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Daily British Whig (1850), 9 Oct 1920, p. 13

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5 "1 i tractor and hay press with which ra- | pid work can be done In fields. ' famous and historic air craft. PAGES 13-20 Wanted, a Six Foot Lover--| Spectacles-- A Serial Star ~ When a Feller Needs a Friend-- A Book Worm -- Society Woman On Screen RE you six feet three, male gender? If so. communicate at once with Betty Blythe, beautiful flim star. Miss Blythe seeks a permanent lover =--for film purposes. The one requisite is that he be of the proper longitudinal dimension. The star being unusually tall, and most leading men in pictures being unusually short, has Issued a call te the colleges of the United States for a young man, preferably good looking, who is Interested in be- coming a plcture actor, and who measures the said number of inches. Me must be of athletic proportions in keeping with his height, of the rugged masculine type, and able to swim, ride horseback, drive ®» car, look intelligent. A college man is preferred, as the star believes that brains as well as brawn is demanded now by picture fans. Miss Blythe Intends to com- mence picture production as soon ms she can find the right physical and intelligent giant. She recently com- pleted a film play of a James Oliver Carwood story, "Nomads of the North," and is now enjoying a vaca- tion while her director looks for the "great lover." Harold Lloyd Harold Lloyd recently received a letter from an old lady, living !n Evansville, Indiana, It read as fol- lows: dance and | | LM KINGSTON, ONTARIO. MONG THE ("TARS MOVIL f° ---- - A Dear Mr. Lloyd: This is not a mash note as I am 71 years old and have four grand- children--all boys. I am not what they call a movie fan but I do love your pictures and have been laughing at your trials and tribulations for over two years. Now, my dear boy, I have been looking at those big glasses you wear. They must be heavy and in time will wear a big crease on your nose. 1 am sending you = pair of spectacles that I wore for years and my mother wore before me. You can have the lenses changed to suit your eyes. They are the easiest wearing frames in the whole world and I know you will notice a marked change Im- mediately. All good luck to you, my boy, and may the Haunted Spooks never catch up with you. MRS. J. D. A, The letter is now framed and hangs in Mr. Lloyd's dressing room. Above it hang the "spectacles." Jean Paige The career of Miss Palgesin photo- Newest Notes Of Science To hold a wrist watch on the straps of a hand bag is the aim of a recently patented attachment. New Zealand has planted nearly 80,000 acres of trees since it began afforestation work in 1898, An inventor has combined a farm England has organized a museum in which will be displayed models or After four years of experimenting a Florida man has succeeded in mak- ing mews print paper from native Saw grass. An electric drink mixer which can be clamped to the edge of atabledoes its work by whirling a glass contain- er. Three permanent agricultural ex- periment stations will be established in Jugo-Slavia in charge of American experts. A new parasol opens into a semi- circular shape to one side of its han- dle and is intended to shade but one person at a time. : Europe's oldest artesian well, bor- plant for the manufacture of coke still is yielding water from a depth of 1798 feet. To enable airplane flights to be made at extreme altitudes a French- man has invented apparatus which compresses the air fed to the carbu- reters at normal atmosphere pres- Bure. A new mud hook to be strapped to an automobile wheel to give it a grip when mired has side, cross and longitudinal flanges. About 10,000,000 acres of Astrak- han are covered with shifting sands, which are spreading at a rate of 100, 000 acres a year. Compressed air apparatus has been invented for quickly transferring oil from barrels into tanks without 1ift- ing the former. Cellulose extracted from cotton is the basis of a new artificial wool with which British textile experts are experimenting. A novel railroad grade crossing signal reflects sunlight in the day- time and automobile headlights at night through, red glasses. Sweden will build ' an exténsive ed at Grenoble, France, before 1840, "They Work wh % Nk ul =X ee NR N > NR Knock on wood! You're feeling 'fine, eh? That's great! Keep the en- tire family feeling that way always (With occasional Cascarets for the ---- i. AY AR Nn NN a ile you Sleep" N 3 ~ » " SN 5 liver and howels. When bilious, con- stipated, headachy, unstrung, or for a cold, upset stomach, or bad breath, nothing acts so nicely as Cascarets. 10, 25, '80 cents, X plays is one that might well be emu- lated and patterned after by the thousands of young women through- out the country who aspire for motion picture honors. Her own advice on how to do it is as terse as it has been effective. It ls: "Hard work and the love of it." And certainly Jean Paige has worked hard. And now with more laurels and greater honors in sight, she is working harder than ever. For Miss Paige. even though she has at- tained the highest possible peak of prominence in the photoplay world-- stardom, is just as sincere with her- self now as she was when she was doing "bits" In short subjects. She was born on her father's model farm, a few miles from Paris, Ilinots, and she received her early education in that city. Reared amid rugged sur- roundings and nurtured from the be- ginning to outdoor life, she naturally learned to ride horses: swim, shoot, climb trees and a score and one other strenuous accomplishments that gave her an excellent groundwork wupem which te start her motion-pleture career. And these assets will be more than valuable to her in her newly Foes Camere chosen field of endeavor--the serial photoplay. Miss Paige has just finished "Hid- den Dangers," in which she co-starred with Joe Ryan. Helene Chadwick And Will Rogers If you were the homeliest man the eounty and had just been handed a Kewple doll as the prize for winning the unsolicited honor in a homeliest- man oontest, wouldn't you be rather pleased to get rid of the prize If the winner in the most beautiful girl con- test took the embarrassing thing from yeu and showed that her Interest in you was--well, something stronger than just friendly? That's why Will Rogers as Alec (nicknamed "Cupid") Lloyd in the picturization of Eleanor Gates' whimsical comedy of cowboy life, "Cupid, the Cowpuncher" looks with such puzsied tho | Ha the SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1920. Bore CORSA 77 Caner Ibe Soros? dara witk as Macle Sewell. He's trying awful hard net te let himself feel that Macie is beginning to take In him an interest somewhat akin to the tender ' te tat rg sta Prana, and its byproducts by a process in- vented by German scientists. A new hand sprinkler for clothes is made of clear glass, for sanitary reasons and to permit its contents te be seen at all times. Norwegian engineers plan te con- solidate several small water falls to preduce 200,000 horsepower at a single hydroelectric plant. Recently patented paper clamps for typewriters can be pulled back and locked' in' place when erasures are to be made in manuscript. A technical committee in France has decided upon a number of stand- ards for use in electrical machinery and other electrical apparatus. Complicated calculation of the flow of liquids, steam or gasses through pipes has been made easy » the invention of a sample slide rule. The eyes of a South American fish are so divided that the upper parts are adapted for vision in the air and the lower for use under water. A crank and gearing raise and low- er a new dumb waiter which is in- tended to keep food cool by storing it in a well or i under a house. Intended for hotel kitchens is a novel English device, operated by a crank, for cleaning and sharpening a number of knives at the same time. Couplings of his own invention en- abled a 'man to ride one motorcycle and tow two more from a factory in Massachusetts 700 miles to an Ohio town, ' A commercial airplane service that will link Pernambuco, Brazil and Buenos Ayres, Argentina, will cover the 2,600 miles in 39 hours as com- pared .with . six days.by the fastest ships. Some European electricians have found that snow never collects on transmission lines that carry 100,000 or more volts, even when they are not charged. A' spring 'motor.operates a trap which catches ants inbaited cups and at intervals dumps them into a re ceptacle filled with an insect destroy- ing liquid. : : A process has been patented in Great Britain for the distillation of peat for the production of coke, fuel oil, toluol, ammonia, paraffin ana acetone. As an experiment fn a Chicago fac tory an autothobile was belted to an electric generator and used to pro- vide light and power for twelve days, 24 hours a day. { Because telephone transmitter mi- crophones become more sensitive in rarified air European electricians are make practical use of the phenomenon, Among the electrical novelties is a motor driven machine for polishing finger nails, intended for home use and being supplied with current from a light socket. Sound - proof telephone booths of Eurqpean invention are built of five layers of thin wood, the grain being crossed each time before the layers are glued together. To help automobiles out of mud or J 4000 *4nd & Wisconsin man has iy) ' vented cleated plates, resembling sec- tions of tractor wheel rims, to be strapped to their tires. { A helmet of English invention foi motorcyclists has two large celluloid panels that form a wedge in front while the remainder is formed o! loosely woven wire mesh. Self bracing straps for persons to stand in street cars have been invent- ed that are claimed to protect user from the effect of lurching motions or sudden stops. New compressed air apparatus for painting large- surfaces applies the paint without mixing it with the ai and also prevents waste by surround ing the paint with a cone of air. The French government is plann ing an elaborate wireless system wit Paris as the center, covering Europ! Asia, Africa and South America and | connecting with North America. With a new gas range food can be brought to 8 boiling condition after which the gas is shut off and an In- sulated hood dropped over the food receptacle to make it a fireless cook- er. A machine which combines the two processes of cleaning flax in one operation has been invented by a flax spinner in Czechoslovakia, who has applied for a United States patent for it. American scientists along several lines are exploring the almost un- known region of.the upper Orinoco and Negro rivers in Brazil and Vene- zuela. : A British government committee that is working on plans for linking the empire by radio telegraphy has decided in favor of connecting vari- ous . communities by geographical steps of about 2,000 miles each., | Using. a pressure of 3,260 pounds | to the square imch, an electrical com- press built in Los Angeles squeezes cotton .to a density of 4214 pounds te the cubic foot and enables 200 bales to be loaded in a freight car. French interests have obtained possession of a South Pacific island that is believed fo contain 10,000,000 | tons of high grade phosphates and many million tons of inferior quality. Both edges of the blades in new shears are sharpened and two sets of finger loops are provided, one for a emotion abe has areused In him--and er. His hobby 14 cellécting fare and not succeeding very well. unusual books, particularly first edi- Harrison Ford tions. Im his Hollyweod, Cal, home, Harrison Ford is an inveterate read- | his happiest moments ars spent in his short cutting stroke with one set of | edges and 'he other for the other set. | FOR ---- WE $3 Barrie Street Fp Alfred Street .... 3 Joknsou Street . Alfred Street .. Princess Street ... Wellington Street .. 46S Albert Street . san 84% ColHngwood Street ... King Street ......... Also three honses a bungalow on Mack Street. your taste. Insurance of all kinds. changed. Apply to:-- J.O.HUTTON FOR SCALDS, CUTS AND BRUISES. FOR COLDS, COUGHS AND BRON- CHIAL AFFLICTIONS, FOR STIFF MUSCLES, SPRAINS AND STRAINS AND NUMEROUS OTHER AILMENTS COMMON TO MAN AND BEAST, THERE 18 NOTHING SUPERIOR TO THAT OLD TRIED ANQ RELIABLE REMEDY, ' D® THOMAS' « Brick; Hot Water, «Brick; Hot Wat . Stone; . Frame; large baras. - Frame; no furnace. under coms truction on Edgehill street, and Buy Victory Bonds bought, sold and ex- CER D2 Dor Bier Sha aati iia eo Hbrary. On a recent trip to Nev York his first move was to hurry to t book shop and buy several books which he had net been able to pur: chase In the West, Mrs. Morgan Belmont Mrs. Morgan Belmont, of New York, daughter of August Belmont. is the first American society woman to ene ter motion pictures. Her first appears ance will be In "Way Dewn East." ng ig Rs 9 Vielet Carewe bathing girl In M dred Harris Chaplin's gll-Americas fashion show in "Habit." A A A PPA Pai SALE. r. Brick; Hot Water. New Brick; Hot Water. New Brick; Hot Water, Hot Atr. Large store and dwelling. now and have finished to suit 67 CLARENCE STREET Phone 708. ECLECTRIC A hook has been patented to be clamped to to aid in wringing clothes. the edge of wash tubs| | After years of surface mining, Ni- | caragua's gold deposits are to be de- veloped scientifically, . Means To You The phonograph doesn't have to have much guests, there's nothing like it. But remember there are Phonograph and . Phonographs. And you should not buy -any before seeing and hearing the What A Good Phonograph said in its favor these days. Everyone knows . . . how much a part of the home this wonder- . ful instrument is. For your own entertain- - - ment and for the pleasure of friends 'and

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