Thursday, April 15, 1937
THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
Italians Captured in Battle of Guadalajara
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AMERICANS
By Elmo
Scott Watson
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Father of the Cattle Trails
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Officers and men, members of one of the crack divisions seat by Mussolini to aia General Franco's rebel
■forces, who were taken prisoner by Madrid government troops in the bloody battle for Guadalajara mountain
passes. The loyalist forces, seasoned and toughened by the long seige of this bitter war, routed the Italians
completely, driving one division 30 miles back in a wild retreat.
“Big Three” of Cards’ Hurling Staff
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PARISIAN QUEEN
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Mlle. Jacqueline Jacolew, who has
been named “Miss Exposition,” to
rule as queen of the Paris Interna
Three star pitchers of the St. T.ouis Cardinals upon whom Manager tional exposition which is to open in
Frankie Frisch is basing his hopes in the National league pennant drive May. She was chosen from a num
this year. Left to right: Paul Dean, Lon Warneke, formerly of the ber of beauties in a contest spon
Chicago Cubs and Dizzy Dean, star of the league.
sored by the exposition.
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Device Makes Mental Diagnoses
ACADIAN PIONEER
Mrs. Mary Desire Verett, one
hundred and two, of Baldwin, La.,
who was born and has lived all her
life in her beloved Acadian country
or Land of Evangeline in south cen
tral Louisiana. Four of her seven
children are living. She has 152
grand, great-grand and great-great
grandchildren. She has never worn
glasses and can still thread a nee
dle and do a little sewing.
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Miss Veronica Lavigne, nurse at the Worcester, Mass., State hos
pital, is shown with the delicate apparatus now being used in making
diagnoses of mental cases. The machine, it is said, records changes in
the patient’s mental status and shows when improvement is being made.
Psychiatrists say that development of the machine may mark the turning
point in the fight against dementia praecox.
Collegians Sound Eloquent Thumb’s Death Knell
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Gone are the days when a flick of the thumb in the desired direction was the logical way to beg a lift. Here
you see charter members of the National Collegiate Hitch Hikers association demonstrating the method that
ousted thumbing from the repertoire of the well-bred hitch hiker. The organization started among the stu
dents of Long Beach junior college. Long Beach, Calif.
IF IT had not been for Joseph G.
- McCoy, there might never have
occurred that epic migration over
the cattle trails from Texas to the
north during the seventies and
eighties. In that case the history
of the Lone Star state—and the
whole West, for that matter—might
have been very different. McCoy,
a native of Springfield, Ill., was a
stockman and cattle buyer who
went to the raw little frontier town
of Abilene, Kan., soon after the
Civil war was over.
That conflict had ruined the cat
tlemen in Texas. Shut off from
the Northern markets by the Union
control of the Mississippi river,
their herds had increased enor
mously, but without a place to sell
the animals, they were compar
atively worthless. Then the Kan
sas Pacific railroad, which was
building west, reached Abilene and
McCoy was inspired with a wonder
ful idea.
If he could get the Texas drovers
to drive their herds north across
Indian territory to Abilene, grazing
them on the rich prairie grass as
they came, Abilene would be the
market place and shipping center
where Texas sellers and Chicago
and Kansas City buyers could
meet. Despite many obstacles, in
cluding the prevalent belief that
Texas beef was not as good as
that grown in the Middle West, Mc
Coy went about the job of making
his dream come true.
In July, 1867, he began raising
money to build a “shipping yard,”
a barn and office and to begin the
construction of a large, three-story
frame hotel for the accommodation
of Texas drovers and eastern buy
ers. His next task was to get
word to the cattlemen more than
400 miles away to the south. Al
though the time was short he man
aged to persuade enough of them
to make the experiment so that
they marketed 35,000 head of cattle
in Abilene that fall and received
approximately $15 a head for their
steers. Previous to that time steers
were selling for $5 a head in Texas.
The next year more than 75,000
cattle were marketed there. By
1871 that number had jumped to
120,000 and by the next year to
236,000. From that time on Texas
cattle poured north by the hundreds
of thousands over the original cattle
trail from the Red river to Abi
lene and other trails which were
laid out. Other Kansas "cow towns”
began to boom with activity as the
railroad was pushed farther west
and southwest and there was added
to our history that thrilling chap
ter when the cattleman was king.
And all of this was due to the vision
of one man—Joseph G. McCoy, the
“Father of the Cattle Trails.”
Mr. Currier and Mr. Ives
‘THEY gave Americans of their
— day the equivalent of the news
reels of today. They were the pic
torial historians of contemporary
American life a century ago when
newspapers contained little or no
picture material except an oc
casional fashion print.
When a steamboat blew up, a
great fire swept a city or some
other disaster occurred, Mr. Cur
rier and Mr. Ives immediately put
out a colored picture of the event
with plenty of action in it. When
the United States was at war, they
issued splendid battle pictures with
plumed generals on prancing horses
(and plenty of gory detail as to dead
and wounded soldiers). There were
pictures of horse races and other
sporting events, there were pictures
of swift clipper ships and pictures
of the first transcontinental trains
running amidst Indians and buffalo.
There were highly moral pictures
there were even “comic strips”
—caricatures of life among the ne
groes, called "Darktown Comics.”
It all started back in 1830 when
young Nathaniel Currier, working
as an apprentice to John Pendle
ton, who had returned from Europe
with the new art of lithography, be
gan thinking of setting up his own
business. So he went to New York
and started as a lithographer in
partnership with a young man
named Stoddard. This partnership
lasted only a year but in 1835 Cur
rier began again. He soon built up
a profitable business but it wasn’t
until 1850 when James A. Ives be
came his partner that fame and
fortune came to them.
For 30 years Mr. Currier and Mr.
Ives were “printmakers to the
American people" and Currier and
Ives prints of one sort or another
were to be found on the walls of
virtually every American home. In
1880 Currier retired with a fortune
but the flrm continued with a son
of the founder in his place. In
1888 machine color printing was ap
plied to their product and even
greater numbers of their pictures
flooded the country.
In recent years Currier and Ives
prints have become "Americana.”
Where once these prints sold from
six cents to $3, they are now sell
ing for anywhere from $20 to $500.
And one of them recently brought
$3,0001
Items of Interest
AROUND
the HOUSE
Removing Tea Stains—Tea and
coffee stains can sometimes be
removed from china cups by rub
bing them with a damp cloth
dipped in baking soda.
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Use Baking Sheets — Baking
powder biscuits and cookies rise
better and brown more evenly on
baking sheets than they do in
pans.
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To Remove a Tight Lid—Tie a
piece of string round the tin two
or three times, just below the lid;
then push a pencil between the
string and the tin, twist the pen
cil over, and the resulting pres
sure will release the lid.
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A Supper Special—One cup left
over cooked vegetables, four eggs,
half-teaspoonful salt, dash of pep
per, half-cup grated cheese. Break
the eggs and beat the yolks and
whites together. Stir in the vege
tables. Add pepper and salt. Put
in greased baking dish. Cover
with grated cheese and bake in
hot oven ten minutes.
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Useful Velvet—If you are mak
ing anything of velvet do not
throw away the pieces of material
left over. Save them for using as
polishers for your black-leaded
stoves and for your shoes. You’ll
get a real mirror-like shine on
both if you rub them with velvet
after the usual polish has been
applied.
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Shining Saucepans—Aluminum
saucepans that have become dis
colored inside can be made to look
like new by boiling in them water
to which a tablespoonful of vine
gar and some apple parings or
lemon rinds have been added.
Cleaning Paintwork — Glossy
paintwork should never be washed
with soap and water, as it usually
leaves a smeary surface. A tea
spoonful of turpentine in warm
water will make the cleaning a
simple matter and will not
scratch the paint.
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Stuffed Shoulder of Lamb—One
shoulder of lamb, two tablespoons
chopped onion, three tablespoons
cooking fat, two cups soft bread
crumbs, one teaspoon chopped
mint, one tablespoon salt and one
eighth teaspoon pepper. Have the
shoulder blade removed. This
Who Are the Rich?
CIR ERNEST CASSEL, who
2 was enormously rich and
influential, left this message to
the world:
“Most people put too much
belief in the theory that wealth
brings happiness. Perhaps I,
being well-to-do, may be en
titled to say that it is not so.
The things that are most worth
having are things that money
cannot buy. I am a lonely man.”
This bears out the Cingalese
proverb, which says, “He
which is happy is rich, but it
does not follow that he who is
rich is happy.”—Lord Baden-
Powell.
to the Housewife
leaves a pocket for the stuffing.
Wipe meat. Fry onion in fat,
add bread crumbs, mint, celery
leaves, salt and pepper. Mix well.
Fill pocket with stuffing. Then
roast.
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Removing Grease Stain s—
Grease stains can be removed
from cement walks and porches
with a poultice made by dissolv
ing four ounces of trisodium phos
phate in a gallon of water and
mixing in whiting until a paste
the consistency of mortar is ob
tained and plastering a layer of
this over the stained area. When
dry remove with a trowel or putty
knife.
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A Mirror Brightens — Many
housekeepers have found that a
hanging mirror will often brighten
up a dark corner.
WNU Service.
Haste Versus Hurry
There is a distinction between
haste and hurry—hurry adding to
rapidity the element of confusion.
The eager expectancy of youth
is the source of so much enthusi
asm for a better world.
You can’t make dreams come
true by remaining asleep.
Peace, to any of the great pow
ers, seems to involve its own dom
ination over the others.
A trained mind deserves the
companionship of a cultured
heart.
Unsatisfying Retribution
Observant men have made up
their minds to this: Retribution
is seldom adequate.
A man of culture is respected
for it. Don’t be afraid of acquir
ing it, only be sure of getting
enough.
Good deeds are scarcer than
bad ones, but one evil act will
keep people talking longer than a
hundred good ones.
We are all busy seeing the other
fellow’s duty; and generally it is
a fact that he isn’t doing it.
Self-denial is good for everyone
notwithstanding each enforcement
of it nearly ruins one’s temper.
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