26 Dec 1902
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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1902
Page
1
Electricity replaces the daily paper in Budapest with a telephone newspaper. Subscribers pay two cents daily with no receiver fee, and listening devices allow two people to hear simultaneously. The system, now limited to Budapest, aims to expand across Hungary and beyond to Paris and Vienna.
A Times-Democrat piece notes New Orleans surpasses all cities in candle consumption due to All Saints Day and other religious observances. It cites wide price range from three for five cents to higher grades, with candles used in Catholic cemeteries and daily life alike.
A Cincinnati drummer recalls a local physician whose son, training in medicine, is absorbed by slang and modern talk. When a patient arrives, the son asks the doctor to explain a medical term, highlighting the clash between old and new language in a humorous town anecdote. The piece portrays youth, medicine, and language in light, plain terms.
A French surgeon says men are more prone to aural diseases than women. He cites seven middle aged men with two having unequal hearing and notes children under fifteen show ear disease in four per thousand. He adds the incidence rises to forty then declines with age and estimates about 53 percent of surgical patients are cured while 30 percent are permanently relieved.
A Philadelphia Record handwriting expert warns that a disguised hand hides the writer’s true social status. He explains detectives can rule out lower social classes and focus on those appearing above the deceptive hand to save time.
A Dunkirk New York correspondence describes a haunted Lincoln avenue cottage where a reclusive elderly woman died and money was found recently. Neighbors report midnight noises light blows and chains in the home once guarded by the recluse.
The piece describes early Christmas customs where church choristers sang in streets at dawn collecting alms. It notes Luther as a boy performer and Praetorius harmonizing German hymns, with Johann Sebastian Bach as a pupil joining the street singing tradition at St. Michael's School in Luneburg.
A broad column reports on shipyard standoffs in Scotland and exclusive use of American cars in London. It notes rising prosperity in the U.S., miner wages, meat quarantines, tobacco land exams in Texas, and Philippine revenue needs. It mentions immigration shifts, a new mining town Mitchell near Joplin, and various political and legal observations worldwide.
A poem contrasts a mother’s urgent call of a baby with memories of a past child who died. The speaker hears two voices the living infant and a lost boy, evoking longing, maternal love, and grief as she moves between duty and memory.
About 12 000 people inhabit the Force group rocks between Shetlands and Iceland. All trace Norse sea-king ancestry to ninth century settlers. Despite rough living, Faroese hold noble bearing, no newspapers, and strong literary taste, reading mostly Danish and admiring Icelandic national literature for a millennium.
A Georgia suspect described as a darky explains to the judge that the arrest arose from stealing a possum from a white man. The remark frames the racial tension and legal context surrounding the incident.
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