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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1934
Page
6
The article discusses sugar, starch, and fat as main fuel sources and notes fat provides more calories per ounce while large amounts of any one type affect digestion. It includes a recipe segment using rice, celery, onions, bread cubes, and seasonings with cranberry and lemon flavorings.
A Texas southward burrowing mammal with poor eyes and hearing, the armadillo digs underground for insects and other small prey. It has a hard bony shell, lacks teeth, and uses a sticky tongue to catch prey. It explores prickly thickets for beetles ants crickets spiders worms and centipedes.
Guidance on sugar fat and starch intake for different ages. Emphasizes natural sugars from milk and fruit, moderation of candy, fat tolerance in children, butter in meals, and fat types. Also includes recipes for Rice Stuffing and Doughnuts with cooking directions.
County commissioners in Alma Wisconsin report paying 5250 in mole bounties over five months at ten cents per mole. They killed about 52 500 moles and voted to abolish the program to stop further payouts.
In a reflective piece the author notes lower immigration levels easing crowded conditions at Ellis Island. He recalls rare tragedies like a father pursuing his sons to stop their mother’s admission, a long government ferry ride, and the Goddess of Liberty as newcomers head toward citizenship.
A humorous exchange reveals a resident fussing about cracking ice every morning while a servant offers to send the maid to handle it, lightening the burden with practical courtesy.
How the term mentor evolved from a proper name to a common noun used for a teacher. Mentor, friend of Ulysses, guided Telemachus on the voyage to Troy, and his trusted role became a lasting symbol of wise counsel and instruction.
Practical kitchen advice from 1934 includes oven placement to prevent burning, soaking rust stains in sour milk for 12 hours, treating ink stains similarly, polishing steel with oil turpentine and emery, and using hollowed bread cubes as cases for creamed mixtures.
Philadelphia reports the sophomore council bans rouge face powder and lipstick for freshmen at the new college of liberal arts. The rule is part of the hazing tradition observed by upperclassmen in the campus community.
A cordwood stack owned by Antrim Ironworks near Bellaire Michigan is believed to be the world’s largest. Estimates place the pile at about 50,000 cords and, if laid four feet deep, would extend roughly 103 miles.
Columbus Ohio The smallest telephone company in Ohio the Shortin Ridge Telephone Co of Revenge Fairfield county seeks $1 monthly for 14 subscribers on one line The plan calls for 85 calls included with 3 cents for excess calls Organized in April and built at a cost of 1066 the system includes nine miles of line and 14 instruments The company was built by Sam F MacCracken 52 South Remington read.
Faithful German police dog King has died after four years at the church door in Great Falls Montana where his master was carried in a similar vigil since 1929. King appeared at the door every Sunday hoping for his owner.
A New Hampshire resident must show proof of paid poll tax for the year before registering a motor vehicle or obtaining licenses to fish and hunt.
Carbon mountain near Durango slowly slips toward the Animas river valley as scientists link the movement to burning coal veins. This year the moving peak drew about 5 000 visitors from 41 states and generated roughly 50 000 dollars in tourist trade for Durango. The spectacle includes periodic loud grumbling and bursts of sulfurous smoke and rock avalanches into the river valley.
In a domestic exchange a wife rebukes her husband for not listening as she vents about being ignored, while the husband pretends to drift into silence to show he has “cultivated absence of mind.”
In Grand Marais Minnesota a beaver dam upstream from a camp cut off the water supply causing workers to build a man made dam. The beavers rebuilt nine more dams while conservation crews fought leaks turning the stream into a lake as the effort continued.
Grain requirements for dairy cows vary with butterfat test and forage quality. With common hay, feed one pound grain per 3.5 pounds milk under 4% butterfat, or one to three pounds per day as milk rises. with high quality clover or alfalfa, reduce grain to one pound per 4 to 3 pounds milk. Tailor to each cow and avoid overfeeding if milk value doesn’t offset grain cost.
A survey by S O Chandler of the Illinois Natural History Survey and the University of Illinois finds that peach growers who treated trees with P D B a year ago may skip this fall. Those not treated for two or more years should likely treat now. Infestation varies with past treatment, from 6.2 percent in recently treated orchards to 36.1 percent in orchards treated two years ago and over four percent in those never treated.
J P Willman of Cornell University notes that newborn piglets kept indoors can suffer anemia without iron. He recommends drenching piglets with a ferrous sulphate solution weekly for six weeks starting at 3 to 4 days old, dosed by age, and applied to the sow’s udder rather than added to feed.
Ohio vocational education reports 1982 project work on farms yielded nearly half a million dollars in financial returns with expenses subtracted leaving about a quarter million dollars in labor income. The 4,000 boys averaged 52 dollars each, reflecting trends in student farm projects statewide.
A woodchuck hole in limestone near Elkhorn Wisconsin led to an unemployment relief project. Hunters discovered a rich lime deposit now used as fertilizer, supplying farmers in Rock and Walworth counties.
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