The evening world. Newspaper, January 9, 1917, Page 8

WL EGSTEiE 2 AETTLSPTIHLe. = = pemeuneneeens Semmmmen || 0 rT Ett 221 Pet fn t | Svat REFUGE BOYS FIGHT FIRE. Volunteer Brigade land Responds to Alarm, Island, occupied by Assistant Supe! tendent Louts Croly, was partially storyed by fire which started at 5 o'c! tion. tendent. The elder $10,000, was in Canada burying @ daughter. OPPENHEIM. CLUNS & 34th Street—New York Qn Special Sale Wednesday 400 Women’s and Misses’ Evening and Party Dresses To Close Out. Women’s and Misses’ attractive Dresses, taken from the regular stock, of Georgette Crepe, Charmeuse, crepe meteor and taffeta; also in various combinations. Reduced from 35,00 and 80.00 10.75 NoC. O. D.'s or Credits. No Alterations or Approvals. Will Place On Special Sale Wednesday 500 Pairs Women’s Boots New and Exclusive Oppenheim, Oolline & Co.'s Model. A high-cut boot measuring 9 inches to heel (11 inches to ground). Patent leather vamp, quarters and heel of cham- pagne colored suede, hand turned sole and Louis XV. heel. In all aises and widths, (ncluding AAA and AA Actual 10.00 Value 6.75 HERE is a feeling of com- ete satisfaction in know- ig that you buy your clothes right. Our suits and overcoats are right from the fabric to the finished garment. The prices are right too because they are based on the cost of materials a year ago, antedat- ing the advent of present values, BROKAW BROTHERS 14857-1463 BROADWAY AT FORTY-SECOND STREET if Fifty on te~ A three-story cottage on Randall's yesterday afternoon from faulty insula- ‘The blase was discovered by Russell Barber, six-year-old son of the superin- out the island epparatua and fifty House of Refuge boys, who compose @ volun- teer brigade. It seemed the blaze might spread and two fireboats were sum- moneda from Manhattan. The loss was In the house were Elisabeth Croly, aunt of Louts Croly, and Miss Conlon, a nurse, who.alded her to escape. Croly THE EVENING WORLD, TUSBDAY, JANUARY 9, 1917. By Sophie ing members of the Housewives’ Hartigan speaks ties for reducing the cost of living. “I want to thank you for the oppor- tunity of being present and speaking to the audience of the Housewives at Cooper Union, held under the auspices of the New York Evening World. “The meeting impressed me as @ serious contribution of consumers to enliven a public opinion for action upon the many proposals which bave been made from time to time, “You are to be congratulated upon the thorough-going manner in which you have planned and executed your propaganda. In my mind there should be no let-up upon demand for action and action, until practical remedial measures are in application, “Every sign points to increasing prices on foodstuffs between now and the end of the European war. That MEMBERSHIP Name ..cc..rcmsenccocece horrible catastrophe will continue to be the thorn in the side of the Ameri- can food supply situation and its prices while it lasts. “If you could conveniently send me the names of the members of your Protective Association, I would be pleased to send them such literature and buttons as the bureau distributes bearing upon methods of protection for the consumer buyer and the housewife. Sincerely, “JOSEPH HARTIGAN, “Commissioner.” That the bread loaf is getting small and the price going up is pointed out in the following letter in which a label of “eighteen ounces” Twelfth Ave., Brooklyn. Protective Assoctation: “Inclosed please find tho wrap- pings from a 10 cent loaf, This ts the last straw. For weeks, now, we have been having corrected weight, not twenty ounces, but eighteen. ‘That, surely, ts too little for 80 much, The present prico of bread in Lon- don is thirty-two ounces for five pence (10 cents), made with about seventy per cent, American flour. I certainly think this is a matter for your Housewives’ Association to look into, COCKNEY.” blems Will Be George members of Gov. Commission, the Executive Committee of Mayor Mitchel's Food Supply Com- mittee, the Wicks Legislative Commit- tee, and similar committees from Massa- chusetts, Rhode Island and Vermont to dinner at the Hotel Biltmore noxt Thursday, “Problems of food supply will be discussed. PANIC AS GIRL IS SHOVED BETWEEN SUBWAY CARS Anna Miller Painfully Brulsed as She Is Pushed Off Grand Central Platform, Mian Anna Miller of No, 471 Lenox Avenuo, forcing her way out of a Lenox Avenue express train in tho Grand Central subway atation in the rush hour to-day, wae pushed from | the platform between two oars, Bhe sorsamed as she went down and the | orowd surging on the platform be- came pi jo wtricken, Guards saved many others from being shoved off. The train was held for five min- jutes unti] Miss Miller eould be lifted Whitman's Market , out and carried to the reception hos- [pital in the Grand Central station, |Dr, Ballen of Flower Hospital found her legs and ankles had been pain- fully scraped and bruised, Bhe con. Unued down to’ cit 4 t hie home, Hudson + eiobalsens tn-dap afte a rolapes an attack of pneumonta fro: whieh ho ‘had boon sudoring for nine wooks Mr, path was born at Warren, County Meath, Ireland, May 6, 1848. He leaves & widow and six children, Short Weight Bread Here |\NowHigherThanin London; Housewives Urged to Fight “Cockney” Writes of Bread Conditions in New York and in His Own War Suffering Town—Evening World’s Housewives’ Protective Association Commended by Commissioner Hartigan. More letters are coming in relative to short weights and measures in answer to the article that appeared in The Evening World of Jan. 6, warn- weights of produce venders, Every woman who becomes a member of the Housewives’ Protective Association is sent a coin of | protection, which is carried to show the unscrupulous dealer that thousands of women are behind this move- | ment and that fraud will not be tolerated. | Every housewife may join the association by sign- ing the application blank below. } To further accentuate this point of protection as to the co-operation between the Bureau of Weights and Measures and the Housewives’ Protective Asso- ciation, the following letter from Commissioner Joseph to communteate to this department any violations, which helps the protec- | tion of all. The Housewives’ Protective Association is also in co-operation with Commissioner Dillon of the Foods and Markets Committee in draft- ing a bill for this Legislature providing terminal markets and other facill- Cut out this coupon, fill cut and mail to the Housewives’ Protective Association, Evening World, Post Office Bom 1354, Address .ccweewe cons ces ev cows ewreeneccvocuves I desire to enroll my name as a member of The Evening World’s Housewives’ Protective Association. Inclose 2-cent stamp and membership token will be mailed. Irene Loeb. Protective Association as to short | for itself. Every member is asked | U.S. GRAND JURY GETS RECORDS OF COAL MINED Head of Anthracite Bureau of In- formation Testifies—No Ac- tual Shortage. Tho United States Grand Jury to- day continued its inquiry into the ac- tivities of the coal speculators who! raised the price of coal recently to $12 @ ton, Edward W. Parker, head of the Anthracite Bureau of Information| at Wilkes-Barre, Pa, was the first| witness, The Bureau keeps records| APPLICATION IN FIVE MINUTES NO SICK STOMACH, INDIGESTION, CAS “Pape’s Diapepsin” is the quickest and surest Stomach relief. | If what you just ate is souring on your stomach Or lies like a lump of lead, refusing to digest, or you belch gas and eructate sour, undigested food, or have a feeling of dizziness, heartburn, fullness, nausea, bad taste in mouth, and stomach headache, you can surely get relief in five minutes, Ask your pharmacist to show you the formula, plainly printed in these fifty-cent cases of Pape's Diapepsin, then you will understand why dys- peptic troubles of all kinds must go, and why it relieves sour, out-of-order stomachs or indigestion in five min- utes, “Pape's Diapepsin” is harmless; tastes like candy, Aone each dose will digest and prepare for assimila- tion into the blood all the food you | eat; besides, it makes you go to the | table with a healthy “appetite; but | what will please you most, is that you will feel that your stomach and intes tines are clean and fresh, and you will not need to resort to la: ves or siver pills for biliousness or constipation. This city will have many “Pape's Diapepsin" cranks, as some people will call them, but you will be enthusiaatu about this splendid stomach prepara tion, too, if you ever take it for indi- gestion, gases, heartburn, sourness, dyspepsia, or any stomach misery, Get some now, this minute, and rid yourself of stomach misery and ind! gestion in five minutes,—Advt, HEADACHES day, other thou- every week or what will remove 80 a8 to give e Permanent oure, All he oan do isto pre- Scribe the usual pain reflevers, whioh Biye temporary relief, but the headache Peturns as usual, and tment is again Necessar: trom headaches SEEEP AR Fart worth SICK-HEADACHES enesnes tice have already reported, it Is un- derstood, that there has been no|Jurors to compare the amount of/an artificial scarcity which enabled shortage in the amount of coal mined of the coal mined in independent com-| this year, though the demand has|bureau and by the investigators of BOUNDS FUNNY. ' cerns. been greater and ein . ve 5 the wey Justice, Many The salary of the ba \Meul in unloaded| cases have alrea Agents of the Department of Jus-| ttle qimeulty in getting feconsigning cars 20 a9 t6 delay their| @nt of the Poor of Westchester It will be interesting to the Grand] arrival at this port, thereby creating epeculators to charge a higher price. $5,000 to $10,000, coal mined as reported by the official Aspirin is made by only one company. Counterfeits and substitutes may be in- effective, and even dangerous. For your protection be sure to ask for and to see that _you get only Bayer-Tablets of Then only are you sure that you have the genuine Aspirin. Every package and every tablet is marked with “The Bayer Cross 43) Your Guarantee of Purity” that the moncaceticacidester of salicylicacid in these The ° ied pV. Office) te trade-mark “Aspirin” (Reg. 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