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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1901
Page
4
Dorothy Yates, daughter of Illinois Governor Yates, lies in quarantine with scarlet fever in the executive mansion. A telephone is placed at her bedside so her mother can hear her voice and offer comfort while not visiting.
The English destroyer Viper achieves about forty three miles per hour, marking an epoch in marine engineering. At 210 feet long and 20 wide, she carries four shafts with eight propellers, dual high and low pressure turbines, and reversing turbines for speed and maneuver.
Mrs Samuel Neuburger of New York captivates attention for nocturnal alligator hunting at Tampa Bay hotel with husband. She paddles a light canoe using a lantern to spot and kill alligators, pursuing dangerous hunts with nerve and precision. Reports recount a dramatic encounter where a massive gator nearly capsized her boat as she shot it through the mouth, then notes her success in taming young alligators.
A Indiana grocer runs the store “as Christ would” by selling only cash and no tobacco or alcohol. He marks cost and price plainly, delivers nothing, and operates a souphouse for the poor at exact cost. The venture trims taxes and losses, projecting a strictly business yet righteous storefront.
Early in his career James T. Powers sought work in Philadelphia and signed with a vaudeville man promising ten dollars weekly and meat at every meal. At a restaurant the meals consisted of two glasses of milk and apple pie wedges, prompting Powers to protest. The reply was to order more apple pie with milk, a joke that underscores the lighter side of show business in the era.
A camera on a flat car attached to a locomotive takes the largest photographic plate in the world eight feet long and four and one half feet wide. The mammoth instrument requires several men to place and adjust it on site and its bellows and lens travel on a twenty foot track allowing full extension.
The Windsor castle limner holds a prized post crafting parchment commissions for knighthood and honors. The current holder is noted for exceptional pen and brush skill in diplomas and certificates. He earns 2500 dollars yearly. The Windsor clockmaker also receives 2500 dollars and maintains all timepieces at the castle.
Miss Alice French known as Octave Thanet boasted of building two picket fences and eight or nine gates all of which can shut, highlighting her claimed architectural handiwork.
A French observer traced why gold coins differ in color across eras. Early 19th and 18th century mintage mixed silver with copper, creating pale yellows, while later issues used less silver. Modern minting preserves copper removal and hermetic sealing, yielding deeper tones and better wear resistance, despite higher production costs.
A Grundy County Kansas physician sent a bill to a patient for services but received a letter written on the memo page claiming the patient is dead and criticizing the doctor's bill. The note questions the need to collect and urges the doctor to seek out the man in heaven, valuing him more than forty dollars.
US publishing hit 6356 new titles in the year, up 653 from prior highs. There were 662 new editions of old fiction and 616 new novels, with a notable trend toward reissuing celebrated works in fine edited editions.
A scene of leafless trees with purple branches spreading like coral in a red sea sunset. Smoky chimney columns rise from villages as firelight flickers by the window and lamps glow in the evening. Families wait by the hearth for a familiar footstep, while the air groans with longing for freedom.
Dr Francis Hastings pursues Black Caesar treasure on a Florida coast quest aided by Flora McDonald and De Long Cutter. A hypnotic reveal points to one island amid three submerged reefs, yielding gold coins from a rocky islet and a telegram sealing Hastings as suitor and heir to a fortune.
In this tale a Boer and an English soldier lie wounded together after a clash. They share water and biltony while courtesy survives the exchange. At dusk their ambulances arrive and they part with friendly goodbyes and mutual respect.
The passage advises using borax in washing water and boracic acid powder or borated talcum for moisture control. It also suggests wearing old gloves at night to whiten and soften rough hands and applying oatmeal water to dry for bleaching effect.
One of the strongest men claims perfect digestion as the secret of power. The text promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a cure for indigestion biliousness and liver and kidney ailments. It is described as a blood purifier and nerve tonic, recommended by physicians and sold by druggists nationwide. It also suggests use for malaria fever and ague.
An odd mix of health ads and quips appears from Cleveland Cider Co. and Garfield Tea promising complexion cures. The items include a $1 mail order offer, a marriage joke, and promotional lines aimed at Lake County readers.
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