Mount Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 81, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 12, 1929 Page: 4 of 4
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MT PIEASAVT DAILY TIMES. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1929.
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G. W. CROSS, Editor.
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YOU EVER STOP
THINK?
By Edson R. Waite
Shawnee, Okla.
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Entered at the postoffice at Mt. Pleas-
ant, Texas, as secondclass mail matter
All obituaries, resolutions of respect,
sards of thanks, etc., will be charged
for at regular rates.
newspaper advertising
j Based on actual cost there are
thousands and thousands of acres of
black land in Texas that are not net-
5 ting the owners two per cent on their
investment. This is a situation about
which something should be done, but [Cj,T>£,'v’cC3,{)3‘Cj$’'v’‘0’‘tr‘C’[!>t0’'0’'u,t!h
so far little has been attempted, I .lames D. Cunningham, President
Tests have shown that cotton proves of the Illinois Manufacturers Asso-
one of the most unprofitable of all ciation, says:
the crops grown hut seventeen million “There are always certain funda-
acres will be planted in Texas this mentals or laws of economics to fol-
year. low when starting a manufacturing
Home interesting as well as signi- business. First, determine what the
, fieant tests have been made in Dallas demand is; by that i mean, what the
County, to determine the relative im- people are buying. This is sometimes
parlance of certain kinds of farming, called a ‘market analysis.’ Then make
methods These surveys “disclose that on the a study of the number of competitors
acl; lands that average $5.55 an ae- you v.’i!! have in the fP'.d, wlint their
from cotton, foodstuffs through output in relatin'; { • the demand,
milch cows, after buy- are they sm"dying r: v<- than Die
rb, or ir there a de-
Th( new merchandising-
struck a deadly blow at tradition last
week from the United Cigar Stores
announced that they had discontinued the medium
their tobacco coupons and would spend ing cottonseed mcai, will return $1.40 trade will al
the difference—$3,500,000—in news- and that feedstuffs marketed through fickncy? Nc:"t, a study should be
paper advertising. la-go will return $7.80 on the acre,” made of the supply of raw materials
Earlier in the spring the Westing- according to the Dallas News. Own- used in the manufacturing- process,
house company announced that it was ers oi high priced land and hundreds Is the supply plenty or scant? A
going into the newspapers for the of Red River county farmers find study should be made of the labor
first time, spending something like themselves in this classification, feel market, of the transportation
$15,000,000. the need of some sort of boost in shipping facilities. Having obtained
Commercial news like this clearly earningt power to a greater extent all this data, approximate costs can
explains the change in newspaper his- than the farmemr whose land was not be figured out and compared with
tory in the last twenty years. Papers acquired at a high price. Cotton farm- the established prices and a decision
have consolidated and improved them- ing on black land is highly profitable made as to whether the venture will
selves until they have gotten far out when lint sells at twenty-five cents;be a success or a failure. Many fail-
in front of competing publicity me- or better, but when it sells at twenty1 ures are due to not having made a
diums. cents or less the margin of profit; sufficient study on these fundamen
You hear that said pretty often disappears. For sever-’ years it 'msjtals.
nowadays, but nothing brings it home been consistently •
like waking up and finding that the Pinson in ClarksviP.
darn thing has even swallowed up ------
cigar store coupons.—Hope Star. i i'ERFvX
JUNE BRIDES TAKE NOTICE
The marriage bug- seem sto have struck
Mt. Pleasant, and I am willing to do my
part to help him along.
Any June bride in the county or town
letting me know two days before hand, I
will give them a shampoo and curl abso-
lutely free, with my best wishes.
VAUGHAN’S BEAUTY PARLOR
Phone 48 Mrs. Vaughan, Pro$
SEVEN MISTAKE.!
.pea nr.;
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build. |
THAT no city can keep building and j
and keep from Pawing. j There are seven mistakes in life
THAT with the growing comes in-; that many of us make, says the Ro-
creased values and increased tradejtary Razz:
activity. Keep your city a growing ! 1. The delusion that individual ad-
city! j vancement is made by crushing oth-
THAT your city deserves the boost- ers down. 1
ing force of every citizen, 2. The tendency to worry about
THAT any business man who does things that cannot be changed or cor-
net avail himself of every opportunity rected,
to increase his business and make 3. Insisting that a thing is im-
himselt’ of service to his community possible because we ourselves cannot
should make room for a live one. accomplish it.
THAT if he wapts more business 4. Refusing to set aside trivial pre-
ho should show the prospective buy- ference in order that important things
A track testing car used by an Eng- Hardware dealer was asked by a ling into the import lists and finding
lish railway record side sways, back- lazy employee, whom he had fired, out what the people are buying that
ward and forward motions and up- for a recommendation. He thought is not supplied by the home inter
ward jerks. >for a moment and then wrote as fol-jests.
---- lows: jlf not. can it he made available and
A household novelty is a set of “The hearer of this letter is leaving jin sufficient quantities to make a
towel racks mounted in a bottomless me after one month’s work. I am I manufacturing project worth while?
“Let us go back to one of the first
J fundamentals in starting a manufact-
uring business; that is, the market
|for the finished articles. This mar- . ....... ,
, . mg public that he wants then- busi- may be accomplished.
! net can easilv be determined by look- ^ - , , . , , , il . . , / ,
ness; he should let them know what 5. Neglecting development and re-
lie has to sell by advertising, then finement of the mind by not acquir-
back it up with the right kind of ing the habit of reading.
1 s'”4he raw" materia 1 available 7 merchandise, prices and 8ervice- & Attempting to compel other per-
T HAT some cities should get a cof- sons to believe and live as we do.
fin factory located in their city for 7. The, failure to establish the
the benefit of a lot of dead ones ex- habit of saving money.
drawer that can be pushed hack un- perfectly satisfied.’
der a kitchen table. j Gospel Liberty.
IVnhl T ifnii-o 1 Cotton commodities are exported
, . aTJ lifetime 1 oun- from the Port of London in lavgev
lain Pens, regular price quantities than anything else manu-
$5.00, SpeClCll- $3.48._ factured in Great Britain and North- j is in or near large cities
Wilhite & Porter Drug IuhinJl____
CO. I Times Re-'cw Want Ads PAVI
isting there.
THAT opportunities, possibilities
and advantages are to be found in
your own home city if
them. Why not look ?
If you help build your e’ity it will
help to build you!
put your Telephone
on j-Jalf-pay during ^/acation
You'll save money . . .
and spare you rselfincon venience
when you return.
The Rumscys are going vaca-
tioning.
The milk’s been stopped, the
ice man has been called off, and
the Man Who Delivers the
Newspaper has been instructed
to bring no more until further
notice.
But the telephone will be left
at home, drawing full pay in an
empty house!
Something should be done
about this!
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Vacation rates for idle
telephones
Oncsolution (provided you're
j planning a vacation of 30 days
or more) is to place your tele-
phone on vacation half-rates
; while you are away.
j 1 It’s a convenient way to save
money. And—this to folks who
sometimes have their telephones
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taken out—it spares you incon-
venience on your return. That’s
because:
J. You pay just half the regu-
'[ ’ " ;Uriatc./ * 7 i..... ,*
j 2. /Service is reconnected
j quickly after you return—
usually within 24 hours
after you notify us.?;*,,.
3. You keep your present telc-
ph one n umber. ( You ’ d lose
it if you had your tele-
phone removed!)
4. Your name remains in the
telephone book.
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—The Herald of “In planning a manufacturing pro-
ject, the labor market is one to be
carefully considered, if skilled labor
is required, the location should be
chosen where the market for skilled
labor will he found. Generally this
manu-
I facturing districts.
I “Labor is a most important factor
in manufacturing. The I’nited States
enjoys the highest paid wages of any
country in existence. How are we
able to compete with other nations in
foreign markets? By means of mass
production, a truly American idea.
Mass production has brought with it
a complete change in methods fovm-
erly employed. Who ever dreamed
of making automobiles, for instance,
on a continuous conveyor, where the
j various parts were assembled into a j ■ 1
complete unit without a stop. Think j GUARANTEED PLUMBING
of this transformation from the old-
en days. It would be well to study
this mass production so that similar
methods can be put into operation in
your own factories.”
Golf and bowling have been com-
bined in a new game, the pins being
you oo •, oi jjHQgjjgjj down wjth putting shots with
golf balls.
Times Review and Dallas News both
one year for only $1.75
Times Review Want Ads PATv
$3.60 Bill Folds, spe-
cial price $2.19.—Wil-
hite & Porter Drug Co.
W. T. BANKHEAD
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER
. PHONE 261
AND
ELECTRICAL WORK
Save the best equipment and suceeaa-
ful experience.
Pbome 280-W E. B. DIXON
Don’t Worry
About Moths
—mothproof
cloth itself
Larvex actually mothproof*
clothes, rugs, furniture, so that
moth-worms won’t even begin
to eat them. New and sure
way to prevent moth damage.
LARVEX
THAT no live city can live and not
grow.
THAT no city can grow and not
Hugh C. Cross
Quality Signs and Window Cards
MT. PLEASANT. TEXAS
SPRAYING
LARVEX
mothproofs
fabrics not
washable
RINSING
LARVEX
mothproofs
all washable
woolens
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"Something should he done about this."
If you wish, while you are
away we will refer your calls to
another telephone—that of rela-
tives, for instance.
Vacation rates arc available
for periods of more than 30 days,
but not over four months.
To obtain them, mail the
coupon or telephone the busi-
es* Nftce. vG.;:- A; • J
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Manager, - - - ■ «- - •
Sonthwotcra BcM Telephone Co.,
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Call me a boot vacation bolf-rates
j lot my telephone.
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that vuvfb of mine is a 3013.14 rortone tela-EC*%'
SHE Towo fAB V WAS FoouiSHTo Go To THE (SAME,
That Lose AMC> That'S EXACTL.T UJHAT HAFPENETSr
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\ SO ess SHE'S WAVTVKS FOR ME, REAOY To HANO ME
The old * \ Touts Hoo so:*
See*. \ HATE THAT UOOfAAH To HAVE THE LAuOH OH MB,
\‘o TELL. HER \ WpH \F \ HAO MONEY ENOUGH TO
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VF vRNEW WHERE TO BoUROvjj SOME TACK Yo3o iT.-
\ HOPE SHE'S ASUEEP, \F SHE \S \Vv. CREEP \N ANt>
SUC>E OOT FOR Wof^H BEFORE SHE AWAKES.
I'M QoinS To Cot OOT POKERS., TvMB I
PUAY 1 |GW,E HER A CHANCE TD 6WC ME
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Cross, G. W. Mount Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 81, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 12, 1929, newspaper, June 12, 1929; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth785311/m1/4/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mount Pleasant Public Library.