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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1931
Page
4
Bartered in the post office at Cameron Texas as mail matter of second class under a March 3 1879 act. Jefferson B White publisher and manager advertising rates list per column inch display line rate first insertion. All resolutions obituaries and notices of public entertainments with admission charged or funds raised charged at regular rates.
A farmer oriented plan urges planting a pedigreed seed block this year to boost next year’s crop. The Texas Certified Cottonseed Breeders Association offers a no cash swap of scrub gin seed for certified seed, enabling all Texans to start improvements. A community leader can coordinate seed gathering and shipping to raise regional cotton quality and economic output. Geor ge T. Graves signs the letter urging Southwest farmers to act now.
Aurel de Bessonet of Donaldeanville announces the opening of a watch repair department at Palace of Sweets in Cameron. He brings experience from Trepagnier Jewelry and Ruiz Jewelry in Baton Rouge and will stock the latest repairing equipment for pocket watches wrist watches and clocks. He invites local residents to visit his new shop.
Quote from the Oborne Company Newark N J extols a hen’s resilience as it digs for worms and lays eggs despite tough conditions. It insists hens turn hardship into profits and never starve or complain, saving breath for digging and eggs.
The Cameron city council enacted the state Standard Milk Ordinance at Tuesday’s meeting. It will take effect after legal publication in next week’s Cameron Herald, the official city publication for the coming year. The ordinance sets standard grading for milk sold to the public and will be published in full next week.
The story recounts Sarah Bernhardt in Paris when a taxi failed to reach her hotel. After realizing they were lost she left the cab and, spotting a returning fire engine, persuaded the fireman to give her a ride to the hotel. She arrived atop the engine.
The original canary species differed in color from modern pure bred canaries. Wild Canary Islands birds show gray backs with olive-green tints and dark shaft streaks, and paler underparts with dusky shading. Canary islands, Azores, and Madeira birds are grayer with less yellow-green on top than continental varieties.
The piece catalogs historic authors famed for their affection toward cats. It cites Byron with five cats at Ravenna, Harriet Martineau depicted with a cat, Baudelaire fondling felines, Champfleury and Li there with cats, Huxley and Koch sharing a love of cats, Fromentin’s companionship, and Pierre Loti’s two cat histories Moumette Blanche and Moumette Chinoise.
Dr. Roscoe R. Spencer writes in Hygeia Magazine that science is the most powerful method for humans to survive environmental pressures. He argues research enables discovery of natural laws and that scientific trial and error can be practiced by everyone to improve daily life.
Path finder Magazine notes that cold cream has flavored beauty routines for over 2000 years. National Museum curator Charles Whitebread says it is the second oldest pharmaceutical preparation and traces its roots to Galen’s unguentum refrigerans ceratum.
The piece of eight, a Spanish milled dollar, circulated in Colonial and Revolutionary times and inspired the adoption of the dollar as the U S unit. Prices and accounts were often kept in Spanish dollars, and after independence the dollar was divided into a hundred cents guiding our currency.
London Chronicle quotes John Bright on party victory and notes that the final outcome matters most. It compares the runner and boxer who persevere to win the end, suggesting life's best win is the lasting success at the conclusion.
A nurse recounts a prenatal history in New York state where a mother described an unsafe convulsions remedy. She advised standing the infant with back toward the stove and throwing the shirt over the shoulder into the fire.
A mother asks why the younger brother is not sent, while the elder narrates going to the grocery for his mother who plans to bake cookies. The dialogue hints at family duties and a child’s request.
Scientific review by Donald G. Tarpley for the Woman s Home Companion counters the belief that old houses were better built. It notes lack of insulation, poor flashing, inferior plastering, no metal lath, and nonmetal chimneys in older homes, contrasted with modern terra cotta flue lining and improved floors and heat considerations.
Article explains early steel pens used long steel barrels fitted to wooden holders, marking a shift from traditional nibs and quills as writing technology evolved.
The article notes the uncertain origin of the steel pen with early shipments from Birmingham to London about 100 years ago led by James Perry and Josiah Mason. It recalls steel pens predate 1830 and mentions 1748 imports from Aix-la-Chapelle, Birmingham production in 1780, and Victorian output rising to 4 million gross per year, later cut by fountain pens to about one third.
The piece describes Korean homes as small low thatched or brick structures with stone and clay walls and usually one story. A distinctive feature is the underfloor heating system using horizontal flues beneath flagstone floors, where fire is built outside the room and hot smoke travels through the flues to warm the room.
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