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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1931
Page
3
Jeems and his dog Odd ride homeward as a distant blaze lights the sky. Hepsibah’s warning echoes: if a fire lights the heavens, hurry to the seigneurie with his mother and father. Jeems hopes for a letter from Toinette while danger closes in from Dieskau’s frontier.
Jeems races with his dog Odd through a night of twin fires as his home burns and gunshots echo from the hills. He reaches the ruined property to find his father Henri dead near Catherine's rose bushes, while Hepsibah Adams remains absent and hope struggles against fear.
Henry Bulain, a French settler with his English wife Catherine and son Jeems, returns from a visit to the Tonteurs near the seigneurie. Jeems receives a pistol from Hepsibah and fends off tensions with Paul Tache. The Tonteurs depart for Quebec as Britain and France enter war four years later.
Agricultural scientists disagree on using electricity to treat soil. While some English authorities and a Finland farmer claim faster growth and higher yield, the U S Department of Agriculture finds little to no benefit and longer exposure can kill seeds. The general view favors no significant result from electrical soil treatment.
The federal biological survey reports 825 tons of hay used to feed elk at the Wyoming refuge from February 6 to March 26. Hay costs more than 25 dollars per ton to bring to the refuge. Without this winter feed the elk would struggle through the season.
ARK settles down on Christmas eve and the tree is placed by the window. Decorations glow as a visible tree. A second, invisible Christmas tree grows from goodwill shared by friends and relatives across the country and world, offering prayers, wishes, and support.
A New Yorker and family travel to California for a white Christmas in the High Sierras. Marion, her parents, and cousins enjoy snow, skating, and a toboggan ride disrupted by Prince the collie who drags them to safety. The piece ends with a moral on honesty in society.
A Country Home column quips a coquettish maid will skip laurel cedar holly and bay. She jokes the rose is out of season and the fly too, choosing mistletoe for Christmas Eve.
An American Magazine excerpt extols Christmas as a cure for homesickness. It frames the holiday as awakening spiritual joy that makes hope possible and faith simple and certain.
David Gaskill of Ocracoke and Carl Jacobson of Washington harpooned a nine foot shark weighing several hundred pounds off Ocracoke North Carolina. The shark was struck as it neared the boat, pulling the craft downstream before landing it ashore with block and tackle.
A vintage advertisement proclaims Blue Star Ointment stops itching with one application, kills germs after a second application, and heals rash and rawness by the third. It praises a clean odor, guarantees results or money back, and sells at drug stores nationwide.
A quip on excessive production of laws and rising remarriage of divorced couples. The speaker notes too many in-laws entering family circles as a humorous aside.
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