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McHenry Plaindealer (McHenry, IL), 20 Jul 1922, p. 3

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6* JKR, IT, TUU wMm v Godfather of the Modern Hotel pr\ v r and Patron Saint Of Travelj&^ ryr v too Salesman. I* *\' V' ... '• fi&D cUMS OH WORLD ItUOE f ; ^ 54 loint Dteeovery ef First Gold Coin* Bw Minted Recalla Number of , £\j'i HirltijM Civilization 0*ai '* ~7 to Buri*d te*. ' ~ • ^ 1 ^ Washington, D. G. -- Introducing v'- Ooeeus--godfather 01 the modem sU* v hotel and patron aalnt of the traveling ~ ealecman! V"\- These are ne» roltew assigned to the t "4 sj^ erstwhile richest man In the world In a bulletin from the Washington, D. ^C, headquarters of the National /*,£ i ^ Geographic society. ^ "The discovery of thirty gold pieces f> s from Croesus' mint, which w»fre part1 f t of the first series of gold coins ever > °\ r struck off, recalls one of a number of " j heritages which civilisation owes to bailed Sardis," says the bulletin. Gold Oils World Trade. J, "These new-found cblns and a few other pieces already in museums signalize the Lydlan inception of the gold basis for world trade--an Instrumentality which lubricatea International commerce to this day. "The hotel, or the humble inn which was Its forerunner, was not possible on til some standardized and compact ssediuiu of , exchange was available. Therefore it la not surprising that bis. torlans generally agree that the first inns, where board and lodging might be had for payment of regular fee*, were established in Lydia. "Before that time caravanserai wert known. But they were evidences of eastern hospitality, set up at points where constant applications for entailment grew burdensome, and were maintained as a sort of co-operative guest room, or . modern municipal lodging house. "Now It followed further that when a man might be assured convenient abode when he traveled, and he could close a business 'deal' with a pocket ful of gold rather than a herd of cattle, that the trading radius of the ancient world suddenly expanded. Men began to travel for pleasure as well as for business, in fact the Qreeks already had ventured forth for historts aad far discovery.' T%as it woud seem that not only the trade representative bat the tourist and the geographer owe Croesus considerable gratitude. "The modern man ban hardly apprehend, without an effort of his Imagination, how great a boon It was to the ancients of the Sixth century B. fl merely to visit another city. Important events were taking place. It was the time of Buddha and Confucius, of Solon and Cyrus, as well as Croesus, yet any high school boy of today can know more about what was going on In the world then than any one living at that time possibly could have known. "The casual traveler was unknown. The 'stranger" was always feared and his life was In Jeopardy. Traders with caravans, sailors with their cargoes, high officials with stately retinues, a «ad " 'tort* tfee only' af} OfooHig *** History. J "Despite these marked steps toward' culture, Lydia has remained only ai flash In the pan of history. Until «*• plorers recently began digging hi the dust of the land that now is a Greek mandate on the Aegean shores of Asia Minor nearly all we knew of Lydia was the rambling, but colorful story of Herodotus. And some of what we did know, it now transpires, was; wrong. The tale of how Solon, when asked by Croesus to name the happiest man in the world, did not reply that Croesus was the man, as the monarch expected, but mentioned instead some humble and dutiful citizens of Athens, may persist, for its moral bat luw been rued out of history. "Lydla's wealth is thought to hare been due to various minerals and principally to her trade. Her capital, Sardis, was set on a hill whose ruins even now betoken an Imposing dignity. The site is sixty miles northeast of Smyrna which, In the height of Sardis* power, was a Lydian city." ~ ^ -- • ' ; k - ' ,•» V - '{k ' J1 • *-•? '. "• ,v M Bird's Squawking and Violent Language Leads to Discovery of Evidence of Crimt. Wild Cat in Htn Coop Is Killed After Battle New Condon, Conn.--CSpt. John Fish ot Flshtown was apposed last night by the tackling of hens and with his dogs and a rifle the captain hastened to the coop and found In It a wildcat. He shot the animal, but did not seriously injure It. The dogs were sent after the Intruder. The cat put up a lively fight, but was finally forced out of the coop and escaped to a nearby tree. Captain Fish took a shotgun and riddled the animal with buckshot until it fell to the ground. The cat weighed 00 pounds, the captain says. SEIZE YOUTH AFTER MYSTERIOUS FIRES POUT'S MORALS IN SAD STATE Waterfront Line ef Cuealnf to' (In Woods Leads Policeman to Inve* tigate---Poachers Snare Thoa. aantfa of Blackbirds. New York.--Patrolman Daniel Barke of the Bronx motorcycle squad, combing paths that traverse the Bronx park hills for bird llmers, whose activities in the woods of that section were first reported more than a month ago, discovered evidence ot their activities In a patch of timber. Burke found the limbs of a dozen or more trees smeared with the bird lime. The poacher* are said to have snared thousands of blackbirds. Burke's discovery was made In a carious way. • red-headed Mexican Studying Design for Naval Airship - I'trst meeting of the special subcommittee of the national advisory committee for aeronautics which is studying the design of the naval airship, the ZR-1, now in course of construction. In the group, left to right, .are: W. Watters Pagon, Baltimore; Dr. L. B. Tuckermant bureau of standards; Henry Goldmark, chairman, New York; Prof. Win. Bovgaard, Boston, and Dr. Munk, technical assistant from Germany. parrot, owned by Mrs. Margaret Fln-f sted, who lives at 446 Riverside avenue, escaped from its perch cm thei tFinsted porch and disappeared in the .forest. The parrot was sought until ifcfter dark by Theodore Finsted, son of it* owner, and neeriy nii the members of his school class, without avail, though young PlnSted reported ha <bftd heard the bird squawking. < Shrieks of Anguish. ri* Patrolman Burke on a motorcycle cruising through dense timber in search for the band said to be snaring birds, was attracted by shrieks of apparent anguish about 100 feet from the path he was traversing. He shouted several times in hope that an answering voice would give him the location of the trouble, but received no response and was about to resume his way when there proceeded from the woods a volley of oaths, intermingled with screams such as might have been uttered by a woman in distress. The oaths, Burke said, were delivered In a hoarse voice--apparently that of a man enraged. Plunging into the undergrowth with drawn revolver, Burke made his way In the direction of the sounds, calling at Intervals, but again finding no re-i sponse, until when in the densest part" of the thicket he was startled by u aeries of raucous screams coming from directly overhead. * "Police! Police! There's bell to pay *--hell to pay--hell, hell!" howled the voice from a heavily foliaged oak. "I know you, Mike Sweeney," pursued the Invisible one, repeating the latter remark several times. Parrot Glusd Fast. ratrolman Burke ordered the rap* posed man In the tree to "come down >' that," but was met, he says, with a volley of abuse. He recognized some »f the oaths used as waterfront talk, he saya. While this torrent of bad language was proceeding Burke caught sight of its author. Mrs. Flnsted's parrot was flapping Itsi wings as it cursed. In a vain effort to break away from a limed limb upon which its feet were firmly glued. When the parrot was returned to Mrs. Flnsted with a suggestion that an effort be made to Improve Its morals, she said the bird was formerly owned by a waterfront saloonkeeper at Mariner's Harbor, 8. I., and was purchased by her son, then In the United States navy, when the prohibition law forced its former owner oat of business. From College FoRowing Unusual Blazes--Another ' Starts in His Home. New York, N. Y.--The smoke of the mysterious fires at Trinity college te Hartford, Conn., has trailed George Mulligan alt the way to his home in Bergenfield, J. Aftst* the seventh A U, Jw TO WAR ON WOOD WASTE Government In Movement to Reduce the Timber Loss. Through Co-operation Products Laboratory Methods'^re •sing Dsvised to Curtail Enormous Waste of Wood. Washington.--"Only 80 per cent of the Wood in a forest now gets Idto the form of seasoned, enplaned lumber. Of this an additional 10 to 25 per cent Is lost In the process of manufacture. In extreme cases as little as three per cent of the wood in the forest may reach the finished product." This statement Is made In a booklet £ Just issued by the Department of Agriculture, entitled Forest Products Laboratory, describing the work and aims of the experimental laboratory maintained by the forest service, in cooperation with the University of Wisconsin, at Madison. .Wis. The booklet outlines how, through Investigation and experiment, the laboratory Is devising and broadcasting practical commercial methods by which this enormous waste of the country's timber supply can be reduced. By reducing this waste, it Is pointed out, the life of our present forests will be prolonged and the problem of growing new forests made simpler, because by preventing the waste of timber less timber will have to be grown. Among the varioup methods studied at the laboratory for decreasing waste of forest products is the treatment of woods with preservatives resistln.. decay. Through such treatment an annual saving of one and one-half billion board feet is estimated to be possible in the case of railroad ties alone, and the preservation of other classes of timber would, sn the aggregate, greatly relieve the drain on our forests. The forest products laboratory Is a government institution; Us advice and •otteattoui are to be had fer the asking. It presents, sccordlng to the booklet, an opportunity for many manufacturers, wood users, and timber growers to supplement the Information obtained by experience and hare knocks with technical data through scientific research. FINDS CUBE FOR HOOKWORM U. B. Physician Discovers Medical " Vjplue ef Chemicals Used Clothes Cleaner. !i* •*<>? Washington.--After extended experiments, Dr. Maurice C. Hall of the Department of Agriculture announces he has discovered what he believes tc be a positive cure for hookworm in a chemical known as carbon tetrachloride. The statement says bis chemical which Is commonly used as a clothes cleaner, "will likely prove to be s cheap, agreeable and effective treat ment for a parasite that is destroying health and reducing human efficiency in millions of people In many parts of the world. Including many thousands in our Southern states." Plsoovered Blase in MM Kitohen Closet fire at the college. Mulligan was arrested at the instance of the college authorities on the technical charge of a breach of the peace in $1,000 ball and retired to Bergenfieid for a rest. Then there was a very queer fire In the Mulligan home. The family had r*> tired. George, as if warned by a special sense, got up, went downstair* and discovered the blaze shut up in the kitchen closet He aroused his father, James F. Mulligan, the tax collector, his mother and his brother Charles. After the fire had been put out with the garden hose and the fire department, Fire Chief William Pape undertook to ascertain the cause of the fire. His pains were unavailing. There was a mystery there that simply stumped him. No fire went through the closet, no electric wires and there were no matches for mice to gnaw. Chief of Police Coombs wss equally nonplussed. The two officials took counsel together and reached the decision that the Incident was hardly worth making a bother about. 80 there It is likely to end. George enjoys the reputation In Ber> genfield of being a pretty bright young man, studious and quiet. His father Is confident he had nothing to do with the fire. Sun Hatched Chickens From Discarded Eggs w Several residents of Newvtlle, Pa., were attracted to a dumping ground by the chirping of young chicks. Upon investigation it was found that some one evidently s poultry breeder, bad deposited a large number of eggs, supposed to be infertile, on the dump. The warm rays of the sun, coupled with the exposure to the fresh air. com- • pleted the hatch. About 75 g * chicks were gathered. I Prefers Home Breaker to Children. Aurora, III.--Spurning her husband and eleven children, Mrs. Charles Sut- - cliffe, thirty-eight years old, t^us cho- &p|aen to go with the man her husband charges with breaking up their home. :^The man, John Holder, defended Mrs. , "«Sutcliffe when her husband attacked m, , • '<».• v-' X- " , ^ 1. > -i; "• . m HANGED IN 1877y LIVES YET Ex-Bandit Now Wanta to Stand Trial jflt Robbery Committed % Missouri. Tacoma, Wash.--Forty-five years ago a posse in Missouri captured a desperate bandit, upon whose head a price was set The bandit was duly hanged to a cottonwood tree near Joplin, Mo.. July 12, 1877. The posse dispersed and a woiian, whom the bandit had befriended, cut him down and he recovered from the ordeal. This Is the story told by an aged resident of Tacoma, who has written to a newspaper here to learn If he can still be tried for robberies "in which men were killed." f Incubator 8tarts Fir*. Watertown, N. Y.--An incubator exploded In the back of the home of Oscar Davis, near Ellisburg, and set the house afire. Two children were burned to death. The parents and four children escaped. So rapidly did the house bunMjhe famlljr had no _flme to obtain • • • Find Bones Believed to j Be Those of Boccaccio S • a a a • a a a a It- Florence, Italy.--Bones believed to be those of Glovanoi Boccaccio, the great Italian Fourteenth century novelist and poet, have been found in the house at Certaldo in which he lived. The bones were solemnly removed to Florence by a wellknown archeologlst, accompanied by various Boccaccio admirers. --jl Deer Join Farm Cattle. Marion Center, Pa.--The deer iiythla part of the state have little or no fear of human beings and frequently large herds approach quite closely to campers. Some days ago, while Horace Menner, of near this place, was milking, a buck and a doe came up and joined the herd of cattle. While the milker moved among the cows the deer remained and did not leave until * dog appeared on the ao«||t - Unable to Play Horn, Suss for $50,0004* McKeesport, Pa.--Removal of his" tonsils, which left him unable to play, the cornet, is the basis of the suit tort $50,000 damages by Lee Selgel against? Dr. S. Goldberg. Selgel was depend-; ent for bis living on playing the Instrument, he declares. Woman "Scalped" in Beauty Shop Marion, N. C.--With her hair and; part of her scalp torn off by an electric hair-curling device In a beauty shop. Mrs. J. B. Beagmttn la In a ha*: attal 111 a serlflm. . -3 PERCENT. A\fe^abEftcftt<riMafffAa sanitating theFood ty Begstatta6tteSto «ad>s and Bawls tf ALGOH Therrty Promoting CteeriUnessudRtAfaftta refflwOpidm, Morphines* L NOT NARCOTIC G<^stipsSc»^»iarfhDe« and Feverteiwess*>* irewjSSas Nl Children Cry For CASTORIA Special Care of Baby. That Baby should hare a bed of its own all are if--*- Yet is more reasonable for an infant to sleep with grown-ups to ON a man's medicine in an attempt to regulate the delicate arganfcm of that same infant. Either practice is to be shunned. Bteither woali be tolerated by specialists in children's diseases. Your Physician will tell yott that Baby's medicine most h* prepared with even greater care than Baby's food. A Baby's stomach when, in good health is too often disarranged by improper food. Could you for a moment, then, thin* giving to your aiiino child anything but a medicine especially prepare! for Infants and Children ? Don't be deceived. Make a mental note of this:--It is important, Mothers, thai yott should remember that to function well* the digestive organs yotir Baby must receive special care. Bo Baby is so abnormal fb/jt the desired results may be had from the use of medicines primasSyi prepared for grown-ups. •OTHERS SHOULD «EA0 THE MOKlfT THAT IS A SOU 10 EVCTY 90TTLC tf ItffOSBrt SASTOMfr GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAY*^ Bears the Signature of XNTAUN COMPAN Nothing Else Afoot. i Love Thy Neighbor. Poet--"New York Is overcrowded I Thou shalt not avenjre. nor bear any with motors." Parker--'"Yes, there's grudge against the children of thy peonothing afoot bat plans for relief.n-- Judge. SUSPENDERS faPa wear roar- CuticuraSoap SHAVES Without Mug IMNnlM,titka(MtHafltM{ttrTworibnia|. MIGHT DO BETTER NEXT TIME DEVICES TO TEST PLANES Record Every Movs of Pilot and •laehlne; Will Fix Man's Ability and Technique. Washington.--Devices to check up on both airplanes and aviators while In flight, making possible a detailed record of^every move the pilot made In controlling bis machine, have been worked out by experts of tin* national advisory committee for aer» nautics, It was announced. Valuable scientific data Is expected to be gathered through these records A trio of recording devices makes up the system, the record being made oa • photographic fllm. "The results," the committee's statfr ment said, "reveal for the first time t practical method of securing information in testing new types of airplane! and for determining the ability an&' technique of a pilot. Small Girl'a Ingenious Plea fer Her Pet Bantam Should Have Softened Daddy's Heart. Five-year-old Mary Jane bad a pet bantam hen. Recently the latter hatched six little chickens, but she proved herself to be an unnatural mother and wouldn't take care of them. The family was provoked and Mary Jane's father threatened to sell the ben If she didn't take care of the chickens. That brought Mary Jan# to strategy. That evening wbeu her father came home she was watting for him. "Where's your henT* he demanded. *7! she caring for her chickens?" "Oh, nq," Mary Jane waa very serl- •ua. "She's in the hen coop getting ready to lay some more eggs to hatch some more chickens."--Indianapolis Mem.,; » pie; but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself; 1 am die Lord.--^Levitlcus 10:18. rigarette* They cere GOOD! Radio Dealers Are Maldng Money You can secure complete Information about this new and lucrative business by reading regulariy ft, ,l!„ Min nli ivaflio ncRHMflif The 5imi Jlfuiritfy of the cf^S0lmd*tstry ft is replete with exactly the mation that the dads pective dealer, requirss. will bring it to yoa lor I Three dollars s year. ^ Rafii Pifidaf Cupnii IncorpoimUd Dcpt.23.312 Mate Afe,*wT«kQy Wf.j BRIGHT IDEA NOT PATENTED Think This Over. Marshal Foch at a dinner party la Denver said of politeness: "We attach great Importance to politeness in Prance, and I think that we are wise to do so. Politeness is like s pneumatic tire. There's nothing in It but wind, yet It eases the Jolts along life's highway wonderfully." Qenerops Marine Willing All Should Have the Benefit of Hla Really Brilliant Thought. The marine and hla best girl were seeing the sights of New York. The temptation to steal a kiss was strong, but he knew that people do not stop to kiss on the atreet in broad daylight, even if It 18 one of those rare occasions when a marine has a chance to parade Broadway with hia lady friend. Suddenly the leatherneck had a bright idea. He knew It looked all right to kiss a person good-by on the street. "Llssen, Lucille," he suggested. "What do you say if we ahake hands, kiss each other good-by then walk around opposite blocka and meet again ?" "You're on," aald his lady love. The scheme turned out to be such a success that several blocks were negotiated In the same manner, and the entire trip up town was a aeries of meetings and partings. Now the leatherneck Is wondering why he was so dumb he never thought ef It before.--The Leatherneck. Claaaifying Him. "Wombat Is a scrapper." JSWants a big navy?" **No, wants to scrap It." "Think befo' you speak," aald Uncle Eben; "but don't think too long, else you's glneter lose yob turn." It Is hard work to keep up an arsrage that you don't have. Wave Bathing Trunks at Ebert. Munich.--Red bathing trunks waved by national socialists in the psth of President Eberfs automobile In one section of the city formed the only ln« ddent of the visit of the president tcK Munich, except for occasional hlaslng along the streets as he passed. The bathing-trunk episode was Hplay on a snapshot taken of the repub*; lie's chief executive and Gustav Noske, former secretary of war, at a seaatder resort a year ago. T4- r IN LAST LINE OF DEFENSE Recruit's Answer Offers an lupin* tien ef Why Some Army OrilK J . >>,v aaastara.Qo Insane. sergeant major was the end of his patience In hia tion of the recruit's squad. "For the last time," be yelled, almost purple In the face, "1 aak 9M the simple question: *What Is a flMTtt* flcation?'" Shoulders dropped and with faeasl void of Intelligence as a vacuum of air. the recruits stood tut aa a man. Net one answered. •Jtushing up to the meet IntIHgert looking man, the Irate N. GL O. bawled* "Tell me, my man, what la a tenfen* tlon?" The answer caase Uka a eerk eat! of a bottle: "Two twentlficationa, alrr--Loodoa -Leer the "lost and found" departaasnt at the Indianapolis street railway. Telephone rings excitedly, attafdpBt': A^fj' picks the phone up and a voice dt the - ' other end of tt>e wire aaks: "Loot aad - ij found department?* ' j• Attendant answer*, "WaD-HMfc te'^" the 'lost" department." ivl (tee of the joys of going way tar : : S • the Is fnipl"| hartr fjg£ winter, '*r H * 4, tar. * <* fwtam cooes In two format Instant Poetum (in tins) mads instantly In the «p by the addition of boiling water. Poetutn Cereal (in paclcagea of larger bulk, for thoee who pre* fer to make the drink while the meal ie being prepared) by boiling foe fully 20 * t. What's answer , » How do you do?** ** ' - - . , v : Thfnk ft over careftifly--and then answer frankly. Face the facts. Do your nerves and digestion stand the jolting of thft coffee Can they go on standing it? < , - s' t There's charm and complete satisfaction to ' Bostum--and freedom from any harm to health. Thousands of sensible people who have seriously looked for. the answer to "How do -yoCi do?" have turned from coffee to Posttim, and are doing so well, in satisfaction and health *Kat they wouldn't think of turning bade. You can begin today, with an aider your grout. . .'*4, itf#* . 'H* |-'r * .-v •3m % •Ml ^•v.aSj J ,P Made by f^rtuin Cereal Co, 1Mb • Battle Creak, MDdv fostum For Healths ^ •" Tkerw's m £MSM ' 3 •Mo^Bjiiew SSE3SSI. mi - • - y ;

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