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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1919
Page
2
Proceedings note witnesses appearing before a committee to testify regarding a contested election involving paragliding activities. The record cites committee proceedings and testimony regarding election outcome validity and related issues.
The daily session notes show ongoing bills and committee actions in Austin with focus on oil taxes, public works, and school funding. Key items include a 144 percent gross oil production tax, a 2 percent refining tax bill, and multiple bills on municipal and state governance, education aid, and immigration limits.
Brownsville attorney J. George testified before a joint house and senate committee on ranger force inquiries. He described disappearances in the lower Rio Grande Valley as evaporation and noted several instances. He also supported the rangers’ necessity in the valley.
Houston dispatch reports the Armenian Syrian Relief Campaign in North Texas counties extending to February 17–24 with speakers Thomas B. Heald Rev. W A Mansur and others touring the state. Delegates on Paris war responsibility commission include Robert Lansing and Sir Gordon Stewart.
Gov signs full suffrage joint resolution in the Texas senate chamber on Wednesday. The document presented to Minnie Fisher Cunningham and Nora Boren Mahoney is part of an equal suffrage plan to be voted on May 24 with a large platform of state leaders and supporters pictured.
Washington reports official tables list 66,592 American deaths missing and prisoners in France up to Jan 10 across 30 divisions. About 10,000 remain unaccounted for nearly three months after hostilities ended. Of total, 17,434 are missing or captured.
Randolph Harrison, Virginia counsel, presented to the Virginia legislature a settlement plan with West Virginia. West Virginia would pay 1.1 million dollars in cash and 13.4 million dollars in 3% twenty year bonds, minus 1 million in bonds held by the West Virginia treasury for lost certificates never delivered by Virginia.
Washington report shows the House with no dissent adopting elections committee findings that Thomas A. Chandler a Republican was elected in 1916 from Oklahoma's first district.
Cambridge Massachusetts reported the death of Edward Charles Pickering professor and director of the Harvard Observatory. A widely known astronomer he was a leading figure in American science with a long career at Harvard.
Secretary Baker declared at the national rivers and harbors congress that every soldier who wore the U S uniform, whether fighting or training, will have a job if he desires one. The remark opened the fourteenth annual convention in Washington.
Texas institutions seek 7,808,772 dollars in appropriations for the next two years, rising from 4,662,203 dollars allowed by the thirty-fifth legislature for the current two years. The requested increase totals 3,045,669 dollars.
Governor Hobby signed a bill permitting the Southern Cotton Oil Company to reenter Texas. The firm had previously been expelled after a judgment found it violated anti trust laws.
A special Daily Telegraph article estimates the direct wartime cost at 40 billion pounds.
A vintage note describes a home mixture with water, Bay Rum, Barbo Compound, and glycerine to darken gray hair without staining the scalp while remaining non sticky. It notes directions in each Barbo box and claims soft glossy results. Also quoted are playful sailor taunts about drinking and a naughty-cat remark.
A fragment shows dialogue about correcting stomach and bowel troubles with bottle directions. One speaker mentions fish as a brain diet and the other questions preferring weak fish, reflecting casual miscommunication.
An advertisement touts Vacher Balm as a cheap fast-acting remedy for croup, catarrh, colds, and sore throat available in jars or tubes for 25 cents, with samples and agent prices offered. It also notes a Roman Eye Balsam for granulated eyelids and inflamed eyes and includes a short humor line about Samson and Absalom.
An old advertisement warns against neglecting aches and cold symptoms as they may lead to influenza. It promotes Capadine as a quick relief liquid with a trial bottle priced at 10 cents and mentions larger sizes. It includes a light film quote about a star’s fattening.
Nellie B. Rittingham of Baltimore Maryland credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing organic troubles nervousness and headaches after months in bed and a doctor urging surgery She used five bottles and now works with pleasure Her sister recommended the remedy before agreeing to an operation and the note urges others to consider it before undergoing surgery
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