The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 15, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 29, 1928 Page: 3 of 8
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Saturday, December 29, 1928
THE BIG LAKE WILDCAT, BIG LAKE, REACAN COUNTY, TEXAS
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Vi e arc indeed indebted Jo our
hundred- of patrons amJ loyal
friends in Big Lake and the
surrounding towns for one of
tb- best business year* of our
experience. We are proud ol
ot,r line of customers, and there
i* nothing too good for them.
It is our hope and desite that
the* new and untried year ol
1929
Ik- the l*est of youi life. May
you have health, peace, pros-
perity may your every under < »
taking he crowned with glorious
success. The New Year is just
lieginning and it is our aim to
continue to “carry on." and oat
earnest solicitation i-> that you
join us in attempting to make of
our town just the kind of place
we would have it be. This can
!*- accomplished by united a-
antireless efforts Let’s go!
CASH GROCERY
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BIG LAKE MARKET
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purely scientific and theoretical in
\ e-ligation.
Lord Kt Ivin said that no great law
in natural philosophy had ever bor>
discovered a- a result of practical ex
pci intent, and that “the instances are
innumerable ol investigation* appai
enlly quite useless which led to tin-
mr.st v .doable results.”
l or eighteen centuries many grea'
mind- gave their live* to studym
conic sections. Ibis work was fa1
fiom useless, for the l.iws of proje<
til<-. llie building of great bridges
the curves of sin} s and the rub1* ol
navigation depend upon conic sc
lions.
W ireles? telegraphy goes back t
llii studies of Lagrange in purely ab
“Imet mathematics, and to Profess’
\\ illiam Thompson, who laid the
iomul.itiori of electra oscillations.
I he man of deeds, the practic.il
j man would be saved many a foolish
) e\ju-rimenl and woulil bo kept back
from many a useless trial if he knew
iiltc hack ground of thought that
j should umh-rlie his actions.
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AUDI T YOI If HEALTH
the dirt cradir ators advertised so ex
tr isiicly; if youi skin is naturallv
■ci -ilivc. never permit an irritant to
he applied.
It you “feed your furnace” wear
lovo while idioveling the coal
son <• gases are very irritating. If
you acquire a case of chapped hands,
-ci about to cure them. Your skin
of tnim.il sideslance; animal sub
fl.> tv- .lie acceptable to it. Avoid
v .1 ■ line, oxi rpt uh a possible protec-
tive \ implc, soothing antiseptic
rubbed into lanolin is good for the
skin as an i.intmciil. (’.rucks and
fis-Ulc- iii the hands need to hi* Idled
with a soothing “cream” of “jelly ”
\i soap, or a very mild one, and
even that not too often. A lew drop
cf almond oil, a few drops of carbo
Iii acid, in an ounce of rose-water
ointment, i good for the most deli*
cal' -kin. And, keep your genet a I
he :1th good.
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Curtis H.
College student,
classroom He i I ...
established his 'hern.it h ......
a small cotta«c 45 miles north ol
Hanover. N !i
In an account ol the old but vigor-
oil- Hartford t ouiant’s birthday an-
niversary in llie November issue, I lie
American I’res- called the C.our.tr.'
the third oldest newspaper -till U-in
published in tliis country. <coi •< !1
At instead, managing editor of the
Courant, challenged the statement
saying the (.ourant is the oldest news-
paper still being published in the
United States.
The current Ayer - Newspaper An-
nual and Directory and the American
Press Association’s l.omplete Direr
t, ty of Country Newspaper Kates lift
tl,c Annapolis (Md.) Gazette a- liav-
im. been established in I i2<. and tin
Portsmouth (N. H.) New liaxnp
shire Gazette a- h iving been estnb
lished in 1 <56.
If these or any other newapapeis
can successfully challenge the Cour
ant’s claim, let them new speak up ->r
’forever hold their }>rncc. I tiles- the
j l j Courant is shown to be but a youth*
jful upstart, The American Pres- wi!
;doff it* forty-sev** v !-l
1 and salute the ( oui ant w.ili the m. *
i choc due to honorable age.
j To back up the Couranl’s claim
j Vfr. Armstead sent the following';
i “The Hartford t’.ourant's claim
that it i* tin* oldest nrwspaper ii
America published continuously un
der the same name and in the *unu- rrrnJBn „ JwurnHI
tow n has not been ■eriously disputed \ ^ ^ ^ amJ
However, vwry 1 u 11 1 numeration wa* Jn^gun.
c laim that some other paper or "*• *
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make
argu
“TbiU’s it! Why don’t YOI
a rcsoluti >n not to have any
meets in oui family. ’
“It tak' , two to make un argument
so why don’t make the smm
i rraolution
Brer Kablut vya' thoughtful for a
■ moment and then he -aid :
“I have already made mice and if|llie hands irnmerwd
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you think I break them, tin n I better
|Ust have one resolution and let it
at that.”
“Well, what is vtoii resolution to-
New Year’s ?"
“When I t’lg a hole in the .'round
I’m not going to leave any dirt on
top of the hole.”
This remark started M’- Kaldot n
laughing and she had to take oil her
and wit>e them. “ I hat s tin
date from which they claim to be e* | funniest thing 1 ' b.-uid of, ' *ln
tahlished ; gasped between laughs.
‘•Annapolis ( Md. I (.a/ette, 171a , “No, it Men t, repl.cdBreiR dd.it
Traces its lineage from tin- Maryland . apjK'aring grieved.
Gazette, hut that paper was discon “Th«t how are you going In
tinned in llk'W. n<" lr“',;“,v ‘ ,r!
,1 New » and top of the jrre mul i
,ri .. . . 12. i outgroi U o 1 j1 8»N
s.nitb < aroiina Gazette. Then Nc w -1 ' Wlow, proudly
md < ouriei celebrated n- centemii »l | ' «*l,K" ,h‘1 “ !"
in 1903.
“The New Hampshire Ga/.ett'
T.Vi. Was irreguhtr in ptil.lii atio.i
(MAPPED HANDS
The “little tiling*” do count, don’t
they? Of course they do; uneom
lortalde, unsightly everybody ilis
likes to have a pair of hands dry
cracked, maybe- bleeding, llie s»'iiw
of touch becomes impaired: putting
chnpjK-d lianils into the jmeket, «.r
rut bin.’ them against the lied-clotlics
|even drawing on gloves produced
jiuislv, creepy feeding all over bn*
you know the symptoms, so why
| enumerates them'.''
I.happed hands may he prevented
How.'' first, by pot exposing them
Me quick and extreme changes of leni-
Jpeiature dry ot wet. II you are ae
jiuslnmeel to indoot warmth, do not
j go out for a long jaunt in w inter
! barehanded. Do not, after bavin,
iri warm water
Xfjefr stfayA
S/irrii ti[> haul hint5
anti soft linwi ore cnniinp,
yoirif
<D?p\
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suddenly plunge them into very cidd
water, especially after having used
strong soaps, in fact, no sensitive
1.0.0. F. LODGE
Regular meeting every Wednesday
night. Degree practice each
Monday night.
W E DOWNING, Seerrtary
WE WISH YOI A HAPPY
NEW YEAR
If »r may he |K*rrnilled to nuggesl
il, tb" n -olulion to build a home
is one of the Ire-1 a man < an make
Here's wishing you the happiest
and most prosprioils New Year
you have ever had.
Wm. Cameron & Co.
(Incorporated)
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in 1770 on account of tin* war. I
that yeui the title w.i> ( hanged t«< tin
f reeman’s Journal, or New Hump
iew -cries of
| numeral ion was iK-gun. Il changed
.........— , , . . * lits name to the Ne*w Hampshire Ga-
pers now being pu 1 l"'H 1,1 r ; /elte ami Historical (Chronicle and
voices beard up-st.iir*.
A oil twn lietter get into bed!
shouted Mother Rabbit to her him
nie-s.
"W <• ARE in bed that'' one of
0111 New Year's Revolutions, to gei
into bed on time," shouted Billie and
Bobbie Runny.
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“I ::ue»s I’ll never bear the
that ‘revolution’ business,'
end of
sighed
the- top of
DR IBANK CRANE >\'r*
‘The claims always are similar to t() t})r „um hirr (;a/,.n,. *m Rabbit, as he began to look fo,
that of the elderly man who celeb.at- ! ^ rf|e AdvrrliM.r anJ fina|. j "7**
ed his golden wedding anniversary | jy droppwl ,,ack to its (>ripna, til|, ,«"ad «» thr,,m<’!
hcrauHC, although hr had Mfn ,nar i'f hr PorUinoulh Daily Chronirlr imp
ried to three suerrssive women, the 1 #tar,rd i() lur>2 and |}w,| tll,
sum total of his years of rnarriei 1 * j Gazette has lieen published a* t
was fifty. j weekly edition of the Chronicle.”
"The Century Club of American ^ Ameriean Prrtav.
Newspapers, in PXW. published hmg- ............
raphies of its member*. At that time j
eighty two newspajiers, which had In-
come eligible by reason of having |
lived KM) years, constituted the club
“The Courant,’ it *nys. ‘is the
|only new-paper in the I oiled Stales
that makes undisputed declaration
that it is not only the oldest newspa-
per in the country, hut older than the
l nited States. It wa- founded, own
..........................
1 Ibis paper will for some week*
continue to publish tin- work of tin
late Dr. frank Crane, Dr. Crane re-
cer.tly passed away at Nice, frame
Before leaving for Europe he had
! prepared a numlx-r of urln les in ad
! v.iik e t
lOinnany
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ABSTRACTS OF LAND TITLES
To any lanfl or town lots in Reagan county
correctly, carefully drawn by experienced
abstractors
Reagan County Abstract Company
CUNNINGHAM' * CARSON, Proper*
....... ^ Are you gnig to make any New
.‘Led. edited and p iMi-’i’ l a- the < "M' year'- Revolution- ' ‘ .1 ked It,. .
ji.ccticut ( ourant. Thomas Cieen wa.
I the name of the founder and editor
’the first i-*ue he in;/ dated at Hart
[ford. Monday, <>.tober 2«>, 17(4
And it has been printed and publi-b
ed under the same name and in the
-amr town ever since.’
’Thf* fir-t newspaper published n
j \ meric a never got lieyond Volume I
No. I. It was callrd Publiek Oreur _ ^
rences, and appeared in Boston, Sep-
,ember 25. UMl It contained J remember
1 1 1 .1 . .11 < ause -even ami SI* arc iniriren on-
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IHLORY PAYS
t very common notion is that tin
cry Im- not much to do with pi.otn-
Wc dismiss a proposition with
wave of the hand when vve cliaractei
; ‘Revolution of I77YH don't you?
“I gue-s you’re light. I alw.iv-
the last two figure*, I**-
i ause -even and *ix are thirteen and
and the authorities forbade the pub
lirotion.
“The Boston News Inter wa* the
first journal to he regularly pub
liwfied tin this continent. It begar
publication In 1704. or two year* (
earlier according to some authorities up her knitting.
Where the Courant ’has it* on these v..... ,l 1
old-time publications is lhat it i* rtill
alive.
“Tl>e names of a few Amerirar
newspapers are given below, with the
Rabbit of his good wile on-- n.-n
“You mean ‘resolutions’, my dear. i/r lt (t, Ilothing ,IU, ^ or „ jm
replied Mother Rabtnt. practical idealism.
“Yes. ves! I wi.s_ thinking of th- We prai* the inventor who devi*
Resolution of Ul<(», - ud Bier I»omo useful application of knowl
Rabbit. «lge, hut have a tendency to ovrt
"I don t know what the matter i look the discoverer who find- out th
with you tonight. Y <01 mean the j knowledge that tile inventor applied
A* a matter of fact, all our grea’
inventions rest ujm.h great discoveries
made by painstaking theorists wh
love knowledge for itself alone.
W irele«« lelrgraphy, the trleplioii’-
aeroplanes, radium, antisepiii*. anti
toxins, *pectruin analysis and x-ra'
A T. JOHNSON
Water Well Driller
RIG LAKE, TEXAS
Equipped with good mwhin-
ery and good drillers. let
me figure with you on your
next job.
the Union. But how about your r ■*
olulion*? I gur-t that is right now.”
"I rrallv hadn’t thought about any
hut that doesn’t keep von from mak
ing some—you usually break them,’
answered Mother Rabbit, as site tool
You talk like resolutions w<*r«
dishes, hut they are not," yen
lured Rrer Rabbit.
“Are you trying to start an argu
ment’" asked his good wife.
5 -firMiidod
i>iavoIo Coals
— po*itively )a»t longer!
We Are Delivering Coal Now. Ixit
us have your order for your Winter
supply before the rush season is on.
GARNER & SON
’»RAY AND TRANSFER
BIG LAKE, TEXAS
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Hibdon, John. The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 15, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 29, 1928, newspaper, December 29, 1928; Big Lake, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth633667/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Reagan County Library.