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New Britain herald., 1929-10-25
VALUELESS STOCKS
 BRING MAN RICHES
Some Come to Life, Some Make
 Party FayOrS

New York, Oct. 25.-There are many men who deal in worthless se- curities and call them by other names. But there is only one per son who will sell you beautifully en- grayed stocks and guarantee, on his professional honor, that they are worthless.
 He is Roland NJ, Smythe, dealer in broken dreams. For 45 years he has occupied tiny office at 92 Broadway, and in that time has built a profitable and highly specialized business from his original hobby of Investigating worthless" stocks and bonds.
 Here, in dusty old tonnes, done largely in private code, are the obituaries of 300, 900 dead corpora tions. Scrap books with yellowed newspaper clippings marked by strange footnotes form part of the library. Smythe cares little about successful issues, and their records usually are missing. But the failures and there are enough of them are there in full detail.
 On Stock Exchange at 23
 Smythe was born in Ireland "A years ago. His father was a ship broker and provided an excellent education for his son in this coun- try. He was out of college and in the brokerage business before he 0 h,, I,g,r. of the stock exchange.
 Naturally gifted as a statistician, Smythe collected data on various stocks and bonds and soon was be- sieged with inquiries from other brokers regarding certain issues, ITO discourage this drain on my time" Smythe said, T started charg- ing q fee for advice
 T should have known better. This immediately set me up as an 'eX- pert and increased the number of calls. Finally I had to surrender my brokerage business and give all my time to tracing these cases.'
 Unexpected Profits
 Since then the world has beaten a path 10 the door of the man who rattles the skeletons of defunct or. ganizations. A young heir stands before him with a handful of securi, ties salvaged from his estate and learns they are worth only the paper they are printed on. Leaders of high finance, manipulating new combines, seek his advice on out. standing old issues before merging old concerns. Collectors come 10 hin and gloat over specimens of early American promotion schemes. Ad ministrators of the largest estate! hire him to hunt for buried treas ures in musty old safe deposi boxes. And cranks flood him witt wild schemes for retaining for tunes which once were flung to thu winds.
 From all over the world. issue long forgotten to everyone bu Smythe are resurrected from hidin. places and sent to him for appraisal Often the stock is not worth tn nominal fee he charges for his re search, but at.]east he satisfies th owners that wealth Is not waitin around the corner.
 Smythe may buy the old issues may pay up to s1 a thousand fo the gaudy paper that once looked s promising. He may use them in hi files, for study, or as rare specimen for his collection, Many are resolc to bankers for window displays, t colleges for use in the study 0 stocks and bonds. or 10 faddists wh wish 10 paper rooms with gilt edged" securities.
 Smythe has made money iron forgotten stocks that have risen lik golden ghosts to become revenue producing securities. But when h
New Britain herald., 1929-10-25
H0STESSES SPEND l MUCH ON FLOWERS
$500 a Night Not Excessive for
 Capital Entertainments

Washington, Oct. 25. P-Wash- ington hostesses think nothing of spending $500 for flowers for sim gle evenings entertainment.
 Tables arranged in hollow squares with sunken gardens in the middle; solid banks of roses the length of table seating several hundred guests; floors sodded with grass to resemble the outdoors-these are
New Britain herald., 1929-10-25

greenery and pink blossoms and lighted from within by electric lights.
 Sometimes tiny fountains tinkle in these dinner table gardens. Pink acacias trail over white arbors as securely as though they had not been arranged for just one occasion.
 Florists bills for big weddings often range from $500 to s2,000. One bride had the church platform almost completely hidden by cedar trees Clusters of calla lilies marked each of the pews.
New Britain herald., 1929-10-25
Mama May Rock Cradle
 But Papa Quiets Baby

Chicago, Oct. 25 Pl-Mama' mana may rock the cradle bvt pepas voice calms the child, providing his voice is not a squeaky tenor.
 Bass voices, and not too harmon ious, sing the best lullabies. accord ing to Dr. John J. B. Morgan, ps%- chologist at Northwestern University, who has been investigating responses of infants to various tones.
 Pure tones are best, he found, and those of low frequency are less disturbing to infants than others.
New Britain herald., 1929-10-25

corporation is the largest private owner, with 100000 head. Exports of reindeer meat and hides have been increasing rapidly the last few years.
 Four Lapps, six Eskimo men, two Eskimo women and a doctor will conduct the trek. Fifty sleds will carry provisions for the party. The reindeer will live off the land, dig ging under the snow for moss and
New Britain herald., 1929-10-25

purchased them they were dead and he had no reason to believe 1 they would ever live again. l But he has made more money I for other people. Several times he has pronounced an issue dead only to find signs of an awakening years | later. Immediately he notifies the ! holders of the issue, and delights them with information that they have come into possession of new wealth. And he has a considerable market for this knowledge of loCa- | ton of lost issues.
 For instance, considerable num- | Der of shares of revolutionary bonds ! issued by Cuba in 1896 passed through his hands. Persons of u i speculative mind, who dreamed of finding wealth in spots where for tune least freQuents, or who wanted | expensive souvenirs, purchased a number of these war bonds from him at $2O per share.
 1 Smythe warned them at the time that these securities were worth no more at the time and might later become valueless. Years later the Cuban government recognized the issue and offered to retire the bonds at s1,50O each. Smythe advised his clients Of the windfall and they profited by their dealing through him.
 How Stocks Are Revived
 How do stocks and bonds come to life at rare intervals? A basic patent controlled by company long since defunct, may fit in with new discovery and become useful This has occurred many times in the progress Of radio and aviation. A prosperous company may find that it's records are clouded by an old issue unobserved when the cur rent organization was formed. The holdings of an old company that withered without reaching it's goal may suddenly become potentially rich because of new discoveries.
 One day q doctor from Yonkers, N. Y, bought a stack of old cer- tificates and papered his den with them. Smythe sold the lot for $40.
 The incident of the sale was for gotten until Smythe received com munication from the secretary of a defunct coal mining company which had had offices in St, Louis. Tho secretary wrote that the company had come in possession of consid- erable property and was anxious to get possession of as much of the outstanding stock, thought to be worthless, as possible.
 The dealer went to his books and discovered that a number of the certificates were in the batch he had sold to the Yonkers physician, who was notified.
 His Own Wall Street
 The doctor, however. who still was very proud of his den de- clared it would be impossible to re- move the paper from the room with out destroying it.
 So a representative of the con- pany went to Yonkers and spent 8 pleasant day on a step-ladder can ceiling the stock with a rubber stamp.
 Thus the doctor kept his wal
 paper and sold it to. He realized profit of S1,400.
 If you ever attend swanky din
 ner party and find a thousand shares of handsome looking securities un' der your plate, the gift of a genia . host, think of Mir. Smythe. They are probably some of his ghosts Fol he has done a wholesale business 1T furnishing such favors for fanc! 1pCCasionS 4sh
New Britain herald., 1929-10-25

other foods. Travel will be during the winter months only, the average daily coverage being 10 miles. In the summer the herd will graze.
 About every 60 days Alfred I. Lomen will fly from Nome and as- certain requirements of the party.
 Schools and colleges in the United States are expected to spend s425,- 000,000 for new buildings this year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-24
AROUND THE CITY
BY MAMIE LANCASTER.

and hard. Then she stood UP in the
aisle by her seat, raised her hand and
pointed a finger at good natured look
ing man who Chanced to be watching
her Then she called out to him with
loud imperativeness that commanded
the interest of everybody around:
II am going to try and get off this
car without breaking leg, and want
you to take notice, because l may need
YOU on the witness stand when I sue
for damages. Do you hear me, motor
man?"
AS the car had come to stop and the
man at the wheel was as motionlesJ as
if he were blue granite Instead OF blue
cloth, the unusual sort of woman must
have taken IL to mean that he heard,
for she continued:
IF YOU start this car before I get of
I'll have the law on yCu. want TINS
railway company to know I'm no young
daddy longlegs."
She landed in safety. to the giggling
enjoyment of the passengers, and when
she had waved permission for the car
to proceed and was trudging toward
the curb. one woman said to her pre-
sumable husband seated alongside
lazy man who seemed half asleep-or
maybe overworked:
isn't she a lively old joke?"
And the man who was either lazy or
overworked finished his yawn and then
, grunted:
"Uhhuh."
THE horse and the Indian have taken
L. fresh hold on life--see statistics-
and yet:
The horse has had his day. The au-
tnx,1nhtln GWp2fC
by the automobile Dobbin gets one
satisfaction out of his eXtinguishment:
It. was a good long day that stretched
from the Apocalypse to the Argonne.
And that means the history of the
world.
Just to look at the record from Dob
bins eyes-without blinders-what sort
of silly show would the Centaur
have made if he had been half car
instead of half horse, with NOBODY to
start the machine part of him going?
And to skip from mythology's shade
to the light of the Bible: How could
an automobile have reproved Balaam as
Balaam was reproved by Balaam's ass?
Dobbin's humble brother helped to
save the Child from Herod's- knife and
carried the Nazarene over jerusalem
palms treWed way. From crusader to
circuit rider, the horse has borne Chris
tianity to earth distances that could
never have been plodded by man. He
has suffered the thirsts and famines
of every missionary he carried, and
has died martyrs death with no hope
of a martyrs reward
And, since his sinless body, burden
ed by man and book, bore the added toll
of travel what right have we to pre-
sumo that He who marked the spar
rows fall will apotheosize the evangelist
and disregard the beast?
Could an automobile bear a cavalry
squadron through the carnage of battle
and give its life for a flag? 1t could
not, because it has no life. 1t has only
a motor that chugs 1t can blow ur
or turn turtle but it cannot suffer
because to suffer one must live.
The car claims that it can do any
thing a horse can do, which is non
} sense. for the reason that one is g
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machine and the other a living intel
lgence. It is the difference between
gasoline and blood.
The best that laudation can do for
machine is to give 1t spotlight flash
on the sporting page for clipping sec
onds from the racing record-With extra
headlines if the driver gets killed on
the run. After that a car strikes the
downgrade bargain sale class and
finishes on the scrap heap. A horse
dies. Like man.
The automobile claims to outspeed
the fastest horse, which Dobbin admits
with the sinister reminder that no
machine can OUTRAGE the pale white
steed" that stops at every mans door!
Today's automobile puts the horse in
yesterdays class. And this is Dobbin'S
def:
The car horse has gone and the field
horse may follow, but, so long as man.
nature calls for tanbark, race and high
Jump, the thoroughbred will keep his
place in sport. And SO long as cannon
answers cannon, so long will a horse
follow wherever flag leads the way.
X X
II EMS are not the most stupid of
domestic fowls One dirt farmer
who came to- the Inauguration denies
this world rumor by telling about two
biddies of his own. One belligerent
fowl has been named Carrie Nation,
and, to further evidence distinct indi-
viduality in these barnyard citizenry, he
mentions another hen whose ability to
create commotion among her kind
has caused him to classify her as a
Mabel Mathematician Democratic
point of view.
Another farmer, who was likewise
here to see Mr.. Hoover sworn in, arrived
in time to help us experience our one
sleetstorm that transformed the Capitol
into a crystal palace set in fairy tale
domain. He said that the tenacity OF
the shining ice that covered the trees
betokened fine fruit crop this year.
When the sleet melts quickly in the
first bit of sunshine, the blossoms. later
will fall off just as quickly and leave the
boughs bare of fruit. When the ice
clings firmly like this we can count on
big fruit crop for the year" Which
is most comfortable to know about
provided 1t is true.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-24

Senator Jones of Washington, author
of the new liquor law enforcement act,
pointed out yesterday that Representa-
tive Stalker of New York was a co-au-
thor of the measure and suggested to the
press that hereafter the act be referred
to as the Jones-Stalker law.
The letter follows
ut has come to my attention that
there is a tendency to call the recent
dry law. which was enacted during the
last session of Congress, the Jones law,
whereas 1t should properly be called
the Jones-Stalker law. Congressman
Stalker and 1 are co-authors of this
important measure.
The Jones-Stalker bill was intro
duced by Congressman Stalker in the
House January Is, 1928 and was on
the House calendar March q 1923.
introduced this in the Senate January
q, 1928. and it was on the Senate call
endar April 9, 1928. This measure passed
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mover, Thirty-1rst street, Mount

Conover, Thirty-flrst street, Mount
Rainier
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Jehli and
daughter Ruby of Thirty-fourth street,
Mount Rainier, are on motor trip to
Florida.
Mr.. and Mrs Leonard Negus, Date
street, Mount Rainier, are home from a
visit of several weeks in North Caro-
lima.
Mr.. Lanhardt of Atlanta. Ga, was a
recent guest of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs
George H. Lanhardt, West Hyattsville.
DR.. and Mrs. William H. Norton,
Thirty fourth street, Mount Rainier,
have returned from visit to Cuba.
A st. Patrick's card party was held
Monday evening by the st. James
Catholic School Mothers Club in the
school auditorium at Mount Rainier. 1t
was well attended.
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Roller Skates Come Back.

Roller skates are coming into their
own agon. now that they are going into
business. 1t was recently recorded that
they were being used in some telephone
exchanges to speed the operators In
moving to different positions at the
boards. but this is but one of many
uses of a similar kind to which they
appear to be adapted In mail order
houses. where goods must be gathered,
from many parts of a large floor to,
complete an order. they have proved
especially effective
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-24

mad enough TO bite
nails. She said SO.
Having reached a
decision to partake
of cold iron she
paused for the SYM
pathy that the 9TH
er woman failed to
supply:
L don't see how
you could expect a
store to take back
goods that you have
cut into. You were
foolish to have
bought it, in the
first place, seeing
you are too chunky
for checks"
I'm no such a
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tnlng! I'm the eX-
act size of the Venus de thingamaiig.
except in height. The teacher told me
that time I took art lessons on trial
l know stripes make me look longer,
but 1t was such a lovely blue crossbar
and now suppose I've got to wear it,
"You might give it away" The I'M
sympathizer was just the right size for
checks
II see myself! I take notice people
don't tumble over themselves in their
hurry to give me presents. The trouble
with me is I'm too generous to my rela-
tives. I've just gone and given my
cousin brown silk I could have made
over for myself"
THAT old foulard? What on earth
did she want with it?"
II like your nerve! Why. woman
that goods cost me 81 when I bought it. !"
"Forty-eleven years ago."
mo such a thing. 1t was just be-
fore the war started, and I've only made
it over twice. If she doesn't like it
she can lump 1t. AS for me, feel that
I've given it to the Lord"
And what 90 you suppose the Lord
wants with" She must have been
wholesome, reverent woman, for as
the words were hurting out she stopped
dS IL Sic Ildu tilC 1etoC OLlC Oll IlhC
thread. But humor is irresistible.
Her chuckle. broading into hearty
laughter, gave to a third woman who
was standing near-all of them in front
of department store. as if the yellow
sunshine was too joyous to waste 1t
inside-such a mind picture of brown
foulard that had been made over twice
and given to the Lord because it was
good for nothing else, as to create a
wonderment about the spiritual value of
all the junk in this world that we give
away to the Lord"
X X X
4 N unusual sort of woman was about
4 to leave a street car. 1t was car
with a higher step-up than most, and
the individual efforts of oldish passen-
gers in getting aboard would have made
a star feature of comic section sheet.
The unusual sort of woman made
elaborate preparations for her depar-
ture. First she pressed a button long
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-24
MOSQUITO Bite Cures.

After many years of disrepute as a
carrier of contagion, the mosquito is be-
ginning to emerge as friend of man
J. F. Marshall, director of the British
Mosquito Control Institute, declares that
certain type of mosquito has recently
been used in cases of general PARALYSIS
with considerable success. It was found
that the fever resulting from MOSQUITO
bite lessened paralysis, and some COM
plete cures were effected.
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Chapters.
Orange Cure Grips British.

Dieting on oranges has become the
rage throughout England. The vogue
has been given quite an impetus by
Lady Lawrence, who is one OF the most
earnest woman workers of the Conser-
vative party. Anxious to get into
fighting trim" for the general cleo
lions, she took a course of treatment
which consisted almost solely of dieting.
She consumed six oranges day and
took long walks between meals"
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New Enforcement Act Called r
"Jones-Stalker Law" by Co-Author

the Senate February 10. 1929: the
House February 20. 1928. and was signed
by President Coolidge March 2. 1928.
1t is now public law 899.
Il hope that the proper term will
be used in referring to this important
step in prohibition legislation. and that
it will be known as the Jones-Stalker
law"
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~ HE was forcing the season in a
tan pongee, speckled with green
moons set in pink triangles. Her
. Spring straw was wreathed with
more moons. only they were
grapes, and her hair was the color OF
the yarn that women carried in war
time knitting bags-provided it was
gray instead of khaki Also, she was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-24

An expert has calculated that there
was enough heat in the mass of lava
which recently flowed from Mount Etna
to provide all Italy with electricity for
four years.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-05
SLAYINC LAID
TO DRY AGENT
Raider In Jail After Farmer
Is Killed In Rum
Raid

SHAWNEE, Okla, July 5.-(P)-
Following a gun fight with two
farmers during a liquor raid in
which one of them was killed, Jeff
B. Harris, federal prohibition agent.
today was in the county jail at
Tecumseh, Okla.
James Harris, one of the farmers,
died at midnight after accusing
the officer of ordering him to throw
down his gun and then shooting
him.
The officer denied this, saying
that while he was looking into some
chicken coops- on the Harris farm,
he saw the farmer coming toward
him with a shotgun.
Oscar Lowery, "a, brother-in- law
of James Harris, started to run, and
as he thought he was going after
a gun the officer said he shot him.
Lowery is in a critical condition.
Harris fled to some bushes along a
creek, the federal agent said, and
as he approached. came out of the
bushes, ready to shoot. He fired,
the officer said, as he saw the gun.
Three other federal officers who
participated in the raid were ar
rested, but released.
Randall Pitman, PottaWatomie
county attorney, said murder
charges would be filed.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-05
FLOOD AREA
RECLAIMED
Dallas Industry Takes Ad-
vantage of Land In
undated

DALLAS, Tex, July 5.-(P)-Dal-
las sees an industrial renaissance in
the reclamation Of 10000 acres Of
land near the geographical heart of
the city.
1t is costing $1,000 an acre to
reclaim that area in the Trinity
river bottoms, where floods have
forbidden industrial expansion. En-
gineers estimate that $25,000000
will be spent in improvements
within five years after this project
is completed.
Until $11,oo0o00 in bonds was
voted to reclaim the Trinity's basin,
Dallas industry had been forced to
stop at it's edge.
Once each 20 years. for the last
80 years, the river flooded these
10000 acres. That area always
has separated Dallas and Oak Cliff,
a suburb Of 10000.
Now the river in Dallas business
area is being shortened by % miles.
A new channel is being dug be-
tween levees, 80 feet high and 156
feet thick at the base. Altogether,
25 miles of levees and Is miles of
new channel are being constructed.
Once completed, seven new bridges
will open added highways between
Dallas and Oak Cliff. The reclaimed
district borders on the railroad CEN
ter, so trackage facilities for new
factories will be available. The pro-
ject is to be finished within a year.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-05
Detroit River Rum
Runners Captured
After Short Battle

DETROIT, July 5.-tP)-Attempt-
ing TO run the rum blockade in
the Detroit river at l a. m. today,
four men were arrested and their
liquor laden boat seized after coast
guards had fired several shots at
them. One of the four arrested
was shot in the leg. A fifth man,
believed to be wounded, escaped by
swimming into Canadian waters.
The rum runners were discovered
between Ecorse and Fighting island
about 800 feet from the former
shore by a coast guard boat under
command of F. T. Hagglove, chief
boatSWains mate. AS the govern
ment vessel gave chase the rum rum
ners attempted to ram the boat
and then cut loose from a lugger
which was loaded with 300 cases Of
beer. The coast guards followed,
firing about 20 shots, one of which
finally crippled the motor Of the
retreating vessel.