The Texas Jewish Herald (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 14, 1927 Page: 3 of 24
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WITH COMPLIMENTS TO THE
TEXAS JEWISH HERALD
With Very Best Wishes
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T. A. BINFORD
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ed in the United States.
country, became at once the goal and the arrival of the first Jews on the
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1 HA r the FORD is a 3-point suspension car,
the advantages of .which are too great to de-
tail here, but will be demonstrated by any
Houston Authorized FORD dealer?
tiers and customs of I
touched at or traversed
fronting the vigilan e
owAl/•
ordered establishment could not
THAT the Improved FORD has 80 per cent in-
creased braking area on the foot brake and
100 per cent increased braking area on the
rear wheels?
instantly go
transmission
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For further facts and details see any of the
following Authorized Ford Dealers:
derstood the details of mining
bers of that race of which he, too,
was partly a descendant for his cen
THAT the FORD has more horsepower (A. L.
& A. M. rating) to each 100 pounds of weight
than any car made?
and Bret Harte was
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and many of
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sufficient ly speedi.}
turned to the East of this
re laid at
slope, and
THAT the FORD has more square inches of
tire surface per 100 pounds of weight than
. any other car?
ows
id
Travelers of the Jewish faith who
THAT the FORD has more braking power for
each 100 pounds of weight than any other
THAT today’s FOORD has 163 improvements
made in the last 12 months?
persisted in their -tasks and surmount:
ed all the obstacles in their path.
a sliding gear ?
difficult overland route, which
nfiltrated into
fluent banking houses w
this time on thel’acifie
were exotic.
in all, the discovery of gold in Cali-
fornia came at a most opportune mo-
ment.
Of course, an almost insuperable
obstacle stood between the fortune-
hunters, of all races and creeds alike,
and their quest; the remote position
trails with which tiny
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the United
so that, all
But, of course,
the erdr
many of f
element
id impar 1 ’1
take a
either
cuted researches on (In- subject. We
refer to the participation of the early
Jewse.of California in the tasks con
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those days. These
organizat ions won
ing through the
hour. Life in the
large number
southern extremity of South America,
or by way of the Isthmus of Pana-
ma. In either 'instance the tribula-
tions of the journey were consider-
more populous
les value in
ng madeiin
why "pictur
By Aber M. Friedenberg, Esq , Cor-
—respendins---Decretory • Amerrcan
Jewish Historial Society
lions of this country in general. His
decisions, preserved in the law re-
ports. are monuments of industry and
their fellow citizens of all faiths by
their eminent public services Others,
of them shone in important walks of
life, commercial, financial and indus-
trial. The foundations of several af
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THLTEXAS-WISHHEA
THE JEWS OF^RLY i
and economic changes in
THAT the FORD is the only car equipped with
the Ford Vaporizer, which has io greatly in-
creased mileage per gallon of gas?
at least
THAT the FORD has the simplest and most
positive oiling system of any car?
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Houston, Texas #
eommonwealt h
By the testimony of Bret Harte
the Jews did not proceed to the
"diggins" as a rule. When they did.
as he maintains, it was to take up
their dwellings' in the mushroom
towns resulting from the presence
of so many placer miners and there
to traffic in commodites with enor-
mous profits to themselves. Many
immigrant Jews were not enured to
the tempests of mining life in primp
tive communities, and entered on
gainful occupations with which they
A FAST TRAINS DAILY TO NEW.ORLEANS—
L- This is the interesting, luxurious travel route to Eastern points, as finest "S-P"
Trains connect at New Orleans with finest trains.
played in the development of the I and worthily represented
around Cape Horn, at the
over, his description requires amend
ment ; lie has afot fairly set forth
the part the early Jews of Califrnta
PAPAPPPNP
THAT 43 per cent of FORD parts are .old
15 cents or lets?
THAT in FORDS the gas flow gravity to the
corburetor, havng no moving part, with no
chance of vacuum tank or connection trouble?
over the Jewish aspect s
I er, because, as we ha Vi
to-show, the Jews wore
THAT the FORD has the Thermo syphon cool-
ing system, and needs no pump with its num-
erous parts and attachments to get out of
order ?
of California. Then there
Is the Popularity These Products Enjoy
Among the Jewish People
Jowly in those days, and it was not
intil the end of the year 1848 and
■specially throughout the succeedihg
year 1849 that the great rush of the
gold-seekers to California set in.
Events helped to produce this gi-
gantic wandering of peoples. 'Die
Mexican War had just been fought
and won by America; the year 1848
had come and gone in Europe, leav-
the Jewish community
have stood out among
file’ lawless
■ to whom
ben transfixed for all time to the
pages of- Bret Harle’s works, ‘T‘his
ereat man of letters by his novels, । vigilance ‘ commit!
ales and poems has given future.....
ages a ( complete and correct picture,
of tile pioneers. In one respect. how-of. history.
THAT the FORD ha. more piston displacement ,
per 100 ponds of weight than any other car?
aud w J‘h tip's
THAT to buy any other car, than the FORD, you must spend an average of
$173.33 more as purchase price alone?
When Sutter, the Swiss, early in
the year 1846 turned up a modicum
f the precious, yellow metal known
as gold, and so quite accidentally
proved that the soil of California was
then rich in this valuable substance,
in entire new world swam,’ as it
Vere, into the ken of men. ' Califor-
ilia, an unknown, far-distant Western
THAT the FOORD has an all-steel body--the
most rigid known?
THAT material used in working parts of the
FORD are of the best quality obtainable?
Capitol
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penseil To cope villi the enditions
thus ereated these vigilance commit■ ]
tees arose, and even San Francisco I
was not without ko creation of this :
kind On these tommittees very !
many Jews wore to be found, and
thiir membership thereof prove that ।
the early Jews of California were .
niformly on the side' of law and or- !
der and sought by all pwssibli means
al their command to ctablish and t
t
the Jewish pioneers did not forget
the claims of their religion while alt
others about them were busily en-
gaged in the search after gold.
More than this, however, the early
Jews of California took a deep inter-
est in general public affairs. A Jew
sat in the first legislature of Califor-
nia as a member for one of the dis-
tricts of San Francisco. Another laid
the foundation's of California's sys-
tem of jurisprudence through his
membership of the Supreme Court of
the State in the formative period of
the existence of that tribunal. This
was Solomon Heydinfelt, one of the
most distinguished Jews of his time
and place. Judge Heydenfeldt was
an accomplished jurist. knew and un-
fur enough re
discouraged by the difficulties which
confronted them and even more
• empty-handed, if that were - possible,
than when they set out.
They reached El Dorado; they es - desperate
tablshed homes mid families here; steady a
To Dallas, Ft. Worth, Waco, San
Antonio and points beyond
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THAT the FORD is the only car under the
$3000.00 price range equipped with a Dual
Ignition system, so when complicated and del-
icate battery system is out of order or bat-
tery dead, you can continue using your car
with it. old reliable maneto ignition system?
Many Jews were represented
among these early pioneers. I he
"Forty-niners" as they are called, met
with their fortunes these remarks
are primarily concerned.
The incidents of life in California
of the days we are considering have
familiar. Non-Jews did the
Pacific railroads. The future wizard
of the rails, Edward Henry Harri'
man, who annihilated much of the
distance and the discomfort stretch-
ing between the Atlantic and the Pa-
cific seaboard, was but a babe in
arms. To reach the land of gold one
then had to go on the dangerous and
THAT the FORD planetary transmission costs
more to manufacture, and is simpler to op-
erate, than a sliding gear transmission?
made the enterprise have left ree-until a student on the spot lias prose-
cultural and educational leaders of
Jewry in America emanated.
In one respect, and at that a most
picturesgue One, our sketch of early
('aliforna Jewry is deficient. Nor
may we hope to repair the omission
e called into, be- 1
necissit ies of ’ t he
rarly sett loments, i
Early days in a ‛iror ja possess anil
irresistible at trail ion -for he stuleut!
THAT the FORD has a torque tube drive, which
is found on the highest priced car.?
sak
speed a driyer of a FORD
into reverse and not harm
-an operation which will
they took up life in new communities
and; laid strong and true the founda-
tions of a well ordered state So
large was the number of immigrants
to California of all races and creeds
that that. State could already be for-
mally admitted to membership in the
Union of States in 1850, and since
this date its population and prosper-
ity have appreciably grown.
sure. •
in point of racB theJews of L'all-
fornia settled throughout the State
and thus contributed to the work of
building up early communities. San
Francisco attracted many of them,
and within its confines large numbers
of Jews were to be found from a
very early date. ' They established
there their own communal organiza-
tion, and the existing congregations
of that city date from this period as
well. Within a short interval after
moved by time from these rarly days!
of storm and stress that, their glam
our i flail that* remains of them
The trials-of those times, llo strains
re sunk into oblivion Um the pic i
turesque element persists \ part of (
this picture, and a noteworthy por ■
tion thereof, is supplied by I he Jew
ish pioneers of California, who laid j
tin" foundations of that gnat com
munity of our own days. The best
means of comprehending the true
worth of the present is to know what ;
its past offers. California Jewry may |
look with confidence by reason of its •
present prosperity into the future,
knowing that its past is honorable
and glorious.
the old Spanish regulations
California as a State of the
had to assimilate to its-own s,
and the legal principles and
successfully operate' orderly govern i
m nt \gainsi the extravarant and
improbable assertions of Bret Harte,]
turiinhefori mentioned and confuted,/
must be placed the fac that (‛lifor i
THAT the FORD car has the quickest getaway
in traffic and is the easiest parked?
THAT the trade-in value of the FbRD is
higher in proportion than any other car?
THAI automobile depreciation increases with
investment ?
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