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Gossip on the New York “Rialto” is
to the effect that there are now fewer
actors out of employment than there
have been at any time in the last two
years.
upon the last act of the drama and
the player’s brief hour upon the stage
was over, the world whose adulation
had been so loud and whose homage
had been so obsequious, proceeded at
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See Opportunities in Mexico.
Cattle barons, whose ranches in the
west are gradually being cut up for
agricultural purposes, are investigat-
ing Mexican lands with regard to the
advantages they offer for the raising
of cattle. The cattle rangers have
discovered that cattle can be raised
at less expense in Mexico, and also
that there is an advantage to cattle
men in the inland and water transpor-
tation facilities for shipment to the
United States.
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Club House Salad.
Cook macaroni for about 20 minutes.
Take from fire, drain in colander and
wash through with cold water until
thoroughly cold. Put in bowl; mix a
rich mayonnaise, about a cupful; take
about four hard-boiled eggs, carefully
slice the whites and add to the maca-
roni; take the yolks and chop fine; add
a portion of the mayonnaise until a
thick paste is obtained. Drain a bot-
tle of capers; add to the macaroni.
Slice about two tomatoes when they
are cold, or drain the juice from a can
of same, and use the thick portion of
the tomatoes just before serving the
mayonnaise over the whole; slice a
green pepper and also add powdered
red pepper. Serve with lettuce leaves.
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Butter Scotch.
Put one-half pound of brown sugar,
j one gill of water and a tablespoonful
continue boiling until
dropped in cold water.
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many places are to be found the ruins
of Eskimos’ huts, showing that th©
land was inhabited in ancient times by
these hunters.”
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utes, add two ounces of butter and
had been some talk of raising it, no
one had taken the lead, and there th©
matter had rested.
“Securing a team of mules and some
strong ropes and chains, I drove out to
the cabin. By dint of much diving I
succeeded in fastening the chains
about the pot and had my assistaant
drag it out upon the bank. It was the
vessel which had hung over the fire
when I had visited the counterfeiters
in their lair. Then I remembered it®
absence, when I had searched the hut
after their departure. It was sealed
with paraffin and sealing wax, and not
a drop of water had passed the lid.
“I contained a complete set of en-
gravers’ tools, several bottles of power-
ful acids, glass stopped and sealed, a
number of bars of silver, some .three
hundred odd counterfeit silver dollars*
and the dies with which they had been
stamped out. The dies were thickly
coated with wax and were as bright
and fresh as when they beat out th®
false coins in the secret cave.
“After swearing my assistant to
secrecy, I returned to headguarters
with my booty.
“Not many weeks later two of the
men were captured. I had given the
department a minute description of
them, after their unceremonious de-
parture, and its vast machinery-had
been set in motion for their apprehen-
sion. It is a maxim of the service
that a man once a counterfeiter is ale
ways a counterfeiter. This rule held
good with reference to two of the
men, at least, for they were captured
and convicted of another job. The in-
cidents I have just related were not
introduced in evidence against them
and consequently escaped the press.
The man with the bulldog jaw escaped
completely at that time, but I met with
him, years after, under circumstances
neither of us will forget so long as
we live.”
Copyright, 1908, by W. G. Chapman.)
(Copyright in Great Britain.)
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ington we maintained secrecy about
the entire matter and nothing of it
got into the newspapers.
“I found one thing in the shanty
which might or might not offer a clew
to the counterfeiters. It was an empty
envelope bearing the postmark of an
obscure railroad station in the sunk-
land district of northeastern Arkansas-
I had long ago learned that it is the
seemingly insignificant things that
lead to the discovery of criminals, and
while this envelope might mean noth-
ing, on the other hand, it might be of
the gravest importance. It had been
found beneath the sheet of metal on
which the cook stove stood, the tip of
one corner, discolored and grimy, at-
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Practical Labor.
“George,” spoke his better half,
“you are interested in the temperance
movements, are you not?” “Why, cer-
tainly I am,” he answered. “Well, sup-
pose you go out and make a few of
them with the pump handle. I am in.
need of a pail of water right away."--
Bohemian. ____,
tracting my attention. I had secured
it and pocketed it without attracting
attention.
“If the gang had never existed it
could not have disappeared more effec-
tually. We were face to face with a
blank wall. This made us the more
anxious to capture the counterfeiters.
As nothing better offered, the chief
suggested that I follow up the clew of
the empty envelope.
“With as cumbersome and complete
an outfit as every city sportsman
carries into the woods with him, I left
the train one day at the wayside sta-
tion which bore the name of the post-
mark. Securing a guide and cook, in
the person of a lanky native, I had my
truck hauled out to the St. Francis
river, only two miles distant, where I
pitched camp and made preparations
for an indefinite stay.
“It was the greatest game country I
have ever seen. There were deer with-
out limit and a good sprinkling of tur-
keys, some bears, and water fowl of
every kind, until the killing of them
lost much of its charm, and became
more like ruthless slaughter.
“I had a plentiful supply of liquors
and cigars, a fact my guide lost no
time in spreading broadcast about the
country. This was just what I wanted
him to do, for it brought the natives
flocking to my camp to partake of the
liquors and cigars which I distributed
with a lavish hand. It gave me the
opportunity for which I was playing.
“By making inquiry of my visitors, I
learned that about five miles down the
river were camped, in a snug cabin
built by themselves, three gentlemen
from parts unknown. They maintained
the place as a sort of club and had
Meat Pie.
Take your cold meat left overs and
put through a chopper with an onion
or celery, which you prefer. Put the
mixture in a saucepan with a little
water or gravy, and salt and pepper
to taste. Make a rich puff paste, with
which line a dish. Put in the hash,
leaving part of the gravy. When ready
to serve, cut a round piece out of cen-
ter of cover, into which pour the re-
maining gravy and replace the piece.
Cow-Heel Pie.
One cooked cow heel, three-fourths
pounds of beef, stewed. Cut cow heel
up, pick all black out, put in with beef,
one onion, cut up, six cloves, one
spoonful flour. Cook till done.
Piecrust—One bowl flour, one spoon-
ful lard, one cup of chopped suet, little
salt and baking powder. Mix with
water, roll out, put on. Bake till done.
To Cook Rice to Perfection.
Wash two cups of rice in three wa-
ters,’ drain and dry. Have ready a
good sized kettle in which are four
quarts of boiling water. Slowlv let
rice sift through your fingers into the
boiling water, never letting it stop
boiling. Keep lid off kettle. Add ta-
blespoonful of vinegar to whiten rice
9 f to keep it from boiling over. When
cooked tender, which will be in about
25 minutes, empty the contents of ket-
tle into a colander which is placed
over a bowl (the water from the rice
making an excellent starch). Pour on
and through the rice boiling water to
remove the starchy stickiness, then
place colander over the kettle of gen-
tly boiling water to steam for five min-
utes. Pour into hot dish and serve as
a vegetable. If you once eat rice
cooked this way, no other way will
suit you.
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How to Use Sage.
When preraring dressing for poultry
sage is generally used and the stems
and leaves are found so disagreeable
in the'dressing. A good way of pre-
venting this is to steep a tablespoon
of sage in half cup of boiling water.
This can be strained right into the
dressing.
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tions joined those of Peary at Inde-
pendence bay. Lieut. Koch, the artist
Bertelsen and the Greenlander Ga-
brielsen were to push north of Peary
channel to complete the exploration
of the eastern edge of Peary land,
which Peary had explored as far south
as Wyckoff island.
Two detachments went along for
weeks to carry food for the survey
parties. As it left the ship the expe-
dition numbered ten men, ten sledges
and 86 dogs.
The lives of the explorer and of
two of his companions were really
sacrificed to his mistaken notion 2 the-
GALVESTON LABOR JOURNAL,SATURDAY, JANUARY, 1, 1909.
CARE OF UTENSILS
The world’s largest island has only
just been completely mapped. Green-
land, that land of the southern name
and the bleak winds of the northern
icefields, has at last been fully out-
lined. In the last number of Peter-
mann’s Mitteilungen, the great Ger-
man geographical magazine, this new
map has been published for the first
time. The making of this new map
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October, when they returned one night
and again took possession of their
cabin. Our raid on the cave had been
made on the 15th of October, and this
caused me to think that perhaps the
empty envelope was making good.
“As the three gentlemen did not
deign to visit my camp, I decided to
make a call upon them.
I started out in a folding canvas
canoe, late in the afternoon, and ar-
rived in the vicinity of their camp just
at nightfall. With a sharp cypress
tree, aided by a jagged cut from my
hunting knife, I succeeded in punching
a bad hole in the bottom of the canoe,
and with the boat rapidly filling with
water, I landed just after sunset at the
very door of their cabin. The three
men were at home and they welcomed
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shape of the northern coast of Green-
land. Instead of being practically a
smooth curve, as he thought, it pre-
sents great peninsulas and inlets, so
that his food supply gave out before
'ne could find his way back to his
base. His body, together with the
notes of his survey, were found later
by a search party.
Hagen died on November 15 and
Mylius-Erichsen ten days later, when
only a few miles from the food cache.
Bronlund reached it in the moonlight,
and when the spring search party this
year found his body there it was evi-
dent that he had lived for several
days after his arrival.
It was wonderfully fortunate that
the bottle containing the survey sheets
was found slung around the neck of
Bronlund. Perhaps the great result
of this exploration would never have
been known if it were not for this for-
tunate circumstance. It is thought
that Mylius-Erichsen probably did not
venture to carry his diaries and collec-
tions over the inland ice with him, but
left them in some safe depository at
Denmark Fiord, where they may ulti-
mately be recovered.
Of the land over which they passed
Achton Friis, the painter attached to
the expedition, wrote:
“The land over which we have jour-
neyed is desolate and dreary; there
are no splendid mountain-forms, such
as are seen from the coasts south of
Franz Joseph’s Fjord and Scoresby
Sound, where mountains of a height
of 10,000 feet stand straight out from
the sea. This was a gneiss landscape.
The vegetation was poor and shriv-
elled—only scant herbage and a few
wild flowers besides the low Arctic
willow and the mosses and lichens
And all this was confined to a narrow
strip along the coasts and shores of
the fjords. Outside of this narrow
strip was the eternal drifting sea-ice;
behind it the immense inland ice.
“There was found, however, a com-
paratively rich animal-life. The musk,
ox is met now and then, many hares
and foxes thrive upon the miserable
stony soil, white grouse, ravens, and
hawks are seen in the summer; while
the land swarms with armies of wad-
ing* and swimming birds, the bear
wanders in numbers along the coasts,
seals are plentiful, and the snort of the
walrus is heard in summertime. In
is the final fruits of the surveys made
by Dr. Mylius-Erichsen, who lost his
life when returning from the com-
pleted work.
The trend of the northeast coast is
very different from what geographers
had supposed. It had been marked on
all previous maps as probably extend-
ing from about 78 degrees north lati-
tude in a general northwest direction
to the Independence bay of Peary. In
fact, it extends for about 300 miles im
a northwesterly direction till its most
eastern point nearly touches 12 de-
grees west longde from Greenwich.
About 40 years ago Dr. A. Peter-
mann spread the view that Greenland
probably extended across the pole and
down the other side of the earth to
the neighborhood of Bering strait.
With this idea in view he wrote the
instructions for the second German
north polar expedition under Capt.
Koldewey, who was sent out to com-
plete if possible the mapping of the
east coast.
He succeeding in reaching by a
Sledge journey only 77 degrees north,
a little beyond Cape Bismarck. We
now know that more than 1,000 miles
of tortuous coast-line stretches be-
tween his highest north and the north-
ern shores of the island.
Then, in 1905, the duke of Orleans
on the steam yacht Belgica pushed
over 100 miles to the north of Cape
Bismarck, but fog prevented him from
making a satisfactory survey of the
coast line. Meanwhile Dr. Mylius-
Erichsen formed the plan of making a
complete survey of the unknown coast
of Greenland from Cape Bismarck
north till he joined his survey with
that of Peary, and thus completed the
map of the island.
He started on the steamer Denmark
from Copenhagen on June 25, 1906,
picked up three Greenlanders and a lot
of Eskimo dogs that had been sent to
the Faroe islands to meet him, touched
at Iceland, pushed for 14 days through
the ice of the Greenland sea, and
reached Koldewey island on August
13.
On the next day he had an easy
journey in the ice-free coastal waters
to Cape Bismarck, and in the inlet be-
hind it he found a suitable place for
the winter quarters of his ship. The
little harbor was named Denmark
Haven. In the late summer he sledged ;
supplies northward to make provision- :
depots for the long journey of the fol- •
lowing spring, and he also surveyed :
the coasts both north and south of his •
winter camp as long as daylight lasted, i
On March 28 last year the great
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was a big table, crudely constructed of
heavy oak timbers. The cabin was well
lighted, the lamps being of expensive
character and great brilliancy. Guns
and fishing tackle and hunting tog-
gery of every kind gave the cabin the
atmosphere of a sportsman’s club.
“The men talked freely of everything
but themselves. They spoke of many
cities, but never of their homes. They ■
told me they were college chums who
had always made it a custom to spend
a few months together each fall in the
woods. They were clever men and
readily passed for the lawyer, the doc-
tor and the merchant, the characters
they respectively pretended to be. The
one to whom the other two deferred in
everything was a large, powerful man
with clean-shaven face and a jaw like
a bulldog. His face was too shrewd to
be pleasant. He watched me furtively,
a sinister, amused smile playing about
the corners of his mobile mouth. That
smile spoke volumes. It made me lie
awake all night. It seemed to say that
he knew my real character, and there-
fore I thought it best to keep on the
watch. The man seemed capable of
offering me personal violence. But
the night passed away without inci-
dent. After breakfast, I repaired the
leak in my canoe and paddled slowly
up-stream, trying to figure out where
I had seen the big man with the square
jaw before.
“While I was smoking a last cigar
before retiring that evening, it came
to me where I had seen him. It was
on a street car in St. Louis, on one oc-
casion when I was shadowing the
shanty at the cave. He had been on
the same car and had kept his seat
when I alighted near the hut. He had
looked at me then as if he wanted to
know me the next time he saw me. I
was assured that he was one of the
counterfeiters, and made up my mind
to arrest the three of them the first
thing next morning.
“Here I learned a lesson in procras-
tination. While I hastily gobbled down
my breakfast the next day, a trapper,
who camped near by and who had gone
to the village the night before for sup-
plies, happened along and told me a
most disconcerting bit of news. The
three men had taken French leave.
They had caught a through freight
about midnight, taking little or no :
baggage with them. I hastened to the :
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me with the open hospitality of camp-
ers, insisting that I spend the night
with them. This was just what I had
been playing for.
“It was easy to see that the men
were crooks. There is always some-
thing to disclose the counterfeiter, if
the observer is only sufficiently versed
in their ways and mannerisms to rec-
ognize the telltale signs. I was pretty
sure, before the evening was over,
that these- were the men who had done
the job in St. Louis.
“Nothing about the cabin was the
least bit suspicious. A large iron pot
bubbled invitingly over the open fire,
the fragrant odor of boiling meat is-
suing from under its lid when the
steam pushed it up on one side. A :
steaming haunch of vension, cooking
with some vegetables and dumplings, 1
was produced from the pot for our '
supper, which was served soon after :
my arrival. In the center of the room 1
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To Clean a Frying Pan—Rub with
a hard crust of bread and wash with
hot water and washing soda. Never
scrub it or the next food fried in it
will stick.
To Clean Enameled or Granite Uten-
sils Whose Contents Have Been Al-
lowed to Burn—Fill with cold water,
add a piece of washing soda the size
of an egg and heat to boiling point.
Wash at once, as the burned parts will
then be more easily cleaned.
Saucepans and baking dishes should
be filled with cold water immediately
after using, so as to prevent the frag-
ments clinging to them. By doing
this they may be cleansed in half the
time otherwise required.
Tinware should be washed in hot
soapy water, rinsed, then dried with a
towel. Drying tinware on the stove
darkens and sometimes melts it. If
desired bright, first wash and then
clean with either writing or some min-
eral soap, not with sand, as this will
cut through the soft metal and soon
wear it out.
Coffee pots should always be bright
on the inside to insure good coffee. By
occasionally boiling soap, water and
washing soda in them they will be
kept in an excellent condition.
To clean rusty and blackened knives
and forks, use half a raw potato dipped
in brick dust.
Stains on tinware or teacups can be
removed by dipping a damp cloth in
common soda and rubbing briskly.
Wash and wipe dry.
Granitewear should not be left to
dry over a hot fire, as the heat in ex-
panding may cause the outside to
scale.
To clean copper or brass, if it is
very dirty, put some fine salt on a
plate, dip into it a cut lemon, and rub
on the metal. The strong acid will re-
move the worst stains.
Tumblers which have contained
milk should be first rinsed in cold wa-
ter before washing in hot water.
village, and although I worked the
single telegraph wire to its utmost
capacity, the three men succeeded in
making their escape.
“Sending a full cipher report to
Washington, I repaired to the cabin in
the swamps and made a careful search
of it. Everything within was in the
greatest confusion. Clothing and
shells, guns and fishing-tackle were
strewn about the floor, evidencing a
precipitate departure. It was tantaliz-
ing to again allow the criminals to es-
cape. I felt deeply chagrined, and re-
solved never again to put off a matter
of this kind. The men had forestalled
me by only a few hours, for I had in-
tended arresting them that morning,
and there had been nothing in their
conduct during my visit to their cabin
to indicate that they thought of flight.
“In one corner of the cabin, beneath,
the very bunk on which I had slept,
there was an excavation three feet
square and as many deep. The cover
was down and dirt was strewn over it
which gave it the same appearance as
the dirt floor of the house. I discov-
ered it by a hollow hound when I
tapped over the spot. It was empty.
“I noticed the absence of the pot
which had supplied my supper, but it
was rather a subconscious notice of it
The fact really made no appreciable
impression on me at the time, nor did
it, in fact, until more than a year had
passed. It was then recalled by a
newspaper dispatch under date of the
small village.
“Some of the boys in the village had
appropriated the cabin as a sort of
clubhouse, after the three men had
fled. They would spend Saturdays
there, fishing and swimming and hunt-
ing. Immediately in front of the cabin,
was a steep bank, and the river wi-
dened out into a broad, deep pool
which afforded good fishing and swim-
ming. The boys would throw white
pebbles into this hole and dive for
them from the bank. One of them
had struck his head against something,
hard at the bottom of the river and
had been pulled up a corpse, his skull
having been fractured by the impact
of the blow.
“The others investigated and found
a large iron pot half buried in the soft
mud. Its cover was sealed down and.
its weight had been so great the boys
couldn’t lift it from its oozy bed. The
dispatch stated that the pot was to be
raised and its contents examined.
“I was in Little Rock when I read
this dispatch and, without waiting for
instructions from headquarters, I
boarded the first train and set out for
the village. I was in a state of fever-
ish excitement, fearing I would arrive
there after the pot had been secured,
I wanted to be the first to view its con-
tents. I felt sure I knew what was
in it.
“After a journey that seemed inter
minable I arrived at the village and
inquired about the pot. My fears had
been groundless. With the indifference
so characteristic in country people the
villagers had forgotten, after the
funeral of the unfortunate young man,
the incident of the pot. While there
An Egg Hint.
To prevent hard-boiled eggs (for
salads, sandwiches, etc.) from turning
a dark color, place them when taken
out of the boiling water in a basin of
cold water for a few minutes. This
will not only preserve their natural
color, but will render them much more
easy to shell.
| The Iron Pot-Still a Mystery
Baked Celery.
Parboil four stalks of celery, cut up
fine; put in a baking dish with a quart
of veal stock which has been thick-
ened with two spoonfuls of butter and
two of flour rubbed to a smooth paste,
and beating into the yolks of three
eggs. Cover the top with finely grated
bread crumbs and then with grated
cheese. Bake ten minutes in a quick
oven. This is one of the most deli-
cious forms in which celery can be put
on the table.
sledge journey was begun. Mylius-
Erichsen, Lieut. Hagen and the Green-
lander Bronlund were to survey every
mile of the coast until their explora-
. What the poet Gray, in the somber
lines of the Elegy, has said of the
paths of glory seems to be given
fresh confirmation with each swing of
the pendulum. Last week, at an
auction sale in the city of New York,
the personal effects of the late Edwin
Booth, once the uncrowned king of the
American tragic stage, brought only
the paltry pittance of $3,000. The sim-
ple figures alone constitute an elo-
quent commentary upon the emptiness
of the bauble which men call fame.
Few, indeed, were the nights in the
gay flood tide of the theatrical sea-
sons when the box receipts for the
performances of Edwin Booth failed to
net twice the amount which was
realized at the auction sale. The
great American actor was the toast of
both hemispheres. Kings and em-
perors vied with each other in doing
honor to the matchless interpreter of
Hamlet. But when the curtain fell
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which fact was due to the machinery
of the counterfeiters being somewhat
lighter and less powerful than that of
the federal mints.
“The popular idea that coins are
cast or molded is quite erroneous.
They are stamped or pressed out of
narrow strips of metal. It is only by
this means that they can be sufficient-
ly compressed to stand the wear to
which they are subjected in circula-
tion. The machines used for this pur-
pose are heavy, ponderous things, and
it is difficult for counterfeiters to se-
cure the manufacture of such a ma-
chine, and quite as hard a proposition
for them to find a suitably secret
place in which to operate it, once
they have got it made.
“The St. Louis gang had their plant
in a cleverly constructed cave in a
suburban district. It was an artificial
cave, dug back in the face of a clay
and gravel bluff. The entrance was
through the shanty of a poor Irish
family, a circumstance that diverted
suspicion from it and one to which is
partly due the long immunity the
gang enjoyed.
“There was no scrap of metal, no
coins, chemicals, or other thing used
in the art. Only the machine and a
few wrenches and similar tools. The
gang had skipped out. The Irishman
was half-witted, and his wife was too
clever to be caught in the traps we
laid for her. We had made a water-
haul, except for the machine, which
was destroyed. The cave was filled
up. Acting under orders from Wash-,
up,” commenced
Dickson, as he sat be-
fore the cheerful wood fire
of his cozy study one
night last winter, “al-
though some of them slum-
ber for years among the
things forgotten, until the
denouement is accident-
ally developed by some
person who, perhaps, never
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heard of the original matter. Such
was the case which I have come to
remember as that of ‘The Iron Pot.’
It was a vessel of this humble charac-
ter that finally cleared up a great mys-
tery and brought the guilty to justice.
“You are well aware that the silver
dollar passes current for something
like 49 or 50 cents more than the
actual silver in it is worth. This fact
has not been overlooked by counter-
feiters, and because of it the secret
service has had some knotty problems
to unravel.
“The largest percentage of counter-
feits of specie are crude, black, leaden
things that are readily detectible and
difficult to pass. The handling of these
coins is beset with excessive danger.
But there have been some cases where
counterfeiters have so perfectly imi-
tated the silver dollar that experts
have been deceived by it. Such a coin
was brought out by a gang operating
in St. Louis some years ago. Their
dollac was of the same fineness and
weight as the coin of the government’s
mint and had the same quantity of al-
loy. The only difference between the
two was that the spurious coin was
a shade thicker than the genuine,
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Galveston Labor Journal (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, January 1, 1909, newspaper, January 1, 1909; Galveston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1447536/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rosenberg Library.