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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1901
Page
4
A narrator vows to return from the city to the rural fields and farm life. He contrasts urban hustle and greed with simple community, quiet lanes, and honest work. The piece ends with him arriving back and imagining the trees nodding in greeting.
A soldier recalls a brutal ridge attack and the death of comrade Grumbler Doyle. The narrator reflects on the hot sun the brutal combat and a wounded man who tells a life tale before dying while a march home song echoes. The dying man questions honor and marching home while the crowd cheers in memory of battles.
A steamship line faced frequent mattress failures in first class berths due to pin damage. Women tourists allegedly stabbed air-filled mattresses with pins, turning life preservers into damaged cushions. The company now posts a notice to refrain from sticking pins in berth cushions and mattresses.
Profiles Dr. Charles F. Rand of Washington D C as the first volunteer to enlist after Lincoln called for 75 000 men in 1861 at Batavia New York and notes his Medal of Honor for bravery at Blackburn s Ford Gaines Mill and Savage Station. Also recounts Admiral Mello s Brazilian siege and a U S Geological Survey mineral outlook for 1899 and locomotive oil usage.
A inventor offers a bicycle with a detachable attachment that runs on railroad tracks. A small wheel with large flanges rests on the off side of the rails, supported by three steel pipe extensions attached to the bike. The rider leans into the curve and can reach about fifteen miles per hour.
The English Linnaean Society awarded its gold medal to George King for promoting botanical science. An Aberdonian, he studied locally and joined the Indian Medical Service before directing the Royal Botanic Garden in Calcutta for thirty years and authoring key works in his field.
A report notes freight charges from Manila to Hong Kong rival those from San Francisco to Hong Kong, despite the much shorter distance of about 700 miles versus 8 000 miles. It highlights unusual pricing efficiency and potential market implications for shipping between Asia ports.
A long column notes American success in British horse racing and Derby victory, plus U S economic impact on Britain. It cites Lord George Hamilton on Indian imports, Carnegie giving funds to Scottish students, and discussions of Anglo American reunification ideas. Also profiles Dr Pietro Panzen’s charity work and a quip about love and lock smiths.
In autumn 1687 New Jersey faced famine from crop failure. Indians aided settlers with food and knowledge, teaching oyster and clam use and fish planking. Maize shortages pressed all, but trading and mercy shipments from the Delaware river helped avert deaths. The following autumn brought a strong harvest and no further hunger records.
A botanist class discovers a new flower on the Susquehanna banks with violet like blooms. Roots lie in coal from a culm bank, suggesting seeds buried for millennia. Experts agree the plant stems from the same family as the common violet.
United States government July financials show June receipts at 52,629,440 with expenditures of 42,136,560. A surplus of 10,492,880 for June and 68,537,135 for the first eleven months of the fiscal year is reported.
The article notes small pearl buttons enhancing gown decorations. It mentions inlaid polished wood trays with glass protection and a silver railing. Red parasols add a bright touch to summer resort scenes and are popular for their decorative appeal.
Total revenues for the first quarter of the current year in the Philippines reached 2 199 394 dollars.
The Pan-American Exposition will be the greatest in the country with all machinery operated by power from Niagara Falls. The immense power demand is met by the cataract, and Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is praised as a remedy for dyspepsia indigestion constipation flatulency and nervousness.
A Victorian style ad promotes Garfield Headache Powders for headaches weak nerves and sleeplessness. It invites readers to send to Garfield Tea Co Brooklyn NY for samples and pitches a Malaria and chills remedy OXI DINE.
A saying notes that most people have a church instinct driving belief and community ties, suggesting an inherent attraction to communal worship and moral guidance.
S Lehman of Memphis Tennessee reports a radical cure for fourteen years of bleeding piles after using Smiths Sure Kidney Cure. A short treatment period yielded relief previously unseen by other remedies. Price fifty cents. For sale by all druggists. OXIDINE is promoted with guaranteed results.
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