Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, November 28, 1919 Page: 5 of 10
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Friday, November 28, 1919
WILL OPEN TALLEY OFFICE
Bunn Mercantile Agency Reports
Show Big Increase in Business
So^ rapid has been the increase in
all lines of business in the Lower
Rio Grande Valley that the R. G.
Bunn & Co., Mercantile Agency has
decided to open a Valley office, ac
cording to Kemper C. McHaney, rep
resenting the San Antonio office of
the agency, who was in Mercedes
Wednesday.
The San Antonio office at present
serves the Valley region but the
steadily increasing number of new
business concerns all through this
section has caused the company to
decide to establish a branch house-
in Brownsville. Where formerly one
representative made a trip over the
Valley the Dunn Agency has found
that one man devoting all his time
to the main line is unable to keep up
with the work. The new office will
gather and compile commercial re-
ports for the entire Valley. It will
be the 15th office established by the
company in Texas and will be open-
ed soon after January 1.
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For Sale
Lot on Ohio avenue, exceptionally
well situated—price attractive. Box
232, Mercedes. 40-2t
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Vegetable Seeds.
Now is the time to plant beets, car-
rots, and spinach. I have the seed on
hand at very low prices. T. R.
RIGGS. It
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Good buggy and set of harness.
Call 114 1-4 West tract. 28-2t
The Sowing.
Every harvest looks back to a sow-
ing, every fruit fo a seed. Each gohh
en-wheated October pre-supposes a
grain-sowing May: logic, common-
place and inevitable, in conditions ma-
terial. But humanity is not so inclined
to recognize the fact, or to appreciate
the meaning of the fact in conditions
intellectual, moral, human.—Charles F.
Thwing.
System of Federal Land Bank Meets
Wide Response From Farmers
of Texas
The plan inaugurated by the Fed-
eral Land Bank of Houston to con-
vert 1.500 tenant farmers into farm
owners in Texas is succeeding re-
markably well, according to Judge
S. A. Lindsay, secretary of the Hous-
ton bank, who is directly engaged
in putting the project over. Judge
Lindsay states that there are hun-
dreds of applicants for loans on
this proposition which cannot be
favorably considered owing to vari-
ous reasons not in compliance with
the rules under which loans are
made, particularly cases of over-
valuation of lands that are wanted
in many cases.
According to a report recently
compiled by the Federal Land Bank
of Houston, 997 applications for loans
were approved during October, of
which number 182, or practically 16
per cent, were those of persons
owning no land who desired the
loans for the purpose of purchasing
homes.
The oldest person to apply for a
loan in October was 73 years old,
while the youngest man was 19, the
average being 37 y2 years.
“Tenant farmers are very neces-
sary,” said Judge Lindsay, “but a
man should not content himself with
being a tenant farmer all his life,
and the age at which men acquire
farms is too advanced by about ten
years.”
County Superintendent of Schools to
Set Dates for Tests
SODIUM FLUORID WITH ROACHES
Menace to Locusts.
Locusts in Algeria have found 2
dangerous enemy in a fly which fol-
lows them and lays its eggs where thej
lay theirs.
ECZEMA
#i?>l€l§*E¥ BACK
Without questiooif Hunt’s Salve
fails in the treatment of Eczema,
Tetter, Ringworm, Itch, etc.
Don’t become discouraged be-
cause ^other treatments failed.
Hunt's Salve has relieved hun-
dreds of such cases. You can’t
lose on our Money Back
Guarantee. Try it at oar rink
TODAY. Price 75c at
For sale by Hadden Pharmacy
CABBAGE PLANTS FROST PROOF
Early Flat Dutch, Charleston Wake-
field, Drumhead, Surehead, Succes-
sion. Thousand, two dollars, five
thousand and over, one fifty per
thousand. Send for catalogue of oth-
er plants.
CODEN NURSERIES, CODEN, ALA.
Next to the lowly bedbug, the pest
that the housewife detests most is
the cockroach. The presence of this
fleet-footed, filthy insect some how
mates the average housekeeper feel
that her domestic methods are not
all they should be, and she imme-
diately begins to bast about for ways
and means of eliminating this nuis-
ance.
According to the home demonstra-
tion specialists in the Extension Di-
vision of the Louisiana. State Univer-
sity, thorough-going cleanliness will
go a long way toward preventing
serious annoyance from roaches.
Also roaches will not- frequent rooms
unless they find some available food
material. If such material can be
kept from the living room and offices
or scrupulous cai'e is exercised to
see that no such material is placed
in drawers where it can leave an
attractive odor or fragments of food,
the roach nuisance can be restricted.
The most efficient remedies for
the control of roaches are powders,
particularly sodium fluroid, a suffi-
cient _ dusting of which about the
premises will furnish a sufficient
means for the elimination of the
pest. The sodium tluorid should be
blown into the crevices with a dust
gun or blower.
J. S. Bunn, county superintendent
of schools has announced • that an
examination for all kinds of teach-
ers’ certificates will be held in his
office at Edinburg on Friday and
Saturday, December 3 and 6. All
teachers and prospective teachers
are asked to take notice and be
present at 9:00 a. m. Friday.
In the same place at the same
time there will be held an examina-
tion of surveyors for state survey-
ors’ license, which requirement was
made in a law passed by the sec-
ond called session of the Tthirty-
Sixth Legislature. All land survey-
ors who are interested are asked to
be on hand at 9:00 a. m. Friday.
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WHY LAMB AND MINT SAUCE
English" Writer Goes Far Back to
Trace Custom So Popular in
That Country.
Lamb is the only meat with which
mint sauce is partaken, and England is
the only country where the custom is
practiced.
The latter fact seems to disprove the
idea that it originated with the Jews,
else it would have been adopted in
other countries where the race predom-
inates to an even greater extent than
in our own. Hence, also, it could not
have originated or been associated
with the “bitter herbs” which were
eaten with the Paschal lamb.
When one remembers what are the
vegetables usually eaten with lamb, we
get a clue to mint sauce. And it is
one that leads us to what is probably
the true reason of its combination with
lamb. New potatoes and green peas
are the adjuncts immemorial time has
led us to associate with the flesh of
the lamb. These, our forbears de-
cided, were provocative of indigestion,
and therefore an adjunct must be in-
troduced to correct this tendency.
Mint during all ages has been, asso-
ciated with such an office. The Latin
poets have broken into song regarding
its merits, and the giver of a feast
never thought of laying the meat on
the table until the boards had been
scoured with this herb. So, in addi-
tion to being a corrective, mint had a
reputation as an appetizer. Gerarde
says, “The smell of mint doth stir up
the mind and the taste to a greedy
desire of meat.”—London Tit-Bits.
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M.B.Murray40,Brennan
CONTRACTING
CARPENTERS
All Kinds of Carpentry
Inquire Third street, five blocks
west of postoffice
The Sex of an Egg.
According to the Paris Academy of
Science the sex of eggs laid by pure-
bred fowls may be determined by
weight and size. A test is to hold the
in the left hand in the sun or close
to an electric or gas light. Shade the
end of the egg with the right hand, and
look for the air space or “setting” (a
dark, watery spot larger than a ten-
cent piece); if this is found on the
top it is a male, but if lower down the
side it is a female egg.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
JACOB F0SSLER
CONTRACTOR and BUILDER
A
Estimates Furnished
Free on Application
PRICES REASONABLE
MERCEDES, TEXAS
BORDERLAND
HARDWARE COMPANY
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FORD AND
A PHONE
AT YOUR SERVICE
PRICES RIGHT
FOODS NO LONGER IN USE
Vegetables and Meats, Familiar in the
Middle Ages, Have Disappeared
From Modern Menu.
If the art of cooking has declined,
it Is in part due to the changing fash-
ions in food. For instance, in Ger-
many in the middle ages many vege-
tables were eaten which have long
since disappeared from the table, such
as violet leaves, ihixed with young net-
tles, and green wheat, and boiled hemp
seed. Salads were made of mallow
leaves, celery roots, and purslane,
mixed with salt and pepper, for oil was
almost unknown. Olive oil was con-
sidered to smack of effeminacy and
Italian luxury. Horseradish sauce
was used instead.
The origin of sauerkraut is lost in
antiquity. But it was certainly made
by the German hausfrau long before
cauliflowers or artichokes or potatoes
were known. The potato revolution-
ized the fare of the poor, who had for-
merly to rely on the roots of wild
plants. The variety of meats was
larger, including beavers, and in Berne
bears were kept for food. Spices and
aromatics were much sought after and
far more used for cooking. Ginger
and nutmegs were used to flavor many
dishes that have now vanished from
oui tables.
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Now in Our New Store
THE MERCEDES CASH GROCERY
We are pleased to announce that we have removed
to our new quarters on Texas avenue. The public is
invited to call and inspect our store which we believe
to be
The most modern, sanitary and
up-to-date grocery establishment
in the entire Southwest.
We’re better prepared than ever to render the
best possible service to our customers. Our
enlarged quarters enable us to carry a larger
and more extended assortment of staple and
fancy groceries and smoked meats.
As in the past our policy will continue to be superior
service and at the lowest price consistent with super-
ior quality goods.
The Mercedes Cash Grocery
Oscar Seibert, Proprietor
• Mercedes, Texas
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Honored His Great Foe.
The Crystal palace, home of the
British Imperial War museum, was the
scene in its earliest infancy of a touch-
ing incident apparently unrecorded by
any of Wellington’s biographers. Ac-
cording to “Le Palais de Cristal,” a
French weekly published in London at
the time of the great exhibition, “one
day in April, when our workmen were
busily engaged unpacking exhibits in
the French section, the duke of Wel-
lington appeared, in company with his
daughter, the marchioness of Douro.
He was expressing his interest in sev-
eral products of French industry, when
the workmen happened to open a case
containing a statue of Napoleon. The
duke stopped his conversation, re-
moved his hat, and bowed his head. It
was easy to see, both by the attitude
of his body and the expression of his
face, that the old soldier was deeply
moved. There fell upon all present one
of those deep spells of silence which
imply more than an ocean of words.”
Maritime Omelettes.
The “Pele Mele” (Paris) states in
a recent issue that the eggs of the dog-
fish possess all the nutritive qualities
of ordinary farm eggs. Until lately,
the dog-fish was quite neglected by
fishermen and flung back jnto the sea
as worthless, but today the fish is be-
ing actively sought by ships specially
fitted for this class of fishing. The
eggs of the dog-fish are frequently
found as large as hens’ eggs.
Tortoise eggs are considered a great
delicacy, and make excellent omelettes.
They are, however, understood to be
not adapted for boiling; the white of
the egg does not harden as in the or-
dinary breakfast-table egg.
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I Make HADDEN’S Your I
! CHRISTMAS HEADQUARTERS (
A Varied and Extensive Stock of f
Suitable and Practical 1
GIFTS FOR EVERYONE I
Handsome Manicure
Sets
Mate an ideal gift for HER. We
have them in various designs and
prices. Also an attractive line of
candy, perfumes and ivory goods.
All of the best makes and grades.
Give Him Something He Wants
And Can Use
Your gift to HIM should be practical. Our stock was purchased
with that end in view. It comprises a splendid assortment of cigars,
cigarettes, razors, brushes, purses, powder sets and shaving sets. Ask
any man if they are not ideal gifts.
Gifts to Gladden the Children
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Notice From
Santa Claus
DEAR CHCILDREN,
Write me in care of Hadden’s
Pharmacy what you want me to
bring you for Christmas. I have my
presents on display there and want
you to come see them. Don’t fail to
write to me here.
With Love,
SANTA CLAUS,
SHOP AT
HADDEN’S
Pharmacy
Mercedes, Texas
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Rector, J. F., Jr. Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, November 28, 1919, newspaper, November 28, 1919; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth844743/m1/5/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.