Texas City Daily Times (Texas City, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 88, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 15, 1913 Page: 2 of 4
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Texas City
Construc-
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tion
cunts
Company
PISTOL MISSES FIRE
Application.
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Weapon in Vain.
Remember
4
Plans and estimates furnish-
ed on short notice.
TEXAS CITY NATIONAL BANK
5
Texas City, Texas
100,000.00
CAPITAL
Postoffice Box 455
Telephone 206
loss
Military Attention
That
J. M. Maurer
ICE
Bo,
418 Tremont St. Galveston, Tex.
Made from Distilled Artesian Water
Red’s Place
Buy coupon books and receive the discount. Two sizes, $3.50 and 50c
Telephone 55
Artesian Ice & Cold Storage Co.
his protection from the most
right and their pat-
TEXAS CITY, TEXAS
a
Jas. B. Davis, Prop.
NOTICE-BUILDERS
up-.
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to the cause for this cruel and abo-
Give us a trial.
Pat and the Turkey.
TEXAS CITY, TEXAS.
PRINTING
neither the temptation nor the
GET THE
j
turbance got on the Celt’s
The Times Plant is Excellently
Equipped to turn out all Classes
U
of Printing for the
SOLDIERS
as well as for Citizens of every
CALOMEL IS UNSAFE
TEXAS CITY, TEXAS
BOX 252
trade and profession.
1
Prompt Delivery
Prices Reasonable
i
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We Carry 215Standard Brands of
The place for your
LIQUORS
Refreshments
Of I
H. L WOODLIFF, Prop
to
that are mentally unable either
Horse Shoe Bar
Phone 34
who !
All Lesding Brands of
Whiskey, Wines and Beer
\
Texas City Daily Times
TIMES PRINTING CO., Publishers
nerves, I
the side,
We pay 4 per cent
Interest on Savings Deposits.
Postal Savings
■ Depositary
as t
and
your
your
Edging, Band-Sawing, Etc.
Phone 117.
Escaped Convict Robs Saloon in
. Presence of a Detective.
Committee.
Txeas City, May 8, 1913.
three
but
to
re-
the soldier.
Probably Mr. Stimson might just
as well hold his tongue for all the
see things as they are or to inter-
"ret them in the light of reason.
demonstrated fact and by the warn-I
ings of knowledge and intelligence.
But it is just as well to place up- I
No job too small to receive
the most careful attention, or
too large for our well organiz-
ed facilities.
Money in the pocket grows less; in
the Savings Bank, it constantly in-
creases.
time overcome all grief in the
of her here.
Be it Further Resolved,
I
An ostrich can eat tacks, but it
can’t lay a carpet.
quity where alcohol is the very least:
of the evils that await him. ket town, I happened to observe an
Entered at the postoffice at Texas
‘ty, Texas, as second class matter.
SUBSCRIPTION KATES
V
E
U. S. Government
Depositary
ronage is appre-
ciated.
4th. Street and Second Avenue South
All that is Best in
Drinkables.
iths
th.
A Lively Cripple
New York.—Solomon Lowry,
Phone 112
Agents for REX LAUNDRY
A. H. REEXES,
Manager
Edw. Hanak Contracting
Company
We are now equipped to do your Mill Work, Planing, Routing,
Our customers are treated
W. S. Broussard
Real Estate and Loans
AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE
, i a racket to which the Irishman
op- :
not at first pay any particular
did ।
no-
dis-
Not long ago, in a Western mar-
to himself and treated as a human ,
being, his natural tendencies would i Givins the bird a poke in
lead him to do neither the one nor he exclaimed.
the social pieties | fam ily relief from attacks of consti-
to pation, biliousness, lazy liver and
TUSONA BAR
W. D. THOMPSON
PHONE 27
consecrated
is her gain.
excess, and
J. C. BLACK
Practical Mason
CONTRACTOR & BUILDER
ESTIMATES FURNISHED FREE
Cor. 3rd St. and 1st Ave. South.
to coerce a governmental authority 1 start
that remains unmoved alike by'
I Christian, so our loss
effect that his utterances will have
upon the little group of noisy agi-
if you are in need of a Photo to
• send home, remember we make
only the best.
1 children, you have insured
a sufferer for 2 8
Wenzeurial.
She had been
lono years and
recent issue.
The question of the army can-
................$5.00
..............2.50
.................45
...............15
or Delivered by Carrier.
ROBBER LAUGHS AT
"DEAD” POLICE GUN
portunity to drink to
Published Every Afternoon Except
Sunday
began Shooting at Garry and the
Customers.
Liver Tone Guarantees It to Take
the Place of Calomel.
teen was once more brought to the I
front by Secretary Stimson’s report j
on the manners and the morals of
himself than to
in the old days the soldier drank i Irishman with a live turkey under
beer in the army canteen, and pre-his arm. The turkey was squawk-
[ ing and gobbling in a distressed way |
Mr. Stimson has said no more:
than his predecessors, and probably
he has said it just as fruitlessly. •
It is one of the disheartening mys-1
on record that the debauchery
the soldier is due far less
ig Rates Made Known on
miniature hells in the variety of Local Druggist Who Sells Dodson’s
moral and physical damnation that
they dispense.
jh: army canteen.
Lodge Resolutions.
ton of the soldier. He found,
still less to debauch himself. Left
it does not give complete
was a
tators whose persistence first se-
cured abolition of the canteen and
whose unyielding prejudices have
prevented its restoration.
But Mr. Stimson, as secrearty of
war, was bound to present the facts,
and it is well that he should do so
for the benefit of those who wish
to know the real causes of army-
vice and to lay the blame at the
his revolver. The hammer fell with
a harmless snap. Again Garry tried
to fire, and again the cartridge failed
to explode.
"Why don’t you get a good ‘gun,
like this one?” shouted Thompson, as
he backed toward a side door. He be-
gan shooting at Garry and the cus-
tomers he had just robbed.
Thompson fired until his revolver
was empty and then ran out the door.
By the time Garry had reached Flour- •
noy street the fleeing robber had dis-
appeared.
on inquiry, that certain unmention- i those he has deprived, of a loved
able diseases were claiming moreone deaiei than any othei.
victims in the American army than) Resolved, That these resolutions I
all other important diseases com-be spread upon our minutes, a copy
bined, more victims than in any other sent to the Corsicana paper, the
army in civilization. : Texas City Times and the “Tidings.”
And Mr. Stimson has no doubt as 1 Mrs. Bee Colburn, Mrs. Nettie
' McMahon, and Mrs. Viola Hassler,
your liver without violence,
-=== J five against the raising of the ।
I rates above what is really right.
sumably it was good beer. He had
Duck With Four Legs.
Ithaca, N. Y.—A dead duck with
two bodies, four legs and only one
head will be sent as a curiosity to j
Prof. H. N. Wilder of Smith college, |
who is making a study of deformities |
at birth, by a resident of this city on
recommendation of Prof. Hugh S l
Reed of the department of neurology
at Cornell. The duck is twenty-two i
inches long.
(Southwestern Independent.)
The passage of the Gibson bill
and its signing by Governor Col-
Fugitive Shoots Repeatedly at Police-
man to Cover His Flight, While Lat- 1
ter Snaps Trigger of His Own
\ev/
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QC
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p
ward to her for years of devotion
to Him.
It is some times hard to read
God’s meaning, but may we always
be willing to say “His will be done.”
and • if
minable state of things. He tells
us that it is due to the abolition of |
the canteen and to the fact that a
maiden-aunt legislation has driven
the soldier into these dens of ini-
We feel confident the grand as-
surance of the rreward she has won
in the brighter world above will in
the other.
And it may be said incidentaly
that the soldier has as good a right
On Savings A
degrading bodily ills.
Mr. Stimson has told us that he
personally visited 49 of the army
posts. In every. instance he found
a nest of vile and filthy dives just
beyond the reservation gates, laid
and baited as traps for the damna-
if your liver is not working just
right, you do not need to take a
chance on getting knocked all out
if we do not have what you want tell us about it
We want to please you
Liver Tone for yourself or
THE GIBSON BILL.
be discouraged from drinking by the the Garwood express, the Texas
simple expedient of sending him from City Times and the Tidings.
the barracks, where he could be su-i Mrs. Nettie McMahon, Mrs.
pervised and restrained, to the in-Peachie Baker and Mrs. Viola Has-
famous dives outside the bar-sler. Committee.
racks, where he could be neither Texas City, May 8, 1913.
We are prepared -J do any
kind of building or repairing.
Give us a trial.
First Eugenic Baby.
Providence, R. I.—Mrs. George W. 1
Herrick, mother of New England’s |
first eugenic baby, says children
should not be kissed, bounced up and I
down, nor treated with talcum powder, '
sponge baths or furbelows.
We beg to announce Having ins’le 1 a regular Sav-
ings Department in our bank which $ carried separ-
ately from commercial accounts whi h places us in
position to offer the people of cur town the same
facilities to be secured in an y good bank.
Resolved, That Orange Grove,
j tice. Finally, however, the
go, the Sa i Francisco Argonaut has
the folic ng timely editorial in a N°
She leaves a husband and
children to mourn her death,
may God see fit to lead them
feel that it is a blessing and
' Colburn our deepest sympathy in
j the loss of a dear sister, Beulah
has one leg and walks on crutches,
severely beat ten policemen. .A re-
serve force of eight bluecoats was
sent to the scene and arrested him.
“Be quiet, you! What’s the mat-
ter wid ye, anyhow? Why should
yyez want to walk whin I’m willin’
teries of our civilization that a small by a dose of calomel. Go to W. H.
organization of clamorous prejudi-Butterfield who sells Dodson’s Liv-
cies and ignorances can outweigh in er Tone, and pay 50 cents for a
influence the careful voice of pru-large bottle. You will get a harm-I
dent experience and that it is able less vegetable remedy that will
There’s many a hitch, likewise,
in the business of a teamster,
supervised nor restrained. That a few :
pious women by the mere force of We, your committee appointed to
clamor should be able to regulate I draft resolutions of sympathy up-
the barrack life of soldiers and toon the death of Malissa Treadwell, j
the beloved mother of our Sovereign i
Zillah Strong, beg leave to submit;
—
Chicago.—“Trilby” Thompson, es-;
caped convict from Joliet, for whom •
the police have been searching for s
two months, held up a West Side sa-
loon the other day and got away with
$90 in cash.
He owes his liberty to the fact that
Detective George of Captain Halpin's
office was armed with a revolver
which would not fire. The revolver
I was one of the type attacked by Ma-
; jor Bauder, drillmaster and inspector
of revolvers for the police depart-
ment, in a recent report to Chief Me- I
j Weeny.
While Thompson shot repeatedly at
। Garry, to cover his flight, the detec-
l tive snapped the trigger of his own
weapon in vain. The cartridges would
not explode and he could not close
with the shooting bandit.
It was in the saloon of Harry Mar- |
tini. at the intersection of Ogden. ;
—= Robey and Flournoy streets, that the
■ hold-up occurred. Garry was standing
at the cigar counter, in front of the I
screen, talking to Martini, when
, headache. It is as beneficial and
safe for children as for adults. A
' bottle of Dodson’s Liver Tone is
| something every man or woman shou)
j keep in the house. Your money is
safe because you can return the
bottle if it fails to satisfy.
(Advertisement.)
to drink a glass of beer as to eat his
dinner, and as good a right as a
woman has to drink a cup of tea. :
To say that he shall not drink a
glass of beer in barracks has no j
other effect, than to send him straight
to the dives that are thus invited
to collect around the reservation I
gates and that are no less than ,
enforce their own will against ex-
perience and prudence is one of
the marvels of our civilization. the following.
If it were less serious it would! Whereas, God has seen fit to
be laughable. But it is not laugh-l call to her ong rest this beloved
able that a small number Of “re- ! mother of our Sovereign;
formers” should stand so obstinately! Resolved, That Orange Giove No.,
to carry ye?”—Harper’s Magazine.
quitt means much to the merchants
of Texas.
The bill provides for a law
which will eliminate the present
State fire insurance rating board
and create a commission with the
fire insurance commissioner as its
official head, which will have charge
of the fire insurance regulation and
the fixing of a MAXIMUM fire in-
surance rate.
The old minimum rate will be ab-
olished and the insurance concerns
will be thus placed in active com-
petition. This will have a tendency
to decrease the present rates some-
i what and also act as a preventa-
these resolutions he spread up-
on our minutes, a copy sent to
deepest sympathy in the sad loss
of her mother.
We feel that the grand assurance
o the reward she has won in the
brighter world above will in time
overcome all grief in the loss of j
her here.
Our loss is her gain, and may I
God in His infinite mercy comfort!
j Thompson entered.
“Why don't you guys throw up your j
' hands? What’s the matter with you?” ■
Thompson shouted as he pushed open
the. swinging doors in the screen and !
entered the barroom where half a'
dozen customers were being served by j
John Gill, the bartender.
“Who’s that, some village cut-up
springing a joke?” was Garry’s query 1
to Martini. The detective had had i
his back to the door when Thompson I
entered.
“No, George, this is a hold-up,” re- ,
plied the salon man. “That fellow j
has a gun in his hand and I think he’s
‘Trilby’ Thompson.”
Thompson is the only one of the
latest trio to escape from the Joliet;
penitentiary who is still at liberty.
“Sunny” Dunne and Tony Landers es-
caped with him by scaling a wall at
the prison.
Apprised on the seriousness of the
situation, Detective Garry drew his
revolver and cautiously entered the
barroom, just as Thompson was j
searching the last of the customers, i
The detective made a rush for the es-1
caped convict, and as he came to I
close quarters, pulled the trigger of
right doors. And the blame very
obviously lies at the doors of those!
who supposed that the soldier could j
959, extend to Sovereign Bee
satisfaction the druggist will re-
fund your money with a smile.
If you buy a bottle of Dodson’s
a barrier between the soldier 959, offer our beloved Sovereign our
Office Baldwin Bldg. Phene 65 and 113 §
—
Conct: nig the army canteen,
which as : Lolished a few years a-
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