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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1941
Page
7
Pattern 2790 offers a transfer image 15 by 20 inches with illustrations of stitches and a color chart. It lists required materials and invites readers to send orders, highlighting the embroidery as a decorative home craft.
Quote from Pope praising the contentment of expectations. This brief item records a maxim attributed to Pope Francis or a similar pontifical source, noting that true happiness comes from not anticipating outcomes.
In a snowy Alaskan valley Carol Coburn helps search for six year old Frieda Eckstrom who vanishes after Olie Eckstrom and Mrs. Eckstrom worry. Sidney Lander arrives with dog Sandy and leads a coordinated rescue as the child is found in a bear stack shelter.
London reports the Lambton family curse dates to the Twelfth century crusades. The 20-year-old Lord Lambton, heir to the fifth Earl of Durham, was found dead with a shotgun wound at his Woodlawn estate in Northumberland. A coroner ruled the wound self inflicted while he was of unsound mind, as a shell lay near the weapon.
Henry Williams, 67, a repeated chicken thief, boasts of twenty years in the trade and recalls his latest caper from jail. He explains the craft as an art, describing quiet grabs and lifting fowl into a sack while noting a dead hen and his low-profile job skills.
In Clairdon township near CHARDON Ohio Abe and Mrs Weaver welcome their eighteenth child, a boy. Doctor H E Shafer of Middlefield uses a sliding scale charging five dollars for this delivery and will charge nothing for future ones, with the doctor to pay the Weavers after subsequent births. Mrs Weaver is 40.
In St. Paul Minnesota a masked robber pointed a gun at Eleanor Cook demanding her purse. Startled she dropped packages. the thief apologetically returned them then opened the purse found glasses and three pennies. He handed the purse back and tipped his hat before leaving.
Louis F. Kutscher of Newton Conn attempts to pay a traffic fine at Middletown police headquarters. Patrolman Darrell Betts cites no exemption for non residents and Police Chief Otto Petersen refuses the payment, insisting the fine stay unpaid.
In Wilmington Delaware a man named Thomas F Doran now a professional golfer knocked on Katherine Doran Harkins door claiming to be her brother Tommy. The siblings had not met since 194? when a ship sailed from a Scottish port before Katie waved a handkerchief goodbye.
ROCHESTER New York Adolph Edwards a 50 year old cabinet maker was held on a charge of escaping from the Ohio state penitentiary 20 years ago after a minor traffic violation led to his arrest for drunken driving. Fingerprints sent to the FBI revealed the March 7 1920 escape during a forgery sentence. Edwards was released after paying a $50 fine.
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