Canadian Valley Record (Canton, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 31, 1911 Page: 3 of 8
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m ARE HURT
WOMEN AND CHILDREN ARE
PILED UP TEN FEET HIGH.
MOVING PICTURE SHOW FIRE
Accident Happens in Theater Twenty
Miles From Pittsburg, Pa.—Panic
Follows—Audience Composed
Mostly of Women and
Children.
m OF CITY
Big Success Shown by Numbers
of Callers at Philadelphia
Headquarters.
LOCAL MAN TELLS OF
REMARKABLE RELIEF
FROM RHEUMATISM
IN YEAR'S TIME.
The apparent success with which Pro-
fessor James M. Munyon, the world-
famous health authority, has been meet-
ing has started much discussion, livery
street car brings dozens of callers to nls
Laboratories at 53d and Jefferson Streets,
Philadelphia, Pa., and every mail brings
thousands of letters from people inquir-
ing about Munyon's Famous Health Cult.
Professor Munyon's corps of expert phy-
sicians Is kept busy seeing callers and
answering the mail. Peculiar to say,
these physicians prescribe no medicine
at all for 51 per cent, of the callers and
mall inquiries; health hints, health ad-
vice and rules for right living are given
i.tltn^iooi orlvlpp :mn con-
A WONDERFUL CHANGS.
Mrs. R. Crouse, Manchester, Iowa,
says: "For two years my back was
weak. Rheumatic pains racked my
lower limbs day and night The pas-
sages of the kidney
secretions were an-
noyingly irregular.
"When I started using
Doan's Kidney Pills,
these troubles soon
lessened and the dull
backache vanished.
My kidneys now act
normally and I give
Doan's Kidney Pills
credit for this wonderful change."
Remember the name—Doan's.
For sale by druggists and general
storekeepers everywhere. Price 50c.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
Pittsburg, Pa., Aug. 28.—Twenty-six
persons are known to be dead and 60
Injured following the explosion of a
moving picture film in the Morgan
& Grant opera house at Canonsburg,
Pa., twenty miles from this city, to.
night.
When the film exploded everyone
shouted "Fire!" The house was
crowded with men and children. They i vlce and- rules for rlf,ht living are given
.11 rushed ,o the hall leading to Jh. SXW.EotuUwS.
stairway and got jammed on me | Munyon>s followers seem to be enor-
8tairs. Few thought to use the fire- i mous. ^^nlho^bfo^es^hthr'm^t
escape.
Many were knocked down and tram.
pled on. Most of the dead we*e
smotheerd in the mass of persons who
fough to gain the street.
John McCulloch, operator of the
moving picture machine, had just
thrown the subject of a series of pic-
tures on the screen entitled, "A Little
Girl Shall Lead Them," when the film
eploded and the asbestos cabinet was
filled with flames. For several min-
utes the audience, numbering upwards
of 1,500, was unaware of the accident,
and the operator heroically extin-
guished the llames.
Then ,hls hands burned and almost
suffocated, he opened the door of the
little box and staggered- out. Witn
T otltud*.
"Mother, did God make the earth V
inquired a very little girl with a
very large lump of inquisitiveness.
"Yes."
"All alone?"
"Yes."
"And did he make the sun and moon
and stars and peoples?"
"Yes."
"All alone?"
"Yes, dear—he did it all by him-
self"
The very little girl pondered a bit.
Then:
"Mother, doesn't God ever play with
anybody?"
Suitable.
"Those dress uniforms have a lot of
frogs."
"Then they ought to look well at a
militia hop." .
Constipation
Vanishes Forever
Prompt Relief—Permanent Curi
CARTER'S LITTLE ^
LIVER PILLS never
fail. Purely vegeta-
ble — act surely J
hut gently on '
the liver.
Stop after
dinner dis- .
tress—cure L
improve the complexion, brighten the eyes,
SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICB.
Genuine must bear Signature
jse WI1U uon-vc ... ..." -
seem to think he possesses the most
marvelous powers for the healing- of all
Boris of diseases. Munyon, himself,
laughs at this. He says: "The hundreds
of cures which you are hearing about
everv day in Philadelphia are not in any
way'due to my personal sVtll. It Is my
remedies, which represent the comb Ined
brains of the greatest medica specialists
science has ever known, that are doing
the work. I have paid thousands of dol-
lars for a single formula and the ex-
clusive right to manufacture it. I have
paid tens of thousands of dollars 'or oth-
ers of mv various forms of treatment.
This is why I get such remarkable re-
Bull*. I have simply bought the best
products of the best brains ln the wor^
and placed this knowledge within the
reach of the general public.
Among Munyon's callert yesterday
were many who were enthusiastic In
their praise of the man One of these
said- "For six years I suffered with
rheumatism. Mv arms and legs were^af-
flicted so badly that I could hardly work,
and I could not raise my arms to my
head. The pain was most severe ln the
rs„A t T170 a in n^rrect tor-
OBITUARY.
T3UTOT*
W. N. U., WICHITA, NO. 35-1911.
"Guess 1 must be a Summer Girl,
For when 1 walk the beach
With clothes all itarched with
Faultless Starch,
They say: 'Gefr—Pipe the peachT
little box and staggered- out. With , head. nandax was In' Per,.ect
the opening of the door a dense cloud 4 SUTwi
of smoke poured into the auditorium. noth|n(r georT1P(i to help me until I was
At this moment some person yelled j <?,< .."ftelKSt
"Fire!" The spectators turned in the | ^arvelolia1y acting remedy I ever saw
seat, saw the „n,oke. iompedwther j w^thepaln
feet and simultaneously all staited j sp)f pntjrr.ly cur8(1. i ran now go out in
the awful rush for the line doorway | th. .«£ M. ST™ St
leadlng to the eight-foot stalraay. pirt0n of a return of the j" ase. *
A, the stairway the fleeing worn*
—and children ran into otheis who we ft Js niaklng a Kreat mistake
awaiting admission. Immedia ely the ■ The^ntlnuou.
narrow stairway was packed ten te M)invnn at bls laboratories at ^3d and
high with the dead and dy In,. the IIn- j 3
jured and those who somehow escap j expert physicians busy
unhurt' I Munyon ^snnajlv^Munyon's' ^abora-
I tories. R3d and .Teferson SJs..
Canonsbiirg. Pa., Aug. 28_There ?n'e t^vo^case"" roOT^n^ry"^'
a rush tor the exit and in a moment hpl(1 ^rlotlv confldential an-l an^ered m
fheTe was a writhing, screaming mass ^plaln^velope.^Tou^ni ^^venth
of humanity ten feet high in the nar- q„PStlons. Remember there iIs no charts
row stairway leading to the entrama of jiny kind Mn'nyon make,
of the theater. The panic it was said ™
were smothered. A
majority of the audience was compos- | Not lmpre^T
ed of women and clh thev wera Mme. Nordica, at a garden party at
fierce rush for t - trkmplcd. JDeal Beach, said, apropos of her re-
SES throw if upon them and cent European tour:
"Ah! how true it is that one must
die to be appreciated! Poor Rover
was never worth half that when he
■was alive."
Cautious Supervision.
"I'm afraid my work is going to
be complicated," said the new teach-
er.
"In what way?"
"Mrs. Cumrox was looking through
the text hook on arithmetic and it oc-
curred to her to suggest that I refrain
from teaching her daughter any ex-
amples in improper fractions."
Was He a Bostonian?
"John," shrieked a woman, "don't
go under that ladder."
But under it John went with a
swoop to the pavement. I
"My dear," he said, coming up with
• dollar bill in his hand, "if I hadn't
gone under the ladder that boy would
have beaten me to the currency.
■CTf
FREE with Etch Kk P ck tf-A* InierwiiiU B*k I* Childita
W. L. DOUGLAS,
*2.50, *3.00, *3.50 & *4.00 SHOES
WOMEN wear W.LDougla* itylith, perfect
fitting, easy walking boots, because they give
long wear, tame a* W.L.Douglas Men's shoes.
THE STANDARD OF QUALITY
FOR OVER 30 YEARS
The workmanship which has madeW. L.
Douglas shoes famous the world over is
maintained in every pair. a
If I could take you into my large factories
at Brockton, Mass., and show you how
carefully VI'.LDouglas shoes are made, you
would then understand why they are war-
ranted to hold their shape, fit better and|
wear longer than any other make for the price I
PAIITMN The genuine have W. £. DouglasB
wftU I lull name and price gtamped oil bottom |
i itners wcic « —*
those at the bottom of the human pile
were suffocated. AMar*
When two volunteer fire depart
ment sreached the theater the s^ht
stagered them. Those of the audience
who had escaped from the building
and other persons drawn to the scene
were rushing ineffectively abou the
front of the building. No- p«*f. «■
making any effort to aid th* strug
gling mass within the theater.
The firemen pushed into the build
Ing and threw persons into the street.
As the ejected ones regained their
feet they ran shrieking in trror about
the streets. As the firemen neared
the bottom of the pile they began to
bring out the unconscious forms of the
Injured and later came the dead
The dead were laid in a row along
the sidewalk. Relatives fought and
struggled to break past the guards and
reach the victims.
TWO RACERS DEAD;
STANDS HURT 20
"Many good people refuse to be im-
pressed by the armless and legless
fragments of antique sculpture treas-
ured In the museums of the Old
World.
"One day in the British museum a
guide was recounting to a little knot
of tourists the glories of a battered
centaur, when a Chicago meat sales-
man broke the reverent hush with the
question:
"'Excuse me, sir. but what would
they feed a bloke like that on—ham
and eggs or hay?'"
Stayed Away.
A little boy, says Harper's Maga-
zine, noticing the absence for several
davs of the little girl next to him in
school, inquired of the teacher where
she was.
"She was sick," replied the teacher,
"and 'the Lord took her away."
"Hm!" said the boy; "I was sick
all last week and he never came near
me."
TO ORIVEOVT MAUKIA sysTK.M
Take the Old Standard GKOVK'S TA>
pijn f 1H)N1C. You know what you are taking.
Tho formula Is plainly printed on
■ howlna It is simply yiilnlne and Iron In a tast less
form, and the most effectual form. For grown
people aud children, 60 cents.
After a man has had a small ambi-
tion gratified he is never happy until
he can dig up a larger one to center
his hopes on.
BEAUTIFUL POST CARDS FREE
Send 2c stamp for five samples of my very cho c
est Gold Embossed Birthday, Flower and Motto
Po t Cards; beautiful colors and loveliest designs.
Art Post Card Club, 731 Jackson St., Topeka, Kansas
Many a man doesn't realize that he
married an angel until she begins to
do the harp act.
^THE KEYSTONE)
TO HEALTH
IS ,
l hostetter's j
1 STOMACH 1
bitters
LIPTON'S TEA
/ OVER 2 MILLION PACKAGES SOLD WEEKLY
David Buck and Sam Jacobs Killed
When Machine Turns Turtle.
Elgin, 111., Aug. 28.—Two dead, the
result of an automobile turning a
somersault, and a score of injured in |
the collapse of two sections of the
grandstand is the toll enacted in the
305-mile automobile road race complet-
ed here this afternoon. Rushing along
at the terrific pace of sitxy-four miles
an hour, David Buck, a veteran rac-
er of Chicago, was within eleven laps
of the finish when his right forward
wheel threw a tire. The machine left
the track and turned turtle. Sam Ja-
cobs, a mechanician, was killed in-
stantlv, his neck being broken when
he was pinned under the wrecked ma-
chine. Buck's leg was broken and he
received internal injuries from which
he died in St. Joseph's hospital.
News of the accident was conveyed
to Mrs. Buck who was in the grand-
■tand by a messenger.
The next time you feel that swallowing
1 rensation gargle Hamlms Wizard Oil im-
mediately with three parts water. It will
tave you days and perhaps weeks of mis-
! tryfrom sore throat.
' It huTt difficult to induce the other
fellow to compromise when he real-
izes that you have the best of it.
jirs. Wlnslows Bootmnjf Syrup for Children
teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammar
tton. aUays pain, cure* wind colic. 85c a bottle.
Man might live by bread alone, but
woman must have some ice cream.
Smokers find Lewis' Single Binder 5c
cigar better quality than most 10c cigars.
j The trouble with giving advice Is
! not many want to take it.
nj 4!
End Your Ironing Troubles
by Using
Defiance Starch
€| The most serviceable starch on
the market today. Works equally
well hot or cold and produces a
finish unequaled by any other
starch.
One trial will prove its merits
and make you a confirmed user.
Tfl STRENGTHEN
III INVIGORATE
TONE AND
REBUILD THE
ENTIRE SYSTEM
you need the Bitter8 at once.
Try it It never disappoints.
Monotonous.
Madge—So the place you spent
your vacation got to be awfully dull?
Marjorie—Just dreadful, dear. To-
ward the end I had to get engaged
again to a young man I was in love
with early In the summer.
€JSee that you get
"DEFIANCE" next
time. Big 16 - ounce
package for 10 cents at
all grocers.
Manufactured by
Defiance Starch Co.
OMAHA, NEBRASKA
A
When Building Church, School or pnator
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' agency proposition. Everything in Black-boards and School Supplies. Askfor Catalog 89.
AMERICAN SEATING COMPANY, 218 So. Wab« h7fvenuef Chicago, III.
Death Lurks In A Weak Heart
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