The Fort Worth Press (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 193, Ed. 1 Monday, May 15, 1939 Page: 13 of 14
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1900
USED 61
MONDAY, MAY 15,1939
Abbie an’ Slats
Want-Ad Service—Call 2-5151
Bv Raeburn Van Buren
THE FORT WORTH PRESS
Want-Ad Service—Call 2-6151 .
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$550
Co.
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$225 1
ERMS •
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ALS
10-ply rears;
. $285
DeL. Sedan;
$285
per $275
.. $125
oupe: in ex-
$185
Luxe Coupe;
ellent condi-
.... $195
KENT
CO.
1 W. 7th St.
It for You
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Loan Service
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$ 18
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.....$ 35
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$110
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23640"
CHEVROLET
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k, steel turret
h y draulle
es, $50 radie,.
blue; modern
he minute. 30-
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guar.. 9545
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Sedan . $495
g Sedan $395
an $595,
-1 $225
- Sedan .$465
nice ...$325
edan .. $145
$165
AGUE
DANS 3-2503
Chevrolet Mas-
Coupe, turret
hydraulic
s, velvet black
Good tires,
condition
shout 30-day -
Cnee $395
Phone 2-2316
P. $465
LL
2-7632
Anything
SALES
3-9822
ty in acre for
rac $150
Main, 6-0137
OACH $225
h.....$265
AIN
I come and see
Co.. 1901 E.
Cadillac - Se-
A beautiful—
for the dis-
rating buyer,
ht new by a
Worth doctor.
and finish
$275
Phone 2-2316
FORE
I SELL
C HEFNER
Eves. 3-2881
Trunk Coach,
2122 N. Main.
R AT
TH
CARS ——-
OTOR co
- 3-2503
I com-
witires $290
WITH SLATS IN HOT PURSUIT, THE SUPERIOR 5
POWER OF THE ROADSTER WIDENS THE GAP
BETWEEN PURSUERS AND PURSUED
WE’VE LOSTHERE’S THE JUSTICE
HIM in rL
WE'RE IN A TERRIFIC ^
HURRY! WE WANT TO BE L
MARRIED IMMEDIATELY!!
-ER-EH-AHEM-
AHEM-W- WHO
WANTS TO M°
MARRY-WHO?
Our Boarding House
with .
Til
WE BOTH WANT TO MARRY
EACH OTHER OF COURSE,
PLEASE- HURRY!!! .
Red Ryder
RETURNING
TO H19
HOME
WITH HIS
FRIEND
LITTLE
BEAVER,
REO RYDER
FINDS HIS
CABIN
BURNED
AND HIS
STOCK BEING
RAIDED BYA
MOUNTAIN
LION
KNOWN AS
SCAR-FOOT
OF THE PEACE’S HOUSE
I HAVE THE LICENSE <
IN MY POCKET/
ER-YES -JUST
A MOMENT, PLEASE,
WHILE I FETCH MY
BOOK-IT’S UP -.
,___, STAIRS - )
THIS LEAN-TO MAKE G000
HOME TILL WE BUILDDM
NEW CABIN, RED RYDER.
MEBBE SCAR-FOOT
TRY To STEALUM
STOCK TONIGHT/
SHERIFF ?-THERE ARE TWO L JEE. L
LADIES HERE WHO WANT TO BE MARRIED- HO-SO-
WHAT’S WRONG WITH THAT ? C PHAT#
- WHY, BLESS YOU, MAN- THEY r ILL BE (
WANT TO MARRY EACH 7 RIGHT ,
OTHER/!!
OVER!!
TT.VAA BIREN
Bv Fred Harman
1 CABIN CAN WAIT TILL
WE CATCH OL’ SCAR-FOOT’
SCAR-FOOT i
PLENTY , a
SMART LION. W
YOU NO J
CATCHUM!
IF HE DOES,
IT’LL BE HIS LAST
KILL, LITTLE BEAVER:
GdsDGd:ixtran Aon
. T. M. REC. U. S. PAT. OFF.
This Curious World
she
THERE ARE
MORE THAN
(00,000
KNOWN SPECIES OF
BEETLES.
s:15
BUT FROM THE ROCK RIM, THE
CUNNING KILLER WATCHES
THE FEEDING HORSES.
By William -
Ferguson
Te
SUNFLOWER
WAS CULTIVATED
By THE HURON
INDIANS BEFORE
THE COMING OF
WHITE MEN.
IT FURNISHED
THEM WITH
HAIR O/,
F000,
FO DDER,
THREAD
AND DVE.
Stories in Stamps
NEA SERVICI
RIGHTERONG"
A COLT’S LESS
ARE FULL- LENGTH • -
AT BIRTH.
i ANSWER Wrong A study carried on at the North Dakota
agricultural experiment station showed that the average draft
1 colt adds seven inches in leg length from birth to maturity.
; NEXT: America’s most common names.
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Nr. Hod-—
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WELLADAY/ DUGAN, MY .LAD, THS
ARCHLUTE WAS GIVEN TO ME IN
OMSK BY A POOR MUZHIK OVER-
COME BY GRATITUDE WHEN I
ADMINISTERED TO HIM MEDICAL
ATTENTION HE SORELY NEEDED-
TUM-TE-TUMMM/ HOW ABOUT A . <
LILTING LYRIC FROM THE. BARBER .
OF SEVILLE?LA-LAT UM-KOFF: )
• LA-LA-LA LA! AH, BRAVO +
S FIGARO, BRAVO BRAVISSHO
* FORTUNATISSIMOUM-TE-TUMMm
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2 su, FIGARO GIU, PRONTO 17
6 PRONTISS/MO : J3 ABuA
WHAT KEYe
IS THAT, I
• MAJOR? I 1
CAN’T FIND
IT ON THIS %
LINOTYPE F
Major Hoople
KEY? THAT
AIN’T A KEY
, THAT’S TH’
2 wiNP BLOWING
TH’GARBAGE
CAN AROUND
‘ TH’ YARD! re
/ IS THAT TH’ BARBER
OF SEVILLE OR TH’
BARBER SHOP c HORD?
/WHERE’S MY HAT, MACK ?
/__( WHAT’s MY
HURRY? D.
S. PAT.
Y US AN EXIT MARCH, FIGARO s-s
Out Our Way
i
WE KIN ALWAYS
SCARE UP ONE
OR TWO IN TH’
CORNER OF A
RAIL FENCE!,
(•
AM
BORN THIRTY YEARS TOO Soon
By Williams
J.R. WILLIAMS
1-16
Li’ Abner
WE PROMISED MAMMYYOU BET,
YOKUM WED DLIVER THISALL WE GOTTA
HAM T’ LI’L ABNER.HE DONE DO IS RUN
TOOK A TRAIN T’NOO YAWK.) ON THIS
TH’ TRAIN RUN ON THIS TRACK TOO,
----7 TRACK, AN’ WE GET
1 ) — T’NOO YAWK
. . - 2A (SAME AS,—,
‘-Ye b 3 (TRAIN 4
Saagoraneazeta ”
. F
Bv Alc5
by Oop
WOW! THAT WAS CLOSE ! 1
. -01
A
BEAD ON
CUSSES.)
eaPets
THOUGHT WE’D SPEARED NUMBER
THREE THAT. TIME! WHEW! —f
WONDER: HOW THEY GOT
IT CLEAR 2
(I’M GONNA FIND
—LL OUT RIGHT NOW
I CAN’TWHAT’S WRONG
I MAGINE WHAT’S UP THERE
IN OUR r
ENGINE
HAPPENED T’MY
TRAJN CREW!
--IF I CAN STAY RIGHT
SIDE UP LONG—2
ENOUGH TO WE MUST BE
GET THERE! / MAKIN’ ABOUT A
-__L HUNDRED MILES
---AN HOUR
L5-15
Wash Tubbs
Vc. r.mi no U.a ear.or/3
TH’ TRAIN’LL GITA RUN,
’EM ANY MINUTE!- POLECAT ) You
AH’LL WAIT HYAR X RUN!” BET,
COMF’TABLE AN’ POUR) BUT WEGOTTA
LEAD INTO THAR------‘
REMAINS AS AH
y PASSES OVER/
/ DON T IGET T’NOO
GIT / YAWK?-WE
OFFA 4 WOULD BE
TH’J, FOOLS TO
TRACK.) LEAVE i
7 ( TRACK,
AT THIS MOMENT IN NEW yoer CIT-A
BEAUTIFUL LADY IS MISSING LiL ABNER-
By Hamlin
SOLyn I WONDER HOW V’STOP .
Wo-X ) THIS CONTRAPTION?__D
AIDED IVE HOLLERED "WHOA GEE
E TILL I’M HOARSE!
WHAT A
LOTTA
GADGETS.
OH, YOU FOOL!
YOU KILLED OLD
SPLENDIX, THE
GOOSE THAT
WAS ABOUT TO
LAY THE GOLDEN
EGG.
MA-HA’AT LEAST I DIDN’T LEAVE.
ANY FINGERPRINTS LAVIN’ AROUND
-(LIKE WASH TUBBS DONE.
Jim Hardy
/ FOR REASONS ) RIGHT,
I DON’T WISH TO L MR. KIT TPURR
DIVULGE, I THINK 9 ——-----
THIS WAS NO -
. ACCIDENT?
RIGHT,
HELL HANG FOR IT, THE SAP,
LOOK AT THE PAPERS. WHY,
THE COPS ARE SEARCHING
FOR HIM THIS VERY y—1
——7 MINUTE. 7
HE’S THE
. MAN.
By Crane
VOURE UNDER ARRE ST, COKER FOR
THE MURDER OF I.R. SPLENDIX!
4
THAT 1
THE MAN,
EASY?/
COPR. 1939 BY NEA SERVICES INC.)
T—-—1
5-15
By Dick Moores
Honduras—Where You
Get Your Chewing Gum
HISTORY and chewing gum
stick out all over the story
of British Honduras. The history
dates back hundreds of years and
may hold the key to the question,
how the western hemisphere was
originally peopled. The chewing
gum is one of the big industries
supporting the country today.
Civilization flourished in British
Honduras when Europe was a
primitive land. This is borne out
in the pyramids, the ruins of tem-
ples and altars, the huge statues
of gods, the finely sculptured mon-
uments which have been found in
this British colony in Central
America.
Archaeologists believe that ex-
cavations of these ancient remains
in Honduras may some day un-
lock the whole fascinating story
of humanity in the west.
Columbus "discovered" British
Honduras on July 14, 1502, while
CATSPURR IS
THE NAME?
HAR-UMPH. I
SUPPOSE NoU
HAVE PROOF:
THE OFFICIAL
INVESTIGATION
WILL BEAR |
. NE OUT: J
OH, INISPECTAH KE Y?
STEP OVAH HEAH.
INSPECTAH KEIS
CHIEF OF DETECTIVES
HEAH IN ADVILLE.
WHAT WOULD
Nou SAN CAUSED
THE WRECK,
ISPECIAH?
PLAIN CASE OP
MECHANICAL FAIL-
URE. CARS GETTING
OLD BRAKES WENIT
HAN WIRE. NO SIGN
OF TAMPERING.
To BAD TO SPOIL
NOUR LOVELSTORN, MISTAA
HARD I. IT WOULD HAVE
BEEN SO DRAMATIC?
GOOD DANI, GENTLEMEN.
Freckles
By Blosser
%
in search of a passage to the -
Pacific ocean. The Spaniards, in-
cluding Cortez, visited there.....(
through the next few decades,
but the English in 1662 seemed—.
a to have established the first set-
" thement.------------
They settled because of the
______Large quantities of logwood avail-
. able. It was extremely high
priced at the time. Today Hon-
duras still is chiefly a country of |
forest products. Its main indus- |
try is the cutting and exporting
. of mahogany. Cedar, rosewood
: and logwood are also exported.
— British Honduras is also one
of the world’s principal sources
of chicle, a latex derived from the
sapodilla tree. From it you get
your chewing gum. Handling of
chicle is shown above on a cur-
rent “new reign" stamp of the
colony.
(Copyright, 1939, NEA Service, Inc.)
it. YALE SPENDS #489,000,
Yale University spent $489,000
on athletics in1938.
IF THAT FRATERNITY
COULD OFFER ONE EXCUSE
FOR ITS EXISTENCE I
. MIGHT.....,
PHONE, POP--
ITS FOR YOU /
(N
THIS IS THE LIGHT
DEPARTMENT! WOULD
YOU SEE IF THE
STREET LIGHT ON
YOUR CORNER,
( IS BURNING/
‘ ITs BURNING
ALL RIGHT!
GOSH, FELLAS.
DO I HAFTA
SAY IT 2
You
DO IF
WHY, (
YES —
I’LL GO OUT
AND SEE /.
. DON’T
WANT To
GET
PADDLED!
* MORE OF OUR
WHAT 1 FRATERNITY DOINGS, EMT
DID THEY 1 ONE OF YOUR, LUNKHEAD
SAY, POP? ) FRIENDS ASKED ME To
. . SHINNY UP THE POLE AND
BLOW OUT THE LIGHT / THEN
THE SAID “ KUTCHY,
J U. KITCHY, KITCHY !* .
Boots and Her Buddies”
PUG WOULDN’T You LIKE to 66 FOR
SUM : THE WATER VS BUST RIGHT
2.
NOV,
HEN -
FATHER
O—-
BY THE WAY,
WANT No PUG’S
FATHER’S NAME ?
SIX SEEM" AALKNOW VERY
LATLETABOUT AM EXCEPT THAT HE
SENS AROUND QUITE A. N % SINCE
PGG F\RST OSAPPEARED ,YL TRVE
IN VAN TO LOCATE HIM TARU ,
W5 LONOOT) YOW
ADDRESS ‘
on!
By Edgar Martin
WANT I XO HAGEST HEARS
We "ORS A Y No.
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Weaver, Don E. The Fort Worth Press (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 193, Ed. 1 Monday, May 15, 1939, newspaper, May 15, 1939; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1688882/m1/13/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fort Worth Public Library.