Timpson Daily Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 286, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 28, 1938 Page: 2 of 4
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TIMPSON PHARMACY
TIMPSON, TEXAS
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THE MILT TIMES
Entered as second class mat-
ter April 17, 1906. at the post-
office at Timpson, Texas, un-
der the Act of March 3, 1879.
T. J. MQLLOY----Editor
S. WINFREY - Business Mgr.
THOUGHTS FOR
TODAY
The rewards of duty
are not rest from labor,
but greater tasks.
—-Pollen.
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HOUSING . . . merciful
• The reports I get of the
newest plan for housing the
very poor comfortably and at
low cost point to a solution of
that vexing problem which 1
have long advocated. In Fort
Wayne, Indiana, the commu-
nity, with the aid of the F. H.
A. and the W. P. A., is build-
ing three-room houses at a cost
for materials of $900 a house,
plus W. P. A. labor.
These are substantial
homes, far better than the av-
erage slum dwelling, equipped
with all necessary conveni-
ences but no luxuries, and rent
for 32.50 a month. which
brings them within the reach
of the very poorest a
They are built on vacant
property for which the owner
is paid one dollar, with a pro-
vision that the house will be
moved if he finds a better use
for the land. The houses are
built in sections so they can
be taken down and set up
again in a day or two.
For a large part of the very
poor in every part of the coun-
try, this scheme seems to me
the most practical way of ex-
tending the merciful help to
which the American people
are committed.
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DRINKING . . . decline
Five years ago the Constitu-
tional amendment forbidding
the sale of alcoholic liquor in
the United States was repeal-
ed. It didn't work. Whether
it could have been enforced if
the Government had been
willing to spend mere money
on enforcement is a question
to which there isn’t any an-
swer. Anyway, the sale of
liquor is legal now everywhere
except in Kansas, Oklahoma,
Mississippi and Tennessee.
Both the liquor industry and
the temperance organizations
agree that there has been a
great decline in drinking in the
past year. Now that it is not
illegal to drink, a lot of peo-
ple who didn’t care for the
staff anyway but drank the
prohibition bootleg liquor to
defy the law, have gone back
to their old habits'of moder-
ate drinking or no drinking at
all
As liquor sales decline, gas-
oline consumption has gone up.
The number of motor acci-
dents attributed to drunken
driving steadily * grows less.
People ore learning that alco-
hol and gasoline make a dan-
gerous mixture. Perhaps the
automobile will prove more ef-
fective in promoting temper-
ance than prohibition ever
could have.
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COINS .... comment
Fve. just seen the first of the
new Jefferson nickels. It looks
odd, but we will soon get used
to it, as we did to the buffalo
nickel which was new in 1913.
That caused a lot of comment.
In that peaceful, prosperous,
pre-war time people didn’t
have anything much more se-
rious to taik about than wheth-
er they liked the looks of the
new coins.
Before the buffalo nickel.
By PERCY CROSBY
Back o’ the Flats
IT’S CHRISTMAS WEEK
—AND—
To change my ad—I real-
ly haven’t had time—
So Just continue to call
for old Number Ninel
Gordon Weaver
Phone 9 GROCERIES Tfanpeon
R
r^ CAuse youst j
re have a« ya can /
oo to gorw ftcrj
the five-cent piece with a big
V on it was coined for 25
years. Before that the nickel
had a big figure 5 almost cov-
ering one side. I don’t re-
member any nickels of . the
present size before that one
came in, in my boyhood. We
had nickel coins the size of the
silver dime, but labeled "half-
dimes" in my childhood, and
there were still in circulation
the tiny silvery half-dimes, so
smdl and thin they were easy
to lose.
They still coined three-cent
and two-cent pieces when I
was a boy. The first three-cent
pieces were liny little coins of
silver. Then came the nickel
pieces, a little smaller than a
word "cash,” which have
square holes in the middle so
they can be strung on a cord
or wire.
The rarest of all American
coins is the silver dollar' of
1804. Nineteen thousand of
them were coined, but only a
dozen are known to exist. They
are all owned by collectors,
and the last time one was sold
it brought $3,500. Their scar-
city is due to the fact that the
price of silver went up so high
in 1805 that it paid to melt up
dollars and sell the silver.
Nobody knows what became;
of all the “eagle” cents ofj
1856. If you come across an
old cent, whitish in color, be-
cause it had nickel mixed with
dime, with the Roman III to in- copper, you have one of the
dicate their value. The two-[first cents ever made of the
cer.t pieces were made of
bronze, like the present cents,
but were as iarge as the pres-
ent nickels, or larger, but not
as large as the old copper
cents, which were bigger than
a quarter.
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CURIOSITIES . . collectors
All the official coinage of
the United States is round, but,
I used to have some six-sided
coins made in a private mint in
San Francisco in the 1850’s.
Almost everybody has seen the
Chinese copper coins, from the
name of which we get the
ever
.present size. If it is dated
1856 you can get from $20 up-
ward for it from a coin collec-
tor.
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MINTS.....initials
1 saw a report a little while
ago that gold-mining has been
resumed in Georgia. The new
price of $35 an ounce makes it
profitable to work the old
mines which were abandoned
after the Civil War.
So much gold was mined in
Georgia and North Carolina in
the early 1800’s that the Fed-
eral Government established
mint3 to make gold coins at
Dahlonega, Georgia, and
Charlotte, North Carolina, in
1838.
Look at any silver coin you
have—you haven’t any gold
coins any more—for the “mint
mark” that tells where it was
made. If there is a tiny “S”
somewhere on the face of the
coin it was made in San Fran-
cisco. On older coinB you may
find a “D” and "O” of a «C.C.”
standing for the mints at Den-
ver, New Orleans or Carson
City, which are no longer op-
erated. If there is no mint-
mark, the coin was made at
the Philadelphia mint.
But if you see a “W” on a
quarter it stands for the initial
of the sculptor. Adolf Wein-
man, who designed it.
Hey, That Man’s In Again!
“The presidents of two
macaroni companies are in
conference, discussing a mer-
ger of the two firms.”
“Putting their noodles to-
gether, eh?”—Christian Mon-
itor.
Candid Christmas Card
I’m sending you this Christmas
card
Upon this Holy day;
It’s one 1 had left over and
It keeps getting in my way.
—Christian Science Monitor.
HOME
ttnd
HOUSE
By Mary E. Dague
Have you begun the feeding
of the wild birds? Sunflower,
hemp and millet seeds are
liked by the seedeaters, while
the woodpeckers and some
ethers find suet more to their
liking. The birds of the red-
bird family will welcome some
coarsely cracked corn.
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Here is a hearty luncheon
dish that is easy to make and
very inexpensive. To make a
company dish of it pile it on a
heat-proof platter, sprinkle
thickly with grated cheese and
slide into a hot even just long
enough for the cheese to melt.
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Luncheon Rice
Four tablespoons butter, 2
large onions, 4 cups canned to-
matoes, 3 cup rice, 2 teaspoons
salt, 14 teaspoon pepper, 2
teaspoons sugar.
Melt butter in heavy frying
pan or in the deep-wei! cook-
er of an electric range. Add
onions, peeled and sliced and
cook until onions are a pale
straw color. Add tomatoes
and seasoning and sprinkle
rice evenly over top. Cover
and cook slowly for one hour.
Do not stir during cooking un-
til rice has absorbed tomato
juice. Then it will be neces-
sary to stir occasionally to pre-
vent sticking.
A little thing that means a
great deal to the comfort of
the entire family is the main-
tenance of proper humidity
throughout the house during
cold weather. The addition of
proper moisture to the air in
the home saves fuel and makes'
for health.
If you heat with hot air and
your furnace is not equipped
with modern air conditioning
devices it’s an easy matter to
suspend a small pail in each
hot air pipe under the register,
then be sure to keep the paii
filled with water. Although
all old furnaces have a water
pan this is usually too small to
be effective, so additional mois-
ture is necessary.
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Meticulous housewives feel
that they must have their
houses spic and span for the
Christmas holidays. Windows
must shine and woodwork and
furniture must be polished.
Put a tablespoonful of soda in
a pail of warm water when
washing painted or varnished
woodwork and furniture and
you will save yourself much
time and work.
—-0—
To keep windows from
freezing down tight sprinkle a
little salt where the window
rests on the sill and the win-
dow will open easily.
THE HOUSE OF HAZARDS
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