The LaCoste Ledger (La Coste, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, June 26, 1931 Page: 2 of 4
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FRIDAY, JUNE 26th, 1931
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eye glued to his sensitive meters
and the other on the performers
outside the window. The above pic-
ture was taken recently during a
broadcast of the Lucky Strike
Dance Orchestra. Just outside the
window may be seen Edward Thor-
gersen, announcer, and back of him,
B. A. Rolfe with a few of the musi-
cian*, who make up this popular or-
chestra of over fifty veteran instru-
mentalists, grouped at the micro-
phones. It is a thrilling experience
to watch the-man at the control
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One Year
Six Months
Three Months
Elsewhere, per year
Entered as second-class mail matter
at the LaCoste Post Office.
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If in the market for a New Automobile--- Let
us demonstrate the "Model‘A’ Ford” the
World's most Famous Auto.
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tatal of 4,074 cars'registered during
the corr'esponding period of 1930, ac-
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The Ledger prints over 1000 papers
each issue. H- ' i
July the 15 is the day set for add
ing 350 more snoopers to the Dry
made by bees, and the Federal pure
food law prohibits the sale of* any
product as honey which is,made by
artificial means Honey is a safe
food to use because it ia clean anti
pure.
port indlcated Production’, remained
4,8pet epnt below the corresponding
month of 130, while shipments were
exactly the same. . h
cisions ever handed down.
Chicf Justice Hughes, stressed the
nerd for freedom of the press
Forces. They got to be paid by
somebody, and their money comes out
of-the people’s purses. That is th'
way this Washington bunch is saving
money, by throwing it away on darn-
ed foolishness.
PAkAGRAPHS
By
Louis Biediger
HONEY IS ONE OF THE OLDEST
FOODS OF. MAN
Zhe LaCoste Ledger
Established, Aug. 15th, 1915
JOHN C. BIEDIGER, Editor and
Proprietor.
The Railroads have asked a 15 per
cent raise in the freight -tariffs, of
the Interstate Commerce Com. Good!
if they want to get entirely out of
the business and turn it all oyer to
the trucks we have no kick to regis-
ter. ’. : Hlnslann
board as he listens, supereritically,
to the music which comes oat a
loudspeaker In his control room,
just as It comes out of loud speakers
in a million homes. He must main-
tain just the right balance of tone
and volume, and guide the fluctuat-
ing pulse of the broadcast, while
the production man, standing at his
• numres ui nvmed. Our
low our work high class
we guarantee material and labor.. T . ;
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sandwiches. Perhaps there was some-
thing besides sand in those sand-
wiches while those dancers too might
have overdone the thing. -
Sugar supply is reduced six million
tons. Perhaps that sugar overplus
fading away may get. someneto try
honey that is also an overplus, or
perhaps the consumption is lacking,
because of the absence of money.'
STORAGE BATTERIES Sold, Repaired
or Recharged
To The Public:
Any erroneous reflection upon the
character, standing or reputation of
any person firm or corporation,
which may appear in the columns of
the LaCoste Ledger wiH.be gladly
corrected upon beyg brought to the
attention of the publisher.
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The Italian Dictator Mussolini is
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We do any kind of Repair Work—Auto,
Tractor or 'anything else.
Advertising Rates:
Display, per column inch, . 250;
yearly contracts, 20c; Local readers,
64 per line. "c
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Setting aside the famous Minne-
seta n wspaper “gag” law by the
Lnit d States Supreme court, may.
be one of the most Important de-
THE second hand on the electric
* dock ticks off the last minute
of the hour,'the radio announcer
leans closer to his microphone,
the orchestra leader raises his
hand, and, then,—as the engineer,
behind the window of the control
rpom, gives the signal. . . . "Good
evening, My friends,” — and an
other major broadcast is on the
air. Only the fortunate few have
been privileged to witness a broad-
oaat from ths inner sanctum,
. where the engineer sits, with one
FORD HEADQUARTERS
LaCoste,
GIS. KROEGER
LaCoste. Texas
. Phone 25.
Here you usa t say tag 1y
were unworthy of me."
Him: "Well, what if I did 2
Her; "Nothing. Only you seem to
be spending your malfeked life trsinr
to prove, it.” .
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THE LACOSTE LEPGER, LACOSTE, TEXAS
left, stop-watch in hand, sees that
everything moves on pre-arranged
schedule, so that no flaws will mar
the entertainment that bringa
pleasure to a nation.
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Grace: "Oh, Jack, hay* you spoken
to papa yet?”
Jack: “No, dear, Tin limping be-
cause I slipped on a banana skin."
and between meak I did KI hours of counties totaled 3,522 during May, a
rushing work. ldecrease of 14 per cent from the
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t EM ENT PRODUCTION
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counties amounted to 3,635. Counties
included in the list were Bexar,
those f the same month last year.
Stocks on hand at the end of the
month were 4.7 per cent less than on
the corresponding date of last year.”
wroduetionin Texas during May
amounted to 600,000 barrels, an in-
crease, of 2.5. per tent over output
in April, according to the Bureau of
Business Resraroh at The University
“Why, Billiel" exclaimed his moth-
er, "how often have I told you to
play only with good little boys?
Good little boys don’t fight."
"Well,” said Billy through tears,
“I thought he was a good little boy
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-- HIGH VOLTAGE , '
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A chap was arrested for assault
and battery.
Judge (to prisoner): "What is your
name, occupation, and what are you
charged with ?”
Prisoner: "My name is Sparks, I
am an electrician, and I am charged
with battery.”
Judge (after recovering his equili-
brium): "Officer, put this guy in a
dry cell.”
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Boss:' "Sir, what does this, mean?
Someone just eulled up and said that
you were sick and could not come to
work to day.” .
Clerk; “Ha! Ha! The joke is on
him. He wasn't supposed to call up
until tomorrow."
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Auto Salesman: “It ru i .. so
proximately seasonal, as was the in-
crease of 6.7 per cent, in sbipments
from 581.000 barrels in' April to ‘620,
000 barrela in May. the Bureau's re
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Bureau of Business Research,
registrations for the same
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The Ohio farmer, in a recent issue
dwells on the habit of Congress to
pass hundreds of millions for this
and that and something else asaif
they had an inexhaustible supply "a
draw from, while in fact the people
_ pay all these bills in higher taxa
tions.
Expert Auto Repairing
I don’t want to be alie,"-
Dodos "Never fear, rou won’t.”
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that language on tbehenaisquile
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FREEDOM OF PRESS
MAINTAINED
American met wpuld not allow
womenito do thiir fighting. Asst,
Press Item, frenn Washington. Cers
►' tainis they wil no forifpresent
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Judge: "You are charged with be-
ing drunk. What have you to say
holding that need to be greater than ai't ronna run no riblions through
■ - —■ - my nightgown just to fool the baby.'
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lene "live (‘Ini-t-dr Kine, aa
shid at ,i funenal - j murdered
Priest at Vera Eruz, Mexico: Then
the polica interfered and the Pelice
Chiet and 2 otHenvificersand other
porsons to a total ol six ware slain.
Why object to Christ and his reign
of Love! In spite of wur hot foods
and alcoholic drinks Mexico pleases
melesa vverydax. Besides the liber
ty to eat and drink what you wish,
you are deni.d th? privelege to adore-
God according to your believe.
full of the above mentioned items,
while eversone claims not. to kn w
money when they meet it in th - road.
Remember we do al kinds of
printing, get our prices 49tf.
$200,000, worth of grems stolen
while the Owner breakfasts in bed.
Asst. Press. He was going the
breakfast nook one better by abolish-
ing thy same; but why not abolish
the gems? Had he laid, up treasures
for heaven in pood <ic.d'. especially
in giving the above sum of money
to the poor of whom there is an
abundance, he would not have suffer
ed this loss: 0 ■ ”, .0 ■' •
Texas animals killed 4 broilers on
my. p l a ee by. sue k in g the blood: away
from them. I wonder what the great
Texas Game Commssion would, say
if I would kill these odonTUS skunks
* * in season and’outof it, asms friend
. W. F. N. would put it.
In New London, Wis two died
after attending a barn dance, so says, rmggoo, , ,
the Asst. Press: While in Lebanon, day news-are any eriterion they have
Indi two girls have diedafter-eatingl- -- f •
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T was nleasently surriedlutely to
read where a So dulled seentist has
disooveredasystm of stars that We?!
claims are dead unde gone a few
thousands of billions of year.-, al-
ready, but. since I bey are so far dis-
tantthat a my of light has to travel
untold billions rof years: before it
reaches the earth, we have not yet
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Honey is one of the oldest foods of
man, the United States Department of
Agriculture saysThere is little
doubt that our early ancestors dis-
Chief Mona: "I just shot a dog."
John: "Was he mad?"
Mona: “Well , he wasn't very
7 PStoeks on hand at the end of the
month_amvunted to 734,000 barrels,
comparrdta 777,000 barrels in April
and 836,000 barrels in May of last
ycar," • the Bureau's report said.
'Production in the United States was
1 per cent below May 1930, while
shipments 'fell 17 per cent below
lots to do to protect th in bes from
the murderous onslaughts of the .te- s.
der h arted (T. female of the ' *'
species. J: '
tend to religion, but, in Politic, thats
me, Mussolini appears to be all of
Italy, although he is not th? King,
but h ; reminds me more of the
donkey every day who went dancing
on the frozen like,
.Although the corn w - eallod dead
in two days by several on June 1ith
it is still ...... " ' " ".....
the water except a few fields were
Brown: "I was never drunk, your
honor, and I never intend to be; it
makes me feel so bad the next morn-
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noticed their departure. How on earth
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so far away as they are, while things
we can see, hear and touch, these '
scientists are so much fussing about.
I cannot understand.
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modern produet
Honey is unique in that it is the
mly unmanufactured sweet available
incommercial quantities. It con-
• wv tains simple sugars, easily absorbed
ireulating by the human system. Honey con-
taiis in limited quantities practically
all the etemeptsofa perfect food ex-
Paso, Galveston, Harris,
Nueces, Tarrant and
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of Texas. This increaso was ap
"After all, fools make life smoothly you can’t feel it, so quietly were very respectful and attentive
you can't hear it, has such perfert to him.”
ignition you can’t smell it, and for. Garage Man: "Yes, he s one of '
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unfortunate friend, this world is full
of trials.”
Convict; "It am' the -trial ('hat
worry me; it's the verdu f 4"
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sam was drilled to elos in the rows,
and some on leached outimirated
lands.
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I have iriedt idea to do with-
out Uncle Sam’s, so ca I d cir ‘
medium as a mennsof exchaaze by
exchanging honos fop eoin. ats, has,
cattle and horses and Texas real ept the vitamins.
| estate: Up to date I have had very
poor success although the country is
covered the honey of the wild bee
long before they learned to make
bread.
The honey of' antiquity' was likely
yogewa. u ..... asgaod as that ofto-dayexcept that
as green as if standing in different flowers at that time gave it
1 except a few fields were a flavor different from, that of our
Front Bayamo, Cuba, com s the
news that a dozen wi we ihjutud when
the police, fired on the unemployed,
because I hey shouted fol employment
md food' Perhaps th e Cuban of
flyers made empluyment for tin1
Ho pita a and th grayedeer
WWhy shdot a nunhemne lie asks,
or' demand- work .' Perhs those
homies wlv.linng around the Depot
Mothen. "Guod-mhus, ahs
didn’tiyou speok tra polio, man " ■
Nurse: "I was speakint one all
the t imt . ma'am."
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"I don'tmind washime the diss,
for you," wailed the henpeekelhus-
band. “I don't opject to sworuing,
dusting or mopping the floors, blit I
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Hawks has breakfast in London, MAY REGISTRATIONS OF r Doctor: “I will sew that scalp
Lunch in Rome,- and tea in Loniton. ? ‘ AUTOS wound up for ten dollars."
flying V hours 44 minutes, GO. l ' Patient: “I just want plain sewing,
i had all the above at home in La ' Austin, Texas, June 25.- Automo- not hemstitching or embroidering." .
Coste, all three tasted good to me, bile registrations in nine Texas
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General Automobile Repairing
Phone 67 LaCoste, Texas
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speed you ean’t gee it " "ur early settlers.”
Londoner: "My word! llow d so Tourist: "Early settler? Why he’s. . .
know the bally thing is there?" quit? a young man."
* । Garage Man: “True enough. I
Tourist: “Was that ome of > "UI t mean he pays his bills the first of’
prominent citiens? I noficed you every month"
of the writers Apiaries left: a good
sticking knife laying in the Apiary.'
Of course I have taken said knife
home because it' might have rusted
Up in the open air, or some other
theif might have' taken same. The
owner can have the knife by paying
for the 80 pounds, more or less of
honey he had cut, 'out at regular
prices. ' -
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ever before. The law, in its intention,
may. have been good—to outlaw in-
decent and salacious sheets. But in
its wording, it put newspapers at the
mercy of political corruption or
E1.1 dictation. There is no place in for yourself?"
s merica forsuppressrom Honest Brown: “I v
uncalled for."
Ikeyr "So 14 tha. umber sou’ve
given me."
l4g -a.
The wife of a famous English
Bishop—whom we shall call John
Smith—was recently very ill, and re-
qtired-a serious operation. As she
recovered from the anaesthetic, she
was heard to murmur:
“Am I in Heaven? Am I in
Heaven? No there’s John."
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Fann Loans "
The Hondo National Farm Loan A ‛N 2lafy5ia
Association, H. E. Haass, Sec-Treas. P: h*f
"u wswgmm Painting & Paperhanging
is prepared t‘> make farm loans any- „ , Tw 10 •
where in Mdina County under the By Experienced Workmen
Federul Farm Loan Act at 5 per cent WALL.PAPER AT COST PRICES
interest and 1 per cent 36 year amor We must work, we have to sell
tzntion repayment plan'. Sixty Lwu ur labor We work in the best as
thousand LeXns farmers, have taken wuN as the humblest of homes,
advantage of this system of borrow-‘priees are low our work high
ing over one hundred eightysone mil-
lion dollars.: Why notyquzPErmer
restrictions have been taken off and
yoU may borrow for any purpose
provided for in the Act, as a farnier
only. - 3 '1 gE .
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MEAT MARKET
± For your Fresh Meat, Ham, Bacon and Sausage.
!!• Only best qualities handled ?!
. > Phone 22 LaCoste, Texas !:
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Products at Wholesale Prices---Tractor
and Motor Oils, Cup Greases, Gasoline,
Kerosene, Etc.
- Your Patronage Earnestly Solicited -
Geiger Filling Station
R. P. GEIGER. Prop.
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WHEN YOU’RE INSIDE LOOKING OUT
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‘ SAL ANTONIO, TEXAS '
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Biediger, John C. The LaCoste Ledger (La Coste, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, June 26, 1931, newspaper, June 26, 1931; La Coste, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1584562/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Castroville Public Library.