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January 15, 1920 · Page 1 of 8

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:, r*x.* W'Af\ Wt 1 tjm% INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PAGE TWO FOSSIL SEARCH NEW LIGHT RIVAL TO SUN DURING PAINT UP AND CLEAN UP SEASON English Inventor Perfects Apparatus NEEDS EXPERTS That Produces Ray* Approximate -AND ALL THE YEAR AROUND ing Daylight WHEN YOU WANT TO—\ E. SOL VANG London.—A light which ••far surpasses FIX THAT FENCE Smcemi t» Holm««Iat G. any existing arrangement oi LAY THAT FLOOR 1 Cabinet Maker, Furniture Scientific Expeditions Made Up artificial light and is the closest approximation SEE HANG THAT DOOR Repairer, Picture Framing, to actual daylight ever of Men Who Are Trained BUILD THAT SMALL General Carpenter, Contractto^ accomplished, is understood by the Geologists, American Chamber of Commerce in BUILDING OR COTTAGE1 and Builder. London to have been perfected here. or any Big Carpenter job—J 1502 THIRD STREET The apparatus consists of a highpower AMATEUR RUINS SKELETONS electric light bulb, fitted-with a cup-shaped opaque reflector, the silvered inner side of which reflects the light against a parasol-shaped screen Automobile Tourists American Museum Hunters Are Under placed above the light. The screen is Direction of Curator of Fossil lined with small patches of different Out of accumulated capital have arisen all the successes Vertebrates—Search Is Serious of industry and applied science, all the comforts and ameliorations colors, arranged according to a formula of the common lot. Upon it the world must depend When In Minneapolis Stop at Work. for the process of reconstruction in which all have to share. worked out empirically by Mr. -JAMES J. HILL Sheringham, the inventor, and carefully Washington.—The expedition of the tested and perfected in the imperial American Museum which for several The Successful Farmer college of science and technology. Hotel Lincoln months has been searching for the The light thrown down from the skeletons of ancient animals in a sandstone screen is said to show colors almost quarry at Agate, Neb., has discovered as well as in full daylight. Under Raises Bigger Crops many bones of the little rhinoceros. the new light delicate yellows were NICOLLET AVE. AT NINTH ST The deposits containing these quite distinct, indigo blues were blue, bones have been cut into blocks which cobalts had their full value, and violets and cuts down costs by investment in will be shipped to the museum, where lost the reddish shade which they OPENED SEPT. 1st. 1918 the bones will be placed 'on exhibition. display in electric light. labor-saving machinery. The little rhinoceros, or diceratherium, The American chamber says a great as he is scientifically called, was Especially convenient for auto parties as Nicollet Avenue future is expected for this invention Good prices for the farmers' crops encourage about the sizse of a half grown calf in such cases' as the lighting of show is the leading road from all point, and has no car tracks. and roamed at large during the miocene windows and art galleries, studio work new investment, more production Within two squares of 5 large garages. Adjoining the cities' period. He had two horns side of all kinds, dye works, tea and tobacco by side in front of the skull instead largest stores. and greater prosperity. blending, and many other industries. of one or of one behind the other. The Color photography also will expedition has-been working under the Rooms at $1.00 per day. With private toilet 25 cents probably benefit. But the success of agriculture depends direction of Dr. William D. Matthew, extra with private bath 50 cents extra. In addition there curator of fossil vertebrates at the on the growth of railroads—the modern HOLDS INDIAN TYPICAL YANK are suites of rooms with separate toilet, each room having museum. I- Few persons have any idea of the beasts of burden that haul the crops to connecting bath—an ideal arrangement and only found here. French Artist Selects Choctaw Soldier vast amount of care and work that a as Model for Portrait of the world's markets. large scientific institution takes in American Soldier. planning and preparing for an expedition Cafe in connection—Hotel Lincoln guarantees an atmosphere which seeks the remains of these The railroads—like the farms—increase of home refinements#?^ Washington.—Otis W. Leader, a ancient beasts in the hope that they Choctaw Indian of Calvin, Okla., who their output and cut down unit costs by will shed additional light on the dim was with the artillery force which WM. B. CAMFIELD- -Proprietors- -F. S. GREGORY and distant evolutionary periods of an the constant investment of new capital. fired, the first American shots in the early world. They have various objectives world war and who, after having engaged For past ten years with Minneapolis leading hotels. in view. Sometimes they are in the major operations of With fair prices for the work they do, planned to fill in a gap of scientific -j Chateau Thierry, St. Mihiel and the knowledge. the railroads are able to attract new capital Argonne, was still "present and accounted Must Know Many Things. for" when the last guns of for expanding their facilities. It may be desirable to know what vo the war were fired, has been selected animals inhabited a particular region as a model by the French artist, Dewarreux, which has remained unexplored, or t* Rates high enough to yield a fair return for a portrait of a typical find out what kind of animals lived in American soldier. a particular geological epoch, 6r to our will insure railroad growth, and prevent Leader trained with the famous trace the ancestry of some species of Christm Blue Devils and was cited for fighting costly traffic congestion, which invariably animals back to geological times. A with the infantry for three days at scientist setting out on such an expedition Chateau Thierry after the entire gun results in poorer service at higher cost. must have as a preliminary a crew to which he had been attached general knowledge of geology, and of had been killed. National wealth can increase only as our the geology of the region which he During the engagement he succeeded is to explore. He must be acquainted in capturing two machine guns and railroads grow. with the areas where the formations 18 prisoners. of the geological period he is to visit Poor railroad service is dear at any with are to be found. He needs to have GREAT TREE IS UPROOTED many records-of fossils that have been price. No growing country can long pay discovered In the past. Scientific institutions Gale of Wind Tears Large Sequoia have many observations of the the price of inadequate transportation From Its Place in Big occurrence of fossils in regions in /Mext which they are interested. Tree Grove. facilities. One of the most remarkable fossil birds ever discovered was brought to Stockton, Cal.—One of "The Sentinels," Mi light three years ago in the Big Horn the two giant sequoias guarding basin in an area which had been thoroughly the entrance to the Calaveras big explored by fossil hunters since tree grove, was blown down by a terrific adiwti&emeni i&. publiAhed by the. 1891, and yet practically no trace of wind storm, according to word HAVE ^Mociatim,^diaUw{w ^xi£cutived. this great bird know as the diatryna telephoned to Stockton from Angels had been found there. Camp the other day by Mrs. Job Whiteside, American museum explorers have who conducts the Big Trees Those desiring information concerning the railroad situation gone over many old stamping grounds Hotel, which had been searched again and The massive tree was 225 feet in may obtain literature by writing to The Association again, and have discovered something height and 27 feet in diameter at the of Railway Executives, 61 Broadway, New York, new. base. Its age was estimated at between It is important that such kind of 4,000 and 5,000 years. If you haven't joined our Christmas banking club, come prospecting and mining be done by The two sentinels stood just outside trained men. An inexperienced man the grounds near the tree upon the In and do so today. who undertakes to remove such skeletons stump of which a dance platform was is pretty sure to ruin them, and constructed. The highway approaching Men, Women, Boys and Girls all should join and we ur*?e the chances are that he will render the hotel runs between them. Some you to join for you own good. them entirely worthless. years ago the erosion of creek waters To become a successful collector, it is nearby undermined the roots of the There are dubs to ft every purse—I cent, 2 cents, 5 cents, not so much a matter of the technic East Sentinel and it toppled against 10 cents, where you increase your deposits each week with of collecting as it is a practical field its brother, forming an archway over knowledge of formations. The collector If You Have Anthing to Sell the road. The limbs of the West Sentinel the amount you started with. must have a trained judgment In order were not strong enough to support to know what prospects are worth Investigating, the monster against the gale and We also have 50 cent, $1.00 and $500 dubs where you pay and how best to go about it fell with a crash. Its trunk now =ADVERTISE IT= in the saase amount each week. it. It is for this reason that the American obstructs the roadway and extends out Museum and other institutions Into the mestrtnw But join—join today. have had to decline offers of voluntary assistance on expeditions. FIRST NATIONAL BANK Four Men Go Together. Generally speaking, a collecting expedition, APPLES Dr. Matthew said, consists International Falls, Minnesota- of from two to four men. It is not considered good for a man to be alone and take risks. It does not pay to have more than four men, otherwise they are likely to be in one another's way. BACHFDRCO Your Raw Furs Expeditions are usually organized at It Pays to Advertise a town or railroad point where equipment APPLES may be shipped to them. In prospecting for fossils each member —it means of the expedition usually sets out in a different direction in the morning. He takes with him his lunch and a Highest ruling Market Prices. canteen of water, and explores as much ground as he can before nightfall. Honest Grading of the Sizes. THE ST BEE He is intent on finding what appears The Most liberal Assortment Made. to him a good prospect on which Courteaus treatment—square and to begin work. The instructions always issued to straight. such expeditions are not to take risks. Sash and oar Factory advice. Prompt Returns and sound Buy your winter apples Yet the collector in his zeal and enthusiasm or rise. As to the Market's fall for his work would scarcely now. Fine Johnathns be human if he followed these instructions will open Ask for our prioelist—it NOW QPSN FOR ""TffTfr to the letter, and he frequently $3.25 per box, for one Furs are your eyes as to what Raw takes risks of many kinds. In such expeditions of the museum it is not recalled week only. Cooking apples not dispose worth these days. Do of We Are W4 Bqeipfxd to do Atl Rinds of, that any of their men have been a had oitr single skin before you have $2.25 per box. dangerously injured. They have had. MLLW0KK valuation. to be sure, attacks of mountain sickness which is a sort of fever. and you wMl make no nxtsfeake by getting Looking for fossils is a serious work. BACH FUR COMPANY their prices before ordering elsewhere The prospecting must be carefully done. If a big skeleton is to be removed Buyers—Merchant*—Exporters a good deal of digging is required, and this must be done with Of BuQdSag and Contracting Specialty extreme care. Sometimes it is necessary American Raw Furs S.E. Thompson & Son All Work Guaranteed to blast a ledge. The work of "prospecting a specimen" is anything "108-110 West Austin Avenue but easy. Big specimens must be re LARS STUBEE, Prop. Chicago, 111. moved in several blocks, and greai Phone 128 care must bem used in handling their irect representation: New York, London, and in preparing them for transit a? International Falls, Minn. 2nd and 6h St. Phone 80 Ave. they frequently must travel from 1, Paris, Leipzig 000 to 3,000 miles to reach their defcti nation. ft r' rvt' fe ,"VV *4.1 "j 1