Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-21
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three OF the trees, but still has
. couple Of them.
He presented one OF the fruit to
James Lotus, cafe manager, a native
Of Greece.
Lotus remembered having seen the
1fRit In his native country.
*st Is the Bermagot, sometimes
called the princes Pear"
II is a variety Of orange. Round
ish. pearshaped.
in the manufacture of a popular
perfume.
According to Lotus, il is cultivated
in Pargs and Preyesa, in Greece, in
the valley of Messina and around
Taormina, Sicily.
LARGE QUANTITIES Of the fruit
are shipped from those sections to
New York City, along with citron,
lemons and oranges. And dis
tributed yer the country.
The pulp goes into preserves, jel-
lies and CONNECTIONS.
The peel, after the endocsrp has
been removed is pressed into a form
in two different compartments, n
a little larger than the other.
IL thus forms a receptacle which
is used as q snuff box.
Snuff tobacco deposited therein
receives in a few hours a delicious
fragrance.
Which reminds US. Is there still
a market for snuff? And who
buys it?
And where do the snuff users, IL
there are any in the Valley, get the
wood from which TO form the snuff
brushes?
SOMEONE wrote a story having
20 do with the Texas-Mexican bor-
der.
The story went into the story
market It found its way into a
magazine that specializes in that
particular kind of story.
A Donna editor read the story,
saX the Donna News.
$50 found a paragraph that said
Something about "the desert trail
between Harlingen and Browns
WILLIE
The editor exploded. Or at least
the News said the editor did.
A letter with some photographs Of
the desert trail between Harlingen
and Brownsville went to the pub
fishers.
Came a letter from the publisher.
He said: IL thank you for your in
terest in writing us about conditions
near Brownsville at the present
eime and in sending photographs to
make the matter even more clear.
Both letter and photographs will be
called TO Mr.. Maule's (editor-in-
chief attention upon his return
from Europe
Where. no doubt, the matter will
end.
so THE EXPLOSIVE or exploding
editor Of Donna may be consoled
somewhat, might he be reminded Of
what some fellow once said:
Il don't care what the newspapers
say about me; I don't car if they
call me crook and horsethief. I just
want to know that they have men
toned my name"
Meaning e say. there's something
here to write about. And the world
is the fiction writer's "meat,' and
his descriptive powers are limited
only to his vocabulary and his Rbil-
ity to make use Of the dictionary.
KING GEORGE and Queen Mary
are soon to learn Of the Lower Rio
Grande Valley Of Texas.
So declares the Mission Times.
Lady Edward Spencer Churchill
Of England was a visitor at Shary-
land a few days ago.
v John Shary will look after the
shipment, which will go forward
from ~Sharyland.
The shipment will consist OF
grapefruit, the pick of the famous
Sharyland orchards.
Lady Churchill was q breakfast
guest at Sharyland.
She told Mr.. Shary that oily q
few years ago grapefruit was un-
known 10 England.
But its introduction has been had,
its popularity spreading.
But they've had no grapefruit
ike this" she declared.
And. says tho Times, she willingly
accepted a second helping.
THE HOUSTON PoST-DlSPATCH
comments on tho Valley as an at
traction that draws conventions. 1t
says:
sThe Lower Rio Grande Valley,
little more than a wilderness %
ears ago, is attaining fame as a
onvention center.
The number and Importance OF
conventions meeting in the delta
district grows with each new season.
The Valleys appeal as a convention
renter is especially strong during
the fall and winter months. The
sight Of ~ripening fruit and tender
growing vegetables is appealing to
travellers from areas where frost
and freeze have blighted the land
The Texas Newspaper Publishers
association meeting here brought
the Post Dispatch comment.
The Valley is always glad TO en-
tertain visiting newspspermen- For
an over the state they have been
very kind TO the Valley. They
hsIpcd greatly IN flood control
legislation a few years ago. For
which the Valley is indebted to
them.
STARE CoUNTN'S first water
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