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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1913
Page
11
An old kitchen note explains how to bake sweet potatoes properly with an hour in the oven, discusses potato varieties from Jerseys to southern yams, and offers recipes for boiling, frying, and candying. It includes Aunt Laura’s method, caramel potatoes, and a sweet potato biscuit.
Slice a pound fat ham as thin as possible and fry in a smoking hot pan for two to three minutes. Dust with flour until brown, then mix one tablespoon each vinegar and dry mustard. Add the mustard vinegar mixture with enough boiling water to cover the ham. Boil gently for one minute and serve. Eggs may replace the flour and water.
Soak green peas overnight. In the morning rinse, place a small pork piece in a bean pot, add peas and water, bake covered until tender. For economy, serve with johnny peas. Cook cold beef or mutton to make a quart, mix with crumbs parsley salt pepper and beef extract, bind with eggs, shape into balls, bread, fry, and serve with brown sauce.
To Clean Knives. A board ten inches long and six inches wide serves as a knife cleaning board. Attach Brussels carpet to the board and sprinkle with fine emery. Rub knives on the surface to clean them with little effort.
A National Magazine note advises placing sliced citron in a small strainer set over a teakettle for a few minutes. The steam softens the fruit, easing subsequent cutting and preparation.
The Galveston Corpus Christi section of the intercoastal canal linking more than 800 miles of Texas waterways was formally opened with a water pageant in Galveston harbor. Boats from Houston Palacios Rockport Velasco Freeport Brazoria Port O Connor Collegeport Bay City Port Lavaca Matagorda Orange and others participated despite a high northeast wind.
American forces stormed the Bagdad intrenchments of the Moros, suffering six KIA and twelve WIA. Casualties included two privates of Company M, Eighth Infantry, three scouts from the Fifty first Company, and one scout from the Twenty-ninth. Lt. Rackley wounded in the leg as Brigadier General Pershing vows further operations until Jolo is pacified.
Austin Texas reports the condition of the twenty one state banks with savings departments at close of business May 381. Resources include United States bonds five thousand dollars county city town or school district bonds one hundred seventy five thousand four hundred ninety one first mortgage railroad bonds forty seven thousand six hundred thirty five first lien on real estate worth double amount loaned thereon one million seven hundred thirteen thousand ninety cash five hundred seventy one thousand ninety four and other resources thirty five thousand eight hundred seventy eight. Total two million five hundred forty eight thousand one hundred ninety. Liabilities due depositors two million five hundred twenty one thousand three hundred thirty eightundivided profits twenty six thousand five hundred fifty six interest due depositors two hundred ninety four total two million five hundred forty eight thousand one hundred ninety. Required cash reserve fifteen percent total deposits three hundred seventy eight thousand two hundred Actual cash on hand five hundred seventy one thousand ninety four.
Miss Susie Church a 15 year old daughter of farmer Fred Church was found murdered with her throat cut in bushes about a mile from home after riding to a village store. A village search party found her body and a bloodstained knife and a black youth with blood on clothes were questioned.
Secretary Lane of the interior department holds that under the June 23 1910 law assignees of reclamation homesteads who have made final proof need not prove they are qualified homesteaders.
Houston Texas reports Union Lumber Company announced Thursday the purchase of the Milvid plant timber and lands from Miller and Victor Lumber Company for more than 600000.
The Department of Insurance and Banking on Thursday granted a license to the Farmers' Improvement Society of Waco Texas, announced from Austin.
A promotional notice from Hot Springs Arkansas touts Hot Springs Liver Buttons as a superior laxative for constipation and related ailments. It claims quick relief, improved mood, complexion, and breath with a nightly dose, priced at 25 cents and available through retail druggists nationwide.
Page describes his strong family loyalty and their dog Mickey who initially dislikes a birthday bear. Page expects Mickey to accept the bear once he realizes it is part of the family, noting dogs think differently and will adjust.
W H Williams from Lewisburg Ky recounts a eleven year cure after suffering eczema for four years on scalp and body. He says the condition prevented work in warm weather and improved after using Cuticura Soap and Ointment plus Resolvent as advertised. Sample offers and address for Cuticura department in Boston are noted.
Little Marion presents a playful arithmetic riddle about five and three fourths horses. She imagines converting the three fourths into colts to fit the problem, prompting her mother’s cautious reaction.
Vitalitas offers Vitalitas salve 50 cents per jar and $1 per bottle. Ask your druggist to save shipping or ship by express or parcel post f. o. b. Houston. Vital Remedies Co. Houston Tex. Adv.
F Irving Fletcher, advertising expert, spoke in New York at a Woolworth Building dinner, defining economy as spending money without getting any fun out of it.
Quick relief for poison oak or ivy via bathing affected areas in a pint of water with two teaspoonfuls of Tyree's Antiseptic Powder. Available at druggists for 25 cents or samples sent free by J. B. Tyree, Washington, D. C.
Dialogue discusses the fairness of chicken fights noting they inherently include a fowl element. The exchange remarks that unfairness is expected due to the animal involvement.
At a Washington luncheon President Wilson quips about visitors who overstay. He credits training at Princeton and his tact for handling crowds and recounts a story about an old man praising a busy young lawyer who repeatedly invites him back after a brief social call.
Opera star Enrico Caruso performed three songs for prisoners at the federal penitentiary in Atlanta including the Pagliacci aria Solo Song. Convict Julian Hawthorne, No. 4435, responded with a poem praising a voice that lifts souls from despair and prison.
Researchers report that among eight varieties of two rowed barley the first leaf twisted left in 58 percent of over 12 000 seedlings. Millet and oats also showed excess left handed growth while corn showed no clear bias. No hereditary peculiarity or significance is noted.
The ad claims RUB-MY-TISM will cure rheumatism and all kinds of aches and pains including neuralgia cramps colic sprains bruises cuts old sores and burns. It markets as an antiseptic and anodyne priced at 25 cents by Ady.
In a quoted exchange, one party asks if Jaggs hesitated after being insulted. The reply notes Jaggs swallowed hard before answering in a soft manner.
Important notice urges mothers to examine every Castoria bottle for infants and children to ensure safety and proper remedy usage. The warning emphasizes checking products for quality and authenticity and safeguarding children's health.
The man reading a seed catalogue notes that a good garden rests on seed choice and on hiring an intelligent, industrious worker.
A short dialogue exchanges ends with a remark about betrayal and an implied past engagement. The speakers discuss why one woman is disliked for not marrying the man she was engaged to. The passage hints at social expectations and personal history without further detail.
An old advertisement extols GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC as a potent malaria and fever remedy with quick stomach dissolution. It mentions LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE on each box and mimics a London humor column dialogue about roads and local taverns.
A witty remark from a reader reveals a lighthearted take on medical concerns as the community shares a moment of humor. Maude’s imagined heartbreak is reframed as a cracked head joke, reflecting resilience and cheer.
Short ad style note claims Hanford's Balsam heals wounds on man or beast. It adds a line that misfortune affects a hustler and the remedy is tested.
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