The Texas City Star (Texas City, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 261, Ed. 1 Friday, December 4, 1914 Page: 2 of 4
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TEXAS CITY
Want Ads
Saturday and Sunday
AMUSEMENTS
♦
December 5th and 6th
Carnival
CRYSTAL THEATER
263.
Seventh Ave.
TONIGHT
FARMER’S UNION CHOOSE WISELY.
VOCAL LESSONS
3 for 22c Louis Martinez____4 for 25c
tf.
ty State Bank Bldg.
Next to Levy’s
Houston, Texas
FOR SALE OR TRADE
phone 22 or 42.
tf.
STAR THEATRE
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the trip.
who values it as a gift.
tf.
WANTED TO RENT
Texas City Terminal Co.
WANTED TO RENT—Large Ice Box.
Address Box 346. Texas City.
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“Who Serves You Best?”
FOR RENT
Galveston, Tex.
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Galveston, Texas
ROOM AND BOARD
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BEER
MR. HOMETOWN KNOCKER.
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about it.
Phone 29
BUY HIM
ASK FOR
Phone Thirty-Four
Texas City, Texas
for •.
$1.00
Houston Hat Company
Opposite “The Rice” on Main
Houston, Texas
For First Class
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WINES and LIQUORS Call On
214 25th St.
Galveston, Texas
CALIFORNIA WINE HOUSE
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R. C. SISSON, Prop., Galveston, Texas
Phone 618.
No. 2010 Market St
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Phone 505
Galveston, Texas.
Texas
Texas City
Phone 55
FRESH BREAD
R. B. LONG, Mgr.
Phone 281
GRILL
Boys Look!
Cafe and Confectionery
Everything to Eat
Electric
TEXAS CITY BAKERY
The Best Ever
C. E. BRAITHWAITE, Prop.
PHONE 154
Bicycle Lamps
Wood For
Davis’ Bar
$2.00
Firti Clatt Service
All Welcom
IMPORTED GOODS OUR SPECIALTY
MUSEUM SALOON
L. VAIANI, Prop.
5c Class Cigars__
5c Baled Imports
7 for 25c
7 for 25c
4 for 25c
3 for 25c
One Week,
One Month,
One Year, .
..10c
..30c
$3.00
High Class
Novel
Amusing
3 for 25c La Fayette
10c La Fayette _____
BROUSSARD REALTY COMPANY.
Real Estate Investments and Loans
All kinds of Health Accident and Life In-
surance. D. J. BROUSSARD, Agent; W. S.
BROUSSARD, Manager. Phone office 113.
Residences 65-186.
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Owl Restaurant
Everything Up-to-Date
Service That is Perfect
New Management
Chapman
Engineering Co.
Phone 129 and 193
Six Days Starting
Monday Dec. 7
All Amusements Furnished by
Goodson Drug Co.
The Rexall Store
Lachman-Lewis
Shows
LONG SUPPLY CO.
Electrical and Plumbing Contractors
27th INFANTRY
Moving Picture Show
Corner 2d St. and 11th Aye.
A. HERZOG
Opposited Union Station
Sam J. Williams
Where Christmas Shopping Is a Pleasure
2215 Market Street.
First Class, First Run
Films.
TSCHUMYS’
42ngd
D. L. MOHLER
FIRE, TORNADO AND LIFE
INSURANCE
Phone 113.
WANT AD RATES
1 insertion, per word, 1c.
(No ad taken for less than 25c).
3 insertions, per word, 2% c.
(No ad accepted for three insertions for
ess than 40c).
7 insertions, per word, 5c.
(No ad accepted for seven insertions for
less than 70c).
COOK WANTED—By Mrs. Dowell, 808
“ROYALTY”
Crown Theater
Modern Equipment
Perfect Ventilation.
First Run, First Class Films.
Quality First
W. H. Gonne & Co.
Groceries and Provisions
Phone 24
The
National
Beverage
Fred Warner
FURNITURE MOVING
Hauling of Every Kind
PIANOS A SPECIALTY
Phone 349
Ed- S. McCarver
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Room 218 P. O- Building.
DR. J. E. JONES
DENTIST
Room 206 Post Office Building.
_____________Phono 73.______
DR. W. N. JONES
DENTIST
1b Practice 20 Years
Office in General Office Building.
M. G. TERRY
Justice of the Peace
All kinds of Notary Work
Suttle Bldg.
Hill
Pure and Wholesome
Save money by buying Coupon
Books and Strips
Sold for
CASH ONLY
Artesian Ice and Cold
Storage Company
FOR RENT—An East-front suite of two
choice rooms. First National Bank Bldg,
tf.
PHONE 234
0. K. Laundry
J. L. HENSON
Panama Cafe
UNDENIABLY THE BEST.
Opposite Union Depot.
Galveston, Texas.
The Place Where All Texas City People Meet
Four Seasons Restaurant
J. KRAL J, Proprietor.
SPECIALTY OF FISH AND OYSTERS
Prices Very Reasonable
Steamship Tickets to all parts of the World
Agent for Mallory Line
GALVESTON TO NEW YORK
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THE JEWEL THEATER
TONIGHT
J. G. SMITH
Men’s Furnishings, Millinery.
Mens’ Suits to Order a Specialty
Galveston, Texas.
2010 Postoffice St.
The Mecca For the Army
HOTEL MECCA
Houston, Texas
100 rooms, moderate European
plan—rates 75c and $1.00.
No More, No Less
Cor. 21st and Postoffice St. Phone 405
GALVESTON. TEXAS.
FOR SALE—One electric washing ma-
chine. Saves time and money, call at Long
Supply Go- and we will demonstrate it. Tele-
phone 281._____tf.
FOR COAL lime, sand, cement and brick.
T. L. CROSS,
SHIP CHANDLER AND GROCER
ONE BLOCK FROM DEPOT
All Cars Pass
HOTEL TEXAS
LOST AND FOUND.
LOST—Gold watch. Reward of $15.00
will be paid at office of The Star by owner,
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Elite Cleaning
& Pressing Co.
We Call For And Deliver Promptly
PHONE 322.
Fireman’s
Post and Chalmers
Auto Line
Phones 334 and 335
“WE NEVER SLEEP”
All kinds of the
best of drinkables
JAMES B. DAVIS
Proprietor
FOR RENT—One half of the .lower
store in Jewel Theater Building on Sixth St.
Address J. D. Pruessner, 2020 Market St.
Watches and Jewelry
Repairing of All Kinds
2114 Market St. Telephone 2260
NEXT TO KRESS’
Galveston, . . . Texas
THE TEXAS CITY STAR
Published daily except Sunday by The Times Printing Company.
Telephone, Local and Long Distance, 44.
Entered at the Postoffice in Texas City, Texas, as second class mail matter, under act of
Congress March 3, 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Delivered by Carrier or by Mail.
I will be in Texas City every Tuesday and
Friday from 10 a. m. to 9 p. m. and will be
glad to have any prospective voice student
call between those hours. MRS. ANNA
CLYDE PLUNKETT, Studio, 209 Guaran-
RKN kestseeeereK-5
Beer is a mild stimulant, supplying one of the most
imperative needs of man’s nature.
It is an ideal food for the convalescent, and a splen-
did tonic for the old and young. No other article
coming into your house is so thoroughly safe-guard-
ed in its making.
Horse Shoe Saloon
H. L. WOODLIFF, Prop.
HIGBY’S STUDIO
Have your Xmas pictures made
at home this year. We are in
position to cater to your wants.
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DO YOU WISH to buy or sell? I have
an index of titles to Texas City lots. Send
me 50cts. for information. Been here 14
years. I have the only map that showa
each house and lot. Titles guaranteed. Ad-
vertising and business propositions solicited.
Subscriptions taken for any magazine, etc.,
Folders and samples judiciously distributed.
Autos bought and sold. Address Edw. A.
Fayle, P. 0. Box 106, Texas City, Texas.
E. R. HENCK & SON
Manufacturers of
Awnings, Tents, Flags, Sails, Wagon covers,
Tarpaulins, Horse Covers — Everything in
the canvas line.
Write or call us. Estimates galdly furnished
in person without cost.
Rooms 35c up.
Galveston,
We take our hats off to the Farmers’ Educational and Coopera-
tive Union. When they decided that Texas City was the logical
location for the big cotton mill they decided wisely. Oher cities
may offer good inducements, but few can offer the inducements
Texas City has. Besides having ideal railroad connections with
the entire railroad system of the United. States, Texas City really
has deep water.
There are some cities in Texas which claim to have deep water,
but they have not. An ordinary sized boat may be able to care-
fully and harzardly make its way up some of these channels when
the dredges have just completed their work, but everyday mud
and silt fills up the artifical channels more and more, and in a com-
paratively brief period it is extremely dangerous for boats to make
FOR Sporting Goods, Furniture, Hard-
ware. Screens etc., Ritter-Paul-Friedner Co.
Telephone 265.__tf.
FOR SALE—Mexican money. Apply
Mexican Consulate.
ASK THE
BAY
Insurance companies shy from insuring boats making these ex-
perimental trips like a colt shies from the first locomotive it sees.
Texas City’s ship channel is a FACT. Giant liners carrying cot-
ton and other products use the channel daily. And they are able
to pass one another in the channel. (If two boats were to meet on
some of these “make belief” channels there would be a pretty
situation.
In addition to having one of the finest ship channels in,the world
Texas City’s docks and dockage facilities are the equal of any.
They are modern and, for the most part, fire proof. By reason of
the fact that Texas City is now one of the greatest cotton ship-
ping ports, it is proof that it is the logical place for cotton mills.
The Panama Canal is at our back door, and we have direct ship-
ping connections with the entire commercial world, including the
Far East and South America. Yes, the Farmers’ Union chose
wisely when they decided on Texas City.
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Loose cattle on the streets, of Texas City are a disgrace to the
whole community. Is it not about time that we have a stock
limits, and give Texas City the opportunity of having the ap-
pearance of-a-progressivecity?
By Arthur Brooks Baker.
You find a grouchy character in every kind of town, who never
gives his village praise, but always runs it down. He says the
streets are crooked and the aidermen are worse, and prospects are
as cheerful as the plumage of a hearse; that Main street will be
presently a pasturage for cows, for everything is drifting to perdi-
tion and bow-wows.
The elders are immoral and the preachers are inane, the child-
ren underwitted and the parents are insane; the houses all are
tumbling down and rents are going up, there are bats in every
belfry and some fleas on every pup; our public school’s the biggest
joke a body ever saw; the mayor is a grafter and he won’t en-
force the law.
The knocker’s face is gloomy and would stop a Chinese clock.
His favorite diversion is to sit around and knock. You ask him
what is keeping him and why he needs to stay, and why he
doesn’t pack his trunk and gladly go away; a man of his ability
should never waste his prime by hanging ’round a burg like this
—it’s, really a crime.
But Mister Hometown Knocker has no slight desire to leave—
its just the creature’s nature to deplore, and rap, and grieve
He lacks the optimistic mind and energy and pluck; he has a
drooping spirit—he’s the image of bad luck. He’ll grace some day
the health resort that’s run by Landlord Nick, and there for dis-
mal centuries he’ll stand around and kick.
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ETHICS OF WAR
Agent for Plymouth Cordage Co.’s Rope, A. Leschen
& Son’s Wire Rope.
The New York Times in a moment of lachyrmose sentimen-
talism gives voice to this inquiry: “Is it valorous to steal un-
suspected upon the warship of an enemy in a submarine and de-
stroy the vessel and its 500 men with a torpedo? What would
Nelson, what would Blake, what would Lawrence or Perry or John
Paul Jones have said of that kind of warfare ? There is courage
undoubtedly, for the assailants face death. But if that be one of
the glories of war, then it is glorious for an assassin to steal upon
his victim in the darkness of night and stab him in the back,
making his escape undetected.”
This wonderful bit of logic must have been penned by that great
logician, Dr. David Starr Jordan, of “peace” fame, who only a few
months ago was preaching at every Chautauqua that would listen
that war was impossible, that the world had seen the last war.
We don’t know what Nelson or Jones or Perry would have said
about the torpedo, but we do know what one sailor man quite as
great as any mentioned by the Times did say. He was Admiral
David G. Farragut. When he was steaming up into the enemy’s
waters and he was told to beware of the torpedoes his immortal
reply was: “D—n the torpedoes. Full speed ahead.” If the
Times had its way it would undoubtedly recall the thanks voted by
Congress to Cushing and his men for blowing up the Confederate
ram Albemarie with a torpedo. Singular that nobody arose in
his seat in Congress at the time and denounced Cushing and his
nefarious crew as assassins! Our uptown contemporary speaks
about “the assassin that steals upon his enemy unaware in the
night time and attacks him.” But that is what George Washing-
ton did at the battle of Trenton. Crossing the Delaware in the
wintry night he fell upon the Hessians when they were at their
cups and slew many of them. Strange that posteriy has immor-
talized that act as a deed of valor worthy to become the subject of
one of the country’s most prized paintings! If we were to adopt
the view of the Times we should have to advocate the abandon-
ment of gunpowder, for if it is the assassin’s act to explode a tor-
pedo, what shall be said of the man who, half a mile away with a
rifle, deliberately puts a bullet through an enemy’s head without
risking his own life at all, and all this with a smokeless powder
that permits his whereabouts to remain unknown? Finally, in
the last analysis we should have to lead mankind back to the days
of the cave dwellers, when they fought only with their fists, be-
fore they invented weapons of stone. War is hell, that is all that
can be said. It should be ended forever.
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What is the matter with the Servians ? They started out at the
beginning of the war as though they would whip Austria single
handed, despite the fact that it was not nearly the size of the
latter country. Now, with Austria having its hands full fighting
the Russians, the Serbs are falling back.
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D. & P.—Kid and Mocha Gloves, all shades,
1 for .......................$1.50 to $1.75
Fownes’ English Gloves, all
. leathers, ....... $1.50 to $2.00
Sizes will be exchanged
, after the holidays
BAKED IN TEXAS CITY
All Sanitary Rules are Strictly Observed, and Our Product is
First Class.
A PAIR OF
GLOVES
FOR A PRESENT
Nothing will be a more constant reminder of
your thoughtfulness.
Williams’ Dogskin gloves really excellent
5c Tom Keen Cigars_______7 for 25c
5c Osceola Cigars___________7 for 25c
5c El Prestino Cigars_______7 for 25c
WANTED—If you want tennants for
those vacant rooms, advertise them in this
column and you will be sure of results.
REAL ESTATE AND LOANS
W. S. Broussard
Office 821 Sixth St.
Phone 65 and 113.
“CTW.VA N VACTE R
General Contractor
Estimates gladly furnished without cost.
Ring Phone 210 Box 294
PROFESSIONAL
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Prompt Delivery.
Guarantee Satisfaction.
J. M. Canant
Phone 146 One Block South of Depot
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Galveston, Texes- Phone 4060
D 69 1 JEWELERS |
We carry the Largest Assortment of
NEW FALL HATS
in the South. Originators of the New Army
Hat
50 CHOICE 5c
CIGARS $1.50
While They Last
Central Grocery Co.
PHONE 107
Texas City, . Texas
W. L. Richardson
Real Estate and Rentals
P. O. Bldg. Office Phone 325
Room 218_______Res Phone 23
OUR SPECIALTY
Oysters in Style
Tom Glynns’Oyster Depot
806 Sixth Street.
Phone 844, 2014, 2016, 2018 Strand
GALVESTON, TEXAS
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The Texas City Star (Texas City, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 261, Ed. 1 Friday, December 4, 1914, newspaper, December 4, 1914; Texas City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1594334/m1/2/: accessed June 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Moore Memorial Public Library.