International Falls press and border budget (International Falls, Minn.) 1909-1926
October 11, 1917 · Page 2 of 8
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INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS THREE |P/0§j IS PROFESSIONAL CARDS II'-l FEELING' OF KINSHIP INSPIRED I §111111111111111 V. JV^'bY SAMMIES WILL OUTLASTWAR i- "v JOm H. BROWN London Chronicle Calls Them "Ours" vin Describing Advent of Attorney at Law Office over O. M. Carr & Co. United States Contingent in Metropolis. Markowitz & Summerfield International Falls, Minnesota "Who passeth here?"—"We of the new brigade .} DR. H. H. IHRIG Who come in aid—to take your placer who fell." Dentist "What is the countersign ?"—That we have weighed. N 'Office o\er Holler's Confectionery The cost ye paid—yet come!" —"Pass! All is well International Falls, Minnesota S a It was such a day as might have been in August, 1914, had our $ GEO. S. LANGLAND troops been permitted to march the streets in sunlight. To their Lawyer mysterious and appointed end they stole away in the lonely darkness In the litis Block on Fourth Avenue of night, and no voice cheered them and 'no hand held theirs in Outfitters International Falls, Minnesota greeting or farewell. Since then the official mind has learned to F. J. McPARTLIN think a little differently—a little more symathetically, perhaps. So Lawyer it was given us to gre^t America as we might have greeted the British Office &wer International State Bank soldiers, and all bur hidden pride and restrained enthusiasm burst International Falls, Minnesota forth yesterday and were offered freely to the American soldiers whom we surely may also call Vours" say the London Chronicle, G. F. SWIN1NERTON, M. D, C. M. rlscribing the recent arrival of the American Contingent in the metropolis. Physician and Surgeon 1 Eyes Examined and Glasses Fitted Never were we so well "If they were not ours before, they became our yesterday. Office ojrer City Drug Store We adopted them they became something more to us than soldiers. International Falls, Minnesota prepared for Fall* and Winter In those hours of great cheering a sense of intimate kinship was born DR. JENNER PERRY CHANCE that will outlast the agonies of war. merchandise as we are right Physician and Surgeon "It was not, in the superficial meaning, a picturesque procession) Office over litis Drug Stor? But it was intensely moving very inspiring and there could be no now and as reasonable as is Phone 11 greater message of cheer and consolation in time of war-weariness Night Calls at Hotel Koochiching consistent with the times of than the message in the eyes and in the gait of every American international Falls, Minnesota soldier who passed through our city yesterday. That message was high priced merchandise. We "We mean to see it through." PHINNEY & CAMPBELL London Makes Holiday Lawyers prepared ourselves months "Very early in the morning people discovered their viewpoints International Falls, Minnesota and waited patiently, watching the enormous crowds that joined ago, before the sharp advances. W. E. LAWRENCE them. Traffic was diverted or stopped altogether. Shops were The Rexall Store shut and business was suspended. And later the meeting of the Minnesota International Falls, war cabinet itself was adjourned so that the prime minister and his colleagues might become as the people of the streets, making greeting DR. E. A. THOMPSON to the men who "mean to see it through." We conscientiously and Dentist "Mounted police headed the procession. Following was the Phone 245 band of the Life Guards—and then came the Americans. Londoners truthfully advise everyone to Office over litis Drug Store are not very ready to cheer. This is the way of silent tribute ternational Falls, Minnesota But yesterday they forgot the silly traditions of British reserve. make their purchases early. What may They might have been Irish or Italian in their wild enthusiasm, for W.E.MARTIN look to you high priced now will be as the first Americans were seen, cheers were raised such as have Contractor and Builder cheap later when stocks will have to be Repairs Promptly Done never been heard in London. Phone 159 705 8th St. "Along the roadway, strewn with the petals of roses flung by replenished. women, the Americans marched.^ In the distance they looked The Shoe Hospital a little like Australians. They wore the familiar slouch hat tied with red cord, canvas gaiters, and they carried their rifles with all REPAIRING WHILE YOU WAIT the neatness of the experienced campaigner.. NATHAN NURICK, Proprietor Styleplus guaranteed Suits "Stern, grave of face they were, looking straight ahead, as if 213 Third Street Next to Boston Lunch conscious of the stupendous importance of their mission. It seemed, and Overcoats nationally indeed, as if to them this was as much the road to the war NORTHERN MINNESOTA as the shell-broken, dusty highways of France. known to give absolute satisfaction in HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION Saluting "OLD GLORY" Dr. R. H. Monahan Phone 223 style, fit and service have been maintained "Louder and still louder rose the cries as the Stars and Stripes Dr. Elizabeth Monahan Phone 223 came in view. Soldiers in the crowd saluted men raised their to the price of $17.00. Dr. Mary Ghostly Phone 301 Eudestine Hospital........Phone 79 Kats, and women threw flowers and waved their handkerchiefs Office over International State Bank and some of them sobbed happy tears of pride such as no man or Phone 155 woman need remember with shame. international Falls, Minnesota "At intervals passed the bands of the Grenadier Guards, the Hart, Schaffner & Marx Irish Guards with their kilted pipers, the Welsh and the Scots Guards If the public will get the habit r^oi using their street address on all while flag-bearers with the Stars and Stripes and in one instance with Suits and Overcoats mails it will give them better service the regimental color of the unit to which most of the men belonged when the carriers are put in beaded detachments. service and also_-.be appreciated by "You could not discoverV an American 'type*. Most of the postal department. Postmaster. them were clean-shaven, finely-built and straight of limb. But all The styles young men are the races which make the nation such a delightful and in some ways puch a complex race were there. There were men of Irish ancestry, looking for—they are the favorites and there were men whose fathers, in the long ago, came from Germany. Today, of course, Jthey are Americans and Americans and they ought to be the styles of the most undoubted loyalty. But the faces of the men in the Agents for the are different the fabrics are different. great procession were very different, and did not approximate to any given type, and it was deeply interesting to see the varying They come in the Trench Suits with umiiimrnni characteristics that have built up today's America. belt all around, Varsity Fifty-Five in "With precise, determined step the troops swung along Piccadilly two and three button models., The lines to Hyde Park corner and curled around Grosvenor gardens. And still the 'men shouted hoarsely and still little children waved are distinctive, the values are strong. their small flags, and still women cried, "God bess you" and Good 'If'},! luck.'.' "Then the Americans went onwards to Buckingham palace, to march by the king of a people as free as those of the great republic, Our stock of Underwear in and to hear the greatest cheer ever raised in London. Detroit Vapor "Crowds stretched far down the Mall. People climbed on cotton, wool and cotton, all Stove Oil to the Victoria memorial and the police had orders not to interfere. Most of the, crowd could see little but the rifle points glittering in the wool, wool and silk are the greatest The only absolutely sunlight. But they could hear the tread of the soldiers, and no Wick less Oil Stove variety we have ever shown and at very band ever made sweeter music for them. These cheering men on the market. and women could not see the king, who with Queen Alexandra reasonable prices from $1.50 to $6.50 a Burns just like gas. stood in the courtyard, but they knew his majesty was there. The Call and let us suit. Everything in the line of lumbermen's mo^ colorless life had its moment of radiant glory when the first show you. '. supplies are here and you can Americans passed the king. The guard of honor played the national anthem, and after the sudden silence cheers passed like a always depend oh our prices and quality I. E. THOMPSON & SON wave from the palace to the Admiralty arch. In field marshal's to be right. TRY US. uniform the king saluted each section as it passed and those who were near him saw the pride in his eyes, and the smiles as he talked a little later to Lloyd-George. ,, "Before one of the trains steamed away the massed bands Ask your Hat man to show played the national anthem.^ Not a train moved from the station. i1 you the new All was very, very quiet, Then the Americans themselves ^raised JIarkowitz & Summerfield H* 'V-iY three tremendous cheers for Englan^. and the crowds in the station "2^". responded, and so the train went out, and so the men went on to 17 their business of making war ft "Thank you, America Your men, so fine, so friendly, so .... 1 soldierly they have given us the encouragement we all of us needed, For Men and in the detachments you have sent over you have given, us not ''sthcZib & only allies in the military sense, but friends as dear to us as our own ltok Jot the nam brothers. Together we shall see it through!" .» &&&£ SiNL, •'-i-'-Jk M.Mv