davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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ter take fan along with me next day.
it was getting warm and using it
would give me something to do.
A feller named Evans had a chapter
in this paper TO the effect 1.-The Reds
an Uncertain Outfit" but / didn't read
that. Bolshevism has gone out of style
with our Thursday Club; we are now
all trying to convince each other we
are reading about the subconscious
mind instead.
But I must say I was disappointed
at not finding more about base ball in
that sheet, and I says SO to Geo. and
he says why lookit the date on that
paper il is two months old l am sit
ting on tonight's paper!
Amt men the selfish ones, though?
Put by this time I was too ex-
up-to-date on base ball news then
1 already was. 1 had in one eve
ming progressed quite lot over 1900.
Well, the next day I got all dolled
up in a suitable costume with white
socks, a cardinal hat, and a robin's-egg
blue dress. And Geo. kept me waiting
10 minutes in the Office while he says
to that stenographer of his a lot of
Greek about please call up Mr.. Whosis
about whatsis, and then he grabbed
me by the elbow and says well, we'll.
hurry up or we're conner be late. and
shuffied me off TO the ball grounds.
We didn't half to sit in any bleach
ers after all We sat in the grand
stand. so called on account more
standing than sitting was done in It.
especially when some poor feller fell
down and slid around in the dirt. Ny
I would sure hate to do the laundry
for ball player!
Well anyways, we got our seats,
and Geo. says I suppose dear, that
you understand the game? And I
says oh yes dear. but thought there
was only nine fellers to a side. what
are all the rest Of them ones doing
setting on them benches?
And Geo. says why in case one OF
the players is called off the field to
the telephone.
Hot Bozo. that was certainly a
Evening star., 1925-05-31

Fred lift me up on a jack. There's
an ease about it not found elsewhere.
X X x
INDEED, the longer my experience
lasts the more find that there is a
priceless value attached to not being
able to run car and knowing moth
ing Of the machinery. For instance,
on a dark and rainy night what more
agreeable than to blow out a couple of
tires and then sit behind the side flaps
listening to the pelting Of the rain and
to feel the quiet heaving of the car as
Fred works underneath it.
What is more, one has the full
sense of heroism and adventure just
the same in relating afterwards the
experience Of the breakdown Yes. .
l say, I'VE were held up in the storm
and had a pretty bad time. We bust
ed an axle bar and knocked out the
casing of a couple of combustion
bolts. We had to jack her up and
get under her; we were working on
her a couple OF hours"
1 often find myself relating my mo-
tor experiences and breakdowns and
accidents and extraordinary and ter
rife exertions with a complete for
getfulness of the fact that Fred did
while ] sat.
But l fear that I am drifting away
from what 1 meant to talk about.
was only trying to show that l have
had the sort of experience which fits
a man to know what is a good motor
and what isn't. In the light of which
it is clear that my views on design
and improvement are entitled to a
hearing.
In a general way 1 will say this, as
representing not only my own views
but those of the vast mass Of the
public with whom motor car makers
have TO deal, namely, that in design
ing a car the first thing that ! de.
mand is that il shall be as light as
possible so as to travel easily and at
the same time as heavy as possible so
as to remove from the road anything
that II hits.
1 want it cheap, for why put money
into the swollen pockets of the manu-
facturers, but 1 refuse to have any
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Reports from others as to the man
ner in which young Kahn attended
to his duties confirmed the opinion
Of Sir Edgar. In 1898. he offered him
a connection with the Speyer house
in New York.
Mn Kahn was not slow to accept.
His father, for taking part in the
Revolution of 1S4S, had been exiled
from Germany for 10 years and had
spent that period in the United States.
He often had described this country
to his son in enthusiastic terms.
While in England the developing
banker had so liked English people
and institutions he had taken out
British citizenship. Indeed, coming to
America, he had planned to stay only
two years. But, succumbing to the
attractions of the new country and
attracted by its potentialities, he de-
cided to remain.
All the world knows of his subse-
quent connection with Kuhn. Loeb &
Co. and of his association with E. H.
Hartman, the greatest power in all
the history of American railroads. Mr..
Hartman and Mr.. Kahn discovered
each other simultaneously. 1t was due
to the genius of the young banker
that Hartman was able to put over
the famous Northern Pacific corner
of 1901.
Hartman outwitted James J. Hill
and J. P. Morgan & Co. by obtaining
S65 ,000.0 900 worth of stock before they
knew what he was about. Mr.. Kahn
was the man who raised the money
He was but 81 years of age at the
time. While still in his twenties he
had conducted many gigantic opera
tions.
But if all the world knows these
facts, few know of the very inter
esting incident that accompanied Mr..
Evening star., 1925-05-31
False Inventors.

GULLIBILITY Of the investing
- public and lack OF scientific
knowledge on the part of would-be in
ventors cost the American public mil
lions OF dollars annually, according TO
suryery just completed by the
Bureau of Standards.
This is one of the underlying rea-
sons for the transfer of the United
States Patent Office from the Interior
Department to the Department Of
Commerce under Herbert Hoover. Mr..
Hoover and his department are in
closer touch with the business world,
and consequently can afford more pro-
lection to business men concerning
Inventions"
The Government survey showed
| that there are two principal classes of
inventors, both of which are highly
costly to the public. In the first class
the inventor" is a crook, pure and
simple, out to prey on the public. In
other cases inventions are devised by
conscientious experimenters so iEno-
| rant Of scientific principles that their
| ideas are useless. Perpetual motion
| devices are the favorite goals both Of
| the crooked and conscientious in
ventors, bureau officials said. Most OF
| the perpetual motion schemes submit
ted to the Government laboratory
amount to nothing more than devices
| of such confused construction that the
| operation of natural laws is not
obvious.
Thousands of inventions are sub
mitted to the bureau for approval
Many of them in which large sums
| have been lost are rank absurdities
from a scientific standpoint, according
to ]. E. Randolph of the Bureau OF
/ Standards.
Occasionally inventors" try to de-
ceive even the Government scientists.
Devices for decreasing gasoline con-
sumption are frequently submitted,
some based on sound principles and
others pure fakes.
"One of the most extravagant was
brought to us for investigation at the
insigauon of a man who planned TO
put some money into it," Mr.. Ran
dolph said. The inventor said he
could make SO miles on a. quart of
gasoline. We suggested a drive TO
Frederick. Md, and return, a distance
Of 80 miles. The inventor raised a
foolish objection, so we examined his
car. We found two hidden tanks,
filed with gasoline. with hidden pipes
connecting them to the carDuret0r~
Evening star., 1925-05-31
BY RING LARDNER.

L| o the editor: This is the
80 time OF vt. when all the
conversation in our neigh
borhood Is in regards to
floWrs and how is your
delphineums coming along and etc.
and for a man like that don't know
a azalea from q 3 toed sleuth about
all as / can do is set around with my
mouth shut and wished it was foot
ball season. Once in a vile l have
got to pretend like 1 was interested
and listen to what is being said as
otherwise I would not know whether
to say how terrible or amt that grand.
Like for inst. was talking to Oscar
Shaw one day or rather he was talk
ing to me and when he got through L
said fine, but come to find out after
wards what he had told me was that
he had went to the flower show and
boughten $4,000 worth Of sweet pea
seeds and planted them and not one
sweet pea had came up.
This was quite a set back because
when you come to think Of it $4,000
worth of sweet pea seeds is several
sweet pea seeds and I suppose If they
was shook out of their packages ana
laid end to end they would probably
be enough Of them 10 reach from the
Preside TO Grants tomb so me saying
fine TO Oscar was like as If you would
of went in telegraph office the 5 OF
last November and wired hearty con.
gratulations to ]. w. Davis collect.
But as I say I amt no expert on flow
ers and seeds and etc. though Il the
people l am introduced to calls me
Gardner.
x < x Y
CINCE the last time I give you the
- news we have had or 5 birthdays
in the family including ] and the
madam but her and I don't brag no
more about our birthdays but birth
day is a big event in the life OF the
Riddles and they can't think of moth.
ing else for mo. before and after
same.
AS may Of said before the ques-
ton OF buying xmas and birthday
presents has become a serious ques-
ton around our little nest not only
on acct of they being such bevy
to buy for but also IL seems like
they was a curse or blight on our
presents the same like on oscars
sweet pea seeds.
For example a yr. ago last xmas
we invested IN a radio as the kiddies
had been squaking for one ever since
they was put on the market and
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Kahn's embarkation upon his career
as d friend and patron of the arts.
X 4 y x
HIS first important interest had
been in music. Fear that opera
in New York, and hence in America,
would be commercialized created in
him a belief that he should lend a
hand to avert the disaster.
He sought the advice of a man
high in the business world of the
metropolis.
For Gods sake" said this man.
keep your hands off opera-unless
you wish to ruin your business ca
reer. Men in American industry and
finance will not understand. You
will only earn their distrust."
MIR. Kahn was not satisfied. He
went to his close friend, Mr.. Har-
riman.
The latter, engrossed in his colos-
sal enterprises, had no impulse to
interest himself in the realm of
music-if, indeed, music had more
than the most casual appeal for him.
But his genius was not narrow.
why shouldn't you occupy your
self as you wish in this matter?" he
said. "As long as you attend to your
business successfully it will do you
no harm. Rather the reverse will be
true. If you engage yourself with
the opera you will enlarge your i'm
agination and your capacity. You
will be benefited"
His own opinion thus confirmed, Mr..
Kahn proceeded to the steps which
have made him the foremost patron
of music in America, powerful friend
of art, literature and the drama and
the benefactor Of many a budding
talent.
In succeeding years he became the
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SupersensitiYe Crystal.
radio fans are he

DARISIAN radio fans are hopeful
Il that a new substance to replace
the galena crystal will prove to be
the dreamed.of super.crystal and not
lust another substitute. The sub.
stance was discovered by chance by
Felix Thuaud, prominent French steel
manufacturer. While studying the
>by.products of steel Thuaud noticed a
material that was somewhat like the
crystal used in radio sets. He Clipped
off a few pieces and had RADIO fans try
them. Their report was that con-
certs were heard over longer distances
and with greater clearness than with
galena points. Thuaud also found
that II was not necessary TO hunt for
special points OF contact. as the new
material was adequately sensitive at
any point. The basis of the material
is a combination Of silicon and iron,
with the former dominant. The prod.
uct can be made in an electrical fur.
mace or in an ordinary crucible. II
ea1 be sold at about one-fourth the
ygice ~s substances now used.
Evening star., 1925-05-31
Great London Banker Gave Otto Kahn
His Initial Opportunity in Finance

dominating spirit Of the Metropolitan
Opera Company, one of the founders
Of the Chicago Opera Company. a
director Of the Boston Opera Company
and the principal supporter Of the New
Theater.
Incidentally he revived his author.
ship to the extent Of writing Our
Economic and Other Problems and
Right Above Race"
Copyright. 1920
Evening star., 1925-05-31
A New Thermometer.

A NEW Thermometer. which meas.
IA ures accurately temperature as
low as $50 degrees below zero, Fahren.
heit, was described to members of the
American Philosophical Society by DR.,
w. A. Noyes, professor of chemistry
at the University of Illinois. AS mer-
curry freezes at such a low tempera.
ture, a bulb connected with a very
narrow tube containing air is used
As the air expands and contracts
with variations in temperature small
globule Of mercury, kept at a tempera'
ture above its melting point, moves
back and forth, thus serving as an
index.
Evening star., 1925-05-31
BY STEPHEN LEACOCK

A T the present season when al
~ the world is out on wheels
~ making motor trips in every
I \ conceivable direction. there IS
no more frequent topic OF dis.
cussion than the relative merits or
the various makes and designs Of cars.
The public, therefore, gladly welcomes
expression of opinions from people OF
Importance like myself.
But, in stating my views on the
design and improvement OF the motor
car. let me explain at the outset that
though I own q car and use II a great
deal, | cannot pretend to any very
technical knowledge as to why IT goes
and what makes II go. / understand,
of course, as we all do. the general
principle OF the gasoline engine, name
ly, that II gasoline is put into an IN
closed space and ignited under com
preston, it costs 90 cents or more
gallon.
But that is as far as I have gone.
Nor need I go further. For When
do my driving I have beside me on
the front seat my friend ana com.
panion, Fred, the chauffeur. How
Fred got to learn how to run the thing
I don't KNOW suppose II man is
young and keen and industrious and
applies himself he can learn.
! have heard my friends speak Oh
learning to drive a motor car in a
week; indeed even know man who
says that he bought his car and sim.
ply stepped into it and drove right OFT
on 500mile trip through the Adiron-
dacks. Not only do | know him, but
everybody knows him. He is one of
the most familiar forms OF liar toll
Grated among us.
But for me it is too late. Let Fred
do it.
For it was my fortune not to have
car till / was well over so, in fact
nearly 81, and after so some
thing of the first brightness of the
mind has gone. So I have never
learned. All that ! can do in tech
nical way is to give advice that every
body has heard middle-aged men hand
out to chauffeurs. Perhaps, Fred, -
say, while I watch him tinkering
under the car. perhaps one Of your
Evening star., 1925-05-31
Developing in Daylight.

TOPSYTURVY methods of develop
ing Photographic films and plates.
by which the process is carried out
in daylight instead of the darkroom
and the film is placed in the fixing
bath first, then in the developer, are
possible as the result of recent ex-
periments made by DIR. Henry Left
man at the Wagner Free Institute
of Science, Philadelphia.
The daylight method, using a spe-
cial developer, should be a distinct
advantage.
Evening star., 1925-05-31


don, Sir Edgar Speyer, head OF
the great banking house which
A. bore his name, discovered in a
young man the qualities that
make for success in the world OF
finance.
He sent the young man to America
to make himself useful in his COM
panys New York branch. The stay
was TO be only temporary, but the
visitor, fascinated by the new coun-
try and its enormous possibilities for
development, resolved to cast his lot
on this side Of the Atlantic.
Thus did the United States acquire
one of the greatest financial geniuses
Of the twentieth century, and a man
who, through his deep interest in
music, art, literature and the drama
has exercised a cultural influence Of
vast scope-more important, probably,
than his accomplishments in the realm
of business.
The career Of Otto II. Kahn is a
compelling human drama. But the
mere fact that fate, or circumstance,
cast his chief role in this country in
stead of Europe is of more signifi-
canoe to Americans. Had he remained
in Germany, the land Of his birth, or
England. the land Of his adoption, the
things he did would not have meant
so much to US.
From the age OF 10 Otto Kahn in
tended in some way to devote his life
to the arts. His love Of them was the
legacy Of prior generations Of his
family.
At first he planned a career in litera-
ture. In his early teens he was writ
ing poems and dramas. His attraction
toward the dramatic form was so
strong that for a time he spent a part
OF his allowance for lessons in acting.
There is no telling to what heights
in literature he might have climbed
had he continued to devote his gifts to
writing. But in his absorption he neg
lected his studies and so attracted the
critical attention of his father.
Bernard Kahn. a banker Of Mann
helm, Germany, disciplinarian and
a man OF action, did not believe in
schoolboys neglecting their studies.
He summoned the youthful Otto to
bring his manuscripts to a family con-
ference. There was some forceful dis
cussion, and then even more forceful
action. The elder Kahn threw the
whole lot OF poems and dramas into
the fire.
That which you need, my boy" he
said. 'is the discipline Of business.
After you have obtained that, and
nave made success, then there will
be time to think Of literary work.
Probably this dictum, followed by
his sons speedy employment in his
fathers bank, would not have erased
his artistic ambitions from Otto
Kahn's mind. But. put to work at
such jobs as licking stamps for the
mailing of circulars, he labored so
well that he soon earned promotion
He broke the office record for
stamp-licking, in fact, and in the
pleasure of achievement began to
think of other things than compost
ton.
x 4 X
HIS early twenties found him rising
so rapidly that he was now in
England as an employe of the
Deutsche Bank branch of London.
One day he casually met Sir Edgar
Speyer. His pleasing person, his
sparkling personality, the evident
~ i
Evening star., 1925-05-31

when we got 1t all set up and con.
nected why we couldn't even hear
static let alone Schenectady. The
parrot we bought didn't say boo for
a entire mo. Every bicycle we have
ordered has been shy a couple pedals
or wheels or something and the books
has all had whole pages tore out OF
them and the games has been short
cards or men.
Well we had long argument fr
regards to what should we buy foI
Evening star., 1925-05-31

ignition nuts is upside down" or else
-"She may have ripped out part Of
the warm cells of her batteries
Remarks of this sort. If the chauf-
feur is a civil man. are a great help
all around. Another one that ! use
in time of trouble is, I'm sorry
can't offer to lend a hand, Fred"
In reality, I'm not sorry. I rather
like the sensation of sitting in the car
on a drowsy afternoon and feeling
Evening star., 1925-05-31

little David on the occasion OF him
being 6 yrs. old and finely decided or
a dog though all the days we ever
had was nothing but a misery to US
but anyways we plunged on a wire
haired fox terrier and David was
tickled to death with same and named
him Pete but he may as we'll of left
him anonymous as 1t soon developed
that the little canine creature was alb
solutely stone deef and dumb.
So poor David hadn't no sooner than
began to love his new pet when same
had to be took back to town and ex.
changed for another one which can
both hear talk but won't never be as
high in his masters esteem as Pete
was. Personally have wished more
than once since the substitute come
that either he was dumb or myself
was deef.
Accidently David may not yet his
degree from kindergarten this June
on acct. Of being laid up with whoop.
ing cough which his brothers claim,
he catched It from the goods who in
stst on kissing him all the time.
mot all the time" said Modes,
David when this theory was promul
gated.
X y X y
SPEAKING about birthdays, another
mouth to feed has recently beer
added TO a already numerous array
| in the person of a calf which has
| been christened Kate in honor OF q
| friend of ours on acct. OF both o,
them looking SO silly.
The master Of the house has beer
| sticking pretty close to home as ii
seems to be cheaper but I did 20 into
old y. Y. one day to tend a lucheor
Evening star., 1925-05-31
BY PRESTON WRIGHT.

HIRTY- ODD years ago in Lon
don, Sir Edgar Speyer, head OF
the great banking house which
Il bore his name, discovered in a
Young man the qualities that
Evening star., 1925-05-31

HIS early twenties found him rising
so rapidly that he was now in
England as an employe of the
Deutsche Bank branch of London.
One day he casually met Sir Edgar
Speyer. His pleasing person, his
sparkling personality, the evident
marks of an unusual ability, made an
impression on the great banker. He
kept close watch on the young man.
Evening star., 1925-05-31
The Family Sees the Game
Their
Overt the ThinesT
BY NINA WILCOX PUTNAM.

A S Daisy Bell, the author of the
~ telephone directory, has so
a truly pointed out When
4 , Greek meets Greek, they open
Evening star., 1925-05-31

T the present season when al
the world is out on wheels
making motor trips in every
n conceivable direction. there IS
Evening star., 1925-05-31

kahn's embarkation upon his caree
as d friend and patron of the arts.
Evening star., 1925-05-31

~| o the editor: This is the
&c time Of VT. when all the
conversation in our neigh
borhood Is in regards to
fe
YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1925-06-12
VYSTRIHA PRED BEsNoToU

Mestsky bakteriologist, George
G. Stevenson dava vystrahu obe-
censtvu, ably sa malo ma pozOre
pred besnymi psami. Dl'a jeho u
dania, besnota psov sa vel mi roz-
sirila po celom State. L'udia majti
byt' opatrni pri zaobchodeni so
psami. Menovite maiii sa chra-
nit chorrch psov. Najlepsie ie
zavolat' mestskeho sarhu pre- ta-
keho psa. Besnotu mono dostat
nielen pohryzenim, ale al talk,
ked' sa sliny besneho psa dostanu
ma uskrabnute miesto tela. Cho.
robu nemozno hned' zbadat', lebo
vypukne len Sest' tyzdnov a vte.
dy je uzNneskoro ma zachranu.
Pohryzena osoba ma sa hned
obratit' ma lekara. Ked' -kto lieci
choreho psa, ma no drzat' stale
ohradeneho, aby nemohol nikoho
pohrvzt',
YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1925-06-12
JAMES CAMPBELL
o SNIkovANf MZDY

Jeden clevelandsky casopis pr
niesol minule zpravu, re james
A. Campbell, predseda Youngs.
town Sheet and Tube Co. vydal
oznamenie zameEnancom spoloc:
nosti o snizeni mzdy Predseda til.
to zpravu podvracia mysli, ze
snizenie mzdy oceliarskrch robot
nikov je nemozne do tych cias
kym mzdy majnerov, zelezniaia
rov a ,stavebnych robotnikov ne
bndn snMene. A skonecne, ze ke
by sa al pomysl 'alo ma snHenie
mz1y, snizenie by nezacala Sheet
and Tube Co., MesU. S. Steel kor
poracia, ktora zan,estnava mai
Wac robotnikov a ktora vzdy We
die predok v takyychto veciach
Predseda Campbell udal, ze spo
locnost' usilnje sa snizit' vydav
ky vyrobou spojene, ale ME
mzdu. @
@ oceliarskom ohehode sa Mr.
Campbell yysloyilske -nazmene
ny ami k lepsiemu, ami k horsie
mu. Surove zelezo re ma teraz lep
81 odbyt nasledkom jeho mike.
ceny, ktora nemoze dlho trvat' {
umoznena je len lacnym koksom
Akonahle koks zdrazie, zdrazie a.
surove zelezo.
YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1925-06-12
KONCERT SPEVOKOLU
SA DOBRE VYDARIL
Popoludni skolska miestnost' bo-
la zaplnena, vecer tiez bola OBJ
stojna navsteva.

Nedejnajsi koncert vel 'keho
slovenskeho spevokolu New
Castle, ktory Sa odbyval slo-
venskej skole Sv. Cyriila Me-
thoda popaludni vecer, vydaril
sa v kazdom OIL 'ade dobre, We
zm1c do povahy letne obdobie.
Popoludnf vel'ka miestnost sko-
ly bola preplnena skolskymi det'-
mi a niekol'kymi dospelymi. We
cerny koncert nemal tax vel XII
navstevu, ale zato miesta holy do
bre obsadene.
Spevokol spieval krasne, s odu-
sevnenim. Bolo milo pocnvat' tie
nasc krasne piesne ma rozlicny
sposob, 1-hlasne, 2-hlasne, 3-hlas.
ne, 4-hlasne, 5-hlasne az 6-hlasne
Solistky sa vyznacily svojim si-
stym a vyraznym hlasom. Nikto
neobanoval tie chvile, ktore zazil
ma koncerte. Spevokol, ako al
sbormajster, Rev. Necid, zasluhu-
jn vrele vd 'aky "a ich namahu a
OchOtu.