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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1905
Page
2
The article notes an estimated cotton crop total of 13 597 782 bales. It mentions political turnover in Texas and remarks on national figures, including Roosevelt and Diaz, plus local business notes and a postponed San Jacinto Day celebration.
Theodore Roosevelt praised honest effort and restraint while contrasting critics and doers. He stressed that a person’s conduct should reflect responsibility, and that good governance depends less on partisanship than on character and actions. He highlighted Texan pride in its people and families.
In Lavaca County at Malletsville on April 8 the grand jury added burglary indictments for Berry Moore George Schilling Steve Tolleson and Lebron Tolleson. R R McDade and John McDade face murder charges linked to Floyds death at the Park hotel. Robert Kennedy faces horse theft. Grant Rochecter is charged with assault to murder. The criminal docket will be called on the 17th and the nonjury civil docket has many orders. The McDades live in Kempstead.
A Galveston News special from Gonzales reports workers uncovering about twenty human skulls and bones three feet deep near the Adam Fischer property by the river below the main square. The bones, including a well preserved skull, crumble in air and may be remains of Indians or Mexican or French braves from before the town’s settlement eighty years ago.
A Galveston Daily News special from Shiner reports Mr. and Mrs. L. Thulemeyer celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. They wed in Columbus, Texas, on April 5, 1855. The couple has eight living children, many grandchildren, and two great grandchildren, all present for the observance.
Business visitors Hy Schoenvogel and J F Heinrich visited Halletaville. Otto Seitert returned from Massey Business College in Houston. Mrs F D Jaroszewski visited Baursville. Wm Schroeder of Witting and Rad Stulken of Breslau were in town. Evergreen school beat Dickson 9 to 7 in a local baseball game. Mr and Mrs Aung Schendel of near Shiner visited friends. A farmer walks about 50 000 steps daily.
G H Raymond of Shiner was in the city Monday, stopping at local offices and chatting with residents during a brief visit.
A medical treatise by J. L. Wolfe argues against tobacco use citing moral, health, and social harms. It claims tobacco harms voice, memory, heart function, and nerves, costs money, and spreads to youth, describing tobacco heart and poisoning effects with references to nicotine and ammonias.
A historical note surveys asbestos deposits in Arizona and Quebec with mining basics. It then recounts Russian cab practices where riders bargain, estimate fares by distance, and drivers compete to lure passengers, with humor at the end about no fixed price.
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