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Newspaper
Moulton Advertiser
Location
Moulton, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1901
Page
4
A new clock shows hours halves and quarters, moon phases, and time in any city but is costly. The 1902 Host's Almanac provides this information, amusing anecdotes, statistics, and general information free from any druggist. The item hints at wedding gift frustrations and playful banter about marriages.
The Lackawanna Railroad route from New York to Chicago grows in popularity offering fine scenery and excellent cars. Dining car service follows the European plan with meals priced to suit the customer. Club meals start at 35 cents, examples of plan profit motives cited by the Atchison Globe.
An open letter urges women to pursue health as a foundation for using knowledge and education. The author argues that without health, all learning loses value and calls for support of efforts to uplift women physically and intellectually.
A nostalgic verse by Florence J. Boyce celebrates apple harvest season and rural work rhythm. vivid images of weather, animals, crops, and trains evoke youth and memory in the apple picking time.
A Western observer reflects on a mission in China and survives an elaborate sleep torture. The captive endures 48 hours without sleep, then experiences a barrage of sensations from sight and sound to imagined journeys through space. The ordeal culminates in vivid visions of pain, betrayal, and the pull of darkness as the man clings to life.
An employee at the New York Zoo in the Bronx reports a rare two headed milk snake specimen. Curator Ditmars believes it is the rarest in its lineage, a ten inch body with two heads two to three inches long each. Feeding attempts failed as the heads fought for food. He fears for the snake’s future.
Mr. Ditmars believes the snake could become extremely valuable if it survives, though it faces a fatal risk. He plans to feed both heads simultaneously by force to try to sustain it, even as starvation looms.
The Philadelphia Ledger argues that London fog cannot be monetized effectively, even during an exhibition, highlighting economic challenges in turning fog into profit and reflecting skeptical tone on the event’s financial prospects.
A brief report notes that the population of Nevada has declined to 42 residents. The figure is presented as a concise demographic update with no further context or comparative data.
Illinois agricultural college faculty travel to farmers' institutes across the state to show scientific farming, explain improved implements and dairy methods, and promote smarter, more productive practices. A featured farmer credits corn yields rising with modern techniques, while experts stress soil, cereal, and milk production improvements.
Advice on profitable dairy practice. Emphasizes cleanliness, proper milk handling, and efficient milking. Warns against relying on grain crops for dairy wealth and notes limits of milking capacity per person. Ends with a moral against false economics in dairying.
W A Orton of the Washington Department of Agriculture reports field tests on cotton wilt or blight show some plants resist disease. Seeds from resistant plants bred in diseased fields may yield immune cotton of desired quality, aiding Sea Island districts and potentially upland varieties in the South. Researchers aim to distribute resistant seed, improve long staple upland cotton, and save farmers money.
Reassuring reports from across the Texas rice region confirm abundant water from shallow wells away from streams. The system promises broader access to rice farming for small landowners, while canal companies advance on prairie land along watercourses. The shallow weir option remains for 50 to 100 acre operations in the coast country.
The piece weighs on dairy cows, pear growing on the gulf coast hit by blossom blight, sugar cane yields by state, rough rice yields by state, general southwest land profitability, and commentary on farmer knowledge of dairy cattle. It notes pear losses from blight surpassing last year’s storm, provides regional crop percentages and per acre values, and ends with a critical remark on farmer expertise versus certainty.
A Streatham man recounts a fatal cab accident where a driver was thrown and killed. He recalls meeting a friend Bowman who gave him half a bottle of St Jacobs Oil, claiming it cured his rheumatism. After using it, the speaker says he recovered fully in days, bought a second bottle, and then gave it away, praising the pain killer highly.
A Philadelphia Record quip shows a would be contributor offering an essay on Our Daily Bread, only to be met with a playful editor’s reply that they prefer butter, ending the exchange with a light joke about good day.
Federal Court in Cleveland grants a permanent injunction with costs and damages against Gorey for manufacturing and selling an imitation Cascarets product. The ruling cites copied boxes, tablet shape, and a similar sounding name aimed at profit by deceiving customers. Readers are advised to avoid imitations and contact Sterling Remedy Company with any offers of substitutes.
A customer asks for a dog collar in a department store while an absent-minded salesman, recently transferred, inquires about the shopper’s shirt size. The exchange unfolds in a playful, clipped newsroom tone from the Philadelphia Press.
Walter Baker & Co. Limited of Dorchester Mass earned three gold medals at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo for Breakfast Cocoa and all cocoa and chocolate products. The award marks the thirty seventh highest honor the company has received from major expositions in Europe and America.
A collage of quips and jokes from Philadelphia Record Atchison Globe Chicago Daily News Puck and others. Includes lines about husbands rapping mistaken identities and social satire on vanity advertising authority and storytelling.Contains brief comic exchanges and humorous one liners reflecting era tone.
A Cincinnati Observer fragment quotes a minister after a double wedding, joking that it shows two and two coming together. An advertisement notes Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets cure colds in one day with a money back guarantee from all druggists.
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