Evening Star Newspaper, August 2, 1922, Page 11

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LIBERAL CREDIT TERMS On Everythmg in the House Cash or Credit The Price Tags Are Uncllgngea Everything is still plainly marked with its original selling price. Come in and select the furniture you have been’ admiring and deduct 10% to 40%, the colored reduction tag Our prices are whatever indicates. high, when we have reduced them for this -sale they are the lowest asked for quality furniture in years. neyer and now . Good Furniture in This Sale Twice a year our stocks are gone' ovet, reduction tags of IO% to 40% placed on all merchan- dise, and the entire stock disposed of to make room for new: shipments. From our years of ex- perience and dealings with furniture factories we are able to get fur- niture to fit any pocket- book and yet keep our standard of selling only dependable and well made furniture. You can’t find a shoddy, cheap, thrown- together piece of mer- chandise on our floors. Credit, of Course, as Usual Our usual Liberal Credit -Terms apply on everything, regardless of the amount of the re- duction. Even if for financial reasons you had not thought of getting the new furniture yet, you need not miss this opportunity. Come and select what you want— make a small deposit—' pay the rest in small weekly or monthly pay- WeCan tMentzonEveryArtzcle But Every Suite and Article of FURNITURE, RUGS, BABY CAR. RIAGES, RERRIGERATORS, STOVES, etc., bears an extra reduction tag of 10% to 40%. Whatever you mRy need, a complete home fur- nlthed or an odd piece, you will save at least 10% and on many things up to 40%. Greater choice obtains during the first part of the sale. nmmmmmmmmm— Peter Grogan & Sons Co. ROGAN'S 817-823 Seventh St.. N\ Quallty—With Liberal Credlt Tem Lets disarm the thermometer EATS arid starches for the body are like fuel for the . ‘Why not- adopt for breask- fast or lunch, Grape-Nuts with cream or milk and a little fresh fruit—and turn off the internal heat?. Here’s com- plete nounshment, with oool comfort, . - Grape-Nuts contains all the nourishment of whole- wheat flour and malted: barley, in- cluding the vital-mineral ele. ments and bfin “roughage,” and it is partially pre-digested in the long baking process by which it is made. There’s a wonderful charm for the appetite in the crisp, sweet goodness of this ready- to-eat food, and fitness and lightness afterward, which meet summer’s heat with a smile. Your grocer will supply you with Grape-Nuts! “There’s a Reason” . for Grape:Nuts Made by Postum Cereal Co., Inc., Battle Creek, Michigan. L maw:mmflmm W i | ( {EDITOR ON BRAZIL BOAR'D.I SLAPS AND SCRATCHES FAIL TO END |SUICIDAL TO STRIKE NOW, MOSQUITO INVASION OF GOTHAM | SEAMEN'S UNION ASSERTS pecial Dispateh to The Star, NEW YORK, August 2.—Siapping and scratching are the favorite out-Ifor door sports in the metropolis today. . Boom times have %” hit the venders of | * f¢ canopies, neltlnz) and, more espe- cially, those: whol deal in the aro- matic essences declared by science to be nox- ious to the Aedes Sollicitans and the Aedes Cantator. - That, of course, is their holiday and Sunday names, © Most of the time they are referred to . by the New Yorker as “those damn mosquitoes.” For the city, for the firat time-in_ years, actusily is sut- fering from a plague of them. it is the worst invasion since the health authorities of New voted for birth control and beg: their organized war- to exterminate the pestiferous pésts. In those the fame of the Jersey mosquito W world-wide. But, through the use of drainage, system, it was found pos- sible entirely to stamp out the gri long-beaked mosquito, whose bill w: sharp enough to penetrate armor. |l New York is experiencing an wet suymnmer. The city is prepared to vote wet on ject and no great objec\lon was felt to the weather man's inhi demons was br quitoes. Pools of the parks, vac like character throughout the ci And, the great gray Jersey pest may have become a thing of the ter became stagnant in oils and installation of an adequate!wave. in Central and the other city parks. The newspapers ar> doing their best the ering public by yrmnns lusleltlonl of how they may be kept of the homes. The degartment -toru are deluged with orders for screens and netting and e of them have exhausted all of their javailable supply. For the first time in history a waiting line has been formed in a store to buy screening and netting. Much of the blame is being placed on ersey, of course. The New Jersey ag- ricultural experiment station has put out a book entitled “The Chemctro] ism of Mosquitoes.” From this it feund that the mosquito of today ot so much attracted to the hum because of.a love of company as he is’ from the desire for the carbon dloxide which the human flips off at every movement. The fact that this is the reason for their visits in no l‘!wly! pleases the average local resi- ent. New Yorkers are rubbing oils on themselves and now are becoming prone to take to the middle of the roadway on streets which have park- Jersey |ing and shrubbery. They have found hat the farther one keeps away from rees and bushes under existing con- itions the better one Is. ago New York was howling for an end to the crime It ebbed .and then died out. Now they desize nothing so much as that an end shall be put to the mos- uitoes.. 1f it was a questionh of oice -they probably would prefer the crime wave, for then, at least, they could see who and what was sticking them up. (Copyright. 1922.) cant lots and places of | past, in his stead there was found a( emall mosquito which seems able to| fiy high and to penetrate any sort of | a screen. The city authorities are asking ex- perts how they can stamp out the pest and clear up the breeding places D = SCIENTIST A MARTYR. Experiment With Deadly Strepto- cocci Proves Fatal. TORONTO, August 2.—Prof. . Mackenzie, head of the pathplogical ! department of the University of; Toronto, died here, a victim of his experiments to enable science better to cope with the deadly streptococci germs ‘which during the war he saw | avage armies fighting in the Balkans. | experiments wi the pus-forming bacteria Prof. Ma kenzie was attacked by acute ulce: ated endocarditis. He was born of Scotch origin in 1865, and was educated at the uni- versities of Toronto, Leipzig and Ber- lin. During the war he served at Saloniki. Cyrus Curtis Is Named as Addi- tional Member. Cyrus A. K. Curtis, Philadelphial editor and publisher, has been named as an additional member of the Bra- zilian commission, it was announced | at the White House vesterday. David L. Goodwillie of Chicago has been made secretary of the commis- sion, it was also announced, his ap- pointment completing the personnel. The Yrip will be made to Brazil on a Shipping Board vessel, without any military or naval display, it was an- nounced, although there will be naval representation. —of Painting, Paperhang- ing and Decorating think of Taylor. SF Estimates made on request. HARRY W. TAYLOR CO. PAPERHANGING AND PAINTING 2333 18th St. NW. Tel. Col. 1077 Viands PRICES change. Money values vary. But appetites remain insistent and the same. When food price changes downward, cooking quality often drops with it. That kmd of lowered price is no saving to you. € Come to table where excellence never fluc- tuates but price is de- cidedly held down. Wallis’ “Washington’s Largest Restaarant” . 12th and G Sts. N.W. ASSOCIATION Pays 6 Per Cent ‘on shares maturing in 45 or 83 months. It (Officers of Organization at Cleve- land Decline to Heed 98 1-2 Per Cent Vote. CLEVELAND,. Onio, August 2.—Al- though 983 per cent of its members employed on the great Jakes voted in favor of 4 strike, the International Seamen's Union will not issue «'strike call at Detroit, it was announced here. The announcement was made by officers_of the s-llnru Union or the Great Lakes, the Marfne Fi Ollers, Water Tenders and Ci ers’ Unfon and the Marine Cookl and Stewards’ Unlon, - the three principal organizations afliated with the inter- naticnal. They said Lhe)' had notified lhe executive board ti th! age, it was pointed out, three being laid up at Ashtabula harbor. ek S Irish women can boast of having twins more frequently than any other women in the world,” Twins are born in Dublin about once in every fifty- two births, as against a general world |. average of one in eighty.. A girl—a band Gee aint love grand! Oh, get that jazzy jingle! Saxaphones And trombone moans And Chiclets— Low they Pays 4 Per Cent on shares withdrawn 'be- fore maturity. Assets More Than $8,000,000 Surplus More Than $800,000 PEPPERMINT (Yellow box) SPEARMINT (Green box) TUTTLFRUTTI (Pink box) 10 for 5¢ American Chicle Co, candy coaled chewing gum Studebaker ANNOUNCES THE Biggest Price Cuts in the History of the Automobile Business ON ALL MODELS / KTTENTION t~ LERVOUS teth treated will otive wxira cars bors. gur motheds are sainiess- and our eperaterf® ski e a4 wmenthelie. . Larse: -mmn 'm-' o payment ta frone Cloanliness | s ome. striking _features. o soa JOSEPH McREYNOLDS, President Commercxal Automobile & Supply Co. Main 2646 - Q717.819 14th Street N. W. Main 2647 Washington Is a Studebaker City Telephones

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