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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1905
Page
1
A jumble of remarks spans daring claims by Patrick Joyce of New Jersey to Kamtschatka bears, farm output estimates, jiu jitsu at Annapolis, insurance views, and social quips about women and parenting, all riffing on contemporary society.
The piece argues oil finds in Texas rise and fall but Hunt's Lightning Oil remains constant in usefulness for aches pains burns and wounds. It extols wealth as a test of character and says true men lack arrogance.
A French professor owns a collection of 920 human heads representing every known race. The item is noted as a notable antique collection with scholarly significance and varied provenance.
A historical portrait contrasts Oliver Cromwell with Napoleon, praising Cromwell as a disciplined, calculating leader who blended caution with daring. The piece highlights his ability to mold followers, manipulate perceptions, and adapt to events, asserting he understood mass humanity and policy as well as war. A parallel advertisement for Dean's Kidney Pills follows.
A trained elephant that carried baggage escaped its keeper and joined a wild herd. Eighteen months later the animal, once savage, recognized its old keeper. When the man seized its ear and commanded it to stay down, the elephant obeyed.
In Colorado Cripple Creek district a mine runs more than twenty six miles underground with about four miles added yearly. Inspecting half the workings would take a week of walking and climbing. In Lapland, marrying a girl against her parents wishes carries the harshest punishment after murder. Rat damage costs bearers bonds worth 25000 dollars kept in an old hat box.
A sportsman debates his friend's shooting skill and admits he rarely hits game but never harms members of his hunting party. The exchange hints at restraint and the dangers of careless aim.
In Estherville Iowa January 23 special report tells of George J Barber who suffered Bright's Disease for fifteen years. After using Dodd's Kidney Pills he declares a full cure and hails the remedy as best in the world. The piece also notes John Randolph Bull a longtime Louisville dealer and friend of Lafayette and Clay died at Bayonne New Jersey at an advanced age.
A Daily Express dispatch reports a Winter Palace crowd dispersal turn violent in St Petersburg. Troops fire on workers at Admiralty Square and Nevsky Prospect, with hundreds killed or wounded. Reports note looting, fires, and calls to stop the shooting as civilians clash with forces. Separate item: a Texas girl injured by a reckless horseback delivery boy in Taylor.
Cairns Bros., grocers in Terrell, Texas, filed a voluntary assignment on Saturday. The firm’s total assets and liabilities were not disclosed in the filing.
Chicago police say the missing janitor known as Hoch may be the same man who vanished after testifying for H. H. Holmes during his murder trial. Hoch is believed located in Chicago and faces arrest within hours. In Decatur Alabama Belle Bloodworth was murdered with blunt force, choking, mud stained clothing and a chestnut stick found at the scene.
Shreveport reports twenty nine workers dropped as the railroad trims costs this year. In Cairo Illinois George Carr a colored barber and restaurant owner shot and killed Rev Greer pastor of the Do Right church on Commercial avenue. Carr had threatened to shootGreer on sight after a prior elopement with Carrs wife.
Four miles north of Cameron Texas the barn of Richard Angel burned in the early hours Sunday. About 3000 bushels of corn and large quantities of hay and forage were destroyed. Loss estimated at 2500 dollars with no insurance.
Mrs Lillian Holister supreme commander of the Ladies of the Maccabees of the World conducts class initiations among local hives. She is described as the most widely known lodge woman in the world during her San Antonio visit.
The steamship Geo W Elder departed Portland for San Francisco when it struck a rock in the Columbia River near Goble and sank in fifteen feet of water. Passengers were brought back to Portland.
In Taylor near the San Gabriel river a 5 year old boy on the Johnson farm found a pistol left on a bed while his parents were away. The weapon fired while he played, killing him instantly. Local authorities reported no further injuries.
Marlin Texas reports the Falls County Grand Jury adjourned Saturday to reconvene February 20. Sixty bills of indictment were returned with about fourteen on felony charges.
Passersby reported a man staggered from a vacant Hodges Street house and collapsed dead from a heart wound. Herbert Thompson of Kinder, 25, fired the fatal shot amid domestic trouble.
Governor Folk ordered all gambling houses in St Joseph Missouri to close on Sunday. City authorities enforced the shutdown across the town under the governor's directives.
Dramatic dispatch from St Petersburg dated January 24 describes a city plunged into darkness by an uprising. Troops and 12 000 strikers from Capitoff works clash with Cossacks while explosions ring out and civilians flee or barricade homes amid a state of siege and deadly street fighting.
The Austin report notes a flood of bills in both chambers with 117 Senate entries and 292 House entries, far exceeding two years ago. Committees push many measures to give each sponsor a chance, while overall bill kills remain modest as sessions extend late into the night.
Ralph Rogers a prominent young planter of Bay Springs Jasper county was assassinated Sunday night by unknown parties Bloodhounds have been placed on the trail and there is much excitement over the murder.
Marlin Texas district court reconvened at nine o clock yesterday morning to hear Angelina Hall a colored plaintiff sue the International and Great Northern Railroad Company for killing her husband in a case that has lingered in court for several years.
Governor Vardaman arrested Jim Hannah an African American on a Yazoo and Mississippi Valley train after learning Hannah was aboard. He forced the man to surrender borrowing a pistol from the conductor and handed him to the Yazoo City sheriff. Hannah was identified as the suspect in two Holmes County killings.
Lake Charles La L V Touchy was acquitted yesterday of obtaining money under false pretenses as S P Tate, once a prisoner under Touchy while he supervised the parish farm, testified. Trading on the London Paris stock exchanges opened flat then steadied as the Paris Bourse remained calm and issued no selling orders with Russians moving from 87 to 89.
Cameron Texas reports two smallpox cases in the Brinkley family. The patients are isolated and precautions taken to curb spread. Dr Denson, county health officer, says patients are doing well and most residents in the area have been vaccinated.
The son of Mr. Richardson, resident three miles north of Clarksville, was killed Saturday afternoon when a mule dragged him and trampled him after the boy attempted to remove the bridle. He died early Sunday morning from the injuries.
In Temple Texas and Austin Texas leaders and legislators head to New Orleans for the cotton convention. Texans named Julius Runge Thomas Taylor John Spurlin Joseph Bard and others gather in New Orleans while voting shifts for a U S senate seat in Missouri. An Orange Texas manufacturing company forms with capital plans and local directors. A hunting accident near Overton injures a 14 year old boy and a separate San Antonio case notes police threats to grand jury.
Reports from St. Petersburg indicate Moscow is pursuing a general strike along identical lines to the St Strike, with proclamations and advertisements matching in form and tone. Strong entities include Moscow and St Strike as referenced in the text.
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