The Houston Informer (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 42, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 6, 1920 Page: 7 of 8
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SOUTH’S GREATEST RACE NEWSPAPER
THE HOUSTON INFORMER, SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1920
PERRY’S BARBER SHOP
B. H. ("BUD”) PERRY, Prop.
4 CHAIRS—STAR ARTISTS
Fifth Ward’s pioneer tonsorial artist. Hair cut, shave, massaging,
shampooing, electrical hair treatments.
2720 ODIN AVENUE HOUSTON, TEXAS
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Pants Made in 24 Hours Notice, Suits or Overcoats in 48 Hours
JONES’ TAILOR SHOP
Three Expert Tailors—Cleaning, Pressing and Dyeing
A house that stands for dependable service, fair and square
business methods and the best values obtainable.
PHONE PRESTON 6982
2416 McKinney Avenue
HOUSTON, TEXAS
DOW’S BAKERY
2504 mckinney
Fresh Bread, Cakes and Pies. Special attention given to Wed-
ding, Birthday and Party Cakes.
CLARK L. DOW, PROP.
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Phone Capitol 3019, Preston 3783
CLEANING AND PRESSING
SUITS MADE TO ORDER
220 SAN FELIPE STREET HOUSTON, TEXAS
W. M. C. DICKSON. A. B., J. B.. J. M.
Attorney and Counselor at Law.
For honesty and ability in all mat-
ters pertaining to the law you should
see him.
Office 409y2 Milam Street
HOUSTON, TEXAS
Phone Preston 1459
LANE CUT RATE GROCERY
“The Best for Less.”
Phone Preston 8687
1307 Clark St.
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The Poro System of scalp treatment and hair dressing at
THE IDEAL BEAUTY SHOP
ALL MODERN EQUIPMENTS
Electric Dryer. Massage. I Pressers and Manicuring.
MRS. CARRIE MINOR POPE
1810 DOWLING ST.
PHONE HADLEY 5642
GIRLS, DON’T BE DECEIVED
Dr. Billingsby writes that physicians and the medical authority should
sound a warning against the use of HOT-COMBS, which is by far the
greatest curse to modern American women. The loss of hair may be divided
into three classes: Physical weakness, dandruff and hot-combs; the lat-
ter, by far, the most prolific cause of baldness. If the loss of hair is due
to physical weakness or dandruff this may be cured, but the loss of hair
caused by the use of HOT-COMBS can never be restored as it deprives the
scalp and hair roots of natural oil which nature provided. Dr. Billingsby
writes: I prescribe for dandruff, loss of hair, a strengthener and promoter
of growth of long, straight silk-like hair (not the matty gummy kind, but
hair that is fluffy and full of life) KAP-O-LINE.
THE KAP-O-LINE WAY TO MAKE KNOTTY, KINKY
HAIR STRAIGHT
The hair must be thoroughly washed. We recommend Kap-O-Line Sham-
poo. It avoids grease accumulation on the scalp, destroys the germs of
diseases and keeps the hair sweet and clean. “Soaps” if used as a shampoo
causes the hair to fade, and the gray haor of many young women could be
traced to this cause. After shampooing thoroughly, then apply Kap-O-Line,
rub well into scalp, brush and comb the hair thoroughly night and morning
during treatment. Throw away your hot-combs that are only drying your
scalp and doing no good whatsoever. Price of Kap-O-Line, 35 cents per
ar Kap-O-Line Shampoo 50 cents per jar. Sold by most druggists or
mailed upon receipt of price. Cut this advertisement out and take it to
your druggist. If he has not got it in stock he will order it for you and
we will mail it to your address.
AGENTS WANTED—We are the largest manufacturing laboratory of
toilets In the Southwest. A big stock of assorted toilets to select from.
We sell for less. Write for booklet and prices.
STONE & CO., PERFUMERS
DALLAS, TEXAS.
Extracts From the
Financial Statement for 1918, of
Standard Life
Insurance Co.
Capital Paid Up..........................5 125,000.00
Surplus to Policyholders................... 143,305.22
Total Admitted Assets..................... 478,781.02
Insurance in Force........................ 8,208,720.00
Premium Income......................... 339,327.77
Paid to Policyholders...................... 79,733.47
Reserve required by law................... 291,033.88
.^No Life Insurance Company operated by colored people
anaihBurinsr on}y colored risks can show a better record
of growth and strength.
Homo Office 200 Auburn Are., Atlanta, Ga.
HEMAN E. PERRY, Pres. HARRY H. PACE, Secy.-Treas.
DR.G.W. ANTOINE
Physician and Surgeon
Office 419^2 Milam
Residence 2418 Dowling
Office Phone Preston 5501
Res. Phone Hadley 3282
Phones: Office: Taborian Bldg.
Res. P. 732. 807% Prairie Ave.
Office, P. 3558. Suite 219.
Hours: 10 to 12, 3 to 7. Sundays by
Appointment.
DR. RUPERT O. ROETT
Physician and Surgeon
Specialist Diseases of Heart and Lungs.
Five years practical hospital experience
in Medicine and Surgery. Specialized in
Surgery and Diseases of Women Freed-
man’s Hospital, Washington, D. C.
My Tooth Doctor
DR. W. J. HOWARD
DENTIST
Has Reopened In Taborian Bldg.
807Yz Prairie Avenue
Office Suite 222-3
Office Phone Preston 6350
Residence Phone Capitol 2253
Hours: 9 a. in. to 1 p. m., 4 to 6 p. m
Sundays by appointment. Office phone
Preston 4181.
DR. C. M. NICHOLS
Physician and Surgeon
Office: Taborian Bldg., Suite 220,
807% Prairie Ave., Houston, Tex.
FAIRCHILD UNDERTAKING
COMPANY
Funeral Directors, Embalmers
Phone Preston 1835
2518 McKinney Ave.
Stove Wood and Chunks
Richard L. Jones
25c to Carload Lotj
Phone Had. 662 Golf Park
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STOP THAT COUGH!
By Using
555
COUGH REMEDY
For Sale at
All Drag Stores.
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Phone Capitol 1701
Work Called for and Delivered
JOHN HENRY’S PLACE
Cleaning and Pressing
8UITS MADE TO MEA8URE
Men’s Clothing Our Specialty
JOHN HENRY, Prop.
2609 Odin Avenue Houston, Texas
W. L. McCOY
For All Kinds of Notary Work 8ee
At Mme. Franklin’s Beauty Parlor
805 Prairie Avenue
B. R. PETERS, Optomerist
815 Prairie Avenue
WEAR KRYPTOK
INVISIBLE LENSES
Phone Preston 6256
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HURLER RUTH TELLS
SECRET OF BATTING
Home Run King Says “Keep Youi
Eye on the Ball.”
New York Yankee’s Newly Acquired
Pitcher and Outfielder Tries to
Follow Advice qiven Him by
Veteran Player.
••Keep pour eye on the ball I"
Sounds like golf, but Babe Hath,
leading manufacturer of home runs
was speaking about baseball. Babe,
who was recently purchased by the
New York Yankees from the Boston
Red Sox, doesn’t do much batting ofi
the field. He doesn’t believe Id try-
ing to score base hits with his chin,
but every once In a while he can be pep
suaded to go to bat In the conversa-
tional league, and when he does he
generally knocks a couple of verbal
home runs.
Naturally, the all-important ques-
tion for Ituth to answer Is "What Is
the secret of successful batting?” It
was in reply that Ruth unhesitatingly
answered:
“When a pitcher Is preparing to de-
liver a ball try to guess what he In-
tends to throw, a curve or a fast one,’
continued Ruth, "but just because
you have made up your mind he Is go-
ing to throw n curve do not be too
sure of It. Always remember the
pitcher is also trying to outguess the
batter. That Is part of a pitcher’s
work. Once he releases the ball never
take your eye off It. If you do you are
gone. Watch It all the way. Watch
It as It breaks and watch It as you
start your swing. The hatter who
watches the ball only part of the wuy
In Its flight to the plate seldom be-
comes a good hitter, for If the pitcher
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Babe Ruth.
Is throwing a curve it seldom breaks
until It Is within a few feet of the
p a'i- It Is almost impossible to tell
whether a thrown ball Is going to
curve or not until the actual break
nceiirs. For this reason It Is neces-
sary for a batter never to take Ills
eye off the hall.
“When I was a youngster just bo-
j ginning to play any kind of real Imse-
j hall a veteran- player impressed upon
! me the necessity of keeping my eye
| on the hall, and I have never forgot-
| fen It. It has heroine second nature
! with me, and yet I never step to the
[ plate that the warning 'Keep your
I eve on -he hall,’ does not flash through
my mind.
“Next to keeping his eye on the ball
a tatter must learn to hit with a free
and easy swing. Getting started
quickly toward flrst base Is something
thin demands close attention. Many a
base hit has been lost by a slow start
from the plate and many a base hit
has been made by getting away quick-
ly.
“There are many more things about
batting, hut these are the chief things
to remember and practice.”
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IMPORTANT NOTICE!
AGENTS AND READERS.
All matter intended for inser-
tion in the current issue must reach
our office NOT LATER THAN
WEDNESDAY NOON OF EACH
WEEK. All persons desiring to get
news into the South’s greatest
weekly newspaper, THE HOUSTON
INFORMER, will please govern
themselves accordingly.
BASEBALL
.STORIES
Jack Dunn Is looking for another,
big season.
* • •
Harvard has eight veteran players
for this year’s nine.
• • *
Babe Ruth can play first base for
the Y’ankees If anything happens to
Wallie Pipp.
* * *
The Salt Lake City club Is said to
be angling for the services of Catcher
Walter Mayer.
• • •
A long spring interleague series of
1920 will he played by the Mackmen
and Cardinals.
• • •
Several of the big minor league
dubs will have as long training trips
as the majors in the South.
- • * *
Club owners of the Western Can-
ada league have decided to raise ad-
mission prices to 35 and 50 cents.
* • •
Looks as If the bolshevlst movement
had hit baseball with the Reds and
Yankees holding out for bigger sal-
aries almost to a man.
UP IN THE AIR
By CECILLE LANGDON
DR. H. C. LEWIS
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
807i/2 Prairie, Room 221
Phone Preston 4181
(Copyright, 1920, Western Newspaper Union)
“I’m all up In the air!” muttered
HD-am Serlpps In a dazed way.
“Don’t say that, neighbor,” urged his
friend, Robert Wade. “Think, man
think! You had It once. It's got to
comp bnek to you again.”
“Think?” repeated Hiram gladly.
“I’ve done nothing else but think ever
since that happened,” and he pointed
sorrowfully toward the charred ruins
of a burned down shed at the rear of
the lot. “To have the model of my
grent Invention working like a charm,
to have a big capitalist offer me a for-
tune for It, and now—ashes I”
“Cheer up, old friend,” consoled
Wade. “You needn’t tell me that a
man of your geulus and ability won’t be
able to make over what you once
made."
“I can, all but the little Jigger that
was the soul of the whole device,” re-
plied Hiram. “It simply won’t come to
me. and without it the new model Is
simply kindling wood. Oh I I’m not
mourning the loss of a fortune. It’s
Miss Tlhetts I’m fretting about.”
“That’s bad, Hiram,” observed
Wade.
“No, It’s good," dissented Hiram with
“motion. “It’s good because I’ve found
mt liow much 1 love her, dear, sweet
angel that she is I Wade, when I had
spent the last cent of the money I got
from mortgaging my place here and
didn’t know where to turn to get
enough to finish my model, that lovely,
unselfish being drew her savings out
of bank, five hundred dollars, and
forced It on me to help me out. Oh!
the shame of not being able to pay
her hack will crush me. What will she
say or think?"
"Say? Thnt you could have more If
she had It. Think? More of you than
ever. It’s the way of women—love,
pity, sacrifice. Don’t fret on thnt
score. Get your mind on something else
for a while, and before you know It the
little Jigger you can’t remember will
pop Into your mind. I say, there’s a
circus in town. Let’s stroll down to It
and take a look nt things.’’
“It won’t Interest me one bit,” de-
clared Illrani.
The two friends reached the vacant
lot where the big white tents Invited,
but Hiram was In an abstracted mood
and the glowing cunvas daubs held no
attraction for the unhappy Inventor.
“Let her go!” came the order, and
the guy ropes of n show balloon Were
released and the distended monster
sagged and swayed.
“HI! out of the wny there.”
The yell was directed nt Hlrnm. It
startled him out of his preoccupation,
but he did not move quickly enough
to evade a bunch of trailing ropes. One
of them whipped about him, tugged,
tightened, and he was lifted from his
feet. He grasped at the rope to steady
himself. Then aloft he went.
Wade was awed, horrified. The
crowd thrilled, the balloon men on the
ground shouted wildly to the operator,
but up like an arrow, fulrly one hun-
dred feet, shot Hlrnm.
Later, when questioned ns to Ills
unique experience, Hiram Serlpps
avowed that such n thing' as fear nev-
er occurred to him. He declared thnt
the sensation was one of exhilarating
buoyancy. Ills mentality seemed re-
leased from all natural bonds. In a
flash there came to him, clear, per-
fect, remembrance of the part of his
machine that he had so vainly sought
to grasp.
The startled balloonist turned n
valve and began to descend. As
Hiram’s feet struck the top of a roof
the rope slacked and he let go of It.
The balloon swayed free of him, hut
Hlrnm, left without support, rolled
down the roof and struck the ground I
with a shock.
“Oh, lie’s killed !” groaned Wade, ns
nirnm lay Insensible. “Get a doctor, j
quick !”
A physician happened to he on the 1
grounds. He hurried to the spot
“A had hump on Ills head, hut no I
bones broken,” he reported.
Just then Hiram opened his eyes.
A glorious smile Illuminated hts face, j
In another moment he relapsed Into
unconsciousness, hut not until he had !
shouted out rapturously:
"A concentric shnft and two ratch-
ets—hurrah !”
"Mind gone—concussion of the
brain,” pronounced the physician dole-
fully. “Get him home quick.”
It was several hours later when
Hiram opened his eyes. Beside his
couch were two willing nurses—Miss
Miranda Tlbetts and her married sis-
ter.
“And oh, Janet!” the former was
sobbing, “what If his brilliant mind
never recovers! And oh! I love him
so. and If he was a mere beggar I
would work and die for him, If nec-
essary.”
“You say thnt, you loving sweetest
of all womankind !” cried nut Hiram,
startling the Indies by bolting upright.
“Then life Is Indeed worth living. Oh,
Miranda! the golden luck. A concen-
tric bar and two ratchets—Hurrah!”
“Oh. my dear!—my dear!" pleaded
Miranda, breaking down utterly, “for-
get such wretched ravings !”
“Ravings?” fairly shouted Hiram.
“Why, that means that I remember
the Important mechanism that had es-
caped my memory. Up In the nlr no
longer, my darling! I can finish the
modpl now. We’re rich, my sweet, and
yours shall be the fortune that Is now
surely ours, and myself lu llie bargain,
if you will have me.”
0. V. TOBEY & CO.
SHOE HOSPITAL
First-Class Shoe Repairing Done While You Wait. Shoes Called for
and Delivered.
Our Prices Can’t Be Beat.
218 San Felipe Street Phone Capitol 3019
$
Dr. C. A. George, D. D. S. Dr. Irwin L. Jones, D. D. S.
Res. Phone Had. 3556 Res. Phone Had. 320
Hours: 9 a. m. to 5 p. m.
DRS GEORGE & JONES
DENTISTS
For High Class Dental Service
Work Done by Appointment.
Suite 201-4 Lincoln Theatre Bldg., 711 Prairie Avenue
Phone Preston 5128 HOUSTON, TEXAS
GUARANTEE SERVICE STATION
AND AUTO REPAIR SHOP
710 SAN FELIPE STREET
All makes of cars repaired. Vulcanizing, casings and tubes.
Oil and auto accessories, filling station. Free air and water.
LEE BLACKMAN, PROP.
HARMONS’ DRY GOODS STORE
Can satisfy all your wants in the Dry Goods line. A full
line of Hair Goods and Notions ALWAYS on hand. Your
patronage solicited.
J. H. HARMON, PROP.
423 San Felipe St. Houston, Texas.
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GILLIAM’S CAFE
307 San Felipe Street
To eat one of our meals is to be reminded of home and
mother. Don’t fret and fume over the hot stove, come in
and let us be your cook.
Regular meals and short orders served by competent
help.
WM. GILLIAM, Proprietor
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See
MRS. NETTIE JOHNSON
15008 Dowling Street
I use the Mme. Franklin system and positively cure all scalp
diseases and start the hair growing at once.
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j White Swan Barter Shop
506 Milam Street
Eight expert tonsorial artists ever ready to serve your
wants: Hair cut, shave, shampoo, massage. Hot and cold
baths.
AARON BYERS, Proprietor.
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