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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1926
Page
3
A New York Sun item notes two amusing roadside signs seen on a summer trip in central Vermont. One promises “Fresh eggs laid while you wait,” the other points to a “This road leads to Lake Arlington drive in” destination.
A quotation compares falling in love to watching a movie star with a small fee. Miss Cayenne muses about fastening affection to a motion picture idol. The exchange mocks the convenience minded view of romance in contrast to personal conversation.
A humorous exchange suggests restraining a spendthrift by giving a check book. Mrs Nuvorich mocks the idea while misnaming the caller, creating a playful domestic vignette with a light critique of impulse spending.
Hello Hetties The girls up at Central Keep busy all day. Whenever I see them They're plugging away.
A playful dialogue features a professor and student debating ratio and proportion. The student defines ratio as proportion and asks what proportion is, with both terms answering that they are each other. The exchange ends with the items confirming their mutual equivalence.
In a Stray Stories fragment, Browne shows a notable aversion to borrowing. The dialogue reveals a request to induce payment or force, highlighting tension over debt and influence within the tale.
In a brief exchange a florist and another man debate the proverb live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones prompting a sharp quip about restraint and judgment. The line suggests a theatrical or storytelling frame with a moral reflection.
A terse line about bad luck and loss features a poetic image of corn on the cob and missing front teeth with a mournful tone. The fragment suggests a humorous or sardonic brief note on hardship.
Two unnamed schemers discuss shifting blame to Crabb and creating room for an accusation in the proceeding. The dialogue reveals strategic maneuvering and potential scapegoating.
A lighthearted exchange imagines a gardener observing an ant at work. The banter playfully questions whether the insect acts as a tiny efficiency expert.
A brief comic exchange shows Mrs Miggs and a landlady discussing handling items. The dialogue centers on duties and ensuring things are dusted and cared for.
Assured Fawlen asks about love at first sight and Archer denies it. Fawlen urges persistence and promises another sighting as a playful exchange unfolds between the two characters.
A brief exchange notes Ethel learning violin while others question her musical ear. The focus is on her commitment and the lighthearted jab about her elbows as a playful aside.
The Hautecombe Abbey on Lake Bourget in Savoy holds 43 royal Savoy tombs spanning 1162 to 1849. Notable interments include Beatrix de Genevois and Charles Felix king of Sardinia who bought and restored the abbey in 1824 after near ruin. The site is sacred to Italian royalty, though rarely visited by them.
The Philadelphia Board of Public Education reports that left handed children are normal and that left handedness is a habit that can be changed. A study by John G. Kirk finds the old belief that lefties become stutterers unfounded and outlines efforts to teach left to right writing in early grades to reduce mirror writing.
War department reports Forty second Infantry in Panama recounts a mule that fled during maneuvers and hid in a 10 foot pit for 47 days. A native found the skeletal animal, fed by rainwater, and it later recovered to a fat robust state at camp.
Marion Ohio dealer H D Keeler owns a bicycle once used by Warren G Harding. He plans to donate the wheel to the Harding Memorial association for display in a planned museum. The bike dates from 1889 and stayed with Harding through his early career.
The article explains using artificial light to extend the day for laying hens during short, cloudy winter days. By turning on lights for 20 to 30 minutes in the evening, hens eat more and lay more eggs as they fill their crops and return to the roost. Lighting systems with acetylene pilot lights or electric clocks enable timed on off operation.
Practical guidance from O A Barton of North Dakota Agricultural College on improving market fowl quality. Use a wet mash of equal parts grain and liquid, fed for ten to fourteen days to boost weight 20 to 85 percent. Suggest two pounds milk per pound ground feed or 15 20 percent meat scraps. feed three times daily for ten to fifteen minutes.
The article emphasizes sanitation first in poultry care with no cure for tuberculosis in fowls and spread to swine. It advises 4 square feet per bird, monthly litter removal, dry warm housing, trap nests for winter laying, deep straw litter, and spray houses with kerosene to kill mites. Mash feeding boosts egg production and flock weight, reducing losses.
The Sesquicentennial crowd of 140000 at the Dempsey Tunney fight set a modern amphitheater record, surpassing Grant Park's 100000 capacity. Ancient Rome’s Circus Maximus, rebuilt after fire, reportedly held 250000 to possibly 485000 spectators, per Pliny.
An advertisement urges buyers to look for the Bayer name on aspirin packaging or tablets to ensure authenticity. It claims Bayer Aspirin is proven safe by millions and prescribed for 26 years and warns imitators can be dangerous.
Joseph Epps of Pan Fuma Oklahoma joined the Philippines campaign in 1899. He single handedly captured 21 armed men earning the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1902. The War department could not locate him for 24 years, leaving the medal unclaimed in Washington until he recently contacted officials.
Mrs Anne Greaves of Hensall York shire is Britain's sole female quarry manager. She says quarrying is not a strange business for women, oversees operations with a foreman and male workforce, inspects seams, directs methods, and has developed an artificial stone plant as stone grows expensive.
A harmless vegetable butter color called Dandelion has been sold for 50 years in drug and general stores. Bottles labeled Dandelion retail for 85 cents each.
Geraldine and Maxine clash over a claim that Jones girl should be arrested for receiving stolen foods. Geraldine says it involves a kiss incident and alleged transfer of the act through others. Cincinnati Times-Star outlines the sparse exchange in a city row.
An advertisement urges readers to avoid dizziness headaches biliousness constipation fevers and jaundice by keeping the liver active and bowels regulated with Bond's Liver Pills. It claims the pills aid Nature in removing poisonous waste and notes druggists recommend them for 25 cents.
A man thanks a rescuer with money he had on hand and a recent bank deposit. The rescuer remarkably receives about five dollars from the giver, who notes a recent fifty dollar bank deposit. The exchange appears in the Boston Transcript.
A brief quip from Progressives Grocer remarks on a spouse’s presumed fate. The line plays on a grass widow joke about a husband described as a vegetarian.
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