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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1925
Page
9
Molly asks about Jim Sykes who earned a job from Mr Parker and received a $3 090 check. Parker dies before cashing it, delaying settlement for years. Aunt Emmy warns about risks of undeposited checks and advises proper indorsement and prompt bank deposition. Anne B. Aymes notes conclude.
A Los Angeles attorney shared a tale at a grammar school assembly about his son asking what a cell mathematician is. The boy’s joke about three frogs on a log leads to the lesson that success requires decisive action, not mere intent.
Chile hosts vast nitrate fields that employ about 50,000 people directly and indirectly five times that number, with around 200 million dollars invested. The desert yields no crops yet fuels a bustling industry, as all food, clothing, water, and equipment are imported from afar. Water once scarce is now piped from distant sources, making fertilizer a rich yet rainless commerce.
A quoted segment from Aldous Huxley's Those Barren Leaves presents a girl named Modern Heroine turbara as selfish and pleasure driven, yet admired for a dazzling face. The narrator recalls being torn between love and contempt, noting unsettling admiration and pain.
A fragmentary report recalls the famous stand at Thermopylae in northern Greece from August 7 to 9, 480 B C. Leonidas led 300 Spartans and 700 Thespians as Persian forces breached the pass after a mounted march by Epiriaites. The Persians attacked from two sides and overwhelmed the Greek defenders. One deserter fled and was executed according to the source.
A vintage note explains a balanced diet includes vitamins from meatless foods and citrus. It highlights vitamins B and C in grapefruit juice, its carbohydrate and salt support, and its role in maintaining an alkaline blood reserve to combat acidosis.
The eastern Orthodox church structure is divided by national lines with primates in each country. Five major sees include Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, and the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople, whose influence is strongest though not absolute. The Russian church remains a sister church to Constantinople, with its autonomy dating to 1721, yet Soviet policy condemns religion while allowing personal belief.
At Makkovik in Labrador a boarding school run by two Englishwomen serves Eskimo and white children. Operated under the Moravian church, it relies on an annual mission steamer for supplies and students. Children stay through the brutal winter when travel is impossible, but enjoy a gramophone piano lantern slides and a fine library as part of their education and time.
The first Swiss watch was made by a blacksmith Daniel Jean Richard who repaired a failing Englishman's watch in 1680. His success inspired him to become the country’s first watchmaker and founder of a large industry. Nevelharel is noted for producing more watches than similar districts.
The United States coast guard, created by the January 28 1915 act merging the revenue cutter and life saving services, is charged with assisting distressed vessels, saving lives and property, removing wrecks, aiding deep sea fisheries, protecting customs revenue, and enforcing laws on anchorage and navigation. It also serves in war, enforces quarantine and neutrality, suppresses mutinies, and protects fisheries, with Alaska resource duties and aiding the international ice patrol off Newfoundland.
Scientists study insects and animals to map earth changes. Researchers find Jamaica’s ancient, submerged section hosts age old insect tribes, linking its fauna to Haiti or Cuba and suggesting a former land bridge connection long vanished beneath the sea.
The Pittsburgh gas industry owes its rise in large part to George Westinghouse whose shaft sunk in his wife’s flower garden yielded a geyser at 1,600 feet. This discovery sparked the local gas development and Westinghouse’s piping system reduced leakage while safely delivering gas to customers through progressively larger pipes.
Scholarly debate on early Greek correspondence traces origins of Phalaris letters to late antiquity. Richard Bentley's 1699 Dissertation on the Letters of Phaidris established their Second Century AD dating. Early authentic Greek letters include Isocrates’s correspondence, though fragmentary.
Relief from stuffed nose and head congestion through Ely's Cream Balm. The fragrant antiseptic cream soothes swollen mucous membranes in nostrils and air passages, promising instant relief and easier breathing. A recommended personal remedy from a druggist.
Politically and professionally honored, Dr. R. V. Pierce is pictured as a longtime advocate of herbal remedies. His Golden Medical Discovery is touted as a blood medicine and stomach alterative that purports to clear skin and improve circulation. Dealers offer it widely and a 10 cent trial pack of tablets is advertised to Buffalo New York.
The article explains oak trees produce acorns as a key identifier and distinguishes white and black oaks. It lists white oak types such as post and six others, notes leaf lobes for identification, and mentions a 2 cent stamp offer from the American Tree Association of Washington for tree-planting suggestions. The text emphasizes acorn crops as a distinguishing feature among oaks.
Light housekeeping offered in two furnished rooms for rent at 20 dollars per month. Contact Mrs J M Eplen for details.
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