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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1921
Page
3
Sour milk remains a nutritious base for many dishes per USDA guidance. It supports bone building and tissue repair, with lactic acid possibly offering healthful effects, and suits clabber, desserts, dressings, and baked goods.
Instructions describe making bran muffins with flour, salt, soda, bran, shortening, sweetening, and milk. Raisins dusted with flour are added. Batter should drop from spoon and be as wet as possible. Bake in greased muffin pans about half an hour.
Two years of USDA home economics kitchen experiments show adding vinegar or lemon juice to canned beans corn peas spinach and asparagus reduces spoilage and may shorten processing. Sweet corn in 1919 1920 spoiled without acid but four tablespoons vinegar per quart prevented spoilage. spinach and beans also benefited.
Expert guidance from the U S Department of Agriculture highlights fresh fruit as a healthful source of sugar minerals acids and vitamins. It urges frequent use of apples pears plums peaches cherries oranges and more and suggests dried fruits like prunes dates figs or raisins added to breakfast cereals.
Laundry bags of Turkish toweling are excellent. Bananas should be thoroughly ripe, eaten slowly and well chewed. No cake should be moved in the oven until it has risen its full height. An old mackintosh can be turned into a useful apron for washing days. A steel needle loosens cake from the center tube.
A Texas sub committee in Houston negotiates compensation terms for farmers in non cotton zones as part of a pink boll worm bill. Five plans are considered including tax remission and a 20 percent of assessed value approach, with final recommendations due to the central committee.
Sheriff William McCullough testified he learned of the riot only by morning after May 31 and helped guard the jail. He said he believed the mob acted to seize a Negro charged with assault and that he signed a militia request with others. Oil firm worker Fred Cooks credibly placed Gustafson directing about 100 armed cars during the riot.
A Cass county Iowa team won a state fair pig club demonstration and was invited to display at the National Swine Show in Des Moines. The group formed the Progressive Club of Washington Township, with officers and a program focusing on farming and home subjects. Regular meetings include songs, games, and farm related discussions. Boys will enroll in a pig club and girls in sewing. committees will recruit new members. The club operates under a rural teacher with county agent guidance, aiming to keep youth in agriculture.
United States Department of Agriculture observers report the grapevine looper a green worm about an inch and a half long damaging vineyards in the Chautauqua belt along Lake Erie. It feeds from June to mid July and may be killed by spraying arsenate of lead mixed with water or Bordeaux mixture.
Ware's Black Powder quickly relieves sick headache and various stomach ailments. It purifies and sweetens the stomach and intestinal tract, absorbs gases, and neutralizes causes of distress. Not a purgative and contains no harmful drugs. 60c and 1.20 per package at druggists. Send for free booklet from The Ware Chemical Co. Dallas.
Mrs. P. D. Morgan of Winnsboro Louisiana reports May 6 1920 that Ware's Baby Powder eased her twin boys stomach and bowels troubles with rapid relief and full recovery. She claims the remedy saved their lives and notes its teething and summer complaint use. Sold by druggists 60 cents and 1.20 for packages. The Ware Chemical Co. Dallas.
A teacher faced a mother with a badly behaved child. The note warned of reporting to school officials if the child was not cleaned up. The next day the child returned with a bobbed haircut and a note stating the school board did not bob the hair.
An advertisement touts Allen’s Four BASBH antiseptic powder to ease pain from coins bunions and tired feet. It claims quick relief for sweating callous tired aching feet and blisters and notes it cools and comforts the feet while doubling shoe and stocking life. It ends with a children’s vignette about seven year old George and a neighbor.
A Birmingham Age-Herald reader quotes a native describing bucolic days with many children and dogs. The warm weather has cooled spirits, with no fights or tramps recently and the dogs lacking exercise.
A humorous courtroom exchange features Parker noting onions speak louder than words and the judge quipping thyme will tell. The remark spotlights a playful moment amid proceedings.
Small fruits such as blackberries dewberries strawberries and grapes add value to homes and farms when planted on good soil and cared for. A small plot dedicated to these crops can yield higher revenue than other areas if a market exists for surplus produce.
Striped green beetles infesting cucumbers carry wilt bacteria in their jaws and can transfer infection between plants. They also harbor the bacteria through winter in their intestinal tract, enabling spring infection, say plant pathologists with the United States Department of Agriculture.
Globe reports that Orva McKinsley missing from Lakin Kansas was brought to Globe following a rescue by officers from kidnapers at Solomonville. Two men arrested were also brought to Globe and held awaiting action by Kansas authorities.
A New Bowery police officer reveals a long overlooked site near Chatham Square. He describes an old Jewish cemetery, consecrated in 1656 and used as a fort in the Revolutionary era, now hidden by surrounding tenements and tangled clotheslines.
A dated promotional snippet recommends using Cuticura Ointment to ease itching scalp and dandruff, followed by Cuticura Soap with hot water. It urges making these preparations daily for clear skin and soft hands.
A countryman carves the name of a respected deceased deacon on a tombstone placed atop an empty beer barrel. A friend objects noting the man never drank beer in life, while the sculptor quips that the departed would likely trade for a pint now.
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