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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1925
Page
3
In a parlor on a high mantel a white china cat and a painted dog quarrel over reality. The china boy and vase guard their master, and at the magic hour the cat realizes she can speak but stays silent to avoid the others.
The Appleton family narrative recounts Daysey Mayme Appleton facing a four week quarantine for smallpox after entertaining her steady. Mrs Lysander John Appleton boasts peculiar beliefs about surgery and a silver spoon from ancestors. The piece blends vanity and questionable family gossip with light social satire.
The article traces Bean family roots from Jersey and Scotland through early American settlers in Boston York Exeter and Maine. It notes Eli Bean a Civil War general and William Bean a pioneer with Daniel Boone, discusses possible origins from ban white or bean Cornwall meanings and the evolution of Walter to water in surnames.
A discussion of folk beliefs that a girl sewing a button onto a bachelor’s coat foretells marriage within a year. It explains sympathetic magic and the knot doctrine, linking sewing, knitting, and union to future marriage, notes regional spread, and cites a 1925 source.
USDA advises that deep-well hard water requires stabilized oil emulsions for effective mixing. Bulletin No. 1217 outlines stabilizing agents like casein milk gelatin corn products and starches to allow emulsions to combine with lime sulfur solutions. Directions and formulas enable growers to spray foliage branches and fruit safely.
USDA figures show total crop production rose 13 percent over twelve years while per capita output declined about 5 percent. In 1924 crop production was 113 percent of the 1910-14 average and 110 percent in 1928, while per capita indexes were 95 and 94 percent respectively. Acreage fell slightly from 1928 to 1924 yet overall production rose 1 percent, with per capita gains lagging since 1915 except for 1920.
In the Kaw valley of Kansas seed potato treatment for tuber borne diseases raised yields. Extension workers demonstrated approved methods, leading to test plots comparing treated and untreated seed. By 1924, over 6,000 acres were planted with treated seed, up from virtually none in 1918.
USDA estimates show 19 truck crops grown for table use, canning and manufacture had a gross value of 313 million dollars this year, down 12 million from 1923. Tomatoes led with 55 million, followed by Irish potatoes at 44 million, strawberries 35 million and cantaloupes 20 million.
A historical note highlights a manure and litter carrier as a major labor saver in a modern barn. It explains how the device makes forking manure easier than tossing from a window and, once filled, rolls out to dump contents with a lever release.
A Chinese inventor created a typewriter with a keyboard of hundreds of Chinese characters. The bulky device fills almost an entire room and is operated by both hands and feet. It is unlikely to become popular.
The Shandaken water tunnel in New York extends 18 miles with an 11 foot bore, converting the Schoharie creek into the Ashokan reservoir and claiming to be the world’s largest water tunnel.
A concise saying advises directing men with a keen intellect through a refined approach, likening guidance to a velvet sheath that protects and sharpens effect. It emphasizes balanced authority and wit in leadership.
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