davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1937-12-05

Britain expects to store 10000. 900
civilian gas masks for emergencies,
Evening star., 1937-12-05

Will be closed during the holidays. IL
was announced today.
BEGINNING with Thursday, December
23, the doors will be closed through
and including January 4, 1897.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-10

NEW YORK. June 10--NeW York
used 10 have several clubs where
actors, authors and sundry creative
folk could meet their kind once a
week and let themselves go. Such
organization as the Kit Kat, The
Sixty and The Mayfair. Late Satur-
day night affairs that edged into
sun-up with bing and go.
They were the generating ground
for many romanceS. Billie Burke's
and Flo ziegfeld's. Billy Seeman
and Phyllis Haver. And others. The
requirements for admittance were
finely drawn. Only those who had
achieved in the arts were allowed
past the entrance ropes.
The clubs maze tidy sums for
several sponsors who could work
20 weeks year and lead the life
of Riley the rest of the time with
the profits. Today there is no such
club and not likely to be any more
Letting down the bars was their
undoing.
People, in the vernacular. who
Didn't Matter but had plenty of
money got over the barriers. And
their number increased astonish-
ingly. Soon all the regulars, resen-
ting the change. abSented them
selves, and when they did the gate
craShers, of course, were no longer
interested
Il X 4
One of New York's most pictur-
esque millionaires is the porcmc
subway builder, Sam Rosoff, whose
headline cscapades have run the
gamut from flash spending to suS-
picion in murder mystery. He is
the rollicking, brawny and booming
personification of American Oppor-
tunity. An immigrant boy from
Russia who has continued to be the
proverbial diamond in the rough
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-10
Bruce Cation Says:>>
Without Organization, Powers Face Anarchy

threatening to Europes peace than
one of the perennial clashes of
outs and ins in Central America.
IL II Il
The point is that we do not have
such a desirable state of affairs
because the powers which would
benefit most from it-England and
France-permitted the league to fall
into decay long before the Spanish
revolt began. When Japan, Italy
and Germany proved individually
that a determined and ruthless
government could flout the league
with impunity, the state was set
for the war-breeding chaos We now
have in Spain.
1t may be impossible to revive
the league. But things that are
happening in Spain-things which
may SO easily plunge all Europe
into War-Would seem to prove be-
yond a doubt that some sort of
international organization, sup
ported fearlcssly by the great
powers, must be established if Eur
ope is not to stumble into absolute
disaster.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-10

If Europe does not finally man
age to blunder into a war, it GER
tainly won't be because the neces-
sary amount of i'll will is lacking.
The combined Deutschland Almeria
incident is ample proof that to
speak of the Spanish situation as
powder magazine is to state the
case mildly.
1t is proof of another thing too,
when you stop to think about it,
that however imperfect the League
of Nations may be. it is nevertheless
an institution which, in the present
state of civilization, the world can
not we'll get along without.
For what we are seeing in Spain
is the sort of dangerous anarchy
which comes when all pretense of
disinterested international action is
abandoned.
If this revolt could have begun
four years ago. when the league
was still a respected institution,
and if the nations who have most
to gain from the leagues continued
existence had found the courage
to insist that its covenant be re-
spected. we would not have had
the ominouS crisis that now exists
A league patrol, in place of the
Sketchy and imperfect patrol that
was called into being last winter,
might have had some chance of
isolating the trouble. 1t might have
anabled Europe to go about its
business in security, leaving the
SpaniardS to fight one another,
if that seemed good to them, TO
determine who should rule them.
In that case, we would be having
none of these frenzied complaints
about italian. Russian and German
aid to one or the other of the con-
tending parties. We would not have
a German cruiser anchored in q
rebel port TO be bombed by a govern
ment plane. We would not have a
German squadron bombarding a
government seaport.
misunderstanding that league
supervision of the patrol had been
whole-hearted-we would have a
revolution which, sealed off from
the rest of Europe, would be no more
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-10
New York Day by Day

wanders from table TO table, he
pokeS about botanical gardens and
is always sending flowers to his
friends. Lyman frequently sang for
the Duke of Windsor, when as the
Prince of Wales, he was making the
incognito rounds of Paris with Jed
Kiley.
ThingumbobS: The Duke of Kent
is a collector of ornate cuff links.
John Mccormack now retired, has
salvaged the biggest fortune out
of his voice of any singer. . :.
Sumner Blossom is such a slider
around in the editorial chair that
he buys four pair of pants with
each suit. . Lowell Thomas likes to
arrive for his broadcasting engage
ments just in the nick of time. :.
1t makes him forget all thoughts of
nervousness. Victor Moore is one
of Ameicas richest actors, most of
his money coming from his savings
as a standard vaudeville act.
Noel Coward reveals Alexander
Woolcott in his autobiography as
his closest American friend.
i Y Il
Not many graphic writer's have
been able in several paragraphs TO
sum up the endless milling and
jostling of New York crowds as did
a Texan in three words after his
first walk up Fifth avenue at the
busy home-going hour. AS he wea-
we'd through the ceaseless flow, he
finally stopped for a moment on
the curb, glanced up and down,
and murmufed: MANY a human!"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-10
By O. O. Mcintyre

he lives at smart avenue inn rides
in sartorial grandeur in the park,
gives Lucullan dinners and is the
most extravagant Upper the night
clubs ever had.
Monotype: There is a species
of young lady who comes bobbinG
into the bars at cocktail time,
bright, brave and bewildered. She
has the appearance of not having
been awake long and there is a
Slight husk to her voice often asso-
ciated with gin and !cigaretS. There
is always a group willing gladly
to have her join them and exchange
brilliant banter for flock of drinks.
She leaves at the dinner hour a bit
unsteadily and that is all that is
seen of her. Never in cafes at dinner,
at the theatres or night clubs. She
is the Manhattan Cocktail Girl,
and I was told the other evening
that many hold responsible posi-
tionS as secretaries or in sales de-
partments. They like TO have their
sundown fling solitaire, then go to
some quiet tea room for dinner and
to bed early.
IT is often noted that when a
famous maitbe d'hotel leaves a
favored post he has occupied long
time and goes TO some more temp
ting offer he is almost invariably
on way to oblivion. No one knows
why but head walters following
will not follow him when he decides
to move. Once they lose cast they
rarely come back. Today there arc
a dozen head walters of ten years
ago, whose welcoming smiles. were
highly priced but who changed their
jobs, and today you may run across
them in obscure side street restau-
rants or, in instances, merely Scrv-
Ing as walters.
Tommy Lyman continues to be
the grooming marvel of the night
clubs. A Sad-eyed, shy and handbook
neat lone wolf, he has been whisper
ing his torchy lamentS for Is years.
Long before the Vallee and Crosbys
we're heard of. In London, Paris,
New York and Palm Beach. Away
from the night haunts. where he
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-10
In The
SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
STATE OF CALIFORNIA


In and for the County
of Imperial
Notice of Time and Place Appointed
for Proving Will and Hearing APP
plication for Letters of Admins
tration with the Will Annexed.
In the Matter of the Estate of
NELLIE DAVIS DICKEY, deceas-
ed.
Notice is hereby given that pet
ition for the probate will of MEL
LIE DAVIS DICKEY, deceased,
and for the issuance to Mrs. Edna
Buster of Letters of Administration
with the VIII annexed has been
filed in this court, and that Friday
the 18th day OF June, 1897, at 2
o'clock pm, of said day, at the
courtroom of Dept. No. Q of said
court at the Court House in the City
of Ell Centre, County of Imperial,
State of California, has been set
for the hearing of said petition,
when and where any person inter-
ested may appear and contest the
same, and shows cause, If any they
have, why said petition should not
be granted.
Dated June 4, 1887.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
Clerk.
BY Citha Lamson,
Deputy Clerk.
June TIL Incl)
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-10
News Behind the News
If America We're England And
ROOseUeH We're A King C0iOred
Goats Would be the Style =.

WASHINGTON-If this were England and
the king said what President Roosevelt was over
heard telling Jack Garner the other evening,
there would be a sartorial revolution overnight.
The First Gent and First Lady were having
their annual party for the newspaper folk of
Washington. The high spot of it was Virginia
Reel in which Mrs. Roosevelt outromped her
son Jimmy, her brother Hall Roosevelt, her
daughter-in-law, Betsy, Secretary Morgenthau
and several correspondents and their wives. The
male reeerS wore beautiful colonial satin CO.'S
tunes featuring green, scarlet, yellow and blue.
How did you like those grand colors on the
men, Jack?" the President asked "Im telling
you, in another year We'll all be wearing color
ed dinner coats. Better do your shopping early"
James and Betsy were the only Roosevelt chill
dren at the party. James is in his early thir-
ties.
A dancing partner remarked to his mother
that the orchestra fine one
Yes" replied the First Lady. that's what
my kids tell me-
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Stephen
B. Gibbons recently was in Hollywood.
At one party of movie people he caused tenn
porary CONSERVATION by remarking to AL Jolson:
Every time 1 hear you sing it reminds me
of a horse"
HoStilities were averted when Gibbons ex-
planned. Many years ago he had had date
with his wife-to-be at the Winter Garden in
New York. where Jolson was appearing. He made
the mistake of going to the Hippodrome where
which dove into tank.
The new underSecretary of state Sumner
Welles stands stiff as a ramrod and without
making any apparent effort has always man.
aged to create the impression that he is bit on
the high-hat side.
On the ship which carried the American dele
cation to Buenos Aires Secretary of State and
Mrs. Corde Hull mixed daily with fellow pas
sengers, played games and had end of in
formal democratic fun.
Mr.. and Mrs. Welles remained aoof. That
was why someone gave them nickname lifted
fiom the title of an English novel which caused
some fuss a few years ago. Nickname: "The
Welles Of Loneliness"
Congressman Wright Patman of Texas. who
favors anything just so it's inflationary, is out
with a boat trip invitation to "all members of
the group sponsoring the bill for government
ownership of the IL federal reserve banks"
The trip will be made down the Potomac
river "on the Coast Guard Cutter Apache, gen.
erously furnished by the Coast Guard and
(printed in big capital letters ALL NECES-
SARY ARRANGEMENTS TO MAKE THE TRIP
PLEASANT WILL BE MADE"
The object is "a goodwill meeting Of
group and TO permit the members of our group
TO associate with and become acquainted with
distinguished and outstanding American citi-
zens who believe believe on monetary
problems"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-10
LOOKING
BACKWARD
What The Press Files
Tell of Imperial Val
ley for This Date in
Past Years.
Twenty Five Years Ago
June 10. 1912

Several of the leading businc5s
men Of El Centre decided to Or
ganize promotion work on new
basis, employing a professional sec
retary who shall give his full time
TO the work.
From all banks in the valley
come reports of money coming to
the valley more rapidly than ever
before. Farmers have been selling
their produce at unusually high
rates.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-10
Five Years Ago
June 10. 1922

Collections of the second INSTALL
ments Of the Imperial Irrigation dis
trict assessments are beginning to
come in satisfactorily, according to
Miss Winnie Barry, assessor -collec-
tor who said today she anticipated
almost normal collections.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-10
Twenty Years Ago
June 10. 1917

Ell Centro has shown some fine
gardens this summer and next year
should find every back yard care
fully planted.
According to County School Su-
perintendent Shibley, many teach
ers who taught in the county last
year will return to the same posi-
ton next year.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-10
TOday's Horoscope

A. judicial mind characterizcs
persons whose birthday occurs To-
day. They are wide readers, de-
string information on many sub
jects.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-10

|. Great Britain, France and Rus
sia. While Germany, Austria and
Italy formed the Triple Alliance.
Q. Gen. Werner Won Blomberg.
3. Nashville
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-10
The Grab Bag
One Minute Test

l. What countries composed the
Triple Entente?
g. Who is German minister of
war?
g. What is the capital of Ten
neSSee?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-10
Words of Wisdom
One Minute Test Answers

Prejudice is the child of ignor-
ance.-Hazltt.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-10
CALLOUSES co!
CORNS, TOO
End-O-COrn Takes Them Off

Quick, Sure, Easy, Safe
The Valley Drug Co., or any
other GOOD Drug Store will tell
you why END-O-CORN always
stops pain and removes corns and
callouses when all others fail.
No matter how old or how stub
born your corn is, no matter how
discouraged you may have become
by the poor results obtained from
so-called corn cures"-get END-O-
CORN TODAY and be happy to-
morrow. 1t is worth $50, but only
costs Soc.
n - - - -
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-10
Hints on Etiquette

1t is not advisable to permit chill
dren to attend formal dinners. They
are too restless to endure the pro-
cess of serving leisurely courses.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-10
on Sol
CRANK WATANABE
DODGING FUNS
ny Ep HOLDEN

DODGING FUNS
Uncle Samuel are flabbeygast for such
income tax cheating. 1t seem biggest
and most illuminated citizens is fun
bling cash money from L. S.
Tax donaters is laughing up sleeves,
while Washington are hot under the joe
ular. SO Congress going burst out One
Million dollar to gathering them 500
million dollar which amt come home
yet.
Small fellow not knowledge to mathe-
matical good. So they paying in full
gush. But them big Business Giants can
renting a big clump of bookkeeps to
showing where poverty are sticking out,
But they still living in furious mansions
with yards of limousines to spend. Are
Al Capone giggling?
Thank you please.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-10
Thoughts for the Day

Because thou hast thou has believed: blessed
they that have not seen, and yet have believed
John 20:29
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-10

That next war" influence is every
where, if we take the myriad "Beer on
Draft" signs literally.
Milford chronicle., 1937-06-04

The original Indian name for New
York is Manna-ha-ta, and means
"Place of Drunkenness"
Milford chronicle., 1937-06-04
VALUE PLACED ON
LIFE INSURANCE

Startling evidence OF the value
which life insurance policy holders
place on their protection, is found
in a survey recently conducted by
the Lincoln National Life Insurance
Company on paid-up policies which
bore heavy Indebtedness. The sur
vey covered the years 1894 and 1888
years I'm which economic condi-
tions were exceedingly nnfavorabie,
and unemployment was about at its
depression peak.
Despite this, surprisingly few
policy holders allowed their con-
tracts to lapse. One-half of the pol
icy holders paid the interest on their
loans, and many partially or com
pletely paid them OF. Only 19 per
cent allowed their loans to increase
by the amount of the interest. and
none increased their loans by addi-
tional borrowing.
This fine record is doubtless re-
fiected by the statistics of other life
insurance companies. Insurance
policy holders will go to almost any
lengths before imperiling the money
they have saved up to protect their
dependents in the event of the wage
earner's death. and to guarantee
themselves a secure old age.
Milford chronicle., 1937-06-04
COOPERATION FOR PROFIT

One of the most notable phases OF
the agricultural producer coopera-
tive movement is the care the sue
eessful organizations have shown in
keeping out of alien endeavors.
They have been urged, for in
stance, to go into consumer cooper
ative ventures-that is, to serve as
retailers, distributors and even man
ufacturers of commodities which
their members buy. But they have
not succumbed to these blandish-
ments, and for good reason. Consum-
er cooperatiyes are based on the
elimination of profit, whereas Am
erican farming has been built on the
profit idea. Producer cooperatiVes
apply time tested business princi-
pies TO agricultural problems for
profit.
Milford chronicle., 1937-06-04
A RENAISSANCE OF
INDEPENDENT MERCHANDISING

New facts concerning merchandis-
ing issued by the Census Bureau,
are OF interest.
These figures-which compare
1885, last year for which complete
statistics are available, with the de-
preston year of 1888 and the boom
year of 1929-show that the number
of Independent food stores increased
steadily from 1929 through 1885, not
only in total number Of stores, but,
more important, in their percentage
ratio to all grocery and combination
stores. During the same period the
total number of chain food stores
somewhat decreased both in total
number and in ratio to all stores.
The Bureaus survey further indi-
Gates that the volume of business
done by both independents and
chains has reached relatively stat
ic comparative. stage-that Is; the
percentages may rise or fall slightly
from year to year, but tend to devil
ate but little from the normal over
a period of time. This is in accord
with the views of marketing experts
who have said that the chain sys-
TENS have reached te apex OF their
growth, and cannot hope to make
substantial future gains In their
business in proportion to all busi-
ness done.
What might be termed "renais- |
ss.nce of independent merchandising" |
has been noticeable in thousands of |
towns in all states, the last few
years. Little stores have been found
ed and have grown and prospered
Tapidly-older stores have gone
ahead, and held and increased their
patronage. The American merchan-
dising system, based on honest com
petition, has proven sound in good
times and bad, and has done wcn-
ders I'M serving the consumer with
maximum efficiency at minimum
cost
Milford chronicle., 1937-06-04
HOW DICTATORs WORK

Late news from Italy shows how
the minds of dictators work. Tt
quote an A. p. dispatch of May 8
Fascist Italy, angered by printed
jeers at the prowess of Italian fight
ers In Spain, virtually broke of
press relations with Great Britain
today" An official order recalled all
Italian correspondents from Lon
don, and banned all but three Eng
lish newspapers from Italy.
Thus dictatorship achieves its ends
by keeping its people in darkness,
and shutting them away from any
knowledge, any facts, any opinion
which may suggest that the man or
the party in power is less than per-
feet. Under various relationships
the right to vote in free and honest
elections has been taken from the
people. The right of free speech has
been taken from them. The right OF
free assembly has been taken from
them. The right of open trial by
jury has been taken from them. The
right of a free press has been taken
from them.
Between the United States and
such tyranny stands the Constitu-
tion-a living document, reasonably
interpreted by uncontrolled. non-po-
litical judges. We must be continu-
ally on our guard lest, in our eager
ness for seeming advantage, we un-
knowingly sacrifice the liberties for
which millions of men fought during
&C INJURIES of bloody history.
Milford chronicle., 1937-06-04
BILLIONS OF PRIVATE DOLLARS

- T. a
In reviewing the experience OF the
citation of American Railroads says ::
The railways In 1886 made defi-
mite contribution 20 national recov-
cry. The larger expenditures OF the
railway industry In that year meant
more money put into circulation,
more men employed and more orders
for factories and mills. TO place any
brake upon this movement In the
near future. by means OF burdensome
legislation- or otherwise, would mean
dennite backward step ON the path
way to normal business levels"
The figures tell the vital story of
the rails economic contribution to
employment and the general national
pocketbook. Last year they spent
$159, 100000 for equipment - more
than twice as much as in 1895. They
spent almost $140,0O0,000 for road
ways and structures = ascOmpared
with less than $109, 100000 in 1885.
They spent sS03, 100000 for fuel, ma
terials and supplies - 100000, 900
more than in 1885.
Their total expenditures for capital
Improvements, roadways and ma
terfais, supplies and fuel reached the
gigantic figure Of $1.lO0. .000, 900. The
effect of this was felt in hundreds
of industries, and in thousands of
individual plants and factories. 1t
was felt. indirectly, in employment
in every state, and in the general
spending power. 1t was felt by cor
ner grocery stores no less than by |
great manufacturing corporations.
The stand taken by the Association
Of American Railroads is sound.
Permitted TO go ahead normally and
legislative hindrance, the
will continue to expand
and spend at an accelerating rate.
Their own employment rolls-now
more than 100000 peo-
ple-will grow, as will the industries
rom which they buy increasing
of goods. Their contribu-
ion to the nation will become great
,r with the years. 1t cannot be too
,ften repeated that the general well
are and railroad welfare ara mex
ricably related. II
Milford chronicle., 1937-06-04
.sHARE PUsHERs~

The United States Is not the only
nation that has trouble with the sin-
scrupulous STOCK promoter. England
is now suffering from wave OF
share pushing"-high pressure
methods of selling worthless securi-
ties. And, as in this country, the
share pushers takes heaviest toll
from those least able to lose.
The "share pusher'' has grown. so
bold In Britain that the Board OF
Trade recently printed several mil
lion leaflets warning the public
against him and urging that inves-
tors protect themselves by consult
ing reliable bankers and reputable
brokers.
England's present experience
should be needed seriously In this
country. Those having funds 10 in
vest should resist mere rosy sound
ing propositions and only purchase
we'll investigated securities, through
orthodox channels. As the British
Board of Trade pointed out, this may
be done by consulting reliable bank
ers and reputable brokers. Also, in
this country. If one buys securities
listed on the boards of the large
stock exchanges he may be sure that
they represent legitimate Industrial
enterprises that will not "evaporate''
overnight. The large exchanges i'm
pose very strict regulations for the
protection of the investor. Copor-
ations listing their securities must
provide complete public records OF
assets, liabilities, and other perti-
nent information relating to their A.
condition. Oficials of the
stock exchanges are alive TO chang
ing conditions and are constantly
any loopholes that may
appear in already stringent regula-
tions. A high standard Of business
ethics is maintained at all times.
Under modern conditions the AM
erican share pusher" should find
lean pickings. There is
little excuse for even the most In
nocent of investors being victimized
by his persuasive methods.