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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-26
T est Y Q q ' Knowledge

Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-26

@. Which make of automobile was first equipped with four wheel brakes?
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-06-16

further deterrent. These obstacles
turned the tide of immigration south
ward to the route later known as the
| Wilderness Road leading through the
| Cumberland Gap in the Allegheny
mountains between Tennessee and
| Virginia. This route, however, was
| too far south of the center of popula-
ton to permanently hold the leader
! ship as the main transmountain road
Furthermore, George Washington, in
| 1884, after the close of the Revolu-
tionary War, made an exploration into
| the Ohio country to revive his boy
hood plan Of a highway across the
mountains connecting with a canal
from Cumberland, Maryland, to tide
water at Georgetown, near the present
city of Washington. The remains OF
the canal begun by Washington's COM
pany may be seen today on the Vir-
ginia side of the Potomac river at
Great Falls.
Long Distance Roads Were Needed
To Provide Cohesion in The Period OF
Disunion Following the Revolutionary
War 5-1SO5)-W ashington early
realized the danger Of a mountain bar
rier dividing the interests of the West
from those of the East and his beloved
| Virginia. Nevertheless, appropriations
by the Old Dominion, in 1895, and by
the State of Kentucky, in 1897, al
though coupled with military neces.
sity and private initiative, were insult
ficient to build the Wilderness RoaC
across the mountains through g
sparsely settled region. Thus atten
ton was directed to the treasury OF
the United States. AS the Fedora
/ Government owned no domain south
of the Ohio River at the beginning OF
the nineteenth century, the choice OF
the most practicable transmountair
routs shifted again to the northwest
where the government owned land.
When the Ordinance Of 1887 created
territorial government for the re-
gion northwest of the Ohio River
three eastern cities were striving fol-
the trade of the West. Philadelphia, il
1892, began the construction of the
Lancaster Pike, the first link in the
improvement of a western road thru
Pennsylvania. The belt of rich lime
stone soil in Pennsylvania supported
luxurious crops Of wheat for the me.
tropolis of Philadelphia. The parent
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-06-16

present position of General Brad
docks grave, ten miles east of Union
town, Pennsylvania, for the English
expedition against the French at Fort
Duquesne, the Pennsylvanians plainly
showed their apathy. Without their
active assistance, it required so long a
time for Braddock to open a road
through 100 miles of wilderness that
the French were given an opportunity
to concentrate their forces and annihi-
late the British
French and Indian Wars Divert
East-West Travel Southwark to the
Cumberland Gap Q758-178D-Deter-
mined to wipe out the stain of this
bitter defeat, the British General
Forbes cut a road north of the Cum
berland Road through the forest west
ward across the mountains in Penn
sylvania and led his soldiers to vic
tory over the French at Fort Duquesne
in 1853. Behind the retreating French,
the Ohio country would have settled
more rapidly with immigrants from
the East, had it not been for the out
break of the Revolutionary War, in
ITS, which left the Indians bitterly
hostile to the colonists along the At
lantic seaboard. The retention of the
French forts in the northwest was a
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-06-16

Through the courtesy of the American
Road Builders Association Feature
Service.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-06-16
By ALBERT C. ROSE.

Senior Highway Engineer Public Roads United Stat
Department of Agriculture
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-06-16

This stone-arch bridge over Wills Creek,
Immediately west of Cumberland, Mary
land, was built in 1886. The bridge proper
was built at right angles TO the center
line of the creek to reduce the cost and
because the stone masons were unable 10
cut and fit stones of the irregular shapes
needed for a skew crossing. The diagonal
approaches to this and other bridges on
the Pike account for the shape of these
So bridges.
The Washington times., 1938-04-04
The Man She Won
modern romance of life in the
Nations Capital By Washington writer.
By Phyllis Moore Gallagher
SYNOPSIS


Tommy promising prizetOhter brother and
LS0oe Lee IN Washington
sua6y gone to Washington Tommy tight but really
exert her leS Rodney CGndn rich tdnce
the Tommy MGrceLd
crod Tommy and MarceuG secretly
had carried out other plans for her daughter After fight the
baron MacelG husband finds Tommy and his Dte together
When MGceG 1rTDS home the baron reUe1lS his utter
refusing dDorce and revealing plan whereby Tommy might
be erased from life If she should eGDe him. Then phone eau
from her cousin Henry Drake Dho also uh Gloria
that her mother and father haze been killed accident Mean
Ue struggling Dr. Peter Kent ance of Isabel broodng
Isabeps lope OF gGoroIS AOn0 seated NTH Gloria hen
call Tommy saying that Isabel Rodney
haze been married Henry then calls and not realizing Udt she
doing Gloria mGrre him. After the ceremony, Henry finds
himself after vGtn attempts to take GloraS e NOW GO ON
WITH STORY.
The Washington times., 1938-04-04
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Iain't scientifical. Nowadays you're
jeS 'sposed tub drap a baby at
night lax he was a cat yuh was
Settin' out de back dol"
Katie numbered out and a few
moments later Gloria heard her
humming in the back yard as she
went up to the clothesline and
took down small white garments
that had tagged the breeze all
that sunny day.
For long while Gloria went
about the business of preparing
Jock for bed taking her time about
it. She cuddled the small heart
shaped face against her bosom.
She sang softly and wnen she
laid him down at last on the crisp
white sheet Jock rolled over on his
tummy like little man ana went
quickly to sleep, his thumb in his
mouth and a fuzzy yellow dog
guarding him from the head Of
the crib.
A PROPOSAL
Gloria snapped off the light and
stood there in the moonlight, lean
ing over the crib. Jock was sucn
a beautiful baby. His skin was like
a Slow-turning peach: his eyes
were shining cornflowers. She was
thinking Of all the things size had
hoped fer from life; such little
things a tiny home and baby
like Jock and love; things that
would never be now. Her olue eyes
were misty with her thoughts and
her chin was trembling. She did
not hear Peter come up beside her.
He said, in a whisper: How did
the old man behave today?"
Gloria turned her bright head.
Hes a lamb, Peter. He's the
best baby. But he worried me q
little. He said 'Daddie. >" She
paused a moment, then went on,
gravely: "Peter, do you know who
Elva Matthews husband ISL"
In the moonlight slanting in
through the open window, Gloria
saw Peters face go grim. He said.
deadly even: Eyes, I know,
Gloria" And he thought, II wish
didn't know. I wish Elva Mat
thews hadn't told me anything
about him."
After a long moment of silence.
Peter put his hand over Glor;a's
slim one. He asked, on the surge
of an amazing impulse: Gloria,
will you marry me?"
To Be Continued
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
Certain Qualities Are
Associated With Names

We have a wonderful way of as
sociating certain qualities with GER
tain names. The name becomes
fraught, not as the rose is fragrant,
but as the clay is fragrant that has
long lain with the rose. Two great
newspapers took a vote as to the
most popular name for a boy and
the most popular name for a girl.
And in the result the names of John
and Mary hopelessly outdistanced
all competitors. But why? There is
nothing in the name of John or in
that of Mary to account for such
general attachment. Some names,
like Lily, or Rose, or Violet, sug-
gest beautiful images, and are loved
on that account. How, then, are we
to account for it? Long, long ago, on
green hill far away, there stood by
the cross of Jesus His mother, and
the disciple whom Jesus loved. And
when Mary left that awful and trag-
ic scene, she left it, as Jesus Him
self desired that she should leave it,
leaning on the arm of John. And
because these two were first in the
human love of Jesus, their names
have occupied a place of special
fondness in the hearts of all men
ever since.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
Britons Take to Tubs

Evidence that the Englishnan is
taking more baths is given in the
current issue of the Geographical
Review, official publication of the
American Geographical society,
which attributes a gradual increase
in the use of water in England also
to the fact that more automobiles
are being washed in that country.
The average Englishman uses
about IS gallons of water day,
Brysson Cunningham. author of the
article, states, while the average
American uses over 100 gallons go
ing, in some places, such as Chica-
go, as high as 200 gallons. There
is a decidedly upward tendency In
British use," Mr.. Cunningham
wrote. More water is required for
baths and the washing of mo-
tor cars. An increase is expected
of 20 gallons a head within 20
years" Forty years from now some
authorities believe the Englishman
viii be using as much as 80 gal
Ions of water a day.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
China's Yellow River Is
Life-Giver Like the Nile

Although destroyer-in-chief, and
justly entitled 'China's Sorrow like
Egypt's Nile the Yellow river is also
a me-giver. Washing rich top soil
down from the mountains upon the
North China plain, it transforms
floods into farm fertility for the
next generation. China's Sorrow
was also ancient China's cradle
of culture" says the National Geo.
graphic society. ''The Yellow riv-
er's rich soil deposits influenced the
country's first civilized men to be-
come farmers instead of wandering
shepherds. And farmers the Hwang
Ho valley inhabitants have re-
manned for 40 centuries. A dragon
symbolizing the Hwang Ho is de-
scribed in a myth as having present
ed the Chinese people with their al
phabet.
Vital in the country's culture
and cultivation, the Hwang Ho is
practically useless in transporta-
ton. The Yangtze is navigable for
steamships more than a thousand
miles from its mouth; the Hwang,
for about IS miles. It is either
too shallow or too turbulent else
where. In the middle third Of its
course, local shipping moves in fat
bottomed scows and in primitive
RATS buoyed with inflated sheep
skins and oxhides, much as in the
nations ea- -'ctory."
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
a. Ola English Custom

Several centuries ago. the ec-
elesiastical courts of England pro-
hibited marriage not only between
distantly related relatives by blood
but also between relatives by Atm
ity. Thus, sisters-in-law and broth
ers-in-law were as incapable of
contracting marriage as natural
brothers and sisters, notes writer
In Golfers Weekly. as were the
children of husbands and wives by
iormer marriages.
The Useful Bat
Bats frequently invade attics Of
houses. Although undesirable in
houses, these creatures are really
beneficial as they eat many de-
structive insects. They are noe
turnal in habit, hiding during the
day in secluded places. The first
thing to control them is to find any
opening by which they may be en-
tering the house; and to close this
up with either boards or wire net
ting. Recent experiments have in
dictated that bats do not like
the fumes of naphtholene. It is
suggested therefore that from to
pounds of naptholene flakes be scat
tered in the attic. If this remedy is
tried, it should be carried out before
the openings are closed UP.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
Formed the Wisconsin DelIs

Some thousands of years ago,
when the Wisconsin river began its
flow down to the sea, its course was
shifted time and time again as it
found its way over the fiat lime
stone bed. AS it rushed along it
cut into the limestone, and the pas
sage of the great glacier made other
cuts in the rock, forming the weird
shapes which are now known as the
Dells. The, Turks Head, the Bal
anced Rock. the Needle and the
Devils Doorway are only a few Of
the descriptive names given these
formations
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
Noah Was First Roman,
Not Rornulus of LEGEND

From no less an authority than
Professor Luigi Huetter, German
archeologist, comes the surprising
information that Noah was the first
of the Romans. In fact, Noah was
the founder of Rome-not, as leg
end has it, Romulus.
It seems, according to the learned
professor, that after his misguided
Observation-Disclosures, that is-had
built the Tower of Babel, Noah took
a ship with his sons and landed in
sunny Italy. And there on the Pala-
tine hill he founded a city to which
he gave his name. He died soon
afterwards.
Then Ham, with son of Japhet
and another individual named
Games, who was there already, built
another city called Janiculurn on
the Palatine hill. About that time,
too, Ni1nrod came to Italy and built
his city on the Capitol hill; then
Hercules and Tibris and Evander
and others, all founded cities within
Roman territory on the famous sew
en- hills.
But the highest place of honor re-
NAMED the Palatine, where Noah
laid Rome's first foundations.
It's just possible, of course, that
this legend may have its origin in
a monument in Nerva's forum,
which was still to be seen in the.
Middle ages and was known as
Noah's ark. But there-who are we
to cast doubts?
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
Printing in China 50 B. o.

Printing is traced to China, where
as early as SO B. C. the Chinese
had originated method of printing
with ink on paper by means of en-
graved blocks. The question Of who
was the first to employ movable
printing types has long been mat
ter of controversy. Laurens JAMS
zoon Coster, of Harlem, Holland,
is said to have invented wooden
type about 1920 and movable metal
type between 1440 and 1446. How
ever, it is to John Gutenberg, of
Mainz, Germany, that is attributed
the credit Of being the inventor or
at least responsible for the great
Improvement in the production of
movable types and for the crafts
manship displayed in printing his
celebrated Bible in 1455.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
Twin Town Talk

published Baltimore has sports
other than our little Nell" Dodson who formerly
did scribbng this Wonder whether Congress
Mitchell Democrat talk Minnesota politics when he
Swancy who formerly abored
sheet his lovesthe ST. Louis Call
Sheriff Tommy Gibbons segregated Ramsey County jail two
prisoners past While the Jail being made safe for
supremacy should have been prisoner
of
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
Threads Of Lie

It's odd. A man thinks his own
will guides his own life. But the
world is full of human lives; a man
IS bound to blunder into some of
them, weave his own with them In
dissolubly, or touch and drift away
and touch again, or narrowly miss
touching and maybe never know.
The pattern is on the loom. And
sometimes, looking back, you see a
part Of it. A thread weaves in and
out and disappears; it is not broken
but still weaving somewhere. Is it
incidence when it appears again?
Unknown or unconscious forces.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
Mount Rainier Third in Height

Washington's Mount Rainier, a.
4O8 feet high, is the third mountain
in height in continental United
States, being topped only by Mount
Whitney in California and Mount
Ebert in Colorado. Rainier is the
Hottest of the huge extinct vol
canoes which dominate the Cascade
range of mountains. It's nearest re
val, Mount Shasta in northern Call.
fornia, is $50 feet lower.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
Judge Larson
Orders Bridgenan
To Pay Damages
Nellie Dodson Awarded
SIS Damages

Bridgemans, Minneapolis ice
cream concern located at 621 Hen
nepin Ave., must pay Miss Nellie
Dodson, former University coed,
SIS for refusing to serve her and
a companion in May.
Miss Dodson filed suit for a
small sum in the Cancellation court
for damages under the Minnesota
civil rights law. She explained that
she was not interested in the
amount of money that might be
awarded her but in the principle of
the matter.
Bridgemans, a firm with head
quarters in Duluth, opened the
Hennepin Ave. store in April and
Immediately began refusing col
ored people service.
Miss Dodson, a newspaper wom-
an, is now in Baltimore, Maryland,
working on one of the largest pa
pers in the country.
Much credit for the outcome of
the case goes to Attorney A. R.
Skinner who volunteered his serv-
ices to Miss Dodson and in the in
terests of the Negro citizens.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09

clerk OF O1SJrlcC OOurI 66OTSS hSA
yet found room for a colored en-
ploye on his regular staff. Nobody
expects Mr.. Hemperley to fire
some employee to place a sepian,
BUT Hennepin county Negroes do
feel that some of them should be
given the first vacancy. =.
CHRISTIAN INFLUENCE: One
of the eating places at the state
fair which was hammered with
'COLORED TRADE NOT SOIL
CITED" is operated by Lutheran
church auxiliaries.
ALABAMA LAW: All of those
who guessed that Alabama would
not send for the Mill City man who
gave himself up after four years
as an undiscovered fugitive from
justice did not take into considera-
ton that Alabama sheriffs like to
travel up moth to Minnesota, too.
It's a nice trip at state expense.
LOCAL SCENE: A packing
house veterinarian and his wife who
live in constant fear of installment
collectors high-hatting a Pullman
porter and his wife who own seven
hOuses!!! Clarence Hughes mer-
chandising the Minnesota Iowa
club. s. Jim Williams standing
on a street corner discussing hunt
ing and fishing with white friend.
-. The hot roasted peanut sales
man on Robert Street. Sic
BOckenstOIe and VIM. Jackson,
G. o. P. convention delegates, con-
fdent Stassen will win. Earl
Shamwell who was paid SIS by the
Federal Drug Co., corner Henne-
pin and Third street, Minneapolis,
because they would not serve him
a cup of cOffee!!! Squire Neal who
despite his troubles looks younger
than he did two years ago. :.
WOrmser's Hat Stores in St. Paul
where every customer is always
welcome and is served with ex-
treme courtesy. Martin Browns
Standard Oil B. & w. Service Sta
ton is one of the most beautiful
gas and oil stations in the Twin
Cities. Martins station is located
at 11O1 Marquette Ave-, Minneap-
oils, and Martin always grinningly
says, "COme up and see me some
time" COrnelia Burns, Mime
apOlis beauty culturist. The
Minneapolis city official who dis
covered two years ago that his
wife had sepia blood but has never
even told her he knOws-because he
loves her and it doesn't make any
difference to him who her fore
fathers Were!!!
Title Tattle: R. B. is still up to
his old tricks. Once bounder al
ways a bounder, huh, R.? The
railroad boys from K. C. and Chi
cago who lay over in Minneapolis
for one night for while were the
Twin City unattached females de-
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09

light lately the boys have gone
out like a hght-some poetry, Ell?
If certain Rondo Street rail-
road man in the vicinity of Grotto
doesn't hurry up and get what he's
after in Minneapolis, wethinks
maybe the Nut House will have an
other patient. He's just so much
in love with Minneapolis matron
who isn't living with her husband
at present. -.
One of three noted Negro name
bands will play here Sept. 26???
The Washington times., 1938-05-09
By igor CASSlnl

Mccoy of Wild West fame, probably
longed for the "bucking bronchos"
Jimmie Mitchell decided he
would rather rest under the Shadow
Of an inviting tree Jack Shinkel,
as smooth and sure of himself as
ever, milled through the throng :.
Lady Lewis, always amusing, talking
things over with Betsy Caswell ..
Pretty Margot Garrett and, nat
urally, our Mariana Zuberbuhler
-. . That Polish beauty who doesn't
speak Polish, Jadza Leduhowska,
and Miguel Quirno-Lavalle.
Senator and Mrs. La Toilette chat
ting with the Governor and Mrs.
Price and his aide, Colonel Kemper,
and Mrs. Kemper . Ann .McGrath,
in a canary sport dress and wool
embroidered belt, white felt hat
on one side of her head, drank
Planters punches . Margot Nc
Connie bet on all the races :. Mac
McConihe saw all through his binocu-
lars -. Capt. Sterling Larrabee was
big shot -. and his wife had
big red hat with fringe Betty
Jenkins toted a box of Kleenex for
her hay fever and wore, with ele-
gance, dusty blue crepe =. Audrey
Campbell and Mrs. Arthur White
had dark glasses to protect their eyes
against the sun Jane Wilbur,
after each race, went down the pad
dock to bet some more and there
also, making heavy bettings, were
Angy Duke, from Tuxedo Park, New
York; Billy and Polly (Buchanan)
Stokes. Billy Russell, Rufus Johns
ton. Alfonso Martin, the famous
Colombian conquistador; Elizabeth
Flanagan, of New York; Elizabeth
Sibley, of Rochester, with Ernest Lee
Jahncke and Bill Blum :. Johnnie
Harrison, the jockey, winner of the
Gold Cup, came all the way uphill,
after his victory, to ask Austine Nc
The Washington times., 1938-05-09

Donnell if she would sit with him
at the place of honor that night at
the dinner dance at North Wales
But (amazingy she refused
cause she had to be back in Wash
ington for rehearsal at the King
Smith Play House for new play IN
which she is our heroine =. Johnnie
had to console himself later in the
garden of North Wales with Mildred
Mcconnell.
At North Wales revelry and color
full scenery, with the majority of men
dressed in pink coats and gallons Of
champagne Same numbers Of
ladies and gentlemen sitting at small
tables Full swing of Meyer Davis
orchestra, in a particularly good
mood Eve Symington, the famous
New York singer, demonstrated her
vocal talents to an admiring group in
a little room apart -. but golden
haired Caroline Hagner gave the
audience just as good a performance
in the adjacent room Jock Mer-
RAM and Bettina Belmont performed
at their best together, while Larry
Baker did very we'll on the veranda
alone Among the many there,
Mr.. and Mrs. Jerry Wadsworth, the
George Sloanes, the William Doellers,
the Amory Carharts, the Johnnie
Buchanans, the Fred Hasericks, the
Judge Churches {. E. Jerry Webb was
in an extremely gay mood The
party ended at 80, when the gray,
gray dawn thumbed her rosie nose
at them Allan Jenkins trans
ported the orchestra to his house to
continue the party -. . AFTER THAT
there was Hangover shoot" party,
where one shoots skeets, and to COM
pete the contestants must have an
awful hangover! Larry Poole,
from Harvard, proved himself a real
dyed-in-t he-wool drinking man, as he
seemed to have the best aim.