New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 26, 1915, Page 5

QUALITY STYLE ——— New Spring Millinery at Prices That Are Popular The Most Approved New Styles for Immediate Wear No Charge for " Trimming Your Hat | | | i | | | | | You Save Money Buying Here. Wholesale Prices Among the new and very attractive features in Millinery are the straight and rolling brim Sailors, continental and tricons. Other new spring styles in profusion, in all colors. BE SURE AND SEE THEM A Wonderfully Attractive Display For This Time of Year. POPULAR PRICES Upstairs Showrooms Washington, Feb. 26 state commerce commission rates and with acqui with carrying competition and influence &inion. Further inquiry and, if possible, in- correspon- The spection of the railroad’s dence was said to be necessary. s written before the supreme its opinion Wed- holding that the commission was without power to force the com- pany to gubmit its correspondence report W _court handed nesday, down The inter- sent to &e senate yesterday its report on ge investigation of the finances, | practices of the Louisville & Nashville and allied railroads. charged the ILouisville & Nashville ing competing lines on for vears at of millions of dollars an elaborate po- litical publicity campaign, to eliminate public and a cost EASTERN MILLINERY (0. 186 MAIN STREET. SPENT MILLIONS 10 ' PREVENT COMPETITION Tntsrslals Commerce Commissin ~Declares Regarding L & N. Road. NEW well as its records and serutiny. The investigation, spring by a senate authorized las resolution intro- by Senator Lea of Tennessee, directed mainly to discover whether the Louisville & N through control of the Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway and smaller lines had restrained com- petition throughout much of the ter- ritor: © those roads, whether the one-time control of the Louis- ville & Nashville by the Atlantic Coast Line railroad operated to the same end in the much wider field the systems serve and what amounts of money the Louisville & Nashville and its related roads have contribut- ed to political activities and other ef- forts to fight competition. It Qualifies Statement. The commission qualified laration that the Lot ille & Nash- ville has wilfully res ned competi- tion by pointing out that in some in- stances its energies were directed to meet the competition of other large systems.a nd passed over the ques- tion whether in all instances the course pursued was contrary to public interest. The recital of the alleged political actlvities of the roads concerned is .accompanied by little comment. The commission announces its inabality to set forth all the money which the car- its dec- Is it possible there is a woman in this country who con- tinues to suffer without giving Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege- table Compound a trial after all the evidence that is con- tinually being published, which proves beyond contradic- tion that this grand old medicine has relieved more suffer- ing among women than any other one medicine in the world ? We have published in the newspapers of the United States more genuine testimonial letters than have ever been pub- lished in the interest of any other medicine for women— and every year we publish many new testimonials, all gen- uine and true. Here are three never before published: From Mrs. S. T. Richmond, Providence, R. I. ProvIDENCE, R. I.—“For the benefit of women who suffer as I have done I v h to state what Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound has done for me. I did some heavy lifting and the doctor said it caused a displacement. I have always been weak and I overworked after my baby was born and inflammation set in, then nervous Ppros- tration, from which I did not recover until I had taken Lydia E. Pink- hamr’s Vegetable Compound. The Compound is my best friend and when I hear of a woman with troubles like mine I try to induce her to take your medicine.,”—Mrs. Providence, R.I. S. T. RicemonD, 84 Progress Avenue, From Mrs. Maria Irwin, Peru, N.Y. Peru, N.Y.— Before I took Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- .pound I was very irregular and had much pain. children, and felt worn out all the time. ) I had lost three This splendid medicine helped me as nothing else had done, and [ am thankful every day that I took it.”—Mrs. Maria Irwiy, R.F.D. 1, Peru, N.Y. From Mrs. Jane D. Duncan, W. Quincy, Mass. SouTH QUINCY, Mass.—“ The doctor said that I had organic trouble and he doctored me for a long saw Lydia E. Pinkham’s time and I did not get any relief. I Vegetable Compound ad- vertised and I tried it and found relief before I had finished the first bottle. I continued taking it all through middle life and am now a strong, healthy woman and earn my own living.” Mrs. Jaxe D. A DUNgAN, Forest Avenue, West Quincy, Mass. ; 'Write to LYDIA E. PINKHAM MEDICINE CO. (CONFIDEN ur letter will b NTTAL) LYNN, MASS., foradvice. opened, read and answered by a woraan and held in strict confidence, ) books to ; | ments aggre; Upstairs Ty Showrozms riers may have expended in political and publicity work, but the items its investigators discovered which it has | placed in the report under the head of political contribuations run up into the millions. In connection with the Tennessee | Railroad association formed by car- | riers in 1884 to combat legislation in that state, the report 1s more specific {in its allegations. State Officials Paid. “The various payments account of the Tennessee ociation by the Nashville, Lou made on Chat- the report, “was to a large extent made to state offcials and lators of Trennessee, municipal rs of Nashville, politicians, loh- and attorneys. showed that payments made by ashville, Chattanooga & St. in this connection aggregate $20,000 could be definitely assigned to persons formerly or at present ing public offices, but the the much in excess of this sum.’ Names Not Mentioned. names of those still "holding :re not revealed. P ating $82,5696 for “pu the resolution,” made by the doubt The public off poses mentioned in the report said were Louisville & Nashville between Sep- tember 1, 1806 and July 1, 1914, Expenditures in the same period for maintaining political and associations were given or creating publi favor of the plans of the Louisville & Nashville in the same period, the report sa 5 8 was spent, of which used in a publicity campaign in Alamaba to mould publiz opinion through the press, and part of the balance made “up by carriers to finance a campaign in Loui na, to prevent the change of tax laws. In this connection to preserve an outward appearance of indifference, according to the re- port the funds were placed in the hands of a bank to be disbursed by it as if in furtherance of banking inter- 0 the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis, the olaisville & Nashville is alleged to have paia $120,1 for the use of the Tennessee Railroad as sociation, in addition to other “large expenditures in connection with that association.” The report expilains that a large number of vouchers were igsued | the Louisville & Nashville in the 1906~ 1914 peried to various persons, con- cerning which the accounts gave no information other than the expendi- tures were for “cpecial” services and amounted to about Request For Viles The report says that a files in the general manager’s bearing on these voucher and that other vouche aggregating $67,722 from 1906 to 1911 were i under the direction of the legal Denied. request for office sued without the purpose One cof these voucher: being stated. was for more $1,000. “Whether such sums were spent for the purposes referred to cannot be determined,’ the report The commission gives an of one special ledger account ing large expenditures, the purposes of which could not be learned from the accounts. . It recites that an ac- count was opened in the name of the Immigration and Industrial associa- tion of Alabama in 1907, 's the report ‘“‘records a to George W. Jones, district attorney in Mont- Ala., made under authority dent; $13,068.80 was charged to this account; $7,8¢ 86 was re-collected from other c riers who were parties to this asso- ciation and credited to this account. The balance of $5,190.94 remaining was charged to operating expenses authority of the first vice-pr The nature of this account cated by notations ‘on the tr statements of cash receipts enteved i therein such as ‘proportion of Denses, account adjourned session of Alabama legislature.’ " “Suspence” Account. instance assistant gomery, of the fi indi- ex- l A “suspense” account in the name Investigation | Louis | over | hold- | total | amount paid to such persons was no | legislative | G0 sentiment in contributed to a fund ! was denied ‘A RAW, SORE THROAT or executive departments of the road | surer's | Railroad | railway and the | ‘ashville Railroad com- | than $20,000 and all were in excess of | Bark of Ky., the report June, 1911, to of the tional of Louisville, was opened in “checis under authority of President Milton H. Smith in favor bank, between June 7, and 1912, Amounts aggre ing $24 94 paid to the ban in the form of such checks.” No i formation whatever, it was declar could be obtained in regard to purpose for which these payvments were made. ‘“Under the rules prescribed by the commission,” says the report, “the keeping of such vague accounts at the present would subject the carrier to prosecu- tion.” “For the above reasons,” continues the report‘* it could not be deter- mined what the purpose of all these large unexplained expenditures was. eems clear, howeve reason, the officials who were respon sible for these entries deemed it ex- pedient to conceal not only in (he original entry, but from those engaged in the inv ation the real purpose for which.t{hese expenditures werc made.” record issued October were JOHN ALLE! John Allen, of Poughkecpsie, N, Y., the JUMPS, polo promoter and manager of Providence Grays and later Paw- tucket Tigers, taken with him avers of the Pawtucket laries for the past week. alon with a little other change that coming ot them for past work. has quit the latter city and he the was Eases Quickly When You Apply a Little Musterole And MUSTEROLE won't blister like the old-fashioned mustard-p! spread it on with your finger. ctrates to the sore spot with a gentle | tingle, loosens the congestion and dr out all soreness and pain. MUSTEROLLE is a clean, white oint- ment made with oil of mustard. There’s nothing like it for quick rclief for 8 Throat, Bronchitis, Tor Croup, Stiff Neck, Asthma, N Hes ache, Congestion, Pleuri TLumbago, Pains and Ac ¥ or Joints, Sprains, Sore Muscles, Bru cs, Chilblain “rosted IFeet, Colds on t Chest (it often prevents Pneumonia). Nothing like MUSTEROLE for crou children. At your druggist’s, in and a special large hosp: c Be sure you get the genuine MU TEROLE. Refuse imitations—get v you ask for. The Musterole Cleveland, Ohio. Commerce, 'REPORTED THEFT IN accounting | , that for some | | scorched the polished tables or burned | according (o | team, | | ough is most particular | Nevw | the bombproor a SUCCESS’ IS NOT % N ACCIDEN1 But the result of giving the thousand; who ordered at this store during the past more for their money than they ever go tailor in New Britain. I am too busy getting out orders to to write an advertisement that would tell in detail but I want every man in New B intends getting new clothes this spring to facts firmly in his mind. Here at this “live wire”’ store you more woolens, more varied styles of wo more grades of woolens, all of them woo the tailors in the city carry. My Pricefor $ a Genuine 20 SUIT OR "TOPCOAT Satisfaction guaranteed or money re 394 MA NEW B lated the broadest “I made the onl soldier's account in the | O'KEEFE dialect mind right o possible counter-offensive,” said the soldier ecasy time He carried out this “counter-offen- | ¢ (nis ¢ sive,” to such good purpose that h = Killed two of the English patrol ; round ¥ tured oul Javarian up mj thing was a strong viladelphy outp two and forced the other | the Bower I to withdraw ound bout Ir Deciares Associaled Press Corres- e podeat WHO ViSitS DISUIGIS. | s e wen oo s Louis, Feb. 26 third easily James Austip baseman, who signed a thres year contract with the Pittsburg IFed Associated Press.) -An who (Correspondence of the Beciinl e sl5h Associated | €ral league club a few months ago an nounced that he with the Aust Loui would Press correspondent has visited would play 8t. Louis Americans this year in, who played with the St Americans last season said he go with the 8t. Louis. team to the 1‘ recently a dozen or more IFrench vii- Get a smalf Breast Tea, or call it, “Hamb any pharmacy. of the tea, put upon it las and chateaux which now staff or divisions of serve a headquarters for various corps German spring training quarters at Houston, theft Texas next Saturda) Austin sald i b that he under contract with tn inSthese Lhren =i st Americans when he signed | Pittsburg Federals, and that the latter team had no legau claim to his services This statement i t variance with the report circulated Austin signed with Pittsbur At that time it was understood he | free the forces found that report of and de- pour drink a teacup is the most eff and cure relieving bowels,| was struction of property T hals homes were not true. In all of these | with the places, without an exception, the cold | ol ens the and pictures testifying to the weulth and taste of the recent owners were not only still in place, but being cared for as scrupulously as the ow were present. No burning s or cigar laid, had carved woodwork, oriental rugs, bles when at once inexpen wil is were r 1 therefore ttes, carlessly the coverings and no stain of muddy boots igured the thor- | the attention details headquarters, that the housewife could hav: finger over any arti- without finding dis rugs. So to these in some of the run a si cle in the speclk of dust Most Democratic spicious place Individual. which the cor- | these vil- | most recent vigit paid to to that Prince Rupprecht, chief of the Bavarian army that the Bavarian » most ceremonious in Kn wn Prince was ratic individual, inviting pondent to dinc. Hiw fluently, with hardly a ore wccent, and campaign and {he ud of what the Bava complished dent one of occupicd by Crown WILL GO 1 Feb. Tec assure the entry of vour name in the next issue place your order for service before that date. commander-in- Notwitl Sanaine court i of 11 ope. the ¢ a most demo the con talks English susnicion of onc found to be ke free situation, p inas had ac uture might br Another 1 Prof. Otto G York, wh professor of of the gu ers was for several year clinical s and who h umbia University v s German Field hospits of tl tTave You a brai O ocked By British. Ui, Kiliani amusement of adventure of a Bav ing the night the this soldier w evacnated for 1eon, but - S ¢l I'elephone the to the gre Prince, the = s Dus 2ty pysi in 5 ~elepga 13 ipied by Crown rian soldier trench oce ’ Your Home? he t aslecp in one i uts, was over- | looked. He | find awoke in the morning to alone and six Inglisi- | !”"” approaching the trench Dr. Kil iani, himself a born Munich man, re- himsely