Shiner Gazette (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 9, 1928 Page: 2 of 8
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SHINER GAZETTE. SHINER. TEXAS
GASES ONCE WASTED
TURNED INTO MONEY
SPREADS SUNSHINE
AMONG SHUT-INS
Industry and Public Benefited
by Chemistry.
Carolinian Has Given Away
80,000 Bouquets.
East Pittsburgh, Pa.—Modern chem-
istry is demonstrating that even odors
can be turned into dollars and cents.
Gases that have polluted the atmos-
phere are now being captured and con-
verted into the liquids from which
they originated, to the profit of both
industry and the public.
Experts of the materials and process
engineering department of the West-
inghouse Electric and Manufacturing
company decided that too many smells
were going up the chimney in the
process of treating insulation with
resinous materials. So they trapped
the gases as fast as they were gen-
erated, mixed them with water and
then distilled this liquid, recovering
from 80 to 90 per cent of the solvents
used in the formula.
How far chemical engineers can go
in eliminating and using fumes by
liquefying them before they are dis-
charged into the air has not yet been
determined, but experiments now un-
der way suggest that far-reaching re-
sults are possible. The saving already
effected by the capture of used sol-
vents is said to be considerable.
Chemists point out, however, that
recovery methods might be too well
perfected, for it is possible that some
of the agents recovered from gases
would themselves be difficult to de-
stroy.
Greenville, S. G.—Spreading sun-
shine is the hobby of A. G. Gower,
Greenville bookkeeper — figuratively,
that is.
For eight years he has made and
presented 80,000 bouquets to Green-
ville shut-ins, persons who are ill,
and others.
Gower estimates that he cuts 250,-
000 blossoms annually from his gar-
den, all of which are given away. The
monetary return is nothing, but, he
says “It is spreading sunshine whole-
sale, and my reward is so tremendous
that it is boundless. I have a treas-
ure house without limits.”
He began his flower mission in a
small way about 20 years ago. It was
not until just after the World war In
1919 that it began to assume its pres-
ent large proportions.
At that time he was asked to teach
a Bible class in the United States
Army Hospital No. 26, at Camp Sevier.
“I’ll teach the class,” he said, “if you
will let me bring the boys flowers
every Sunday morning.”
Then the work of spreading sun-
shine began in earnest. His flower
garden became larger and larger, un-
til today it occupies every nook and
cranny of the half-acre plot around
his home.
For 48 hours each week Gower Is
engaged with long columns of figures.
But early mornings, late afternoons
and evenings, find 14m in his garden
caring for the flowers that have
brought happiness to him and the per-
sons who receive them. Saturday
afternoons until dark he gathers the
flowers for his baskets of bouquets.
Our Pet Peeve
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No mother in this enlightened age
would give her baby something she
did not know was perfectly harmless,
especially when a few drops of plain
Castoria will right a baby’s stomach
and end almost any little ill. Fretful-
ness and fever, too; it seems no time
until everything is serene.
That’s the beauty of Castoria; its
gentle influence seems just what is
needed. It does all that castor oil
might accomplish, without shock to
the system. Without the evil taste.
It’s delicious! Being purely vegeta-
ble, you can give it as often as
there’s a sign of colic; constipation;
diarrhea; or need to aid sound, nat-
ural sleep.
Just one warning: it is genuine
Fletcher’s Castoria that physicians
recommend. Other preparations may
be just as free from all doubtful drugs,
but no child of this writer’s is going
to test them! Besides, the book on
care and feeding of babies that comes
with Fletcher’s Castoria is worth its
weight in gold.
Seeks to Make Blend
of Light and Music
Philadelphia.—A basic patent for an
invention to blend light with music
has been granted to Mrs. Mary Hal-
lock Greenwalt. Mrs. Greenwalt has
been conducting experiments in the
blending of light and sound for 27
years. She believes that her patent is
the first granted for a new means of
expressing human emotions in rhyth-
mic form.
While music is being rendered by
singer, violinist, pianist or orchestra,
Mrs. Greenwalt’s apparatus floods the
performer with lights of varying in-
tensity. The fluctuations in light are
intended to enhance the emotional
and intellectual appeal of the music.
The apparatus may be operated with
a keyboard.
Years of training in music, of pro-
fessional experience as a concert
pianist, of study of physics, mechanics,
physiology and psychology went into
the achieving of the results now rec-
ognized by the granting of the basic
patent.
Mrs. Greenwalt was born in Beirut,
Syria, the daughter of Samuel and
Sara Tabet Hallock. She came to the
United States when a girl of eleven.
After she left school she took up the
study of music.
Kills Three of His Brothers
and Ends Own Life
Bakersfield, Calif.—Albert Villard,
fifty years, hanged himself from his
own automobile and then shot him-
self to make death doubly certain
after he had killed three of his broth-
ers and wounded a fourth,-according
to reports brought here. Walter Rice
of Tulare said he found the slayer’s
body hanging by a rope from Villard’s
car on a road nine miles from Tulare.
Joe Villard, suffering from bullet
wounds inflicted by his brother,
walked two miles to a neighbor’s
ranch to notify the authorities.
The three brothers who were killed
—August, Eugene and Gabriel Villard
—with Joe and their parents were at
breakfast and did not know that Al-
bert was in the room until he began
shooting, Joe said.
Ranchmen say that for several years
Albert has held a grudge against his
brothers, claiming he was deprived
of his share of the Villard ranch.
(Copyright, W.N. IT.)
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not; that is, don’t care enough.
For Colds, Grip or Influenza
and as a Preventive, take Laxative
BROMO QUININE Tablets. A Safe and
Proven Remedy. The box bears the
Big-nature of E. W. Grove. 30c.—Adv.
African Locusts
In South Africa swarms of locusts
fifty miles long by ten miles wide have
been seen to darken the sun by their
flight.—American Magazine.
5,000,000 Italian Born
Living in United States
Rome.—Latest statistics here show
that there are 9,118,598 expatriated
Italians living in different parts of the
world. The figure is probably even
greater than this, as the consular re-
turns from some countries are con-
fessedly incomplete.
The greatest number of emigrated
Italians live in the American conti-
nent. Between North and South and
Central America 7,674,583 Italians are
accounted for.
The United- States alone has more
than 5,000,000 of them, while there
are 150,000 in Canada, S00.000 in Mex-
ico, S7,000 in Costa Rica, 800,000 in
Brazil, 1,000,000 in the Argentine, and
21,500 in Chile.
In Europe there are 1,207,S41 exiled
Italians,“more than half of whom are
living in France. In Africa there
are 189,100 Italians, while Australia
has 27,000 living under its flag.
Mystery Blasts Being
Studied by Scientists
White Plains, N. Y.—Residents of
northern Westchester county are
searching, to find a solution to the
mysterious blast which rocked build-
ings and spread terror over several
miles of the countryside. The heavy,
dull roar and the quiver of the earth
kept the county police busy answering
telephone calls for hours.
Similar blasts have occurred at in-
tervals of exactly six months within
the last two years. They always come
at night. The ground was shaken
and the noise of the explosion was
heard, but on each occasion it was
unaccompanied by any flare or light
such as would have been the case had
the explosion been due to powder or
gasoline or other known explosions
that are set off by friction or heat.
Scientists have been asked to study
the terrain in the vicinity and ascer-
tain if the blasts are being caused by
some disturbance deep under the
earth.
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To Stop Dress Snobbery
Atlantic City, N. J.—With special
approval by the principal some 50 high
school girls are wearing middy blouses
and blue skirts in an effort to stop
dress snobbery.
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“Lifer” Sues Woman;
Charged Cruel to Cat
Boston.—Jesse Pomeroy, “lifer,”
who entered the state prison at
Charleston a seventeen-year-old
boy, nearly fifty-one years ago,
is the plaintiff in a $5,000 ac-
tion in which he denies charges
that he has been cruel to ani-
mals while in prison.
Pomeroy remains in his cell
while two attorneys represent
him before the Suffolk Supreme
civil court.
The defendant is Alice Stone
Black we11 of Dorchester, pub-
lisher of a magazine for women,
who told the court that “she felt
it a public duty to write a letter
to a Boston newspaper in 1925
in opposition to a pardon for
Pomeroy. The letter described
his crime as much worse than
that of Leopold and Loeb and
repeated a rumor that Pomeroy,
when permitted the companion-
ship of a kitten, “had skinned it
alive.”
Counsel for Pomeroy told the
court that the suit was brought
to “spike a lie,” and said that
animals had been Pomeroy’s only
friends in prison.
Will Written on Egg
Shell Termed Valid
Brooklyn.—Wills have been
written on eggshells, coalbins
and bedposts, and might possibly
be tattooed on the shoulder of
an heiress and remain valid.
Crenna Skellers told of these
among other unusual legal doc-
uments in a talk on “The Pow-
er to Make a Will,” given at the
Academy of Music.
Among surprising provisions
in wills of historical people,
Miss Skellers announced that
Gouverneur Morris willed that
his wife’s income be doubled if
she married again. Thomas
Paine, she said, although com-
monly considered an atheist, be-
queathed his soul to God. Many
Southertiers, Including George
Washington, she revealed, freed
their slaves in their wills
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Habermacher, Mrs. J. C. & Lane, Ella E. Shiner Gazette (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 9, 1928, newspaper, February 9, 1928; Shiner, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1148070/m1/2/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Shiner Public Library.