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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1919
Page
3
An old ad describes giving California Syrup of Figs to sick children with a coated tongue, feverish behavior, or constipation. It claims a gentle cleansing within hours, notes its pleasant taste, and warns to buy only from the California Fig Syrup Company to avoid counterfeits. It ends with a New Year resolutions joke.
Miss Mae Chitwood of Rocky Mount Virginia extols Black-Draught as a reliable remedy for colds and stomach trouble. She recalls it soothing feverish chills with a cup of tea and praises its laxative effects. The ad touts Thedford's Black Draught as a vegetable liver medicine preventing chills from becoming colds.
Sprouted oats emerge as a leading winter feed, with cabbage mangel wurzels clover and alfalfa also used. The article details sprouting steps, water drainage, mold prevention, and when to harvest sprouts, plus ventilation advice for poultry houses in varied climates.
An old advertisement describes mixing a gray hair darkening solution with water glycerine and Barbo Compound to gradually darken gray hair without staining the scalp or becoming sticky. It also includes a humorous line about a man who won’t strive for more and won’t reach the top.
An advertisement promotes Cuticura products for itchy scalp and dandruff. It advises rubbing with Cuticura Ointment then washing with Cuticura Soap and hot water. The copy urges daily use for clear skin.
An illustrated plan shows a home built sprouting rack for oats to feed 18 to 20 hens. Each 18 by 24 inch tray uses box material with a 40 inch high frame and crosspieces. four quarts of oats start, then sprouts are moved to two trays. Daily feed consists of an eight inch square section of sprouted oats with roots.
Advice notes that avoiding overcrowding in flocks yields better returns and healthier birds. It warns that crowded conditions foster bad habits and health problems, promoting smaller, well managed groups.
A new South Texas campaign forms to raise 311000 for Near East relief. Herbert C. May of Houston leads the drive with county chairmen to be named, stretching across 96 counties from Houston to rural districts. Governor Hobby backs the effort and a Feb 3–10 push will organize local committees and speakers.
Austin Texas. Upon retirement state treasurer J M Edwards handed his successor John W Baker cash totaling 5 094 902 02 and bonds worth 28 535 791 73 a combined 33 630 693 02 The recapitulation lists funds cash and bonds on deposit and trust securities transferred including 4 471 748 19 cash and 23 414 485 26 bonds plus various small accounts and credits.
Austin set upper bound of 28 million dollars in state appropriations for the next two years as estimates show possible revenue. About 21 million in budgets have been filed, leaving roughly 7 million for miscellaneous purposes. A discussion on fiscal priorities follows, including a quoted joke about a wife and her husband’s pockets.
In Bensonhurst and Flatbush neighborhoods readers hear that he has reformed his wife since marriage, while others note his earlier harsh remarks about her cooking left her with no interest in cooking.
An advertisement urges replacing calomel with Dodson's Liver Tone a vegetable liquid said to cleanse the liver without causing sickness or salivation. It claims it suits children and adults and promises relief from headaches coated tongue and sour stomach with a refund if it fails to perform.
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