davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-12
LOST CASH FINDS
AN HONEST MAN
Felix Mayer of City Hall
Finds Envelope With
SIG Inside.
A HOME PAYMENT

Diogenes, that wise man who lived
in tub, searched the highways and
byways in his home town and when
somebody asked him what he was look
ing for, he replied can honest man"
Had he lived in Kenosha, he would
have dropped his lantern here on
Saturday in the city hall and cried,
"Pve found him."
Felix Mayer, who has charge of the
weights and measures department in
the municipal building, found an en-
velope on Market Square on Saturday
noon. When he peered within he saw
a roll of greenbacks. Counting them
he found $40. He turned the en-
velope over to Sergeant Schneeberger
in the police Office.
Owner Receivers Money.
Just as the sergeant directed that
newspaper advertisement be run to an
nounce the finding of the money, man
came into the police office to report
that he had lost a sum of money.
Chow much?" asked the sergeant
"Seventy-six dollars" was the reply.
The loser was ]. Olsen, Sheridan
road and Scott avenue. He said he
had brought the money down town as
the first payment on home, and saw
his dream vanish from him when he
discovered the money gone. He could
not explain how he had happened to
lose it. He said he had just gotten
off street car and was on his way to
the postofice when the envelope must
have slipped out of his pocket.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-12
DEATH SUMMONS
FREDERICK HOPE
FREDERICK v. HOPF, TWENTY
YEAR MAN AT SIMMONS,
DIED SATURDAY NIGHT.

Death summoned one of the twenty
year men at the Simmons company
on Saturday evening when Frederick
". Hopf, aged 81 years, died at his
home at 200 Eagle street, after a short
illness from complication of diseases,
The deceased had been employed at
the Simmons company for over twenty
years, having been presented with a
gold watch last Christmas time as a
memorial of completing faithfully this
long term of service. He was employ
ed in the couch department there,
being widely known and beloved among
the employees Of the company.
He was also member of the Ke-
nosha Aerie of Eagles and of the
Kenosha lodge of the Loyal Order of
Moose and had been active in the work
of both organizations.
Frederick ". Hopf was born in Ke-
nosha, March Is, 1874, the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Valentine Hopf, pioneer
residents of this city. He was edu-
Gated in he schools here, entering
the employ of Simmons company
while young man.
Surviving him are his wife, Mrs.
Christine Schultz Hopf; a son, Fred
erick, Jr., daughter, Evelyn, all of
Kenosha, and a step-daughter, Mrs.
George Wegman of Sheboygan. He is
also survived by two brothers Otto
and Gust Hopf, both of Kenosha.
The remains afa now at the Hansen
funeral home where they will be until
time for the funeral services to be
held Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock
at the st. Matthews church with in
terment following in the family plot
in the Green Ridge cemetery
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-12
Cow Crowned With
Butter-Fat HOnOrs

Chicago breaking the Worlds
record for the production Of butter
fat in ten months as junior three
year-old little more than year ago,
Lyons Sarcastic Korndyke, pure
bred Holstein-Friesian COW, has just
completed a ten months test with a
butter-fat record which makes her the
worlds leading Junior four-year- old
over all breeds. Her 305-day rec
ord was 24,0623 pounds milk and
854.8S pounds butter-fat (1,068.6
pounds butter).
She gave birth to a bull calf weigh
ing 1870 pounds, carried for 200 days Of
the test period.
The new champion is on the farm of
Abner S. Deysher, near Reading, Pa.
A ration consisting of home-mixed
grains, including oil meal, cocoanut
meal, molasses and beet pulp, with
considerable quantities of good corn
silage and alfalfa hay, was fed.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-12
Former Resident
Dies at Oshkosh
Mrs. Frances Scofield, Age 20 Years,
Dies After Long Illness at Osh-
kosh Today-To be Buried.

Word has just been received in Ke-
ncsha telling of the death of Mrs.
Frances Scofeld. aged 70 years. at her
home at Oshkosh following a long ill
ness. Mrs. ScofaId was formerly for
many years resident of the town
of Bristol, at which place her family
had settled in 1895. The deceased
had made her home in the old home
stead at Bristol until the death of
her husband. Chester Scofeld when
SHE moved to Oshkosh.
Five children survive: Mrs. J.. 2.
Collier at Union Grove; Belle C. Sco-
field, Indianapolis; Mrs. Evelyn Car
pentef. Los Angeles; and Howard and
Bertha Scofield Of Oshkosh.
Funeral services will be held in
Oshkosh on Tuesday after which the
remains will be brought to Kenosha
on Wednesday for burial here in Wes-
lev cemetery near Pleasant Prairie
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-12
John Jensen is
Given a Divorce
Judge Belden Grants Divorce in Cir
cult Court on Counter Claim
of Husband.

Bodel Marie Jensen sued her hus-
band, John K. Jensen, for divorce in
circuit court, and Judge Belden has
just handed down a decision granting
the decree of divorce, not to the wife,
but to the husband on his counter
claim.
The hearing in the case occupied a
couple of days of the circuit court
without a jury. The couple had lived
together for five months and then sep
arated, Mrs. Jensen contending that
the marital relation was unbearable
and charged that her husband was adj
5icted to narcotics.
Her charge was not sustained in the
findings of the court, who gave the de-
cree to Jensen, allowing Mrs. Jensen
however $3.50 in lieu of alimony.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-12
INEVITABLE.

Newspapers inform you of the fuss
in Washington over the aerial bomb
ing of the battleship Washington.
Navy men point to the affair as an
example of the "ineficiency" of the
airplane in putting a man-of- war out
of commission. Army aviation men, on
the other hand, say that several of
the bombs were "duds" filed with
sand instead of explosive. They charge
cheating" on the part of navy men
to influence government in favor of
the battleship against the airplane.
1t is nothing short of nonsense to
contend that the battleship is a match
for the airplane.
Our government might as well start
spending it's money on the less ex-
pensive battleships of the sky and
stop wasting it on fleets that will soon
be discarded as obsolete.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-12
FAKE DEPUTY
SOUGHT HERE
Man Who Shot Milwaukee
Woman is Sought by
Kenosha Police.
WOMAN IN HOSPITAL

Kenosha police were asked this
morning to be on the lookout for a
man who posed as a deputy sheriff
in Milwaukee gaining admittance to
home where he shot and perhaps fat
ally injured Mrs. Alma Boyd, a Mil
waukee woman. The man cannot be
found in Milwaukee and it is thought
possible that he may have come TO
Kenosha or to some other city near
Milwaukee. Police here had found no
trace of the man up to a late hour
this afternoon.
The shooting occurred in Milwaukee
this morning when man entered the
Boyd home where Mrs. Mary Grabow
friend Of the Boyds lived. Mrs. Gra-
bow said she heard bit Of converse
tion from an adjoining room where
Mrs. Boyd was and then heard shot
fired,
Claimed TO Be Deputy.
"Mrs. Boyd was in bed when the
man arrived" Mrs. Grabow told the
police. "She dressed hurriedly and
admitted him. l did not pay any at
tention to the conversation although
overheard the man say he was a
deputy sheriff. | went into the room
Immediately after / heard the sho5
fired and found Mrs. Boyd lying on
the floor with a bullet wound in her
breast.
Looking about saw pair of leath-
err mittens such as automobile driv-
ers wear, and then saw a man rum
ming down the street. / took after him.
but he was too fast for me-"
At the hospital where Mrs. Boyd
was taken police say she is suffering
from two wounds which may have
been inflicted by the one bullet. One
is in her hand and the other in her
body.
Police Call Husband.
Joseph Boyd, the woman's husband
who was not at home at the time Of
the shooting has been asked to go to
police headquarters for questioning.
Kenosha police were told that the
man appeared to be about thirty years
of age, was of medium height and
build and spoke English distinctly. He
wore long black overcoat and had
gray leggins.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-12
KenOSha Firms
Granted Papers
Incorporation Papers for Two Firms
to Operate in Kenosha are
Filed at Madison.

Kenosha is interested in incorpora-
ton papers filed by two firms in Madi-
son recently according to announce
ment reaching Kenosha today.
The Lake Shore Candy and Paper
company has been organized with a
capital stock of $4,000 with Sam
Rubinstein, Sam Dorfman and Tessie
Dorfman as incorporators. They Will
carry on a business in Kenosha.
The D. and E. Sporting Goods COM
pany of Racine and Kenosha, has been
organized with a capital stock of
$4,000. This is the company which
about the first of March will open a
store for the sale of sporting goods
of all kinds in the Flatiron building
at the corner of Main street, Park
avenue and South streets. The incor-
porators of this company are Guy H.
Dixon, William E. Evens and DR.. Jay
G. Townsend.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-12
INVESTED SURPLUS
PIGS.

A boy in South Carolina writes to
the U. S. Department of Agriculture !:
sFive years ago | Joined pig club.
had a pure-bred pig, then eight
weeks old. Since that time she has
farrowed about 100 pigs. She paid for
my clothes three years in high school
and gave me spending money also. I
am now in my second year in college
and she is still doing the same"
He didn't mean the pig had entered
college. He meant that he realized
when he had "good thing" The fabu-
lous goose of golden egg fame had
not thing on this porker
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-12
WILMOT HAS
STRANGE FIRE
Static Condenser at Carey
Electric Mills, Wilmot,
Is Destroyed.
VILLAGE in DARKNESS

Darkness settled down on the vii
lage of Wilmot for two hours on We'd
nesday night when fire broke out in
the static condenser room of the Carey
electric mills, which furnishes the
electric power for the village, and de-
stroyed the machinery in this depart
ment of the mill, The larger building
of the mill was made strictly fireproof
several years ago and this prevented
the fire from spreading to that part
of the plant.
The fire-a smouldering blaze in
some oil-was discovered by James
Carey about six o'clock Wednesday
evening. He quickly threw all off the
switches governing the machinery of
the plant, this helping greatly in keep
ing the damage to a minimum and
aiding in establishing service within
a very short time after the fire
was under control.
Three Fire Departments.
The Wilmot fire department was
called out and when difficulty was
e found in getting the fire under con-
al, the Silverlake and Antioch de-
partments were summoned and aided
III HsHtlhg the nFe. Use OF q IRE e&-
tinguisher helped to smother the
flames but the fumes from this forced
the fire fighters to work from the out
side of the building, so that the fire
was smouldering for several hours.
The static condenser and the build
ing in which it was located, We're ruin
ed by the fire, the loss amounting
probably to $4,000, which is covered
by insurance.
News of the IRE spread rapidly
throughout the village and the
countryside and hundreds of people
5 were attracted to the scene.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-12
1T PAYS.

A million dollars was spent last year
in advertising coffee.
A lot of money, but it reaped
harvest for the average per capita
consumption of coffee was increased
80 cups year at an advertising cost
of less than one cent per capita.
A famous soup Gamers advertising
expense runs to enormous figures.
before he started to advertis
sales cost was 20 per cent. T
is per cent. A cents wort
vertising sells him six cans
Advertising pays both
seller-the buyer in sma'
seller in increased prod 4
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-12
COLLEGE BASKETBALL

Michigan IT; Northwestern 16.
Indiana %; Iowa 81.
Nebraska So; Grinnell 20.
Kentucky IS; Tennessee %.
Chattanooga "a; Georgetown 10
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-12

One of the country's greatest sources
of wealth is cotton, on which every
body loses money.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-12

Germany desires special advantages
in the league. Well, her navy won't
be counted on much.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-12

About the only soui-stirring music
typicaIly American is the lung chorus
s-tAtta Boy"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-12
January Report of
Community Chest

During the month of January the
Kenosha Community Chest association
received $11,3O9.89 from members in
contributions and distributed to the
various beneficiary organizations So
239.03, according to the report for
the month, made public this morning
by j. A. Foster, Jr, executive secre-
tary of the organization. The total
overhead expense for handling this
was $359.30. The entire report follows:
RENETpTC
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-12-31
Says Big Mineral
Deposits Hidden
In Soil of Bay State

Boston, Dec. 30.-(AP)-Treasure
in the form ofS$ast deposits of min
erals lies beneath the soil of Massa-
chusetts, according to ]. HI. Robin
son of Somerville. who claimed to-
day to have discovered veins of pre-
cious metals by means Of divining
rods.
Somerville city hall is built over
a gold deposit and one town in
Middlesex county has vein of tin
with pure gold running through it.,
he declared. In the MiddleseX FEELS,
he reported, his divining rods have
indicated the presence of silver nick
ell, tungsten and copper in separate
veins. He said there was miner
dyke, rich in tin and also containing
quantity of gold. extending through
the town of Medford toward Billeri-
ca.
Robinson demonstrated his divin-
ing rods, locating correctly lead. zinc
and anthony which had been placed
in unmarked boxes so that he would
have no knowledge of their contents.
He failed % locate boxes containing
copper and nickel. He previously
had demonstrated bis divining rods
to the manager of Boston metal
company. pointing out vein Of tin
containing particles of gold.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-12-31
Plan international
Broadcasting Program
For New Years Eve

New York, Dec. 30.-(AP)-Af.
rangements had virtually been com.
pleted tonight for the close linking
up of the world by radio. for the
New Years program Friday night
when the singing Of John McCor-
mack and Lucrezia Bori in America
and the chimes of big Ben" in Lon
don will form part of the. big inter-
national broadcasting.
Starting at $50 p. NJ. with an adj
dress by an official of the RADIO
Corporation of America from station
WIZ and others in different parts
of America, the program as arrang-
ed by General James e. Harbord,
president of the corporation, will
continue until about 11.30. The Brit
ish Broa dcasting Company will re-
broadcast to Great Britain and over
to the continent, where German sta
lions will aid in the distribution. The
United States marine band, the East.
man Company symphony orchestra
and the Victor concert orchestra VIII
take part in the program with con-
tributions of other interesting fea-
lures picked up" in New York.
Chimes of big Ben" in London
will be heard between 6.45 and 7.SO
P. M. and Mccormack will sing be-
tween 8 and 1880. The American
broadcasting will end with the
chimes of the Park Avenue Baptist
church, which will Ego on the air"
between 1890 and 11.30.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-12-31
Counsel Engage in
Sharp Passages at
Nickel Plate Hearing

Washington, Dec. 30.-(AP)-Argil-
ment- over the Nickel Plate Railroad
merger before the interstate commerce
commission to deay reached its stage
of sharpest conflict.
II. w. Anderson, counsel for minor
ity of Chesapeake & Ohio stockholders,
concluded two hours of condemnation
of the project for linking the Nickel
Plate, Erie, Pere Marquette, Hooking
Valley and Chesapeake & Ohio into
one unit, and Newton d. Baker, former
secretary of war, as special attorney
for the merger hackers, began an
equally impassioned defense.
Three spokesman for other interests
drawn into the merger scheme also
were heard, but the days develop
ments conferred about the two chief ex-
ponents pitted against each other.
Mr.. Anderson, whose argument con-
tanned sharp criticism of o. p. and NJ.
NJ ]. Van Sweringen. principal Great
ors of the merger plan, calculated that
it~mean for them and their associates
$50, 1861, 100 in profits. Questioning the
propriety of railroad directors assem-
bling and manipulating securities for
SuCil d ISSuli, iC Se'iiCu uPoh INC WIN
mission to defeat the whole plan.
The charge of disregarding trustee
obligation and the estimate Of profits
coupled with 1t by Mr.. Anderson were
met by Mr.. Baker with the assertion
that they were not intended for belief
in the "cool, calm atmosphere of the
council chamber" but were intended
to fly out of these windows to the
millions who can't read the 1000 pages
of evidence"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-12-31
Columbia Head
Objects to Some
Headline Words

New York, Dec. 3O-(AP)-Nicro-
las Murray Butler, president OF
Columbia university, admits that he
is a hardened newspaper reader.
but confesses that there are four
words commonly used in headlines
that annoy him exceedingly. These
words are rap" "assail," attack"
and "flay."
These pugilistic terms" he says,
'are used too Unfortunately. Il
should like to see the activities of
mankind described in softer and
more truthful language"
Dr. Butler addressed the confer
ence of the American Association of
Teachers of Journalism and the As
ISOLATION of American Schools and
Department of Journalism last night
when he made his plea for elimina-
ton of the four overworked words.
Walter Lipmann, chief editorial
writer of the World told the con-
ference that he believed good ra-
Their than harm Is done by intelli-
gent reporting of crime and "sensa-
tionaT' news.
1.-THE issues at stake in a case like
the Rhinelander case, for example
he said, ARE of immense Interest
and Importance in human society
and the real object of Journalism
Should not be to suppress and ignore
such matters but to heveal then
with far more understanding and
penetration than they ordinarily are
repaired today. In my opinion there
is no real danger in an adult civiliz-
alton that people will get too much
raw meat, provided it is meat. The
danger is that they will live on a die,
, of saWdust."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-12-31
Seek SWindler
OF Boston Lawyers

Boston, Dec. 30.-(AP)-The Bos.
ton police now have Joined those OF
nearly every other city in the coun-
try in search of John j. Murray,
swindler and forger, who. the police
say. has succeeded in taking thou
sands of dollars from prominent Bos-
ton lawyers recently, although ne
names of the victims are not made
public.
Murray's method, It is said. was to
register at fash onable hotel ana
represent himself to some lawyer as
a business man who had sold out IN
some other city with the intention OF
locating in Boston. He would ask
the lawyer to collect a debt in the
city in which he had lived before. A
confederate paid this debt with a
check which the lawyer cashed and
with the proceeds of which Murray
was paid. Several days later the law
YER would find the check worthless.
In the meantime Murray would nave
disappeared.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-12-31
Sees Partisanship
In Tariff Commission

New York, Dec. 3O.-(AP)-Ed-
ward P. Costigan. member OF the
United States tariff commission. be-
lieved that the activities of the board
should be investigated by Congress
to cleanse it of partisan" influence.
Pending a Congressional report ne
told the American Economic Assocla-
ton last night, further appointments
and appropriations should be held
up.
.sWithin the last year" Commits
sioner Costigan said, "the United
States tariff commission. taken as a
whole, has ceased to represent dis
interested and non-partisan inde-
pendence."
One weakness of present conditions
lies in denying the public access to a
number of important findings Of the
commission. Mr.. Costigan contended.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-12-31
DIR. Daniel Marsh
Named President
OF Boston University

Boston, Dec. 3O.-(AP)-Dr. Dam
lei Lash Marsh of Pittsburgh, Pa,
has been appointed president of Bos-
ton University, 1t was announced
here tonight. He was unanimously
elected by the university trustees this
afternoon and his telegram Of ac-
ceptance was received tonight by
former Governor John L. Bates,
president of the university corpora
ton.
DR.. Marsh will become president
at the second semester in February.
although plans for his formal inau-
guration have not yet been complet-
ed. He succeeds Bishop William +.
Anderson. of the Boston Methodist
Episcopal district, who has been act
ing president since DIR. Lemuel H.
/ Murlin resigned year ago to ac-
cept the presidency of his alma ma
ter, Depauw University, at Greencas-
tie, Ind.
DR.. Marsh, who Is As years old
Is a graduate of Northwestern Uni.
yersity and the. Boston University
School Of Theology. At present he
Is superintendent of the Methodist
Episcopal Church Union Of Pitts.
burgh, an organization embracing
lob churches of that district, and
! is editor of the Pittsburgh Method.
list, the official organ of the union. He
.. is also pastor of the Smithfield Meth.
/: odist Episcopal church of Pitts.
| burgh.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-12-31
Woman Admits She
And A Others Plotted
To Kill Her Husband

Chicago, Dec. 30 (AP) - Mrs.
Elisha Nusbaum, Sc years old and a
grandmother, tonight admitted, the
police say, that she and four others
planned the murder of her husband,
Albert Nusbaum, SIS years old, con-
tractor. whose battered body was
found early today on city limit
prairie.
The plot was made and executed,
Mrs. Nusbaum said, in order that
she might be free to marry John
Winn, of Crown Point, Ind. an ex-
convict and one of those named in
the plot. The others named are Ed
ward Gosg, Marion Stringham, and
Mrs. Delihah Martin. Mrs. Nus
baum's statement completely exon
Grated her 20 year old grandson. who
was arrested earlier in the day.
Those who helped her in the plans
were to receive money she said, add
ing. that she had carried on a love
affair with Winn for Is years. The
details of the murder were not re-
vealed, but Mrs. Nusbaum said the
three women and two men planned
it Monday night and arranged to
break into Nusbaum's garage Tues
day and take his automobile in or
der to have a car to dispose Of the
body.