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

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INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS openly admitted the original appropriation mous Bine Mosque, so called because of 100,000,000 marks was sup GERMAN EXPERTS INTO RUSSIA It Is covered with blue tiles. It dates EX-YANK'S RE-CREATED VOICE piemen ted again and again until, in *rom the fifteenth century and Is now Rebecca Was Late, 15 years, more than half of Posen had In ruins. The ark -or cltsidel Is a 5,000 Industrial Specialists Hired by Cords Destroyed In Battle of the Argonne Pastor Was Merciless been, bought for German colonists. brick building of massive walls, with Communists—Motor Industry Are Replaced by Still the Poles predominated. More a towp 120 feet high. Given Attention. False Ones. kept coming from Poland and opposition Washington, N. C.—A certain More than half of the -trade of Figuring to the German program was Intensified young and devout church woman Tabriz was with Russia. Its chief London.—Preparations are being St. Louis.—Rudolph M. Bowman, a as. the measures became harsher. of this city, whose name is Imports before the World war disturbed made in Russia to receive 5,000 German former soldier, who was wounded In :9H Events Rebecca, never misses divine conditions were cotton and industrial specialists, of whom the Argonhe battle In such a manner Even Germany was scandalized services, but often Is late. woolen tissues, sugar and tea. 4,000 will be employed in metal industries, that his vocal cords were destroyed, when. In PJ02, it was brought to light Last Sunday she arrived Just 300 in the commissariat of health has regained his ability to speak. In the Prussian parliament that pupils as the pastor was reading from DIGGING INTO HISTORY and 500 In the commissariat of land, His case is the only Instance In the had been whipped by the wholesale the Scriptures the story of Rebecca says a wireless dispatch from Moscow. WITH PICK AND knowledge of the specialists of the at the well. As the latecomer for declining to say the Lord's The Moscow land communes have Central Institute for the Deaf, where SHOVEL tripped up the aisle the Prayer In German. But the opposition asked for 200 specialists for the establishment he has been treated at government expense, Recent, deciphering of a clay tablet minister read: of the grownups did not cause Of model land communes. in which speech has been recreated which may add a thousand years to CHERSO: MAY BE THE the world-wide interest aroused by "And behold, Rebecca came In addition, 150 emigrants have already after the complete loss of the the span of recorded -history—for it forth." the school children's strike in 190Q HELGOLAND OF arrived from America and commenced vocal cords. contains a code of laws said to antedate when about 100,000 Polish pupils took Broad smiles played over the work. Another large party is ADRIATIC Bowman's voice sounds normal, except that of Hammurabi by a millennium—is that means of protesting against being faces of the worshipers. Blushes expected soon and premises have been for a slight hoarseness, as that The Hapallo agreement of last November another reminder that flooded the face of Rebecca. beaten when they would not answer arranged for 4,000 persons. of a person suffering from a cold. An which fixed the status of the archeologists are finding stranger true Courageously she went on, questions In German. The Prussian Groups of specialists have been explanation of this scientific achievement troublesome city of Flume and disposed stories than fiction can reveal. The quickening her steps., government refused to accede to formed for the motor industry, among Is that the ventricular bands, or of other moot points in regard pick and the spade of thtf explorer the request of the archbishop of Posen "And she made haste," continued them being former employees of the false vocal cords, have been made to to territory on the eastern shore of have resulted in astounding revelatious, that children be permitted to receive Ford Motor company. the clergyman. function like the true cords. the Adriatic sea, gave Italy an important says a communication to the religious Instruction In Polish. Parents Snickers from the youngsters, By practicing certain vocal exercises foothold near Fiume In the obscure National Geographic society from Albert broader smiles from the grownups who withdrew them from school in a systematic way, these muscles, island of Gherso. T. Clay, who has deciphered some and half-suppressed giggles were Imprisoned. ordinarily inactive, have come to Practically unheard of on this side of the most famous of the documents. Refused to "Slide." from the half-growns were the Efforts to absorb or crowd out the function automatically, and a good of the. Atlantic, eluding most travelers, She was one of these fussy little response. "Above all else, one of the greatest Poles by German colonization having voice of volume, flexibility and range even escaping many of the seekrs old women, ail primped and with her surprises Is that the earliest peoples, failed, a measure was passed for By that time Miss Rebecca has been created. hair in a curl. after the little-known places of instead of being barbarous or the expropriation of Polish land. had reached her pew. She Europe, Cherso neither is inaccessible When she got aboard the street uncultured, were civilized and possessed stumbled in and sank down as Further laws were enacted compelling nor unattractive. car several men—yes, there are some a culture of a high order," if she hoped the cushions would wider use of the German language. It dangles like a pendant In th* who still respect gray hairs on a wrlt.es Doctor Clay. swallow her. Shoot Oil on Water Then came the Kattowitz Incident, street car—got up and offered a seat. Gulf of Quarnero, low hung from the "Let the damsel abide with "Several ancient libraries and Immense In 1910, crowning a series of to Calm Angry Waves She accepted one gentlemanly proffer, neck of Fiume. It is the lHng Island archives have been found. us," said the minister, closing petty persecutions which bordered on of that port, its shore line rising 12 but didn't keep the seat long. his book and ending the reading, the absurd, wherein a number of minor Boston.—Shells filled with a When she had finally founds repose, miles to the south. Its slender form much to the relief of Rebecca. officials who had voted for Poles at a gallon of oil and fired at angry a woman next to her said: extends to the southwest for 40 milea, municipal election were removed from waves by the United States life "Would you mind sliding over just though It never exceeds seven miles in office. guards will calm them, according a bit, please? Then another lady can width, and Its area is somewhat more Posen Is smaller, territorially, than to tests made by H. S. Parker of have a seat." than twice that of the District of FOR FIRST FRENCHMAN SLAIN Maryland, but had half a million more oh as a Her gray-haired majesty rose to Columbia. population In 1910. About a million shells, filled with a gallon Of oil lofty heights. Holding in mind this location, near Poles—more than half the total population Village Schoolmaster, Victim of War, fired by low-force powder charge, "Slide? Slide?" she sputtered. "I the head of the Adriatic, in view of in Posen—were established to Have Government would scatter the oil on the surface will not slide. I will arise and take jthe plans to make Flume a buffer there before the World war. Posen Shaft. of the water. A barrage of my body elsewhere*" state between Italy and Jugo-Slavia, has mineral deposits of lignite and such shells to the windward of a And, suiting her .actions to fier the strategic possibilities of Cherso salt. Much of Its land was tilled. Its Joncherey, France.—A ceremony wreck would produce a sufficiently words, she arose and took her body up I become apparent. Inded one may plciture manufactured products, besides those In honor of the first Frenchman killed smooth sea to enable a lifeboat to the front of the car, where her it as a potential Helgoland of of Its breweries and distilleries, were In the war has just been held in this to make a safe approach dignity would not be assaulted by a the Adriatic. sugar, cloth, tobacco, bricks and machinery. little village. The victim, Jules from the shore to the wreck. request to slide.—Indianapolis Star. A natural curiosity of the inland Is Peugeot, was a schoolmaster before These oil shells are now being Lake Vrana, or Crow's Lake, with a the war and joined the nnnv as a tested. THE CZECHS Boom in Spanish Capital. I surface 40 feet above the sea level, corporal. He was shot by a Uhlan patrol, An effort to solve the housing problem fed and drained by invisible streams, Recent dispatches reporting attempted 12 kilometers (about seven and of the Spanish capital caused by iThe island is rugged, with one moun uprisings among the radical element a half miles) from the German frontier the inrush of thousands of country tain-peak rising more than 2,000 feet Leaps to River, Killed by Ice. id Czechoslovakia, and statements 34 hours before the declaration folk to Madrid, is in progress in the iabove the Quarnero waters. Gibraltar-like Council Bluffs, la.—Miss Alice that a stronger and stronger of war. A monument to the schoolmaster uorthern section adjacent to the suburb rocks rise precipitously enmity toward the German inhabitants Hatch, 23, committed suicide here by erected hei-e vH! ?0^n j7P of Cuatro Caminos. A private 1,000 feet along one of its shores. leaping Into the Missouri river from is being shown on all sides by Icated by the French government. concern has acquired an enormous Here are the dome-like caverns of the street car bridge. the Czechs and Slovaks, center interest Rulna of a Library Building at Nippur, tract of land, and has begun building ^S»ergo, now protected from the sea Ill health is given as the cause. once more on (his newly created 4,000 Years Old.. what for Madrid are skyscrapers of by a wave-built rock barrier. His "Home Brew." Miss Hatch did not drown, but died central European republic that was ten stories. Each of these buildings The devastating Bora, which sweeps "Have you moved It yet?" asked au from injuries in striking the ice. Years ago the library of Ashnrbanipal carved after the war from Germany is to contain 400 flats and 40 stores. the Dalmatian coast., drips Its salt excited householder as he rushed UP (008-626 B. C.) was discovered at and Austria-Hungary. The following The new model suburb is to be in all spray over Cherso, excluding many varieties to a group of husky men who were Corrt In His Ear 32 Years. description of the Czechs is based on Nineveh. In more recent years temple respects modern. Engineers are now of plant life. The absence of throwing his possessions into a van. Davenport, la.—A grain of corn a communication to the National Geographic and school libraries have been engaged in laying out a boulevard running large trees and scarcity of springs "I guess you mean the piano, sir. which W. A. Santell of Washington, found at Nippur Sippar, Larsa, Baby society from Prof. Ales through its center, more than We just chucked It in a minute ago." are two physical characteristics. In la., placed in his ear when a child, llrdicka. Ion, and Brech. The libraries of the hail' a mile long and 130 feet In width, the north laurel and mastic grow, and "Piano, nothing! I expected you to was removed by surgical operation recently. first three wftes belong chiefly to the A 1.500-y ear-long, llfe-and-dearh with two carriage ways and a central vines and olive trees abound in the drop that. I'm talking about a big It had been lodged in the ear struggle with the German race which third millennium B. C. those of the promenade lined with trees. southern portion. hamper that was in the basement."— for 32 years, and had caused much surrounded them from the north, last two belong to later periods. Birmingham Age-Herald. suffering. Politically Cherso was Included In "But especially large archives of west and south, with a near-burial Islria, when under Austrian rule. within lie Austrian empire for the these documents, numbering several I \tfith its neighbor islands, Lussin, to last three centuries, failed to destroy hundred thousand, and belonging in the southwest, ami Veglla, to the or break the spirit of the little nation Jthe tlilrd and fourth millenniums B. east, it was a part of the Lussin district. of Czechs or Bohemians. C., have been fonnd at' Tello," Nippur, They are the westernmost branch of Drehem, Jokha, and recently at IJr. Cherso lies off the shores of the the Slavs, their name being derived, "The Code of Hammurabi, written Down Goes the Prices on northern part of Dalinatia and the according to tradition, from that of a about 2000 B. C., upon a large and HAY AND FEED Croatian littoral, a region formerly noted ancestral chief. The terra Bohemia somewhat Irregular stele, Is perhaps known as Morlacclria. The Moiiacchia was applied to the country the most Important monument of an channel preserves this name originating probably during the Roman times and liquify of a high order. In codifying with the Slavic Invaders of was derived, like that of Bavaria, his laws, Hammurabi arranged them Dalmatla, who "called the Latinized from the Boij. who^for some time hefore In a definite and logical order, based people they found I here Vlachs, or ttie Christian era occupied or upon accepted judicial decisions. In Mavro-Vlachs—Black Vlachs." Thus claimed parts of these regions. no better way is it possible to become the Slavs of this region have come to Nature his favored old Bohemia, an acquainted with the everyday life of Be known, by a corruption of this important part of Czechoslovakia, the ancient Babylonian than by a careful title, as Morlachs.. perhaps more than any other part of study of the Hammurabi Code." In rural districts Morlacchlan women Europe. Its soil Is so fertile and retain their historic costume, which climate so favomble that Tflore than POSEN, THE EXPERIMENT includes a kerchief for the head, many half of tiie country is cultivated and STATION FOR "KULTUR" strands of bends, a waist band from produces richly, in its mountains almost The province of Posen, formerly which hang amulets and various trinkets, every useful metal and mineral, =UNTIL FURTHER N0TICE= part of Germany's eastern Prussia, and, over a blue cloth gown, an except salt, is to be found. It Is the apron of exquisite embroidered pattern. and one of the most important fragments geographical center of the European About her neck an uumarried of. old Poland, which has been continent, equally distant from the girl wears a string of coins and rings incorporated in the new war-born Poland, Baltic, Adriiitic and North seas, and was the unhappy experiment which comprise her dowry. Formerly though inclosed by mountains, is so station for some of Prussia's most vigorous the men-wore their hair In a plait. easily accessible, because of the valleys and futile, efforts to Germanize of the Danube and the Elbe rivers, an alien population. thiit it has served In history as TABRIZ: PERSIA'S CAPITAL Uutii the northern portion of Posen the avenue of many armies. CITY fell to Prussia, after the first partition Besides Bohemia, the Czechs occupy Tabriz, capital of Persia, from of Poland in 1772, and the remainder Moravia and adjacent territory in •which diplomatic representatives recently was annexed to Prussia 21 Silesia, both formerly parts of Austria-Hungary. tied at the approach of Bolshevik years later, Poscn's history was blended The Slovaks, who forces. Is one of the most important with th:it of Poland. In connection show merely dialectic differences frotn cities in Persia. Its population with the first partition, it will be recalled the Czechs, extend from Moravia is about 200,000. Teheran, ihe that Frederick the Great adopted eastward over most of what was formerly $1.50 capital, is tlie only place in the do the ingenious scheme of surrounding northern Hungary. minions of the shah which exceeds it those parts of Poland he desired The Czech is kind and with a stock OATS—80 pound sack in size." with a military force, on the pretext of native humor. He is musical, loves ... $1.65 It is beautifully situated in a wide songs, poetry, art, nature, fellowship, that he was seeking to check the valley on the River Aji, which (lows spread of a cattle disease. the other sex. He is an intent thinker BRAN—per 100 poinds into the salt lake of UrumiaTi 35 miles After being bandied for a brief period, and restless seeker of truth, of learning, $1.65 to the west. Although apparently surrounded Posen fell to Prussia again in but no apt. schemer. He is ambitious by mountains, Tabriz has an and covetous of freedom in the broadest 1815, and for more- than half a century SHORTS—per 100 pounds elevation of more than 4,000 feet and Germany paid little heed to it. sense, hut tendencies to domineering, $2.00 sjthe climate in winter is extremely oppression, power by force over After the division of the vast estates severe. others, are foreign to his nature. He and other economic changes, Polish GROUND CORN—per 100 pounds.. Hundreds of springs and fountains middle classes in Posen began to prosper, ardently searches for God and is inclined $2.00 water thousands of beautiful gardens to be deeply religious, but is whereupon, toward the last quarter in this ancient city which for centurjes impatient of dogma, as of all other WHOLE CORN—per 100 pounds... of the nineteenth century, Prussia has enjoyed a deserved reputation undue restraint. He may be opinionated, began to take notice of its provincial $23.00 as a health resort.. Indeed,, tradition "Topsy." Germans had been immigrating" stubborn, but Is happy to accept says that the place was founded TIMOTHY HAY—per ton. facts and-, recognize true superiority. there since the thirteenth century by Zobeideh. the wife of Harun-alRashid, He is easily hurt and does not forget and the newcomers, at first were hero of -Ihe "Arabian Nights." the injury will fight, but Is not welcomed. Severance of Posen from According to this legend, JZobeideh lastingly revengeful or vicious. He Poland changed that feeling though came here to recuperate from a fever is not cold, calculating, thin-lipped, open friction was not generated until In the year 791, and a cure was quickly nor again as inflammable as the Pole Prussia .begau her repressive measures. effected, thinks to the salubrious or the southern Slav, but Is sympa^ climate, hence the name Tab (fiever) Polish nobles had kept alive Polish thetic and full of trust and through riz (pourer flfway), or "fever destroy this often open to imposition. traditions, but Prussia was more ing.'' As a matter of cold history, His endurance and bravery In war alarmed by the prosperity of the Poles however, Tabriz was in existence four for a cause which he approved were than by what, today, might be called centuries before the birth of the heauiful proverbial, as was also his hospitality the nobles' propaganda. So she set in peace. Zobeideh. about Germanizing Posen, both by colonization Up to the lime of the completion He Is often highly capable In languages. and by compulsion, much as The Falls Lumber & Coal Co. science, literary and technical of a railway through the Caucasus she attempted to do to the French in education, and is inventive as well as and the improvement of transportation Alsace. Industrial, but not Commercial Imaginative. facilities on the Caspian sea. Prussia's first move was to make artistic, creative, rather than Tabriz was the emporium of Persian German the language of the schools*. frigidly practical. Inclined at times Police were prdered to disperse meetings trade with the West. Now, however, to melancholy, brooding, pessimism, most of its trade has been diverted where Polish was spoken: Phone 81 International Falls, Minn. he Is yet deep at heart forever buoyant. to Astara, on the Caspian. 1.10 miles After 16 years that program failed optimistic, hopeful—hopeful not to the east, and to Resht, 200 miles to make much of a Prussian impression of possessions, however,'but of human .|o the southeast. upon Posen, so a commission was happiness, ani. of the freedom and Of the three hundred mosques of set up, In 1884, to buy land from future golden age of not merely his f-VS which the city boasts only one deserves the Poles for German settlement. Befor* own, but all people. special mention. It Is the ta- the failure of this policy was -h