08 Aug 1902
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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1902
Page
1
A collection of humorous maxims on marriage and gender roles. Jokes compare wives and husbands, tease fashion, money, faith, and social expectations with playful irony. The piece mixes puns about love, appearance, and daily life to critique courtship in a lighthearted voice.
A reflective line argues conscience can endure much probing and that intuition is often safer than pure logical inference in decision making.
A mosaic of aphorisms on women and behavior plus a rapid-fire roll of Texas items. Notable entries include Tyler seeking another railroad, Sulphur Springs Commercial Club at 100 members, three diphtheria cases in Prattville Delta county, a $35,000 Fort Worth hotel, Grand Saline depot, Annona Oil capital rise to 160000, Abilene bonds for two brick schools, and Katy railroad. Also reports of ship canal incidents, bank charter for Frisco, and local tragedies and deaths from Milano to Dallas.
The saying notes that improving knowledge reduces ignorance and emphasizes practical measurement like a standard inch per foot. The statement frames education as a precise, foundational rule guiding understanding.
London reports lingering uncertainty over King Edward's coronation date as doctors advise private arrangements. Separately, the Navy plans recruiting drives in Alabama Georgia Mississippi Texas and nearby states to raise enlisted strength from 25 500 to 40 000 with 4 000 additional crew needed for warships. Stations will open as officials select locations amid ongoing coal region recruitment failures.
Reports from Brenham Texas on August 5 describe rising waters in the Brazos bottom. Flooding covers the east riverbank and the Houston and Texas Central embankment with 225 acre W R Ewing farm underwater. Levees fail across Stone plantation and nearby farms inundated. A public safety shooting occurs near Trinity county later that day. The Trinity county local option election yields a 197 vote majority for the pros. Electric linemen strike partially renewed in New Orleans impact felt on Cumberland Telephone Company and utilities.
John W. Springer, president of the National Live Stock Association, says the group watches big packers for a potential beef combine. He warns that any merger would ruin stockmen and harm the public by fixing meat prices, inviting united opposition from livestock producers. Texas crop notes add Denison area enjoys fine weather for cotton.
Aug 4 Williamson County: crop prospects vary with location as rains boost forage but cotton expected 5 000 bales below last year. In Brazos bottoms near Hearne flood damage to cotton ranges 30 40 percent while corn losses are uncertain. Other Texas spots report mixed cotton opening and early gin plans.
Shenandoah Ohio August fourth panicked guards and bolster patrols after armed ambush attacks on the Eighth regiment. Brigadier General Gobin ordered stern measures and shooting if stone throwing continued. Lithuanian suspect William Stenitz jailed. others sought. Colonel Hoffman reported findings to General Gobin who planned transfer to civil authorities. A separate note follows about a Baltimore couple walking from Richmond to Dayton after eloping four months earlier.
Chicago report states Judge Chetlain issued twenty nine new injunctions in a legal battle over July cornering. Waite Thorburn & Co sue Bank of Montreal and board firms over margins for short July oats sales. One set seeks to bar margins payments and another targets individual boards. Totals involve about forty thousand dollars in Waite cases and roughly eighty thousand in others.
Galveston reports the inaugural coast to coast freight shipment under the Southern Pacific service is due today. Pier preparations are complete for handling cargo from non SP ships while Algiers crew arrival is awaited. In Hedgwill, C L Martin’s son fractures a leg jumping from a moving wagon.
Berlin reports critique of Rear Admiral Taylor of the United States Navy for predicting a possible 1907 clash with Germany. The Tageblatt labels such talk as jingoistic and ignorant of European affairs and says any German admiral making such remarks would be dismissed.
The missing wife of George Wolf, last seen June 27 with her husband, was discovered buried in sand four miles south of Chippewa Falls by George Bollinger who was probing the area. The injuries suggest death by a heavy iron or stone object.
In Fort Worth this morning a valise retrieved from the Trinity river contained a dead infant about a week old. It marks the third such discovery in the same neighborhood over three weeks. Police seek the responsible party but have not yet identified anyone.
Judge Kennan ordered the grand jury reconvening Aug. 7 to act on charges against four detained African Americans. They face robbery and arson linked to the F. O. Smith & Co. warehouse break ins at G. D. Lincecum’s store and C. T. Rather’s residence. The group includes a man a woman and two boys about 14. Officers report strong evidence plus their confessions.
Big Springs Texas sees Through trains resume from El Paso to Fort Worth after a ten day suspension. Estimated damage ranges from 100000 to 200000 dollars with the Texas and Pacific Railway suffering major losses as miles of track and division facilities were destroyed or submerged by floodwaters.
Reports from the provinces show large cholera caseloads while Manila declines. Last Saturday 605 deaths and 525 deaths occurred in provinces. Since the outbreak began 21 408 cases and 16 106 deaths across the archipelago. An estimated 28 000 cases total. Forty eight Americans and eighteen Europeans have died in Manila since the outbreak.
A rail wreck east of Big 3 in the East Texas flood area disrupts service. The Cannon Ball from St. Louis San Francisco, due into Dallas yesterday, could not arrive and no trains are expected before. Details are scarce as railroad crews assess the damage.
Hillsboro Texas Aug 4 W E Simmons convicted in county for violating the local option law at Itasca and evading officers has been pardoned by Governor Sayers. He fled to his home where officers arrested him and were protested against by officials. The heart makes a good engine a poor rudder.
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