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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1904
Page
3
A plan to grow Nigeria's cattle industry involves acquiring mild cattle in Barbados and shipping them toward the west coast of Africa. The narrative also notes a seasonal target of 150,000 to 200,000 trout and salmon entering the Seine near Paris this year.
Dry plains of Montana Colorado Arizona Idaho and other arid areas prove fertile when planted with Salter seeds including Speltz anna Barley Macardni Wheat 60 Earliest Oats and Billion Dollar Grass Bromus Inermis. The note invites readers to request a big catalog and farm seed samples from John A. Salter Seed Co. La Crosse Wisconsin.
Mrs. John La Rue of 115 Pater Bon & ue Paterson New Jersey recounts nine years of kidney distress. She says backache headaches dizziness and nosebleeds plagued her until Doan's Kidney Pills provided relief after one box. Seventy percent of English railway workers earn under six pounds weekly for fifty six hours and forty percent under five pounds while American day laborers earn nearly double.
A collage of ads and notices touts Hunt's Cure for coughs promising relief and guaranteed results for 50c. Defiance Starch sells 16 oz for 10c while other brands offer 12 oz. Insurance firms, seed catalogs, and various products are listed with prices and claims, reflecting early 20th century consumer life.
A German method uses an oxyhydrogen blowpipe to heat iron plate until incandescence and then direct a jet of pure oxygen to bore a hole of fixed size. In tests a twelve inch troll plate yields a hole in about four minutes.
The author argues for universal muzzling to curb hydrophobia in dogs and likens disease controls to the mosquito barrier used against yellow fever and malaria. He asserts infection can be prevented and that every danger has a protective method.
A cannibal chief contemplates a bright youngster and weighs the risk of choosing a child. He finally resolves with a grim remark that it might as well be an Irish stew. The exchange reflects a dark, tongue in cheek moment from the period.
Sault Ste. Marie resident C. L. Smith, 309 Anne Street, recounts severe pain misdiagnosed as lumbago or sciatica. After two boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills, he walks without aids and reports full recovery. Also notes a sapphire found near Standerton, South Africa, and a reflection on money as a sole aim of life.
An old advertisement offers a $100 reward for any catarrh cure not solved by Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney & Co Toledo. The notice includes endorsements of the firm and general testimonial remarks, followed by unrelated era notes on health, ethics, and historical curiosities.
A Los Angeles physician with four decades in teaching and practice extols Grape-Nuts as superior for general health. He recommends Grape-Nuts and Postum Coffee over coffee for patients and notes personal use to sustain brain function. Strong endorsements from doctors nationwide are cited and a promotional booklet is mentioned.
A new two sighting position telescope reads distance by the angle between two vision lines. Reflectors aligned thirty six inches apart create images that yield a micron scale showing object distance. Invented by Maria B Beasley of New York City with a standard adjustable horizon mount.
The Smithsonian expert calls the Lodi Cal meteor genuine and the largest ever found in the United States, estimating its weight between ten and twenty tons. Other notes include Mars atmospheric vapor loss, arsenic in eggs, and Tiffany's radium demonstration through multiple containers.
Advertised as a cure for la grippe, Peruna is extolled in patient letters from Mrs. Jdatergse of Westerlo to Judge Horatio J. Goss of Hartwell. The missives claim relief from grippe after failed medical care, with endorsements from various individuals and an invitation to contact Dr. Hartman for advice.
The piece notes a relic site in Westminster Abbey with crumbly floor and buttery hatch now serving as a dining hall at Canon Wilberforce. It also reports Tyler College in Texas enrolling 150 new students since January 7 in a thorough practical program with affordable shorthand and bookkeeping courses. It also mentions funding for European canal and port improvements, a testimonial for Hunt's Cure, and a German deal to import Nile Delta eels.
John A. Salter Seed Co of La Crosse Wisconsin promotes new money making vegetables including an Earliest Green Eating Onion and offers a large seed pack test offer for 16 cents postage plus 20 cents for an extra Berliner Cauliflower with a big catalog. The notice also briefly advises a home remedy for swollen feet involving boiled charcoal water.
An advertisement promotes Taylor's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein as a cure for coughs and croup for children. It notes druggists sell it in 25c 50c and 1.00 sizes. The piece also cites a statistic that one million Americans own railway stock or bonds with 80 percent of railroad holdings in the United States.
Product ads claim Mother Gray a nurse at a New York Children's Home uses Sweet Powders to cure constipation feverishness bad stomach teething disorders and to move and regulate the bowels. Over 80 000 testimonials. Sold by all druggists 25 cents Sample free address A 5 Olmsted LeRay N.
Years after the idea began in Lar edo Texas and Nuevo Laredo Mexico the three day celebration runs February 21 to 23 featuring bull fights cattle roping contests football baseball international horse races cocking main torchlight parades and naval fireworks. Excursion tickets to Monterey Mexico available with ten day limit and stopovers at Laredo to witness the event. For details contact ticket agents or D J Price G P and T A IL and G N R R Palestine Texas.
The Southern Pacific offers a round trip fare from all points on its line for Mardi Gras February 15 and 16 in New Orleans. Tickets go on sale February 10 to 15 and are valid for return until February 20, with possible extension to March 6 via the joint agent in New Orleans.
The H. and T. C. Railroad and Bank Railway offers three trains daily each way with direct connections to North East and West lines. Through Pullman Sleepers to St Louis Kansas City Dallas Fort Worth Waco and Austin. For rates contact local agents or M L Robbins G P A and Wm Doherty A G P A Houston Texas. An Irishman notes big hearts and big pocket books often do not travel together.
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