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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1906
Page
2
Washington reports the national debt at £991,524,646 while the Tax president appoints Francis L. Lee as customs collector for Galveston. Hearst campaigns for New York governor as debates over Texas cotton grow and mill needs surface. Bryan cites navy spending at Annapolis.
Lavaca county residents celebrate F P Guenther's selection as organizer and agent of a teachers fraternal organization. The Lavaca Herald praises his zeal and envisions him as a future State Superintendent of Schools. Also, Lavaca held a county tax vote for 15 cents per hundred to improve public roads. 225 ballots cast here with 96 yes and 99 no.
A young man plans a new paper in Halletsville, Texas to be called the Lavaca County News. The town already hosts several English Bohemian and German papers. Sheriff Noble returned from East Texas with news on D. Lee in two assault to murder cases, while local bonds and town offices face election talk and routine court business.
Two men posing as theatrical agents lured Grace Mickles and Annie McNamara, bound and gagging Mickles in a Chicago hotel, then stole her rings and purse. McNamara paid $10 for promised chorus work, left a valise, and the suspects fled after their ruse was exposed.
Swiss Alp Texas items note Joe Boehm’s return to New Mexico and Emil Mueller’s Vernon job. Aug Ahrens and Rud Ahrens visit, Hy Kiesling’s wagon accident, Helmuth Schuette’s christening, Rev Kern’s travels, the death of August Krause at 75 with family left behind, and William Melcher’s recent passing. Mrs Janssen travels to Shiner. John Strieder adds to Tut Eacur list.
Tax Collector Bennett reports Hallettsville area figures with totals and place names such as Moravia Breslau Charlottenburg Worthing and Williamsburg among others. The document ends with a grand total of 3923 receipts across listed locales.
A correspondence discusses how a Pittsburgh area bid on 24 Rolling Mill houses used Devoe paint with an 11 percent saving. The note questions the overall painting cost, as labor and materials far exceed the paint savings and laments unclear paint intelligence.
Texas patents granted this week and reported for Tax Baaie by C. A. Snow & Co patent attorneys Washington D C: Thomas Fowler Beaumont car truck bolster George F Green Bazette cooking stove attachment John 8 Jacobs Dallas embroidering attachment for sewing machines Walter L Keesee Reagan trunk corder James A Posey Midlothian electric switch for street railways Percy C Prest on Denison reed organ John R Spicer Lovelady combination tool Francis Hl York San Angelo pump jack
The article notes the senate may block the house rate legislation and use the Payne and statehood bills as leverage. It discusses potential party-line support for the statehood bill and warns of possible insurrection if opposition strengthens.
In 1896 A B Devall county treasurer of Halletsville Texas writes to Dr E W Hall of St Louis praising Texas Wonder for kidney and rheumatism treatments and recommending it to others with similar ailments dated October 26 1901.
An old patent medicine advertisement touts The Texas Wonder by Dr. E W Hall as a universal cure for kidney and bladder troubles. It promises gra iles diabetes rheumatism and other urinary system issues in men and women and bladder regulation in children. Sold by druggists or mailed for one dollar with a two months supply.
A fragmented notice highlights Galveston Sea wall safety, while a Waco resident praises Dr King s New Discovery for consumption as life changing. Electric Bitters are credited with curing kidney and general debility, with broad claims of health benefits and a trial bottle offer.
Major Hamm of the Constitutionalist in Eminence Kentucky recounts a severe past attack and says Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cured him in ten days with no trouble since. It is advertised as the quickest healer of burns sores cuts and wounds, 25 cents at all drug stores.
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