The Terry County Herald (Brownfield, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, July 25, 1924 Page: 6 of 8
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BARRIER BROS.
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BIG FINAL CLEARANCE
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COST OF LIGHT SO LOW
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Begins Saturday, July 26th
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original 16 candle power carbon lamp
famous Mammouth Cave for
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At the other end of the
GOOD LUMBER
other states are much more familiar has yet been made at the Democratic . vention in the home city of one of
This conven-
whatever the outcome, we think the Governor Smith, and the “hoodlums"
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here this week were completely cap- Democrats of America should have' of New York seemed to think that
of this io it should be imju
either to rub
of the’ keen edge
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THE PURE FOOD STORE
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and other items for the health of y
W hatever it is for the sick
skin and complexion
for your health
} should have learned is the folly, and
.injustice of holding" the national con-
A native of Kentucky moved from
that state to California. Although
he had lived within ten miles of the
prosimateiy
sharpening.
Most Everywhere.
Santa Fe Summer Tourist Excursions
ICe
-Efficient Service
For rates, reservations and schedules call
on Santa Fe Local Aent, or address T. B.
Gallaher, General Passenger Agent Amarillo
Texas.
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CALIFORNIA
NEW MEXICO
And the NATIONAL PARKS
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after every meal '
Cleanses mouth and
teeth and aids digestion.
Relieves that over-
eaten feeling and add
attraction for him. but moving far
away he heard so much of its grand-
ure that he became sufficiently in-
terested to journey across the con-
tinent to see it.
It is probably true that people of
Higginboiham-Bartlett
Co.
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Amateur carpenters usually experi- ,
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York has disgraced itseif in
of all decent people."
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or cook requires a
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DO WE APPRECIATE OUR
MANY BLESSINGS?
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The Atrhison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway System
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country has learned, and thut is not
to tie its delegates hard and fast to :
any one man as long as we have as
much presidential tember as we now
its I-a-s-t-I-n-g flavor
satisfies the craving lor
swveets.
Wrigley’s Is double
value in the benefit and
pleasure it provides.
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ECONDMiCAL&D DURAst
HOUSE PAINT
is the most
Econgmical and Durable ,
Paint to Use
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Taxes more than dividends. Bate
reductions more then faxes
TRY US FIRST
PALACE DRUG STORE
“If it’s in a Drug Store We have it**
duce the berries in such lavish pro-. ed Over long periods of time. amount
Everything to Build with
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A pleasure to serve our customers
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with the Carlsbad Cavern than are
the people of New Mexico themselves
The Brownfield, visitors who were
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Announcing—
; to contemplate and think about:
“As this is written no nomination
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It will pay you well to go many
miles to attend this sale.
ner as .to deter the
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citizens of
ercafter
.other conventi n ci!
attempting such a i
1924. Twenty-one times as much •
light can now be obtained from a 40
National Convention. What will be the leading candidates,
the outcome, nobody knows. But .
Vantale
was spent in 1923
Merchandise in every department
will be GREATLY REDUCED!
iM in railroad business is the relation of costs to returns. If the
G2, Fe
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body is an adjustable support running
on a wooden roller. The tool having
been elamped in place, and the baek j
support adjusted, all that is necessary
is to run the tool bnekwards and for-
wards «>n the oil stone to insure that
it is properly siarpened. By the use
Sealed in its Parity m
Packege —-TS
W"HEK
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Compared with the cost in 1914. •
। electric lights are just a trifle more 1
than one-half as much. the average i
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People generally think of a Drug Store as a place to get
health giving medicines when they are sick. They some-
times forget that we carry a great many things to keep you
in the best of health. Come to our drug store for TONIC
I REGULATORS; LAXATIVES for your general health;
TOOTH BRUSHES. MOUTH WASHES for health of
your teeth; CORN REMEDIES and FOOT POWDERS
for health of your feet: LOTIONS. CREAMS, POWDERS
the eyes i
■ and qzpenses st derks and othar’general office employes . . .
alzatonstezeral afficnr, penione. and denth benefits and mmiscellaneouz
fusion. They left enthusiastic boost-to nothing. To a fellow way down
ers for the country that could so1. _ — , , , ------- — --------- ------ - —
furnish them. They will always; C‘C i eas: that demonstration o—watt lamp as was obtained with the
of Lovingon as the land of straw- more than an hour in favor of Mc-
We always make it a
policy to carry the best
groceries that can be
bought from any sourc
Qur lines are standard
Therefore the prices are
standard
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A Fresh Car
C A
tion was held in the home city of
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The cost of electric light today is i
less than five per cent of wnat it cost ; #
in !880 when the incandescent elect-
ric lamp was first placed on the
maket. This is due to three items .
in the cost of .lights. The rate for
electric current is lower. The lights
| are of nine times the efficiency. The 1
: price of lamps are much lower.
thing. WVhatever
dollar earned does not cover the cost of earning it, the business fails. If it covers the
cost with a margin over, the business succeeds.
THE SANTA FE DOLLAR IN 1933 WENT AS FOLLOWS:
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Of the last item 3.02 cents came from sources other than all the fuel used for the System. Taxes were
than rntea so that a reduction of less than 6% in rates $20,316,491.
would have wiped out the entire margin of safety frem Good service requires ample monsy for operation,
egne9 tzoghrgtem and nginttnarKt. Even a rather substantial reduction
Even a decline in grpas buzinezs such as has occurred in rates would benefit individuals so slightly as hardly '
this year inevitably reduces this balance of 8.79 cents, to be known, while it might readily (because of poor
boemsae not many of the cost items can be cut down serice) cause them tremendous loss which would be
inproportion. quickly and keenly felt
1adjustment bciwotn saeceea and failure is a A railroad gets money from its rates and has ne
delisate 28 in the transportation industy- For the other large source of supply, even though attempts seem
welare oithecounty, it should not belightly tampered to be made to have the public believe otherwise. Since
with, either bylaw: or by the various commissions that 1921 freight rates have been almost continuously in
control the mean element of railroad earnings and costs, process of redaction. Santa Fe freight earnings were
II is particulary notable in the above statement that decreased $14,500,000 in 1922 and $23,945,000 in
last were more than dividends and only a little less 1923 from what they would have been with 1921 rates.
The Santa Fe already has reduced freight rates many millions. But adequate service
is sited for daggers, it can be famished only when fair rates provide the money needed.
ingany chisel or planeblade at’ap-i
Ga FverQal
3 Ouarartteedt
See its 6A Fhzifali? • ite
cost of living, however. is fifty per
cert higher.
The carbon lamp. that was alone in
the field of electric lighting until 1908
Larger lamp manufacturers main- ,
tained research and development lab-
oratories where search is made for ;
! new methods and materials which
will result in improved quality.
Present prices for the best lamps j
are now below the level thatrprevail-
ed before the war. However, the cost
of renewals in lamps is a small item
as it is less than ten per ent of the
I total cost of light.
I The cost of electricty in March.
1 1924 as taken from the last quarterly
* report of the Bureau of Labor Sta-
tistics is shown to be 8.6 per cent less
than in December, 1913.. The general
cost of living for the same date is
70.4 per cent higher than in March
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the result ei this 1 onenti-n.
Rim of amdreMUt. iqint facilities, et.
lntereet m bonds and other interest chartes
Pividende 92 capital
Balance availabie Car expandinz facilties .
tivated with the delicious strawber- , learned a few lessons. They should the “ward politics" methods qf that
ries served'them for their dessert. have learned in the first place that eity would avail in the National Con- ...... — ----- ■■
They found it difficult to realize that trumped-up, mechanical demonstra-[ vention. Consequently they packed spon..as it is forn ed or t; produce a
a country so near them could pro- tions in favor of candidates, extend-. the convention floor and galleries’ T un"i* " e* " , h "2ns not cut.
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ries. Many of our own people will■ Adoo. and the demonstration of an
famous Mammouth Cave for more never give them, more than a passing j hour and a half in favor of Smith
than forty years. he had never seen । thought. not realizing their value— were silly. Repeated. demonstrations
it Recently he made a special trip | Lovington Leader, thereafter as this candidate or that ence some difficulty in siarpening
all the way from California to his oM « ----——o--- j candidate won a vote or two were their toxs. A reas’boon to these is
home for the sole purpose of vievs^ shOHT D WE TIE THE HANDS i likewise silly. Delegates in a Demo- ; a recently invented ‛pinne and chise !
mg this statural wonder. While liv-i Op OUR DELEGATES? cratic National Convention even holder for use in setting edge tools
' ing almost at its intrance it had no ’ ought to use common sense, and they I on the oil stone. The bouly consists of j
The following editorial from theloight toknow that sensible men can j a casting having at the forward end a
Lynn County News is rather ancient, i net be "stampeded" to a candidate by grippin deviee capable 1 tiraniy hold-
. . . . . ... . tacf.es like that. Another lesson that
but the. subject matter is still good at least the National Committee
CO. Deliver
have. If we can’t trust our Delegates
to co the right thing, let’s do away
with our conventions and put out our
. nominee by party primaries
: as we do other officials.
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idemnacen Ci the emiire coumi:
’ •< should be spoken with such
■ ASHWORTH S. KNIGHT
Erownfield, Texas
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1 with Smith henchmen, who attempt sgamz
ed to howl down everybody whowa: ।
nt for Smith and te =je the nemin-
zton icr Srith by hethg Tactice
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Stricklin, A. J. The Terry County Herald (Brownfield, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, July 25, 1924, newspaper, July 25, 1924; Brownfield, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1564708/m1/6/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Texas State Library and Archives Commission.