The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 54, Ed. 1 Friday, May 8, 1936 Page: 3 of 4
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It will be too
GOOD RIBBON
LAMPASAS LEADER
but that** what I
Lead<
ran teed
WOULD YOU SAY?
ONLY THREE MORE CHMICES!
Very well, Monsieur, since you In
BULES
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answer Bertie makes a swing
goes wild, and after Mudder
himself up off the turf and
his britches, he says to me:
from now on we got a staker
Why Flag Pole Has Decoratiea
The placing of balls, eaglea and oc
casionally other objects atop flag poles
la believed to have resulted from the
desire of the average person to see a
finished job rather than one left tn
compete. A ting pole without an ob-
ject at Its top to finish It off would be
somewhat like a wooden Indian with-
out his headdress. Something we had
become used to would be missing, even
though we might not be able to deter-
mine at the moment what seemed
strange about It.
(What werid yee seyf
Write year amwef,la IS
•H Hl* COVJMI*
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ddre
CASH PRIZES
EVERY WEEK!
turf, boys, and let a kind old sway-
back step tn my face." With that bo
passes out again for throe days- ,
And that’s why we call him Beeaer
Bertie: because Ms nose la now only
a memory, 'count of Killer Kelly car-
rled a honeshoe la hla glove.
Why .There Are Painted Window
The custom af painting imitatioft
windows on barns was brought to the
United States from Europe. It wag,
started there In order to avoid window
tax and at the same time to give aa
appearance of affluence.
argument
Jilch had been postponed from a
revions trip. A rapid flutter of
iges to H—down the page to hurry-
wild beckoning to the driver; “De-
schez. Depechez.” No answer except
shrug of the shoulders.
1st al-
jblioa
Aaeient Stbne Wiadaill
An old Stone windmill near Montreal.
Que., still stands as a monument to
the sacrifices made hundreds of years
ago. that America might be explored
by the white man. A picturesque ruin
today, it was sold by La Salle to se-
cure funds for hla discovery and ex-
ploration of the Mississippi valley in
1673.
... get busy writing your answer to this week's con-
test. A few minutes easy work may bring you a check
for $1001
General Poods Is sponsoring these contests to ac-
quaint you with two things ... the stirring episodes
of Texas history and the variety and tempting flavor
of the six Poet Cereals. We hope you’ll win a prise
. . . and we know you^1 Hk« Po«t Cereals. Try
them all. 1
Sam
iring t
;ime tl
filenry was up against an obstacle,
b like oT which he had never before
[countered; a nation of people who
uld see no need of hurrying. 1
f'But I sent you the radio two days
Io I You'll show me some places
ter lunch or 1’11 consult another
r\ON’T delay! Get into this exciting, easy contest
e today! There are 59 cash prizes to shoot at every
week. Just think of it . . . you may win $100 by
■imply writing 25 words! So ait down right now and
write your answer.
r And don’t forget this! You have just two more
chances to win oneoftheee big cash prises! For thereTl
be only two more contests after this one. Watch next
Friday’s paper for next week’s contest. But right now
Whaa Graasasar Don’t Count
'Grammar is a fine thing," said
Ma Ebaa, “but dar ata't ao kind sf
Why Cottoa Cloth Shrinks
The National Bureau of Standards
says that cotton cloth is stretched con-
siderably In processing and is set in
this stretched cAndltloa when It la
dried as the last step in finishing It
Thorough wetting releases the tensions
In the cloth and It shrinks. The
amount of shrinkage wilt depend upon
the thoroughness of the wetting - and
the amount the cloth Is stretched.
TOWN the gangplank hurried the
' tall young A met lean—he always
irrled. Why shouldn't het Wasn't
> Henry Corbit—the mouthwash Cor-
tT That amazing go-getter, who
d spread his advertisements In most
the newspapers of the nation and
reed national distribution of his
oduct within a month of the time he
Why It l» a "Daasijalin" (
The word is an adaptation of *
French Dame Jeanne, or Dame Jean,
an application of a personal name to
an object which is not uncommon.
. Why People Came in Mayflower
The passengers who came over on
the Mayflower were of sturdy, middle-
class origin. John Alden, for example,
was a cooper. He was employed on n-
palr work which had to be done on the
Mayflower and thus became Interested
in the project. Governor Bradford
was, as a young man, a silk dyer. He
Inherited a considerable estate and en-
tered Into commerce. While it is true
that the passengers on the Mayflower
left England seeking civil and religious
liberty, It was an entirely different mo-
tive which finally prompted their leav-
ing the Netherlands. Conditions under
which their young people were living
were not conducive to great righteous-
ness and piety. This troubled the elder
members of the little company of ex-
iles and they set out for the New world
In the hope of protecting the younger
generation.
Why Cloud* Are Colored
Iridescent clouds are produced In the
same way as the colors In the rings
around the sun or moon—that Is, by
the process called diffraction, a modi-
fication of, or effect on, light, as it
passes adjacent to any object In a
cloud the minute water droplets
count for the coloring to a grpat
tent
On the boat bls Impatience had made
Im conspicuous. Around and around
ke promenade deck lie hurried until
ne of the smoking room crowd had
lughingly remarked that there_____
tan who was walking to Europe.
As he walked Corbit thought of the
»w worlds he was to conquer. In a
louth all France would become con-
rlous of that great blessing to man-
|nd—Corblt’s Moutbwatfi. After that
-Germany, England and the rest of
lurope. Too bad the customs were so
low, they forced him to wait for the
ke boat-train when be might have
sen able to hire an airplane and ar-
|ve in Parts In time to start some-
king that vegy day.
In the morning, as soon as there was
possible chance of doing business,
ir young friend called a cab and tn
xtbook French announced his des-
natlon to the driver. The address
as that of a real estate firm. Of
>urse the cab was slow and they had
irdljf gone two blocks before It came
- a stop beside a fruit stand. The
•Iver hailed the proprietor, climbed
iwn from the cab In a leisurely inan-
ir, selected a luscious apple and be-
tween bites resumed
[t he realtor was trne to his word,
It so cumbersome was the amount of
1 tape connected with the lease that
was a week before Henry could
Lain possession.
In the meantime’ he was not Idle,
k visited the advertising agency to
Lleh be had beew refereed t the srtM
Lose work was the talk of Paris; and
kin the same slow business methods
prded his progress. Of course the
bncy and the artist were very ani-
ls to secure the account (the Corbit
kertlslng expenditures were talked
’wherever advertising men gathered)
L one doesn't hurry tbe planning of
L advertising campaign tn Europe.
Between fights with the printer, the
List, tbe copywriters and, so it
J med to Henry, half of Paris, the ad-
rtlslng program was finally com-
bed. After two and a half months
battling a people who could see no
mJ to hurry, the Corbit Mouthwash
’5,000 IN PRIZES!
59 CASH PRIZES EVERY WEEK
Why People Are Called Lieu.
Tbe lions of ■' place are sight*
worth seeing, or celebrities, an* ar*
so-called from the custom of taking
strangers tn London to ass the lion* at
the Tower. The Tower menagerie W**
abolished In 1834.
Why Creeks Are S» Named
The Creek Indians received their
tribal name from the fact that numer-
ous creeks run through their original
lands in Mississippi, Alabama. Geor-
gia and Florida. They were first known
to the English as Muscogee* which Is
a corruption of the Algonquin word
maskokl, signifying creeks.
$100.00
75.00
50.00
Tea Prise* *4 $10.00 each J
Party Mx Prix** ef |S.OO each
kle appeared In his snappy black
. "When do you wish the order
ered, Mr. Corbit?" he finally asked.
► day before yesterdayr>
OF COURSE we calls him Beezer
Bertie on account of his nose. Not
because it’s so big but because what's
left of It Is Jammed plumb deep Into
bis mug.
It was way back the year when
Man o’ War eopped tbe Futurity
Stakes at Belmont. Bertie was only a
kid, then, though he already stood six
foot two and topped the scales at 210
stripped. He’d - been following the
hides since he was a shaver and had
worked Ms way up from swipes to
usher tn the field stand. But that
wasn’t enough to satisfy Bertie: like
all of us when we’re maidens, he fig-
ured ho was due to lick the world.
That's the season he meets up with
Mudder McMork and me. Mudder
taken one look at the boy standing over
eighteen hands high and says: “The
tracks Is no place for big bozos like
you, kid. What was you planning on
doing with yourself when you grow
upr
“Why,” Bertie tells him, "I was
thinking on going to college."
"College I" laughs Mudder. -What
great man ever went to college—out-
side of me?"
“You !• I busts out. "Why, you was
thrown out of school because you
couldn’t learn to write your own mon-
icker I*
’Til have to tighten your snaffle,”
says Mudder to me. “Why, I was quar-
terback at Concordia college for thir-
teen -seasons.”
"And I’ll put • grand on the line,”
I says, “that you was still a freshman.”
“That's neither there nor herjr,’*
Mudder cuts me out “What we got to
do is take this kid and give him a
bead start In life. Listen, son, cun you
use your mitts nt all?"
For
which
picks
dusts
“Man.
tn our stable what's going toxcop us
plenty cherries." ■ . ’
"What kind of sappy Idea yougot
In your skull now?” I asks him.
“Ton are nominated prize fight pro-
moter," he replies, “and I am the man-
ager of Battling Bertie here.”
I got to admit that to me It don't
sound at all like a bad Idea: but may-
fate has permitted; you
TO CAPtJMe THE NAPOLEON
OF THE WEST I MAY I
rSj^REMlND Y0PJHAT
MERCY IS THE MARK
the generous
Fvj CONQUERQft 7
W IMHt V UVCH W I ilwBjw IMWH utrar-
righted. Anyhow, the way It staqjja
up Is here we got a human elephant
on our hands who was bora and
dragged up tn a stable and la rick and
tired of looking a hide In the face and
like that He aays that If be never has
to clean a stall again,
•oon.
Well. Mudder being
hearted gwy, be draws
contract: W per cent to him for man-
aging tbe kid, 40 to me for promoting
the bouta, and all tbe reat of the cher-
ries for Battling Bertie.
Then we gets a couple handlers and
takes him out to a farm and works him
till he’s rounded down to 185 and razor
sharp. Meanwhile I arranges to -get
tbe kid In a prelim just to see bow he
stacks up.
Now you know that you can't get a
maiden boxer on no high class card
right off. But that'a okay with me
because I figure that before we builds
this Battling Bertie into a real slugger,
he’s got to have tbe rough spots
knocked off him. In other words, we
know that he'll be able to dish it out
all right; but what wo want to know
flrat, Is. can be take It?
So the bout I arranges for him Is
with Killer Kelly form East St. Louis.
From tbe Info I get, this bruiser Kelly
don't fight according to no Marquis of
Itaasberry rules
want because I know if our Bertie can
take It from Killer, be cau take it
from anybody.
When Kelly comes up to Chi for the
battle In a little arena down by the
stockyards, our mslden battler la all
primed up to go to work on him.
“Gentlemen," Bertie aays to Mudder
McMork and me, -you don't have to
worry about what I'm going to do to
this Killer Kelly. When I goes In the
ring sll I got to do Is think of all
the horses I was chaftihermald for and
I gets mad enough to bust a lion on the
beezer."
But I ain’t going to describe that
fight again because It was too terrific.
Sufficient to say ihut it’s still thirty
seconds to the gong In the first round
and Bertie aure looks like the favor-
ite, when Killer Kelly lifts a buymaker
all the way from the mat, swings It
sround over his hca<L and lands It
smack In the middle of Bertie’s kisser.
Bertie looks terrible surprised for a
second and then goes down for the
count of a million.
Well, when Killer Kelly and hla gang
has gone with the kitty and the arena
Is empty, Bertie opens one eye and
asks uS what hit; him. I hnd found
out by that tLme, nod when I tells him,
*• Its .appearance on' the 'French
rket
‘ American business men tn France
npllmented Henry on the retbark:
e time in which he had set up his
elgn office. But neltherrihelr prslse
. r Ms own experiences did for him
at they ahonld have done. Week
er week he fussed and fumed, trying
r make people hurry In a country
ere business* men do not endanger
ilr health trying to crowd two days
rk tato one.
Ils battles with the printer were al-
ys outstanding. Today aa he waited^
that dapper little man, he thought-
XSuelr many encounters. Always the
Tip.'! losing fight—tbe work was never
llvered until from two weeks to a
Inth after It had been promised.
ICoday Henry had reached tbe end of
I endurance. He decided not even
I net "a delivery date. Why upset
It's digestion when tbe work, as
lial, would be finished at someone
b’s convenience? Hla secretary ad-
Jlted hl s cheerful little friend and
agonist
Good day. Monsieur. I have come
the printing order about which you
ta good enough to telephone."
I Jorblt handed him the list. "Ten
usand lettcr-heada, form 828 - one
. hdred thousand circulars, form 38."
nd so on.
Tie printer checked off the order
Inst possible mistakes. Aa he pre-
r; “Tout de suite. ’Tout de suite."
ils time In despair. The driver re-
ixted, his shrug but climbed back to
H seat and their furious speed of ten
llos per hour was resumed. Henry
hinted, but In spite of that at last
ley arrived, be threw money at the
iVver and dashed up the stairway
ree steps at a time.
ri'm Henry Corbit and I want to
;n the lease for the offices I radioed
Iwould need."
“But Monsieur, I an only beginning
look over our list. Tomorrow, or
le next day, perhaps I can show you
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