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Ground Floor Farmers State Bank Building
San Benito, Texas
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Wm. Cameron & Company, Inc.
Phone 490 Harlingen
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Distributing, Storing, Moving, Crating and Shipping
Daily Motor Freight Service Between All Valley Points
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Plinno Clean Pure Ice
I nO Brownsville Ice Company
CQQ St. Charles and Belt Line R. R.
Plants at McAllen and Harlingen
Coffee Roasted Fresh Daily
DELTA COFFEE CO.
WHOLESALE ONLY
Phone 234 -. - Harlingen
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Brownsville Sheet Metal Works
Metal Work and Roofing All Kinds
Iron and Tin Work, Tanks, Cisterns, Roofing
ALL WORK FULLY GUARANTEED
Phone 289 Brownsville
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Guarantee Electric Co., Inc.
Phone 1050 — Brownsville
Electrical Layouts, Fixtures and Wiring
M. Garcia Gomez & Champion
Wholesale Groceries
Tel. 83 Brownsville 11th and Madison
For instant cleaning and
|J h f\Y\ O M -4 pressing service. Have
X IIUIIC your clothes “Gloverized”
BROWNSVILLE TAILORING CO.
Phone 93 1220 Elizabeth
PHOTOGRAPHS
Live Forever
THE SHELDON STUDIO
Portrait, Commercial and Kodak Finishing
Phone 805 Brownsville
PRIVATE DINING ROOM
101 Seats in the Place
VALLEY WAFFLE SHOPPE
“BEST PLACE TO EAT”
Peter Govatos, Prop. — San Benito
Garcia-Gomez & Co.
Southern Pacific Tracks — Brownsville
Telephone 616
Wholesale Grocers
We cover the entire Lower Rio Grande Valley
like a blanket
FREE DELIVERY
To Any Part of the Valley
DESEL-BOETTCHER CO.
Wholesale Fruits, Produce
Grocers Sundries and Fountain Supplies
Phone 797 Long Distance No. 1
Brownsville, Texas
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DENNETT MOTOR SALES CO.
Phone [phone] Levee Street Brownsville
GUARANTEED REPAIR WORK
DAY and NIGHT STORAGE
Accessories, Tires and Tubes, Gasoline, Oils
Valley Box and Crate Factory
Crate* — Baskets — Hampers
San Benfto ©wma
5INESS AND PROFESSIONAL MEN YOU CAN DEPEND ON FOR COOPERA1
Will Install Sand Blast Machine
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] MORGAN BEHIND
MERGER MOVES
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Consolidations Viewed As
Merely ‘The American
Way*
By WILLIAM R. KUHNS
(Associated Press Feature Writer.)
NEW YORK, July 8. OP)—Ask
Wall street where the merger parade
i is going and the echo answers
“where?”
As far as can be learned from
several dependable sources of in
formation, many of the men res
ponsible for the current swing to
ward consolidations in finance and
industry are working these long
summer hours effecting mergers for
the joy of merging.
“It simply is the American way,”
said one who has been something
more than a spectator of recent
mergers. “This is a period of
drawing together fragments of in
dustries and small banks into
smoothly working units. There
have been similar periods in the
past. Next year it may be some
thing else.’
There is the simple and alluring
rumor, cf course, circulating for
many months, that the “Morgan
interests” in the east, the “Insull
interests” in the middle west and
some shadowy group in the far west
have agreed to divide the country
into three spheres of influence for
the purpose of developing power
and utilities.
J. P. Morgan and his associates
have pushed vigorously to the fore.
In the size of their mergers, in va
riety and the skill with which they
achieve necessary changes in man
agement and organization, the third
generation of Morgans has distanced
most other banking proups.
Electrical power, oil, food, trans
portation and gas are among the
commodities in whfch, one by one,
J. P. Morgan and his cabinet have
effected important consolidations
since the beginning of the year.
At present there are three great
eastern power combines that are
Morgan financed and Morgan ad
ministered. Each has a host of
allied units and all are linked in a
network of suner-companies.
Certain familiar names in the dir
ectorates and among the executive
of these concerns run like strong
threads through the entire group.
The three companies are the United
corporation, headed by George H.
Howard; the Commonwealth and
Southern corporation, controlled
by B. C. Cobb, and the Niagara
Hudson, headed by Ray P. Stevens,
with others said to be in the pro
cess of formation.
Superimposed on these is the
American Superpower corporation.
Closely allied, as a management
system of properties touching 39
states of the union, is the Electric
Bond and Share corporation. The
latter concern, owns the American
and Foreign Power company, which
is developing vast properties in
South America and Asia.
New Instrument To
Aid Flier On Hop
Over Pacific Ocean
LOS ANGELES, July 8— UP)—
new aerial navigation instrument,
claimed by its inventor to give a
pilot at a glance his exact position,
is to be used by Lieut. Harold Brom
ley on his proposed non-stop flight
from Takoma, Wash., to Tokyo, Ja
pan.
The instrument, says Carl Schenck
of Los Angeles, the inventor, solves
many of the dangers of night and
blind flying and eliminates the ne
cessity of a rate of climb indicator
and a bank and turn indicator. The
device resembles a compass with
an indicator sticking up in the cen
ter. It is not affected by centrifugal
force, the inventor says, and there
is nothing to get out of order, there
being only two working parts.
One of the instruments is being
installed in the Lockheed Vega
plane in which Bromley, who is a
Canadian aviator, hopes to fly the
4.700 miles to Tokyo in one juVnp,
the longest solo flight ever attempt
ed.
NEW PESTS IDENTIFIED *
WASHINGTON. July 8. (/P>—Iden
tification of three new parasitic
flatworms, known as trematodes.
has been made by Dr. Emmett W.
Price of the zoological division of
the bureau of plant industry. Lit
tle is known of the distribution of
the creatures in the United States
and there is slight knowledge of
their medical and economic impor
tance. The pests live in warm
blooded animals and several prey
upon man, frequently causing
death.
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TROPIC WOODS SURVEYED
CHICAGO, July 8, (IP)—A trek for
2,300 miles along the Amazon river
and across the Andes mountains is
being made by L. Williams, wood
technologist of the Field Museum
of Natural History, in making a sur
vey and collection of tropical woods.
Clark Electric Is
Signed As Official
DelcoRemy Station
A contract making the Clark Elec
tric shop, 836 Elizabeth, an official
Delco-Remy service station has
been signed. The Delco-Remy sys
tem is standard in all General Mo
tors automobiles. Signing of this
contract means that owners of new
G. M. cars can have their defective
electrical parts repaired at the Clark
Electric shop free of cost.
Under the sale agreement, the
owner has an option on this free
service for the first 3.000 miles or
on the first 90 days. Regardless of
where the car is purchased this free
service is given by any official
Delco-Remy station.
Clark is laying in a large ad
ditional stock of Delco-Remy parts
and will be in a position to repair
any part’ of this system when all
of the material is received.
The local concern also is carry
ing and servicing the new line of
Delco batteries which are fast being
put in all G. M. cars as standard
equipment.
All types of automotive electric
work is done by the Clark shop.
Clark has had many years of ex
perience in this line before coming
to the Valley about a year ago. His
business has grown steadily, he
states.
“When I first took over the shop
customers used to come in and ask
•Say, you haven’t got such and such
a part, have you?’ They have got
to where they depend upon us now.
They come in and say ‘Give me such
and such a part, please.”
Clark is also doing speedometer
work. He has special appartus for
testing and checking these parts.
Clark stocks standard equipment for
speedometers and spurns “pirate”
parts, he states.
ON TERMINAL
Wharves Being Built to Ac
commodate Ocean Go
ing Vessels
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TOLEDO, July 8.—(JP)—Work on
the largest terminal on the Great
Lakes, large enough to serve ocean
going steamers, will be begun this
summer by the Hocking Valley rail
road.
It will be built on Presque Isle, in
the northeast section of Toledo,
where the Maumee river joins Mau
mee bay in the outlying reaches of
the Toledo harbor. On this site
formerly wras located one of the best
known amusement resorts on the
Great Lakes.
The development calls for an im
mediate expenditure of $6,129,000.
There will be a frontage on the wa
ter of 2 12 miles.
Four slips will accommodate lake
freighters. There will be a con
crete dock 200 feet wide and 14.000
feet long, a warehouse 1,000 feet
long and miles of railroad tracks in
the loading, holding and support
ing yards.
At each of three of the slips there
will be twTo coal loading machines
with a dumping capacity of nearly
a car a minute. There will be ore
machnies to unload 833 tons of iron
ore an hour, each bucket holding
17 tons. The fourth slip will have
space for two elevators and a mill.
Back of the handling and loading
docks ■will be a supporting yard
with a capacity of 5.075 cars. The
present Hocking Valley docks in
Toledo have a capacity of only 2,000
cars.
The Toledo Terminal railroad will
join the south end of the develop
ment and will shunt cars into the
Presque Isle area.
Construction will require a huge
amount of dredging from the dock
line to the present channel. All the
earth dredged will be used on the
fill, back of the dock line for the
yard railroad tracks.
New England Hopes
For New Factories
Despite Its Losses
BOSTON, July 8.—tTP)—'The mi
gration of industries from one sec
tion of the country to another,
shown in recent surveys to have
reached the point of a major in
dustrial movement, has raised
hopes in New England.
The treasurer of the New Eng
land council, John S. Lawrence,
told a recent meeting of the Na
tional Association of Real Estate
Boards that “there is nothing new
about industrial migration,” and
that “New England has been
watching this process going on for
years.”
He referred to the migration of
New England’s textile industry to
the southern states, saying that
j this industry constitutes only five
j per cent of the total manufactures
in Connecticut and Vermont, 10
per cent in Maine and Massachu
setts and 20 per cent in Rhode
Island.
In the past, he said, communi
ties relied largely on single indus
tries or a limited number, whereas
today the “tide of economic devel
opment has changed definitely to
ward a diversification of activities
within our communities.”
New England, he declared, wel
comed migration of industry and
economic changes. “She has been
successfully meeting these prob
lems for over 100 years.”
Radio Beacons Are
Being Extended On
Northern Air Line
WASHINGTON, July 8.—(fP)—A
new directive radio beacon to guide
aviators flying along the transcon
tinental airway has been put into
operation at Goshen, Ind.
The new beacon lays out a course
due east and west between Toledo
and Lansing, Mich. At Toledo it
joins the course laid out by the
beacon at Cleveland, Ohio, and at
Lansing with the range being in
stalled at the Cicero airport at Chi
cago.
The Goshen radio range operates
on a frequency of 294 kilocycles. It
transmits the letter “A” and the
letter “N,” which interlock to form
a long dash along the course. In
the northwest and southeast quad
rants the letter “A” will be heard,
and the letter “N” in the northeast
and southwest quadrants.
The new beacon station, as well
as others between New York* and
Chicago will be operated in thick
or foggy weather or at the request
of pilots operating planes-equipped
with receiving sets.
STANDARDIZE COTTON
TO INCREASE PROFIT
COLLEGE STATION. Texas, July
8.—UP)—The growth of single va
rieties of high grade cotton on a
“community standardization” plan,
the Texas farmer’s means of in
creasing profits, will reach the peck
of its development this year.
More than 250,000 acres, nearly
double the area used last year, are
devoted to growing single varieties.
More than 8,000 farmers in 115
communities are following this
method so they may pool «their
product and sell according to grade
and staple.
The standardization plan has fol
lowed the inability of individual
farmers to obtain desired pre
miums, even for superior cotton.
UTAH CANNING PLANT
PUTTING UP SPUDS
OGDEN, Utah, July 8.—f.45)—De
velopment of a process for canning
potatoes is announced by an Ogden
packing company.
The potatoes are peeled, quarter
ed, packed in the cans dry and then
steam cooked until suitable for
serving as cold boiled potatoes, as
a base for salad, or for reheating
and serving in the usual variety of
wavs.
Utah growers believe successful
canning of patatoes on a large scale
will be a beneficial factor in stabil
izing prices. It will help keep the
market from glutting because of the
limited selling period to prevent de
cay.
SEEK “DAIRY LAND”
MONROE. La., July 8.—<P\—A
movement to encourage Louisiana’s
dairy farming is being sponsored by
Dr. Joseph A. O'Hara, president of
the state board of health, who
points out that cnlv 65 ner cent of
the milk used within the state is
home produced. Dr. O’Hara is ad
vocating a federal land survey for
acreage where dairy cattle might
graze.
NOVICE LEARNS RAPIDLY
BEAUMONT, July 6.—<JP)—G.
Frank Myers, eBaumont oil man,
claims a record for anMtude in pi
loting an airplane. He staved in
the air more than two hours on a
solo flight after having one hour's
instruction.
The richest golf tournament of
all time is planned for Agua Cali
ente, Baja California, next winter.
The purse will be $25,000.
STONE WORKS
UP TO MINUTE
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Brownsville Marble And
Granite Works Grow
Under Wigington
Bringing his equipment up to the
last minute, J. A. Wigington, owner
of the Brownsville Marble & Gran
ite Works at 941 Levee has ordered
a sand blast machine which he ex
pects to place into operation in the
near future.
The sand blast machine will be
used for cutting and carving in
marble and granite. In the past
this has been done with air ham
mers. When Wigington came here
three years ago and took over the
shop, all work was being done by
hand chiseling.
Wigington says that the installa
tion of machinery does not lower
the quality of work done on monu
ments, corner stones, etc. While
the work is machine made to a
certain extent, it merely puts bet- j
ter tools in the hand of the work
man, he declares. The human
hand has to guide the sand blast
machine just as it did the chisel
in olden days.
The sand blast is an interesting
machine. There are several types
of them but the principle of opera
tion is the same in all. The ma
chine to be used by Wigington will
throw a stream of compressed air
and sand against the stone to be
cut at a pressure of one hundred
pounds to the square inch. This
cuts the stone much quicker than
was possible with the old hand
chisels.
Wigington specializes in Vermont
marble and Texas granite but can
obtain any type of stone desired.
He keeps the two mentioned stones
in stock.
The local business is 16 years
old. Wigington took it over three
years ago and has made many
modern improvements in equip
ment and methods used.
“In installing the sand blast
machine,” Wiggington says, “we are
trying to give the public what they
want. This is the latest machine
on the market and we feel that
the public is entitled to any reduc
tions that we may be able to make
through it.”
World Chamber of
Commerce Meet Is
Example of Amity
AMSTERDAM, Holland, July 8.—
UP)—The whole world is a village to
the international chamber of com
merce, meeting here July 8 to 13
for its fifth congress.
On that occasion 150 Americans,
under the leadership of Thomas W.
Lamont, mingle with representa
tives of 45 nations. These business
men from every continent shake
hands, meet each other’s wives,
lunch and dine together and talk
informally about their mutual in
terests.
The agenda includes interna
tional communications which com
mercial leaders have come to rec
ognize as an indispensable factor
in the development of friendly and
profitable trade relations.
The remainder of the list of
questions to be discussed provides
a good picture of current neighbor
hood problems on a world pattern.
Two items are the immediate bus
iness future in China and “the
relative merits of public and pri
vate ownership of commercial en
terprises.”
Twelve different national delega
tions have prepared reports on
public ownership for consideration
by the congress. The result will be
the evolution of one general survey
of the question under a variety of
political and economic conditions.
Other questions are taxation of
incomes in two or more countries,
protection of industrial property,
international industrial statistics,
commercial documentary credits
and transportation.
DOG FARM MENACE
LUDINGTON, Mich., July 8.—UP)
—Roving packs of half-wild dogs
again have appeared here as a
menace to livestock. Last year the
county paid out more than $1,000 in
damages to farmers for sheep, cat
tle and horses killed by the packs
Many deer were killed and cotton
tail rabbits were almost exhausted.
GROW more mints
WASHINGTON, July 8.—UP)
spearmint and peppermint culture
in the United States could be ex
panded considerably beyond the
35.000 acres now growing, if great
er commercial demands for the oils
should develop, says the department
of agriculture.
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Laverne Fator was leading the
eastern jockeys when set down by
officials at the Aqueduct track. He
had ridden 32 winners.
„ Valley Made For Valley Trade
Ventilators and Skylights a Specialty a
General Sheet Metal Contractors ft Work
Turner Sheet Metal Work* Clothe*
Phone [phone]th St. Valley Wholesale Dry Goods Co.
Brownsville Brownsville
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COUNTRY HOME WORK A SPECIALTY
QUINN AND DERRICK k
PLUMBERS *
Heating, Septic Tanks, Sewering, Estimates, Jobbing
847 Elizabeth Street Phone 913
Brownsville, Texas
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RADIATORS
Repaired
General Welding
O. P. HACKER
Phone 239
Cor. 13th & Washington
Brownsville
I Furniture Remodeling
And
Refinishing
J. R. FROST
Brownsville
900 Adams Street
Holm’s Studio I
Portrait and Commer
cial Photography
Phone 337 — Brownsville
Special Notice to the Public li
New Nerv-O-Meter and
El Vibra System Used
M. K. COOK. D. C.
Chiropractor
COOK and WILLIAMS
1715 Grant St. — Tel. 1228-J
AVERY FARM IMPLEMENTS
Specially adapted to Southern Farming
Wholesale and Retail
Investigate Our Liberal Credit Terms
PHILLIPS HARDWARE
San Benito
RIO GRANDE NATIONAL
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
o’d Line STOCK COMPANY Legal Reserve
Harlingen, Texas
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L. A. RAGAN
TRANSFER AND STORAGE
Bonded Warehouse
Crating — Shipping — House Moving
All Kinds of Heavy Hauling
Off'.ce Phone 178 Weslaco Res. Phone 160 Black
Gasoline and Motor Oils
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
Velvorene Motor Oil Co.
Phone 568 Brownsville 2nd & Fronton Streets
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CLARK ELECTRIC SHOP
SPEEDOMETER SERVICE
STARTERS BATTERIES
GENERATORS RADIOS
MAGNETOS
Phone 432 Brownsville, Texas 836 Eliza
Dependable Prompt
BROWNSVILLE TITLE COMPANY
Phone 353 — Brownsville
Complete abstracts of title to lands in Cameron
County, Texas
Manufacturers of All Kinds
Chicken, Stock and Dairy Feeds
SAN BENITO FEED CO.
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El Jardin Garage — Brownsville
FIREPROOF storage
Washing — Greasing — Auto Service by Skilled
Attendants
Satisfaction guaranteed with all transactions
Floyd E. Bullard
Sheet Metal Works
“No Job To Small—
None Too Large”
Phone 325 — Edinburg
Monuments
Our work permanently ex
presses your devotion.
Brownsville Marble & Granite
Works
941 Levee Street
Mercedes Concrete
Pipe Co.
PLANTS AT MERCEDES AND McALLEN
General Offices — Mercedes
Makers of Quality Concrete Pipe for
Irrigation and Drainage
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We Specialize in Staple Wholesale Groceries
E. DE LA GARZA
Phone 984 ; Brownsville 634 Fronton St.
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