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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1919
Page
6
Mrs. John confesses she mistakenly sent John’s new dress suit to a rummage sale and fears the loss. John reassures her and reveals he also bought the suit back at the sale for 35 cents. The exchange ends with relief and humor as they recover the garment.
Holland Texas resident J N Messer endorses Thedford’s Black-Draught as the best liver medicine, saying it cleanses the liver, eases indigestion, aids recovery from fever, saves doctor bills, and is affordable for his family and others in the area. He urges others to use it.
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Paris reports a four power council inviting German delegates to Versailles on April 25 to hear allied verdicts. President Wilson says peace questions near complete and pledged rapid drafting. Italy Adriatic issues to take precedence while Germany settlements are staged for final formulation as other questions proceed.
The Texas honor roll lists soldiers killed in action including Richard L. McDowell and Travis D. Cook, those who died of wounds such as Joseph Carter and Jack Arnold, and others wounded in action like Cornelius Lombardi and Walter Lane. It also records missing in action Pvt Lim Cantwell.
Fifty persons pleaded guilty to Reed amendment violations before Judge George Whitefield Jack in United States District Court in Beaumont Texas on Tuesday and were sentenced according to their degrees of guilt.
Atlantic City will host the first Pan American Aeronautics Convention in May drawing American and foreign aviation leaders. Captain Charles J. Glidden says the event will showcase aviation progress, promote a nationwide aerial service within six hours between distributing points, and highlight opportunities for 15 000 enlistments in the U S Air Service with training and pay.
Mineral Wells Texas hosts the United States Good Roads Association annual conference where speakers including U S Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas Governor R G Pleasant of Louisville and former Arkansas Governor George W Donaghy stress improved highways economic benefits and national policy.
The San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railway is enjoined from shipping over its lines and delivering intoxicating liquors in Texas by a temporary injunction issued Thursday by Judge George Calhoun of Travis County Fifty-Third District Court, upon the attorney general's application.
The Cunard liner Carmania bound from Liverpool to Halifax with 3000 Canadian troops reported a huge iceberg in its path. The berg stood about 250 feet high and 1500 feet long, sighted roughly 800 miles from Halifax by the Carmania.
The War Department announced on Thursday that more than 4,500 officers and men of the 42nd Rainbow Division have sailed from France as part of homeward-bound troops.
San Antonio Chamber of Commerce announced it would file claims with the federal government on behalf of South Texas castor bean farmers who suffered total losses. The move aligns with government funds now available for such relief.
Washington ordered wage boosts totaling 65 million dollars for 400000 engineers, firemen, trainmen and conductors in both passenger and freight service. The raise, retroactive to January 1, 1919, aims to restore prewar pay relationships and brings total railroad payroll to about three billion annually.
Governor W P Hobby spoke at the seventh annual meeting of the United States Good Roads Association in Mineral Wells Texas outlining a proposed 76000000 good roads bond issue to be voted on by Texas voters in coming months. He described highway quality as key to rural welfare and to promoting home ownership, stressing roads as a public welfare agency.
Austin reports a 30 to 40 percent fall in oil production for January February and March to the state controller. The legislature raised the gross production tax on oil from 0.5 to 1.5 percent.
The Texas state highway commission received a telegram from the chief engineer in Washington noting the Federal Railroad Administration has ordered a 10 cent reduction in freight rates for good roads material. The change is effective May 1.
The federal case ends with a $240,000 verdict for the Baltimore Club of the Federal League in the District of Columbia Supreme Court. The ruling dissolves the national baseball commission and severs relations with the National Association of Minor Leagues. It also revamps players contracts ruling out ten day and reserve clauses.
Houston court grants temporary injunction stopping the city from interfering with Southwestern Telephone Company over new higher rates set by the Postmaster General Burleson. Judge Jack held Congress empowered the president to take over telegraph and telephone lines in wartime to set rates.
The Gulf Production Company's No 1 well on the Bassett Blakely farm near Blue Ridge Houston came on Monday at 2,600 feet and flowed 2,500 barrels of oil daily. The wildcard discovery opens a new coastal district field.
In Dallas Friday a meeting of over one hundred at the Texas Oil Exchange called for a full investigation into Texas oil companies over action or inaction that has drawn suspicion. Separately in Berlin, street fighting near noon Monday left many killed or wounded as troops clashed with vendors.
A ragged column blends social reflection on opportunity with a humorous anecdote about Paul Musser and a frozen pipe. It contrasts calls to seize chances with a town tale where a man’s pants nearly meet a hot water thaw. The text also clips a TV ban phrase about malaria and fever.
Alfred Lester displays carved wooden Chinese workmen from Shanghai on his Drury Lane dressing room mantelpiece. He jokes one figure resembles himself a hoodoo or mandarin headed to church, amid lightheartedExchange notes.
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