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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1924
Page
7
With a prefix promoting a one price item, Schroeder Bros offers a suit priced lower than competitors while Juenke and Schoenewolf advertise ladies silk hose in all colors, highlighted as exceptional quality at a special low price. The notice targets shoppers seeking affordable dress goods and accessories.
Morning baseball game at 9 o clock leads to an afternoon of goat roping cigar races and a program starting at 1 o clock Supper at 6 o clock Then the play Poor Married Man will be performed followed by a box supper Barbecue and refreshments provided Everyone welcome The Trustees
Rain and hail wrecked crops in the Cave Creek area. The Vogel brothers drove cattle to Shovel Mount for grazing. Chas Duecker went to San Antonio for a medical consultation. Rose Weidenfaller visits Chas Duecker's family. Willie Hitzfeld and Heilmar Jacoby families hosted visitors. Edmund Ferber Elise Lindig and Willie Herber joined Alfred Rode’s guests. Local youths attended Albert school closing. Ottmers and Bertha Dechert shopped in Fredericksburg. Edwin Fischers attended a Fredericksburg ball game. Cave Creek School plans to close on Saturday the 24th with a program for afternoon and night.
Chicago and Philadelphia based truss expert F H Seeley will be at the Austin Hotel in Austin Friday May 30 to demonstrate the Spermallec Shield. He claims rapid, non surgical rupture repair with a universal design and offers free demonstrations with government documents on display. warns against elastic or web trusses and notes federal and state court verification.
Fredericksburg residents take pride in the Texas Memorial Stadium under construction at the University of Texas. Louis Jordan, a UT star from Fredericksburg who never returned from war, is honored as the stadium’s memory. The project, funded by subscriptions, aims to memorialize all who served in the war. The first unit should be ready by Thanksgiving, with further work following.
A brief notice records the vital statistics of Walter S. Daniel and Georgia B. Doughty, and Frank James along with Maybell Myers, noting their marriage or birth event as reported.
Born to Mr and Mrs Otto Hohmann a daughter on May 18 To Mr and Mrs Edward Klein a daughter on May 17 To Mr and Mrs J M Smith a son on April 11 To Mr and Mrs Fred Bier chwale a son on May 15 Deaths Pablo Salazar died April 30 at age 23 Studebaker Isles and Service WHITE LINE GARAGE Subscribe to the Standard Joske Bros semi annual clearance and sale of White May 29 in San Antonio big sale event with wide price cuts across 100 departments lasting several weeks May 29 onward Ends unknown Ady
New York Times notes chestnut venders on street corners have raised prices with new measures, turning roasted chestnuts into a luxury. Expensive scants of chestnuts reveal higher costs, and concerns grow over worm content adding to the price.
Scholars note a legend that at Christ’s crucifixion a shout proclaiming Pan’s death spread across the islands of Greece. Plutarch recounts Tichamus the pilot announcing it near Paxae and Palodes, triggering lament as the old world supposedly ended and the new began. The tale appears in Rabelais Milton Schiller and Mrs Browning.
A New York rare book dealer lists Milton's hair as for sale at $1000, tracing its path through Addison, Doctor Johnson, John Goole, Leigh Hunt, and later Keats and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The tale recalls Leigh Hunt's cottage at Hammersmith and Bayard Taylor's 1857 NY Tribune account of hair from poets.
A New York Times report traces smoking to ancient East Indian and Chinese practices, noting two thousand years of Indian use and earlier Central Asian smoking. The article mentions pipes, blends, and ceremonial methods, citing Roman ruins and even Russian military camps as evidence of long standing habit.
The regilding of Buckingham Palace railings recalls goldbeating as the world’s oldest art. Romans likely introduced it 2000 years ago, possibly from Greeks learned from Egyptians. Handwork finishes gold into sheets. a 200-ounce 22-carat brick is about £900. Workers wield fourteen to twenty-one pound hammers to beat gold into leaves. one ounce yields 2,500 leaves.
The article describes a medieval January 14 Feast of the Ass to honor the Flight into Egypt. A girl on an ass led through the streets to church, where the animal and burden were placed by the high altar. Instead of usual responses the crowd brayed, and the priest brayed thrice for a blessing.
A feeder driven by an alarm clock can dispense grain to poultry at scheduled times, distributing feed over a twenty foot area to promote exercise. An optional switch can control electric lights without affecting feeding. The unit can be ceiling mounted or placed over a yard and requires little attendant care. It can be filled and set in minutes.
Advertises cash sales for lower prices at Perfection and Nesco Cook Oil Stores with baker’s goods and a large new selection. Prompts potential buyers to compare prices before purchasing from Otto Kolmeier.
The author reflects on 1900s American theater showing extraordinary ingenuity and prolific production akin to French and Spanish dramatists. While acknowledging critiques of machine-like quality, he argues many American plays of the century are both libraryworthy and entertaining on stage.
A gallant poor youth, trading cast-off clothes for flowers, sends roses to his beloved. He hopes for a warm welcome but meets frost when she reveals a note with the bouquet. The note reads, Don't forget the old trousers you promised me the other day, exposing the ruse.
Professor Paul Lindner of the Fermenting Industry Institute in Berlin reports that ants drink more alcohol per body weight than an old soak. Ants ferment milky aphid juice in their digestive system, creating home brew. other insects mimic similar setups. Wasps are described as bootleggers.
Wilbur C. Treadwell an optometrist and optician will hold a patient examination day in his Fredericksburg office in the Guild Building on Saturday May 31.
Examinations will be held in the forenoon at GRAND School. A program by the children is scheduled for the afternoon in Engel's Hall. A grand ball follows supper with music by the Radio Five Orchestra. Every one is invited to attend.
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