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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1925
Page
6
The cold weather brings a bustling ice crop harvest as crews operate a motor ice cutter on Lake Wolff near Chicago. The scene shows an ice harvesting crew working together to collect natural ice for storage and sale.
Photograph captures Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Russell of Chicago as they mark their sixty-fifth wedding anniversary. They claim there has never been a cross word between them.
Mrs. Lillian Middleton of Wakefield Massachusetts, a twenty two year old mother of two, engages in luring bootleggers and says it is the greatest sport she has yet experienced. She has captured 50 bootleggers since she began and is paid by the piece, some weeks earning as high as 100 dollars.
The American Legion launches its endowment program in a limited set of states led by national adjutant Russell Creviston. Indiana Illinois and Kentucky begin, with field secretaries aiding state departments. A perpetual trust aims to raise twenty million dollars to honor veterans and maintain Legion principles.
Attorney-General Harlan Stone answers American Legion inquiry. He states that length of service includes time spent in the United States service under the adjusted compensation act. If discharged honorably, all such time counts as service even if served in guardhouse or on K P duty.
At a recent executive committee meeting of the Texarkana post of the American Legion a special effort was approved to persuade the two state Legion conventions to conduct their annual meetings jointly in Texarkana in 1926. Texarkana sits on the Texas Arkansas boundary and equally belongs to both states.
A wry reflection notes that friendship is imperfect and a person’s house becomes a battleground of alliances. It compares personal safety to social bonds, joking that a man’s house is his castle until he makes an assignment then it becomes his wife’s domain.
A pair clashes over social duties and the value of honesty. The speaker hints at moral contrasts between people who participate in gossip or conflict and those who refrain, suggesting indirect social pressure to join in or withdraw. The tone remains reflective and admonitory.
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