The Brady Standard (Brady, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 71, Ed. 1 Friday, November 22, 1929 Page: 3 of 8
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THE BRADY STANDARD, PRADY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1929.
Houston Man Alive After Hard Struggle
With 14-Foot Octopus in Gulf of Mexico
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HOUSTON, Nov. 16.--Still bear-
ing the marks of a struggle with
an octopus 98 feet under water in
the Gulf of Mexico, Jack Jordan,
32, a diver of Houston, has been
released from the hospital.
Jordan bears “air bumps” occa-
sioned him because his mates, fear-
ing he was dead after he had been
hauled from the water ripped off
his diving suit too quickly.
The octopus weighed 75 pounds
and had tentacles 14 feet long.
The diver, employed by a steam-
ship concern, was salvaging a sunk-
en vessel when he was attacked.
“I was being let down at the end
of a long wire rope and was al-
most at the bottom,” Jordan said.
“The octopus was sitting on a rock,
and sprang to attack me.”
“He first threw one arm around
me. I began to struggle and then
he wrapped me with another.
gave the distress signal and they
began pulling me up.
“One of his arms had me caught
so tightly it was with difficulty I
was able to get hold of my acid
gun. I finally did, however, and
pierced its body with a needle of
the gun and then squeezed the bulb
containing the acid. The effect
was instantaneous. The octopus
was relaxed when I reached the
surface.
"The octopus had not hurt me,
but everyone thought it had, and
they tore my diving suit off me,
thinking I was drowned. This is
| what hurt me. I had been under
45 pounds air pressure and to have
this pressure instantly released
paralyzed me. I was unconscious
four hours.
Scotch to the End.
Miles: “Well, old Gene MacDon-
ough remained Scotch to the last
breath."
Plyes: “What do you mean?”
Miles: “When he felt a heart
attack coming on he managed to
fall in front of a passing auto, so
the insurance company would have
to pay his widow double indem-
nity."—New England Printer.
VTVP
Jordan, married, said he thought
his employment “as safe as any
I'other” due to present day methods.
Nance Battery
Service
THAT “OLD TIME” SQUARE
DANCE VIEWED BY HARRY
WILLIAMS IN TEXAS TRAILS
Building Permits
Drop in Brady for
Month of October
PHONE 20
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They're a-goin’ to begin at dark
and dance till daylight.
That’s the word sent out from
Brady by divers and certain and
sundry members of the Brady
Country club.
These divers and certain and
sundry members of the Brady
Country club are those that could
never learn to do the waltz and
fox-trot and two-step and La Var-
sovienne and the Schottische.
Meaning they can only do the
old-time square dance. .
These boys have landed together! Following are the permits issued
to protect themselves from jibe during the past month:
and ridicule, and will be hosts to Oct. 2—Earl Finlay, garage
all other folks throughout the coun- Oct. 4—H. C. King, add’n
try who are like themselves. This to residence
host stunt goes on at dark the night Oct. 7—George Langford,
of November 26, and will rage un-
til daylight, November 27.
The Brady Country club building
will be used, and doubtless they
have a big, blazing log fire outside
where the overflow boys may toast
their shins while waiting for a
place in the dance. They’ll have
coffee in the middle of the night.
Old Shad Simpson, old Monroe
Fleming and “Uncle” Alf Reeves
all old time "callers" will do their
stuff. Old-time music will float support is apt to find things hap-
out and upward to the winter stars, pening that night that will later
Old gazooks, old gazookesses, as lead to encumberment for life,
for that, will have eyes snapping ----------------
that night as they haven’t been. Giving Himself
snapping in many a day. Some old 1 «0ff; • A PI
widower cuss who has been flaunt-. fisheyou’d better lock me
ing his freedom in the face of the UP Jucshhit my wife over the
world for many a day, is liable to head wish a club,
give up that night and trot along
in the leash thereafter.
The building permits for the
city of Brady took a decided drop
during the month of October, when
only seven permits aggregating the
total sum of $5,360 were issued by
City Secretary Ernst Tetens. The
slump in building is not likely to
last many weeks, and the permits
for November are expected to be
boosted considerably over the low
mark for October.
to residence
$ CO
800
two gas tanks
Oct. 9—W. W. Spiller, garage
Oct. 14—Graham Brothers,
repair on bldg.
Oct. 24—C. H. Vincent, im-
provement of residence
.Oct. 25—W. S. Proctor,
tourist cottage
Total
“Did you kill her?”
INSURANCE
IN ALL ITS PHASES
Phone 30 Brady, Tex.
500
50
2750
800
400
$5,360
One of Our Local Anesthetics.
“When I hit a man he remem-
bers it.”
“That’s nothin’. When I hit a
man, he doesn’t.”
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In the United States, is an annual festival of giving thanks tor the mercies
of the closing year. The earliest harvest thanksgiving in America was
kept by the Pilgrim Fathers at Plymouth in 1621, and was repeated often
during that and the ensuing century. Congress recommended days of
thanksgiving annually during the Revolution and in 1784 for the return of
peace—as did Madison in 1815. Washington appointed such a day in 1789
after the adoption of the Constitution, and in 1795 for the general bene-
fits of the welfare of the nation. Since 1863 the Presidents have always
issued proclamations appointing the last Thursday in November as
Thanksgiving Day.
The Brady Water & Light Works wishes to thank the people of Brady for
their patronage during the past year, and, too, we wish to thank Provi-
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The Brady Standard (Brady, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 71, Ed. 1 Friday, November 22, 1929, newspaper, November 22, 1929; Brady, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1626852/m1/3/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting FM Buck Richards Library.