Moulton Advertiser Promotes Weekly Thursday Issue
The Moulton Advertiser is published every Thursday by White and Loss at two dollars per year in advance.
06 Aug 1885
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Newspaper
Moulton Advertiser
Location
Moulton, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1885
Page
1
The Moulton Advertiser is published every Thursday by White and Loss at two dollars per year in advance.
In a stormy morning a speaker meets a lassie with wheat like hair and brown eyes. He recalls watching her walk, then kisses her in the rain. He vows that love makes him light and summerlike despite any winds, naming Sam as her rain-beau since.
A narrative portrays Mrs. Arp ruling a peaceful household from her dedicated room. Children roam, horses swap, and a rare line of discipline emerges as Mrs. Arp’s authority contrasts with the narrator’s playful indulgence. The piece reflects family life, memory, and kinship in a rural setting.
A first person reminiscence recalls a woman’s rough discipline of a boy, her quick remorse, and ointment and candy offered to ease pain as the speaker reflects on past injuries. The narrator, Solomon, notes enduring effects and worries about married children.
Springfield Massachusetts Republican warns that rural areas cited as healthiest hide abominable sanitation. Flooding filth in yards and clogged pipes breed disease. unsafe wells risk contamination from old vaults and outbuildings. Calls for thorough cleanup to prevent cholera, diphtheria, and typhoid.
The passage rails at length on the earned fame and enduring legend of Gen. Lee's army. It recalls eight and twenty battles and monuments near the capital, Beauregard, Stonewall Jackson, Bragg, and the Shenandoah Valley, praising steadfast sacrifices through four campaigns and tragic trials.
A Richmond Virginia State editorial extols Robert Edmund Leo as a monumental defender of the Southern cause. It lauds his leadership, mourns the fallen, and invokes Marlborough and Saxe as parallels to his enduring fame and virtue.
The piece argues young voters favor the Democratic party for reform and vitality, contrasts Republican flaws with Democratic energy, and recounts a Civil War battle scene culminating in a Confederate victory and its ceremonial aftermath. Jupiter
The poem speaks to an aging couple facing cycles of weather and time. It highlights enduring partnership through May and rain, noting gray heads and a future beyond life. It frames God as ruler of both day and night and notes the comforting path to the afterlife.
A heavy rain flood sent two foot of water through a Willow Street sewer trapping workers. James Wright narrowly escaped as Mike Kerus hauled him to safety. Wright later became the hero. In Leeds a father signs two marriage license notes for sons and daughters, enabling a double wedding at Judge Porter’s office tonight.
Reports to the department of agriculture in Washington indicate eighteen million acres are planted to cotton. At two and a half acres per bale the area should yield about seven million bales.
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