Aikin Home » Harvill Journal » Gleaned: News from Aug. 30, 1933

Gleaned: News from Aug. 30, 1933

Posted 05.26.06 at 8:25 AM

Gleaned from The Dinner Horn (The Afternoon Edition of the Paris Morning News) on Aug. 30, 1933:

» Inmates of the Choctaw County jail Tuesday ended a bread and water diet imposed when authorities discovered five hacksaw blades allegedly smuggled into the prison last Friday by a woman trusty.

» The Lamar County Chamber of Commerce voted to contribute $100 to the expense of promoting the building of Red River dam above Denison.

» The Texas Pacific Railway was advertising roundtrip fares to the Chicago World’s Fair for $17.50, slightly higher in sleepers.

» 3 Beall Brothers on the southwest corner of the Plaza was having a sale: summer dresses 98 cents, men’s summer union suits 25 cents, men’s dress shirts in fast colors 59 cents, and new cotton tweed suiting 25 cents per yard. (Read it and weep.)

» Mrs. Frank J. Dohoney announced the September opening of the Parisian Hat Shop in the Freese Building on the east side of the Plaza, formerly the site of Miss Willie Humphrey’s millinery business.

As an aside to this one, I remember going with my mother twice a year to purchase her hats from the millinery in either The Parisian or The Hollywood Shop; I can’t remember which, but it was on the south Plaza. A beautiful woman named Claudia, who later married Professor Edwards, who taught history at Paris High School, fitted the hats, which lined the east wall of the street floor.

» Mrs. Mae Rogers Smith advertised her services as “a teacher of piano” at her residence at 129 S. 26th Street, telephone 880.

I made history as her worst piano pupil because I wouldn’t practice. I had formerly been placed with Miss Thetis Williams by my hopeful parents, but we left her services at her suggestion, as I showed no promise whatsoever. Mae Rogers Smith took me on and even gave me simple parts to “play” in her recitals, which made Mother happy while sewing beautiful dresses for me to wear as I banged away at the keyboard. My brother played a musical instrument or two, but neither of us could play the piano worth a flit because we wouldn’t practice. Finally, our parents quit wasting money on lessons, to our great relief.

» Finally, there was this speculation:

Should the eighteenth amendment be repealed and no changes made in the present laws fixing duties on wines, the rates would be $6 a gallon on champagnes and $1.25 on all still wines up to those of 24 per cent alcoholic content. Wines of higher alcoholic content are classified as spirits, on which a duty of $5 a gallon would prevail.

I didn’t know that.

The good old days.

Reader comments

No one has commented on this article.

Want to comment on this article?

You must be registered and logged in order to leave comments on this site. Please register or log on the left side of this page in the "Toolbox" area. Once logged in, return to this page, and you will have access to the commenting form.