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Thursday, Nov. 12, 1925.
Adventures of the Twins
BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON
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Yes, Mrs. Gipsy,” said Nancy in surprise. “You guessed it just
right. ♦ »
“May we have our fortunes
now?” asked Nancy.
Yes, my dear,” said Mrs. Gip
sy. “Just cross my hand with a
piece of silver and I will tell your
fortune.”
111 givs you a silver belH” said
Contrary Mary. So she handed
Nancy\a silver bell and Nancy
handed if fo'Mrs. Gipsy, who put
it into her big pocket.
i I’ll tell your fortune by your
hand,” said Mrs. Gipsy. “Hold it
out so I can see it. M
Nancy held-out her plump lit
tle hand and Mrs. Gipsy took it.
<« You aren’t; a little Dutch girl
at all, said Mrs. Gipsy in sur
prise. “You are just a pkijn little
girl and yojir name is; ‘Nancy:'
You live in a house and* have a
mother and a father and a brother
and dog and cat' and bird and doll
and a lot df playthings. Isn’t .(hat
right?” ; .
“Yes, Mrs. Gipsy, sa '^ Nancy
m surprise. “You'guessed it just.
And you like candy and
1 ike to go to bed early or to take
medicine. Isn’t that right, too?”’
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Yes, said Nancy. “You
be hard *V ng to exactl tell fortunes.” Y right. It
Of course, it is,” said Mrs.
ipsy. ut when you know how\
it is easy.
M Is that all the fortune
have?” said Nancy. ♦
Oh, my no! ■ said . Mrs. Gipsy,
, “There is a lot more. Yc»a are
fond of sugar-cookies and cake.
ai y / \ hkC mg ’ S ^ 0r !.1 S '
liB ™ picture-books, } w ‘ and like
you
to play house and jump rope and
go to the movies, and you like
ice-cream, and pop-corn and flow
ers.
“Is that all?” asked Napcy,
"My no! There’s a lot more, *
said Mrs. .Gipsy. “You aye now
a middling-sized .l**?® frirl Mxt girl, l’ ou will be a
next you will
be a bl R g»rl, and then will be a
grown up woman. Perhaps .you,
Tales of Little New
New York, t Nov. 12-A group of
Dig beloney-and-sausage men from
Broadway went to Florida to clean
up in the land boom. They were
flashily dressed and they sported
bills. flashy^ They cars were and going flashy to rolls operate of
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They began by making W prodigi
ous purchases of thirty-day opt
ions, or bidders as Flondans call
them, on empty lots They threat
ened to gain control of all the
real .stato, m town m a shor*
J,' Three native real estate
men
who controlled much of the
,rty m the town met and pooled
all their property m a sales
scheme The next day they offered
m T>° n 540 ’ 000 lots
at $10,000 T, The Money men # from
Broadway bought theimas fast as
they could sign their names to
contracts.
The following day the New
York sharps went out (o put “for
sa'e signs on then- lots. They
found that only alternate lots had
b en sold to them and that the
native realtors had retained
themselves every other lot. On
those lots were for sale” signs
put^. up over night, offering th?
lots for $20,000.
The big money men had their
choice of paying $40,000 for the
lots they had under option and
selling them at a loss of $20,00, or
losing the $10,000 they had put
up for the option.
That night you could buy first
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will get married and perhaps not.
You live in a white house, un
less it is green or brown or yel
low, and the house has a front
door and a back door and some
steps and a roof and a chimney.
When you look out of your win
dow you can see the sky and
clouds and perhaps an automobile.
You have adventures sometimes
when you play and that’s all. >»
“That is a fine fortune,” said
Nancy jumping up. “Thank you!*
“Three cheers for Nancy,” sug
gested the Chimney Sweep.
So they 'all gave three cheers.
“Novr, little boy. I’ll, tell your
fortune,’* said Mrs. Gipsy to Nick.
Can you cross my hand with sil
S i ^silver buckle off my
knee,” said Bobby Shafto. F have
an extra one. He may have it to
give you.”
i* Very good,”, said Mrs. frpsy,
taking it and dropping it into her
pocket. “Hold out your hand,
little Dutch boy. Did you say your
was ‘Hansel*? •I
Before Nick had time ro an-’
SW er, Mrs. Gipsy looked at his
hand^Why, you aren’t a little
boy at all!” she exclaimed.
arg/just a plain little boy
and your name j s ‘Nick.’ You live
house-let me see-it’s the
sarne house that Nancy lives in, j
so you must be her brother. Aren't
>ou? Why, I guess you aye Twins, j
you?”
Nick nodded hard. He was very
much excited, having his fortune
told.
tt And you don’t like spelling
or
^ ,ls P- r ■ i«nipiP?-ropes or playing
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house, but you do like all the
other things Nancy likes,” yy said
Mrs. Gipsy. M Besides __ you like
baseball and hop-scotch and skat
and bicycle-riding and football
and sled-riding and tree-climbing.
And adventures. Especially a#
ventures. II
“That’s a Tine fortune.” said
Nick. “It is all true, everything
ycu ‘ said.”
, (To Be/ Continued.) !
limousines for the price of
railroad fare back to New York
William Steiner probably has
the longest running assignment
ever given to a cameraman. Every
day for eighteen months he is to
uk< a few feet of motion k .
Building of the razing of the i,t.
ry^ifi in Times Squage
and of thg erectjon of ^
Paramount Building on that site,
^ completed the film will be
iw not more than two reels and
wjj, show in sIow motion lhe spec _
of one building replacing
another
Tha - ne w Paramount Building, g
by tljc way< wiI1 ,. e M stori
high and wiU be thc u]]est stAlc . .
ture in Tirnes s„ uaro . Patr6na of
.the movie theatre will eb able to
go through tunnels direct from
the subway station t3 the thea .
tre.
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I Subway change booths fre
are
quent> almost daU objects Qf
robbers . Th? M has posted
notices on alJ boolhs informirie .
would . be . Fobberg v , hat DSnalt
awaitB them for 8Uch robberies ,
but the crooks belkvt , that they ,
must be caught before th can
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company that the collection train
varies its schedule each day so
that robbers do not know at just
what period of the day the monsy
Is available for their purposes.
Father And Six
Children Lose
I Lives 'In Fire
j East Orange. N.. J., Nov. 11.—
. (AP)—Uoseph' Distes ano and his
four children iost their lives in a
fire -which destroyed a six fimaly
i dwelling early todav The mother
shaped by jumping > from a third
story winnow. Her youngest child,
hi her arms wafe killed. The ori
glon of the fire wss not known. .
GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
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OUR SPECIAL SALE OF RUGS
IS A DISTINCT FEATURE OF OUR sis
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-v BIG THANKSGIVING SALE ■ ;*
THOSE WHO HAVE already attended the sale agree with us that it is an event that will long be
1 remembered in this section of Geo/gia. They are pleased with the patterns, the material' and
above all, with the exceptional values we are offering.
We are absolutely sincere when we state that the prices on these rugs are the lowest that have
ever been quoted since “before the war/’ We have been planning this special event for several
months and are now in a position to hold it. old it.
Since we bought the big lot of rugs the price of rugs has'advanced five per cent even over the
old price of a week ago. But this advance will in no wise affect the price at which we are selling
these rugs.
And there is not a “second” in this lot. Every Rug offered is absolutely this season's
make, this season' pattern, and we guaran tee both the workmanship and material.
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The Big Store Behind
This Rug Sale And Says: “You Cannot
X- Match These Values Elsewhere” 1
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We Are Featuring * to
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Axminsters, Tapestry Brussels, Wiltons and Velvets
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Tapestry Brussels fr Extra Heavy Quality Velvet Rug. A $53M
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$22.50 Tapestry Brussels, 9x12, special $18.75 quality; special ■—
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$12.00 $25.00 Tapestry Tapestry Brussels, Brussels, 9x12, 6x9, special special 20.75 9.75 $45.00
$22.5b Tapestry Brssels, 8.3x10.6, special 18.75 ✓
$15.00 Tapestry Brussels, 6x9, special 12.00
$27.50 Tapestry Brussels, 9x12, special 22JO Axminster Rugs
$40.00 Axminster, 9x12, special $Z4M
ft $25.00 Axminster, 6x9 , special 79.75
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Extra Heavy Grade 9x12 Tapestry Brussels $45.00 Axminster, 9x12, special $8.75
Rug; $30.00 value, Special $57.50 Axminster, 9x12, special 47.50 m
$25.00 4 -
Dvring tliis Special Rug Sale we will have wMi us
Mr. Chas. C. Teague ' : ■
•pedal representative of one of the largest rug houses in i
America. He -will have his trunks with log and will (Now
WILTON RUGS a fail line of domestic and imported run.
$70.00 Wilton, 9x12, special $59.75
$75.00 Wilton, 9x12, special 63.75 Small Rugs
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27x51 Tapestry Brussels, $2.50 value, special.
ft $1.95
RAG RUGS 27x52 Axminster, regular $3.50 value, special
$2.95 r
We have many pretty rag rugs that we will close out as spe- 36x63 Axminster, regular $4.75 value, special,
cials. These rugs are taken from our regular stock. $3.95
$2.50 values, special $1.75
$2.25 values, special $1.25 Many of these small rugs are in patterns to
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match the larger rugs.
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The Big Store
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