The Ralston Tribune (Ralston, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, December 1, 1916 Page: 4 of 6
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THE RALSTON TRIBUNE, RALSTON. OKLAHOMA
mLOYALTY
WITH TWO OF THE YEAR'S BLESSINGS
Is the first essential to
oontlnued good health
whan help Is needstMor
II THE APPETITE
THE STOMACH
THE LIVER OR .
THE BOWELS
Turkey Long and Favorably
Known for It* DoKoiouo .
EdMo Qualitloe.
Tho Dixie higher*y ii approximately ■ ■» 1
1600 miles tony, traversing the right
states of Michigan, Illinois. Indiana, I n QTF
sad Florida. Construction work Is now fl
ttsrjzrjzfs.tt Stomacl
Ky„ and Knoxville, Than.; Nashville I b**h,p of 25,00a
and Chattanooga, Tenn.; along the
weetem division, through central Flor-
ida, Tallahassee to Gainesville, and
Take Grom's
The Old Standard Grove's Tarisless
chill Tbuie Is equally valuable as a Gen-
eral Tonie became ft contains!the well
known tonie praportiee of QUlRlNB and
IRON, ft acts on (he Liver, Drives ori
Malaria, Bunches the Blood and Builds
up the Whole System. SO cents
France Is Importing Chinese labor
for Its munition factories.
THIft It THE AOS OF YOUTH.
Dm will loch ton years younger if ifsn
, ▲ fall-grown elephant yields * IPO
pounds of Ivory.
era, has a bare head and neck. Its
body plumage Is bronae sad green,
banded with grid bronae and varied
with spots or eyes of brilliant colors—
bike, rad and brilliant hlarit.
Why la • Turkey is Nassedf
Why the turkey Is called the tur-
key when Its origin Is admittedly pure-
ly occidental Is a subject that has pua-
sled many persona. There-* re several
rananna given by thorn who have
drived deeply Into this problem, and
one Is privileged to take hls choice.
In the first piece. It Is stated that tbs
turkey ipu originally
Unnld Sam’s Saflort Have
Sorts of Fun on Thanks-
giving.
DON'T LOSE YOUR HAIR
rrhHANKBGIVING day la the nuvy
I Isn't what It need to bet But
i neither officer nor enlisted own
states the fact with reminiscent
sadness of tone. For nmay years ago,
sad many years less than that, afid, tap
dead, until very recent years, the Ply-
mouth Bock anniversary was a
day anticipated'for months ahead be-
cause It would bring turkey and “trim-
mings" to every man aboard ship la
the navy. But now—well, the aallor-
men are not any lees patriotic, only
they have such Improved food condi-
tions that a holiday has lost come of
Its desirabilities, at least from a ca-
nnery standpoint. j
la every other respect Thaaksgt r-
Ing day Is Just as longingly antici-
pated, for greeter freedom is allowed
the men, and events, unheard of la the
“old days,” enliven the ship during
the forenoon and "after dinner and tea
—or tiffin.
All aorta of athletic contests pora -
I ble to the floating gymnasium art II-
I dulged In and more than one promis-
ing "White Hope" has made his flsbut
I at a holiday bout
I From the time they turn out every
I man aboard feels a tangible difference
I la the day. No matter what (he
I weather condltlooa—whether .they be
I near the equator or plowing about Ice-
crusted teas—it la Thanksgiving day
I and there will be "doings."
Every vessel of the navy moat be
at a I
time when a great stretch of territory I
on the Asiatic continent was called I
"Turkey" the bird derived Its name
from Its supposed origin. Another
speculative chronicler records that the
Indiana called the bird "flrkee" and
that from this Its common name was
created. Then, again, it la somewhat
generally believed that the bird named
Itself by Its peculiar utterances, which
are still translated as “turk-turk-
turkee." Again, still more subtle philos-
ophers have traced the naming of
tho Mrd to Its kinship In the matter
| of polygamous habits with the Turks,
land there are other explanations. !
j The pilgrims were not ao bad off
In some ways as we have been led to
Imagine, for although they were de-
prived of the Joys of tinned meats and
vegetables and cold storage and sltq-
I liar blessings turkeys were ao plenti-
ful that It Is recorded It was custom-
I ary to retgr to them as bread. An-
other chronicler sets forth the fact
that the breast of the wild turkey
I when oooked In butter was esteemed
I by eveo the epicures among the ex-
plorers. But la spite of tbrir shun-
1 dance turkeys were regarded with fa-
I vor even by the red men. If one is to
I Judge by the following prayer which
I they uttered:
"Oh great Being, I thank thee that
[l have obtained the use of my legs
| again so that I am able to walk aboot
I sad kill turkeys"
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura. Dept L
Boston. Bold everywhere.—Adv.
Switseriand produces more than
1,000 pianos a year.
The turkey thpt the Astern war-
ahlpsd waa probably either the Moni-
es* wild tnrkey, Which la knows by
the white touches ou Its tall coverts
sad quills or, owes appropriately, the
ocrilated turkey of Honduras and
other parts of South America, whose
brilliant plumage, spotted almost as
gloriously with vivid colors as a pan-
oock, somehow elites It particularly
with that vivid rarty peopls The tur-
key which strolled out of the fereots
of Mow England and furnished ao mar-
velous a banquet hr our Puritan fore-
bird than
gray, er la harsh and stiff, yon esa
store It to Its former beauty and 1
tar by aslng "La Creole" Hair Dm
tag. Price $1.00.—Adr.
Japan has 2.146 merchant ships
Neat Eaters’ Backache
Dixih* r3aS3
Highway^M?
fathers was a
that of Mexico, la tho opinion of boom
lovers of beauty, hut not as brilliant
a one ao the Honduras turkey.
—e •olid poison the! irritates the
nerves dsstsgas the kidneys sad eftm
oeeeea dnpy, gravel sad urinary dis-
order* Doan*. Kidney PUb help
week kidneys to throw off erie arid.
really belongs to Thanksgiving, was
Gw North American wild tnrkey
Mind throughout tho eastern United
fits tee and Gonads Scientifically It la
— w. H. addons MB
In awful ahape and
caused me no end of
trouble. I had to
J*-set up often at night
to* paea the kidney
secretion*. My back
pained me ao Intenae-
If couldn’t
around without a
auBJW cane for at leaat
lMMul three weeka. It waa
impossible for me to set up from a
chair without catching hold of some-
thing for support. Doan’s Kidney PUls
rid me of all these troubles and made
me strong and- well."
bronae. In the rays of the sun the
bird gleams la a beautiful harmony of
Mack copper, gold and kronas And tho.
turkey likes the rays of the sun. He
hates damp weather, not alone because
It la bad for his health, bat becaase
It obscures bis beauty.
It Is generally believed at present
that all the tsrkeys of the world have
descended from tho throe forms knowa
as the North American bird, which has
Jnet been described; the Mexican Mrd
the road by way of Huntsville, 100
miles farther, Is beet. The countiee la
central Florida are hard at work on
tho road and hope to provide a good
route la another year. It is tho aim ri
the Dixie Highway association to pro-
vide o route within two years time that
will enable motorists to travel comfort-
ably from Chicago to Miami In six
thousand and one odd Jobs a man-of-
war to always providing.
Whenever It Is possible men are pqr
mltted to go home for Thanksgiv-
ing, and of course their "Day" he
comes an individual holiday, but tlu
majority simply go ashore for a JoUlft
[THANKSGIVING
QUESSINQ AT COST OF ROADS
cation, a theater or a football game—
If tho fleet la la any homo port-ei
for whatever happens to bo provided
by "the natives" of a foreign port at
that time.
Of course the elaborateness of Ibe
day's exercises depends upon the tat-
sad the ocrilated Mrd.
The turkey which was first Intro-
duced luto Europe may have bees car-
ried there by the Spaniards from Mex-
ico or the Jesuits may have taken It
back across the waters from one of
their scattered stations la tho groat
woods of Canada. la any event, one
of Its representatives figured at tho |
marriage banquet of Charles IX and
was regarded as of eaflrioat Impor-
tance to be mentioned In the reports
of that festivity.
fhe Mexican turkey Is the wild Mrd
•f Mexico, which also carte over the
lias Into the southern pert of tho
United States. Meleagrle Osllopeva
la the name that Is generally employed
to describe this tnrksy. It Is some
what shorter la the rimak than tho
aarthora species. Its body color Is
a metallic Mack, shaded with bronae.
This la thought to be the spades that
the early navigators first bora back
|» fipaia and England. The wMta tips
Ot Us plumsg* also have suggested
that It >■ to this Mrd rathar than to
tfts wild tuiftsy of North America
met moat at the domestic fowls ewe
Thera are aa many conflicting date
moots regarding the cost of road work
that the desirability of a comprehen-
sive method of highway accounting la
evident in order that taxpayers may
not be misled concerning the total ex-
pense of such work, according to
American Highway. Tho Iowa state
Mghway commission has had consid-
erable difficulty la finding out what
tho countiee la that state have been
spending, because of this failure to
have a complete system of accounts.
On# rich county reported collecting
91K000 for road work, hat after in-
vestigation tho commlssioa found $82^
600 had boso collected. An Investiga-
tion of the accounts of another
wealthy county reporting ISJ200 col-
among various vessels of the fleet, a*4
when one possesses an eepedall)
clever boxer, or fox trotter, or pie eat
er, or singer, the others are ears t<
leant It—there is no hiding of llgbti
under bushels at such times—end tali
ability lends added luster to the pro
•upply ef Turkeys Falling Off.
With a rising population and e fall-
lag scale la the turkey line our aa
lloual barometer Is registering badlj
for the coming generation. WhIVi
there has been ao count of torfcoys
since 1U10, yet statistics by the d»
partmeot of agrlcultaro show that the
falling off in the number of turiwyi
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Browning, Orrin L. The Ralston Tribune (Ralston, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, December 1, 1916, newspaper, December 1, 1916; Ralston, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc908200/m1/4/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.