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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-04-21

has ever recovered the money he
invested. Still wildcat promotions
continue to flourish. with new crop
OF victims coming up to take the
place of those who are forced out OF
the running because. they have al
ready lost their savings
Listen to this one! 1t is typical
case. A tract of land. just ordinary
land, nothing about it to indicate
there is oil beneath the surface An
oil rig. few tools, half a dozen
strings OF pipe are close at hand. A
large show tent filled with chairs
that will seat several hundred peo-
pie. II Is 10 a. m. The sun is shin
ing brightly. and it is a glorious day
Presently several large buses
draw up loaded with people ranging
in age from fifty years to eighty, A
corps of high pressure statesmen
rush out to greet the arrivals and to
assure them that they are most
welcome to what will be the next
great oil city of America. The aged
and feeble minded are tenderly con
Quoted to comfortable chairs under
the big tent. In plain view of those
seated as they peer out through the
flap OF the tent stands ma ;estically
the oil rig spattered with crude oil
and nearby is the big oil sump. also
filed with oil Through an ingeni
GUS circulating system oil from the
sump flows into the we'll and back
into the stump through a pipe In full
view
Religious Revival Methods
Presently the official lecturer calls
the meeting to order. The impress
sion he creates is that he is either a
minister or has studied for the
ministry He opens the meeting
with prayer for the success of the
venture in oil. After prayer this
sanctimonious gentleman tells how
he has invested all OF his own earn
ings and all Of his children's savings
in the venture, so confident is he
that it is to be an oil gusher and all
are to be made rich.
He charms his audience with his
orstory. He impresses them with
his honesty. He calls their atten-
ton to oil In plain view. intimating
that 1t is from the we'll And while
he is painting before them. figura-
lively speaking, luxury and old age
comforts If they invest in the "A-A"
Oil Company. the foreman OF the rig
PUSHES in. his clothes spattered with
crude oil He is excited and almost
out OF breath as he reaches the
sanctimonious lecturer A few words
are whispered The lecturers face
registers great delight at the news
He turns back to his audience.
smile OF victory on his face. The
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Truth and Advertising
Have Made America !

Truth In news columns ana \
Using is the foundation OF ana
prosperity. Melvin A Trayim'
ond Vice President America
ers Association, recently SAD
ing:
Continuance OF our prosF
rests chiefly upon continuaIM
the greatest OF all causes %
present good times trsth u
columns. truth over the stoFs
tiers and truth in adsap
Worldwide acceptance OF gIsA
coveries and inventions na
due to the fact that neWsr
truthfully described them aua
manufacturers truthfully aosa'
them. II deceit had been Wv
eral rule. II the motto haa
sell quick and let the ou'a
ware the public would hass y =
against the new things. rec.
particularly large firm wnlea
years ago began advertislus I.
wares falsely: 1t is today nOV@'
bankrupt. Il
"Wise advertising costs -,
You have only to increase :.
of your products to the pun
covers the advertising cnalss%.
Joy the enlarged business
cost. The natural SAVING |" n.
head is extra profit lor dls'''
for further expansion.
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Rise of Peanut

1t is hard to believe that a genera
ton ago the pe..nut hardly counted.
IT was brought to the United States
from Africa. being used to feed the
slaves on the slave ships. However,
It's original habitat was not Africa
but South America. The planters
permitted their slaves to grow small
patches but it was not thought of
as a commercial crop. During the
Civil war the Union soldiers foraging
for food found some of these gopher
peas" as they called them, and dis
covered that when roasted they were
nurishing and good to the taste
After the war the soldiers took the
pods home with them and from that
time the rise of the peanut was
rapid. During the World war period
the value of the peanut crop in the
United States rose to nearly 100 mil
lion dollars. 1t is steadily growing
in popular favor on account of the
numerous uses to which it can be
put.
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elements and, in general. determines
whether the liquor is safe to drink.
"Five dollars is pretty cheap when
you figure that our report may save
number of lives" said one chemist
employed by a drug firm of high
standing.
We've found a lot Of bad stuff.
just as our reports show that there's
a lot fit to drink. don't know where
it comes from. but the alcoholic
content In most of 1t Is pure, and
tests high. Most of our patronage In
this store comes from the Park ave-
nue. neighborhood. where the best is
bought.
There's a lot of liquor sold
around in speakeasies that is pretty
poor stuff-just falls short of poison.
but you take a chance wherever you
buy these days.
your trusted and heretofore re-
liable bootlegger may get stuck him.
self without even knowing 1t. He
doesn't have his stuff tested so If
you don't you're the one who is
caught"
DIR. Harris point Of view is diff
ferent. A real analysis, he says, one
that brings out the presence Of fusel
oil. poison becoming ether as the
raw liquor ages, Is q ldDOrlOuS TASK,
calling for considerable skill. time
and expensive apparatus.
1.-THE average analysis is not a
guarantee of the quality of the liq-
uor." he said.
"a thorough analytical test Is an
intricate job with which few laymen
are familiar.
THE honest druggist does not in
tend to do his own analytical work.
He is invariably the agent of ?
laboratory to which he sends all his
specimens"
The city health department has re-
ceived many requests for liquor an
alysis. But the municipal laborator-
les are kept busy with their routine
work, and only analytic liquor which
is destined for use in public hospi-
| tails.
Practically any man who has
passed the requirements to practice
| chemistry can go through the mo-
tions of making an alaysis of liquor.
say the health department officials.
| No special license is required nor is
any record kept of men engaged in
such work. The situation rests up
on the individuals faith in his drug
gist. and the latter's faith in the
| laboratory which does his analytical
work
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PALMYRA
Palmyra Granue

Palmyra Grange held an all day
meeting April 16. A good dinner
was served at noon and the following
program: Song by the Choir; read :
ing, Mrs. Abbie Weeks: question rs
a Truck More Profitable in Market
ing Farm Products than the Horse"
The discussion tended toward trucks
Tor large farms and large producers,
While the truck would not be profit
able for the small farm; songs by
Mrs. McCabe and Mrs. F'urbush:
Roll Call. answered by quotations or
stories; remarks i'll regard to stable
which needs repairs.
The next meeting will be Friday,
April 20, when a dinner will be on
sale.
d. f. Emerson and family of South
81. Adams We're Sunday callers
at w. A. BlaisdelFs.
Mrs. Hiram Kimball and two chill
dren went Saturday to Washburn for
a visit among relatives.
c. f. Cole and family, who r" ID
the winter in st. Petersburg, ii "A.
have returned home.
Miss Edith Emerson, a junior at
Corinna, Union Academy. was at
home for the week end and the holi-
day.
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Proposed Merger
Maine Sardine
Industry Deferred

Eastport, Maine, April 2O.-(P)--
The proposed $5.O0O,O00 merger in
the Maine sardine industry will not
be effected Immediately, in the OPP
inion of packers who conferred here
today with Thomas w. Marshall
representing the N. s. Aver Adver-
Using Company. and others inter-
ested In the project.
No definite action was taken at
the conference in regard to the plan,
which would consolidate 70 per cent
of the plants engaged In the sardine
packing industry in this state. An
intensive advertising campaign had
been planned in connection with the
proposed merger.
Late opening of the sardine can
neries this season was indicated as
a result of the prevailing cold wea-
Their. Most factories opened April
Is last year but only one plant has
made ready for opening as yet this
season
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Dorothea's Garden

Dorothea Antell was a chorus girl
playing an out-of-town engagement
when a back-stage fall sent her to a
hospital with in injury that de-
prived her of the use of her limbs
For about four years her world con-
sisted Of a patch Of ashheap reflect
ed to her gaze by holding mirror
above her head. .--
This was her solitary view from a
tiny apartment where her friends of
the stage had taken her when doctors
intimated they could do no more.
That little patch of mirrored out
doors began to bloom with flowers
carefully nurtured by Broadway
friends. 1t was called "Dorothea's
Garden" and daily with her mirror
she saw the former ash heap bloom.
Today Miss Antell is supporting
herself by selling lingerie to the
atrical folk. from Dorothea Antelrs
Bedside Agency. She is widely
known as THE Sunshine Girl."-O.
o. Mcintyre, in Hearsts Information
al-Cosmopolitan,
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up. The few who hesitate ~
gotten only momentarily. To-
tables are brought in and thl
free lunch made ready. As 4
down at least one salesman
every table The work cut %
him is to sign up the few Vi
capped the first pulling Of the
and you may take my VOID
few escape.
One by one these old peops
der the spell of being rushed
the deal. pay over their cash,
notes or turn over good seen
for units in the IA" Oil COM
This picture of an oil speeIi
may seem too crooked TO b
but It is a real story OF hoH
sands of savings depositers. al
the age of fifty. lost over ball
lion dollars This story IS %
many hundreds that might D.
all OF which have ended disasua
for millions OF investors.
fArticie n tcfH reveal fttrfhT fal
lent schemes for robbing eefks'
THEN Sdpin0s.J
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Drug Stores Offer
To Analyze Booze .
For BOOtlegger Trade

New York, April 20.-tP,-Ihe
corner drug store has added to it's
junction of dispensing pills and pen
points, plasters and perfumes, cos
metlcs, emetics and ice cream sodas.
new service-analyzing liquor.
Alcoholic beverages analyzed
here" read discreet placards trim
ming windows that used to ask moth
ing better than two dubious bowls
OF red and purple liquids.
Don't believe it," say in effec:
City health officials, who view with
some alarm the rising tide of these
slogans. Nothing more than men
tai safeguards" says DR.. Louis T
Harris, health commissioner. who
today warned that many of the drug
store analyses are only 'superfcialIy
correct"
While DR.. Harris asserts that but
one per cent of New York's drug
emporiums are equipped to do com,
pete analytical work and thar the
druggists receive ten per cent com
mission for sending on to "obscuro
ana poorly equipped laboratories"
an specimens given them, several
druggists revealed the faith put in
ehe EN- by patrons of bootleggers
sure we analyZe at least tbree
or Tour samples a day." said the
manager of a drugstore near tbe
exclusive Park avenue residential
section. iueHtIal
:. MANY purchasers of bootlegeer
liquor 1t is said, make it a rule to
nave their STUFF analy not mai
Ter what its source of guarantee d
pedigree. =
The procedure is simple. A few
ounces are brought to the druggist.
A payment Of S. insures, the drug
glst claims, an exhaustive analysis
which ascertains the quality of the
liquor, detects the presence of poison
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bURNHAM

John Gee, who has been quite Ill
with the grip for several days, Is
somewhat better.
Roscoe E. Dunton went Monday
afternoon to Belfast. where he will
serve on the jury at the April term
of court.
Charles Berry and son Arthur
Berry and w. S. Mason and son, all
of Bath are visitors at the home OF
Mr.. Berry's brother. G. w. Berry.
Fred Libby was called Monday
forenoon to the Eastern Maine Gen.
eral hospital at Bangor by the seri-
GUS illness of his wife, who has been
i'll for two or three months and was
taken to the hospital two weeks ago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Scribner and
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Jennings, all OF
Waterville, were Sunday visitors at
the home of Mrs. Scribner's brother,
L. e. Gerald.
Harry Smedberg of New York City
and Axel Smedberg Of lockwood arc
in town called here by the serious
illness of their mother, Mrs. Mary
Smedberg.
A Father and Son Banquet will be
held at the Baptist church next Sat
urday evening. The banquet will be
served IN the dining room at o'clock
and will be followed by an address
by Herbert c. Libby, mayor of Wat
erville and former resident Ut
Burnham. The committee for the
banquet consists of Mrs. E. E. Davis,
Mrs. l.. E. Gerald. Mrs. G. w. Berry.
Mrs. C. E. McAllister, Mrs. H. c.
Dumphy and Miss Hattie Perkins.
A cordial invitation Is extended to
all men to attend.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. c. Dunphy were
visitors Sunday in Benton with his
mother, Mrs. Louisa Dunphy and
brother, H. o. Dunphy and wamily.
Miss Tlora Wood is quite Ill with
the grip.
Miss Marion Hume visited over
the weekend at her home in Ben
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur McNally and
two children, Evelyn and Herbert.
who have been passing the winter
in Sarasota, Fla, are returning home
and at present are visiting in New
York City with her sister, Mrs. owen
Gould and family.
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Tiniest Fish

The record for minuteness In its
class is held by tiny fish shown at
the meeting of the American Society
of biologists at New Haven by DR..
p. w. Gudger.. of the American
Museum of Natural History. saws
Science Magazine" The midget is
exactly thirty ,millimeters. or less
IMAM one and one-quarter inches. In
Iength and belongs to the semi
parasitic genus Remora.
The fish in this group are parasitic
only to the extent that they hop a
ride" on larger fishes attaching
themselves by sort Of vacuum
disk that grows on the tons Of Their
leacs. This saves them the labor of
!, INNING for themselves. and the
pick ur living by swallowing hits
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Tea SOUP

Father William E. Cashin, who has
resigned as chaplain of Sing Sing
prison after II years service, said at
reception in New York:
The cooking is one of many things
that have improved at Sing Sing. The
cooking there in the past was-weIl.
1t was like the story.
This story is about a prison cook
who made tea in a kettle and then
made soup in the same kettle with
out first washing 1t out.
when the cook discovered his mis-
take, he said,, as he ladled the soup
into the prisoners plates:
BY the way. fellers. If We find tea
thyme"
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Early Egypt

King Tut-ankh- amen was not to
be born for another thousand years
or more, yet already the mud of the
Nile delta had covered civilization
infinitely older. 1t is known that six
thousand years ago these delta as
tronomers had already divided the
year into $50 days: twelve months
of thirty calendar days each and five
east-days at the end. And they
possessed, even at that time. some
form Of writing, its nature now UNI
known.
Five thousand years ago, long be-
fore the Pyramids were built, and
we find these people dressed in linen
cloth, with sandals; wearing orna-
ments and rings, the women paint
ing their faces and dressing their
| hair with ivory combs; making fine
vessels of clay and of stone and
later on of copper: building boats.
some of them with sails, and carry
ing standards or flags; using flint
knives with gold handles; eating
with carved ivory spoons.
They were wearing linen so fine
that the fiberS resembled silk: they
! were making gold jewelry of beauty
and extreme delicacy, and with in
sets of precious stones, mostly anne
thyst and turquoise. The rich built
gardens around their houses, and in
them were artificial ponds, or lakes.
And in these pleasure gardens they
played at draughts. or the women
danced to the music of the harp.
! the pipe and the Lutte
A mass of servants and slaves at
tended on the wealthy. Their food
was elaborate and carefully pre-
pared. They ate meat and poultry,
bread, cakes, fruit and sweets. They
! made and drank various sorts of
beers and Wines, they hunted the
/ lion, the hippopotamus and the croc-
odile for pleasure, and in their house.
holds they had vast harems, with
one legal wife and many .concubines.
Mary Roberts Rinehart. in
Hearst's al-Cosmopolitan
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Got Idea in Dream

A dream invention" making pos
slole moving-picture shows in broad
daylight is claimed, by a young book
binder In Budapest, according to a
dispatch from that city, the New
York World says.
The inventor projects pict Tres not
against a white screen but against a
rapidly rotating disk covered with
strips of dark green and dark blue
paper which radiates from the cen.
ter. The dispatch says the invention
mas been proved a complete success
oy experiments and Is already pat
ented.
The inventor says the idea came to
him in a dream and he is unable to
explain it.
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UNITY

SOUTH-Elwood L. Waning was a
guest over the week end of his
brother in Augusta.
Urban Waning, of Damariscotta, is
at home for time with his father,
Willis Waning, who is in very poor
health this spring
Mrs. Ella Adams and children
went to Scion, Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Waning call
Oh Mr.. and Mrs. Waning, Sunday.
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Compulsory Education Beneficial

An extraordinary increase in the
number of high-school graduates in
Baltimore is ascribed largely to the
enforcement of the compulsory edu-
cation law and to a stay in school,
campaign In which attendance offic-
ers have been active.e In thes22 years
since this law became effective in
the city. though the school enroll
ment increased from S2,297, to 1867
1928. only 20 percent, the number of
high-school graduates climbed from
y! in 1903 to 1.47S in 1925.-School
Life.
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Wall Street Briefs

New York: April 20-([P)-Pros-
poets of better than a bumper wheat
crop in Kansas, Nebraska, Oregon
and Washington, and promising frlit
conditions in Oregon, Washington and
Idaho, indicate greater prosperity in
the west and northwest in 1926 in the
opinion of Carl r. Gray. president of
the Union Pacific system.
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BUICK-7-passenger Sedan, 1925. Six
cynnoer: Perfect mechanical condi-
tion. Paint like new, 1 good cord
tires. one spare: run only 400 miles.
mas bumpers, Westinghouse shock
absofbers. Price $500. r. G. ComIey-
<1S state st. Phone Preston 1924.
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ing savers have been led to invest
their savings in these promotions
In giving the high lights Of certain
cases am not drawing on my
Imagination in the least, nor am
relying on hearsay. but giving first
hand information.
Unbelievable but True
Many millions Of dollars have
been lost in oil. The sum is stag,
gering. Into every corner of the
United States the mails carry high
powered sales talk of great riches
to be made in oil. Carried away by
these promises, depositors quietly
withdraw funds from their banks
and send them on to wildcat specu.
lators. Not one out of q hundred
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lost Their Savings IN ITauuuIent Schemp,
one kind or another. Many widow /
financial difficulty not because she wa
penniless by her husband but because sbs
her inheritance by investing it in !,
bricks" Many a bank depositor who
carried a fine balance is penniless todss'
because he did not know how to save BIT
cause he did not know how to invest.
Perhaps if ! relate some wildcat prp
tons that give an insight into the acHvi
of investment sharks it will quicken d,
less determination to provide deposition /,
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includes supervision by ssu st.l
visers from the day a giri ~. -.
school. A special commls.s IN,
in touch with students as M
college or normal school M
under careful Observation -
out the high-school cou, IA
quently scholarships Q. y
employment is arranged - -
who need financial assis'a
Half the world doesn't ny
the other half lives hut ~ Tss
would like to find ou''
gressive Grocer.
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freau will be held at the grange hall,
Thursday April 20. Subject, millin-
cry will be taught by Mrs. Ray
Toothaker and Mrs. Mabel Lancaster.
The project leader, Mrs. A. D. Chase
will have charge of the meeting.
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Progressive Grange

The meeting Friday evening was
postponed owing to the bad travelling.
The degree team are to confer the
third and fourth degrees upon a class
Of candidates for Enterprise grange,
Tuesday evening,
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BEST Told Is First Sold"
Automobiles For Sale II

Points That People Want to
Know
Make Of Car.
Number Of Passengers
Style Of Body.
Year.
Number Of Cylinders.
Mechanical Condition.
Size and Kind Of Tires nd Condition
Number Of Miles Run.
Price.
Cash Required.
Terms on Balance
Advertiser.
Address.
Telephone.
An Ad Written According to
Above Points
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Loss OF s1.562.035 reported by the
Remington Arms Company for 1925
is attributed by company officials In
large measures to its recently organ
liked subsidiary. Remington Cash
Register Company. The shrinkage l
combined earnings resulted from
heavy department expenses and keen
trade competition. and cutlery show
ed satisfactory profit for the year.
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Al some time during the senior
year an interview in the guidance
oince IS given to each prospective
graduate OF William Penn High
Schooi Tor Girls. Philadelphia, Pa,
eiany OF whom are foreign-born or
.irst. generation Americans The in
eel.leW Is part of comprehensive
system of vocational guidance which
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the Kennecott Copper Corporation
since absorbing Utah Copper Conn
pany, shows net income Of $23,S90.044
for 1925 after interest depreciation
and federal taxes. but before deple-
ton. This Is equal to 5.S5 share on
$4.474,424 no par value shares. Oper-
ating revenues were SGT 1863, ia. TO-
Nal income was $32,286,610. Surplus
after dividend of $6.9O4,0S2 was $16,-
9S5,9G2.
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Total assets of the Atlantic Coast
Line Railroad at the close of 1925
were $3.50, 109.000 against s337,723,609
in the previous year. Profit and loss
surplus was $s3,071.762 against ST.
276,S46. Current assets s35,419,501
and current liabilities s14,633,055