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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1904
Page
1
The piece notes colored handkerchiefs regaining favor after two summers of white dominance, highlighting embroidered dot patterns and jewel-like effects. It also describes a champagne colienne blouse waist with ring dot embroidery, lace, and tucks, plus fabric quantities for a medium size.
A grandmotherly cake instruction lists ingredients including sugar eggs butter milk and flour. It details dividing dough into three parts bake two plain and add molasses cinnamon and mace to the third, then assemble with jelly and lightly press to form a layered cake while warm.
A Pilgrim recipe describes lining a deep pie plate with cheese slices, pouring half a cup of cream blended with mustard and red pepper, then adding six eggs to keep their shape. Bake ten minutes until melted cheese thickens the cream.
Sine 1S Oil stains should be washed out in cold water. To remove ink or iron mold stains wet them with milk and cover with salt. Powdered pipe clay mixed with water will remove oil stains from wallpaper. To keep silver from tarnishing store in canton flannel bags with gum camphor. Rubber rings on fruit cans soften by soaking in ammonia and water. Leather belts and boots softened by coal oil after drying, wash very soiled items with hot soap.
Instructions describe sweet potatoes baked with pepper salt and a quick egg and bread crumb dressing then finished under a flame with minced parsley added before serving. Separate note highlights Madras curtains with lattice work and climbing roses shown in natural colors enhancing window views.
The article describes white Persian lawn shirt waists with fine Valenciennes lace and coarse plauen lace. It notes a deep yoke and collars trimmed with narrow Venciennes lace and wide bands of coarse lace to shape the yoke, plus both machine and hand embroidery with a new idea of colored embroidery on white waists.
A report from Oklahoma describes a newly found insect called the boll weevil destroyer. Discovered near hier by William Howard, it preys on insects and grasshoppers and reportedly harms plant growth, with Dr. S. A. Knapp and Prof. W. D. Hunter noting potential for control methods and further study.
A seven year old girl and her one year old brother fell into the Red River while attempting to reach a floating object. The sister did not survive and rescuers have not recovered the body. A playmate helped save the younger child.
Neville drilled a splendid well Saturday night on the Paraffine thirty acre tract in Batson Texas. The well yields five thousand barrels a day as a conservative estimate and is flooding adjacent territory. Wing 13 reported Sunday evening a 5 000 barrel producer.
City Marshal McLaghlin captured two deserters from the United States army in Taylor Texas and received $69 for the arrest.
General Oku in command proclaims to Liao Tung Peninsula residents that Japan acts due to Russia's unlawful aggression in China and Korea. The notice vows protection for persons and property, promises fair compensation for requisitioned houses and food, and warns against aiding Russians with severe penalties.
Harrisburg Pal Governor Pennybacker travels to Beaver for the Senator Quay funeral. He will preside at Memorial Day exercises in Gettysburg on Monday. State buildings are draped in mourning for thirty days in honor of Senator Quay.
McKinney Texas reports substantial early wheat harvest with smooth head variety in shock. Bearded wheat ripens 7 to 10 days later. Collin County has a history of record yields and this year looks set to exceed all prior acreage and output.
The Tien Tsn correspondent for the Daily Express reports Paul Lesser, the Russian minister, told Prince Ching Russia will evacuate New Chang if China grants a railway concession from Kalgan through Chinese Mongolia to Kiakhen near Lake Baikal, or will withdraw Manchuria if China leases the Ili territory to Russia.
Partial showers drenched the county for three days and Saturday night brought a general rain totaling three quarters of an inch. The wet spell arrived in time to aid bay crops and corn with prospects for a good yield.
A Pitsewo correspondent reports Chinese aid to Japan in every way. It also claims Chunchus and other bandits are regularly enlisted into the Japanese army.
Mr A N Green returned Saturday from Falls county where he bought 5000 bushels of oats. He says he paid one man 1600 dollars for a crop raised on ninety acres of land.
In San Antonio on May 31 Bexar county reports a red ant species has destroyed the Guatemala weevil in cotton fields. Jace Cassiano notes his fields once swarming with weevils now have none with dead insects removed by ants. Roads near his ranch show marching columns of ants carrying corpses. If this ant work spreads statewide it could save Texas cotton from heavy losses and bring millions to farmers.
Baltimore Mayor Robert M. McLane shot himself in a bedroom at his home on Monday after his two week marriage. His wife awoke to the discharge and found him near the dressing mirror, dying within an hour. Paris reports a Dreyfus affair related arrest unconfirmed with details withheld. Sour Lake tragedy: a man thrusts head under a moving train near Nome depot and is killed in view of witnesses.
Eastern Oklahoma and the Indian Territory were hit by heavy rains that disrupted traffic. The Fort Smith and Western Railroad between Sparks and Paden saw three loads of track washouts. Minor washouts reported on other roads.
President Roosevelt and party arrived in Washington from Gettysburg at 8 20 p m Monday night. The journey to the capital was without incident and at the station the president greeted the engineer in his customary manner.
In Baku oil firms signed an agreement governing the export of petroleum. The pact outlines terms for shipment, pricing, and compliance across partner companies.
Emperor Nicholas will inspect the Baltic fleet ships under construction at Cronstadt this week. Batteries for the battleships Siesoi Veliky and Navarit have had their suns installed.
Austin man Peter Dahl about 40 killed by Houston and Texas Central train while asleep on a Austin bridge work site. He slept on the track awaiting return to work. American naval oranges sell in Bordeaux France at four cents apiece.
Physicians hurriedly assessed the fatal wound as certain to cause death. The family offered no explanation for the act. Since February he had managed city affairs and oversaw the burned district rehab. Critics blamed political opponents for triggering a temporary mental breakdown. Coroner Hayden listed death by own action and the body was sent to an undertaker for burial prep.
In Corsicana Texas two families with women and daughters clashed at a colored church on Sunday. Razors and knives were used and everyone reportedly sustained injuries though none fatally. Several participants were arrested including war born individuals.
El Paso engineer Alfredo Chavez of the engineering corps surveyed in the Ares district of Sonora and found an abandoned mine with charred tent remains and a prospector’s outfit. He pre empted the claim and took gold samples that proved very rich, with the prevailing theory that a forest fire destroyed the former owner and his gear.
Canton Mississippi John Sharp Williams minority leader opens the campaign and outlines party policy labeling Roosevelt the second George IL in a booster style launch for the Mississippi voters.
Brazos county Republican executive committees convene at the courthouse in Bryan at 1 p m on June 4 to discuss party matters under chairman D B Ballard.
From Mukden reports the enemy concentrates forces toward Port Arthur with possible redeployment of part of the second Japanese army.
A war office dispatch from Gen. Kuropatkin dated yesterday notes the Japanese began advancing on Kwan Tien from Sai Matsu. The size of the attacking force is unknown.
A young boy named Howard Houston was shot in the leg Sunday by another boy identified as Davis near Oak Forest in Sonzales. The wound is described as not serious.
Rice men from Crowley and surrounding parishes mobilize against a Louisiana legislature bill by Mr. Tate of Assumption demanding chemist inspection of all mixed foods. Eight rice growers argue several provisions are unjust and plan a fight in the legislative process.
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