davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-08-24

countries in recent years have
permitted their trade volume
gradually to slip until last year it
was only 1OO,OOO,OOO marks ($4O,-
OOO.OOOl.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-08-24

the winter should be stored in a
tight building from which the
moths cannot escape to the or
chard the following spring. This
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-08-24

same type of storage construction
should be used even when hold
ing the good fruit for winter
sale"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-13
FIGHTING VENEREAL DISEASES

While no one can state with certainty
the number of persons in the United States
suffering from venereal diseases, reports
from 10000 physicians in 1880 revealed
that GAP, 1000 cases of syphilis were under
treatment. The presumption is that an
equal number of cases of gonorrhea exist
ed at the same time.
The medical and social problem pre-
sented by venereal diseases is termed by
DIR. Parran, United States Surgeon-Gen-
eral, as ''the most urgent in this country
today"
Apparently, one-half of those afflicted
are between the ages of twenty and thirty
years. This reveals the necessity for
sound sex education through teachers,
parents and church leaders. There is no
sense in adopting hush-hush policy. In
telligence and good conscious require that
the people of the United States attack this
problem Immediately.
It has been estimated that 100000
deaths are caused each year by syphilis,
that more than one million years of life
expectancy are lost, that the disease takes
a heavy toll through blindness and in
sanity and is the cause for much of the
$50, 100000 year spent for institutional
care.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-13
THE ISLAND CITY
Old Key w e S t

Schooner Henderson from Balti-
more reports brigantine ashore
at Orange Keys on way to Key
West.
'Sloop Hawkins was struck by
lightning while laying at anchor
at Bahia Honda, shattering the
mast and tearing up the deck, go
ing along the chain and out
through the hawser holes.
In an 1877 publication of the
Key of the Gulf commentator is
made on the Indian Key massacre
by Indians. One body was found
in a cistern, completely boiled.
An account of an affair of honor
in which an aggrieved husband
shot one who had impinged on
his honor because of relations
with his wife is related. After
a duel, in which both were
wounded, the adventurer was
killed at the Caroline street pond
by a chotgun discharged into his
back by the agrieved husband.
"The Chinese of the city may
build a Joss house to worship
Confucius", the paper reports. "a
white goat with a pink tail is
frequenting the City Hall grounds.
Beche de mer are abundant in
Key West and can be secured for
a cent apiece. They can be sold to
the Chinese on the West Coast.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-13

CONTINUING from the old
newspaper owned by Miss Marie
Cappick of this city, dating
around the year 1889, we find:
''The Schooner City of Key West,
Capt. Sawyer, arrived at Jno
loves wharf this morning from
Key Largo with an assorted car
60 of vegetables and fruits.
British Schooner Goodwill sails
for Nassau with passengers and
freight if the weather is favor
able. Schooner Martha, which
arrived at Curry's wharf with a
cargo of lumber, will take on a
cargo of palmetto piles and pro-
coed to Galveston.
The Equator reporter reported
that the construction of the city's
new artesian well is progressing
well". The paper said, "Ex-Presi-
dent Grover Cleveland is expect
ed in the city on the Olivette
from Havana.
Zone of our typos, slug IL, was
the recipient of a delightful SER
enade by jerks and Co.'S String
Band at 10 o'clock last evening.
Ship Coronet struck on Re-
becca but Stacked sails and sue
ceeded in getting into Tortugas
with seven feet of water in the
hold. She will 60 on to New
Orleans with six new men.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-13

City council has requested State Rep
resentative Bernie C. Papy to introduce an
act at next session of the Legislature en-
abling Key West to levy a special tax as
sessment, in addition to the present levies
for public works, general expense and
debt services, to sponsor WPA projects for
this community. Representative Papy has
indicated he will handle the assignment.
For some time one of the most press
ing and vexing problems confronting the
city has been the urgent need for money
with which to prevent substantial layoff
of WPA workers when the supply of ma
terials for the sewer-water project runs
out. The WPA has announced that it will
buy no more materials for this project. but
is willing to supply the labor costs until the
job is completed.
When this situation first came to pub
lie attention it was thought money for the
materials might be raised by public SUBJ
scription. The effort along that line was
subsequently abandoned. More recently
the matter was brought to attention of the
Monroe county commission. 1t was found
the county might obtain $1,000 from race
track taxes, but it was believed illegal for
the county to sponsor city project. The
result was the county offered to loan the
city the $4,000 provided the city put up a
revenue bond as security. Council is now
studying that proposal and it seems prob
able the plan will be adopted for some
money is needed Immediately to keep the
sewer-project going until the act enabling
a special tax levy for the work is passed
by the Legislature.
The Citizen is inclined to believe
that the. only right and fair way to raise
funds for sponsorship of WPA projects is
by a special assessment. The council
wants authority to add from to mills to
the regular assessment for sponsoring such
public works. Unless there is sharp up
turn in private employment here after the
sewer-water project is finished other SINH
lar works will have to be sponsored to keep
the WPA workers employed. Since such
projects benefit the entire city, the entire
city should be called upon to bear pro-
portionate share of the cost
While favoring some such plan for
keeping WPA workers busy, The Citizen
believes the workers should strive to help
themselves. A substantial reduction of
WPA rolls impends. In the not far dis
tant future there will be further reduc-
lions until eventually the WPA will be a
thing of the past. 1t behooves every WPA
worker to look around for private employ
ment and relieve the taxpayers of his sup
port. Of recent months many local jobs
have gone to strangers while our own resi-
dents followed the easier way permitted
by the WPA.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-13
AVERY POWELL ON
GOVERNORS STAFF
MANAGER OF LA CONCHA
APPOINTED LIEUTEN-
ANT-COLONEL

Avery G.. Powell, Jr., manager
of La Concha Hotel, has been
notified of his appointment to
the governors personal staff as
Lieutenant Colonel. This infor-
nation was contained in a letter
from the Executive Mansion at
Tallahassee, and signed by Cow
ernor Cone.
The letter read as follows:
Mr. A. C. Powell, Jr.,
Hotel La Concha,
Key West, Fla.
Dear Avery:
1t gives me much pleasure to
appoint you Lieutenant-COlonel
on my personal staff.
Your commission is being mail
ed to you under separate cover.
With kind regards, am,
Sincerely yours,
(Signed) FRED p. CONE,
Governor.
Mr.. Powell, a resident of Key
West for the past month, with
intentions to become a permanent
citizen of this city, is to be con-
graduated upon the occasion of
this conferred honor.
Mr.. Powell has had extensive
experience in the hotel business,
coming to the La Concha hotel
from the assistant-managership
of the Alcazar Hotel in Miami.
He is the son of the late Avery
Powell, Sr., for 26 years an edi-
torial writer on the staff of the
Florida Times Union.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-13
Economist Walter P. Fuller and

Economist Walter P. Fuller and Roy
drummer do not see eye to eye. In his
weekly financial news, the former says:
Troy drummer puts the same hood wink
over on community after community. In
correction with the Arcadia refund it was
provided that for the first months back
taxes could be settled at % cents. A dead
line rush brought in S29,048. But on
counting up it was found that drummer
got S19,196 for debt service, $8,455 was
paid in script and the operating fund got
only 81 ,426 in cash. This cleaning up will
keep almost any refund alive for two or
three years. Then if things don't catch
hold drummer will do it all over again for
another big fee.'
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-13
DR.. Harold G. Moulton, president of

DR.. Harold G. Moulton, president OF
the Brookings Institution, told the House
Ways and Means committee recently, that
the 5000 a month Townsend old age
pension plan is fantastic, and that the 2
per cent transaction tax to finance the plan
would absorb from 25 per cent to 80 per
cent of the national income to provide pen
sions of 5000 a month for 100000 or 10,-
O0O, 900 persons over the age of so years,
would total between $18,0O0,00 and $780,
600, 900
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-13

The Reorganization bill, very much
emasculated but yet very dangerous, was
driven through the House in Wednesdays
session of Congress. This is one step
nearer dictatorship and should fill Roose-
velt's heart with joy for the additional
executive power he is given, though we
have as yet to hear from the Senate. On
the proposition to recommit the bill, which
would have practically meant its death
sentence, the entire Florida congressional
representation voted NO
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-13
FISHING NOTES FROM
PIRATES COVE
sss0eOss

Fishing at Pirates Cove con-
tinues to be productive of good
sport as we'll as a number of ex-
cellent catches. News from that
area gives the following catches
last week:
Carl w. Pfieffer of Sioux Falls.
South Dakota, out fishing with
Captain Thomas Moore on the
MoccaSin, brought in a fine tar
pom weighing 60 pounds, and a
Jewish weighing 55 pounds.
F. ]. Irish, of Washington, d.
c., and r. Russell Swigert, of
Baltimore. Md, fishing with Cap
tain Lopez. brought in eight dol
phin, two barracuda and two
grouper. On another days out
ing, they brought in one amber
jack, two yellowtail, six mack
erel, eight dolphin and several
barracuda.
Gordon Meek, of Cinneaut.
Ohio, and T. c. Whiteman of
Greenville, Penn, fishing with
Captain Earl McQuaidc on the
Vallella, brought in four mack
erel. one muttonfish, two yellow
tail, one dolphin, two kingfiSh,
two barracuda and two grouper.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas CASTOR
and Mrs. Louise Graham of New
man,. Ga, fishing with Captain
Red Lopez on the Madeline, got
two barracuda, one muttonfish,
three grouper and two red snap
per.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-13

The first automobile accident in the
world, it is claimed, occurred upon the
streets of Detroit "A years ago and the
cause was not liquor or joy riding, but the
.contraption jeeringly called "Ford's Folly"
and driven by Henry Ford himself.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-13

A small fire occurred this aft
ernoon about o'clock at the old
Consumers ice plant on Caroline
street, near the corner of Grin
nell. The blaze was caused by
sawdust under the building, which
took fire in some unknown man.
.ner. There was practically no
damage.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-13

Colonel Knight for a seasoned politi-
clan is quite innocent in expressing the
hope that projects will be placed where
merited and where they will do the great
est good to the greatest number, and not
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-13
PAYS IT BACK

DIES MONIES - Eight years
ago Mrs. Agnes Mcfarland of
this city lost pay envelope
containing So. Recently it was
returned to her with this note:
II needed it at the time I found
it, but ] can pay it back now.
Thanks"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-13

For swell stories about catching game
fish-The Key West Citizen just about
seems to have all other competitors on the
run.-Times- Union. We have the fish to
write about, and you ought to see the
."lobsters' that produce the stories.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-13
KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY
Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken
From The Files OF The Citizen

and Havana as a triumvirate in
the attraction of visitors and the
movement of travel. How about
including Key West and making
it foursome.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-13

A soothsayer warned Caesar to be-
ware OF the ides of March. Since the in
come tax law was enacted, tax payers are
AWARE of the ides of March, and it
doesn't do any good to BEWARE of them,
for already the dies are cast.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-13

Even if the county commissioners be-
lieve in signs, there is little need for the
placing of Keep Off the Grass" signs on
the court house grounds
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-13
If anyone is indiscreet enoug

If anyone is indiscreet enough TO tell
you that you are looking old, tell 'em they
are right and that you were never so old
as you are now. And you might add you
are not feeling as old as you look.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-13

Navy's two other airplanes en-
gagged in aerial photography with
the U.S.S. Hannibal off the coast
of Cuba arrived yesterday to be
in port a few days. They came
in for supplies and to get shore
leave.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-13

The trouble about our Civil Service
is that it is not civil.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-13

What has Miami and Jacksonville got
that we haven't got? Political pull.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-13

There were a large number of
passengers arriving this morning
on the train from the north, the
majority of whom left on the p.
and o. ship for Havana. Others
stopped off at this city for a few
days rest.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-13

Every individual can do something to
make Key West more attractive; why
don't you do your part? Yes, you!
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-13

To believe in freedom means to be.
lieve in it for others, too.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-13

The man who works hard usually
finds time to play.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-13

Gambling must be dirty, for we are
hearing constantly of having it cleaned
up.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-13

Local camp of P. of 0. will
hold q roll call meeting tomorrow
evening commencing at 7:S0
o'clock in the hall of the organ
iZation on Duval street. An in
teresting program will be render
ed and refreshments will be
served.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-13

Editorial comment: The Tampa
Tribune speaks of Tampa, Miami
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-13

Child labor appears to have
been pretty thoroughly stamped
out without constitutional
amendment. A survey of 1872
factories employing slightly more
than two million workers showed
that only % children under Is
years of age were employed.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-13
Arriving in port this mornir

Arriving in port this morning
was the British tank steamer
San Patricio, which came from
Tyne, England, and is at the Por-
ter Dock Co., for supply of fuel
oil. The vessel was piloted into
port and brought up to the dock
by Captain Eugene Knight and
made a safe landing with perfect
ease. The steamer has a length
of $50 feet and when full loaded
a draft of 81 feet. The ship is
of 1883 tons net, approximately
10000 tons gross. The vessel is
an oil burner and is driven by
powerful engines. The mammoth
tanker was given 1000 barrels of
fuel oil, from the tanks of the
Texas Co. Owing to the great
length of the ship the cables of
the Lord Kelvin, British ship,
which was moored at the NAL
lork Dock, had to be taken fur
Their along to furnish berthing
space for the San Patricio. This
ship is one of the largest that
has come into this port, and is
practically the same length of
the Standard Oil Co. vessel Cadil-
lac, which came up to the dock
several years ago.
New ferry vessel recently COM
pleted in Jacksonville, where it
was built for the Monroe county
system, has not left Jacksonville
yet, according to reports received
at the engineers office in the
county court house. The new
boat was to have sailed Monday
on her maiden voyage down the
east coast to Key West, though
no definite announcement along
this line was made. Departure
was delayed by strong winds
prevailing on the east coast the
last few days and the vessel will
not start until more favorable
weather prevails. Norberg Thomp-
son, of the county commissioners,
has wired Engineer Clifton Bailey
to. wire him as soon as the sail
ing date of the vessel is decided
on, and as soon as the informal
ton is received it will be an
nounced in The Citizen.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-13

Daughters of The King will as
Semble this afternoon at the
home of Miss Lille Warrington
on Duval street. 1t is the inten-
ton of the members to hold a
regular meeting of the organiza-
ton.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-13

SIDELIGHTS
BY MARCY B. DARNALL
Former Editor of The Citizen
. o zee 90

~~@ 80 . O . q . O o . o o Q .
Robert Wadlow of Alton, ILL.,,
who celebrated his 21st birthday
recently, is now 8 feet 812 inches
tall, and is declared by scientists
to be the tallest human who ever
lived. One or two legendary
characters were reputed to be
somewhat taller, but it is said
that there is no historical evil
dence concerning them.
The Department of Commerce
estimates that families with an
nual incomes of less than $4,000
year own go per cent of all auto
mobiles and 40 per cent of all
mechanical refrigerators in use
in the United States. The esti-
mate was made after a study of
cross-section groups of families
in so cities.
Sky-writing airplanes usually
travel at a speed of about 125
miles an hour and produce $780,
600 cubic feet of smoke a sec
ond. Although relatively short
words are generally used, single
word will often stretch across
five miles of sky, with letters
averaging a mile in height.
The oil industry has an annual
payroll averaging about billion
and a half dollars, which sup
ports some 100000 people, or
approximately as many as the
total population of the United
States when Washington became
president $50 years ago.
John Garner of Roosevelt, La,
and Herbert Hoover of Frost, in
the same state, were recently
certified by the Louisiana state
department of labor as being
eligible for unemployment COM
pensation benefits, according to
Baton Rouge press dispatch.
Frank Sampson of Newton,
Mass, reported that Is homing
pigeons were stolen from him a
few days ago. Within a few
hours five of them had flown
back home, and the others were
expected to return if they were
able to escape from their captor.
Advertisement in the New
York Times: Wanted imme-
diately man who resembles the
President to demonstrate game,
Balance the Budget in store
windows. Must also be able to
juggle tennis balls; salary $50.
Also wanted man who resembles
WPA worker; salary $50"
We read of a manufacturer
who was reported to the National
Labor Relations Board for firing
an employee because he distri-
buted circulars at the factory. 1t
was later disclosed that the dis
tribution was made by wrapping
the circulars around stone and
heaving them through a window.
Brooks Jones recently drove his
ancient car, a 1922 model STAN
ley steamer, from Ithaca to Glens
Falls, N. Y, a distance of 230
miles, using % gallons of kero-
sene and rs gallons of water on
the trip. He said he just ''loafed
along at 40 miles an hour" but
thinks he could have done 80 if
he had been in hurry.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-13

There are more than half a
million corporations in the United
States. yet they carry on only
one-fifth of the country's eco
nomic activity, the other four,
fifths being conducted by in
dividuals and personal partner
ships.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-13

When a sow belonging to a
Georgia farmer bore a litter of
20 pigs, difficult feeding prob
lem arose, as the mother hog had
accommodations for only IL at
time. It was arranged to let
the pigs take their nourishment
in relays.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-13

John Gospodarek, IL, of Chi
cago, will probably give up gun
toting for a while. He carried
his uncle's .38 caliber pistol to
school, dropped it on the floor,
and suffered bullet wound in
the ankle, besides terrifying his
teacher and classmates.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-13

Mrs. Raymond Porter COM
planned to a Chicago judge that
her husband worried her when
he was drunk, by INDUCING in
pranks at her expense. Among
his playful practices mentioned
were throwing her out of win
dow frequently, and occasionally
unstrapping her wooden leg and
tossing it into the street. Porter
was sent to Jail
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-13

Peter Weaver claims the
worlds tobacco splitting" cham
pionship for a squirt of q feet,
made in contest witnessed by
some 1000 people at Maysville,
KY. He and his losing competi-
tors were made to pay a fine of
81 each for violating health reg
ulationS.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-04-14
GOVERNOR O'CONOR
BROADCASTS

Governor O'Conor, giving an ac-
count of the first months OF his
stewardship, by broadcast Thurs
day night characterized without re-
seryation" the recent Legislative ses-
sion as productive of more sound
and progressive legislation than mas
ever been enacted in one session IN
the history of Maryland"
He claimed credit for most OF the
s.sound and progressive" legislation.
The legislature wound up at noon
Wednesday with the traditional last
minute rush and with the usual
horseplay, but with all except a f"w
points in the State administration s
far-reaching schedule of laws ana
reforms safely enacted into law.
'.In justice to the members OF the
two houses of the General Assembly
in Justice to the great parry 'ha'
sent the majority Of your executive
and legislative representatives 10
Annapolis, the citizens who pay the
bills have right to know wha' mas
happened" the Governor said Ut the
outset of his talk.
at is with this one purpose IN
mind that 1 come before the micro
Dhone as Chief Executive or the
State, to report to you just what l
think has been achieved during this
recent legislative period"
He summarized the achievements
of his administration along hcai
lines, which he characterized as the
"most vital and far-reachiog prob
lens that faced this state three
months ago." as follows:
Maryland will have balanced bud
get during the ensuing biennlum
for the first time in many years.
More than $4,000 a year OF un-
necessary expenditures have been
eliminated.
Approximately $3,80O,00O year OIL
gasoline tax funds have been re-
stored to use on the State high
ways.
MARYLAND has forsaken the sloth-
full habit of borrowing to meet
current charges and is now on
pay-as-you-go basis.
Maryland now has modern ana
effective system of budgetary con-
troll. (which the Governor noted
had been achieved by the "estab-
lishment of a permanent Bureau
of Budget Control"
BY September 80, 1941, the total
bonded Indebtedness of the State
will reflect net reduction OF ap-
proximately 100000.
There will be no increase IN the
State tax rate.