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required to make a bond guaran-
teeing that he will build the home
as provided in the contract, that
he will pay all the bills which he
assumes for material and labor and
that the work will be satisfactory
to the owners and completed in the
required time limit.
Acceptance Of the contractors
bond means the approach Of the
actual construction work. The
contractor now orders his materi-
ais from the supply stores and
lumber yards where he has estab-
lished a line Of credit thru bonds
secured through insurance COM
panies. The material Is moved onto
the lot and Is Immediately insured
under the builders risk policy 10
protect it and the building in which
it is used during the course Of
construction.
Peace of mind is the lot Of the
newly-weds. They know that they
are guaranteed the title TO their
land and that their contractor will
fulfill his job as provided under
his contract.
Then, the house is completed.
and the furniture buying period is
on.
The rugs, chairs. beds and other
furniture are ordered and perhaps
a substantial payment Is made on
the bill but there still remains a
balance which is financed on the
payment plan. Here again the in
surance feature steps in and Of
fers protection to the dealer who
has sold the merchandise on cred
il. He Is the owner Of a policy that
insures him from wrongful CONVEX
sion of the property so sold. He
also holds a blanket policy on al
deferred payment merchandise sold
BY him which protects him from
the loss by fire and theft Of the
merchandise.
The new home owners now car
~ on their program Of real pro-
lection on their possessions and
they purchase a policy to secure
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them from loss resulting from fire,
tornado, explosion and other haz-
ards. But 'hese possessions are
not secure from all hazards. An
accident with their automobile, q
resultant Judgment against them
and 1t is possible that their home
could be taken. To forestall such o
calamity they secure a public Ii
ability and property damage policy
on their automobile. And this
risk Is eliminated.
yet there still remains q hazard
which they have yet to ward off.
Suppose that the head OF the
house, the one upon whom rests the
responsibility for meeting the
monthly installmentS on house and
furniture should become Ill, or him.
self be injured in an accident.
rom whence would come the funds
with which to carry on? An acci-
dent and health policy will meet
this crisis and the doctors bills will
continue to be paid and the furni-
ture dealer will receive his INSTALL
ment payments in the usual way.
And throughout the course OF
the life Of this happy family, will
run the thread Of the part played
by insurance"
Christian church. Levee and
Fourth, $4,000. Two-story, hollow
tile and stucco.
r. J. Burchard, West Ninth, one
room frame addition to residence,
$500.
Antonio Hill. Harrison, new roof,
minor repairs. si00.
Mrs. Del Perkins, Washington,
cover roof with composition
shingles. s400.
Victor Junco. brick and tile store
building, one story, six rooms, 81
700.
David Compso. jefferson. resi-
dence, 4-rocm frame, sheetrock in
terror, $500.
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used. All door and window trim
Is very narrow. Should additional
room be required in later years,
the partition In the coat closet
could DO removed and a fight OF
stairs extended to the second floor
where additional bedrooms and
bath may be provided.
The ceilings in this house are
rather low so as to conform to the
true Colonial spirit and this same
feeling Is also to be found in the
quaint Colonial fireplace and fin
ished hardware OF the doors, etc.
The basement extends under the
entire house, which has cement
floor and the usual service features
and garage, IL grade permits. are
found here.
This house ia but % feet wide
overall and its cost Is estimated TO
be between $4,000 and $500. ex-
elusive OF heating and plumbing.
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SO. 1870

The charm OF the Cape Cod Cot.
tase is found entirely In its elegant,
though simple lines. and its general
mass and proportion. A delicate
touch Of refinement Is TO be found
In the shape, size and location of
the doors and windows. together
with such details as cornice work,
main entrance door, trim, iron or
wood ratings, etc.
The exterior OF this little cottage
Is indeed very attractive, with its
cream colored side walls OF clap
board or shingles. deep-green wood
single roof. blue green shutters.
and dark-red wire-cut brick Chin
ney, resting upon its base OF nat
ural stone. Exterior wrought iron
work, such as a railing at main
entrance, shutter holdbacks. and
Colonial chimney iron are jet black.
All interior walls arc finished
smoothly SO that the quaint Co.
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ID Fl Sfk &SY FX sST i
PUZZLES

PUZZLES
Our cross word puzzle this week is IN q
blockhouse such as early settlers In America
built to protect themselves from the Indians
MS a good place for hard battle
THE BLOCKHOUSE.
! { : !
The definitions are:
HORIZONTAL.
2. What Indians did to their victims.
6. A number.
3. Fright.
10. Midday.
IL. American natives.
-. Negative.
IS. Left side (abbr.).
is. Finish.
II. An affirmative vote.
VERTICAL.
!. scheme.
3. Light rope.
4. Girls name.
5. River in France
2. body of sheriffs assistants
9. Soon.
IL. Lone, alone.
13. Within.
The Indians were Redskins, which gives us
q good word about which to build diamond.
The second line means adults, the third is a
badge of honor, the fifth Is unclothed and the
sixth is cover. Form the diamond.
r
RrDRRrrr
N
Take a four-letter word meaning part of an
automobile. Add G, rearrange the letters, and
form a wild animal
Take a three-letter word for a childrens
game. Add E. rearrange and form part Of q
fence.
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Snu,f-Pmching.
Continued from Nineteenth Page

in wooden casks and aged for two or three
years, fermented, refermented, moistened
ground and favored to suit the individual
taste of the snuff -pincher Each nanufac-
turer guards his formula as carefully as q
nation does its secret code in wartime. All
sorts of ingredients are utilized-sugar, salt,
lavender, altar Of roses and numerous other
havoring extracts. Snuff is either moist or
dry, plain, favored, scented and toasted.
Scotch, Copenhagen, Irish, Welsh and Rappee
are trade names. Most SNUFF for the Ameri-
can trade Is packed In small round tin boxes,
though some receptacles are made of the
throat membrane Of animals These are often
enormously styled bladders or outlets. The
correct name is weaZands.
When uff-pinching was all the rage in
Europe. gorgeous snuff boxes. exquistely FASH
toned from the finest materials, hand-painted
and studded with diamonds and other precious
stones, were the constant companions of the
wealthy classes.
Although they never bothered about the
etiquette of snuff pinching, the colonists took
to snuff boxes by way of keeping up with the
Joneses, so to speak. But these boxes though
quaint and attractive, were severely plain as
compared with the European trinkets. The
simple snuff boxes Of President Washington and
Benjamin Franklin now repose in the New
York City Museum of Art
In the face Of merciless persecution snuff
pinching grew by leaps and bounds until vir-
tualy everybody in the world was indulging;
but as soon as the reformers desisted the ubiu-
uitous custom returned to normalcy But no
sooner had the snuff pinching fad subsidized
than the reformers took up the cudgel against
cigarette smoking, never letting up until they
mad boosted the annual consumption Of coffin
tacks" to 100 billion in tH1is country alone
There is real significance in Tie patent fact
that the snuff custom is gradually becoming
more popular in the United States. Whether
or not it will come back to where it was in the
gorgeous eighteenth century depends almost
entirely on the whins and fancies Of the re-
formers.
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must take all this news that pours in from
everywhere, read it, and decide just what they
wish to put into the paper. Then the various
stories are read by copyreaders, edited. fitted
with proper headlines and sent to the COM
posing room. In the smaller newspaper Offices,
boys are employed to carry this copy, but in
the big papers even this job is done by a ma
chinei All the sheets of paper, as they are
edited, are placed in containers which rush
through a pneumatic tube to the composing
room.
This is one of the most interesting places
in the entire newspaper plant. In it you see
many linotype machines, the number depend
ing upon the size of the paper and varying
from one or two in the Offices of small coun-
try weeklies up to dozens in the plants of the
big city dailies
Each of these linotype machines is run by
an expert operator. He takes the story that
Is given to him to set into type and presses
keys much like the keys on a typewriter The
linotype is equipped with little mats or molds
of each letter in the alphabet and as he presses
key one of these little mats automatically
drops into place in a container ready to re-
ceive it.
AS soon as the operator has set enough of
these letters to make one line as you read it
IN the paper, he pushes down a lever. Then
this almost human machine picks up the row
OF mats, moves them away, and pours upon
them molten metal which has been melted
in pot attached to the machine The LIQUID
metal Is pressed against the mats, nodded and
cooled and the result is a metal Slug" just as
wide as the Newspaper column and bearing all
the words that you will read in that line In
the paper.
When this Is done, our machine takes these
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RIDDLES

You'd better choose a cool spot when you
start guessing the riddles we have for you this
week. for mental effort sometimes causes per-
spiration and these will require plenty Of effort
/. Why should the people Of America be
very jolly?
2. What is the difference between 10
ounce baby and a man writing energetically on
his typewriter?
8. How long did Cain hate his brother?\
4. Why are bankrupts more to be pitied
than idiots?
5. What herb is most injurious to q ladys
beauty?
ANSWERS TO RIDDLES.
l. Because it was named after a merry cuss
(An.ericus) One weighs a pound and the other
pounds away g. As long he was Abel.
4. Because bankrupts are broken, while idiots
are only cracked. S. Thyme.
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Getting nesUs into the newspaper Office.
price for such lot of reading matter! It
would be absolutely impossible to produce it
for such small price if it were not for the
truly marvellous machines that are used in
making it. Suppose that we trace through
the making OF a newspaper and notice how
It depends at every step on some sort of ma
chine that was unknown only a comparatively
few years ago.
First of ALL in order to have a newspaper
we must have news-the stories of things that
are happening in your own town and all over
the world The local news facts about things
that happen in your town. is gathered by the
reporters on the staff of the paper. It used
70 be that reporter went out from the office,
learned the facts for his story, and then came
back and wrote 1t. In some small towns, this
same man might actually go into the shop"
od the paper and set the story In type, taking
each little individual letter out Of its place
IN the type case, spelling out the words as
he went along.
But today we must have speed in making q
newspaper. So the reporter on O large daily
seldom goes out and gets his story and then
comes IN and writes it. More often he learns
the facts and relates them over the telephone
"a machine) to another man in the newspaper
Office who writes the story on his typewriter
(another machine). And in gathering his news
the reporter today often uses an automobile,
sS1o WAekA AAA1u gus q photographer VINO taxes
pictures. So we that machines are very
important in gathering the news.
In some Of the largest cities, where there
are several important newspapers, o news
gathering bureau is maintained by all Of them.
This is usually called the City Press or City
News Bureau, and all the news that its re-
porters gather goes to all Of the papers. The
stories are written a typewriter, copies Of
them are made on another machine, and these
copies are sent to the individual newspaper
offices through pneumatic tubes which run
under the city streets. In some cities still
more interesting device is used called the tele-
type. With this machine, the story is written
in the newspaper Office on one machine, trans
mitted to the various newspaper Offices by wire,
and there reproduced on another machine much
like . typewriter.
The teletype also brings news to the news
paper ONCE from all over the world. World
news is gathered everywhere by reporters and
writer's for the various large press organizations
and sent by telegraph telephone and cable to
central Offices in the largest cities There it
Is put on the wires, and in each individual
newspaper Office throughout the country .
teletype intellectually typewriter operated
by impulses coming over the telegraph wires
writes out the story all ready for the editors
inspection.
The editor Of the paper and his assistants
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Experienced.

lowing the Christmas season that a harassed
father, leading his little daughter by the hand,
paused at one of the counters in the fve-and-
ten
We'll, Nellie,'' he asked hopefully, "is your
doll kitchen all completely furnished now?"
claimed:
"Oh, no, Daddyl still need policeman for
the cook!"
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BY ". BOYCE MORGAN.

pEOPLE often speak of modern times as
the machine age" because today many
things are made by machines that were for
merly made by hand. Few Of us realize just
how wonderful many of these modern machines
are, or how much we depend on them for the
day.
For example, take the daily newspaper that
you purchase for or 3 cents-such a small
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POSERS

These posers should be easy for an sports
fans. In the column to the left are certain
terms used in various games, with the games
themselves to the right. Try to connect the
terms with the sports in which they are used
!. Chukker. Rowing
2. Stymie. Boxing
3. Deuce. Basket ball
4. Coxswain. Golf.
5. Spare. Wrestling.
6. Round. Base ball.
z. Half nelson. Foot ball
g. Huddle Polo
9. Inning. Bowling.
TO- Dribble. Tennis
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Hardest Jobs in the WorM

Drilling holes in macaroni
Trying to catch rats by making a noise like
q piece Of cheese
Trying to scratch your right elbow with your
right hand.
An elephant trying to kick a flea in the shins
Stun1ng rat hole fun Of butter with a red
hot awl.
Trying to blow hole in a MOSQUITO with
cannon.
Quencnmg an elephants thirst with an eye
dropper.
Killing heas on a fly with a ball bat
Pulling fea's whiskers with a pair of ice
tongs.
Baling out Niagara Falls with sieve.
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Each Of these words Is q city in Asia with
the letters jumbled. What are they?
/. NONACT.
2. TALUCACT
g. MOBBAY.
4. OKTTO.
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ANSWERS.

ANSWERS.
Chukker with polo, stymie with golf deuce
with tennis, coxswain with rowing, spare with
bowling, round with boxing, half nelson with
wrestling, huddle with foot ball. inning with
base ball, dribble with basket ball.
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2. The words in the diamond are r, men,
medal, Redskin, naked. lid, N.
3. Tire. Add @ and form tiger. Tag. Add
Z and form gate.
4. The tennis words are voliey, serve. back
hand and drive.
s. Canton Calcutta, Bombay and Toxic
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Ute " t7tE SSUgS cast Oy I've ILGOfype.
mats, carries them away and puts them right
back in their proper places ready to be used
again. And 1t Is SO eficient that 1t very rarely
puts an r in with the AS or an x where
only US should be. And while it Is automati-
cally doing all this, the man operating the
linotype has been pressing keys and setting
Of type.
ITO be concluded next weekly
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Take four-letter word meaning part of an
automobile. Add G, rearrange the letters, and
form wild animal
Take a three-letter word for a childrens
game. Add E, rearrange and form part Of q
fence.
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committee are known to be amazed
at the departments action because
it came while the committee was
making an investigation into
charges the navy had failed to de-
velop planes with the speed and
flying qualities of those possessed
by foreign powers.
Despite large appropriations for
experimental work, the navy de-
partment is said to have made vir-
tually no strides in this direction,
and the United States is said to be
far behind in this phase of modern
warfare.
While the committee was looking
into the matter, Admiral r. H.
Leigh, chief of the bureau Of navi-
cation, ordered Williams. who has
been experimenting with new
models under the auspices of a
group Of wealthy New York men,
to go to sea.
This would have meant the end
of his work in developing faster
planes, and Williams resigned, al
though the order that he begin his
sea duty had been rescinded.
In view Of the existing shortage
Of speedy planes, committee mem
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the date set by the Haitian consti-
tuition.
If there is to be an earlier cleo
ton. therefore, the responsibility
for what the administration claims
will be a violation Of the constitu-
ion will fall on the shoulders Of
the provisional president, TO be
elected by the council Of state to
succeed Borno. The provisional
president is to be a neutral" y
agreed upon by the Borno and
opposition factions.
It now becomes questionable
whether Borno's successor would
risk the cry Of constitution vio-
Iator" that would be raised by
Borno's party if he called for cleo
ticns at once. Thus, there prob
ably will be a two-year delay before
one Of the chief desires Of the peo-
pie. a popularity chosen legislature,
is achieved.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

bers are said to be puzzled by the
departments apparent attempt to
prevent further experiments by the
fastest flier in the navy.
Williams work in winning world
records for this country and in sew
eral Pulitzer prize races was noted
officially in the navy's release tell
ing of his resignation.
Certain members also think II
significant that Williams expert
ments should be cut short at a
time when his immediate superior,
Admiral Moffett, chief of the bureau
Of aeronautics, is abroad with the
naval delegation at London.
Mofett has encouraged Williams
in his efforts, and is known to have
been instrumental in obtaining leave
for him when the New York group
agreed to advance the money Suffi-
Gent to carry on his recent work.
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BORNO PRAISES
MARINE RULE IN
HAITI HEARING
Constitution Violation Cry
Is Raised to Prevent
Early Election.
BY HARRY W. FRANTZ
United Pres Slan Correspondent

PORT AU PRINCE, March IA
President Luis BornO, diplomatic,
friendly and suave, gave the high
est praise to American accomplish
ments during the occupation Of
Haiti in an hours interview with
the Hoover investigating commits
sion THURSDAY, but reso-utely re
fused to recede from his position
that political changes must be made
"constitutionaug."
Borno reiterates his insiStence
that no plan be adopted which
would entail calling for legislative
elections-at least with his sane
tion-in advance OF January, 1882,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-14
Way to Get at a Cold
Is Through Elimination

AS soon as you catch cold, the
pores close; perspiration is checked.
Gases and waste can't escape
through the skin. That's why your
doctors first advice in case Of colds
is a mild laxative like cascara.
Medical authorities agree it actually
strengthens bowel muscles. You
get cascara in its most pleasant
form in candy Cascarets.
Remember this when you catch
cold; whenever breath is bad;
tongue coated, or you're headachy,
bilious, Constipated.
Why resort to harsher things
when Cascarets activate the bowels
SO quickly, so harmlessly and pleas
anUly-and cost only dime-Ad-
vertisement.
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BUTLER U. IN DEBATE
Two Teams viii Meet Cincinnati
on Platform Tonight.

Nr~~t-re end affirmative debating
teams Of Butler university viii meet
the University OF Cincinnati teams
touieht. The question is: Resolved,
That the chain store system is det-
rimental to public welfare"
The affirmative Butler team will
go to Cincinnati, while the negative
team will argue in the college Of
religion chapel on the FairView
campus.
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CHARGED
WITH BLOCKING
AIR PROGRESS
Belief Provoked by Order
Hating Experiments
of Speed King

BIZ Scripps-Hotoard Newspaper Auiahce
WASHINGTON, March 14.-Navy
officials refusal to permit Lieuten-
ant Al Williams, the navys speed
king, to continue his experiments
with fast airplanes, today provoked
charges in congressional circles that
believers in the battleship were try
ing to block proper development Of
the airplane as a fighting arm.
Members of the naval subcom-
mittee Of the house appropriations
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Panama Air Mail Proposed

Bn nffrd Press
BALBOA, Canal Zone, March Il.
The government of Panama to-
day was considering an offer made
by the Pan American Always Com
pany to carry mails to strategic
points in the interior.
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MARCH II, 1890

ing of the Massachusetts bay colony
was ordered issued by Postmaster
Genera. Brown today The stamps
first will be placed on sale April 8,
at Boston and Salem, Mass
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Falling Wheat Worries Britons

BIZ United Press
LONDON, March l4.-FaIling
wheat prices in the United States
and Canada are being watched with
anxiety by British farmers, the Lon
don Daily Mail said today. The
situation here already is depressing.
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New Stamp TO BE Issued

~ JHtffd Press
WASHINGTON, March IA. A
new 2-cent stamp to commemorate
the 300th anniversary of the found