New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 12, 1929, Page 4

B SRS LANYER EXHIBTS LINCOLN PARDON Hertz Also Quotes Yerses Writ- m b’ 'm’m Pmnm Be the worst that the future shall New York, Feb, 12 UP—A pardon | Winchester, Sept. 30, 1858, for a prisoner, which he believes was A. LINCOLN. FIB0Sn WH A portrait of Mrs. Lincoln, paint- ;hx" last puper signed by Abraham ! "\ hijo gne ‘was first lady of the Lincoln before his assassination on |, e - ! Aprit 14, 1365, is in the pomflsion]mul was on view today at the Milch | galleries. 1t described as the of Emanuel Hertz, lawyer and col- |5 . 2 : 2 B oo ialins, |first public exhibition. The portrait Only the signature Is in Lincoln's| 'S DY Francis Bickness Carpenter 8 o |and was painted at Mrs. Linceln's autograph. The pardon reads: | LRSS o N Lt he prisoner bo released on|Teduest as a surprise for her hus- taking the oath of Dec. 7, 1563, | and: “A. LINCOLN. “April 14, 1865." Mr. Hertz, who said the slip of paper only recently came into his| possession, declared other pardons| New London, Feb. @—It Lincoln made he wrote in entirety, | Scems that the psychologists who but this apparently had been pre.|Say woman's place is in the home, pared by someone else and signed in; OF With children, are right—that is. haste just as Lincoln was leaving for | if the graduates of the Connectirut Kord's theater where he was shot | College for Women are any criter- by John Wilkes Booth. | ten. In an address before the Wom-| A questionnaire sent to the 784 en's National Repubtican club, Mr. graduates brought the information Hertz read a letter written by Lin-!|that one-third, or 246, of them, had coln July 11, 1848, which he said|Inarried and that one-third, or 161 showed Lincoln in a lighter vein|of the remainder became school than that usually associated with |teachers, a comparatively few went him, {into social work, writing, art, medi- | cine, advertising and osteopathy. The lowest salary of the working was $1.000 and the That sunshine scon is lost in shade; That now's as good as any day To take thee, Rosa, ere she fade. Winchester, Sept. 28, 1858, A. LINCOLN To Linnie— A sweet, plaintive song did I hear, And T fancied that she was the singer. May emotions as pure as that song set astir |College Girls Marry Or Become Teachers Lincoln's Letter The letter, addressed to Lincoln’s| law partner, William Herndon, read: | 8irl graduate “Dear Willlams: highest $4.000. The top salary was Yours of the 3rd is this moment | that of an actress. The married received and 1 hardly need say it|graduates had 161 children. gave unalloyed pleasure. I now al-| e most regret writing the serious, &Rt 0 ] long-faced letter I wrote yesterday. | Edison Pioneers But let the past as nothing be—go it while you're young! I write this In| New York, Feb. 12 (#—The Edi- the confusion of the H. R., and with son Pioneers, an organization of several other things to attend to, }|those who worked with Thomas will send you about eight different Alva Edison before 1890, held their speeches this evening, and as to Kiss-| annual meeting yesterday on the in- ing a pretty girl, 1 know one very| ventor's 82nd birthday anniversary pretty one, but I guess she won't| and approved the suggestion of a let me Kiss her. world wide celebration in honor of “Yours forever, | the 50th anniversary of the inven- “A. LI ! tion of the incandescent lamp. The celebration will be held on rtz_also related that in|Qet. 21 noxt and will be known as Winchester, Va., Lincoln stopped at | “light's golden jubilee.” The electri- the town hotel—the Haggard House | trical industry will be asked to ap- —and at the request of two daugh-| point a fostering committee to per- ters of the proprietor wrote verses| fect plans. in their autograph books which he| At the close of the meeting a let- composed on the spur of the mo-|ter was read in which Henry Ford ment. | sugzested that the collection of Edi- They read: | scnia owned by the Edison Pioneers To Rosa— !be housed with his collection of You are young, and I am older; | similar objects in lord’s proposed You are hopeful, I am not. Enjoy life, ere it grow colder, Pluck the roses ere they rot Teach your beau to heed the lay— ! dustry at Dearhorn. At the foot of the Ford letter was a note by Edi- son approving the suggestion. In Yearly Session | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY REVISION UPWARD 1S DINNER TOPI Republicans Hear Moses at Pennsylvania Lincoln Peast Williamsport, Pa., Feb. 12 A— An upwarg revision of the protectiv tarift schedules was the keynote of |an enthusiastic Lincoln Day dinner | held here last evening and attended { by more than 300 republicans. United States Senator George H. Moses, of New Hampshire, president | pro tem of the senate and perma- | rent chairman of the last national | republican convention, and General { Edward Martin, state chairman of | the republican party and auditor | general, were the principal speakers. | Preserving the *“American mar- | ket, the best market in the world, | for the American workingman. the best paid laborer in the world” is {the cornerstone of the republican {tarifft program and party leaders must continue to champion it, ac- | cording to Senitor Moses. He said, | “to maintain the American standard | of living and the American scale of wages has been the golden cord which has run through the «atire |tariff policy of the republican party.” | Senator Moses repeatedly com- | pared present party practices and | policies to the principles formulated |by Abraham Lincoln. His was an unique character, the senator said. | After discussing some of the impos- tors of Lincoln, he turned solemnly to the audience and said: “My friends, there are no other Lin- | colns.” | 2 |Prank in Elevator Costs Girl's Life New York, Feb. 12 (#—As a result | of what police said was a prank hy another girl 17-year-old Jennie Pas- |tock fell eight stories down an e! | vator shaft yesterday sustaining in- juries from which she died four hours later. | Miss Pastock and Lillian Gelbert, {19, both of whom are employed by |a midtown novelties concern, were returning from lunch when the Gel- bert girl suggested they visit & girl on the 12th floor of the building where they work. Miss Pastock re- fused and told the elevator operator to let her off at the ecighth floor. The elevator operator said he stop- ‘pml the car as ordered but that Miss | Gelbert seized the control switch | Pastock on the car started it | again. | The door to the cighth floor al- up Retail Service Worthy Of Your Patronage NewBritain has several hundred retail establishments, ranging from specialty shops to department stores. They’re well managed, their prices are fair and they’re convenient and agreeable to deal with. Patronize them. Shop in New Britain. Keep the home dollars circulating at home. * * * Working with New Britain’s merchants is The Commercial Trust Company, itself a “department store of banking” offering 16 services under one roof. THE COMMERCIA TRUSTCO T R A A T T A 8w PR A 1 1 ready was open, he told police, and Miss Pastock jumped off. 8he land- ed in the open doorway, but lost her balance as the car moved on up and toppled backward into the shaft. Miss Gelbert and the elevator oper- ator were questioned but not ar- rested. Hudson Lunch Fixtures Disposed of for $1,400 The fixtures of the Hudson Lunch, which was closed following a bank- ruptcy action, sometime in January, lare reported to have been sold to the Central Lunch and S8amuel Pyros for $1,400. The value of the fixtures according to appraisers is approxi- mately $10,000. Following the bankruptcy pro- ceedings, the restaurant and fixtures, were ordered sold at auction, and at the time of the sale there were only 1two bids, the highest bidding being 1$1,800. Referee in Bankruptcy Saul | Berman refused to permit the sale | for such an amount and ordered the restaurant closed. In the meantime, the trustee was {obliged to meet the necessary ex- i pense of paying the rent, while the fixtures remained there, incurring | thereby additional costs, and finally |insisted that the fixtures be sold. The sale, conducted yesterday afternoon, was semi-private and the best price that could be obtained is have been $1,400 America’s Officers Dined in Germany Bremen, Germany, Feb. 12 (#— | Captain Harry Manning and his offi- cers of the steamship America with the boat crew which rescued ihe crew of the Italian steamship Flori- da were the guests at dinner last night of the American colony at the Cotton club. Captain Scott, Ameri- lcan trade commission, hcaded & | delegation from the American col- ony at Hamburg Leslic Reed, American here, was the principal Captain Manning was presented with @ large silver tray by the American colony of Bremen and the consul peaker. ~ | American colony of Hamburg. | s 2 FORECLOSURE SUITS BROUGHT | Claiming that the conditions of a $5,000 mortgage have been violated, Morris Segal has brought suit against Max Kallman and Bertha Miller to foreclose property at 38 Brooklawn street. The suit was brought through Attorney Maurice Rosenberg. The New Britain Real Estate & Title Co., through Attorney Leo V. Gaffney, brought a foreclosure ac- tion against Ernest C. Plath on Stanley street property. The or. [ $5.000,000 muscum of American in-|and in an endeavor to keep Miss|iginal amount of the mortgage i said to be $1,900. Walter Sullivan acquired posscs- {sion of Carlton street property by YOUR NEW BRITAIN As alocal resident you are one of 80,000 “stockholders” in the civic en the City of loyal ise_known as ew Britain. Be to it. Patronize its mer- chants and industries. said to| virtue of a certificate of foreclosure. Samuel Lehrer hid brought the suit against Guiseppina Bombaccl and others to foreclose & mechanic's lien on the property. The court had given a foreclosure judgment and ¥. J. Kelly as committee named by the court, made the sale. Vermont Would Levy State Tobacco Tax Montpelier, Vt.,, Feb. 12 (—Ver- mont would take advantage of the reported increase in tobacco sales in this country by levying a tax on all forms of the product sold in this state under a bill filed in the state house of representatives last night by Clark A. Corliss of Weathersfield. The measure would require all to- bacco dealers te obtain a sale per- mit at an annual rate of $5. The tax scale wouid be: One-half cent on each five cigarettes, one-half cent on each 50 cigarette papers, one- half cent on each five cents of the retail value of chewing and pipe to- bacco and one-half cent on each five cent value of snuff. | Enraged Brother Kills Afghan Army Chieftain Peshawar, India, Feb, 12 (P— |8yed Hussian, commander-in-chief of the armies of Bacho Salmo, Afghanistan's water boy king, has died from dagger wounds inflicted {had taken away from her family, ifron(h’l’ reports said today. { Four Royal Air Force machines | evacuated 58 refugees from Kabul today. These included some Ger- {mans and some Persiane. Rail Man’s Wife Dies During Dance St. Albans, Vt, Feb, 12 (A—Mrs. James C. Boyle, 40 years old, wife of the evaluation engineer of the Central Vermont railroad, died here suddenly last night while attending a private dance. Her death was be- lieved due to heart ta.iure, by the enraged brother of a girl he | EDISON RESUMES HIS RUBBER HUNT Tnveator Returns to Laboratory Alter Birthday Observance Fort Myers, Fla,, Feb. 12 (®— Having recelved the plaudits and felicitations of the world when he hecamle §2 years old yesterday, ‘fhomas A. Edison, electrical wizard, today resumed his experiments in rubber. The aged inventor, whose genius has turned darkness into light and given the world the talking machine, hopes to find a plant, or group of plants, which will produce sufficient rubber to supply the United States in case of a national emergency. Never before has the birthday celebration of this famous man brought together a more noted group. President-elect Herbert Hoover made a special trip from his vacation home on Belle Isle to be with his old friend. Henry Ford, whose wint 'r estate joins that of the wizard, and Harvey Firestone, an- other old friend, were with him. Besides the acclaim of 20,000 citi- zens here, Mr. Edison was honored in various ways in several parts of the world.” Irom everywhere came telegrams and cables of congratula- tion. The day was climaxed by a radio program, broadcast from WJZ in New York, in which the inventor himselt said a fcv words of appre- ciation, With all of the demands upon his time during his birthday, however, Mr. Edison was not too busy to grant his usual newspaper interview to scores of reporters, Patiently he answered questions scribes propounded, in the main writing the answers, IREAII HERALD CLASSIFTED ADS SORE THROAT? Gargle with Listerine Kills germs in 15 seconds D whipped early. ought to be rapid. If doctor. Dept. S. 89, Lambert And for N'T let a sore throat get serious. It’s a germ condition that ought to ‘be At the first sign of trouble, gargle with full strength Listerine. 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