Kansas City Advocate

One Dollar per Year is what The Kansas City Advocate will cost You Subscription $1.00 Per Annum One of Our Professional Men receives Popular appointment DR. COTTEN ONE OF THE TWO APPOINTED BY BOARD OF EDUCATION AS INSPECTORS OF DENTAL HYGIENE OF CITY SCHOOLS. There was an enactment passed by our state legislative body during its last session at Topeka, Kas., which provided for the graded schools an inspector on dental hygiene. This enactment also carried with it the appointing power with the board of education. The board of this city readily saw that it would take two men to take care of the work in this city and they soon got busy looking for two men who could fill these positions from every point of science and skill of the profession, and they were not in any hurry in making their selections as they wanted these two new positions with men who they believed would do the work and do it well, besides the intrinsic knowledge of the work to be done. At the meeting of the board last week these inspectors were appointed and we are proud to say and compliment this honorable board in selecting one of these two men that in our judgment was unbiased when it came to fitness, ability and science of dental hygiene and that we had in our city a colored dentist who met the requirements of such a high degree of efficiency to make him one of their choice as one of these inspectors, Dr. Marion Cotten. The appointment of this noted dentist well merits the place and the board may feel assured of his making good. Dr. Cotten is a native born Kansan, Topeka being his birth place. He graduated from a four-year course in dentistry from one of our best schools nearly a dozen years ago and has been a most successful practitioner for more than 10 years. His office being located at 514 Minnesota avenue. The doctor is married and has a lovable companion and two fine boys, living in a cozy home at 1922 North Sixth street. He and his family have many warm friends who congratulate them both in the merited honor just received. Dr. Cotten took hold of his duties Tuesday starting at Douglass school on Washington boulevard. DON'T forget that money must accompany all matter to be published such as wedding announcements, resolutions of any kind, cards of thanks, memoriums, obituaries and lengthy club reports. So to insure publication of any of these mentioned send cash in with your matter or see the editor. A PAPER THAT STANDS FOR SOMETHING. The recent change of ownership of one of our city papers leaves this paper the only Republican paper in Kansas City, Kansas. The Advocate has long been the only paper in the state, we believe, conducted by Colored Republicans. We now have the double honor of being not only the only paper conducted by Colored Republicans, but the only Republican newspaper in the city. We will try to do our whole duty to the great party which stands for the best interests of all the people, black or white, and to uphold the standard of Republicanism in the metropolis of the state. We wish to thank the many friends, also the employees of the Union Pacific Railroad company, for their sympathy during the death of our beloved wife, sister, mother and grandmother, Mrs. Josie Patrick, and to express our sincere appreciation of the many beautiful floral offerings received. WASHINGTON PATRICK, MRS. MARY BURNS, W. W. PATRICK AND SON, ERNEST PATRICK AND WIFE, MRS. CARRIE BRANCH AND CHILDREN. --- VOL. 2. CARD OF THANKS. THE SECOND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT WILL SELECT DELEGATES MARCH 14TH TO CHICAGO CONVENTION—ONE COLORED DELEGATE WOULD HELP THINGS. The Congressional Convention of the Second district will meet in Ottawa March the 14th at which time two delegates and two alternates will be selected, who will go to the Republican National convention at Chicago in June. There is at this time four candidates seeking this most coveted honor. They are Thomas A. Bigger of this city, C. H. Tucker of Lawrence, Dr. C. W. Jones, Olathe, and Thos. Kelley of Paola. It would not be out of place at this opportune time nor would it be detrimental in the least to the success of the district next November, but would undoubtedly swell the Republican vote in this district if one delegate be selected from the 16,000 colored electors of the second district. These things should be seriously considered, not so much from a racial standpoint, but for what the party claims to be and stand for. We are not fussing or making any criticism but as a Republican and running the only colored Republican paper in the state and district, it's our duty to take time by the forelock and if possible, to avoid fussing or criticism. FOR STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. Mr. E. L. Payne of Emporia, Kansas, who is a candidate for the office of state superintendent of public instruction, is well known to the citizens of this state, and his record as a Republican is beyond question. As to his fitness for this position, there are few his equal. W. D. Ross, the present incumbent, who is out for a third term, is his opponent, with a possibility of a woman getting into the race, but the candidacy of Mr. Payne is considered by leaders of the party as of much significance in adding strength to the ticket this fall, which is being carefully looked after along that particular line in making up the state ticket. FATHER VERNON OF QUINDARO PASSES AWAY SUNDAY MORNA Mr. Adam Vernon, one of Wyandotte's old and honored citizens and the father of W. T. Vernon, ex-register of the U. S. treasury, passed away Sunday morning at 7:30 at his late residence at Quindaro. Mr. Vernon had passed beyond by several years the three score and ten mark. He had been in poor health for some time, but his death was rather unexpected at this time. He leaves a wife and daughter, Mrs. Landor, who is one of the teachers in Western University, and a son, Rev. W. T. Vernon, at one time president of Western University, now pastor of the largest A. M. E. church in Tennessee, located at Memphis. The funeral was held Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock from the Quindaro M. E. church, of which he had been one of the pillars for many years. Dr. J. C. C. Owens, presiding elder of the Omaha district, officiated. His devoted wife and children have the sincere sympathy in the loss of bushand and father. The community and student body will greatly feel the loss of this noble character. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. The Brotherhood of the First Baptist church, of which Rev. W. A. Bowren is pastor, met January 30th at the First church at the usual hour of meeting, 5 p. m. The meeting was called to order by Rev. H. A. Geren. Order of services was as follows: Devotional exercise, song and prayer. After which President Geren launched the lesson subject, Jealousy and its Attendant Evil. Much information was gained after a 25 minutes study. Topic for Sunday, February 6, Ideal Friendship, I Samuel (20-30-42) current topic, The Method of Improving our Condition as a Race. All members and friends are invited to be present Sunday, February 6th. Place of meeting, First Baptist church, Fifth and Nebraska avenue, Kansas City, Kas. H. A. GEREN, Pres. H. J. MESSLEY, Secy. CITY A And Independent KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, FEB. 4, 1916 GOSPEL CAMPAIGN CLOSES MANY SEEK THE NEW LIFE—REVIVAL MEETINGS CLOSED TUESDAY NIGHT AT A. M. E. CHURCH. The gospel campaign that has been in progress at the First A. M. E. church by Rev. L. S. Howard, secretary of the evangelistic bureau, closed his meetings Tuesday night after a successful ten days meeting. Through his logical argument of reasoning and the faithful attendance and co-operation of this church's remembers, 53 were added to the church. Much credit is also due to Mrs. Howard, the evangelist's wife, who is a faithful and energetic Christian worker. The attendance was large each evening and if the weather had not been so severe during the entire week the church would not have held the people. Dr. Howard and his wife made many friends while here, and they will ever be welcome guests to the homes of Kansas Citians. They left Wednesday morning for Nashville, Teenn., their home, and to attend the bishop's council which went in session Thursday, and at its close will go to Detroit, Mich., where union meetings will be held for several weeks. WOULD TAKE BIBLE TO RICH They Do Not Take Time for God's Word, Is Assertion by New York Pastor. "Pity the poor rich, for they are the poorest of all. They are barricaded against the Bible. If the Master himself were to undertake to carry his message personally to the hotels and apartment houses of New York he would be turned aside by the doorman with the information that 'No peddlers are allowed.'" So Rev. Joseph W. Kemp, pastor of Calvary Baptist church, explained to me the Sunday sermon in which he said that "the crying need of religion in this city is to put Bibles in the homes of the wealthy." "How hardly shall they who have riches enter into the kingdom of heaven," the divine earnestly quoted. "It is not that the possession of riches is inconsistent with Christianity, but that the rich grow to worship the creature of their own brains—money. They believe that riches may be counted in the palm. This is not so. True riches are within. There are millionaires of the mind, Rockefellers of the soul, and they are found oftener than not among the poor—the rich poor whose doors and whose intellects are open to the Gospel of Christ." "To what do you attribute the religious apathy of the rich?" I asked Doctor Kemp. "The rich are obsessed with materialism," Doctor Kemp answered. "They have all the time in the world to read the latest novel, to go and see the latest play, but they have no time for the word of God."—Nixola Greeley-Smith, in New York World. NORTH OF THE ARCTIC CIRCLE Investigation Has Shown That Agriculture May Very Well Be Carried On in the Region. That crop production may be practiced north of the Arctic circle is one of the interesting facts brought out by a report on a reconnoissance soil survey in Alaska. This embodies the results of a study of the soils of a vast area in Alaska by experts of the bureau of soils, made for the purpose of determining the possibilities of agricultural development. It was found that gardening is carried on and grass thrives in Alaska, up to and north of the Arctic circle. In addition it is shown that the climate and soils of Finland are very similar to those of Alaska, the latitude of the two regions being practically identical. In Finland a number of crops are grown at a considerable distance north of the Arctic circle. Barley, for example, is generally grown as far north as 68 degrees 30 minutes, or 2 degrees north of the circle. Almost 7,000,000 acres in Finland were under cultivation and in improved meadow in 1911. That country has a population of 3,140,000 (reported in 1911), and about 85 per cent of this number live outside the cities. Crop production, stock raising and dairying are important industries. This comparison with Finland and another with parts of Siberia are given to demonstrate the possibility of agricultural development in Alaska. ADVOCATE DR. BRAY OF THE BRAY EVANGELISTIC COMPANY IN THE CITY. Rev. H. Franklin Bray, D. D., of the Bray Evangelistic Company, was in the city Thursday of last week, and attended the revival services in the evening at the First A. M. E. church. Dr. Bray and his company closed last Sunday evening at Independence, Kas., a very successful three weeks campaign, the city conating the opera house for their closing night, as there was no church in the city large enough to accommodate the throngs of anxious men and women. The company left this week for Oklahoma, where they have engagements in union meetings in the state for 90 days. SOMETHING RARE. I heard a preacher utter an economic truth, (he was not colored) when he said, "Regardless of what we preach, we know very well that that which we have, the world of men and measures, is all wrong, and a great failure." Such an idea, from such a source, is indeed the basis for sanguine hope. And could it become a sweeping epidemic; all that is false in our Civic and Economic structure would be speedily withdrawn; so that the world and the wealth produced in it, would be used for the health, happiness and comfort of mankind; rather than as it is now—primarily to oppress, impoverish, degrade, kill and destroys the happy producers of such wealth. And we sincerely implore the God of all Grace to impress upon other—all other preachers, the true worth of this clear and clean-cut tenet of wisdom—as well also, to implant in them a determination, to establish here and now, a Reign of Reason and Common Sense; evenso, that Civilization may be saved. For it is true beyond all question that our fundamental conceptions of the nature and propriety of our civic and economic structure are wrong, all wrong. We have thoughtlessly cherished the wrong Ideals—ideals, just the opposite of those we should hold. "For as a man thinketh, so is he" and in the altitude of our ideals will be found the heights of our attainments. Are propositions pre-eminently true. We have preached "Peace on earth, and good will toward men" (simply to hear ourselves say it). While we have practiced consummately, ill will, hatred, dissention and war—so much so, that the latest slogan is, "Prepare for the worst of which it is possible to conceive." The consummation of the most horrible.—Hell up here. We have spoken (only) of "the brotherhood of men, etc., etc." (it is not' true). While we have taught our sons that the highest honors are to those who are brave. Which means to be adept and daring in treating their brothers as Cain did Abel. We have talked of a theory of Love (if there ever was such, in any sense. 'Tis now a lost art.) While our greatest efforts have been and are, to emulate those who, in their practices, are total strangers to such a tender feeling for others. And who are actuated by selfishness, avarice, envy and hatred in the rankest exploitation of their fellows. In a word, we have grown a civilization, grossly false and self-destructive, and which will, an dis, destrucating to its fall. And that too, in spite of the many remedial laws and regulations we are devising to curb and restrain those baser qualities of our nature, which are generated and maintained by it. That preacher was pre-emiently RIGHT: Give us more of that kind—and we may hope—otherwise, we had as well despair. I. F. BRADLEY. CITIZENS FORUM. The Citizens Forum held its weekly conclave at the Metropolitan Baptist church. Quotations were given and current events were given by Judge Bradley, Mrs. M. C. Matthews, Messrs. D. W. White and J. T. Roberts. Prof. Mowbray explained "The Boy Scout Movement." Prof. Buster read an excellent paper on "Five Smooth Stones From a Brook," which was discussed by Mr. McCreighton, a Caucasian, and others; and ordered printed. Mr. Richard B. Harris, our great tragedian from Chicago, rendered "Thanatopsis" so realistic that he received an ovation but did not respond to the encore. Next Sunday Hon. Frank P. Walsh of Kansas City, Mo., will address the Forum. All are invited to be present promptly at 4 p. m. President Marques appointed a finance committee as follows: Rev. D. A. Holmes, Judge I. F. Bradley, Prof Mowbray, Attorney Shackelford, Mesdames O. B. Johnson, L. Rhoades and Miss Goings. Mr. A. Saunders was appointed to read notices. Although the weather was inclement a large crowd was present. Don't miss these instructive gatherings. BURNED TO DEATH IN BARN—DR. J. R. THOMPSON'S HORSE. About the hour of 2:30 a.m. Sunday the barn where Dr. Thompson keeps his horse, which is located in the rear of the Home Drug Co., 1512 North Fifth street, was discovered on fire, which had such a start no one was able to rescue the animal, and it burned with his buggy and harness. No one seemed to know just how it caught on fire and probably will never know how it caught. The doctor has the sympathy of the general public in losing his valuable driving horse. Kansas Day A Hummer IF YOU EXPECT TO REAP, YOU FIRST MUST SOW. The Kansas Day Republican club, which celebrated its 25th anniversary at the state capital last Saturday and the state 55th annual adoption, brought hundreds of men and women together from every quarter of the Sunflower state. Many leaders of both sexes were in evidence and while the day was tinged with zero weather, everybody seemed to enjoy each other's presence, even the quiet and unassuming candidates, and there were a few of them handing out the mitt. It was a day of joy, peace and harmony among all the boys. There was one noticeable feature of the observer at this their first Kansas Day, and that was the absence of colored representatives. With a hundred thousand of the race in the state and forty thousand of that number of voting age, and who have much to do in making the state what it is and those of the other race what they are and want to be, only that small number the Scriptures speak of, two or three, were seen. It's a grave mistake. We as citizens of the state like Kansas, are losing sight of the keystone to our public interest and citizenship. We were welcome to this annual gathering, besides there was business transacted in which your presence would have been recognized as being worth something as a citizen and to the race. If you expect to reap, you will first have to sow. DR. RANSOM ATTENDS BISHOP'S COUNCIL. Rev. J. R. Ransom is attending the bishop's council at Nashville, Tenn., this week, of which he is a member. He is expected to be back Sunday in time for morning service. Dr. Ransom represents this Episcopal district and his presence is always desired in the bishop's council. KANSAS CITY, MO. The Blue Valley Baptist church of Centropolis has just closed a great revival under their noble leader and pastor, H. C. Johnson. Last Sunday a number were baptized and in that number three young men of great hope for the church and race, were styled and given the names of the Three Hebrew Children. The Sunday school and other church societies are doing grand work for fallen humanity. There will be a baptising from Rev. Moseley's church the second Sunday in this month which will be held at the Second Baptist church at 2 p. m. Rev. White of Oklahoma will preach the baptizing sermon. Mrs. Kate Henderson died last week at her home in Kansas City, Mo. Her funeral was preached by Rev. Mosely at 2 p. m. last Sunday. NO.24 SATE CAPITAL NEWS A FINE LETTER FROM A FINE CITY—TOPEKA, KANSAS. The Rev. C. R. McDowell, of Hannibal, Mo., spent a few hours in this city last week looking after some of his real estate holdings here. Mrs. T. A. Bailey, formerly of Cleveland, Ohio, is now visiting at 711 West Fourth street, this city. Her son, Prof. Albert Bailey, is one of the teachers in our public schools. Mrs. Bailey is a very genial lady and you will be pleased with her acquaintance. Mr. Thomas Kennedy, the editor of this paper, was one of the many attendants at the meeting of the Kansas Day club. Mr. Kennedy is a good mixer and the politicians were very favorably impressed with him. The National "Negro" Business league is scheduled for Kansas City, Mo., August 16-18, 1916. It might be well since the meeting will be so near to us, for the Topeka branch of this august body to get in action. The only criticism we have to make of the management of the Kansas Day meeting is that a larger place should have been obtained for the speaking program. An ex-United States senator and prospective candidate for the presidency of the United States, coming all the way from Ohio, is as anxious to speak to the masses, who are equally as anxious to hear him. Since the women are in attendance at the Kansas Day meetings now, more rooms will be required. The confinement of the speaking to such narrow limits was neither fair to the guest of honor nor the public who wished to hear him. Mr. Ezekieid Ridley is justly entitled to great credit for constancy in the interest of the Y. M. C. A., the Kansas avenue department. He protrays great tenacity of purpose in clinging to the work without any compensation. The speech of ex-Senator Burton of Ohio, before the Kansas Day club was a masterpiece full of patriotism and old fashioned Abraham Lincoln, William McKinley Republicanism. It was the language of a statesman. He dwelt at length upon the question of tariff conditions and intervention in Mexico, preparedness, and the general principles and purposes of government. Miss Mary G. Evans, lecturer and evangelist, is conducting a series of meetings this week at St. John's A. M. E. church. She is the guest of the Rev. and Mrs. G. W. Guy, 512 Western avenue. A strong program of speakers has been prepared for the Lincoln Day celebration to be held in this city Saturday night, February 12. Every citizen of Topeka should be in attendance on this occasion and help to honor the memory of this great man and national benefactor. The young people, especially, should attend and learn more of this noble character. The Republicans of this state are very solicitious of the woman voter and are holding out and offering every inducement possible to obtain it. This is right, it is good political business. But how about the colored voter. What inducement or encouragement is being held out to him. The party should remember that the 40,000 colored votes constitute a factor that should be reckoned with. The colored man should be taken into party councils and have an opportunity to express the desires and feelings of the colored voters of the state on the great and important questions that are of so much concern to the party, and upon which the colored with other Republicans will be called on to decide. Such a consideration of the colored Republicans is just and should be given. They will not be satisfied to stand aside and wait till platforms are made, candidate chosen, jobs portioned out and then be called on or expected to fall in and help elect the ticket with the making of which they have had nothing at all to do. Far better and much more certain of party success will it be, to take the colored voter in on the ground floor, let him have a say in the councils of the party and such representation in the distribution of party patronage as is just and equitable. -ST. CLOUD- ADVERTISING RATES. Made on Application. BELL PHONE WEST 455W. "Entered as second-class matter August 29, 1914, at the post office at Kansas City, Kansas, under the Act of March 3, 1879." Don't forget The Advocate collectors when they call. It's only 10c per month and no one should put the collector off. The city of Lansing has a new weekly publication which gives promise to be a strong asset to that county in defense of justice and right. Its editor, Mr. Smith, is a practical newspaper man and says he is determined to give the public a real live newspaper. NEWS MATTER MUST BE IN OFFICE BY TUESDAY. All news matter must be in our office not later than Tuesday of each week to insure publication in that issue. Only write on one side of your paper, write plain and spell names in full and correctly. If you will follow instructions your news will appear each week and without errors. Name of party sending matter must be signed to insure recognition.—Ed. IT'S THE TALK OF THE TOWN--THE LEAP YEAR PARTY AT THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, FEB. 29, 1916 NEVER LIE DOWN TO READ Easy to See Why the Practice Is Injurious—How Proper Breathing Promotes Health. "I never read without using a book rest," said one well-known literary woman. "I think it easier to adjust a book to the sight by its use. A book rest can be raised higher than the level of the lap and the hands and the wrists will not be weared by the strain of holding it higher than the knees. "I never read in bed. I am thankful to those, older and wiser than I, who taught me that to read while reclining was to overfill the blood vessels of the eye and so cause a degree of congestion in the eye. If one is too tired to sit straight I am convinced she is too tired to read. She should rest in the silence and darkness of her room." In the very way a girl carries her body when walking or sitting she can do good or harm to the prettiness of the neck and throat. The chest must always be held high, and this instinctively raises the head more prettily. The abdomen must be held in, and since some intaking of the breath is required for this last muscular effort, the muscles of the throat and chest are at once benefited. Muscles, by the way, depend tremendously upon good breathing for health and firmness, so if a girl never did anything more violent than picking a rose, if she simply gives the windmills of her lungs all the good air they need, the blood will be freshened and the muscles nourished almost as well as if she played golf every day. The value of outdoor sports, however playful, is in their action upon the mind. PUT UP STRONG ARGUMENT Kentucky Statesman's Unique Appeal for Retention of the Bounty on Foxes' Scalps. A new angle is given the old yarns about the parson and the chickens and the necessity of having the latter on the table when the former appears in the homes of his parishioners by the story related in Case and Comment, of the speech made by a member of the Kentucky legislature against the repeal of the law for the payment of a bounty on foxes' scalps. The member came from the mountainous section of the state and he put his arguments this way: "Do the gentlemen want to deprive my constituents and me of the benefits of hearing the gospel preached? "We all are Methodists up my way, and cur preachers won't come without we can give 'em chickens. We can't raise chickens unless the foxes are killed by somebody, that's sure; and there ain't anybody that can afford to spend their time huntin' foxes and get nothin' to pay for it. "So, gentlemen, if you repeal this law you'll be depriving my constituents of the benefits of hearin' the gospel preached. That's the way it looks to me. And we need the gospel." The vote was against the repeal. DIRECTORY Hodgs JEWELER Old n NEW ONE BUSINESS DIRECTORY BUSINESS DIRECTORY J. A. WILSON is Kansas City's Plo- neer Negro Jeweler. RELIABLE JEWELRY 1616 W. 9th St. K. C. Mo. Bell Phone M. 6248R. Bell Phone E. 3062W. Free Delive.y If you want Barbecued Meats, that's my business. R. W. ALEXANDER 1619 E. 18th Street KANSAS CITY, MO. Home Phone West 473. Bell Phone West 247. Business Directory TOM CROWDER TRANSFER CO., Does a General Moving, Packing, Shipping and Storage Business. Office 412 Minnesota Ave. EXPRESS AND PAPER HANGING. Expressman, Paper Hanging and Kalsomining work. No job too small to save money. Call Bell West 483 F. W. RAGSDALE, 228 Virginia Ave. STOVE DOCTOR. Nathan Taylor, "The Handy Man," All kinds of repairing of all kinds of stoves. Steam and Gas Fitting. 324 Minnesota avenue, K. C., K. F. D. HOWE. Painting, Plastering, Paper Hanging. 1722 North Third St, KANSAS CITY, KAS. Bell Phone West 3385—Ring 1. A. J. HILL, Groceries, Meats, Dry Goods and Notions. Corner 31th and Freeman Ave. KANSAS CITY, KAS. Bell West 433. COAL DEALERS. W. H. LAMBRIGHT & CO., Dealer In Coal, Ice and Feed. Office 1620 N. 3d St. KANSAS CITY, KAS. Bell West 1923. Local Dr. W. T. Vernon, ex-register of the U. S. treasury and now pastor of the largest A. M. E. church in Tennessee at Memphis was called home on account of the death of his father at Quindaro. The U. S. colored boy scouts were the guests of the Y. M. C. A. this week. They took their first lesson in swimming. From the outlook Mr. Veron Wilkerson, Jr., of Sumner High, will be chosen as first captain of the company. Mr. and Mrs. C. Buckner, of 929 Splitlog avenue, entertained, Mr. J. H. Doniphan, of Denver, Colo, and his sister, Mrs. Lottie D. Hall, at dinner Sunday, January 30, 1915. Dress Making—Mrs. N. Robinson, 1044 New Jersey avenue. A specialty in fine dress making. Call on me for your spring suits. Mr. Neal Robinson, brother of Mrs. Taylor, of 814 Oakland, is improving. He met with an accident about two weeks ago falling off a 60-foot scaffold and breaking his left foot. Mrs. Jennie, of 837 Nebraska Ave., is yet suffering with her broken wrist. We hope it will soon be all right. Dr. J. C. C. Owens, presiding elder of the Omaha district, was present at the close of the campaign Tuesday night at First church. Rev. Albert Brown, one of our energetic, young ministers and a student in the theological department of Western University, has been holding a series of meetings in Armourdale with much success. Mrs. Burroughs, formerly on State avenue, is visiting her sick mother in Texas. When you lay away a dime for your other papers don't forget your own race paper that is only asking for a dime once a month. If you have anything to sell, rent or exchange, put it in The Advocate so its hundreds of readers may know what you have. It don't cost much. Mr. Z. Williams of Kansas City, Missouri, was the guest of Mrs. E. Elam at 11 o'clock services January 30. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Bell Phone West 3866. E. A. SHACKELFORD. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. 516 Minnesota Avenue. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. Bell Phone 424 West. DORSEY GREEN, Attorney and Counselor at Law. 516 Minnesota Avenue. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. Bell, W. 2335 I. F. BRADLEY. Lawyer. 721 Minnesota Avenue, Rooms 5 and 6 Bell W. 2569. WYATT & RANDOLPH. Undertakers. 920 North Third Street KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. REAL ESTATE Real Estate and Rentals. C. W. NELOMS & CO. Real Estate Dealers Have All Kinds of Property for Sale and Rent. PRICES TO SUIT PURCHASER See Us Before Closing Deal We Will Save You Money 500 Minn. Ave. Up-Stairs, K. C., K. Home Phone, W. 1036. Bell Phone, West 1743. Bell Phone, West 1757 EUGENE EDWARD VAUGHAN Real Estate and Insurance Brokerage Investigated Investments, Cozy Cottages, Farms for Farmer Folk. SUBURBAN TRACTS 26th and Parkway. Kansas City, Kans. PHYSICIANS. Office and Residence 828 Nebraska Ave. Bell Phone, 2684 West Office Hours: 8-10 A. M.; 3-5 P. M. DR. G. E. HORSEY. Diseases of Women and Children a Specialty. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS DR. T. H. JOHNSON, M.D. Constitutional Specialist. 318 Minnesota Avenue. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. DR. J. H. MIXON, M.D. 318 Minnesota Avenue. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. Office Phone Bell West 380 Residence 1321 N. 8th St. Bell Phone, 381 West S. H. THOMPSON, M. D. Office 1512 N. 5th Street Bell Phone, West 3711 Office Hours: 8 to 11 A. M., 2 to 5 P. M. At Night DR. LEE R. PETTY Physician and Surgeon 516 Minnesota Ave. OFFICE HOURS: 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.; 2 to 4 and 6 to 9 p.m. Bell Phone, Office and Residence, Maln 1219 DR. H. M. BRATHWAITE Physician and Surgeon S. W. Corner James and Central KANSAS CITY, KANS. DENTIST& Bell Phone W. 1884. DR. MARION COTTEN, DENTIST. 514 Minnesota Avenue. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. GROCERS. C. E. CANNON STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES Meats, Fruits, Vegetables, Etc. Bell Phone 1955 N. 3rd St. W. C. CARROLL FANCY GROCERIES, MEATS, CONFECTIONERY, FRUITS, ETC. Bell Phone West 1653. 2120 NORTH THIRD STREET P. R. CHESTER Two Stores FANCY GROCERIES '801 N. Fourth St. 2404 Tremont St Groceries and Ice Cream Parlor. HILL & HILL Dealers In Staple and Fancy Groceries, Dry Goods and Notions. Bell Phone, 385 West 2702 North Sherman St. G. P. McNAIR Fancy Groceries, Meats and General Merchandise 1607 N. Tenth St. Kansas City, Kas. Miss Mabel Wilson, who was out of school, is back at her dutles. THE KANSAS CITY ADVOCATE. Old mirrors resilvered NEW ONES MADE TO ORDER Work Guaranteed HOME PHONE W. 1619 1017 N. 5TH ST. Kansas City Kansas Try a pound of Moulton's "Special" Coffee, 30c-the pound, roasted fresh at the store daily. Fresh Roasted Jumbo Peanuts, 15c per pound. Get your presents FREE with a pound of Tea, Baking Powder or Extracts.—Moulton Coffee Store, 847 Minnesota Ave. ROOMS FOR RENT—Nice comfortably furnished rooms for rent at a reasonable price. Only a few steps to the best car line in the city. 433 Freeman avenue.—Mrs. Belle Hyde. Mr. J. W. Butler of 1409 North Eleventh street is now associated with the Advocate and is one of its official collectors and solicitors, and we will appreciate any favors conferred in his interest.—Editor. Mr. J. E. Branche, of 835 Nebraska avenue, has been on the sick list for the last four days. Mr. Harry Graham, a teacher in one of our towns in Missouri, came to our city to see his friend, Mr. J. H. Doniphan. Mrs. Lizzle Thornton, 527 Nebraska avenue, we are glad to say is getting along nicely after having a spell of la grippe. Mr. Mariam of 525 Nebraska avenue, is quite an aged man, nearing the 100 mark. God certainly blessed him. Mrs. Mary Green at 934 Washington boulevard, is sick from a fall she received about two weeks ago. We hope she will soon recover. Mr. and Mrs. Matt Carroll and family have moved to 1322 North Eighth street. Their friends are glad they are nearer in. Mr. E. E. Ewing, of 1851 North Eighth street, who has been sick for several weeks, was able to be at church last Sunday. Rev. Jones, pastor of Quindaro church, attended the closing meeting at the First A. M. E. church Tuesday night. Mrs. Arnold, wife of Mr. A. Arnold, embalmer of the J. W. Jones undertaking establishment, is very sick at her residence, 1027 Nebraska. Mrs. Herndon of 622 New Jersey, was called to the death bed of her father in Wichita, Kas. She has returned back to her home. Mrs. C. McDonlad, wife of the barber on 9th street, is still sick at her mother's home, Eighteenth and Central avenue. Mr. Alonzo Hale, of Lincoln, Nebr., brother of Mrs. James Ford, 411 Virginia avenue, is here on a visit and will look after some business matters for his mother, Mrs. Martha Hale, while here. Mrs. Loulsa Moppin, of 1506 North Ninth street, is able to be out again after a three weeks' illness. Mr. Squire Lee, of 1050 Freeman avenue, one of our popular real estate men, made a short visit to Topeka this week. Miss Lena Rollin, of 1014 Walker, a student of Douglas, is out of school on account of illness. Mr. Johnson, one of our postal mail clerks, has been quite sick. The Metropolitan raised $25 at one church service Sunday. Rev. E. Bailey, pastor of Rosedale church, was in attendance most every night at the revival meetings. Miss Asahta Vandiver of 1916 Freeman avenue, is somewhat better at this issue. Miss Maudie Thompson on North Ninth street, is very ill at this issue. The editor attended Kansas Day at Topeka last Saturday. Old lady Bruce of 940 Oakland, has been quite sick. Nice Meals, at Reasonable Prices From 6 a. m. to 10 p. m. Mrs. Nellie Falls 314 Minnesota Avenue Kansas City, Kansas BARBECUED MEATS TRANSFER CO'S Happenings Restaurant THE NEW IDEA "Pressing and Training the Hair while you sleep" G.A. MORGAN'S HAIR REFINER Before TRADE After CLEVELAND.O. MARK PRICE $100. Why be untidy about your hair when it can be avoided? G. A. Morgan's Hair Refiner will positively straighten the hair and make a complete change in your appearance within fifteen minutes. G. A. Morgan's Hair Pressing Night Cap (Pat. Aplid. For) keeps the hair in perfect condition and trains it while you sleep. Everybody should use one. Black Hair Dye Hair Tonic Hair Oil Liquid Shampoo Soap Refiner Soap THE G. A. MORGAN HAIR REFINING CO. 304 SUPERIOR BLDG. CLEVELAND, OHIO Mail orders promptly attended to. Incorporated 1914 PHONE: MAIN 4535 JNO. W. JONES Undertaker and Funeral Director Full Stock of Funeral Furnishings Lady Attendant PARLORS: 440 STATE AVE. KANSAS W. A. Mason Dealer in Coal, Ice and Feed. Office, 1610 N. 3rd Street. Kansas City, Kansas Bell Phone, West 1738 For Quick Service and Are Right Bell Phone West CALL E. W. And TRANSFER AND Guard Against Accidents Guard Against Accidents. The effects of explosions in the surrounding area have been studied by Col. B. W. Dunn in preparing his table of rules for locating powderhouses for the United States bureau of mines. Blasting caps in number from 1,000 to 5,000 are not to be stored nearer than 30 feet to any building, 20 to any railroad, or 15 to any highway. For other explosives in quantity up to 50 pounds, the minimum distance is 200 feet to any building, 120 to any railroad and 80 to any highway. Distances are specified for other quantities up to 200 to 250 tons, which require a distance of at least 5,110 feet from any building, 3,070 from any railroad and 2,040 from any highway. Margussan Tattooing. Formerly the Marquesans had such a barbarous manner of doing their tattoo work that it often took nearly six months to heal that which had been done in a single day. They covered the whole body of the males with crudely imitated rough designs, circles, curves, and many designs of small work, including round and angular spots, even to the finger nails and the top of the head. Thus, beginning at virility, some were upwards of thirty years old before their tattooing was completed. Marquesan tattooing was perhaps more remarkable in appearance than that of any other primitive race. Philippine Flora. The present status of knowledge regarding the flora of the Philippines is reviewed in a recent paper by E. D. Merrill, in the Philippine Journal of Science. In the last fifteen years the number of known species of flowering plants has increased from 2,500 to more than 7,000, but it is probable that the total number is not less than 10,000. Most definite botanical explication has thus far been confined to parts of Luzon and Mindanao. Spent Life on the Ocean. Six million miles or more on the Atlantic highway without shipwreck is the record of Howard Ernest Hinsley, purser of the American liner St. Louis. Having reached the age of sixty, he gave notice, on the last trip of the vessel, of his determination to retire from the sea. He claims the record of having crossed the Atlantic 2,000 times. The Graeco Art Club THIRD ANNUAL EXHIBIT KANSAS MONDAY EVENING, FEB. 14th Don't fall to take a chance on the this CHARITY C See Set at People's Drug Store. THIRD ANNUAL EXHIBIT Lyric Hall, 17th and Lydia. KANSAS CITY, MO. MONDAY EVENING, FEB. 14th Admission, 25 cts. Don't fail to take a chance on the beautiful library set given away by this CHARITY CLUB. Chances 10c. See Set at People's Drug Store. Tickets for sale by members. 440 STATE AVE. KANSAS CITY, KANS. For Quick Service and Prices tha Are Right Bell Phone West 2411J. CALL TRANSFER AND EXPRESS Kindling and Sawed Wood for Sale from 25c Up. 950 NEBRASKA AVE. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS REASON GIVES WAY TO WILL Physiological Explanation That May Bring Strong Denials From Those Fond of Argument. "Men's interests come to them from such sources as their parentage, birthplace, party or sect," writes Dr. W. Hanna Thomson, "and the influence of these factors in life sway their reasoning as naturally and irresistibly as the wind carries with it the dust of a road. "This subservience of reason to the will is simply physiological and therefore so unconscious that it is in no sense hypocritical or insincere, however some may wonder at the intellectual feats in reasoning of those who have differed from them, not in mental faculty, but in their native environment. "No one should wonder at or resent any reasoning as such, for this subordinate in man has to do as he is hidden by his master. "In short, the world has yet to learn, once for all, that men are not to be justified nor condemned by such superficial things about them as their opinions. "Set the will right first and men's opinions will follow suit as soon as they have opportunities for knowing better." An exhibition of the work women are doing to replace the men who are at war is being held in Kensington, England. All that is best in women's industry is shown, including what is done in the home, in the munitions and Red Cross work and women's ability to provide new careers for others. One woman, a consulting engineer, demonstrates how the welding of certain parts of the aeroplane is done by women. Careful and responsible workers are necessary, for the safety of the aviator depends on the women's work. In Glasgow the women are instructed in tram driving at the corporation school so that as male employees leave for enlistment their places may be filled quickly. Lyric Hall, 17th and Lydia. CITY, MO. Admission, 25 cts. the beautiful library set given away by LUB. Chances 10c. Tickets for sale by members. MRS. MINNIE ADAMS, Pres. Gate City GroceryCompany Tel.: Bell, W.850 Home, W.1646 Still Continues to Save You 10. to 20 Per Cent. On Your Groceries Deliveries Made to any Part of the City. Business is good-Give Us an Order. Everything in the Store Guaranteed Money Back if not Satisfied KNOW VALUE OF FRESH AIF People Realize Its Importance, and Also the Necessity for Cultivation of Proper Breathing. The open air theory for the benefit of tuberculosis is a comparatively recent thought. The story is that Doctor Trudeau recognized that he had this dread and common disease, and grasped at the open air life as his last and only hope. When he sought the mountains near Saranac, determined to live in the open air, his course was viewed as suicidal. Fellow physicians thought that excessive fear of death had robbed him of his medical judgment. All his friends looked for an early end. Doctor Trudeau not only regained his health, but he gained a better measure of health than he had ever enjoyed before. Then he began to send back to the cities for workingmen and working women, and cottages were built out of the trees of the hills, and an open air colony started. This was the first in this country, and the date was 1884. Ten years later he established the first American laboratory for the study of consumption. In a remarkable propaganda against the white plague undertaken in Detroit it is written: "So great a change has come over the country in 30 years that fresh air is on the verge of becoming popular. One of the most noted of modern medical men, opening his comprehensive treatise on the preservation of human efficiency and health, begins with fresh air. "Now, the common form of tuberculosis is the pulmonary form—the form which attacks the lungs. Lungs presuppose breathing, and breathing presupposes air. Tuberculosis belongs to the class of impure air diseases. Its commonest method of infection is through the breathing, its commonest point of attack the organ used in breathing. We don't breathe with the nose; we breathe through it. We breathe with the lungs. The quality of our breathing—that is, the depth and strength and fullness of it—is quite as important a factor in the history of health or of tuberculosis as the quality of the air which we breathe." HORSES THAT WERE JUMPERS Some Really Remarkable Feats on Record That Are Without Doubt Authentic. What distance and what height can a horse jump is a curious inquiry. If the reader will carefully measure out 39 feet, an idea of the horse's capacity in this direction will be gathered, remarks the London Times. Such a distance a steeplechase horse called Old Chandler is reported to have covered at Warwick some years ago, and there is more than one apparently authentic record of a horse clearing seven feet in height. The scene of one such exploit was at the Phoenix park and the horse was an animal descended from a famous winner named Potsos, himself called Turnip. The animal belonged to Sir E. Crofton, and the duke of Richmond, then lord lieutenant of Ireland, wagered £500 that seven feet in height could not be cleared. A wall of the requisite dimensions was built and Turnip was ridden at it. He did what was asked of him in perfect style, but it happened that his grace, not knowing that the feat was ready for performance, was not looking when the jump was made, but Turnip was therefore ridden over it again, not only successfully but easily. The wall of Hyde park, opposite Grosvenor place, six and a half feet on the inside, with a drop of eight feet into the road beyond, has also been cleared. FAKER KNEW HUMAN NATURE Story That Shows the Old Law of Psychology Is Still in Full Operation. Legend tells of a Hindu faker who seemed to have a working knowledge of practical psychology and made himself rich selling plain wicker baskets in the streets of Calcutta. The peculiar virtue of the baskets, he explained to the buyers, lay in the fact that, if one filled his basket with ordinary pebbles, placed himself in a receptive attitude of mind, and stirred them with a stick for an hour, each and every pebble would be transmuted into a nugget of gold—provided the stirrer did not think of a hippopotamus while stirring. The baskets were sold, but the idea of a hippopotamus was so firmly fixed in the minds of all the purchasers that not one of them ever had legitimate grounds on which to demand his money back. Knew He'd Sean Her Before. Three women met in a New York elevated station. "Well, I declare," they all chorused. The last arrival was asked if she, too, was bound for the shopping district, the destination of the other women. "No, indeed," she quickly replied. "I'm going to my husband's office. He just telephoned me he had left an important letter at home, and asked me to bring it to him. He's the most absent-minded man I ever met." "He isn't any worse than my husband," chimed in one of the other women. "Doctor is so forgetful at times that he frequently goes off without his medicine folio." "Well," spoke up the third woman, "my husband beats that. John, as you know, is a traveling man. He has been away a month this time. He came home the other day and patted me on the cheek and said, I believe I have seen you before, little girl, at some place, at some time. What is your name?" Candle Extinguisher It has been found that candles can be fitted with attachments to extinguish the light at a set time. To determine the length of time it is necessary to mark a candle of the size used and time how long a certain length of it will burn. Then it is sufficient to suspend a small metal dome or cap, to which a string is attached, directly over the flame, and run the opposite end of the string over nails or through screw eyes, so that it can be tied around the candle such a distance from the flame end that the part between the flame and the string will be consumed in the time desired for the light to burn. When this point is reached the string slips off the candle and the cap drops on the flame. Biddle of Nature. Because I have stirred a few grains of sand on the shore, am I in a position to know the depths of the ocean? Life has unfathomable secrets. Human knowledge will be erased from the archives of the world before we possess the last word that the gnat has to say to us. Scientifically, nature is a riddle without a definite solution to satisfy man's curiosity. Hypothesis follows hypothesis; the theoretical rubbish heap accumulates and truth ever eludes us. To know how not to know might well be the last word of wisdom.—Henri Fabre. "Turkish" rugs are now being made in Donegal. Since the war started the clever Irish have devised means to imitate the prized product of the enemy so that experts can scarcely tell the difference. The carpets are handwoven. The East India Hair G ast India Hair G The East India Hair Grower [Pictorial portrait of a woman with long braided hair, wearing a white dress with a plaid pattern. The background is a solid black oval.]] with a balm of a thousand flowers. The best knot Beautiful Black Eye-brows, also restores Gray Iris Can be used with Hot Irons for straightening Price Sent by Mall 50 Cents—10 Cents Ex S. D. LYON, General 314 East Second Street. The Cosm Club M. and O. H. Friday Night Admission 15 c sand flowers. The best known remedy rows, also restores Gray Hair to its Hot Irons for straightening. Mall 50 Cents—10 Cents Extra for Po D. LYON, General Agent t. Oklahoma The Cosmo Club M. and O. 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Robert Jase, Plaintiff, vs. Alma Jase, vs. Alma Jase, Defendant. PUBLICATION NOTICE. To the above named defendant: You are hereby notified, that you have been sued by the above named plaintiff, in the above named court, and that unless you appear and answer, on or before the 30th day of January, 1916, the petition filed against you will be taken as true, and a judgment rendered against you, the nature of which will be a decree, dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant, and divorcing plaintiff from you, the defendant, and for the costs of this action. And you are further notified, that plaintiff will, at Muskogee, Okla., on said 22nd day of January, 1916, at the office of John H. 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They show that disease, sickness and insanity are within the sex, and that sex-lust was the original sin and cause of death. They are arresting the attention of t. medical, scientific, philosophical and theological worlds and people of all classes as no other books of modern times, and will probably do more to shape the thoughts of the human race than any books ever written in the history of the world. They are daily going to the great thinkers of all parts of the civilized world. "I would rather be the author of the Truth About the Bible, by Sidney C. Tapp, than to be the President of the United States. His sex interpretation of the Bible, as therein contained, is so daring and his conclusions are so answerable that the human intellect staggers under the ideas presented. For ideas, it is the world's greatest book. Mr. Tapp's books on the Bible and his sex interpretation of the Bible will live until time shall be no more. Republics may perish and Empires may decay, but the ideas presented by the author in these books on the Bible will never die."—Prof. J. Silas Harris, A. M. Mr. Tapp's works on the Bible will do more to empty our jails, insane institutions and hospitals than any other idea that has ever been given to the world, in our opinion, to say nothing of the great good morally and spiritually, that they will do the ruman race. He has indeed produced a world idea that should be in every home and library in the civilized world. W. A. Thompson, M.D. W. A. Swan, M.D. S. M. M. McCubbins, M.D. H. F. Mikel, A.B., M.D. Theodore F. Clark, M.D. We have arranged with the author to fill all orders for these books. Remit price of book or books you desire to this paper and name of the book or books you wish and the same will be sent to you at once. It is estimated that in Kansas City, Kansas, there are about 2,500 Colored homes. 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Catharine de Medici and Elizabeth of England had noses of this kind. The curved thin nose, on the contrary, is a mark of a brilliant mind, but vain and disposed to be frontal; it is the nose of a dreamer, a poet, or a critic. If the line of the nose is re-entrant—that is, if the nose is turned up—it denotes that its owner has a weak mind, sometimes coarse, and generally playful, pleasant and frolicsome. A pale nose denotes egotism, envy, heartlessness; the quick, passionate, sanguine man has a strongly-colored nose of uniform shade. GREAT FIELD FOR NOVELISTS Industrial Life In America Should Inspire the Best Work of the Best Novelists. No strong hand has yet been laid (in a literary sense) upon our industrial life. It has been pecked at and trifled with, but never treated with breadth of fullness. Here we have probably the most striking social contrasts the world has ever seen; racial mixtures of bewildering complexity, the whole flung against impressive backgrounds and lighted from a thousand angles. Pennsylvania is only slightly "spotted" on the literary map, and yet between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh nearly every possible phase and condition of life is represented. Great passions are at work in the flery aisles of the steel mills that would have kindled Dostoyefsky's imagination. A pillar of cloud by day and of fire by night marks a limitless field for the earnest fictionist. A Balzac would find a thousand subjects awaiting him in the streets of Wilkes-Barrel—Meredith Nicholson in the Atlantic Monthly. Sensitive Measurement Minute bendings of a steel bar three feet long and three and one-half feet in diameter are accurately measured by a curious but very sensitive device of the United States bureau of standards. The bar, supported at each end, has a small mirror fixed in the center, and above this is a frame holding another mirror partially silvered. As the light of a sodium burner is reflected in each mirror the lower mirror shows a series of black and yellow concentric rings. A very small weight, even that of a pin, deflects the bar and causes the circles to expand outward. Each circle indicates a movement of one hundred-thousandth of an inch, the pressure of a finger, forming five or more new circles, showing a bending of one twenty-thousandth of an inch. Second Girl Wing Out. Wouldn't it jar you if a man borrowed a hundred from you to get a marriage license and buy some furniture for a flat and then went and spent the hundred on his wedding with another girl? It did a New York girl, and her intended husband, who has a monicker as bad as a Russian city, and who came near missing his marriage to her rival. She had him jugged. But once behind the bars the husband-to-be gave vent to a wild outburst of passion. His plight reached the second girl of his choice and she made a house-to-house canvass until she had raised the cold cash to liberate him. And then they were married. What's a little thing like jail when it stands between a determined matrimonialist and her intended? Looking on Both Sides. The progress of humanity depends on two movements which must go on side by side. One is the impulse toward change; the other is the steady drag toward stability. To prevent a given social state from petrification there must be constant revolts, a continuous series of fresh and likely efforts to strike out new paths. But in order that a social state may exist at all, the newer impulses must be harmonized with the older structure. Order is as necessary for the world as progress. Don't Spill the Milk. In almost every accident someone is to blame. 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"The silks and chopsticks of China, and the perfumes and lovely horses of Arabia, the mysticism of India, and the cavorting Cossacks of Russia." "Oh, Wilton!" she whispered, enraptured. "You will ride on the camels of the desert, and see, safe by my side, the obstreperous wild beasts of the jungle. The splendors of the East and West, the glories of the North and South—all shall be at your service! The Orlent, the Occident, the Accident!" "Wilton," she gurgled, "I am yours!" And he clasped her in his arms and they were married. And it was all as he had promised, for she spent her honeymoon with Darnum and Nalley's circus, where he had a steady job keeping mice away from the elephants. NEVER WAKE SLEEPING BABY Writer Points Out How Injurious Is Action Too Common With Young Mothers. Eating and sleeping are the only voluntary acts of the young infant, writes Mrs. E. E. Kellogg in Good Health Magazine. As a general rule, the child should not be awakened from sleep to be fed; neither should he be awakened, as many a poor little mite of humanity is, for the purpose of being exhibited to interested friends or relatives. The physical rights of the little one demand that he should be allowed to follow nature's plan, which for a child under one month of age is 20 hours sleep out of the 24. When he has attained the age of six months, 16 hours' sleep may suffice. Lack of sleep has a most demoralizing effect upon the brain and nervous system. The child at four or five years requires 12 hours' sleep, and the youth, even at fifteen or sixteen years, should sleep nine or ten hours. Rest and quiet, as well as sleep, are a necessity for the young child. Quick temper and irritability are often the direct result of exhausted nerve force. Cornices 1955 N. 3rd St. He went on glowingly: RMANN OS. Local Works ACE AND · EPAIR WORK. Kansas City. Bell Phone 2569 West Res. 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