Talala Gazette-Times (Talala, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, September 8, 1916 Page: 4 of 8
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THE TALALA G A Z E T T E - T I M E S
HAPPENINGS/^
Picturesque Market Day in a Suburb of Chicago
C1R A(iO. The conductor on an Illinois Central early morning suburban
train hound for Blue Inland hitched up bin belt with one hand and
chucked a dark-eyed Italian child good-naturedly under the chin with thi
other. Then he turned to the father
on the opposite seat.
"Tnke that pig off the Kent,
Ton.v," he said, "aud put it on the
floor. And don't let that rabbit fall
out of the window."
Tony grinned and shoved a di
mlnutlve porker down between his
feet.
"I won't have him long." he an-
J [. swered in broken English, wiping bis
— brow with a red bandanna. "I'm Su-
ing to trade him for some rabbits."
In a short time the brakeman burst through the door, yelling "Blue
Island," and the exodus began. The weird procession looked like a second
edition of the disembarkment from Noah's ark after the Hood.
The cause of the unusual circumstance lay in the fact that it was Blue
Island's own "market day," held the first Thursday of each month the year
around and which for nearly two generations has been one of the most
picturesque institutions of the middle West
A tour along the street revealed an interesting sight, as in the jumble
were hucksters, patent tnedicino venders, groups of horses, a cow now and
then, a sprinkling of automobiles and motor cycles and long rows of wagons
containing chickens, ducks, geese, pigeons, white rabbits, goats and pigs for
sale or trade. Most of the trading was done a la "JO chickens for a goat" or
"six white rabbits for a pig."
Trading began early, and by ten o'clock long lines of the picturesquely
attired foreign peoples who go lo make of America a great inciting pot could
be seen making their way to the depots, carrying baskets or boxes under
arms, on top of heads and in wagons, containing noisy geese and chickens.
Here and there would he a man bearing a gruntim; pig under his arm or
trying to drive a stubborn goat. They made their way into the railway cars
—it was said in Blue Island that on market day only the railways permit
persons to take into passenger coaches anything that they can carry under
their arms, whatever its nature—and with noises resembling Cy De Vry's
famous zoo chattered In strange tongue, presumably about their various
trades and what the next market day would bring forth.
Unselfish New Yorkers Give Their Blood Freely
NEW YORK.—Those who recently watched young men and women and
even children crowd into Dr. Abraham Zlngher's office at Willard Parker
hospital were convinced that unselfishness is commoner than most people
believe. They were there to give
their blood for the sake of sufferers*
they had never seen. These men and
women and children were all orlpplfs.
They were well now. but each had a
limp arm or a shortened leg resulting
from an attack of infantile paralysis
some time, perhaps many years ago.
Without hope of reward, except
the satisfaction that comes from all
good deeds, they responded to the
physicians' appeal for the life fluid of
recovered poliomyelitis patients.
which bus been discovered to benefit those just stricken down and still
struggling against the terrible fever in the acute stages.
« One of the men from whom blood was taken had both a twisted leg and
. Ump «mn. ,
I ve had a Tough time of if, he confided to Doctor 5Cin-her, "ever since
Hie disease fitt me this way as a child. I've had jobs and have had to give
them up'because I couldn't do the work. Vicious people have made me the
butt of tiieir fun and sensitive people have hurt ine as much by avoiding me
as if I were an unclean thing. All my life I've felt that I bad no place in
the world, that I «as left out of everything worth while—until today. Now
I feel that I am of some use. I can save others from niv own fate."
Another volunteer was a youth, who said:
"Don't tell my parents, please, doctor. They'd be frightened if they
knew I was giving blood, fur they do everything to make my life full and
happy. But of what use are all their efforts? I'm no good, anyhow, so if
all my blood will save others, take it."
The blood is carefully and almost painlessly drawn. The only ill effect
those giving it feel is sometimes u slight weakness, which passes off in a
day or two.
Pittsburgh Discards the Title of Smoky City
P ITTSBURGH.—Pittsburgh lias announced to an admiring world that It is
* no longer "The Smoky City." "To all intents and purposes Pittsburgh has
solved its smoke problem." it is stated. "Although it is having a hard time
living down its time-worn nickname
of 'The Smoky City,' the fact remains
that the 'production and emission of
smoke" in Pittsburgh has been abated
fully "•*> per cent within the last three
years. And that In spite of the fact
that the business activity and coal
consumption have greatly increased
during that time."
No other city has been confronted
with a smoke problem of such magni-
tude or has encountered so many dif-
ficulties in solving it. The ihree
rivers, the deep valleys, the frequency of high humidity and low wind
velocity, with resultant fogs, were handicaps to be overcome. The extent of
the mill district, the great number of stacks in restricted areas, the immense
quantity of smoke-producing fuels consumed, the characteristics of the high
volatile coal natural to the district, and the variety of boiler and metallurgical
furnaces, were in part responsible for the dense smoke that used to cover
the city like a pail, making It necessary to use artificial light in midday.
Investigators of the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, University
of Pittsburgh, discovered that Pittsburgh's annual loss, due to smoke nui-
sance, was at least $10,000,000. The agitation for smoke abatement crystallized
Into a great civic movement in which all the Industries of the city were urged
to Join. On March 4. 1913. the city council passed several ordinances relating
to the regulation of production and emission of smoke and enlarging the
scope of the bureau of smoke regulation, organized some time before.
THE EUROPEAN WAR A
YEAR AGO THIS WEEK
September 4, 1915. •
Artillery duel* on the west
front.
Austrians began movement
against Italians at Monte Nero.
Allan liner Hesperian sunk
without warning by Qerman sub-
marine; 25 lost.
September S, 1915.
Czar assumed supreme com-
mand of Russian armies.
Austrians advance on Dubno.
Bloody fighting on Gallipoli
peninsula.
September 6, 1915.
Discovery of documents car-
ried by James Archibald, Amer-
ican correspondent, compromis-
ing Doctor Dumba, Austrian am-
bassador to Washington.
Austrians attacked Italian po-
sition at Monte Nero.
Forty French Aeroplanes bom-
barded Saarbrucken.
September 7, 1915.
Italians repulsed Austrian at-
tack at Monte Nero.
British squadron bombarded
German batteries on Belgian
coast.
German submarines sank Brit-
ish, French and Norwegian ves-
sels.
German airships raided east
coast of England, killing ten.
French aviators attacked Frei-
burg.
September 8, 1915.
Russian Grand Duke Nicholas
shifted to the Caucasus.
Russians recaptured old posi-
tions in Galicia, near Tarnopol.
Germans began new offensive
on western approaches to Ver-
dun.
Zeppelins raided east coast and
London district, killing 20.
Dutch sentries fired on Zeppe-
lin flying over Holland.
•!
September 9, 1915. j
Austrians captured Dubno.
Russians won another victory
southwest of Trembowla.
German crown prince's army
gained in Argonne district.
United States asked Austria
to recall Ambassador Dumba.
Germany sent note defending
sinking of Arabic.
September 10, 1915.
Germans won trenches at
Schratzmaennele, on west front,
with asphyxiating shells.
Italians again repulsed at
Tolmino.
Germans made further prog-
ress in the Argonne.
Anglo-French financial com-
mission landed in New York.
PONTIFICAL MASS FOR CATHOLIC SOCIETIES
'ijf
If
Tussock Moths Destroying Chicago's Shade Trees
CHICAGO.—Chicago has been invaded by millions of tussock moths, busily
engaged in eating the leaves from the trees of the city. The moths, in
the caterpillar stage, cause a rash if they fall on the bore skin. Practically
every section of the city Is subject to
the Invasion. The only spots which
have not suffered are the big parks.
which have their own forces of labor-
ers to combat the enemy. The con-
tinued hot weather Is held account-
able for the Invasion.
"I never saw the rity so infested
with the tussock moth as It now 1b,"
said City Forester Jacob H. Frost.
"The pest Is worst over among the
willows on the West side lowlands.
"The beat method to save the
trees at this time of the year is to hire small boys to climb the infested
trees and brush the egg masses Into a pall, then burn them. Wire brushes
iirr the proper thing. It is well to back this method by spraying with arsen-
ate of lead.
"The* mollis are in the caterpillar stage now and they crawl into open
i own and onto porches. If they drop onto the bare arms or neck they
■ilse a rash. Hundreds of Instances of this kind of a rash have been
i J my oOce."
BRIEF INFORMATION
If a baby had the appetite of a young
Potato beetle it would eat from 50 to
100 pounds of food every 24 hours,
a horse ate as much as a caterpillar
in proportion to its size, it would con-
sume a ton of hay every 24 hours. A
caterpillar eats twice its weight of
leaves every day. but a potato beetle
devours every day at least five times
its weight of foliage.
A converted schooner of 250 tons
burden Is soon to sail from New York
for Columbia on an old-fashioned bar-
tering expedition, the vegetable Ivory
nut, extensively used In button mak-
ing. being sought In return for a
varied cargo of American goods. The
promoters hope from such small be-
ginnings to develop n continuous and
profitable trade.
One W. H. Young, who has written
a humorous book on his adventures as
a business man In South America, tells
of a Brazilian, Senor Don Jose de Brn-
ganza. whose eagerness for a title went
so far that he had printed on his cards
"Ex-passenger, first-class. It. M. S. P.
C." He had once taken a trip, first
cabin, on n Royal .Mail Steam Packet
company boat.
Vincent, an Airedale terrier owned
by C. M. Wilson of Paw-tucket. II. I,
has been serving the family for soma
time as a newsboy, a Job which he se-
lected hltnself nnd has filleil faithfully.
Every day Vincent goes to the train
with his master, who fastens a paper
to his collar, after which the dog trota
home, lie has slipped up on only on*
morning.
A shell eight Inches long and three
Inches In diameter, which was fired
Into Atlanta. Ga„ by General Sherman,
was found In an excavation In a
street. The shell has the appearance
of a solid shot and not an explosive
shell and Is now being used by H. H.
Godfrey, who found It, as a paper
weight.
Denver Is to Issue a million color
post cards, a quarter of a million guide-
books. half a million one-day trip pam-
phlets and much other matter, to b«
distributed fey a tourists' bureau, un-
der the direction of the city, with th«
aim of attracting summer visitors
V
To open tue fifteenth uuiual coavtnlion of the American Federation of Catholic Societies !a New York pon-
tifical mass was celebrated ir. St. Patrick's cathedral, three ean'iuiils und the apostolic delegate l.eiug present.
The photograph shows the procession entering the cathedral.
GREAT STONE BRIDGE NORTH OF GORITZ
This stone bridge, :b - lurg"st of lis kl:«I
Italians captured from the Austrians. The bri
of engineering.
SHIELDS LIKES THE HEAT
ls.inzo rhcr jus
building was
it/, which the
rondcrful feat
SIR SAM GETS OUT OF A HOLE
ib-'h
I fit. S:r San
Senator John K. Shields >f Tennes-
see does not tnlnd the tut weather a
bit. and always Is dressed to corre-
spond with the standing of the ner-
cury In the thermometer tube.
Hughes, the Canadian minister of militia, emerging from
the talne-layltig submarine which the British captured from the Herman*
and put on exhibition ij<he Thames.
One Thing That Pleased Him.
If you would please a mother, praise
her child; but do It with discretion. A
visiting gentleman had submitted f.^r
some time to the attentions of the
three-year-old boy of his hostess, but
at last he became tired of having his
whiskers pulled and bis corns trodden
upon.
"Madam,"' he said, "there Is one
thing about your charming little boy
that especially pleases me."
"And what Is that?" asked the sell-
ing mother.
"That he Isn't a twin."—New York
Globe.
MACHINE GUNNERS IN GAS MASKS
Just That Kind.
"Dubwalte beats anybody I ever saw
raising inoney for charity."
"I wish h« would occasionally give
some thought to his own affairs."
"Why do you say 'Jin ti"
"Because I happen to be his 'ho i
lorJ. He's so busy helping other peo-
ple t i raise rent that he forgets t> pr
Ma own."
British machine gunners -n the
graphed during aa action.
front wearing
ks, photo
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Bybee, John J. Talala Gazette-Times (Talala, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, September 8, 1916, newspaper, September 8, 1916; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc185637/m1/4/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.