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International Falls press and border budget (International Falls, Minn.) 1909-1926

January 4, 1917 · Page 1 of 8

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TcHMhat aftW mui Juit £fc«ir aumfcer ^*n increa—ft "DONT SHOOT PHONE GIRL" geWfc# ipHn tfta air. la from th* rdafL HcGttte finally enormously as war ittds. Falls Abstract Company Mob ffc* tfcfe n&tiftn fey breathing. J*' learned that he deSited aroom wflir It looking oaf now for the plows, fiicted scatter the germs by eonghlag Im a bath for fl.50. Bullying the Operator la Nothing harrows* drlfls, etc., to hauted by and s&eezing. McGuire met the man again. Than Cowardice She la Doing tractors, jkaA seeking mechanical these It will be then, how! understood, hut was a he said: Her Boat "The bunk," for the and training young men women BURDICK, KREMER & KING, Proprietors. It about came that people, centuries me a instead 9 "They slipped (Jrop of who must operate them. of ago, adopted the precaution shielding To speak to a telephone operator splash,* wnicli KcGuire later learned The possibilities in this line are very away the the mouth by turning a like speaking In the dark to a stranger. meant that fie had received shower great. French farms are small, to ABSTRACTS, REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE bead when coughing, sneezing, or In such a situation courtesy would a bath instead of regular tub.—In be sure, much smaller than the unit yawning. Today we continue to do seem to be the first rule of the road. lianapolis News. j, area which has been found most profitable Collections, Conveyancing and Loans the same thing, for the sake of politeness Unfortunately, courtesy is not invariably for tractor operation. But there but in reality the custom is a The "Hero Face." the tone which people employ are no fences between the fields, one survival of the days when the common with telephone operators. A Presbyterian minister in Newcastle, J. E. BURDICK, Manager. or two good trdctors could do the plowing a prevalence of plague made it necessity. During one of the national conventions, England, has been making a careful and harvesting for a whole hamlet, something went wrong with the International Falls, Minnesota. study of the photos of the men who and while the French never talk much wires messages were delayed and have won the Victoria Cross, the Military about co-operation and have little formal Not .to Be Caught. mixed offices and correspondents were Medal and other decorations for organization for it, they are among MI think children are not so observing losing their tempers. In the midst of valor. His conclusions are very interesting. the most expert co-operators in the as they used to be," said a membei It, James Morgan, with that imperturbable He finds that the buli-necked, world. of the school board to a teacher whose good humor of his, sent back to aggressive type of face has hardly ever No mechanical equipment can make I class he was visiting. the Boston Globe a telegram bearing been represented. Almost invariably up entirely for the losses of man-power I Border Wholesale Meat & Grocery "I hadn't noticed it," said the teacher. merely the words that were born in the heroes had the features of men of due to the war, but the machines the dance hall of a western .mining kindly and benevolent aspect. will help, and it is clear that their aid "I'll prove it ta you," said the school town: 1 Company will be claimed to the fullest possible officer, pompously. Turning to the John Bull Meets Sweet Potato. "Don't shoot the pianist. He is doing extent. class, he said: the best he can." There has just arrived from the a "Someone give me number." Don't bully the telephone operator. Azores a consignment of sweet potatoes. 8 E. A. YERNBERG, Manager 1 The 80ft Answer. "Thirty-seven," said a little girl, She is doing the best she can. If she This article is not, strictly 8 Captain Koenig of the submarine eagerly. were not she would not be where she speaking, a vegetable, although called Deutschland said in Baltimore a few Wholesale and Retail Meats, Groceries, Fruits and Feed He wrote "73" on the board. Nothing is. Being a telephone operator in a potato, as it is generally used by days before his departure: was said. 2 these busy days is no sinecure. Spaniards and Portuguese as a sweet. "I mistrust those allied warships "Well, someone else give me a number." Baked in an oven, and then split open The silliest place to lose one's temper waiting for me outside Chesapeake and eaten without any additon, it is Home-Made Sausage and Hamburger is into a ti*ansmitter. It is the bay. I'm afraid they misunderstand "Fifty-seven," said another child. most cowardly place, also. To abuse dejicious, having a flavor closely allied the meaning of neutral waters as the "He wrote '75' and smiled knowingly $ to tliafc of a chestnut.—London a telephone operator (Avho is a long boy misunderstood the meaning of the at the teacher when nothing was said. Give us a Trial and You Will Stay With Us Globe. way off, a woman and an employee) Bible text. He called for a third number, and fairly is about as heroic sport as shooting $ 'When your enemy called you a gasped at the indignation manifested robins. The operator cannot get her 8 Our Prices are Always Right and Our Stock Always Fresh Accounted For. bow-legged liar, what did you do?' a by a small, red-faeed urchin, who tormentor discharged. She cannot "It is something awful the way insanity this boy's teacher asked. said: even answer back. Discipline forbids. is reported to. be on the increase." 'I remembered,' he replied, 'the "Seventy-seven, and see if you can litis Block, Third Street —Boston Globe. International Falls, Minn text about how a soft answer turneth change that."—Harper's' Magazine. "Have a heart, man. Don't you & away wrath.' want flip alienists to live?" TRACTOR FARMING IN FRANCE 'Yes, yes! You good little fellow. White Eskimos. And what soft answer did you make?' Custom Had Origin in Piague. Vilhjalmur Stefansson is having a For many centuries plague was 'I smashed him in the nose with a a 8 Number of Machines in Use Will Be difficult time with his "blond Eskimos" rotten tomato.' "—St. Louis GlobeDemocrat. menace to all Europe. At intervals Increased Enormousiy After and by this time doubtless it would spread like wildfire, wiping the War. wishes that they were more brunette M. GISH1 out whole populations. In its ordinary, and ordinary.. They hold up his men or "bubonic," manifestation, it Splashfess Flop a Bunk. The French government has established nd rob them of everything removable, 1 depended its .distribution upon ""Where can a fellow get a flop wiih a commission to promote what for and utterly decline to consider the explorers rats. But after a while it was liable we may call mechanical fanning after a splash for about a man and a half?" Watchmaker and Jeweler a superior race. Yet when to assume the "pneumonic" form, attacking The speaker told -Sam McGuire, a the war. This commission finds that a they are visited by an epidemic of influenza the lungs. theatrical man he accosted at Fortysecond considerable number of tractors are already they attribute their misfortunes 3 I In this form the malady spreads in use in French agriculture, and street and Broadway, New to the witchcraft of the J' strangers. $ Agent for Singer Sewing Hitherto newly discovered peoples have been greatly impressed by the white skins of the discoverers. The civilized Machine Company and Wood- races of Peru and Mexico respected stock Typewriter. the complexion of the Spaniards as much as they feared their firearms. A pallid physiognomy is one of the greatest assets of the white man who penetrates to regions where white Also dealer in skins are unknown. OLDEST LAND ON THE GLOBE Wear-U-WeU Shoes According to Geologists It Is the Sum. I mits of the Siskiyou Mountains in California. According to geologists, the summits a ftf the Siskiyou mountains, the border $ guardians between California and Oregon, $ WE LOAN MONEY $ constitute one of the oldest bits $ $ of land in the world. They were, assert t.t the scientists, growing a forest $ when the greater part of Europe was 9 still beneath the water. They were $ $ the hillocks of a low, flat island a if This bank loans money. That's the way we make our $ hundred miles in length when the Pacific living. But we don't loan money foolishly nor for improvident ocean reached eastward to the 1 Rocky mountains, remarks an exchange. purposes. It is our ambition to see this community prosper and Gigantic saurians basked in the $ shade of the island's trees, and the it is decidedly to our advantage to see that it does prosper, Kt leviathan of the Scriptures swam because, if the community prospers our deposits will increase $ about its shores. Finally the Pacific and we will have more money to loan. It can readily be & slope emerged from the ocean and the Island became the backbone of a seen, therefore, that we cannot consistently loan money for mountain range. Siskiyou tunnel, at any purpose not conductive to the best interests of the community an elevation of over 4,000 feet, extends in general and the borrower in particular. On this through a solid bank of ocean shells, and for its length of 3,100 feet follows basis this bank loans money gladly. the shore line of the ancient island, Like a "boost" from the boss as indicated by the sandstone which once formed its beach. .We Loan Money on Farm Lands. Call and See Us Two miles east of Siskiyou tunnel when you're anxious—they Pilot rock rises from the very vertebrae of the barrier to lift its sheer wails 600 feet in the air. Pilot rock is a chimney that burned out in a hotter The First National Bank When things are going hard and along comes fire than was ever known of man. It was one of the flues through which the the boss with a good, cheering word—say, doesn't molten lava spouted to form the range. that satisfy So terrific was the outburst that it left the strange, fantastically shaped chim That*s the very thing Chesterfields do for your pecting in Alaska for forty years. absolutely necessary. Harvels have ney standing there against the sky. It also been accomplished in the new "In addition to caring for the inmates was to come into use, in the due procession smoking—they satisfy of this home the territory also of events, as one of the great nerve surgery, which has been developed as a result of the vast multitude has a pension system which cares for signal towers of the western wilder-? And yet Chesterfields are MILD the needs of a number of others who of cases in which the nerves have been ness, toward which, on a hazeless day, severed. are not altogether helpless, as well as the red hunters ahd warriors for a No cigarette maker can copy the Chesterfield of the widows and needy women.'* hundred miles around would turn a Sir Alfred Keogh, the director of the blend. They're the ONLY mild cigarette thatsatisfies. watchful eye. Besides, the rock was army medical service of Great Britain, Daylight Law Cuts GasbUls. the meeting place of chiefs. They is in his sixtieth year, and is the son This blend -is an entirely new combination of called it Siski-you, meaning the council of a Roscommon barrister. He gained The manager of the Glasgow gas tobaccos—the biggest new thing in cigarette making ground. The result of their deliberations his first experience In war-time surgery works in Scotland has issued a statement was made known from this during the South African conflict, when showing the effect of the new & in 20 years. chimney top. was in charge of a general hospital. «t he daylight bill upon the gas consumption His work was so efficient that he was of that city. Last year the consumption WAR WRECKS ftfilEl/IADE OVER awarded several medals, and in 1904 of gas from six o'clock until midnight became director general of the service. for three weeks amounted to "Give me a package of those cigarettes that SATISFY, He retired in 1909, but returned to the 124,680,000 cubic feet. It was 104,127,000 Remarkable Operations Being Per* head of the medical service when he thfS' year for the same period— formed on Wounded Soldierfe of war broke out. Sir Alfred has been the a saving of 20,000,000 cubic feet. This European Battlefields. recipient4 of many honors fronrmedical means an average saving of nearly a and scientific organizations. million feet each evening. There is an Operations by which important ahd increase of over 12,000,000 cubic feet even vital parts of the human body, He Cares "Sourttoughs.": for during the remaining 18 hours of the shattered or completely shot away, A. G. Shoup, superintendent of the day, due to the great demand for gas have been rebuilt or replaced are now Alaska Pioneers' home at Sitka, has for industrial purposes—chiefly from among the commonplace events of the arrived at Seattle, says the Post-Intelligencer the government—to meet the demands military hospitals of Europe. In the of that city. of war hospitals in England the science of surgery-has "This 'sourdough' home was established reached heights heretofore AgainvTax Lord Commissioner. by the territory in 1913," said undreamed of, thanks largely to the Mr. Shoup, "and we now have sixty- efficient direction of Sir Alfred Keogh, St. Paul.—Re-appointments of Samuel 1 five inmates, most of them old fellows, director general of the British army Lord as state tax commissioner •in who have pioneered it in almost every medical service. From the beginning and of C. J. Swendson to the board of district of Alaska. of the war Sir Alfred'-has impressed control, has just been announced by SATISFY! "The territory established this home upon his subordinates the necessity of Governor Burnquist. Both men serve 20 for the purpose of caring for the old the saving of. the limbs of wounded soldiers for terms of six years, with salaries of 'sourdoughs' and the Sitka Institution when it is at'all possible, in order $4,500. Chairman Swendson was first .1 Is really a haven for these old fellows, that the patients may remain useful appointed to the board of control by who have become Incapacitated from members of the community and not become Governor Eberhart, April 3, 1911. Mr.. :i vat tney ana further pursuing the golden rainbow. Lord was appointed by Governor John£ public charges. The average of these sixty-Avid inmates son when the tax commission was cr* All LO Amputations are now avoided in is sixty-eight years, and among them ated, and re-appointed-in 1911 by thousands cases where two years of we have several who have buen proa* •tnor Eberhart^Tc