Brownsville Herald. (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 83, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 10, 1912 Page: 3 of 6
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FREE! FREE!
SIX VALUABLE PRIZES
GIVEN AWAY 10 OUR CUSTOMERS IN OCTOBER.
Drawing Takes Place on Thursday Oct. 31st at 7 p. m.
- GET YOUR TICKETS.
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FIRST PRIZE—Golden 1-4 Cut Oak
Chiffarobe with best quality bevel-
lid French plate mirror. Cash va-
lue .$50.00
SECOND PRIZE—Beautiful 112-
plece dinner set best quality Eng-
lish ware. Cash value.$35.00
THIRD PRIZE—Circassian Walnut
washstand. Cash value ....$20.00
FOURTH PRIZE—Very handsome fi-
ber parlor table high grade. Cash
value.$13.00
FIFTH PRIZE—Leather suite case
good quality (’ash value ...$5.50
SIXTH PRIZE—Very comfortable
reed chair. Cash value.$4.00
CONDITIONS—With the cash purchase of each dollars worth of goods and with ea»ch dollar paid in on
account we will give one ticket and its accompanying duplicate. You place the original ticket in the bal-
lot box and keep the duplicate numbers. The keys for this box are held by the Merchants National Bank and
the drawings will be made by a disinterested person. The first ticket drawn gets the Circassian Walnut
Buffet the second gets the Mission Library Table etc.
One ticket gives you six chances at a prize. Fifty tickets gives you 300 chances. All prizes on exhibition
in our Hardware China and Buggy Department.
Here are a few of the lines we handle:
FURNITURE DEPARTMENT.
Automatic Refrigerators (Will not
mix food flavors.
Globe Wernicke Filing Cabinets and
Book Caaes.
Moosier Kitchen Cabinets.
Guaranteed Brass Beds (Will not
tarnish)
Sewing machines.
Office Desks
Linoleum
Detroit Safety Vapor Stoves
Crescent Stoves and Ranges
Hodges Fibre Rugs.
YVilton Rugs—Axrainister Rugs
Princess Go-Carts—Mattings
Curtains—Trunks and Bags
All classes of Furniture from the cheapest to the best. For the most modest cottage or for the mansion. WE
GUARANTEE TO BEAT any prices you can get by at least 10 per cent.
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HARDWARE CHINA AND BUGGY DEPARTMENT.
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Shelf Hardware—Buggies
Wagons—Farm Implements
Harness
China—Glassware
Blue Belle Enameled Ware
Diamond Edge Guaranteed Tools
Guna and Ammunition
We absolutely assure a straight saving to you of $10.00 to $15.00 on each Buggy and $12.50
to $25.00 on each Surrey and Hack.
A substantial saving also on every other line.
EACH AND EVERY MONTH WE GIVE-AWAY SIX VALUABLE PRIZES TO OUR CUSTOMERS
Walker Bros.-Hancock C i.
Two Stores Two Brownsville Two Stores Two
Ribbons! Ribbons!
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Whether it is a half yard or
a yard for the adornment of
the proud little Miss with
her hair in braids or twenty
yards for Milady’s gown you
will be sure to find us ready
to serve you with a desir-
able assortment in colors
grades and prices.
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The Department Store
D. Benavides & Sons.
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* No OWoronoo.
It was a breezy morning and the city
train was packed. A crusty old genti#-
man with bis back to the engine “pro*
ferred the window down for ventila-
tion” while a wheezy individual fac-
ing the window persisted in pulling it
ap again as he “hated these beastly
east winds.”
“I can't stand this stuffy herring
box!” chortled the crusty man tagging
the strap and letting the window drop
for the fourth time.
“Nor I these Siberian blasts that
only convicts could stand” rejoined
the wheezer. “Don’t you know It’s an
old adage that ‘when the wind Is in
the east 'tis neither fit for me nor
you ?’ ”
“Ha ha!" laughed the crusty man
appealing to the passengers to laugh
also. "Here’s a man who doesn’t kuow
that old proverb. Why sir the last
words are ‘man nor beast.’ ”
“Well there’s no difference in what
I said” chuckled the wlieezer as the
passengers roared in chorus.—London
j Tit-Bits.
Fun For the Elephants.
A queer elephant yarn is told by the
captain of a trading steamboat. On
one occasion he had on l>oard a cargo
of forty elephants. The vessel was
anchored In a perfectly smooth sea off
the coast of Zanzibar but to the great
surprise of the passengers the steamer
begun to roll. At first they supposed
I the motion to be caused by the ground
swell but when the motion kept In-
creasing there was general alarm and
the captain instigated an Investiga-
tion. Then it was revealed that the
elephants had In some way found that
by swaying to and fro all together
a rocking motion was produced that
seemed to please them Immensely. So
the great heads and bodies rolled and
swung in unison until the steamer
which had no other cargo and rode
lightly was in imminent danger of
rolling clean over. The attendants
hurried down into their hold and after
a great deal of shouting and thumping
managed to stop the dangerous amuse-
ment
When Musicians Were Scarce.
In these days of conservatories and
music schools when each house has its
piano or its organ to say nothing of
devotees to the cornet violin and ban-
jo it seems strange to aswert that there
ever was a time when musicians were
In demand yet such was really the
ease. “In the fifteenth century” says
Henry M. Brooks In his “Olden Time
Music” “musicians were so scarce In
England that they were impressed by
government order as In more recent
times seamen had to suffer In like
manner. Henry VIII. also issued war-
rants for the Impressment of children
with good voices for the choirs of the
catliedruls and in Ellzulietb’s time
children with the proper qualification
for her majesty’s choirs were taken
from their parents without any com-
pensation being given to the latter.”
He Could Prove It.
“How long cau a human being exist
without air?”
“For at least four hours.”
“Quit your kidding. I’m asking a
plain question and I expect a serious
answer.”
“I’m giving it to you. I have proved
to my own satisfaction and very re-
cently that a human being can live
four hours when absolutely deprived
of air.”
“You’re a fool. A boy can stay un-
der water for two minutes If be has
strong lungs. Even an amphibious an-
imal can”—
“Oh cut that I’ve proved It I rode
from here to Buffalo in the upper berth
of a sleeping car the other night. And
I was taken out alive. I can prove it!”
—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Jade Jokai Loved.
Of one phase of his life Jokai the
Hungarian novelist wrote In disgust:
“Well confess it I must I have a
gweetheart for whose sake I have been
faithless not only to my wife but to
my muse also—a sweetheart who has
appropriated my best ideas and whose
elave I was and still am. Often have
I wasted half my fortune upon her and
rushed blindly Into misfortune to please
her. For her sake I have patiently en-
dured insult ridicule and reprobation;
for her sake I have staked life and
liberty. Now if she had l>een a pret-
ty young damsel there might have
been some excuse for tue. but she was
a nasty old. painted figurehead of a
beldame a flirting faithless fickle
foul mouthed scandal ruougering old
liar whom the whole world courts who
makes fools of all her wooers and
changes her lovers as often as she
changes her dress. Her name is Poli-
tics and may the plague take her!”
Well Worth It
As dentists know very well that peo-
ple do not call upon them merely for
I pleasure they are not likely to be of-
fended at this bit from the Washington
1 Star:
“Didn't that man complain when you
charged him for a broken appoint-
ment?"
“No." replied the dentist “He said
breaking an appointment with me is
worth every cent it costs."
A Question of Title.
“After another season” said Farmer
Oorntossel. “I guess we'll have a
chef.”
j “What’s a chef?" asked his wife.
“A chef is a man with a big enough
vocabulary to give the soup a differ-
ent name every day."—Washington
8 tar.
A Subsidy.
“I see so much in the newspapers
about subsidies. Wbat does a subsidy
mean. Frank?"
“A subsidy Grace Is where I give
you $25 for going to see your mother
Instead of having her come to aee yon."
-Judge. e
PREPARING FOR THE
HARVEST JUBILEE
8pecial Exhibits of Agricultural Hor-
ticultural and General Farm Pro-
ducts
Special to The Herald.
San Antonio Oct. 9.—Exhibits of
agricultural horticultural and gen-
eral farm products from every coun-
ty in Southwest Texas most of the
counties in West Texas and many
other counties in various parts of
Texas will he the backbone of the
Harvest Jubilee to be held in San
Antonio October 19-27. Every other
exhibit is receiving a large share of
attention but the greatest amount
of work is being given to the inter-
est upon which Southwest Texas de-
pends more than any other for its
prosperity and progress. In each
county local leaders have formed an
association to gather the exhibit for
that county and in return for their
efforts each county will get the ad-
vertising benefit the exhibit will give
to each and they and members of
their families and the local associ-
ated with each and members of their
families will be specially entertain-
ed in San Antonio by the Harvest
Jubilee directors assisted by the lead-
ing club women of the city. It will
be an opportunity for the people of
each city and county to get better
acquainted with each other and
should lead to a better understanding
between them.
After the Jubilee the horticultural
and agricultural exhibits will be sci-
entifically treated and prepared for
a permanent exhibit. Not only will
this be of interest at all times to
persons visiting the city but in the
years to come it will form a splen-
Jdid basis tor comparison between
the agricultural products of now and
then
Two attractive features of the
Harvest Jubilee will be the German
Village and the Mexican village. Each
will have booths modeled on native
village lines w'here articles and food
peculiar to those countries will be
sold. Music national dances and oth-
er interesting features will make
these villages popular places for all
visitors.
Various free attractions will be
provided during the Jubilee acro-
batic teams field sports and band
■concerts. The three opening days
German Day Saturday Oct. 19; Press
Day Sunday Oot. 20 and Children’s
Day Monday Oct. 21 which will be
enlivened by Roman Chariot races
a big football game and other events
will be among the most enjoyable
of the celebration.
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BREAD BOX USED FOR CAMPAIGN
CONTRIBUTIONS.
New York Oct. 9.—A bread box
stares in the face of commuters who
nee the Hudson Terminal Building
station of the Jersey tube New York
city—a bread box with a strange de-
vice. It Is designed to remind trav-
ellers of the Democratic party’s de-
sire to finance the Wilson campaign
by (popular subsciptfion instead of
by contributions from large corpor-
ations.
The strange device printed on the
side of the bread box turned to pub-
lic gaze reads:
“Coin contributions can conquer
corporation—controlled corruption-
ists. CONTRIBUTE! !”
The Jersey tube booth has attract-
ed much attention and a gratifying
financial return since it was opened
on Tuesday morning. From 8 in the
morning until 11 at night a man in
charge hands out campaign litera-
ture and explains the plan of the
Contributors’ National Wilson and
Marshall League to engage the vo-
ter’s dollars in the work which has
been largely done by corporation
money in recent campaigns.
It is the purpose of the league to
open another similar booth in the so-
called Tariff Chamber of Horrors on
Union Spuare where the daily thou-
sands who visit that temple may have
a chance to help out.
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The apathy and indifference of the
American voter is the root of pres-
ent-day governmental ills. The peo-
ple cannot expect to rule themselves
as long as they continue to fool
themselves.—Cleveland Leader.
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tztrtrouS oooiraTn2fli?o
JUST ha* la what you’re
trying to do if you are
attempting busineaa
without advertising In tbaaa
columns.
No man waa aver aada
led with well enough.
You are no exception ■
rou want more business
Push hard—advertise Id
wis paper.
Tell people what you’ve
got to sell —tell them often
-tell it well.
Visit oar oAce—are’ll
Ate you haw.
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MILLINERY AND LADIES'
READY-TO-WEAR
“THE HAT SHOP”
MRS. J W. SGRIVNER
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J A. Ottmann
CONTRACTOR
Concrete Walks and All Kinds of
Cement and Brick Work
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RAILROAD TIME TABLE.
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FRISCO TIME TABLE
Leave Brownsville to Houston
No. 102. 4:05 a. m.
No. 104 . 4:00 p. m.
To Sam Fordyce
No. 122 . 10:00 a. m.
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No. 124 . 3:00 p. m.
Arrive from Houston.
No. 103. 12:15 p. m.
No. 101 . 11:40 p. m.
From Sam Fordyce
No. 121 . 6:00 p. m.
No. 123 . 9:55 a m.
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right shape size and tint of paper
the dainty ink stand the Just
right pen holder and pen point
the right blotting pad all make
letter writing enjoyable. Seen the
newest correct paper and enve-
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Wheeler, Fannie. Brownsville Herald. (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 83, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 10, 1912, newspaper, October 10, 1912; Brownsville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1375485/m1/3/: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .