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

April 14, 1921 · Page 2 of 8

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PAGE THREE RER LEGS ARE NOW STRAIGHT Yoir may ba •ii 4?.. -ft&ts Onee Bowed, Ruth Gordon, Pretty Chi. says the Good Judge Mflo Actress, Had Them i,C- Broken. By MURIEL BLAIR That you are getting full Chicago.—When the plaster casts value for your money were removed from the erstwhile bow when you use this class of I©. 1921, Western Newspaper \jnion.) legs of Ruth Gordon, an actress, who bad each leg broken in two, "places so tobacco. "Gee, I'm tired—ain't you, Lisette?" they could 4e straightened, Dr. Edwin asked Miss Spurgeon. leaning back The good, rich, real tobacco Ryerson pronounced them "perfectly against the shelves, piled with burlap straight." taste lasts so long, and monk's cloth—which, as all It will be a few weeks more 'before, salesgirls know, make heavy rolls. you don't need a fresh 1 she can leave her wheel chair. Doctor "Say, Lisette, I'm sick of this job. chew nearly as often—nor Ryerson said today, but Miss Gordon What's the use?" You toil and slave smiled happily at the doctor's verdict. do you need so big a chew all day and wear yourself to pieces Six weeks ago she won Doctor Ryerson's for your fifteen bones a week, and as you did with the ordinarykind. consent to perform the operation, when Sunday comes you're so used up not because* of vanity, she said, all you can do is to-sleep." but because her legs compelled her to "Yes, so'm I," answered Lisette Any man who has used the wear long dresses on the stage and Blanchard disconsolately. Real Tobacco Chew will prevented her from rising in her profession. There was a lull in business at Howard's D4 tell you that. **•':, Emporium it was two in the Clear Afore of this Land in 1921 afternoon, and the morning rush was Put up in two styles over, while the afternoon shoppers AL JENNINGS HOLDUP VICTK/I Tthe had not yet put in their appearance. W-B CUT is along fine-cut tobacco HE whole state, backed by the Legislature, Miss Spurgeon surveyed the little Reformed Train Robber Finds Self at University, and scores of local organizations, RIGHT CUT is a short-opt tobacco French Canadian girl who had joined Unfamiliar End of "Six- is back of the "Clear More Land This the sales force some three months N Gun." Year" movement. Last year was a recordbreaker. previously. All 13e girls liked her they recognized, too, that she was This year is going to "surpass it. New York.—A1 Jennings, reformed "the right sort," as they phrased it. train robber and bandit, admitted today Every one is out to get bigger crops. Most Nobody ever took liberties with little he had been victimized here by people use the new extra low-freezing Lisette. "an inconsiderate, discourteous" member "Say, Lisette," continued Miss of his forsaken profession. TVWMINDTETAIKSTOAMHICANS Spurgeon confidently, "I got a dandy Returning to his hotel from Brooklyn, fellow. Works in a wholesale hardware Jennings was accosted by a shabby store and gets twenty-eight individual and found himself at the Red Cross Extra 20% Dynamite Aima first Avocation. steady the year round. He's asked unfamiliar end of a "sir-gun." He me to hitch up with him every Sunday obeyed with celerity the usual "Hands night this past year, and I don't, It costs less per stump—is safer to use, will not up command, then sought immunity know but what I will," by divulging his identity. freeze in weather in which you can work—is "Yes?" queried Miss Lisette. "O, come on now," he pleaded In a backed by expert demonstrators who will prove THE STRENGTH OF ANY GOVERNMENT "Sure, that's what/1 say." went on friendly manner,v "I'm A1 Jennings." oiir claims in your section. Miss Spurgeon. "He's the kind of "Never mind the guff," returned the By Great American Statesman. BENJAMIN FBANKUIC, fellow any girl would be proud of, other, lifting a jewel and a rol^ of Your local dealer can supply you with Du Pont not like these cheap pikers that comes hills from Jennings' pocket. "I'm "Much of the strength and efficiency of any government in procuring and Dynamite and Blasting Accessories. See him in to scrape acquaintance and take President Wilson." securing happiness to the people depends on opinion, on the geneiral opinion of now regarding your spring requirements. And of the goodness of that goVeriiment, as well as of the wisdom and integrity of you out to a dinner. somewhere." "There now, Fin leaving you a dim* its governors. I hope,, there*ore,ior oar own sakes, as a part of the people and "Miss Spurgeon!" cried the floorwalker —beat it!" write us for Farmers' Handbook of Explosives for the sake of our posterity, that we shall act heartily and unanimously in enningg did. severely, and MUfr Spurgepn for complete information on farming with recommending this Constitution wherever our influence may extend, and turn hurried away, leaving Lisette Blanchard dynamite. It's free. «l»r futiirethougbtsaOd endeavors to the means of fcaVtag^pelt adm|nistered."—^BfnJamiiiFranklin. 555 Pound Fr«nehman 0j«a. to hfy meditations. .'•' Bourges.—Pierre Guindolet, reputed If the loquacious salesgirl could have ••Let reverence of the law be breathed by every mother to the ifapiitg babe to be the heaviest man In France, tipping that prattles on ler lap left it be taught in schools, seminaries, and colleges E. DU FONT DB NEMOURS ft CO., Inc., Duluth, Minn. known .the thoughts thht she had set the scales at 555 pounds, has just let itbe written in primers, spelling. books andalmanacs lot It be preached coursing through the other's mind she from pulpits, and proclaimed'in legislature halls, and enforced in courts of died here. Be was twenty-eight years would have been genuinely horrified. justice let it become the political religion»of the nation."—Abraham Lincoln. old Lisette Bladchard had come south from her home in Canada eleven months before, leaving her parents, her friends arid her lover behind. In /vain Andre had asked her' to stay. But she craved life and excitement DURING PAINT UP AND CLEAN UP SEASON the stories which she had heard of -AND ALL THE YEAR AROUND- the metropolis of America had fascinated her the deadly monotony of WHEN YOU WANT TO— E. SOL VANG life in St. Joachim had'become impossible FIX THAT FENCE SKCCMOI to. 6. Helmqaht to her. On the mcrniug of their parting they had strolled in the woods Cabinet Maker, Furniture LAY THAT FLOOR together, and Andre, stooping, had SEE HANG THAT DOOR Repairer, Picture Framing, TRADE MARK picked a stem of wintergreen, with BUILD THAT SMALL General Carpenter, Contracttor its flustering berries, and handed it Announcement BUILDING OR COTTAGE and Builder. to her. She smelled the faint, acrid or mny Big Carpenter job— 502 THIRD) STREET odor of the leaves e»ren then. When the wintergreen bears fruit A A again, and thou art not here, then I shall know that thou wilt never return," said Andre. Mr. Edael B. Ford, President of the Ford Motor Compajny, That was eleven months before. Lisette had spent nearly a whole year gives out the following statement: A I N away. Slie had had time to becoifie "The price of the FORDSON Tractor has been reduced from $790.00 to disenchanted, to realize what life in a large city meant to a girl living alone. $625.00, effective immediately. And then the stranger had come into her life. "This price change has been made possible through lower costs of materials She had first seen him upon the and the fact that we are now located in our new Tractor Plant with FOR EVERY PURPOSE— street as she left the store one evening, and had flushed under his _stare. greatly increased economic manufacturing facilities in immediate connection r- Inside and Outside House Paint On the next morfting she found him with our foundry and machine shops and large blast furnaces where iron is waiting outside the store. He followed Automobile Paint poured directlyfrom the ore, giving uis maximum efficiency with the power to her in, made a purchase, addressed a *fe\v conventional remarks to her. reduce cost^of production, and down cpmes the price in line with our policy Boat Paint He came again and again. He always to market our products at the lowest possible figure without in any way treated her with respect, and, though Kalsomine affecting our high standard of quiality. hei' fear of him was instinctive, gradually he scraped an acquaintance with her. He was well-to-do, and, though "We are particularly pleased in being able touring about this big reduction she did not love him, she felt that here, We carry the Old Reliable Brands—Minnesota Lin­ in price at this time because the farmer needs all the help we can give at least, was the chance of salvation seed Oil Paint Co. and Certain-teed. from her laborious lot. him and this big cut in price will be the means of placing a valuable power Then, on the preceding ^Sunday, he unit within the reach of practically every one of them, not to mention industrial had told her something which filled and commercial concerns which likewise have benefited through its use her with humiliation and shame. He was married, he said. His wife and Falls Lumber & Coal Co. and are already realizing, to a much greater extent, its value as a power and he had been separated for years, but hauling unit. But particularly has the FORDSON Tractor proved a most he could not divorce lfer. What did valuable factor in the saving of farm labor, at the same time, increasing the that matter, as long as they loved PHONE 81 each other? He would not press her per acre crop yield as well as makings-possible a utilization of previously for her decision, .but would wait for •A uncultivated land, to say nothing of removing no end of drudge(ry. her outside the store' on Wednesday night. Then she could jjive him his answer. "There is no question that the use of machine power on the farm is the Lisette had torn herself away and greatest advancement made in the development of agriculture, not only in It Paysjto Advertise in The Press fled from him. All that night she money saving and money making results as well as raising the standards of wept, lying sleepless in her bed In the little hall room of her boarding house. living on the farm to a much higher level, but because of its proved value in On Wednesday he met her outside making every type of land*more productive, and consequently our desire to the store that night, and she greeted place the FORDSON within the reach of all. him icily. She did not order him away, but walked beside him, thinking, thinking hard. She turned toward him presently, "THERE IS NO CHANGE IN THE PRESENT FORD CAR AND 7 her eyes brimming with tears. TRUCK PRICES, which are already at the lowest possible figure and now YOURBOY "God forgive me, I am too-weak to with rock bottom reached on the tractor price, a further reduction in price say what I should say," she said. "Have pity on me and leave me. Help of either Car, Truck or Tractor is out of the question in fact, the big price me against myself Is growing inch by cuts hare been made in anticipation of continuous maximum production and He drew her into the shelter of a increases may be necessary before long if a large voHime of new business inch. Get him started doorway and pleaded with her. She felt the last atom of her strength leaving is not obtained. Therefore, present prices of Ford products cannot be guaranteed in the right direction her. against possible increases/^ "Wintergreen I Sweet wintergreen by opening a bank ac­ cried a voice beside her., .Ask for the hook, "THE FORDSON AT WORK," which will he supplied She started violently. A ^peddler's count for kim. His cart had, stopped before the curb, laden free of cost. Let us demonsftate the value of the Fordspn on your farm,1 first banking, connections with flowers and greenery. And in your factory, lumber yard, coal yard, or in any general hauling or pow*r! in the hand that he thrust out toward may have a work you have to do and let us have your order for a Fordson. here, she saw rthe plant that suddenly awakened such poignant memories, laden C. W. Jewett Co. Inc. positive influence upon his success in life. The conservative -i with its clustering berries. And suddenly the past year was blotted business experience of the officers of this, from her mliid. Itt St. Joachim woods .'if bank should make it yorir choice. the wintergreen was 'fiearlng fruit a-' "=K again. And Andre, was waiting, as) he ... A .•* had sworn to wfit: J| |T Authorized Ford Sales and Service "Goodby," she said, looking at him Telephone IS International Falls 1 steady. "I am going home. Ishall I* neyer see .ywn again." And something FIRST NATIONAL BANK in her voice told him that her resolve was inexorable. i- (I "i INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MINN. 'A, •, Clutching -a spray jpf winterer*™ 111 against her heart,7 Lisette slipped tu thecrowds. ITSSi .4 It- 1