The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 212, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 6, 1932 Page: 3 of 4
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TUESDAY
SEPTEMBER 4» 4
THE CUERO, RECORD, CUERO, TEXAS
Among the Victorites who attend-
ed the dance at the Municipal Aud-
itorium Monday were Miss Eiiza-
the Schleicher. Dick Fit-Ids. Pete
Brown and Red Davidson.
Mrs. Jerry Ward, Geraldine
Ward. Arthur Hiller and Paul
Kurz of San Antonio spent the
week end in Cuero as guests in the
Ab Mueller home.
NEW THATCHER COLT DETECTIVE MYSTERY
by ANTHONY ABBOT 5
Rocky Mountain Elberta peach-
es. bushel basket beautiful fruit
$2 45 bushel. John C Ley. —advt
Miss Ada Virginia Pettus and Ce-
cil Ramsey, of Goliad, motored up
to attend the Steve Gardner dance
in this city Monday evening.
Mrs. Luther Smith and Carl
Bonne Jr. returned recently from
a few days visit with friends and
relatives in Tyler.
Rocky Mountain Elberta peach-
es. bushel basket- beautiful fruit.
$2.45 bushel. John C. Ley. —advt.
Mrs. A1 McFadden of Victoria and
Mrs jLOtt Pettus of Goliad passed
through Cuero enreute to their re-
spective homes after a two months
visit in California with Lieut, and
Mrs. Dinty Moore and a motor trip
through the western states.
Misses Virginia Pierce and Mar-
jorie Dawe and Buck Remschel
and Burgess Robinson, all of Gon-
zales were in Cuero Monday to
attend the dance.
We specialize in 5 cent hamburg-
ers at Ed’s place on West Main
Strest. <adv)
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Eckles and
Mrs. Eckels’ young brother. Master j
Preston Bolton, arrived the last
of the week from college Station
where they have been spending
meat of their summer. Preston will
spend a week here with his sister.
Fresh car Elberta peaches just
received. See your merchant for
j preserving peaches. .The last
chance.—advt.
L«fc Carvw* The Night Club
Rady”, Is my 3ttrieusly murdered in
tor apartment at three
rieioek New Year’s morning- An
tour later, the body of Lola’s great,
Christine Quires, is found in Lola’s
ICE KEEPS IT
THAT WAY
heart failure. Gay Everett. Chris-
tine’s New Yenrfs Eve escort, claims
tobrought herb >me at 12:15 and then
Went riding, alone, on the Motor Park-
way. Mrs. Carewe, Lola’s mother,
denies seeing Christine return*
iWiSce Commissioner Thatcher Colt
Hm miul 11 District Attorney Dough-
arty’s theory that Lola was killed by
a Jewel thief riqg she heeded and
that Christine met the same fate for
knowing toe mnrh Vincent Bow-
tend. Lola’s lawyer, diacloeea that
C. E. Long, construction engineer
!for Swift & Co. of Chicago accom-j
I panied by his attractive daughter.]
Mis Marguerite, fe spending a few |
[days in Cuero. At the end of their
; brief stay in Cuero the eouple will
1 likely go to Florida. Miss Margue-
rite is her father’s secretary and
stenographer and tells ua she trav- j
els with him all over the south,:
most of the time in •'Kingfish” |
Long, "Alfalfa Bill" Murray or "Ma"
Ferguson territory and she enjoys it. |
Fresh car Elberta peaches just j
received- See your merchant for |
preserving peaches. The last
chance—advt.
[ never have any difficulty keeping butter
fresh until it's all used. Since I bought a good
refrigerator and told my C. P. and L. Ice Service
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Man to keep plenty of ice in it at oil times, l*ve
v 1 - ■ 1 * « * r
never hod a bit of trouble with refrigerotiotw
"Milk, meats ond vegetebles^stay*fresh from 12
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to 24 hours longer than you would Ihink they
, ' w ♦
would The answer is, smpply, that Ice, being the
I
natural refrigeration, provides MOIST cold ond
CIRCULATING air,‘and foedi jutt kttpf
Qlv» Roger Davis, of Yoakum, was
in Cuero Tuesday in interest of his
attendance of Texas University this
fail. D*v* was formerly a student
at Schreiner, having spent twe
years in that school.
PRESERVING PEACHES
The last car of peaches to be re-
ceived this year. See your
merchant.—advt.
E. E. Young, manager of Stowers
Furniture Company in this city and
Robert Kleinecke, connected with
the same firm, motored up to San
Antonio Tuesday on a brief business
visit.
PRESERVING PEACHES
Tim last ear of peaches to be re-
ceived this year. See your
merchant .—advt.
r "Maty writ on the report about Lola Carewe’s hybrid past,”
5 continued Colt, , .1
"Ah, well! Basil Boucher was an
honest young bank clerk of very
respectable parents. Then one day
he met a danoer Her name was
Lola—I knew no other. In my city
aha tod left behind her a aerdid
trail' «f ruined men. Basil Boucher
loved bar. He promised her a ruby
if ahe would love him, Ta get the
money—be robbed the bank. W«
came to arrest him—-he had disap-
peared. Vails!”
“Bfj dear confrere, may t re-
quest another great favor from
your kindness!”
"It is with pleasure chat C co-
operate.”
tod the typed reports Into a drawer.
“Whet about the buttle and the
wtitiiaft paper that you found un-
der the mattress?” he asked.
Flynn shrugged his shoulders.
“Na finger-prints on any of it,1
* The Daily Record will be *
* mailed to any address in *f
* peWitt County until Dec- *
* ember4. 1S32, (this year) for ¥
This must be ¥
ha growled, "Looks to me like we’re
with" a professional.”
“Or with a smart amateur,”
¥ 85 cents
¥ tp new subscribers. )This
¥ will eover the time past tbs
¥ Presidential Election, The
¥ Red Cross Drive, Tttanks-
¥ giving and we hope ‘till
¥ after the depression. Why
if wouldn’t it pay for each
if one of our merchants to
if order a half dosen or more
if copies for patrons or pros-
if pective patrons not now
if Record Subscribers?
amended Cdt as he turned to an-
other pile of papers beside him.
•See* Me toe cables from Scot-
toed Yard.”
“Racy sends on the report about
Lola Carewe** hybrid past,” con-
Uria Carewe*8 hybrid past,’
tinned Celt leading hastily. “Start-
ed hie as a London working girl.
Once arrested for a fight with an-
other girl in the millinery shop in
Soho where she was employed.
Then disappeared. Reappeared
Henry Ntemeyer, . of. Nordheim
wap In Cuero to renew his weekly
subscritiqn to the Record Tuesday.
Mr. Niemeyer reports that section
of the county receiving rams dally
but that cotton is still coming in
regularly-
' “May ? have by telephoto all toe
pietmrea of Basil Boneher and his
family that you can tod!”
“Avne plsishf *
“Especially the carte d’identite
pictures in your office.”
“It shall bq as you. wish. M
The Scorpion*!”
I Celt looked ewer at m» vai chuck-
led. My chief loves the whimsical,
the odd and the extravagant in all
toe afiteha of life. He could net
hide his pleasure in this pictur-
esque detail
"A thousand, if you wish them!
“What business did the Bouchei
family have?*
“The son, Basil, was a hank cm.
playse, -a teller, to you say? The
father had a little shea, where he
seM specimens ta medical labor*
tones. A malodorous business, K
Coltl”
“Vraiment! Further, did ysu, get
word from Roumania?”
“Of a certainty, yes! They h*v«.
no record «f a Jorge- But they
pay it is a good old Roumanian
Quickly he shuffled through the
other reports lying there—the offi-
cial statements of the department
i op, but those
ice boys can get
tog they want,
country alone
age. here tn
w*rned os Riat we would1 presently
receive a eaO from M. Dupont in
Paris.:
“Thank €ted—the old hoy works
tost.” exalted Colt aloud.
“You are banking on Lola Ca-
rewe’s past as the key to the whole
thhw?”
“I am, Tony—it seems logical to
me that; one way or another, toe
W*m we team of Lola, the nearer
wa came to the killer of herself
Mid Christine.”
"And tote Basil!”
Again the telephone rang. The
connection whs complete; M. Du-
pont was ready to speak with M,
Colt. The great French police dp-
tective came directly to the point.
He lied taken toe portrait, con-
veyed to him hy the telephotogra-
phic service, ami shown It to Gran-
don, the photographer, in toe Ave-
nue DTeaa. After seme search, the
picture'was identified — and here
the untor-oeeaeie raise «f M. Du-
pont bbcama tense with cxciUmepL
tucked
“Thanks!”
Colt sat back with a smile.
“1 knew it,” he muttered. “I was
sure of itP
But he refused ta explain what
he meant, and a moment later the
telephone rang again. Professor
Luckner was calling.
“Goad morning, Herr Commis-
sioner!” rumbled the eld biologist
-—as usual, I was making notes on
an extension phone.
“Good morning, Herr Professor?*
“Herr Commissioner, the superi-
ority of machines 0vqr night-sticks
has again been demonstrated You
have made possible another tri-
umph of the greatest of the detec-
tive weapons—-the vaepum cleaner!"
fa 6mt rets. They did
N tH*> tv Hew Yoto—.
r toe]' haven’t reached
that drived before the
losing 1 me eye. “As for
Rowland, he went home,
, bed. and from all accounts
Jtiq minute sound asleep.”
Ate man!” sighed Colt,
report did you get on Doc-
worst of sll," revealed In-
Flyns heavily. “He spent
t «rf hte night at his office,
gone home yet. The bell-
“Which means?” prodded Colt,
as toe good-hnmered old’ professor
paused for effect.
“I know what killed toe young
ladies—but l won’t tell you. Yen
will hate to come and see for year-
self,’*
“We’H be right apl” snapped
[Celt and Jammed the receives back
on the hook.
“It is Basil Boucher, mon cher
ami—Basil Boucher, and no other
—when I heard that name I was
tremendously excited. For I remem-
bered the name—a cause cdl&bre—
here In Paris.”
“I’m all attention. H. le Prefect 1”
money and Lola Carewe.
n the nsert apartment say
1 thing. They say the wife
| woman and all that—but
Jealous! And that’s had!”
■odded his entire concur*
1 he Et his pipe and shuf-[
"Natter* U tkt Mm***
by the fraat pointer of
Indian,KC.Wy$k..A
massacre of Cmter*s d<
at Littfc Bwifarm Me
savage Siam* IimKhot, J
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BANKING PRINCIPLES IS OCR DESIRE AT ALL THfE&
and raw to
WE WTNTE TOC TO CALL ON CB
Farmers State Bank & Trust Co
to 5 P. M.
I, Managei
in the Raw is Seldom Mild**—so
these fine tobaccos, after proper aging
and mellowing, are then given the
benefit of that Lucky Strike purifying
process, described by the1 words—
"It’s toasted’*. That’s why folks in
every city, town and hamlet say that
Luckies are such mild cigarettes.
are not present in Luckies
the mildest cigarette •
you ever smoked
VTE buy the finest, the very finest
Yyf tobaccos in all the world — but
that does not explain why folks
everywhere regard Lucky Strike as
the mildest cigarette. The fact is, we
never overlook the truth that "Nature
"If a man urite a bitter lock, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than bis neig
build bn bouse in the woods, the world will make a beaten path t* bis door, ”—RALPH WALDO J
Does not this explain the world-wide acceptance sod approval of Lodcj Suite?
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Howerton, J. C. The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 212, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 6, 1932, newspaper, September 6, 1932; Cuero, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth999501/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Cuero Public Library.