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Newspaper
Moulton Advertiser
Location
Moulton, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1908
Page
1
A supply of No 1 all heart poplar shingles offered for sale with guaranteed quality. Unsapped shingles available at a cheaper price. Samples and prices available by contacting W D Irwin in Moulton or W Glenn at any mill eight miles south of Moulton.
A portrait of a Lawrence County Mississippi reader urging Moulton and surrounding voters to approve a bond issue totaling 100000 dollars for paving roads with future 250000 dollars more after legislative approval. The letter praises local residents, endorses Judge Kumpe and Jim Mayfield, and notes benefits like rail access, higher farm prices, and new schools and churches. It also shares a Mobile church story and a home-built refrigerator note from a June Woman’s Home Companion item.
A dramatic verse likens Grant to a Great Bear and Lee to a blazing cross, with Lincoln and Stonewall in stately imagery. Davis appears as a lion bound by foes, while Schurz is mocked as a flea on a tail in a charged Civil War era allegory.
Dixie Wright describes a 1906 practice of intercropping corn with peas. He drilled corn then pea seeds in the same furrows, spacing rows four inches apart, with corn cultivated twice. He reports two crops on the same land, both yielding as if grown separately, and notes land improvement from this method.
Peanuts are highly profitable now with lime essential for average yields. Potash boosts pod fullness. ashes are valuable for nut crops. If ashes are unavailable at 50 bushels per acre, buy 400 pounds German kainit per acre. One ton covers five acres and increases crop value beyond cost.
Broom corn belongs to the sorghum family and should be planted and cultivated like sorghum. Prices rise when the straw heads are turned down as they straighten. Harvest yields range from 600 to 700 pounds of cleaned material per acre, with prices from 60 to 80 dollars per ton.
Through the Huntington Tennessee commercial club county farmers will be addressed on truck farming and fruit growing each first Monday of the month by speakers. The note on cattle salt is unrelated and does not fit the topic.
The passage envisions southern farmers expanding cattle herds to boost prosperity. It argues widespread cow ownership would end debt and bring joyous content to every homestead, portraying a thriving rural economy as a tangible future.
Calves are easy victims to parasites and diseases, thriving in moisture, dirt, and darkness. Providing comfortable, dry, and airy quarters is necessary to protect them and promote health.
A historical list outlines 18 democratic tenets from Jefferson era stressing state sovereignty, strict constitutional power, separation of church and state, wide elections, limited public debt, transparent government, and frugal, publicly accountable administration. The compilation underscores restraint on central authority and vigilance over individual liberties.
Mrs. Leola T. Park writes of evening rituals with Taylor-Trotwood Magazine. She describes cozy fireside moments, family gatherings, and reading jokes as the homebound routine calms nerves after a busy day.
A social note reflects on hosting etiquette where the hostess would not derive pleasure from a reception unless she could exclude a guest she deems undeserving, highlighting social discernment and decorum in hosting practices.
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