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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1918
Page
7
Trotsky declares the quadruple alliance has failed to back up promises, signaling diplomatic strain as Germany's terms remain unsatisfied and international assurances falter.
Russian foreign minister Leon Trotzky denounced Germany's peace proposal as unacceptable and urged defense of the revolution if terms violate Polish and Lettish nations. Front-line representatives pledged to defend the revolution, seeking bread and boots, as Brest-Litovsk negotiations and allied war plans unfolded in Paris and Petrograd.
The general court martial found five of fifteen soldiers from the Third Battalion Twenty fourth Infantry guilty of murder and riotous conduct in the Houston riot of August 23 1917. The death sentences await President Wilson's approval. ten others receive prison terms of seven or ten years with dishonorable discharge.
Over 250 oil field operators from Texas and Louisiana met in Houston to reject Werner Z. Reed's mediation findings calling for an eight hour day and a new wage scale. The strike was suspended at Christmas Eve by the union committee and operators must file their answer by January 5 with the commission.
Revenue paid into the Texas treasury totaling 232 602 94 for December includes 139 731 79 to the available fund and 92 871 15 to the permanent fund. Distributions cover public schools university deaf and dumb school game fish and oyster and orphan asylum with specifics for open accounts and permanent allocations.
Texas Commissioner of Agriculture Fred W. Davis said after a South Texas farmers conference and meetings with state and federal officials that within ten days he will seek a quarantine from Governor Hobby. The measure would ban planting cotton in Jefferson, Chambers and Galveston counties and parts of Brazoria Harris Liberty and Hardin counties to halt the pink boll worm spread under the recent special session law.
Washington The Bush terminals at New York were requisitioned for army use on Monday by Major General Goethals acting quartermaster general.
A large force of workers is preparing the Yellow Pine Paper Mill Company plant in Orange Texas for operation. The mill is slated to resume activity the latter part of this week after more than three months of idleness.
A humorous domestic vignette shows Madge recalling wartime prudence and a girl’s question about fear. Mrs. Youngbride and Tom discuss economizing at dinner with a quip about choosing a porterhouse over sirloin to save money.
Charlotte A. Baker notes gaps on children's shelves due to worn and missing titles. Michigan and Colorado library commissions share lists compiled by Effie L. Powers and Mabel True to guide ongoing fills, with a 234 page first list for grades one through eight and a 106 page supplementary list.
The dairy division of the United States Department of Agriculture urges saving skim milk for home use and cottage cheese. It notes skim milk is valuable in cooking, puddings, soups, and bread, and can supplement meat supply through cottage cheese production.
A jolly mix of quips and quotes on sewing, postage, crime, and love. A witty dialogue highlights experts in knitting, etiquette, and a war era fashion forecast with humorous twists.
Red Cross canteen workers in France improvised cups for a war camp rest station. With cups scarce, a head worker teamed with German prisoner plumbers to melt down empty tin cans and fashion sturdy drinking cups with handles from the covers.
Senator Varda Man notes tones in parliamentary dialogue across parties. A fragment recalls an afternoon encounter with Mrs Spink, where a caller answers from above and reveals Mrs Spink is indeed present, causing surprise and a startled reception.
A playful housewife asks if a special flour makes good cakes and worries about shrinkage. The response says it makes excellent flannel cakes, then the narrator hesitates about shrinking.
A short dialogue mocks a scholar's spelling knowledge, calling him dumb for missing silent letters. The exchange highlights classroom snobbery and language instruction flaws in a terse, confrontational joke.
The New York Municipal Ownership league unveils a renewed campaign approach despite recent defeats. Officials promise broader outreach and a push on municipal control concerns.
A punning item notes that the ideal wife and ideal husband are two of a kind that never pair. A Japanese inventor reportedly creates a street sprinkler that distributes water suits to form advertisements.
Pittsburgh plans to mine locally owned land to produce 500 to 700 tons of coal daily. The item notes a coal project linked to municipal land and mentions a heart tonic advertisement and a film scene quip. The ROMAN Eye Balsam ad promotes relief for sore eyes with nightly use.
Life magazine notes a new dance craze in New York this season dubbed the Hylan fling. The feature discusses its social appeal and the city's playful reception as bands and clubs adopt the trend.
A humorous exchange questions a new chauffeur’s performance with the reply that he is in a hospital, implying an accident or mishap as the punchline. The brief dialogue centers on expectation versus outcome.
A vintage ad urges avoiding a doctor's bill by using Mansfield Cough Balm for hacking coughs. It promotes a bottle now and cites prices 25 cents and 50 cents with the claim of speedy relief.
An enlisted man in the Pittsburgh Gazette Times jokes that he dislikes being 8 000 miles from a Pittsburgh stogie. Bruce Barton, author of More Power to You, spent six months in a Montana construction camp before moving to newspaper work in Chicago. The camp foreman scolded him for working as a writer instead of swinging a pick.
Representative Scott Ferris of Oklahoma is depicted as a man of the people by Elisha Hanson in Cartoon Magazine. While resting at a renter’s home in the Osage country he drinks coffee from a saucer to cool it, a detail noted by a companion and observed by two women.
On the Northwestern car line a coal wagon stalled on the track causing a gentle bump as passengers watched the motorman fling several big lumps of Kentucky coal into the bin. The wagon driver moved the wagon off the track and the car resumed at half speed warming by stove heat.
Explorations in Oklahoma show that structural domes remain the most promising oil traps with anticlines as the next best, explaining why domes and anticlines account for the bulk of state oil production and are prime targets for geologists.
The quote notes money can corrupt yet paradoxically loses hold when funds are scarce. It contrasts intoxication by wealth with restraint found in tight times, implying attitudes shift under pressure and abundance does not guarantee vice.
The record notes 255 616 industrial accidents and 2 670 fatalities in Pennsylvania for the year 1916 amid a general sense of dissatisfaction in debates with a indifferent man.
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