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Briefly, the program adopted is as
101 & 105 N. 6th
SATl HD.IY. APRIL 2. 1921
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♦
follows
Grants Pass, Ore*
Early this spring agents will
be sent to canvaas the middle west
♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦ 4 ern states including the
Dakotas,
4 Iowa. Kansas. Nebraska.
OREGON WEATHER
Colorado.
4
Wyoming. Montana and Utah, tor the
Tonight and Sunday. fair, ♦
purpoee it intvrvi« • d -» pros, ectivo
colder in the interior. Light to ♦
immigrants who are contemplating
heavy frost in the morning.
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444444-444444444 ♦ ♦
a move westward.
Advices received
WOMAN STUMPS
SCIENTISTS BY
DISCOVERIES
Experiments, Begun as Hobby,
Lead to Amazing Results.
during the past few months indicate
—■
Ip♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ that tbie westward movement will
♦ be on a larger scale this summer
4 CIVIC PRIDE DEMANDS
BEAI T1FY1NG »TREFT»
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than in former years, and these ad*
^jvnnco agents will gather together
a Water Treated With Radio-Active Crys
The committee recently ap
♦
tals Causea Bread te Rise Without
«I large group to move to Oregon on
pointed by
the Chamber of
Yeast—stimulating
Effect
Upon
♦
'fixed
schedule
and
a
certain
dale
Commerce to took into the mat
Plants Is Shown In Remarkable
It is believed that a party of at
♦ ter of cleaning and beautifying ♦|
Growth—Other Marvels Performed
♦ our city have some suggestions *| least 500 prospective settlers could’
in Experiments on Animal Life—
4 to offer which if carried out will
Crystals Out of Air.
- be grouped together In this way and
4 make Grants Pass the most at
«■
brought
to
Oregon
in
a
body.
Defl-
tractive town in Southern Ore
The story told ui a book Just ar
♦ gon
The committee
reeom- ♦ nite assurances have been given by rived frcm England, where it was late
mend® that Sixth street particu ♦ the railroads that they will cooper ly published, w of s sort to pleas« th«
larly be thoroughly cleaned up. ♦ j ate in every way with the proposed appetite fur lhe marvelous that has
been developed In recent years under
Old piles of tin cans and rub
plan. Homeseekers rates which were
the discovery of raiftuui and the con
bish
removed;
store
fronts
suspended during the war were put sequent succession of revelations con
♦ brightened up by a little paint;
into effect again last Tuesday follow- • cerning the amazing possibilities of
streets
washed
and
flushed
radio-activity.
According
to
tills
down; hedges trimmed; un-
ing a conference of railroad officials
book. It Is again a woman who, quite
♦ sightly and condemned
I
build-
at Omaha.
by accident, has made a remarkable
ings removed
More sidewalks
Taking advantage of these rates,! discovery along these lines; Its nature
built on this street; old signs
Indicated by the title of the book. "A
which permits of stop-overs on any,
♦ removed.
In order that these
New Activity?" This woman. Sylves
point en route, the party of home ter Baxter tells the Boston Transrlpt.
improvements can be brought
about the cooperation of every
seekers would arrive in Oregon, the is a M rs Maud Dickinson, widow of
citizen and property owner is ♦ rail trip coming to an end at
the the late T. G. Dickinson. Mrs. Dicklu*
son. although English by birth, was
desired for only in this way can
From that brought up from Infancy In Burling
most advantageous point
the proper results be effected.
tour ton. la.
personally-conducted
point a
♦
THE COMMITTEE
It was tn 1911 that .Mrs. Dickinson
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Let'» «lean fp ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ over the entire state by automobile
began to experiment, first as a hobby,
would begin.
with a view to finding a perfect anti
The routing of the party through septic for medical use
While travel
MORE PEOPLE FOR OREGON
Oregon has got some mighty fine the state would be in the hands of a ing In the east Mrs Dickinson had
been impressed by the healing, health
people—but she has not got enough committee from the state chamber. giving and preserving qualities of the
of 'em.
We need population,
and. This committee would select the most oriental essential oil.«
So she began
the state is in no position to wait for favorable itinerary which would en to Investigate their therapeutic prop
erties. Her researches appear to have
home production, much as the Ore-! able the settlers to investigate the
been
conducted
along
ulehemlstlc
gon product might be desired.
So wool and wheat growing sections. Ir lines.
Taking various organic oils
the state is going to reach out into* rigated lands, fruit districts, and all (chinamen. orange, lemon, pine, lav
ender. laurel, rosemary, violet, etc.) to
rp-
other states and bring in people to! the agricultural and industrial
gether with the many rare Eastern
care gums, ".«he found that by a certain
Great
farm idle lands, dig the
minerals sources of the state,
from the mountains, cut our trees would be used in selecting this Itirt- blending of the««. according to an-
elent and traditional rites, already
representative
and saw the logs, and do the various, erary. so that every
known to her frmn both the inspired
other things that must be done to district of the entire state would be and the ancient Egyptian writing-
put Oregon in the position which is covered by the party In the shortest that «he could prmluce an 'antiseptic
rightfully hers in the world of in space of time consistent with a thor- fierfuuie of exceptionally high thera
peutic and germicidal value. To the
ough investies tion.
dustry.
commercial development of this, and
many other hygienic preparation«.
Locally, »e have lands that need
Mr« Dickinson -in '-«“-fully gave her
Cynical.
clearing and cultivating.
Josephine
attention for a year or so.
“His friend« could give no ren «>n
is up against a real problem in this,
Crystals Frcm Soap.
why be stiuuld have committed suicide
Igite in 1913, while preparing an
and we bave homes for thousands He wn« inch " -The Stamford Advo
"antiseptic nieillcnl cream soap" with
of new people with the most favor eate.
a mixture of these oils, resins, etc..
able surrounding« and conditions to
Mr- I >ii kin«on found certain m nu'e
crystalline parll'-les precipitated upon
be found in the west.
All that is
the pa; <-r at the lop of the jar con
necessary is to carry the news to the|
A Texas Iconoclast,
talning the i-ompotind
She thought
Our gue«« i» ih;,, when the brida tit lir«t the«« were Impurities n««l-
people to get them here that they I
promises to love, honor and obey «he dentally pre-ent.
But on tte«ond'',r
may Investigate. The state chamber(
I» Just a« earnest as when she kisses 24 «In* « rniined them with some care
of commerce has undertaken a pro- rhe bridegroom'» folk».—Dallas News
tinder a microscope
The, were red
----- N--------- ----------------------------------------------- dish brown and glittered ami scintil
lated In tl« sunshine.
Mr«. Dickin
son. liiulng them apparently In «nine
“active" -tat«, exclaimed “Radium I"
imagining from what «lie had heard
that radium «o appeared.
Fixani ,ilng them '•are'ully. and find
ing that th« ' ombli.ritl' n of oil« and
gum« i-niitalned no -olid matter, hav
ing b«*-n filtered ««vend tine*, «he
took th« cr'-ta1« to the head «h«inl-r
of tl-e I.omhc: «liemlcnl firm that had
-I*«« ail*, ol-la'i.ed the oil», etc., for
I er fro* . II.« I “t
II" i-> ||I«I not ac-
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Let's » lean
4
»ut unii, it-itti *.*, urji,
GRANTS PASS l»ll! Y O»! «.KI
PAGE FOl R
GETS CRYSTALS LIKE RADIUM
Spring and Summer
UNDERWEAR
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THE HOME OF .MI SSING VI Filli
,
i
v«n tlu-rn Into
nt scientist«
i pt to lier-elf
««.
Although
she
'Organic lindi
ci'i.” It wn« simply ns n nnnm In con
frost to the Inorganic substance called
indium. F'roni what Is said of Mrs
Dickinson Jt would appear that It can
hardly be a sordid motive that Induced
nei re- v n« to her methods, but rather
the desire, common to ao many p«r-
eons, "to do everything herself." It
Is related that «he has always consltl
»red before an, Idea« of fame or
wealth the «acred cau«e of bcneflllng
hiinianlti
Shi* ha« long ilerirvd to
»h*'vv the world the wav io cure can
,-er
Prev I oii « to her dl»exivi*ry «he
o expert In
I wa» already known a«
hygiene mid 1« the auiho
over fifty
ie liter
; different Invention' in H*
hnvlng worked iinulded f«r four years.
It 1» announced that «he has at last
placet! her work In the hands of a
aclentlfle authority «•> that the year
W17 It 1« regarded a« the < lo«e of the
flr«t perioi! of her researehe«
Crystals Out of tho Air.
One of Mr» Diikinvin« tlieorti*« 1«
that from one of her radii»a five
ery«iul» In a »caleil gla«» tube «lie cun
! collect other« within the vicinity
(Materialization?) Iler explanation 1»
that the ray» emitted by the crystals,
after pa««lng through the tube and
i
!
!
I
I
'
I
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mixing with tn* atuiosptirrv. ten
deii-i* tn u nucleus that absorba mat
ter mid organize» a crystal out of the
moisture and otliw substances In the
ulr
This suggest» the prediction of
Sir Oliver Lodge thin tlir day a mild
coiih * when we should I»* able to liar*
Hr" lhe electricity of the air."
Mr« Dickinson's first observation of
the«« crystals a» being radioactive
an* when one' of them hurtled her
hand
Then It was found that they
affix ted photographic plates
Some
extraordinary results are re|x>rted as
to what has been done with this radlo-
actlvlty.
Mrs Dickinson. trying the
effect of the crystals upon practically
everything Imaginable, is said to have
prmluced a "radio-active soap” highly
efficient in cleansing w.xvl.
Making
water radioactive she has produced
a table water; wrlth this water the
growth of plants Is »aid to have been
remarkably stimulated Gold was suc
cessfully separated In a few hours
from the arsenic In certain Welsh ore«.
Bread without yeast was made with
the radio-active water. 56 loaves of
this bread were sent to British prison
ers In Germany. Three week» <m the
way. It arrived so fresh thst It was
thoroughly
enjoyed.
Radio-active
yeast, also produced. Is said to have
proved so superior as to make the
nicest sort of bread out of Inferior
flour
Excellent wines have also been
produced.
Radio-active coal. made so by the
radio-active water, was reported by
an engineer to bars been Improved to
the extent that a quantity of It ran a
locomotive .'fit hours longer than the
same quantity not treated.
Radio
active water was found to be highly
effective In ridding steam holler tubes
of scale Crystallized fruits have been
pnxluced and vegetables preserved,
while the natural colors have been ex
traded from flowers by the radio ac
tive process,
Ordinary pnlnt Is re-
ported to hare been greatly Improved
by the use of radio-active oil.
Stimulating Effects,
Th.* stimulating effect upon plants
treated with radio-active water ap-
pears to have been so marked that n
carnation So treated was ten days In
advance of one grown under ordinary
condition«, while Its stein was slz
Inches longer Similar effects were re
ported from experiments with animal
life; frogs eggs In radioactive water
hutched readily and the pollywog-
grew rapidly ; eggs In ordinary w ater
■ ' the Mme time did not hatch nt all
The remark« made by various scien
tific men Indlcnte Unit Mr«. I'lckln
son's discovery does not belong in the
Keeley motor class. F'or Instance. Sir
James Den nr «ays : "If this discovert
can he proved to he organic. It is the
discovery of a new world, hut It Is too
giguntlc even tn dream of.” Sir oil’er
Lodge «ays: "It (the rndlie-nctlvlty)
1« not mnimfacturetl; It Is n new disciiv
ery.” Sir William Barrett: "The re
obtained are simply
suits you have
I
astonishing, but .until I know* more
of the Hoiirci ■ of this radio activity It
Is Impossible to any whether ,v«i have
made a new discovery or not.” ITof
F' IV. Kei-ble: "This <1.«emery doe
1. ire thnn
I
wax ever expt «ti-d from ri.
dliiin. •a I.< n r: ilium was illwove-ed .*'
Prof. IV F". Gwlnr «11: “Il la a tny-
'Till« 1« rm
t«ry ' Jiillu- Mi eller:
rmlluin; It Is n new* discovery, an«’
not to lx* mentioned In the «aim
breath."
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ClihED BY SUDDEN FRIGHT
Philadelphia Man Relieved of
coughs in Curious Manner.
Hie
Unexpectedly
meeting an Angel,
chid in white and armed with a lance,
c* red Edgar Peters of Philadelphia
of an attack of hiccoughs.
Peter», thlrty-tvvo years old. who re
sides at No 71-1 Spruce «tract, was
Seized with nn attack of hiccoughs lit
the dinner table recently. When the
nitnck did not ce.-ise after several
hours lie went to the Pennsylvania
hospital.
Waltliig for th« arrival of n surgeon
for nearly half nn hour Peters was
nervously paring the flixir of the re-
*elvlng ward, when Doctor Angel, a res
ilient physician, entered unexpectedly,
«till garbed In n white operating gown
and carrying a wnrgeon'a lance.
“What's the mutter
with
you?"
a»k«»l the surgeon of Peters.
"Nothing,” replied the other. I came
In re to lie cured of the hiccough«, find
I'm cured." And he left.
phy-l' l: ii- explained that fright or
'midi'll «urpr'-o will often cure nn
attack of h i-migti
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Jud Timkins »nya there have
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yon couldn't attach any
portane« to than you could to a vai*
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