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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1928
Page
7
Fashion notes celebrate organdie gowns with full skirts and ribbon trims as the season’s standout. Bridesmaids popularize organdie, while designers use multicolor borders, hand-painted touches, and kerchief scarves as dress accents.
Poultry experts advise eliminating male birds after hatching season to improve fertility for market eggs. Cockerels kept for pedigree mating may be necessary, but otherwise minimize numbers and provide sunshine, green food, yellow corn, and, if confined, cod liver oil, with vigilant lice and mite control via carbolineum and sodium fluoride dust.
Profitable gains come from fattening broilers for two weeks before sale. Do not fatten longer, as gains fade and profits drop. Separate cockerels from pallets, confine to a small yard, and provide a roasting shed. Use a mash of two parts cornmeal and one part wheat middlings with milk, fed three times daily for fifteen to twenty minutes, plus cracked corn late afternoon. If milk is available, keep it before the birds and skip water. otherwise provide water.
Purdue experts note slow feathering or naked chicks are common in general purpose breeds and sometimes lighter ones. Causes include poor vigor, improper feeding, cold, or crowding. such birds lay poorly, resist disease, and are best culled or marketed early to reduce recurrence in future broods.
A farmer mixes 100 lb ground corn 100 lb ground oats 200 lb ground wheat and 100 lb meat scrap to make 500 lb laying mash. Add mineral mix with two percent bone meal one percent fine salt and one percent ground limestone. Include 50 lb bran for bulk when using ground wheat.
The article argues older birds harbor most tuberculosis in fowl flocks and that removing birds after their first year reduces disease spread. It claims this improves production and aids disease prevention for tuberculosis and other ailments.
A playful exchange questions where a so called miracle hat was bought and who praised it. The convo hints at a hat that changed the wearer’s look and touches on unnoticed compliments amid memory gaps.
A child asks a mother why a man walks on a rope high above the street. The mother replies that he likely cannot cross the street in any other way.
A short fragment echoes the saying live on credit, hope guides choices and ambition. The lines juxtapose believing in possibility with the pressure of financial strain, suggesting a culture where hope sustains action amid limits.
A Washington Star quote portrays senatorial view of certain natural born orators who fail to draw crowds independently and aim to seize an audience already gathered by others. The remark frames a political critique of performers in public discourse.
In a quip cited by the Washington Star the dialogue jokes about press coverage for an airship incident. Senator Sorghum notes the danger of excessive publicity and the risk of only a half column on interior pages.
Riggles asks if wartime tales bore him and Raggles replies that the subject is marital, not martial. The exchange hints at domestic tensions rather than international conflict.
A brief exchange features a salesman urging nightshirt sales while an old timer urges staying indoors after dark, illustrating a playful clash of caution and commerce. The snippet captures retro street dialogue and regional character.
A busy smithy operates beneath a spreading chestnut tree selling gasoline hot dogs and orange juice. The scene focuses on the improvised roadside stand with the smith at work. Patrons purchase fuel snacks and beverages in a casual street setting.
A fragment discusses a writer named Shakespeare with a derogatory tone about his abilities and signature. The note compares his education unfavorably to modern standards, implying sympathy for the author and criticizing critics.
A terse exchange ends a relationship as one partner declares departure while the other hints that violence may follow. The dialogue implies an imminent confrontation and potential shooting.
A humorous dialogue reveals a prisoner claiming an escape via a hole he dug with a fork. He mentions ease of the method and adds a joke about his wife not being a good cook.
In the playful exchange, fairy tale lore meets domestic life as the witching hour becomes the moment the wife asks which story unfolds. The joke hinges on shifting from magical danger to humorous marital routine.
Detachments of the German army in Thuringia were sent to Eichsfeld to eradicate hundreds of wild boars threatening farms. Efforts by farmers failed until the Reichswehr allowed a hunt, with casualties reported on the boar side.
An advertisement promotes Blue Star Soap for skin conditions including eczema tetter ringworm poison oak dandruff and children s sores. It claims germ killing anti itching action and skin restoration. Blue Star Remedy priced at 1 00 and available from druggists.
Lions may be bought for less than greyhounds with eleven valued at 25 dollars each. Tigers cost at least double. The Indian rhinoceros is priced at 5000 dollars, the highest figure. Hippopotami include one-year-old Jimmy at 2000 dollars. Total zoo valuation nears 175000 dollars.
In a humorous exchange two maids joke about a forthcoming marriage. The second maid notes that after marriage the fiancé will not have much to say.
A new English machine may revolutionize poultry processing by suction plucking feathers and pin feathers from chickens at about a third of a minute. The device uses a fan shaped intake turning at 500 revolutions per minute to strip an ordinary fryer and stack the feathers dry in a bag. It requires roughly 700 cycles to pluck an old rooster or a hen past prime laying age.
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