Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-12-11
I'M OUR
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RATHER PROUD Of the metro
pclitan service givon By The Herald
20 the football fans In Harlingen
and San Benito Friday evening on
the Harlingen-san Benito football
game.
A long distance telephone line, run
into the football field, an airplane,
piloted by Les MauIdin Of the Bor-
der Airways Of this city. and high
speed newspaper press in The Her
aid office enabled The Herald to get
football extras, with complete play
by play story of the game, into San
Benito in IS mintes after the final
whistle and into Harlingen in five
minutes more, or a total Of exactly
90 minutes after the game ended.
Special permission Of Fort Brown
officials enabled Mauldin to land his
plane at the drill field in the south
ern end of Fort Brown, nearly a
mile from The Herald office. 1t took
off from there at 5:21 with bundles
OF the extras.
The bundles were dropped from
he plane opposite the American Le-
aion home at San Benito. and almost
into the hands Of The Herald agent
FAT Harlingen, in the Arroyo Country
/Club flying field.
NO MONEY IN THAT stunt for
\ The Herald, OF course. Just a little
\ effort to let the fans know that The
Herald will endeavor to get the news
70 them when they want il partic-
ularly.
In n territory like this q news
paper can hardly sell enough such
extras TO begin TO pay for the cost
Of such an undertaking as that Of
Friday afternoon.
The Herald Is always ready to
spend all the money within its means
TO "cover" n real news event.
And certainly that Harlingen-San
Benito event. like the Brownsville
Palestine event, was a home news
event
COL. BEN G.. Whitehead Of the
Sun, Pharr, writes the following 70
the memory Of the late Mrs. Agnes
Browne Of Brownsville:
an the death of Mrs. Agnes
Browne at Brownsville the end came
of a lady who had contributed much
20 the lives Of many others, who had
taken comfort and happiness into
many homes where the shadows were
heavy. Hers was a beautiful. gen
L. ~
richcd her community in many ways.
She had made this n better and a
kinder world for having lived in IT,"
POINT ISABEL takes kindly TO its
nomination for the republican ma
tional convention in 1882. says Paul
Cottrell in a dispatch to The Herald.
And he says:
''Point Isabel accepts the nomina-
tion for the meeting place Of the
republican national convention in
1892. At that time the harbor is
expected 70 be completed to full
depth, another railroad or two will
offer transportation facilities and
the village which IN 1920 voted for
the republican candidate by a vote
OF lO2 10 l VIII be city.
Another inducement for the con-
vention is that Point Isabel offers
solid vote for the republican can
didate. DIR. J. A. Hockaday, the Il
voter or 1920. agrees that II the CON
veution is held here he will make it
unarimous.
-. ". Stein, publisher Of The
Brownsville Herald. suggests that
the delegates might be ranged around
the shores on Padre Island and the
mainland, with loud speakers TO
scatter the speeches. Point Isabel
now has five piers with a seating ca
pacity estimated al 10000 and
enough yacht and boat whistles to
make more noise than the democrats
in Madison Square Garden.
Headquarters may be established
IN the seaside home az the republi-
can national committeeman from
Texas who long ago recognized the
advantages of Point Isabel and built
there. One pipeline now runs from
the Rio Granie carrying water to
Point Isabel: another might be laid
for the benefit Of the delegates"
From the Mexican side, Paul?
THERE WAS A FREEZE in the
Rio GraHde Valley last night
No. that was rot IN the Lower Rio
Grande Valley
II was in the Fl Paso section Of
the Valley. nearly q thousand miles
from Brownsville.
And ii did freeze. ar 20 declares
the FL Paso Post.
Incidentally. the Post carried a
specially displayed item from New
Mexico announcing a lemon tree
which produced a lemon weighing a
pound and a half.
The Post item did not 60 on 70
explain that IL was ponderosa lem
On. which is common sight in the
Lower Rio Grands Valley.
QUEER ANTICS played by Tat
rcrther last week.
Gave San Antonio ard Houston
minimum temperatures OF 26 de-
grees.
Gave the Lower Rio Grande Valley
minimum Of - on the first day
OF cold and y minimum OF 40 on the
second.
Those we're the figures for
brownsville. Al points back from
the coast, in the Valley, the tenn
pcraturo went as low as SIS.
Dp az Laredo. who're ,bs,. -.