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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1901
Page
3
Carrie Nation leads a self organized Prohibition party in Kansas and strikes Wichita saloons causing closures and wreckage. She wrecked bars at the Carey hotel with a cobblestone, toppled mirrors and smashed pictures while shouting sinners.
Major Midgefield writes to Mrs. Pry seeking to resume boarding, but Julius Carey misdirects a Valentine addressed to Miss Adela Forrester. The letter ends up causing a comical miscommunication between the Major Mrs. Pry and the Forrester family, with no one certain who sent the note and why.
Dorothy Dulin Studebaker McKeown, granddaughter of the Studebaker founder, has entered vaudeville under manager Meyerfield of the Orpheum circuit. She plans to perform in major cities including Chicago, saying she must help her husband “keep the wolf from the hearth.”
Miss Birdie Doherty of Marshall Clark county won the assistant post mistress post in the Illinois house organization defeating Miss Mamie Cowan of Pana backed by the Chicago Burlington and Quincy railroad. Doherty received 52 of 77 votes on the first ballot highlighting a striking political win.
Reports describe a Carrie Nation inspired movement forming a club in Indianapolis and similar zeal in Peoria Illinois. Nation vows to cleanse Kansas joints and expand nationwide while critics in Chicago denounce her tactics as lawless and outside legal bounds.
The article notes February 14 marks the death anniversary of Saint Valentine the martyr but questions the day’s observance origins. It recounts his beating by Claudius and beheading, his real name Valentinus, and mentions two other saints named Valentinus from Interamna and Passau who flourished later.
A brief verse test mixes a sentimental Valentine request with a stark quotation on religion. The speaker pleads for a token and declares love, while a quoted line contrasts Christianity and paganism, placing Christianity at the boundary where idolatry ends.
Giuseppe Verdi born to poor parents in powerfully humble beginnings rose to fame after early support from a traveling violinist named Ragarset. In 1893 he wrote Falstaff at age 80, followed by Stabat Mater and Ave Maria, and spent his final years aiding aged musicians.
A Kentucky judge, Tarvin, heads a reform movement aiming to oust from national politics the type of statesman tied to Richard Croker. The piece notes Tarvin’s Democratic stance but independence from the party’s eastern wing. It also profiles Mrs. S. R. Van Sant, wife of Minnesota’s governor, highlighting her public charity work and balanced home duties.
Black and White notes public and press protests over years failed to halt the District railway of London. Electric traction on the London Central line drew traffic away, convincing management to abandon the earlier dismissive stance and adopt electric power.
The Citizens' Educational commission of the Civic Federation of Chicago recommends free text books for all public school children. It argues current free book aid shames poor students and that well off parents pay for books to avoid humiliation, urging universal provision.
Dr M J Rodermund a Appleton Wisconsin physician sought to prove smallpox non contagious by touching virus. he smeared himself and was placed in quarantine but escaped and remains missing. Appleton townspeople are in frenzy as a pesthouse guard stands watch and calls mount to discharge four officers on the Rodermund house detail while his wife and children stay quarantined.
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