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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1914
Page
2
Villa forces drive out Spaniards from Torreon site as clashes erupt near Tampico and shells burst, igniting fires in the region.
Washington officials fray over the Torreon Spaniards expulsion and Tampico clashes as Rear Admiral Mayo reports a transport for noncombatants is desirable in Tampico harbor. Villa's forces push Spaniards from Torreon amid protests from Carranza and diplomatic outreach to protect foreign nationals.
Richardson Texas per press association explains postponement of the Texas Press Association meeting due to scheduling conflicts with the National Editorial Association dates in April and a Texas tour ending May 4. The June 18 1920 program features panels on advertising rates country weeklies editorial pages and newspaper office efficiency with speakers from Dallas Temple Fort Worth Weatherford and other Texas towns.
Oscar W. Underwood, longtime representative from Alabama Ninth district, defeats Richard Pearson Hobson in the Democratic primary for U S Senate. Hobson concedes. Underwood receives broad statewide support as one of Alabama’s most dramatic political races. Hobson telegram offers congratulations and pledge of support.
Washington society anticipates the wedding of Miss Eleanor Wilson and Secretary McAdoo within a month though no date has been set. The announcement centers on the president's youngest daughter and the secretary.
Notices posted indicate that the International and Great Northern railroad shops in Palestine Texas will shut down this week across most departments except the car department for an undetermined duration.
Washington reports a conservative estimate of 551 million bushels for the coming winter wheat crop with April 1 condition at 95.6 percent of normal. Acreage planted is pegged around 6.5 million acres, factoring 9.6 percent abandonment yields a projected 551 million bushels, near the 1913 record.
Report from Mission Texas notes the first invasion of American soil in the lower Rio Grande Valley near Madero three miles south on Tuesday. Six or more armed men swam across the Rio Grande on horseback into the town and caused disturbances before recrossing into Mexico. Sheriff Lill Shaffer and Al Truitt responded but found intruders had left.
In Norfolk details report a blast near Diamond Shoals light ship fifteen miles off the North Carolina coast injuring two crewmen seriously and tearing steel plates from the destroyer Aylwin. Fireman Haman was killed. One man lost his temper amid the incident.
Forty nine checks drawn to the state will be presented to paroled convicts in the Lindale district of Smith County for services rendered on road work after Governor Col quitt granted clemency.
More than 400 university girls from UT gymnasium classes performed in the annual spring pageant on Clark field in Austin. The field was brightly lighted for an hour and a half as dancers in colorful costumes presented a picturesque scene.
An official communication reports that Mussulman Albanians entered Koritsa in Monastir vilayet on Wednesday and, aided by the gendarmerie that had disarmed locals, began a massacre of Christians.
An Elkhart Texas election Saturday approved issuing bonds to fund a $10,000 brick school house. The measure passed 114 votes to 21, paving the way for school construction.
Bankers and farmers in Mercedes Texas endorse a unit marketing system for valley truck crops. The Rio Grande Valley Bankers Association and Progressive League officials back the effort led by Colonel Allen Heywood San Benito. A mass meeting will organize and circulars prepare farmers merchants and businesses for broader discussion and circulation.
Dallas meeting of the Texas Equal Suffragist Association adjourned after deciding not to seek ballot reform in primaries this year. The group plans an education campaign and a 1916 push if the time is right. Officers elected include An nette Finnegan of Houston as president and Eleanor Brackenridge of San Antonio as honorary president for life.
A suffragist concealed a butcher’s cleaver under her cloak and began striking a glass case in the Asiatic gallery of the British Museum. Attendants stopped her blows and she was handed to police.
El Paso reporters learned of a major rebel defeat at San Pedro about forty miles northeast of Torreon. Newsmen were barred from sending details from the rebel camp. As correspondents departed Torreon, the defeated rebel force retreated back to the city.
The president nominated Dr. B. H. Carroll Jr of Houston as consul at Venice and Henry von Struve of Plainview as consul at Curacao in the West Indies. Both are Texas State University graduates who recently passed civil service exams for consular posts.
Governor Colquitt was informed by Mexican consul Gonzalo de A. Fernandez that four more horses stolen from Clemente Vergara, who was lured from his Texas home into Mexico and killed, have been delivered to the Mexican authorities.
In Augusta Maine a move to have the Republican state convention on Thursday recommend Theodore Roosevelt as a 1916 presidential candidate failed. The effort sought to secure Roosevelt's nomination and faced opposition within the party ranks.
The Fourteenth annual convention of the Southern Supply and Machinery Dealers Association opened in Houston Texas with nearly all officers and members in attendance.
The state of Minnesota received 82538 as the inheritance tax on the late Charles G. Gates estate of Minneapolis.
A New York Broadway hotel proprietor claims the district sees about a million dollars spent nightly on feasting theaters taxis hotels and other expenses. He lists dinners 125000 suppers and wine 125000 theaters 175000 taxis 100000 hotels 175000 and incidental 300000 to total the vast sum.
An advertisement promotes Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy claiming natural darkening of gray hair with even results. It describes applying with a sponge to strands and notes improvement in thickness and shine after one or two uses.
City man questions a farmer about a dog described as a huntin setter. The farmer explains it hunts bones, then sets and eats them, delivering a rural punchline from the Yale Record.
An vintage ad claims RUB-MY-TISM will cure rheumatism and all aches from neuralgia cramps colic sprains bruises cuts old sores burns. Labeled as antiseptic anodyne and offered for 25 cents attributed to Ady with period style promotion.
The largest English cathedral is York Cathedral with an area of 63 800 square feet. St Pauls is the second largest at 59 700 square feet.
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