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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1920
Page
2
An advertisement touts California Syrup of Figs as the safest gentle laxative for children. It highlights the fruity taste and asserts adults should look for the word California on the bottle to ensure the product is genuine.
Farimner Corntessel explains he will not take city residents as boarders this winter. He says town folks may have spent much time and money, and he doubts they can afford hearty meals.
An old advertisement touts a lemon juice and three ounces of orchard white mixture as a cheap freckle and complexion cream. It claims quick fading of blemishes and a rosy, soft skin tone with daily use. A quoted political remark follows about music calming gatherings and band entertainment.
An old ad touts Vacher Balm claiming relief for nasal catarrh sunburn and other ills and offers 80 cents a tube by mail. The second item quotes Bowdoin President K C M Sills noting college professors can be malicious followed by a professor joke about Erndice of Yaleyard and a $30 publishing cost.
An old Bayer aspirin ad touts tablets as genuine and safe for decades with unbroken Bayer packages and low prices. The excerpt also includes a joke about a movie star crying over divorce grounds in Film Fun.
An advertisement claims Wriebt's Indian Vegetable Pill contains only vegetable ingredients. It asserts the product acts as a tonic and purgative through gentle action, not irritation. The notice appears in a period-appropriate ad style.
The detective answers a question about next steps by stating he will pursue the matter directly by hunting it down. The exchange frames the inquiry as a blunt plan to advance the investigation.
A brief proverb contrasts spendthrift tendencies with a miser's constant stinginess, highlighting differing approaches to money and restraint in behavior.
The United States Department of Agriculture explains broiler production for city markets. It notes rapid growth, fattening feeds, and preferred yellow-skinned birds. broilers weigh three quarters of a pound to two pounds and are usually sold at eight to twelve weeks old.
Secretary of Agriculture E. T. Meredith praises boys and girls club work as essential to profitable farms and better home life. He urges nonmembers to join, notes 1920 should be a peak year, and compares clubs to a reliable force while acknowledging the need to balance work with joyful play.
The article emphasizes using crop and market reporting to forecast potato supply and demand nationwide. It notes southern growers consider northern crop movement and carryover, while northern growers may adjust acreage and top-dress if shortages or late springs occur.
The Bureau of Markets shows tomato shipments reach about 15 000 cars yearly with an estimated value of 10 to 20 million dollars. Most moved as table stock, with California Florida Texas Tennessee and New Jersey contributing over 10 000 cars annually. Canning crop remains six to ten times carlot volume as prices rise.
Malate warns chicks need water for rapid growth and ducks lack fear requiring protection. Remove waste food from yards and watch young birds for crowding or chilling. Ducks are highly profitable for farm or town backyards.
In Fairfield county Connecticut a boy and a girl club drive secured over half the farm bureau memberships. Fairfield town quota 25 went to Raymond Banks who gained 100 members. North Fairfield quota 12 went to Leon Ryvelt who earned 50 memberships. Each boy received a purebred Hereford calf for the effort.
The ad warns calomel is dangerous and causes cramps salivation and illness. It promotes Dodson’s Liver Tone as a safe vegetable substitute that starts the liver without upsetting the body and cannot salivate. It claims the product is gentle enough for children and affordable.
A Wyoming ranch foreman named Hank, who distrusted women, surprises a correspondent by planning marriage to a boarding house cook who makes baked beans like in Boston. He once lamented Western cooking but credits her with matching Eastern standards.
Grace and Charles reportedly reconciled their quarrel but Gussie notes the truce is only temporary as they plan to marry soon. The Edinburgh Scotsman remarks such harmony may fade when the millennium arrives, bringing less excitement.
A London writer notes that some animals kill themselves when pain or old age end their usefulness. Collies may plunge into the sea, elk may leap to death, a stork may perish in a fire, and a swallow may risk nest wreckage to save its brood.
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