09 Feb 1901
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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1901
Page
1
A satirical column riffs on marriage gender roles and social foibles. It mocks wives husbands and social norms with wry quips about love parenting and propriety while ending with a brisk note on grooming and daily toilet essentials from the New York Press era.
A roundup notes tea in Japan selling high, Los Angeles oil at 1 dollar per barrel, and 100000 barrels monthly. Michigan savings banks show an 6.89 million dollar deposit rise. It also mentions New York Stock Exchange membership tax rulings and two Nashville women selling bodies to a physician. Poultney Bigelow to lecture at Yale in March on colonization.
The piece notes using good seep for cost efficiency and a dash of eau de cologne to refresh when fatigued, then mentions a wash leather as part of grooming.
A New York banker credits success to honesty and disciplined living, then shifts to assorted maxims on work, wealth, and behavior sourced from Chicago News and Pennsylvanian grit. The piece mixes parables on pride, politics, manners, and daily life with light satire.
A collection of aphorisms on eating art passion reform marriage and power. The quotes compare fat from square meals to drawing a house and comment on ability shoemaker and sole ownership. The piece ends with a brief nod to five great powers love money.
London reports the South Africa casualty list shows since the war began twelve thousand nine hundred eighty nine killed or died from disease. February 6 casualty totals include thirteen killed and seventy seven wounded, plus eighty two deaths from disease this month. last month had thirty one officers and eight hundred noncommissioned officers and men killed or died. The total death list from the war’s start stands at 12 989.
Mrs Nation led six women with hatchets in a raid on a Topeka East Sixth Street restaurant selling liquor. A brawl erupted, Nation was disarmed, and she was arrested for disturbing the peace as bystanders jeered. The mob, snowbound and chanting, split after the clash.
A collection of brief notes: Alpha Twencentia Minnea Lundeen born in Minneapolis. W. W. Astor donates 25 000 to Princess of Wales fund aiding families of South African soldiers. Sir Robert Ball notes sun diameter loss this century. Morganstown WV mayor Edgar B. Stewart at 26 first Republican mayor there. Mrs Hurst studies Catholic rites in Paris. longtime Dodge County resident Daniel C. Van Brunt dies. W J Humphreys aids Sun eclipse expedition. Cardinal Gibbons active at age, preaches at St Patrick’s and confirms 300 children.
Reported details of Queen Victoria's will suggest 140000 pounds each for the Duke of Connaught Prince Christian of Schleswig Holstein Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice with generous legacies to the Duchess of Albany and several grandchildren. The bulk of the fortune to King Edward with Balmoral and Osborne houses and the Osborne estate cottages allotted to Princess Beatrice.
Washington February 6 The senate commerce committee short session prevented action on Texas items in the rivers and harbors bill yesterday The bill reported by Chairman Mercer would raise the Abilene public building cost to $100 000 and the subsidy bill was displaced by appropriation measures indicating enactment of a rivers and harbors bill this session
Georgetown Kentucky February 6 Henry E Youtsey was arraigned before Circuit Judge Cantrill and sentenced to life imprisonment after denying guilt and claiming perjury. He will be sent to state prison within days and will not appeal. Mrs Nation Commended Cleveland Ohio February 6 A federation of unions of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union passed a resolution praising Mrs Nation for defending homes against liquor by taking action in Kansas.
The kitchen is a crucial daily space often neglected even in large establishments. A gas stove is highlighted as a highly useful item that saves time and trouble in meal preparation.
Corsicana Texas February 6 J B Diffey shipped a boring rig to the Beaumont oil field and John B Davidson Navarro Oil Company manager shipped another H L Seales prominent in oil and industrial fields here returned from Beaumont reporting many leases made and plans to begin development at once pushing work rapidly toward a basis permitting swift development in the Beaumont field
In a January engagement near Moddersfontein the Boers took 200 British prisoners who were later released. Thirty British soldiers were killed or wounded. An order gazetted allows import of goods into the Transvaal under a military permit. Two persons perished.
The Kansas City Times reports a 176 011 population in a self funded census, up 12 256 from the Government count of 163 752. Officials defend the accuracy after critics claimed undercounting by government enumerators.
In Mineral Wells Texas H L Haney found ore at 198 feet in a well he digs the vein is four feet thick and rich he has not decided on development. In Dallas Texas the Texas Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows held its 61st annual meeting at Turner Hall drawing about a thousand visitors and described as one of the largest and most interesting sessions.
Washington February 5 The army appropriation bill completing by the house committee on military affairs carries about 118 million dollars under a reorganization plan. The quartermaster’s appropriation leads the bill at 57.15 million, marking the largest allocation in the package.
Detroit Texas reports rapid growth with electric lighting a city telephone system a $50000 oil mill and several brick stores and plants. Two gins have processed 3400 bales of cotton this season and 15000 bales have been marketed to date.
A white man Dick Wall was knocked unconscious and robbed. A mob formed after the arrest of a Black suspect who is held for protection. The vigilante action is anticipated as the mob plans to proceed tonight.
In Nesbine parish, Louisiana, on a February night, Tobe and George Stroud were shot and killed by Tom Arthur, George’s brother in law. Authorities say the slayer, intoxicated, was confronted and forced to defend himself, leading to the fatal shootings.
In Lockhart Texas on February 5 observers note steady progress as three large two story buildings take shape this month. Inspectors view site locations while the electric light plant has been greatly extended over seven years.
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