The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, October 13, 1908, Page FIVE, Image 5
KING CORN.
Various Uses of a Most Wonderful
Cereal.
~.grain1 t 1 corn1 t+ iiil in_ .:t wrap1 -
pings of an Egyptian iiminy whiichl
had lai(d ill the tom) for f-rtV, ren
turies, was planted and grew illo a
great cornstalk. wit,h spreading leav
es and heavy golden ears. Dluring
that period ot (juiescence imore than
one hundred generations of men had
lived and toiled and gone to their
long rest, yet the life-spark in that
kernel of corn survived, as by a mir
acle, and burst forth anew after four
thousand years of slumber.
Scarcely less wonderful does it ap
pear that the very paper this article
is printed on may be imbued with
corn stalk fibers, the new material
that is shortly to take the place of
wood for paper making.
Are you going to the woods for
sport ? Ten to one the smokeless pow
der of your shotgun contains a cellu
lose aitrate made from corn. Thus it
may happen that the ducks you blaze
away at were fattened from the same
field of corn that yields the power to
drive the shot into them. If you car
ry a camera your films are probably
coated with cillodion that was made
from corn pith. If you are touring
in an auto your lubricating oil is
made from corn, if you have the kind
that (ies not um: and if von have
the latest machine that explodes de
natured alcohol instead of gasoline,
your alcohol is practically certain to
be made of corn.
Corn is the most omnipresent thing
in the universe. Go whcre you will
you can not get away from it. As the
moving picture machine flashes its
hundreds of thousands of films on
the screen little do we think that
these miles of picture films would
not operate without sensitizing ma
terial based on cellulose, obtained
mainly from the humble corn stalk.
The -average man, if asked if he
could get along without corn, would
imhesitatingly answer yes. He would
bethink himself only of the hot John
ny cake or corn muffin, or corn in
some. form as a breakfast food, or
possibly of popcorn. But how his
mouth would have lengthened at the
corners if told 'that he must pay an
extra cent or two for every starched
thing he wears if the laundry may
not use corn starch; that his soap
will rise' in price without corn oil
from the glucose factory; that cheap
silk ties must be no more because
'the cellulose adulteration is based on
corn pith ! Tell. him that his mnucilage
bottle will cost him ten cents ins'tead
of five if gum arabic is used instead
of detrind, made of corn. Remind
him that he must go back to'molasses
for table syrup, and that candies will
be both 'more costly .and less palat
able if deprived of the grape sugar
or glueose contents.
If this average man still thinks he
c.an get along without corn, point out
to him that the very great na~v of
this country would be fatally weak
ened 'in battle but for the linings of
corn pith in the vessels' hulls. When
a shot penetrates the armor and lets
in the water th'e corn pith swells and
.fills <the hole. A navy without corn
pith would be as'helpless as an old
f,ashionaed Spanish armada in a mod
efn sea fight. Remind the man also
'that the animals of the country rely
principally o~n corn for' food, and that
beef, pork. poultryv and dairy pro
ducts would double ian price but for
cheap corn feed.
Indian corn is as remarkable for
the tremendous qua.ntities in whie.li
it is grown as for its novel and pe
culiar uses. In 1906 ,there were ac
tually three billion bushels grown in
the United States-enough to feed
the entire human family for tshree
years, if they. were confined to a
corn diet. Most of this eorn went in
to pork, poultry. beef and through
the useful cow, into dairy produets.
The aereage planted in the year
quoted was a hundred million, or
more than an aere for each m:an. wo
man and child in the country. The
OI0(20 or i18r tIlanl su !'1'.en't to
payv the national debt.
The corn crop of the United States
is worth twelve itimes as much as the
prod. -t of the gold mines: it ia three
times as large as the productio~n of
all the gold mines of the world. The
entire cap)ital and surplus of the six
thousand and odd national banks in
the United States exceeds the value
of one year's eorn crop by about
twelve per eent. The corn crop of
the cou'nty is greater in value than
all other agricultural crops combin
ed. It is one-thi.rd g"eater than that
of metals.
The fact -that we gzrow thirty-five
bushels of cortn pern capi: and p er
haps ne hundred hushels of ctrnl
a.li~ks andi 5hn-kS inidicales an amnaZ
ing~ lCdean for corn and c~orn pro
ducts. It would not be possible for
us to consume so much corn unless
Meet Me na
New
The right goods
this big store in st
the people know it
getting the proper
ALh
We have only three r
steady stream pourin;
cutting prices is to kil
Stylish Mill
You should' buy your F
because the styles and
matchless. For extreme
our reputation .is wide sp
Every Hat here is worked
act lines of fashion. We
Millinery than all the other
and Prosperity combined.
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to-W
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who
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Mimnaugh's Tra
You can bet your boots that Mim
axe ihat chops the prices and makt
2 cases good heavy Outing, 10'1
kind at 4 3-4 cents.
2 bales A. C. A. Feather Bed T
11 1-2 cents.
5 bales John P. King's celebi ate
kind at 5 cents.
2 bales 40 inch Newberry White
at only 6 1-4 cents.
1 case Standard Percales, plent)
cents kind, at 7 1-2 cents.
36 inch Black Taffeta Silk, $1.'
week at 69 cents.
I am determined to sell the good:
YOUC
it were. usedl wastefully. We use ten ice
po~unds of corn.1 to make a pound of mad
)eef. and theni one of a one-thousand imit
beef creature we eat only three hun- we
ded pounds of meat, thus spending eat
thirty pounds of corn to get one of agai
meat. two
If we eat wheat ca.kes for break- syru
fast we really use twice as much T
Icorn as wheat, for the syrup is now t-he
mad almost wholly from glucose. ily
tehnally known as gra~pe sugar or ai s
w> lie svwt meats' are base.td largely halfi
on tis amecor syup.If we eat ihalf
ugh's
berry's Qrrec
at the right price and plenty
reams. No make believe pol
,consequently no element of
thing at the proper price exist
int to the Wise i
nonths to sell this immense stock, in order
into my store every day. The only way
I him. . . . . .
iery.
lats at Mimnaugh's '
values we sell are
moderation in price " >
read and gilt edge. %q( 2 -
out on the most ex
can show you more
stores in Newberry
New Coat Suits, Skirts,
Our New Ready=to=Wear E
we are able to.offer exceptiona
ear garments we and th
, which is the reason for cor
or their Suits, Cloaks and Sept
new arrivals, yes; they contin
navn't yet made their select
d by waiting. COME ...
de Winners Childrfen's Teddy Bear Coa
naugh is the wielder of the
s them bargains. -
:0 20 yd. lengths, the 8 cts.
cking, the 20 cents kind at
d Sea Island, the 7 1-2 cts.
Homespun, 2 to 10 yards,
of Reds and Blues, the 10 -
-All sizes and colors-Whites, Red
)0 quality, as a leader this Browns and champigns. 200 Children
Teddy Coats to select from. Pric<
$1.98, $2.50, $2.98 and $3-49. Caps 1
this fall make or break. match any color coat at 69c. and 98.
AN'T MISS THE PLACE.F
cream in summer it is mostlyTu swe il rdaeoftdy(
o f corn starch, anid if we (eat 'iIU thc?t esa muhcc
ation oys ter patties in winterasth rl(tiS. j tbe ue
re still consuming cor'n. If we enan uhgo,woeo
Boston beans a.nd brown bread guoe
we get corn, as 'this bread is Thr aemny ruos ndlt
thirds corn, darkened by corn konfcsaot cr rdc
e glueose factories buy corn by sac r aeanal nteU
train load and convert it primar-te Stesmslyfo crnkn
nto glucose and secondarily into Tati he n ~fpud
ries of by-produets so that none trl freaho us Guoe
is asied Ghc. se(ki' '' a1s the irl 1 880,t ii jut cni ase
lesoit'fi;d. ~id~a dient~al ls so!iHt~tP ti mu de g oo wholeson
r crnsu~mror lu' se.a d aan g lucoe.Ia~ uivit al tr
v anesagr, rdiaryhug r. a re nd y cruosn.lt
Meet Me at Mimnaugh's
ittStore
of them is drawing the people to
icy here. We have the stock and
misgivings or uncertainty about
.s, they are satisfied and they buy.
s Sufficient
to do it we will name prices that will keep a
r to down MIMNAUGH and keep him from
Big Shoe Sale This Week.
The big shoe bargains are here and it's up to
you to come after them. Our Shoe business is
run on the "Cut Price" plan that has made
this store famous as a bargain center. All
kinds of Shoes for all kinds of people at all
kinds of prices and every price less than you
are charged elsewhere. : : :
Hundrtds and hundreds of Men's and Boys'
Suits and odd Pants to go at half price.
and Cloaks
epartment
values in all Ready
e .public generally
ning here first and
trate SkIrts. -- -
ue to come for those
ion. .Nothing to be
t Silk and Dress Goods
Our collection is the largest in upper Carolina and selected
as to style and with an eye towards capturing the Silk and
Dress Goods business of this section-all the new weaves..
When you want a stylish dress or black skirt come direct to
Mimnaugh's. We lead the procession others follow.
100 full pieces Fine Wool Dress Goods placed on sale for
quick selling No:e the specials: Mohairs, Panama Cloth,
Serges, Broadcloths. some 54 inches wide and worth up to
75 cents the yard, take your choice of any piece in the pile.
this week atornly 49 cents the yard.
Think a moment! Your own interest bids you COME.
Standard Indigo Blue Calico at 1 Cent the Yard
sWith every $5.00 purchase and over we will sell 10 yards
(one dress) of Indigo Blue Calico at only I cent the yard.
LLOW THE CROWDS.
G3N'S
n iPhe germ or life spark in the een- corn germi is madle into what are call
vter of a kerne] of corn is comupara- ed corn-ail enkes, which are highly
t t irely soft and oily. It is squeezed to prized for feeding sheep, and come
eC produice corn oil, which goes mostly back .to our tables in the form of mnut
into soaps, though occasionally into ton. There are a lot of other feeds
e atrtificial butter. The best of it is made from various sorts of corn re
s. made into imitation olive oil, as the fuse, from green corn stalks and oth
f real olive is very scarce and dear. er corn elements too numerous to
i- Linoleum or oil cloth is surfaced mention.
1. with vulcanized corn oil, which re
fsemblies rubber; in fact, it is the
>r nly satisfactory adulterant for rub- -w.sea msnuo