The Texas City Times (Texas City, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 247, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 21, 1915 Page: 2 of 4
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“By Jove, it dragged you back, too.
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BESTefORINKABLES
General Lontractors
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who first offers terms will show Great Britain ?
Everybody
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All Kinds of Cement Work—
Side Walks and Curb
Residence Texas Avenue corner
Third Street.
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she little patch of garden, stood Sea- 1
bury- any drug store or phone tn,
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needed the old environment. She just
wanted to be back where they had
first met and been so happy together.
The following morning she was
rather late, but determined. Mr. Betz
stood on the basement steps, talking
to the janitor, when she came along.
he cried,
And Marian had gon. Up into the
Texas City Electric Light and Water Co.
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F "Going back to work.”
— That night she dined out with
W friends of the Quarter down at a little
S Italian place on West Eleventh street.
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y “You knew that Seabury was back,
g didn’t you, Miss Earle? Made a
SI smashing record for himself, too.
n Looks awfully fit. I met him up at
Texas Ave. and p- Nannie Bell’s last evening at dinner.”
‘ 5 Marian smiled. No, she had not
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after the wedding, Betz. Fix up your
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“Go up to mother's and stay with •
The ease and comfort of
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NO DARK MEAT HERE’
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cried the Thanksgiving tur-
key being served under an
electric light. There’s no
darkness anywhere with
such a light. It’s so bril-
liant, so convenient, so mov-
able. And the new Tung-
sten lamp makes electric
light as cheap as the old
time tallow dip considering
the amount of light given.
We will prove it if you will
let us.
Entered in the postoffice at Texas City, Texas, as second class mail matter.
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A Friend of
one of them, the war will con-it to Britain? Will the latter
tinue. Let us consider the pos- be satisfied with anything short Liggett’s Christmas Candies— on upBDi Pmyikeineoette-riworse,
sibility as to Great Britain, that of its surrender? ‘ the best at any price. Goodson don’t you see? I dropped everything ;
one of the allies who has driven You can sav what you like Drug Co. ‘We deliver the goods.” when 1 got your cable and came over.
c W 1 DU. 1n- , I understood how you felt. And when i
Germany from the seas and has about promoting democracy, sav- -none-?. adv. • I got here 1 couldn’t find you so 1
is always on the job with the
Guaranteed for 3 months wear.
Ladies’ Lisle Hose,
6 pairs for--- $2.00 and $5.00
Guaranteed for G months wear.
E i old farmhouse perched on a spur of
5 ! land that overlooked mountains and
F ; valleys for miles. Seabury’s mother
5 i was a darling little old lady, cheerful
g and motherly—too motherly. Marian,
5 after seven months, began to feel like
g a progressive duck with a hen par-
g; ent. She fretted after town environ-
H ment and the incentive to work. Her
5 stuff was flat and she knew it. Sea-
F bury was on the point of sailing when
g i he got an offer from an English pa-
€ per and wrote he would wait three
U months longer if she did not mind.
Si if she did not mind? Marian packed
: furiously and sent back a cablegram:
“Why?’ He glanced beyond her to
of the allies who has won any-
Africa. Great Britain has lost thing. She is the only one of!
no trade relations or institutions them who holds so powerful and
■ to speak of. She is mistress of, precious an advantage as com-; loved in him.
of the seas as never before. All mand of the seas for war and:
peace talk. The big men of Ler colonial nossessions are in- trade purposes. So long as she I 1 u
both sides seem willing to con- — holds that, Germany s place in trying to rent the
sider peace, provided the other tact i all her dominions are prob- the sun, on North Sea, Baltic
side presents the first bid. This ably as united for her as ever. ] Mediterranean, can never be
is natural enough. The fellow What has Germany to offer , very warm and comfortable
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stairs. The door was ajar. She passed I
through the high, narrow passageway .
into the studio and stopped short, j
Over by the window, looking down on I
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“If you could give me just a day’s
y i option, Mr. Betz ” Marian frowned
y j slightly, looking around the big, rest-
3 | ful studio longingly.
“I’m sorry but I must give myself
a chance to think it over. I’ll ’phone
h l early in the morning.”
I She went out into the square and i
■ sat down near the fountain, trying to
- ■ make up her mind, It had been eight
L i months since she had left there. Sea
La i bury had received his appointment as 1
a , staff artist at the front, and it had
. meant so much to his whole career
Ml They were engaged. Sometimes it
a I seemed to her that they had always
. i been engaged ever since she had
28 i taken the studio below his and he had •
3 pairs for____________________
Guaranteed for 3 months’ wear.
Packed in Neat Holiday Boxes.
Give him good GLOVES. You’ll
find them here in all shades of
kid—£7.60 upward.
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largely financed the’other allies. ing civilization, crushing mili- .*.** . . did the next best thing. I was going ;
Let us set aside Belgium, Al- tarism and protection of smaller ’ h} is the snortest skirt a - , to rent the old studio because i knew j
sace-Lorraine, Poland and Ser- nations, but the basic issue of 7a S seen on the bow -legged oi V°“Letome 20, She sand, struggling.’
bia and their demands for con- this war is spelled T-R-A-D-E. ’ ° e88e- 81 • i ‘Somebody's coming.
how badly off he is, and such Germany has Belgium, north- terms of peace can possibly sat-
showing will be an advantage to ern France, Poland, western isfy Germany 2
his opponents should efforts at Rusia, and, what is just as Peace now? When nation
peace fail. good as a qui-claim deed, domi- takes nation by the throat, or -th- regularly ’
With the allies it is certainly nation over Austro-Hungary and man takes man, in pursuit of the
a matter of hanging together or Turkey, domination over a wide almighty dollar, peace without]
hanging separately, and so each strip of territory from the Bal- victor and vanquished is a farce doinspthgawriling end o m! senes tor
of them has solemnly agreed not tic to the Mediterranean. That in on act, with the curtain like- mind
to make peace without agree- dmination means tremendous -Y to be run up again at any ]
ment with all the others. If Ger- trade as well as military ad- moment on another tragedy full :
many can not make peace with vantages. Will Germany offer o blood, ashes and tombstones.
breakfast in a jiffy at less
than you could cook it
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I lie had anoinei party alter it, and i d .
j have to wait another day. Lord, it’s (
one. ' good to, see you again, Marian.”
what “You’re looking well” said Marian,
■ trying to draw away.
I Bldg. Phene 105 TWO STORES 6th St. Phone 305 8
F “ » always such a clever, nice boy.
- 8 ' Bell," went on her right-hand partner
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sideration in any peace pact. Great Britain will pot give Ger- 2, ,, Mr. Betz whistlec jovially as he ap; i
„ „ G . ' . , ° By this time there must be proached, perhaps as a Kindly signal I
Let us forget all claims concern- many an equal show on the com- Lo +L, h । or warning.
ing Britain’s moral objection to . mercial seas, “a place in the On f A Man as there are on t weli , he asked,
Prussian militarism and con- sun, because she s a trader, .and top -umauo
cerning her mission as a promot- what Germany has accomplish- ' __ ' aeeq in nis pockets
er of democracy. ed commercially und industrially For a nice girl to marry a man ■
Great-Britain has not lost any ' the past 40 years, is no career to to reform him, is like nutting a 1
the Job
=22242522 । Marian slept little that night.
. ' Wrapped in a kimono, she sat by her
$ R. Rogers, Prop. Will Z. Powell, Mgr
J Circulating Hot and Cold
Water
J Telephone in Every Room
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Rates 75c and $1.00
J Houston Texas
i ot girl to develop and supplement the
gifts of a man like Seabury.”
“Yes?” Marian’s tone was sweetly
! interested and impersonal. “Are they
engaged?”
“I don’t know, but I suppose so
. I window thinking. And here she had !
r 1 I p "g r? V A C (‛ KT V 2 I / T G • the English as “a nation of trad- [ been ready to even take back the old ।
! Lil. 1 L/*, I 1 I A IIVLLas lers Thev wap. Th PV arp T. studio for sentiment’s sake, It was all
Published daily except Sunday by The Times Printing Company ! c very well to. tell herself that she
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V. F. BOOKMAN ...............................Editor and General Manager. have got to be. Moreover, a
A. L. BEASON .....•........................................Business Manager. , great insular nation has not only
Telephone, Local and Long Distance, 44 go to be a trader, but finally a
; colonizer, and what’s true in this '
, respect of insular Britain is true
: of hemed-in Germany.
10c I Nor is there much sense in
40c j talking of peace until Britain
$2.33 , and Germany get ready to dis-
$4.50 ■ cuss it. Britain is teh only one
territory. On the contrary, she be promoted by a rival. Napo- man in heaven who bp’ongs in
has gained enormous tracts in leon used to sneeringly refer to another place.
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Bookman, W. F. The Texas City Times (Texas City, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 247, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 21, 1915, newspaper, December 21, 1915; Texas City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1576960/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Moore Memorial Public Library.