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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1947
Page
3
The Vancouver housing authority ordered tenants to buy coal for heating while electricity remains included in rent. Without meters, many tenants ran ovens and heaters continuously, burning out three transformers in a week. From now on stations will use smaller fuses and heavy electricity use may leave tenants in darkness.
A Pan American DC-4 passenger plane struck a tree while attempting to land in New Orleans and made an emergency landing in Mobile. About 45 aboard the aircraft traveling from Balboa Canal Zone were uninjured as the three-engine craft landed safely after damage to its left outboard engine.
In Chicago a $250 robbery at an American Express branch office ended abruptly as the two robbers bound manager Theresa Marchetti and agent James Morton with clothesline. They took only the cash register funds while Morton, delivering travelers' checks, carried $50,000 hidden in his pocket.
Chicago story of Ruth Fagan a lingerie shop employee who cried during a hold up and returned the money after the young robber ordered her to surrender all. She said it was the only money she had and the thief told her she needed it more, leaving him with the cash and a changed outlook.
Tokyo reports the government cigarette monopoly will sell only two brands at 1.33 dollars per pack of ten, marking a five yen price increase. The move consolidates production under the state run system and signals higher costs for consumers.
An advertisement offers $95 to anyone who can prove Mayo Brothers' Home Prescription fails to treat pyorrhea after using one bottle. Buy a bottle at a drug store or mail $1 to Mayo Bros. Products Co. Houston Texas for delivery. Postage prepaid. Money back guarantee.
In Titusville Pennsylvania a newborn baby was placed in a cardboard box and carried to safety as seven patients were rescued when a five story osteopathic clinic burned. Firemen drained a well in a futile attempt to halt the flames. Insurers valued the Bushline Shrum clinic at about 80000 dollars, formerly the Fieldmore hotel known for mineral springs.
In Chicago doctors report the Jewitt nail a three flange nail and bone plate device reduces bed time and mortality for elderly hip fracture patients. Three St Luke's Hospital surgeons say traction complications drop and hospital stay halves with 95 New York cases cited.
Maj. Cornelis Leenheer testified at an international war crimes tribunal that Japanese guards treated Allied civilian women and children in Sumatra camps with savagery equal to that shown toward men. He described overseeing women and children as a supervisor for United States Rubber Co in Kisaran during the 1942 invasion.
A Western Newspaper Union printed guide presents various fish recipes for Lent, detailing methods for broiled mackerel with shrimp and cheese, baked halibut with bacon crumb crust, mushroom fish combinations, sardines on toast, and tuna a la king with white sauce.
A historical recipe presents scallop cakes with tartar sauce served beside browned potatoes Harvard beets carrot raisin slow rye bread and orange tapioca beverage. The menu includes tomato juice with a lemon wedge as a starter or accompaniment.
Crochet instructions for the Lacy Pineapple Runner pattern 5885. Send 20 cents, name, address, and pattern number to obtain complete instructions. Create eleven inch pineapple squares for doilies and a fashioning buf fet or dresser runner as a gift for pineapple motif lovers.
The column lists fish with seasonal guidance and typical sizes. Pollock is a lean North Atlantic fish in season year round, averaging 12 pounds. Striped Bass, Atlantic and year round, averages two pounds. Buffalo, from rivers and lakes, is a fat fish averaging two pounds.
The dog watch runs four hours. Delaware first adopted the primary system for nominations. Celts priests prophets and wise men were called druids. Ascorbic acid is vitamin C. The apostle Levi is also called Matthew. China consumes a vast yearly amount of tea. In a play the epilogue comes after the finale. The Arc de Triomphe honors Napoleon Bonaparte. Cocaine is derived from the coca shrub. Hydrophobia is an old term for rabies.
A compact list covers two hours of activity, the 1903 Wisconsin setting, the Druids, vitamin C, Matthew, eight million pounds, and a closing remark. It references Napoleon and the coca shrub leaves, and explains hydrophobia as fear of water linked to a mistaken dog behavior belief.
Aircraft carriers are moved in tight spaces by the planes aboard, using their propellers to pull opposite directions. For example, ten planes on each end of the flight deck facing opposite ways can rotate the carrier completely around when lashed and powered.
Native to the North Atlantic and North Pacific cod is in season all year and can weigh 10 to 100 pounds. Red snapper is in season year round in South Atlantic and Gulf waters and averages about four pounds. Butterfish lives in the North Atlantic and is seasonally April to December with an average weight around a half pound.
Embroider a romantic design for pillowcases and top-sheets featuring bride’s roses in a heart formed by blue forget-me-nots. The two shade pink satin ribbon, pattern No. 5318 Hearts and Flowers, requires 20 cents and includes floss amounts, stitch sketches, and the color chart. Due to high demand, processing may take longer. send orders with name, address, and pattern number.
The first English visitor to Japan was William Adams who arrived in 1600 and spent 20 years there at the shogun's request, teaching shipbuilding. Tokyo named a street and a temple in his memory, with annual June 15 celebrations. A 1934 memorial was built in Gillingham, England.
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