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HIE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MAY 6, 1917.
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( than, Addraaa cheated ae elta aa requested.
Shrunken loaves md boosted price, tag Amer
ica's war bread. '
The war will be fought in the kitchens as well
as in the fields.
The riot average of Petrograd has a shade the
better of New York.
"Pa" Rourke'a boys know what the home
grounds are maintained for.
It is understood, of course, that the achool
board has no ulterior designs on the bone dry law.
The weather man will be deemed benefactor
ff he will just keep the sunshine flowing for t few
days now.
High prices are now being charged to hys
teria. Well, the bills ar enough to cause some
thing of the sort
Housewives should not let their interest in
pther things lead them to neglect the pestiferous
fly. That war is never over.
It is evident that Chicago emphasized its wel
come of the French commissioners because.
Mayor Bill absented himself.
Pity the bone dry troubles of the attorney
general! Still, there is abundant company along
the road to induce forgetfulneas. :
Despite the terrific heat of last summer, the
Union Pacific managed to harvest one of the
juiciest sample melons in the railroad field.
Italy's mission promises another large addi
tion to our stock of war experiences. Mobilised
advice, discreetly heeded, promotes speed and
safety. - . . '
' The parade of the boys armed with hoes is
prophetic of tin return of the same forces, laden
with spoils of the garden. The Scouts are doing
their bit - ' - 1
Omaha merchants are willing to help as far as
they can on cutting the cost of living, but they
can't do it all. Assist them by paying your bills
promptly.
No bargains on the Liberty loan counter, but
the goods and the price are just right. Uncle
Sam plays no favorites there. Big and little
purses look alike to him.
It turns out that Nebraska picked a good time
to go on the water- wagon, for the people have
plenty to think of without worrying about the
fate of old John Barleycorn.
Another Kansas town run by women hands
mere man the cold storage stare. The rising
pride of feminine power still retains some esteem
for the masculine pay envelope.
Inpouring wealth radiates joy in Secretary of
State Pool's office. Luckily the legislature did
not foresee the golden deluge or a commodious
outlet would have been devised.
President Wilson, sitting in the gallery of the
house to listen to Mr. Balfour's speech, and the
, marching with the members to shake the hand of
the distinguished visitor affords a striking exam
ple of the true spirit of democracy.
Labor and War Conditions.
Certain events of the last few days have put a
definite color on the pledge from the labor leaders
of the United States of patriotic aid in the crisis.
In Chicago a strike of bakers, most of them un
naturalized aliens, their leader said to be a Ger
man reservist was brought to an end through
the efforts of an agent of the Department of
Labor with the assistance of Chicago union lead
ers. In New York Mr. Gompers warned bicker
ing organizations they must cease their wran
gling or suffer loss of their charters, as the Amer
ican Federation of Labor will not give time to
"jurisdictional" disputes nowadays. More im
portant than either of these instances is that in
which Secretary of Labor Wilson gave a decision
which will stand at least during the war as relat
ing to labor disputes.
The case was between the union of tin plate
workers and their employers, involving both
wages and the recognition of the union. In an
nouncing the attitude of the Council of National
Defense Secretary Wilson went over the ground
very carefully, considering the indefinite quality
of "standard of living," which depends entirely on
purchasing power of wages paid, and said:
"Because of the Indefiniteness of the
standard of living and1 the maintaining of it
at the same point, the council recognizes the
fact that from time to time disputes will arise
as to what is necessary to maintain that '
standard of living, but it feels that before any
stoppage of work takes place in any industry
in which the government is interested for the
maintenance of safety that the established
agencies of the government should be given
an opportunity to use their good offices to
bring about an adjustment of the impending
dispute."
Secretary Wilson specifically stated that rec
ognition of the union is not essential to main
tenance of a standard of living so long as the
wage scale is upheld and the right to organize is
not disputed.
In other words, the government does not pro
pose to permit either employer or employed to
take undue advantage of war conditions; it will
not tolerate strikes nor lockouts, but will insist
on continuous operation of Industry under fair
conditions. This policy may not be projected
beyond the war, but it will serve well for the time
being.
"Billy" Sunday's "Batting Average."
Rev, "Billy" Sunday has improved his playing
since he left Omaha; at any rate, he showing up
much stronger in the "big league" than he did
here. Omaha set quite a pace for him in the way
of collections, but New York is going at a rate
that is exceeding our best endeavors. In the
course of the Sunday meetings here 722,900 per
sons attended and the collection for expenses
amounted to $30,768.71, which was a trifle over
4 cents each for those who attended. Up to Mon
day of this week during the sessions in Gotham,
according to the World, 56.1,000 persons have at
tended the thirty-nine meetings held and the col
lections total $26,308.61, or nearly 5 cents per per
son. The larger attendance is due to the fact
that "Billy" is holding forth in the biggest tab
ernacle ever built for him, but it isn't easy to
account for the addition of almost a cent apiece
in the contribution box. It was expected that
New York would outdo us in the number of trail
hitters, for they certainly needed salvation down
there far beyond local requirements, and it is
gratifying to glean from the World the fact that
so far 299,000 persons have heard the invitation to
come forward and 18,248 have responded, or 6.1
per cent. In Omaha the total gathering of trail
hitters was only 13,022, an average of 1.8 per cent.
"Billy's" power in both directions is improving,
and his friends will rejoice thereat
: History Repeats Itself.
i "This day in history," in another column, notes
a coincident of deep significance at this time.
"May 6, 1778," says the chronicle, "the French
alliance wai celebrated by the soldiers at Valley
Forge." The importance of that event, with the
enveloping circumstances, assumes major propor
tions in the presence of the distinguished sons of
France in this country, reviving in behalf of their
homeland the alliance born 139 years ago. "His
tory repeats itself," but reverses the conditions.
The soldiers at Valley Forge had come through
a winter of uncommon' severity and hardship.
Cold, hungry and ragged, with plenty and com
fort nearby, but unreachable, the little patriot
army bore up with amazing courage, cheered and
sustained by the indomitable will and confidence
of Washington. Out of this gloom and suffering
they emerged as from the valley of the shadow
into the sunlight of spring, hope and fortitude
strengthened by the certainty of sorely needed
help from France. The alliance celebrated on
that famous field marked the beginning of the end
of alien rule in the American colonies. Many
trials, discouragements and pinching poverty were
met and overcome in the succeeding years of the
revolution. These delayed but could not defeat
the -fateful decree of liberty executed by Wash'
ington and Rochambeau at Yorktown.
The perils of France today in many respects
resemble those surrounding ' the revolutionary
army in 1778. For nearly three, years her sons
have battled as never before for the preservation
of the nation, for the right to live and let live,
; Unknown thousands of her manhood ha: sac
rificed their lives for the cause. Resources of
men and material are strained almost to the limit.
store and more must go on the altars of patriot
tsm to reach the Yorktown of Teutonic autocracy.
The news which cheered the soldiers at Valley
forge re-echoes in the hearts of America!., today
and finds fitting expression in the certainty of
practical assistance to France and her allies in
tbeir struggle for human liberty
Celibacy, Science and the Babies.
A bulletin issued by a leading insurance com
pany gives informatio that 45 per cent of Amer-'
ican males between the ages of 18 and 45 are
unmarried, the total being over 10,000,000. At
the same time, the bulletin says, over 9,000,000
women of proper age to wed are as yet un
married. A doctor, lecturing in Chicago, says that at
least half of the babies that die are just as fit to
live as the babies that do live, and that our great
est national waste is not in food, but in babies.
If we gave more attention to the care of the
little ones, looked after the problems of city
sanitation s little closer, and used more common
sense we could easily reduce infant mortality
by one-half, and thus add to the potential
strength of the race in a degree beyond under
standing.
Another doctor, also lecturing in Chicago,
says the baby'a chance for life is lessened every
day because of the fact that motherhood is giving
way to machinery. The baby is rocked in s
patent cradle, fed by a patent bottle, his teeth
ing anticipated by prepared foods, in fact every
thing that should be done for him by his mother
ia done by a substitute, of one kind or another.
These statements contain some truths that
deeply concern the American people, about to
send a considerable portion of the manhood of
the country to battle. Social and economic ques
tions involved have had attention of philosophers
for years, with no satisfactory answer yet re
turned. Will the war sober us down to such a standard
of life that we will as a nation return to take up
some of the simpler duties of life on the old
fashioned basis? Much of the future for the
United States is wrapped up in the answer to
this question.
"Community Singing" for Omaha.
One of the recognized factors in the develop
ment of a desirable community spirit is the influ
ence of music, manifest through the participation
of all the people. This knowledge is now being
turned to service, and the spirit is being brought
out through the development of the community
singing "at centers," where groups work along
co-ordinated lines. These in turn respond to the
mass demonstration, and with a common interest
finding its outlet through a common channel, all
on one ground, approach to closer association in
other ways is the easier. Barriers of unconscious
growth, encountered when private interests are
submerged in public good, fall under the attack
of music in which everybody has a personal share.
New York, Chicago and other large cities have
taken up the idea and made much headway with
it. An Omaha man, Mr. T. J. Kelly, is s leader
of the movement in Chicago, and rapidly coming
to be nationally recognized as such, because he
has been singularly successful in his endeavors.
Why can't Omaha take up the plan on similar
lines and provide a possible means for a better
understanding among the several elements of our
population?
llj Victor RoseamWr
A DAY in Washington will quickly convince
the visitor that this war business is being
taken with all seriousness in official circles at the
capital. When I went up to the War department
to call on General Crowder I found a board fence
barricade across the hall just inside of the doors
with a sentry at the gate and an information desk
at each side to which I was directed and where I
had to sign up a numbered blank, giving my name,
name of person sought after and nature of busi
ness. After this was passed on by some sort of
censorship scrutiny I was assigned to the escort
of a colored trooper, who accompanied me to the
particular office I was looking for and also, Gen
eral Crowder happening to be out, escorted me
back again to the entrance. This process, I un
derstand, is the regulation system followed there
since the declaration of war, no chances being
taken on interlopers breaking through the lines.
.The White House is also under guard, to say
nothing of the women suffrage pickets who are
still marching up and down with their banners on
the sidewalk approaches. The other departments
are not so warlike in aspect, but it is strictly busi
ness everywhere except in the halls of congress,
where the customary oratory is being poured
forth to a handful of listening members and a few
stragglers in the galleries.
I heard the speech of former Ambassador Ger
ard at the newspaper publishers' banquet, sharply
attacking Champ Clark and the New York Even
ing Post. I think the consensus of opinion was
that, whatever the provocation, for a diplomat Mr.
Gerard was decidedly "undiplomatic" :n his re
marks. He either forgot, or did not realize, that
he was the guest of an association of which the
New York Evening Post is a member and in his
outburst was in fact assailing one of his hosts,
which, to put it mildly, is a gross breach of
decorum in any society. The lapse recalled a
similar occasion when the late Mayor Gaynor in
dulged in furious tirade against William R.
Hearst and his newspapers in a speech delivered
at an Associated Press banquet for which he was
called then and there. The publisher of the New
York Evening Post came back at Mr. Gerard at
the business session the next day and it is doubt
ful if the episode, as a whole, raised Mr. Gerard
in the estimation of those to whose favor his
speech was intended to appeal.
This banquet, by the way, was spread for 800
people at a charge of $10 a plate in other words,
it was an $8,000 dinner and I heard more than
a few deploring the extravagance that called for
such reckless lavishness by the very people who
are daily preaching economy and the simple life.
By way of offset, let me note observing in Chi
cago that all the downtown hotels and restau
rants had conspicuous signs posted for their cus
tomers, announcing "Friday will be a meatless
day," and were, I was told, in agreement not to
serve any meat orders one day each week.
On the train I came across my old friend, Pro
fessor Edward A. Ross, well remembered as head
of the department of sociology at our University
of Nebraska before he went to Wisconsin univer
sity. Professor Ross has heightened his reputa
tion greatly i by his special investigations into
social and economic conditions in China and
South America and is now perfecting arrange
ments to go to Russia next month and undertake
a sociological survey there. He is convinced that
Russia offers the most interesting and fertile field
for this sort of study and looks to a marked de
velopment there of a great deal of advanced so
cial, industrial and political activity. Talking at
random, Professor Ross told of having been once
delegated, while out at Leland Stanford univer
sity, to represent the faculty on the athletic board
which divided between two candidates for the
position of manager of the football team, sup
posed to pay about $400, or enough to pay the ex
penses of the boy in college.
"It just happened that mine was the deciding
vote," said he, "and I voted for the young fellow
who seemed to be best fitted and most deserving.
The boy to whom I refused the prize, however,
it later turned out, was none other than Herbert
C. Hoover, who has been making good so won
derfully in Belgium and who is now to supervise
the food regulations for the whole United States."
People and Events
New York's ice trust discards the frazzled ex
cuse of war as a price booster and boldly charges
an uplift in ice to the high cost of coal. The
squeeze is limited to small consumers. Big buy
ers arc not as easy as the little fellows.
California legislature appropriated $1;000,000 to
finance a home guard of 1,000 members. The
nature of the duties to be performed are not dis
closed, but as each member is sure of $1,000 a
year, confidence is expressed that conscription
will not be necessary to fill the ranks.
Trouble broods over hobodom and loaferdom
as the summer roving season approaches. Every
where, east and west, the demand for workers is
such that Weary Willies and Dusty Rhoads must
render1 an.equivalent for grub or go hungry. The
prospect glimpse another horror of war.
Clubdom in the eastern cities gives practical
effect to official urgings for the simple life. Fewer
dishes and reduced quantities are the rule, and
gorging the exception. Prospects are favorable
for like simplicity at hotels and restaurants, where
needless extravagance and waste abound.
A Chicago butcher who claims to know meat
applied for license to sell horse meat, promising
in return to knock a few props from the prices of
beef and pork. "Why not horse meat?" he asks
the scoffers. "The horse is a cleaner animal than
the cow, the sheep or the hog: Besides, horse
meat can be sold for 5 or 10 cents a pound."
Some tender-hearted school teachers in New
York protest against signing a loyalty pledge,
claiming that such action impugns their loyalty.
The reason for the pledge is the ill-concealed hos
tility to the nation heretofore shown by members
of the teaching, force. While protesting against
the loyalty test they manifest no qualms of con
science in accepting public money for services
permeated with contempt for the public.
Cure for Food Extortion
Naw York World
Secretary Houston asks congress to confer ex
traordinary powers upon his department to meet
the food situation, but he wisely intimates that it
may not be necessary to use all of them.
It is of the utmost importance that govern
ment should be in possession of exact knowledge
as to stocks on hand and their location and own
ership. No intelligent official action is possible
without this information as a basis. Besides in
creased efficiency in supplying seed, demonstra
tions at experimental stations, elimination of dis
eases among farm animals and recruiting labor,
Mr. Houston's proposition contemplates author
ity, in case of need, for the regulation of all food
distributing agencies and for the fixing of maxi
mum and minimum prices.
If, as he suggests, prevailing high prices result
to some extent from public fear attended by
hoarding, there can be no doubt that the adoption
of his measures would have a quieting effect upon
consumers who are tempted to overbuy. More
important than that as a deterrent would be the
restraint which they would exercise upon great
speculative interests.
As co-ordination of the country's agricultural
strength is as urgent as the mobilization of its
military and naval forces, congressional action in
the matter will gain much in effectiveness if it be
prompt as well as comprehensive. .
I aaaaaaaj aaaaal ii
Proverb for the Day.
As well be out of the world as out
of fashion.
One Year Ago Today In Uie War.
Humor of German plan to attack
Petrograd with aid of fleet
Berlin reported a substantial grain
for the Germans northwest of Verdun.
German bid for peace in note to
America brought out refusal from
England.
In Omaha Thirty Years .-.(to.
A banquet was given at the First
Baptist church, Fifteenth and Daven
port, in honor of the new pastor, Dr.
A. W. Lamar, who haa recently come
here from Tennessee. The ladies of
the church served the refreshments,
while Rev. L. M. House briefly enter
tained them around the banquet
board.
The workmen employed at the pros
peotlngr shaft at South Omaha on
withdrawing the drill found that coal
had been struck. Mr. Alfred Cook
exhibited specimens of the coal at the
Merchants' hotel to an Interested
crowd.
Three Indian chiefs of tlfe Omaha
tribe arrived from Lincoln, on their
way to their reservation. Their names
are "Pa-la-nung-je-she, "Pa-hung-mong"
and "Ta-wa-hae-zin-gae" and
with them ia William Tymball, inter
preter. Grand Master Workman Powderly
of the Knights of Labor made his first
visit to this city and spoke at the ex
position building.
Boyd'B packing house has been pur
chased by J. D. Her for $76,000.
Mayor Boyd Intends to spend some
time on his well-stocked ranch In
Wyoming and states that it Is not Im
possible that he might build another
packing house.
The latest movement is for a street
railway company in South Omaha, the
company having been formed with a
capital stock of $250,000, with the fol
lowing incorporators: D. Anderson,
Balthas Jetter, C. M. Hunt, H. C. Bost
wick, M. J. DeGraff, J. F. Rlnehart
and A. Geary.
Th new water works main 'con
necting Hanscom park and the upper
reservoir will soon be completed. The
pipe layers are now on Lowe avenue
at a point where Davenport would
strike If it extended.
Tills Day ill History.
1777 General Burgoyne arrived In
Quebec to take command of the Brit
ish forces in Canada.
1W8 The French alliance was cel
ebrated by the soldiers at Valley
Forge.
1840 Prince fjallltzin, the Russian
prince who became priest and founded
Loretta, Pa., died at Loretta. Born at
The Hague, December 22, 1770.
I860 William R. King of Alabama
was elected president pro tern, of the
United States senate.
1864 Sherman began his march to
the sea.
1867 The Reform league held a
great meeting in Hyde Park, London,
in defiance of the law.
1876 French and German consuls
killed in a Mussulman riot at Salonlki.
1893 The German emperor dis
solved the Reichstag because It re
jected the army bill.
1897 The bi-centennlal Jubilee of
Trinity church. New York City, was
celebrated.
1915 Japan sent an ultimatum to
China that the latter must accept un
conditionally the Japanese demands.
The Day We Celebrate.'
S. P. Bostwlck of a P. Bostwick &
Son, was born May 6, 1860, in Cayu
ga, N. Y. He came to Omaha in 1886,
has been associated in various busi
ness establishments and haa also been
member of the school bpard.
Cornelius Claassen, with the Peters
Trust company, is celebrating his
thirty-fifth birthday. He was born on a
farm near Beatrice, Neb., and educat
ed at Haverford college.
Crown Prince Frederick William,
eldest son of the German emperor and
commander of the German forces at
Verdun, born at Potsdam thirty-flve
years ago today.
Robert E. Peary, discoverer of the
North Pole and a rear admiral (re
tired) in the United States navy, born
at Cresson, Fa., sixty-one years ago
today.
Dr. Abraham Jacobl of New York,
known as America's "grand old man
of medicine," born in Westphalia,
Germany, eighty-seven yearg ago to
day. Philander C. Knox. United States
senator from Pennsylvania, born at
Brownsville, Pa., sixty-four years ago
today.
William C. Lansdon, democratic can
didate for governor of Kansas In the
late election, born in Linn county,
Kansas, fifty-four years ago today.
Oscar W. Underwood, United States
senator from Alabama, born at Louis
ville, Ky., fifty-five years ago today.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
Today is the seventh anniversary
of the accession of King George of
England to the throne.
Sunday schools throughout the
country hav arranged to begin a
week's celebration today In honor of
the centennial of the American Sun
day school union.
Storiette of the Day.
Two English workmen were dis
cussing the war.
"It'll be an awful long Job, Sam,"
said one.
"It will," replied the other.
"You see, these Germans is takln'
thousands and thousands of Russian
prisoners and the Russians la takln'
thousands and thousands of German
prisoners. It It keeps on all the Rus
sians will be In Germany and all the
Germans in Russia. And then they'll
start all over again, flghtln' to get
back their 'omes." London Tit-Bits.
ODD BITS.
Robert Fulton mada a submarine torpedo
in 1804.
The riled fin,waa Orat uaed at Lelpaie in
1498.
The A ret sua rifled In thla country was at
South Boiton, in IBS.
It la Juat aeventjr-rWo years alnca the
Naval observatory at Washing-ton waa
founded.
Guncotton waa Invented by a German,
Christian Friedrich Schonbein. in 184. .
The flret American fleet of armed veasela
began Its cruise in February, 1776.
The Seminole Indian war lasted seven
years; cost the government about $10,000.
000 and the loss of 1.466 lives.
The first uniforms for the army and navy
were prescribed by not of the Continental
congress in September, 1770.
Krupp's factory at Essen, where the big
sruns and much of the other war material
for the German armiea are manufactured,
waa first established in 1810.
The German "landwehr, of which much
haa been heard aineo the beginning of the
present war, waa first formed by the people
in 18 IS to expel the French from Germany,
AROUND THE CITIES.
Grand Rapids. Mich., has launched a com.
mission form of government.
Springfield, III., has been anchored m the
dry belt. The incident is Impressive chiefly
because s wet majority holds the fort in the
state eapitol.
Patriotism runs to pork in Manhattan,
Kan. As a means of stimulating produc
tion hogs have been granted free range in
the grounds of the State Agricultural col
lege.
City employes of Salt Lake City who en
list in officers' training camps wilt be grant
ed full pay during the enlistment, less $50
month deducted as the amount saved by
government maintenance.
City dads of St. Joe are shedding gobs of
perspiration in an effort to stretch a mu
nicipal budget wheih is $38,000 shy of the
city's needs, aa figured by the bureau man
agers. The taHk of adjusting the where
fore to the wherewith ia undergoing a week
of private meditation.
Out of Dea Moines comes official word un
der the seal of the attorney general that
Sunday laws will enlist for active aervice
within a few days. All kinds of Sunday
amusements are under the ban. and who
ever starts aomething likely to disturb the
solemnity of the blues will get ail that's
coming.
More and more difficult is the job of cities
with saintly names living up to aaintly
standard. Take St. Paul, radiant with a
halo, perched on the bluffs of the Father of
Water. Good old town, but troubled with
backsliders. Owing to the perversity of
some residents the authorities decided to de
crease playground activities during the sum
mer, particularly merry-go-rounds, as a
measure of safeguarding the morals of children.
HERE AND THERE.
The world's production of rubber haa dou
bled in eight years.
In the war of 1812 Commodore Perry con
verted treea from the forests into warships
in ninety days.
The Argentine Republic is the first of the
Latin-American countries to have a Sunday
closing law.
A complete locomotive was built in a sin
gle day recently in the shops of the London
Jt Northwestern railway.
It is estimated that 15,000,000 ounces of
silver per year are used for sensitising pur
poses in the making of motion picture films.
The house at Portsmouth, N. H., in which
Captain John Paul Jones lived while he was
building his famous ship Ranger haa been
bought by a local society to be preserved
for historical purposes.
On the ground that engaging in war would
be a violation of the tenets of their religion
members of the Mennonite church in the
United Statea have asked the government to
exempt them from military service.
The great South American republic was
called the "Land of the Holy Cross" by Al
varez de Cabral, a Portuguese, who discov
ered the country in 1500. It was subse
quently called Prazil, on account of its red
wood.
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
"My dear, I need a new pring outfit
and I would like to give you credit for gen
erosity." "All right, Jane. If you can get m
credit anywhere, go ahead." Baltimore
American.
"Lushman declared he would rather go
to jail than pay hi divorced wife alimony."
"Did she let him?"
"Tea. she said ehe'd rather ee him aave
hla money behind the bars than spend It
over them.' Boston Transcript.
"Dear me." she waited, "I'm getting a
double chin."
Hubby tried to console her.
"Your chin is so pretty," aid he. "that
you shouldn't kick bt'cauoe gratified Mother
Nature la giving you another one." Kansaa
CUy Journal.
tAR MR.kABlBfclJE,
I'M SUSPICIOUS wcr MY
FlrVNCt MAS MARRIED BEflDRE
V0W CAM X FIND ourf
NOYICE E MmS HIS
RUBBQ-S ON RAW W$
"What la the matter with Mrs. Flub
dub?" "It's that husband of hers again. He sort
of led her to expect a diamond necklace for
her birthday."
"And then?'
"Then he brought home an offering en
titled 'Gems from the Poeta." Louiavllle
Courier-Journal,
"Say, if you're runnln' to fish your little
boy out o' the mill pond you're too late!"
"Oh, good heavens!'
"Yep, he crawled out hissatf." Harper's
Magazine.
Let Our Stores Be Your
Medicine Cabinet
AU you have to do la to step to the
phone, tell tis what you want, and
we will deliver it immediately. Yon
can buy just aa safely and just aa
well with the telephone aa if you
called at the store in person.
There is never a doubt aa to the
satisfactory trading results at our
complete drug stores: never a doubt
as to the most reliable quality; never
a doubt as to getting the exact article
you ordered; never a doubt as to our
lowest price; never a doubt aa to
prompt, courteous attention.
Your telephone puts our drug stores
at your elbow a convenient medi
cine cabinet indeed.
Sherman & McConnell
Drug Co,
FIVE GOOD DRUG STORES
The One Best Piano
for your home is among
the many beautiful de
signs now at our store
Hearing them side by side, you can deter
mine easily, intelligently and finally which
one you should purchase. For this is the
home of pianos of character a fact which in
sures your obtaining of us a piano value that
cannot be duplicated elsewhere.
New
Upriglit
Pianos,
From .
$800
$175 lo
New
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From
$15 to $409
New
Grand
Pianos
From
$475 to
$1909
Call NOW or write for catalog, prices
and details of our Easy Payment Plan.
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THE VICTOR STORE.
1513-15 Douglas Street.
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