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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1919
Page
3
A 1914 USDA feature details a suburban poultry keeper who built a 12 by 18 foot hen house, raised 60 hens, and boosted meat supply by Belgian hares. Rabbits fed on weeds and grass produced about 75 rabbits in two years, providing a low-cost source of meat and eggs alongside poultry profits.
Harvest mites or red bugs can attack backyard fowls, especially young chickens on low land. Mites penetrate skin, cause intense itching and abscesses, making birds droopy and refusing to eat. Treatments include sulfur ointment or kerosene oil with lard for non suppurative cases, carbolic acid wash for abscesses, and routine sulfur dusting. In southern regions and hot months, keep chicks off range and hatch early to withstand mite pressure.
Advice on building serviceable poultry houses that are roomy well lighted and ventilated without drafts. Guidance on celery plants notes celery as a heavy feeder and recommends liberal manure applications for larger and heavier plants.
Farmers are urged to push hogs from birth to market, keep fat on the pig, and maintain forward growth through proper feeding and care to achieve best results.
Uniform breeding across a community can yield better sale prices and easier access to suitable breeding stock locally. Farmers are encouraged to raise the same breed to favor consistency and market appeal.
The text advises keeping water, grit, oyster shell, and charcoal for hens. It warns lice and mites as major parasites and stresses a comfortable, well ventilated, dry home free from drafts and pests. It notes that more feed yields more eggs and warns against unsafe ventures, reflecting practical poultry experience.
United States policy officials announced that a Saturday blockade lift allows unrestricted trade with Germany except for dyestuffs chemicals and potash under reparations oversight. Blanket licenses will be issued and no passports required for agents, with credits to be arranged for shipments. Germany seeks raw materials, food, clothing while U S shipments begin from several ports to Hamburg and Bremen.
Deputies and justice department agents found a still in Old River Cove twelve miles southwest of Orange. The operation allegedly ran since December until Henry Jackson was killed nearby during arrest. A ten-gallon milk can, copper coil, cold water barrel, five barrels of mash, cracked corn and cane syrup were recovered. The odor had warned agents for hours before the three day search ended. Deputy Henry Harvey led Grange County forces with H Cook representing the department of justice.
Harry S. New of Glendale admits killing his 21 year old fiancée Frieda Lesser at a remote Topanga Canyon site and driving with the body to the central police station to surrender. He claims loving her and being refused marriage, citing his father as US Senator Harry S. New.
Wreckage of the British airship NS-11 from a mine sweeping operation near Comer washed ashore today. Two officers and five men were aboard. only one other British airship has burned in flight, an experimental craft in Scotland with its entire crew.
The piece urges seeking causes and aiding nature to restore health, stressing kidney care and cautioning against generic remedies. It promotes Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules as fast relief for kidney and bladder troubles, advising buyers to verify the brand name on all boxes. The ad ends with a flaky joke about ransom and dinner checks.
An advertisement explains that genuine Bayer Tablets of Aspirin must bear the Bayer Cross. It urges buying unbroken Bayer packages with proper directions for relief from headache toothache earache neuralgia colds and pain. Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets are inexpensive at drug stores and larger packages are also available.
A dialogue on spending habits contrasts easy money with reckless borrowing. The pair suggests that those who just borrowed sum are prone to rapid spending and financial folly.
Advertisements promote Vader Balm for summer colds headaches and inflammations with mail order 60 cent tubes from E W Vacher Inc New Orleans. Cuticura soap ointment and talcum praised for baby skin care with hot baths and dusting powder. A vague ad line on true love and reverence closes.
Local druggists report a fall in calomel sales as Dodson's Liver Tone takes its place. They guarantee refunds if it fails to ease liver sluggishness and constipation, touting a pleasant vegetable formula that avoids calomel's cruelties.
In this playful item a tavern advert mocks political slogans with jokes about red flags and auctions. It includes quips about an old lady and a parrot using strong language, plus a charm offer for Grove’s Chill Tonic and Wright’s Indian Vegetable Pills.
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