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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1919
Page
2
A columnist pitches recruitment for health and enterprise and promotes Dr Peery Dead Shot as cost saving and convenient. A busy friend asks what hat to buy and the suggestion favors a beaver hat as suitable for a busy woman.
Ad promotes Cuticura Trio products Soap Ointment and Talcum for face skin baby and dusting needs. Claims exquisite scent makes other perfumes unnecessary and urges young men to consider the future. Ad copy emphasizes 25 cent price and wide availability.
An advertising notice promotes Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a temperance tonic that builds strength, treats cold and influenza, and aids digestion and blood formation with herbal extracts. It claims benefit for scrofula and urges readers to send 10 cents for trial tablets or catarrh tablets to the Invalids' Hotel in Buffalo.
Smokers can assess tobacco by smell rather than burning it. The article notes all tobaccos use flavorings to improve taste and burning, with a specific endorsement of Tuxedo Tobacco as using chocolate flavoring and aged Burley. It urges readers to try Tuxedo to see if they prefer it.
A fierce windstorm swept North Texas and Southern Oklahoma early Wednesday causing about 100 deaths and extensive property damage. Tens of thousands of buildings and crops were ruined as tornadoes struck Gray son Fannin Hunt Wood Van Zandt Wichita Collin Camp Titus in Texas and Bryan Cotton Pontotoc in Oklahoma.
Paris reports the council of four has determined the German emperor is responsible for the war and may face trial by a favored allied government, likely Belgium. The reparations plan calls for 5 billion dollars to be paid within two years, with an inter allied commission assessing remaining damages over thirty years starting May 1, 1921. This marks the removal of major peace obstacles and promises renewed confidence in a permanent settlement.
Governor Hobby issued three proclamations to curb the pink boll worm with immediate effect. A new noncotton growing zone No 5 covers Brewster and Presidio Counties prohibiting cotton. Ward Reeves County quarantine gives the agriculture commissioner power to regulate cotton shipments. zone No 4 includes Val Verde Kenney and Maverick Counties prohibiting cotton growing.
The Woman's Benefit Association of the Maccabees concluded its convention in Houston with a business session. More than 1000 delegates and visitors attended the event, touted as the most successful ever held.
Carrizo Springs Texas shipped its first ears of berries to San Antonio on Wednesday. The yields are good.
Bond issue approved in Amarillo. Taylor telephones merged. Ballinger cattle hit by weed bloat. Gas pocket blows drill pipe near Yorktown. Live Oak county to build a George West courthouse. Brewster stock movement underway with new stock shows. Laredo oil leases cover 14 087 acres across six tracts. Big Bend pink boll worm under control per Chief Entomologist. Jim Hogg highway No 37 work near completion. Texas Railroad Commission suspends Pipeline Order No 3 with April 25 hearing. Federal Land Bank Houston credit activity strong in March. Fort Worth air fields report 106 deaths since 1917. Rifle range at A M C to be completed with 2 500 foot distance. Floresville voters and Dean bill provisions noted. Fort Brown funding from war department about 250 000. Fort Sam Houston barracks and quarters planned. Fort Brown railroad spur planned. New border travel rules ease Texas border crossings with 40 mile limit for full Mexico travel and passport requirement for longer trips.
Governor Hobby vetoed Senate Bill 238 authorizing the General Land Office to lease penitentiary lands and juvenile institution lands for oil and gas prospecting. He argued the bill would limit prison system prospecting and proposed allowing it to prospect at its own expense. seven regular-session acts were vetoed in total.
In Abisababa, Abyssinia a grandson of King Johannes II who died in 1389 has revolted and declared himself king under the name Theodore asserting his claim to the throne.
Manuel L. Quezon, president of the Philippine senate and independence mission chairman, denied on Saturday that Japanese were immigrating to the Philippine islands in increasing numbers.
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