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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1917
Page
2
An old advertisement touts Capudine as a pleasant liquid remedy for headaches and nervous strain. It contrasts with other tonics and mentions Dr Peery's Dead Shot for worm treatment. A quirky wartime aside questions a soldier's return.
Ree No: T do not care to break wild fant.
A fragment explains a Mississippi Diarrhee Cordial advertised as a speedy cure for disagreeable trouble. Dialogue mimics a working class perspective with dialect and humorous misgivings about recovery and heaven, reflecting period ad and social tone.
Thompson and Taylor discuss Parker and Perkins at the club. Thompson says Parker is a hard loser and Perkins an easy winner, reflecting on how each man affects games and players’ attitudes.
The August 1 crop report forecasts a record national harvest with corn at 3.191 billion bushels, up from July and 68 million above 1912, driven by gains in Illinois and neighboring states. Wheat prospects fall for spring wheat due to weather, while barley rye white and sweet potatoes tobacco and hay forecast set records. Winter wheat strengthens to 417 million bushels, with white potatoes and sweet potatoes surging and tobacco expansion about 120 million pounds above last year. Buckwheat and oats also rise toward multi year highs.
Washington reports that the new national army opened formally Monday to friendly aliens as volunteers. Provost Marshal General Crowder directs local boards to accept aliens who waive exemption on nationality for service.
The Simms Sin Clair gusher No. 11 Schilling at Goose Creek Texas began Friday with 8000 barrels and rose to 35000 barrels Saturday before escaping control. After two days of efforts to curb the flow it choked on Monday.
Provost Marshal General Crowder announces more than two hundred thousand men in the selective draft will be called on September 1 to begin training in cantonments. This will raise the U S army to about one million men as the mobilization proceeds.
Farmers across Anderson County report a rapidly spreading unknown insect damaging cotton. Bolls develop a blister that dries and drops as a fine web forms, alarming growers in the area.
King Alexander took the oath of office in Athens amid pomp. A procession of soldiers accompanied the monarch by carriage drawn by four horses from the palace to the chamber of deputies as streets were lined with cheering citizens.
Thirty five Molokan adherents from a Glendale area colony near Phoenix were driven in a barred car to Prescott to serve one year in the county jail for refus al to register under the selective draft on religious grounds.
Premier Kerensky resumes leadership in Petrograd after withdrawing resignation. He attends a Saturday ministerial meeting and meets with political leaders and issues a manifesto stating he faces the national crisis with renewed resolve amid threat of defeat and internal disintegration.
French aircraft greeted an American cruiser as it arrived in foreign waters marking a ceremonial welcome. The event highlighted allied cooperation and naval procession signals in a tense international context.
Mrs Crosslets notes the new cook offered no references and instead made many uncomplimentary allusions to previous employers. The exchange suggests concerns about credibility and work history in hiring.
A collage of notes covers a Costa Rica manganese mine yielding about 800 tons monthly and 1868 as the first dynamite charge. It notes Alaska fish wheels, Aime Argand born 1755 as lamp inventor, Hawaii public schools with 13 380 Japanese students, Italian canners using tomato byproducts for stock food and oil, and a Bible use of stocks as punishment with two articles.
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