The Llano News. (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 31, 1939 Page: 2 of 8
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Hum tb«* bazooka wu mvcntood and
how it received ita num*- were nar-
rated to thii chronicler by Hob Burn*
a few days ago. It waa while he wat-
in Fort Worth to appear before two
hug** crowds for on* night at Casa
Manana.
"We member* of th<- Van Bnren
Silver Cornet H.ind were practicing In
flaymor’s plumbing shop" he drawled,
•’When I pithed ttp a piece of gas
pipe and at tick a roll of music In it
and actually blew a few notes .*
latter, h* changed the inarument
so that it wat- made of two piece# of
jra* pipe and whisky funnel "and it
makes just the kind of music you
s'otild expect two piece# of gas pipe
and a whiahky funnel to make**," be
add'-fl
Wh- i a fellow did a lot of talk-
ing about himaelf. folks used to say
that be "blew his bazoo.” ao Rob
jual totik the word t hanged it a lit-
tle and called the instrument a H ia
sian bazooka Soon afterward, a min#
tn*l show came to town and he join-
ed it After a few weeks, it folded-—
“only about tw-o folds were necessary
sutybow,” Hob ampltfbd but by that
time ha definitely wa« an “actor "
’Burns has irreat friendship for
Inrln 8 t'obb, the Kentucky short
ntory writer.
"When we wen* making 'The Ark-
nr*saw Travler,' It was a wonder any
•rencs were ever made because Irv-
in and I sat uround swapping stories
While I'd be telling one. he'd la*
twiddling his finger* impatiently on
his knee for me to finish so he rould
tell on ■ and I'd do the thme while
he waa talking ”
Afterward, f’obb wrote to Rums.
“I've b****n using your stories and
they get lota of laughs; it muat be
the way I tell them ”
Cobb added "I always give you
credit at the end but I speak your
name In such a low reverent tone
that I doubt If anybody hear# It ”
The Kentuckian invited the bit,
raw Ironed Arkansawyer to visit the
Cobb home explaining "My wife ha*
a morbid desire to meet you ”
ln< identally. hack in I10J. when
Rums waa riding around over the
country on freights he landed in
Tine LLANO KTW8 LLANO. TEXAS THTORDAY AtPOt’ST SI. 19»
By PERCY CROSBY
Supreme Moments ot Life
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the outstanding
citla In an Eastern state proved that
the chances of dying are four times
greater on the second than on th*
first, fixe times greater on the third,
six times greater on the fourth da)
of the disease. The tragedy of pro-
crastination In the presence of at
pend iritis is enacted only too ofu-u.
Personal intelligence then •* the
key to the appendicitis mortality • »*b
lem. The predilection for laxative*
upon any. every or uo occasion «
all. In the greet and np to the
time, taeermountable stumbling Moca
la the ptweence of ahdomianl pain.
NEVER TAKE LAXATIVK8 and call
your family physician at once if Jte-
patn continues
If the SO million families receiving
lean than 12 Mo a year spent aa axach
for cotton goods as those receiving
between 12.000 and $3,000 the cotton
farmer would have n home outlet for
in additional 2 million bales annual
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Llano, Texas
Fort Worth and went on south and
h< Iped to build the railroad into
Menard Bo the other night. N. II.
Fierce, idttor of tin Menard News
(l>rii< winning paper at tb* recent
West Texas ITesh Association con-
vention) went bu<k stagi at Cana
Mamma and interviewed Hums
More about that day in tl»* troptis
of Aj; our cart rolbd into
the little town of Fortin, native girls
<ame forward with section* of bana
na stalks hollowed out as <ontaitiers
for beautiful gardenia* and orchids,
which grow wild in that region One
could buy a whole box for fifty centa-
vo* fa dim*. American money).
The small, new hotel was a jewel
Iti a perfect setting Its cool corridors
surround'd a patio with grass of an
unbelievably deep green— „ green
that looked a* though someone had
been utiug bu< ket* of paint to touch
it up Bright flowers were blooming.
Tie air was bland k of tbe hotel
was its beautiful private swimming
pool and In the diatan<*r, was the
base of mountains A peon slept In
t he shad* of a tropical tree
As wc watied the (all to a b-slure
l> dinner Mr* Adolfo Domluguex
(wife of the Balias Mexn an consult
seated herself at the piano and her
marvelous tom i' reudered songs of
her nattv* land in soft Bpanish
Hi in pi- and plaintive, tbe melodies
wen and in those surroundings, the
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APPENDICITIS ALONE CAUSES
PEW DEATHS IN TEXAS
It has been estimated that an op
••ration for acute appendicitis t* per
formed every minute in th* I'nlted
Stales, moreover, that pi-rltnnltis. a
result of (hi* disease, takes tb* life
of som**oue every twenty nine min
tiles Against this fright!ul toll m ty
be placed th* signifitant fact that If
peritonitis does not occur the appen
dIritis fatility rale is but one in two
hundred can* r,. empbasiz* * the Tez
aa Ntate fiepartment of Health
The perforated app**ndtx. whl< h la
the cause of peritonitis, is a proven
table < ondition Prevention It.-* in
prompt recognition of acute appen
dicitis and prompt surgery Though
this fact Is well known to the (tied!
cal profession and ha* be* n definitely
proved in hospitals throughout the
land for years, the publn as yet Is
not sufficiently impress***! with It
Thus It happen* that the append!
• Ills mortality rate in this country
(Incidentally the highest in all rlv|
lived nations) Is not dm to a lack of
skill in diagnosis and surgery bat to
the American tendency toward seif
treatment with the a**ompanying
factor of delay.
Appendicitis is essentially a din
ease of the young, seventy five per
<«nt of the twenty thousand persona
who die anaaallv from this cause in
the United State* being under the
age of thirty, while only tea per cent
are over forty,
Hospitals record* disclose that d<*
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The Llano News. (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 31, 1939, newspaper, August 31, 1939; Llano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth816672/m1/2/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Llano County Public Library.