Daily Tribune, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 10 August 1914 Edition 02 — Page 3
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MONDAY, At ST 10, 1914.
PARCELS WHICH CO FAR ASM
Wonderful Collection In Dead Letter Office Includes Everything From Bibles to Bassoons.
WASHINGTON', August 8-—Won-derful beyond belief is the collection of articles which the post office department can make within a year from the mail that can't be delivered because of bad addresses. Through the benevolent agency of the parcel post the department has this year exceeded all records, and upon the shelves of the historic dead letter office are a series of packages containing everything from bibles to bassoons.
All of these articles were sent to the •wrong address. Their original package.3 -were stamped and restamped until the paper was worn out. They have such announcements, "Not at that address, try so and so "Try next county."
In fact, there are more suggestions as to different things to try than you would And in the office of a patent •medicine vendor. For the sake of convenience the officials of the dead letter office have lumped certain articles together in large packages. Thus one passes a package of handkerchiefs and runs into a bright young assortment of brass castingis. Or, turning from a particularly melancholy collection of books, he runs smack into a collection of toys that might have come right out of the bag of Santa Claus.
Think of the joy of King Solomon or good old Bringham Young if they had lived in these days and times and had given them the contents of the dead letter office. There is a single package that contains 241 women's aprons, with fifty-one assorted garments, which the gay young flappers of these parious times consider obsolete.
Then there are 176 pairs of hose bundled together. Even the most pessimistic sufferer from hay fever cheers up when he goes by the handkerchief department of the dead letter office. There is a single bundle of 1,149 initialed and uninitialed handkerchiefs reposing near him, which is about the number that a hay fever patient uses during a twenty-four-hour day.
If the post office department decided to give away its toys it could present one, and probably more, to every boy and girl in the city of WashingtonThey are in abundance. They are everywhere, dolls, elephants and little carts and dishes, and all the other things that are reminiscent of Christmas time.
Sixty-six .aviators in the United States are wondering where those aviation caps are that they were told about in a letter, but which they never received. The caps are in the dead letter office with some automobile hoods.
Motorcycle Supplies.
It is astonishing how many motorcyclists must have broken down in the road and written for help during the last year. In the dead letter office there repose four speedometers, seventeen tires, twenty pairs of goggles and 136 parts of machinery—the kind of furniture which one always finds around the greasy and perspiring man who has stopped his machine twenty 'miles from anywhere on a hot Sunday afternoon.
And t'.ie dead letter office must ring at night with the disappointed cries of many fishermen. It has received 1,842 fish hooks and 596 pieces of Ashing tackle. The only thing the dead letter office hasn't got is the fisherman's alibi.
Yet the office has done some good. It corralled during the past year 573 miscellaneous musical instruments and 6,846 talking machine needles. That meant that there are about 600 disappointed musicians in the United States but think of the several hundred thousand persons who would have had to listen to them if the instruments had arrived safely.
From musical instruments to hair switches is nothing for the dead letter office. They have ninety-eight switches of haiT and sixty-two accessories stored away. This is nearlyequal, in bulk, to the crop of whiskers raised by the populist party in Kansas during the Bryan campaign in 1896.
A few other side lines in the dead letter office are awls, bicycle tires, shotguns, horse blankets and picture postal cards to the number of about 70,000. There are also brass castings and parts whose aggregate weight is estimated at two and one-half tons.
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A FINE COMPLEXION
A girl's complexion Is something more than a matter to concern her vanity. It is an indication of the state of her health. Pallor in a growing girl irteans a thinning of the blood. Eruptions mean impurities in the blood. Parents should be watchful of thei,r daughters' complexions, and should see to it that these danger signs are corrected, not covered up. a girl in her 'teens becomes pale and sallow, especially if, at the same time, she shows an inclination to tire easily, a listlessness and inattention to her work or studies, she needs Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, a tonic which directly and specifically corrects the condition from which she is suffering. A chemical analysis of the blood of such a girl would show it to be deficient in just the elements that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills can supply, but the physical stens are plain. Every girl should read the oliapter on "Chlorosis" in the free booklet, "Building Up the Blood." It tells just what to do and gives directions regarding diet, exercise and rest.
The girl with a muddy complexion should have the booklet "A Dainty Lexative," which tells about Pinklets.
These books will be sent free on request by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y. Your own druggist can supply Dr. Williams' Vlnk
It is the picture of a very handsome man with adorable hair. There is an "expression" in the eyes. His bands nre thrust into his trousers pockcts ar.d his coat is thrown back, displaying a vest of ingenious pattern and shade. At the lower corner a graceful and flowing hand has inscribed, "Ever Faithfully, Everard De Ormand." It cost fifty cents, including the autograph, at any matinee.
To Peggy, it seems, there is to be found in this enchanting likeness, the very flower ar.d cream of masculine beauty. That strong line of the chin, displayed to the best advantage in the pose of the head, is indicative of every species of manl3r vigor and bravery. That mellowing and romantic light in the eyes speaks of a heart that "under
OHIO TEACHERS HOLD IS ROUTINE
Instructors, By Answers to Man} Questions, Show There Is Little New in Schools.
COLUMBUS, O., Aug. 8—Rural school teachers in the past have been too well satisfied with merely teaching the routine "readin', writinK, 'rithmetic" and too little anxious to promote general education in the community.
This is the conclusion which may be drawn from results of a query campaign conducted in every county ol' the state by agricultural commission. A compilation of answers received was made public. One thousand board of education members and other interested citizens were asked their opinions on the subject of conditions of rural schools.
Here is the result ,of their answers: Do you believe the school house should be used as a general meeting place for men and women, where they may discuss questions of interest to the community? Yes, 730. No, 69.
Do your teachers take as much interest as they ought in community affairs outside of the school room, and school hours? Yes, 173. No, 648.
Do your teachers do anything outside of just teach school to help th«.? community in a social or moral way? Yes, 320. No, 512.
Should a teacher be a resident of the community and identified with its interest? Yes, 704. No, 135.
Are your teachers strong leaders in your community? Yes, 282. No. 573. Have your teachers made any effort to have flowers, shrubs, good lawns, and trees on school or church grounds? Yes, 206. No, 554.
Have your teachers tried to organize a lecture course to help the community? Yes, 190. No, 656.
Have your teachers tried to secure farmers' institute at state expense for your community? Yes, 50. No, 729.
Have your teachers ever made an effort to have a free orchard demonstration of spraying and pruning by the state officials, for the betterment of your fruit interests? Yes, 50. No 790.
As a rule do your teachers attend summer school and attempt to improve their qualifications to teach? Yes, 311. No, 4(2.
Do you believe the Boxwell law helps or weakens the country school? Yes, 403. No, 374.
Do you believe that teachers are as thoroughly competent to teaoh as they should
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'Yes, 146. No, 690.
Do you believe county examiners sometimes grant certificates for the sake of popularity or sympathy, to unqualified applicants? *Yes, 490. No, 238.
Is there a tendency to employ younger teachers now than a dozen years ago? Yes, 498. No, 224.
Do you believe that some teachers try to be popular with pupils and parents, make school work easy, pass every boy and girl with good grades in .order tQ cover up defective teaching
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IN WHICH PEGGY THINKS SHE WOULD LIKE TO MEET THE HANDSOME MATINEE IDOL.
EGGY, with a little, frown of dissatisfaction, has another^ chew of the end ot her pen, and then starts ?gain: "Dear Mr. De Ormand: "I have seen you act and admired you so many times that I thought I would—' but that sounds so childish, too! Another piece of her note paper drops into the basket in shreds and Peggy pauses to feed her enraptured aze upon the full length portrait beore her.
stands." The nose of a Greek god and the finely chiseled nostril, the firm though sensitive set of the lips—what a joy to meet and know a man like that!
Mr. De Ormand is the leading man of the local stock company. Eadh week he appears in a new role just a bit more enthralling than the last. She has seen him this afternoon in "The Prisoner of Zenda," and why say more? Someone had suggested that he was forty years old and married to the I leading lady. Peggy raged £t these idle I words. It was clear to her at a glance that he wasn't more than twenty-five.
She has bent to her writing again. Mar.y other girls wrote to him, of I course, biit there was to be a tone in her note—a breath between the lines that he alone would understand. To p.hrase it with delicacy and nicety is the business that puzzles her just now. The woes and distresses of composition restrain and bridle the tenderness that floods her heart. And at this moment Avnt Betty surprises her at her desk.
Aunt Betty's look upon discovering I Peggy's deep preoccupation is one of sympathy and understanding—and amusement. Aunt Betty wonders if Peggy would really be pleased to meet Mr. De Ormand. Is there anything that would to delight her' And Peggy in a rapturous daze hears Aunt Betty say that she thinks she can arrange it. (Continued.)
or poor scholarship? Yes, 618. No, 178. Do teachers ever discuss the merits of township supervision, centralisation or consolidation? Yes, 618. No, 437.
Do your teachers take any active I part in teachers' institute? Yes, 568. No, 265.
Would good results be obtained if I a residence and half dozen acres of ground be furnished to the teaohr-r?! Yes, 410. No, 320.
There Is a school survey commission at work in Ohio to discover, if possible, what reforms are needed in the public schools of our state. A general sentiment seems to prevail that something is wrong with our .schools. Do you think so? Yes, 686. No, t4. "Salaries too small," is the most common answer to the reason. "Whose fault is it?" was one question. "Teachers and parents," was the answer in most cases. Here are other answers: The law, the electors, taxIayers, state authorities, insufficient! :hool boards, too much rush vvork, bad roads, legislature, school commissioners, state school commissioner, general system, county examiners, would-be reformers, Patterson law, politicians, lack of funds, Boxwell law.
RADIUM "CUIUS" IN DOUBT.
Cancer Patients Improved, but Final Result Not Certain. LONDON. Aug. 8.—Out of nearly five hundred cases of malignant cancer treated by the Radium instit.utel during the year 1913, fifty are described in the annual report of the institutrv as apparently cured and 183 as "im-*l proved." In a number of cases the resuits are not jet noted.
The institute declines to treat .operable cases, radium being used only as a last resort. "Time only can show," the Lancet says, "if any of these satisfactory results are permanent, and not until some years have parsed without fresh manifestations of the disease, could even the most favorable cases be described"! as cured."
CONVULSIONS AND BRIGHTS DISEASE!
An established reebvery in chronic Bright's Disease with albumen, dropsy, retinitis and convulsions should interest phvsicians.
G. W. Kirkpatrick, of the Globe Milling Company, 148 Laguna St., San I Francisco was in bed, believed to be at the point of death for nearly nine| weeks. Dr. Proctor told his wife he was liable to die at any moment. There was dropsy and 'the eye symptom and he had reached the convulsion stage. In making one of the tests, after boiling Dr. Proctor dropped the tube. On picking it up he found the sample had I not run out. It had solidified, showing almost solid albumen. The doctor administered Fulton's Renal Compound. This was in 190». Patient's appe.arance at our office well and hearty in 1913 is answer as to the results arid their permanence.
The ability of Fulton's Renal Compound to reduce albumen in many cases I of Bright's Disease is not a matter of opinion but a FACT IN PHYSICS, and we wil! mail formula for albumen test that will show the percentage of albumen from week to week. As the albu-» rn^n declines improvement commonly follows, recoveries having been reported ir thousands of cases. Formula and literature mailed on request. John J. Fulton Co., San Francisco. Baur's pharmacv. 705 Wabash avenue is local agent. Ask for pamplil.pt,
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HAUTE TRIBUNE
Out Go These
Lingerie Waists Choice 50c
—One lot of Lingerie Waists, in all styles'and sizes: slightly soiled, so out they go regular $1.00 to $2.00 valuesC Aft sale price, each vwv
Second Floor.
Pillow Cases and Bed Spreads
—Here are some attractive values in Pillowy Cases and Bed Spreads.
Plain Hem Pillow Cases 42x36 inches well made of good quality bleached muslin with wide hem regular 12 %c values sale price, each 9o
Satin Marseilles 8preads 81x90 inches cut corners with fringe assorted beautiful snow white patterns sale price, each 13.98
Plain Hemmed Pillow Cases 42 by 36 Inches well made of good quality soft finish pure white casing with 3 inch hem regularly 24c sale price, each 19c
Main Floor—West Aisle.
Specials In
Undermuslins
—Some of the special values which we are offering in Undermuslins are:
Corset Covers, made of good quality nainsook lace and -jmhroidery insertion and beading around neck and sleeves specially priced, each 75c 8lip-over Crepe Gowns: neck and sleeves trimmed with cluny lace and Aribbon regular $1.25 value. Sale price, each 98e 8lip-over Gowns of nainsook neck finished with round ydke of Val. lace and embroidery insertion ahd ribbon beading regular $1.60 value. Sale price, each —$1.00
Slip-over Gowns made of very fine quality nainsook neclc and sleeves trimmed with tucks and swiss embroidery In dainty patterns regular $1.25 value saie price, each 75c
Women's Princess Slips, made of muslin and nainsook neck finished with fancy yoke effect of lace And embroidery skirts trimmed with lace Insertion and embroidery: specially priced, each, from S9c to $1.69
Muslin Underwear Section. Third Floor.
Some Special Value
Toilet Articles
—Look over the list printed below. Perhaps we can be of service to you.
Pinaud's Comtesse Rice Powder, the box —25c Satin Skin Face Powder, the box —16°
Java Rice Face Powder, the box 24c La Blanche Face Powder, box 34c
Pebeco Tooth Paste, the tube 38c Dr. Lyon's Tooth Powder, the box —16°
Hydrox Dental Paste, the tube 10c Riker's Tooth Powder, the box 15c Colgate's Tooth Powder —15c Listerine, 25c size bottle —16c Listerine, 50c size bottle —34c Colgate's Shaving Soap, cake —5c Williams' Shaving Soap, cake 5c Canthrox Hair Shampoo, box 38c Parisian Sage Hair Tonic, the bottle —43c
Weatphall's Auxiliater Hair Tonic,
50c
size bottle for —29c Creme de Meridor, the jar —19c Rosaline, the 25c size —16c Melba Ro«e Blush, the box —21c Satin Skin Rose Tint, the box 17c Cuticura Soap, the cake 18c Woodbury's Soap, the cake 16c Peroxide, 4 ounce bottle —3c Peroxide, 8 ounce bottle —5c M«lba Cleansing or Massage Cream, the jar —46c
Lablanche— Face Powder
—Guard the complexion with LaBLANCHE Face Powder. It protects the delicate texture of the skin from sun and wind, smoke of travel and dust of motoring preserves a fine complexion, restores on.e that has faded in flesh, white, pink and brunette special, the box O «W
Linen Section.
On Sale from 8:30 to 11 :oo a. m. and from 2 :oo to 4:30 p. m.
Cfte Root Store Cbc Root Store Ox Root Store Ox Root Store
Jr. Connection with Scruggs-Vandervoort-Barney Co., St. Louis. We Give znd Redeem SURETY COUPONS.
Good EveningJ
Table Damask
Linen Table Damask 72 Inches vide firmly woven from selected flax yarns good weight smooth satin finish large assortment of new and desirable patterns values up to $1.50 the yard sale AA price, the yard ^x»UU
Linen Table Damask, 70 inches wide extra heavy quality all pure linen half bleached! soft smooth finish assorted patterns excellent for hard wear regular QQ/» $1.00 value sale price, yardOS7l/
Linen Table Damask, 68 inches wide firmly woven from selected flax yarns half bleached good weight soft smooth finish assorted patterns regular 89c value sale price, the yard I
Linen Table Damask 70 inches wide good weight all pure linen unbleached excellent for every day use bleaches quickly assorted patterns regular 59c value /I sale price, the yard fiOl/
Mercerized Table Damask 65 Inches wide firmly woven from selected Egyptian yarns good weight, joft smooth satin finish assorted patterns regular 50c value QQ/» sale price, the yard
Linen Table Damask 72 inches wide fine quality of double satin damask good weight soft smooth finish lar&e assortment of patterns, regular $1.75 value sale price, the yard
Napkins to match 22x22 Inches regularly $5.00 the dozen, QC sale price, the dozen VWwO
Linen Tray Cloths
Linen Tray Clothes, 17x27 inches good weight pure linen full bleached neatly and durably hemstitched borders very serviceable regularly 35c sale price, OK/» each AOK,
Our August Sale ot Household LineM
Is Wonderfully Rich In Values
—This once-a-year Sale of trustworthy Household Linens' is now going merrily along. It is by far greater in variety and value giving than any of our previous famous August Linen Sales. Terre Haute can now buy Linens at ROOT'S for present and future use and save considerable amount of money on every purchase.
If your Linen supply is running short if it needs replenishing, or if there is an entire new supply to purchase, by all means attend this sale and share in its many money saving advantages. Note the special items for tomorrow's selling only.
These New Roman Stripe Poplins Specially Priced, the yard 29c
—We are now showing these new cotton Roman Stripe Poplins: in the latest color combinations in strong demand for waists, dresses and trimmings, specially priced, 9Qp the yard fii/U
Dress Goods Section. Main Floor—East Aisle.
See These New White Piques Special at, the yard 29c to 48c
Here is a splendid lot of new White Piques very fine quality, soft finish firmly woven in the various cords OA* If* IO« for skirts and suits, specially priced, the yard hJ 1/ IV TWO
Dress Goods Section. Main Floor—East Aisle.
Supply Your Table Needs—Sale of
Pure Food Groceries
45c Boiled Ham 32c Armour's "Star" brand of Cold Boiled Ham machine sliced to order the QO pound tJ&Ks
Coffee rich, mellow Old Santos Coffee, pound —23c Tea 8 varlties kept fragrant and fresh in air-tight bins regular 80c quality Vz pound 23c pound*—43c
Cocoa finest made in bulk regularly 25c the pound, the pound 17c Peanut Butter, made from choicest Virginia peanuts regular 20c the pound the pound for —10c
Corn the "Ladoga" brand of fancy cream corn 3 cans for 25c
Cocoanut Shepp's finest shredded cocoanut: In the bulk the pound 15c
Black Pepper, finest quality: the pound for 22®
Grape Juice, Welch's or Armour's cool and refreshing Grape Juice quart 42c, pint 23c, half pint 14c individual —9°
Burnett's Flavoring Extraots In 16 different flavors a 2 ounce bottle for 30c
10c Unbleached All-Linen Crash Tuesday Only
69c
—Tuesday, and for the one day ONLY, we offer 1,000 yards of this excellent quality Unbleached All-linen Crash 16 inches wide woven blue border of fast colors Smooth, soft absorbent finish regularly ioc the yard sold at the counter only and with limit of io yards to one customer £Qf% sale price, the yard 'y VvV
Linen TableCloths
Colored Pattern Cloths 64x68 inches and 64 x86 inches half linen, fast oil colors fringed borders, good weight very serviceable assorted uolori and patterns regularly 52.00 and $2.25 sale price, (J*-| QQ each $1.89 and
Odd Linen Pattern Cloths fine quality good weight lengths of 2, 2% and 3 yards beautiful patterns, round, oval and square designs: every one perfect but slightly soiled regular $3.00 to $12.00 values sale price, each tliA flfl $2.25 to VU.UU
Mercerized Pattern Cloths firmly woven from fine selected imported yarns good weight, round, oval or square designs assorted new and beautiful patterns 2 yard cloths regularly $1.39 sale
$1.19
price, each 2 Vi yard larly $1.75, sale price.
panel iiss
$1.57
$1.59
2% yard cloths regu-
3 yard cloths regular- d»"| AO ly $2.25 sale price, each Pattern Table Linen Sets
Pattern Table Linen Sets we offer our entire stock, augmented by special purchases, of, Pattern Table Linen Sets prices range upward from one listed below: 72x72 inch cloth anft one dozen 22x22 inch napkins good quality of pure linen smooth snow white finish assorted patterns regularly $6.50 sale price, the
$4.98
No
Phone or C. O. D. Orders
None
Sold to Children
Postum Cereal, the popular substitute for coffee a 25c package for 22c
Pure Apple Cider Vinegar, the "Surety Brand gallon jugs for 33c
Worcestershire Sauce "Empire"' brand special 6 ounce bottle, each —*10c
Corn Starch Klngsford Old Reliable regular 10c packages for —8c 8alad Dressing "Yacht Club" brand unequaled for lobster, chicken and all salads bottle 42c, 24c and 10c
for 10 Yards
Napkins f.
Linen Napkins, 20x20 inches,
good
iveight all pure linen full bleached smooth satin finish assorted patterns regularly $2.25 the dozen sale pHce, the dozen
$1.98
Mercerized Napkins, firmly woven from selected Egyptian yarns, good weighjf soft smooth finish hemmed, ready for use large assortment of patterns 15x15 inches, regularly 65c sale price, Q/» the dozen ItcOI^ 18x18 inches regularly $1.00 sale price, the
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dozen OJ7L 20x20 inches, regular- OpT ly $1.49 sale price, dozen 22x22 in. regularly
$1.75 sale price, dozen Odd Linen Napkins, In dozen and half dozen lots medium and large size all pure linen bleached and half bleached large assortment of qualities and patterns regularly $1.75 to $4.50 sale price, the doeen $1.39 and
$3.89
Lunch Cloths
Lunch Cloths good weight all pure linen, full bleached neatly and durably hemstitched desirable patterns 36x36 inches regularly, /»Q^ 98c sale price, each OI/l/ 45x45 inches, regularly AQ $1.25, sale price, each
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Main Floor—Center Aisle.
Special Sale of Children's Dresses Choice 50c
—Tuesday we shall offer for sale one lot of Children's Dresses, in percale and gingham sizes 8 to 14 years all slightly soiled former prices $1.00 to $1.50 sale price, while they last, your RflA choice, each vVv
Second Floor.
Come Here bor
Knit Underwear
—You are not alone assured of a good variety, but the best that's going at the least to be paid.
White Cotton Vests low neck and no sleeves sizes 4. 5, 6 regular 19c value sale price, each —10c
White Cotton Union Suits misses* white cotton union suits aizes 5 to 14 years regular 50c value: sale price, each 37o
Cotton Union Suits low neck, no sleeves: lace knee regular 50c value: sale price, the suit, each —33c
Women's Cotton Vests one lot of 200 regular 15c value sale price, each 9c
Women's White Cotton Vests neatly trimmed no sleeves low neck sale price, the garment —19c
White Lisle Vests l&ce yoke in all sizes regularly 50c the garment, sale price, each —37c
Boys' Union Suits In sizes regular 25c value sale price, the suit 15c
White Cotton Union Suits the "Richelieu" and "Merode" makes regularly 50c and 59c values sale price, the suit, each —39c
Infants' Bands made of cotton and wool: regular 25c, 39c and 50c values sale price, each —21o
Knit Underwear Department. Third Floor.