Graham Daily Reporter (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 100, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 2, 1936 Page: 4 of 4
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UUNVJBR — America’! erne
ham the depression it being
itely reflected la fatter I
COVIN OHWHITu HW1W
there It no apot In Ttat today that
can bontt t hlttory to colorful «r
chock full of legend and romance
at Padre Island, which. K present
efforts are sncceasful, will become
Texts' newest state park.
The onde splendid Isolation of the
Island has given way to the trend
of the fisherman and the tourist,
but the island today forms one of the
greatest natural attractions of the
Booth Texas section If the park
plans are carried out It will be one
of the moat unusual places In the
■world.
The proposal now pending would
Integrate with It some of the front-
ing mainland and provide causeways
to enable motorists to get odlo the
island and highway connections and
iiie | An Ethiopian of reel importance of-
in- j ten has 600 negro slaves with him,
es when he goes opt—or be did, be-
ley fore It became necessary to keep
at. slavery in the background, to maps
an- a pretense of civilisation, when del-
,nd assle orderad debtors, autlllated sad
lay In chains, and public streets The
Ids chief Industry In Ethiopia has been
HO,- selling glares to Arab danlera.
•si Many details of slavary horrors
,rt- are in those r.ngllah official rB-
ies porta printed Juit before Mussolini
,ch marched In. Some of the reports
o*. wars so horrible that the English _____
tha government could not allow them j holiday.
LONDoS.—Col
A majority of ettie. estimated ( Mia daughter, Miss Ji. M Sltw
dollar totals ware the high set since reoentlf was summoned to court
the 1MI-10 levels. | parking her automobile In*
A broad view of the situation by wrong place,
observers showed that buying pro-| Cql. Sitwell wrote' the court i
grossed In a steadily widening man-j getting that hts daughter be fli
rer for several weeks before the double the usual coat “la order
I. ~~ .Hand In only exceptional make her reaped the law of
to be published. But It did pub j cases did the laet rush of custom- land."
Hah the fact that negro slave girls, era fall to come up to or exceed, She was.
a scenic sll-beach road doom the ISO
kept for purposes that may be
imagined, were punished "by having
boiling hot water poured on them.!
horribly scalding them. Sometimes
they were burned to death wfthrl
rod hot irons, when caught with
negro young men.
Washington gentlemen, Anglo-man-
iac officials that would put an em-
bargo on o|l and other shipments.
to Italy to protect Halle Selassie's
civilisation, should Interview sur-
vivors among the slave girls that
have, undergone the boiling water
-Arthur
miles of Island
Padre Island, known as Santiago
Island long ace and then as Isis
del Padre Balli. stretches down the
coast of Texas from Corpus Chrlstl
FOR SAL
United States and Belgium had
Bay to Point iaabel with the pound
The Good Old Days
An Interesting document was
I President Ropaevelt brought to light during the cele-
>rts toward reviving' brstlon br the eightieth snnlversaiy
trade thru lower tar- j of the founding of a store in Chics
Someone tn that organisation
preserved the rules for em-
ss of their first store which
tng surf of the Gulf of Mexico on
ooe side and the mcr> placid waters
of Laguna Madre on the other.
Long miles of shifting sand
Two Nice Lota en_ Kentucky Street, deed R*
District Six# 50x100 foot snob. 1260.00 per let, j
desired. Why not buy • let and plan on building
International
dunes and beach, grasa-oceverd hum-
mocks which at one time heard on- Ufa and thru
ly the rasping sound of the sea ent countries
gull and the roar of the surf and lean product*
knew only wild life, have seen the States,
unfolding pageant of life aa the In „ Discussing th
dfans came to gtve way to the Span- took, Kratly i
lard*, the Mexicans,, the cattlemen ternatlonal ttat
and the vacationists. j is one Of the i
Rich in historical lore, the Island for the develop
has a tradition that includes pirates I trade
—and not only the pirates of the “There is tc
days when the black flag was a men- in money value
ace to navigation on the high seas those fluctuate
It also Is known to have been toe' lng effect on
base of operations for smuggler* |n * and business.”
the early days. T atrlctlona on
Indians are thought to have lived nationa l and ii
at one time at the head of the is-1 as having a.
land. Many arrowheads and hits of trsde.
pottery have been found there. As We spoke of
the Tanchahuas and Carancahua* by the United !
lived in this section, it is thought in the manufSc
Nice Five-Room Modern Dwelling on Vtrginie
treatment for “morality
Brisbane in Ft. Worth Star-Tele-
gram.
good grazing land far thl* property.
•lx Room Modern Dwelling, with spacious ground*,
FI rot and Kentucky. A good buy at •t.TMLOO.
See ue for other good buys.
Shot Meant For
Gobbler Glances;
i . i Slays Prize Pig
^lacksvllle. 8. C.—Dr. 0. D. Ham-
motado bought a turkey “on the
hoof at a * farm near hew and de-
cided to shoot It to avoid toe trou-
ble of running It down.
He fired at the gobbler forty
feet away. The bullet drilled the
turkey through the head, then ric-
ocheted | at right angles and kilfed
a 76-pound pig—a prise’ one, at that
Hammond had to buy both.
Graham insurance
Agency
OBIE DODD, Owner.
Office fhtM 262.
vttixr they- might have maintained chandric and in businex* -procedure,
crude summer'villages on (he is-T "We in Belgium loog upon the
land. | United Stales aa the leading bust-
Hither Nlvcholag Ball! received j-new nation of the world:" fib' said,
the island as ,a grant from thy King He said a few year* ago Germany
of Spain. For the padre It is nam- used to sell his firm 30 different
ed. * 1 types of dolls to he: sent tn the
The deeds call for 11 leagues of United State* for Christmas con-
land at a price first set at 150 an sumption. Today, he said, because
acre. The price was reduced to $40 of the advance made by this coun-
*a league, however, when represui- try in toy manufacturing, the Ger-
to be suspicion* cf
we are now representing
should be
tat ton wai made to the SpinUh
spent most In reading.'
to sell theM toys to America.
Kratley 'Mpnferrcd Friday with
Mr* Elizabeth Pettus. of the U. 8.
Bureau for Foreign and Domestic
Trade here. He will remain in
Denver Saturday and then depart
for Salt Lake City and West Coast
point* tn complete his. circuit of
the1 nation.
parliament that there was lack of
water on the Island. It* original
entir* cost was only $440 Today's
owners ask $400,000.
Gaining a reduction in price b^
cause of alleged lack of water waa
a canny move. Patrick F Ddnn, who
purchased the island for a ranch In
1879 and still runs cattle there. Is
authority for the statement that wa-
ter is there in Urge quantities and
may be found within n few feet of
Police Sergeant
Speeder Tagged
Just Like Anyone
DKNVHR.—"Hey, whirs do you
think youte goln'. to a fire?’’
“No. I’m going to work.”
"Where do you workf
“Well, * work down at police
headquarter*; I’m a *<rgaant.’’
in Graham and vicinity
West Fourth Street
"Well, you were apeeilln’, weren't
you?" .....
Father Balli lived in Matamoros.
but he maintained a ranch on the
"Maybe I waa goto’ a* little fast.
island When Mexico became a re-
public. the grant of the . King of
Spain wa* no longer recognised and
a now one waa madt In l(t$ by
the State of TamauUpaa to Father
Balli and his nephew. Juan Jose.
Dunn acquired the property in
July,. 1JT*. and developed it as a
cattle ranch on an extensive scale.
Col Sam Robertson procured title
to part of tbe island a number of
year* ago and constructed tbe Don
Patricia causeway across the Le-
«u?ia Madre. which, for several
but the road was clear.*
*‘I already got this ticket made
out, and I guest you'll ha*!* to take
it. because the chief says we can't
tear up any ticket* and every one
of ‘em's numbered.”
So 'Police Sergt. Harry y.. Reno
took |he ticket from Patrolman C.
L Chnfln at 4:66'a. m. Friday at
31st and Brighton ' blvd.
Sergt. Orson B. Lowe, driving
the patrol car In which Chafin
waa riding and which stopped
Baton Rouge. La.—A new kind of
student enterprise, designed to aid
J.000 needy Louisiana boy* in ob-
taining an education, will be In-
augurated this year, according to
plans announced by Dr. Jaa M.
Smirh president of Louisiana State
University_____
The protect ca'ls for tbe school
to buy and equip a farm of ap-
prox'matelv l.hoo acre* on which
yogtos will be etnploved, tbe prof-
its from the enterprise going to pay
8ergeaat Reno, gave hti approval.
years gave accent to the island south
of Corpus Chrlstl.
“Sure. Go ahead xnd givs him
Atthe next session of tha state
legislature an' appropriation of
$160,000 to buy farming equipment
and provide housing for the stu-
dents will be asked. ......
the ticket; it’e all you can do. A
police sergeant’s do better than any-
one else.”
Mouths gaped at police headquar-
ters. Things had come to a pretty
pass. The unheard-of bad happened.
X polled sergeant had arretted a
Police sergeant. Why, anything could
HVDiOM
Queen’s Prison To
Become Museum
__ A '
VALLADOf.5d. Spain—The hlator
Had Rheumatism
4,000 Years Ago
LOWDON iBven in tha stone age,
some 4,000 years ago. Britons suf-
DR.L A. IRVINE
Magnetic Masseur
on orders of King John II. this
castle one# was the finest example
of Mndejar military art in Spain.
It waa used at a national prison
Glen Row and Mineral
Walla Method!
shortly after He
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Spears, George T., Jr. Graham Daily Reporter (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 100, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 2, 1936, newspaper, January 2, 1936; Graham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1063844/m1/4/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Library of Graham.