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CHRIST LARSEN, Prop.
Next Door to Liberty Theatre
THE PALACE
John Mattich, Prop.
POOL, SOFT DRINKS AND
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Phone Main 55
CHOP SUET, NOODLES,
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JOCKEY HURRIES, MOUNT LOST
LONDON, May 12.—(JP)—Due to
ride in the first race at the Derby
meeting, Steve Donoghue, the noted
jockey, missed his train at St. Pan
eras. He telephoned the Croydon
airdrome and ordered an airplane in
which he flew to Derby, but the
horse he hurried over to ride could
only get third place.
Suit for house rent ha3 been brot
against Henry Ayhman of St. Louis,
by his mother-in-law.
Remington Portable Typewriters at
Alaska Shop. tf
Robert Cater, 16 locked in a box
car in which he was riding, was near
ly starved when released at Chicago.
Let Norrison Fix it for you
Next to Crawford’s Shop
0. X BARBER SHOP
Clean, Santiary Baths, Expert
Barbers and Reasonable Prces
Keep Us Busy.
Thomas Jasper, Propr.
ARONERICSON
Painter and Decorator
SIGNS WALL PAPER
Fisher Cafe & Bakery
A Real Restaurant Where Meals are Enjoyed
PRIVATE BOOTHS and DANCE ROOM
CHARLES FISHER, Prop.
Butcher Shop Remedies.
If you’re troubled with the Gout
Just spend two-bits for Saur Kraut
Then if you think you’re feeling worse
Spend two-bits for Weiner Werse
Or if your heart is all a quiver
Take home a couple pounds of Liver
Then if you still feel kind of Bum
Then we might prescribe a nice Beef Tongue
But if you’re troubled with sharp pains
Try Meadowbrook Eggs & Scrambles Brains
If this don’t make the world look brighter
Just tell your troubles to the writer
And anything he might suggest
Is guaranteed to be the best.
CARSTEN’S PACKING COMPANY
THESE FIRE FIGHTERS
ALWAYS BUSY NEVER
RESPOND TO ALARMS
CHICAGO, 111., May 12.—(£>)—Five
fire-fighters who never ride an en
gine In its wild dash through the
streets, never climb a ladder, and
never get their pictures in the papers,
spend their days in oilskins and rub-)
ber boots in the Underwriters’ Lab
oratory here in the grim task of com
bating the fire demon.
Scientifically* and deliberately they
go about their tasks, always in the
moist -atmosphere of a hydraulic lab
oratory.
They are three engineers and twro
mechanics who test everything in
vented for handling water for fire pro
tection. Inventions and improve
ments are sent to them each day in
the fight against the great destroyer.
Valves and tanks fill a huge room,
450 valves of all sizes from tiny ones
with a bore of one-thirty-second of an
inch to great pieces of mechanism
which require the lifting powrer of a
24,000-pound traveling crane to swing
into place.
A 50-foot straight length of rubber
lined fire house throwing a stream
through the standard one and one
eighth inch nozzle loses thirteen •
pounds of pressure, they say, and 1
their minds are filled with the anal- 1
ysis of just w’hat wrater backed by air
pressure will do.
Much of their work is done on a
platform built atop a 25,000-gallon
concrete cistern and two 4,000-gallon .
pressure tanks.
At present they are working on pipe ,
valves controling the flowr to sprink
ler heads. One giant valve is so ar
ranged that the air pressure above it
will hold back water wTith a pressure '
six times greater, yet the moment one
tiny sprinkler head is melted will re
lease a flow of water that wTill send (
a spray over the area immediately
about the fused sprinkler head. That
system is designed for use in build
ings in which pipes of water would '
freeze.
In the other system the valves are ,
so arranged that, while the pipes are
filled with wrater, pressure is held
back until a fused sprinkler head au
tomatically warns that pressure is
needed to throw a spray on a burn
ing area, when, also automatically, .
an increased pressure is admitted to ]
the pipes.
In each instance the fusing of a
sprinkler head sends two alarms, one
to a gong in the building and the oth- i
er to a telegraph station, which in <
turn sounds a city firealarm. Each '
of the sprinkler heads is wired elec* 1
trically and the fusing, at a very low i
temperature, permits a telegraphic !
contact w'hich sounds the alarms.
Movie Toreador Handles
Raging Bull Cautiously
HOLLYWOOD, Cal., May 12.—(ff)
—A story of a bit of unfilmed humor
that marked the production of a mo
tion picture here recently is circulat
ing about the studios.
A Latin type leading man was cast
for a role in a bull fight. The arena
was built with a special handy exit
for the actor in case the bull acted
too realistically.
The actor was timid and didn’t rel
ish the scenes where he had to an
noy the bull. He shied every time the
bull even looked his way.
Finally the director, after much
loss of time and film, became irritat
ed and exclaimed: “Do something.
Show a little nerve.”
“But what shall I do if the bull
shows some nerve too,” pleaded the
actor from behind the arena gate.
“Moo like a cow and maybe he will
kiss you,” was the rejoinder of the
exasperated director.
Upon arrival of $1,500,000 in
American gold in Berlin it was
guarded by 200 men.
Left in the woods wThen his owner
tried to lose him, a dog belonging
to William Kouts of Booneville, Ind.,
returned home carrying his master’s
wallet containing $50 lost on the
road.
Sheaffer’s Life Time Pens, at the
the Alaska Shop. tf
Brunswick Phonographs and Re
cords. The Alaska Shop. tf
Attention, Car
Owners!
GASOLINE OILS GREASES VULCANIZING
Storage Battery Service
OGLES GARAGE & FILLING-STATION
P. OGLE, Proprietor
Agent for Overland and Willys-Knights
Machine Shop in Connection
to handle all necessary Auto repairs
DAY AND NIGHT TAXI SERVICE
HUDSON AND STUDEBAKER CARS
HUSSEY & BOLAM, Mechanics
Smooth Running Kitchens
Aim of Women Inventors
LONDON, May 12.— (JP)—Women
is inventors have applied for more
patents in England during the last
few months than at any other period
n history. Most of these devices
ire labor saving machines for use in
he ordinary household where there
ire no servants. Among them is an
ilectrical dish washing machine
,vhich will clean the dishes of a fam
ly of 12 within a few minutes at the
jost of 1-12 of an English penny.
One of the best known British wo
men inventors is Mrs. E. M. Bolton,
nember of a family of inventors and
vho recently organized a company
vhich will manufacture labor saving
levices. She is a grand niece of Sir
Humphrey Davy, who concaved the
miner’s safety lamp. One of her in
dentions is a complete laundry which
may be operated by a housewife who
las no maid, without getting so much
is even a drop of water on her fair
lands.
CUBANS ADD TO POPULATION
HAVANA, May 12.—(JP)—The pop
llation of Cuba increased 225,713
luring 1924, a statement issued by
P. V. Preval, chief of the national
census office, says. The 1924 fig
ires give a total of 3,368,925 against
5,143,219 for 1923.
A copper cent which had been
stuck in the throat of Herbert Betz,
Elizabeth, N. J., for five years, was
X-rayed and removed by an opera
don.
If you don’t get your paper before
six o’clock please phone us and one
will be sent by special messenger.
Columbus Paid $7,200
To Discover America
GENOA, Italy, May 12— (£>)—Re
cent investigations in Genoa’s ar
| chives have disclosed that the en
! tire cost of Columbus’ fleet, which
discovered America, was only 14,000
lira, or about $2,800.
The expenditures on the trip
! amounted to 22,000 lira more, bring
ing the total cost up to about $7,
200. Columbus’ annual salary was
1,600 lira, about $320. The captains
received half this amount and the
monthly pay of seamen was $2.50.
Refusing to have a stairway, Mrs.
Mary Fallon, 101, of Taliingotn,
England, climbs a ladder to her bed
room.
Prof. Kuelbs, of Cologne declares
that German girls smoke too much,
which causes many cases of nicotine
poisoning.
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GORDON SHEA, Propr.
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New Heating Plant Just Installed j
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John Nash, propr.
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