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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1903
Page
4
Iowa authorities rule that individuals may start savings banks as long as the business description omits the terms savings bank and savings institution. The move loosens the branding requirement while permitting new financial entities to operate.
With the Behring sea seal fishery failing this year Canadian sealers shift attention to the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic where seals are reported plentiful and prospects promising.
A vintage ad promotes Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething children claiming gum softening inflammation and pain relief with a 25 cent bottle. The snippet also contrasts Britain’s coal measures spanning over 9 006 square miles with the United States 222 500 square miles, and notes a shift in a manhunt as a career moves from seeking to dodging.
The ad claims Defiance starch yields superior results and more value for money. A separate city stat notes London records 400 births daily and 259 children begin school each day. A final line asserts that love making in real life often resembles stage performances.
Francisco Silvela, the dissident conservative newly named premier of Spain, forms a cabinet after succeeding Sagasta. The article notes his long public life and integrity, plus a broad political context around the postwar era.
An imposing bronze memorial to the late Marquis of Dufferin and Ava will be erected in Belfast. The statue of Lord Dufferin in Knight of St Patrick robes will be bronze, with figures of Fame Canada and India. The canopy bears The Dufferin Memorial and a towering Fame figure will rise with palm and torch. The project costs 25000 and should finish in two years.
Daughter-in-law of Montana Senator W A Clark lies seriously ill. Doctors performed an operation after physicians at a conference deemed conditions critical. Since her child’s birth, which won Senator Clark a $1,000,000 prize, her prognosis remains doubtful.
Rev. Sedgwick Martyn of the Unitarian Church in Malden Massachusetts vanished from his pulpit in early November. He traveled to New York to see his father who secretly admitted him to Bloomingdale asylum where he is now undergoing treatment for mental aberration.
Major Pond, the lecture manager, negotiated with John Kendrick Bangs for a talk on The Evolution of the Humorist. Bangs joked that the talk began with Adam and Eve and reached the present day, offering to include Major Pond’s jokes if the audience could stand them.
In 1844 W. C. J. Dobson R. A. conceived a symbolic sketch of the season’s joys and sent it to a friend. The friend’s delight led to a lithographed card the following year and thirty copies were dispatched.
Within twenty five years American astronomers earned as many medals from the Royal Astronomical Society as all other countries except England combined.
An advertisement warns that kidney and liver problems lead to heart involvement and urges readers to use Smith's Sure Kidney Cure. It claims rapid, inexpensive relief and guarantees efficacy, priced at 50 cents per bottle with direct mail purchase available if a local druggist cannot supply it.
A historic note lists flour honey ginger plums and pepper as the core ingredients for a Twelfth Night cake. The text frames the mix as traditional for the celebratory dish.
A Birmingham case notes a female bookkeeper seeking status as countess amid ongoing disputes over social titles. The report frames “brightening their intellect” as a euphemism for police assaults, reflecting local language and tension.
A brief reflection notes how women's hair varies from golden to simply plaited. It contrasts ornate styling with modest looks and hints at evolving fashion standards.
A Ram's Horn meditation warns that true piety requires right motives and humility. It notes sinners hide dirt in the world while church dust-ups distract from repentance, urging reliance on God over worldly gloss and small deeds over grand syndication of virtue.
A compact reflection on gender behavior contrasts men and women in action. It notes that grand deeds resemble lions while small acts resemble mice and cautions that belief in a truth without proof persists. It also suggests men seek moral platitudes as they lose favor with women.
The Progressive Union of New Orleans announces a Texas Louisiana and Mississippi convention of commercial clubs in New Orleans January 14 and 15. The aim is to spark growth of commercial exchanges and allied industrial, agricultural, and manufacturing associations for regional progress. Invitations go to business bodies across the three states and railroad leaders will speak on trunk lines into New Orleans. The event promises to be a leading, instructive southern gathering.
The ad asserts Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh at all stages, a constitutional remedy taken internally to affect blood and mucous surfaces. It promises a $1000 reward for any case it fails to cure and directs readers to send for testimonials while noting the product is sold by druggists and Hall's Family Pills as best.
The water power available on the Pacific slope for producing electric energy is equivalent to the combustion of 300,000,000 tons of coal a year.
Advertisement promises one third more for the same money if Defiance Starch pleases the buyer. It claims the starch will give satisfaction and will not stick to the iron, with a dealer return if not pleasing.
Ad touts no chrome or cheap premiums, claiming better quality and one third more Defiance Starch for the same price as other starches.
A fragment notes the oldest printed calendar in the world said to be printed by Guttenberg in 1448 at Wiesbaden. It mentions sixteen inmates in Sculcoates workhouse Hull England with a combined age of 1218 years and an average magazine serial likened to breakfast meat.
A man was arrested near Basking Ridge New Jersey for violating game laws. Constable notified Justice Bowers by telephone and after hearing the evidence he fined the offender $20 and costs, which were paid.
The red liberty cap symbolized galley slave headgear for Nancy riots victims. Swiss troops from the Chateauroux regiment, punished and sent to the galleys, were released and returned to Paris with their caps, hailed as victims of despotism.
The text notes that Christmas trees were unknown in England until Queen Victoria's reign. It credits Prince Albert with decorating the first tree for the Princess Royal and the Prince of Wales, then children aged three and four.
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