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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1901
Page
4
The Empire State Sugar Company, building a large beet sugar plant at Lyons New York, ordered ten autotrucks of five tons capacity to haul sugar beets from farms to the refinery. It has 5 500 acres contracted for.
An old advertisement touts La Grippe remedies with life wizard oil and Garfield Tea made from herbs. It markets the product as a safe blood purifier and medical remedy with no harmful drugs.
Two American workers, Hugh McKeever and G. A. Burgly, while sent to expose Americans’ artesian well methods at Vincennes outside Paris, struck coal. They proved a deep European skepticism about their drilling methods and impressed Parisians with rapid progress and a large coal find.
Suffering Mrs. Ella Rice of Chelsea Wisconsin reports relief from bearing down pains backache and fatigue after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad promotes the remedy and offers personal advice from Lydia Pinkham of Lynn Massachusetts. It also mentions Putnam Faceless Dyes for home dyeing.
A note describes sugar cane reaching heights from six to twenty feet, illustrating rapid growth in suitable conditions and implying robust crop vigor.
Witmer Stone spoke at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia on the Birds of Spring. He compared song birds and migrants, noting Os crines as the most vocal, discussed song periods, and traced migration to glacial epoch changes with a diagram of eight years showing swift swallows and wood thrush arrivals.
The Honorable Society of the King's Inns notes the death of Mr. James MacIvor who served as librarian and was a distinguished Irish barrister. A Trinity College classical scholar, he won ethics gold medals and university prizes in Arabic and civil law.
A New York judge remarks that some men seek simple thrills by removing their wives wedding rings, highlighting a mindset of easily entertained individuals.
Sir H. Johnston reports a hitherto undescribed horse or zebra in the Congo forests and confirms gorilla and chimpanzee in the Ituri to Aruwimi region. He and two companions spent three weeks surveying Mount Ruwenzori, climbing above 14,800 feet, noting permanent snow at 13,500 feet and collecting plants and photographs of giant lobelia. Zoological work may yield new monkeys hyrax antelope and many birds reptiles and insects.
Jarrah wood from Australia is used for track ties on the Mexican interoceanic railway project. The timber comes from Australia’s tallest trees, averaging 200 feet in height and four feet in diameter, with branches beginning about 150 feet above the ground. The trunks yield durable timber with no dry rot or gum veins, marking its suitability for railway use.
The article notes 43 million visible stars from first to thirteenth magnitude with about 16 million photographed. It suggests 100 million fifteenth magnitude stars may exist, though evidence is uncertain, and estimates 10,000 stars in the Milky Way. The sky appears as gold dust rather than dotted with constellations.
A thoughtful discussion on trust and its social impact mirrors medical rhetoric. The piece compares trust to stomach ailments and promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a cure for dyspepsia constipation biliousness and as a preventive remedy against la grippe fever and ague. It urges readers to try the remedy.
Shortly after the death of Mrs. Betsey C. Thilmen in Oneonta New York a relative found a heavy bustle on the wall. It was removed and inside tucked away was 250 dollars in gold.
Advertising jingle touts Velvet Starch as must buy for grocers and households. The pitch claims widespread use and buyer loyalty among customers, urging trial to replace competing brands.
The Russ Co of South Bend Indiana seeks to raise subscriptions and recruit capable lady agents. This notice invites interested women to join the distribution network advertised by the company.
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