Honey Grove Signal. (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, February 7, 1913 Page: 4 of 4
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PERILS OF THE CIRCUS.
The Dread of Falling Is Ever Haunting
the Performers.
Day after day the circus woman
dons her tinsel, slips on the heavy'
wooden “slop shoes” over her satin
pumps, and so, with perhaps a “By-
by, girls,” and a nod to the ward-
robe mistress, she shuffles out from
the dressing tent to the ring, blows
a kiss to the audience at large and
takes her life in her hands.
She does not think of this fact
consciously, as a rule, but subcon-
sciously the knowledge is with each
one that some day perhaps she will
be like the little girl who once was
hustled out of a circus ring so fast
that the audience hardly noticed,
and then a gaudy kimono was young shoots spi w v
thrown over her face, and instead the stump of the plant previously
of her slop shoes returning when | cut. These shoots are cut every
the whistle blew, men’s feet tramp- - "" --------- A—
ed, and the circus doctor found no
work for him when he got there
CINNAMON OF CEYLON.
How the Aromatic Bark Is Prepared
and Packed on Board Ship.
More than 200 years ago the
Dutch rulers of Ceylon, anxious to
retain their monopoly of the pre-
cious spice for which that island is
famous, enacted a law that made rt
a capital offense to buy or sell the
wild jungle cinnamon, then the only
sort known. The plants, wherever
found, were held to be the property
of the state. If a shrub chanced to
spring up in a man’s dooryard, he
could neither destroy nor use it un-
der severe penalties. Things are
different now.
Today the cultivation is something
like that of a willow copse, straight
young shoots springing up round
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CAN YOU DOUBT IT?
When the Proof Can be So Easily
Investigated.
When so many grateful citizens
of Honey Grove testify to benefit
derived from Doan’s Kidney Pills
can you doubt the evidence? The
proof is not far away^it is al-
most at your door. Read what a
resident of Honey Grove says
about Doan’s Kidney Pills. Can
you demand more convincing
testimony?
H. P. Jones, farmer, E. Mar-
ket street, Honey Grove, Texas,
says: “I suffered from kidney
trouble and lameness across my
back. At night I could not get
any rest, owing to a dull pain in
my lungs. I had headaches and
at times my sight was affected.
Dark spots floated before me,
especially when I stooped. On
hearing of Doan’s Kidney Pills, I
got a supply at the Corner Drug
Store, and after using them I
soon improved.”
For sale by all dealers. Price
50c. Foster-Milburn Company,
Buffalo, N. Y., sole agents for
the United States.
Remember the name—Doan’s
—and take no other.
Ten Leading Lies.
A correspondent of the Kansas
City Star has selected what he
considers the ten leading lies of
humanity in every day affairs.
The list is well chosen, and most
certainly we recognize old stand-
bys from beginning to end. The
ten “whoppers” are as follows:
1— Yes, we’re out, but we’ve
just ordered a lot of it.
2— 1 didn’t care anything for
the money. It was the principle
of the thing.
3— I’d just lik to have been in
his place. I’d have showed him.
4— If I had that woman for a
little while I’d teach her a few
things.
5— If I’d catch a kid of mine at
anything like that I’d blister him.
6— If I had just a little money
I know where I could go out and
make a pile.
7— 1 never would care to be
rich—just comfortably fixed.
8— My wife and I have never
exchanged a cross word.
9— If you don’t thinx it’s a
good thing for you, I don’t want
you to do it.
10— I’ve never seen such
weather before.
Signal and Dallas News, $1.75.
TEXAS TRACTION COMPANY
(Denison-Sherman-Dallas Interurban)
“The Convenient Way”
HOURLY LOCAL PASSENGER SERVICE
BETWEEN ALL POINTS
A FAST LIMITED CARS /
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Direct Interurban Connections at Dallas for
Lancaster, Waxahachie, Ft. Worth
and Cleburne.
Baggage handled on regular local passenger cars.
M. R. FEWELL, JAS. P. GRIFFIN,
A. G. P. A. Denison, Texas G. P. A. Dallas, Texas
rWith The Jokesmith l
ONE ON THE EDITOR
‘ ‘When I was city editor of the
Virginia City Enterprise,” re-
marked Mark Twain at a dinner
in New York, “a fine turkey was
one day left at the office.
“Turkeys were rare in that
high altitude, and we all hankered
after this bird. The proprietor,
though, claimed it for his own.
He took it home and had it cooked
for dinner.
“The next day, as he was ex-
patiating on the turkey’s richness
and tenderness, a letter was
handed to him. He opened it
and read:
“ ‘Mr. Editor—Sir: Yesterday
I sent you a turkey which had
been the cause of much dispute
among us. To settle a bet, will
you kindly ask your agricultural
editor to state in tomorrow’s is-
sue what it died of.’ ”—Harper’s
Weekly.
GEORGE KNEW WELL.
Mark Twain says that some
years ago, in the South, he met
an old colored man who claimed
he knew George Washington.
“I asked him,” relates the
humorist, “if he was on the boat
when George Washington crossed
the Deleware, and he instantly
replied:
“ ‘Lor’, massa, I steered dat
boat. ’
“ ‘Well,’ said I, ‘do you re-
member when George took the
hack at the cherry tree?’
“He looked worried for a min
ute, and then with a beaming
smile said:
“ ‘Why, shuah, massa; I dun
drove dat hack myself.’ ”
United Presbyterian.
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F. SLAC
Fire and Tornado
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INSURANCE
Office,
Upstairs in Pierce-Wood Building.
Office Phone 280
Residence Phone 108.
straight evidence.
“Isn’t it wonderful what thim
doctors can do? You know, Mike,
whin I went to the infirmary with
my eyes, they chloroformed me
and took out my eyes and scraped
them.” “Och, now,” said Mick,
“who’s been blowing ye up with
that nonsense?” “It’s not non
sense,” replied Pat, “for shure I
woke up and saw my eyes lying
on the table. ’<
UNDERTAKING.
A full line of Coffiins and Caskets.
Every Grade and Price. Burial
Robes and all other Undertaking
Goods.
South Side of Square.
Don’t Be an “Old Fogy.”
The old idea that good photo-
graphs cannot be made on a
cloudy day was exploded about
twenty-five years ago, and it is
only the workman that cannot do
good work under any conditions
that fails to get the same results
with clouds as With sunshine.
Just remember that we do not
use * ‘Kodaks” for portraiture anc.
come when it suits you, anyFRI-
DAY or SATURDAY.-Foster-
Photo.
Chest pains and a dry hacking
cough should be treated with Bal-
lard’s Horehound Syrup taken
internally, and a Herrick’s Rec
Pepper Porous Plaster applied to
the chest. Buy the dollar size
Horehound Syrup; you get a por
ous plaster free with each bottle.
Sold by Honey Grove Pharmacy
and Black & Little.
Get to know these women and you
find that under all their easy light-
heartedness, their gypsy spirit, is a
sort of smoldering dread like that
of the people who live in earthquake
countries.
You see it, for instance, in the
keen way they take up the subject
of accidents.
“The worst I ever fell was once
when the net broke,” said a trapeze
performer.
“I’d just as soon have it break
as to fall bad in it,” put in an-
other. “Remember that time I bit
my lip? Felt like my chin was
knocked right up through the top
of my head. My lower teeth cut'
my upper lip till it had to be sewed
up clear across.”
I learned then that the art of fall-
ing in the net is as difficult aB any
part of the performance, for so.
great is its elasticity that if a per-
former “falls bad,” say in a standing
position, the knees may be shot
straight up to the chin and a knock-
out blow may result. To learn to
come into the net prostrate, as in
a hammock, is no small trick.—
Sarah Comstock in Collier’s Weekly.
Origin of the Heel.
It is said that the heels now worn
on shoes had their origin in Persia,
where they took the form of flat
wood on sandals to raise the feet
and protect them from the hot
sand. It was many years afterward
that this fashion was introduced
into Venice, but the reason for its
adoption in this case is said to have
been quite different. Here the origi-
nators of the fashion were jealous
husbands who reasoned that their
ladies thus equipped would not ven-
ture far outside the precincts of
their dwelling. These heels were
called “clogs,” and in order to satis-
fy the vanity of the wearers and per-
haps to sweeten the pill—that is,
the discomfort of appearing in them
—they were elaborately adorned,
sometimes being incrusted with gold
and silver. The height of the clogs
determined the rank of the wearer.
—Harper’s.
Fahrenheit’s Zero.
The word zero is from the Span-
ish and means empty; hence noth-
ing. It was first used on a ther-
mometer in 1795 by a Prussian mer-
chant named Fahrenheit. From a
boy Fahrenheit was a close observer
of nature, and when only nineteen
years old by experimenting with
snow and salt he discovered what he
believed to be the lowest degree of
temperature known in the world.
He called the degree zero and con-
structed a thermometer with a scale
graduating up from zero to boiling
point, which he numbered 212, and
the freezing point 32, because, as
he thought, mercury contracted the
thirty-second of its volume on being
cooled down from the temperature
of freezing water to zero.
Sized Them Up.
A well esteemed preacher in a
community that was rather noto-
rious for the stinginess of its in-
habitants, according to Lippincott’s,
suddenly announced his resignation,
and the deacons immediately sought
him out for his reasons.
“My decision has been brought
out by the negligence of my congre-
gation,” announced the divine.
“Why, sir,” protested one of the
hearers, “I can’t see how you can
accuse us of negligence. The church
is crowded every Sunday.”
“Oh, yes,” agreed the preacher,
“but what I accuse them of is con-
tributory negligence.”
They All Write.
“The Rousmittems are a literary
family, aren’t they ?”
“Yes, they have a common gen-
ius.”
“What do you mean by that ?”
“Well, the son writes plays that
nobody will act; the daughter writes
poetry that nobody will print, and
the mother writes novels that no-
body will read.”
“Does the father write anything?”
“Sure! Papa writes checks that
nobody will cash.”—Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Serious Lung Diseases result from colds which were expected to get well
themselves. The sensible course when cold settles in the chesl^jto take
BALLARD’S"^
Horehound Syrup
IT IS A GRAND REMEDY FOR THE THROAT
AND LUNGS.
The great relief it affords in the inflamed lungs is most gratifying to those who have been har-
assed by an obstinate, irritating cough. It relaxes the tight feeling in the chest, clears the air pass-
ages of phlegm, soothes and heals soreness in the bronchial tubes and restores sound conditions in the
respiratory organs.
Put Up in Three Sizes, 25c, 50c and $1.00 per Bottle.
Buy the $1.00 size. It contains five times as much as the 2Se size, and you get with each bottle a
Dr. Herrick’s Red Pepper Porous Plaster for the chest.
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JAMBS F. BALLARD PROPRIETOR ST- LOUIS, MO.
second year. They measure two
inches in circumference. Many of
them are sold as walking sticks and
find a ready market among steamer
passengers, who think that there
must be a special charm in a cinna-
mon stick, though in truth it is
hard to distinguish it from common
hazel.
The real thing to be secured is
of course the highly aromatic inner
bark. First the leaves are stripped
off and then the bark is split from
end to end with asharp knife that
has a curved point. With this, aid-
ed by the fingers, the bark is care-
fully removed in long pieces. These
are shaped up and left to sodden, so
as to facilitate the next process,
that of scraping off the outer rind.
In order to do this each piece of
bark is placed on a round piece of
wood and carefully scraped with a
knife, the almost nude brown work-
ers sitting on the ground and using
their toes as an extra hand to steady
the end of the stick.
The hark is then left to dry in
the sun, when it rolls itself up into
tight quills. These are neatly sort-
ed and packed, three or four inside
one another, made up into bales
covered with cloth and are then
ready for export.
Cinnamon is so sensitive that
care has to be taken with regard
to its surroundings on board ship,
as a bale of fine cinnamon will lose
much of its delicate aroma if packed
among bales of coarser hark. Vari-
ous expedients have been tried to
remedy this. The Portuguese and
Dutch isolated the bales by packing
them in cocoanut fiber or in hides,
but it is found that the only real
safeguard is to pack bags of pepper
between the bales. — New York
Tribune. _
How Norway Deal* With Dlvoroo
It is easier to obtain a divorce in
Norway than in any other European
country. If a married couple want
to part, Norwegian law grants a di-
vorce without inquiring into the
reason, but as security that the step
has been well thought over it pro-
vides that a year of separation must
intervene between the application
and the granting of the divorce.
The husband and wife have first
to apply to a magistrate. He sends
them to the conciliation board, and
if this body cannot reconcile them
they are granted a separation order.
At the end of a year the ministry
of justice is compelled to make the
divorce final if asked to do so by
either party.
Glass Needed a Spoon.
She was pouring boiling water
into a fine thin glass tumbler, when
crack, crack, and the crystal vessel
was in a condition fitting it only for
the ash pile.
“Isn’t that just too bad that 1
broke that glass ? It spoils the set,
was her plaintive comment.
“My dear girl,” said the wise call-
er, “whenever you find it necessary
to put any very hot liquid in a deli-
cate glass or china vessel, if you
will put the spoon in first such an
accident as you have had will be
quite impossible.”—Exchange.
The Sea Greyhound.
The waters about Iceland abound
with fish. Of one of these inhabi-
tants of the water, called the dog-
fish, a writer on the subject has
this to say: “He is a long, cruel
looking fellow and is the one fish
the fishermen dread He is the sea
greyhound without legs, and no hy-
ena is more crafty. His two eyes
shine like light emeralds. In the
center of his back is a bony pro-
tuberance, sharp as a razor and
shaped like a reaper’s sickle, anc.
his mouth, like his cousin’s, the
shark, is beneath his body.”
Ho Was No Flatterer.
The roll of “things that might
have been said differently” has been
swelled, according to Rev. E. J.
Hardy’s “How to Be Happy Though
Civil,” by a curate in England who,
on the occasion of his marriage, re-
ceived a handsome present from his
parishioners.
He began a speech of thanks in
this way: “I will not call you ladies
and gentlemen, for I know you too
well for that.”
Stephens Eye Salve Ss a yemedy of great power In diseases of the eyes or eyelids. It heals Quickly and
strengthens the sight.
ISolp AndRecommended By]
Black & Little and the Honey Grove Pharmacy.
jgjaro Believed to be Dead Fifty Years
Is Found.
Wichita, Kan., Feb. 3,—For
fifty years Mrs. Alice Eddy be-
lieved her husband, Newton S.
Clothier, dead. Today she re-
ceived a letter from Stafford,
Kansas, saying that Mr. Clothier
was there and would soon visit
her here. Mrs. Eddy married
Clothier in Iowa in 1856; eight
years after he disappeared, and
she married George P. Eddy,
who died at Hutchison, Kansas.
Mrs. Eddy moved to Wichita two
years ago.
Boys’ knee, pants suits up to
$5, your choice for $1.50 on our
job counter. —Wilkins, Wood &
Patteson. _____
White Crest Flour keeps the
children' fat and the cook in
good humor. We have it.—Mc-
Gaughey & Sons.
1212 AUTOMOBILES 1212
Practically all makers of High Grade Cars have recognized the advantages of Six Cylinder
Cars and are furnishing them in their best models, and the Best Cars are all equipped with
ELECTRIC SELF STARTERS.
All Mitchell Cars for 1913—now on sale-are priced fully~equipped with Electric Self-
Starter, 5 Electric Lights, Mohair Top, strapless, Storm Curtains, Dust Envelope, Bair
Bow Holders, Wind Shield, quick action, rain vision .and ventilating, Speedometer, Extra
Demountable Rim, Electric Warning Signal, Electric Exploring Lamp, Illuminated Dash,
License plate Bracket, Extra Tire Carrier, Robe Rail, Foot Rest, Tire Repair Outfit, Pump,
Jack and complete Set of Tools. For further information apply to
Agents in Fannin and Lamar Counties
Honey Grove, Texas
DON’T SHOCK YOUR
LIVER WITH CALOMEL
Dodson’s Liver-Tone Persuades It to
Work Naturally and Safely. No
Restriction of Habits or Diet
If you have a sick horse you
cannot make him work by beat-
ing him, and if you try it you are
iable to ruin him forever. It’s
the same way with your liver.
When it becomes torpid and slug-
gish, you can take calomel and
whip it into action, but the calo-
mel will leave your body weaker
and sicker than ever. Calomel
is a very powerful chemical made
from mercury.
A perfect substitute for calo-
mel that has all of its medicinal
properties with none of its dan-
gerous and uncertain follow-ups,
is Dodson’s Liver-Tone.
The Honey Grove Pharmacy
sells Dodson’s Liver-Tone with
the guarantee that if you don’t
find it a perfect substitute for
calomel this store will give you
your money back. Dodson’s
Liver-Tone is a true tonic for the
liver, purely vegetable, and with
such a pleasant taste that it is no
trouble to get children to take it.
It is absolutely impossible for it
to do anyone any harm, because
it simply persuades the liver to
do what it ought to do—no more
and no less.
For bargains in lap robes, go
to Clark’s Harness Shop
The Next Big Event
is the
FAT STOCK SHOW
at
Fort Worth, Texas
March 8-15
Will have ROUND TRIP TICKETS
on sale from ALL STATIONS on their
lines at VERY LOW RATES.
Ask Agents for full information about
the selling dates, limits and fares or
write
GEO. D. HUNTER, Gen’l Pass. Agent,
A. D. BELL, Asst. Gen’l Pass. Agent,
Dallas, Texas.
Ask your agent to route you
over
Texas Midland B. R.
Eggs-actly.
A man over in Orange reports
a hen egg weighing eight ounces,
and a Houston gentleman brought
one to this office yesterday almost
as large as a football. If a
Charleston hen had laid an egg
like that she would have cackled
her fool self to death. It is proper
to add that the Houston hen is
getting along as well as could be
expected under ; the circum-
stances.—Houston Post.
How’s This?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Tolede, O.
perfectly honorable in all business^ transac-
eations made by his firm.
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act-
ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur-
faces of the system. Testimonials sent free.
Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all druggists
Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation
Dallas
Houston
Galveston
Commerce
Kaufman
Ennis
Shreveport
New Orleans
F. B. McKAY,
General Passenger Agent
Terrell, Texas
Plumbingand Tin Work
We are prepared to do all kinds
of tin and sheet metal work, al-
so plumbing of every kind. Our
rates are reasonable and we
guarantee all work. We solicit
your business in either of these
lines. Shop on West Main St.,
opposite Signal office.
Bad Spells
“ I suffered, during girlhood, from womanly weakness,”
writes Mrs. Mollie Navy, of Walnut, N. C. “At last, I was
almost bed-ridden, and had to give up. We had three
doctors. All the time, I was getting worse. I had bad
spells, that lasted from 7 to 28 days. In one week, after I
gave Cardui a trial, I could eat, sleep, and joke, as well as
anybody. In 8 weeks, I was well. I had been an invalid
for 5 weary years 1 Cardui relieved me, when everything
else failed.”
OARDU I Woman's Tonic
If you are weak and ailing, think ./hat it would mean,
to you, to recover as quickly as Mrs. Navy did. For more
than 50 years, this purely vegetable, tonic remedy, for women,
has been used by thousands of weak and ailing sufferers.
They found it of real value in relieving their aches and
pains. Why suffer longer? A remedy that has relieved
and helped so many, is ready, at the nearest drug store, for
use, at once, by you. Try it, today.
Write to: Ladies’ Advisory Dept., Chattanooga Medicine Co.. Chattanooga, Tenn..
for Special Instructions, and 64-page book. “ Home Treatment for Women, sent free. J 57
UNDERTAKING
See us for all kinds of Undertaking
Goods. Our stock is always well
assorted with everything that be-
longs to the line and our prices are
reasonable. Respectfully,
J. '1ST. Smith
Guaranty Fund Bank
Our facilities for handling your business
are the best. We will extend accommoda-
tions to customers based on the responsibil-
ity and deposits given us. We invite your
account whether large or small.
First State Bank
Df Honey Grove
REAL ESTATE
North Texas black lands.
Pecos Valley irrigated land and ranches.
Property in all parts of the country. If you want to
sell list with me. If you want to buy,
write or call on me.
Excursion to Pecos Valley, 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month
Honey Grove, Texas
Shirley Tin & PlumbineCo Signal andDallas News $1.75
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