Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 265, 21 August 1919 — Page 10
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND, SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY. AUG. 21, 1919.
MARKET TO OPEN
AT 6:30; VOTE IS
TAKEN JHURSD AY Standholders and Farmers Unanimous in Favor of Later Opening Hour. The time of opening markets will be the same, 6:30 a. m.. according to the decision of Market Master William Hunt, and the board of works made at the meeting of the latter Thursday morning. Hunt appeared before the board and reported action taken at the east end market Thursday morning, when a vote was taken of the 13 gardenms from Richmond, Greensfork, New Paris and Camden there, and about 50 patrons, as to whether the time of opening the market should remain the same. Hunt put his propositions before them of opening the market at 5 o'clock or at 6:30 o'clock. All preferred the latter which has been the opening time this season. Hunt said the vote was unanimous for 6:30 o'clock. If the market were opened earlier, he declared, gardeners could come in early and if only two or three were there at a time they would be able to charge fabulous prices for the foodstuffs whereas if the market is organized and nothing can be sold before 6:30 o'clock there will be competition and prices will not be unreasonable. Released from Bond. The board instructed the city clerk to communicate with the bonding comipany for the Hatfield Electric comipany who has recently completed a contract to put in new boilers and jstokers in the city light plant, saying 'that the contract is completed and the company may be released from the bond. Communications from the city council concerning the repairs of streets in Richmond that need attention were preferred to the city engineer. Repair of the sidewalk on North Eighteenth street was also referred to the engineer. The report and the final estimates of the work of D. G. Burkhart, contractor, on the cement alley bewteen North Twentieth and North Twentyfirst streets, was accepted by the board. The city clerk was instructed to advertise for bids for roofing for the city light plant. He will also notify the street car company to repair the street
car tracks over the city and to keep the track drains open. Eight "Keep to the Right" signs will be purchased by the police department under the direction of the city engineer. They will be placed at North Ninth and A, South Ninth and A, South A and Fifth, South A and Sixth, Seventh and Main, Eleventh and Main and Tenth and Main streets. The police departmet under the direction of the city engineer, will draw u line on the side streets of the city vhere there is heavy parking, to show persons at what angle to park.
THEY MAY BE BATHING GIRLS, &UT WHEN LED TO WATER ALL THEY DO IS DRINK
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impunity and make a necklace out of
mm, ana one or tnese days some killjoy ecientist will step out and prove that the diamond-back, when you get right dawn to facts, is aa harmless as a fishworm and that his reputation for frightfulness is founded on nothing more substantial than the pink-elephant dreams of a chronic souse. Three Squares A Day Cost $2.04 In Cleveland Now CLEVELAND, O., Aug. 15. The Three Squares a Day" in Cleveland cost $2.04 per diem now. Commissioner of Health Rockwood tonight announced completion of a study of prices in the medium-priced restaurants of the city. Dr. Rockwood arranged several "average" meals which would aggregate 3000 food calories for the day and then priced them from menus collected at all of the medium priced down town restaurants. "Former estimates have been based on one-fourth of the Income being spent for food. This would mean that the thousand of Clevelanders eating at restaurants must earn $8 or more a day. They are not doing it. This means that there are thousands under nourished and the health of the city is bound to suffer," he declared.
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fhis bathing girl thinks water is for drinking only. Her suit's never even
been wet. The bathing; girls whose habitat is Los Angeles or thereabouts in California are "seeing New York." Perhaps some people would put it th other way and insist that if there was any seeing to be done New York was being Bhown some sights. Everybody is wondering, however, where they got the official name of bathing girls, for the nearest any one of them has been to the water was when this daring maid in her one-half yard suit ventured out into Palisades park and took a drink at one of the public fountains. , I This interesting troupe of girls attract considerable attention even in blase New York, for they motor about in open taxicabs in their gorgeous bathing suits and have even paraded through the perks arrayed like mermaids from their California coasts. The photographer who has haunted their footsteps was on the spot when this young miss decided to see what water was like. He claims she's the first one who has evinced any interest whatever in it.
GERMANY STARTS COMMERCE IN AIR
(London Times) In Germany a determined attempt Is being made to establish aviation on a permanent commercial basis. Routes from Berlin are in operation to Wiemar, Frankfurt, Leipzig. Warnemunde. Hanover, Westphalia, Hamburg, and Breslau. There are also services between Wiemar and Frankfurt, Hamburg and Warnemunde, Leipzig and Wiemar, and Hanover and Westphalia. The services are operated by the Deutsche Luftrhoderei, a combine of various German aeronautical firms. Return tickets are issued and are valid for a period of thirty days. Fly
ing kit and motor transport to and from the airdromes are provided and are covered by an inclusive charge, of which the following are representative : Berlin-Hamburg, single. 450 marks ($112); return, 700 marks ($175); Berlin-Breslaua, single, 500 marks ($125); return, 750 marks (f 187). Berlin-Wiemar, single, 450 marks ($112). Serial tickets available for ten flights on any of the routes operated by the combine are issued at 3,600 marks ($900). These tickets are transferable and work out at an average reduction of 20 per cent. Luggage is carried free of charge, but the total weight of passenger ,who Is carried at his own risk and 'baggage combined must not exceed a certain limit. Mails and parcels also 'are carried by the company, which is iworking in conjunction with the Ham- : burg-Amerika Line, through whose ', offices bookings may be effected. On the Berlin-Wiemar route, which j appears the most popular, the number
or nignis irom r eoruary 10 ine enii oi April was a 538, while between Hamburg and Berlin, from March 1 to the
lend of April, there were 262 flights.
COST OF LIVING AS BA D ONCE BEFORE TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO
August Heavy Mail Month; "Michigan Bibles" Sent Out August, as usual, has been one of the heaviest months for mail this year, C. B. Beck, postmaster, announced Thursday morning. This is the month when many of the mail order houses send out their fall catalogues, and, this along with army sale of foods through the postoffice department, has been keeping the carriers, and the clerks, -ftorking overtime. However, as the sale of foods has been temporarily discontinued, at the least, the work is gradually slowing up, and faster service has been the result. IQLE3AI9 AT NICARAGUA (By Associated Press) xfA-vAOTTA Nlo.. Aue. 21. Rafael
Hi ' - w Iglesais, former president of Costa Rica, has arrived here as a special representative of President John B. o,irn -a: Yin hAcame the chief execu-
!tive of' Costa Rica following the resigI - J J T!nnA
i nation or rormer rresaueui. i He declares that leaders of the recent ! revolution In Costa Rica insist upon ;the re-establlshment of the constitution there. The Isle of Man bouse of keys has ejected a local option bill.
(New York Evening Post) Two hundred years ago there was a worse high cost of living period even than this one although it was more spectacular, superficial and short lived and the recent senatorial suggestions that a solution of the present trouble may lie in reducing the amount of currency now in circulation, harks back to the Paris of 1719 and 1720, when scraps of paper were as plentiful and had less behind them to back them up. Men died of suffocation in the last of those days, stampeding the Bank of France in an effort to get coin for the scraps. They called the Rue Quincampoix the Mississippi in those days, and little Louis XV, who was five years old and precocious, was worried because that street wasn't gilded and so made dif
ferent from the rest. It was a frantic avenue of speculation. They turned all the shops into restaurants, so that every one could breakfast, lunch and dine right on the scene of fiction, and hardly go home at all. And it was all in vain, for the Mississippi did not flow gold as the Quincampoix speculators thought. An Orgy Extravagance. Surely nothing more extravagant, untrammelled and ill advised and indicative of the propensity of people to believe what they want to believe has ever happened in the world than
! this swift flight of imagination into i the realms of wealth. But it is a fas
cinating romance to look back on, even now when the world is none too sane and when commodities are high. Perhaps John Law, of Lauriston, himself . 1, .. . . . . T .1 T ;
But it he haun t thought so, perhaps he would have pretended he did. At any rate he would have thought up
some way to get those scraps of paper into circulation, and work out a proper
system of credit and exchange. The Mississippi Bubble happened to be the bubble he would blow. Speculation went madly on in the Rue Quincampoix, and then some of the investors began to want a realization of their riches and began to buy things estates, houses, land, diamonds and an extravagantly good time and prices went up. Cloth which had sold for 15 to 18 francs a year went up to 125 francs a yard. Details of food prices elude us. Contemporary writers probably could not bear to speak of them. And later writers knew they would not do them justice. But there was a fowl that brought 200 francs ($10) at auction. Law's Spectacular Career John Law, of Lauriston, was worshiped as a god. They waited six or ten hours in his reception rooms to have a word with him. And women went to extreme lengths to get a lookBeau Law, they called him. One bad her victoria or sedan chair or whatever it was in Paris in the early eighteenth century carefully upset In front of his house so that she might he carried gracefully in and get a word of condolence from John. Law's little son, the same age as the baby king, was graciously received by him, and they had many playtimes, together, and the little Law daughter, eight years old. gave a ball, to which all Paris fought to come. But all this came to an end. Voltaire, with an eye to the comedy of the thing, wrote: "From a needy adventurer to a lord of magnificent estates, from a banker to a minister of state. "I have seen him arrive in the salons of the Palais Royal followed by dukes, lords, marshals of France and bishops. "At last, in the same year, Law, loaded with public execration, was compelled to fly the country which he had wished to enrich and in which he had produced such disorders." Bursting of the Bubble The famous edict of May 21, 1720, which finally acknowledged the worthlesness of the West Indian company by proclaiming a progressive reduction in the value of shares and notes, was
the end. They wanted to kill this Scotsman, but they didn't. He lived to die in Venice in 1729, very poor and wretched, all the stories say. He left when he died only some pictures and a ring worth ten thousand francs, which he had parted with some dozens of times in the days of his gambling, but had always some way kept. He was, as they said of him then, "a man of very good sense, and who has a head fit for calculations of all kinds to an extent beyond anybody and in the matters he takes himself up with certainly the cleverest man there is." Yes, there is certainly something cheering about the thought of him. Our fowls aren't up to $40 yet, at any rate.
The Spanish government Is supporting private plans to introduce cotton growing.
It is reported that an airplane service will be established - within a few months connecting Buenos Aires with Bahia, Brazil.
CHINA TO PRESS SHANTUNG CLAIM SAYS DELEGATE
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Dr. Chao Chu Wu. Dr. Chao Chu Wu, one of China's peace delegates and a son of the former Chinese minister to Washington, declares that China will press her demand for the immediate return of the Shantung peninsula despite the fact that the peace conference hat disposed of the question.
To insure a hunter steady aim an Inventor has patented an arm rest.
100 Crates oi Indiana Musk Melons 15 melons to a crate that are sweet as honey Buy a Crate at 80c
25 lbs. Franklin Sugar $2.75 10 lbs. Franklin Sugar $1.10 4 lbs. Wealthy Apples . .-25 2 lbs. Full Head Rice 30 3 boxes Morton Salt 25
6 boxes Matches
25
Golden Sun Coffee, lb.... 45 6 cans Spotless Cleanser. -25 6 bars Mascot Soap 25 10 bars Gloss Soap 50
These prices are for Friday and Saturday while this stock lasts. E. R. Berheide
Free Delivery
244 S. 5th St
Phone 1329
PALLADIUM WANT ADS BRING RESULTS
GILA MONSTPR.HAS LOST FEARSOME REP; JUST PLAIN LIZARD
(Philadelphia Record) Certain individuals of Santa Fe, N. M., have sent up a loud wail because all things that once made the great southwest fearsome and thrilling are disappearing one by one, and soon the plare will be no more wild and wooly than Fifth Avenue, New York. The immediate cause of this lament is the announcement by the University of Arizona, after long and painful research, that there never has been an authentic case of death resulting from the bite of the Gila Monster. What a shame! Of course, this will be sad news to those of us who, ever since our early youth, when we read and were horribly fascinated by accounts of the deadly venom and ferocious way3 of this reptile, have cherished the hope that some day we might have the pleasure of observing from a safe distance the creature pulling off a few stunts in its native haunts, particularly that interesting little one of expelling its poisonous breath with a vicious hiss and thereby causing the instant death of all plant life and animal life within a wide circumference. Science Knocks 'Em. But that's all over now. Trust a scientific shark to take the thrill out of what has always been mysterious and awe-inspiring until science got to
fooling with it. But there are other things, also, it appears many others which once helped to add to the w-ildness and wooliness of the wrest, but which now, alas, are no more. For instance, a short time ago they found out, or purported to find out, that the hydrophobia skunk's bite is no more dangerous than that of the common house or Thomas cat. The exalotl, whose deadliness the people of the southwest once fondly cherished as one of their most popular and wellknown dangers, was eaten up in large numbers by the fish when trout were planted in the lake in the Pecos country. Whereas they once proudly told the effete that the tarantula could jump fifty feet and bite while he was still jumping, throwing the victim into fatal spasms, they are now assured that he can only crawl gets from his pace, and that all one gets from his nippers is a severe headache. The horny toad's peaceful and affectionate disposition and lack of any offensive potentialities have become so well known that southwesterners can lie about him no more; the scorpion is becoming a harmless joke, an dit is declared that youngsters of that locality do not hesitate to hitch them to paper wagons and drive hem about. Of course, they still have their old friend, the rattler, the theme of a thousand hair- raising narratives, whose murderous rattle still makes both westerner and easterner jump sideways and volplane out of the way when he rears his ugly head; but who knows ? i The Mokl handle him with
Let Us Tell You low it Was Done at the Indiana State Fair
The average wheat yield of Indiana is twenty-nine bushels per acre, barely enough at normal prices to pay for labor, seed and interest on investment. Years of experience with soil preparation, seed selection and proper fertilization have enabled us to produce each year ten, fifteen or twenty bushels more than the average. This extra yield has bought farms and built better homes.
On cold clay soil the use of ammoniated fertilizer instead of phosphate added 18 bushels to the yield. 18 bushel3 of wheat at present prices would pay for 2 per cent of amonia in your fertilizer formula and its use at the rate of 200 lbs. per acre for 30 years. On a rich loam soil the use of a high grade phosphate mixture produced 12 bushels per acre more wheat than a low grade fertilizer and cost less money per acre. On an average clay loam, typical of our best wheat 6oils, the use of a complete fertilizer with small amounts of nitrogen and potash and adequate available phosphoric acid paid the farmer 1000 per cent on his fertilizer investment as compared with his yields where phosphate only was used. These are some of the experiences which are being gathered to help you grow larger and more profitable crops and make your fertilizer investment pay larger dividends.
Tine First Sttcp inn Bagger Yields 5s Belter Fertilizer The fertilizer you have been using may not be the fertilizer that is best adapted to your soil. A variation in the relative amounts of the three elements of plant food may give you the increase that makes the production of wheat a profitable business. A $100 Victory Bond has been offered for the best crop of wheat grown with Globe, Fox, Daybreak, O-K, or F irst Prize Fertilizers the Federal Brands. Samples of the banner crops from every part of our state will be exhibited at the Federal Chemical Company's booth at our State Fair and full details of the method of soil preparation, seeding and fertilization will be furnished to every Indiana farmer who wants to invest his fertilizer money more profitably and add ten, fifteen or twenty bushels to his average yield. Meet Us there and See the Wheat
If you can't be there, we want to give you the benefit of the experience of hundreds of Indiana's best wheat growers, and join with us and with the Federal Chemical Company in a plan to add a million dollars to the value of Indiana's next wheat crop by using the fertilizer that is best adapted to the type of soil and crop
conditions on your own farm. .
Write today to the Federal Chemical Company, Louisville, Ky. Ask them to send you the name and yield of the prize winner and full details of the methods and the fertilizer used to grow Indiana's best wheat crops. Meet us at the Federal Booth, where the prize winning crops are shown. The Men Who Used FEDERAL Fertilizers to Make Banner Yields
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