Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 294, 27 September 1919 — Page 16

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Fred Bohannon Makes Ford Model "Ford 81920" ia the name and "M S59, Indiana" is the licensj number of a beautiful new roadster mdel made by Fred Bohannon, who IIT68 at 220 South West Second street. The "Ford 8" was Bhown to men of the Webb-Coleman company who hare the Ford agency here, and they considered it a fair model of a Ford roadster and that's saying a good deal, when real automobile men sar that It's a beauty, too! It is long. made with the "turtle back" and just shines in Us black and yellow paint. The wheels are real wheels, too, with rubber tires; and a splen did rubber tire (an exact model of the Republic tire) is placed on the bhek, where the extra tire is usu ally carried. The model Is quite complete (though even now Fred is planning a new one that will contain an en gine and will really go) with its mirror, steering wheel, radiator top, horn, and long, well-shaped fenders. Yoa just wonder how Fred ever found all those things at least, that's what your Junior Editor wondered nd then, Fred laughed, and said: "Well, you see, I got an old tin sign and then I shaped it forthe body of the car, and the lamps and fenders and things like that. "That 'turtle back' was sure hard to shape. "The little mirror was a doctor's mirror that Mrs.- (a neighbor) gave me; the top is of black imitation leather; and the radiator top was a screw off an old battery, and the solder was that light-colored sealing wax they made last year on account of the war, and the horn, there, is just part of an old spool." So he explained how he had made the little model (and it's not so very little, either, for it's about 18 inches long) out of just odds and ends of things. Fred said that the automobile men laughed when they Japanese Singer Plays in "Mikado" .. ..diria bii.mozumi. Miss Huma ShinozumI who is playing the role of Yum Yum in "The Mikado" this season in New sho was born in Honolulu. She York is purely Japense although came to San Francisco with her parents when scarcely a year old. Although a great success in New York and admitting that the people have been wonderful to her she still longs for her own people. She speaks perfect English with no trace of accent, but even when garbed in the most conventional dress of Fifth Avenue there can not be the slightest doubt about her nationality.

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saw that he had taken a part of a carburetor to make the nifty-looking little steering wheel. Began Making Models at Twelve Years of Age. Fred is fifteen years old now and his head seems to be fairly buzzing with ideas about machines of several kinds though, best of all, he likes the automobile. He says his first model was made three years ago when he lived on South Thirteenth street, and it was one of those days, so considerate of Juniors, when the gutters were full of water. A friend was playing with him and they piled up sand into a dam and then, they had a new idea. "Let's make an auto," said his friend. So they found some old carpet sweeper wheels which they set on a board, and that, Fred says, was his first model. After that he was always making some kind of automobiles of cigar boxes and other things, until now he can make them out of tin. "I always liked tools and things like that," Fred said. "Father's a mechanic and mother says that the plaything I played with most, when I was a baby, was a hammer." Can Put Ford Together. Fred is delighted with his new Alma Williams Assists in Office Miss Alma Williams has been reappointed as office assistant at the Junior High school. She works in the office before school takes up in the morning and at noon. Riddles 1. What does a stone become in the water. 2. Why is a postage stamp like an obsinate donkey? Answers will appear in next week's Junior. ANSWERS TO RIDDLES OF SEPTEMBER 13 1. The Sentence in Code "Sixby sent Simpson some limburger cheese?" Nine chances out of ten he will want to know where you got the "sent." Tell him it is in the limburger cheese. 2. One half dollar, one quarter and four dimes. 3. Girls' Names Helen, Dorothy, Jean, Carrie, Eloise, Anna and Mildred. Albert Dallas, 3A Warner school. A Spasm The lion is the beast to fight, He leaps along he plain, And if you run with all your might, He runs with all his mane. I'm glad I'm not a Hottentot, But, if I were, with outward cal-lum, I'd either faint upon the spot Or hie me up a leafy pal-lum. The chamois is the beast to hunt; He's fleeter than the wind, And when the chamois is in front. The hunter is behid. The Tyrolese make' famous cheese. And hunt 4 he chamois o'er the chaz-zums; I'd choose the former, if you please, For precipices give me spaz-zums. A. T. Quillar-Couch. Don't Be an Oyster i. The Oyster is a stupid thing; He canont dance, he cannot 6ing, He cannot even read or write Indeed, he isn't very bright. II. When in September school begins (A school of fish, I mean), The fishes come with shining fins And sit in rows with happy grins, But Oyster isn't seen. III. He just lies lazy in his bed, Although 'tis day; And so to oystermen o'erhead He falls a prey. St. Nicholas.

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. draw knife, which helps so much Kin .l, I 1 1 a ... 1 in h,.lr.ll Alio vf ii ui at unvu m -ry 1 to Paul Branderberry, who lives j across the street from Fred -but they traded some things not Km ago, and Fred got his cherished j drawknife. He has an emery , wheol and a jig-saw, too; ; fiei doesn't have jut tire tool needed for a certain part of the work, he never lets that bother him. He thinks up a new way of making the n,rt oh anma r fKn tia i, itna

When asked how he plans his ?he te,ls n,p, iot , hiink ou, WP1Imodels, Fred answered: !, an). ''01,1 ,(? ?0" 3'" t ' "I never use paper and pencil toi10 llim,,f raP ,liirvost ,,n plan them. I go to bed at 9:00,Franpe- 1 gathered grap-s in order

o'clock, and sometimes don't go to sleep till 12:00. That's how 1 plan them!" Fred worked at a garage lor six

months and says he can tell yoUbut just now , (o not ,iavc time

anything about a Ford. His father likes autos, too, and Fred has often watched him working with Fords at the Webb-Coleman garage. "Give me the parts of a Ford, and I can put it together," Fred stated. This ambitious Junior is now making a touring car model which he expects to finish soon. "When I start anything I want to finish it right away," Fred said. "I don't want it hanging around halffinished." SOCIETY NEWS Miss Mary Johnson of 205 South' Eleventh street, members of her entertained the Sunday school

class of South Eighth Friends w,"u- i Church with a dinner party at herj home last Tuesday evening. Thej WANT TO SAVE MONEY? guests were: Marcia Dennis, Eliza- a good way to save money spent beth Jenkins. Elizabeth Dilks, m buying envelopes is to save all Gladys Benjamin, Elizabeth Jay, J the envelopes received bv third MpHor'n r..iKgj Margaret Hiatt and: class mail until a number have Janet Smith. been accumulated, and, after soakI ing them in water for a few min"Aren't we glad Miss Elliotts fPa to f often the mucilaee. turn back!" said many of the Garfield them inside out and stick them tostudents Wednesday morning whenj pettier aj?ain.

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- j i lucac i i i ii '.u or guuu a in. w teacher returned to school after a blank envelopes, and with the presweek's absence. ent high price of paper this method "Put it in the Junior how glad wm gave a good many pennies. we are, caue lots of the pupils Lone gCOut Bernard Toussaint, said so," said one Junior. j Chicago 111.

WANTED To secure by buying or trading, wheels from old carpet swepers. Call at 220 South West Second street. A REAL BIRDSEYE

Picture taken from air of parade of General Pershing and First Division en Pennsylvania avenue, Washington This remarkable view of the parade of General Pershing and the famous First division was taken by an

aerial photographer. It shows not only the parade and the capitol building general view of the city. A sausage balloon is hovering in the foreground.

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My Doiir Little 1'iiciuts: 1 am going to make tlx; mo. t of this time, and write you while we in'?. living vacation I work all the , t " J' "" . at the y. , , ,y' r"fin,- hmi ho ,n" ym m some sugar, 11 K-t pleasure when Uiy brother Adolphe was .ick. It was the nonboru that made him so pU behaved. He says for m. to tn?,nk y0!J- , , Every Mile hit. ray n.. Ir sny, . , avc y,u lhank" ;ou!; little friends for tlie sugar? And to get nio a new winter dress so that sometimes I may go to the school on Sundays. In France things are very dear. There are many other thing.-; I might tell you, for more. Thank your parents for me, and also give my best wishes to your little friend.?, ami my best affection take for yourself. Odette Negre. History cf the Wonderful Tree Far out in California there wa3 a tree that was only 18 foot high, when Christ was born. Seven men stood around the tree, taking hold of hands and they could just barely reach their hands around it. It was about fifty feet around and the bark was two feet thick. It was just cut down a few years ago. They made pool tables out of the stump and bowling alley out of the trunk and a livery stable out of !l,e branches It certainly was a "V " " " I,1? Long' J,ge 10' Sharonvtlle, ! 1 J WANTED To buy second-hand Tarr and McMurray Complete Geography. Phoe 2828 or call at 206 North Ninth street. VIEW OF PERSHING

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Events owimming V'otv (Catherine Brown and baby brother also clever swimmer. Katherine Brown is the nine-year-old swimming marvel who, not only has set several records for children of her age, but has beaten many grownups in matches in the water. She finished twelfth in a three-mile race at Philadelphia against a field of women, leaving twenty of them behind her. She is the daughter of Alfred Brown, the first man to swim the Panama canal from ocean to ocean and first to swim the twenty-two-mile course from the Battery to Sandy Hook. It was an American, by name of Might, who, in 1824, invented a machine to manufacture pins cheaply another testimonial to American genius. About 1,500 tons of iron and brass are made into pins each year in the United States. PARADE AT CAPITAL in the distant background, but a

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