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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-11-10
General Forecast

An area of high pressure is central
over the middle and south Atlantic
states with center over west V1r-
ginia. Temperatures have fallen
along the Atlantic coast.
The outlook is for mostly falr
weather Tuesday and Wednesday IN
the states east of the Mississippi
river. Temperatures will rise on
Wednesday in the Atlantic states.
Winds north of Sandy Hook
Moderate to fresh northwest and
weather fair Tuesday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-11-10
Threatened Con-
flagration Halted
With Loss of
. $4,000

Flames Discovered at
SIS A. M. Raze Fac
tory Spread to
Nearby Dwellings
Trunk Lin S of
Phone Co. Put Out
of Com mis- sion
School B uilding
Threatened - Good
Work Randolph and
Gardiner Firemen
Prevent Spread to
Wider Area
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-11-10
THE WEATHER
FAI r

New England and Eastern New
York Fair Tuesday; wednesday
fair with rising temperature.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-11-10
Boston Forecast

Forecast for Boston and vicinity
Tuesday fair; Wednesday fair with
rising temperature; moderate wester-
~ winds.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-11-10

Buy your used car for next year now.
See the big offerings on the classified
page.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-31
Home Talent
By Hal Cochran

The evening meal is over and the
family's Ill at ease. To break the
spell Of quiet, sisters drumming
DER the keys. The old pianos
tinny and the notes are kinda fat
but strains Of OlVirglnny and the
like sound good, at that.
Dad gets to feelin' tuneful, as his
favrite songs are played. He takes
his old mouth organ and he joins the
serenade. While mother, at her
SEWN, now and then suggests a
song and as they turn to playin' It
she's hummin' right along.
1t isn't long till cousin starts her
fiddle In to squeak. She frankly
tells them all she hasn't practiced
for a week. Then brother Bill adds
vigor to the rhythm Of the tune by
joinin' with the family on his tenor
saxophone.
The neighbors sit in silence as
they lend a willing ear. There's
something quite appealing in the
music that they hear. A family
joined together is a gath'ring hard
to beat. Perhaps it's Just that
thought that makes the sourest
tune sounds sweet.
Copyright. 1925, NEA Service. Incl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-31
Italy Banishes a
Reporter

[T HE Chicago Tribune reports that its
Rome correspondent has been ordered
out of Italy by the Mussolini government. This
must be something of shock to the Tribune
and to other reactionary newspapers which
have tried desperately to see something good
in the Mussolini idea. You know the line
A Strong Man, the Iron Hand, Law and Order
and all that sort of thing. Well, the Tribune s
correspondent has been formally chased off
Italy's premises because, so he relates, he re-
fused to take the governments hint that he
no longer was welcome
The Tribune had suspected that something
up. 1t hadn't heard from it's correspond
ent for three days, except in dispatch so
garbled and censored it couldn t make heads or
tales Of it. But the public is not so much con-
cerned with the Tribune's discontinue at find
ing Mussoliri unreasonable, as it is with the
situation Mussolini is striving to cover up.
The situation must be bad. A group of
American correspondents, headed by the
United Press bureau manager, and including
representatives of the New York World Chris
tian Science Monitor, Chicago Daily News and
Philadelphia Public Ledger, have taken action
to protest against the treatment of the
Tribune s correspondent. The only American
correspondents not participating in this action
were those of the Associated Press and the New
York Times, who are Italian subjects
Mussolini has followed course very much
like that of the Russian Soviet government. He
seized the government, without any color of
authority, and, riding roughshod over the
rights of the people, has managed to hold it.
The very interests in this country which have
condemned the Soviet most bitterly have had
only applause for Mussolini The same inter
ests in other countries have likewise looked on
without murmur Of disapproval Despite
this moral support, things apparently are not
going we'll The lid is about to blow off. The
situation seems to be one in which the truth
hurts and Mussolini proposes to spare himself
the pain as long as he can.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-31

would you? Note the "Mr' Mr. Tooker is a
man The quotation is from an article by Mr.
Tooker in the current issue of The Author and
Journalist, in which he reveals the technique of
writing what are called, these days, "the con-
LESSONS or true stories He tells other writ
ers how to do it.
Some sentences of advice by Mr. Tooker
follow:
''The ring of truth is the first and para
mount demand of the story for the confession
and frst-person magazines"
"Second in the demands of the true story
is simplicity Use short sentences and para
graphs, and ordinary words. Conversation
should carry few fancy speech labels and
descriptions should be cut to the minimum. The
first line, as in good fiction, should catch the
eye of the most supplemented reader.
''It is far more desirable to write from the
woman S viewpoint, for there is among the
true-story magazines an inclination toward the
story told by the disilusioned woman or girl
rather than the man. Perhaps some men writ
will find it difficult to give their work the
feminine tang. A few suggestions may help.
Simply think of girl or woman you
know rather well and drag her through the
most heartbreaking and unfortunate love affair
you can imagine, then make her happy"
And now, Dear Reader, you know how it is
done. Take your typewriter in hand, think of
some girl or woman you know rather well -
and drag her through for Mr. Tooker says
in his closing paragraph
'The days Of the true story magazine
are numbered, but there is no reason why writ
ers should not profit while these millionaires
scrap with one another"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-31
Outline of Evolution

I no way to carry heat. A red-hot
mama sitting on its surface would
have become an iceberg a few feet
away. Only there were no red-hot
mamas then, so Il was very unin-
teresting world.
Again we indicate a long. long
lapse OF time y - while the
earth was putting on its atmosphere.
It took the earth unspeal1able peri.
DDS OF time TO make ready for its
final appearance, which probably
caused the custom Of speaking of
the earth as "she."
Finally, however, as the crust
hardened there developed a steamy
sticky atmosphere that was mostly
water. The world was all wet. 1t
was an infant world.
You understand. of course. that
this is a very hasty trip back into
the past, so we will hurry along
for few more cons until the steam
became rain. and hot torrents poured
down on the sizzling rocks so that
there was always wet grounds and
no game. How fortunate there was
no life then. with the ground too
soft to stand on. the rocks too hot
to sit on, and the roads always I'm.
passable.
The air was so hot that even Jim
Watson would not have felt at home
or course, there was constant vol
canic activity and new lands were
shooting up every day; but unfor-
tunately there were no Florida real.
tors to subdivide and sell the ground
before 1t had a chance 10 sink be-
meath the surface again.
CTOmOrrow-Prdparing a Layette)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-31
Concerning Pie

-fT1HE pie season is fully upon us now. To be
l sure, we have it with us all the year
round, more or less
But the pie made from canned fruit is one
thing and rie made from fruit which was on
the tree--or bush-day before yesterday is an.
other.
The baking and eating of pie seems to
have reached its highest development in New
England.
Entirely proper. Consider the luscious
blue berries they raise there; consider the huge
pumpkins the juicy cherries, the rosy apples,
the marvelously favored mincemeat.
Did you ever eat new England blue
berry pieY If you ever did, you'll understand
perfectly well why the Bostonians got the
habit Of eating pie for breakfast.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-31

one willing TO put him on his feet,
Take advantage OF your opportuN
mites. II you had started 100 years
ago you could be the worlds Oldest
man now.
Many a man who objects 70 his
wife's crying thinks she should en-.
Joy his cussing.
Youth may be served. but IT'S hard
to get a young chicken in a cafe.
Many a fame IS started by the
flicker Of an eyelid
Men will never be women's equals
until they know things are all right
even when they look all wrong.
Fat men don't stand the heat bet
ter than skinny people, but they
seem to SIT II out about as well.
II would be easy 10 be your broth
er's keeper II he would give you
anything 10 keep.
A good education enables yousto
worry about things IN all partsSof
the world.
Copyright. 1928. NEA Service. rne)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-31

SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAP
TERS-Many millions Of years ago
the world was a gaseous nebula,
floating around In space. Finally 1t
took the form Of spinning globe
Of tremendous hot gas, from which
1t cooled to a liquor over millions
of years. Eventually a crust formed
and IL became more and more solid.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY.
CHAPTER 8
The First Hot Air
Although the young world was a
red-hot globe, a person sitting ten
feet above its surface would have
gotten no more heat than the aver
age tenant sitting on an apartment
radiator. Ali This surprises you.
So, without holding you in sus.
pense, 1 will explain that the earth
had no air and therefore there was
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-31
Confessions of a
Confession Writer

.T7 ERE is the first line used in one OF my
III confession stories:
Il am woman who has lived too much,
too daringly, too dangerously.
''The average reader seeking entertain
ment will want to go on after reading that line.
In this story I assumed the character Of a
woman writing story Of her girlhood mistakes
and trials before happiness finally came to
her.
And who do you supposeSArote thatf Mr..
Dick P. Tooker! You never would have guessed,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-31
Oh Paris, How Could
You?

@HEY'RE using Eiffel Tower, in Paris,
now as an electric sign. 1t advertlses the
little five-horse power Citroen, flvver OF
France.
From top to bottom of this 10OO-foot won
der. we are told, the framework is picked OUT
in razzle-dazzle electric lights; while from mid
wav to summit, on all four sides, a sign lou
wards long blazes forth the ad, "ClTROEN.
On-off-on-off-- with maddening, mechan-
cal precision, it flashes forth all the nlght long,
visible far into the country.
AS the price Of this piece Of esthetlc sa-
botage. the hivver maker pays, in rent and pub
licity tax to the city, some 100000 francs
year. ,.,
II makes us want to tear our hair little
as we have left. Paris the artists mecca and
beauty's shrine desecrated for commercial
gain! Heretofore Frenchmen have sneered at
Rroadwavs blaze and the billboard dlshgure-
ment Of our countryside. And we've felt
ashamed
But now we know that the only reason
WHY the Frenchman himself has not been
puiltv of the same crime is that he did not have,
or was too stingy, to pay the price
There is some excuse for New York-mod-
ern, ugly hodge-podge high-in air, fat-on-the-
ground, styleless New York. In fact, the bright
lights by night have been her glory There are
SO many of them, and they are so colortul ana
dancing that to her drab has been given a
certain touch Of beauty all her own.
But Paris!
Well be surprised at nothing now. Per-
hans we IL be hearing of the Venus de Milo,
in the Louvre, wearing and advertising the
Ga1lerie LAFAYETTE brassieres undervests,
or being made to stand in a bathroom sur
rounded by modern tubs and plumbing which
she would be hired to advertise.
Now that France has started to prostitute
her charm, there's no end to the money she
could make at the game
Oh, well, what's the use Life always
like that. Each day sees another idol shat
tered, another of lfe's Illusions lost.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-31


Barbara is to be rebuilt In
Spanish style. That Is in
teresting.
But much more important than
artistic styles Of external archi-
lecture is sound internal construc-
ton. 1t is possible to make build
ings earthquake-proof.
In fact, any well-articulated con-
struction, whether of wood. bam-
boo, steel, or reinforced concrete,
is safe against earthquake Of even
much more than the Santa Barbara
intensity.
Second-class brick or stone con-
struction falls down. The expert
ences Of San Francisco and Toxic
have established knowledge on this
subject and multiplied men who
know 1t.
Santa Barbara, being warned. will
probably heed. But also, having
during the life of the new build
ings, been hit once. It Is probably
safer, than the places that think
themselves immune. The most
dangerous place is the one that has
been long without an earthquake.
In the earthquake belts, says
DIR. Jaggar, the famous volcan-
ologist, this means Los Angeles
and Honolulu. In the regions Of
longer intervals, 1t means Chicago
and New York.
An earthquake will come to any
Of these regions If we wait long
enough, and the chances are near
est for those that have already
waited longest
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-31
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
SPREADING FAST

7NCREASINGLY, around the
world, the English language
is becoming the accepted
common speech.
Everywhere, unless In Europe, 1t
is assumed that an educated man
Of any race speaks English, and
that the ignorant or uncivilized, II
they have any contact with for
eigners at all, speak, "pidg1n"
English.
French remains "a" language OF
diplomacy, but no longer the" Ian
guage. In everything else. English
IS supplanting it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-31
A Thought

have no greater joy than TO hear
that my children walk In truth
John III:1, 4.
God offers to every mind its choice
between truth and repose. Take
which you please, and you can never
have both.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-31

What is the origin of the honey
dew melon and when was it first
raised in the United States?
Its origin is unknown; It has
been known for centuries. It was
imported into the United States by
Professor Hanson and others from
Turkestan in 199s-se.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-31

Why did the rest Of the Jews
hate the Samaritans?
During the Babylonian exile The
Babylonian monarch had brought a
number of captives from other coun-
tries which he had conquered, and
settled them in the hills of Samaria.
ton left there had intermarried with
these people, and the result was a
mixed population. despised by the
Jews who returned from the exile
an6 who hated the idea of intermar-
RAG with peoples Of other nations.
and consequently the Samaritan
population never ceased to be looked
down upon by the Jews, who con-
sidered themselves the pure stock
of Israel.
What is the largest city in North
Oak ota?
Fargo. with a population in 1920
Of 1881
Is it proper for a girl to accept
a present of a diamond ring from
man friend, if she is not engaged
to him?
It is not proper for her to accept
my valuable presents from male
l.ihnd unless she intends to marry
him
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-31

By David DietZ
NEA SerUice Writer
ri HE chemists Of France, Ger
many and England are all
- working to find synthetic
methods of making gasoline.
The pioneers on the frontier Of
science are always looking ahead.
Consequently, they foresee a day
when our natural supply Of gasoline
will give out.
Artificial gasoline will be needed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-31
Ask The Times

You can get an answer to any ques
ton of fact or information by writing
to The Indianapolis Times Washington
Bureau, 1922 New York Ave. Wash
inton. D. c., inclosing 2 cents In
stamps ,or reply. Medical legal and
marital advice cannot be given. nor
can extended reese arch DO undertaken.
All other questions will receive a per
sonal reply. Unsigned requests cannot
be answered All letters are contiden-
tial-Edltor
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Love laughs az
locksnllths and
cusses bill col
lectors.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-31

then to keep the motors Of airplanes,
autos and speed boats humming.
The foreign chemists are all try
ing to make gasoline from coal at
the present time.
In Germany. the so-called Bergius
dered coal is treated with hydrogen
under high pressure and at a high
temperature.
The result is a fairly good pc
troleum.
The French method begins with
the making of coke from the coal
in coke ovens just as coke is made
at the present time.
The gases given off during the
process are then mixed with hydro
gen and passed through an electrical
furnace where chemical changes
take place in them.
The process is completed by pass
in the gases through tubes which
contain a number Of powdered me-
tallio compounds called catalysts.
The nature Of these catalysts is kept
secret at the present, but the
French engineers claim that they
turn the gases into a mixture Of oils
of which about rs per cent is gaso-
line.
The British chemists are expert
menting with a process Of distilling
the coal at a low temperture.
xvi HILE scientists are unwilling
WI to believe the story Of Jonah
III and the whale literally. they
admit that fish beg enough to swal-
low man once lived.
Only the scientists insist that the
big fish inhabited the sea some mil
lions Of years before man made his
appearance on earth.
At the American Museum of Nat
ural History, the jaws of a fossil
shark were recently put on exhibit
ton.
A man can easily seat himself in
one corner Of The jaw.
This particular shark lived more
than 10.O00.OO0 years ago, the scien-
lists believe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-31
never see a good
dentist broke.

Society's easy
TO stay in II
you have enough
money, otherwise
you can't look
bored enough.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-31

The Federal prison population in twelve
years has almost tripled.
Meantime, what has been happening else
where? The Department of Commerce has
lust issued report furnished by the United
States consul in London on Great Britain S
prisons.
"More than twenty prisons in England
and Wales" says this report, practically
third of the total, have been closed since 1914
There are now only forty prisons IN use IN the
country and these are by no means fully occu-
pied"
Opponents of the Volstead act are quick
to point out that England is wet country
They charge the increase in crime, as well as
the increased prison population, up to the et-
fort to impose on the American people law
that is repugnant to great part of the citizen
ship. There may be something IN this, or there
NAV not be- But the contrast between what is
happening in Great Britain and what is hap,
pening in Americt is worth very serious
thought.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-31

Every failure
thinks no could
come back II he
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-31
The World Over
BY Chester H. Rowell

'|A ian q the archives Of
Hawaii, writes to the
papers asking the kamaainas for
information whether the original
location Of the royal tonbs on the
palace grounds was on the present
site Of a hibiscus lei, or a trifle
Eva and a bit mauka of that spot.
An old photograph, he says, shows
a fall on the Waikiki and
Kawaiahao sides.
This is the English language,
as spoken and written in Hawaii.
Nobody thinks of it as foreign.
After the luau on the lanai is
pau, the kamaaina host apologies
for so much pililIia, especially to
a malihine. Noticing a mystified
look. he adds another apology for
his hapahaole speech.
On Kamelhameha day, the hale
ma ALI lead the procession. And
so on.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-31

What is the size and depth of
Lake Zurich?
It is twenty-five miles long and
from two and one-half to one-half
mile wide It's depth is 470 feet;
area Is thirty-four square miles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-31
Tom Sims Says

A man tells US he isn't so fat now.
Says he used 70 back up to q door
to ring the bell.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-31

CTiHIS process. in Hawaii, is
doubtless finished With
G the diminishing numbers
and increasing Americanization of
the native Hawaiians. no more
Hawaiian words are likely to be
added to the language. Even
some now used may be dropped.
For instance, "humuhumunu-
kunuguawapaaa" Is rather for
midable name for a very small fish.
But if English once becomes the
universal language" which seems
to be its destiny, what will hap
pen to it in other far countries?
Wilt break up into new langu-
ages, as Latin did into Italian,
Spanish and French?
Or, if modern fluidity Of travel
and education prevent that, will it
acquire a large vocabulary in each
country which is not used, or per-
haps even known, In the others?
Already this is beginning to hap:
pen in the colloquial speech of
England and America, and to a
smaller extent in the written
language. And the orient and the
antipodes have their own varia-
tons.
"Tiffin" means luncheon and
goodwin" means warehouse, all
over the orient, while bush"
means forest or backwoods, in
Australasia.
In Apia it is perfectly ineligible
English to lament the downfall Of
friend who took to the lava-lava
and went faa Samoa, and in
Shanghai thing that is my pidgin
is not your business.
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There's lots OF money IN interior
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Women may DO slaves 70 fashion.
But their burdens are light.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-31
No More Room in
Our Prisons!

EV7MH murder highway robbery and bank
NV banditry apparently the favorite outdoor
sports in many American communities, you
NAV think lot more of your fellow citizens
should be in prison. The fact of the matter IS
that the prisons right now are doing record
breaking business Nearly all of them are over
crowded, = There ism room for any more!
The Department of Justice gives these t1g-
...... -. 4l,o +L,roo FaIara1 prisons.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-31
! HOW TO BUILD THEM
| EARTHQUAKE-PR00F

@HE cables say that Santa
III Barbara is to be rebuilt in
Spanish style. That Is in
Imperial Valley press., 1925-11-14
LOUIS FIRP0 PLANS TO RETURN TO
UNITED STATES NEXT SPRING AND
HAVE ANOTHER TRY FOR H. W. TITLE

BUENOS AIRES, Nov. 14.-Luis
Angel Firpo, South American heavy
weight, will return to the United
States in March for another effort
to win the worlds heavyweight
championship, he said in an inter
view today.
He said he will 60 back to the
United States in better physical con
dition than he has been in years as
result of four months of light
training, and that he will have no
business worries to trouble him.
Firpo now weighs 225 pounds and
he declared he can take off more
flesh when he starts hard training.
Since his return from the United
States he had put his business az
fairs in good shape and has made
several films for South American
producers.
Will Fight for Rickard
AZ m going back to New York
under the general direction of Tex
Rickard with the ambition to fight
my way through all the contenders
and earn the chance for another