The day book. [volume], January 30, 1914, LAST EDITION, Image 28

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MERELY COMMENT
A woman's attitude toward the
practice of wearing low-necked,
gowns depends a great deal on how
she looks in a low-hecked gown. x
The weather man ancTthe street
car companies ought to get together
on this weather proposition.
That seems the oniy probable way
of getting warm cars getting warm
weather.
And we would suggest that a good
many of the surface line cars be Bent
to the repair shop. 'Twouldn't be a
bad idea to have doors on 'em that
will close, all the way, so that what
warmth passengers bring in will
stay in.
Egg tissue can now be used for
grafting purposes, 'tis said.
Whoops, me deah! Have they just
discovered that? Why there has been
egg grafting for yeahs and yeahs.
Oh, you Egg Trust.
What's the use of knowing that an
egg will help out in case you fall
down stairs and break your promise,
when you haven't the necessary cop
pers for said egg?
Over a political editorial the Trib
this morning uses the head, "Divided
We Fall."
"Divided" or gathered together,
"we fall," all of us, for a lot of politi
cal bunk. That's a skadinch.
The price of butter and eggs is go
ing down.
Well, it's better that the grease of
the butter cause eggs to slip down
ward than that the tissue of the egg
hold butter up.
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REGAN DEATH DRAGGED INTO
VOTE FRAUD CASE
The mysterious death of James
Regan in the drainage canal last
summer entered into the vote fraud
cases yesterday. Regan's body was
found in the water a few days after
he had testified before the special
grand jury in connction with the 20th
ward cases.
Out of the 20th ward mess -were'
returned indictments against, Morris
Abrahams, Harry Pestine and Men
del and Harry Gerber. It was re
ported that Regan was to have been
a star witness for the state.
At the time of his death it was
given out that Regan was drowned
when his rowboat overturned.
"Regan gave very important tes
timony before the grand jury," said
Special Prosecutor Northup. "It was
told me later that a persistent effort
was made on the West Side to find
out just what testimony he gave. A
short time later his body was found."
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THREE BELIEVED DEAD IN FIRE
THAT RUINED "BABIES ROW"
"Babies Row," a five-story apart
ment building at Oakwood and Drexel
boulevards, so-called because chil
dren swarmed its entrances, crum
bled before the attack of flames
driven by a stiff gale early today, and
firemen are searching the ruins for
an infant and two women missing
and thought to have perished. The
total loss was $300;000. Three fire
men wer6 hurt.
Spontaneous combustion in a mass
of rubbage in' the basement caused ,
several sharp explosions and started
the blaze. Mrs. William Massover,
who lives on the first floor, sprang
from her bed in her nightgown and
ran barefooted to the dozen en
trances to the building, pressing bells
and warning occupants to flee.
In less than ten minutes nearly 100
women in nightclothes, half of them
carrying babies and screaming hys
terically, ran into the street, facing
bitter blasts from the lake, a block
distant. They were taken to the
Drexel Arms Hotel and the Chicago
Motorcycle Club and supplied with
clothing.
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1 The whale and the cachalot, the
rhinoceros and the African elephant,
have been familiar through the hu
man period, but it is pointed out that
without protection they will he" ex
tinct within tea years;- -