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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-01-18
Continental Currency Of
1775-1779 Is of No Value

Continental currency Is the term
applied to the 40 issues Of bills Of
credit or paper money put out by au-
thority of the continental congress
from June %, ITS, to November 20,
f779. In all, this currency announced
to face value Of $25O.OOO,OOO.
The bills were promises to pay,
based upon the pledge Of congress to
redeem them In Spanish milled dol
lars. or the value thereof in gold or
silver" No date for redemption was
given.
The reason for their issuance was
that the congress had no fiscal pow
ers. and no authority to levy taxes.
There was, moreover. not enough faith
In the prospects of the revolution be-
Ing successful for the congress to be
able to borrow much money.
The notes. being unsecured by any
real value. quickly deprecated, and
at the beginning Of 1879 they were
able to pass for only one-eighth of
their face. At the end Of the year
their ratio to specie was 80 to 1. In
17SO the congress itself recognized its
Inability to maintain their value, and
provided for their acceptance in place
OF silver at ratio of 40 to 1. In 1871
the ratio fell to 100 to 1, and in 1870,
by the terms of funding act Of that
year. provision was made for redeem
Ing them, up to certain date, at that
ratio.
Those which were unredeemed were
thereafter without value. and no long
er circulated. Large numbers of them
are still preserved. but as they have
no currency value there Is only col
lectors' interest in them
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-01-18
BONERS are actual humorous
tid-bits found in examination pa
pers, essays, etc., by teachers.

The aquatic plants differ from the
terrestrial plants in that they are COM
pletely surrounded by their environ
ment.
When Napoleon's last attack at Wa
terloo failed, he turned very pale and
rode at full gallop to st. Helena.
The Egyptian pyramid was made in
the shape of huge triangular cube.
Large deposits Of guano are found
In Anatole, France.
Archipelago is long run in music.
G. $685. Bell syndicate.-WNU Service.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-01-18
Wood Products Important

Wood products are important even
to a generation that lives in dwell
ings not made of boards and does
its days work in buildings of con-
crete and steel. If there were no
raw material for pulp mills the in
habitants would be obliged to man.
age without books, newspapers,
wrapping paper and the bags, cups,
napkins, all of paper. and dozens Of
other forest products that serve in
the daily round. The average family re.
quires upward of ton of paper an
nually and its need in this direction
constantly increases. In addition, there
is used an enormous amount Of saw
mill products for each person in the
land. There are boards and posts and
timber aggregating as much as $50
cubic feet per capita.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-01-18
Meteors Small Planets

Meteors are probably themselves
small planets. They literally infest
space, being almost infinite in num-
Der, and the variety and extent OF
their orbits around the sun is prac-
tically unlimited. 1t has been COM
puted that 100000 enter the atmos-
phere Of the earth every day, notes
a writer in the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
They come from every conceivable d.
rection and travel with speeds vary
ing between seven and 20 miles per
second. Travelling through the atmos-
phere at this velocity they quickly
become incandescent and burn up, so
fierce is the heat generated. The frag-
ments that survive this fiery ordeal
fall upon the earth as meteorites,
where men may study them and sub
ject them to chemical analysis in cru
chile and test tube.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-01-18
Many Use Dollar Sign

There used to be a time when all of
Us were quite familiar with the dollar
signs.
Strangely enough, this conventional
symbol associated with American cur
rency Is used to denote local currency
in some 20 foreign countries. Accord
ing to compilation published in q
supplement to the Commerce depart
ment's Foreign Financial News coun.
tries employing the dollar sign in des-
ignating their currencies are: Argen-
tina, British Guiana, Canada, Chile,
China. Colombia. Ethiopia, Hongkong,
Macao, Mexico. Newfoundland. Para
quay. Portugal. Straits Settlement and
Uruguay.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-01-18
Wedding Cake Lore

The origin of wedding cake goes
back hundreds Of years. In ancient
Rome marriage was effected by the
simple process of the bride and bride
groom breaking d cake of bread and
eating it together. This, in time, de-
veloped into the bride cake. The bride
cut it because it was the duty Of the
woman to prepare food for the man.
Everybody knows the superstition
about sleeping on wedding cake.
Girls, even in this age of cynicism,
look forward to the weddings Of their
friends, so that they may get a piece
of wedding cake, which, if placed un-
der the pillow, some believe, has the
power to produce in dreams the vision
of a prospective husband.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-01-18
Water Used

Imperial Rome used some fifty gal
Ions of water per capita daily. Me-
dieval Paris used but one quart. To
day, Naples uses about twenty gal
Ions: Paris, Berlin, and London about
forty-five, and larger American cities
range from about forty-eight gallons
daily, at Fall River, to 430 gallons at
Tacoma, averaging some 140 gallons
Scientific American.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-01-18

SIS he absolutely HONESTY"
"Yes, indeed. He wouldn't even
take lumber from the new house that
is being built next door to him."
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-01-18
Turtle Fishing

In East Africa the natives fish for
turtles with large eel-like sucker-fish,
from two to four feet long. putting an
iron ring round the tail. The hold is
enormously strong, and quite a small
fish can support bucket Of water.
They are difficult to detach even in
death. although they can let go their
hold voluntarily very quickly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09
0. P. BEDINGER, 68,
DIES AT HOSPITAL
Constable of Washington
Township Passes,

Oliver P. Bebinger, 60, of 2103
Bellefontaine street, died at 5:45
this morning at the Methodist hos
pital He chad ben ill for three
weeks.
Mr.. Bebinger was constable of
Washington township. He formerly
served eight years as justice of the
peace in Washington township, and
held clerical position in city hall
during the first Shank administra-
ton.
Funeral services will be in the
Moore 81 Kirk funeral home at 10
Monday morning. The body will be
taken to MooreSville for burial
Surviving Mr.. Bebinger are the
widow. Mrs. Katherine Bebinger;
two daughters, Miss Gladys Be-
binger and Mrs. Dan Wood, Shaw
nee, Kan; son, Charles E. Be-
binger; three brothers. Charles S.,
indianapolis; Jacob, Miami, and
John, Terre Haute. and two sisters,
Mrs. Walter Hull, Detroit, and Mrs.
William Herlinger Cincinnati.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09
TROOPS INVADE
MINE SECTOR
Alabama Soldiers Ordered
to Scene of Possible
Strike Disorders.
By United Press

By United Press
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, March g.
Three companies Of national guard
infantry, a troop of cavalry and a
squadron of airplanes were ordered
TO Walker county TO-DAY where mine
strike disorders threaten.
Two mine settlements, Hull and
Townley were occupied by the troops
after a tense night of futile con-
ferenceS between employers and
striking miners.
Mine officials feared the
strikers would do harm to the few
miners who remained at work in
spite of the strike which engulfS
the entire state. More than 5000
miners were idle today
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09
Choir Begins Tour
By Times SPECIAL

GREENCASTLE. March 9-De
Paw university choir left the cam
pus today for four-day tour, which
will include stops in both Indiana
and Illinois.
First program will be given to-
night at Lowell, Ind. Program will
be broadcast at 2 Sunday afternoon
from WGN, Chicago. The choir will
be heard at 7 by the Sunday Eve
ming Club of Chicago Other stops
include Wanetka, H., Monday.
Members of the choir include
three Charlottesville students at the
university-Allison Antrobus, Mar
garet Canine and Alberta Bechtel.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09
Wed So Years
BIZ Times Special

BIZ Times Special
LOGANSPORT, March 9.-Mr
and Mrs. H. G. Jones, living near
here, will celebrate the f1fty-ninth
anniversary of their wedding on
March 25. They have eight chill
dren, all sons; twenty grandchil-
dren and great-grandson.
The couple resides on the farm
which was the birthplace of Mr.
Jones. Both he and his wife are
lifelong residents of Cas- county.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09
War Veteran Buried

BIZ Times Special
MUNCIE, March 9-Funeral
services were held today for T. r.
Harrington, 81, Spanish war vet
eran who served in the World war
as captain of an infantry company
at Newcastle.
Mr.. Harrington died Tuesday in
Denver, Colo, following an opera
ton. He was a district sales man
ager for the Chrysler Corporation in
Denver and also had been in its
employ at Newcastle.
Leaving Central high school here
at II, Mr. Harrington enlisted for
service in the Spanish war, and was
sent to Puerto Rico.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09
PRESS HONORS GO TO
Fl. WAYNE SCHOOLS

Publications Awarded Prizes by Co
lumbia Association.
By United Press
NEW YORK, March 1.-Two
Hoosier high schools were awarded
prizes in the tenth annual contest
of the Colonial Press Association,
held here yesterday
The Indiana schools winning med
ais for their school publications
were South Side high school, Fort
Wayne publishers of the South
Side Times and the North Side high
school of FIT Wayne publishers of
the Northerner
More than $50 senior high schools,
and school newspapers competed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09
Peach Loss Feared
By United Press

BIZ LHtted Press
LAFAYETTE. Ind, March o.
Recent sub-zero temperatures ap-
parently have destroyed most of the
1884 Indiana peach crop, according
to Monroe McCoWn, extension horti-
culturist of Purdue university. Ex-
tent of tree damage will be de-
termined by growers before any
pruning treatment is given, Nc
Gown said. Damage will be revealed
by browning of cells within the bark
tissues and in extreme cases by
loosening the bark from the wood.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09
BenefaCtor Dies
3u Times Special

BIZ Times Np6cluI
KOKOMO, March 9.-James AL
bert Hayes, 10, who during four
years of the depression he provided
homes rent free for 300 families in
which there were 700 children, was
buried today following funeral serv-
ices at his home.
Mr.. Hayes died Wednesday of
pneumonia. For twelve years he was
engaged in the grocery busiess at
Frankfort, but most of his life was
spent here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09
Indiana News in Brief
Interesting Stories About Events Lives Hoosers Written and
Assembled for Quick and Easy Reading.


II OKoMO March 9-Ang
N Of
unonze workers committee formed
the
Heading D. Mitchell
o
the American Company
trouble about and until recently mad
aHecfad onlvt beaterS
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09
1000 Work at MunCie

7 IHtt6 = pJJIUG
MUNCIE, March g. - Industrial
pay rolls here are about 10 per cent
of normal, according to a report Of
a survey announced by Lester G.
Bush, manager of the Muncie
Chamber of Commerce.
Factories are employing 1908 per-
sons, in addition to 553 salaried en-
ployes. Monthly pay roll is estimat-
ed at 100000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09
Baking Contest Set
BIZ Times Special

bU Imes Specint
LAFAYETTE, March Eight
winning entries in preliminary coun-
ty competition in the Indiana state
baking contest will be judged in
the final round of the contest to
be held March Is and 16 at Purdue
university.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09
TWO FIREMEN HURT IN
INDIANA RAIL WRECK
Three Freight Cars and Caboose
Burn After Collision.

By United Press
COLUMBIA CITY, Ind, March 9.
Two firemen were injured and
three freight cars and a cabooSe
were destroyed by fire last night
when two locomotives running light
crashed into the rear of a west
bound Pennsylvania freight train
here.
The injured were Russell jenkins,
6, Antwerp, o.. fireman on the first
of the Locomotives, and Ed Adams,
Fort Wayne.
Mr.. Jenkins was treated here for
a scalp wound received when he
jumped from the cab Mr.. Adams
was placed on a train and taken to
the Methodist Hospital at FL
Wayne. He received an injured
shoulder.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09
BEDFORD PAIR GIVEN
STATE PRISON TERMS
Life and 2O-Year Sentences Handed
Down in Holdup Case.
By Z HjfCd Press

ny NifC0 PTCSS
JEFFFRSONVILLE, Ind. March
9.-Pleading guilty to charges of
highway robbery, Jerome Bolding.
Bedford, was given a sentence Of
twenty years in the state prison by
Circuit Judge George Kopp.
Bolding admitted holding up John
Bower. 63-year-old New Washington
farmer, beating him and threatening
to kill him if the sheriff YVES called.
Mr. Bower was robbed of $163.
A companion of Bolding, Ameri-
cano Tramontana, 26, also of Bed
ford, was sentenced to life imprison-
ment for wounding Mr.. Bower dur
ing the holdup. The two men were
taken to the state prison today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09

former superintendent of Harrison
county schools, died here yesterday.
Mr.. Thomas was former editor of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09
EX-HARRISON COUNTY
OFFICIAL DEAD AT 80
By United P

Charles w. Thomas Is Taken by
Death in Corydon.
By United Press
CORYDON. Ind, March g.
Charles w. Thomas, 80, member of
the Indiana legislature in 1918 and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-19

1.-No one will ever know this with certainty, but I believe they probably do as a general rule. My theory is that. since many crimi- nals are rather dreamy. egotistica; imaginative persons they become so completely absorbed in their pictures of themselves as innocent, persecuted martyrs, drawing pu- bile attention and sympathy, that they have almost forgotten their participation in the crime. Ac- cording o Alfred Adler, Viennese physchologist. the criminal is usu- airy a person with an exaggerated passion for importance, and he has pictured himself 50 intensely as a public hero that his inrio- cence becomes a reality to his top- sy-turvy imagination.
 3.-A study of this trait of per- sonaljty was made on four groups of school pupils by Roberta Crut- cher of the University of Southern California. She set six different types of tasks for them, some very monotonous, such as adding up sums in arithmetic and some quite
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-19
Sf HOUR
 C.EIIL.D .DREN
By Olrs Roberts Bsrtaa ,
|lS.k .I ks1


 Quoting from letter written by a worried mother: T am asking you for advice which will heip many and be appreciated.
 1T live in a small town where there are many children. " segms that some children come from homes where uncouth topics are openly discussed, therefore the girl of five and boy of three say and do the most shocking things. I am so worried because my little girl of less than three is learning some terrible things. wash out her mouth but hate to Owhip her because she does not know what She says.
 "Have appealed to some of the parents, but they laugh and call me old fashioned. Is 1t necessary for little tots to know such things? Please tell me what you think and many thanks"
 Well--this is what I think. It is puzzling and pitiful that any one thinks 1t modern and smart to allow children to become gob- sceiier-if children can be obscene under the pretense of candor and truth.
 There is all the difference in the universe between the sober and wholesome knowledge and acc ceptance of biological facts and the twisted ideas of life, that tots and immature children learn from street talk or even in their homes, if parents have not made . serious in the very gradual and absolutely decent enlightenment of the young, 1t must be emphasized that the approach to such things must be in accordance with the child's study about the matter of inform- ing them.
 Furthermore, much as I believe ability to comprehend without shock or warping. At different ages he is ready for new things.
 The child is to be pitied who is suddenly dowsed with the whole Just what he will do with any. cording to his disposition.
 The whole subject should begin with the simplest ABCs, just as any other subject.
 The mother would do well to make a study of approach and use the simple examples of. nature around her. The daddy and Ynoth-. erd idea in all natural life is ac- cepted first. The unit of the farri- fly next and the mothers part all in good time. Early adolescence is time for the rest of it.
 But to call it modern to hurf the whole book of facts at him is preposterous, when he Is still prac- ticalIy baby.
 To make a sudden adjustment is too much for the litle child. Cer-. tainly common sense should tell any parent this. over -emphasis Is dangerous at any time. Why should the thoughts and acts of any cor1- munity revolve around it? If they are followers of any. of the modernistic cults, they have probably missed their case. Ex- perienced teachers approach the subject armed with a thorough knowledge of. psychology and the dangers Of a inis-step, and might say prayer. Tn the hands of the careless consider the subject dy- nafnite pure and simple. Don't whip your little girl. Just move--if you can. t Copyright 1894, NEA Service, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-19

interesting such as working out mechanical puzzles. She found the silent, introverted children were decidedly the more persiAA tent, while the talkative. active and restless children were more likely to give up the tasks.
 S.-It Is a curious thing that bright boys excel bright girls in general information but with average boys and girls there is no appreciable difference. At least this was the conclusion that der yeloped from Prof. Lewis Ter mans now famous study of 1,000 gifted children in the California Schools. He developed a general information test covering over SIX hundred items on such unreleateG subjects as soap, operas. Hiawa- tha, jazz, the Soviet. Mohammeds social reform, osmosis. grayita- ton, tadpoles, etc, etc. The gifted boys exceiied the gifted girls. es- pecially in science and history bug among boys and girls of averaHe intelligence there was no espectai
 llCopyrieht John F. Dilie co.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-19

A companion chair for father that he will probably buy for him. self if the family wait too long is one with ingenious drawers in its Overstuffed arms for cigarettes, ash trays and tobacco jars.
 The point is that useful pres ents, if by that you mean handy and novel pieces of furniture or bright new decorations for the home, no longer need to be apolo- gized for. In the odd way those things start, the house has sud- denly become the pride of the en- tire family.
 Men who, before, If they thought about 1t at all, supposed that an interior decorator was a cook, now go in for long arguments with cronies at the club about whether you should paint your walls or use wall paper. And under the newest system of education, even the very youngest member of the circle, whatever the sex, is supposedly taking a course in home beautiti- cation at school.
 If you can't think of any furni- ture that you are sure will fit the home you wish to remember, why mt fall back on things for the dining room! There is for instance the variation of the breakfast Lazy Susan, a crystal five-compartment relish dish on chromium base with mayonnaise bowl and ladie that si- lently revolves on ball bearings.
 Then there's the electrical Sun day night buffet server in which hot dishes are kept hot by means of hot water compartments; also the serving platter with mono gramS exciting, too, for Sunday night supper.
 A fascinating set of soft, ivory toned china that would go with almost any other dishes. includes large graceful swans to hold bon bons or flowers, small swans with Ispoons for individual salt cellars or nut dishes. and bird salt and | pepper shakers.
 As for table gift that will make everybody laugh, how about the corkscrew encased in carved fg- ure of Friar John!
 Newest of all is the after-din- ner coffee and cordial set on a much smaller wooden tray than | could all be crowded on and still leave room for cigarette boxes.
 Even gayer is the wooden lunch con service with small plates, sal- ad bowl and spoon handles paint ed in bright blue lacquer. Inci- dentally, wood is the big note in luncheon dishes. As a result, much of the newest table linen | has been designed for the wood set-up. Rose organdie ones and gay little sports mats and cloths with napkins to match. done with fleeing foxes. pursuing hounds or galloping horses. go particularly well with the natural wood dish es. Another luncheon set has red and white doilies alternating, with a whit napkin for the red dolly and vice versa.
 Something else that's so new it's unlikely even the woman who has everything will have heard of 1t is the tea cloth and napkin set
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-19

out a hearing, Peter. And because I'm afraid you won't give me an opportunity to talk things over, this is the only way. I had been i'll over that horrible story in the newspaper and then you came in, accusing me of such terrible things. I wasn't equal to explain ing to you how innocently I got into those parties. They seemed just big larks and I never dreamed you would mind. Peter, am com ing to Millicents party tonight. Perhaps, I shouldn't. But oh, Peter, I couldn't help it. I have to see you: Be little kind to your Valeria."
 Valeria was dressing for the reception and dance which would be Millicent's welcome to her step- brothers bride. Mrs Wainwright came in to watch. the finishing touches. Valeria was in brilliant of her eyes and made her fair hair shining gold.
 When Valeria was a little older, she probably would be called plump. Recognizing this tendency, she selected her clothes carefully, with thought to lines as well as becomingness. The dress she was wearing made her look graceful and slender. Mrs Wainwright had complained over the extrava- gance of Q new dress, reminding Valeria of other lovely frocks she owned.
 But no dress she had worn be- fore would answer the purpose of this occasion. So the frock had been purchased with reckless dis regard of future payment.
 'It isn't as though you were going to be millionaire's wife now" Mrs Wainwright said caus- tically. She had wanted to hurt her niece who had been @ fool to lose Peter Kendall.
 Valeria did look beautiful to- night, sweet and charming. Only her aunt knew the vicious claws behind the girls gentle manner; how shrill the low, well-bred voice could become in moment. At times when Valeria turned