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STEIN BROTHERS
January Clearance Sale
Began Wednesday, Jan. 4, and lasts until
Saturday, January 14th.
This is not a sale of odds and ends, but it's the time of year when we
clear our fall and winter goods. Nothing reserved in thi3 sale. This space
is too small to list every item so we will just list a few. Send for price list
right now, 1
Our entire stock of high grade Suits and Overcoats, the best that the
market can afford, such as Hart Schaff ner & Marx, Cloth Craft and Stein
Brothers Specials.
$lo Suits and Overcoats $12.85
17.50 " " " 14.75
20 " " " 16.75
22.50 " " " 18.75
25 " " " 19.75
30 " " " 24.75
32.50 " " " 26.7
35 " " " 29.75
$40, $45, $50 and $55 Suits & Over
coats, sale price, $37.75.
The above consists of all sizes, 33 to 50, Regulars, Stouts, Stubs and
Slims. Don't miss this opportunity, come to Stein Brothers' Sale and save
Money.
SPECIAL NOTICE: No goods will be charged during this sale at any
price. Alterations free of charge. Goods can be exchanged during the sale
only. So come and bring your friends to our big sale.
STEIN BROTHERS
The Home of Hart Schaffner & Marx
SANFORD, N. C.
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PAY US A VISIT NOW
Our stock of goods is complete to meet your
demand for the holiday buying. Our prices
meet competition and we appreciate your
business. Give U3 a call. : : : :
LINDLEY & WILLIAMS
Pure Food Grocers Pittsboro, N. C.
DR. J. C.M4NN
EYE-SIGHT SPECIALIST
Will be at Dr. R. M. Farrell's office, Pitts
boro, every 4th Tuesday in each month
Glasses fitted that are easy and restful
to the eyes. Cross-eyes straightened
without the knife. Weak eyes of chil
dren and young people a specialty.
My next visit will be Tues. Jan. 24.
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Too often a guess on investments
means as little as a guess on weather.
A carefully selected investment must
be based on a study of facts -not
guesses.
There is no GUESS as to the value
of our 6per cent First Mortgage Real
Estate Bonds as there have been no
losses in them. They pay the high
est lawful rate of interest and you
have every dollar of our capital and
surplus as a guarantee that these prin
cipal and interest will be paid when due
We have these FIRST MORTGAGE REAL
ESTATE BONDS for sale in denominations
of $100. $200, $300, $400, $500, $1,000, $2, 000
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Detective Stories J
BOLAND, ALIAS
GARDNER
Copyright by The Wheeler Syndicate. Inc.
WHEN Hyman and Hess, dealers
in cloaks and Suits on State
street, Albany, N. T., sent a
check for $38.77 to Beis and Blum,
garment Manufacturers in New York
city, they didn't have the slightest
idea that they were ' starting a chain
of evidence which would land one of
the cleverest crooks in America behind
the bars.
A few days later, before the New
York firm had had time to report the
nonarrival of the check and thus per
mit Hyman and Hess to look into the
matter, a young man came into the
National Commercial bank in Albany
and presented a check for $380, made
out to "Bearer." The date on the
check, filled in with a rubber stamp,
corresponded to the day on which it
was presented, and the man who hand
ed it to the paying teller mentioned
casually that the check "was to cover
an option" and that he had to hurry
back to New York in order to complete
the transaction. The paying teller,
feeling certain that the signature was
genuine, cashed the check, and the
man who had presented it walked out
of the bank with $380 in his pocket.
When Hyman and Hess had their ac
count balanced they found that they
were exactly $380 short for the orig
inal check had never reached its New
York destination, but had been lifted
out of the mail box by one of a gang
of clever criminals, the body of the
check erased with an ink eradicator
and the date and amount filled in on
top of the original signature.
"Onlyone man in the country could
have done that and gotten away with
it," growled George A Puller, assistant
superintendent of the Pinkerton Detec
tive agency, when the bank called the
details of the case to his attention.
"It's Boland's work !"
"Yes, Boland," replied Fuller. "Or
Gardner, as he sometimes calls him
self. He's got a regular organization
for this sort of thing. Trains boys to
loot the mail boxes, washes the checks
with an acid preparation of his own
Invention, writes in a higher amount,
makes them payable tat 'Bearer,' and
then another of his tools cashes
them." 4
"If you know so much about the
man," asked the amazed banker, "why
hasn't he been arrested long before
this?" , .-i i M
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"It's easy enough to arrest a man,"
was Fuller's reply, "but it is sometimes
very difficult to convict him. So far as
the actual check-raising goes, Boland
plays a lone hand. What's more, he
pays his men well, and takes care of
them if they happen to get caught. So
far, none of 'em has turned state's evi
dence, and until they do or until we
catch Boland red-handed there's noth
ing to do but be careful. We've got
our eyes on him. He can't move with
out our knowing it.
Warned by Hyman and Hess check
that the Boland outfit was once more
conducting operations in New York
state, the Pinkerton man kept close
watch on all persons suspected of be- 1
longing to the organizations, with the
result that three men were arrested
and sentenced to terms in prison. But
all of them steadfastly refused to im
plicate the "man higher up."
Finally Boland and three of his as
sociates were arrested in Boston, aft
er Fuller had shadowed a boy whom
he suspected of robbing a mail box.
Dano, the boy, and Devine, another
of the organization, drew short terms
for petty larceny,, but Boland escaped
on account of a technicality, and
moved to New York where he tried
to continue his operations. But the
New York police and particularly Com
missioner George S. Dougherty, made
things so difficult, that he was soon re
duced to the expedient of securing
checks wherever he could a neces
sity which led to the fatal slip which
Fuller had predicted.
Out of the mail box of an up-town
apartment house, one of Boland's ap
prentices secured a check for $50, made
out to a real estate company in pay
ment of the rental for one of the apart
ments. It was child's play for Boland
to wash off the original name and
amount and to write in the words
"Bearer" and "Two Hundred and.
Eleven Dollars." Once that was done,
he had a perfectly good check (ap
parently) and he sent one of his men
down to the bank on which the check
was drawn, with minute instructions
as to the cashing of it. But the cashier,
being suspicious of a check of that
size being made out to "Bearer" par
ticularly as he knew that the woman
whose signature appeared upon it was
very careful in her financial dealings
declined to cash it, and Boland's
man returned with a story of having
been watched and therefore very fear
ful to approach the paying window.
Boland, in a spirit f bravado, again
altered the check, this time making
it out in the name of "William Hath"
and set forth to cash the check him
self, something which he had never
before attempted. One glance at the
odd amount $211. and the recollec
tion that a check of similar size had
been presented that morning, payable
to "Bearer," was enough to convince
the paying teller that something was
wrong. The Pinkertons were immedi
ately notified and Boland was caught,
red-handed.
Fifteen minutes after his case came
up in the County court in nreeMyn,
Boland was on his way to Sing Blag,
solufi
ions
Benner-
Copyright, 1921, Western Newspaper Union.
ELL, what about some good
resolutions for the coming
year?" asked daddy.
"I have one or two that
is I have made one or two
which I think are good
ones," said Nancy.
"So have I," said Nick.
Let's hear them," said
daddy, and he settled back in his
chair.
"Nancy first," said Nick.
"All right," agreed daddy.
"In the first place," said Nancy, MI
have made a resolution to get up when
I am called in the morning and not
make mother or you try to wake me
so that you get all tired out. I get
lazy In the morning, so lazy, and I
think I cannot possibly get along with
out another little nap.
"It isn't that I haven't slept enough,
or that I want to be late to school,
for I don't. I love school. It's lots
of fun and I like even the work, for
I think it is very interesting. But
there is something else about my
resolution."
"What is that?" asked daddy.
"I know perfectly well that I can
go back to sleep for a little while and
that some one will see that I really
get up in time though it often means
that mother has to hurry the breakfast
or that Nick has to get my books
ready.
"I have known that someone would
get me up and look after the things I
hadn't time to do, so I have grown
selfish about it. That's aH. That's
resolution number one." .
Nick smiled, for he knew how oftenW
he had gotten Nancy's books ready.
Not that he minded, but still he
thought it was fine of Nancy to try
to do something which would be hard
for her to do. He knew that she
loved a "few extra moments" inwhich
to sleep.
"And my second resolution," said
Nancy, "is to save half of every
penny I get and "
"That would be hard to do,"
laughed Nick, "Would you divide
the pennies in half really?' he added
after a moment.
"No, don't laugh at me," said Nancy.
"We arent really laughing at you
at all," said daddy.
"I know it," said Nancy, smiling.
"Well, I mean, as Nick knows quite
well, only he is such a tease, that
whenever I get some money I will
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"All Right," Agreed Daddy."
save half of it If I only get one
penny at a time I will save the first
penny I get and the second one will
be for myself."
"What are you going to save for,
Nancy?" asked Nick. "Do you expect
to be a penny millionaire?"
"What in the world is that?" asked
Nancy.
"I thought perhaps you were try
ing to save a million pennies instead
of a million dollars so you would be
a millionaire of pennies.
Nancy and daddy laughed. But Nick
said;
"Go on, Sis, I want to hear."
"I'm going to put my pennies in a
bank and when the summer comes I'm
going to give them to some farm for
city children. Daddy gave to one
last year for both of us. But I'm
going to try to do my own share this
year. We have a country home but
there are lots of children in the city
who can't have the country unless
someone helps to pay their expenses."
"Great !" said Nick. "That's the right
idea. Well, my resolutions don't sound
so fine beside yours. But here is one:
I've been thinking that sometimes
there are children in the hospital here,
and that it would be nice if once a
week we went to see them and showed
them our story books, and took them
some of our toys, played games with
them quiet games like Jack Straws.
In the springtime we could take any
sick children we knew of some
flowers, for it must be awfully hard to
be sick in the spring. And at Easter
time we could take them chocolate
bunnies !
"I've planned to save some of my
pennies for the bunnies and sometimes
for an extra treat we might take the
sick children. And I've also made a
resolution to never tease anyone or
anything smaller than myself, for
that's mean."
Daddy smiled and said, "Two reso
lutions to be kept are better than
dozens of them forgotten the day after
New Year's."
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