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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1927
Page
6
Historic note lists questions about the Columbia Tiger origin date and discoverer, plus a wide range of trivia from presidents assassinations to musical innovators and colonial histories, reflecting a quiz style page.
A list of quiz items with numbered answers including John B Soule George Borrow the Apollo Belvedere Shamrock Resolute voltage Clouds of a cloud and the earth Henrietta Marie John Quincy Adams Jefferson Van Buren Tyler Fillmore Johnson Arthur Roosevelt Coolidge Patrick Henry Edward Everett Hale Johann Strauss the Younger Twice in 1914 and 1919 the unit of air pressure the old Spanish Piastre Battery C Sixth Field Artillery Gen Wesley Merritt 1895 north south erections vs east west and a period of legal delay for obligations.
The male capercailzie’s love song ends with a two minute deaf spell during which hunters stalk the bird. In Europe and Asia the largest wild grouse is hunted only in breeding season as the bird’s acute hearing aids alert so hunters wait for the next chorus before closing in.
Ruminants are a group of animals distinguished from others by chewing the cud. The chief ruminants include camels deer giraffes antelopes sheep and goats. Their food is partially masticated and swallowed then brought back to the mouth for further chewing.
A bishop seated beside a woman at a dinner party hints at her display of charm. When dessert arrives he places an apple on her plate and she is told to eat it. Eve's reaction is used to tease the woman, and she questions who gave Eve the apple.
A new U S market information bureau in San Francisco expands access to grape price data and distribution. The service aggregates carload shipments and prices from railroads and markets nationwide, with updates from 25 hour cycles and 12 hour telegraph operations.
David White of Sydney wakes to discover he is heir to over 1.2 million dollars in cash and 10 million dollars in real estate earned by his uncle Solomon Wheinsky who fled Russia in the 1850s and built wealth in South Africa through diamond dealings. The tale traces hardship, exile, and a lineage linking Nishni Novgorod Riga London Whitechapel and Cecil Rhodes era diamonds to a modern Australia inheritance.
Bell laboratories engineers place a new barrier between robbers and loot using the Type H Inertia microphone. Installed in banks in New York and Philadelphia, it detects minute wall vibrations and triggers electric signals to summon guards, operating without picking up ordinary sounds.
Scientists at the Hooper Foundation and University of California report bacteria spores resist boiling water for 90 minutes and typhoid organisms persist at low temperatures for years. Dr. George E. Coleman notes research shows mice and guinea pigs help reduce food poisonings and outbreaks, strengthening protection against microscopic threats.
Millions of feet of spruce lumber logged and milled by government forces during World War I are in demand for peace era airplanes. Lumber stored on the war basis sheds is in excellent condition for aircraft needs and most logs in assembling yards remain sound.
Cape May New Jersey 28 pound lump of ambergris found 15 miles offshore by Jeremiah Pratt a 74 year old seaman from Gloucester Mass aboard the fishing schooner Mary Ann. He was offered 448 dollars a pound totaling about 12500 by a New York perfumer and plans to retire and buy a chicken farm.
Paris faces urban pollution as industrial smoke and car exhaust darken Notre Dame and other historic monuments. Pieces have fallen from Notre Dame and the Palais de Justice while the Madeleine also required cleaning and repairs this year. A city commission was appointed to study remedies.
In East Hampton on Lake Pocotopanog a mother quail sat on Seventeen eggs in a hay field when mowers displaced her. John Saltus moved the eggs to Meeks who placed them under two separate hens. A skunk spoiled one nest, the other hatched eight. The original mother then lured the brood away, leaving the foster hen puzzled.
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