International Falls press and border budget (International Falls, Minn.) 1909-1926
August 7, 1919 · Page 5 of 8
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INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS, AUGUST 7, 1919 PAGE SEX LABRADOR COAST TELLS LOST SHIP seconds. "Sna" ITttLe "same Time ~T!ie radio compass stations begin obtaining Get Efficiency bearings on the ship. SWEPT BY DEATH WHERE SHE IS Then Its Simple. The operators in the five stations WR©MI turn their compass wheels until each Your Tractor has an accurate bearing. These five readings are transmitted to the central Smallpox and Spanish Influenza System of Triangulation Will Give station where, on a huge chart, the five readings are combined. Each Play Havoc With Bearings to Bewildered reading will indicate a certain number Eski.7!C3. of miles between the ship and the Craft EEP it in service constantly. The one best way station that took the bearing. It is a relatively simple matter, then, to to do that is to give it all the lubricating oil it BY DOGS BODIES DEVOURED project these lines upon the chart until ALL U. S. PORTS TO WATCH will take, providing you select the correct oil the five lines intersect And thgt point of intersection is the location The Standard Oil Company (Indiana) has produced of the calling slup. Acknowledgment from the ship completes the operation. Moravian Missionary Tells Almost Unbelievable three oils which will correctly lubricate the entire range Operators at Radio Stations Figure Every American port is now being Story of Sufferings in Out Position of Boat by Compasses—Used of tractors. These are: safeguarded by just such systems of Northern Labrador—Mode of in Navy radio compasses and central stations. Living Is Fatal. for Years. Within a few months, at any point Heavy Polarine Oil along the coast, mariners will be able St John's, N. F.—Spanish "flu," New York.—Not the least of the to approach channels, reefs and shoal smallpox and measles wiped out more dangers attending the business of being waters with an absolute assurance than one-third of the Eskimo population a mariner has been that of losing Stanolind Tractor Oil that they will not proceed too near, of Labrador during the months of one's bearings while at sea. Time was nor yet exercise such great caution November and December of last year. when the sailor's life was more replete as to throw them out of their course. The Rev. W. W. Perrett of the Moravian with danger than in these days And thus also is the danger attending mission at Hopedale, where he of advanced maritime efficiency. But Extra Heavy Polarine Oil fog banks eliminated. has spent 27 years, reached the Newfoundland though the ocean terrors were eliminated Lieutenant Commander R. B. Coilman, shores a few days ago. He one by one until there remained S. N., is superintendent of the told an almost unbelievable story of U. little to be afraid of, there still was central station at 44 Whitehall street. the sufferings of the Eskimos of northern the disconcerting possibility of a ship Lieut. M. W. Arps, U. S. N., is in Labrador. Any Standard Oil representative We have just published a 100page losing itself of fogs and compass irregularities direct charge of the New York district. Shortly after the mission ship Harmony of mishaps to instruments will be glad to show you book, Tractors and had left the coast at the beginning and disabilities of steering the chart ot Tractor lubrication, Tractor Lubrication," prepared of November "flu" broke out at mechanisms. Thus every so often aliner Hebron and spread rapidly among the prepared by our Engineering by our Engineering Staff which or freighter or a warship was reported inhabitants. That the disease was Staff. It indicates specifically "lost in the fog" or "out of you will find a valuable reference Just a Quiet Smoke, contagious was unknown to the Eskimo, its course." which of these three the oils book, and we believe But It Shocked Some. who were living in small huts, The United States naval communication and whole families were affected and Standard Engineers have Oil it will save you many days of service has perfected a system died off. Bishop Martin and those at Topeka, Kan. Clouds of found will give the results best of tractor idleness with the resultant triangulation that has eliminated the the mission did what was possible under smoke coming from the women's in your particular money loss. possibility of further maritime reports tractor. the circumstances, but they, too, waiting room at the Rock of this sort. It is not the discovery were stricken, and when the epidemic Island depot here caused the of any one man. Indeed, it truly cannot It's free to you for the asking. Address had passed its course only eight children, patrons of the room to make an be classified as a discovery. It is five women and one man of the investigation. Over in the corner. of simply a perfection of a basic rule native population of 100 were living. Standard 910 Michigan Ave., smoking a clay pipe peacefully, Oil Company, S. Chicago, ID. position finding that has formed the Mad Dogs Eat Human Flesh. was an aged woman, all fundamental of range determination At the outbreak the dead were 7£Q (Indiana) unconscious of the excitement in the army and a straightforward buried almost as soon as they passed she was causing. When the matron geometric theorura concerning intersecting away, but when the entire settlement told her it was not the lines. became ill, the victims were left where place to smoke, the aged woman System Explained. they died, those who had recovered in a tew emaciated Eskimos were fc-uuu calmly went outside the depot The perfected system has been in the meantime being too weak to lay to be alive. S. E. THOMPSON & SOW and completed her smoke. use in the American navy for a year. them under the ground. Households Living Is Mode of Fatal. She said she came from the At 44 Whitehall street the system was who had succumbed one by one were Mr. Perrett said that when the Eskimos mountains of Kentucky and was explained briefly by attaches of the left unburied, and the dogs, who were were stricken, their mode of living on her way to Nebraska. New York district central controlling unable to procure food because the and environment was against their radio station. hunters had been all ill, became mad surviving. As soon as the illness fell It is to be assumed that a ship is and entered the cabins, consuming the upon them they were obliged to take a hundred miles off the middle Atlantic flesh from the bodies of the dead. shelter in the small, stuffy huts, where coast. She has lost her bearings. When it became known that the epidemic there was neither fresh air nor sunshine, was raging, some outside assistance Her navigators are unable to tell her and here they remained until Bat on Shoulder Called arrived, and an effort was made latitude and longitude. At once the they died. They were also without We defy Sears & Roebuck or Savage & to give the dead Christian buriaL The bewildered ship's radio flashes the Good Luck in Poker Game. seal meat and fats, which are necessary dogs, however, after consuming the American coast a demand to be told for sustenance in cold climes, human flesh, became wild, and it was the data she needs most: having been overtaken by the epidemic Canton, O.—Mystery surrounding Company "Where am I?" impossible to undertake putting the the purchase of live bats just as the hunting season opened, corpses in the frozen ground. The The request coming within the sector at $10 by Cantonians was solved and, their constitutions thus weakened, next best thing was to bury the corpses for which the New York district when one of the purchasers explained they became easy prey to the at sea. Before even thisjcould be attempted central controlling radio station is responsible, scourge. Many who had recovered that bats bring good the few remaining at Hebron the appeal Is received by luck. from their illness died later for want were compelled to shoot the dogs, as five radio compass stations located at of nourishm^ni- During the last several weeks even the living were not safe from Montauk Point, L. Fire Island, We will sell you a bill of goods and a number of bats have been sold make no them. Rockaway Beach, Sandy Hook and KEEP JAIL ARTISTS WORK in Canton. Advertisements have charge for delivery. While this horror of death and suffering Mantoloking, N. J. been run in the newspapers and was going on at Hebron, a like Each of these stations Is connected many persons are anxious to obtain 5 lbs. of sugar Dough and Soap Dumnty Head Left Behind Worth .60 for .25 epidemic was raging at Okak. The with 44 Whitehall street by telegraph them. in Sing Sing Is Sent 1 pr. Men's Black Cotton Socks Eskimos, as in Hebron, huddled together Worth .35 for .18 and telephone. These radio compass "If you keep a bat in your to Museum. in their small huts, quickly became stations cannot communicate with the 3 doz. Can Rubbers pocket or let it perch on your Worth .45 for .35 affected, until the whole population "lost" ship, as they are receivers only shoulder when you sit in a game Tonkers. N. Y.—After being officially 1 lb. Creamery Butter Worth -65 for .40 was either stricken or dead. The and not transmitters. However, each of cards, you are sure to have photographed, the ingenious "dummy" 3 Packages of Soda daily death rate was appalling, whole Worth .45 for .30 of the radio compass stations notifies good luck," remarked one bat John McAllister. Sing-Sing's artist families dying within a few hours. The the central station in Whiteall street 2 Quarts Indian Head Grape Juice Worth .80 for owner. He added he knew a .50 burglar, left behind in his cell when mission all the while was unceasing in that a ship within the district is demanding man in Chicago who owned a he escaped, was added to the prison y2 lb. Early Flower Japan Tea Worth .40 for .30 its work for the afflicted, but they also to know its location. Immediately bat and he always had sood museum. fell victims to the disease, which 4 Bottles of Bluing Worth .60 for the central station radios the .40 The head was molded of soap and meant that the Eskimos were left helpless. 10 lb. Navy Beans bewildered mariner to continue flashing Worth 125 for .90 dough. He used his talents not alonp When the new year dawned^ oxilv his call Jetters for ai Least thirty to mold it with features copied after 1 lb. Paraffin Wax Worth .20 for •15 his own, but he covered it with hair 2 Bottles Ammonia Worth .30 for .25 from his own scalp and stuck on morp Yes, 2 Cans Red Seal Lye Worth .30 for .20 hair where the eyelashes belong. Wirh his brush he painted a complexion. 3 Cans Ready Made Soup Worth .45 for .25 In the habit of wearing black siepveholders 2 lbs. Best Rice Worth -30 for .25 when he plied his brush painting 4 Boxes Matches or designing, he completed the deception Worth .25 for .20 by putting them on the duinmv's arms. TOTAL $6.75 $4.88 HISTORIC CHURCH TO PASS it's toasted Apartment Hotel to Occupy Site of First Episcopal Church in S. E. THOMPSON & SON New York. New York.—The historic First It informed Episcopal church. Madis-in PHONE 128 avenue and Fifty-fifth street, is to be torn down. The Supreme court has just ratified the covenant of its sale. A large apartment hotel will occupy the site. The congregation will retain You. possession of the building until know how November. Then a building in thp vicinity will be leased and the vines much toasting im of the parish will be reorganized along broader lines than at present. Subscribe for The Press proves bread. Makes The rectorship of the church was made vacant by the death in France it taste good. Of course of Rev. Dr. William Dubose Stevens, who was serving as a Red Cross —more flavor. chaplain. No effort will be made zt this time to fill his place. Same with tobacco Find Ocean Dusty. —especially Kentucky New York.—Is the ocean dusty? Marines aboard the U. S. S. Pennsylvania, Burley. now in port here, will say it is. COLLEGE OF ST. THOMAS "The salt in the air crystallizes on the decks and bulkheads," Corporal Buy yourself a package William EL Allen explained to a reporter. SAINT PAUL, MINNESQTA "It Is then ground under foot of Lucky Strike and becomes dusty, so that, although we throw overboard a' couple of cans cigarettes. Notice the of dust, there lis the same amount the Under tiie Direction and Control of the Most Reverend next time we sweep down." Austin Dowling, Archbishop of St. Paul toasted flavor. Great! Vienna, July 25.—The object of the Nothing like it. The A CATHOLIC MILITARY COLLEGE reported attempt of Count Michael Karolyi, former president of the Hungarian eal Burley cigarette. republic, to sail from Italy to the United States, it is stated here, is Collegiate, Hi^fl School, and Commercial Courses to enlist sympathy and help for the political and industrial reconstruction of Hungary and to obtain better territorial Over One Thousand Students from Twenty-eight conditions. Count Karolyi is States Registered Last Year also said to intend witting a book dealing with conditions as they have existed W- ,r V- For Catalogue Address THE REGISTRAR in the Hungarian republic during the last eight months.