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Thursday, April 18, 1940.
THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN, WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS
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TEXAS OUT- 0-DOORS
I Give You Texas
BY BOYCE HOUSE
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WHEN YOU COME TO TOWN ON
TRADES DAY
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PLAY SAFE!
WELCOME, TRADES DAY VISITORS!
BUY
COME TO US FOR
A Good Time
HAIL
Lawn Mowers
to PAINT
Insurance
Garden Tools
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company
introduced by
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Carpenter T ools
Chicken Wire
What Do You Know
About Early History
Of the Automobile?
Telephones: Day 15, Night 16
Whitewright, Texas
tation
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To Miss Long Distance, there is no distant land—
every town and city in Texas is within her easy
reach — foreign countries are only minutes away.
Building, operating, and maintaining the tele-
phone plant that serves Texas is the day-to-day
job of 8,500 Texas telephone people who work
together with one common goal — to furnish fast,
accurate, dependable telephone service at the
lowest possible cost.
She has finger-tip control of a huge, far-flung
telephone system — nearly 3 million miles of wire
in Texas, millions of dollars worth of complex
telephone equipment, more than 550,000 Bell tele-
phones in the state and some 163,000 telephones
served by other companies. She plugs a cord in the
switchboard, flips a key, and sends your voice
racing over miles and miles of tiny copper voice
highways.
I’d never keep the boy or clerk
With mental toothache at his work,
Nor let the man who draws my pay
Drive customers of mine away.
The reason people pass one door
To patronize another store
Is not. because the busier place
Has better silks, or gloves, or lace,
Or lower prices, but it lies
In pleasant words or smiling eyes.
The greatest difference, I believe,
Is in the treatment folks receive.
—Selected.
Willie—“Please, Teacher, what did
I learn today?”
Teacher—“Why, Willie!
peculiar question.”
Willie—“Well, that’s what they’ll
ask me when I get home.”
If I possessed a shop or store
I’d drive the grouchers off my floor.
I’d never let some gloomy guy
Offend the folks who come to buy.
man
of
in
was
New
We write hail insurance
on all kinds of crops, and
the cost is small in com-
parison with the protec-
tion offered.
the stone-
arm? He
the
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or
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There are 65 lakes and
parks in Iowa.
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to
Mobilgas
For Better Mileage
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Service
Phom
L. LaRoe & Co
EVERYTHING TO BUILD WITH
Whitewright Lumber Co.
“.'Neighborly Service”
Paints, Varnishes
BARBEE & BASSETT
Insurance Agency
Phone 32
Public Stenographer in Office
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with the hammer.
He was like the fellow who said he
pounded himself in the head with a
hammer because it felt so good when
he quit.
Every town '
in Texas is within
I’d treat the man who takes my time
And spends a nickel or a dime
With courtesy and make him feel
That I was glad to close the deal.
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You can depend on us to give
your car the attention it needs
to keep it performing perfectly.
Yoy..get tqp quality products as
well as the bestYservice here, at
no extra cost. )
Texas. The first person
tempted to sell the ducks to
free service game
Of course you want your house to look
nice both inside and outside, and regular
painting is necessary. Before you buy
painting materials anywhere, we invite
you to figure with us. We have anything
you may need, and our prices will please
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Because tomorrw (who can tell)
He may want the goods I have
sell,
And in that case how glad he’ll be
To spend his dollars all with me.
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penalty for the theft of any sum of
money less than $50.00 is a money
fine.
The right of eminent domain is the
right to take private property for
public use. Under the laws of Texas,
those having the right of eminent do-
main are: State of Texas, U. S. Gov-
ernment, county, political subdi-
vision, of a county, city, town, irriga-
tion district, water power control
district, and certain private corpora-
tions engaged in rendering a public
service, such as gas, light, telephone
and railroad companies.
A contract entered into by a minor
is not void, but voidable only. He
can compel those contracting with'
him to live up to the terms of their
contract, but he has the privilege of
denouncing any contract he makes
while he is a minor.—Bill Hinton in
Honey Grove Signal.
equipped
for each
person in it, fire extinguisher, lights
and good oars or paddles.
Every outboard motor should be
equipped with a chain or good rope
because motors will frequently be-
come loose and be lost at the bottom
of the lake.
While a motor is running, never
leave it unattended. The motor may
give a quick turn and throw you into
the water.
Leave your bottle at home. Water
•and alcohol do not mix.
cern organized in 1858, began build-
ing bodies for electric vehicles.
The National Automobile Manu-
facturers Assn, was organized.
The first automobile show was held
in Madison Square Garden, New
work City, sponsored by the Auto-
motive Club of America.
Packard pioneered wheel
of tiller for steering.
The “Saturday Evening Post” car-
ried its first automobile advertising.
Alexander Winton drove in the
Gordon-Bennett race in France, the
first American to compete in a for-
eign automobile contest.
A motor driven ambulance was in-
troduced in New York City.
1901
Packard patented
spark advance.
The first American speedometer
was invented by J. W. Jones.
Autocai* introduced shaft drive for
motor vehicles.
Roy D. Chapin drove an Oldsmo-
bile from Detroit to New York in one
week.
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Wanted to Know
The little son was entertaining a
visitor by recounting how his papa
and mama were always telling rid-
dles.
“Last night,” he said, “papa asked
mama: ‘Do you know why I am like
a mule?’
“And mama said: ‘No, I don’t, but
I’ve often intended asking you’.”
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URGES DUCK REGULATIONS
Duck hunting regulations, which if
adopted by the U. S. Bureau of Bi-
ological Survey, would undoubtedly
bring better fall sports to Texans,
have again been urged upon Dr. Ira
N. Gabrielson, chief of the Bureau,
by the executive secretary of the
Texas Game Department.
Regulations recommended by the
Texas game chief include: Allowing
of hunting to start at sunrise rather
than 7 a. m., an earlier season in the
northern half of the state, and the
use of a few live decoys. Those are
the principal objections Texas sports-
men have to the regulations on mi-
gratory waterfowl. The game chief
urged the same recommendations up-
on the Bureau last year, but federal
authorities were unable to adopt
them.
If a hailstorm destroys
your growing crops, let
the insurance
stand the loss!
CAT ATE 31 PERCH
How many 3 to 3 % inch fish can a
.2% pound catfish eat in a night?
Your guess is probably way off, but
W. E. Fairless of Shackelford County
just about knows the answer. Mr.
Fairless recently placed a catfish in
a live box along with 31 bream ap-
proximately 3% inches long. The
next morning the bream had all dis-
appeared and when he cut open the
"bulging stomach of the cat he found
•all 31 of the sunfishes there.
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DID YOU KNOW:
When a person dies in this state
possessed of either real or personal
property, and leaves no will
known heirs, his property escheats
descends to the State of Texas.
No criminal act done in a state of
insanity can be punished as an of-
fense. No person who becomes in-
sane after he commits an offense can
be tried for the same while in such
insane condition. No person who be-
comes insane after he is tried and
found guilty can be punished while
in such condition.
The maximum penalty for the
theft of an old rooster is a year in
the penitentiary, while the maximum
PEDDLED DUCKS TO WRONG
PERSON
An Arkansas resident who is now
awaiting trial under a half dozen
charges got into trouble because he
tried to peddle canned duck to a
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1898
The automobile became an article
of commerce.
Alexander Winton made the
automobile sale.
William E. Metzger was the
independent automobile dealer.
Aluminum was first used in
construction of an automobile by El-
wood Haynes.
The first valve-in-head, air-cooled
automobile engine was built by John
Wilkinson.
Electric taxicabs were introduced
in New York.
game warden.
It is alleged the Arkansas
killed fifteen Mallard ducks out
put them
fruit jars and traveled to Atlanta,
he at-
was a
warden. He, of
course, bought some of the ducks and
placed the man under arrest. The
federal authorities stepped in and the
Arkansas resident is now charged
with, among other things, transport-
ing game acress a state line, selling
game, exceeding the bag limit, and
killing game out of season.
1899
J. W. Packard built the first Pack-
ard car, and International Harvester
began production on an “Auto Bug-
gy.”
Rollin White invented the automo-
bile flash boiler for steamers.
Jenatzy, a Belgian, drove an auto-
mobile at the rate of sixty miles an
hour.
The United States Post Office ex-
perimented with motor vehicle
livery.
Alexander Winton drove from
Cleveland to New York in 47 hours,
37 minutes.
The Automobile Club of America
was organized.
The Studebaker Manufacturing
Company, a wagon and carriage con- '
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As soon as you cross the bridge
from Brownsville into Matamoras
over the muddy and sluggish Rio
Grande, ' you will see a saloon on
your right—a white-washed, flat-
roofed building.
And though it has been years since
I passed along that way, you will see,
I am sure, in a chair tilted against a
post of the porch, an old Mexican
dozing in the morning sunshine.
As immutable as the mountains of
his own country, as ageless as eter-
nity, he wilKbe there still (it is easy
to believe) when Gabriel at last
sounds his sonorous blast.
There he sits, the silent symbol of
a land of manana, with its tomorrow
and tomorrow and tomorrow to the
last syllable of recorded time—where
the roosters are too indolent to crow
and the dogs too lazy to bark.
1902
The American Automobile Assn,
was organized and took charge of
racing.
Studebaker began to make electric
runabouts and trucks.
1903
The Ford Motor Company was or-
ganized.
Ford was sued as an infringer of
the Selden patent.
A single-cylinder Packard
driven from San Francisco to
York in 61 days.
The Buick Company was organ-
ized and built a car with a valve-in-
head engine.
Other mechanical improvements of
the year included sliding transmis-
sions, mechanically operated intake
valves, shock absorbers and T-head
cylinders.
E. R. Thomas substituted steel for
wood body panels.
B. A. Graham introduced the pow-
er take-off.
The first bus was
Mack.
A pressed steel frame was intro-
duced by; the Peerless Motor Car Co.
1904
Mechanical developments during
this year included sleeve-valve en-
gine, demountable rims, gas head-
lights.
The Society of Automotive Engi-
neers was organized.
The designers of the Packard
created the so-called original “life”
lines in design.
The first school for automobile
mechanics was opened by the Detroit
YMCA. '
1894
Henry Ford made his first car.
Charles B. King drove a four-
cylinder automobile in Detroit. This
was the first car to appeal’ on the
streets of that city. ,
1895
A Duryea car won the Times-
Herald race in Chicago, traveling
52 y2 miles at an average speed of
7% miles an hour.
George B. Selden’s application for
a patent on a gasoline propelled ve-
hicle was granted.
1896
Alexander Winton built his
car—a single cylinder vehicle fea-
turing a carburetor, governor
electric igniter.
America’s first automobile
races were held at Narragansett
Park, Rhode Island.
1897
The Olds Motor Works was
first automobile company organized
in Michigan.
BOAT SAFETY RULES
AUSTIN.—The fishing and boating
season in Texas is rapidly approach-
ing and the executive secretary of the
Game, Fish and Oyster Commission
is urging boatmen to be careful in
the operation of their crafts, whether
they be rowboats and canoes or
larger boats. Observance of the fol-
lowing simple rules will assist in
holding down the list of drownings,
the secretary said:
Never overload a boat, nor allow
occupants of a boat to stand up in it.
Do not use a motor of too large
horsepower for the size of the boat.
It is also unsafe to use a small horse-
power motor on a large boat because
in case of a storm the boat
uncontrollable.
Every boat should be
"with: One life preserver
Tourists stop to look at him. Some-
one tosses, a dime. It falls in the
thick, white dust near his bare feet.
He does not stir.
They pity him. Perhaps he pities
them.
For, driven by a force they do not
understand, they rush here and there.
The mad gringoes—they go to the
world. He waits. The world comes
to him.
And he has the sunshine; and when
it grows too warm, there is the shade.
Nearby is a palm tree. Bright-
winged birds flutter among a tangle
of vines with vivid blooms and pulpy
fruit.
There is the fragrance of mesquite
smoke, and faintly from the huts of
the village there arises an irregular
harmony. The women are patting the
tortillas for the noonday meal.
When night comes with its mild
Mexic moon adrift in a pavilion of
purple, he listens to the laughter that
tinkles through the dreamy tropic
music in the plaza.
But now it is day, and he sits on his
throne beside the white-washed,
flat-roofed saloon.
And the ancient jokes for our con-
test—like Old Man River—just keep
rolling along.
There was a fellow who said
dictionary is a good book but
changes the subject so often.
Of course, the busiest man in
world is a one-armed paper-hanger
with the itch, especially if he is
working in a windstorm.
Did you hear about
mason who had only one
held the chisel between his teeth and
hit himself in the back of the head
Wide comment has been occa-
sioned by Jerry Sadler’s clear and
plain statement of his stand in his
opening speech for Governor as be-
ing against the sale of liquor by the
drink and against race-track gam-
bling.
Speaking over a Mexico radio sta-
tion, Governor O’Daniel a few days
ago read a letter from a convict in
the Huntsville penitentiary who
wrote that now “we will have two
honest newspapers—the one printed
here and the W. Lee O’Daniel News.”
He might be some philosopher
brooding under his bo-tree in mystic
India. His face is as inscrutable as
the stone countenance of an ancient
Maya god in a shattered temple that
is buried in the green waves of the
jungle.
His is the proud race of the Monte-
zumas. Did not his people build
mighty pyramids, work in magnifi-
cent colors and sculpture the very
tops of mountains?
Equal these, Americanos, and
will be time enough for him
achieve anew.
But the gabbling tourists, with
their stares and their uncouth
tumes,-have gone.
Slowly he rises, picks up the silver
coin from the dust, and shuffles into
the saloon. Lazily, the half-door
swings behind him.
Files of old trade journals, cor-
respondence, books and some docu-
mentary sources going back more
than 40 years, have yielded the fol-
lowing notes which trace the history
of early automobile development in
an interesting way:
1892
Charles E. Duryea built the first
gasoline motor vehicle in this coun-
try—a one-cylinder “Buggyaut.”
1893
The Apperson Brothers built an
automobile designed by Elwood
Haynes.
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