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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-07-23
Open Portion Of
Concrete Highway

WESLACO, July 23.-The concrete
highway on mile five, between Wes-
laco on the north and as far as mile
eleven, has been officially opened 70
traffic.
Remainder OF the road TO mile
thirteen is paved and will be opened
in two or three weeks, il Is said. The
rest of mile five ard the side roads
are being made ready for the laying
of concrete.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-07-23
South Dakota Fields
Infested With Mice

RAPID CITY. 6. D.. R-Tbop-
sands Of tiny field mice are making
life miserable for Jones county
farmers through depredations on
corn fields. AS many as 1900 acres
IN one county we're DESTROYED.
Louis Knowles. predatory animal
director. and his assistants poisoned
2,l54 rodents on a single tract alone.
and that. Knowles saws. -as only
IS per cent Of the total number in
the field.
Naturally prolific. the white-Foot-
ed rodents have multiplied amaz-
ingly since destruction Of their nat
ural enemies. such as crows. hawks.
snakes and owls.
The territory infested. Knowles
SAYS, covers a distance roughly es-
timated az so miles in length and
half that distance wide.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-07-23

perfected by the Nujol Labora-
tories Of the Standard Oil Company
(New Jersey)-tha keeps your sys-
tenn functioning at all times as
Nature intended it to. Regularly.
Easily. Normally. Il not only pre-
vents an excess Of body poisons
from forming 1--WE all have them)
but aids in their removal.
Take a tip from Tunney's training.
Buy a bottle Of Nujol today. You'll
find it at all the better drug stores
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-07-23
ONE LITTLE PIMPlE MAY
RUIN YOUR APPEARAECEI

No matter how perfect your features.
OF how attractive your complexion
one little pimple may spoil it all. In
stead OF trying TO cover up your face
blemishes Why not completely clear
them away?
90 70 your druggist. ask for Black
and White Ointment and use il accord
ing to directions. Il is pleasant to use.
highly beneficial and scientifically safe.
For best results use Black and White
Skin Soap with Black and White ONT
ment. All dealers sell them at small cost.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-07-23
Mrs Morrison OF.
Of Mercedes On
ella. Committee
Especial 70 The Herald)

MERCEDES. July 23.-word has
been received by Mrs. Grant Morri-
son Of this city that she has been
appointed a member Of the executive
board or the alumni II the College
Of Industrial Arts at Denton. Texas.
The executive board In composed Of
six graduates who were pro .inent in
college activities and who are prom
inent In community work since their
graduation.
The next board meeting. which
meets twice n year. will be neld AZ
the college in Denton some time in
August.
Before her marriage. rs Miss Ger
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-07-23
Tuesday Night Band
Concert Is Postponed

The customary Tuesday evening
L.-I concert rendered by the
Tn.slf,h Cavalry band has been post
.arsd according to an announce
w.. Nv C. r. Washington, director
~ the organization.
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. COP ARREST BRIDE

GLENCOE, Ill.-Speeding from Wis
consin for her wedding here, Miss
Agatha Stephens was arrested by
three different traffic policemen.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-07-23

ARGENTINA LEADER DIES
BUENOS AIRES. July 23-CP-Dr.
Francisco Beiro. vice president-elect
Of Argentina. died last nirht after
a prolonged illness. He was the
running mate of Hipolito Yrigoyen.
Evening star., 1928-12-30
No Change in Prohibition and Little Farm
Relief Next Year; international Dis
putes, Marine Disaster and the
Doom of Short Skirts Are
Predicted.

drew w. Mellon, Rabbi Wise, Betty
Compson and Harrison Ford. ALI of
these will be apt to respond to the
negative forces so strong in these birth
dates, particularly around the middle of
May and the middle of November Of the
coming year, when the aspects will be
so strong for them and remarkably so
for the first two names of the group.
The, position of the planet Saturn
throughout the present Winter months,
however will not benefit the others on
the list.
During the last of March and all dur
ing the first half of April. that is the
birthdays which fall at this time, all
promise their sons and daughters very
thrilling time during the following year,
with plenty of Uranian impulses, decis-
ions and changes to make life interest
ing and many sudden twists to circum-
stances and unexpected variations In all
departments of existence. June and
July will probably be the most thrilling
periods for these people, yet November
and December, too, of this year ahead
will be more exciting than usual, espe-
cially in connection with all domestic
matters and with any emotional affairs
1t Is not really favorable time for
these persons to marry, however, and any
permanent Ties WOULD DC DetGeT post
poned until some later date for COM
pletion. Financial affairs will do rather
well for them, though, and reasonable
risks might be taken.
People whose anniversaries come dur
ing the very last Of April. the first part
of May and the first 10 days of June
will find the entire Summer somewhat
unsettled, both because of their own
state of mind, which will tend toward
highly original ideas. and because Of the
very bizarre coloring Of affairs all about
Evening star., 1928-12-30
Paper Old and New.
MODERN paper receives its share G

MODERN paper receives its share OF
criticism, perhaps not unjustly. IT
Is asserted that present-day paper is
perishable and that books printed upon
it will not last, and comparisons un-
favorable to the paper of today are
drawn between the old-fashioned arti-
Gle and the new.
Much that has been said on this sub
ject is undoubtedly true, but the infer
ence must not be drawn that all old
paper was lasting The Investigations
go to show that the paper of past days
was often very poor stuff. The history
of paper making in Europe from the
time of its introduction into Spain by
the MoorS in the eleventh century
shows that from it's earliest use paper
was deemed fit only for passing docu-
mentS and that when it was first used
in bound books it was thought neces-
sary to bind alternate leaves of parch-
ment and paper, as paper was deemed
too brittle to stand the strain.
Public documents were not allowed to
be engroSsed on so fragile a material as
the earlier paper was found to be, and
1t was not until the art advanced that
the new material superseded parchment.
A careful inspection of several hundred
old codiceS in the royal library at
Berlin fails to disclose any lasting prop
critics of the paper upon which they
were written. On the contrary, the
leaves are in many instances crumbling
into brittle fragments, while the writing
has become illegible.
Nevertheless, it should be added, the
German paper has had test of several
centuries, while it Is certain that some
of the paper made today almost drops
to pieces if one looks at it severely.
Evening star., 1928-12-30

beautifully, it certainly must be able
to likewise reduce corpulent ladies to
sylph-like Slenderness.
But the great idea failed. 1t was
not very long until the sensational
literature sent out by the inventor"
was being returned to him regularly
by the Post Office inspectors, and mark
ed fraudulent" Brought before the
district attorney for trial, the "hypo"
experts opinions did not sound i'm
pressively scientific to the keeper of
Jaw and order So the result was that
the defendant pleaded guilty and received
a fine of $500 besides penitentiary
sentence of five years. In view OF the
fact, however, that his efforts only net
ted him about $4,000, the judge, In
fair name of justice, suspended the
sentence upon promise Of good be-
havior
With almost uncanny judgment the
mail order quacks study the psychology
of the average mind. Particularly quick
are they to take advantage Of epidemicS
of serious diseases. Some few years
ago, it will be remembered, the dread
infantile paralysis was terrorizing the
country with its spasmodic outbursts.
Almost simultaneously, hosts of ad-
vertisements of so-called cures began
to flood the mails Even the foreign
"quacks" tried out their wares on the
frightened Americans. Clearly it was
high time the Government did some
thing about the situation. And the
proper step was taken by denying entry
to the so-called infantile paralysis cures
offered for import into this country.
X X X
r UNFORTUNATELY, however, it is
- not always so easy to curb the
spread of fraudulent cures of domestic
birth. The Federal food and drug act
applies only to those products shipped
in interstate commerce, that is. from
one State to another, or which are of
fered for import or export, or which
are manufactured within Territory or
the District of Columbia. Products
made and consumed wholly within
single State are subject only to such
State laws as may apply and are under
the control only of State health officers.
The Federal law does not apply, for
instance, to patent medicines made
within the State of New York and sold
within New York City. Persons buying
or using remedy" made in their own
State, therefore, must rely on the pro-
lection afforded them by their local
health authorities.
The radioactive" mineral water hoax
some years ago was one of the largest,
most cleverly wrought of any fraudulent
mail order schemes in history. A num-
Der of domestic mineral water manu-
facturers sent out extensive propaganda
through the mails to the effect that
their bottled goods constituted wonder
full cures for all manner of incurable
or chronic ailments. Foreign water
bottlers followed suit with similar
claims until the United States Govern
ment stepped into the picture. Expert
chemists were told TO examine every
Evening star., 1928-12-30

now, but real threats of war do not ac-
tually menace until late in the next
twelvemonth, according to my way of
interpreting these stellar positions.
would continue to say, however, that
spectators in the stock market were
taking more of chance than they had
perhaps bargained for!
JANUARY will begin with week of
rough going in regard to social and
domestic activities, while theatricals and
all forms of public entertainment will
probably suffer also. The last 10 days of
this month will bring influences which
ordinarily serve to emphasize the prac-
tical and even the inartistic qualities
Of our amusements and our occupations
for our lighter moments, so that invest
mentS in the elaborate motion picture
theaters which have been treasure
trove of the past will now be likely
to prove themselves a bottomleSS pit
into which to fling hard-earned dollars
and the unostentatious business firms
who have steadfastly avoided these
trimmed up places of dispoSing of their
cash will find that their judgment and
restraint will at last bring results
worthy of their self-denia,. Those born
near Cne last week IN April, the urSt
week of June and the first half of Oc-
tober will doubtless find fortunate in
fluences in the year 1929, all relating
to emotional matters, money and any
social or dramatic interests. The entire
month of Mayor, rather, those with
birthdays which fall during this divi-
sion of the solar calendar-will find
this whole year quite gala time and
one which they should take advantage
of by utilizing their opportunities for
advancement in business or expansion
in their investments.
February will bring particularly in
teresting incidents for those who have
celebrated their birthdays around the
last 10 days of January of any year, al
though the year determines the depart
ment of the life in which the influence
will be felt the most keenly. Nearly all
Of these people will feel some urge to
travel, make changes in living or busi-
ness or engage in some activity which
entails writing, speaking or some other
form of verbal expression which is per-
haps out of the ordinary. Not ali of
these may come to purely encouraging
ends, but II you can hold on to your
new investments until after the middle
Evening star., 1928-12-30

of next August you viii find that very
different circumstances will alter the
results of your efforts and that the final
conditions will be far more rosy.
Among those particularly apt to feel
such changes in their daily vibrations
will be Raymond Griffith, Miss Tallulah
Bankhead, a dramatic artist more pop
ular in London than America just at
present although she is American by
birth; the Grand Duchess Charlotte
Adelgone of Luxembourg, John D.
Rockefeller, jr.; Walter Damrosch,
Neysa McMein and Antonio Scotti. Col.
eventful year. and If he will prepare for
the last week of May and the entire
month of June he may avoid a little of
the more distressing part of this time,
as 1t seems to concentrate about him
just then.
X X X X
MARCH should be fairly calm as a
Ava birth month this year, although the
dates around the very last of the month
will prove lively and afford opportuni-
ties to spend good deal of money in
the course of the next few weeks. The
first week of May will be very active
time for all these March-born folk in
1929.
Among the most prominent names in
the group bound to feel the effects of
this March star-ray-or to be exact,
should say that any one whose birth
day falls in March this year will feel
the stimulation of the plus or minus
tendencies which the stellar aspects
during the remainder of the year will
put into effect-among this group will
be noticed John Barrymore, Norma
Shearer, Charles Ray, Conrad Nagel,
Florenz ziegfelds Percy Mackaye. An
Evening star., 1928-12-30
What the Stars FOretell for 1929

| them, leading them to enter into con-
ditionS of a very unusual cast through
out. Most of these things will prove
favorable and rather progressive In most
ways If courage lasts until one can
reach the end of the situation; the
planetary positions during March and
April will be very good for the May born
tunate month for this Spring anniver-
sary group, particularly in regard to
business, marriage or love affairs.
x \; 4 X
THE remainder of the June born
group will not find 1929 so easy.
however. They are prone to experience
poor health, difficulties and delays in
business all through the year, but par
ticularly during September, November
and December; the last week in June
most heavily afflicted of any during the
coming IL months. These people would
do well to guard their health for the
present and to set aside little trust
fund for the cloudy days sure to appear
later In the year.
July will be apt to run unsteadily
for nearly all Of us-especially so for
those whose birth dates come at this
time-and this latter group will find
the mOntn OF OctODer ana the laSC
two weeks of December Of this year a
bit unpleasant. Our national birth
date coming at this time shows our
year ahead to be characterized by
misunderstanding with foreign nations,
even to the point of active deceptions,
while those who take pride to them
selves that they have settled the ques-
ton of prohibition flatter themselves,
as the old joke puts it. This subject
will be far from settled all during the
late Fall and Winter, when we will
generally be interested again in former
topics.
After the Summer months we will
find that our national horoscope makes
us quite susceptible to influences which
affect the health of the race or Nation
as a whole, and we will have to exer-
else great care to avoid entering into
some foreign alliance which will react
upon our we'll being. We also will have
to use caution to avoid accident or vio-
lence from showing itself In connection
with our public officials or In the ranks
of our prominent business men. Our
President-elect will take possession of
the seat of honor at time when he
selects foraAimself quite q store Of ad-
Evening star., 1928-12-30

cial activities, and the tendency, seen
in an astrological calculation, is clear
as a picture of a repetition of a furry
equal to our recent stock market whirl-
wind, but taking place in the field cor
responding to the same market relating
to real estate. although this may not
become evident until late in the year.
Investments having to do with water or
liquids will prove beneficial, too, even
though quite serious accidents are seen
to take place upon the water near or
after the last week in June or during
the first part of July.
Nevertheless, irnpulsive spectators
should be very wary. Sudden ups and
downs are unavoidable and losses follow
quickly upon such moves as this.
A WEALTHY and impressive mar
riage, the sudden and violent man
ner of prominent death, little relief
from the measures adopted by the poll
ticianS to ease the condition of the
farmers, although the Middle West may
find more prosperity in those dealings
than the East will. Land generally will
bear poor crops this year, largely be-
cause of water conditions, but also be-
cause of speculation in land through
out the country. Styles viii enter upon
a most interesting period along late in
the year-hats will continue to adopt
strange shapes and neck pieces viii re-
main in favor, while feminine curves
will keep on with their progress in the
paths of fashion.
I believe. however, that the day of
the absurdly short skirt is doomed and
durir 1929 our daughters will either
see us returning to the modest beruffied
coverings that We can remember our
wearing or else will ap-
pear in thoroughly modern version of
pants for women" Don't laugh too
heartily. You have little idea of how
Iclose we are to this development Of our
national costume
Evening star., 1928-12-30

verse stellar influences, and the COM
ing year Is one which shows a good
many changes for Mr. Hoover, although
some might say that the change to the
office of President might fill this head
fully, while the latter part of 1929 is
apt to bring much depression and
many times when health will suffer
particularly true Of November, 1929
The eclipse on November l will come
on quite sensitive spot in Mr. Hoover's
chart, and he would do well to see that
all members of his family guard their
health with care.
CEPTEMBER people will seldom admit
- that conditions in their lives are
such as to bring them into the most
blooming arbor of the garden of flow-
ers called Life, and even the most
optimistic temperamentS would scarcely
be apt to view the conditions in the
horoscopes for the year just at hand
and for tnat following 1928-29 and call
them ideal. Miss Dolores Costello.
whose romantic marriage has filled so
much space in the newspapers, would
hardly have followed out the matter
of-fact details of this present state had
she taken the advice of a dependable
hardly live through the year 1929 with
out recourse to the divorce courts.
october and November are both
equally variable and prone to engage
in legal or medical advice during the
year, while the doings Of old people
will influence their affairs greatly and
the receptions or occult or mystic activ-
tiles in their lives at about the first
week of June or the last week of No
vember will make deep mark upon
their minds. The December people will
find 1929 rather depressing and apt to
bring them tendency to poor health,
slow business matters and none too en-
couraging in regard to love affairs. The
influence Of Saturn over these people
at this period in their lives Is not
of the best, and during the first part
of this year, as well as the latter half
of 1929, the retarding Tenderness of
Saturn will be strong-so just be
patient and wait for him to pass on
by into his next sign. which will come
about in the course of another IL to IA
months.
The most significant aspects for our
Nation at this time are doubtless those
which indicate our tendency just now
toward a continuation Of freakish fnan-
Evening star., 1928-12-30

n IEW YORK and the cities and
towns nearby may prepare
VI during the coming IL months
4 for all sorts of exciting events
such as are dear to the hearts
of the front-page newspaper writer's,
for the horoscope that we astrologers
draw up for the basis of our prognos-
tication for the impending future is
a thrilling one, and any student of
this ancient science of the stars will
find in it the aspects which point out
to the discerning eye the paths which
will lead the Nation along some won-
derfully interesting and entertaining
byways in the course of the coming
year.
Doubtless the papers have been full
Of comments on the opinions the sci
entistS have held of the effects of
the approach of the planet Mars to
its nearest point to the earth, about
the 18th Of this past December. Mars
will continue to occupy a position
highly influential in the affairs Of New
York and its vicinity during the first
four to five months of 1929, being felt
especially by the groups of people born
near the middle of December, through
out January, the second and third
weeks of March and the latter half of
June. The September and October
groups may experience a few of these
unusual tendencies, but If they will re-
mind themselves constantly that Mars
aspects affect the will and can be con-
trolled by average, ordinary self-analy-
sis, with its accompanying exercise of
inner discipline and the rule of in
tellect over emotion at all times, they
will find that these thrilling incidents
which appear on the surface of their
lives just now are not nearly as seri-
Gus as they seem. Without fail, most
of us. particularly those in the groups
mentioned just above, will be threat
ened with events bordering upon finan-
cial upsets, legal battles, illness ano
deaths. while public health generally
will suffer and fires and accidents and
violent occurrences of like nature viii
be unusually common and hard tc
avoid all during the first half of this
year. During the latter part of 1926
these unsettled aspects which occur are
more apt to work themselves out along
the lines of international disagreements
I've have been simmering over these
exciting vibrations for the past year