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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1949
Page
7
A playful, gossip filled exchange riffs on Mickey Rooney, Margaret Vickers, Aly Acheson, and Judy Hickenlooper amid jokes about Taft Hartley aid, HPT charges, and library books. They joke about Truman Hong Kong, planes, and pensions, mixing sports chatter with political satire.
The Yankee stadium hosted Mary Margaret McBride for a large anniversary party drawing over 42,000 fans. The radio star impressed with baseball skill and steady leadership, joking about her pitching and hitting while promoting her longtime sponsor products.
A nostalgic portrait of American anglers from cane-and-pole to high gear tackle. It notes rising fishing participation in 1949, concerns for fish and game supplies, and sportsmen’s unwavering optimism to return each season with rod and gun in hand.
A father scolds his son for not rising beyond an errand boy role in the family business. The boy retorts that George Washington was once president at a similar age, while a woman quips about prenatal influence. A weary wife jokes about mountain air, and a teacher asks a boy to name the eldest in his family, with the boy replying that his father is the oldest with a head start.
Iowa state conservation commission installed fourteen large fish traps at the mouths of bays on nine lakes to trap carp, buffalo, and other rough fish as a supplement to the seining program. Early in the spawning season, large catches were reported from these traps.
Anglers debate lure color while reports cite black as highly effective for catching fish. The Louis Johnson company notes strong results with its all black spoon, especially at dawn and dusk or cloudy days due to silhouette effect and lively action. Great Fishing Hole Idaho boasts 6 500 streams and 1 763 lakes in a mountainous setting with 1948 season totals.
This advertisement offers a pattern to build a handsome lawn settee at low cost. Send 35 cents to East Bird Pattern Company Dept. W Pleasantville New York for Lawn Settee Pattern No 39.
Archaeologists unearthed a Saxon burial ground at Farthing Down near Coulsdon. A two year old boy lay with a toy iron spear, a girl grave held colored beads, and a decorated bead was found in her mouth. An old man’s bent leg and ankle bones suggest squatting in a chairless primitive home.
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