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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1917
Page
6
C B Gwinn Amory Mississippi produce dealer says Tanlac saved him from a nervous breakdown and added thirty pounds. He details years of rundown health, insomnia, headaches, and severe rheumatism, and credits Tanlac with restoring appetite sleep and strength. He urges others with similar suffering to try Tanlac.
Texas August crop estimates list corn 90 million bushels forecast with last year 131.1 million, wheat 15.4 million forecast vs 13.2 last year, oats 25.1 million vs 42.75, rice 7.5 million vs 10.675, potatoes 3.82 million vs 2.0, sweet potatoes 6.28 million vs 7.12, hay 573 thousand tons vs 838 thousand, peaches 2.2 million vs 2.86, cotton 3.44 million bales vs 3.7257, kaffirs 24.5? 24.0 million bushels. Prices show Wheat 24?2 and 10.7 cents, Corn 18.4 and 7, Oats 4 and 3? Potatoes 21.5 and 19.7, Hay 15 and 8.3 per ton, Cotton 24.3 and 12.8 cents.
An old notice promotes Bonius Liver Pill with claims to prevent malaria chills fevers and ague. It urges occasional use to keep the liver and bowels active and drive off poison. Sold at all druggists with warning not to accept substitutes.
Fort Harrison story recounts James M. Cox visiting the rifle range. Major Darrow loans rifles, a pit flag signals misses then later hits, Cox notes the pit man signaling bullseye after his shots. The tale ends with Cox noting his own success with the governor’s shot.
In Film Fun, Kipp questions the versatility of a screen artist while Rapp jokes that he can draw anything but a salary and make anything but a lie. The humorous exchange highlights industry wit about talent and earnings.
Survivors from the Belgian Prince report 38 crew members drowned when the German submarine sank the ship. They say the sub shelled the vessel after forcing boats together, removed life belts, smashed lifeboats, and left passengers on deck before submerging two miles away.
The proposed scale of rates in docket No. 1016 linked to the Shreveport rate case was disapproved in a tentative Interstate Commerce Commission report by Examiner Watkins. A substitute scale is urged for traffic between Texas Oklahoma points and Oklahoma Kansas Panhandle routes. The Southwestern class rate structure was condemned as unjustified under Shreveport precedents.
Interstate commerce commission returns show prosperity for U S railroads in June. With 153 roads covering three quarters of the nation’s mileage, net revenue rose about 8 million from June 1916 to 88 283 329. Operating revenues climbed over 48 million to 273 867 527 while expenses ran roughly 30 million higher.
In La Paz a new Bolivian cabinet replaces the 1914 Montes administration with Joseph Guerra as premier and administration minister. Other ministers include Julio Zammora foreign affairs Jose Luis Tejeda finance Ricardo Mujia government General Andres Munoz war and Cladio Sanjines justice.
Beaumont oil companies, rice farmers, and canal interests report a temporary fix to the salt water intrusion from Pine Island. The injunctive hearing in the sixtieth district court, originally this week, is reset for Monday August 20. A definite solution for the Sour Lake and Saratoga oil fields is hoped for at that hearing.
Federal authorities demand the death penalty for Roy Crane of Oak Grove and John Barnhart of Wewoka, leaders of the Working Class Union, as raids arrest more than fifty draft resisters across Hughes Seminole and Pontotoc counties. Hearings begin at McAlester. An unrest wave grows from Seminole to Francis as mobs threaten arms and dynamite disrupts traffic.
Washington officials received new information Saturday asserting Germany possessed Austria's ultimatum to Serbia fourteen hours before Belgrade, with former Foreign Secretary Zimmermann reportedly admitting foreknowledge under close questioning about the European war trigger.
Mexican government will resume construction of the Matamoros Tampico railway within three or four months, according to J Z Garza Mexican Consul in Brownsville who just returned from Mexico City.
An official announcement says five secretaries of state including Foreign Secretary Zimmermann and ministers Lentze and von Loebell resigned. Dr. Richard von Kuehlmann becomes secretary for foreign affairs succeeding Zimmermann.
General Pershing declares Americans must be physically fit, morally sound, and able to act independently within a bottom up army. He compares the force to a football team with disciplined cohesion and brilliant individual action in crisis, optimistic about a strong Allied contribution.
The food bill was finally adopted by the Senate in the form approved by the House and awaits President Wilson's signature to become law. The vote stood 66 to 7 with Democrats Hardwick Hollis and Reed and Republicans France Gronna La Follette and Penrose opposed. The Senate also approved the conference report on the first administration food bill providing a food survey and an appropriation to stimulate production, marking the near end of Congress' administration program begun last May.
London reports a rise in British merchant vessel losses last week to twenty one ships over 1,600 tons and two under 1,600 tons sunk by submarines or mines. Thirteen ships were attacked unsuccessfully and no fishing boats were lost.
Elihu Root and the American mission to Russia report to President Wilson and Secretary Lansing that Russia, newly democratic, grows stronger with aid from the United States and will contribute to the war effort becoming a powerful state.
Crews from seven ships were brought to port by a French steamer on the return voyage from Europe. The vessels include the Italian bark Doris the Canadian schooner Wilhelmina Gertrude the American four masted schooner John and the Norwegian steamers Ellen Hapseat and Horland.
The Texas Senate approved the entire 1917 University of Texas appropriation after Dr. R E Vinson testified in the Ferguson investigation. The bill totals 1 629 406 for two years for the main Austin university and Galveston medical branch with no changes from prior readings.
Pro vost Marshal General Crowder ordered local draft boards to sharply limit discharges for dependency to clearly defined circumstances. He noted some districts report as much as 80 percent of registrants filing for this discharge on the grounds of dependent relatives.
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