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McGREGOR MIRROR. McGREGOR, TEXAS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1939
phoid in 1937 were from the rur-jtain a sanitary privy. This may
al districts. j be in the form of a septic tank ■or
Contaminated drinking water is | a pit privy. The point is, how-
a potent source of typhoid in rnr- ever, that it should be fly-proof,
al areas. Protecting the water ^ it is not, the present is an ideal
supply against polluted under- time to take the necessary pre-
ground seepages and surface cautions and thereby anticipate
More-
s
BURIAL POLICIES
| On ages 1 to $0—$75,'$100, $125,
§ $150, $250—Beeommended by
I leading undertakers. Under sup-
j ervisicn of the State. CASH
1 within 24 hours after death.
| You pay a straight monthly rate.
Louisa’s Letter
Deai Louisa. counts, you might ask the other
We have too much dissention in members of your family to take
our house. I am sure it is not my same {est Yours
fault but what can I do about it? Louisa
Virginia. Anxious. _
Dear Louisa:
Answer— Dou you believe in love at first
You sound very positive that [ sight or do you approve of long
you are not at fault and I dare engagements?
sav the other members of vour Kansas. Iona.
the typhoid fever season,
over, the privy should be located
in such a way that it will not en-
danger the source of drinking
water; preferably, it should be at
least 100 feet away.
Vaccination against typhoid
fever by your doctor is economic-
al, safe and sure. Everyone
should give attention to this im-
portant preventive measurre be-
fore the advent of the typhoid
season, for certain protection in
rural areas, and on vacation.
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UPHOLSTERING
they are blameless. Answer—
But suppose you stop and take I have known people who said
stock of yourself betore you be- that they fell in love at first
gin to correct others. What about sight but these are exceptions
the tone of your voice? When rather than the rule. I can un-
some one asks a simple question derstand how a person can be
and fails to hear your answer, do powerfully attracted to a person
you shout at them when you have when she first met him but when
to repeat it, in a tone . which we marry we marry for a long,
clearly implies that they are nit- long time and other things have
wits not to have heard you the to be taken into account besides
first time. A rude answer or. physical attraction,
tone can be as irritating to some We have to decide whether
people as a slap in the face and our husband-to-be is trust-worthy
one ,of the first things we should and a man of whom we can feel
cultivate is a soft courteous tone sure of his love and loyalty. We
in speaking to others if we would must decide whether he looks to
have a peaceful home. be a good risk as the father to
Do you go around with a chip our possible children and whether
on your shoulder all day waiting he will be compankmsliip during
for some one to knock off? those long years after the thrills
Do you criticize everything are gone,
your husband or wife does? Do He may know all the latest
you complain of other people all I dance steps and look like a collar
the time before your family? If ad, but tliose Attractions , will
you dt>, you are setting a nice ex- prove very unsatisfactory if he
ample to the children for they happens to be tripping the light
are great imitators and if their fantastic some night when we
parents complain about the com- have a sick baby and have no
munity and criticize their neigh- money for a nurse or medicine,
hors; you may expect them to do I think the safest plan is to be
likewise. They will even go fur- ^ engaged to a man long enough to
they and include their parents I find out some of his faults, know
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1. Is the “Mona Lisa” known
by another name?
2. Wliat was the given name
of Voltaire?
3. What is a ‘‘tongue-twister?”
4. What is the world price ’of
cotton, based on the old gold dol-
lar?.
5. W ho was the Republican an(j their home in their criticisms.; his family and to discuss and set
candidate lor \ ice-president in d0 y0U every nne in the Ale some details of your future
-^36? ... family know that you expect them, before you take the final step
6. Is employment in private m->(;^0 pull their load in the boat and j One of the chief causes of unhap-
dustry. increasing? 1 that you expect to do the same?:piness is the money question aftei
l. ( an the Federal Government Qr ci0 y0U ma]je the older child-1 marriage and if people coulc
tax the salaries of State and local ren k;eep the little ones every plan their finances before hand
government employes ? ^ night while you go out and make: they would each know what tc
8. What is the population of -whooped? Or perhaps you goj expect of the other and not be
Mexiea ? ^ to the other extreme by encour-1 disillusioned afterwards.
9. What was the Block Town agino- them to be selfish by doing j But don’t be engaged too long
explosion? _ .all the staying home yourself. i It takes the bloom off of mar-
10. How large is Guam? j Dou you trv to find things you! riage to a certain extent, and
ORIES
ecctnber /pjg
Answer—
1. Yes—“La Gioconda.”
2. Francois Marie Aronet as
sumed the name of Voltaire.
3. Words hard to pronounce in
sequence, such as “chop shops
stock chops.”
4. About 4.28 cents a pound.
5. jCol. Frank Knox, Chicago
publisher.
6. Yes; by about 1,250,000 in
last four months.
7. Apparently such a tax would
be legal although it. has not been
collected.
8. 19,000,000.
9. The explosion of 250 carloads
of munitions, waiting shipment
to the Allied Powers at the Block
Town, N. J. terminal,
10. 30 by 4 1-2 to 8 miles: area
225 square miles.
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Austin.—“Perhaps no more
convincing example of the value
of applied public health measures
exists than the success achieved
in combatting typhoid fever,”
declares Dr. Geo. Wr. Cox, State
Health Officer.
In 1900 typhoid fever mortal-
ity in the United States totaled
35,000. In terms of illness, this
meant that approximately 350,-
000 persons, or one out of ten,
contracted typhoid fever in that
year.
“Since then typhoid fever
death rates in the urban centers
have steadily declined. Texas
cities and communities are re-
porting less and less typhoid due
to mass control in purifying wat-
er and milk supplies, providing
adequate sewage disposal, and
widespread typhoid vaccination.
The rural areas of Texas are
still beset with the typhoid pro-
blem, however, as shown by the
fact that the greatest per cent of
the 379 Texans who died of ty-
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The McGregor Mirror. (McGregor, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, February 17, 1939, newspaper, February 17, 1939; McGregor, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth883053/m1/6/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting McGinley Memorial Public Library.