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Police, Despite Conflicting Affida
vits, Call Him Strong Wit
ness Against Frank.
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laudable explanation of how he killed
the Phagan girl.
Give Credence to Story.
The detectives still held firmly lo
their theory that the negro was the
most important witness against Leo
M. Prank, in the fare of the contra
dictory stories and lies in which he
had been trapped.
They were strongly disposed to give
full credence to Conley's second affi
davit. although the negro's* sudden
anxiety to talk after three weeks of
silence and the maze of falsehood in
which he was at once involved served
suddenly to shift the responsibility
for Mary Phagan’s death from Leo
Frank to the sullen black man, in the
judgment of many who have been fol
lowing the evidence closely.
Chief Lanford and Detective Harry
Scott, of the Pinkertons, announced
Thursday morning, however, that they
regarded the second affidavit of Con
ley as the final and conclusive piece
of evidence needed in preparing a case*
against Frank
Rejected First Affidavit.
Others who have weighed the evi-*
dance carefully declare there are
many more significant indications that
Conley was the slayer than there are
reasons to believe that Frank is
guilty
The detectives rejected the first af
fidavit of Conley, in which he said
Frank dictated Friday the notes that
were found by the body of the slain
giri Sunday morning on the ground
that it was absurd and unbelievable
to hold the theory that the murder
was premeditated
Yet they accept the second af
fidavit, which indicatesidenticallv
the same thing, in that Frank
met Conlay at Nelson and For
syth Streets before 11 o'clock
Ssturday morning, April 26, be
fore the crime was committed,
and told the negro to wait for
him, later taking Conley to the
factory with him, where Conley
says that he wrote the notes at
Frank's direction.
The negro in his second affidavit
suggests no other motive that could
have impelled Frank to aik him to
come to the factory shortly before
noon on Saturday. Conley says that
Frank told him to wait secreted on
the first floor until he heard a whistle.
When he heard the whistle he says he
went upstairs and Frank dictated the
botes.
Why Many Suspect Conley.
All of this is inescapably sugg.'S
live of premeditation on the part . f
Frank, if Conley’s story is to he be
lieved, but the theory of premedita
tion has been scoffed at by everyone,
including Chief Lanford and Harry
Scott.
In fact, it never seriously was con
sidered by anyone, say those who are
Inclined to believe the evidence
against Conley greatly outweighs that
against Frank The assertion is free
ly made that it would he far easier
to convict Conley, if the police were
/no disposed, than it will be to cohviot
Frank. Here are a few reasons ad
vanced :
When the factory superintendent
ivas permitted to go before the Coro
ner'* jury by his attorney, he an
swered all the questions In a straight
forward. unwavering manner, never
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once being trapped in a lie or mis
statement.
In marked contrast is the conduct
of Conley ever since his arrest it
the time of the inquest three weeks
ago. When discovered at tlie factory,
he was washing a shirt which he
sought to hide from the person who
had found him dut.
He was taken into custody and
gave his address as 92 Tattnall Street. |
Investigation disclosed that Conley
was lying and that he had not liv'd ]
on Tattnall Street for months, his ac
tual residence being 172 Rhode*
Street.
He was asked to write, and he told
the officers he could not write a word.
He refused to be inveigled Into mak
ing an attempt at hand writing of any
sort. He would not put a pencil to
paper that the detectives might get a
specimen of ills penmanship. For a
long time they believed he was >o
ignorant lie could not write his own
name. Then they found some leases
he had signed for watches and knew
that lie had been lying again.
Just as the Grand Jury was about
to alt and it appeared likely that
Frank would be Indicted, the negro
broke hi* silence for the first time
He told the detectives that it was lie
who had written the notes, hut th«u
he had written thorn at Frank's dicta
tion on Friday, April 26. Frank had
approached him in an aisle at tin*
factory and had asked him to come
into the office, he said. He remem
bered that it was four minutes before
1 o’clock.
That he had been at the factory
Saturday he denied emphatically. Be
tween 10 o’clock in the forenoon and
2 o’clock In the afternoon he had been
on Peters Street, according to his
story.
The detectives ridiculed his story
and continued examining Gradually
he broke down under their question
ing. and it was established that lie
had been lying again and that he
actually had been in the factory Sat
urday, presumably at the very time
the girl wa* murdered. This was the
first time bis presence In the factory
on Saturday had been known.
Admitted Hiding in Plant.
He had kept it a most profound
secret up to the time ft was gouged
out of him by the detective*. He
weakened further and admitted that
he had been hiding down on the first
floor as persons went in and out.
He described practically every per
son that entered or left tin* factory
between 12 and 1 o’clock. But he de
clared that he did not see Mary I’lia
gan when she came in the building
Out of all who entered or left, the
murdered girl and Lemmte Quinn ap
peal- to be the only ones he missed
seeing, according to his story.
He explained this by saying that
he must have fallen asleep for a lit
tle while. He saw Miss Corinthia Hall
and Mrs. Freeman leave a few min
utes before 1 o’clock, but did not see
Mary Phagan enter about five min
utes' after the hour. Neither did he
s«‘e Lemmle Quinn, who is said to
have been at tlie factory about 12:15.
If the negro’s final affidavit is taken
as nearer the probable truth than his
first, those who are acquainted with
Frank are of the opinion that there
are still most important questions to
be answered convincingly. They arc
these, assuming that Frank is guilty:
• Why should a man of Frank’s In
telligence-—a man who is highly edu
cated and who has won a position of
responsibility- virtually make a con
fidant of another man. especially an
ignorant negro, easily broken down
by the third degree of the police sta
tion ?
•Why should a man of sense, if he
wished to keep his crime undiscover
ed. proclaim it to the negro, in his
office by the question: ’Why should I
hang?’ ”
"Why should lie approach this ne
gro more than an hour before this
crime was committed?
"Why Resort to Notes?”
"Finally, why should a man of in
telligence have recourse to notes at
all when he would know they ulti
mately would serve to fasten the
crime on the guilty person rather than
to divert suspicion?"
If the detectives follow out their
intention of using Conley as a ma
terial witness, it is regarded as like
ly that they will have difficulty in
obtaining the acceptance of his affi
davit and testimony in view of the
many lies in which he has been
trapped. The repudiation Of the first
affidavit, even on the representation
that he set the date originally on Fri
day because <>f the fear that he would
lie hanged if admitting he was in the
factory Saturday, is thought to ren
der the second affidavit practically
worthless, so far as its legal weight
is concerned.
The fact that the detectives have
corroborated Conley's description in
his second affidavit of the persons he
saw while lie said he was in hiding on
the first floor only more firmly es
tablishes in the judgment of many
the fact that Conley was at the fac
tory tlie afternoon of the murder and
had as favorable an opportunity to
attack and kill Mar> Phagan as l^o
Frank had.
The corroboration, in their opinion,
does not add one jot to the possibil
ity that Frank might have dictated
the notes.
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Railroad Commission Directs the
Company to Provide for the
Rush-Hour Crowds.
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Street, so as to give service to that
point with three and one-third min
ute headway, and from there to De
catur on five minutes headway dur
ing morning and afternoon rush
hours, with extension of service on
ten-minute headway from end of
afternoon rush hour period to 9:30
p. m., in lieu of present twenty-
minute headway. After 9:30 p. rn.
the twenty-minute headway will be
operated as now.
ROUTE NO. 19—River lane: Extra
cars on Sundays during summer
months to accommodate extra traf-
fice. Counts of traffic loads to he
made on this route week days, as
directed on other named route*, to
accurately ascertain measure oC
regular traffic.
ROUTE NO. 20—College Park, East
Point and Hapeville: Actual counts
of week-day loads at peak points to
be made during next five months, to
ascertain accurately if there is over
congestion in regular traffic.
ROUTE NO. 23 Buckhead Line:
Tripper service previously ordered
by the commission to Sixth Street
on West Peachtree has been re
cently extended by the company to
Dead Man’s Curve, the end of dou
ble track, which gives local service
this far on a ten-minute headway
during rush hours and to that ex
tent relieves congestion on the
Buckhead cars. In addition, double-
headers in the morning and after
noon hour*, for congestion during
those hours arising out of construc
tion work in the northern part of
the city, are operated and will be
continued as necessity demand*’.
Counts, during morning and after
noon rush hours, for the next five
months, of actual loads at the peak
point of the Buckhead line, have
been ordered, and will determine the
necessity of further relief on this
route.
GEORGIA
NEWS IN BRIEF
Griffin Elks Give ’Cue.
JA< ’KSON. -The Jacks on members
or the Griffln Lodge of Elks Rave a
barbecue Wednesday at Mallets
Springe
Jackson Official III.
JACKSON. Judge .1 A. McMivh-
ael, City Clerk and Treasurer and
veteran Justice of the Peace of the
Sixth Hundred and Twelfth District
of Butts County, is confined to his
home.
Superintendent Brittain to Speak.
BAXLEY.--The commencement ex
ercises of the Baxley High School
close to-night when the baccalaureate
address will be made by Professor M
L. Brittain. State Superintendent of
School*.
White Men Sentenced.
GOLF MBUS.—Judge Gilbert has
sentenced three white men. \V A.
Waters. Joe Smith and William How
ard. to serve terms of six months
• ach on the State Farm for violating
the prohibition law.
Two Standard Schools.
i’OLl’MBITS.- According to a re
run issued from tile office of M. L.
Brittain. State School Superintendent,
there are only two public* schools in
Muscogee County entitled to be rated
qs standard.
75 Indictments Returned.
COLUMBUS.—The Grand Jury for
j the May term of the Superior Court
l as already returned 75 true bills for
; the term, among them being throe for
murder and a large number for violat-
ing the prohibition law.
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Mrs. Pearl Hartley, Prostrated by
Shock, 'Declares Robbery Was
Motive for Crime,
Continued From Page 1.
yesterday morning. When he drove
me from home to the car line Sunday
morning when I started to Chatta
nooga lie told me he might be up j
there before the reunion was over.
"Yesterday afternoon the landlady |
told me the house had burned down.
She knew Wade, and she told me she
saw him in front of her house yerter-
tlay morning, wearing overalls Just as
when he is said to have left home.
Two boys were with him, hut they
didn't go in the. house. Wade was in
Chattanooga when my wife and
daughter were murdered, and he
couldn’t have done it."
Goes to See Ruins.
Leaving Carson & Treadwell’s of
fice. Mr. Stevens said he was going
to the ruins of his home. He first
visited the Patterson undertaking es
tablishment and arranged for the fu
neral of his wife and daughter. Both
bodies will be taken to Meansville,
On., at 4 o'clock Friday morning, to
be buried in the family lot. where j
Mrs. Stevens’ father and mother both
have been interred in the last two
years.
Lonnie Blevins, 17 years o]d, who
says he left San Francisco for Tampa
and from there came to Atlanta, is
held at police headquarters to-day.
He said he arrived in Atlanta last
Friday. He was detained because he
could not give a connected story. The
police attach little significance to his
arrest or his presence in Atlanta.
Tells of Attempted Attack.
An important clew, given Sheriff J.
A. McCurdy, of DeKalb County, who
is in charge of the Investigation, was
revealed in the statement of a neigh
bor to tho effect that a Mexican half-
breed, formerly employed by Mrs
Stevens, had attempted to attack
Nellie Stevens some time ago
This declaration was made by Mis?
Josephine MoCaulay, 790 Glennwood
Avenue, an intimate friend of both
the slain mother and deyghter. Miss
McCaul&y said that only a few days
ago Mrs. Stevens had told her of
shooting at the discharged halfbreed
when he appeared at the eountr;
home. Mrs. Stevens had said that
she fired twice at the man. and that
lie escaped into the clump of woods
adjoining the house. Sheriff jtycCur-
dy has ordered a country-wide search
made for the halfbreed.
Discovery Wednesday morning that
Mr. Stevens had purchased an axe
some days ago offers' a possible clew
to the weapon used by the murderer
in crushing the skulls of his victims.
The axe is, so far, missing, though
the ruins of the burned dwelling and
surrounding vicinity have been care
fully searched for it.
Ax Apparently Used.
The sharp, knifelike cut across the
top of Nellie Stevens’ skull seems to
bear out the theory that the murderer
used the ax to slay his victims.
Possibility that the weapon used
by the murderer was thrown into
the well near the house has lead
Sheriff McCurdy to order the well
dragged.
Atlanta police and detective offi
cials have Joined with the DeKalb
force to solve the mystery. Detective
Chief Lanford assigned Mounted Po
liceman Hamilton, who was a close
friend of the Stevens family, and
Detective Rosser to work on the case.
Sheriff McCurdy obtained this re
inforcement Thursday morning when
he held a conference with Lanford.
A unique incident of the blaze
which burned the Stevens home to
ashes was revealed in the finding of
fifty-seven chickens dead in a coop
fifty feet away. The coop was not
even scorched by the heat.
That robbery was the motive of the
murderer has been established by the
disappearance of Jewelry and a large
quantity oi money which Mrs. Stev
ens was known to have had in the
house at the time.
Woman’s Jewels Missing.
Neighbors stated that *virs. Stevens
possessed a diamond ring valued at
$400 and two gold watches. These are
missing.
Coupled with other theories as to
tlie murder is one which shows the
work that of two negroes who were
said to have been seen driving away
from the burning home at sunrise
Wednesday morning. The men rode
in a one-horse wagon, the body of
which was filled with outs. Tracks
of the horse were found on a spot
near the ruins. In the immediate
vicinity was discovered a small pile
of fresh oats. Human footprints were
found nearby.
Despite the assertion that the ne
groes drove away. Sheriff McCurdy’s
men made a careful search of the
woods surrounding the home, believ
ing it highly probable that the mur
derer might have hidden therein to
watch the burning house, and will
scour the woods again to-day. An
other theory is that he might have
been wounded by Mrs. Stevens before
he killed her. and had been forced to
drag himself to the w'oods for escape.
That the man may be lying there
now is a possibility expressed by the
police. The shell found in the shot
gun used l>> Mrs. Stevens was found
to have been discharged.
Sister Believes
Son Innocent.
In a darkened room in a little house
at 33 Dalney Street, with a physician
in almost constant attendance, lies a
woman prostrated by grief. Absolute
quiet has been ordered by the doctor,
and the anguish tears at her heart in
a silence hroken only by her own sobs
and the hushed patter of childish
footsteps as her children play quietly
about the house.
She is Mrs. Pearl Hartley, sister of
Mrs. Sarah C. Stevens, whove charred
I body was found lying beside that of
her adopted daughter in the smoking
ruins of their farm home seven miles
(tom Atlanta. Prostrated by the
shock of the tragedy, with her imagi-
Old Soldiers of the South March
Along Chattanooga Streets Un
der Tattered Battle Flags.
CHATTANOOGA. TENX., May 29.
The twenty-third annual reunion of
the Confederate Veterans closed to
day with the veterans’ parade, in
which the old soldiers of the South
marched under the tattered battle
flags of halt a century ago and under
the Stars and Stripes of a reunited
country.
Military bands furnished martial
music to which the tottering old sol
diers, hundreds of them In gray uni
forms. tramped through the down
town streets. Grandstands along
Market and Broad Streets, the prin
cipal thoroughfares traversed, were
filled with visitors and Chattanoogans
who lustily cheered the old veterans.
General Bennett H. Young, mount
ed on a Kentucky thoroughbred
charger, headed the parade. General
J. P. Hickman, of Nashville, com
mander of the Tennessee Division,
was chief marshal.
Exodus of Visitors Begins.
The exodus of visitors began im
mediately after the parade and
throughout the afternoon and night
special and regular trains will be
leaving the depots every hour.
The reunion festivities will come
to a formal close to-night when the
Sons of Confederate Veterans give
their annual ball to sponsors and
maids of honor at Bennett H. Young
pavilion.
Several hundred veterans will go
to Dalton, Ga., to-morrow to attend
commander of the Army of Northern
Virginia Department; General George
P• Harrison, of Alabama, commander
of the Army of Tennessee Depart
ment. and General K. M. VanZandt,
of Texas, commander of the Trans-
Mississippi Department. were re
elected, and Jacksonville. Fla., wag
chosen for the 1914 reunion by the
veterans at the principal business ses
sion of the reunion late yesterday aft
ernoon. Next year's gathering will he
the first reunion held in Florida.
Jacksonville defeated Nashville, its
nearest competitor, which has had
two reunions, by a vote of almost 4 to
1. Houston. Texas, and Tulsa, Okla.,
received scattering votes. The selec
tion was then made unanimous.
‘‘Turkey Trot” and ‘‘Virginia Reel,"
A parade by the Sons of Veterans
yesterday afternoon and a ball for the
veterans at Bennett H. Young Pa
vilion last night were’ features that
attracted the Interest of the thou
sands of sponsors, maids of honor and
other visitors. At the ball the Vir
ginia reel and quadrille of 50 years
ago were danced between snatches of
the present-day "turkey trot” and
two-step.
Yellow Circulars Will Announce
Speakers for the Cause in New
York Decoration Day.
NEW YORK, May 29. ''General"
Rosalie Jones has added a new ac
complishment to her abilities as a.
hiker, and on Decoration Day she will
fly across Staten Island, distributing
suffrage literature from an aeroplane.
*The general will ascend in a Wright
biplane operated by Aeroplanist
Brown.
If the wind is favorable her route
will be marked by a trail of yellow
suffrage flyers, announcing the speak
ers at the suffrage meeting to be
held later at < )akwood Heights.
A group of Barnard girls will be
present to welcoipe the general as
she alights.
nation made vivid by her suffering
and grief. Mrs. Hartley is seeing in
the darkness of her room the terrible
happenings of that night of horror.
Mrs. Hartley’s* only surcease from
suffering came for a few moments
late Wednesday afternoon, when, un
der the influence of opiates adminis
tered by her physician, she recovered
sufficiently to talk to a Georgian re
porter. Mrs. Hartley sobbed audibly
throughout the interview, and her
eyes, red with weeping and reflecting
the anguish that tore at her heart,
emphasized her words as she cried for
vengeance on the murderer.
"Why do they always murder wom
en?” .**he cried. "It is terrible. Little
girls are murdered when they go onto
the street, and now a woman is not
safe even in her own home."
Faints at News.
The notifying of Mrs. Hartley of
the death of her sister and niece
formed one of the most dramatic and
pathetic incidents of the entire trag
edy. She was downtown Wednesday
morning shopping, when word came
to her home on Dalnev Street that her
sister and niece had been murdered.
Mrs. Lena Thompson .a neighbor, of
24 Dalney Street, volunteered to go
downtown and find Mrs*. Hartley and
tell her the sad news.
After a search of an hour Mrs.
Thompson found Mrs. Hartley in the
Kress store on Whitehall Street. As
she stood trying to locate the sister of
the murdered woman in the crowd of
shoppers Mrs. Hartley, warned by in
tuition that something was* wrong,
pushed through the crowd and hur
ried to Mrs. Thompson.
VWhat is it?" she cried. "What’s
the matter?”
Mrs. Thompson, seeking to break
the news gently, told her that her sis
ter’s home had burned down and that
she had been badly injured.
"it's worse than that." Mrs. Hartley
cried. "1 feel it! 1 know It i« worse
than that!”
She screamed and fainted in the
arms of Mrs. Thompson. She
was soon revived and taken to her
home. Mrs. Thompson endeavored to
calm her on the trip on the street car
with the assurance that everything
was all right.
As Mrs. Hartley entered her yard,
one of her little daughters ran out of
the house, tears streaming down her
"Oh. mamma." she cried. Aunt Sa - j Co., 555 E. b (lit StfCCt*
Grounded German
Battleship in Peril
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
DANZIG. GERMANY, May 29.—
Danzig harbor was all but closed to
day by the German dreadnought Koe
nig Albert, which went aground Mon
day and which has swung across the
mouth of the Vistula River, prevent
ing all but the smallest vessels from
entering or leaving.
The position of the warship is dan
gerous owing to the drifting silt which
is threatening to sandlock the ship.
9 Property Owners
In Macon Vice Net
MACON. GA., May 29.—Nine Ma
con property owners, five of whom
are prominent in business and socie
ty. have been indicted for leasing
houses for immoral purposes. They
are J. Clay Murphey. Eden Taylor,
Jr.. Sam C. Moore. L. O. Stevens, Sam
Dunlap, H. Kessier. Dan O’Conneil,
J. W. Ford and H. D. Kaplan.
These indictments are part of the
Grand Jury crusade against the re
stricted district.
$480 FOR WASHINGTON’S HAiR.
NEW YORK. May 29. A lock of
George Washington’s hair brought
$480 at ;vn auction sale here.
$3.50 Recipe Free,
For Weak Men
‘General” Rosalie Junes.
rah and Cousin Nellie have been
killed!”
With a scream. Mrs. Hartley fell to
the ground in a swoon. She was
picked up by Mrs. Thompson and
members of her family and carried
into the house. A physician was
called and administered opiates. Un
der the influence of the medicine site
was able to sit up In bed for a few
moments late in the afternoon, but
collapsed a(?aln when she learned that
her nephew, the non of the murdered
woman, was being sought by the po
lice as the murderer of his mother.
Belieyes Boy Innocent.
Mrs. Hartley refused to believe the
boy could he capable of so diabolical
a crime.
"He may have been a bad boy,” she
said, "but I can not believe he would
kill his mother and sister. There must
be some mistake.”
Mrs. Hartley advanced the theory
that the murder may have been com
mitted by some person with robbery
as the motive. Mrs. Stevens was an
energetic business woman, and up to
the time she moved to her farm had
been engaged extensively in build
ing operations, mostly in East Atlan
ta She had a number of men In her
employ, and Mrs. Hartley said she
often kept a considerable sum of
money in her home. She said she
had known her sister to have as much
as $500 in her house at one time.
Less than a week ago, she said, Mrs.
Stevens wrote to her that she was
coming to Atlanta to sell some of her
property. It can not be learned that
she banked the proceeds of this sale,
and Mrs. Hartley’s theory is that she
took the money home with her; that
this fact became known to some one,
and that she was murdered arid the
house fired for purposes of robbery.
1'p to about six months ago Mra.
Stevens lived in the 700 block. Boule
vard. and moved to the country be
cause of her failing health, Besides
her husband and young son. Mrs.
Stevens is survived by six sisters,
Mrs. Pearl Hartley. Mrs. I-. C. Smith,
Mrs. M. A. Golden. Mrs. J X. Pat
rick and Miss Lily VVhattley, of At
lanta. and Mrs. \V. C. Sims, of Means-
vilie. Ga.. and three brothers. Ser
geant Whattlev, of the Atlanta police
force, and T. C. and H. T. Whattley,
of Barnesville, Ga.
STOMACH TROUBLES
Horsford’s Acid Phosphate
Produce* healthy activity of weak and disor
dered stomachs An excellent strength builder.
Adv.
a reunion of General Joseph E. John
ston's army that participated in the
campaign from Chattanooga to At
lanta. At this time memorial serv
ices will be held by Dalton Daugh
ters of the Confederacy, Professor Jo
seph T. Derry, of Atlanta, being the
orator.
To Decorate Federal Graves.
Several hundred of the Confederate
veterans will remain in Chattanooga
to-morrow and participate in the
Grand Army of the Republic Memo
rial Day exercises at the National
Cemetery, where several thousand
Federal soldiers are buried.
This afternoon "The Pled Piper of
Hamelintown" will be presented as a
pageant at Warner Park by several
hundred Chattanooga children.
Young Again Commander.
General Bennett H. Young, of Ken
tucky, commander-in-chief; General
Theodore S. Garnett, of Virginia,'!
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And every man can eat it without taking a moment’s
thought about digestion when the pie crust is light, 1
flaky, tender as you can make it with
Swift’s Silver-Leaf Lard
This recipe makes perfect pie crust. Try it:
Mix teaspoon salt into lVfe cups flour; wdrlc in V\ cup Switt’s Silver-
Leaf I.ard, moisten with water, roll out. Spread with tablespoonful
Swift’s Silrer-Leaf Lard, dredge with flour, roll up like jeHy roll, pat
and roll out. roll up again and cut off enough for lower crust Roll
out remainder for upper crust and when ready for oven put few small
dots Silver-Leaf Lard on top.
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Shortening that makes good pie crust
will make tasty pastry ot all kinds.
Swift’s Silver-Leaf Lard is put up in
.tight covered, new tin pails. Every
lone bears the Government inspec
tion stamp guaranteeing the
purity and wholesomeness
of the lard. Buy a paii.
Swift & Company
U. S. A.
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