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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1915
Page
7
An Illinois farmer describes a simple home made hay loader using a rope attached to a pole and a fork to lift hay from wagons into a barn. The method relies on a steady team, proper mowing, ventilation, and careful handling to ensure quick, efficient loading and proper curing.
Promote growth of trees by applying a thick mulch of straw or hay around the roots. Five to six inches thick and extending two to three feet out, packed firm to suppress vegetation. Replenish monthly during the growing season and add hay if Bermuda grass breaches the mulch. A dairy cow that pays for feed and care is a robber who should not be allowed to live.
The text argues for careful sire selection in dairy breeding, stressing that traits pass from parent to offspring. It urges evaluating sires’ ancestry, family reputation, and records, noting good lineage and consistent type predict future success.
Ohio State University reports a single comb White Leghorn pullet laid her first egg at 4 months 14 days, among 7% hatched together. Study details the feeding schedule from day one through maturity, including grain rations, moist mash, and greens, showing early maturity is breedable.
H Glover of the Colorado Experiment Station warns that Johnson grass and related fodder plants such as sorghum and kafir corn can poison cattle. The toxin hydrocyanic acid acts quickly, often killing within minutes to half an hour, especially when drought stress yields large, hungry herbivores.
A vintage advertisement promotes Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe alternative to calomel. It claims the product cleanses a sluggish liver, relieves biliousness and headaches, and prevents salivation, with a money back guarantee and 60 cent price. It highlights child-friendly, pleasant taste and ease of use.
A cheap substitute for horn is described using ten parts sodium silicate and water mixed into a paste with fine white wheat flour. After standing three weeks the mixture hardens into a hornlike substance that can be molded before setting and machined like brass once cured, with dye added to imitate various horn types.
An advertisement touts resinol ointment and resinol soap as a quick, easy cure for pimples rashes ringworm prickly heat and eczema. It claims physicians have prescribed them for twenty years and urges readers to buy at the nearest druggist, noting sunburn benefit.
Captain Bean of the British army in France reports Tommy Atkins strives to live up to Shaw's Chocolate Soldier as chocolate and sweet meats soar in demand. Cairo dispatch notes Australians have eaten the chocolate supply. Canine canteen sees five times expected demand for sweets and soft drinks and one fifth for beer.
A Blackwell story in the Ardmoreite notes a woman was billed two cents by a mail-order house. She insisted on a two cent money order, paying three cents for the order and two cents for postage, totaling seven cents to collect a two-cent debt per the Kansas City Journal.
A novice pastor misreads the biblical feeding story and an elderly parishioner quips about miracles. Next Sunday the preacher corrects the text and challenges Mr. Smith to explain how he could replicate the miracle using leftovers from the prior Sunday.
A bemused patron buys standing room for a New York winter show at the Cohan theater as packed general admission crowds block view. He returns to the box office to buy another standing room ticket, insisting he cannot see the performance otherwise.
A Harvey Louisiana reader reports her child cured of pellagra by a remedy from American Compounding Co. The letter praises the treatment for Mindie Abrams and urges others to obtain Baughn's free Pellagra book, offering a refund if it fails. The ad-style message cites symptoms and promises a cure.
The excerpt extols sleep as an invaluable, nearly priceless blessing. It likens sleep to a golden chain that binds health to the body and notes that even a tyrant would covet an hour of slumber. It emphasizes sleep's universal value against hardship and care.
A crowd gathers as a renowned marrying parson in clerical garb is introduced. The spry little man speaking with him is Lawyer Biggles, known as a top separator in the community.
A city senator tells a caller not to push into government service as it ruins a young man. He explains he has promised the job to his son after the suggestion about giving Mme a position as private secretary.
The Magic Washing Stick promises heavy duty washing in half the time without rubbing or a machine. It claims to be safe for white, colored, woolen fabrics and other items with no acids or alkalis. Sold by druggists and grocers, 25 cents for 15 washings, order from A. Richards in Sherman, Texas.
An old advertisement promotes Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic as a general tonic with quinine and iron. It claims relief for malaria, liver aid, blood enrichment, and overall system buildup while noting the price as zero cents.
A mistress speaks to her new servant Nora insisting meals arrive on time. Nora asks if missing the first hour means waiting for the next hour, eliciting a light, period-accurate breakfast table quip.
An Empire Ranch image prompts a question: what title fits the Australian cattleman who owns or controls 28 809 000 acres of ranch land, a domain as large as Pennsylvania, illustrating the era’s grand land barons and captains of industry.
A magazine tip advises whitewashing the inside of window boxes before filling with earth to prevent wood rot and deter insects. The guidance appears in McCall's Magazine.
An astronomical clock in Germany has maintained extraordinary accuracy, showing only a one-second error after eighteen years of operation. The device's precision highlights advances in astronomical timekeeping and mechanical design.
In 1898 Boston fathers earned $15 for a 54 hour week. Today they receive $28.60 for a 44 hour week indicating a rise in weekly earnings though with shorter hours.
Australia and New Zealand are identified as the top wool producing nations in a regional analysis. The report highlights their dominant roles in global wool output and references industry trends impacting fleece yields and market demand.
A period article urges preparing for motherhood and promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a tonic for the female system. It claims the product helps women become normal, healthy and strong, with confidential advice from the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn, Massachusetts.
Women employed in the United States arsenal at Philadelphia have demanded a 25 percent wage increase. The move reflects growing labor pressure among workers in manufacturing facilities during the period.
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