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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1907
Page
4
Queen Wilhelmina agrees to validate Vatican titles and decorations once used under papal authority. Candidates now face pilgrimages to The Hague as the price of pontifical favors rises with the change in state church relations.
Mrs Hattie Currier of Thomaston Maine reports her nine month old daughter suffered rash on face and feet causing sleepless nights. After using Cuticura Soap and Ointment, symptoms improved within hours and cradle cap cleared. She now keeps Cuticura on hand for future rashes or insect bites. June 9 1906.
Three men charged with sleeping in a deer pen at Bushey Park Felt ham. A keeper testified the men pulled down about ten shillings worth of hay from the tracks and the deer refused to touch it after being slept upon. The deer stayed away from the pens due to disturbance.
Sixty years ago Allcock's Plasters were first shown to the public and are today regarded as the world's standard plasters. The invention is hailed as a great blessing for quick cheap healing and relief of certain ailments. Allcock's are the original genuine porous plasters sold by druggists worldwide.
In the arid southwest scarce wood leads to repurposing empty five gallon gasoline cans as building plates for roofs and walls. Cans stacked for chimneys and walls replace stone blocks. tops cut and bent create porches for pigeon lofts. sliced cans serve as plant pots and water buckets without oily residue.
Readers savor light flakes with delicate flavor and crisp texture. A minister remarks the flakes, likened to Elijahs manna, tempt the palate and trigger watery mouths as a promising start to meals.
An old advertisement from Battle Creek Michigan promotes Elijah's Manna by Postum Cereal Co. Ltd. Sold by grocers at 5 cents for a pony package and 15 cents for a regular family size. Try it today.
Senate introduced bills including sequestering road and bridge taxes in cities, raising per capita school apportionment, establishing agriculture and cotton statistics, bounty for wolves in Bosque county, and estate for insolvent corporations. Also filing charters for American Selling Company Galveston and other firms across the state with varied capital stocks.
In Austin the House introduced bills by Wilmeth for water and land tax relief on fractional sections. Diggers and McKinney to protect fresh water fish and squirrels. Bowles to raise road tax and exempt duties. Duncan to allow outside witnesses in anti trust cases. Bell of Freestone to require sworn property disclosures. Dean to extend fencing offenses to corporations. Clements to restore Mills county criminal jurisdiction. Bell of Freestone to revise tax lists. Bowles for a 25 cent property tax for roads. Austin to simplify new trial grounds on appeal. Witherspoon to establish a Wilbarger county road law.
House measures introduced include creating Hagerman independent school district, enforcing road taxes, limiting fresh water fish catching, taxing school assessors to census Confederate veterans, and expanding district attorney pay. Other proposals cover city charter amendments for Fort Worth, Lipscomb and Gray counties jurisdiction, compulsory education ages 7 to 16 with fines for noncompliance, and various fiscal or procedural changes.
Final reading targets include Thompson liquor licensing Strickland bond requirement Ray anti-baseball gambling Terrell convict road work Henderson tax board changes James blanket primary Carswell school and asylum lands O Neals deficiency appropriation. Possible Governor and chamber edits may trim provisions.
A list of bills and proposals read Monday February 18 includes increasing tax collector pay to boost delinquent tax collection, requiring railroads to report stock incidents to the county clerk, placing Hall County under animal and hide inspection law, adjusting court times in the Thirty-Eighth Judicial District for Edwards County, and regulating court practice with penalties for judges overstepping jurisdiction, assigning district court jurisdiction to the county of residence.
Captain ONeill of Fort McIntosh announced a public sham battle to reassure Laredo residents. Troops will march out in the evening and return to attack the garrison, with small arms volley fires and cannons in action during the engagement.
Paris Texas mourns as Thomas couple aged 66 and 62 die within two days at their Caviness area home from pneumonia. They recently moved from Bowie county. A grown son collapsed from grief after the father’s death and fainted, reviving only hours before the mother’s passing.
A blaze at Minco Oklahoma Territory last night destroyed eight cars of cotton and other property at the Rock Island depot, with total losses estimated at 75,000 dollars. Authorities investigated the cause and secured the scene.
John W. McKinney grand master of the colored Masonic fraternity of Texas awarded the temple contract to be erected at Fort Worth for $30,000. The structure will be thoroughly modern.
Mrs A Heiman of Stillwater Minnesota credits Doan's Kidney Pills with curing lifelong back pain and illness after a near death experience in 1899. She reports kidney secretions returning to normal and says she has been well since. Advertisement notes price at 50 cents per box and selling location. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY namesake.
An old newspaper clipping lists various patent medicines and tonics with dramatic claims. It advertises Putnam Faceless Dyes refunds, Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething, Piles cures with Panazaw, Garfield Tea laxative for blood purification, Kline's Nerve Restorer promising cures, and a phonograph door ad with shop greetings.
Prof. Korn of Munich University has improved apparatus for sending photographs over telegraph wires. He transmitted photographs and sketches six to seven inches square from Munich to Nuremberg about 100 miles away in 10 to 15 minutes.
The advertisement touts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as the leading cure for female ailments. It claims thirty years of success treating inflammation ulceration and spinal weakness and invites women to write Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for free confidential advice from a renowned family line of medical guidance.
Prof Bottomley argues insects have public houses and get intoxicated in a London lecture. He cites the wild arum as the leading insect bar with a nectar pit for the orgy. In British Columbia lakes a crust rich in borax and soda is mined like ice, with one lake near 20,000 tons.
An advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for any case of catarrh that Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure. It presents F J Cheney and Co of Toledo and claims the firm is trustworthy with testimonials and nationwide drug trade. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills and Buchan's Soap for skin care with ordering details.
The 1900 census records U.S. egg output at 1,293,662,433 dozen, reflecting robust poultry farming nationwide. This figure highlights the scale of egg production across states and improvements in agricultural practices at the turn of the century.
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