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New Britain herald., 1927-05-06
KaN Street Briefs

Atlantic Gulf and West Indies steamship lines had net income of $44,151 for 1926, including opera tions of the New York and Cuba
 Mail Steamship Company, equal to $3.2S a share on the preferred. This
 compares with $1,S71,49S in 1925, or $5.95 a share on the common
 stock, including four months opera tions of New York and Cuba mail. Rec Motor Car Company has awarded a contract to Commercial Investment Trust Corporation to be its official financing service for Rec Motor cars, truck and busses on the deferred payment plan. First quarter net profit of Gould Coupler Company declined to $77,-
 124 from s14S,246 in the first quarter of 1926.
 Net profit of the Symington Com |,pany for the first quarter fell to ss49s9 from s19s,377 in the first quarter last year.
 Youngstown dispatches to Wall Street says steel sheet makers are
 encouraged by the response to
 higher prices and that new quota tions are applying to a large vol ume of new business. Building con- struction requirements have helped to strengthen the market for bars, structurals and shapes at $l.90 cents a pound. Some plate tonnage, however, is moving at $1.S5 cents.
 Engineering projects announced in the United States in the past week were valued at s73,500.000 against s4s,9oo00o the week before. the McGraw-Hill Construction daily reports. the gain being due to in- creased activity in public work. rail- road improvements and industrial projects. The average weekly rate of proposals in the construction in- dustry during April virtually was as high as in April last year.
 A statement of the New York. New Haven and Hartford railroad as of Maych 31 shows current assets of SS2.75e,S76 and current liabilities sl6.503,51S against s3S.2S7,477 and Sl7.47S.577 respectively a year ago. Profit and loss deficit amounted to sS6.622,567 against s40.S50,21S the yaQr before
New Britain herald., 1927-05-06
Charles \. K. Cooper.

Funeral services for Charles A. R. Cooper of View street, Whites Crossing. Plainville, will be held tomorrow afternoon at o'clock at Erwin chapel. Rev. William Ross pastor of the First Baptist church, will officiate. Interment will be in Fairview cemetery.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-06
HELEN WILLS NOW
 READY FOR PLAY
Is Prepared to Make Her ''Come.
 Back" Attempt

Berkeley. Calf. May (UP) - Helen Wills is ready to try her comeback in the tennis world.
 With the worlds tennis cham pionship as her goal, the former American champion has mapped out strenuous campaign that will
New Britain herald., 1927-05-06
Major Warren, Prominent
 Worcester Man. Is Dead

Worcester. Mass, May R,- Word has been received here of the sudden death last night of Major Herbert Houghton Warren in Los Angeles, Calf. Major Warren. who was a native of Clinton. and a for mer professional man of Worcester. was long affiliated with military organizations in this city.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-06
Joseph C0Wles Burnham

Funeral services for Joseph Cowles Burnham, a former resident, who died in Pine Grove, Mantle. where he had, been living for many years, were held this afternoon at o'clock at Erwin Chapel. Interment was in Fairview cemetery,
New Britain herald., 1927-05-06
Funerals
Anna Isayickas.

Funeral services for Anna Raw ickas, one-year- daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Michael Ravickas of 35 Oak street, were held this after noon at 2 o'clock at the home Burial was in St. Mary's cemetery.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-06
Patrick Kirby

Funeral services for Patrick Kir- by of 456 South Main street will be held tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock at St. Joseph's church. Interment will be in St. Mary's cemetery.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-06
SIX PERSONS KILLED
Explosion and Collapse of Building in New York Also Injures 2f

New York. May (R - Six per sons were known dead and 21 in- jured in an explosion and collapse of a two story building at 23d street and East River this after noon.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-06
EMBARGO LIFTED

Washington, May 6 P-American officials today decided to lift the em = bargo on milk and cream from Quebec.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-06
BOL.L.ERER'S
 POSY SHOP

Visit our Greenhouses on Johnson Street. Maple Hill. Sec tho beautiful slir,:,ud ings where we krow our 0wp towers.
 Gable Address
 "BOLFLORER" B W. Main St. Tel. 8S6. Prof. Bldg. "The Telegraph F1orist of New Britain
New Britain herald., 1927-05-06

First quarter net profit of Gould Coupler Company declined to $77,- 124 from s14S,o46 in the first quarter of 1926.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-06

Net profit of the Syrnington Com .pany for the first quarter fell to $64,9s9 from $19S,377 in the first quarter last year,
New Britain herald., 1927-05-06

Rec Motor Car Company has awarded contract to Commercial Investment Trust Corporation to be it's official financing service for Rec Motor cars, truck and busses on the deferred payment plan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-01
WATERFOWL HUNTING
OVER FOR THIS SEASON
Unlawful to Shoot Ducks in Dis
trict and Maryland After
Last Midnight.

After last midnight it became un-
lawful under the regulations of the mi
gratory bird treaty act to hunt wild
ducks and geese, coots, gallinules and
Wilson snipe or jacksnipe in New
Jersey, Delaware. Long Island, Mary
land, the District of Columbia, Vir-
GINA, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Missis.
sippi, Tennessee Arkansas, Oklahoma,
Louisiana, Texas and Arizona. In all
other states the season closed Decem-
Der 81 or January Is.
The Federal bird law protecting
birds migrating between the United
States and Canada is administered by
the Biological Survey of the Depart
ment Of Agriculture, and provides that
birds killed during the open season
may be possessed for an additional
period of 10 days following the end of
the season where killed. Hunters are
warned by the Biological Survey that
the possession of the carcasses of wild
ducks, geese or other migratory game
birds in cold storage plants or else
where after February 10 will subject
them to prosecution in Federal courts
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-01
CLUB GIVEN CREDIT
FOR PERFECT LASSIE
Women's Farm Extension Group
Halls Healthiest Girl as
Great Achievement.

By the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, Ga, February Mis-
sissippi's achievement in producing
the healthiest girl in the Nation for
the third time in four years was
pointed out yesterday as among the
outstanding accomplishments of the
year for the women's farm extension
clubs of the South.
The gathering of extension workers
here yesterday, preliminary to the
opening tomorrow of the Association
of Southern Agricultural Workers,
listed these high lights in their work
of the year.
Miss Jeanette Rushing was de-
clared. along with girl from the
midwest, as Americas most per-
fectly fit physically lassie at a Chi
cago contest of Nationwide scope.
Programs and tests carried out in
five counties of Alabama and South
Carolina showed that proper food for
growing children comes from the gar
den and dairy.
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A. P. OFFICES ARE MOVED
WITHOUT SERVICE BREAK
Paris Headquarters Transferred as
Associated Press Continues
Handling of News.
Nv the Aeeocieted Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, February 1.-The Paris
bureau Of the Associated Press, whose
work has steadily been expanding,
yesterday completed it's removal to
larger quarters at 81 Rue Vivienne
without a break in its lines of com
munication with the capitals of Eu-
rope and the United States.
Expansion of the French service
and that Of Eastern Europe which is
relayed through Paris to New York,
required larger offices than those
which the bureau had occupied for
many years. An entire floor of a new
building not far from its old offices
in the Place De La Bourse was en-
gagged, to which the Associated Press
Bureau was transferred Sunday.
-Four telegraph, three telephone
lines, a ticker service and a pneumatic
tube were installed and placed in oper-
alton without q break.
The new offices give ample provision
for feature service, archives and full
office equipment. The Paris bureau
staff, which numbered three persons
On 1914, has now grown to ten.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-01

Plain and Duplex Green and White Shades
mounted on excellent spring rollers all 8 it. wide by
#. inches long and complete with all necessary
fixtures. The oil opaque shades in the
terra Gotta color and the Holland in green.
Kann's-Third Floor
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SNAKES AS PART.
OF ELIXIR OF LIFE.
Pearls, Flowers and Dragons
Also Used in Franciscan
Monks Formula.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, February l.
Pearls, flowers snakes and dragons
are among the ingredients of a for
mula recorded by Roger Bacon, Fran
ciscan monk of the thirteenth century,
for maintaining like in youthful vigor
for a hundred years of more
Telling of the formula before the
Medieval Academy of America last
might, Dr. Robert Belle Burke, dean
Of the College of the University of
Pennsylvania and professor of Latin,
who spent four years in translating
Bacon'S work said that the elixir
probably was valueless in prolonging
life.
Life of "Many Centuries.
In his "Opus Majus,' translated by
DR. Burke, Bacon cited philosophers
and historians of the middle ages as
having previously described an elixir
of life, with examples of it's effect.
Bacon credited the Philosopher
-Artephius with having written about
his own life Of many centuries"
A formula in a treatise known
as THE Regiment of the Aged" was
interpreted by Bacon as gold, re-
lined to an extreme degree, pearl, "a
thing most efficacious for preserving
life; anthos, or flower of sea dew,
which possesses an ineffable virtue
against the condition of old age"
dianthos, a mixture of leaves and
fragments of wood and a small por-
ton of flower; ambergris, a bone
growing in the heart of the stag,
(which possesses great power against
premature old age" and the flesh of
the Tyrian snake properly prepared
and eaten with spices,
Remedy for Old Age.
This" Bacon wrote, lis an excel
lent remedy for the condition of old
age and for all the corruptions of the
constitution, If 1t is taken with things
suitable to ones constitution and con-
dition, as we are taught in the book
on The Regiment of the Aged"
Bacon recommended that the mix
ture include the flesh of the flying
dragon, which, he said, the Philippians.
by a secret art of preparation, had
used to prolong life and sharpen their
intellect beyond all conception.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-01

Good heavy duck swings, with
steel frames, strong web supports
and a screw hook so that they
can be hung. A nice way to keep
the baby happy is to put him in
one of these swings-where he is
comfortable and out of harms
way.
Kann's-Fourth Floor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-01
Gets Commission.

John A. B. McElveney, House ONCE
Building, this city, has been commits
stoned by the War Department a first
lieutenant in the Military Intelligence
Division, Officers Reserve Corps of the
q YTnX
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-01
when Won Feel a Cold Coming On

Take Laxative BRQMO, QUININE Tablets
10 work off the Cold and to fortify the sys-
tenn against an attack of Grip or Influenza
a Safe and Proven Remedy. The box bears
New Britain herald., 1927-06-03

demonstration of the importance of our industries to the city can be cited. It is a comon trait elsewhere to refer to New Britain as a fac tory town;" we think, if these critics were acquainted with all the facts. they would be perfectly willing to become such a town. It is in the small non-factory towns, in truth, where the states tax collectors find most to complain about, in some small towns the facility to avoid paying taxes when they are due is one of the best developed of traits; and at the same time these towns with their high proportion of tax dodgers are so well represented in the Legislature that they are com monly credited with running the state"
 Taxation as we have it Is part of the cost of doing business. Store owners In this city, for instance, are called upon to pay more than s4e6.- 900 on their stocks Of merchandise. Being nearly half as much as the factories pay and quite half as much as all the owners of private homes pay. this seems rather high. The public really pays this tax; it is part Of the costs of doing business and the public pays all such costs, al- though it is one of those species of taxes which nobody feels when he is paying if. As some political expert once declared. an Invisible type Of tax is the best kind to levy as the public never kicks about something il does not feel.
New Britain herald., 1927-06-03
Observations On He Weather

Washington. June s.-Forecast for Southern New England: Cloudy. possibly rain on the coast tonight and Saturday; not much change in temperature. Fresh northeast winds, possibly strong on the south- east coast tonight.
 Forecast for Eastern New York: Partly cloudy with rain in south portion: Saturday showers: not much change in temperature; fresh northeast and east winds.
 Conditions: The center of the eastern area of high pressure is over Vermont this morning. Cloudy conditions extend eastward ovsr tho southern portions of the middle Att lantic and New England statea The western disturbance centers over Oklahoma and Kansas It is producing showers over scattered districts from the Rocky Mountains. eastward to Ohio. Another center overspreads Manitoba. A slight disturbance ofe the Virginia and North Carolina coasts Is causing moderate to heavy rains in south- eastern Virginia and eastern North Carolina. Temperatures remain about the same as yesterday.
 Conditions favor for this vicinity fair weather followed by local showers and not much change in temperature.
New Britain herald., 1927-06-03
TO STIMULATE USE OF CROSSTOWN ROUTE,

Need for crosstown highways which have the double advantage of eliminating railroad grade crossings and avoiding downtown congestion, is self-evident. Some such crosstown routes already exist, but judging how they are not used by trucks or automobiles their existence is not generally appreciated
 One such route. which is particu- larly available for traffic bound from Waterbury and Plainville for Berlin, Meriden, New Haven, Bridgeport. New York and vice versa is in existence. From Plain vile it is only necessary for such traffic to leave West Main street at Jerome, travelling southerly to the junction Of Corbin avenue and Shuttle Meadow avenue, thence on the latter highway to the junction of Rentschler street formerly known as Buell. street) then on Rentschler Cor BuellD street to South Main street. which is near the Berlin town line. Or vice versa.
 Considering that this alternate iA n~tn ok l,, fewer curves than the more com monly used route through the busi- ness section of the city it is surpris- ing that 1t Is not used more fre- quently, especially by the out-of- town trucks which habitually trans port goods through the congested areas.
 The city is now improving part Of Fentschler street; some portions of that street need further improve ment, and it should be done at the earliest opportunity to invite traffic over the route.
 Then, when the route is in apple pie order, signs at West Main and Rentschler Cor BuelD streets, could notify drivers of the existence of the alternate and shorter route through the outskirts of the city. Strangers cannot be expected to know the existence of such alternate routes unless they are called to their attention.
New Britain herald., 1927-06-03
SACCO-NANZETTI PROGRESS

Governor Fuller Of Massachusetts not only has set his office staff at work acknowledging the receipt of every communication in connection with the Sacco-N -Nanzetti case. but he has also done Commcndahle thing in appointing commission to aiI him in coming to decision regard ing tn" adVisa bility of a new tria!
 We arn willing to bcliry" that JuStie" has not yet departed from Massachusetts and that the two prisoners will receive that to which they in common dcc"ncy are en- titl-d--a Few trial. No pardon or communication ui sentence is being requested. The belief is now wido- spread that such a trial will be recommended and granted.
 If the prisoners are as black as the few who demand their blood claim them 10 be. il should not be difficult 10 convict them al Il sub sequon' trial
 Il the! ate innocent, new triai.
New Britain herald., 1927-06-03
THE FLOATING HOSPITAL

The fame of Boston's floating hos pital was nationwide; pictures of this unique vessel, which for years throughout the summer months took 200 tenement district children down the bay for fresh air sails daily, have appeared in countless publications. This noble work of charity was held up as model. something for other seaport cities to initiate.
 Destruction by fire of this floating hospital will not mean the aban- donment of such a noble enterprise: for season. perhaps, but no longer Those who rejoiced in the knowledge that New England's first city regarded it's childhood so high ly as to provide a ship for daily sails will rejoice once more when news is printed as 1t inevitably will be-that new and larger ship has been pur- chased for the purpose. or that one is being built.
New Britain herald., 1927-06-03

education and our business effi- ciency. we are just as careless as We were 20 years ago-even more 80, if the records of the post office are a criterion.
 In a city such as New Britain, where much mail is addressed to foreign countries, and in hand writ ing that is a mixture of English and every other language on the globe, the situation ia particularly trying. When. as frequently happens. the senders Of such missives fail to add return addresses, the mail just dis appears. never arrives at its destin- ation, and ultimately the writers claim the post office in this country is terribly ineflicient.
New Britain herald., 1927-06-03
25 Tears Ago To-day

The terms of peace were made public today and the Boer war is ended.
 The finance committee will hold a hearing tomorrow evening on the petition of city laborers for Satur- day half-holiday. It is believed a favorable report will be sent along to the council.
 Another case of smallpox was re- ported today. with a second person under suspicion. Two Greenwood and kensington street residents called at the mayors office today and were disappointed in finding he was out. They told reporter they were not satisfied with the treatment of the cases but they could not go into details.
 The petition got out by the Economic league to have town meeting called for the purpose Of deciding whether or not the town of New Britain desires consolidation with the city has many signers, in cluding r. H. Oldershaw. Rev. H. I. Bodley. Joseph NJ. Halloran and c. c. Rossberg.
 The Philharmonic band has been engaged to play for the Tabs outing from this city and Middletown to New York and Coney Island on July 31.
 George Griswold Of Berlin, the stenographer at the court of inquiry held to investigate the trouble in Co. F. has made two typewriter reports of the testimony. The re- port covers 60 pages. One report was given to the captain today and the other will be sent to the colonel.
New Britain herald., 1927-06-03
CiRELESSNESS IN LETTER WRITING

For many years the post office has campaigned relentlessly in favor of legible addresses on letters: also in favor of return addresses in the upper left hand corner; for earlier mailing: for public cooperation in the hundred and one little things which insure prompt handling of mail matter.
 In this way, the public was told, much of the mail ultimately arriv- ing at the dead letter office in Washington would avoid that ignominious fate.
 Perhaps the army of clerks in the dead letter office trembled for their jobs when the campaign started. However, they still have their jobs; ; probably additional clerks have been employed.
 Some years ago the post office de- partment made a rule that all mail addressed to firms in the large cities should have the street ad- dresses thereon. This meant that no mail should merely be addressed to the John Jones Co.,, New York City" but to the John Jones Co.,, IS East First street." etc. But there was no penitentiary sentence affixed to the rule, and by now every firm in New York and every other large city thinks itself important enough 10 have mail arrive without the street address thereon. Street ad- dresses of these firms rarely appear in the advertising matter, and in a large percentage Of them is even missing on the letter heads. The result: An army Of clerks must be employed in every major post office whose duty 1t is to direct a large proportion of this mail to the firms intended. II is their duties 10 affix the street addresses, which could just as easily have been done by the sendcrs in the first place. They do not need 10 write the street addresses on the envelopes, in most , cases, merely placing 1t in the box of the proper letter carrier on the
 route. who. once letter gets in his ! hands, usually knows where it's des- tination lies.
 Another Trick is to have the 1 wrong states written. There is q i Washington in nearly half d dozen states, and people in a hurry are as | likely to write ID. C." through | fore" of habit, when Mo- may be meant
 The post office is said to be an in
 stitntion peculiarly responsive to
 public demands; but the public is ! not responsive 10 the demands ot
 the post office. ln spite of all our
New Britain herald., 1927-06-03

depends entirely on its size. color and quality. Large rubies are scarce and of high value so that [ three carat ruby of good color and free from flaws Is worth several times as much as q diamond of the same size.
 Q. How is papier mache made?
 A. Chiefly from old paper by boiling 1t to . pulp with water. pressing, mixing with glue or starch paste, and then forcing 1t into a mould previously oiled After dry ing. the articles are soaked with linseed oil and then dried at hign temperature. Another variety is made of sheets of paper. sometimes from 30 to 70 in number. paster on metal cores to form blanks; after wards planed. vanished. and polished with pumice stone.
 Q. Where is Pentland Firth?
 A. It is a channel between the Atlantic and the North Sea separa- ting the mainland of Scotland from the Orkney Islands. It is 14 miles long from east to west and from 6 to miles broad. Rapid tidal cur rents and dangerous whirlpools rem der navigation difficult.
 Q. Where is the street familiarly referred to as "Old Bailey?
 A. In London, England. The Sessions House, in which are held the sittings Of the Central Criminal court, is situated in this street.
 Q. Who are the Orangemen?
 A. An association of Protestants. organized to defend the Protestant succession to the British throne and the Protestant religion in church and state as settled by the Bill of Rights and Act of Settlement of 1888. It originated with William, Prince of Orange. upon his arrival in England. but was not definitely established in Ulster till 1795. While its influence has been most marked in Ireland. the organization has extended to Great Britain and her colonies, and there are also lodges in the United States.
 Q. What Is the meaning of the name Vincent?
 A. It is from the Latin and means "conquering".