San Patricio County News (Sinton, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 27, 1927 Page: 5 of 10
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SAN PATRICIO COUNTY NEWS, SINTON, TEXAS, OCTOBER 27, 1927
NAVY DAY, 1927
WHEN
GREAT SHOOTING EXHIBITION
HERE NOVEMBER 2.
Adolph Topperwein, of San Antonio,
Texas, who has earned for himself the
title the “wizard of the rifle,” and who
incidentally is also a wizard with shot-
gun and revolver as well, is scheduled
to give one of his great shooting exhi-
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On October 27, 1927, the birthday of
President Theodore Roosevelt who
saw so clearly the relation of seapower
10 the growth of the Nation in world
influence and prosperity, the Navy
League of the United States will spon-
sor the observance of Navy Day.
The message of this year’s Navy
pay is the importance to the country
the farmer and manufacturer of ‘‘Sea-
power and •Commerce.” Seapower
rests upon the Merchant Marine, the
Navy and the radiating activities of
Commerce.
Our present day prosperity is be-
coming more and more dependant up-
on our overseas markets. The suc-
cess of our foreign trade bears directly
011 the well being of every citizen. In
order to maintain and develop our
markets abroad in the years of keen
world commercial competition that are
ahead of us, the United States should
be properly equipped to support, de-
velop and guard its radiating trade
activities. To this end a reliable sys-
tem of overseas transportation under
bitions here in Sinton.
. , , . . . ,. our own flag is an essential. No suc-
Topperwein has been giving ms- - p
THE IMPORTANCE OF NEWS-
PAPERS.
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The importance of the daily news-
paper, as well as of the weekly and
monthly periodical, in the develop-
ment of a community or a region of
communities, will take a prominent
FIFTY-ONE YEARS GROWTH.
Fifty-one years ago in Boston, the
first message was carried over the
wires of a new invention, the tele-
phone. Today, half a century has
wrought a change to the extent that !
marvelous program of shootipg before
hundreds of thousands of people dur-
ing the past third of a century, and his
coming to Sinton offers an opportunity
for anyone who enjoys watching a
pastmaster make firearms perform
tor him to see something worth going
a long way to see.
Shooting is play to Ad Topperwein.
He is as happy as a baby with a new
toy when he is shooting his rifle or
shotgun and making them do feats
that will make those who are watch-
gasp with astonishment and ad-
miration.
While the Topperwein exhibition
is not a set one, the shooter
will draw on his almost limitless bag
of stunts for a series of amazing acts
which never fail to thrill and delight
his audience. He shoots at pieces ’of
coal, at stones, at clay targets and at
blocks, in many cases throwing the
object in the air, then picking up his
gun and hitting them as they fall.
Topperwein uses a Winchester .22
repeater, a .22 Winchester automatic,
a lever action, the .351 high power self
loading and a Winchester shotgun in
carrying out his program. With each
of his series of arms he performs re-
markable feats, each seemingly more
marvelous than the one before.
With some of the rifles and guns
that city alone averages 2,000,000 lo-1
—:-------- -T’ * cal calls dailv and what was then un-! Topperwein shoots at balls, brick, po-
place on the program of the South j , .. . n tatoes and apples with remarkable
,____ . n_______... ! thought-of, 15,000 long distance calls, i
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November 14th apd Mth. attamed. an equally
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was announced in a letter re-j .. . , , ...
1 Yet there is no secret of this suc-
ceived carrying the news of the ac-
ceptance of Sam E. Miller, vice presi-
dent of the Texas Press Association,
to a place on the program of the con-
vention. Miller is editor and publish-
er of the Mineral Wells Index.
At the same time the announcement
was made that Ray H. Nichols, editor
of the Vernon Record, and a member
of the executive committee of the Tex-
as Press Association, had also accept-
ed a place on the program.
The importance of the newspaper is
being emphasized by the * convention
directors of the South Texas Chamber
of Commerce in providing on the offi-
cial program for a special luncheon
for the newspaper men at which they
can discuss more intimately their own
problems, with the relation of these
problems to the growth and progress
of the territory which they serve.
Efforts are being made to obtain on
the program a prominent journalist
from the East who is nationally
Iniown, but no definite announcement
in this conneetion has yet been made.
cess. It but proves again that quality,!
combined with the agencies of service
and progressiveness will be rewarded
single, double and triple; small wash-
ers and sometimes bits of money
when someone wishes a souvenir of
S the exhibition. He also tosses several
! objects into the air at once and breaks
The American people are me quickest each as “ teUs' "lth a dl,ferent
in the world to appreciate value and
One bit of shooting which cannot be
make something wholly new into a; done everywhere but which is a very
necessity within an incrediblv short effectIve feature of his program when
time. It is the keynote of forward-!shooting arrangements permit, is that
ness, to put the new thing on equal! of placing two targets on chairs' OI*
terms with the old and accepted, and
give it a fair chance to show its
worth.
cessful business organization can be
dependant upon a competitor for the
delivery of its goods, and expect to
obtain the same results. In such mat-
ters, it is necessary to retain a reason-
able independence.
In time of peace a nation which is
dependant upon others for the trans-
portation of its overseas trade, places
its citizens in the position of being
subject to the dictates of foreign ship-
ping interest in the matter of ocean
freight rates. Today our shippers are
sending a golden stream out of the
country in payment for the carrying
of their goods in foreign bottoms. This
amounts yearly to several hundred
millions of dollars. A good proportion
of this stream should bo going into our
own ships, and through them brought
back to the United States to re-organ-
ize business and labor in the activities
connected with ship building, ship re-*
pair and provisioning.
A nation without an adequate mer-
chant marine is subject to periodic
shortage of sea transportation during
times of industrial upset in other
countries, such as the great coal
strike in England during 1926. Then,
British tonnage, ordinarily available
on our coasts for wheat and cotton,
was necessarily deflected to the coal
carrying tradp. If it had not been for
the fact that we had a certain amount
of available tonnage a number of laid
up vessels, our farmers and cotton
growers would have stood to lose on
their crops through their inability to
reach the foreign markets at the prop-
er time; ships are but the extension
overseas of the railroads, and our ex-
porters are entitled to a suitable sys-
tem of transportation independent of
foreign shipping conditions.
Ships under the American flag now
carry about 30 per cent of our foreign
trade; it should at least be 50 per
cent. Today the American ships at
sea are largely war time built. Our
ship operators are working with old
tools compared with new tools in the
hands of other foreign competitors,
20 yeards in front of him and the oth-
er 20 yeards behind him. Sitting on
a chair in the center of the space be-
The telephone and all other great j1"6611 the t"° targets Topp sights at. vessels built since the war of superior
industries are basically compounded!one target and gets the range of the | speed and cargo space arrangements.
other with a mirror attached to his
shoulder and when he has secured the
exact range he shoots two pistols
simultaneously and shatters the two
targets at once.
Everyone is invited to look on and
ask questions regarding the shooting
‘and Topperwein will be glad to answer
all questions at the conclusion of his
exhibition.
One very interesting stunt to watch
is the shooting of a cartoon of Uncle
Sam’s headman Indian head or one of
the famous Mutt with rifle bullets.
The Indian head requires 180 shots
and takes about three minutes*to draw
% ! while Uncle Sam requires about 300
^ l bullets and is done in about four or
i five minutes. The bullets are shot at
of quality and service. An open-
minded people have earned and re-
ceived honest and above-board deal-
ing. They are willing to allow leaders
fair rewards and our people have al-
ways received as much, and often
more than they give. That alone ex-
plains how a country barely one hun-
dred and fifty years old can lead na-
tions that are the proud product of
centuries.
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a blank piece of tin and in a few min-
utes it turns into a perfect outline of
the Indian, Uncle Sam or Mutt. As
the outline rapidly develops like a
sketch being done by a rapid sketch
artist the interest of the onlookers
grows. Topperwein, incidently. is
quite an artist himself which aids him
in getting his results in this ticklsh
kind of artistry.
Sometimes Topperwein includes in
his program shooting done while
standing on his head, a difficult and
thrilling bit of work that always
proves a genuine hit. These feats
give some idea of the variety from
which he draws his program and
whatever the individual acts he se-
lects for the particular program there
is always many a thrill and real in-
struction in watching him perform.
The Topperwein exhibition will be
given at 3:30 on Wednesday afternoon,
November 2, a half mile east of the
Sipes Filling Station at the Mexican
ball field. The public is cordially in-
vited.
Many a man’s unpopularity is due
to his attempt to wear a misfit mantle
j of greatness.
merchant ships and in case of war, to
gain command of the seas and thus
insure victory.
Overseas trade, the merchant ma-
rine and the Navy are linked in what
constitutes sea power. Our country
should realize more fully the import-
ance of sea power in its future devel-
opment, prosperity and destiny.
WHAT LIFE NEEDS
“A little more kindness, a little less
creed,
A little more giving, a little less greed.
A little less vulture, a little more dove,
A little less hatred, a little more love.
A little more ‘We,’ a little less ‘I,’
A little more laughs, a little less cry.
A little more flowers on the pathway
of life,
And fewer on graves at the end of the
strife.”
—Selected.
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San Patricio County News (Sinton, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 27, 1927, newspaper, October 27, 1927; Sinton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth716816/m1/5/?q=%22%22~1&rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sinton Public Library.