Falfurrias Facts (Falfurrias, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 5, 1913 Page: 3 of 4
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“Studebaker wagons
certainly last a long time”
. 1 Have had this wagon twenty-two years, and
during that time it cost me only $6.00 for repairs, and
that was for setting two tires.”
And after twenty-two years of daily use in good
an<J u- wea*^er an<J over all kinds of roads, F will
put this wagon against any new wagon of another
make that you can buy today."
“Studebaker wagons are built of air-dried lumber
and tested iron and steel. Even the paint and varnish
are subjected to a laboratory test to insure wearing
qualities. '*
u'0 wa,fon rnac^e >8 subjected to as many /esta or is more
carefully made than a Studebaker. V ou can buy them of Stude*
baker dealers everywhere."
Don t listen to the dealer who wants to sell you a cheap
wagon, represented to be ‘just as good* as a Studebaker."
Farm wagons, trucks, dump wagons and carts, delivery
wagons, buggies, surreys, depot wagons—and harness of all kinds
of the same high standard as the Studebaker vehicles*
See our Dealer or write us.
STUDEBAKER
NKW YORK
MINNEAPOLIS
South Bend, Ind.
CHICAGO DALLAS KANSAS CITY DENVER
SALT LAKE CITY SAN FRANCISCO PORTLAND, ORE.
GREAT WRITER IN JEOPARDY
SOUNDS MADE BY ELEPHANTS
PROOF
Those Familiar With the Animal
Easily Recognize Meaning of Its
Different Expressions.
NOTICE
Charles Dickens Once Threatened
With Arrcet for Atternpt.ig to
Past Counterfeit Money.
.Elephants are said to make use of a
One right when Dickens had retired gr,.at variety of sounds in communi-
st finds Hill he found he could not eating with each other und in express-
sleep. Fo ho got up, dress* d and de- jnK their wants Hiid feelings Some
termined to walk to London, about are uttered by the trunk, some by tlie
thirty miles away. He reached the | throat. The conjunctures in which
suburbs early In the morntng and ap- either means ol expression Is em
plied at an early coffee house for some I ployed cannot be atrletly classified, as
refreshments. When he had finished j fear, pleasure, want and other eiuo-
he gat e the proprietor h sovereign, the i turns are sometimes indicated by the
smallest coin he had with him ! trunk, sometimes by the throat. An
“It’s a bad un." said the man, bit- . elephant rushing upon un assailant
ing at It and trying to twist it in all trumpets shrilly with fury Fear Is
directions, “and I shall give you In
charge.”
The coin did have a suspicious look.
Dickens had carried some substance in jng through the trunk or
his pocket which had oxidized It See- j inaudible put ring sound
Ing that matters looked awkward, he throat.
said,
“But ! am Charles Dickens!"
“Come that won’t do; any man
could say he was Charles Dickens.
How do I know?"
The man had been victimized a
week previous and would take no
more chances. At length Dickens sug
Rested that they go to a chemist’s
ami have the coin tested A chemist
was finally found when the shops had
o|renod. The chemist immediately rec-
slntiiarly expiessed in a shrill, brassy
trumpet, or by a roar from tbe lungs;
pleasure by a continued low squeak-
an almost I
from the |
Want—as a calf calling its
mother—Is chiefly expressed ny the
throat. A peculiar sound is made use
of by elephants .to express dislike or
apprehension, and at the same time
to intimidate, as when the cause ol I
some alarm has not been clearly as-
certalned and the animals wish to
deter an intruder, it is oroduced by
rapping ,he end of the trunk smartly
on ihe ground, a current of air nither- ■
,o retained being sharply emitted
through the trunk as from a j
Jtgson—Ro your grandfather lived
td be ninety years old. eh. Did he
retain imssession of his faculties until
the end?
Jagson -Can’t say. Hts will hasn't
been read as yet.
AKy person destroying
any part of the outside
fences or gates on the'
Galveston ranch, or
windmills or corrals
within the enclosure of
said ranch will be pro-
secuted.
A. VV. NEELIGSOjVT,
Representative of Seehgson Estate
CHAS. PREMONT,
Manager
ANOTHER SIDE TO THE CASE
ognized the novelist, in spite of his valve, at the moment of impact. The
dusty appearance, and the coffee house souuu mane resembles that ot a .argo
keeper was satisfactorily convinced I sheet ot tin rapidly doubled,
that he had not been entertaining
contldep.ee man.
Just a Few Things Elderly Man Over-
looked in His Indictment of Lazy
Housewives.
Said the elderly man
car “One thing that
in the street
runs up the
TOO MUCH S3
n»‘
f m
REMEMBER
FACTS WANTS
YOUR PRINTING
HASTENED TO MAKE HIS WILL c<,st 01 ,ivin* lR ,he ,aziueM of ",n
average woman. Site's too Irtxjr to
Dyspeptic Convinced That Mistake
Could Mean Nothing Less Than
Imminent Dissolution.
The dyspeptic who gives prayerful
thought to every bite he cats glanced
dubiously over the French dinner card
carry bundles home from the stores.
Everything she buys, from a spool of i
thread up. she asks to have delivered, j
and tlie eost of the delivering adds 10
per rent to the eost of every article.
Now, my wife is different from tlie
common run. Every week day in the
on which a dozen Items were trtnrkod j JTar1 s,1,p c°™ t0,tho n^at ket with n
big basket, does her own buying and
entries the stuff home herself. That’s
more than your wife does, I’ll bet.”
Said the younger man:
PREVEN TIION
White Diarrhoea can be Pre-
vented and Cured
After Yrnm of experiment* w*have incov-
eretl h »ure* cure-—-or mui »•>• txu*k.
25c Package.
*1 Packages $1.00
Prevention in not a cure all It only pre-
vent* anti cure* White lharrhoeu tn bnby
thick* ami ('hnleta in ukl«r fowl*. One
ounct ot prevention la worth »«•» * f <
In tablet form. A vents Warned.
Prevention Co.
Box 1127 Atlantic City, N. J.
| with a cross in >'cd ink "To my un- ’
i tutored mind,” said he. “those things
; look all rigiit. Some other follow with
l a stomach lias been here ahead ot me , ....
, and has marked off a few thing* that I ' )o,‘* >n’"’ 'v,r* llpr own llouse-
Wnr I’
a Christian can eat without inviting
sudden death." ’No. we keep a girl.
in hN delight at finding the dinner! Four a houseful of
problem robed the dyspeptic ordered Chihlien to cue tor?
six of the red cross dishes. They were! onl5r *,n'p n *r»iTi<’at.
unpronounceLlde and unrecognizable. |
but they tasted good and he liked
Geo. Hobbs & Sons
We Sell Everything
And
Our Prices are Right
%
We are exclusive agents
for Cluett, Peabody & Co’s
Monarch, $1,00; Cluett and
Arrow $1.50, $2.00 and up
shirts.
There is real satisfaction in these
shirts, because for many reasons they are
the best made. The colors are absolutely
fast and guaranteed so from the bes to the
cheapest—feature you will find in no other
shirt.
They ars cut full —from 1 to 2 inches
wider across the shoulders than any other
shirt made. Please Compare -Come in and
let us show you.
We have all the new styles, colors
and patems. The “Henly” reversible cuffs,
patented and found only on Arrow shirts.
There are immitations, but none so good.
Geo.Hobbs & Sons
Dorothy—Why don’t you Invite Vi-
vian to your bridge whist parties? I
understand she plays remarkably well.
Estelle—Yes; she does play remark-
ably well. That is the reason we don’t
want her.
Blow at Suicides.
“A pel monkey that I shipped up- ^
town this morning was hound on a
most unusual mission for a monkey,”
said an animal dealer.
"lie was bought by a woman who
runs a furnished room house in which,
three persons have killed themselves
with gas recently. Tliosp suicides have
upset her nerves. Now she is going
to try the same preventive means |
adopted by three of her friends.
"They too, keep roomers. Also j
they keep monkeys. There have been I
several attempts at suicide in their (
houses, but they have always been I
frustrated by the monkeys, who have [
snipped ga^ and ?Pt up such a chat- j
tering that they woke everybody up.
"Monkeys are extremely sensitive
to the odor of gas. This customer of
min© hopes to utilize hers as a new
kind of life preserver."—Philadelphia
Record.
them. When the crumb of the last
course had disappeared ihe dyspeptic
said genially to the waiter: “Rum old
chap that must have l>eeti ale nt
this table ahead of me.”
“Yes. sir,” assented the waiter. “He
"Does your wife have to go to mar-
ket in an overcrowded street car?"
"No she .ins her limousine.’
"My wife doesn't own a limousine,
she has a houseful of children tn caro
for. and she does lipr own work. Fn-
der ttie circumstances I don't see that
mv wife isn’t Just as much of a worn-
as yours, even If she doesn't get
was one of them diet cranks 1hatjan aa >'°uis. even
down town very often."
"You needn't get cross about it, re-
torted the elderly man
“I’m not r"oss,'’ sajd the younger
drive restaurant people crazy by mark-
ins; up the till of fare with red dan-
ger signals lielore the ■dishes that no-
body that ain’t got a sound digestion
can afford to trifle with'”
"(food Lord!” moaned the dyspeptic
man. "Only 1 don’* like to hear wom-
en libeled ”
W. L. DAWSON
^Jttorncy-at-Lau)
Will practice in all Courts
1 and matters a specialty
Corpus Christi - Texa*.
WESLEY HOOK
Lawyer
Practice in all Courts
Land Matters Attended to
Falfurriaa « Texas
E. L. GAMMAGE
. Attorney-A l-Larv
Starr County Abstracts.
Rio Grande City, Texas.
KISSED HER OFTEN
Carry®—He had the audarity to
k<ss me.
Her Mother—Of course you were
Indignant?
Oarrye—Oh! yes. nmmtua, every 1
time.
A Word to the
Borrower
^gT IF you are a bor-
I rower of this
paper, don’t you
think It is an In-
justice to the man who ta
paying for it f He may be
looking for it at this very
moment. Make It a reg-
ular visitor to your home.
The subscription price is
an Investment that will
repay you well.
□ □□□□□:
Ring No. 3
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— The Grocery Department ---
and see what we have good to eat. Fresh
vegetables almost every day—new potatoes,
snap beans, carrots, parsnips, beets, sweet
potatoes.
Our bulk pickles can't be beat.
Fresh hams and breakfast bacon every
week.
Fresh dewberries every morning—home
grown.
Falfurrias Mercantile Co.
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Curtis, R. M., Jr. Falfurrias Facts (Falfurrias, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 5, 1913, newspaper, June 5, 1913; Falfurrias, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth870025/m1/3/: accessed June 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .