aviators have been an- nouuced by the Imperial Aviation society.
New Britain herald., 1924-12-26

The board Of selectmen will hold their regular weekly meeting in the town hall this evening.
New Britain herald., 1924-12-26

More than 2,5oo persons attended the midnight mass at St. Thomas church on Christmas eve, and, al- though the balcony was opened for the first time in several years, it was necessary to turn many people away. A large crowd vas present at the mass at the Church of the Immacu- late Conception.
New Britain herald., 1924-12-26
Officers Will Be Installed

children and his father in Bingham.
New Britain herald., 1924-12-26
SWIMMERS TO WE'D.

Boston, Dec. 26.--The onEaremon' 0f Miss Olive Holland. Womon'' swimming champion at the hlIt-mi'e and the fancy diving titlc-holdor also, to Wilbourn Cox, assistant Tiff, saving instructor Of tho Boston chap. ter, Amorjcan Red Cross. an out, growth Of tank romance, is aN nouncol. Miss Holland formerly hel. he national and Nnw 11nganl vom ms mile championship.
 To kocp in touch with affairs rad the Wants
New Britain herald., 1924-12-26

Arthur Blake Of Boston was a guest of Mfr. and Mrs. Nelson Mann last week end.
New Britain herald., 1924-12-26

Herbert Olmstead returned sun day from Cornell to spend the Christmas recess at his home on Johnson street.
New Britain herald., 1924-12-26
East Berlin Items

The annual Christmas tree and exercises of the Methodist Sunday school will be held in the church basement this evening and all are in- Nit"d 10 attend.
 MT. and Mrs. Raymond Cole and child Of New Haven have been the guests of MT. and Mrs, George Cole Of this place.
 MT and Mrs T. r. Carns of Will
New Britain herald., 1924-12-26
Returns From Hospital

w. F. Farr, who has been confined to the New Britain General hospital for some time past as the result of an operation for appendicitis, re- turned to the home of his daughter on Wednesday evening. He is the father Of Mrs. Harry Burnham of kcnsinEt on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11
Domestic Days
By ROY l.. McCARDELL

By ROY l.. McCARDELL TERTRUDE, the maid, who had Vw hastened downstairs with the
 letter box key at the postman's whistle, returned with the mornings mail to the breakfast table. She deliv- cred it all to Mrs. Jarr. of course.
 "Nothing but bills !' sighed Mrs. Jarr. And there's one from the butcher, and that reminds me that it isn't healthy to eat so much meat when the weather gets warm"
 Ut isn't healthy for the income, thaEs sure, remarked MT. Jarr. Meat seems to be selling by the carat instead of the pound"
 "I really believe it would be cheaper for us to dine out like we used to when we were first married" said Mrs. Jarr. Don't you remember those dear little Bohemian standardization say dear, don't mean expensive where we used to get lovely little French and Italian dinners for 70 cents, including wine?"
 Unfortunately, prohibition and the high cost of everything have put those restaurants out of business" replied Mir. Jarr, but if you long for old BO- hemia days, let us give up the apart ment and take a garret in Greenwich Village with a skylight and gas stove and some frying pans behind Japa- nese screen and call the jOint,a studio"
 Il guess not But speaking of keep
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11

Maybe the waiter is not to be be- lieved. He says he sees hip-flasks at every church dinner at which he ex- ercises his vocation.
 Typical conversation in any New York restaurant:
 Bring me some of that old-fashioned strawberry short cake!"
 Waiter fetches soggy hunk, consist ing of two layers of tasteless cake sep arated by white stuff that looks like pot cheese and tastes rather like paint. Three pale strawberries crown 1t.
 That isn't old-fashioned short cake. Take it away"
 Twenty years from now New York restauranteurs will still be serving that Pride of the MOrgue. They will not learn.
 Note of Rejoicing: Twice this week I asked for seats well down in front. ',
 "Nothing in front of the seventh row." said the box office man.
 Once there were twelve people in the first six rows. Once there were four teen. Either the house or the specula- tors were stung.
 Slick-haired youth joined our table last might. Very handsome, good man. ners, well dressed, intelligent. He used to be a bank clerk. Now he is a pro- fessional dancing escort at one of the uptown hotels for the wives of tired business men. 4. E ''I get ten dollars for the afternoon and fifteen for the evening" said he. And a tip. That runs all the way from five to twenty"
 He isn't as messy as one would nat lurally believe him to be. A he-man from the great open spaces made arro- gant noises toward him a few days ago and the pretty boy delivcfed a gor- geous licking right on the premises. ! Thrills guaranteed, at our coast re- sorts now, or money back.
 Large crowd lethargically drilling along beach at Sheepshead Bay snifing frankfurters, skipping children, buying dime balloons. Strange craft appears ine offing. Proves to be Chinese junk, the first, of the sort to reach New York in fifty years.
 "Oi, yoi!" says large crowd.
 Small gray botorboat running thirty five miles an hour pops from behind junk, with one man at the wheel. Large police boat is in full chase. Evidently the fugitive is a bootlegger. Policemen fire rapidly with pistols.
 "Oi," said the crowd. "Lookee He makes snoots by the coppers."
 /Bootlegger twiddles fingers to nose. The two craft charge down the harbor. Bootlegger slams helm hard down, pops through Plum Island creek-a streak
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11
The WeII-Dressed Man
 By BEAUNASH Correct Clothes Meet The Obligation of EUery Occasion
Plain Or Pleated shirtsY


 DUNS the venerable rhyme Be not n the first by whom the new is
 tried, nor yet the last to lay tbe old aside" This advice, silvered twith the dust of years, is as sound now as it was then. Following the extreme fashion is a pet pastime in Europe where they have a certain class which does nothing particularly except par ticularly nothing. In this country, however, where every man is engaged in some useful, gainful occupation we can not spend all our time chasing the will-o '-the-wisp of .'the latest thing" and the "awfully swagger." Life's too short. Some foreigners may be better dressed as individuals than most Amefi- cans, but Americans are better-dressed as a race than any nation in the world.
 For some years the spread of sports and the devotion to country life has made the plain bosom shirt our pre- ferred style almost to the exclusion of the pleated garment. Latterly, how ever, pleats have been coming to the front for no other reason than that we are tiring of the mOnotony of the same set thing. One of these shirts is pie tured here. It shows the broad cen- ter box pleat flanked with wide side pleats and is finished with double or single cuffs. Though this garment is presented in white for the sake of clearer detail, colorful stripes, figures, embroidered and all-over effects are much smarter. Generally speaking, the pleated-bosom shirt should be asworn with waistcoat and the plain-front affair should be worn without one.
 The advantage of the pleated gar
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11

homo. You see she knew that he hunt ed meadow mice and was quite as fond of them as she was. So she planned to catch all she could near his home, so that he would have to go farther away to do his hunting. When she was not hunting herself she would hide where she could watch Digger's home It took great deal of patience. But patience is something that all little people of the Green Meadows and the Green Forest have to learn very early in life, and Granny had learned it long ago.
 At last her patience was rewarded Very early one morning she saw Digger come out and begin hunting for his breakfast. He went farther and farther from his doorstep, for Granny had hunted around there so much that there was nothing left for Digger. It was very quiet and pleasant down there on the Green Meadows and it was quite clear that Digger feared nothing. Granny chuckled. Then, keeping out of sight of Digger, she ran swiftly across the Green Meadows up to Farm CT Browns door-yard. There, just as she had hoped, she found Bowser the Hound unchained:@ She parked softly. Bowser locke dup and of course he saw her right away. Bow, WOW, wow!" roared Bowser, and started for her just as she knew he would. Away raced Granny, with Bowser after her. Straight down across the Green Mead ows she ran towards the home of Dig ger the Badger.
 Next Story: Granny Fox Plans Trouble for Digger.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11
CHARLOTTE HENRIETTA LASER

OAAEAAeAVAA1 A1 AAANANAs4A1A Ah A4EAO&IAs
 Charlotte Henrietta Hasser, was q celebrated singer born at Leipzig in 1780, the daughter of the director of music in the university there. In 1894 she was engaged to the Italian Opera at Dresden. Her superior voice, her fine execution, and her attempt to combine the advantages of the Ger man and the Italian methods, gave her a brilliant success. Distinguished for the correctness of her morals and her great modesty, she was received with applause at all the most celebrated theatres in Italy and Germany.
 One housewife pours two tablespoon fuls of boiling water on the sugar when creaming butter and sugar for cake. She claims it gives the cake finer grain, as well as facilitating the cream ing process.
 A girl who does not like to butter the tins when making fudge fills the tin with water before starting the fudge. When latter is done she pourS out the water and sets the tin bottom side up until she is ready to use it. And the fudge never sticks to the pan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11
Little Stories For Bedtime
sy rnoRMroM V. sURaEss
The Cunning Of Granny Fox Good nature is a priceless thing; It fills with sunshine every day.

70
 TTyHAT is an old saying and while
 not altogether true, there is
 enough truth in it to make it worth remembering. The OK is not all ways as stupid as he seems, but on the other hand the fox is almost sure to prove lot more cunning than he ap- pears. To be cunning means to be sly, crafty, tricky. Old Granny Fox is all of these. She is cunning in all that the word means. You seldom can tell from her looks or .her actions what she is planning There are no sharper wits than hers on the Green Meadows or in the Green Forest unless they be those of Old Man Coyote, and Granny never will admit that his are sharper.
 Now. when Granny Fox Smade up her mind that she would get even with Dig ger the Badger she didn't tell any one. She had long ago learned that 1t never does to let others know your plans. So when Blacky the Crow leased her about the way in which Digegr the Badger had got even with her for making fun of him she kept her temper and didn't so much as hint that she was planning to get. even with him. In fact, she took Blacky's teasing good naturedly, and treated the whole thing as a joke on her. But she didn't wholly fool Blacky. You see Black has pretty shrewd head of his own.
 "She's too good natured about it." thought he. q know Old Granny Fox too well to think for a minute that she is going to let Digger have the best of her without trying to get even. That wouldn't be like her. She's got some plan in that clever head of hers and one of these days something is going to happen. I'll keep my eyes open, for I don't want to miss anything exciting. l just love excitement v
 But though Blacky kept sharp eye on all that went on in that part of the Green Meadows where Digger the Badger lives, be saw nothing unusual, Granny Fox passed that way once in a while, but she never appeared if he happened to be in sight. She treated him just as she had ever since he came to the Green Meadows to live, which was as if he were quite beneath her no- tice. But though Granny Fox did not appear to be taking any notice of Dig ger She really was studying him and his ways all the time. She discovered that while he seldom went far from his doorstep, once in while he did. Once in while he couldn't get enough to eat without going some distance.
 When she discovered this she spent much of her time hunting near his
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11

ing house in a studio," said Mrs. Jarr, do you remember the young couple let me see what was their name? You know she was thin, green. complex toned woman with tortoise shell spec tacles, and her husband was awful tire some. He used to receive guests at their studio apartment in pajamas, while his wife wore blue smock and smoked q pipe. Don't you rememberF' asked Mrs. Jarr.
 Those were tM Wilkinghams," re- piled Mir. Jarr. "They have reformed 1; he is in the egg, butter and cheese commission business, and has gone in for the Higher Thoughts, and his wife has become a rabid anti-feminist.
 If a 75-cent dinner that we would be afraid to eat and sour red wine we wouldn't like to drink embraces all the simple pleasures of the past, I'd rather live in any other land than Bo- hemia. You don't want the simple life, ether" ventured Mir. Jarr, "I guess ' you want luxuries now!" sh
 T certainly do!'' exclaimed Mrs. Jarr. If living cheaply and being worried about these bills"-and she looked at the offensive missives-"is the simple life, I would like to live a complex one and be worried about the butler, and the chef, and the chauffeur, and the parl0r maid instead of only being worried about Gertrude-she has broken another of my best pieces of cut glass! !'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11

2of salt water which separates Plum Island from the mainland at high tide and gets away. Police boat almost smashes up. Water too shallow for 1t.
 Later. Bootlegger does fine retail business in Plum Island creek to ad- miring crowd.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11
Manhattan Days And Nights
Bv HERBERT COREY

MTW YORK 10Coney all hoppd for the season washed onepiece suits the line new board wax new
 nckecchers All ready for the democat oegaVeS 6"aThen prohibition did not hurt the sland? aPecpe the hp said the waiter They drlnK nooch
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11

ment over the plain is that it has more weight and substance and, therefore, launders better and lies flatter. Con trawise, the plain front is softer and cooler and, in midmost summer, is great ly to be preferred if you are one of those men who seldom go waistcoated. During the last few months there has been something of revival of the single starehed cuff upon mems shirts. Heretofore, the double French cuff and the close-buttoning sport or wrist cuff have been the favorites. According to the old-fashioned idea, shirt was cut to fit tightly without ridge or wrinkle, but this notion has been pretty well dropped. Your shirt, like your coat, should be loose-draping, rather than close-fitting, so as not to hinder free arm-reach and shoulder swing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11

Sold before noon"-the usual report following a For Sale" Want Ad in The Age-Herald.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-04-29
MORAY FOUND
GUILTY; SPENDS
NIGHT in JAIL

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, April %.
Warren Y. McCray, governor of
Indiana, was a prisoner in the bull
pen of {" federal row. at the Ma
rion county Jail today.
Heart broken and stunned by the
verdict of the jury in federal court
finding him guilty of fraudulent
use of the mails, the governor was
ordered to jail last night by Judge
Anderson to await sentence We'd
nesday morning.
The governor spent the night in a
room with "a other prisoners.
From the moment he heard the
reading of the verdict until the
prison doors closed behind him
shortly before 10 O'Clock McCray
refused to make any comment on
the case or to indicate whether he
would resign from the governor
ship.
Among his friends, however, it
was reliably reported that he would
not voluntarily quit his office and
turn the reins of government over
to Emmett +. Branch of Marysville,
lieutenant governor
1t was stated on good authority
that McCray would make no appeal
from the decision of the jury in the
United States district court here.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-04-29

depth of &C feet. In the blast,
charges amounting to f240,000
pounds of an explosive composed
of chlorate of potash and nitre
bonzine, and $4,000 pounds Of
dynamite, were used.
The government projects call for
a channel which will eventually be
from 900 to 1000 feet wide at this
point.
st,5eo,0OO REMOVAL PLANT
Work is now nearing complet-
ion under a contract for secur-
ing q channel through He'll Gate
Off Hallets Point 500 feet wide and
@5 feet deep at mean low water
and increasing the depth over Pot
Rock TO 35 feet at mean low water.
Work is now in progress for re-
moving q section of the reef off
Negro Point to * feet. and q $40
Imperial Valley press., 1924-04-29

h1lGing the Grill ships to the place
Of work aad anchoring them in
position. his danger is Shown
by the fact t.lat frcm Fay, 1913,
10 February, 1924. there were no
les than 115. collisions recorded.
These ranged from Collisions re-
su.ting in q total loss Of The plant
to more or less grave damage.
They included saany types Of
beats which struck The dredging
plants including large steamers,
powerful towboats towing heavy
car floats, others with H2any deck
Scows in tow and sailing vessels.
At times lives We're lost in these
collisions. They took place. i'll all
l;i2Gs Of weather becSUGe the
Dredging plant was on the jo3 con-
tiaual.y day and night except when
ice foes prevented work at cer-
tain periods in winter.
USED c5 TT. sTEEL Drills
The holes in the reef at the bot
tom of the river were drilled hv
r. achire placed On q barsa .s!::c!,
Imperial Valley press., 1924-04-29
Local Telephone
Employees Do Fine
Work In Contest

The Imperial Valley First Aid
team of the Pacific Tel. and Tel.
Company composed of Lou Buffers,
captains; Ben Milan, Wallace Viii
son, Jack Snuffin and George
Fleming, entered the annual first
aid contest at Los Angeles last
Saturday and covered themselves
with glory. Of the II teams en-
tered, FL Centre emerged with a tie
for fourth place, with the San Die
go liDemen, with an average of 80
%, just two points behind Alham
bra the winning team. Second
place went to the San Diego in
stallers, and, third to Glendale.
The boys went into the contest
handicapped with only five weeks
instruction and training, while tho
crack teams of San Pedro, Pasa
dena and San Diego have had many
contests and over IA years train
ing. Manager Christian seems quite
elatcd with the showing of his
tenn.
The value of first aid instruc-
tion is now recognized by all large
corporations whose employees are
liable to accidents or injuries. BY
instruction in first aid, employees
are a great service to their com
munity The following is the re-
port of Dr. II. j. Fowler with refer
ence TO one of the Pacific Tclc-
phone men: "On November 81, 1923,
| answered an emergency call AT
Eastlake Avenue and Ward street.
When | arrived | found the patient,
Leonard Gotchy, in an unconscious
condition.. Artificial relpiyatiou
was being administered by Ira V. !
Drake. | believe that the patient 5
life was proha bly, saved by the !
prompt and efficient first-aid treat
ment administered by Mr.. Drake"
Imperial Valley press., 1924-04-29

up the fragments of rocks placing
them in a scow for transportation.
The clearing up of Pot Rock
Reef is one of the latest steps
in Improving He'll Gate which
has been going on for generations
OF recent years the clearing away
of under water obstructiors has
been done bit by bit with dynamite.
The greatest blast with explosives
in clearing Ecl Cate channel took
pace October 10, 1895, when
Flood Rock was removed by one
Blast. In accomplishing this about
aine acres were tunnelied and
drilled. 'Fha aggregate length of
The tunnels wee 91,67o feet. and of
the drill holes, 113,102 feet. The
object sought to be gained by re-
,aoving the rcc!.9 and reefs was to
rake q channel of the uniform
Imperial Valley press., 1924-04-29
WASHINGTON LEADS
IN MILK AVERAGE

The report of the L. s. depart
ment of agriculture shows that the
state of Washington, with au aver
age of 491l pounds of milk per cow,
has the best record. Rhode Island,
with 473Q pounds is second, and Cali
fornia, with 1909 pounds is third.
1t is interesting to note that the
int mountain and Paeific states
rank generally very high in the pro
duction per COW, while the states
lowest in rank are those of the
south. Some of the middle western
states, which one would expect to
average fairly well up i'll the list,
are comparatively low. This may be
explained by the fact that when
milk prices are high, many cows
are MIXED which should really be
classed as beef animals.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-04-29
l.. A. Plans Field
For AviatOrs at
Griffith Park
by United Press Leased W.rc

LOS ANGELES, April % The
city council today took the first
steps toward giving Los Angeles Il
permanent aviation field when it
approved the action of the park
commission in establishing a muni-
cipal field at Griffith park.
The proposed field will be known
as Los Angeles air port, and in the
opinion of Lieut.. c. C. Mosley,
commander of Glover Field at San
ia Monica, such field would prob
ably be an important factro in the
west coast defense.
After three years, The federal
government will lose Glover Field
when it is subdivided and sold. The
government, Mosley said, will then
be interested in erecting two hangers
at Griffith park us a post of the
aerial service.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-04-29

pany had to design and construct
special floating plants in order to
drill the holes in the rock at the
bottom of the harbor. 99%o gelatin
dynamite was used under water in
shattering the material. ~
115 COLLISIONS RECORDED
Until present methods were ad-
opted many difficulties were en-
countered in the work. One was
in trying to find way to drill holes
in the rock at the bottom Of the
river because of the enormous
power of the tides. The East
River receives at one extremity the
Sound tide and at the other the
tide from off Sandy Hook. Before
this was finally accomplished, sov-
eral pieces of the contractors
plant had been lost and it was
only after great many expert
mcnts and changes that it was
found possible to drill the holes for
the explosives in satisfactory
manner.
Another great difficulty was in
Imperial Valley press., 1924-04-29

BTedl HuiHpeI vi "cSSSio. OHtS
sailing vessel out of every fifty, in
the old days used to be seriously
damaged when trying to pass
through the channel between the
reefs.
The Importance of having the
East River free frcm reefs at He'll
Gate was long ago recognized by
the Federal government and New
York City authorities. AS early
rs 18ie, survey of He'll Gate was
made by navy officers. who report
ed the necessity of making the
channel safe, and suggested the
destruction of some of the most
dangerous rocks. A few years
later a process of blasting was in
troduced but it was not until the
modern high explosives with their
great shattering power and their
ability to do thorough and effect
i've work under water, were
brought into play that important
progress began to be made on the
project.
In the recent removal of reefs,
work upon which is still going on,
from fifty to sixty thousand cubic
yards Of granite, scow measure
mcnt, were taken out and the area
involved some 311, 900 square feet.
The contract called for the removal
of the reefs and the making of q
channel 500 feet wide and 95 feet
deep at mean low water,
6 YEARS OF BLASTING
The removal OF the reef was ac-
complisheG by the New Jersey
Shipbuilding and Dsedgipg Com
pany which has been steadily at
work at Hell Gate for six years.
The work was under the direction
of Col. J. r. Slattery, Corps of
Engineers, District Engineer, 1st
district, New York City. In order
- accomplish its work, the COM