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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1923
Page
9
A vintage advertisement promises relief from skin blemishes for boys and girls who feel humiliated by pimples and rough skin. It touts Black and White Ointment as popular and affordable, selling nearly two million packages yearly, with a 50 cent size offering three times as much as the 25 cent size.
A brief exchange notes Flint’s rapid housekeeping yesterday as Lint-Company queues for an afternoon visit, highlighting the wife’s reputed thoroughness and fit for hired help.
An old advertisement touts California Fig Syrup as a harmless laxative to clean a baby’s liver and bowels. It targets sick infants and children, promises no narcotics, and urges buyers to say California to druggists to avoid counterfeits.
Dialogue excerpt shows an old lady reacting to a strong odor while a farmer explains they are applying fertilizer on the field nearby. The exchange mixes humor with rural life.
A brief note describes the long standing use of a harmless Dandelion butter color sold in drug and general stores at 85 cents. It also reports a rising trend in India toward electric fans replacing hand pulled punkah and electric lights replacing coconut oil lamps.
An old advertisement touts Cascarets as a cure for billousness constipation sick headache and indigestion with a 10 cent box price. It also promotes Allcock's Plaster for external aches from cold or exertion and Roman Eye Balsam for burning or stinging eyes with a Pearl Street address for the advertiser Knowledge.
A poem notes the value of the paper mark fading to almost nothing as time stretches from morning to night to write the necessary decimal. The verse reflects financial decline and measurement absorbing effort.
Windom Minnesota mother of nine recalls extreme fatigue before her ninth birth. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring strength and enabling a healthy baby. The testimonial urges other mothers to try the remedy.
Clifford Winters learns a hard truth after jealousy over Stella Thompson and Dick Carpenter. He pursues her with a Christmas bouquet, apologizes for years of neglect, and wins Stella’s consent to marry, inspired by a holiday town trip. Stella’s mother later muses that the Carpenter boy helped wake Clifford to love.
Austin shoppers see vegetables from Texas producing areas as markets clear well. Cabbage first cars and grapefruit first straight car head to market with firm prices for beets carrots mustard onions parsley radishes and turnips sold by the dozen. other items by the pound. Texas grapefruit 4.50 to 5.00 per box and Keifer pears 2.50 to 3.00. Pecans and peanuts in steady demand. turkey supplies ample with no brisk poultry market.
Washington reports a 3 percent rise in basic commodities production in October and early November, led by anthracite mining with gains also in textiles, lumber, sugar, and other index industries. Freight and wholesale trade stay above normal. prices mostly steady with some declines and later month rebounds in cotton and related goods.
First snow of the season spread from the Panhandle and plains to other West Texas regions and northern areas. Rain sleet and cold weather were reported at many locations as wintry conditions moved in last Wednesday.
The submarine 1 nearing completion for the British navy at a Chatham dockyard is described as the longest and fastest submersible craft in the world with a surface speed of 33 knots.
Monterey Mexico The National Railways of Mexico has asked the ministry of communications and public works for permission to build a direct railroad from Mexico City to the port of Tampico.
The new Franco American cable said to be the longest in the world was landed safely at Havre Wednesday by the cable steamship Stephan. The line will be in operation in a few days.
Dorothy Benjamin Caruso becomes Mrs. Enrico Caruso widow of the tenor and marries Captain G A Ingram a British army officer she met in Italy in a London ceremony on a Wednesday.
The 1922 Alaskan commerce exceeded 80 million dollars and planners foresee vast mineral wealth and coal near open winter ocean routes. Projections emphasize northern adventures by prospectors and potential profits from reindeer herding and wildlife in the silent wastes as keys to future fortunes.
A frontier tale recalls Ulysses and Polyphemus as Lindley leaps onto a fleeing steer to escape a Native American ambush. Arrows whistled as the herd bolted toward the woods, but Lindley clung to the cattle and rode free deep into the trees before slipping away into darkness. He waited until night, then returned to the fort after ensuring the settlers were safe.
The tale of a talking coon and Davy Crockett origins centers on Captain Martin Scott of Bennington Vermont. Scott, famed for rifle skill, earned renown in the War of 1812 and Mexican War before dying at Molino del Rey on September 8 1847.
A collection of light anecdotes on embryo actresses facing hurdles and a joke about a steward aboard a liner. The notes include managers’ form letters, photographers, and a captain’s tea service mishap ending with a sailor’s quip about a missing teapot at the bottom of the Atlantic.
A humorous exchange shows a mother and daughter at a restaurant where the daughter Bessie expresses curiosity about parsley sauce. She claims biblical reading as the reason to try it, while the mother offers the sauce and nudges taste. The tale ends with a wry note on desire for scarce things.
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