Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 135, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 October 1928 — Page 50

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RECALLS DAYS Oh' INFANCY OF OLD ‘E. wash: Krause Grows Reminiscent on 49 Years Family Has Been in Trade. Celebration of the annual harvest festival of the East Washington Street Merchants’ Association, which begins Saturday, recalls to the minds of the pioneer merchants of that section of the city the passing of ancient landmarks and the period when the courthouse was the hub of the city. One of the oldest men’s furnishing houses in the city is that of Krause Brothers, 205-207 East Washington street For more than forty-nine years there has been a store operated by a Krause in that section. Today the store founded by Reinhold Krause, who died in 1918 at the age of 95, is managed by his two sons, Frank and Harry Krause. Comes From Germany When Reinhold Krause left his home at Ehrfuhrt in Germany, fifty years ago, and turned his face westward, he came to Indianapolis. Here he opened a shop at 229 East Washington street, now opposite the courthouse. He had learned the art of knitting sox, stockings and jackets in Germany and it was at this trade that he started in Indianapolis. For years he sold his knitted goods, which were famous throughout this territory, to the hardy pioneers who were clearing the forests and tilling the soil. Store Greatly Expanded Reinhold found that other men’s clothing would be a good sideline and he began to sell men’s furnishings. Today the men’s furnishings, the once sideline, has become the main product and the small shop has become v he large double storeroom. “We moved to this larger store twenty-two years ago,” said Harry Krause. “At that time the Cincinnati Baking Company was located in 207 East Washington street and in the basement was the big old-fashioned brick oven that was 20x35 feet in size. And I remember well how long it took to remove the oven. “The county jail was located on the southwest corner of Alabama i and Market street, and when I was j a boy I remember a public hang- | ing on the scaffold in front of the jail, and the mob was so great that the side streets were crowded.”

LEARN 8 LANGUAGES AT ONCE, LINGUIST URGES Easy to Do, Says Savant; Offers Method in New Book. By United jhess PARIS, Oct. 26.—Despite the alleged wear and tear of modern life everyone has time enough to learn eight languages at one time, says Dr. E. P. Samsonovici, a Parisian lawyer, who has just completed a volume which fellow professors ad mit is convincing. \ Common phrases, questions, grammatical rules, short conversations are arranged in parallel columns—French, English, Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch, Rumanian and even Esperanto. Without the aid of a professor, the Parisian savant believes that a vocabulary of 3,000 words in each language can be mastered within a few weeks, as well as the ordinary terms used in banking and other commercial correspondence. ROMANCE OF 14 YEARS Weds Sweetheart in Old Country After New World Success. By United Press CHARLOTTE, N. C., Oct. 24 Fourteen years ago in the town of Carpenision, Greece, Porta Mutzelos promised to wait for Thomas Cavalaria, who was going to America to seek his fortune. They remained sweethearts through the years and now Cavalaria has brought her home a bride. Cavalaria made a small fortune here. The bride is a niece of George Kafadaris, recent candidate for the presidency of Greece. Kafadaris aided in negotiating a large loan from the United States two years ago.

Krauses Looks Far Back in Past

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It’s a far cry from the days when Reinhold Krause and his 17. year-old son Frank stood in front of the knit stocking and jacket factory at 229 East Washington street and watched the covered wagons come down the National road and journey westward. -

City Youth Says Swedish Girls Outshine Americans

Robert Powell Back From Trip Aoroad With 300 U. S. Boys. Did you know — That Swedish girls are better looking than American girls? That the better class of Scandinavians despise the movies, but patronize - --

the legitimate stage and concert halls? That near- : ly all country homes in Sweden are painted red, while white predominates in Norway? That the Scandinavian fair sex smokes, uses little or no cosmetics and declined to roll its stockings quite to the ankle in the approved flapper style?

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This and much more information was unloaded when Robert Powell, 61 S. Denny St., returned to Indianapolis Thursday following a two-months sojourn in NorwaySwede nand Denmark, with 300 American youths who took the trip under the auspices of “The Open Road for Boys” magazine. Powell, as well as others in the party, had corresponded with native Scandinavian boys through the magazine during the past four years. His invitation to accompany the tourists came direct from Dr. Knudsen, prominent writer and leader in the Danish youth movement. No Money-Grabbing Mania “These people are the rnost hospitable I have ever seen/* declared Powell, adding that everyone seems happy and not addicted to the money-grabbing mania. “The people live simply and well and even the very poor are clean and tidy.” Powell ought to know. He lived in the homes of native Swedes* and Norwegians during his entire stay abroad and says that the friendships he formed there comprise the best feature of the trip. “All of us were treated like members of the family instead of foreigners,” explains Po./ell. “I saw only three drunken natives all the time I was in these northern European countries. They seem to have a very sensible way of regulating the liquor problem. Each person is permitted to buy a certain amount each month and the system is regulated by the government.” 1 Introduced Baseball The American boys’ party of which Powell was a member entertained native Scandinavians with athletic games and a jazz orchestra. Baseball provea particularly popular with the Swedes, most of whom had never seen a baseball game. Powell is twenty-one. a graduate

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of Technical High School, and at present is employed by the A. J. Hueber Insurance Company. He has been taking Indianapolis University evtension work and is interested in Spanish, being a member of the city Spanish Club. Tests revealed that the lifting power of an average-sized mushroom was twenty-seven pounds. Mushrooms have been known to lift and crack asphalt paths.

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TRUCK ROUTE SOUGHT Interurban Line Asks Aelief From Richmond Bus Service. C. W. Legg, 803 South Tremont street, has petitioned the pubic service commission to operate a truck freight route between this city and Louisville. Terre Haute. Indianapolis & Easteam attorneys petitioned to abandon bus service ordered at Richmond, Ind., for a ninety-day trial. They claim a loss of $4,488.79 on three busses during that period. The roll of school children in London is decreasing by about 3.000 anually, owing to the lower birth rate.

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MONK IN 1600 WROTE BOOK ON ‘HOW TO FLY’ Ideas Amazingly Modern: 75,000 Francs Offered for Only Volume. By United Press PARIS, Oct. 26.—Efforts are being made to purchase from its owners in Spain a copy of a rare volume by a Spanish monk of the latter part of the seventeenth century in which a remarkable study of the possibility of flying is provided. It was 250 years ago that Antcnio de la Pena wrote his “El Ente Dilucidado,” beautifully illustrated and illuminated by hand. The majority of its chapters, however, dealt with subjects of such little interest or so little understood that few ever took the trouble to reach the portion which may be said to give to Spain the right to claim the title of the “Discoverer of Modern Aviation.” There is so close an analogy between the Spanish monk’s theories and the practice of today that the French group interested in the subject is said to have offered 75,000 francs for the only copy of the volume. Father de la Pena began with a study of specific gravities and the action of solids in various liquids. This brought him to the idea of a man and motor propelled machine which would fly through the air. He decided that the “solid body should possess three things,—a fixed gravity of the body, extension of wings and violence of impulsion so that the intensity of the weight would be proportional to the extension, or spread, of its wings.” Put this into modern aerodrome terms and Father de la Pena’s foresightedness must be admitted as remarkable. Cross lines in microscopes, rangefinders, and other optical instruments are obtained from spiders' webs. Often the strands are too thick for the purpose and have to be split into two or four sections.