The Daily Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 155, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 27, 1931 Page: 2 of 4
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Jewels
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Oct. 29 at 8 p.m. at the Baytex hall-
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ROBBINS CIRCUS
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FOR SALE. One antique four poster
years. Excellent wooded winter pas-
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taxation foi Americans for that 111
000,000,000 plus interest the allies owe
succeed. but on the basis of a sound
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Made of the finest tobaccos —the Cream of many Crops
— LUCKY STRIKE alone offers the throat protection of the
exclusive "TOASTING" Process which includes the use of
modern Ultra Violet Rays —the process that expels cer-
tain harsh, biting irritants naturally present in every
tobacco leaf. These expelled Irritants are not present in
yourLUCKY STRIKE/'Thry’re out—so they can’t be in!”No
wonder LUCKIES are always kind to your throat.
shing manner.
They would be contributing to a
jeopardized by the entrance of prop-
erly conducted stores, established not
on the basis of hopes that they will
tax on motor cars and radios. If the
nudes tax is levied it is a safe bet that
for the independent small community
store to hope to survive in the strug-
Gay. variegated posters placed in
the city and vicinity by the advance
brigade today heralded the coming
of Robbins Circus to Bay City, Nov.
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FOR KENT: Apartment
conveniences, call 119.
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mountings do!
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entitled to success merely because it
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nity as a trading place is pre ented
TUNE IN—The Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra, every Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday cvening ovcr N.B.C. networks.
the list of products selected for
proposed federal sales tax
The inereasing of federal taxes
chandising organizations to frustrate
the efforts of the stores in small com-
of the town and its trading
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Statement Paid
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You moy be interested in
knowing that not one cent
was paid to Miss Mackaili
to make the above state-
ment. Miu Mackaili has
been a smoker of LUCKY
STRIKE cigarettes for 6
years. We hope the pub-
licity herewith given will be
as beneficial to her and to
First National, her produc-
ers, as her endorsement of
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or rooms. all
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a time when prices and wage are
: going lower and when business is
I struggling to recover from the worst
depression in Amnerican history is in-
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Miss Dorman will present her pu-
vent the local me
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automobiles and radios will be se- ( some
leceted to bear part of the burden
which are, not in any way in reflet- behind the market it wants to serve.
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LI AVE you cast aside certain articles
■ I of jewelry because they were “out
of style?” Have you relegated an old brooch
or bracelet to the jewel box just because it
wasn’t quite up to the minute?
There’s no need for it, you know. The
chances are the stones are as fine and beau-
tiful as the day they were purchased. Just
the mountings are out of date.
Bring your old jewels to us. We will
gladly submit estimates and designs for
transforming them into smart articles of
modern jewelry. And the cost for this
service is really very moderate.
Sanitary Dairy
Herbert Gusman,
Owner
A. B. Owsley, Mgr.
ing either as individual unit in me-
pus i tor has recovered a cent.
The only break Halliday got, was
W. F. TETTS
Jeweler & Optometrist
That LUCKY tab! Moisture-Proof
Cellophane. Sealed tight — Ever
right. The I nique Humidor Pack-
age. Zip—And it’s open! Seethe new
notched tab on the top of the pack-
age. Hold down one half with your
last year made certain that in-
a bid for his share of the new busi-
ness which is coming to town.
quivalent loyalty and service to
i. In opposition to any opinion
Eight Great Models
from $4 4.50 to $290
W. E. GOODWIN
Music and Elect. Co. I
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Prosperous Future
For Small Town Store
country They would be stimulating
increased retail activities, and in the
great circle which finds its inception
munities.
It is for the best of all concerned !
chain stores, and co-operating mer-
chandising units have been cited by
local business into one
sunk in 1931 assures heavily decreas
ed tax returns next year.
As congress prepares to assemble
in regular session in December. the
opinion is little short of unanimous
among its members, and among treas-
ury officials, that new tax legislation
"My throat is all impor-
tant to me. No harsh irritants for yours
truly. Give me Lucky Strike every time.
And pat yourself on the back for
your new Cellophane wrapper
with that tab which makes the
package so easy to open."
people There is nothing there to pre-l corned. simply by being willing to
erchant from making thoroughly examine his own condi
number of stores proves two things:
First, that the small community.
tuple. 900 acres.
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of local stores suddenly sees two or I forgotten or tucked under the coun-
which embryo auth-
they would be expanding the oppor-
tunities for national development.
“The right kind of a small commu-
nity store is a part of our social and
Even a coat of paint has been known to increase the value of pron.
erty ten times over the cost of painting. Now add to that newPaa
modem style lines in design and it is hard to realize the increase in the
value of your property—aside from the joy of living in an attractive
structure.
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FOR SALE: Two story residence on
quarter block. Ideal place to con-
vert into an apartment house. Win.
Cash. 23-30d
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Hear it here. Come prepared for
the greatest radio thrill yon have ,
ever experienced! No advance !
in prices.
LIBERAL TERMS
- then must be paid for, and the war
Cntersd as sec ond class matter at the must be paid for If war debts are
postoffice of Bay City. Texas under canceled, it will mean much greater
•ct of congress
if such of these stores us are war-
runted in living by the facts con-
cerning their operations and manage-
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Babel F.
“It’s toasted"
(hum or large sized communities. or operations on the part of aspiring be-
lts units of natioral organizations, i ginners in business. No group of re- pils in
have set an entirely new pace in the tail customers can be expected to he
in the manufacturing plan and its
WANTED: Several extra warehouses.
Rice crop has filled all available
space and is now pouring in to the
big warehouse at Markham.
Harvard School of Business Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology and
sponsored by leading organizations
1 throughout the country said at the
' session opening at the University
Club. Monday, Sept 14. ‘ "The small
community store can in general meas-
J. C Penney, founder of the J C.
Penney Company, speaking before the
Boston conference on retail distribu-
tion, held under the auspices of the
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the United States will merely be
shifted from European to American
shoulders.
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of these types of stores has in nu* ness safety, made profitable by the keeper, I wonder if people really
merous cases, applicable in a general rapidity of turnover, know what they are talking about.
way to all pails of the country. been in a large percentage of stores in1 "Would they be satisfied to go back!
followed by an increase in the busi- small communities, the reason for to the things our parents had to en-
ness opportunities hared by the lo unprofitable operations is oftentime dure in their shopping?
profitable foundation or Hable place for a good store of any
ors always are cautioned to avoid as
illogical, occurs much more often
than we think in real life
For instance, consider John Halli-
day, who has one of the featured '
roles in ‘ Transatlantic," Fox talking i
picture production starring Edmund
Lowe, which comes to the Colonial
Theatre for today and Wednesday.
Halliday, who had saved his money
for several years, determined to make
an extended trip to Europe on a
much needed holiday. A week before I
ho was to leave Hollywood on the
first lap of his journey the bank in
i A town of five thousand people worn merchandise items of merchan- not. Modern sales methods have come
with an apparently adequate number di se stored away in the basement and not as a standard set by business, but
certain disappointment and failure.
"The general speeding up in all our
retail activities. from their very
source with the person who does the
buying for the store, to the ultimate
end in the negotiations between the
sales person and the customer, has
furnished the storekeeper in the small
community with advantages he has
never before possessed.
critics as making it impossible
will be enacted. The big question
‘The assumption is that the busi- tion of the current market value of in matters of progress. The chang-
ness there is in town and is going to [ the items which they cover They are ing public mind is far less fettered
he furthes divided down to a point found in the unwillingness of the j by traditions and conventions than is
where no one has a real opportunity. ( opei ator of the store to face the fact the business life of the country.
‘What really happens, and instan- i that he has made a mistake in buying Our own experience covering more
ces seem to point to the fact that it and that the wise thing for him to dothan 1450 cities and towns throughout
artually happens in the majority of is immediately to reprice surplus the country with by far the largest
thumb. Tear oil the other half. Simple. Quick.
Zip! I hat s all. Unique! Wrapped in dust-proof,
moisture-proof, germ-proof Cellophane. Clean,
protected, neat, FRESH! —what could be more
modern than LUCKIES’ improved Humidor
package—so easy to open! Ladies—the LUCKY
TAB is—your finger nail protection.
to a steadily increasing number of which will make a profit for all
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1 found in thumb-worn boxes, shop- The answer is obvious. They would
three more aggressive stores ade- '
quately financed and managed, mak- i
CO-ORDINATION! Every cyl-
inder doing its job! Whether
purring along slowly, or hitting
the high spots at seventy, you’ll
get the same quiet, smooth per-
formance! Costs less due to more
mileage.
STATION 555
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If you want better and
cleaner milk and whip-
ping cream, telephone
203, Sanitary Dairy
i where it is produced in
a sanitary way.
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| cigarettes, are already bearing feder-
' al taxation, and in some states stiff
[ state sales taxation. tobacco and cig-
arettes Hie likely to be included in
tion will take The alternatives seem
to be sales tax or an increase in the
income tax in the higher brackets.
The preponderance of sentiment in
democratic circles, it appears is fol
the latte while Mi Mellon and many
of the republicans advocate a sales
tax on specifled commodities.
would be much smaller this year, and
the low ebb to which business has
is not the desire of the larger mer-
better retall condition throughout the Mr 5
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grazing. Unstocked for nearly two . , -
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Federal Tax Increases
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Anyone with half an eye could i
have foreseen months ago that a fed
eral tax increase was inevitable ]
"There never was any real ground for
hope that governmental departments
would retrench to the point where
a deficit for this fiscal year could be
avoided The president ha caused '
some economy to be effected, out the
savi g is small compared with the
drop in revenue. The decline in busi
provided it has within titself the es- which his savings were deposited
entials of healthy growth, is a prof- closed its doors. To date, not
never qo out of style
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conduct of retail operations, j loyal to a business institution which
"The merchant in the small coin- in its own operations is not returning
urv its anticipation of success by itsmunity who contents himself with pm ec
willingness to make itself a steadily | sitting back on the assumption that them,
increasing factor of convenience to things will continue in his commu- whic
right now in what form the new taxn- that community. nity on the same plane that they have
"An examination of the stock car-
ried by various stores in so-called
small communities will reveal inter-
esting differences which make a mark-
ed reflection upon the business in-
genuity of the men who direct the
separate stores.
| "A great deal has been said in the
I he Daily Tribune, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 1931
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Not one of these amazing new .
developments is a feature of any
other radio. Y ou get them all '
three in the new 1932 Majesties, I
and in Majesties only.
"Il is undoubtedly true that the is open.
"The small community merchant
who makes up his mind to advance
with the trend of the times must ad-
vance not alone in window trims,
store fixtures, advertising and im-
provement but in merchandise stock.
‘ He must advance equally in his
regulation of his own financial af-
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"It is interesting to learn that what pricing was dore on the basis of what of such a store in far removed from
may lx* considered by the local mer- the traffic would bear. Today it is what would do a few years ago.
chant as an encroachment of his bus-I done on the basis of the lowest pos- in the wave of sympathy which
iness opportunity by (Tic entrance sible markup consistent with busi- has gone up for the old time store- ’
went to Europe anyway, but stayed 1
only a few weeks, whereas he had
planned a visit of at least a year.
Returning from abroad, Halliday
was cast for the role of "Henry Gra-
ham’’ in "Transatlantic." Graham in
the picture, turns out to be an ab-
sconding banker, fleeing with $3,-
000,000 of his depositors funds.
"I could have played the role of
the man who shoots the banker with
much more feeling," Halliday said.
"But at that, I was able to give the i
financier a sinister quality I might |
have lacked if I hadn’t had my un-,
fortunate bank experience."
ment were to go ahead in a flour-
Majestic Brentwood
Jmoobean Lowhoy. The Mnjestic mpe-
heterodyne chassis ueca 9 tbes, mcnd-
ing Spray -Shiek, Mult-Ma and Twin
rntorifi Outpu, Twin Power Detco-
tion, tone control and Gremd Opera
ezak Cozre".. $99.50
larger mercantile institutions operat- "No community should be expect-
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F, Dorothy Mackaili is the same fascinating,
Fa p rollicking personality in real life as the
I “a parts she plays. Watch for Dorothy in her
I A next First National Picture, "Safe In
2 Hell." There is never a dull moment in any
K29 of First National's pictures starring that
“ bt Mackaili girl.
us a standard set by customers them-
selves.
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Included in the big show program' Patronise T e_____vertisers----
If a measure for a sales tax in push past few years about new forms of
ed, lively opposition from those in competition entering the retail field
dustrial and business interests whose I which are certain to spell defeat for
products would In* hit by the levy, the local independent community
may be expected. In fact, the fight store.
has already begun. The automobile Blanches operated by large de-
und radio industries have already partment stores with then headquar-
launched their protests against a sales ters in central metropolitan areas.
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suddenly finds thal more people are "Oftentime destructive failures can
coming into town; in other words, | be prevented by such cleaning pro-
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Smith, Carey. The Daily Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 155, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 27, 1931, newspaper, October 27, 1931; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1554543/m1/2/: accessed July 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.