Benavides Facts (Benavides, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, May 10, 1940 Page: 3 of 4
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BENAVIDES FACTS, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1940
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$30,500 STOCK REDUCTION
SENSATIONAL FREE OFFERING
WITH A PURCHASE OF $100.00 OR OVER WE GIVE YOU ABSOLUTELY FREE A BEAUTIFUL 123 PIECE
GOLDEN DAWN DINNER SET - WE HAVE 250 Of THESE SETS TO GIVE AWAY - JUST ONE SET TO A
CUSTOMER - COME EARLY - AND BESIDES EXTRA SAVINGS ON YOUR FURNITURE - FOLLOW
THE TAGS - EVERY ARTICLE IN OUR STORE REUCED - COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELF.
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SOLID WALNUT
COFFEE TABLE
WITH GLASS TRAY
$9.75 Values
• NOW
$5.95
SMOKERS
IN ALL COLORS
$3.50 Values
• NOW
$1.45
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Beautiful Mahogany
DUNCAN PHYFE DINING ROOM SUITE
With Credenza Buffett
$100.00 Value - Now
$79.50
Regular Value $8.75
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$5.95
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$13.75
Set of Dishes Given
Away Free
Regular $29.50 Value
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$19.75
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Solid Carload Buying Enables This Big Busy Store To Give You Hundreds of Startling Values!
WE WON’T BE UNDERSOLD - OUR POLICY - BETTER BURNITURE FOR LESS
NUECES FURNITURE COMPANY
317 CHAPARRAL ST. CORPUS CHRISTI
TELEPHONE SETS
SMART SETS — 2-Pieces
Greatly Reduced $39.50 Value
• NOW
$24.95
SECRETARIES
Public Urged
To Use Safety
Aquatic Rules
“Recreation, in and on the wa-
ter, has ever been and always will
be appealing and attractive to a
multitude of people. Indulgence
in any of its forms is recognized
almost universally as being a hap-
py, health-benefiting experience.
In swimming, canoeing, rowing,
sailing, and motorboating there
may be found at one and the same
time, release for mind and body—
release that marks a change from
routine habits of living, thinking
and acting to the not usual, non-
habitual stimulation of thought
and activity which ‘re-creates’ the
individual. Environment, activity
and mental and physical stimula-
tion, all contribute to the enjoy-
ment which is so manifestly evid-
ent wherever and whenever peo-
ple indulge in acquatic sports.
“Water sports are also among
the most social of recreation acti-
vities. Few indeed are there
among other sports in which
so many can engage simultaneous-
ly and in the same place regard-
less of age, abiilty or relation-
ships. The swimmer is usually hap-
piest when he is accompanied or
surrounded by other swimmers.
The skilled fancy diver is most
active when pitting his skill
against other divers. Small craft,
except certain restricting types,
are designed for two or more per-
sons. Bathing beaches and pools
may range all the way from the
lP-lie ‘swimming hole’ which can
accomodate its half duzen or so
small boys, to the great stretch
of surf bathing beach upon which
tens >.f thousands disport them-
selves. Whether it be in family,
groups, or crov d, the keenest en-
ployment of water sports is to be
found most generally in the com-
pany of others.
“The one dark note in an oth-
erwise bright and stimulating pic-
ture is seen in the number of peo-
ple who lose their I ves by drown-
ing, ,7.500 a year or. an average
during the past several cars) and
in the many thousands who ex-
perience a ‘near drowning’ but
manage to survive. It is not sur-
prising, however, that these facts
have had no effect in diminishing
the number of those who seek re-
creation in and on the water. Ev-
eryone, except perhaps the un-
insiructed small child. Knows that
there is this fundamental element
of danger in the water, yet they
are willing to take such a risk as
they may encounter. A great
majority of people will never get
into difficulty in the water since,
fortunately, the habit of caution
will govern their actions, but
there still will be many who, thru
lack of knowledge or iack of skill,
will face the danger of drowning
“Knowledge and skill—these
Old Man Is
Listed as Cow-
Boy in Census
Solomon Bedford Strickland,
who will be 101 years old June 5,
was listed on census rolls Thurs-
day, the oldest resident of the
county so far encountered by the
census enumerators.
Mr. Strickland was enumerated
by Frank W. Sharp, census super-
visor.
Mr. Strickland said he never
had an occupation.
“Never worked at any one thing
or for any one man more than a
couple of months in my life,” Mr.
Strickland said. “I lived in a sad-
dle for 50 yeras, though. I guess
you can call me a cowboy.”
Mr. Sharp did.
Mr. Strickland said he was
born in Montgomery county in
1839. He has wandered over the
union, operated a saloon in Kan-
sas City, a restaurant in Mem-
phis, worked in a railroad con-
struction crew, but spent most
of his time on ranches.
“You must have taken pretty
good care of yourself to live so
long,” Mr. Sharp said.
“Well, now, I just did not,” Mr.
Strickland replied. ”I’ve lived out
of doors and slept under trees
most of the time. This winter I
had a cold all the time just from
sleeping inside.
He lives at a small hotel. For
the past year he has been doing
odd jobs in the law office of Paul
W. Jeffery.
are the things which tend to eli
minate danger. Skill in aquatics
in required through instruction
and practice. Knowledge is gain-
ed by means of instruction and
experience. There is no end to the
acquirement of either ard a per-
son is reasonably safe in the wa
ter in exact proportion to the
amount of each he possesses.
“Swimming skill must, of course,
always be the primary factor in
water safety whether one is in ox-
on the water, but skill in handling
small craft, skill in meeting un-
of equal importance.
DR. F.C. STAMM
OPTOMETRIST
who is now deceased, fitted
thousands of patients with
glasses while practicing in Cor-
pus Christi. Any of his patients
requiring any service will find
their complete case history and
presci’iption at the office of the
TEXAS STATE
OPTICAL CO.
417 People St., Ground Floor
Corpus Christi
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Beaman, J. L. C. Benavides Facts (Benavides, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, May 10, 1940, newspaper, May 10, 1940; Alice, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth884586/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Duval County Library.