Galveston Labor Dispatch (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, September 4, 1914 Page: 2 of 16
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Galveston Firms Who Are Friendly to Organized Labor
James B. & Charles J. Stubbs
Red Cross Drug Store
Lawyers
By Harold MacGrath
Phomen 223 aad 2068
212 Twenty-Second Street.
2717 Market
S. LEITNER
Galveston, Texas.
666
Phone 2035
866
Conditions of the Contest:
$10,000 FOR 100 WORDS.
21st and Postoffice
Prompt Service.
Phone 911
Phone 1628.
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606 Phone
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H. KOESTER
Printers, Bookbinders, Rulers
DRUGGIST
218-15 20th St.
Phone 4457
Phone 1480.
2306 Strand.
fans
MOTORS
FANS
Werner & Mearse
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NEURATH’S
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These baths are better than
Open all day.
Breakers Bathhouse.
F. W. Erhard & Co.
A board of three judges will de- lionaire?
V. VALENTIN
Moore & Goodman
415 Tremont
Phone 90
2207 Mechanic St.
Jack M. Levy
Sam J. Levy
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Phone 114 6
Church St., Between 22nd and 23rd
Telephone 321
ATTENTION
ATTENTION
2016 Postoffice Street
Next to Opera House.
Phone 3300.
1926 Market Street
Phone 4490
ACCIDENT INSURANCE
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Tremont ane Strand
Phone 712
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Phone 4979
2304 Strand,
dazed
A Strong Foundation
When buying Coffee don’t forget
to ask for the Union Label Goods.
The reg-
$1 Opens a Savings Account Here
no
and-
WE PAY 4^INTERE5T0NSAViNSS
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206-208 Tremont Street
Phone 2410
f33
Brings Quick and Sure Returns.
Phone 409 for our Ad Man.
Livery and Boarding Stable
Licensed Undertakers and Embalmers
sible for him to reject it.
ular conductor paid them
kindred ills.
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Muller Printing
Company
UNION THROUGHOUT
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Everybody Is Drinking
Blue Label Coffee
HOT SALT WATER BATHS
Turkish, electric baths and massages ;
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Skarkes Bar and
Lunch Room
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1 5 Cor. 24th and Postoffice
Stationers, Printers and Blank
Book Makers.
Lumber and Mill Work, Laths, Shingles
and Mouldings
29 and 30 Church and Winnie Streets
Telephone 166
Union Secretaries—Attention!
We carry a Full Line of Minute Book s. Re-
cord Books, and everything required to
keep your accounts.
Knapp Bros.
mind in connection with the mystery
as an aid to a solution:
1—What becomes of the mil-
Advertising’ in the
GALVESTON LABOR DISPATCH
ness in him.
So the reporter had found her, and
she was safe and sound and on her
THE STAR BARBER SHOP
is Union, Sanitary and first-class in
every respect. The only one in the
city having a sterilizer.
ROSARIO YASSALA, Prop.,
2406 Market St.
UNION MEN!
See us for your printing
(Copyright, 1914, by Harold Mac-
Grath.)
SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS
CHAPTERS.
WHY NOT YOU!
Save the Coupons
Sold by all Grocer*
The "White Flyer” Ambulance Always Ready.
Phone 273
Galveston Bookbinding Go.
W. W. TIDD, Manager.
ICE BOXES, REFRIGERATORS
McDougall Kitchen Cabinets
All Kinds of Household Goods, Trunks,
Suit Cases and Bags.
Kerpel's Furniture Store
Moving Wagons and Storage Rooms
have a special department for ladies anu
men.
H. BERNAU,
Phone 976.
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Studdert and Baldy
PHONE 866
CENTER AND BROADWAY
J. F. SEINSH EI M ER & CO.
GENERAL AGENTS
. C. FALLIGANT
Concrete Curbs, Sidewalk*, Floors, Composition
roofing, all Size Vitrified Pipe.
J. LEVY & BRO.
tsisq _
Livery and Sales Stables
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Undertakers and Licensed Embalmers
Polite and Attentive Drivers Are Employed
shown the pictures of the winner,
his or her home, and other interest-
ing features. It is understood that
the newspapers, so far as practical,
in printing the last two chapters of
the story by Harold MacGrath, will
also show a picture of the successful
contestant.
Solutions to the mystery must not
be more than 100 words long. Here
Texas Star Bakery
L. Giusti,
Twenty-Third and Winnie Streets.
3 Loaves for 10c.
304 TWENTI-SECOND ST.
CIGARS, TOBACCOS. MAGAZINES,
PAPERS AND CANDIES.
TRY HARBOR VIEW BATHHOUSE A 1
THE FOOT OF AVENUE I.
High class accommodations for bathing
parties and families.
For Information Phone 5372.
8
Headquarters for all kinds of jackets,
for sale or rent, 75c upward. Repairing,
pressing, cleaning and altering. Exclusive
cook and waiter supply house in the city.
Also full dress suits for rent.
| way to New York? Knowing by this
I time something of the reporter’s
i courage, he was eager to learn how
Stanley Hargreave, Millionaire, i the event had come about. When
after a miraculous escape from the | he had not heard a telephone mes-
den of the gang of brilliant thieves sage from Norton in forty-eight
known as the Black Hundred, lives hours, he had decided that the Black
the life of a recluse for eighteen 1 Hundred had finally succeeded in
Texas Bank & Trust Co.
Market at Twenty-Second
THE BANK OF SAfISFACTORY SERVICE
RESOURCES OVER FOUR MILLION DOLLARS
condition by a party of fishermen.
The Black Hundred locate her and
Braine, disguised as her father, suc-
ceeds in taking her back to sea with
him. Florence sets fire to the boat
and is rescued by a ship on which
Norton has been shanghaied.
W. N. FRITTER
2425-2427 Market Street
Furniture and Refrigerators on Easy Payments
Household Furniture Bought and Exchanged.
good for
COMET UNKO TED RICE
ABSOLUTELY PURE—NO GLU-
COSE OR TALC
Seaboard Rice Milling Co.
Galveston, Texas
nervousness, rheumatism and
“The Million Dollar Mystery”
attention than to grumble
years. Hargreave accidentally meets getting hold of him. It had been
Braine, leader of the Black Hun- ■ something of' a blow; for while he
dred. Knowing Braine will try to looked with disfavor upon the report-
‘ng machine with a bullet.
Florence is picked up in a
or Marlin. East side
remember the BANK SALOON
HUMPHREY D. BOYD
“THE QUEEN”
Cigar and News Stand
Meet Frank, Carl, Mac and the Boys
“At the Queen”
Phone No. 4357. Queen Theater Bldg.
SHOE BARGAINS.
Save 81.00 per Pair.
83.50, 83.00 Shoe* ter $2.50, 83.00.
REPAIRING OF ALL KINDS.
The publication of “The Million
Dollar Mystery” began June 27. The
Story runs for twenty-two consecu-
tive weeks in this paper. By an ar-
rangement with the Thanhouser Film
Company it has been made possible
not only to read the story in this
paper, but also to see it each week
in the various moving picture the-
aters. For the solution of this mys-
tery $10,000 will be given.
Messenger Service
Twa Phones
Messengers Furnished- Day er
Repaired and cleaned. New and
second-hand fans and motors on
hand, bought, sold and exchanged.
Parts for all makes. Estimates
cheerfully given. Satisfaction
guaranteed.
CLARKE ELECTRIC CO.
3401 Winnie Phone 588
SOUTH TEXAS STATE BANK OF GALVESTON
2309 MARKET STREET
[SUCCEEDING THE ROSENBERG BANK]
Solicits your account, either checking or Savings.
This bank is a State Guaranty Fund Bank —the only one in Galveston
Come and let us explain the advantages of a State Guarantee Fund Bank;
SOUTH TEXAS STATE BANK
CHAPTER XI.
When Jones received the telegram
that Florence was safe, the iron
nerve of the man broke down. The
suspense had been so keenly terrible
that the sudden reaction left him al-
most hysterically weak. Three weeks
of waiting, waiting. Not even the
scoundrel and his wife who had been
the principal actors in the abduction
had been found. From a great ship
in midocean they had disappeared.
Doubtless they had hidden among the
immigrants, who, for a little money,
would have fooled all the officers on
board. There was no doubt in Jones’
mind that the pair had landed safely
in Madrid.
As for Susan, she did have hys-
terics. She went about the room,
wailing and laughing and wringing
her hands. You would have thought
by her actions that Florence had
just died. The sight 'of her stirred
the saturnine lips of the butler into
a smile. But he did not remon-
strate with her. In fact, he rather
envied her freedom in emotion. Man
can not let go in that fashion; it is a
sign of weakness; and he dared not
let even Susan see any sign of weak-
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S F. P. MALLOY & SONS j
THE GALVESTON LABOR DISPATCH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1914.
East End Pharmacy
C. W. Domingo,
513 Thirteenth Street. Phone 108.
Prompt, Courteous Attention.
Almeda Coffee Parched or Ground, 11b, Can----$ .35
Almeda Coffee Parched or Ground, 31b, Can---- 1.00
Union Brand lib. Package__________ _________ .30
UNION LABEL IN EVERY PACKAGE
feature as soon as it is practical to
produce same. The story corre-
sponding to these motion pictures
will appear in the newspapers coin-
cidentally, or as soon after the ap-
pearance of the pictures as practical.
With the last two reels will be
are some questions to be kept in
We invite you to come to our new place of business to see our
beautiful stock of furniture. We promise to give you the biggest
bargains' in the furniture line.
We credit everybody and our terms are liberal.
TEXAS FURNITURE COMPANY
er's frank regard for his charge, he
appreciated the fact that Norton was
a staff to lean on, and had behind
him all the power of the press, which
included the privilege of going
everywhere even if one could not al-
ways get back.
As he folded the telegram and put
it into his pocket, he observed the
man with the opera glasses over the
way. He shrugged. Well, let him
watch till his eyes dropped out of
his head; he would see only that
which was intended for his eyes.
Still, it was irksome to feel that no
matter when or where you moved,
matching eyes observed and chroni-
cled these movements.
Suddenly, not being devoid of a
sense of dry humor, Jones stepped
over to the telephone and called up
her highness the Princess Perigoff.
“Who is it?”
He was forced to admit, however
reluctantly, that the woman had a
marvelously fine speaking voice.
“It is Jones, madam.”
“Jones?”
“Mr. Hargreave's butler, madam.”
“Oh! You have news of Flor-
ence ?”
“Yes.”
It will be an embarrassing day for
humanity when some one nvents a
photographic apparatus by which two
persons at the two ends of the tele-
phone may observe the facial ex-
pression of each other.
“What is it? Tell me quickly.”
“Florence has been found, and she
is on her way back to New York. She
was found by Mr. Norton, the re-
porter.”
“I am so glad! Shall I come up at
once and have you tell me the vhole
amazing story ? ”
It would be useless, madam, for I
know nothing except what I learned
from a telegram I have just re-
ceived. But no doubt some time this
evening you migh risk a cab.”
“Ring up the instant she returns.
Did she say what train?”
“No, madam,” lied Jones,-smiling.
He hung up the receiver and stared
at the telephone as if he wodd force
his gaze in and through it to the
woman at the other end. Fiesn and
blood! Well, greed was stronger
than that. Treacherous cat! Let her
play; let her weave her nets, dig her
pits. The day would come, and it
was not far distant, when she would
find that the mild eyed mongoose
was just as deadly as the cobra, and
far more cunning.
The heads of the Black Hundred
must be destroyed. Those were trie
orders. What good to denounce
them, to send them to a prison from
which, with the aid of money and a
tremendous secret political pull,
they must be exterminated, as one
kills off the poisonous plague rats
of the Orient. A woman ? In the
law of reprisal there was no sex.
Shortly after the telephone episode
(which rather puzzled the princess)
No. 217 Tremont St. Galveston, Tex.
get him he escapes from his own
home by a balloon. Before escaping
he writes a letter to the girls’ school,
where eighteen years before he mys-
teriously left on the doorstep his
baby daughter, Florence Gray. That
day Hargreave also draws one mil-
lion dollars from the bank, but it is
reported that this dropped into the
sea, when the balloon he escaped in
was punctured.
Florence arrives from the ’girls
school. Countess Olga, Braine’s
companion, visits her and claims to
be a relative. Two bogus detectives
call, but their plot is foiled by Nor-
ton, a newspaper man.
By bribing the captain of the
Orient Norton lays a trap for Braine
and his gang. Countess Olga also
visits the Orient’s captain and she
easily falls into the reporter’s snare.
The plan proves abortive through
Braine’s good luck, and only hire-
lings fall into the hands of the police.
After failing in their first attempt
the Black Hundred trap Florence.
They ask her for money, but she es-
capes, again foiling them.
Norton and the countess call on
Florence the next day, once more
safe at home. The visitors having
gone, Jones removes a section of
flooring, and from a cavity takes a
box. Pursued by members of the
Black Hundred, he rushes to the
water front and succeeds in dropping
the box into the sea.
Braine conceives the idea of giv-
ing a coaching party, to which Flor-
ence is invited. Jones and Norton
both go along and are fortunately on
hand to save Florence from being
imprisoned in the country house to
which she is lured.
Florence goes horseback riding
and is captured by one of Braine’s
men along the roadside. Norton res-
cues her. They are pursued, how-
ever, and the pair make their com-
plete escape only after Norton has
exploded a tire on the fast approach-
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Money in the bank is a strong foun-
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all of us are rich, but all of us can
better our condition. Saving—
steady and consistent—will accomp-
lish wonders. Open an account
with us today with whatever amount
you can spare, then odd to it as
opportunity permits.
The prize of $10,000 will be won by
the man, woman or child who writes
the most acceptable solution of the
mystery, from which the last two
reels of motion picture drama will
be made and the last two chapters
of the story written by Harold Mac-
' Grath. termine which of the many solutions No. 2—What becomes of the $1,-
Solutions may be sent to the received is the most acceptable. The 000 000 ?
Thanhouser Film Corporation, either judgment of this board will be abso- ’ _Lo~ does Florence
at Chicago or New York, any time lute and final. Nothing of a literary ? -
up to midnight, Dec. 14. They must nature will be considered in the de- ma- •
bear postoffice mark not later than cision, nor given any preference in No. 4 a ecomes o
that date. This allows four weeks the selection of the winner of this sion countess. -
after the first appearance of the last $10,000 prize. The last two reels, Nobody connected either direc
film releases and three weeks after which will give the most acceptable or indirectly with The Mon —0
the last chapter is published in this solution to the mystery, will be pre- lar Mystery will be considered as a
paper, in which to submit solutions. sented in the theaters having this contestant.
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Absolutely Fireproof. Modern, European. Summer Rates
$1.00 to $3.00 per day.
A HOTEL BUILT FOR THE CLIMATE
PERCY TYRELL, Manager
$
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Galveston, Texas
33rd and Ave. H. Galveston, Tex.
Moving Vans. Storage Rooms
Galveston, T exas
2701 Market St. Galveston, Tex.
out for shore approach, and the
blockhead Bannock had never sus-
pected. He had not recognized Nor-
ton at all. It was only when Ban-
nock explained the history of the
shanghaied stoker that he realized
his real danger. Norton! He must
be pushed off the board. After this
episode he could no longer keep up
the pretense of being friendly. Nor-
ton, by a rare stroke of luck, had
forced him out into the open So be
it. Self preservation is in no wise
looked upon as criminal. The law
may have its ideas about it, but the
individual recognizes no law but its
own. • It was Braine whom he lovec
and admired,, or Norton whom he
hated as a dog with rabies hates
water. With Norton free, he would
never again dare return to New York
perly. This meddling reporter
aimed at his ease and elegance.
, He left the freighter as soon as a
boat could carry him ashore. The
fugitives would make directly for the
j railroad, and thither he went al
top speed, to arrive ten mint.tes too
late.
“Free!” said Florence, as the train
began to increase its speed.
Norton reached over and patted
her hand. Then he sat back with a
sudden shock of dismay. He dived a
hand into a pocket, into another and
another. The price of the telegram
he had sent to Jones was all he had
in the world; and he had borrowed
that from a friendly stoker. In the
excitement he had forgotten all
about such a contingency as the ab-
solute need of money.
Florence, I’m afraid we’re going
to have trouble with the conductor
when he comes.”
“Why?”
He pulled out his pockets sugges-
tively.
“Not a postage stamp. They’ll put
us off at the next station. And,”
with a glance in the little mirror be-
tween the two windows, “I shouldn’t
blame them a bit.” He was un-
shaven, he was wearing the suit sub-
stituted for his own; and Florence,
sartorially was not much better off.
She smiled, blushed, stood up, and
turned her back to him. Then she sat
down again. In her hand she held
a small dilapidated roll of bank-
notes.
“I had them with me when they
abducted me,” she said. "Besides,
this ring is worth something.”
“Thank the Lord!” he exclaimed,
relievedly.
So there was nothing more to do
but be happy; and happy the were.
They were quite oblivious tc the pe-
culiar interest they aroused among
the other passengers. his un-
shaven young man, in his hagged
coat and soiled jersey; this deautiful
young girl, in a wrinkled homespun,
her glorious blonde hair awry; and
the way they looked at each other
during those lulls in conversation
peculiar to lovers the world over,
impressed the other passengers with
the idea that something very un-
usual had happened to these two.
The Pullman conductor was not
especially polite; but money was
money, and the stockholders, waiting
for their dividends, made it impes-
Announcement to the Union Men of Galveston!
We carry a complete line of Teas, Coffees, Spices, Extracts
and Baking Powders. We roast daily.
Prices Reasonable. Your Trade Solicited.
Southern Tea and Coffee Co.
Marsene Johnson Elmo Johnson
Roy Johnson
—LAW OFFICE OF—
MARSENE JOHNSON
20th and Market Streets
Galveston, Texas
GENERAL PRACTICE, CIVIL AND
CRIMINAL
Telephone 780
she received a wire from Braine,
which announced the fact that Flor-
ence and five had escaped and were
coming to New York on train No. 25,
and advising her to meet the train
cn route. She had to fly about to
do it.
When Captain Bannock released
Braine he had been in no enviable
frame of mind. Tricked, fooled by
the girl, whose mind was as un-
clouded as his own! She had suc-
ceeded in bribing a coal stoker, and
had taken him unawares. The man
had donned the disguise he had laid
changing a $20 bill.
So, while these two were hurrying
on to New York, the plotters were
hurrying east to meet them. The
two trains met and stopped at the
same station about eighty miles
from New York. The princess, ac-
companied by Vroon, who kept well
in the background, entered the car
occupied by the two castaways.
In the mirror at the rear of the
car Norton happened to cast an idle
glance, and he saw the princess.
Vroon, however, escaped his eye.
“Be careful, Florence,” he said.
“The princess is in the car. The
game begins again. Pretend that
suspect nothing. Pretty quick work
(Continued on Page 14.)
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