Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 132, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 20, 1925 Page: 4 of 4
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MT. PLEASANT DAILY TIMES THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1925.
THe Finest Coffee
on Earth
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W. T. BLACK
Quality Service Honest Prices
THE CURIOSITIES OF SCIENCE
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ROADSIDE MARKETS
Before the days of the automobile
ene would occasionally see in the sub-
urbs of a city a small boy sitting on
Yhe lawn close to the sidewalk and
behind a box on which stood a pitch-
er of lemonade and two or three
tumblers. An awkardly letter placard
announced that lemonade might be
had for three cents a glass. In those
days it never occurred to a grown-up
persons to establish a roadside stand
mcnt the tables, and sometimes ast-
ers and dahlias from the flower gard-
en. In some parts of the country,
notably Now England, “antiques” are
exhibited for sale by the .roadside;
and occasionally the tourist comes up-
on a wayside toyshlp, a table bearing
a fascinating assortment of gayly col-
ored windmills and wooden figures,
the ingenious craftsman who madd
them being himself the salesman.
Probably no one gets rich from, one
Science is full of curiosity, which
is the disposition to inquire carefully
into things. From time immemorial
men have desired to know what the
Unverse is made of, beginning with
the earth and then extending their
investigations into the skies, the
planets, the sun and the stars.
All things are matter, which is
that of which any physical thing is
composed; and the other day Dr
Whitney, director of the research
laboratory of the General Electric
Company, told the American Chemi-
cal Society that “matter is a vacu-
um as empty as the sky.” But a
vacuum is emptiness, “a space en-
tirely devoid of matter,” Webster
says. Yet the doctor says “matter js
as empty as a perfect vacuum.” So
in attempting to follow scientific
statements most of us who are in-
terested in the meaning of words
run into difficulties.
But everything in the universe is y
composed of atoms, and atoms teem
with electrons, and the doctor says
“all the elements, from the smallest
to the largest, can be constructed by
orderly assemblies of positive and
negative charges.” So the well
known average writer and reader
naturally concludes that the universe
is built of electricity. One of the
wonders described in the process of
disintegration of the atoms in a lit-
tle piece of uranium, a substance
that behaves like radium. With a
radio "loud speaker” he enabled his
audience to hear the continuous dis-
integration of the atoms of uranium.
Then he remarked: “It is difficult to
believe the truth that after 5,000,-
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WHAT STARTED IT
The temperamental young wife,
busy over her makeup, suddenly
burst into tears. “John,” she sobbed,
“if I should die'would you weep over
my lifeless elay?”
“No,” replied the heartless brute,
“I'd throw every jar of it out the
window.”—American Legion Weekly.
Phone your news items to 15.
of these roadside .markets; hut heavy
losses cannot result, and, with no 000 years half of this little piece A
for the sale of articles; such a ven- great expenditure of time and effort, uranium \fll have shot itself away, 1 \Af /k TT jSk
ture would certainly have been un- receipts that are a welcome supple- ,osino' » few ner <*ent. nf its weierht * . ** a v R L/ LJ
' ment to the prospector’s regular in-
come are often derived. Furthermore
the displays are now so attractive
that as a means of advertising the
character of the community and the
value of the land they are not to be
despised.—Youth’s Companion.
profitable.
Nowadays, from early spring thru
late autumn, the roadside stands are
a familiar sight. They bear not only
fars and bowls of orangeade and lem-
onade but also the fruits and vege-
tables in their season. Each year, as
the automobiles become more plenti-
ful, the roadside markets become more
and more numerous and diversified.
Ice-cream cones and ginger ale «re
dispensed from them', cakes and pies
and cider and luscious bajkets qj
peaches and plums and pears and ap-
ples; melons and squashes will orna- j Read The Daily Times Ads.
I No Worms in a Healthy Child g
All.children troubled with Worm* hare an un-
healthy color. which indicates poor blood, and aa a
riile, there Is more or leas stomach disturbance.
GROVJFS TASTELESS chill 1V.NIC given regularly
lor tuner throe weeks will enrich the blood, im-
viirow off or dispel the worms, and the Child wffl'te
in perfect health. Pleasant to take. 60c per bottle.
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losing a few per cent of its weight
and left some metallic lead.”
Difficult indeed. Whenever the
scientist gets to talking of millions
of years we are out of it. We can
not know whether he is right _ or
wrong, and haven’t time to wait for
the actual demonstration. Dr Whit-
ney wanted to go as far as he could
in pointing out the vacuity of mat-
ter, and he went far enough for us.
But he fixed one thing that interests
all intelligent men when he said:
“Science persists in speculating and
experimenting on the atom because
everything we know is made o?
atoms.”
Let it go at that. We are all at-
jomatical creatures, if we may coin
' an adjective and fearfully and won-
j derfully made. Which as a discov-
[ ery, is partly new and partly very
old.—Fort Worth Star Telegram.
FOR SALE—6 room house with
all conveniences, 1-2 acre lot, good
neighborhood, known as Lester Black
home. Write or call, Gus Presley, cr.
Russell Grain Grocery Co. 18-4-pd
POSITION WANTED—In first
class grocery or general mercantile
store by Sept. 7th. I have had 18
years of experience as salesman and
buyer; am 45 years of age, speak
German and some Spanish. Referen-.
ces, Hasler Bros. Co., Plaek and Guse
Co., Citizens State Bank. Write A.
J. Elzner, Bastrop, Texas, P. O. Box
No. 416.
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the home. Horse flesh heals with
remarkable speed under its power-
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the same for animals aa f or humans.
First wash out infectious germs
with liquid Borozone, and the
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FOR SALE CHEAP—Good four healing process. Price (liquid)
room house with hall and bath. Close 30c, 60c and $1.20. Powder 30o
in, fne neighborhood, best o.<: terms. *nd60c. ~ Sold by
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the new season has brought
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Prices Decidely Low
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Cross, G. W. Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 132, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 20, 1925, newspaper, August 20, 1925; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth785352/m1/4/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mount Pleasant Public Library.