Timpson Weekly Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, February 19, 1932 Page: 7 of 8
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STAMPS
It is leas than a hundred
years since the first postage
stamps were issued, but stamp
collecting has become one of
the most widespread of all
hobbies. Bare issues of early
postage stamps command
fabulous prices. If I had to-
day one set of stamps which I
owned as a boy and which I
traded for'a squirrel rifle, I
could sell them for many thou-
sands of dollars. That was a
complete set of uncancelled
United States departmental
stamps.
A few years ago my wife
came into posession of a trunk
full of old letters, which had
accumulated for more than a
century in a New England
farmhouse. Somebody else had
cut the most valuable stamps
from the envelopes, but there
were numerous stamps left for
which she got more than $10
apiece.
The mast valuable stamps of
all are some of those issued
privately by postmasters be-
fore the government began to
print stamps, in 1847. If you
can find, for example, a stamp
issued by the Postmaster of
Alexandria, Virginia, in 1845,
or one by the Postmaster of
Bogcawen, New Hampshire in
1846, you have found a for-
tune. Single copies of each of
these stamps have lately sold
for $15,000 each!
’•believe, when nobody in any
civilized part of the world will
need to fear destitution in old
CALENDAR
The International Confer-
ence on Calendar Reform
seems to be making some head-
way. There is still a bitter dis-
pute between the people who
would like to change our
method of computing time
from a twelve-month year to a
a thirteen-month year, but on
one point almost everybody has
come to an agreement That
is to make Easter fall at the
same time every year.
Under onr present calendar-
Easter is the Sunday after the
first full moon which follows
the twenty-first of March.
That may be any time from
March 22nd to April 25th. The
Roman and Greek Catholic
churches, the Chnrch of Eng-
land, the Lutheran church and
all the important Protestant
-denominations have agreed
that there is no reason why
Easter should not be fixed for
the Sunday following the sec-
ond Saturday in April, arfd
authoritative action may be
looked for within the next year
or two, insuring that Easter in
all parts of the northern hemis-
phere will always occur after
spring has got well under way,
instead of falling, as it now of-
ten does in northern climates,
while the world is still in the
grip of winter.
AGE
The State of New York
granted-pensions to 51,168 old
people in 1931, the first year
of the operation of the State
Old Age Security Law. The
average pension waa $26.92 a
month. Any person over
seventy years old who is unable
to support himself or herself
is eligible for a pension in
New York.
Massachusetts gave relief to
10,000 old people in the first
six months of its Old Age As-
sistance Law, for which every
voter in the State is taxed $1 a
year. It cost an average of
$5.85 a week for each pen-
sioner,
Delaware, California and
Minnesota have State old age
pension systems. - In Canada
63,285 old people are on the
pension rolls.
The time is coming soon, I
Huey Long Sworn in aa Senator
MMT 7~r an m —ME rTTM»nm
<^n Gnard at Shanghai j
COLLARS
In times like these it is the
“white color” workers who get
the worst of it. They are the
first to be fired or to have their
salaries reduced. They are
the last to be taken back when
business picks up again. They
are office workers or store
clerks mainly. Because their
training and inclinations make
them more fastidious than the
general run of wage earners,
most of them are paying high-
er rents and habitually spend-
ing more on living than artisans
and their families do.
As a white collar worker my-
self, I have a grievance which
I share with all of them. Ev-
ery commodity that I know of
has come down in price, except
wikite collars. Before the war
we could buy white cotton col-
lars two for a quarter, and im-
ported linen collars for a quar-
ter. We now have to pay a
quarter for the cotton collars
and forty cents for the line?
ones.
I think I
farming!
will go back to
NECKTIES
Is there anything more fool-
ish than a man’s necktie T If
* ON TEXAS FARMS •
* By W. H. Darrow, Extension *
* Service Editor *
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Governor Lome, of Louilintt. t dynamic
activities to jhc^tgnatf, after hi?
nor’$ dair bad been duly elected. Loaf is
to Vice-President Curtis.
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prottetiag American kaoneli ts
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nun who gives User
w the right stimulant
need not worry about growing old.
Her system doesn't stagnate; her
be* doesn’t age. She has the health
and “peo” that come from a Srety
liver and strong, active bowels.
When you’re sluggish and the
ayitem needs heh>, don't take a lot
m “patent medicines." There’s
famous doctor’s
s prescription for
and every druggist
itst su ________ _ _
keeps this standard preparation. It
is made from fresh laxative herbs,
active senna, and pure pepsin. Just
ask for Dr. Caldwell’s syrup pepsin.
Take a little every day or so, until
every organ in your body feels the
big rrr-rovesneot.
The next time you have a bilious
^eadgybe, or feel JI bound-op, take
** om syrup instead of the
usual cathartic. Yo«*E be rid of all
that poisonous waste, and yea
haven’t weakened the bowels.You*H
have a better appetite, and feel
better in every way. The constant
use of cathartics is often the cause of
a sallow complexion and lines in the
face. And so unnecessary!
Would you like to break yourself
of the cathartic habit? At the same
time building health and vigor that
protects you from frequent sick
spells, headaches, and colds? Get a
bg bottle of Dr. CaJdweirs syrup
pepsin today. Use often enough to
avoid those attacks of constipation.
When you feel weak and run-down
or a coated tongue or bad breath
warm you the bowels need to be
stimulated. Give it to children
instead of strong laxatives that sap
their strength. It isn’t expensive.
Tbe M-2, one of the latest type of plane-carrying underseas vessels ip
the British Navy, was tmahle to rise after submerging off Portland, on die
south coast of England She carried a crew of four officers and ft fly men.
Sonia Henie, tbe wortdTs cham^ou
figure skater who hafts from Nor-
way, will taka fart k the Laka
you wear a collar you have to
wear a tie. It is a perfectly
useless adornment, serving no
real purpose except to gratify
the wearer’s vanity. A man
never sees his own necktie
when he is wearing it, so he
must wear it to pkase other
people’s eyes. 1 think there is
a good deal to be said for the
costume which used to be so
popular in the movies, the roll-
ed-collar shirt worn open half
way down the chest.
Men are such slavish follow-
ers of fashions, however, that
they will never dress sensibly
until a few bank presidents
and others who make a busi-
ness of being dignified set the
style of dressing comfortably.
NOWMEWOMIUf
LOST II uy I.IEK
Mrs. Betty Luedeke of Day-
ton writes: “I am using Kru-
schen to reduce weight—l lost
10 pounds in one week and
cannot say too much to recom-
mend it.”
To take off fat easily,
SAFELY and HARMLESSLY—
take on half teaspoonful of
Kruschen m a glass of hot wa-
ter in the morning before
breakfast—it is the safe way
to lose unsightly fat and one
bottle that lasts 4 weeks costs
but a trifle. Get it at any drug
store in America. If this first
bottle fails to convince you
this is the safest way to 1e«- fat
money back.
But be sure and get Kru-
schen Salts—imitations are
numerous and you must safe-
guard your health.
yfllEmLowtWT ROWS
RlS HoftH LOUDEST IS
usually tuE Poorest
at DRIVING A CAR
WHEN TO BE BUND
A young mother who is
friend of our family entered
her daughter in a girl’s school.
She said to the head-mistress:
“Mary is not much of a stu-
dent. She likes history and
does fairly well in French, but
in arithmetic I think she is al-
most a total loss.”
Amazement appeared on the
face of the head-mistress. “Dto
you mean to tell me,” she ex-
claimed, "that you have
brought us a child who has
faults! After sitting here for
years and listening to mothers
whose daughters were para-
gons of virtue and intelligence,
this is indeed a novel experi-
ence !”
Most of us are constitutional-
ly unable to see any defect in
those we love. It might be bet-
ter sometimes if we could.
Perhaps if we could analyze
our children cold-bloodedly, we
might be able to bolster them
with added strength.
On the other hand, what a
blessing it is that we do not
always see too well.
In cleaning out my desk one
day I ran across a photograph
of our first baby, taken when
he was about six weeks old. I
remember how proudly w-e sent
it to all our relatives at Christ-
mas time; how positive we
were that there had never been
in all history so beautiful a
child.
Today the picture gives me a
fit. It must be my youngster,
for my wife is holding it But
instead of the beautiful cherub
I remember, what is she hold-
ing? Something that looks ex-
actly like a summer squash.
Without the blessed blind-
ness of women it is dffiicult to
see how any marriage could be
a sustained success. We men
know each other—that no one
of us is very good. Yet our
wives have the silly notion that
we are great stuff. And by
their faith they keep os going.
- Centuries ago a city was at-
tacked by the armies of Syria.
A prophet lived in that city. A
messenger rushed to him in
great alarm: "Alas, my mas-
ter! how shall we do?”
To which file prophet re-
plied calmly: -
"Fear not! for they that be
with us are more than they
that be with them.” ... “And
the eyee of the young man were
opened, and behold the moun-
tain was full of horses and
chariots round about Elisha.”
There are forces of goodness
in people thst are visible only
to the eyes of love. There are
forces of power that can be
estimated only by the eyes of
faith.
The important tiling is to be
intelligently blind to the sur-
face defects, and to be able to
see and appreciate the things
that can not be seen.
Grocery bilb in many Palo
Pinto county farm homes
whftie 4 H pantries were es-
tablished last year have reach-
ed a new low level of $5 pen
month, the home demonstra-
tion agent say^.
At an averige eost of $12
per garden jKeCulloch county
garden demonstrators and co-
operators averaged $225.44
worth of fresh and canned
vegetables las; year, the home
agent reports. 1
An average of 26 varieties
of vegetables were grown in
year ’round gardens last year1
■by 475 home demonstration
club women and 124 4-H elnb
girls in Tarrant county. Hot
beds were constructed in 116
gardens. Total profits of $40,-
263.59 are reported by the
home demonstration agents.
—0—
Fifty Smith county pastures
were cleaned np last fall and
the grass and natural clovers
given a chance, following the
sowing of 3000 pounds of vari-
ous clovers last spring- The
county agent also reports more
than 1200 pounds of sudan
seed sowed to temporary pas-
tures.
A 95 per cent kill is reported
or. 1500 acres of Nolan county
pacture land poisoned last
year for prairie dogs by
ranchers with the help of the
U. S. Biological Survey and
the county agent
The oldest livestock ship-
ping association hi Texas,
known as the Travis County
Farm 'Association, last yean
shipped nine carloads of hogs
for 102 of the 212 members at
an estimated saving of $1414.-
20. According to the county
agent shipping expense
amounts to slightly -ess than
one-half cent per pound.
Mrs. E. C. Paulette and chil-
dren and Mbs Dorothy Stan-
field have returned from a sev-
eral days visit with friends and
relatives in Texarkana and
Shreveport
ADULTS CONTRACT
CHILDREN’S DISEASES
Adults can, and do, contract
many children’s diseases. And,
usually, they suffer from them
much more than children do.
For instance, many adults con-
tract worms, an ailment usual-
ly associated with children.
Sometimes they suffer Intensely
and take expensive medical
treatments, without realising
that worms are the cause of
their troubles. Yet, the symp-
toms are the same as in chil-
dren, loss of appetite and
weight, grinding the teeth and
restless sleep. Itching cf the
nose and anus, and abdominal
pains. And, the same medi-
cine that surely and harmless-
ly expeb round and pin worms
from children will do the same
for adults—White’s Cream
Vermifuge, which you can get
at F. B. Bussey’a Drug Store.
PLOW GEAR-
COTTON ROPE-
GRASS ROPE-1
COLLARS—
BRIDLES—
BACK BANDS-
H AMES and
TRACES
F.
fl. Steadied
Tlmpson, Texas
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Molloy, T. J. Timpson Weekly Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, February 19, 1932, newspaper, February 19, 1932; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth764951/m1/7/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Timpson Public Library.