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REVAL, THREATENED BY THE GERMAN FLEET
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Revs.!, the Rtussian port which It hI bltiev'ed the Germnsa titert will atta. ui~.4 sit uat.'sI almsrnt sit the junction
of the Gulf of Finlansd with the Batith yea and hI not stronglIy prutito-tte by furtrtivatI'mn-. It-' I .-stiueuit would be.
of eonslddrutule OtrategI" vailue to the thertuans'.
JOFFRE GETS VALUED PRESENT
General Pershing presenting to MUa:lda Joffr an album contalning iress
dippnags concerning the famzuus Frenc·lhan5' visit to the United States.
NEW BIPLANE DEVISED BY THE GERMANS
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aew German biplane i4 equipped for Use over either sea or land.
MOt'On e ara eaily detached.
TOLD IN A PARAGRAPH
A tlcn glass is used in China.
mwa than 90 per cent of the world's
come from Zanzibar. which has
l t ,00000 full-hearing trees.
AWican automobile buses have
int l operation with success at
N_  Yucatan.
A Setion of land bertmne detached
the habore ait exter. Me.. during
arre storms and has become
tLland in Lake Wassoav
land bears many trees.
Although built early In the Chriatlian
era without mortar, a stone church in
Ireland still is in excellent condition.
A dictaphone small enough to be car
rted in one's pocket has been Invented i
and patented by a man in Washington.
Wheat is first mentioned in the
Bible In Genesis 30. 14 in the acceount
of Jacob's sojouru with Iaban in
Mesopotamia.
Henry Hull. a Wyandotte county
(Ohio) farmer, has pninted every
fence post :round his big farm either
red, white or blue.
BOMBED THE KRUPP WORKS
-I
f(;lloi., one of the best-known avia
tors France has produced during the
war. recently made a wonderful night
flight to Essen in (;Germany and suc
cessfully bonmbed the Krupp works.
Black Soldiers Acted Well.
( Camels evidently despise bullets.
The camel transport corps was in
action recently, Somewhere in Meso
potantia, and received its baptism of
fire. No shell or bullet can excite the
stolid, contemplative animal; but it
might have been .peclted that the
camel drivers, unarmed and untrained
for war, would have run for it at the
first sign of attack. Yet. in fact. most
of them responded admlrnhbly to the
call of their British officers and stuck
to their animals while bullets whizzed
around. With characteristic smplllcity.
or it may be obstinacy, when told ;o
bring in their camels to shelter they
insisted on taking with them the blank
ets "-hich are Issued to every man, lest
they should be stolen In their absence.
Some wanted to mount a hill under
tire to get their money from their tents.
The contempt which a Soudanese stal
wart feels for the modern long-range
fighting was expressed by one head
man-the more warlike Soudanese reg
ularly art as head-men over the Egyp
tlan peasants. who remarked, as the
l shells burst, that in his country they
"fought it out with knives."
Doing His Part
n "Is Spotters the kind of man who
n would fight for his country?
"I don't know whether he would or
r- not, but of one thing I'm certain."
d "And what is that?"
. "When the home troops marched
se away his farewell oration would be a
at masterpiece."
His Boast.
ty The Boy Who Stood on the Burning
- Deck-Well. for one thing, history catx
er never accuse me of having had cold
feet
PREPARE TO MOVE PYRAMID OF GRANITE
Out a, the summit of thii Rcl, ky '
mountains. wh.ere the 'nin titi lpti,
. i".i l llnelt. \\1 lrkli n arm- f "\% plr'p,- r
lig to ai1\"' :l h , yramiiiil .if ;r:.n t . I
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Oakes Ames, Builder.
railwny ,v,r th,, lt.ky nii!ntain.s. a
fe':t. hairh asc tlhi, tine. h dh the adnitl
r:itir, if ithe' n wrd.
'IThe. °Irivinti! it the m,'l. ln spike nt
Pr.'ini ,'itry juli t. whiah linked tihe
i'niin Ia,'iti'' "nil thb. ('.,ntral Pa'eifli
on .May lit. k iA., is the eve.nt mo.t
lrinini.atly tixd In t he li minds of the
Amer iin peptlhe. fir it was on th:at
day thit til ht entire niation eeilI.rut.i
\with thhe tiring otf mllitiary .salutes anil
the ringing of tatls and many lliradios.
But the real task was conquering the
mountains.
The exeeutives of the Union Paclfit
ERECTED TO MEMORY OF OAKES AND OLIVER AMES.
PINSK WAS RUINEDu
Railroads Cause Commerce of o
Important Russian City to
Decline Rapidly. f
SUFFERED MUCH FROM FIRE
Much of Water-Borne Traffic Which t
Formerly Passed Through Town
Diverted-Exchange Point for
Trade With Germany.
The important district town of Pinsk,
with a population of 37,0(K) before the
outbreak of the European war, nearly
two-thirds of whom were Jews, is de
scribed in a bulletin issued by the Na
tional Geographic society following the
news that the city has been set on fire
by the Russians in their effort to drive
out the Germans who captured It two
years ago.
"In the midst of the great swamps
through which the Pripet river seeps
toward the Dnleper, Pinsk was an im
portant industrial center at the begin
ning of the world war, its factories for
the manufacture of Russian leather be
ing famous, while its output of oils.
soaps, beer, pottery, lumber and
match's was considerable.
, Ruined by Railroads.
"Coutrary to the usual trend of prog
r ress, railroads have caused Pinsk's
commerce to decline. for when the steel
t arteries of trade began to thread the
poliessie (forest land) district of the
r province of Minsk they diverted much
. of the water-borne traffic which for
I- merly passed through this town. Plnsk
e was an exchange point for trade with
I Germany and Poland via the Dnieper
- Bug canal, with the fertile Dnelper val
. ley via the Pripet river, and with the
e Baltic provinces and the Niemen river
y valley via the Oginsky canaL
Invent Gasoline Locomotives
6 Gasoline locomotives have been In
vented in England that are safe to use
I in coal mines, their ignition taking
place within tight boxes and their ex
haust through water
Order Railway Equipment
Russians are negotiating for the con
struction of 500 locomotives and 10.
000 cars in this country. which should
enable them to get somewhere witbont
i turther delay.
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.,rn .' ru' . ntl 't.r ' ill an  In :- of
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P i . ont .r railr":- 1 t h.. i 1- -r. r , t , .l it i " ft -
thi- war-ye " r, e, all, - t', Uni.' n . 'a
tcifle ilrt ald a , A rl:rica'e tirst ani
inly military railr,:' ' l.
Monument of Granite.
Th-. Amust mi um-t.' i4 u.ilt of -, n
! 1r .. k+ ,- tl'. r,, n r ) f . , I : ,-I ii. ' ."
it't in the forat of ait l road ii. Ii. If' t
It hwill h tH ktw n d' -.n a, stin. '. :a. tin],r
I, fro \ arr ti' l on wn. forand "-n" tw
tain ertn, tit itr 1i-w site, jun t a;stt - :
ti n st:tion a i t ait S n.' h t, o T dln e sifn
if tht uanlrIn allnt i l, ,rlch n ' tirt allin
)of inliy Arnilil tary n th th r a mai brl*
'Ir. Moiur Ament of GIrn-te. grand
Tin, nta , l who vitl t hl'l t i e sit. o f t!he
+in..llrn *nt M, le 3.a':r, ag,1 s,.t hfihr
t "Th.- carving on thn mntallion nti
IaI the nortw, sit . nhw is mitnthat worn
l from fi ,ing tho stoirmi ft r n.'arly f.irty
years. but the ,ne of t,-ak ,,S Anrnti- li
the south.west sile is in just as g"E d
ronlition as it was when it c:am from
C "vhs*.' sh"prvn Iln tinhto Ut venue."
"Since 1872. the Russian government
has been more or less active in re- I
claiming much of the swamp land
which surrounds Pinsk, and it was es
timated that 20 years ago fully 8.00)0,
OEM) acres had been drained at a cost of
not more than 3 shillings to the acre.
This drained land increased in value
from 4 rubles to 28 rubles per dessya
tin (equivalent to 2.7 acres).
"Pinsk is situated on the Pina river,
a tributary of the Pripet. and Is 1)i,
miles by rail east of Brest-Litovsk.
Minsk. the cpital of the province or
'government' of Minsk, is 196 miles to
the northeast by rail.
Has Been Ravaged by War.
"Pinsk first figured In the chronicles
of medieval Europe at the end of the
eleventh century, when it was a pos
session of a prince of Klev. In the fol
lowing century it was annexed to the
principality of Minsk. and after th,
Mongol invasion of 1232 It became the -
chief town of Its own principality.
"The present war is not the first oc
casion when Pinsk has been ravaged
by fire and sword. During the terrible
uprising of the Cossacks under Bog
dan Chmlelnicki. Instigator of the in
describably horrible 'serfs' fury.' it
was captured by the Poles, andti 14.()
of its people were put to the sword
and the torch applied to 5.000 homes.
Less than a decade later (1648) it was
burned by the Russfans, just as in the
present catastrophe. Then camne
Charles XII. 58 years later, and re
duced both the town and Its suburbs to
ashes, for the third time.
"Pinsk became a Russian town in
1795."
Big Saving in Coal.
The New York, New Haven & Hart
ford. whirh has taken off 199 pas
senger trains, Is thereby saving, each i
week., 2,054 tons of coal, equal to an
annual saving of 106.828 tons. As two
tons of coal will warm a family of five
persons a long time, it is estimated
that by reason of this economy of train
service nearly 270,1100 persons could
be kept comfortable during the coming
winter.
Women Work as Mechanics.
For the first time in the history of
the Erie shop at Susquehanna, Pa..
women are being employed to operate
drill presses and to work at other me
chanical occupations.
Build New Coal Pier.
A $2.').4U) coal pier. that can load
-7.00*' tons of coal an hour has be-en
f opened by the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad at Curtis Bay, near Balti
more.
HIGH ADE
ES
MA I GHT
LIGGETT'S
DRUG STORE
Cana! Street Agents
T. A. POLLOCK, Jr.
Ccntrctor and Builder
1* ..
All Kinds--Piace 'our Order
R O 0 111° With Us--can Make Inmmediate
Rubbcr---V Crimp Corrugated
B. V. REDMOND & SON
309-311-313 Decatur Street.
FOR
TORNADO, FIRE, AUTOMOBILE
INSURANCE
SEE
R. A. TANSEY
157 Delarode St. Phone Algiers 9126
Rents Collected
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The Johnson Iron Works, Ltd.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.
Machine, PeForge d Pattern Sheps wad PFndry,
Shipyards flr Buildlag and Repirs to Steel and Wooden Veeel,
Boiler, Tank oad Pipe Shops.
MORGAN, PATTERSOIN AND SEQUIN STREETS
. O. Drawer 241 ALOIER, STA. Telephene Algiers 491
Make, Repair ald Paht
Anything a r I!
O'CONNOR a& CO, Ltd.
1t1 JULIA STW13T
DUNBAR-DUKATE C0.
New Ori.m. L.
High.Ged. Canned Gds. Oyam
sEkA Oh.. .d n
M. Abascal & Bras, Ltd.
GROCERIES
And WESTEIRN PRODUCL
IsIportd Spra"h Shery WIne.
is bottles sad ta bulk; 7e
quart in balk.
PELICAN AVE, Ce.. Verrt t.
ALOIErI, LA.
Model Sheet Metal Works
FRANK BRAAI, Prep.
Repair Work, Gutter Spouting, Steam and Gas Fitting,
Sheet Metal Work of All Description. Gas
Stove Repairing Our Specialty.
PHONE ALGIERS 377 319 NEWTON STREET
WORLD BOTTLING CO., Ltd.
Pboes thel k 295 Carr, Re.y d u slint. arosmb
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HIGH GRADE MALTED BEVERAGES
THE OLD FAMOUS BATH HOUSE
Tuurish, Emmaole and tslphur aetlk W C.a
PIAS BATNO I OoMto
M...r -* cbup.E. Aa indea.m Lee.. D"y 8900 Di
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ano eon eaeast . . - - - - oew osae
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