davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-03-09

LIVERPOOL. - Three Communist
members Of the city council were
elected by the police because they
we're preventing legislation.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-03-09

as.-Ady. II.
Golden West fatted fowls. fat, ten
der, Juicy. Arrive Fridays and Mon
days. M. A. Crisham, phone llIo.-
Adv. Q.
Mrs. W. c. Ryan bridge instruction
For appointment phone ooo.-Ao'. .
p.rk cIeared-Workmen Thursday
started clipping the heavy growth Of
weeds that has sprung up in the
Missouri Pacific municipal park IN
recent weeks. Ar attempt IS 20 be
made 70 secure q heavy stand OF
grass in the space. following which
benches will be placed there Tor
visitors 70 the park.
Dirt Track CompIeted-Work on
the dirt track at the local high
school on which the county inter-
s~coIastic league meets will be run
off. and over which Charles Paddock
will dash in the junior college re-
LAYS next Friday, has been completed
and the turf is in excellent condi-
ton, school officials say.
Monthly Payment Loans 20 buy,
build. improve or r~efinance resi-
dence or business property. Prompt
service. Todd e. Underwood, Insur-
ance and Loans Spivey Building,
4O7 Eleventh st. Adv. If.
To Start HERE. r. Robinson,
pilot for the Mexican Aviation com
pany Of Tampico, is expected TO
start from New York Saturday in a
new Fairchild motored f~ive-pasenger
airplane which will be used in the
Mexico service. He Is expected here
March Ii.
Surf Fishing now good near Surf
side Camp. % miles north Of Point
Isabel. Ferry Adj now making regu-
far trips from Point Isabel on the
odd hour. daily, commencing at z
a. m. Shelter at reasonable rates at
Surfside Camp.-Adv. 40
DIckey's Old Reliable Eye Water
eools, heals and strengthens sore,
weak, tired eyes. All druggists Csc
Office Enlarged-Workmen Friday
began the task Of charging the Of
flee and display space Of the Pate
son Motor company, local Ford deal
ers, at Eigntn ana elizabeth streets-
A partition that has formerly d.
vided the front % the building into
two parts is being torn down and
the whole is 70 he painted and fresh
ened up. Drew Patteson, head Of the
company, said.
Masonic Notice - Called
Ia communication Rio Grande
IN Lodge No. 81, A. F. a A.
~KGNm NJ. Masonic Temple. this
NN evening at 1880. Work in
M. nj. degree. Refresh
ments. Visiting brethren fraternalIy
invited. r. d. Howard, W. NJ. w
w. Ball. Secay.
ChiIdren's Hats. $3.50 and $500. at !
Amaya's Millinery. Adams street.
Adv.-9.
School Kids Itch vanfshes after a
few days b. applying a piec. OF cot
ton, saturated in Imperial Eczema
Remedy, 70 affected parts at bed
time. All druggists are authorized
20 refund -Our money II il fails
Adv. (71
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-03-09
CARD OF THANKS

To our friends and the Woodmer
Circle Of Brownsville. who 81
thougatfully comforted us in our sad
bereavement we wish to express our
deepest appreciation and our sin.
cerest thanks for the beautiful floral
offerings.
Mrs. Regina r. Villarreal,
Mrs. Julia j. V~illarreal,
Miss Antonio Villarreal.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. V. Deleado.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. ". Lozano.
Mr. and Mrs Faustino V~iIlarreal.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-03-09
CITY BRIEFS

When You Think OF good eats and
drinks you think Of the Star Pharm-
acy, opposite hospital. MeAllen. Tex
as.-Ady. IL.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-03-09
Packing Plants
Sharyland
Mercedes
Harlingen
Home Office:
TO OUR MEMBERS:

TO OUR MEMBERS:
We are enclosing herewith check
for full settlement on all Gull fruit for
the entire season.
At the beginning of the season, at
a meeting in the Sharyland Plant, we
announced that we had made ar
engagements with a canning company
to handle all Of our culls on a basis Of
one (lc) cent per pound, at the plants,
and thought at that time that our trou-
bles IN handling culls were settled.
However, we found shortly after the
season opened that it was necessary
for the Exchange to step in and fl
nance the canning of the Gull grape
fruit, which we did to a very large ex-
tent, and accumulated several thous-
ands cases of canned grapefruit, some
OF which is still on hand unsold. How
ever, feel that the value is in the prod
uct and are renting to our growers
as if the canned fruit we now have on
hand was sold at a price which would
net one (1c) per pound for culls. Prac-
tically all of the culls were handled in
this way, although some were sold to
outside buyers at a slightly higher
price which accounts for the fact that
we are able to make returns on this
Gull grapefruit netting slightly more
than n (1c) cent per pound.
We are sure that this demonstrates
to you that the Exchange is constantly
working for your interests. This ought
d. nan
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-03-09

Masonic Notice - Called
communication Rio Grande
Lodge No. 81, A. F. a A.
NJ. Masonic Temple. this
evening ut 1880. Work in
M. Nj. degree. Refresh
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-03-09

Golden West fatted fowls, fat, ten
der, Juicy. Arrive Fridays and Mon
days. NJ. A. Grisham, phone ITS
Adv. ..
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-03-09

School Kids Itch vanishes after a
few days b. applying a piec. Of cot
ton, saturated in Imperial Eczema
Remedy, 70 affected parts at bed
time. All druggists are authorized
20 refund .-Our money Il il falls
Adv. (7)
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-03-09

ments. Visiting brethren fraternally
invited. r. d. Howard, ". NJ. W
w. Ball. Sec'y.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-03-09

ChiIdren's Hats. $50 and $500. at
Amaya's Millinery, Adams street.
Adv.-9.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-03-09

Mrs. W. c. Ryan bridge instruction.
For appointment phone 55o.-Adv. D.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-03-09

Surf Fishing now good near Surf
side Camp, 20 miles north Of Point
Isabel. Ferry Adj now making regu-
far trips from Point Isabel on the
odd hour. daily, commencing at z
a. m. Shelter at reasonable rates at
Surfside Camp.-Adv. As
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-03-09

DIckey's Old Reliable Eye Water
eools, heals and strengthens sore,
weak, tired eyes. All druggists Csc.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-03-09

To Start HERE. r. Robinson,
pilot for the Mexican Aviation com
pany Of Tampico, is expected to
start from New York Saturday in a
new Fairchild motored five-pasenger
airplane which will be used in the
Mexico service. He Is expected here
March Il.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-11-09

The young nutrition ex,
perts will now give Kitty proper
food They are recording Kitty's
weight just as theirs was recorded
in the Red Cross nutrition class.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-11-09

of in
Floods and nado have been the destruction
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-30
The Passing of Summer

Summer is drawing to a close;
the first Autumn days are not far
distant; the four-footed tribes are
preparing the winters food supplies;
birds are practicing for the great
migration soon to come; the appear
ance of the first autumnal flowers
and, above all, a certain indefinable
feeling in the air makes man and
beast aware of the changing season.
The Dog Days, so feared by the
ancients, are at an end. The solar
orb is dropping back toward the
equator, lengthening the MONDAY
shadows and shortening the eve
nings. Arcturus, burning summer
star. shines lower in the western sky
on each succeeding night. In the
late hours the Pleiades peep above
the eastern horizon, heralding the
approach of the fall and winter con-
stellations.
Since creation the passing of Sum-
mer has been accompanied by a
feeling of sadness, and feeling of
thankfulness to the great Invisible
Intelligence for life, for peace and
for happiness.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-30
Labor Day

Colorado was the first state to
legalize a labor holiday. by enacting
a law in 1887 setting aside the first
Monday in September as Labor Day.
New York, Massachusetts, and New
Jersey soon followed with like legis-
lation and today this holiday Is eel
ebrated throughout the United States
and its territorial possessions.
In these Al years, Labor has made
tremendous strides. By taking u
look backward over the last four
decades and surveying Labor's pro-
gress one is enabled to vision a still
greater future for those who work
with the energy which science and
invention ever increasingly are max
ing available to industry.
So it seems in place TO suggest
that in celebrating Labor Day, we
should give thought to the tre-
mendous changes the future prom
Uses and what 1t will mean to our
children's children. Organized La
Dor has brought about many of the
best laws on our statute books and
established the standard of wage
that governs nearly all men. As
Labor prospers so the nation pros
pers-and no more.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-30
The St. Louis Miracle

Solomon was right when he said,
There is nothing new under the
sun" However true this may be.
the manifestation of certain pheno-
niena as scientists would say often
startles US. We never expected to
see the day when the Democratic
party anywhere in this fair land
of ours would nominate a colored
man for Congress on the regular
Democratic ticket. The southern
statesmen who speak for that party
will of course not only read that
colored man out of the party, but
all OF the st. Louis leaders who are
responsible for this heresy. Shades of
Calhoun, Robert z. Lee, Ben Till
man and Woodrow Wilsonl We are
living in that strange age which the
Bible foretold when spears should
be turned into pillow shares and wars
should be no more. All these
should come to pass before the end
of time predicted by the Prophet.
This time must be at hand. It
would have seemed as impossible as
did the prediction of the comedian
coming true when elephants should
roost in trees and rivers run up hill.
Although the Democrats of st. Louis
have conceived this as a bold master
stroke to defeat Congressman Dyer
of Dyer Anticipating Bill fame, II
is foredoomed to failure. 1t is just
not in the cards for eolored America
TO believe that the Democratic party
will elect a colored man to Congress.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-30
First Man in Africa
$1,000 Years Ago

NEW YORK.-Africa Is given as
the scene where mankind originated,
in report by Alonzo w. Pond,
Director of tho Logan African Ex-
petition of Beloit College, of which
a resume is published in the New
York Times.
The expedition, according to Mr..
Pond. found the skeleton of a HUI
man child dating back to $4,000 B.
c., in Algeria, Northern Africa, and
also remains OF long extinct animals
such as giant OK. measuring 81
inches between the tips of the horns
Mr.. Pond believes that prehistoric
man populated Africa and then mi
grated to Europe across the land
which once Joined the two continents
of Europe and Africa before the
Mediterranean Sea separated Gibral-
tar from Italy and from North AT.
RIGA.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-30
Famous Animals
Do You Know Them?

/. Who was the Winged Horse?
2. Who said "Nevermore"?
3. Who once had a fight with a
Tar Baby?
4. What unfortunate reptile swal-
lowed an alarm clock?
5. What lions acquired fame by
not eating a man?
6. What was unusual in the ap-
pearance of Cerberus?
Z. Who was Bucephalus?
s. What horse was once worth a
kingdom?
Q. What well-shod cat outwitted
a King?
10. Who killed Cock Robin?
Answers
/. Pegasus emblematic of poetry.
2. Poe's Raven.
3. Br'er Rabbit of the Uncle
Remus stories.
4. The crocodile in "Peter Pan"
6. Those who did not eat Daniel
6. According to Greek Mythology,
he was the three-headed dog who
guarded the gates of Hades.
7. The warhorse of Alexander the
Great.
s. The horse which Richard Ill
wanted and did not get.
9. Puss-in- Boots.
10 81" said the Sparrow, with
my bow and arrow, killed Cock
Robin"
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-30
DR.. Charles A. Tindley,
Pastor OF Largest Negro
Church

From the, position of a jsnitor
and a class leader to that of pastor
of the largest Negro church in the
world is long stretch. Charles A
Tindley, pastor of Tindley Temple
Methodist Episcopal church, Philadel-
phia, has made such an ascent, and
has done it through merit.
"The evangelical aspect of DR..
Tindley's ministry is too well known
for comment here. In style, his
preaching is inimitable; in effective
ness, irresistible; in results, remark
ably fruitful.
"Tall and towering in stature, cor
respondingly magnanimous in soul, he
is superintendent in Christian Chart
able labors. He is in universal de-
mand as a singer and composer, as
orator and preacher, and gives him
self without stint to the mission OF
the ministry.
"Such a ministry draws multitudes
of men to him. After twenty-six
years i'm one church, his congregation
continues to overflow. Hundreds
are turned away each Sabbath. More
than 1000 names are on the church
roll; more than 1000 Sunday School
scholars. 200 class and unit leaders,
Epworth League, brotherhood and in
Vulnerable auxilaries comprise this
potent Christian social institution
one of the country's most influential
churches, with an annual budget of
5000.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-30
We Need Everything

Hoover and Smith devoted long
paragraphs of their speeches to bids
for the farm. wet and dry vote.
Mr.. Hoover used up one or two
extra speeches designed to get the
good will of California and the
West He said he favored the Colo
RADIO river dam
And yet there are colored folk
who say-'we do not want any spe-
cial pledges from Hoover and
Smith"
The Negro constitutes special
group. We don't like this situation.
but we must confront the facts and
stop theorizing.
We're the only people who have
separate cars. separate regiments,
jim crow restaurants. group schools
and in many places no vote.
A man can get along fairly well
without a drink of whiskey, but he
can't get along. at all If he Is barred
from federal and state jobs because
he's colored.
Farmers can live without govern
ment aid, but Negroes can't expect
TO unless Uncle Sam will halt lynch
ing and restore the ballot:
Hoover and Smith ought to
pledge Negroes more than farmers
and wine bibbers. We need It,
Some OF us are going to have 1t Oh
else support neither of them.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-30
By Harry Fl. Pace

Be careful what you sign, no mat
ter who urges you to sign it. The
"IT' may be a perfectly innocent
looking little piece of paper, which
may subsequently turn out to be your
complete undoing.
The important part of thing that
is signed, is not the part which is
read, but is generally that part,
which, because it is small type or
on the next page, or for some other
reason is not read. That is really
why it is in small type, or why it
occupies the position it does - 1t is
earnestly hoped by somebody that
you will not read it and too often
we do what it is hoped we will do.
The safe plan is to read over every
document carefully before you sign
it, and if there is the slightest doubt
in your mind as to what it means
then don't sign it until that doubt
is cleared up. And generally, the
way to clear up the doubt is not by
asking the man who wants you to
sign, but by asking somebody else.
Of course, that somebody else ought
to be such a person as would know
what is meant or intended.
For years and years Negroes have
been robbed, in the South of their
possessions, because of the preva-
ience of the use of "the mark" among
illiterates and even among some lit
crates. Unscrupulous and designing
white men have entered into SEEM
ingly innocent transactions with a
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-30
How Many Negroes Have
Served In Congress

Two Negroes have served in the
Senate-Hiram X. Revels, senator
from Mississippi, in 1S70-1871, and
Blanche K. Bruce, senator from the
same state for the term 1S75-1SS1.
Twenty-one Negroes have served
in the House of Representatives
The states which have had one or
more colored congressman are South
Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama,
Georgia, Mississippi, Virginia. Louisi-
ana and Florida. Most of these men
served in Congress during the days
when Northern carpetbaggers we're
in political power in the South.
All the Negroes who served in Con-
lima, served the longest-l0 years.
The last Negro in Congress- was
George II. White, of North Carolina,
who retired March 4, 1901.
All the Ngroes who served in Con-
gress were Republicans except JEFF
ferson Long, Democrat from Geor-
gia, who took his seat January 16,
1871, and served until March 3, of
the same year.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-30
Black Prophet Predicts
End Of the World

NEW YORK CITY.--Athlyi, Shep-
herd of GaathIy, said to be the head
of the new Afro-Athlican Church,
2O2 West 63rd ST., arrived here last
week to prophecy the destruction Of
the earth by the tail of comet still
undiscovered. The prophet of evil
tidings claims to have the facts Of
the coming disaster direct from an
angel named Douglass.
In 1921, when Athlyi is said to
have been known as Robert Rogers
and to have been just plain laborer
working in a wire mill at Perth AM
boy, N. j., he claims that an angel
began bothering him to write Bible.
Under the revealed name, "the
Holy Piby." Athlyi had the book
printed. Thereupon he is said to have
bought himself special black hat
with red polka dots in the brim and
became a prophet. He now claims a
membership of 5000 for his church.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-30
Learn to Live


Il is high time that black men
became interested in the methods of
living a long time.
All opponents of science and good
health tell us that one of the great
est enemies of life is food, not the
use of it but the abuse. Overeat-
ing sets up poisons in the human
system, lowers our powers of resist
ance and makes us easy prey for
deadly diseases. The death rate of
our people is very much higher than
that of white people. We make elab-
crate preparations for death, but
scorn the problems of living, scott at
laws of nature, close our eyes to the
facts of life, and in consequence we
die out before our time. We are
great meat-eaters, eminently carniv-
orous characters, packing our sys-
TENS with the rotten flesh of dis
eased animals, and then when ma
ture complains with aches and pains
we say that we merely have cramps,
stomachache or the collie. Thousands
of people have died of appendicitis.
gastritis, ptomaine poisoning and
acute indigestion because they
thought they merely had cramp.
Science could have saved them and
knowledge in the beginning would
have prevented the cause but ignor
ance, hardheadedness and fogyism
have caused many Of us to depart
this life before our time. Fathers
and mothers of black boys should
prepare themselves and their chill
dren for long and useful lives of SER
vice. Over-eating and poor food is
a menace to our lives.
Sanitation and ventilation are 9TH
or important factors to be consid-
cred in building up a strong and vital
race. Sunlight and fresh air kill
germs and expel impurities from the
human system. but we are very much
afraid of draft and closed win
dows and drawn curtains customary
in our neighborhoods prove that the
healing power of the sun is discon-
tinued by our people. Light and
air will prolong human life and give
us vitality to throw off contagion
and sometimes infection.
Other races are protecting the next
generation with insurance and bus
mess opportunities. ave are not
thinking of our children but are eat
ing and sitting ourselves to death
and developing emaciated and weak
ly children because we are afraid of
light and air. Life is a wonderful
thing and black people should pre-
pare themselves to live sweeter and
fuller lives.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-30
Always Be Careful What You Sign

Negro who had acquired property or
who was getting ahead, and, after
making payment of the small sums
involved, asked for receipt. Very
often that receipt" later turned up
bearing the Negroes signature or his
mark" as promissory note Tor
large amount. And in Southern
court, no defense could possibly avail
But the usual plan is to await the
death of the Negro and to present
notes and accounts against his es-
tate. |, personally, knew one case
in Georgia of a colored man who
during his lifetime was known as
the wealthiest man in his section.
He owned ten square miles OF land,
operated big farm, store, a gin
merry and raised hundreds of bales
of cotton each year. He also paid
cash for everything he bought: But
when he died every person in the
county, with whom he had ever dealt
presented claim after claim against
his estate which the courts of the
county sustained, and his entire es-
tate was swept away.
But the danger to the average man
is not along this line; it is in the
making of chattel mortgages, the en-
dorsing of promissory notes for
friends, and the hurried signing OF
a receipt laid down before you.
Every one of these things is dan
gerous. And if you would accumu.
late an estate, or save for a rainy
day, be sure you know what you sign
The way to know is to read it over
carefully before you sign.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-30
By Eustacc Gay


Most colored people, know
more about this group than ! do
about any other,-have very faint
conception of what it means to an
swer business mail promptly. There
seems to be an unwritten law which
dictates that we "sleep" on our mail
about a month before making any
kind of reply.
| have in mind, as ! write,
a Negro musician of nationwide
reputation who takes from two
to three months to answer a let
ter as to the terms upon which
she would be willing to come to
a city and give a concert.
On more than one occasion, to my
knowledge, have known that the fol
lowing schedule, or something much
like it, has had to be observed in or
der to secure this star for concert.
First, Mr.. A, of let us say,
Jerusalem, Alabama, will write
her asking her terms. No answer
for two or three weeks.
He will then write again, sug-
costing that perhaps the first let
ter went astray, and so on. No
answer.
His next step is to get in
touch with somebody living in
the same city as the star, and
request his or her good offices
in securing a response.
This person so pressed into
service will write, to get no an
swer for week, and finally, af-
ter making two or three fruit
less telephone calls, catch the
star at her home and receive the
comforting assurance that the
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-30
Facts and Fancies

FIRST letter had indeed been re-
eeived and turned over to her
manage.
Eventually, after eight or ten
week have expired, Mr.. A. will
receive a letter giving the de-
sired information.
This is, perhaps, an extreme case.
l would hate to believe that this star
is typical not alone of the members
of her particular profession, but of
all successful colored people. But
the above narrative is true. Prompt
attention to mail of all kinds in these
days of typewriters, and cheap tele-
phonic and telegraphic communica-
ton, ought to be easy. No longer
is it necessary to write letter like
this in longhand:
Dear Cal;
now take my pen in hand to
write you these few lines, hoping
that the reaches of them will
find your home circle in good
health, as they leaves me. Uncle
John is dead, and hope when
these few lines reaches you that,
they will find you the same.
Yours Affeetionatcly,"
cal"
A letter conveying any such fond
wishes can now be given more de-
tached and .impersonal air, if it is
written on a machine, or hand de-
livered by a messenger boy. bliss
fully innocent of its cheering con-
tents.
But to be serious, if such is pos
sible, we ought to be more prompt
in answering mail of all kinds. re-
gard it as a sign of intelligence when
recipients of mail answer it promptly.