Spinster Sisters’ Secret Room Yields
§4,46(1 Treasure, Many Old Souveuiers
CHICAGO, Ml—The secret room^
in a ramshackle house has di
vulged a treasure box filled with
money and gold and some intrigu
ing sidelights about the life of
two spinster sisters who earned a
fortune on the stock market.
The 100 - year - old, two - story
dwelling in the center of suburb
an Itaska was the home of Joseph
ine and Cecelia Schroeder—last
survivors of a family that settled
Itasca when the region was virgin
farmland. It was also the home of
their 16 pet cats.
Josephine died April 23, 1954,
at the age of 89. Cecilia died last
Sept. 7 at 76, leaving the bulk of
the $225,000 estate the sisters had
amassed to charity.
Charles E. Newton, executor of
Miss Cecilia Schroeder’s estate,
told last night about stumbling
into a hidden room while making
an inventory of the house’s fur
nishings.
The room was cluttered with
boxes and other items. Newton
picked up one box and the top
flew open.
Inside was $4,460 in present
day $100, $50, $20 and $5 bills,
gold watches and chains, $300 in
old gold coins, $100 in gold certifi
cates, a handful of old silver-look
ing 2-cent and 3-cent U.S. coins
of the Civil War period, and a few
old nickels and Indian-head pen
nies.
The treasure will be added to
Cecelia Schroeder’s estate, most
of which will be used to support
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Protestant and Catholic orphan
ages.
Other boxes disclosed frilly and
romantic valentines—addressed to
the sisters in 1908—old magazines,
the hide of a pet cow they kept
on their 614 acres of land, and
numerous other ' items the sisters
had collected.
The house lacked running water
or a bathroom.
Newton found the secret room
as he was completing an inventory
of items in a bedroom. He pushed
aside a dresser to sec if anything
had fallen to the floor behind it
and discovered a curtain and a
glass door, leading to the room of
treasures.
BETTER STOCK UP ON
REPELLENT, MR. H.
Want to know haw many mos
quitoes you will have to fight this
summer?
The U.S. Department of Agri
culture offers a new way to pre
dict probable mosquito population
in Alaska. OSDA scientists base
their forecast upon the amount-of
water formed into pools after
spring thaws.
The scientists suggest this guide
for forecasting. Precipitation 10
percent above normal means a
large mosquito population on a
regional basis. If snow and ice
melt is 30 percent or more below
normal, Alaskans need not worry
about the mosquito population.
Spring thaws with precipitation
between 30 percent below and 10
percent above normal, forecast
mosquito populations of impor
tance on a local basis.
CAP Cadets Learn About Radios
Portable radio, parts and func
tions were demonstrated to the
Cadets last Thursday evening by
Sgt. Merrill of the A.N.G.
It was announced that Carl Lie
big would give further instruction
in map reading at the next meet
ing.
Veteran, Trapper
Ties Up Moose
With Bare Hands
ANCHORAGE, —Nine hun
dred pounds of angr^ moose is a
formidable thing. Meeting one and
chaining it to a tree singlehanded
is another. •
And Hugh Scott did it.
The veteran Anchor Point trap
per was headed north with his dog
team atop the Anchor River ice,
100 miles southwest of here on the
Kenai Peninsula, when the two
year-old moose snorted into view.
Evidently riled by the hard
crusted snow painfully cutting its
legs, the moose charged the dog
team, which fought back vicious
ly. Scott, unarmed, beat at the
animal with a chain. The moose
retreated, charged again to be met
by the slashing teeth of the hus
kies and Scott’s flailing chain.
One dog went down after being
kicked sharply in the head. An
other hoof slashed a second dog
across the face. Scott, desperate,
made a noose of the chain and
threw it over the bull’s head.
Cinching it tight, he then pulled
the grunting animal to a tree and
securely tied it.
He staked his injured but hos
tile dogs at a distance, then tried
to untie the moose. Mr. moose, his
legs flailing wildly and his head
butting, kept Scott at a distance
so the baffled trapper walked to
Anchor Point for help.
Four men came back with him
and helped unchain the animal.
Freed, it still wanted a fight and
charged the men. Beaten back
with the chain, it finally retreated
into the woods.
The malemutes are recovering.
And Scott has taken a vow:
Never to go out on his trapline
again without a rifle.
“You know, that moose could
have been BIG,” he said.
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Since 1917, when the Pool
was started, the ice has gone
out at Nenana as follows:
1917— April 30 .11:30 a.m.
1918— May 11. 9:33 a.m.
1919— May 3. 2:33 p.m.
1920— May 11.10:45 a.m.
1921— May 11. 6:42 a.m.
1922— May 12. 1:20 p.m.
1923— May 9. 2:00 p.m.
1924— May 11. 3:10 p.m.
1925— May 7. 6:32 p.m.
1926— April 26 . 4:03 p.m.
1927— May 13. 5:42 a.m.
1928— May 6. 4:25 p.m.
1929— May 5. 3:41 p.m.
1930— May 8. 7:03 p.m.
1931— May 10. 9:23 a.m.
1932— May 1.10:15 a.m.
1933— May 8. 7:30 p.m.
1934— April 30 . 2:07 p.m.
1935— May 15. 1:32 p.m.
1936— April 30 .12:58 p.m.
1937— May 12. 8:04 p.m.
1938— May 6. 8:14 p.m.
1939— April 29 . 1:26 p.m.
1940— April 20 . 3:27 p.m.
1941— Ma> 3. 1:50 a.m.
1942— April 30. !:28 p.m.
1943— April 28 . 7:22 p.m.
1944— May 4. 2:08 p.m.
1945— May 16. 9:41 a.m.
1946— May 5. 4:40 p.m.
1947— May 3. 5:53 p.m.
1948— May 13.11:13 p.m.
1949— May 14.12:39 p.m.
1950— May 6. 4:14 p.m.
1951— April 30 . 5:54 p.m.
1952— May 12. 5:04 p.m.
19*3—April 29 . 3:54 p.m.
1954— May 6. 6:01 p.m.
1955— May 9. 2:13 p.m
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Battling Blindness
In a play by the famous English poet John Milton, the Biblical hero
Samson mourns his blindness for condemning him “to live a life half
dead, a living death." Milton wrote feelingly with real knowledge—
for he too was blinded when he was still in the prime of life.
Men in every age have shared Milton’s horror of blindness. The
aimcuon is particularly tragic *
today, however, for in this time of
increased medical knowledge, it is
all too often an unnecessary one.
“One-half of the nation’s total
sightless persons might be able to
see if they or their parents had
taken proper precautions,” states
the U. S. National Society for the
Prevention of Blindness.
Eye infections should always be
rented with care for they can, if
unattended, cause blindness. A
particularly dangerous period,
medical experts inform us, is in
fancy, when the eyes are most deli
cate and susceptible to infections.
Such infections, according to U.S.
statistician Louis Dublin, rank
among the chief causes of blind
ness in the U.S. Fortunately, sci
ence has made vast strides both in
preventing and treating'infeetions
in the eyes of new-born babies.
One of the more recent advances
has been the use of the broad
range antibiotic Terramycin for
this purpose.
Medical specialists have found
Terramycin free from the side
effects of silver nitrate, hitherto
routinely applied to a new-born
baby’s eyes .0 prevent infection.
The drug, tested on 1,700 in
fants at Maimonides Hospital in
Brooklyn, saved two out of three
babies from “pink-eye” or con
junctivitis, according to a medical
report.
In laboratory tests, Terramycin
has also proved more effective
than silver nitrate in killing the
micro-organisms that are the com
monest cause of eye infections in
the new-born.
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