New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 29, 1924, Page 12

12 STALE TOBAGGO IS ECHO OF L. S. TROOPS Coblenz Stores Well Stocked With American Tobacco Coblenz, Feb. American thing like the only for the pur. will appear for the Americ; These & European soldiers heavy smokers, in t as in the confli poleon used s the march; the Great was once saved whe flattened out against snuff his pocket, and Scydlitz, one famous cavalry geners was a slave to his pipe. Back in 1794 the re German officer the Duke of York inveterate smokers, and in t army in 1688 there was ar one pound a month of every soldier. But nevertheless there famous soldiers who disliked as much as the Duke of Wellir who smoked but once, a with the Duke of Cumberland of Frederick the nir Portsmouth, and then more to oblige | is the duke than anything else. It related also that Ge¢ al Blucher, 1807, noted with horror that many of his officers were in the h smoking in the streets and other lic places even though ir iform. S0 he issued an order in which the | practice was denounced and forbidden to all Prussian officers under his com- mand. There is, however, so little Ameri- can tobacco left in Coblenz that the argument of this German observer seems to be justified; gathered all to- gether and issued to a couple of com- panies of American doughboys, probably would last them not morc than one day. Anthrax Abates Attack Upon Carabaos of Luzon Manila, Feb, 39, — Restocking of central Luzone provinces, which were | almost swept clean of work animals recently by the anthrax plague, has NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1924. e Ty [na(lona]lt\' of ves for the fiscdl | traveling alone,” she said, jand that the picric scid in the éxplo- Makes Himself Comfortable Frank MeDowell, 20, charged with murder of mother and two sisters, is photographed in jail at St. burg, Fla. BRISK DEMAND FOR BRICK | spurt in Building of Highways and Streets Causes a Shortage in the Brick Industry, Cleveland, Feb. 29.—A sharp in- crease in unfilled orders for vitrified paving brick, as reported to the U, S epartment of commerce, may be ken as an indication of an active street and highway paving season for | 1924, in the belief of the National Paving Brick Manufacturers' associa- tion here “Unfilled orders in December umped to 60,624,000 as mgainst b4,- 585,000 for November, and this is con- sidered an accurate gauge of the de- mand for early spring and summer shipments,” said a statement from the association Stock on hand ex- ceeds the total of unfilled orders, It interesting to note also that con- tractors mnd engincers are assisting in relieving the seasonal aspeet of the paving brick industry by asking for v r deliveries.” In the distribution of unfilled or-| rs, Oklahoma leads the list, with Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsy nia and llinois following consecutively An agricultural t called fn | Cipal | by the gov rnmen possible to eradich destroying a tor a period of eight years these recommenda ried out to the extent out and burning every infected, a period of more than eight years has elapsed without any serious at vanilla culture > not car- of sca planting again is possible, IMPROVEMENTS IN - HAITI BUSINESS, Aunual Report Shows That Coun- try Is Forging Abead in Trade ’ e Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, Feb. 29.—A |summary of the annual report of the receiver general of customs for Haiti |shows a remarkable continuance of |the cconomie improvement begun in g I'he gain in trade is the more oteworthy when comparison is made with the conditions try of t great majority of countries in the Carib- Lian. The collection of customs for the fiscal year totaled $6,113,790, coed last yvear's figures by a mar- c 5 69. Deccmber, the highest monthly collection for the | fiscal year, with $75 , topped that he preceding year by 513 The volume of trade a ga 3 expor nounted to s against $10, , or e im- an increa i Whereas in the fise: the imports exceeded the exports by $1,638,061, the fis ) just passed shows an xports to the amount of The two principal exports, and cotton, go almost wholly to cost of collecting one dollar 1923 was $0.0 s compared to father, | { g |l 1) 4 the preceding year, P‘-telh'l‘ Haiti's shipping figures also reflect clearly the splendid year of business, The number of ships, both foreign a coastwise, that entered her ter seaports this year was 1,8 {with a combined tonnage o In 192 t vvllr ber was 1,861 wi A tonnage of ¢ The ships clea ed 1,830 with a ton- {ix ) red. The carryin e of imports by en | @ planting | ed this ye While | nage of 98,7 a Now ex- lemonstrat- the blight profitable Piston Pins American Hammered Rings Flintx Lens Goodrich year shows the Un States far out- [ ple always were wonderfully kind ;o I usudlly camped near some farm house, for I had to procure food for The total collections from all {my horse.” MANY BL() DE M)l I)"uRG \(.f $1,464,360 carried over from the Manila, preceding fiscal period, amounted to |have commentnd $9,022,093. ‘Total expenditures and | members of the artjllery corps, U. 8. scen on the streets of Manila re- | The halance for the year was $2,630,- |cently with strikingly blonde hafr, / Inquiries were made and it develop- ly to endanger life in the event of ex- ‘pd that these men haye been engaged | plosions, declares the protest. in shifting ammunition on the “Rock” | stripping all others, with more than [us, 80 per cent of the whole. sources by the receiver general for lhb‘ fiscal year, including the balance | disbursements amounted to $6,392,211. [A,, 752, a gain of $1,166,422. sives had “‘urned theiwr hair as yeliow' as a quarantine flag. OPPOSE WAR DEPOT SITE Geneva, ¥Feb. 29.—The free city of | Danzig, which is under control of the mary | league of nations, has protested to the |lcague ,against the site picked by the Polish government for a war depot, | The site is too near the city and like- A neutral commission has been as Corregidor Island, the fortress at named in an effort to settle the dis- | the entrance to Manila Bay, is known | pute, TOUR AROUND U. 5. Woman Travels Alone, Makingf the Trip in Seven Years Spokane, Wa. Feb, 29 Helen 11. Thing ad of Tone, W recently completed a horseback ¢ tour of the continent that required between six and seven years of inter- mittent traveling. She made the en- tire journey alone, Her expenses for tife trip were met by working along the way, and stops of three months or more were made at various cities for the purpose. 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