Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-23
Herald Files of MANY Years Ago
Tell What People Were Doing
Writer Tells What Glance Through Pages Shows Going on Here And
Elsewhere in World

ing told how, clothed in full uni
form, but unarmed save for a light
cane, he stood before an eastern
palace aid kept a bowling, surging
mob at bay single handed"
Really. How splendid"
"Oh, he thought nothing Of 1t.
Did 1t every night for years"
Horses Dangerous
The clerk Of the Miller hotel tells
an amusing tale Of how five Mexi-
cans registered at the Miller hotel
under names OF the most prominent
fedral and constitutional officers.
The two factors were at the time In
deadly conflict, and Mexico was in
the throes Of a terrific civil war.
II was decided that the men who
registered at the Brownsville hotel
were Matamoros officers on a lark.
Persons bewail the fact that air
planes and automobiles cause 50
many accidents. A notice in a
Herald dated March 9 shows that
even horses wre dangerous.
y. r. Roetzel of the Shaw plan
tations was painfully injured and
badly bruised late Saturday after
noon nea the Kirby place on the
road to Little Indiana. when his
horse fell with his rider partly I'M
der him. Mr.. Roetzel was given
medical treatment, and is said to
be resting easily today. His chest
and shoulders gave him severe
pain"
The Photo-Play association, of
Wilkes Barre. Pa, advertises in the
Herald telling the world about the
phenomenal salaries writer's Of movie
scenarios make.
Owing 10 the large number OF
new motion picture theaters which
are being opened throughout the
county, there is offered to the men
and women of today a new profess
sion. namely that of writing moving
picture plays. Producers are paying
from SIS to $50 for each scenario
accepted, upon which they can
build a photoplay. One man earn
ed $500 in six months. No liter
airy ability is required"
In these days Of modern compe-
tition, the salaries are much, much
larger, but one point still predomi-
mates. No literary ability is re-
quired.
Storm Recorded
r. w. Stevenson, OF Raymondville,
a visitor in Brownsville March
10.
Allen. the Jeweler, has a large ad-
vertisement in the Herald on the
sane day stating that "One year
ago today I became established in
business in the city Of Brownsville"
High winds and rain storms
March IL. 1914, put the Herald in a
tight place.
The Herald Is forced to 90 to
press this afternoon without It's
regular telegraph news service ow-
ing TO the destruction Of high
winds this morning Of six miles Of
telegraph wires north Of Kings
vile, also putting telephone wires
out Of commission.
I'm the event that wire commu-
nication is restablished late this af-
ternoon and the news received by
telegraph warrants it. the Herald
will publish an extra edition, getting
il on the streets by the newsboys
as early as possible"
The files show that an extra
edition was not published.
international complication arise
March II.
Too Many Shots
Alleging that shots rave fire.
luently been fired across the Rio
irande from the American side,
General Pablo Gonzalez, military
commander in Matamoros has
lied a complained regarding the
acts with American consul
!. II. Johnson, Consul Johnson has
-eferred the complaint to Captain
Kirby Walker. senior officer in
Of American troops on
his side.
1T is claimed in Matamoros the
ihots are fired across the river by
PERSONS who are not sympathizers
If the constitutionalists and that
oss Of life may occur as a result
If them"
With a final story about the
condition of banks we will sound
he gong and drop the curtain.
Louis Cobolini. chairman Of the
v aterways committee OF the
Brownsville chamber Of commerce,
las Just completed statistics show
ng that the three banks Of
Brownsville have increased greatly
their combined resources since
asst September. Mr.. Cobolini states
hat last September the combined
'esurces Of the b n ks were
g SOC. 1000 in round numbers. and
ate statements Of their financial
conditions indicate that the banks
rave added a quarter OF a million
TO their resources since that
ime. making the total Of s3.75 900"
All Valley banks combined were
expected to show more than
1000, 900. including the Brownsville
deposits. Compare these figures
With the latest bank reports.
AS we promised a couple of
paragraphs above. here is the
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