The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, December 16, 1927 Page: 4 of 8
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PICKLES
SOUR OR DILLS—Full Qt. , ,
SUGAR—Our Price Is Always Right
CORN—2 Cans
No. 2, Fancy Country Gt
CRANBERRY SAUCE
OCEAN SPRAY ....
CHILI
GEBHARDT S, No. I .
DEVIL CHILI MEAT
2 CANS FOR
PEACHES
GEORGIA PIE—2 for
SOAP
OC1 AGON—5 Large Bars for
CRUSTENE
8-POUND BUCKET
PAPER
TOILET, 5c Rolls. 10 for ... .
PEACHES
Choice Evaporated, 3 lbs. for . .
MINCE MEAT
OLD-TIME, 9 oz
Boxes Apples,
Q-P
Boy City December 24th.
Store will be open until 8:30 p. m.,
beginning Tuesday, Dec. 20, un-
We will have a large assortment of
Fresh Fruits and Vegetables, with
Special Prices on
Oranges, Etc.
THE PLACE TO GET YOUR GROCERIES AS ADVERTISED, WITH NO HITCHES
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With every can of STROHS RICH and PURE
BOHEMIAN HOP FLAVORED MALT - BEST
BY TEST—We will give one beautiful glass in
a 12-oz. Pear Optic Design in Light Green.
ASK US ABOUT THE PITCHER
Price - Our Price is Always Right on Everything
39c
PEACHES, Banquet
TABLE FRUIT, No. 2^, 2
cans for
35c
-'2
RAISENS
SUNMAID. 4 -pound package .
SARDINES—3 cans
Underwood’s Ton,a,° Mustard Sauce frdUV
20c
PRESERVES
WIN YOU, Pure Fruit. 12 oz. . .
DROMEDARY DATES
I 0-oz. Pkgs., Fresh Pack, 2 for . VK*
q _]T CHRISTMAS QII F
Appreciation uflLL
F R F F Saving on Your Grocery Bill
1 1% IL IL Every Day - On Every Item
SPECIALS—GOOD SATURDAY, DEC. 17TH UNTIL SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24TH
shorter
cotton
in
the
crop
partineat in the past ten years been the University of Chicago labeled it
as
on
our
The plan now Is to cut *222,735,000
from the government’s revenue bill.
The income tax Hit nation has been
handled admirably for the past sev-
eral years, anti great inroads continue
to be made into its demands on the
people. The pity of it all is that the
faster and heavier the cuts made al
Washington, the higher the home or
local taxes mount, so we are saving at
the bung and wasting at the spigot
after al!.
thousandth part of a second every loo
years This Is said to be due to the
action of the ti<les, which form a sort doubt,
of friction belt and cause a notable
check on the earth's rotation.
Sauerkraut juice has become a Ih>v-
erage in California Got nothing on
Texas Here it is Ink. extracts, alcoh-
ol (grain or wood), prune juice, brun
mash, corn and embalming fluid. Fact
Is. anything with a kick, the greater
and quicker the kick, the better the
drink, goes in this great home of
Morris Sheppard and Atticus Webb.
Sauerkraut? Ach! <ler Hebei Oatl
The shorter cotton crop in the
Southwest this season is reflected in '
the statistics on exports from the chief 1
ports ot Texas, each of which records '
I a considerable decrease in shipments!
labroad. Up to the present time, the)
movement is more than 1,000.000 bales |
than for the same period last1
Great Britian has taken 500,000 I
adopted for a time in dealing with
American enterprise has a worse ef-;
feet on Mexico than it has had on the
oil business. It has brought about a
stoppage of enterprise which hus
meant a great deal to a large number ’
of Mexican workmen. This has pro-
duced a pinch in both governmental
‘and private finance and also a public!
sentiment not altogether desirable or
the eve of a presidential campaign in
which Calles Is supposed to have a I
more or less dynastic Interest. It
simply lias not paid the Mexican gov-
ernment to he nasty about American
oil concessions and the Mexican gov-
ernment has found that out.—Detroit,
Free Press
able commissioners I
from Hie start. While there is no way
of proving it. this paper, nevertheless, ... e
will hazard the statement, that, hid healthful article, scored
the money paid Into the highway de-' triumph recently
nartmnnt in tliu ttaui inn ..a
A Score For the Oil I
Companies
Tile decision by the Mexican Su-
preme Court favoring the Mexican Pe-
troleum company, an American or-
ganization, and declaring unconstitu-
tional two provisions of the tnueh-dis-
eussed oil land law, Indicates that the !
courts in Mexico are much more in- j
people In this country have I
supposed, or that President Calles has!
decided against statutory enforcement .
which will be obnoxious to American
oil enterprise in his country, it is the
action of the Mexican tribunal whlcn |
points definitely in the direction ot
fair play for American interests, and >
whatever may have Inspired the rul-
ing. It is to be interpreted ns a con- j
(dilatory gesture.
Practical reason for such a gesture |
exists aside from any general desire 1
for friendship on the part of the Mexi-1
can government.
not
This unregulated, unlicensed and un-
protected stuff is being made (home-
made) all over the land and the pois-
onous concoctions are sapping the
health and stamina of American
Pro-
standings, is, when properly prepared,
a healthful dish. This should be wel-(
come news to a lot of folks.
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Twenty of the sixty-two airplane
Cone Johnson, the loquacious mem-
ber of the state highway department,
now comes fortli with an idea that has
been long pushed forward by the High
way Association of Texas, l.e., a bond
issue tor the whole state for all cardi-
nal roads. The idea, while not origi-
nal with Mr. Johnson is not a bad one.
if the mom >• received i applied to
actual road building The "cardinal"
roads could even now be an accom-
plished fact had common sense, the.
honest expenditure of money and cap-1
.ki. --------- been employed!
concoctions are
and stamina of
youth, female as well as male,
hihition taught the entire nation the
art nt bootlegging as well as how to
mock the laws generally, but it did
not teach the bootlegger how to manu-
facture wholesome stuff. The ques-
tion now is. if perchance, the nation
should return to regulation in any
form, would it lessen the crime of
bootlegging? It is claimed by many
that good government ^rvised K0Vei.nment. The discriminatory, [
liquors would drive the home-made , k ,
stufi out. Just ns the genuine always .... .. .. .. '
conquers the inferior. There are
others who say not But that the
question will be forced to the front
souner or later Is agreed to by all. in
face of millions upon top of millions
spent annually to remedy the situation.,
it constantly grows worse.
bued witli the same natures. Passion
ove. hate. envy. Jealousy, greed, char- ’
ity. intelligence, imbecility and all
oilier blessings or infirmitives have
formed the great forces which have
swayed those who have lived and died,
and the same great forces will sway I
those now living and yet to come. In •
all of the years there has been mating, J
in one form or another. Just what
form is best, no man, no country, no1
company ot men has ever found out.!
There are successful marriages and
there are failures. Always have been. I
always will be, and still they keep on'
and on and on And still who is there i
to say what is best?
That the days are constantly grow- r- ■
Ing shorter was recently told by Sir less
Frank Dyson, the Ast romer-Royal of year.
England Ha based his theory on the bole* h si ot 8^hwMtern*ootto7umn ||
result of Investigations by two Cam- took |u,, ,,,,,,,,
bridge astronomers, who proved that ing time, and other countries show de-H
’[ day is .diminishing by .me creased takings \ somewhat larger
carry-over of the old crop accounts in ''
part tor the smaller movement, no
but the cnrr> over is not a. ■
large as was at first reported by oar I
department of agriculture, and that II
factor should be pretty well discontln- |
There is no patent cure-all for the ue<i jn ti1(. IBttrket by now With a l
tax disease that is now afllieting us prospect that the cotton movement out 'I
save .an awakened citizenship on the of this part of the count rv for the yeur 11
alert No known automatic device can will be some 3,000,000 bales less than ' I
take Hie place of intelligent action. (n the previous year, the attuaUon I
Self help is the best of all help. Nor would seem to warrant higher prices I
it it to he expected that those most than are now ruling. Popular buying I
concerned with spending the public power abroad has been growing I
substance are going to awaken ns. Of stronger. Every country in Europe is I
< out ii ihoso o! us who must pay better oft e< oiiomit .111 v iii.m it was a I
the puldie tax are content to act like ,, , , The smaller Imports ot cot- |
folks whose thinking processes have l(in by Europe is not due to curtailed I
not been aide to keep up with (ho demand for the finished product in I
growth of their bodies there is but on those countries Business with the I
thing to do; give up the struggle and American mills is generally better1!
go back to wearing short punts. TI1.11 than for several years. Apparently, 11
we arc not born equal may lie true, the cotton producers need a system of 11
But. here in Texas at least, we are marketing that will enable them to I
born to the right of a square deal up- compel the payment of just prices for I
the part of government. That which their product. With Hie crop fur short I
forefathers had courage to fight und with conditions what they are in I
for with bullets, we. in all good eon- the world today, cotton prices should I
science, should, at least, have nerve |„. higher Houston Post-Dispatch. |
enough d wit h our own
lots. Surely a cause worth dying for
is worth voting for. Facts and Fic-
tion
Victory F or the Fried
Spud!
The fried potato, which has been
kicked around for years as an un-
a brilliant
when scientists of
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judicieesly and honestly expended on ’ one of our best foods.
the roads, the people of Texas would Tests conducted by A. C. Ivy of the
now be using, at least, three or four department of physiology and Miss 1
"cardinal" roads, Instead of having to Bessie Boggess of the home economics '
contend with the mess we have. Per- department proved, according to news1
baps a *750,000,000 state-wide bond reports, that .as compared with the
issue will be a good thing, but three-' boiled potato, a fried spud, If proper-
fourths of a billion dollars Is a mighty ]y cooked, is far more digestible. Po-
neat sum for men to juggle with. If tutoes in three forms were thrown into I
wvw* kw jufrwfv w ivu. 11 cuiovs in 111 rev corms were inrowii cuco I
it can be voted and safe-guarded and the pancreatic juices that flow through 1
properly handled, better progress on our digestive organs and the fried ar-
real road building can be made than tide dissolved much more quickly than
now. If it is to be thrown away with did the others,
the abandon tha. so many public funds ! The experiment wax continued by
have, ft will be a crime to vote such a use of the X-ray which followed the !
huge sum I potato through the digestive system, I
—————————— and showed quite conclusively that u
We don't know what it is, but we well-fried potato encounters very Ilt-
are not Inclined toward Judge Lind-' tie trouble passing through the hu-1
sey’s companionate marriage* system, man system. The experiment did
a little bit. Not because we know' show', however, that potatoes mixed
what Judge Lindsey means or because ' with rich gravies were not easily
we thin* he knows himself, but be- digested,
cause of the way he tried to explain.! Another surprise was provided by
For Instance, he “romped” on the the experimenters when they report-
preachers for being opposed to his ‘ ed that the pie, which rated about as
idea and In the same sentence said the low as the fried potato in digestive
preachers had been preaching the ' “*—■**---—’—------'----------- 1
same doctrine for ages. If that is1
true, why did the judge lambast the'
preachers? We think we are unduly
ezerdned ovet all such thin
dowa the years there have traveled records officially recognised by the
the great armies of human beings ac-1 International Aeronautic Federation of
twated by the same thoughts and Im-' Paris are held by the United States.
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Five thousand samples of home-
made liquors were chemically analyz-
ed in the Internal revenue department
laboratories at Fort Worth recently
and not one bottle was found good or
Injurious to the human system.
0. dependent ot the executive than a good
many
------Owner and Editor
CARKY SMITH
One Year
*1 50
THE DAILY TRIBUNE
One Year
*4 00
M BM KIPTIOS RATES:
WEEKLY TRIBUNE
Office of Congress-
man Mansfield
THE MATAGORDA COUNTY TRIBUNE
BY TRIBUNE PRI5FWXG COMPACT
Entered at the Postoffice al Bay City. Texas, as second class mail matter
under Act of Congress. March 3, 1879
Any erroneous reflection upon the character or standing of cxy ,,, ,,
business concern will be readily and willingly corrected upon 'its* being nuirtc t”
brought to the attention of the publishers. 1
The paper will be conducted upon the highest possible plane of legitimate
newspuper business.
[ Smith for president and a modification Bnt. as we have said all along, after
' of the liquor laws. Senator Bailey (the polls are closed on election day,
! hasn’t yet given out the planks of his both the senator from Cuero and the
1 platform. Motts’ wet campaign may, lawyer from Yoakum will be buried
influence a few voters who might be under an avalanche of Mansfield votes,
under the impression that if he island Judge Mansfield will be on his,
elec ted we'll have booze again -but I way back to the halls ot congress in
intelligent voters everywhere know Washington. D. C., to again ably rep-1
and realize that the day of booze is a j resent the good old ninth district tor l
thing of the past. Candidates can ! another term.
promise lots ot things during a cam- 0—0
paign. ami it is likely that much will Bringing Back The Past
be “promised” ere this campaign Twenty-I’he Years Ago Today
which is just beginning to open, closes. Six hundred were injured when a
Two. E. J. Metis of Yoakum, and J
|H. Bailey of Cuero, are seeking the
any person or j office ot Congressman of the Ninth
, the office now so efficiently
(occupied by Judge J. J. Mansfield. In
a story to the daily papers sent out
under a LaGrange headline. Molls is
quoted as promising to support Al
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It pays.
Let's advertise more.
Hain fell down an embankment at
Tepa, Mexico. Three were killed.
A new record was established when
the El Cid made the trip from New
York to Galveston in 4 days, 22 hou^p
Ten Years Ago Today
Thirteen negroes were executed tor
their part in the riots at Houston, Tex-
as, on Aug. 23.
The Germans were preparing for a
gigantic drive along the Western
front.
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, December 16, 1927, newspaper, December 16, 1927; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1309836/m1/4/?q=music: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.