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CITY BUILDING NOTES.
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Entered at the postoffice at Texas
Eity, Texas, as second class matter.
Every Bell Telephone is
a Long Distance Station
Do you need a new one, does
your old one need repairing? If
so, Lobenstein is now prepared
to do the work and guarantees
absolute satisfaction.
By L. M. Ward, Sherman, President, Tex-
as Commercial Executives’ Association.
Ninth
Avenue
TThis is very good advice to the business men
when they are in need of anything in the
Printing Line.
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A town knocker is the product of the
Devil’s industry.
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A pessimist is a bane to the community
in which he lives.
A successful commercial organization must
be telescopic in its vision.
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Sold in Texas City by
D. WHITMAN—Talboy Building
Schaefer Bros. Sanitary Bakery
Published Every Afternoon Except
Sunday
E. S. Levy & Co.
Galveston
are dropped from it.
J. C. BLACK
Practical Mason
CONTRACTOR & BUILDER
ESTIMATES FURNISHED FREE
Cor. 3rd St. and 1st Ave. South.
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for your lost articles.
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until you have tried the
one best chance for its
Advertising Rates Made Known on
Application.
Guaranty State Bank
The Only Guaranty Fund Bank in Texas City
TIMES PRINTING CO., Publishers
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dreds of these ads an-
nually printed, scarcely
ten per cent of the
finders claim rewards.
throws out a
! room where the young men are gathered.
For Saturday from your Dealer
mumm TODAY ma=uma
fashion. For instance, a large bat con-
structed of cotton wadding and brown sile-
sia could be suspended from the ceilis * with
wings outspread, and "he ends of the threads
which players are to take caught to the
sharp points of the wings. Having selected
a thread (the black are for men and the
yellow for girls) each fate-seeker proceeds
to follow where it leads, disentangling it 99
he goes. Each thread should lead a long
and unexpected routh, both indoors and
out, sometimes crossing the threads, and
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Building
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a handkerchief, brooch or glove, to be used ; .
in the seance and afterward returned to herstretched tight across the doorway, and
'These articles arep laced on a table in the other cords to which are attached a dough,
nut, a ball of cotton, an apple and an orange
A Black Cravanette
Coat, very long, with
2-in-one collar.
The Southwestern Telegraph
& Telephone Co.
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WHEREVER you go, within the Bell system, your telephone horizon travels
with you.
No matter where you are, the Bell telephone is the center of a large talking
circle.
You can travel the length and breadth of the country and never be beyond the
reach of the Bell telephone.
Wherever you are, it links you with your home and business.
You may be a thousand miles from home, yet in a few minutes you may hear
the voice of friends or business associates.
And wherever you go it is the same. Always there is the same efficient service
of the Universal Bell Telephone system linking you with those you have left be-
.hind.
Perpetual plodding pays profitably. Cities
are not built in a day.
business done at the Guaranty State Bank
are ample resources and able manage-
ment,. It has the interests of its depositors
always in mind as well as those of the
stockholders. It extends to its depositors
all accommodations and courtesies consist-
ent with sound banking. If you seek a safe
place to deposit your funds, the Guaranty
State Bank invites your account.
Come in now and talk the mat-
ter over with my Trimmer.
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Health, harmony and happiness breed 1
content. honest peopi
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HOLLOWEEN AMUSEMENT.
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out one’s fortune.
A Spiritistic Frolic.
An original ghost frolic is heralded by
invitations written in the following form:
The pleasure of Miss Hannah Browning’s
company is requested at a Spiritistic Seance ,
on October 29th at 9:00 p. m. The cele- !
brated medium, Madame—(insert name of (
hostess), will conduct the seance. Please ’
come dressed as a spirit.’
The girls wearing the usual sheet and pil- I
low7- case disguise, are conducted into the
black parlor, while the young men are re-
ceived in the front. A curtain divides the
two rooms, or a little “cabinet” such as
spiritualists employ at their seances could
be constructed from a large packing-box
with the bottom removed so that only the '
frame remains. Drape this with shawls
or anything handy.
Each spirit delivers up to the medium ■
some little article of personal belongings— !
Cold and damp weather will
soon be here, prepare now. I
am in a position to take care of
your work on anything from an
electric to a limousine.
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sometimes alone. At the end of his thread
the Hallowe’ener will find an envelope, de-
corated with witch-cats cut from black
paper and other mystic symbcls of the
hour. On opening the envelope he finds
eight or ten words clipped from a news-
paper which when correctly arranged in
the form of a sentence will give a prophe-
cy for the future. None of the words
should be capitalized, as this adds to the
difficulty and the amusement of worbing
What beter fun for your Hallowe’en cele-
bration than haunted-house party! Let the
fun begin with the invitations, which are
made from thin white or gray cardboard.
ut out cards in the shape of wee houses,
the architecture anything you like, the fun-
nier the better. Mark in doors and windows
with ink and pen. On the reverse side of
each house write an invitation after this
fashion:
The old house at the corner of Main
Street and Wayne Avenue is reported to be
haunted. You are requested to make one
of an investigating party which will meet
there on Hallowe’en night to examine in-
to the cause of the weird lights and white
figures recently seen there. The investiga-
tors will assemble at eight-thirty sharp.”
“Of course, the description of the haunt-
ed house and the address given will fit theh
home of the entertainer who plans the
party.
Let the arriving guests find the house clos-
ed and dark. About the time the company
begins to assemble, weird lights produced
by flashes of a dark lantern should appear
at upper-story windows. Presently, with a
noise as of rumbling thunder, made by shak-
ing a piece of sheet-tin, the door is thrown
open and the hostess, attired as a specter,
appears in the doorway. Placing her fin-
ger on her bps she says in a sepulchral tone,
“Follow me!”
It would be fun to plan a very circuitous
route through the dimly lighted rooms over
which, to the accompaniment of more
thunder, the ghost might lead her guests.
She should set a rapid pace as in the good
old game of “Follow My Leader.” The
spirit, being familiar with the route, will
have no difficulty in keeping ahead, and
from time to time it might seem to disap-
pear, materializing again as the investiga-
tors hesitate, uncertain of their direction.
The chase comes to an end in some unex-
pected place—the cellar, for instance,
where some novel form of diversion could
be arranged for all, or perhaps at the doer
of the parlor, where preparations for games
have been made. One of the newest and
most thrilling Hallowe en games is ‘Thread
of Fate.” Every one in the party can
share in it.
The threads c f fate are represented by
lexgths of black and yellow ribbon or string,
one for each gues. Have the loose end
of the threads arranged in some effective
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romantic deductions are drawn when
all have found Hallowe’en mates in this
way (with whom, by the way, they after-
ward go in to supper), the seance breaks
up and general games are indulged in.
The Mystic Ball.
For this game have a huge ball of black
and yellow, made by sewing together strips of
sitisa torn as for rag carpet. As you wind
the ball, wind in all kinds of small articles
which can be interpreted as fortunes. A
thimble, a button, a penny, and so on. All
fate-delvers draw their chairs up in the
form of a circle. The hostess tosses the
ball to some one in the circle and this per-
son must begin to unwind it, continuing un-
till some emblem drops out. This emblem,
when properly interpreted, will hint at
his or her future. The ball is then tossd
to some one else in the circle, who un-
winds as before, and this continues until all
have found fortunes.
Snatching at Fate.
A lively game is one where a cord is
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By Mail or Delivered by Carrier.
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of Gent’s Shoes, Hats, Caps, Underwear,
Collars, Jersey Sweater Coats, Negligee
and Woolen Shirts, all the latest style and
union made.
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Lifting each article singly the medium des- (
cribes a spirit which she sees hovering a- . .
, . u. t .1. wno, of paiwco one of the swinging emblems. If the
round it—that of the owner, ot course. 5 b
. If any voung man wishes to converse with orange is caught, the fate-seeker will enjoy
I the spirit described, he is handed the hand- wealth; if the doughnut, life for him or her |
I kerchief or brooch, and the spirit is led will be easy and sweeti if the apple, happi-
out to him through the cabinet. This pair- ness is in but any one biting the cot-
ing-off creates much fun, and all kinds of ton wil die unwed.
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F. C. LOBENSTEIN
^THE HOUSE OF QUALITY”
2024 Strand, Galveston Phone 450
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Undoubtedly there is no modern inven-
tion that has caused such a slump in our
national manners as that of the telephone.
It seems that just as soon as the average
man, or woman, gets hold of a telephone his
or her, breeding vanishes as does the dew
before a warm sun. Women who would
not think of standing on the corner and
“sassing” another, or who would not quar-
rel with a shop girl seem to think they are
perfectly justified in taking out their bad
temper on the exchange and anyone else
who hapens, by mistake to be connected
with that number.
Men are not only as bad but much worse
for they very frequently use it as a means
of saying that they would not dare to re-
peat if brought face with the one at the) other
end. In their case it appears to be
cowardice pure and simple, a. cowardice
all the more dispicable because it cannot be
traced to its source.
How often have you been on the Une
when somebody else by mistake was an
there also and been gruffly ordered to ‘Get
off that line.” It ade your blood boil, !
didn’t it and yet the chances are, if you I
are human, that the very next time you *
told some other unfortunate being the very
same thing. That is the worst of it; peo-
ple who are naturally polite have been dealt
with so often after this fashion that they
feel it necessary, in order to protect them-
selves, to do as their ruder neighbors do.
“When in Rome, do as the Romans do”
in some respects is a very false doctrine.
IfThe Times had any authority to offer a
substitute it would make a trifling change
in this adage and make it read ‘When in
Rome, do as the best Romans do.”
There is such a thing as carrying polite-
ness too far, to such an extent that it a-
mounts to insincerity—one of the chief
blemishes of the Latin races. The Mexican
expression “My home is your” which greets
every visitor means nothing. It is said
to a foe as readily as to a friend and in
each case carries just about the same
weight. But, reverting back to the tele-
phone, if one would use the same courtesy
in speaking over the wires that he uses
in face to face conversations, there would
be fewer bad tempers, frowns and cuss
words.
Try politeness when next you use the
telephone and see if it doesn’t get you fur-
ther in the long run that rudeness.
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Texas City Daily Times (Texas City, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 230, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 29, 1913, newspaper, October 29, 1913; Texas City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1576393/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rosenberg Library.