THE DALLES DAILY CHRONICLE. FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1921.
PAGE SEVEN
1
RUSSIA SUFFERS FROM
EPIDEMIC OF PLAQUES
By Patrick Quinland.
(Written for the United Press.)
NEW YORK, April 22. Every war
carries virulent diseases In Its wake
and the recent war brought Into so
viet Russia a number of epidemics
which took root instantly, because of
unsanitary conditions and the lack
of proper food. One epidemic came
close upon the heels of another and
Russia was caught In the. grip of chol
era, Spanish influenza and the typhus
plague.
Properly speakng, the typhus epi
demic began In the fall of 1918 and
reached its climax in the spring of
1919. Over a period lasting less than
ten months the total number of ty
phus cases registered was 1,299,263, of
which between eight and 10 percent
ended fatally. In the cities, where the
food situation was particularly acute,
the scourge spread most rapidly and
proved most disastrous.
During the summer months a mark
ed decline was visible in the number
of typhus cases registered with the
People's Commissariat of Health. The
disease received a new lease of life
in the winter months, when the eo
viet army advanced Into Siberia,
where the scourge had taken deep
hold. When the epidemic had practi
cally disappeared in the East, it be
gan to crop up In the south. Other
epidemics marched along-side the so.
vlet army, such as small-pox and ty
phoid fever. These had to be met, as
well as typhus, and the soviet gov
ernment, with wretchedly limited
means at its command, set bravely
to rid the country of devastating dis
eases. The People's Commissariat of
Health is under the expert direction
of Dr. N. H. Semaahko and repre
sents a fusion of all medical services
in the country. Previously, during the
Kerensky regime, there existed sev
eral independent organizations func
tioning along1 their own lines and of
ten duplicating or working' at cross
purposes. These were united into a
single independent body which is call,
ed the People's Commissariat 'of
Health. 'While other governments are
still discussing the advisability of es
tablishing a department of health, so
viet Russia is the first country to
have actually done it. This commis
sariat operates in outlying districts
through local branches assisted by
workers' and peasants' committees.
For example, all through the typhus
epidemic these committees under
took to inspect the baths, the supply
of soap, the sanitary condition of the
houses and public institutions as well
as to spread by word of -mouth correct
information and advice on questions
of hygiene. The committees were
formed in all important districts in
the large cities.
The stamping out of typhus, ac
cording to the reports of the commis
sariat, is in large part due to the ac
tivities of workers' and peasants' com
mittees. Labor in the factories has
INFLUENZA
I As a preventive, melt and in
I hale night and morning
VJCKS
VAPORUI
Out 17 Million Jon Uttd ttortj
& m -
' Growing Old Gracefully
Are you
row
ing old
Who
wins in
the race
of life?
Is it the
man
who ii
t h i n -blooded,
weak .
tired
all the
time?
An'ftthlete train for every race.
A man is as strong as his blood
and as old as his arteries. Make
your blood redder, your health
better by taking that old fash
ioned blood tonic sold fifty years
ago and still "good as gold"
namely, Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery. Sold by all druggists,
or send 10c. to Dr. Pierce's Invalids'
Hotel in Buffalo, N.Y., for a trial
package.
Sax Fbaxcisco, Oil. "There k
nothing so helpful to old persona
whose kidneys are weak and woo are
all run-down and naad a tonic (aoaae
laving to five tfaesa aa appetite) is
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov
ery. My fathir-In-law took it and
was greatly benefited; it teemed to
pat sew Ufa in hl. Ma. Jon
' Jaosjoa, 1706 Oak dale Avaaaa.
been protected by sanitary measures';
motherhood and childhood have been
the first care of the state; hospital
were, opened free of charge to mem
bers of all classes. In the latter there
are about 500,000 beds for persons
suffering from epidemics. The ambu
latories and the medicaments are free.
All drug stores have been -nationalized
and medical supplies are dis
tributed in a fair and systematic man
ner. 'A word must be said for the preven
toriums and general therapeutic work.
There are at present four district or
ganizations engaged in physic-mechanical-therapeutic
work, and suspects
are compelled to attend these and re
main under observation until pro
nounced in good health by the doctors.
During the war, owing to the ex
treme lack of medical supplies, the
People's Commissariat of Health was
compelled to resort to the most prim
itive methods to combat typhus.' Not
I
Chevrolet
Four -Ninety
Sales Record
More Than
Half Million
The Chevrolet Motor
Company's plan to
make cash refunds to
the purchasers of
50,000 Model "Four
Ninety" cars brings
to light the fact that
more than half a
million of these famous
models have. been sold.
t
This number covers
a period of six years'
production. In other
words, an average of
83,000 "Four-Nineties"
a year have been sold
since the model was
first introduced in
the 1915 season.
The 83,000 average
is only half the story.
For, in the first season,
less than two hundred
"Four-Nineties" were
sold.
Since its immediate
f success the sale of
these cars has increas
ed consistently. 1920
purchasers took nearly
two hundred thousand
"Four-Ninety" cars.
Many of tjie first
cars of this model are
still running. In fact,
it recently became
known that one of
these has traveled
more than-160,000
miles 27,000 miles
a year for six years
and is still running.
The sale of 50,000
more of these models
between January 1st
and August 1st of this
year will enable the
Chevrolet Motor Com
pany to maintain its
average quantity pro
duction. And if this is done in
such a selling year as
this, the Company will
refund its profits to
purchasers $70 on
open and $100 on
closed models.
Strange & West
Motor Company
520 East Second St. '
The Dalies, Ore.
only did the country suffer from ii
shortage of medjeines, but there were
not enough doctors and nurses to
meet the needs of the people. One
measure employed turned out to be
quite effectlvo. The government equip
ped a Health Propaganda train and
sent it through the country carrying
men and women speakers, who ex
plained to the ignorant peasant and
1 careless town-dweller the simple
' measures of personal hygiene. Great
lurid posters were pasted on the car
riages of the train shouting advice.
Main 6061 Bennett Taxi Main 01 tf
Follow the Crowd to
Hill's Grocery
for your
Saturday Specials
Norse Crown Imported Sardines, packed in Oli
1 ver oil, 2 cans, 35c.
Large cans, Preferred Stock, mustard Sardines,
cans, 20c
Australian Jam, various varieties, 13 oz. cans,
2 for 25c.
Fancy Japanese Rice, 4 lbs., 25c.
Yellow Seal Coffee, freshly roasted and ground,
our very best coffee offering, at lb. 20c.
Fancy French soft shelled Walnuts, lb. 45c.
Hill's Grocery
Across from City Hall
Telephone Main 6331 Free Delivery
Classified advertising 1 cent per wow
each Insertion. If Inserted 6 times or
more. 3-4 cent a word. Monthly publi
cation rates on application at the office.
FOR RENT
FOR RENT First of May, a seven
room furnished house. Inquire at
313 East Fifth street. 2iJ
FOR RENT Two nicely furnished
housekeeping rooms. No children.
Inquire 302 Court street. 23
TORRBNT -Nicely furnisheahouse
keeping rooms with sleeping porch.
Adults only. Telephone black 1811.
FOR RENT Three or four unfur
nished rooms, upstairs, with range,
hot and cold water. Call black
6291 or 'inquire 408 Clay. 23
FOR RENT .Room with board In
modern home. 'Lady or gentleman.
Telephone red 3491. 1000 Fulton
street. , 23
FOR RENT That large, comfortable
furnished housekeeping room you
will find at 115 East Second street,
up stairs. 27
FOR RENT Housekeeping rooms
given to married couple without
children, for services rendered by
wife. Call main 6461. 2'J
fOh SALE
FpR SALE Ten fresh cows. Write
E. D. 203, Chronicle. d23wl6-17
FOR SALE One or twe good milk
cows. Call 25F3. 2
FOR RENT Sleeping rooms. 607
East Fourth. ' 26
FOR SALE "Large and snail fans
and orchard tracts. Reasonable
prices, good terms. W. G. Hanna,
Dufur, Ore. 18tf.
FOR SALE One five gallon cow with
heifer calf, Joe Gelger, telephone
16F22. 26
FOR SALE 107 acres land on Five
Mile creek fenced hog-tight, plenty
wood and water, good alfalfa or
garden ground. C. J. Corson, 320
East Second street, Tho Dalles,
Oregon. 27wl7
FOR SALE Small house, lot 50100,
water oa lot and good garden. 1350.
Terms if necessary, See R. II, Fish,
Sixteenth and "Bridge streets. 2S
Your Favorite Place
to dine, "Hotel Dalles" if moder.ito
prices, quality of food, service and
surroundings are considered. Try
our evonlng and special Sunday din
ners, $1.00. You'll bo surprised. 23
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Return The Hose
If the parties who took the 60-foot
dark hose out of the United Brethren
church basement will return It at an
early date they may save themselves
some trouble. 22
For California Perfume company
goods, telephony main '2661. 25
CHRONICLE CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENT!
FOR SALE 1500 Overland truck .n
good Bhape. New tires. Price, ?175,7
if taken at once. The DalleB Oarage.
26
FOR SALE Ford delivery truck, in
excellent condition. Also furniture
and a Vlctrola with records. Very
reasonable. Party leaving city. 320
.Washington street. Telephone red
791. 22
FOR SALE Slightly used furniture,
Acorn range, and oil stove good a3
new at 210 Washington street, tele
phone red 791. 3
FOR SALE One milk goat, coming
fresh In Juno, and one kid one year
old. Inquire at Thompson's addi
tion store, Joe Landauer. 23
i inTLiLr r,rfM,M" r --
FOR SALE Horses. I have a number
of good horses for sale cheap.
Read's Feed store, cant end of Sec
ond street, telephone bla,ck 5211
2Ctf
FOR -SALE One five-room modern
house, close In, street pavement and
sidewalks In, lot 50x25, can glvo
possession at once. Price $2500,
'reasonable terms. See Venz Bauer,
telephone main 1571. . 27
FOR SALE Genuino Manila hemp
hats. Light weight, Just the thing
for hot days. Can be worn to
church as well aa fishing, and will
always look good. Your cholco for
3 00, at Mif. Hallle Weaver's, 302
Union street. 25
FOR SALE Owing to the high fertil
ity and increasing demand for
Rhode Island Red hatching eggs I
wHl bold my special pen together
during April. All orders cared for
at $1.00 per 15 or $6 per hundred.
Fred Cyphers, R. F. D. No. 3, tele
phone red 6362. M2
FOR SALE CHERRY WOLD. Throe
quarters of an acre overlooking city
and mountains near high school
and pavement. Largo fruit trees of
all kinds with small fruits, gardens
and shady lawns. Cherries alone
bring fine returns. Pleasant rambl
ing house of five rooms and bittli.
(Modern plumbing. Also detached
bouse, large woodshed, barn and
chicken house. A city homo and
ideal c6untry estate combined. Two
thousand down will handle. Inquire
owner, C. F. Spauldlng, 414 West
Twelfth st Met. 23
"Hell's Hatches"
A story of the south seas, considered to be
Lewis R. Freeman's biggest book.
"The Brimming Cup"
An absorbing character study of New
England home life.
By Dorothy Canfield
NOW ON SALE
Orders taken for ' '"HS
"Main Street
The book that has the whole country
discussing it.
By Sinclair Lewis
The Three Big
Judd &
Booksellers
SAY You saw it in the Chronicle when buying adv. goodi.
Chronicle Want Ads Bring Quick Results
FOR SALE Dry oak wood; old cak,
111.50. Second growth, J12.60. Deliv
ered. Call 30F22, after 6 p. m. tf
FOR SALE Overland touring car.
in good running order. See A. R.
Harnett, 210 Washington. 23
FOR SALE Second-hand blcycIcH
and motorcycles. Repairing of all
kinds. Lawn mowers sharpened.
Baby buggies re-tired. Noveltv
Works, 518 East Second. 25
FOR SALE One aero good lancl,'4
room house, chicken house, Thomp
son's addition, 1800.
DAHNIELLE BROS.
405 Washington Main 6831. 22
WANTED
WANTED 'Auto trucks to haf. grav
el on highway. Apply Shotwcl! Con
struction company, Celllo, Ore. 25"
WANTED Position driving and car
ing for tractor or. truck. Call blank
231. ' 25
WANTRD Clean cotton rags at The
Chronicle office, fivo cfcnts per
pound. "
WANTED Calclminlng and painting
by day or hour. Call mornings or
evenings. Red 3961. 23
WANTED Cars to store, by parties
who desire to have them where
we can show and sell them on com
mission. Whitney Auto & Electric
Works, 709 East Second street. 23
WANTED Woman (o look after
small houuo and cook for two peo
ple. Will furnish room und board.
Wrlto box G. Y. 342, Chronicle 22
. ANTED Horses and cattle to pas-
turo on good bunch grass pasture,
$2 por month per head. J. W. Per.
duo, on old Sam Jolins' placo, nine
miles out Mill creelt, 22
FOR TRADE
FOItRiUENo. ' 1 mlik"cow" for
Ford, car. Telephone red C0B2, or
call at 215 West Eleventh street
Saturday or Sunday. -a
LOST OR FOUND
IST-ol'd watch fob, Arab head.
Reward for return to office, Hotel
Dalles, 23
IX)ST Boy's coat, '7-')a"Ol! size,
bolted style. Find: call rod 1261.
wf.rnlfiEB. ReA'nrJ. 2S
Sellers of the Day.
Carlisle
and Stationers
MISCELLANEOUS
HEMSTITCHING Picot edging. Mrs.
L. M. Boothby, 308 Washington
street. Telephone main 6581. tf
'LAWN MOWING Yard" work, gar
donlng, etc. Your patronage is so
licited. L. A. MathowB, 502 West
Eighth street. Telephone red 3661.
9tt
TRANSFER AND EXPRESS Furni
ture and piano moving. Freight
hauled und general express busi
ness. Telephones: Stand, red 101;
residence black 1362. J. E. Henzle.
lltf
PROFESSIONAL AND BU8INESS"
PIANOS ,TDNED And repaired, ac
tion regulating and reflnlshlng.
Player actions a specialty. Work
guaranteed. S, A. Dockstnder, Cor
son Music store, 320 Fast Second
street. Telephone main lOfil. tf
Specieilisllo
Whitney Repair Shop
709 East Second St.
lie Truck Li
Freight and oxpress between The
Dalles and Wco, Moro nnd all way
points Loavo The Dalles, a. m.
dally except Sunday. Loavo Moro,
1:30 p. m. Ivoavo Wasco, 2:30 p. ni.
D. M. Pierce, proprietor. Telephone
b'.ack 1642 or main 471. tf
VENZ BAUER (
General real estate, Insurance, ana
loans. 1001 East Second street. Tele
phone main 1571. 28tf
HOWARD S. SOULE
Bxprt Piano Tuner
422 West Slxtl street, Residence
Phone mem 4201. tf
VERHA SAWYER
Dressmaking, alterations, repairing.
2181 Kast Third street. MB
POPULAR MUSIC
Taught by ,
BOB WERSCHKUL
Lossens by Appointment
Empress Theatre Pianist it
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