1918 Car Registration Question for Mr Auto Owner
A local notice asks Mr Auto Owner whether he registered his car for 1918. It notes the registration deadline and potential penalties for noncompliance.
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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1918
Page
4
A local notice asks Mr Auto Owner whether he registered his car for 1918. It notes the registration deadline and potential penalties for noncompliance.
The article notes President Wilson being sixty five years old on December 28 and cites the 1916 17 cotton crop estimate at 10 949 000 bales, marking a low in several years.
Approximately twenty thousand purses will be required at one and abroad this year. Governor Henry has got yet determined whether or not he will air an extraordinary session of the legislature.
In a public appeal a question asks if you are among the roughly thirty million subscribers to the first via second Liberty Loans.
A laboratory at Fairport Iowa was destroyed by fire causing an estimated loss of about $60,000. The article notes the 1917 value of U S agricultural products at $13,580,768,900, up $4,592,898,000 from 1916.
Severe cold weather destroyed sixty percent of the spinach crop in Travis and neighboring counties, causing an estimated loss near two million dollars.
The total value of agricultural products raised in Texas in 1917 reached 788 million 983 thousand dollars, up 104 million 132 thousand from the prior year, reflecting a strong gain in farm activity statewide.
An old note explains how KS are sold by the dozen instead of by weight. A dozen eggs weighing three pounds should bring twice as much as a dozen weighing 1.5 pounds, illustrating price per unit differences.
A Texas observer boasts that women here run entire businesses from field work to barn management claiming Indiana women merely hitch a wagon and fetch corn. The remark highlights regional pride in female enterprise.
The United States Department of Agriculture reports Texas fell from first to second in value of agricultural products as the drought of 1917 hit, with Indiana rising to first place and Texas slipping after 1915–16 gains.
Mr. and Mrs. AvoLPH Torp PERWEIN train students at an Austin aviation school to shoot targets. The Toepperweins are praised as among the world’s best with rifle pistol and shotgun. Mrs. Toepperwein reportedly broke 1952 clay pigeons. Mr. Toepperwein missed 72,500 small blocks at 25 feet.
An OCR fragment lists Oxy acetylene welding at Henry Etlinger’s Garage and a bank ad from First State Bank Moulton Texas. It references gas, car accessories, a barbecue delivery, and a meat market with proprietor Walle Schroeder, all amid garbled lines.
Dr K. C U from Shiner offers eye ear nose and throat care and glasses fitting on the first and third Thursday monthly. Office with Dr J U Guenther.
Law requires closing at 9 00 p m on Sundays to keep order and govern yourselves accordingly. Readiness urged for Sundays during weekdays at Henry Kilinger's Garage W B Stroman Hobensee Garage.
A merchant recounts relief from years of insomnia due to gas and sour stomach. He cites Adler ika bowing quick effect from buckthorn bark glycerine and other ingredients. The product claims to flush the digestive tract and prevent constipation and appendicitis as the fastest remedy sold by Kotzebue Drug Co.
Dr George W Truett’s new sermon volume A Quest for Soule edited by Dr J B Cranfill contains a verbatim shorthand report of 24 sermons and all prayers from a Fort Worth revival attended by thousands with hundreds converted. The book priced at $1.50 is available postpaid from Texas Baptist Book House, 1616 Main St Dallas Texas.
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