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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1904
Page
4
An advertising pitch extols Defiance Cold Water Starch for laundry use claiming 16 oz per package at 10 cents and that it does not stick to iron. It marketing also touts tonics and humorous quips while urging customers to demand Defiance.
The high price stems from using thirty pounds of raw beef to produce a single pound of extract. This ratio highlights the heavy material cost and processing needed to create the concentrated product.
An ad style fragment claims Hunt's Lightning Of offers quick relief for aches pains and injuries with 60c and 250 bottle sizes. It notes football is very popular in Burma where natives play unshod and score with bare feet.
An ad style passage touts Hall's Catarrh Cure taken internally to reach the blood and mucous surfaces. It claims the medicine is not a quack remedy and praises a blend with blood purifiers. Also mentions Hall's Family Pills and a railway fare note.
Defiance starch stock, 12 oz packages by some brands, costs less than 16 oz. buyers may want. Bradstreet notes 84 percent of merchants who failed in 1903 did not advertise in newspapers.
A collage of advertisements includes Star Washing Machine offered at 2.70 with wringer 33.99 from John A Salter Seed Co La Crosse Wis. Also promotes Piso's Cure for consumption and Hindoo school discipline noted. Tyler College advertises commercial and shorthand courses in Tyler Texas with high enrollment. An industry note cites coal use in gas manufacture totaling over 2 million tons annually in London.
An assorted column of 19th century trade pitches and quips promotes Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin as a mild laxative, Defiance Starch, a first folio Shakespeare sale price, and multiple product blurbs. It laments a slow boy and notes the World’s Fair in St. Louis while tossing in crude aphorisms about money and fortune.
The excerpt blends verse on memory and storytelling with a reflection on childhood dreams and nurse’s rhymes. It notes a dreamlike tone about life resembling stories told by parents and later musings on aging and time. It also mentions embedded natural curiosities inside bamboo stalks and Philippine coconuts containing tiny pearllike crystals and pearls.
Bridgeport reports Mrs. Martha Glasscock describing six years of tingling burning limbs and paralysis fears. After using Dodd's Kidney Pills she notes rapid improvement, weight gain, restored appetite, and renewed strength, claiming the remedy saved her life. A second note contrasts Tamatave Madagascar costs with New York living expenses.
Advert reads Simmon's Liver Purifier in tin boxes at 25 cents a box and claims it will restore liver health and eliminate troubles. The clipping also notes English cotillon etiquette and Filipino views on manual labor, including a Shanghai Times quote on attitudes shaped by four centuries of Spanish rule. It ends with a note on choosing good friends before backing them.
A California high school principal credits 23 years of poor digestion and rheumatic pain to rapid eating and a sedentary job. After following a physician’s advice to eat Grape-Nuts with milk and fruit, he reports two months of improvement and lasting health, praising Postum Co. and the product as life-changing.
The South shows rising demand for better roads amid harsh climatic and material limits. Farmers urge federal aid, citing bonds funding first class routes in North Carolina Tennessee and Texas and the need for affordable sand clay and shell roads, echoed by lawmakers from Tennessee and South Carolina.
The text argues that many English and Scottish dukes bear titles linked to places with no actual residence or land, highlighting peers like the Duke of Devonshire and Viscount Falkland and noting Irish peers such as Viscount Valentia sit for English seats, illustrating a mismatch between titles and origins.
A reflective verse contrasts the neglect of earnest effort with public notice upon a stumble. It notes social attention shifts from labor for mankind to mishap on ice. The piece also reports M Mathiega of Prague linking brain weight to intelligence with brain averages by occupation.
A Washington newspaper man recalls his daughter’s playful lesson when asked who the first man was she answered Adam, then said the first woman was Adam’s mother. The mother gently corrects her daughter, reflecting a charming family moment.
Exports of the Americas climbed to 1 392 281 000 dollars for the fiscal year ending June 30, with per capita 17 dollars. Population growth reached 470 percent, while exports surged over 1 000 percent. The average American is described as a better wealth producer than previous generations.
The report lists 8976 murders in 1903 and 123 legal executions. It notes the gap between murders and executions and highlights ongoing capital punishment trends in the era.
Nelson Rice mayor of St. Joseph Michigan commend Peruna Medicine Co Columbus Ohio for earning public trust and aiding many grateful patients in the county with Peruna described as a reliable tonic and cure for catarrhal difficulties.
The ad claims spring ailments like weak nerves poor digestion and impure blood can be relieved by Peruna. It touts the tonic as non irritative and invigorating, promising balanced circulation and nerves, and offers free advice from Dr. Hartman at The Hartman Sanitarium in Columbus, Ohio.
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