Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 40, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 4, 1914 Page: 3 of 8
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STOP A BIT
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When in Edinburg, call at the
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F. A. Schoenfeld, - Proprietor
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A TEN-CENT can of Babbitt’s
jljl pure lye is paid insurance against
dirt or germs: guaranteeing clean
sinks, and thoroughly sweet and
sanitary conditions in the home, and
in your barns, kennels or hen houses.
If you will write we will send you a
book Absolutely Free telling a hun-
dred uses for Babbitt’s Lye; also our
premium catalogue illustrating beau-
tiful and valuable presents exchanged
for coupons.
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BABBITT’S LYE—The Best Home Soap Maker
Highest in Strength hut net in Price—-10c
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THE BEST GROCERS HANDLE BABBITT’S LYE
We Have the Only
Complete Tract Index of Hidalgo County Lands
In existence—not of some of the lands
but all lands in Hidalgo County
Hidalgo Guaranty Abstract Co.
W. R. MONTGOMERY, Mgr.
EDINBURG, TEXAS
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™ Reward for any case of Catarrh
that cannot be cured by Hall’s
Catarrh Cure.
1 F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known F. J.
Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by his firm.
NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE,
Toledo, O.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mu-
cous surfaces of the system. Testimonials
sent free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold
by all Druggists.
Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Foley’s Honey and Tar Com-
pound for Croup.
Croup scares you. The loud
hoarse croupy cough, choking
and gasping for breath, labored
breathing, call for immediate
relief. The very first doses of
Foley’s Honey and Tar Com-
pound will master the croup. It
cuts the thick mucus, clears
away the phlegm and opens up
and eases the air passages.
NEW SHIPPING FIRM
WILL CO-OPERATE
Lindsey Waters Declares He
Will Co-Operates With Unit
Marketing System
An interesting communica-
tion has been received by the
Dispatch for publication from
the office of the Unit Marketing
System, to whom the letter
was addressed by Lindsey Wa-
ters, formerly secretary of the
Rio Grande & Coast Associa-
tion. Mr. Waters writes as fol-
lows:
Harlingen, Oct. 27, 1914.
Mr. J. H. Christner,
Unit Marketing System, City.
Dear Sir: •
Having announced by inten-
tion of entering business under
the name of the L. Waters
Produce Co., with headquarters
here, I desire to make my po-
sition clear to the farmers of
the Valley, and consider the
best means of doing so to be by
a letter addressed to you as
president of the farmers’ mar-
keting association, and your
board of directors. Several
years ago I started to work
toward the forming of such a
medium and with others helped
to found the Rio Grande &
Coast Association, and for near-
ly three years was employed by
the farmers as their secretary;
they the farmers, have by an
overwhelming vote decided that
they wished to try new meth-
ods and men, and while as I
have before stated in various
places, I doubt whether the
new methods will be success-
ful. Time alone will prove it.
My wishes are still most sin-
cerely for the success of the
Valley farmer and the sale of
his crops, and I would feel my-
self disloyal to his interests
and my own principles, if now,
because I am no longer secre-
tary, I placed anything in the
way of a thorough test of your
new plans and methods of sales,
though this plan will not at
first be approved by buyers, and
its success depends upon the
entire stopping of consign-
ments. While, you, the farm-
ers’ association adhere to the
plan, I shall do so, and further
use my utmost endeavors to se-
cure cash buyers for the Val-
ley truck. It is with this in-
tention I am starting the prod-
uce company that bears my
name, and fully expect to buy
many cars from you the com-
ing season. It appears to me
that for any of us who have
been identified with our old as-
sociation as employees and re-
ceived our salaries from you,
to go into the field. now with
sales methods conflicting with
yours, while perfectly legal, is
most unfair to the organized
system of marketing, which we
professed for three years to be
upholding, and sure to injure
the prospects of your success.
Very truly yours,
(Signed) Lindsey Waters.
Overlooking Little Things
Many a person goes through
life overlooking the little things
and vainly grasping at the big
ones.
When death claims them
they are still grasping, but not
possessing.
It was the result of starting
wrong.
And so it is with many men,
with some women, in the mat-
ter of newspaper advertising,
although the ranks of the over-
lookers are becoming thinner
every year.
Some people never let an op-
portunity slide by.
No line in the local paper
ever escapes them: lest it be
something which might be
turned to their advantage.
No advertisement is ever
overlooked, lest it contain an
article of which they are in
need and which may be pur-
chased to a better advantage
now than later.
All people read the advertise-
ments. Some make it a busi-
ness, have reduced it to a sci-
ence, and extract the greatest
benefit from even the most in-
significant things.
It is a big stone in the foun-
dation of their success.
No merchant spends money
on printer’s ink unless he has
something worth offering,
something you need, and sooner
or later must have.
No one can afford to over-
look these advertisement, lest
he miss an opportunity to se-
cure an article of need at a
minimum price.-
No man or woman who starts
right with a firm grasp on
the little things will fail later
in life to attain the big ones.
All things are small in the
beginning, but they attain size
in accordance with the acumen,
the energy, the perseverance,
of the one who guides their
destinies.
' All t advertisements have
some merit, are of especial in-
terest'and value lo some person.
They are an important part
of the little things in life which
should never be overlooked, for
out of many little things a few
big ones grow.
Swine Breeders’ Association
The bureau of animal indus-
try, national government, has
recently sent Dr. Lampe, an ex-
pert in the treatment of hog
cholera, to Texas to work in co-
operation with the A. & M. Col-
lege and the county demonstra-
tion agents. Dr. Lampe wishes
to organize a local Swine
Breeders’ Co-operative and Pro-
tective Association in each com-
munity where sufficient encour-
agement is given. If the hog
raisers of Hidalgo county will
send their names to Marshall
Mcllhenny, at Mission, he will
invite Dr. Lampe to come and
meet the hog raisers at the
various towns in the county.
Mr. Mcllhenny has on hand
a few application blanks for
free pure-culture for alfalfa and
other legumes which he will
send out upon request.
Voted for '“Puddin’ Head”
There are those who would
have given no small sum to
have been within hearing dis-
tance while President Wilson
and Colonel George Harvey
were conversing in the White
House.
Official etiquette forbids di-
vulgenee of presidential conver-
sations, but a friend of a promi-
nent resident of the White
House says Mark Twain’s
name came up in some con-
nection and Colonel Harvey re-
marked, casually, there still live
persons who never have heard
of the great humorist. The
president found this almost in-
credible.
“Oh, yes,” the Colonel 'con-
tinued, “only yesterday, here in
Washington, I met such a one.
He was an office-seeker. He de-
clared positively he never had
heard of Mark Twain. I asked
him about Tom Sawyer. No,
he had never heard of him,
either. Nor Huck Finn? No,
never. Nor Puddin’ Head Wil-
son? ‘Oh, Lord, yes,’ he ejac-
ulated ; ‘I voted for him.’ ”
And the President’s roar of
delight did not diminish in the
'least when the Colonol contin-
ued softly: “ ‘And,’ he added
wistfully, ‘that’s all the good it
done me.’ ”—Washington Dis-
patch.
Declare War on Rhuematism
Rhuematism is an awful
thing—nothing more painful.
Don’t let it get a hold, but at
the first twinges take Foley
Kidney Pills. They work dir-
ectly on your weakened kid-
neys, build them up, make them
strong; rid your blood and keep
it clear of uric acid. Keep Foley
Pills on hand ready for use at
the first sign of rheumatism,
i For sale by all dealers.
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ZOLLICOFFER
HAS COME TO TOWN.
My fine black jack will make
the fall season of 1914 at the
Finley place in the south part
of Mercedes. $10 to insure a
living colt, $5 due when the
mare is bred the first time,
balance when colt comes.
E. A. HERNDON
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An animal is a hog is no reason
why his food should not be
carefully selected. It actually
pays in dollars and cents, to do
Come to our store and
so.
inspect
THE FINE FEED WE CARRY
that makes stock grow and
brings you in larger profits. We
have Hog Feed, Horse Feed,
Cow Feed and Chicken Feed.
Sterling
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ATTORNEY AT LAW
Mercedes, Texas
PRACTICE IN .STATE AND
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JUST RECEIVED—New stock of Dishes, Men’s
Shirts and Boys’ Wagons. We have almost any
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Mercedes, Texas
COULD SCARCELY
WALK ABOUT
And For Three Summers Mrs. Vin-
cent Was Unable to Attend to
Any of Her Housework.
Pleasant Hill, N. C.—“1 suffered for
three summers,” writes Mrs. Walter
Vincent, of this town, “and the third and
last time, was my worst.
1 had dreadful nervous headaches and
prostration, and was scarcely ahle to
walk about. Could not do any of my
housework.
I also had dreadful pains in my back
and sides and when one of those weak,
sinking spells would come on me, I
would have to give up and lie down,
until it wore off.
I was certainly in a dreadful state of
health, when I finally "decided to try
Cardui, the woman’s tonic, and I firmly
believe I would have died if I hadn’t
taken it.
After I began taking Cardui, I was
greatly helped, and all three bottles re-
lieved me entirely.
1 fattened up, and grew so much
stronger in three months, I felt like an-
other person altogether.”
Cardui is purely vegetable and gentle-
acting. Its ingredients have a mild, tonic
effect, on the womanly constitution.
Cardui makes for increased strength,
improves the appetite, tones up the ner-
vous system, and helps to make pale,
sallow cheeks, fresh and rosy.
Cardui has helped more than a million
weak women, during the past 50 years.
It will surely do for you, what it has
done for them. Try Cardui today.
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structions on your case and 64-page book, "Home
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Hoyt, L. T. Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 40, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 4, 1914, newspaper, November 4, 1914; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth634985/m1/3/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 14, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.