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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1905
Page
1
The letter urges farmers to demand price power for cotton and other farm products, arguing current pricing favors speculators. It promotes organizing farmers, widening warehouse access, and distributing plans for standard warehouses in Southern towns handling 5000 bales or more, with S. Peters in Calvert, Texas, offering them free.
Relief efforts surge as Montague and Nocona residents rally after a Wednesday cyclone. The storm killed about 25 to 30 people, destroyed fifteen homes, damaged Montague county courthouse and school, unroofed churches and stores, with total property losses estimated between 15 000 and 20 000 dollars. A relief meeting in Montague organized outside aid and orderly distribution of funds and supplies.
In New Orleans five dozen, nine people including an assistant house surgeon and three sisters are laid up with typhoid fever after drinking milk from Hammond dairies. A bacteriological exam showed typhoid and lockjaw germs. An indignation meeting and broad probe are planned today.
Two large men attacked a smaller man in Slyatt yesterday. The smaller man shot and killed one assailant and wounded the other. Names of the attackers are unknown. Officers arrived last night and no further trouble is expected.
The emperor held a farewell audience and luncheon for Baron Komura and the Japanese Peace Commission staff yesterday, signaling formal diplomatic courtesy before the Washington conference.
A. L. Erlanger explains the small estate left by Joseph Jefferson while highlighting the actor’s generous charity. He recalls weekly support given to peers like C. W. Couldock, who resisted a rent free apartment funded by Jefferson, revealing the personal ways the star aided colleagues and friends.
A man admits memory of a small debt and plots to avoid payment by timing his location at 4 PM. The exchange underscores his belief that a perfect understanding is to evade embarrassment by misdirection.
Despite ongoing conflict, average commodity prices in Japan during November and December 1904 rose by 8 percent compared with the same months in 1903, indicating a modest inflationary trend amid wartime conditions.
Assistant Secretary Pierce announces Russia and Japan will convene plenipotentiaries at Portsmouth New Hampshire outside Washington. Sessions occur in the navy yard building, with Mayflower and Dolphin vessels escorting figures from Oyster Bay to meet the president.
Washington July 11 with violence mounting over government cotton sales to speculators officials of the Department of Agriculture face an independent move by the Attorney General and a full inquiry. President Roosevelt may order action against Edwin Holmes Jr and others shielded by Secretary Wilson while Wilson defends his handling of the Holmes prosecution.
New Yorker President Cleveland Justice OBrien and Mr Westinghouse with Equitable trustees met yesterday after Parker said some progress was made. A conference is planned today. Last night it was stated that suits by the Attorney General would target all directors and executive committee members collectively rather than individuals.
Jap News Dealers report the mutiny in the Black Sea reached the Russian army through Japanese sources. Proclamations were fired with shell charges. dispersal caused broad broadcast. Rain showers halt front line activity across the region.
In St Petersburg China presses to be represented at the Washington peace conference and warns that without privileges granted it will not be bound by treaty provisions affecting Chinese territory. Russia seems open to the idea, but Japan declines to agree.
Five hundred additional teamsters will strike Wednesday morning if Chicago Cartage Company organized by City Express Company delivers goods to boycott houses with nonunion men. The decision came at a Teamsters Joint Council meeting last night.
Mutineers flooded the hold before leaving Kniaz Potemkin, now sunk near Kustenji. Officials plan refloating to depart for Sebastopol on July 12. In Texas Bohman reports a 14 ft 3 in corn stalk yielding 60 bushels per acre. Cuero and Odessa note heavy rain and a fatal knife wound incident.
Fire at Geneva in San Augustine County Friday night nearly wipes out the town. Geneva, twelve miles east of the county seat, reports say three stores were burned to the ground with only one remaining intact. No cause yet reported.
Washington announces the appointment of William Russell of Maryland as Minister to Venezuela. He succeeds Bowen in the post.
Temple Texas reports the largest peach crop in Bell County in years with fruit selling at 75 cents per bushel. The crop proves Blackland soil equals sandy land for fruit culture. Muldoon Texas notes a heavy rain last night likely to harm cotton and a strong north wind prevailing.
In Chappell Hill Texas boll weevils are increasing in the Brazos bottoms but remain few compared with last year. On hill farms few or none are to be found and opinion grows that the pests are quitting us.
Caldwell Texas officials push special efforts for monthly market day next Monday. About forty prizes valued from 1 to 5 dollars are offered for farm products poultry stock and related items. In Luling Texas another heavy rain fell Saturday night boosting hopes for cotton and corn yields as dry spells ease.
Clint Jefferson a 45 year old farmer living three miles north of Gainesville died yesterday morning by cutting his throat with a razor in an apparent self inflicted act authorities report no other persons involved in the death grave.
In Wharton a convict named Fred Taylor escaped from the A. P. Borden state convict farm on Saturday night. Sergeant Lincoln offers a $25 reward for his capture. In Victoria calm weather continued with a high of 83 degrees and a low of 65.
The excerpt recalls Kipling’s rebuke to an author and a New York congressman Tim Sullivan aboard a train. Sullivan asks the buffet attendant about egg doneness and, noting the speed about fifty miles per hour, jokes that boiling the eggs another mile would finish them properly.
The article argues English judges must be financially independent with ample retirement provisions. It notes eight ex judges receive total pensions of 121 663 dollars yearly after Sir Francis Jeune's 17 032 75 annual annuity. It also mentions a method to destroy seed germs by soaking for fifteen minutes in corrosive sublimate or formalin solutions.
In Kushequa Pennsylvania Mrs M L Davison credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with curing thirty years of Rheumatism and a lame back after taking two boxes. The local belief grows as other residents report similar relief, signaling a growing verdict in the area.
Mrs. Greening suggests naming a baby Phoebus but her husband objects, proposing Aurora as a better fit. He dismisses poetic myth as unsuitable for daily life and storms out. Mrs. Browning is described as writing in illness with her spaniel nearby. The piece notes a mail service route from Chicago to California with a rapid three day, 2265 mile schedule attracting Pacific coast travel to Los Angeles.
A minister describes years of indigestion and sleepless nights resolved after six months with Grape Nuts. He reports quiet nerves, restorative sleep, and meals completed with the cereal, noting the family also prefers it on every table and reads The Road to Wellville.
Aroostook potato growers and Michigan farmers benefited from unprecedented low rail rates to reach markets in Boston, New England and Midwest cities. The Boston and Maine Railroad absorbed revenue losses to help farmers, arguing governmental rate controls would have prevented such timely actions.
Mr Edward H Ariel recalls four years of pain from locomotor ataxia after malaria from the Spanish American War service. He credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with rapid relief and full recovery after starting in fall 1908. He lives at No. eed Powow street, Ane iesee.
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