The Cuero Daily Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 21, Ed. 1 Monday, July 26, 1926 Page: 3 of 6
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The one great thing in this world is no(
you stand as in what direction you are 1
Let us help your move forward-
The Man Who can Say of
Where He Lives
‘This is My Proi
challenges the world to discredit his civic
his integrity as a constructive unit'in the c
IF. IT* LUMBER YOU WANT
vidson Hi. Go.
Don’t Shop For Hosiery, Coj
and End the Quest for the
“End the quest for the
at the Progressive”— j
“shop” for hosiery — ]
“worry yourself going all
town looking for a ce
shade, come here first,
large assortment assures
a wide choice of the
brands.
LADIES THREAD
SILK HOSE
A leader with ns—a pure
thread silk hose reinforced at
heel, toe and top with fine
mercerized lisle, featuring all
the popular shades only-
1 ercct aerial where it can com^ in contact with electric
light wm»; If you do, you are erecting a hazard, both to property by
fire and life by electric shock.. ' v £ *
DON’T climb trees with efcrtric wires* running through them.
The wire may carry high voltagBasd a tree is practically the same as
the ground.
DONT? touch electric light tiMlk. or switches when you are in
contact with gas stove, gas piping, 'A piping, bath tubs, wash
basins or sinks. You may complete a^flanit through your body to
ground with serious consequences. . ' T
DON’T pick up or touch wires laying Mike ground or hanging
from poles or trees. They are likely to be charged with high voltage,
ihis applies to telephone and telegraph wires as well as electric light
and power wires. .
DON t climb poles with electric light or telephone wires attached
to them. All wires on poles and trees should be shunned even though
they are not intended for carrying'higi|i voltage.
DON'T use pennies op other pieces of metal to take the place of a
fuse. The fuse » intended to protect the wiring inside the house from
overheating in case of a short circuit or over-load and thus prevent
fires. , ■ -Zj -ii.
Should yoasee a wire hanging near or on the ground from a pole
SI rt *°ctecty WrUwwmny at once You will thus
be helping to proteet yourself and your neighbors.
Pure thread silk chiffon hose
that will give extra wear be-
cause of the very fine knitting
and the fact that only the
very finest silk obtainable is
used.
hosiery
W. B. McClu
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the CUERO RECORD, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 26, 192*.
Four
BECOMING "MODERNIZED’
Ten Millions h Goods in Last
Year Consisted of Modern
Day Comforts.
By J. J. MEDOOFF
International Nows Sorvioe Staff
CorrooRondont.
ETON, July 28.—Egypt now
119,009,600 worth-of raerchau-
dlae annually from the United States
foer times as much as the famous
miical country pijrcHased from
America before the world war.
On a visit to Boston recently,
Richard A. May, United States Trade
Commissfeyaer to Egypt, said that],
ron, O., to be made into tire fabric.
Although rich in tradition ami
history, Egypt is rapidly «picking
up. America's mode of daily life
and becoming “modernized,’* so to
speak, by building excellent rail
way, tramcars and large, imposing
buildings.
Several months ago, May said,
he visited the heart of Sudan and
learned that there were 800 automo-
biles in that section, 750 of which
were made in America.
British East Africa, according to
May, ranks second to the United
States in “automobile population,”
with one car for every eight inhabi
tants while this country has one for
every six.
son and expect to have the pest un-
der early control.
of
to be living in this golden age
Texas and it is likewise a great re-
Let
Cotton picking started in the Sin- j sponsitylity. Let us not shirk this
tou-Taft section this week with many j responsibility, hut push ahead - and
pickers •available. The price estab-! reaP the greatest possible^ harvest
lished there tor picking this heasonj^or #Texas-* and posterity.’*■—Utility
is 65 cents per 100 pounds and likely [ N«wm -L.
will be adopted by the farmers of1
this vicinity.—Victoria Advocate.
NEWSPAPERS GET MOST
ELECTRIC ADVERTISING
PLANS FOR TELLING THE
WORLD ABOUT TEXAS
•lace the pre-war period American
exports to Egypt have increased
M Cram 88,500,900 A yea- to 810,000.000.
■ Most of Egypt’s purchases from j
■ this country now consist of lux
nries and modern-day comforts while
BB before the war they < were largely
necrapiti
■ Showii
H of expo
; May poi
■ nr perl
end stef
£ ■hji mobiles,
Lining Up For Fair.
It requires careful planning
take along a dozen or so exhibits to
the fair every fall but’ it can be done
and with good returns for your trou-
ble. Take the best of everything
Uiat you grow, and the finest canned
staff! It requires little time to bake
a cake or bread that you are used t$.
This* is the kind that will win blue
rthhenus for you,
Try and get your premium cata-
logue early and get things ready and
packed as the fair committee de-
mands, so as to cause no trouble be-
yond the placing of tbeh exhibit dur-
ing the rush.—Victoria Advocate.
A report in the Waco Times- Her-
ald tells about the plans of the com-
mittee to advertise Texas. The report
quotes John W. Carpenter, chairman
of the advisory committee, who is
. vice-president and generaL manager
'j of the Texas Power and Light Com-
I pany and president of the Dallas
to J Railway Company, as follows:
> “I think Texas is the greatest state
in the union,” said Mr. Carpenter
early in his talk, “and there are,.. . -----~w---~
many facts upon which I base thla ?elr cu,tomer’ « » ■<*»■»» co«
opinion, Texas la the greatest cotton The C®””1"* recommended >—
.More than 70 per cent of the total
advertising appropriations of the
electric light and power industry was
used for newspaper advertising dur-
ing 1925, according to the report of
the Advertising Committee of the
National Electric Light Association,
presented before that organization’s
convention here today.
The committee found that electric
light and power companies favor the
use of newspapers because of the
element of timeliness and ability to
reach the largest possible ^timber of
Showing how the major products
of experts to Egypt have changed.
sy pointed out that in the pre
yar period they were floor, coal
and steel, but today they are auto-
mobiles, typewriters, razors, toilet
tions, hosiery and special
jjDespite the material increase ia
from ttye United States
I Egypt, however, the balance of
is heavily in favor of Egypt,
continued, Amerkmn imports
consisnm
65c E8TABLI8K€0-*B RICKING
PRICE; LEAF WORM IS BAD
that country
Egyptian, cotton. The
HfciOhc cotton lands at
i Boston for shipment to Baltimore
land New York and thence to Ak
It probably will be another week or
later before the first bale of Victoia
county cotton is marketed. Usually
the first bale is ginned in this county
about the middle of July but a wet
spring and late planting has delayed
the harvesting season two weeks or
more. In \many instances farmers
have had to replant their cotton two
or three times.
Continued wet weather is begin-
ning to damage the crop, and caus-
ing the appearance of the leaf worm
in considerable numbers. The farm-
ers, however, anticipated these rav-
ages. AH are well supplied with poi-
produclng country in the world. Ap-
proximately one-third of the cotton
produced in the United States is
raised in Texas, of which amount
only a small per cent is manufactur-
ed into finished goods here. Texas'
is a great stock raising country, a
great wool raising country, and the
largest producer of-hides in the Un-
ited States. Despite these facts, our
state- ranks thirty-sixth in the union
in the making of leather. There is
biit one tannery in the state, at Yoar
kum, and there is not a single plant
for the manufacturing of wool into
doth. -
any company starting an advertising
or good-will program -use newspa-
per space as the. basis for the pro-
gram.
> “Good advertising,” the report
States, "can be originated only by
the expenditure of funds commensur-
ate ^witb.Ute results possible to ob-
tain. As a result of increasing em-
ployment of competent advertising
specialists and agencies, the qualify
and effectiveness of our advertising
has ^ greatly improved.— Utility
News.
“Texas has the raw materials,
tgsh, electric power, farm prod
It is only recently that we have had
an abundance of power, excellent
transportation facilities and a plenti-
ful supply of intelligent white labor,
We can, by hard work and striving,
make our state t)|e industrial marvel
of this country. It can bp done.
These dreams 'can he made do come
true if we will pay the price, but it
will take co-operation and team
work far beyond what we have here-
tofore developed. It is a privileget
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The Cuero Daily Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 21, Ed. 1 Monday, July 26, 1926, newspaper, July 26, 1926; Cuero, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1046470/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Cuero Public Library.