davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1926-02-08

1T is hereby brought to public notice
that the Letters Patent which were
recorded in the United States Patent
Office, Washington, D. c., on October
20, 1925 in the name Of Irving Langmuir,
assignor to General Electric Company
of New York, a corporation organized
and existing under the laws of the State
of New York. and patent certificate No.
l ,558, 436 issued therefor, has this date
been registered in the Office of the Gov
eminent Secretary of the Virgin Islands
of the United States at St. Thomas, in
accordance with the provisions in the
regulations governing the registration
of Patents and Trade marks in the Vir-
gin Islands, approved 80 June. 1920.
Government of
the Virgin Islands of the United States,
St. Thomas,
January 10, 1926.
c.. S. BAKER,
Government Secretary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-22

tried to save him.
self the tolls by charging the call to
the warden and later altering the bill
from the telephone company TO make
1t appear that the call was a call to a
ST. Louis business firm. The warden
discovered the alteration and secret
service men were detailed to check
all of the records which Greer had
kept as a clerk in the prison office,
resulting in discovery of the plot.
With the help of the prison motion
picture machine and some Cancelled
checks which he stole from the pris-
on safe, Greer had been able to forge
the names of prison officials on fake
invoices. Greer was thus able to OBJ
tain a check made out to a fictitious
business firm in Denver.
George F. Ames, prisoner who
was paroled early in the month,
received the check at Denver hotel
by assuming the name of the fictitious
man to whom the check was adj
dressed and presented at a Colorado
bank. The check, for $790.91, would
have been honored, prison officials
say, IL the fraud had not been dis
covered. Greer admitted his part in
the plot and the officials found 125
additional fake invoices in his pos
session. They also found the stolen
Cancelled checks nailed to the bottom
of bench in the prison theater and
concealed in the false bottom Of a
wooden box.
Owing to the large number of in
voices and checks handled in the pris-
on Office and to confusion resulting
from a recent change in the admins
traEion of office, Warden Biddle said
the plotters were able to almost per-
feet the scheme. Greer was formerly
assistant postmaster at West Portal,
Colo. Ames is under arrest in Den
yer. Charges will be made against
the men when the investigation is
completed, Warden Biddle announced
today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-22

Bailey, grand orient; f. w. Miller,
grand vice orient; r. r. Burgess,
grand herald; C. r. Muller, grand
prince: William Sudworth, grand
prophet; w L. jenkins, grand scrib-
bier: John E. Beall, inside keeper of
the portal; r. H. Yates. grand purse
bearer, and Albert Collins, past grand
orient.
Local Union No. 602 Of the United
Association of Steamfitters and Help
ers will hold it's annual excursion at
the beach tomorrow. Fifteen hun
dred are expected. j. M. Bolts of the
Kresge Building is in charge of ar
rangements.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-22
BUSINESS MEN PICNIC.
Columbia Heights Association
Holds Annual Excursion.

The Columbia Heights Business
Mems Association is holding it's an
nual outing today at Marshall Hall
with many members of the Columbia
Heights Citizens Association also
joining in the occasion. Most of those
going on the outing had arranged to
leave for Marshall Hall on the
steamer Charles Manchester at 2:3G
o'clock, return trips to the city to be
made by the steamer at o'clock and
9 o'clock.
A tug-of-war between the citizens
association and the business mems
organization and numerous athletic
events and stunts, including q base
ball game, were included on the pro-
gram as arranged by j. Wolf and
James Dewey of the athletic commit
tee. A number of prizes had been do
mated by the merchants for winners
in the various events.
F. ]. Sobotka is general chairman
and Clarence Youngblood is chairman
of the ticket committee for the outing
of the business mems association, of
which William F. Dismer is president.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-22
STORE GROUPS ON OUTING

Managers and clerks Of the A. & p.
stores here. with their families and
friends, making a party of about 1900
persons, were guests of the Managers
Benefit Association at the organiza-
tons annual outing yesterday after
noon at Marshall Hall.
An outstanding event on the pro-
gram was a base ball game between
the A. g. p. Managers and team
representing the Lofier Provision Co.
Numerous athletic contests and dane
ing occupied the rest of the day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-22
MECHANICS ON OUTING.
Grand Oriental Court, No. 1, Goes
to Chesapeake.

The annual outing of Grand ORR
entail Court. No. l, Junior Order of
United American Mechanics, is being
held today at Chesapeake Beach. The
committee In charge of arrangements
is composed of r. F. Burgess, chair.
man; A. C. Columbus, William Martin,
Richard Umhau, John e. Beall, Will
lk.rn Sudworth and A. H. Dalher.
Officers Of the court are Z. H.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-22
Policeman Hurt Playing Ball.

Frank l.. Marshall, member of No.
IA precinct police command, partici.
pating in a practice game with the
police baseball team that is to play
a team Of firemen in September, re-
ceived a compound facture of his
right thumb yesterday afternoon.
The practice game was being played
on Monument Lot. Marshall was
treated at Emergency Hospital by
police surgeons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-22

acy by convicts
in tn e Federal
penitentiary here
to swinlle the
Government out
of more { h a n
$250,000, Warden
w. /. Biddle an
nounced on COM
pletion of an in
vestigation in to
the plot.
One of the pris-
oners, Jesse l..
Greer, committed
from Colorado, for
robbing the ] ails,
called a woman in
st. Louis over the
I e | e D h o n e and
49, II - .sN- l. 49,
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PRISONER ACCUSED
Of CHECK FRAUD
Effort of Convict to Avoid
Telephone Toll Exposes
Plot at LeavenWorth.

LEAVENWORTH, Kans., July %
P).-Efforts of a prisoner to avoid
payment Of a long-distance telephone
toll led to the discovery of a conspir-
Seward daily gateway., 1926-10-23
ADDITIONAL ALASKA
 FISH REGULATIONS
GILL NETTING IN EFFECT TO DE- cEMBER 31 COOK INLET
 AREA

The regulations for the protection of the fisheries of Alaska published in the Department of Commerce circu- lar No. 261, twelfth edition, issued under date of December 5, 1925, to- gether with subsequent regulations, are hereby amended by the following regulations:
 Cook Inlet Area
 Herring fshery-Regulation No. is amended to read as follows: Com mercial fishing for herring is pro- hibited during the period from Janu- ary 1, to July IA, both dates inclu- sive, in each calendar year. Com mercial fishing for herring, except by set and drift gill nets, is also pro- hibited from October 15 to December 31, both dates inclusive, in each cal endar year.
 Commercial fishing for herring in Halibut Cove Lagoon is limited to set gill net not exceeding 50 fathoms in length hung measure. All such nets shall be anchored in a substan- tial manner not less than 100 yards apart.
 Nets operated within areas marked at the north and south ends of Hali- but Cove Lagoon shall be anchored in general direction paralleling the shore line.
Seward daily gateway., 1926-10-23
DECLINE IN COLD OUTPUT
 IN TRANsVAAL, REPORTED

NEW YORK, Oct. 19. (P-Accord- ing to a report just received by the Department of Commerce from Will liam L. Kilcoin, Assistant Trade Com missioner at Johannesburg, the last three years have witnessed a pro- gressive decline in the output of gold in the Transvaal, South Africa, the leading gold-producing area in the world. A decline in production in the United States is also noted, while there was an increase in Canada.
Seward daily gateway., 1926-10-23

The sins of the jaybird are that he eats eggs and makes too much noise with his mouth. Let the man who is innocent cast the first stone.
Seward daily gateway., 1926-10-23
REAL MERCHANTS

All the real merchants in the country not located in the big cities. recent survey of big stores in small towns disclosed surprising facts, few of which quoted:
 Carver Brothers store in Strasburg, O., 1000 popu ation does an annual business of million dollars The Outlaw concern at Winner s. D., 5000 population, sells $85000O worth of goods year. department store at Lynden Wash, with 1250 people, does $75OOOO yearly The B. & 0. Cash Store at Temple, Oka., with barely 1000 people, does 735000 annually Fred Manns store at Devils Lake, N. D., 1900 population sells $50oOoo worth of merchandise a year.
 How do they do it?
 They do it through the same business policies and methods that have for retailers in the arg- est cities of America They keep good socks give their customers real servce and they advertise consistently consistently and adequately in their local newspapers
 The old home town is place where you pay for ten gallons and get ten instead of seven.
 Why shouldn't the see through the ladies! The ladies have been seeing through the men for ages.
 Those who live longest people who have too much sense to worry and those who haven't sense enough to worry.
 The sins of the jaybird that he eats eggs and makes too much noise with his mouh Let the man who is innocent cast the first stone.
Seward daily gateway., 1926-10-23

Why shouldn't the men see through the ladies? Tn ladies have been seeing through the men for ages.
Seward daily gateway., 1926-10-23

Those who live longest people who have too mucf sense to worry and those who haven't enough worry.
Seward daily gateway., 1926-10-23

The old home town is place where you pay for tel gallons and get ten instead of seven.
Seward daily gateway., 1926-10-23
HOT AIR

R. L. Jones' of the research laboratories of the Amer ican Photographic and Telephone Co., has calculated that if million persons to talk steadily and the energy ot their voices were to be converted into heat Che does not even exclude pocians they would have to talk for an hour and half to produce enough heat to make cup of tea.
Seward daily gateway., 1926-10-23

About the time the Wisconsin farmers convinced tf country that they needed relief two bank robbers rne the play by stealing $50.000 from country bank.
Seward daily gateway., 1926-10-23

Queen Marie is not the only queen in the U. S. A. have lots of little bobbed hair queens.
, 1926-10-18

The sale by public auction of one Ford
touring car will take place in the Fort
ward at 3 O'Clock this afternoon.
, 1926-10-18
LEGAL

MI, H. JCSSEU WIS EltCL6A DIS q tBClN"
Der of the Colonial Council on Saturday
afternoon with l3 votes. IA were cast,
l invalid.
The following passengers arrived at
Fr~ederiksted from San Juan. P. R on
Saturday afternoon by the S. 5 "C}the.
rine":-Luis G. Malta, Evaristc Fret
ria and Rev. Jos. Stole. From st.
Thomas:-J. Miimon. The ship called
at this port yesterday morning and sailed
on the return trip at 2 p. m. with the
following passengers for San Juan.
P.R:-Olivia A. Clarke. Anne ROebuck,
Martin l.. Roebu I, Juia Rivera, Elisa
Rivera, Rev. Father j VoIk, Chaplain
c.. A. Neyman. Mrs. Lula NJ. NeymaO,
Bettv Newman and Mrs. w. King.
The Agency of the Rnll-Insuiar, Inc.
at Christianste1 lintcrn us the owing
to the bad weather encountered on the
voyage from New York, and due 10
heavy rain in San Juan. p. R the S. s.
''Clare's' cargo for the Virgin Islands
could not be %transhipped in time to con
meet with the 5. s. ''Catherino" Oh her
last trip. This cargo will sbe~ forwarded
by the next opportunity.
A great musical treat was given
by the Navy Band at ? public con
cert on the wharf last night. The Band
is playing short Of two men who were m
iured in on automobile accident return
ing from Frederiksted last Friday night.
is is hoped That inasmuch as the band is
going back to St. Thomas on Wednesday
it viii be made possible to render another
open air concert in this toWn tomorrow
afternoon or night.
The sale by public auction of one Ford
touring car Will take place ln the Fort
yard at 3 O'Clock this afternoon.
The second instaIlment of Pathe serial
entitled Into the Net" Will be screened
tonight in the Christian5Jed Theatre.
Some requests have reached us to ask
the management Of the theatre to
screen the installent Of the serial last
so that patrons may go away with mem
cries of the best part Of the program and
also better remember where il left Oft
when they see the continuation. We are
sure it will be glad to do this.
u. S. NAVAL RADIO STATION
CERISTLAN5TED. ST. Cl.0-X.
18th OCTOBER 1925.
F.. I-..4o.,. ~ tbl .sa.1vyly Dqp9aa i
Evening star., 1926-05-16

" HIS being a year when Con-
gressmen and legislators and
/ many other office holders and
Il seekers come up for election,
few thoughts on politics are
/ not out of place. / am not rushing the
season bit more than the Congress
| men and legislators themselves, who
began to think about the elections
long before did.
have no doubt that politics in the
highest sense means patriotism: that
our deepest gratitude Is due to the
men who spend their lives in the ser
vice Of the country; and that when
they die we are quite right in putting
up monuments to them.
For the candidate for office, in es-
pecial. moreover. ] have nothing but
sympathy and sorrow 1t has been
my fortune as a humble outsider. con-
tributing friendly support, to walk
round on the heels of half a dozen
Of them In various little country
towns, watching the candidate try in
vain to brighten up his face at the
glad sight Of a party voter.
One. in particular, ! remember.
Nature had meant him to be a sour
man, a hard man, Il man with but
little joy in the company Of his fell
lows. Fate had made him a candidate
for the Legislature. SO he was do
i'm his best to belle his nature.
"Hullo, William" he would call
out as a man passed driving a horse
and buggy. "got the little sorrel out
for spin. eh?'
Then he would turn to me and say
in a low rasping voice
There goes about the biggest
skunk in this whole county"
A few minutes later he would wave
his hand over little hedge in
friendly salutation to a man working
in a garden.
"Hullo. Jasper, That's a fine lot
of corn you've got there"
Jasper replied in growl. And
when we were we'll past the house
the candidate would say between his
teeth
That's about the meanest whelp in
the district"
Our conversation all down the street
was Of that pattern.
Good morning Edward. Giving
the potatoes a dose Of Paris green,
eh?"
And In an undertone-
II wish TO Heaven he'd take q dose
Of 1t himself"
And SO on from house TO house.
/ counted up from one end Of the
street to the other. that there were
living in It seven skunks. fourteen low
whelps. eight mean hounds and two
dirty skinfints. And all of these
merely voters on our side OF politics.
It made me wish to be on the other
side. Especially as the voters on
that side, by the law Of the perTer-
sity Of human affairs. always seemed
| TO be the finer lot.
AS they were not voting for our
candidate, they We're able to meet him
| in a fair and friendly way, whereas
| William and Jasper and Edward and
our bunch" were always surly and
| hardly deigned to give more than a
erowl In answer to the candidates
greeting, without even looking up at
| him.
But a voter on the other side would
stop him in the street and shake
hands and say in a frank cordial way:
"Mr. Crouch, I'm sorry indeed that
can't vote for you, and I'd like 10 be
Evening star., 1926-05-16

from night school to the theater where
John was showing and dashed up on
the stage and as John was being car
ried out in the middle of the first
round he was overheard saying,
Sweet potatoes, how that tremendous
lad can wallop."
In that yr. Napoleon, besides stop
ping John L. knocked out Jack Twin)
Sullivan, Mike (Twin) Sullivan and
, Frank Sullivan. 1t was VT. in which
he refused to fight anything but Sui
liyans. Later on he broadened out and
stopped the Smith Brothers and big
mastiff.
However 1t was not until Mr..
Kearns took charge of him that he
really looked like a fighter. 1t will
be recalled that when Mr.. Dempsey
began fighting his left hand wasn't
hardly any use to him. so Mr.. Kearns
made him box for a time with his
right hand tied behind his, back till
he got accustomed to employing his
left. In Dorvals case, Mr.. Kearns
has tied both his hands behind his
back and made him eat that way and
It has aroused the animal instinct in
him to such an extent that he roars
like lion while going after his fire.
quent meals of soup, raw bear and
sweet potatoes.
Personly, Napoleon is great home
boy and says he owes everything to
the landlady where he boards.
asked him IL he was afraid of
Wills.
II am" he replied. "till after they
are probated."
Young Dorval is in training all the
time. From to 7 in the AM. he does
road work for a paving concern.
From Z to IL he eats his breakfast.
usually wolf or a bear and the in
evitable sweet potatoes. From IL to
1 he reads Q eentonCe. From to
he manicure6 himself an over. From
Evening star., 1926-05-16
New AneSthetic.

THE invention of efficient and harm
l. less narcotics for anesthesia and
pain alienation is one of the most i'm
portant tasks of modern science. Re-
Gently DIR. Maurice Sandoz of the Uni
versity of Lausanne, Switzerland, sue
ceeded in producing a substance
called "tricaine," which, it is claimed,
is remarkable for its rapid narcotic
effects. On cold-blooded creatures,
such as fishes, frogs or salamanders,
two to six minutes in a one'tenth per
cent solution of tricaine induces total
insensibility.
A solution of tricaine diluted beyond
10 per cent will reduce the rate of
cell division in animal organism, par
ticularly the development of the en-
bryo from the egg. BY use of very
weak solution it is possible to keep
frog eggs for several weeks without
Matching. Untreated eggs left in pure
water for the same period would turn
into adult frogs.
These experiments, says Popular
Science Monthly, have suggested
possible use of tricaine in arresting
the ravages of old age.
Evening star., 1926-05-16

able to wish you success. but. OF
course, YOU know I'm on the other
side and always have been and can't
change now"
Whereupon the candidate would
say:
That's all right, John. 7 don't ex-
pect you to- I can respect a, mans
convictions all right, / guess"
So they would part excellent friends,
the candidate saying as he moved off
THAT man, John Winter. is one of
the straightest men in the whole
country"
Then he would add:
Now, We'll just go into this house
for minute. There's a dirty PUP In
here that's one of our supporters.
Ny opinion Of our own supporters
went lower every day, and my opinion
of our opponents higher, till 1t so hap
pened that | went one day to an old
friend of mine who was working or
the side opposite from us. | asked
him how he liked 1t.
"Oh, we'll enough" he said, "as q
sort of game. But IN this district
you've got all the decent voters. Our
voters are the lowest bunch of skunks
| ever struck
Just then a man passed in buggy
and looked sourlv at my friend.
"Hullo, John" he called. with q
manufactured hiliarity. got the little
mare out for turn, eh?'
John grunted.
There's one of them" said my
friend. the lowest pup in this county,
John Winter"
After that realized that whichever
1.as- L. L.
side always looks better.
Come along said the candidate
to me one morning. Il want you &c
meet my committee"
You'll find them he said Confid
ingly. as we started down the street
toward the committee rooms, IAN aw
f1l bunch of NUTS"
Evening star., 1926-05-16

'Too bad" 1 said. whats wrong
with them?"
"Oh, I don't know-they're Just a
pack Of simps. They don't seem to
have any punch in them. The one
you'll meet first in the chairma u He's
about the worst dub Of the lot.
never saw a man with so little force
in my life. He's got no magnetism,
that's what's wrong with him-no
magnetism"
A few minutes later the candidate
was introducing me to a room full Of
| heaVylooking committeeman. Com
| mittee men in politics. ] noticed, have
| always a heavy, bovine look. They
| are generally in sort of daZe or
doped from smoking free cigars.
Now / want to Introduce you first, -
| said the candidate, Ito our chairman,
Mr.. Frog. Mr.. Frog is our old battle
| horse in this constituency. And this
| is our campaign secretary, Mr.. Bug
| house, and Mr.. Dope and Mr.. Mudd,
| ct Cetera."
Those may not have been their
names. 1t is merely what the names
sounded like when one was looking
| into their faces.
The candidate introduced them all
as battle horses, battle axes, battle
| leaders, standard bearers. fag-holders
and so forth. If he had introduced
| them as hatracks or Cigar-holders, it
would have been nearer the mark.
Presently the candidate went out
and ! was left with the battle axes.
What do you think Of our
| chances?" I asked.
The battle axes shook their heads
with dubious looks.
| Pretty raw DEAL said the chair
man, "the primaries wishing him on
US" He pointed with his thumb over
| his shoulder TO indicate the departed
candidate.
| whats wrong with him?"
asked.
| NO p1nch." he said.
Evening star., 1926-05-16

very noble. to do his little best to
save the Buttonhole business. while
all the rest neglected it, and prom
Using to try and meet me at. the city
depot at one fifteen If by any lucky
chance he didn't haf to go to that
directors meeting, and could make
the concert instead.
Well naturally as l got my house
work out the way, I also got to
thinking over how noble it was of
Geo. to take all that responsibility,
and ! at the same time felt lot of
admiration over the good. plain, SEN
sible way he had expressed hisself on
the subject of work in general. and
thought Hot Bozo. There amt many
wives got husbands that will stick
to their job the same as Geo. and tear
themselves away from the office if pos
Sible to attend classic concert.
And in this case ] sure did hope
that Geo. would be able to make it,
on account the concert was sched-
uled to be a especially good one. To
commence with, l hadn't paid for
the two tickets, and SO it would of
been a terrible lack of economy not
to use them, when all the expense
/ would be at was buying a new
dress to wear to 1t, on account /
hadn't a thing fit to put on, and of
course also some clean gloves and
a cheap little hat to go with the dress,
! hadn't intended buying them things
for another month, but any lady will
understand how 1t was: just as sure
as she amt got a thing to wear, "a
invitation to go some dressY place
will come up and you think well.
may as well buy Aomething decent
while / am at 1t, go0dness knows who
l will meet there. 1t is bad for my
husbands business for me not TO be
well dressed, and other we'll known
conventional lady-like excuses.
y X
WELL any ways, l had bought them
" things in order to go to this con
cert as soon as l got them tickets.
which Mabel Bush had simply begged
me to take them on account she wasn't
conner he able to use them herself
because her Junior had a light attack
of disobedience, and she didn't know
what it might develop into. Beside,
Joe wouldn't go with her on account
of that directors meeting.
So she generously give me the two
seats, pointing modestly out where
they was marked $3.50 per ca. Not
that Mabel Bush had paid out any II
iron-men for them two tickets. In
that case she would of attended the