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Newspaper
Brookshire Times
Location
Brookshire, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1925
Page
3
Two friends discuss Dick and a supposed “big business.” The talk samples casual gossip and humorous insults about his ventures, with remarks about the scale being “near-mahogany desk size” and implying modest ambitions.
Rock Island railroad statistics show a crossing gate broken daily by reckless motorists. The proposed cure is to give drivers the gate as a deterrent.
A patented wheeled platform aids building work by allowing easy raising and lowering of a scaffold. It can be moved by hand or electric power to reach inaccessible elevations and is collapsible for compact storage. It reduces labor and expense in erecting and moving scaffolds.
Advertisement claims Cuticura Ointment clears pimples and blackheads in five minutes when used with Cuticura Soap. Recommends daily use for clear skin, and mentions Cuticura Talcum as a companion product.
In a playful exchange, Oh Gondolito asks if love endures while Til counts to 50. The chanted refrain prompts humor and lighthearted commentary about affection and patience.
A McClure Newspaper Syndicate essay extols the smiling heart as a source of mercy and resilience. It contrasts fake lip-smiles with a sincere heart that forgives, supports the needy, and sustains faith through hardship, linking inner joy to acts of charity.
A neighbor overhears a father saying he is a little short of ready money and his daughter vows to pick up a new checkbook at the bank on her way home today.
Sir Edward Burne Jones born August 28 1833 near Birmingham England began life with a love of myth and classic tales He studied at college under Rossetti and later created famed works such as The Golden Stairs The Merciful Knight and Love Among the Truths His early painting style was pictorial romantic and idealistic, shaping his lifelong influence.
The text argues happiness does not depend on wealth or throne but on love and simple needs. It notes kings once ruled yet happiness exists beyond power and fame, with contented people tending to a flower of love shared with a friend. The piece suggests lasting happiness comes from affection rather than riches.
The article notes Burne Jones's blind wealth in pictorial detail, his visit to Italy with Raakin shaping his art, and his shift from a destroyed watercolor to oil-free enamels. It assures he died an old man in Worcester in 1808 and cites a late work titled Arthurly Avaton.
Reading from an old home recipe, this note describes making melon balls from watermelon and cantaloupe using scoops, soaking in sugar syrup overnight, and serving chilled as garnishes or in cocktails with grapes pineapple peaches mint and cherry. It also offers tips on keeping color and flavor and suggests dressings with oil vinegar red pepper and lemon juice.
An Eskimo mother uses a large bootleg as a carrier for her baby. She wraps the infant inside the skin boot with whalebone stiffening, the boot extending above the knee. The child can appear, head upright, sometimes visible only at the top.
Robert M. Seebree sues Missouri Pacific for 3000 damages claiming a station mistress at Nearman Missouri spilled a bucket of water from a station door. The splash frightened a mule, which kicked a horse, causing a chain reaction that led to a wagon overturn and a broken leg. The railroad defends that the water was dishwater and not used to scour the station.
A concise Kantian styled remark contrasts silence and speech with life and death, noting that enthusiasm misplaced becomes dirt and that words in the right place carry essential vitality.
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