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Ford Makes Charcoal
Out of Old Rail Ties
DETROIT, Feb. 11— Henry Ford
lias developed another way of putting
to a useful purpose waste material.
Railroad ties from Ford’s D. T. & I.
railroad, that have decayed or be
come obsolete otherwise, are made
into charcoal.
Thousands of ties, accumulated
over a long period, are shipped to
the shop yards at Jackson, O.. where
they are converted by a novel pro
cess into charcoal fuel for tamping,
carbonizing and other purposes.
The method employed is simple
and inexpensive. The ties are piled
in conica; shape into a pit and then
covered to a depth of four or five
inches with grass hay or other simi
lar substance. On top of that some
five inches of sod or dense soil is
added.
A number of holes at the bottom
and an opening at the top act as
flues to provide the draft necessary.
The wood is then left to burn slowly
for eight or ten days. Attention
must be given night and day to pre
vent the material from breaking into
flames.
Six pits with a capacity of about
forty cords of ties each have been
built, and have an output of approx
imately 10,000 bushels of charcoal
at each burning.
Hardware charcoal' weighs about
'wenty pounds to the bushel, while
he same product derived from soft
wood weighs about eighteen pounds.
The yield of charcoal produced by
the process is slightly better than
20 per cent.
Too many of us overlook the ex
cellency of our local hospital facili
ties.
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TAX OF JAPANESE FAILS TO
CHECK FLOW OF IMPORTS
TOKIO. Feb. 11.—Japan’s tax of 365
per cent on imported tobacco has ap
parently stimulated the consumption
of foreign grown smokes, according
to the Tobacco Monopoly bureau.
During the first ten months of 1924
more than 150,000,000 cigarettes were
imported, as compared wiht 39,000,
000 during all of the year 1923. The
quality of imported tobaccos, however
is declared by the bureau to be much
poorer than in previous years.
RELIC OF GEN. JACKSON
GIVEN TO TENNESSEE
NASHVILLE, Feb. 11.—One of the
latest relics received by the state
department of archives to go into
the new state museum in the War
[Memorial buildings, is an old fash
ioned wooden lock from one of the
[doors of the first house occupied
by Andrew Jackson when he come
to Tennessee.
The house, known as the Dismuke
place at Hadley’s Bend, is being
razed to make way for the erection
of the Du Pont Silk fiber plant.
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KICK IN PEARLS,
SO MAYBE CLEO
HAD A ‘REASON’
PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 11.—It may
be that when Cleopatra dropped
pearls into her wine glass she was
not so foolish after all. Adding to
his laurels as collector of customs,
Dr. E. N. McFarland has taken up
the role of Egytologist to remark
that in the old vamps wine glass, as
in the modern cereal cup, there may
have been a "reason.”
He has been notified to be on the
watch for what seems to be pearl
necklaces smuggled in from the
Orient, the beads of which are in
realty chunks of "solidified alcohol.”
These beads dropped into a glass of
water, according to information
from coast points where customs
officials have taken them, produce
a drink with a kick equivalent to a
7 or 9 per cent liquor.
“I’ll bet that’s what made our last
pearl auction go off with so much
pep,” McFarland said.
“Zowie,” he said, as he scanned the
records of the Oriental pearl auction
held in the Portland customs house.
At that time some 2,000 strings of
confiscated pearls were sold. They
brought an average of a dollar a
string.
“Some of the buyers did look kind
of thirsty,” he said, as lie recalled
the auction scene. "And just im
agine, if some of those strings 00
inches long were of the drinkable
variety, what a wallop they must
have packed.”
i “.'’11 have to Iook into the ne.-t im
inr.tafkn pearls we confiscate.” he
KELLY POSTAL BILL PASSES
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 10.—
The House passed the Kelly postal
Dill viva voce.
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THE WIDOW ETE,
SAVIOUR OF NANCY,
MURDER VICTIM
PARIS, Feb. 11.—The Widow Ete,
savious of Nancy and heroine ot
France, has gone to her death in a
mystery that suggests a repercussion
of wartime glory and hatred. She
was murdered in her cafe on a lone
I ly highway near a Lorraine village
'and the police are unable to find any
| clue to the slayer or motive for the
j crime.
She was Mme. Catherine Grenzlin,
j keeper of a roadside inn two miles
1 from Cliateau-Salins, but was known
I throughout the countryside as the
| Widow Ete. Back in 1914, Nancy
was being bombarded by a long
range German gun which was caus
ing fearful destruction in a city
sacred to the French. The gun was
i cleverly concealed in the Bois de
Celine about a mile from her inn.
The French were unable to locate
the exact spot, so the Widow Ete
| volunteered her services. Several
times she crossed the lines at the
peril of her life and worked through
the wood at night until at last she
was able accurately to determine its
position.
She communicated the information
lo the French gunners wno were
then able to silence the gun, known
as ‘Long Max.” She was decorated
,by the French government wiin the
t C’roi•: de Guerre. Three years ago
she oaviied again, and was apparent
ly happy and prosperous. She was 57
years old at the time of her mys
terious death, and since she was
known locally as a heroine, the po
| lice wonder if her wartime act has
at this late day stirred ancient ene
mies.
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PARTY DECLARED GUILTY
VALE, Ore., Feb. 11.—A verdict o
guilty was returned today agains
Bert and Mellis Lawrence, charged
with assault with intent to kill. Th*
defendants admitted they had strung
up Ralph Harvey with a rope over
a limb of a cottonwood tree October
16, near Ironside, in northern Mal
iheur county, but contended they
had done so only once. Harvey tes
tified he had been pulled up thre*
times by the rope about his neck.
Harvey said the attack was mad*
upon him to force him to confess
that he had informed the district
atorney of bootlegging operations,
but the defense held the affair was
staged in order to scare Harvey into
leaving the country because he had
made advances to Bert Lawrence's
wife.
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mained single after he had qua;
relied with his sweetheart 45 years
ago, has recently married her after
the death of her former husband.
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