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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 29, 1952
Page
10
Tortoises on the Galapagos Islands are believed to be the oldest living creatures on earth. The first barbed wire was produced in 1873 by Joseph F. Glidden of DeKalb Illinois.
The piece credits Shakespere with first using hurry and coining dwindle, Milton for pandemonium, and notes energy needed to boil water could lift a ten story building. It also compares English and American legal views on a wife aiding a criminal.
A single world monument in Baltimore honors Adam the First Man. The note adds trivia about papal tenure during Rome’s construction and global trivia on tears, avalanches of facts, and a 97 pound peppermint stick from Sedalia Missouri.
Lochinvar Lill, a 900 pound Hampshire sow, set a world record when purchased for $5000 by P. L. Benshoof of Fairacres Farm, Webster City Iowa. The former record was $4000 set in 1918 and the sale also included Bit-O-Honey and Mischief Audrey Honey with other Fairacres stock.
President Truman designates March as Red Cross Month and calls citizens to support the $85,000,000 drive. He notes the Red Cross spent $14,000,000 on mid western flood relief last spring and stresses aid to Americans anywhere, anytime.
W L Gibson located a weather balloon at the Davis Ranch near Peach Creek on Friday February 22 at 3:30 PM. The balloon had been released from the Weather Station in San Antonio on February 17 and was returned to the San Antonio Weather Station.
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