davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Seward daily gateway., 1930-09-15

The Druggist who displays this siFn empha- sizes the professional side Of his caiiing-tbat which calls for all his skill and care and knowl- edge-the filling of prfscripiioas. He uses Merck's prescription chemicals because be knows that for generations the products Of Mercks Laboratories have had the con. 66ence oi both Physicians and Pha7 7macisls.
Seward daily gateway., 1930-09-15
UNDER MARTIAL LAW

x SHANGHAI, Sept, 15, (P)- The
 International settlement of the French concession in the Chonese sections of Shanghai were placed under martial law as precaution against expected Communist riot ing Sunday in celebration of Tn Iternational Youth Day"
Seward daily gateway., 1930-09-15

The Doctor And if he loses consciousness again, give him a teaspoonful of that brandy
 The patients wife While he's unconscious? Oh, Doctor, he'd never forgive mel"
Seward daily gateway., 1930-09-15
NATIONAL BANKER
 POINTS T0 MINING
 AS SAFE BUSINESS

The National Banker in d recent issue makes the unequivocal state-
 ment that combined dividends paid by the gold and silver companies
 of the United States are greater than the combined dividends paid by the banking institutions of the United States; that the combined dividends paid by all |he railroads Iof the United States and that 52 per cent of the freight handled by these same railroads is either ore .or some commodity connected with the mining and milling of ores.
Seward daily gateway., 1930-09-15
III Understand How Serious It Is

T-HERE is serious sickness at home, and you hurry N with the prescription the doctor has given you to your local prescription pharmacy The pharmaclst immediately senses the seriousness of the case from the medicine the doctor has ordere1. every mute that treatment is l4aye- 11-2ts asainsr -he r7t- 1t-
 Perhap- .h4 prescription calls for rar1 ds or new remedy Yes, the pharmacist assures hir Hi he has evey ngredient-he lad prepared tor emer genoes- Cooy, deftly, accurately he comPouAds the prescription, and carefully checks his work.
 Such emergencies should help to impress on you that your prescription pharmacy is entitled to support There isn't enough prescription business in most com muntes to support exclusively prescription drug Therefore the druggist se many sundries he make living, and maintain his pharmacy, in equP- ment and efficiency that may best the needs of the community and its physicians when serious sickness comes
Seward daily gateway., 1930-09-15

COOPER'S HAVE FRESH MILK EVERY DAY.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-02

over Jurisdiction in the county em- bracinE more than soo.ooo people disposes of all cases with lightning like rapidity. It is very rare that a case Is as old as a week. One burglar recently who committed his crime at midnight was en route to the penitentiary to serve an eight-year sentence by noon next day.
 Judge George A. Shaughnessy is the whole works in tho municipal court, disposing of an average of 150 cases a month. Court lasts until p. m. when necessary. There are no gang murders, no bargains, no bartering of justice. no easy money for professional bondsmen, investi- gations are made immediately and reports flow in promptly, no delays. The innocent gain their freedom quickly, the guilty as speedily are punished.
 Nothing discourages crime so much as the certainty of speedy punishment. a knowledge that tech nicalities will not count, realiza- ton that justice and not crime has the advantage.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-02
SOUTHERN OUTLAWRY

Once again another southern mob has lynched Negro. This species of law defiance has become epidemic in the South. The past month has seen half dozen such indications of communal outlawry, leading to the assumption that there is a vio- lent fever abroad in that section of the land.
 All such episodes are pretty much alike. The unfortunate victim is tor tured and slain without trial merely to provide the countryside with an opportunity to show the Negro his place" and to "protect woman hood" If such disreputable actions protected anybody there would have been no need of further lynchings long ago. AS deterrent of bad habits among the colored race or the white race, lynchings are fail- ures.
 When the southerners point to the North, however, they seek to have all laws obeyed, especially the prohibition law. They regard the North as peculiarly lawless in fail- ing to observe the prohibition law.
 Between the two types Of law de- flance we much prefer the kind we have.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-02
NET AND GROSS

Public education is not confined to the public schools. The New Brit ain public has had a forceful presen- tation, through the medium of Bos- ton lawyers, regarding what consti- tutes the difference between the city's net and the gross grand list, And so be it discovered that the Mayors pet current bond issue is placed on what piquant colloquialism would term the skids.
 Public attention is also directed to the frequently overlooked fact tha.. there is a high proportion of un- taxable property in the city; which means that the taxable property provides protection and advantages for that which is untaxed.
 The Mayor remains optimistic, however, saying that his substitute plan of drawing on special tax of one and q half mills on next years budget will positively not be per mitted to increase the tax rate over what it is today. Such optimism at least is laudable. It is easily under stood that no Mayor wishes to add to the tax rate if he can help it, and MT. Quigley has from the start been a strong advocate of less taxes.
 The city will require just so much tax money, however; and how many mills it will take to get it will de- pend somewhat upon the size of the grand list. If the Mayor can pro- duce a first class increase in the grand list the problem will be simplfied.
 l It's the ifs" that create just wee bit O doubt.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-02
OUR FOREIGN CONDUCTORS

Our orchestra leaders are return ing from abroad. That means, of course, the leaders of the nation 5 symphony orchestras of the first class. No first class symphony con- ductor, to our knowledge, has ever condescended to spend the summer in the United States. AS soon as the last concert is given in the spring they jump on boat to ''go abroad T That apparently is where they ob- tain their inspiration.
 Always, too, they bring with them what is termed new music" The said new music could be obtained just as easily by mail, and indeed some of it is in the country before the symphony directors bring their copies from abroad" Cor further information they might inquire of the Congressional Library in Wash ington, which misses nothing of mo- ment at home or abroad so long as a domestic or international copy right is securely
 There appears to be only one American born American conductor of a symphony orchestra, and his name happens to be pretty we'll known. He is Joseph Littau, who has been the conductor of the Roxy Symphony orchestra, which under his baton has been doing a much better job over the ether every Sunday than the much-tout- ed ensemble conducted by Walter Damrosch with Floyd Gibbons as a side kick and long statements about the electric industry taking the place of discussion about the music, such as Roxy takes the time to give. It is with pleasure, therefore. that one notes MT. Littau has accepted the conductorship of the Omaha Symphony Orchestra, thus becom- ing the first native-born American conductor of recognized high grade symphonic body. Mir Littau. by the way, did not so to Europe for his inspiration this summer.
 Musically the country will never amount to much until there are about a dozen American conductors of symphony orchestras. The foreign brand are good without question; but there is also no question but that they are somewhat prejudiced to- ward European ideals and European music. Anyone imagining there is no propaganda in this respect should merely take note of the programs of a winter.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-02
THOSE HIGH-POWERED
 STATIONS

The Federal Radio Commission is to be commended in not rushing pellmell into plan to permit nu- merous radio broadcasting stations to climb into the super-power class; that is to say, 50 kilowatts or 50,000 watts.
 That there is an endeavor present by the owners of various ambitious broadcasters not only to extend their reach into space, but there probably is also a hope that by such action the competition of smaller. and usually independent, stations might be blanketed. A half dozen high-powered stations in the New York area, for instance, might easily blanket the dozen or 50 small fellows, which would be tantamount to putting them off the air.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-02
Observations On The Weather

Washington, Oct. 2.-Forecast for Southern New England; Fair, not so cool in Connecticut and western Massachusetts; Friday partly cloudy, slowly rising temperature; moderate north winds becoming variable.
 Forecast for Eastern New York: Partly cloudy; not quite so cool tonight; Friday partly cloudy and warmer, followed by showers in north portion; moderate north winds becoming variable.
 Forecast for New Haven and vii cinity: Fair and slightly warmer tonight; Friday increasing cloudiness and warmer.
 Conditions: High pressure covers the eastern portion of the country. A disturbance is central over New Mexico, with a tongue of low pres sure extending northeastward to Huron. Cool weather prevails in the northeastern districts, with frosts at many stations in the Middle Atlantic states and New England.
 Conditions favor for this vicinity fair weather with slowly rising tenn perature.
 'TenperaflIrns yeeterdoy.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-02
Five Hour Shift Plan
 Urged by Union Men

Boston, Oct. 2 (UP)-A plan un- der which manufacturing plants would operate two five-hour shifts per day was proposed as an antidote for unemployment at yesterdays opening session of the 22d annual convention of the metal trades de- partment of the American Fedora tion of Labor.
 The officers report in which the suggestion was made declared that such a plan was coming "as certain lv as the three eight-hour shifts displaced the two 12-hour shifts in continuous production"
 Tt is inevitable" the report continued. that the rapidly increas- ing use of power and the introduc- tion of more massive automatic machinery must be accomplished by a rapid decrease in the length of the work day and the work week in many'of our industries.
 "A radical reduction in the hours Of labor has become an economic necessity to the producer as we'll as the inventor and consumer"
New Britain herald., 1930-10-02
TEACHERS AND THEIR MONEY

Thus the school teachers of the city maintain their individuality, -their liberty of action to contribute Ito the Mayors fund or not to con- -tribute. Had the teachers council -accepted the Mayors proposal to ~contribute 2 per cent of their -salaries to the Christmas fund" -the sum realized would have ap- -proximated $5,4O0. It is possible that &ths teachers may contribute more sthan this under their own plan, or -that they may contribute less: On : this point the Mayor will naturally be deeply interested
 The Board of Education wisely re- ~frained from attempting to tell the teachers what to do under the cir .cumstances, leaving the subject for faction by the teachers council after the Mayor was heard in person. Not being subject to political pressure or anYother kind Of pressure, the teachers came to their decision &C., -cording to their collective lights.
 The Mayor has not had excessively clear sailing with his plan for such contributions. But he is convinced, and many others with him, that money must be found for the pur- pose intended. The Mayor is op- posed to obtaining the fund from regular budget sources if that pos. sibly can be avoided; yet nobody to our knowledge has stated he would be criticized if he placed more re- liance upon tax money rather than attempting the unique experiment of trying to obtain the necessary funds through other channels.
 It is our impression that at least part of the fund will have to come from the tax funds anyway. The city is bound to help where such assist ance is necessary, has already done we'll in this respect, and the logical conclusion is that the work must continue regardless.
 Faced with these factors there is only one alternative; and the Mayor ultimately will have to come to it despite the promises to do nothing to bulge the tax rate.
 Our opinion still holds good that bulging the tax rate for such an undertaking will meet with mo- body's disapproval
New Britain herald., 1930-10-02

structed at this time at tho lowest possible cost. Incidentally it would provide employment for men who need it.
 It is folly for the city to hang back in a case such as this. The building must be constructed in the near future. and the city possesses the land for no other purpose.
 What Is the idea, for instance, in waiting until prices of construction advance? That would not be economy but a species of waste.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-02
WALKING FOR A LIVING

New Britaipites, reading of the walking exploits of Paul Heller, the mail carrier who completed 30 years of travel through the West End coud not help marveling at the amount of hiking such a career brings to man. Hiking, by the way is healthful exercise, so that let ter carrier, of all persons. should feel fit as a fiddle most of the time. To the best of our knowledge most of them do.
 Our reporter, aided and abetted by the post office authorities, com puted that MT. Heller has walked around the world 30 times without leaving the country" During that time, we feel inclined to say, he never, during his off hours, took walk for recreation. Yet there is a chance of being mistaken in this, seeing that bricklayers on rainy days often are seen standing around a building operation to see how it looks; or bus and truck drivers if they ever have days off. go auto- mobile riding for pleasure.
 Mail Carrier Heller has completed splendid record in the service of the public, and though he has been paid for doing it, we know he does it well and is the soul of smiling courtesy. His customers in the West End will join the large post office staff in wishing him another 30 years of hiking.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-02
FAST JUSTICE

Neil M. Clark's article in the Worlds Work regarding justice in Milwaukee is attracting considera be attention. Milwaukee is only 80 miles from Chicago, acknowledged headquarters of the most desperate and most numerous gangsters in the country. There are none such irl Milwaukee. Criminals carefully avoid the place.
 The reason for this remarkable difference is that justice moves swiftly and surely in Milwaukee, while in Chicago-wel, everybody knows how justice is handicapped there.
 The one municipal court and it's one judge in Milwaukee-presiding
New Britain herald., 1930-10-02
COMMUNICATED
Questions P. o. Statistics

Questions P. o. Statistics
 Editor Herald:
 In your edition of last night you Heller's service in post office depart ment as carrier. This article stressed the fact that he had walk ed 750,000 miles in his 30 years of service, the equivalent of 30 trips around the world.
 have never questioned tho veracity of any statements contained in the Herald and far be it from me to belittle MT. Heller's record but if the facts are correct as stated, the U. s. government is surely over- working our postal employees.
 To analyze what this statement means, 750,00O miles in 30 years means 25,0o0 miles a year. Suppose MT. Heller worked 365 days a year this would mean about 6S miles day for every >tiay including Sum- days and holidays for 30 years. The army gait figures out that 1t takes 17 minutes to walk a mile or about 5 1-2 miles per hour. Dividing this 6S miles per day by a rate of 1-2 miles per hour gives us about 1s 1-2 hours required to walk 68 miles daily. When did MT. Heller deep and eat if he walked 19 1-2 houfs & day in the service of the government? This story if true should be sent to MT. Ripley, author of Believe It or Not" |,
 "A STICKLER FOR FACTS"
New Britain herald., 1930-10-02
FINANCES AND HABIT

MT. Rogers says the Republican party will triumph because of the states financial record. He is wrong. The party may triumph merely be- cause the majority of voters in the state cannot break an old habit.
 Let MT. Cross, however, come for ward with cogent reason why ne will be elected.
 Prior to the election any kind of statement will be appropriate so long as 1t is optimistic.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-02

The U. s. Department of Com merce, in its recent statistics re- 'garding debts of cities, calls atten- tion to the fact municipal payments are much higher than what the fed erals get from the city taxpayers The department does not take the trouble to specify what is secured for the money. Local administration has always cost much more per capita than federal taxes per capita; and 1t Is question whether at any time in the history of the Republic has the ratio between the two . been as close as in our age.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-02
25 Fears Ago Today

The high school alumni team de- feated the regular high school team yesterday by 16 to score. John Curtin was in great form and tore through the youngsters at will.
 Reckless automobile drivers are being termed as towards and peo- pie are demanding that the laws against auto madness be enforced.
 The water and light committee will start out from the city clerks office tomorrow on it's annual in- spection of the lights of the city.
 The annual town election is being held today and a most determined fight is being made on the question of consolidation. It is generally con- ceded that the republican ticket will be swept into office.
 Six delegates from this city will attend the annual convention of the W. c. T. |. in Waterbury tomor- row.
 The north end section of the city is being termed the "bowery" be- cause of the trouble experienced with loafers of late.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-02
CORRECT; BUILD THE SCHOOL

Superintendent Holmes of the School Board deserves support for his suggestion-or reiteration of former ggestion-that the city proceed at once to construct new school on Oak street on land already owned by the city.
 What IS to be gained by delay? The building. as the superintendent emphasizes would relieve conditions in three schools and could be con-
New Britain herald., 1930-10-02
Prisoners Tip Prevents
 Escape of Five Others

New Haven, Oct. 2.-What was believed to have been a plot of five men sentenced to terms in state prison to escape from the prisoners pen in criminal superior court was frustrated through a tip from an- other prisoner, court room attaches said yesterday.
 The delivery was to start when one of the prisoners asked for a drink, according to Chief Deputy John A. Hut. AS soon as word of the plot was received, however, the prisoners were removed to cells in the basement of the building.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-02
Chinese and Aztec Link
 Found hv Archae1Opisf

Los Angeles, Oct. 2 P-The theory of connection between Chinese and Aztec civilizations was announced here today by G. Ryden, archeologist, as the result of the finding of ancient funeral urns in buried city in the state of Jalisco, Mexico.
 The urns are believed by Ryden to date back to at least 2,500 B. c. The archeologist- brought 26 of them here. They stand from two to four feet in height and were taken from excavations made in tombs beneath an old city at the Hacadera Los Copales.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-02
In other words, the present-day version of an old slogan is take the saloons out of the homes"

President Hoover is making some speeches, mot political in charac- ter" But they are being made while political campaigns are in progress . and anything he says is likely to be interpreted according to the loose rules of political expediency.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-02
GEN. GOURAUD TO LEAVE

New York. Oct. RHGeneral Henri Etienne Gouraud, military governor of Paris. accompanied by five high French army officers, will leave New York for Washington by train at 12:30 a. m. tomorrow, re- turning on Saturday for a brief visit to Princeton university, whence tho party will continue to Boston to at- tend the American Legion conven- tion there. l-l
New Britain herald., 1930-10-02
STUDENT DIES OF MOUND

Havana. Oct. (UP)-Rafael Trejo Gonzales, university student who was injured in q clash between students and police Tuesday. died a. the municipal hospital last night. The funeral was set for this after noon. with Mayor Miguel Mariana Gomez, mayor of Havana, attend ing.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-02

crate female smoker will puff twice as many cigarettes as the inveterate male. This is not particularly to their credit but It is a physiological fact. Ask any doctor who is braver iu affliction.
 I remember when It was said wo- men could not prosper in the hard boiled world of the theater. It was too rough. But along came Anne Nichols with her mediocre "Abie's Irish Rose" and with little man. agerial experience made more mon- ey than Ziegfeld ever made out of a "Follies."
 There is scarcely any calling q woman cannot pursue with the finesse of the man and I have look ed into the matter deeply with ~th possible exception of kettle drum !. ming. I know they excel at the zith CT. though.
 r I hope my wife doesn't read all this extravagant praise for the la dies. If she does-look for me in the necklace department of Tiff fany's, the sad eyed. long faced bird with the thin neck.
 Copyright, 193o, McNaught
 Syndicate, Incl