The Texas Jewish Herald (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 23, 1931 Page: 4 of 24
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By Chaim Cohen
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KEYSTONE SANDWICH SHOP
JAMES H. B. HOUSE
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Your Water Commissioner
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list your name with their
telephone number for
a few cents a month.
Ask foran"extralisting."
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE HERALD
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2800 Travis
3000 Washington
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We suggest that you carry your telephone with you during
houseclcaning time. . . to basement, bedrooms, sun room.
Portable telephones cost comparatively little. You plug
them into sockets like floor lamps or vacuum cleaners.
Then you answer calls or order groceries and supplies with-
out leaving your work. —V
They’re handy, too,for guest room,sick room, sewing room.
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establishing ventures
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CAPITOL 7136
A. F. KATTMANN
—V ve ton ever i in luded ill', tele phone oflicc
on \ our pi ing shopping tour?
Il vou haven't, pene an intcresting hall hour
I he re this :pring. I ca in omeof the things
that e hi be done to ave you time, work and
W oi i \ dunint sni ing housed calling time, and
CITY OF HOUSTON
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even met with
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Hlege Nathan Straus
our of the milk sta-
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Call or visit the telephone office and ask about the serv-
ices described here. Or talk with any telephone employee
(Except operators on duty). Your order will be taken
care of promptly. •. SoutHWItRAn Bull Tnppwonn Co.
of children under 5 years
first came to love horses. Circus
horses attracted him. He was wont
to tell with a chuckle of the time
when, like most boys not having the
price of admission to a circus, he
stuck hia bead under the tent only
to get himdelf smacked by a passing!
clown.
The bgy’n commercial,4bility be-
gan to show itself at an early age.
He was always leading hia dothera
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I “A I RIAL PROVFS OUR DELICIOUS SANDWICHES” I
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For Housecleaning Victims
II you haven’t ,i telephone already,
ygu ll be surprised to see how one
helps It saves weary shopping trips,
brings needed supplies posthaste from
drug store or grocery, relieves the
monotony of housework by making
possible intimate chats with friends.
Some folks go so far as to maintain
that it soothes the temper and sweet-
ens the disposition!
It's really an asset all the year. . .
helpful in times of pleasure, comfort
or emergency. In cost it's just about
the cheapest servant you can hire
works for you for a few cents a day.
The telephone book is its best testi-
monial. Most of th names have been
there fortycars.
the trip, the
a just OUt of
Another time, Nathan Straus met
with resistance in his efforts to
-bring modern preventative methods I tragedy had I
to work itruin t human disease. intensify his ]
■| Whenihe -ousht to establish the his
tuberculosis preventorium for chil 'null
‘dren at lakewood, N J., citizens of
•• the community would not allow thetook him
erection of the linildinurs for the tions, the hoy l
tablishme nt, which was eventually ' the work.
his father, Lazar Mtrans, was I
ning a commercinl venture in
Equests. Ho would often quote the
! I Talmudic saying, “What 'you give
| ( after death is lead, what you give in
11 sickness is silver, what you give in |
11 life is gold.”
Office and Factory—201-11 Crawford Street
and sociologists,
1 ing near, hut he remained distracted, |
moody, and not at all like the brisk
youn buyer from America who had
first come to Berlin. Business asso-
(dates saw the change that had come
over him. At last one ot them asked
'Nathan what was troubling him. lie.
mentioned Mnnheim on the Rhine. 4
i| “'lake the first train back there'
and propose to the girl," he Was told. ;
He did. And Lina Gutherz came to
America.
In all of Nathan Straus’ great acts
of philanthropy his wife had a share.
Their last venture was the creation
of the Nathan and Una Straus
Health Center trust fund of $500,-
5000 for welfare work in Palestine.
=' But Mr. Straus’ gifts to Palestine,
| I which total $2,000,000, make an-
THE TEXAS JEWISH HERALD
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Nathan Staaus, a Career
1 Carrying out that saying, he would ।
sell his yacht, and his wife would dis- .
pose of her jewels, in order that dis-
,,,,1 case might be found in Palestine.
Nathan Straus, the eldest of three
sons of Lazar Straus, was born in
Rhenish, Bavaria, on Jan. 31, 1848.
Five years later Lazar Straus, be-
i cause of his activity in a revolution-
i ary movement in Germany, was con-
strained to move his family to an-
| other country. He came to the
United States and settled in Georgia.
For a time he was a peddler. Later
he established a store in Talbottom,
where his was the only Jewish fam-
ily.
Nathan Straus’ memories at youth
in Georgia were many. There, he
Rubber Stamps and Stencils
"THAT’S OUR BUSINESS”
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J dead and his passing closes a marvel pocket money. One of these, the
N ous chapter in philanthropy. He selling of hemp, netted him quite a
| gave the veritable milk of human'bit of money. Nathan Straus, then
. kindne ,.t" Jew and non Jew alike 15, bought a pony with his first con-
I He want il to die poor but he died siderable earnings
| rich in love and veneration of a Years later he bred some of the
. grateful world. I world's be t race horses in the sta
• _______ bles he owned. But he was ready to
| On Tuesday, Jan. 13. 10,000 peo- give up his beloved horses for char-
। plc in the city of New York fol- ity, too.
' lowed the body of Nathan Straus to The story of his sale of some of
I its final resting place. All over the his prize horses is connected with
. world there were thousands of othe i "ne of the two great tragedies of his
’ people who, if only in desire, life, tragedies which caused him
- - -3 marched with the marchers who more firmly than ever to pursue his
buried Nathan Straus. Among them philanthrpic establishment of health!
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dead but for his wise philanthropy. In 1874 Nathan Straus walked
A Nathan Straus created a new into the office of R 11. Macy & * o.
Send ui your abstract and let us guarantee the title. If
the title is not good enough for us to guarantee, you would
not be safe in buying the property.
located at I mingrdale. N .1. Ilii A few days later the boy became
tubborn, illori al re i tance of the ill, suffe ring from pneumonia. Be-
towt "i'll of Lakewood embittered fore he died, he aid. "lather, I
Nathuan a t ran ; he cherislicd p gries - think you might to ell yur horse
alii i’ ayrain"t them the only rancour and use the money to open more wel
f tin ingularly gentle fare station .”
minded man i in connection with the Mr. Strati ' chariti, were not ,
people who Mould not let him । ut. P confined to this one form. In 1894,
I’m pital for ‘ hildre n in their town, during the unemployment erisis in
11’ mirht well have felt anger New York, he opened loulsring houses -
aga ' t them! supplying bed and breakfa t for a •
Straus wa * years old nickel. He opened stations supply- j
led II' had been ill for ing food and coal to the poor. ’
eight month . m ' havirunrrcovernd Nathan traus had one other |
from the blow if hi wile death, great Jovi Pah stine Early in his |
The romantic nature pl their court life, before the organized Zioni t
ship, and the utter devotjon that movement had reached the I neral |
characterized their married life, is Jewish public. Nathan Straus went to I
de cubed by nil who knew ti...... - l'ale tine. He fell in love with l’al
plc as a model m i tinge. Mr. Straus' , tine IIe vi ited l'ale tin again. I
lorn line aft । r t lu; dent h of his wif< he lived there Ie i t aid i lied* clinics |
could not bi di pell d. lie oils and for the treatme nt of the prevalent I
hi daughter were clo e to him. butoye dicase, clinic fa Ar: . Chris- l
। i stronuth ebbed te tils III’ । till turns and Jew alike. The organiza |
back in a wheel chair from a trip to/tion
nEurope, later he wa confind to
! t‘s no joke to climb up
and down the stairs all
day. Many a tired woman, ,
at the cud id a part ten- =
I Ty 11,11 <1 d. v, t ows t but
woman’s work, indeed,
is never done.
()ne solution is an exten a <
sum telephone, vups "9#,
... or in the- kite
11 you live in a large bun- * "
galow or apartment ... '
an extension in a rea hed-, 4
room. You'll be surprisd 2**
at the small cost.
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W a h inylon. I 1 (.Office
'dll I n est ment Inilding
( pring shopping
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meaning for the term "to give of the carrying two fine china plates. His
milk of human kindness.” He gave conference ended in an arrangement
the veritable milk of human kind whereby his fathe r’s firm took over
ne *; a clever speaker might point the basement of the store for the
out that it was pasteurized milk. sale of crockery. In 1875 Nathan
The hundreds of people who were Straus married. In 1887 Nathan
saved in childhood by the use of pas- ’ Straus and his brother Isidor bought
teurized milk, supplied y them at the department store of R ll Macy
the philanthropi t‘s famous milk sta- & • o.
tions, may not realize that Nathan Then, on a trip to Europe, a
But he was t(
love. He went
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For Spring Gardeners
Lots of folks tell us that
when they’re outside
washing windows or work-
ing on spring flower beds,
they can’t hear the tele-
phone ringing inside.
, To them, we recommend
extension bells, gongs, .or
sirens. Put one in vour
kitchen ... it will ring
loudly enough to prevent
loss of important calls.
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l York, as t he family f
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bed.
Hr liked often to tell
mance. Larly in the 1
Straus’ first efforts to supply germ-I daughter of Nathan and Lina Straus,
milk for children were aged 2, took sick and died from a
bis । lack of pure milk.
In 1812, the rate of death in New
- ; our times became so personally asso-
l ciated, in the public mind, with his I
Egifts as did Nathan Straus. He said
he wanted to die poor. The good-
11 heartedness that , was always domi-
1 even extended them, e-tablishingstation for supplying pasteurized
। plants for pasteurizing milk in tier- milk to the public. In the face of
many, Cuba, the Philippines, Eng- skepticism, even of-derision, he con-l
land, Ireland and Palestine. Now,tinued to establish such stations. In
of course, the sanitary code of New 1920, when he turned his pasteur-
York (‘ity, like that of every otherization plant over to the city of New1
advanced city, requires the pasteur-I York, the death rate for children un j
ization of all milk sold. der 5 years of age was 28.3 per thou-
sand.
During that interval, a second
brought Mr. Straus to!
philanthropy. One of
sons Was just about to enter’ (‘or-
I niversity. Before the boy
the Packard Business School of New
York, but had had no training in the’
1 art of making love, visited Mann- .
I helm on the Rhine. 'I here he met
and fell in love with Lina (iutherz.
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