The Texas City Star (Texas City, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 18, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 24, 1915 Page: 2 of 4
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TEXAS CITY STAR, TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 24, 1915.
A CLOUD-BURST OF BABY SHOES
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STATE IMMIGRATION LAWS
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JUDGE KILLITS’ BOMBS FOR THE KAISER
tinue to smolder until it breaks passengers
to slip overboard,
wended its way back to China-
“Of husbands, mostly.”
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PROFESSIONAL
Special Reduced Rates
Room 218
P. O. Building.
BNa8e
Saves Railroad Fare and Board
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NO REASON FOR DEPRESSION.
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RobtL Cohen
Market at 22nd
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Galveston
hot fire?
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Rednced Prices
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There is no essentially weak element in the
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Oil is doing fairly well, the lumber industry is in bet-
Phone 87.
Texas City, Tex.
316-6TH AVE.
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Would you like
to take the chili
from your room
on the cool MORN-
INGS without hay-
ing to build a
Havana, Miami
Palm Beach
stronger,
situation.
One Week,
One Month,
One Year, .
grow
local
Through Standard Elec-
tric Lighted Sleepers To
ST. LOUIS-CHICAGO
The ELECTRIC Stove will
do it—neatly, nicely and
comfortably.
Chinatown. Inspector Wakefield
was taking no chances.
Behind the hearse were scat-
So Chinatown smolders and
the police department waits in
dread of when the smoldering
will break out in the flame that
probably will necessitate sending
another Hip Sing to the electric
chair.
ED. S. MeCARVER
Attorney at Law
WOLVIN LINE
MEXICAN-AMERICAN STEAMSHIP SERVICE
WEEKLY SERVICE
Freight and Pasenger
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BROUSSARD REALTY CO.
Real Estate Investments and Loans
All kinds of Health Accident and Life In-
surance.
W. S. BROUSSARD, Manager,
Phone office, 113. Res. 65, 186.,
Superb Dining Car
Service
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Want Ads
L. R. WALDEN, Pres. Austin, Texas
WALDEN’S BUSINESS UNIVERSITY
facts which spell an era of prosperity for this country that
the political snifflers'can not head off.”
Locally, reasons for confidence multiply and steadily
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..30c
$3.00
WE ARE READY TO CALL FOR YOUR
ROUGH DRY WASH
THE SOUTHWESTERN
TELEGRAPH 4 TELEPHONE
COMPANY
DR.W. N- JONE S
Dentist
In Practice 20 Years
Office in General Office Building.
LOST Bunch of keys. Apply Star Of-
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This paper is represented for foreign advertising by the AMERI-
CAN PRESS ASSOCIATION, general offices in New York and
Chicago, and branches in all the principal cities.
Tampico and Vera Cruz
For particulars apply to—
WOLVIN LINE
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“QUICKEST TIME
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PULLMAN ACCOMM( DATIONS ASSIGNED
TRAIN LEAVES TEXAS CITY 1:50 P. M. DAILY
town.
There was an undercurrent of
activity that night, but the
presence of the white guardians
forestalled any open outbreak.
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WILLARD-JOHNSON FIGHT 1
Stockmen's Association, Races
El Paso and Return
lifted the coffins on their should- FIRE, TORNADO AND LIFE
ers and the march to the ceme- '
tery began. It did not lead thru INSURANCE
Phone 113.
Two Men In New York's
Chinatown Are Doomed
If many more American ships get blown up there may be
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NGeSse
(From the Cleveland Waechter and Anzeiger.)
The protest of Toledo’s Germanic organizations addressed to
the president and directed against Judge Killits’ statements show
mainly the same determination of the German-Americans of Toledo
which is noticeable everywhere in the country, not quietly to sub-
mit to the consequences of England’s systematic poisoning of
American opinion, which was done with such success right after the
beginning of the -war, but to offer ruke whenever they show them-
selves in an unbecoming manner. That seems to be the main point
of interest in the matter. Much more important than whether
Mr. Killits of Toledo wishes 1060 bombs to be dropped on the kai-
ser’s head.
WANT AD RATES
.insertion, per word, lc-
(No ad taken for less than 25c)
.insertions, per word, 2% c- .
100 ad accepted for three insertions fox
ess than 40c).
7 insertions, Der word, 5c
UNo ad accepted for seven insertions for
ees than 70c).
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Figure the saving in time, — com-
■ pare the costs. There’s real economy
in using the Bell Telephone for out-of-
town business.
He was taking no chances.
There Lee Kung, the venerable
the men farewell. The women
except as a last resort. Should American ships be sunk with too
much frequency, the American Government will send some warn-
ings to Germany that will probably cause the Kaiser to sit up and
take notice and change his ideas on the rights of neutrals.
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BY CARLTON TEN EYCK
(Written for the United Press.) 'throughout the narrow streets.
$15, $18.50 and $25
Establishing lor the Cohen Store
greater reputation for Better Value
Giving.
then the bottles would wash a-
shore and their friends would
know.
Lee Kung began to address the
two men who were going on the
long journey, He told them of
out at the funeral of the two
men. It was one of the most
gorgeous Chinatown has ever
seen. They.were heroes in the
eyes of their brethren, martyrs
—not murderers they stood in
the eyes of white men. Inspec-
tor Wakefield knows Chinatown
of old. He was personally in
charge of the funeral and a hun
dred of his men were scatter
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FOR RENT OR SALE—Sewing Machines
Brand new. Best Make Lightest running.
H. Rader, Furniture Store. Corner 6th st.
& 6th Ave. 28.
C Makes you a bookkeeper, Stenographer, Tele-
e9 grapher. It pays board, tuition and Station-
“ ery. No better courses anywhere at any price.
- Others charge $90 or more for tuition only— and give no
better courses, why pay more? PLAN A-Tells how to earn
part of ah your course. Notes accepted, positions secured, 10c
paid for cotton. Write for GREAT SPECIAL OFFER.
SPECIAL POPULAR RATE
From Texas City, $25.45
Meh. 1st and 3rd. Return Limit Meh. 15. Leave Houston Train No. 7,12:01
A. M., Mch. 2nd and 4th.
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way into print. But when -several hundred did the same thing it
killed the scheme. Their experience simply confirms what season-
ed advertisers already know, namely, that it is originality that
counts.
“A well-constructed ad full of punch and pulling power may be
used with great successby one man, but it does not follow that a
hundred other advertisers can win similar successby using the
same ad.
“The manufacturers who sent presents of shoes to the White
House did so, not because of any special interest they had in the
president’s newly arrived grandson, but because they expected to
get a lot of free advertising in the newspapers. Their chagrin
over the outcome of their little scheme must be acute.”
forth in the flame that will "mean
death to two members of the
Oon Leongs. It is the law
o fChinatown, and as irrevok-
able as the law of Nature.
Eng Hing and Lee Dock had
evened up the score between the
The “Editor and Publisher, ’ a newspapermen’s newspaper,
tells a good story about the White House baby and incidetnally
about advertising. It says:
“A few days ago the stork left an infant at the White House.
It was a somewhat notable event.
“No sooner had the news been published than a bright idea
occurred at the same moment to a large number of enterprising
shoemakers, namely, that it would be a good advertising stunt to
send the baby, Francis Sayre, a pair of shoes. Every one of those
manufacturers forthwith got busy and forwarded by messenger,
parcel post or express the choicest pair of lillifutian tootsey
woptsey protectors they had in stock.
“For two weeks it rained infant shoes at the White House.
They came from all parts of . he country, and came so fast that one
member of the president’s staff was detailed to sign the receipts
for them. And still they came. At first they were piled upon a
cable, and then on the floor until they overflowed into a storeroom.
They came in individual repairs, in halfdozen lots, in boxes holding
a dozen, and finally in cases. Before the tide ebbed there were
enough shoes in the White House to supply a foundling asylum for
several years-
“As an advertising scheme the sending of shoes to the new
Sayre baby was a failure. If only one manufacturer had made a
tered bits of vari-colored paper.
Curiously scrawled sentences
were written on them. Thus, if
evil spirits were following the
We wo uld offer as a mere suggestion that hereafter when
Mexico’s presidents are induced i nto office, they be furnished with
a one-way ticket to Paris with a 60-day limit and the system in
use in Transvaal diamond mines—that of stripping the laborers to
the skin when they quit work—be employed when they board their
vessel. It’s so simple and efficacious.
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The jitney bus is cutting into receipts of that juidge-protect-
ed street railway in Toledo. W i l Judge Killits hold the bus driv-
ers in contempt? Will he hal up the people who ride in jitneys
for contempt ? Will he fine the tandard Oil Co- for selling gaso-
line to the jitneys.
New York, Feb. 22.
gathering. From the back of the
dim little room women began to
moan. Then the priest stopped.
Inspector Wakefield stood in
the doorway. He shook his head
at the priest.
Lee Kung chose his words
carefully after that- At last he
finished.
Then the gong was beaten, the
WANTED TO BUY—Second hand single
buggY harness. See me at once. Lewis W.
Matteson. 19
WANTED—A good reliable white girl to
helpwith.house work part of day. APPly
315 Eighth Ave.
THE TEXAS CITY STAR
______» Publish daily except Surety ^The Times Printing Company.
Telephone, Local and Long Distance, 44.
Entered at the Postoffine in Texus City, Texas, as second class mail matter, under act of
Congress March 3, 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Delivered by Carrier or by Mail.
came the floral carriages, and is that every Turkish soldier who
behind them carriages bearing is killed will leave so many wid-
their friends. ! ows.”
At the grave Lee Kung bade -
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“I understand your friend
the dirt was thrown on the cof- Mrs. De Kree has a great fad for
fins. Then the feast was? laid a collecting. What does she make
atop the graves and the cortege a collection of?”
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The Long Distance Bell Telephone
will help you. More territory can be
covered—more real business can be ac-
complished in a day’s telephoning than
in a week’s traveling.
California has brought herself into prominence in consequence
of anti-alien laws, but the manner in which Arizona has tackled
the question is unique. A bill which has recently passed the lower
House of the State forbids any persons to engage in hazardous oc-
cupation unless able to read and write. This law is described as
“water-tight against protest by Japan ” Most any kind of occupa-
tion can be discovered to have a hazard if the competition of cheap-
ness of labor becomes too pressing. An editor of one of the lead-
ing newspapers of the country comments that “if the legislature
passes the law of . its own violation it is entitled to most of the
credit for the ingenious evasion of the spirit which annulled its
previous effort.”
the mysteries of the life that was
Hip Sings and the On Leongs, to be, theirs. Around him hud-
They killed Leo Kay, and On Le- died the comrades of the men.
FOR SALE Pure White Orpington eggs,
the Kellerstrass strrin, $1.50 per setting of
15 eggs; also 4 thoroughbred Ancona hens
and rooster, $1.00 each. GEO. WESTER-
LAGE, LaMarque, Texas. 18p
FOR SALE—$500 Piano in good condi-
tion. Will sell cheap. Going to Panama.
Must apply at once to LIEUT. H. A.
WADSWORTH, 11th mrantry, at corner
8th Ave. & Bay St. Texas City, or address
P. 0. Box 556. I9p
J OR SALE—$18 heating stove for $5.
DAVID DICKSON, 214 South Sixth Street.
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FOR COAL lime, zana, cement and brick,
phone 22 or 42, t£
“something doing.” However, President Wilson and Secretary of present to the youngster possibly his name night have found it’s
State Bryan will not allow this country to be engulfed into the war
had been in prison ever since,- by the law of the white men for
While they lived the score was doing their duty as Chinamen as
evened. When they died it be-! they saw it,” he said.
came uneven again. It must be avenged their dead brothers.”
balanced. ; There was an omimous mut-
The smoldering almost broketering from the blue-bloused
ong, almost two years ago. They "Lee Dock and Eng Hing died
{W. L Richardson
For more than a year there has been no reason for business
depression except lack of confidence, and since last July there has
been no reason for lack of confidence except the war. Even the
war furnishes reasons for business confidence, the only uncertain
element being the fear of what might happen. We pray for the
war to end but we fear the effect on business if it does end. We
declare the uncertainty of the duration of the war is all that hurts
business, but at the same time we estimate the duration of the war
all the way from six months to as many years.
“Apparently there is nothing short of war,” says the Shreve-
port Times, “to disturb American prospects, and it is needless to
say that nobody in America wants war. Our exports are climbing
so fast that the result must inevitably compel a return to industrial
activity. In December exports exceeded imports by $132,000,000,
the largest balance ever known. The January figures will be even
larger. Partial returns from the first week in February indicate a
trade balance in our favor of $44,500,000, which is at the rate of
$180,000,000 per month and over $2,000,000,000 per year. President
Farrell of the United States Steel corporation declares that the
practical assurance of a trade balance of $1,000,000,000 ought to
mean an unprecedented industrial boom.
“ ‘This is not only what it ought to mean,” says the New York
World. “It is what it must mean as an irresistible effect of trade
forces. The calamity howlers will howl in vain, and vain in the end
will be the efforts of the standpat obstructionists to stop it. The
country is already in full command of al ithe foreign exchanges, its
cutside debt is being paid off at an unprecedented rate, and even
gold exported at the outset of the war is beginning to come back-’
“Steel, as everyone knows, is one of the best barometers of
business. If the head of the steel industry in this country can af-
ford to be optimistic over a promise that is certain to be more than
fulfilled, there is every reason for confidence on the part of busi-
ness interests generally. The pessimist is confronted by hard
Sleepers and Chair Car Service. Make Reservations Now.
Sunset Limited to California daily. Leaves 5:30 p. m.
J. H. Miller, D. P. A., Galveston-S. L. Werden, Ticket Agt.. Texas City
via Key West
Through service and connections from
all points in Texas,Oklahoma, Arizona,
Colorado, etc., via Galveston; thence
by big, luxurious steamers direct to Key
West, with connections by famous
“Over Sea Railway” to Miami, Palm
Beach and Florida East Coast resorts;
also by steamer to Havana, Cuba.
Sailings from Galoeston eoery Saturday for
Key West and New York
Full information al an]) rail-
road ticket office, or write
MALLORY LINE
GALVESTON, TEXAS
Direct steamers, carying freight only, every
Wednesday, Galveston to New York.
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A St. Louis man go a license to wed a girl who declares she
does not know him. She is telling the truth, whether or not she
knows that she is.
ter shape than it was last fall and the rice industry was never in a
better condtion and never faced better prospects.
M W jiww nnk A w> S Coast society and army news items fur-
KF H ™ ST Ml “ 56 EE EES 2 nished inland papers.' Send rates, etc., at
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FOR RENT—One to five light housekeep-
ing rooms over city hall, corner 2d ave.
find' 4th st. Can furnish. Also fine little
business room, $7.50. See W. R. Wiley,
phone 356 . 18
E. R. HENCK & SON
Manufacturers of
Awnings, Tents, Flags, Sails, Wagon covers,
Tarpaulins, Horse Covers — Everything in
the canvas line.
Write or call us. Estimates galdly furnished
in person without cost.
Phone 505 Galveston, Texas.
are two men in New York’s priest of the Chinese Temple,
Chinatown who are marked for had on his most gorgeous robes-
death. Who they are is not; They glittered with bright silk-
known. Who their murderers en threads and the great gold
will be is not known. When they 'dragons. He was going to send
will be killed is not known. But two of Chinatown’s heroes to
they are marked for death just their God in state.
as surely as the- sun will rise to i The aged priest stood between
row; it may conge next week, or ithe two dead men in the dim
morrow. It may come tomor- 'flickering light of the chapel. In
it may come next summer—no ithe mouth of each was a coin
one knows. Inspector Wakefield which was to pay the Grizzled
of the Police Department wishes i Boatkeeper for their passage
he did.' But he can only wait. over the River of Death. On
Ever since the electrocution of the breast of each was a’tightly
Eng Hing and Lee Dock, two Hip Worked bottle. In each bottle
Sing hatchet men, at Sing Sing'was a slip of paper on which
several weeks ago, another tong was written the man’s name. If
war has been smoldering in | the boatman should become care-
Chinatown. And it will com less on the joumrney and allow his
dead men to their graves, they
would stop to read what was on
the bits of paper and forget to
follow the hearse.
Ahead of the hearse went a
carriage which held the feast.
Roast pigs, chickens, nuts, rice,
eggs, cakes, ginger everything Amsterdam—Commenting on
was there that the men might the co-operation of the Turks
j not become hungry on their long with Germany, the Handelsplad
journey. Behind the hearse observes’ “The worst of if all 3-room house, electricity
.. 1 -555* -ue WOiSl ui 1L all and bath. Rear, screen porch. Fourteenth
Avenue and Seventh Street. Telephone 63,
It will not be long now before residents of Texas City having-
gardens will be able to rest easier at night when the cattle are com-
pelled to be tied up. We are told that in Texas City’s cattle king-
dom are some cows and steers that have wonderful propensities at
jumping high fences at night and making a nice repast of rose
buds and choice garden truck.
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weird shrieking z of the flute
sounded and sixteen Hip Sings
MEN FURNISHED—The Mexican Labor
Association of Texas City can furnish
hands, up to the number of 75, to any
person or firm who may desire efficient la-
bor. A number of different trades are rep-
resented, and full paticulars may be obtain-
ed by addressing M. Delgado, President,
Texas City, Texas. 5 tf.
Can accommodate a few more table
boarders. Mrs. Wade, 519 4th street. Phcie
252._______ ________ ct
WANTED Bright industrious youth ce
learn printer’s trade Apply Star office.
VOCAL LESSONS
I will be in Texas City every Tuesday and
Friday from 10 a. m. to 9 p. m. and will be
glad to have any prospective voice student
call between those hours. MRS. ANNA
CLYDE PLUNKETT. Studio, 209 Guaran-
. Mfedbe
wailed, the flute shrieked and
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Odd, is it not, that the war hasn’t cut off the" supply of
“Mocha” and Java? Perhaps your grocer can explain it.
-MEN-
Our New SPRING SUITS'
Are here ready for you to
see. Classiest Styles you’ve
seen
Remarkable Suits For
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Estimates gladly furnished with-
out cost.
Ring Phone 210 Box 294
Real Estate and Rentals
P. O. Bldg. Office Phone 325
Room 218 Res Phone 23
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