Wichita Daily Times. (Wichita Falls, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 82, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 17, 1911 Page: 3 of 6
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WICHITA DAILY TIMES, WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS, AUGUST 17, 1911,
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The Hobble Skirt Puts Mr. Inbad in a Predicament
By H. B. Martin
THAT WOMAN
WILL FALL
SURE: HE IS
STANDING
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PRESS
NOW OPEN
Students Being Enrolled Daily
AT THE
WIGHITA FALLS CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
•. DUNAEVSKI, Director
Friberg Building, Ohic Avenue, Between Eighth and Ninth
WATCH FOR
Prize Contest Announcement
WE ARE
CRANKS
On the subject of purity
in food stuffs.-------To that
end we buy nothing but
the very best articles on
the market, and we keep
everything in the store in
a manner that insures it’s
absolute freshness and
purity. The point is one
of more than ordinary in-
terest to housewives, and
we invite them to call and
see our stock, even if they
have not been trading
with us.------
SHERROD & CO.
GROCERS
‘Phones 177 and SM
811 Indiana Ave.
OFFICE SUPPLIES
We carry everything up to
filing cabinets in this line
and will order promptly
if not in stock. Come to
see us. We need your
business
Martin’s Book Store
704 Ohio Avenue
Phone 10
***************
*****
E. M. WINFREY
Fire Arms, Sporting Goods. Bi- :
cycles and Sewing Machine Sup- 1
plies. ]
GUNSMITH AND LOCKSMITH 1
EXPERT
General Repairing a Specialty. j
Eighth Street
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CEMENT WORK |
I. H. Roberts
General Contractor
Walks, Curbing, Steps, Cement
Work, Floors, Foundations,
—.. Street Crossings---
Ea,
Telephone No. 504
It’s Lucky
I GOT HERE
IN TIME TO )
CATCH YOU
O 0
OLD BEAT RECORDS \
FOR CONSOLATION '
There Have Been Timee Woree Than
These—Day of Judgment
Not Here.
The remarkable exhibition of solar
energy witnessed in different parts of
our country during the present sum-
mer will place it on record as one of
the hottest seasons for the past-thir-
ty years, says the Baltimore Ameri-
can. Yet, if we compare the record
with the experience of other years,
and other countries, we will see that
the heat was not excessive, though
long continued. It is not an easy
matter to get at the old record on the
subject, but from what we have been
ab|e to compile it appears that the
people of the Old World have suffered
more intense beat than we of the
new.
In the years 1303-4 the Rhine
Loire and Seine rivers went dry. The
boat in several of the French prov-
Inces in 1705 was equal to that of a
glass furnace. Meat could be prepar-
ed for the table merely by exposing it
to the sun. No person dared to ven-
ture out of his home between the
ILL HELP
YOU TO .THE
, OH THANK
SIDE WALK I You veet
HOPE YOURE
NOT HURTH
MUCH:
/ HAS MRS IN BAD GoT
A WHITE HAT WITH )
ROSES ON IT? DOES /
SHE WEAR A PINK 5
I PRESS WITH A HOBB E ‘
teas WELL I THOUGHT NOT.
G.
I MAKE IT A RULE
NEVER TO INTERFERE
IN ANY ONES BUSINESS
BUT iT IS MY DUTY TO
TELL MR S. INB A0 THAT
SAW HER
THUSDANP
1 CHIT H ANCTAFA
A WotAN
Anderson & Patterson
REAL ESTATE and INSURANCE AGENTS
SPIRELLA CORSETS
Command Attention from Critical Dressers
MRS. NANNIE JENNE
1404 TENTH srREET
OHONK 464
YOURSELF AN INJUSTICE
when you fail to install a Gas Stove
n the kitchen. If economy counts any grees
hing with you and you go on the prin
tipic that there is nothing too good for
our house. You should use natural
gas. Make your arrangements today
with us.
hours of noon and 4 p. in.
In the year 1718 many shops had
to close all over Europe. Not a drop
of rain fell for over four months. In
1773 the. thermometer roee to 111 de-
In 1778 the heat in Bolonga
was so intense that scores of people
were stifled.
gas were lighted, schools and factoies
were closed and multitudes of the
ignorant and supertitious believed the
Day of Judgment had come.
Everything looked changed and un-
naurtal. The faces of the people on
the street were ghastly, ther gas jets
instead of showing yellow, were white
and clean as the electric lights. Thou-
sands of the sect known as the Sev-
enth Day Adventists gathered in their
places of worship and confidently
awaited the coming of the Lord. The
dark day was more wonderful in the
country than in the cities. The
leaves and withering foliage assumed
a most singular tint of green, chang-
ing like that of grass to a brownish
hue; fowls went to roost and the ani-
mal creation must have been greatly
mystified by a phenomenon such as
they had never before witnessed.
Very Special
See Our Window
Display of Gold
Watches
$10.00
NORTH TEXAS
GAS CO
in July, 1793, the heat again be-
came intolerable. Vegetables were
burned up. Fruit died on the trees.
The furniture and woodwork in dwel.
ling houses cracked and split and
meat became tainted in an hour. The
French Revolution was in the, height
of its bloody carnival and many sup-
erstitious persons thought that the
with a Chain Free.
Ladies' and Men's
. Sizes
OATs
HAY
CORN
OUR BILL OF FARE,
always contains the three . staples.
Oats, corn and hay. We endeavor to
furnish the
BEST THE MARKET AFFORDS.
Our Data are clean and free from must
ard seed. Our Corn is sound and
not musty. Our Hay is well cured,
clean and free from poisonous weeds.
And best of all our prices arc low.
Wichita Grain Company
wave of heat following this mighty
upheaval was the curse of God.
In 1880 Spain was visited by a
sweltering temperature, Madrid and
other cities were destroyed and the
streets became silent. Laborers died
in the fields. ■—>—
Another disastrous hot wave swept
over Europe in 1851. In the Champs
de Bars, Paris, during a military re-
view soldiers by the score fell victims
to sunsroke, and at Aldershot, Eng-
land, men dropped dead while at drill
compelling the officers to suspend the
exercises.
There are many living who recall
the terrible . experience of 1853 In
New York and elsewhere. In that
year New Orleans was decimated by
yellow fever. In New York it ap-
. beared as if the city was on fire. The
thermometer ranged from 95 to 98
degrees for, seven days. In that sum-
mer the Crystal Palace in Reservoir
square was opened On the day of
the opening the mercury rose to 96
degrees and people fainted in the
crowd and fell dead on the street
During the week 214 persons died
from sunstroke in New York, 41,
The summer of 1854 was another
hot spell all over the country, and it
appears to have concentrated its fury
In the southwest, particularly in the
state of Mississippi. According to
the statement of an old Missouri plo-
Miss Florence Kubel, the Wasmng-
ton high school girl, and Congressman :
A. W. Lafferty, of Oregon, whom her ‘
father threatened to thrash because i .
of a letter received by the young wo- 1 l
man, with the Congressman’s signa- 1 1
ture upon it expressing the wish that 1 i
an introduction to her be arranged. i
The episcode has aroused a sensation . 1
in the capital city, Representative. 1 1
Lafferty is here shown in the uniform : H
he wears when playing as A member 1 ■
of the Democratic baseball team of . 1 1
the House,
PHONE 33
809 INDIANA AVENUE
Terminal Hotel
C. M. Bryan, Prop.
EUROPEAN PLAN.
Half Block frrom Terminal
Station.
Fifty outside rooms, all newly
furnished. We cater to the best
city and out of town trade.
Rates—60c and Upward.
McFall Transfer & Storage Co.
Office Hours 1011 to 1912
Telephones.... 444 and 14
See Kell, Perkins A Cravens for all
kinds of insurance. Phone 694. Room
208, Kemp A Kell Building- 52-tte
Immediate farm loans: 8%: See
Fowler Bros. Room 212 Kemp A Kell
Building.* 16-20te
PURITY
...
CAN RICE A CERE
‘ KEOKUK, IOWA I’
PURITY OATS
is just what the
name indicates,
A. C. Thompson Co.
709 Ohio
: TRY A SACK OF DIXIE CREAM.
neer, after June 17, of that year, not
a drop of rain fell for the remainder
of the twelve months. In describing
this remarkable drouth he aaya: ed among the corpses for some miss
"The dust on the pikes was frightful
on a windy day. You could hardly
see a vehicle just ahead of you. The
old Glasgow stage coach would roll
into Callao with everything about it
—passengers, driver, horses, harness
and all—nearly as white as snow,
sometimes traveler's throats would
become so badly choked they could
not speak a word before taking a
drink of water. I guess in those days
most of us ate the allotted peck of
dirt or more."
sary work in preserving the pictures
of the dead; eager-eyed relatives hunt-
ing loved one; a horrible stench min.
gled with the oppressive heat and
lametntations filled the air. Over two
hundred deaths were recorded In
three or four days.
In 1881 it is said that the heat
throughout the United States was the
greatest on record, the themometer
in many places registering 105 de
grees In the shade. In England the
mercury ranged from 90 to 101 de-
The year 1872 was another fear-
ful one in New York, 155 cases of
sunstroke occurring on July 4, of
which seventy-two proved fatal
Men fell by the score, and
ambulances were in constant re-
quisition. .Dumb animals lay down by
the wayside and panted their lives
away. Sleep for two or three of the
hottest nights was well night impossi-
ble and in the tenement districts wo-
men and children were found dead
on the roofs, to which they had
climbed in the hope of getting a
breath of cool air. The scenes in the
morgue were appalling. Dozens of
bodies were on the stone slabs, un-
der the splashing water, awaiting the
recognition of friends or relatives.
Here a stalwart man, who had been
suddenly stricken; there a comely
woman, with her- face, turned toward
the light; yonder the official photo-
grapher, doing his ghastly yet necer-
grees and in Parts 93 degrees. July
21, 1881, is said to have been the hot-
test day ever known up to that time.
As the autumn approached and
the drought continued over a vast ex-
tent of territory, forest fires broke
out and raged in different parts of
the country. All day and night im-
mense volumes of smoke and vapor
bung over the land and the appear-
ance of the sun was so peculiar as to.
cause alarm on the part of those who
were supertitious.
From the 6th to the 8th of Septem-
her the thermometer in Maryland reg-
istered from 101 to 106, and on the
afternoon of September 6, 1881, be-
tween the hours of 2 and 5 o'clock
It registered 105 • degrees, and the
writer, who was then a boy, and bad
recently read the thrilling pages of
Dante's Inferno, thought that al
ternoon was a fair sample of the plu-
tonle regions.
Then there came a dark day like
that of the 19th of May, 1780, which
overspread New England, and was
most marked in Massachusetts. The
Connecticut legislature was then in
session and the belief was so universal
that the last awful day had come that
the, motion was. made to adjourn,
then, as the graphic' Quaker poet
says:,
All eyes were turned to Abraham
Davenport,
He rose, slowly cleaving with his
steady voice
The intolerable bus. "This well
may be
The Day of Judgment which the
world awaits;
But be it so or not, I only know
My present duty, and my Lord's
command
To occupy till he come. So at the
post
Where he sat me in his providence,
I choose, for one, to meet him face to
face—
No faithless servant frightened from
my task.
But ready when the Lord of the har-
vest calls;
And therefore, with all reverence, 1
would say •<
Let God do his work, we will see to
ours.
Bring In the candles. And they
brought them in.
Wednesday, September, 7, 1881
was a day very similar to thenem:
orable one of a century before. A
atrange and greenish-yellow pal over
spread the heavens and so darkened
the light of the sun that lamps and
PURITY.
Guaranteed
the BEST
Guaranteed to
keep in good
condition
You don’t need a
can opener to
get them.
You don’t have to
scratch and dig
them out.
The largest pack-
age for the
* money
The dealer makes more
money, the consumer gets
more and better goods for
his money. -
Buy a package today.
A mixture of hulls and meal, the
best milk producer known. Dairymen
toy that it can't be beat. Give us your
order for a few sacks and try it.
ALFALFA IS STILL THE CRY
and we have the very choice pea green
Alfalfa, also Prairie Hay and all kinds
of feed stuff: Brun, Chops, Shorts,
Cata. Corn, Cotton Seed Meal. Phone
435.
“%
MARICLE COAL CO
: Office on Wall Street.
DIAMOND
SAND
Diamond pointed bank sand,
and gravel, boat for building and
cement work of all kinds. + •
In car lots and small quanti-
ties at lowest prices. Delivered
on board cara at Barkburnett.
For prices address
C. A. Walling
Burkburnett, Texas.
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Donnell, B. D. Wichita Daily Times. (Wichita Falls, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 82, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 17, 1911, newspaper, August 17, 1911; Wichita Falls, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1662802/m1/3/: accessed May 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Library and Archives Commission.