The Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 6, 1910 Page: 7 of 8
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S PEC I AL NOTICE
On account of the delay in the shipment of our fall millinery stock, we will not ho able .to. get ready for our
I fall millinery opening, which we regret very much. However, we are ready to serve the trade, and already
we have a goc^l trade with our fall line. We have a superb assortment of such choice Millinery as delights
women’s hearts while sparing men’s purses. Every variety of plume, every species of wing, every modern
mode in hats that grace the face. We offer for your consideration simplicity, correctness in color and shape,
at prices whose cheapness is the result of our forethought and not our folly. : : > : : : :
Our Fall Clothing
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You will be strongly impressed as you look over our display of fine clothes for fall. You’ll see an exposition of cosmopolitan fashions, the best
that America can offer; many style surprises, much smart elegance of fakric-and pattern. Onr work of selection lias been done regardless of cost,
and we assume all responsibility for satisfying you wholly. We mean to make every sale a credit to our store. The suits we are offering have
many points of superiority over other suits. This will be appreciated by stylish dressers. Have von ever worn a suit, sold by us? No! Tlfen you
cannot realize what good clothes we are selling, and at extremely low prices. They can be bought from.
$5.00 up to $25.00
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We will have some Special Prices on
Suits for the three days of the Fair
We invite you to make Our Store Your Headquarters during the Fair.
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You will find
DAVIS BROTHERS
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Summer Excursion Tickets
At Greatly Reduced Rates
To Points North, East, Color-
ado, Pacific Coast and
Mexican Points via
H. E. & W. T. R. R.
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On Sale Commencing June 1st.
Return limit October 31st, 1910
Loop trip via New Orleans and Southern Pacific Com
pany Steamers. Going via steamer and returning
via fail lines or vice versa. The Celebrated Wooten
Wells Now Open for the Season.
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PEANUT INDUSTRY GROWING.
36,000,0001s Estimated Value of
Crop Harvested Last Year Through-
out the Southern States.
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Tell it to us
Your Drug Wants.
We endeavor to give our patrons the kind of ser-
vice and the kind of goods they desire. We seek too,
to conserve their interests in every way.
it you appreciate prompt, courteous attention,
high quality and reasonable prices we are quite sure
to hold your trade for many years. Give us a trial
anyway.
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CAPITOL PHARMACY,
■'THE DRUG STORE OE QUALITY”
A. J. Peebles, Prop. * f
One of the latest aids to be
called upon by a long suffering
public in its effort to reduce the
present high cost of living is the
humblest of the nut family, the
peanut. Recent reports from
men who have been privately in-
vestigating show that hundreds
of families in Philadelphia, New
York and other great American
cities have cut out meat entirely
from the daily diet and have
placed on their tables heaping
bowls of the succulent ground
nuts.
Capitalists in New York who
have been watching with interim
the progress and rapid spread of
the new fad are preparing to in-
vest large sums in purchasing
vast tracts in the South and in
South America for the cultiva-
tion of the plant and the product
bids fair to occupy in the neay
future an even more important
position than it has in the past in
the markets of the country.
Prominent physicians through-
out the country have declared the
peanut to be an excellent substi-
tute for meat. It is true that to
gorge on the tasty kernels, unless
one is blessed with exceptional
digestive powers, is to tempt
severe internal disorders, but
eaten sanely the nutritious por-
tion is readily assimilated by
the weakest stomach.
The person who buys a nickel’s
worth of peanuts to munch dur-
ing the ball game, to feed the
squirrels in the park, or to glad-
den the hearts of the kiddies at
home, scarcely realizes that lie'
has contributed to an industry
that last year farmed a $1*000,
000 crop, and which placed-bn
the market in various forms
reached the enormous sum of
$^6,000,000. But it is a fact.
This little seductive nut—a
resolution to “eat just one” is
soon forgotten—whose birth-
place is America, was, until com-
paratively recently, unappreciat-
ed either as to the “money in
them” or as a really nutritious
product. Today the peanut
plays an important part in
pleasure, from the aristocratic
dinner party to the ever-present
democracy of the circus, ball
game or picnic.
By far the largest part of the
crop is consumed from the pea-
nut stand, the little whistle-sign
of the roaster being the signal
for the average youngster to
daddy that some of them would
be very acceptable, and the pater-
nal or maternal parent’s willing
ness—nine times of ten—to in-
vest. Yet there are millions of
bushels that go to the fattening
of hogs throughout the South,
the feeding of poultry, while the
vines, often cured as hay, feed
thousands of head of cattle, and
even old Mother Earth is
nourished bv the roots of the
plant, which furnishes nitrogen
to it from the air.
The result of all this is that
scientists claim that the peanut,
which in the past was not very
highly regarded, is the only food
staple that will at once nourish
man, beast, bird and fields It is
the most nutritious of the entire
nut family, rich in tissue build-
ing properties, containing glu-
cose and carbonhydrates—and is
the cheapest. Beyond the shadow
of a dOJ&t, it is first from a
dietary and economic standpoint.
The fact of the matter is the
peanut in about every way is in
a class by itself as regards price,
average- number in pounds,
edible part, waste and fat. They
average about 350 to t^ie pound at
a cost of 10c, the edible portion is
73.6, waste 26.4, and the amount
of fat is placed at 80 per cent.
These are remarkable figures
when one stops to consider them,
and brought out more clearly
when compared with the small
Texas pecan, its nearest competi-
tor, which sells for over a third
more, averages but 216 to the
pound, has a waste of 61.8 per
cent, edible part but 38.2, and
contains 68 per cent of fat.
The farming of peanuts during
the past five years—not longer
than this—has become an es-
tablished industry in this coun-
try. At present about five-
sixths of the crop comes from
Virginia, and most of the balance
from Tennessee. Georgia, West
Virginia, and the Carolinas, al-
though most of the Southern
States contribute some. As the
peanut industry has increased,
so has the use of all nuts grown
mightily as -a» article of food
during the last decade, and the
entire family now forms a most
important part of the diet of the
physical culturist and vegetarian.
The value of the nut has long
been known to the peasant class
of Italy, Germany and Prance,
and during occasional famine in
those countries many lives have
been saved by it, the humble
acorn and chesnut both having
assumed its share of the duty.
^JhS,,popularity of the ground
nuts amQng children, while, of
course, greater in this country
than any other part of the world,
is spreading to England and to
Germany. In the latter country,
however, the nuts command
much higher prices than in
England or America, and are
handled by only the high-priced
grocers and delicatessen shops.
They are, of course, to expensive
a food to give to the monkeys in
German zoological gardens.—
Brooklyn Eagle.
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West, W. L. The Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 6, 1910, newspaper, October 6, 1910; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth659237/m1/7/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.