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Show tiie First Railway Mail Was Cegun During Civil War CHIEF CAFE Under New Management 'dinner . The railway mail service came in to existence during the Civil war. As early as 1S33 congress approved an act making every railroad in the United States a post route, and prior to that time many railroads had ' 25c Including Drink CHILI - TAMALES - MEAT PIES - SANDWICHES of all Kinds demonstrated their worth as spceJy MERCHANTS LUNCH With Cube Steak 35c 6:30 a. m. till 8 p. m. East 21st So. 1119 lly. 3327 h CUT FLOWERS Centerpieces fnr yuur Halloween Party KINGS Forget-Me-N- ot FLORAL "Flowers That Satisfy" 2157 Highland Drive Hyland 8199 232 II. Van Ilartcn Barber Shop For EXCELLENT SERVICE 1107 EAST 21st SOUTH IS YOUR ROOF SAFE? Nex week may be too late. Call u infer repairs before snow time. THE PAINT POT WE ARE HERE, To Make The World Brighter" 1074 E. 21st South lly. 8739 Ammunition and j Hunting Equipment PHIL & JOES Southeast Repair Shop E. 21st South 1113 Hy. 8596 F. W. KIEPE THE TAILOR Suits made to order and remodeled for Ladies and Gentlemen Cleaning Pressing 1060 East 21st South WELDING? "Just Bring In the Pieces Granite Welding & Wire Work 2021 South 11th East Hyland 458 summaggaa TIE mail carriers. The first use made of the facilities of the railroad was slight and generally consisted of a compartment in the end of the baggage car, which was padlocked after the mail was stowed away and opened after the run had been finished. Later a larger portion of the baggage car was given over to the postal authorities, who fitted it with enough facilities for the distribution of local way mail.: This was not an American invention at all but had been copied from similar systems in use in France, England, and even in Canada. Although credit for the system which in use has often been attributed to George B. Armstrong, who was assistant postmaster in Chicago in 1864, that is not proper, for V. A. Davis, a clerk in the St. Joseph, Mo., office actually conceived the idea in 1362, according to a writer in the Chicago Tribune. Davis suggested that the complete sorting of mail on the train between Quincy and St. Joseph would allow the overland mail to set out several hours earlier than was the case were the sorting done at St. Joseph. He received permission to try out the experiment on this line and there are complete documents in the files of the Post Office department and of the Burlington railroad to show that it was successful. Criliiant Dunes Sumach Recalls Indian Legend Who Wrote Shakespeare? an Ancient Controversy leaving his sweetheart, who vowed to keep a signal fire burning constantly on the highest dune until his return. Her lover never returned. The Indian maid pined away slowly but never failed to climb to the top of the highest dune to keep her signal fire lighted. One day she failed to return to the camp the tribe had built in the near-b- y valley. Her brothers made their way to the top of the dune and found she had died there. They found, too, that in the dead ashes of the signal fire what appeared to be a flame was growing. The living flame continued to grow and to spread until it covered all the dunes, and thus the sumach came into being and still covers the Michigan dunes with flame in autumn. Quick Courteous Service PROGRESS SHOE REBUILDERS 1059 East 21st So. lly. 8775 Thought Lawyers Fees Exorbitant The early lawyers of Ohio charged an average of from $3 to $5 per suit, and many clients protested loudly against what they said were exorbitant lees. Cleveland's First Railroad Clevelands first railroad was prohibited by council from traveling more than five miles per hour and from running at night through the town. Stingless Bee Is Sought by Chemiit York. A stingless bee develop from experiments in controlled mating carried on by Dr. Lloyd R. Watson, professor of chemistry at Alfred university, according to a report from the Rochester section of the American Chemical society. The future bee may be gentle, able to carry a larger load, willing to work at a lower temperature, have a longer tongue, and be more beautiful," the report says. When the stinglcss bee arrives, everyone can have honey from a hive by the hammock on the porch, it is predicted. New may- - ) Don Achievements of 1936 Outstanding. Engineering Nineteen Washington, D. C. was a red-lett- On Site Sugar Mill Went of Mississippi River GAL. Try Our Speedy Service 99 g lighter-than-a- ir Non-Milita- non-milita- ry Vladivostok-Khabarovs- lit 1 er mail-carryin- Hardman Service GASOLINE thirty- year for actransportation developments cording to the National Geographic society which issued a bulletin reviewing the engineering accomplishments in various parts of the world during the past twelve months. The year saw the first conquest of the Puvir.c ocean by huge passenger and airplanes; the establishment of regular passenger service by ships across the Atlantic, with the passage cut to less than 62 hours; and a passenger trip completely around the world by commercial carriers in little more than eighteen and a half days, says the bulletin. The huge Queen Mary was put into transatlantic service during 1936, and in August established a new crossing record for steamships of four days, seven hours, and twelve minutes. Traffic across the busy English channel was facilitated by the establishment of the first train ferry, which solved the terminal problems for such craft at Dover by the construction of an artificial basin with its water level controllable by mighty pumps. nighway. The most important highway of the year was that extending from the Texas border to Mexico City, which was opened formally July 1, after completion of several costly bridges spanning tropical rivers. Premier military highway completed in 1936 was the -six road k ex- tending for 400 miles north and south from Russia's great port near the northeastern corner of Korea, to Khabarovsk, on the Amur river, rear the northeastern corner of Uanchukuo. Still more valuable to Russia is e the great new military railway the BAM which extends to Komsomolsk on the Amur. 125 miles north of Khabarovsk, and on for an additional 100 miles to a new port on the narrow northern. end of the Sea of Japan, opposite Sakhalin. Outstanding transportation structures of the United States durwhose daughter ried. ing 1938 are two of the greatest For sixteen years he labored in bridges ever built. The the mission work, and during that bridge in New York City, opened time discovered Lake Ngami in the July 11, spans Ilell Gate, Little Hell northwestern Bechuanaland, and Gate, the Harlem river, and Bronx crossed the continent from the ZamKill, and connects Manhattan, the The total bezi river to Loanda, a journey Bronx, and Queens. which occupied eighteen months. length of bridges, viaducts, apWhile in England in 1857 Livingproaches and special highways is stone published Missionary Travels 17ft miles. and Researches in South Africa. 'The Bay Bridge connecting San Francisco and Oakland across San Returning to Africa he devoted himFrancisco bay was put into use self to exploration, and in 1865 resolved to find the sources of the November 12. It has an over-al- l Nile. During the remainder of his length of lift miles and includes a 1,400-focantilever section, the life, observes a writer in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, there were frelongest ever constructed. quent periods when he was not Among bridges completed In heard from for months at a time, 1936 nearer home were the Mark and it was during one of these proTwain Memorial bridge across the tracted absences that Henry M. Mississippi at Hannibal, Missouri, Stanley began his travels to search and spans over the Missouri river for him and found him in great desat Washington, Missouri, and over titution at Ujiji, on Lake Tanganthe Fore river, Massachusetts, near yika. Weymouth. Dr. Livingstone died in 1873 while New York Citys west side trafd exploring the river system of the fic received a outlet Zambezi in the belief that these were the headwaters of the Nile, having penetrated to the south shores of Lake Bangweola Rhodesia. In 1874 his body was interred in Westminster abbey. 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However, dawn is the word often used for the early morning twilight. 2520 CASTLE GATE BLUE BLAZE ABERDEEN KING COAL Agents for Sentinel Stokers & Prepared Stoker Coal ' LOBB'S on the' - . JOB SUGAR HOUSE COAL CO. Was. 2520 llyland 671 2.000-mil- Tri-Borou- gh ' Royal Dreams Typified by Palms The desire of every man to be a king is typified by Rio de Janeiros great number of royal palms. Dom Joao, king at the beginning of the Nineteenth century, had planted the first seed of the royal palm himself and ruled that the tree was to be exclusively his. To preserve his monopoly he ordered every seed from it gathered up and burned, but the residents of Rio who wanted Pearls Cannot Be Given Life to imitate royalty bribed his slaves Pearls are things which never die. to sell the seeds. As a result royal n and are either born palms soon sprang up everywhere. They n dead, or living. pearls with their dull, dead look can never be revivified, according to a pearl Only Dickens Statne mean that A statue of Charles Dickens and specialist. This doesnt look dead are really all that pearls little Nell, one of his famous charso, though it takes a real expert to acters, is in Clark park, at Forty-thir- d know looking at them just street and Baltimore avenue, after whenhave been extracted from they in West Philadelphia. It is the only In most cases, the upone ever made of the novelist, says the oyster. or layers, of an oyster layer, a writer in the Philadelphia Inquir- per are not at all pretty. Having been because son his discovered a er, built by the oyster in successive clause in his will asking "never on of congealed fluid, each layer any account to make me the sub- layers has its own characteristic. The exof ject any monument, memorial or pert pearl jewelers job is to see testimonial whatever. The work is what layers lie below those which by F. Edwin Elwell. It was and to decide what are uppermost, ed at the World's Columbian arid what layer will give the tint tion, where it received a gold greatest value to the pearl. And medal. then to remove the less beautiful layers without damaging the lower, richer ones. Deep-Re- d Rubies From Siam 'Many of the best ruMes have been found in Siam in the provinces of Old Method to Test Gold Krat and Chantaboon, where are loThe ancient needles cated the principal ruby mines of and acid method of the determining that country. The stones are usual- karat quality of gold never has been ly found in detrital matter about 20 improved upon as a convenient test. feet below the surface. The rubyStarting with the fact that pure gold bearing gravel is less than a foot in is called 24 karat; that less than thickness and lies between a clay 24 karats indicates the relative bed and a heavy covering of coarse amounts of gold and in the sand. The usual color of the Siam metal (18 karat gold is alloy gold rubies is dark red, running almost and and that nitric alloy); to a blackish shade of red. acid dissolves alloy but not gold, it is seen readily why old methods are still in use. Ill Luck Followed Ship The Great Eastern or Leviathan, ns she was originally called, the Eramel Romantic Product English steamer, built in 1857, at the The ingredients from which the time the largest steamship afloat, enameled surface of plumbing fixencountered nothing but ill luck tures are made come from from the time she was launched, different parts of the world. many Tin commercially a great failure. When oxide from the Malay States, kryo-litbroken up in 1888, the cause of her from Greenland, barium carbad luck, according to sailor superbonate from Germany are among stition, came to light in the disthe 20 elements which are combined covery of a human skeleton wedged to make the glass-lik- e surface. between her inner and outer skins. still-bor- Shoe Repairing avr. 29, 1937 IN TRANSPORTATION Still-bor- EXPERT F May, October bulletin, BIG ADVANCE MADE The controversy over the authorship of Shakespeare's works had its origin many years ago and appears from time to time. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, cites a writer in the Detroit News, the idea that the plays and poems escribed to Shakespeare were really the work of Lord Bacon appears to have been first presented by Herbert Lawrence in his work, The Life and Adventures of Common Sense, (1769). The thesis appeared again in 1843 in J. C. Hart's "The Romance of Yachting, and in the article, Who Wrote Shakespeare? printed in Chambers' Journal (August 5, 1852). The first definite claim for Bacon's authorship was set forth in a letter by William Henry Smith, which was printed in extended form in 1857, under the Bacon and Shakespeare. title, The earls of Rutland, Derby and Oxford have also been declared the real authors, at various times, and Bacons claim has been extended to include the works of practically all the Elizabethan dramatists. In the United States, Judge Nathaniel Holmes wrote the book, The Authorship of Shakespeare, and the controversy was continued by I. The Great CryptoDonnellys which was based on the gram, theorem th3t Bacon had embedded in the plays a cipher narrative declaring his authorship. The various writers based their claims mote or less on the following points: 1. It was assumed that Shakespeare did not have the educational or cultural background to write drama, while Bacon did. 2. Similar phraseology in the works of both Bacon and Shakespeare tended to show both to be the work of the same man, but investigation showed that such phraseology was common to all Elizabethan drama. None of the investigators have been able to prove that Bacon or any of the other suggested claimants ever wrote a line of blank verse. According to the Indian legends which flourish in the region of the Michigan coast, one of the tribes was driven by a forest fire from its hunting ground to the shores of Lake Michigan, where the sand hills gave them refuge from the flames, David Livingstone Long recalls a writer in the Chicago Daily a Missionary, Explorer News. David Livingstone was a Scotchof the in the path Everything in flames had been destroyed and the man. born in Lanarkshire in a 1817, cotworked he a when and bey ordinarily plentiful wild life had fled ton 1840 he landed in In factory. the or been annihilated. Surveying as a mediblackened countryside, the Indians Port Natal, South Africa, London Misfelt they were doomed to starva- cal missionary of the and became an astion, but one Indian brave volun- sionary society, Robert Moffat, Rev. of sociate teered to go in search of meat. He he afterward mardeparted, suGAiuiorsE test-ston- e, c long-neede- Waste of Paper ' To throw confetti, said Hi Ho, is a waste the sage of Chinatown; of paper. Yet there are times when there is vastly more paper wasted by being written upon. AUTO LOANS and INSURANCE 8 l Steel ens Once Costly When steel pens first appeared in England in 1803 they cost $2 to $3 each, although the price was reduced to 12 cents in the course of 10 NO BALLYHOO MO BOOMERANGS But Real years. 37 Built Fort Leavenworth Fort Leavenworth, the military post, was built in 1827 by Col. Henry Leavenworth to protect the traffic on the old Santa Fe trail. $ Values $695.00 20 others to choose from MOTOR FINANCE CO. 702 So. 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