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The Washington times., 1938-08-16
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By SHIRLEY SPENCER

by SHIRLEY SRENCEB
This is a wcrd quiz. Score S for
each part OF rumber 3; score 4
for each part Of number 8, and
10 for each of the other queS-
tionS.
1. There are two ways Of spell
ing the following words. Check
the wrong way in the two
groups:
(a) melancholy (b) melancoly
Co mellancciy.
2. (a) pamphlet CD pamphlet
(c) pamflet.
3. Separate into syllableS and
give correct accent:
(a) ingenuity (b) ingenious
4. What meaning do you add
to a word by adding the suffix
"dromous?"
>. The state OF being dubious
Is called--(Seven letterS).
6. One is showing the most
violent emotion when one shows
(a) wrath (b) fury (c) rage
Cd anger
Z. Check The odd word which
does not have the same meaning
in this group:
(a) temer.ty (b) timidity (c)
audacity
8. What type Of man is an
intrigant?
9. Check the accented syllable
in the following:
(a) m-ex-o-ra-ble
CD in-exact-i-tude
Co in-fan-tile
I'd in-fe-hc t.ty
(e) industry
ANSWERS ON Page 1S)
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Self-Flattering Clerk

How come the young men Of
today are so conceited? If you
go shopping in a small store out
side your neighborhood. the
darn fool nitwitted clerk likely
as not will tell people that the
reason you shop there is that
you are secretly in love with
him, just eating your heart out
on account Of him, when you
wouldn't give a TOO for any Of
them. What strange specimens
of humanity are the men of TO-
day? DISGUISED MAIDEN.
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S-HOur Day for Nurses

Why cannot the public OF
Washington be educated to an
8-hour-duty nurse for private
and floor-duty nurses?
In this day of enlightenment
it does seem unreasonable to
ask anyone to work IL long
hours per day. Hours have been
shortened for workers in all
other walks of life, yet the nurse
seems to have been forgotten.
Why ask a nurse to work the
hours you certainly would not
work yourself?
Most hospitals in this city
have the 8-hour duty, but per-
haps one or two are tagging be-
hind. It is up to the layman
and some few doctors to help
us put the 8-hour duty across.
Nurses are expected to be
cheerful at all times, and to
give excellent nursing care, but
how can one expect so much
from tired and overworked
nurses? Remember the time off
dutV of a nurse is not spent in
recreation, nor out in the open
air and sunlight, for she must
spend most Of this time within
calling distance Of the telephone
if she expects to have work.
What likes the nurses as be-
ing very peculiar is that during
the regime of the NRA they
were eliminated from shorter
hours, as they we're regarded
as professional people; along
comes the business tax and
they are now in business. Did
you know that a nurse has no
old-age pension, no social Sc
curity, no compensation for sick
ness or injuries incurred in line
of duty?
Whether you have two 12-hour-
duty nurses or three S-hour-duty
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Spanking Needed

Wouldn't it be a wonderful
thing if, when small children
endanger their lives by running
across the street in front Of
automobiles and playing in the
streets, the motorists who saw
them do it would get out and
spank them soundly right then
and there?
It seems to me it would do no
end of good. or would it be like
I've heard. fond mother saying,
Don't you touch my child, I'll
spank that child if I think it
needs it," In other words: II
I wish to have it play in the
street, endangering its life and
the lives Of others, that's my
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would be better if I waited un-
til I was Older. But he also
added that since he smoked him.
self, there was not much he
could do about stopping me. I
did stop smoking after that, but
I started up again about seven
months later, and I've continued
to smoke since. believe If I
did stop smoking now, my health
would benefit, but it's hard to
break a habit"
X 4
Miss 10 Ann Kent, 2133 Mill
tarv Rd.. Arlington. Va:
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smoke. So I did not start Smok-
ing until went to college.
Mother and talked it over
again and she gave me her per
mission on condition that 7
wouldn't smoke more than three
cigarettes a day. I find that
limiting myself to three cigar
cites is not so hard to do and
it does satisfy an urge to smoke,
particularly If am in the COM
pany Of others who are Smok-
ing"
Samuel C. Berk, 900 Gallatin
st. N. W.. salesman:
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of age. However. 1 continued
to smoke occasionally anyway.
when he was not around. I re-
spected my fathers wishes and
wanted to please him, but all
the other fellows smoked and I
wanted to appear q man IN
their eyes,"
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It Could Be Worse

IVES we know it's hot. Old Sol seems to get younger,
! stronger and more vicious as the days go by.
Maybe the mouthngs and posings of the dctators
burning him up
But, always it might be worse-and here in Wash
ington have lot be thankful for. In fact there
many facilities for dispeing heat or for max
ing forget that the Capital bids fair to become
successful summer resort.
The great majority of the hotels are ar-conditioned
The same goes for our stores. There isn't public
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the ear, and just about dragged
me home. At home she gave me
an impressive padding and then
lectured me on the evils Of
smoking and emphasized the
fact that 1 would not grow tall
and strong if I continued to
smoke"
- r
Miss George PhilpOtt, Of Phil
pott, Va, University Of Rich
mond student:
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GUS as regards
any actions Of
my own. I'm
afraid I can
not earn my
corr eSpond-
ent'S gra t T.
tude by max
ing firsthand
s t u d eS of
mattresses of
the pre- S ent
cr op. S uch
questions as I
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and last corporal punishment
that my father ever gave me.
But it wasn't wasted on me, be-
cause lost my taste for Smok-
ing"
\
Fred Collins, $3.50 Park Pl.
N. w., typiSt:
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ROllin' Along
By W. A. S. Douglas

SGD ISTRACTED MOTHER" she would presumably
~ sign herself had she addressed the conductor OF the
agony column, writes to newly, don know-and tells
her daughter of good and of good people, has
become waitress in Philadelphia She fears nightly that
this profession constitutes first step along the
primrose path. She seeks my opinion.
The worried lady supplies her and address-but
don't think it would be fair them In fact am sure she
wouldn't want to do would like to know, however,
where she gets the idea that authority mattresses
and their outlook life 1t is true that when find them
pleasant pretty and obigng am given to little persage
But they don't happen get in tune with right away
shut up like oyster. across their grev horizon is
Being two milestones on the drunken newspaperman
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my ia t h e r
caught me smoking
when I was about
IA years old. He
said he was sorry
to see me smoking,
because it was not
good for me and he
suggested that If I
wanted to smoke it
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MY father gave
me a whipping. I
was about IA when
he caught me and
my younger brother
smoking cigarettes
in my m o t h e r. S
flower house. He
whipped us both.
That was the first
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"I ne yer was
c a u g h t smoking.
But when I was 16
years old I asked
my mothers per
mission to smoke.
She objected to the
idea because she
said she diSliked
S e e i n 6 women
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We'll, my father
caught me with a
lig t e d cigarette
about five years
ago, when my fam.
lily was on a vaca.
ton trip. He was
surprised, but he
did not seem angry.
He asked me if it
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He Sees TuUO Enemies

It is up to Americans to fight
Communism as well as NaZiSm.
Both are direct menaces to lib
erty-loving people. Don't be
fooled BY slogans or banners;
our country is the country to
be proud Of, as the greatest
democracy in the world. J.B.
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Il was about IL
years old when 1
was standing on
the corner with a
group of fellows
and my m o t h e r
came along. When
she saw I was smok-
ing she came up to
me, grabbed me by
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Wise Words

Our native land charms us
with inexpreSSible sweetness,
and never allows Us to forget
that we belong to it.-Ovid.
A man is as miserable as he
thinks he iS.-Seneca.
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was another of my bad habits.
He does not particularly like to
see me smoke, but he says if
must smoke he would rather
have me do so in the open"
X
Philip Dean, 1881 Lamont st.
N. w., parking lot manager:
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MY father gave
me a good whip
ping. I was about
is years old when
my father caught
me smoking one Of
his best ciga ar S.
After the whipping
he told me not to
smoke until I was
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drunken newspaperman.
I have to admit that there
is something about Mattresses
maybe their complete selfleSS-
ness-that appeals to newspaper
men in their cups. I know a
dozen colleagues who have mar.
ried them-for better and for
worse. Maybe that is why Dis
tracted Mother" wrote to me.
Madam, 1 have only had one
tender passage with a waitress.
The idyll rode its sweet journey
from Pawhuska, Oklahoma. to
Waxahachie, Texas, where she
left me, taking with her my
automobile and my typewriter.
She was beautiful, and there
was such a nick in my heart
that 1 forbore to have her
arrested and so said good-by to
my only valuable possessions.
7 am sure you need have no fear
L for your girl. You tell me she
has been working at her chosen
task for a month. She has had
time enough, therefore, to real
ize that she has embarked on as
tough a job as there is. Her
education, you declare, has
fitted her for better things. But
she has become a waitress, am
sure, because the labor market
of today offers her nothing in
these better" lines for which she
has studied and on which you
and her father have spent hard
earned money A girl of the sort
your daughter is seems bound to
own her own restaurant at a no
distant date.
If she had become a hostess in
a night club or a chorus girl in
a theater I could understand
your fears. The first is def
nitely a panhandler by profes-
sion-i1 nothing worse. The sec.
ond must be pretty and to a de-
gree talented to gam even foot
hold. They are both of them on
the counter as "lure" to these
horrible males-poor things. For
them the primrose path you
write of stretches-wide and in
viting.
But never for a waitress. She
tolls all day or ali night-de-
pending on the shift she works.
Balancing heavy trays, tramplng
to kitchen, to table, to bar. from
kitchen, from table, from bar,
she treads a cruel road. Already
your poor girl must be flatfooted
and bunionS are her lot as surely
as the sun rises and sets. But
Danish your worries as to any
wild life. Yom daughter Staggers
home-not drunk, but all in. She
soaks her puor dogs in warm
water and baking soda and she
tumbles into bed-Solo.
Be tickled t. death she has the
intestinal fortitude to be u
waitress.
Copyright, 1898. by Washington
Herald-Times)
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jap Courage, Russ Courage

jap Courage, Russ Courage
MY answer to your anti-Rus'
sian Voice letter, Melchiorre
scire, is why did Japan "braVe'
ly" pick q war with Russia in
1904 when rebellion was brew
ing in Russia? And why did
japan invade and occupy the
Russian maritime provinces
when they were tom by civil
strife and postwar upheaval in
1892, if japan is so brave.
A RUSSIAN.
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heInquiring
Photographer
The washington Times in
vites you to submit timely
and interesting questions to
be used in this column.
THE QUESTION

What did your parents do the
first time they caught you smok-
ing?
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Again We Plead---
Mr.. President

TT HAS now been definitely decided that Commits
soner George E. Allen vacates office as of Septem-
Der l. 1t is presumed President Roosevelt will select
his successor within the next few days. that George
can show hm-or her-the ropes before he takes over
the more lucrative position which his talents have
brought him.
No matter how repettve readers may think we
The Washington times., 1938-08-16

The list Of traffic victims in
the District Of Columbia since
January I, 1888, is graphically
shown by the death watch.
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! Shut up Ike an oyster.
Being two mileStoneS on the
yonder side of fifty and posses
sing q keen sense Of the ridicul-
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NatiUe Son
Or Daughter

There are so many eminenty qualfled Tor tne post
that the Times hestates to raise name above that OF
another Pick hm-or her-Mr President, and we'll
be thoroughly satisfied just long the new Com
missioner is one of us.
Such small thing to ask Mr.. Roosevelt-but OF tre-
mendous import to us, the voteess aen-goVerned por-
ton of the United States Grant it, and all your other
great works will PALE for us, beside the Importance
the Lincoln-like importance-of this STEP
It would be conquered mile on the rocky and we'll
nigh inaccessible road which we seek to journey,
with many setback toward the political freedom guar
anteed under the Constitution to every American of
clean recordexcept the residents of the Capital of the
United States.
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THE ANSWERS
Miss Dorothy Shirah, 629 Far
ragut st. N. W., clerk:
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Beaches Near
If You Haze q Car

every style of purse-and for those with purse at ALL
And the beaches a very short ride away.
Few cities thoroughly equipped to reduce the
bother of high temperature-and humidity-to low
a minimum as is Washington. If only had that audi
torium could hold up heads with the biggest and
noisiest and most self-important of all the cities
Yes, it's awful warm-but still and ALL as we said be-
fore it might be The town is full of tourists and
we have the satisfaction of knowing are doing our
best for them in the way of summer comfort.
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business. But Is II? It seems
to me that it is the business Of
the motoriSt to see that his life
is safe and the lives Of others
and if the parents can't, or
won't, teach a child safety then
the public should do it for them.
No motorist wants to hit q
pedestrian and especially a
child and he will take pretty
drastic measures to see that he
doesn't hit anyone. The streets
are for motorists and the side
walks for pedestrians. Why can't
we learn to stay in our places
and teach our children to do
the same? Motorists don't go
up on the sidewalks to hit the
pedestrians: they come out in
the streets to get hit.
The minute they step off the
curb unless it's at the croSSwalk
where few people walk, they
are in the wrong. but Sti!l they
do it. Maybe we should build
high fences along the curb be-
tween the intersections with
overhead croSSwalkS and q gate
in the middle Of the block for
motorists who park end wish to
get to the sidewalk. A police
man would be stationed at the
gate to keep pedestrians from
getting in the street and play
ing dodge with death in spite OF
everything. It wouldn't be such
a pretty sight, but it would be
safe.
The people visiting from out
of town would Immediately say
Gee, what dumb people. They
have to be fenced in to keep
them on the Sidewalk" And
they would be right. We, as a
whole, are dumb as some ami
mails and must also be fenced
in to teach us to stay in our
places. Right?
F.. P. EMERSON.
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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
Names and addresses of

should limited 200 words Names and address
the writers will be omitted
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building that cannot be Wis
tied and leisurely gone over
in perfect comfort. There are
swimming pools handy for
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are, we cannot overlook the oppor-
tunity to pound again at one of our
favorite platforms-a District man
or District woman for Commissioner.
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From the New York Daily News.
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tary Rd., Arlington, Va:
The Nome nugget., 1938-12-30

Pilot Jack Jefford was last re- ported at St. Michael and will be returning to Nome shortly.
The Nome nugget., 1938-12-30

Walter J. Dowd, Democratic representative elect from the Second Division, left Kotzebue via plane direct for Fairbanks a day or So ago. MT. Dowd had in tended to pay Nome a visit be- fore leaving for Juneau to attend the Alaska Legislature, but press ing business matters did not per nit time to visit with his old time Nome friends and relatives. Mir. DoWd was formerly connect ed with the U. s. Signal Corps office at Nome several years ago Of late years he has been asso- ciated with the govt radio of flee at Kotzebue, and acted as U. s. Commissioner at that place He resigned from the radio ser vice last July and his place is be ing filled by Chas. Dermer, form erly in the service at Wrangel, Alaska.
The Nome nugget., 1938-12-30
Deal Is Made
 For Ground
 On Inmachuk

More than six miles of ground on the Inmachuk River are being leased by the Belleview Dredg- ing Co from Cordovado Gold Dredging Co.,, according to A. V. Cordovado who recently left Nome for the States via plane.
 The dredge ground begins IT miles up from the mouth of the Inmachuk River.
 MT. CordoVado said that the Belleview company plans to put in a dredge next spring, and an- other one later in the season. Joe BelleVieW, mining man of Boston. Mass, is the manager of the dredging company.
 No dredge is operated by the Cordovado company.
 Three claims, the lower end of the Cordovado property on the Inmachuk, were leased last sum- mer for three-year period to the Forsgren Dredging Co. A wood boat, diesel powered and us ing l12 cubic foot buckets, was
The Nome nugget., 1938-12-30
NEWS ITEMS

Mineral Surveyor Robert Lyle, accompanied by his bride were arrivals at Nome yesterday via Mirow Air Service plane from Fairbanks, to spend the New Year holidays with MT. Lyle's mother and relatives. Later MT. Lyle will make a professional trip to Ungalik River to survey a tract of placer ground for George Geamalis who plans to patent the ground in the near flu ture. Other surveys in this sec ton may keep Surveyor Lyle busy here for some time before returning to his office at Fair banks.
The Nome nugget., 1938-12-30

Miss Vera Novak, of Montana was an arrival at Nome yester- day from the uotside via plane from Fairbanks. Miss Novak is a sister of Victor Novak, electric al engineer at the Northern Light & Pofer Company plant in this city, and will be the home guest of MT. and Mrs. Novak Miss Novak is a musician and will be connected with the new Nevada orchestra of three pieces including her sister-in-laW Mrs. Novak on the piano and Lloyd Heberlee on the drums, with Miss Novak playing the piano accordian. This orchestra is now preparing for the big New Years Eve dance and frolic at the New ada Cabaret, Saturday evening. Tom Cloninger, the manager, says service is our motto, and there is nothing too good for Nomeites, even if we have to go clear to Montant to obtain the best.
The Nome nugget., 1938-12-30

operated on the leased ground last summer.
 MT. Cordovado is bound for Chicago to attend a meeting of the board of directors of his com pany. He is president of the Cordovado Gold Dredging Co.,, and owns Is per cent of the com pany stock.
 Besides Chicago, he may also visit the Belleview company headquarters in Boston, and talk trip to Los Angeles, before he returns north next March.
 MT. Cordovado further said that he and Joe Firenz and Simon Wallen plan to put a dragline and 'dozer outfit next summer upstream from the ETA summer on placer ground 25 miles upstream from the mouth of the Inmachuk River. They op erated there last summer with a tractor and small hydraulic plant
The Nome nugget., 1938-12-30
Mirow Air Service Activities

Pilot Hans Mirow returned from Fairbanks yesterday via Koyukuk, in the Lockheed. His passengers were: Verda Novak, MT. and Mrs. Robert Lyle, and Chuck Calkins.
The Nome nugget., 1938-12-30
N o T I c E

Mrs. Peggy" Lyle, Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue, will be located at room 101 Fed eral Building for the next 10 or 12 days. Anyone desiring inform ation regarding Social Security and Income Tax matters are re- quested to call on her, between the hours of am. and 5 pm.
The Nome nugget., 1938-12-30
AirpIane News
 Nome Airport

Pilot Lien flying the mail plane of the Pacific Alaska Airways, arrived from Fairbanks yester- day with the regular Thursday mail. The plane took off again from the Nome airport on it's re turn flight to Fairbanks with mail and Representative Garnet Martin, who is enroute to Juneau to attend the Alaska Legislature
The Nome nugget., 1938-12-30
HAPPY NEW 
Calkins' Shoppe

Save $2 by paying in ad- vance for your subscription
The Nome nugget., 1938-12-30
Wien Airways Activities

Yesterday Pilot Sig Wien re- turned to Nome from Fairbanks and immediately took off for Fay Tor with a load of freight. He re- turned to Nome with one pass enger, Fred Allyn.
The Nome nugget., 1938-12-30

Write to your friends and rela- tives on the Outside, using Sour ough Stationery. They'll get a big kick out of it.
The Nome nugget., 1938-12-30

Today Pilot Wien flew to Hay cock an d Council with freight and one passenger, Eva Paul, for Haycock.
The Nome nugget., 1938-12-30
Old Papers For Sale

Buy them by the bundle, Use them for starting fires. For Sale at The Nome Nugget.
The Nome nugget., 1938-12-30

Proof of Labor Blanks can now be had at the --,me Nugget office.
The Nome nugget., 1938-12-30

Save $2 by paying in advance 'or your subscription.
The Nome nugget., 1938-12-30

On January 1st, or shortly thereafter, the mail run to Tel Ter, Wales and Shishmaref will be started, also to Golovin, Coun cil and White Mountain. Get your mail in the post office now! Any packages for these places will be accepted at the Mirow Air Service office at all hours.
The Nome nugget., 1938-12-30

Today he left for the Tooba- toolik with Harold and MT. and Mrs. Sievert Jacobsen where they plan to do a winters trap ping. Another. trip will be made there in a few days to bring them the remainder of their equip ment.
The Kennewick courier-reporter and the White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1938-1939, 1938-10-20
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Q B ! I U ART
oREN RUE RIDER

ore en- Rue Rider was born T.,
airy rs. 1876 at Toledo. Io,. Jam.
was married in 1904 at ro AVA &
in 1905 he brought his br,s uO and
and settled at Garfield. Fror' y wa
they went TO Quincy, wh a 'aes
homesteaded for twenty yssse b
1926 he brought his family '. - ;. b
since. AUG none
MIR. Rider took III FRIDAY
passed away at his home ~, s@
evening v October l6 at the aSs !,
62 years. aye q
He is survived by his widow ~
Myrta Rider, two sons, c,s, A =
Rider of Yakima and rowa n I
Rider of Walla walla; two dana
tiers, Mrs. Neil Paden Of Harrss susa'
Mrs. Cecil ormsbee Of Seattle s.'s
two grandchildren, Linda p. quo
and Ray Rider. -aua
Funeral services were be,a a..
the Mueller Funeral Home wsa s.ua
day afternoon at 2 O'Clock with -.
Rev. H. Attenborough officisA &c
1nter1nent was made in the Rive
view Heights cemetery
The Kennewick courier-reporter and the White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1938-1939, 1938-10-20
Floyd &1!'&.!!'onS,
ADVENTURES CLUB
HEADLINES FROM THE lives
OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF!
Tragedy Closes In
By FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter

ELLO EVERYBODY:
You know they say troubles never come singy, and
know doggone well that is true in at astpne It's
the case of Amy Casald of Chicago When began pill
ing up grief Amys shoulders she piled it up high
Friday morning the second July 1885,
began to Ay's eshtyearold
other kids burned the his right
and for two days and after that Left his beside
until far calamity forced
accident the that had died Louisville KY
couldn't the funeral Not with her constant
Saturday
Of her and her two daughters. -
Fierce Gale Struck Her House.
Night had had little girls bed
they Sleep back bedside
another long nights vigil The rolled The wind
begun At o'clock morning blowing young
Castals completely
sides On the other
blowing from that direction
The steadily. II whisted
phene wires outside The whistle . stn
rising Then suddenly the lights out In the street
buf Of hailsones ratified against the And IT. almost
the time window crashed the front Of the dwelling
The shaking-haking
frazzd could woke