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About Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931 | View Entire Issue (March 20, 1920)
HATIRDtY, MAIU’H VO, Urjo. GRANTS I’lMM DAILY COL III LB MOR TH -- «--- ENGLAND HAM II RIH Mi SERVICE AT SMALL COST > AFTER SPRING CLEANING You Will Need Will R[ COMBATTED IT IS A GENUINE PLEASURE two shllllni' i and slx|H.n< -e a tnll«. HILL ML UUIIIUHI I LU Th»» cost of a Journey by air to tl>«l • • • Rivera Is iven as 91 pound«; to St J ... ,, ......................„ , , W .i-ihlniiton, Mar. 2b. Antlclpat- i Moritz, Switzerland, pounds, and ' . Ing the |M>Hslt>ility this spring of an to Copenhagen, 67 pounds. „„ ... , . , iother ot th« numerous de«ir i tlve Th«, Rivera trip by air take« seven j . , , ,, . , ... .. „„ outbreaks of the Hessian fly In the hour«, compared with more than 3” . hours dry ■ , land ■ and . sea. ¡wheat fields of th», country, the de-' _____ l*artment of agriculture has made 'ready to combat it. Through appro-, Th» Chin»*« Red CroM hu« 25.000 priation by congress, funds for the i members. work were in-r»«»»e<l sufficiently to provide for the principal needs and, three stations for th« purpose of ays-1 tematlc study have 'been established at Carlisle, Pa, Centralia, 111., and Wichita, Kans. Through ths»« stations it is hoped! —ON— more will be learned this year »bout the 'lli,sslan fly than In any year since the British General Howe’s hired Hessians are supposed to have brought the pest to lz>nr Island dur-1 Ing the revolution. Exhaustive inve«-l ligations are under way on parasites! « of the Heswian fly to d»dermine what) This is the blight resistant effect the presence or absence of any I stock recommended by Prof. particular parasite has on periodical' Reimer of the Houthern Oregon visitations of the fly. The last great | and so Experiment Station outbreak came five or six years ago. much in use by large planter*. HELMER’S . X . for the Josephine Omnty Bank to serve lie customer. prom|>tly and ef ficiently in all lainklng and finam lai matter»- . It you have a business problem, consult uh freely. Josephine County Bank Surprise Pear t FASHION GARAGE & MACHINE SHOPS HMttVIOF. AND HAtTIMF ACTION «*• H MOTTO We carry « full lin»- of Tires anil Accessories at the I mmi I price« on th« uisrkci Now 1« the time to make your spring repair». We make a «|>rei*lt) of all kind» of Lathe an< work and gen<*ral n*|sUrs. AI m > all kind* of ■nd aluminum weMiiig. Bring in your n Trouble*!. We can help you. Japan Root I riant the Surprise, topwork it to Bartlett, Anjou or what ever variety you wish and you have a trunk that has proven Itself Immune from blight. We have bad a big demand for thin stock, but fortunately ■till hare a few first class trees to offer Melons were secured direct from Prof. Reimer. For oilier <ln|H"o<bible nursery stock, a» well, write C. F. BURKE and E. KNOX, Props T<» p | h - ii I»I i . Wa»h. Steels that make a Maxwell Alert Because a rare com bination of strength with lightness had to be provided in steels.- Any metallurgist will tell you that the only answer was the very finest of steels. They never burden the Maxwell engine, so when you cad for results you get the nt*in a Maxwell. That’s one of many rea sons \\h\ the friendly drift towards Maxwell continues to increase day by day. Now there are nearly 400,000 of them on the roads of rhe world. I he demand so far ex cecils the supply that only 60'< <>f those who have set their minds on a Maxwell can succeed in possessing one this year HAREM PRACTICES AND SLAVE MARKET VICTIMS l>>cal theatre patrons will be given' If he first <>|rportunity they ever had | ‘to see an authentic reproduction of the modern »lave markets and har- ■ urns of Turkey during the presents-j I lion next Sunday, Monday and Tues-1 day at the Oregon Theater, of "Auc tion of Souls." the sensational pic- turlzation of the amazing experiences | of Aurora Mardiganian. sole survivor! of MiO.OOO young Christian girls tak-1 en captive by the Turks when they i ravished Armenia in 1915. In "Auction of Souls." the pro ducers have broken with tradition | and in stage setting, costume and ac tion. have reproduced not a conven tional Arabian Night slave market) and harem scene, but have taken as their models these places as they ac tually exist today or did exist before ! •Il MT RECEIVED A HHIPMENT OF Lee and Goodrich OORDK A.XI» FABRIC* TIR ES A.XD TIBI* « ONE BABY GRAND and ONE CHEVROLET TRUCK IN STOCK SEVERAL BARGAINS IX USED CARS Maxwell & Co. W. P. FULLER & CO.’S Paints and Varnishes We Sell Adama Brush»* The Best Made V«rr fit lift Pft guilt.* < • /Ori esca: '• Because it was built to deliver economic trans portation. portation That meant no superfluous weight, It meant lipht weight. « Collins Auto Co PAINTS, Oil*. GLASS. PC TTY. SAND PAPER. STEEL WOOL AND SHELLACS ‘ Valley Hardware Company We do fine shoe repairing the British entered Constantinople I Aurora Mardiganian. the beautiful! 1 7-year-old Christian Armenian girl, around whose adventures the seen-f ario is woven and who herself enacts! the leading part in the film, was sold as a slave in one of these mo dern Turkish markets and -was later! a prisoner in a Turkish harem From her own personal expert- i ences. and from the authentic re-j ports from offictals of the American j and British Governments who have* seen these things, the scenes have! been reconstructed. The Armenian girls, like the Circassian and the Georgian, are much more refined, and beautiful than the native Turkish girls, and when the Armenian mas-, ■acres were renewed In 1916 the| Turks made them a pretext for seiz-. Ing the most beautiful daughters of J the Armenian families and forcing | them into their harems. Those I whom the officials and officers lid- not keep for their harems they al-1 lowed to be sold in the slave mar kets. Thus it happened that hun dreds of these unhappy girls were1 stood up naked and sold to the high est bidder, and in many instances! there were so many of them, and hu-! man life was so cheap, that the pricej which a girl brought was even less than a single American dollar Au rora Mardiganian herself was sold Jn one of these markets for S5 cents. ■'Auction of Soltis," -is not merely a I story of slave and harem life in lhe East, Those things are merely in-’i- dents. It Is a tremendous and <lra- matic picture of the martyrdom of tlie entire Armenian nation, through which runs the thread of the person al ex)H*rienecs of the beautiful little .17-year-old girl who Ina”.- ■ s- fiied from her captors and brought to America. Candidate cards - Cour or office. G. B. BERRY Harness and Saddlery Auto Top and Canvas Work With Grants Pass Hardware Co. WITH GATES Si TIRES 1. 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