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Library of Congress1921

Image 83 of The New York herald (New York, N.Y.), June 5, 1921, (SECTION SEVEN)

DAN RAL We cannot give up our only p not wish to drive us out of the chui By DAN CAREY Ni V there Is the case of Mr Edison for instance Just because he asks a few simple perfectly easy questions of a lot of schoolboys for the purpose of ascertaining if they have as much as an ordinary high school education before giving them jobs in his and spend the day asking each other whether he is right or wrong and if either why So far as we have been able to ascertain every one who has written anything upon the subject has taken the position that Mr Edison is wrong but no lucid reason has been given for such an attitude Clearly the time hits arrived for one of our best minds to come to the defence of the great inventor Our well known modesty withheld us front undertaking this task for several weeks in the vain hope that one of the others of us would say something in his behalf but their silence indicates that they are waiting for us to take the load and therefore we speak boldly In considering the questions asked by Mr

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Library of Congress1920

Image 7 of New-York tribune (New York [N.Y.]), September 26, 1920

Betts Arrested After Hunt in Gambling Case Capture Made Near Rich1 mond Va on Warrant Is sued During Inquiry Into i Nassau County Scandal Trail Leads to Officials Indictment of Well Known Figure in Sporting World Is Reported at Minela Colonel Lou Betts indicted by the Ks3u County grand jury last month as n gambler was arrested yesterday at Lester Manor near Richmond Va and is being held for extradition pro ceedings These proceedings probably will be commenced Wednesday and it is expected they will be vigorously contested by Betts His arrest forms another link in the chain that is being gradually forged by Supreme Court Justice Scudder and District Attorney Charles R Weeks about thos einvolved in gambling oper ations in Nassau County It came af ter a long chase by State Troopers Byck and Krause who were set on the trail of Betts immediately after the Indictment was handed down The trail led the two troopers from Mine ola to Highland N J thence to Havre de Grace Md and finally to Rich mond Bett was the owner of Kings Cot tage just outside Hewletts L I in which it is alleged gambling was rife The news of

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Library of Congress1919

Image 1 of The Washington times (Washington [D.C.]), November 18, 1919, (FINAL EDITION)

WEATHER Fl talikt wit air mm rla4r wMiktr w 7 at 8 43 dfntti INAL EDITION NUMBER 11353 gSS WASHINGTON TUESDAY EVENING NOVEMBER 18 1919 IQtmt Wil Street Pricetl PRICE TWO CENTS OPERATORS TO ASK GOVERNMENT TO PAY INCREASES TO MINERS Rat Week Mifk for America Roper for Secretary Fear a Queer Poison By AITHlI BRISBA5E Otrrrtht I n I A picture hi good old London launch describes the attitude of certain prosperous people in the United States toward Bolshe vism radicalism etc In England they are having fcRat Week to dear out all the _ rata The picture in Punch shows two nice old English ladies going up in a balloon to get away from the rata during Rat Week They do not realize that just when there is most attention concentrated on rats those rata are least apt to be dangerous Otto H Kahn musical financier n Elisabeth Martmry young human dynamo are working to gether on a campaign to get milk for the children of America t time to start such a cam paign for children of America also drink milk and with milk as 5h 21 quart in great cities it was time for charity to

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Library of Congress1919

Image 5 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), July 18, 1919

r National Newspaper Advertising How When and Where to Use It BY WILLIAM H RANKIN President Wm H Rankin Co New York Washington Chicago COMPETITION to secure na tional markets has become so keen that individual business firms are eagerly searching for new methods by which to domi nate the attention of the public and to dominate it first searching for methods that will give more intensive sales results that can be obtained by any usual form of advertising This method has been found it is National Newspaper Advertising As is invariably the case the new method was found not only to be an acceptable substitute for the old but to have certain superiorities over the old meth od of magazines plus newspa pers The ability of National news paper advertising to create large volume national sales has al ready been demonstrated Many million dollars have already been spent for the United States Government in this way helping to bring to the Government bil lions of dollars in return Mil lions more have been spent in this sort of advertising by com mercial firms and the results they have obtained have been highly remunerative The thing has been tried out

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Library of Congress1919

Image 24 of The Washington herald (Washington, D.C.), March 9, 1919

POTASH AND PERLMUTTER AT TKE PEACE CONFERENCE BY MONTAGUE GLASS Illuetrated by ALBERT levering Everything Is Proceeding SatisfactorilyMaybe 4 IIVBIIIT 1 DY THE MrttllRE NEWSPAPER SYNDICAT 5 Morris Perlmut M tir said to his partner Abe Potash a few days after Mr Wilsons return from his j visit to Italy up to a short time ago hardly anybody in America had ever even heard about Italys claim to the Dalmatian territory Naturally Abe replied be cause if there is six people in the whole United States which is en gaged in the business of telling spotted dogs to fire engine houses Mawruss that would be big al ready Morris threw up both hands in a gesture of despair What is the use talking foreign politics to a feller which thinks lhat Italys claims to the Dalmatian territory means she wants the exclusive right to make New York Cleveland Chi ca and Saint Louis with a line of spotted dog for fire engine com panies he exclaimed And I wouldnt even have known that it meant that much Abe retorted entirely unabashed excepting lhat six months ago my wifes sisters cousin wanted me I should advance her a hundred dol lars

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Library of Congress1917

Image 14 of The Washington times (Washington [D.C.]), June 27, 1917, (Editorial Page)

fWPt EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE WASHINGTON TIMES JUNE 27 19T7 WASHINGTON EDGAIt D SHAW Publisher Entered m econd tlui matter at the Postofflce at Washington PiQ Published Every Evening Including Sundays By the Washington Times Company Munsey Building Pennsylvania Ave Ona Year Including Sundays J3B0 Sir Months J17S Three Months SOc WEDNESDAY JUNE 27 1917 What Is a Good Newspaper Here Is One Answer There Are Forty Others The ablest editor in the United States said There are forty ways of making a good and successful newspaper All I ask is tlrat you adopt and follow ONE of the forty ways Dont try to work forty ways at once A reader asks this newspaper to define GOOD newspaper work Here is one of forty possible definitions A good newspaper attends first to the most im portant work at hand Today that work consists in earnest support of those that must get us honorably out of this war Earnest support and friendly constructive criticism but earnest SUPPORT above all and the less criticism the better A good newspaper feels toward its readers the great body of them not a chosen few who can repay favors as an honest lawyer feels toward

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Library of Congress1917

Image 17 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), April 23, 1917

AUCTION SALES THIS AFTERNOON THOS J OWEN A SON AUCTIONEERS inromcEs sale of valuable improved REAL ESTATE NOS 319 321 323 323 AND 327 14H STREET NORTHEAST By virtue of a certain deed of trust duly re _ urili il In Liber No S401 folio 322 et seq of tlM land record of the District of Columbia and al the request of the party secured thereby the BBdertlgBed trustee will sell at public auction tat front f the premises on MONDAY THE TWENTYTHIRD DAY OF APRIL AD 1917 AT HALTTAST FOUR OCLOCK PM the fol lowingdescribed land and premises situate in tha city of Washington District of Columbia and dsalfnated as snd being lots numbered one hun dred and twenty Are 125 to one hundred and twentynine 12 inclusive In Mayse and Clark trustees subdivision of square numbered ten hundred and fiftyfour 104 as per plat re corded la Liber IS at folio 27 In the surveyors office for the District of Columbia together with the Improvements consisting of five twostory brick dwellings Soa 319 321 323 325 and 327 144 street northeast Tarns of ssle Onethird of the purchase JMney to be paid in cash balance in two equal

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Library of Congress1916

Image 2 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), June 11, 1916

Senator Warren G Harding of Ohic chairman of the convention Mr Fairbanks will be notified by i committee headed by Senator W11 liar E Borah of Idaho Leaders All Talk Harmony At 201 pm the convention ad journed There were expressions o harmony from all the leaders an among the delegates The delegation which on the final ballot had cas votes for others than Mr Hughes mad statements declaring their loyalty t the nominees Six months ago said Chairmai Charles D Hilles of the republican na tional committee I said the nom inee would be born in the convention and he was T am very much pleased of course said Mr Hitchcock It means a re united republican party and victor In November The nomination of Mr Hujrncs was mad possible so soon by an overnigh breakup of the allied favorite sons combination which early this morninj released its delegates practically al of whom were known to favor Mr Hughes when freed from their instruc tions Favorite Sons Withdrawn When the convention began business shortly before noon the withdrawal o the favorite sons was announced fron the platform one after another ant the votes began flopping into th Hughe column

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Library of Congress1916

Image 19 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), May 22, 1916

AUCTION SALES THIS AFTEKWOO ADAM A WKSCHLER AUCTIONEER TDUTIES SALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED REAL ESTATE PREMISE8 419 O STREET SOUTHWEST By virtue of certain deed of truat duly recorded In Liber No 2758 folio 138 et acq of the land record of the District of Columbia and at the request of the party secured thereby we the underpinned truateee will eell at public netion In front of the premises m MOSDDAY THE TWENTY SECOND DAY OF MAY AD 1918 AT HALFPAST FOCR OCLOCK PM the followingdescribed land and premises situate In the city of Washington in the District of Columbia and designated as and being lot M of Benjamin Bradleys subdivision of the east IS feet of original lot 6 in square 503 aa per plat in Book 12 page 149 in the office of the surveyor for said District together with the improvements consisting of premises 419 O St sw Terms of aalc tinethird of the purchase money to be paid in cash and the balance in two equal installments payable in one and two years with interest at six per centum per annum payable semiannually from day of sale rtirei bv ded of trust mton the Dronertv sold

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Library of Congress1915

Image 10 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), December 12, 1915

SIXTYFIVE MEN IN CONGRESS HAVE WORKED ON NEWSPAPERS Of These Twelve Are Senators and Fifty three Are Members of the House of Representatives Sixtyflve members of Congress have served as newspaper men in one ca pacity or another according to the Congressional Directory Of these twelve are senators and fiftythree are members of the House Their newspaper jobs have ranged from typesetter to editor and owner Senator Henry F Ashurst of Arizona served as a reporter on a Williams Arizona newspaper Ever is A Hayes of the eighth Cal ifornia district with his brother is publisher of the San Jose Daily Morn ing Mercury and Herald and Charles H Randall the new member from the ninth district was a newspaper editor and publisher Edward Keating of the third Colo rado district started in at the age of fourteen as copyholder in a proofroom He served on Denver newspapers for twenty years as reporter city editor and managing editor In 1912 he pur chased the Pueblo Leader P Oakey Davis of the first Connecticut district for four years was connected with the Hartford Courant Senator James H Brady of Idaho acknowledges that he edited a paper for two years Clyde H

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Library of Congress1915

Image 19 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), May 4, 1915

FARMS FOH XALR THE LIFE OP LUXURY FARM LIFE IN VIRGINIA Affluence cannot buy the same quality mind ease and comfort anvwhere else I SELL FARMS AND ASSIST FINANCIAIXY Farms of every sortdairy stok poultry and general lauds J M KINCIIELOE 45 Pa ave nw Washington D C FR SALE OR ETI ANGETRU K AND POULTRY FARM within D C line 7 ares ellar hot water heat screened porch fruit large stable one car fare price 4550 easy erms At once Ilx Star office MR SAlECHEAPSEVERAL SMALL FARMS and modern home near city excellent car service l et lis know yonr wants WILLIAMS CO East Falls Church Va 1000 BARGAIN HOMES AND FARMS Dandy fruit garden and poultry farm 10 acres Sr dwelling barn poultry plant 1000 liens Only S50OO l mile D C In Md near cars BOOTHS FARM AGENCY 70 10th Ft n w 4 MY 5000 NEARBY VIRGINIA FARM home of 40 acres 10room dwelling porches barn fine orchard best of soil near Vienna and trllev pHTHS FARM AGENCY 700 lOth at n w 4 FOR SALEFARMS AND COUNTRY HOMES In northern Virginia and Maryland conven lent to National Capital high and healthful free from malaria lowest

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Library of Congress1915

Image 2 of Der Morgen zshurnal = The Jewish morning journal (New York, N.Y.), April 8, 1915

אן אפיעל צו דעם אמעריקאנישען SIND מאנופעקטשורערס און דער פאטריאטיזמוס און מעגלים קייט פון דיא ארבייטער פאד ערט עס זאל געצייגט ווערען דער גאנצער וועלט איינמאל פאר אלע מאל אז פאר געלד װאס איז געווייקט אין מענשען בלוט קען מען דיעזע קוואליטים ניט קויפען מיר כעטען דאריבער דאס אמעריקאנער פאלק אין נאמען פון דער מענשהייט און אין אן אמתען גייסט פון נייטראליטעט צו טהאן אלעם װאס ליגט און זייער מאכט אלפאיינצעלנע מענשען און צוזאמען אלס א נאציאן צו ווירקען אז דיא מאז נופעקטשורערס lIN ארבייטער וואס זיינען בעשעפטיגט און דיא יונייטעד סטייטס ביים מאנופעקטשורען פולווער און קוילען צו געברויכען ביי אירגענד וועלכע פון דיא קריעגס נאציאנען פון דער וועלט זאלען אויפהערען מאניפעקטשורען פערקוו פען און ארויסשיקען דיעזע מאטעריאלען ייק מיר אפעלירען צו אייך און צו יעדען לעזער איהר זאלט אונז העלפען רעטען אונזערע ברידער פון יענער זייט ים פון וויי טערע פערניכטונג לאמיר א עריקאנער אויפשטעהן מיט קוראזש און בעשלום צו אונזער פעראנטיוארטליכקייב ערשטען מוזען מיר סטאפען דיא האלסײל מאנופעק טשורונג פון אמונצוע צוליעב פראפיט און דאס וועט עגדיגען אונזער אייגענע טהיילנאחמע און דער מלחמה דאן וועלען מיר קענען פאדערען אז אייראפא זאל פאלגען אונזער פאדערונג פיר שלים סטאפט אייער ארבייט ביי פאודער ביקסען און קאנאנען פיהרט דורך אייער פערלאנג

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Library of Congress1915

Image 3 of Der Morgen zshurnal = The Jewish morning journal (New York, N.Y.), April 8, 1915

גליקליכע מוטער י 0 A S N 6 AN LY י ן TN לאנגע יאהרען זיט פלאגענדיז זיא מיטז קינד פוז פערשיערעגע הויטיקראנקן הייטען זיינען זײ ענדליך גערעטעט געווא דען מיט ליביט זאלב און ליביט זייף ליביט זאלב נומער 1 נעהמט ארונטער זומער שפרינקלעך ישייעס פלעקען פומפעלם א ז וו די געזיכט ווערױט שעהו דיין אוז יונג פריין oהס קליביט זאלב נומער ג היילט בייסוגי גען אויסשלאגען ענטצינדונגען עקזימאן סײיקאזיט הויט קראלקהייטען פרײי 50 סענט קיביט נומער גl מאכט דיא האאר וואקסען ריינינט די קאפ פון דענדארף נוסקאף פערהיט די האאר פון אויס פאלען פרייז Dso י קיביוט זייף איז די ריינסטע זייף DY פערהיט פון אלע הויטיקראנקהייט גוט e נרוים אוןז קליין פריין 15ס לייריס זיים פארזיבטיג ווען איהר יוזט פיים פאודער לא קאמפאס פיים פאודער איז די בעסטע NP na קירען פרייז 8ס סענט א באקס צו בעקומען אין אלע גומע אפטייקען נאר קאזט זיף ניט איינריידען אויף אנ דערע זאכע אויב אייער אפטייקער האט עס ניט דאן קענט איהר עס בעקומען איז דיא אפטייקען ט סטענטאז סטריט 6 עללעז סטריט אוז 280 ריוױינגטאן סטריט אויך דירעקט פון אונזער אפיס אדער טיט פאסט שיקט דעם פריז אין סטעמפס אדער מאני ארדער LIBIT TRIUMPH CO Grand St New York

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Library of Congress1915

Image 2 of Der Morgen zshurnal = The Jewish morning journal (New York, N.Y.), April 7, 1915

אן אפיעל צו דעם אמעריקאנישען פאלק לאמיר פערלייכטערען מענשליכע ליידען און בעחימען דאס לעבען ניט העלפען צו פערניכטען DY מאנופעקטשורערס און דער פאטריאטיזמוס און מענליכ קייט פון דיא ארבייטער פאר ערט עס זאל געצייגט ווערען דער גאנצער וועלט איינמאל פאר אלע מאל אז פאר געלר װאס איז געווייקט אין מענשען בלוט קען מען דיעזע קוואליטיס ניט קויפען דיע מיר בעטען דאריבער דאס אמעריקאנער פאלק אין נאמען פון דער מענשהייט און אין אן אמתען גייסט פון נייטראליטעט צו טהאן אלעס וואם ליגט אין זייער מאכט אלס איינצעלגע מענטען און צוזאמען אלט א נאציאן צו ווירקען אז דיא מא נופעקטשורערס און ארבייטער אס זיינען בעשעפטיגט און דיא יונייטעד סטיימם ביים מאנופעקטשורען פולװוער אין קיילען צו געברויכען ביי אירגענד וועלכע פון דיא קריעגס נאציאנען פון דער וועלט זאלען אויפהערען מאנופעקטשורען פערקוי פען און ארויסשיקען דיעזע מאטעריאלען י מיר אפעלירען צו IR און צו יעדען לעזער איחר זאלט אונז העלפען רעטען אונזערע ברידער פון יענער זייט ים פון וויי טערע פערניכטונג לאמיר א עריקאנער אויפשטעהן מיט קוראזש און בעשלום צו אונזער פעראנטװוארטליכקייפ ערשטען מוזען מיר סטאפען דיא האלסייל מאנופעקטשורונג פון אמינציע צוליעב פראפילםונ און דאס וועט ענדיגען אונזער אייגענע טהיילנאהמע און דער מלחמה דאן וועלען מיר קענען פאדערען אז אייראפא זאל פאלגען אונזער פאדערונג

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Image 3 of Der Morgen zshurnal = The Jewish morning journal (New York, N.Y.), April 7, 1915

געוונרספעקולאנטען b י 2 או מען איו קראנק געהט פןאויייאל דאפטאר אז מיע ראעק גאטן הייסען שוין חיינט 8 T טענשעג אטאלהשט סעז אווי פיעל ניט געוואוסט וויא מיע ווייטעו אכער ווי צו געחן צו א ראסטשר קראנקע אין קלייבען א דאקטאר מחייז לען זיף אויף צוויי ללאסען איין קקאס ספעקולירט דיא צווייטע האט צוי טרוי דיא סמעקולאגטען נעהען פון ראסי טאר צו ראקטאר בעזוכען אלע דיסמעגסע ריס או האספיטעלער עסען אויף פילעג DR מעריצינען פון דיא נאנצע װעלט צוז טרויער קלײבען זיף אויס א עהרליכען ספעציאליסט מאלגען װאס מעז חהייסט זיי פיהרען זיף אויף וויא טען זאנט זיי צו דיא סמעקוקאנטען ווערען קיינ מא ניט געזונד דיא קלייבער פערי בעסערען זיף פוןז ערשטען אויגעני בליק אוז ווערען פאלקאם געזוטר צו װעיכען קיאס געהערט איהר ספעקולירט איהר מיט WM ok געהט איחר צו א דאקטאר איז וועקכעט איהר האט צוטרוי װייסט איחר פון דעם דאקטאר אין וועלכען אחן נוומא 75 טזיזענר לײטע האבען אננעטרויעט זייער געזונד און לעז בען פאר דיא לעצטע 28 יאהר דענקט איהר ניסט הערר קלייבעד דאם אידר מעגט און מוזם געהן צו איהם דער מאן אי דר ל קאנדעם זיין אים איז 140 א 2פטע סט זיין ספעצואליי טעט איז מענער אוז גערווען קראטמ הייטעג איהר

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Image 5 of The Washington herald (Washington, D.C.), April 5, 1915

7Sf3r7S VUW Jh r T I r obh i THE WASHINGTON HERALD MONDAY APRIL 3 1913 AN APPEAL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE Let us alleviate human suffering and preserve life not help to destroy it 99 TO AS a result of receiving hundreds of thousands of letters cables and messages through various sources containing heartbroken appeals prayers and pleas from the people of our mother countries we the undersigned editors and publishers have concluded to place this appeal before the great American people on behalf of our readers The readers of our newspapers are vitally affected almost without exception by this disastrous conflict of the European nations Their brothers their sisters parents children or relatives live in the waning countries This does not mean that the Ameri can people as a whole is not vitally affected but our readers are more closely linked through the bonds of blood relationship with the peoples of countries now plunged in the depths of barbaric warfare Each days mail with its news of the pitiful progress of the war brings some new and bitter anguish to the hearts of our people The pleas of the millions of widowed mothers the appeals of the fatherless chil

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Image 5 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), April 5, 1915

AN APPEAL TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE Let us alleviate human suffering and preserve lifenot help to destroy it AS a result of receiving hundreds of thousands of letters the plants devoted to the manufacture of ammunition cables and messages through various sources containing e 1 1 j heartbroken appeal prayer nd plea from the people of our for nabons at war to immediately cease mother countries we the undersigned editors and publishers making powder shrapnel and cartridges destined to have concluded to place this appeal before the great American destroy our brothers widow OUT sisters and mothers people on behalf of our readers I7 The readers of our newspapers are vitally affected almost Orphan their children as well as destroy forever the without exception by this disastrous conflict of the European priceless possessions handed down by our ancestors nations Their brothers their sisters parents children or rela tives live in the warring countries This does not mean that the We appeal particularly to the American manufacturers and American people as a whole is not vitally affected but our read their workmen engaged in manufacturing any of these articles to ers are more closely linked through the bonds of blood relation

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Image 7 of The Washington times (Washington [D.C.]), April 5, 1915, (HOME EDITION)

THE WASHINGTON TBIES MONDAY APRIL 5 1915 AN APPEAL TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE Let us alleviate human suffering and preserve lifenot help to destroy it AS a result of receiving hundreds of thousands of letters cables and messages thcough various sources containing heart broken appeals prayers and pleas from the people of our mother countries we the undersigned editors and publishers have concluded to place this appeal before the great American people on behalf of our readers The readers of our newspapers are vitally affected almost without exception by this disastrous conflict of the Europexn nations Their brothers their sisters parents children or relatives live in the warring countries This does not mean that the Ameri can people as a whole is not vitally affected but our readers arei more closely linked through the bonds of blood relationship with the peoples of countries now plunged in the depths of barbaric war fare Each days mail with its news of the pitiful progress of the war brings some new and bitter anguish to the hearts of our people The pleas of the millions of widowed mothers the appeals of the fatherless children and orphans and the prayers of the starving thousand

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