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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1903
Page
3
A poem recalling earning a little money in cotton and corn, traveling away from the state of birth, then praising Georgia as a starry home with unmatched cotton fields. The narrator compares distant journeys to the familiar cotton fields of home.
A speaker recalls leaving silver dishes and craving johnny-cakes and spare ribs from home. They packed lightly, then, one morning, took a brush and comb and began the journey back to the cotton fields of home.
A refined Michigan lumber baron recognizes his cook as his wayward son, once banished for alcoholism. The son’s transformation begins in Alpena and deepens through a winter in remote camps, where he proves skilled, disciplined, and capable, earning a path back to respectability.
A Washington Star quote extols six months in a northern lumber camp as a better remedy for alcohol problems than traditional treatments. It notes a father’s gratitude and a son who led a family’s lumber empire after the father’s death, framed as endorsement of practical discipline over drink.
A bricklayer tool expert explains how the trowel evolved from mortar to cement work, enlarging and shortening for new demands. Regional practices vary, with California using a larger thinner blade and a chisel, while Western masons spread mortar for multiple bricks and Boston masons lay bricks singly.
Washington Star recounts a courtroom exchange where attorney S. H. Cowan bluntly tells a stern judge to keep his mouth shut. The judge’s aggressive questioning mirrors an older judge known for tough pace on lawyers. The moment elicits laughter from two fellow judges and sparks a remark by the chief justice.
An English officer leaves his luncheon to cool and asks the bugler to eat it in the guard room. The bugler shares the meal with comrades believing it is his command. A voice calls to fetch the bugler and the officer orders the food brought when it is warm enough.
The London hospital secretary released figures showing enormous annual activity. Last year 000 pills were taken for treatment and over three tons of cough lozenges used. Dressing injuries required ninety two miles of lint, 476 miles of bandages, six tons of cotton wood and nine miles of plaster. Daily output included half a ton of ice and 400 syphons of soda water. Eggs consumed in a year would stretch six and a half miles end to end. Milk bills topped 15000 dollars and meat bills 25000. If patients stood side by side they would form a line sixty six and a half miles long.
The piece notes that creatures show varied tolerance to substances that harm humans. It cites horses tolerating antimony dogs mercury goats tobacco mice hemlock and rab bits belladonna while dogs and cats are more vulnerable to chloroform than humans. It argues animal tests cannot reliably predict human effects.
The University of Pennsylvania dormitory board of representatives bans signs in street windows to stop rooms to let and other notices. The move follows complaints from a trustee, telephone companies, storekeepers, police, and an English visitor who sparked the dispute.
A Washington Star account recalls an old memorandum tracing the origin of the U S railway mail service to a St Joseph Missouri postmaster appointed by President Buchanan The idea grew from the pony express and used crude boxed partitions to sort mail on arrival of riders leading to today’s vast system now run by nearly 30000 men.
A verse about the arc of a bootblack who rose to wealth then lost it all, contrasted with office boys turned kings and other life twists. It asks who immortalizes the man who began with little and faced fortune’s shifts, ending with a final white chip drawn.
At a recent dinner Professor Jean Charlemagne Bracq of Vassar College teased the audience with a joke that traced ancestry to Priam of Troy. He quipped that his genealogical quest yielded a vast, absurd number of ancestors and a playful claim to becoming a veritable E Pluribus Unum.
A description of a dark gray blue serge school frock for a child aged 5 to 7 with a plaited blouse and embroidered linen collar. The piece notes shoulder straps, a triangle backed bag of rings for sal ammoniac, and a cleaning solution instruction to dissolve salts, mix with ammonia, and sponge a carpet.
Take a cold boiled steak work with minced ham bread crumbs and butter. Season with parsley herbs pepper and salt. Bind with gravy and beaten egg. Bake on paper like a salmon steak for thirty minutes. Serve hot with gravy and garnish with parsley horseradish.
The article describes Cinderella and closet slipper bags for storage. Styles range from silk decorative bags with Cinderella artwork to denim utilitarian designs. Boudoir bags mix silk or leather with painted or pyro graphics, suspended by ribbons. A boudoir version uses nineteen silk rings with a triangle of embroidered wheels.
The excerpt lists various folk cures such as sun baths for rheumatism clam broth for weak stomach and cranberry poultices for erysipelas. It also suggests gargling lager for sore throat and radishes for gravel with other odd tips like cod liver oil in tomato catsup and turpentine fumes for whooping cough.
Decorated linen lamp shades show a deep plaited look though they open out. They are built on a firm foundation and are substantial despite a thin appearance. Large shades feature roses or vividly colored flowers as their key decorations.
A jumble of household notes on cleaning carpets with tartaric acid borax and soap and fashion notes on Mercerized duck shirts hat styles and spring fabrics. Cotton etamines Pongenette and net Voile etamine grenadine and crepe de chine are named as trends with many buttons and trims expected.
An afternoon gown in one tone of ecru features silk embroidery and chiffon with passementerie. Silk embroidery graces the waist and upper sleeves, while cuffs share the same detail. Wide sleeves use accordion-pleated chiffon and the neck also displays the soft material.
The article notes dress and table decorations cycle between Empire and Louis XV, with revived period motifs guiding dinner arrangements. Owners of Sevres or Dresden china enhance displays through centered high flowers and foliage, adding beauty with long center trails to corners.
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