Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex), Vol. 1, No. 36, Ed. 1, Monday, August 9, 1920 Page: 4 of 4
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A School Building
East Breckenridge
A four-room School Building has been contracted for
this Home Section of Brcckenrindge work to commence
August 20th
completion in time for the coming session of the public
schools.
WHAT SECTION OF BRECKEN-0
RffiGE B CQWG TO BIED IIP
A NSWER that question correctly and you will know
where you want to bujr that Lrt for a Home or
business. Have in mind Graded and Paved 'Streets
Water Gas Health Churches Schools Accessibility
Gats of Improvements Cost'
With these recommendations for a Home in mind
visit all the additions on the market Visit
East Breckenridge
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See what is to be seeninquire as to Coming De-
velopments not yet visible but Promised by men whose
promises are Always Made Good.
East Breckenridge
Walker-Caldwell Addition
Business Lots Select Homesites
30x100 50x150
SOLD ON EASY MONTHLY PAYMENTS
EXCLUSIVE AGENTS
Breckenridge Realty Co.
OFFICE ON GROUNDS. ON HILL ONK ULOCK FROM DEPOT
OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL S O'CLOCK
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Genera! Building Company
CONTRACTORS
We make a specialty f all kinds of building construc-
tion work. Get urfisuNS on any
centstnatatod bwkling.
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INSURANCE
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GRIFFIN a JONES
REAL K8TATH AND
OIL 1NVESTMBNT8
See m f or any htferaaatiea e
Q. WL THO& WASHSHJRN CO.
ABCX1TECTS
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W. W. FISK C E.
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Union Laundry
DRY CLEANING & PRESSING
"Quality Service"
Leave bundles at uptown office
llret door west of Colonial Ho-
tel or phono and wagon will
call.
Can make
Immediate Delivery
on
New Seven Passenger
Will take orders for
Sport Modals Four Passengar.
Service Garage
East of Court House
(A alaiwiied la The Awertefen will
bring treiMlta.
Chandler
FLOP" HOUSES GIVE
WAY Tt PRIVATE ROOM
By The Associated Press.
CHICAGO Auk. 10. Demand for
private rooms with sunshine and hot
uud cold running water has bud-
planted that for a dime "Hop" among
wayfaring working men bIdcp the
country went dry accdrtllng to the
observation of tin Salvation Army.
Llcut.-Col. Emll Marcus?cn hed of
the Industrial department of tlio
Army for the states west of the Mis-
i.l&ippl river ald:
"The daj of dormitory or more ne-
curatel.v the "flop house" linn passed.
The kin.) of men who uwd to come to
ii seeking free beds or glad to Ret
them for a dime now ask for private
room Hlnce prohibition became ef-
fective I have doted several of our
working men's hotels. Including one
In Chicago and another in Kansas
City.
"There Is real seed of gool wod-
ern hotel for men at reasonable
prices and thie we hare are run
along such lines. Our Working McuV
Palace in Chicago ha 571 bed. Three
years agi' we would have foutxl ten
ar twelve men In the Palace with batik
accounts. Last mo nth there were .112
men In that hof! who carried bank
book.
"In the old day in cleaning out
the dormitories we would find many
empty bottle on Uie floor. Now it Ik
very seldom that a bottle Known nr
The. Btory In the tame in every city
from Chicago to the Pacific coast
"Ah for the industrial homes they
used to contain many young men who
ceased to be producers and who hud
to be made over sometimes by a long
and painstaking process Into good
citizen and wage earners. Today
there ! hardly an able-bodied man
in any industrial borne In the United
State.
"The men who are there are .nearly
all permanently disabled to tome de-
tree or they are convalescent from
hospitals who are unable to do au
ordinary day's work.
"Thee men are not only able to
take care of themselves but even to
save a HJtle from their earnings.
'"There Is room In every industrial
home. The Chlcage home Is not half
full. That Is why the Salvation Army
Ih able this year through its home
service program to extend an offer
cf the facilities of these homes to ev-
ery ma all community in the West."
JARVIS A.LOONEY MARKET
Km a4 Cuiresl Mtatn.
117 S. Ceiirt Are.
L-it.
The Breckenridge Starter
Service Co. repairs everything
electrical for the automobile.
We know how. We have
the parts. Located at Ruth
Motor Co.
Come and
See Us
When wanting
JUiythincihihe
line of
Job
Printing
We are especially
equipped for
turning but first
class work on
short notice
fFhe
American
American Building Elm St
Btwn Br eckanf iiele
and Baylor Avnus
DOUGLAS FIR WIDECT USED
American Tree Attains Splendid Pro-
portion and Is Remarkably As-
sertive and Prollflc
Douglas fir In the name given to one
of the best timber trees In the west-
ern part of the country. Specimens
are common with a diameter of 15
feet nnd travelers In the belt whero
they grow report having seen them
20 feet In diameter and tapering
Straight to a height of from 250 to 300
feet.
The const range of the Sierra pro-
vides the best trees. Only the fa-
mous redwood and two or three other
growths exceed the Or In sire and
none except the yellow pine produces
so much commercial timber. The tree
1b sometimes styled the Oregon pine
but foresters say It Is more of a hem-
lock. Its botanical name Is "false
hemlock" although that designation
is not generally approved.
It is one of the most assertive and
most prolific of timber growths. For-
esters say that no other produces so
many Irees to the acre and when a
grove Is started It crowds oat growths
of other species. It Sad a wide va-
riety af uses being made into tele-
graph poles ship masts and derrick
booms and la also used for interior
finish. Coarse and fine-grained woods
are turned out from It according to
the age. The aannal rings are net
nearly as thick after the first century
fir so of growth as In the earlier years.
ana so the same tree may yield mere
than one grade of timber. Full-grown
trees a re more than 100 years old.
HUMAN NATURE NOT CHANGED
All Record Show That Mankind Has
Remained Much the Same
ThrtHifrh the Apse.
Head the oldest records of our race
and you will find the writers holding
up to admiration or relating with
heartfelt emotion the facts that we
ourselves aiont delight In. The fidel-
ity of Joseph to bis master the love
of Ilertor for his wife and child come
home to our hearts as suddenly as to
those of the ancient Hebrew among
the. Syrian mountains or the pagan
ureex in the Islands of the Aegean
Ma . . . The first Chaldean who ob-
served that the planets seem to Jonr-
ney among the other stars and not
mercljr rise and set In with them that
Jnplterfc aud Klrius follow different
laws knew a truth which Is now the
foundation of astronomy In London
and Paris uo leas Uian of old In Baby-
loo: The first Egyptian who. medi-
tating on curved figures d I teemed
that there Is one In which all The
llnefl from one point to the clrcumfer-noe-
ne equal gained' the Idea of a
circle snc.li as It has presented Itself
to every later man from Thalea and
Euclid down to U place and Herschel.
.Nay those who most exalt fh re-
quirements or our age compared with
the' past-rand they can hardly be too
much exalted must admit that all
progress Implies continuity that we
can take a step forward only by hav
ing nrm rooting for the step behind It.
--John Sterling.
Early Diving Apparatus.
The first record of the use of an
apparatus- In diving says a writer la
the Christian Science Monitor Is when
Alexander the Great made a descent
In a machine which kept him dry and
allowed him to obtain air from a res-
ervoir. Pliny writes about divers carry-
ing one end of a leather pipe bween
their teeth while the upper end waa
attached to a floating bladder but it
waa not until 1819 that Augustus Hlebe
constmcted an apparatns supplied with
compreaaed air by meaaa of a hand
pwap. as today. Ilia dress was an
epea one. with h air entering the
top ef the helmet and escaping aader
Ita 4yf that if the Uver stepped
the feelafet became flooded and waa
consequently dangerous. In 1880. how-
ever he designed the closed drew as
now .seed with several important Im-
provements. Befere Needlea and Thread.
Tlioms and fish bones were used as
means of fastening clothing long
before the discovery of needles and
thread. Among the remains of the
lake dwellers of central Europe have
been found a great number of pins.
Borne of bone and others of bronze.
Some are quite fancy having orna
mental heads while others are clum-
sily fashioned. Som& have double
stems and a few have been found
that were made exactly like the safety
pins of today. Among Egyptian and
Greek ruins have bean found many
specimens of artistically made pins.
Ancient roman bronze pins and bone
hairpins with fancy heads have been
found at Pompeii. The Romans also
mud very elaborate fibulae similar ta
the present day brooch.
The "Punch" in QkMjIne.
The genie that came' oat of the bot-
tle o the "Arabian NighU" stery be-
came when liberated a nenatrentf
power. The energy stpred.la a plat of
gasoline Is hardly lees BtBpendesa.
One pint of gasoline represents 12.-
909 "B. T. U.'a" of energy. A "B.
T. D." (the abbreviation for British
thermal unit) will lift 70 pound ese
feet. Tans there Is la that single' plat
ef innocent looking fluid enough power
to lift air tons 750 feet into the air
that is to say 200 ffet higher than
the top ef Washington monument.
Kansas 'Olty Star.
That Bridge Fiend.
"Who la Kdlih to Wrry?" "His
Mse !s Bridge.!! "Good graclonal la
be cnorg the rA aa far aa
tatrr. liMtean IfruMtrtsii t .
Just Arrived
A part of our Fall Line
of Ladies JReady-to-Wear
Bryant-Layne Co.
Make : Our : Store : Your : Store"
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WOMAN BASE OF MAN
DECLARES DOCTOR IS JAIL
OMAHA. Neb. Aug. 10."Woman
A snake a banc on life."
"Eternity All one nhould live for."
Thc; terse outbursts bcHpeak the
philosophy of Dr. II. S. Kent principal
Jn the lloeeke-Kent case now under In
vestigation by police to determine the
parentage of twin bableH' found allvo
In a well lute Saturday night
In hlK cell In the city Jail. Dr. Kent
professed philosopher literary man
physician pharmacist and inK-doiiary
gave an exclusive interview on liW
philosophy of life.
To converse opohly and freely with
the man om might attribute Idosyn-
cractes to him; to study hi mental
calibre one would readily note hU
keenness of Intellect hi deep thought
on material subject and hi Intcll-
geuce In literature the lllble und phil-
osophy. " Some Kay I'm queer" xpoke Dr.
Kent chuckling. " r
"Nevertheless 1 have nol u llttlo
number of follower In ray-belief of
Christianity. My church? - I. belong to
no particular church though I was
born a Lutheran' und was reared an
Episcopalian. 1 adhere Htrlctly to the
lllble and the unchanged teaching. of
Jesus Chrbd model for all raaukinJ.
"My en-edV I am no atheist; how-
ever my teachings probably an; heret-
ical when compared with the doctrine
of variouH denominations.
"I believe in tSod und in Jesus
Christ Hi only con. I lkdleve In all
thut is good chaste und lvllned.
"I believe principally In good work
act of Undue and deed of charity
among the poor. Ask' fumlle living.
In the bottom about my work. Kor
year didn't I call at their door to
bring cheer Into their midst? Didn't
I teach cleanliness of peron and
household?
"They-know. I administered to their
bodily ailment and when I became too
poor to assist them financially I wenc
to work."
We Want to Sell
We Mustcll
wc wm Scii
-'' per month 8 per cent interest. Can
rent for $256 per wenth. ' Property la BYeckeiuidge Is rolsg up.
BUY NOW.
Martifa s Insurance Agency
Phase 28.
PORTA BLE
HOUSES
FOR CAMP PURPOSES) POUTABLB AND SECTIONAL HOUBE3
ARE M08T PRACTICAL RttlK3TBD IN BECTION8 OAN BB
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E. L. Grain Lumber & Mfg. Co.
Box'82
301 WALKER ST.
Iteferrlng to evil in the world the
prisoner asserted caustically:
"Woman -of all creatures has
caused th downfall of man and of na
tions since the dawn of creation. Thoy
are nakes deceiving and accusing. I
iifcver misted anything in my .life when
I say i never had a romance. One
woman 1 loved my mother. Thct-e is
too much good to be done In (he Vrorlu
than to attempt charity for a wotaau-
"Throughout my life there has bacu
a bartHMl wire of adversity between
myself and woman. But "
ABd hero Dr. Kent sincerely trans-
lerfed hi thought to another pubject.
"Robert Ing!rKoll wa a teacher a
philosopher. Head what he wrote? 'JJf
I a narrow ralo between the cold ana
the barren peaks of two ctcrnltloe. We
strive In Tain to look beyond the
height. Wo cry aloud and the only
aanwer 1 tjie echo of our walling cry.
"From the voiceless Up of the nu-
replytng dead there come no word;
but In the night of death hope noes a
Ktar ami listening love can hear th
rustle f n wing.'
"That life" concluded the prisoner.
Dr. "Kent I iicnnlless. He coBfesww
llltf llltff Iff! t'Ail nuratnmf ..n A ti1.
the mother of Louise Kocckc lit hew
struggle to retain her little utore "she
ha ut .ISd and California street.
Itegurdlug his ImprlHonmcnt for in-
vestigation he declare he will pleud
hi own case If charge are. Hied against
r.im.
If othenvlse he stoutly assert lio
will remain in Omohu and vlnd'.cutc
liimsrlf.
I'USAHB PASS THE LSSES.
TYLKU Texas Aug. fl. The East
Texa ribbon cane crop gives promWe
o' an o-cptlonal yield this year. New
mill urn being erected for the manu-
facture of syrup.
Last year one Panola county farmer
realized $1149 from one acre planted
to rlbbcn cane. The crop this year is
Mild to be better and the acreage in
somewhat larger.
Fire-rMM Bungalow hath and sleep-
ing perch furabhei well leai9L
AAMTAsaUttl 4a iMBXUkaaAUl riarflnfll fiatASa
iUHICIBWa Ml OTOOBTO RnBa7H 0lvn
did royalty gees with property. Price
$djm. one-half cash rauOader Slt5
Winkler Building
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Baxter, Tom L. Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex), Vol. 1, No. 36, Ed. 1, Monday, August 9, 1920, newspaper, August 9, 1920; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth121903/m1/4/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Breckenridge Public Library.