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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1921
Page
2
The piece covers Mexico’s pressure to sign a recognition treaty, Pueblo Colorado’s flood disaster recovery, and Northern Ireland’s new parliament meeting. It notes U S naval and political tensions over Ireland, Mexican property claims, and disarmament plans.
Secretary Hughes declares that Mexico must sign a treaty of amity and commerce to gain U.S. recognition. The agreement requires protection of American property rights in Mexican territory against confiscation while allowing Mexico freedom over public lands.
The new legislature met in Belfast with Maj. Hugh O'Neill elected speaker and six of thirty two counties granted self government. Viscount Fitzalan opened proceedings as 52 members were seated, while nationalists and Sinn Feiners boycott partition. Sinn Feiners attempted to isolate London by cutting telegraph and telephone wires, with similar actions reported in Liverpool.
The Texas Press Association named Denton as next meeting site and elected Judd Mortimer Lewis of Houston as president. Officers include 8. D. Chesnut Kenedy as vice president Sam Harden Richardson secretary and C. F. Lehman San Antonio treasurer. Delegates urged raising official publications from 1c to 2c and praised McAllen and lower Rio Grande Valley hosts.
Five proposed amendments appear on the July 23 1921 Texas special election ballot. They cover voter qualifications poll tax payment by either spouse absentee voting access Confederate pension tax increase prison commissioner abolition legislative per diem and mileage adjustments and salary hikes for top state officials including the governor attorney general land commissioner state comptroller and secretary of state.
Immigrants admissible but brought into ports in excess of the June quota will land under nominal bond and be admitted permanently in the July quota, announced by EB Jennings assistant secretary of labor.
Wayne Dinsmore, chairman of the Horse Association of America, told a Chicago meeting Tuesday that more horses are being bred in the United States this year than in the past three years and more horses are in use today than ten years ago.
A single train load of 240000 bushels of new wheat has arrived for export at Port Arthur Texas forty five days before the usual season. The shipment travels over the Kansas City Southern to be loaded aboard the steamship Igotz Undi.
London announces the appointment of Lord Byng of Vimy to govern Canada succeeding the duke of Devonshire. The official note confirms the change in viceregal leadership.
The month sees three million bushels of wheat shipped abroad from Galveston. Texas City port handled 1,347,084 barrels of oil in May. Port Arthur issued 158 building permits totaling 169,492 dollars. An election is set for July 12 in Jacksonville to vote on bonds for a new waterworks system.
A traditional advertisement notes Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a kidney liver and bladder medicine endorsed by druggists. It claims the product strengthens organs helps natural function and has many supporters. Readers are invited to sample by sending ten cents to Dr Kilmer Co Binghamton NY.
A reflective piece notes that in surprise events there is always a voice saying it warned this would happen. It cites public figures and everyday observers who predicted outcomes, exploring hindsight bias and the social urge to assert prescience after events occur.
Mrs J Heyer of Orange California describes severe uterine and ovarian troubles twenty years ago and says Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured her without surgery. She used the remedy during menopause and reports she can do her own work and walk long distances, urging others to try the medicine.
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