Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 5, 1919, Page 9

{ i e At R Attt A b ——— e iea e T S — e . s N FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 5, 1919 et Tréasufy saviigs Certificites afid DR. B. A. SHANNON, M. D. ! - Loty Bonds o e e "Borons A h l DRY CLEANING BHINGE Sm[:K [:HASH DO YOU KNOW MR. KELLER? e — R & a ; The hand is quicker than the eye DENTIST Oftise—O’'Leary-Bowser Bl4, and so is the typewriter. Ph b s Fifteen years ago, some of you may ones—Office 376-W. Res. :7‘-8 Reckless Investment Followed by remember, there were two great| —m——m———— ———— Heavy Losses When Market magicians appearing before the Amer- . & ican public. Hermann the Great and GOCS to Pleces- Keller the Magician. Although rivals —-—E AT—- they were great friends. They were AT ] the latter how good he was. Thlrd “You know,” he said, “that I am something of un amateur sleight ‘of hand 2 expert myself, 1 am sure no one but || T ——————— yourself could have deceived me with sitting together at Brighton Beach “‘P-E, hc;‘;‘rds ;'r&ck vou did last nlghl...‘“ Our Walters GOVERNMENT SECURITIES one day when an admirer of Her- is a very simple trick. . Do the Waiting A. Brose TOBACCONIST 400 Minnesota Avenue Keeps the best stock of Tobacco in the Northwest, also Pipes. We do Pipe Re- pairing. ’ Uncle Sam’s Bonds “Good as Gold” While General Slump Wipes Out Fortunes. mann’s came up and started to tell REMAIN SAFE AND SOUND do it. I venture to say this gentleman sxhnng right here could deceive you w ' Are You Ashamed of Your Floor? It's not sanitary, you know, nor is it fashionable, to cover your floor with carpets. Rugs are the proper thing now, for both appearance and health. But rugs call for a good looking floor. With a smooth, waxed hardwood floor you can use small rugs or large ones with pleasing results. You won’t be ashamed of t. “I'll bet a hundred dollars he could not” said the amateur and Hermann took the bet. . 5 A deck of cards was brought and Keller performed the trick with ease and grace. ‘I guess you don’t know my friend Mr. New York.—Semi-panicky declines in the stock market and subsequent relapses from the partial recovery, with heavy forced liguidation of light- ly margined holdings of the popular Klelhilr. _sa‘ild Hermann as he pocketed market favorites on the New York | the hundred. fit: ot Hand . . stock exchange have demonstrated wl".;"l‘:“m“;‘éx ‘;lé:u‘g »f-n;:; u;::sm_c EZ?-?'EE cleary the damgers of speculation. ' €Xchange something Fo SoYE oilar : For six months the stock market ad- 'g"u“l ip, tor Your Liberty Bonds and War vanced, slowly at first and with the t T, usual “profit-taking reactions” and in A pri tus and a promise is all the h a fl recent weeks going up by leaps and | auipment these fakers require =~ With : such a floor. et I o Stpetmints of the | Ut “'fi'n'x's'i:i ”:’l‘x’,l{‘.:‘.;{g:’%:[a:fii ;3;:‘9":3';3 Goed Ice Cream 1S a We!come Pex:haps it would be best in your case to lay a new hardwood market, notably ofl, motor and other enough oll to lubricate u wate énougx{ treat for the convalescent and is just floor right over the old one. Or again, maybe you ought to have 4y there has beoa & decline wiping | Seicnce; they Gk tnake Fuiber panta: as wholesome and nourishi . Bicpmplens new oo een w! ; i ] . § b " out much of the advance of monu‘l‘l— Gy ‘:l;:“';.el:nlio‘éflx‘;;' m':l:’::rettc';x'.' . d o s ourishing- as it 3 We can give you Just what you need in several woods and in in some stocks practically all of the | If & mun has $10.000 salary. he may be is delicious. different grades. Come in and look over our stock—all clean and smooth and bright. Measure your rooms and we will tell you how much it will cost to re-floor them., has less an that amount he cannot afford to e. You know there is no trick about Jov- ernment savings securities. You KNOW they are profitable advance. There was reason behind the ad- vance, but a speculative®craze carried #t beyond reason. Hastern market:| the reports for months have carried men- Sk ey e’ B | SR g R o SMITH ROBINSON LBR. CO wages, war profits, the prosperity of | ecannot fool you, meet Mr. Kelier. . c 5 é industry and agriculture have given = | many o tovr o spocunt ream WPHONE 97 - BEMIDJ], MINN. nvestme rove Disappointing. Financing of new and old corpora- LUNDEC.."I i DA:‘::"'ERG sup mme tions by stock, bond and note issues called for hundreds of millions of dol- || Hours10 to12 a.m.;3t0 5,7 to 8 p.m. lars. Issues of preferred stock alone Phone 401-W Calls made since January 1 have totaled more || 1st National Bank Bldg. Bemidst than $600,000,000 and common stock a billion more. Foreign loans with more in prospect to finance Europe’s buying added to the burden. The immense buying power of the coun- Ask your dealer READ THE PIONEER WANT ADS f CHRISTMAS PHOTOS try shouldered the load, but specu- _Your photo in a calendar free lation in listed shares was getting with a dozen portraits this out of bounds. Money rates began month. to show the strain. Three weeks See our popular line of large ago call money in New York rose folder portraits at only $4.85 to 16%, the next week to 20% and last per dozen. week to 30%, the highest point since The greatest value in por- the panic of 1907. Renewals touched traits for your money is at 14%, the highest in years, and time Rich Portrait Studio money hit 8%., The advance was a warning from the banks to go slow. Phone 570W 10th "‘d_D""d “Pools” and “tipsters” began to draw Embossed edge Christmas in their horns. ' cards made _from your own The decline was orderly until in- fi{odak negatives, only $1 per ozen. Just a few days more and St. Nicholas will climb into his 1920 model aeroplane and begin his cross-country flight to distribute the tons of pretty Christmas Gifts that are being stored in his mammoth warehouse daily. Wireless messages from the sufficiently margined accounts were liquidated. Then came a smash. General Motors new common stock, which had soared to 406% dropped to 280, Mexican Petroleum from 2556% to 186, Texas company from 338 to 286, Studebaker from 1433 to 108%, American Tobacco from 30714 to 240, Crucible Steel from 235 to 209 and so on down the list. Even U. S. Steel, the porverbial mar- ket barometer, declined from 1123 to 103. The break extended throughout the list, less marked of course in lower priced stocks. The bond mar- ket also suffered. [ Perlls of Speculation Shown. & . pense e cumneting shuns therepez )| Aldrich & English to around 20 to 45 points in stocks which atb suffered most on the decline but down General Blacksmithing swings followed the recoveries and the . g:;‘l_(:g atmosphere i8 not yet considered —Horseshoeing a Specialty— 2 anking Interosts and the Feacral || Oxy-acetylene Welding serve Board against overspeculation and Cutting .jolly old store-keeper who dwells at the North Pole confirm our opinion that this is to be an . ELECTRICAL CHRISTMAS g Y e . . Thousands of washing machines, vacuum cleaners, seWing machines, grills, toasters, percolaters, curling irons, and other electrical appliances will be given by Kris Kringle when he makes that long looked for journey on the night of December 24th. Happy indeed will be those who awake on Christmas morning to find that they have been remembered ‘‘Electrically.” : To the husband who wishes to remember his wife, or to the son who wishes to show hisb appreciation to a loving Mother, we suggest . Make Your Christmas Gifts Electric Gifts o Betfer: Hlustration of th ¢ 0_better illustration of the permanent and fixed value of overnmentp!ecurities 214 FOURTH STREET can be found than in the present unset- | tled market. War Savings Stamps ansil ~Washing Machine P The Tz or the GAINADAY Electric “Gramsy” Chambeshin _ “A good cough remedy is one that can be depeng!ed upon to cure f.oughs. Not one that cures some particular cough, but coughg in gene! , It must be a cough remedy that can be relied upon for all the different coughs that are so prevalent. While the causes of all coughs are primarily the same, yet the condition of the patient is what makes the difference in the nature of the cough 1ts§lf. Coughs of healthy persons are easier to cure than the coughs gf invalids. The powerful convulsive cough of a large man is - harder to cure than the cough of a baby. If you get a remedy that will cure a large man's cough and yet not be too powerful for the baby, you have a good cough remedy. " Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy is just this kind of remedy. It is good for any member of the }ax:fily. It relieves coughs of all kinds. It is the product of much thought and study to produce an ideal cough_ remedy. It is com- posed of things which cure easily and soothingly without harm- ing the most delicate tissues of the throat. It acts as easily and safely on the young as on the old, and is the ideal remedy _foz coughs, colds, croup, influenza, whooping cough and bronchitis.”, Qpouras fov Pealtl — Gramsgj Clom borbusns There can be no gift more practical than just onez:)f these machines, and better still a gift of this kind will make fifty-two days of every year seem like a Christmas holiday to the wife or Mother who has been accustomed to look upon wash-day as a ‘“Blue Monday” filled with back-aches and tired muscles. We sell both the Gainaday and the Thor on easy monthly payments. SPECTAL BARGAIN SALE OF HOT P OINT ELECTRIC IRONS For one day only—Saturday, December 6th—wge will sell Hot Point Electric Irons at $5.50 each. If you contemplate giving some friend an iron for Christmas this will be your opportunity to get the celebrated Hot Point at a few cents above cost. Remember, this offer is for one day only—Satur e g ) y only day, December 6th. innesota Electric Light and Power Company : m"’ . i “The Home of Mrs. Gainaday and Mrs. Thor” ELKS BUILDING TELEPHONE 26 [ THE S8EMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PAGE NINE.