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flPHFlEw MffiM w r w Wl .( K .. . aUBOlSLW Et:ENIG VBLiO LBDGEEr-lHILAJ3iiiLPHlX, MONDAY, JUNE 14, -190 15 PHIL A. NOSES OUT BOSTON IN L1TERAR Y LEAGUE RACE St. Louis Claims Title and Leaves Quaker City in Puzzling Position as, to Appetites of Readers a Philadelphia renders highbrows, or nrc they tho 'type who go In for sum n bailing nil .tho year round? What makes this question so linpor t.nt rleht now Is that somo book fnn iii In St. Louis has just nnnouncca that tho literate class In tho nenr ter belt reads better stuff than tho nil tared Pl),lc of n8t0"' nss' II, n,5" nrl It all out In percentages; and col umns and decided that every round went to St. I-ouls by n big margin except nne They read more autobiography In Boston, but there nrc moro people In I o" on who tell the story of their lives to the publishers than In nuy other llntll nil this Informntlon .enmo out nobodv knew and nobody seemed to enre what rhllndclphlans rend. Hut when n nlacc like St. Ixnils Is by way of clalm Ine to be n literary center, It's no time for the other entries to hang back. Philadelphia and St. IjouIs may have the same general type of ball club, but that hasn't anything to do with literary This Is one of thoso'qucstlons of civic life, than which, you might sny, there arc few moro Important. Some ono or other has said. "Tell mo what a city reads nnd I will tell you what It Is." Now York reads the ads In the Intcrborough, Chicago rends r rime nnd punishment, Pittsburgh reads anvthlng It's n simple rule. lint to get back to tho question of what this city reads; tho nuswer Is "yes," or words to tlint effect. The niniplo truth Is thnt tho Philn dolphln rending .public Is too clever for the statisticians; Tho reports from 11- WTWT Health Demands r.inviLM covcrM for nil meat, fruit nnd produce wagtms. Our prices ore low, our quality high Avo mnko them. F. Vanderherchen's Sons 7 North Water Street, Philadelphia "At the Bian-of the Ball" brnrics, publishing houses nnd book i-V ii ,,n,"cn everything from mild Intellectual Insanity to tho point where uutinnurin win turn and tnko n tho light nnd nlry printed the whirl at mntter. TO? concise, the percentage of fic tion said to be read hero runs from 20 per cent to (k per cent, which makes tho city's reading public cither lead St. Louis or trn 1 Uoston In tho matter of tho consumption of stable literary prod- Jw.! Tho .cpor,t of tho frc library nt Thirteenth nnd Spruce streets shows two out of every threo books taken homo by readers is some sort of fic tion. A largo publishing bouse In the city Is Osada Mantel Co. Msnnfuc tnrjTii inid Dratr In Mcdlcino Cabinets, Wardrobes, Mantels, Mantel Shelves, Offlco .Partitions, Gns Logs, Gas Grated and Fire Sots. 1422-34 S. Fronf St. Wedding Flowers "The Sign of the Roie" CHARLES HENRY FOX i2t r nnoAo bt.s 2640 W. Lehigh ' Avenue n -'Uptown'i Leading Agent tor the Grafonola" M Try us for the latest Columbia Records rhon Dlnmonil SM7 nutborlty for the assertion thnt IMilla dclphln rends' from -10 to f0 per cent fletlon. Tho mnnnger of tho lnrgest retail .bobk store Insists thnt only 20 per cent of the books sold nrc fiction nnd that for the grcnt part tho readers of this city nre on tho trnil of facts nnd uplift nnd all that sort of thing. The book store manager pointed out thnt n few pieces of fiction nttalo n grcntcr publicity thnn nnv other form of reading nnd that fiction renders arc tho most npt to tell everybody about the books they nre rending. He clnlms thnt his store sells far moro biography, cssnys, history, literary criticism, noctry, drnmn nnd llternture thnn fic tion, no uecinres tlint 0 per cent ot tno dookb soiu nrc poetry. COLUMBIA RECORDS Sheet Muilc Plnrar.Ralta Krtirtliln nnd Anrthfnr In Mntt - The Muwc Man - 78?60toSr.4F OPEN EVENINGS ift Columbia RecordS JO WnVrmt I.inniKfn MACHINES ON TERMS itErAins noNK in 24 nouns Phtlada. Phonograph Co. Ehlla. ra. Cnmil.n. N. J. OPKN KVF.RY KVrcNlNO Phona "Tom" Foley - for Latest Records and Columbia Grafonolas v 9Jj Dtll rhone, Toplsr ST10 1406 QIRARD AVE, Jm You Can Get ALL of the Columbia Records Advertised in Today's Papers at Myers F.Hall, Inc. 2626 Germantown Ave. Juat Itelow IehUh Ave. Mid-Month List Now on Sale J I:XLi I UicL fBr m w " i T y TV" VNAJ TO NJ c&' gf Ted Lewis Makes a Date in Cuba You'll find it pure delight to dance to these two tantalizing fox-trots. Melo dious incidental whistling by Ted Lewis himself makes "I'll See You in C-U-B-A" a sure-fire hit. Coupled with "The Moon Shines on the Moonshine," by these same exclusive Columbia artists. . A-2927 $1.00 Nora Bayes Sings of Boyhood Days No one can carry you back to boy hood as convincingly as Nora Bayes. "Patches" makes you ache to wear those badges of boyhood once again. Coupled with the song "Without You," this ex clusive Columbia artist's leading feature rmiwi mm in Ladies First. A-2921 $1.00 r J v Lf m w w f ." evv i wii W sf7An" OPERA TQ AID SEAMEN 8avoy Company to Appear In Beno fit Performance Thursday Night Tho women's nuxlllnry of the Hen- Art Hickman Hits Oriental Fox-trots "Rose of Mandalay" and "Along the Way to Damascus" are two Oriental fox-trots by Art Hickman's Orchestra from the St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco. They'll fill you with all the rhythmic fire for which these exclusive Columbia artists are justly famous from coast io coasu. A-2917' $1.00 A Few More Mid-Month Hits Roto of Wn.hlnBton Squ.ro ) A.2928 Shadow. Campbell and nnrrA-2920 -nenry mirr l -" j00 ounmine uoie Ucorgc Meauer J 1.00 Lewis Jamet ) Tired of Mo Railroad Bluet Fox-trot Yerkes' Southern Five ( A-202 Shako Your Little, Shoulder ( ox-trot . . The Happy Six Hlawnthtt't Melody of Love ftleu cv Walti Prince's Orchestral A-6150 Beautiful Hawaiian Love ( ''25 Medley Waltz 1 Prince's Orchestra . Get the Now Columbia Novelty Record Booklet Every Columbia Dealer Hat It I ,Unrf"rf MhnFONl'AS N'" Co''"!,Wo f'' n Sal, at Ml Columbia D..Ut. th, J Oth and 30th of Every Monti n "P fo,M COLTTMHTA r.T)ADHni)HnMF miWDAMV XT V-.l. lUMMJijMiii ' '" nt I i.t K inon's Chtirtfh Instltuto hns obtnlnrd thh co-opcraton of the Hnvoy Opcrn Cninpntiy In Riving n beenlit pcrfonn nnco nt.tlio Urontl Htrcct Tlicntrn on Tlinrs(lnjcvenlng for the benefit of the InoHtnlv v This fund wllfbe used In rcnovntlng nnd mnklnc over pnrlw of the recently ncqtilrcd propei'ty of the old Ht. Albnn'H Hotel nt Heronil nnd Wnlntit streets. This building will bo converted Into tempornry hendqunrters for the Insti tute, occupnncy of which will bo taken shortly until the building fund for the new building hns been nccumulntcd. Sirs. Krncst Lnw Is chairman of the women'H nuxlllnry. . Flnger Broken by Auto Crank ' John Irving, of 2727 Aspen strwt, broicj threo llnpcrB nnd fractured hU liKht hnnd while crnnklng his auto-v mobile yesterday at llroad street rind Oltnrd nveniic. ttortn mJMX OVERSIZE 4- Tir , j p " Jtk " ,tSl? mnBl nr,Mim&XKC foVMmB&tr,v.mfmmi'i mvy twrnnw WitmmllWKMMMmlWkWkm III m ITTT? nnTtrr A T? T A rrrrT 11 .1 WmSm BgygflllBl THE PORTAGE PATH, which passes through the great rubber city of Akron, was once a rude trail over which Indians and trapper guides portaged the canoes and baggage of the early settlers as they journeyed from Lake Erie to the Ohio River. For many years this trail the Cuyahoga -Tuscarawas Portage formed the boundary between warring Indian tribes, serving as a neutral strip upon which hostilities were suspended. It was here that Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the founder of the city of Cleveland, set a cornerstone to mark the Western boundary of the United States. By the "Ordinance of 1787" this Portage Path was declared to be a highway "forever free" between the North and the South. The boundary of the United States is shifted far to the west; the trappers and Indians have gone; the once modest Portage Path is now a broad motor highway. The automobile has replaced the canoe; in place of men have come pneumatic tires to fill the role of "carriers" in modern locomotion. V T r TT HTEN years ago the first Portage Tires were built in a little -L factory that faced the historic Portage Path. That small factory has grown and expanded to huge propoVtions because of the big-mileage performance and rugged merit of the tire. A notable Portage Tire advantage is the soft and pliant but very tough and long-wearing black tread. Flint-like roads grind the life out of ordinary tire treads. But the yielding quality of the PORTAGE tread enables it to withstand abrasion to the utmost. This yielding quality -plus the scientifically correct Skidlock tread pattern- insures big mileage, easy-riding comtort ana skid protection on city streets or country roads w They get you there and back! rCZ&t-C&fs ci&tyt&i , Made in "DAISY" and "SKIDLOCK'1 Treads PORTAGE TIRE & RUBBER CO. AKRON ' a . t i 4L a ! -r 4 ' 11 k H-S'. ' . .. r h.z ir, i. . .. 1 .j( "'?,-: I,. J'f'ViXh .. .-f-" -i Jt . ' tijkj. ,& l A. '..vISK.I .'. . Ij '. ;i v jfitZf.i jJaj.:"?!, sfLi.. tittl'h' Si.iiU.v. MnXm&iSa.:, j J.L. . lift, .. (5-7) Vfrti-'x-,' -i.S