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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1927
Page
3
The article surveys spring fabrics from ginghams to crepes and voiles, highlighting black lace frocks as versatile for dinners, dances, and afternoons. It notes bolero styling, sheer sleeves, lace yokes, and the season’s navy and pink pairings, with models from the Fashion Art League of America.
Poultry experts at New York State College of Agriculture Ithaca outline methods to thaw and prevent frozen combs. Use snow ice water or carbolated grease, petroleum glycerin turpentine ointment, and trim dead tissue. Ventilate pens, use curtains for cold nights, wooden floats in drinkers, and grease valuable birds if needed.
Farmers and poultrymen praise sprouted oats as an inexpensive way to boost lay rate. With homemade gear a tub or keg suffices to soak oats and trays to sprout, kept at 50 to 89 degrees. Soak twelve hours, drain, then keep moist. harvest sprouts at about half an inch after five days and rotate boxes daily.
Winter poultry rations suffer from lack of palatable feed. Sprouted oats, soaked 24 hours, drained, and kept at moderate temperature, offer succulent nourishment. Feed sprouts one half to one inch long. avoid greening. Nebraska Agricultural College poultry men advise heavy oats with strong germinating power.
The United States Department of Agriculture recommends a ration for goslings up to eight weeks old equal parts bran mid chings and steamed cut clover or cooked vegetables. Feed morning noon and night. For fattening at this age or at ten weeks place them in a pen with limited exercise and feed corn meal dried to a crumbly state plus beef scrap equal to twenty percent of the corn meal bulk.
A spring culling guide notes some hens remain breeders or layers and explains signs of poor condition. It suggests evaluating flock health by observing morning behavior and how hens respond to sunlit range hours.
Missouri College of Agriculture investigators warn poultry raisers that eggs hatch best only when hens receive a ration enriched with certain vitamins. While not fully understood, these vitamins have a significant effect on the developing chick and overall hatchability.
A vintage appeal urges mothers to use California Fig Syrup as a gentle liver and bowel cleansing for sick, fretful children. It claims a single tea spoonful follows with relief, noting the bottle shows directions for all ages and that the product is made by The California Fig Syrup Company.
The article explains how sea fish acquire nicknames based on taste and appearance. Red mullet is called the sea wood cock, dab is salter, hake is sea pike, and flounder may be called flock or fluka. One gurnard variant is cuckoogurnard due to its distinctive sound when caught.
Bell-Ans relief for over acidity belching gas and digestion proof of thirty years. Not a laxative but Sure Relief for Indigestion. Free samples from Bell & Co Inc Orangeburg NY. Also ads for Maverick Tancred poultry and Wright’s Indian Vegetable Pills. Pearl Street address in New York. Quote notices from Pope and Shakespeare.
A vintage advertisement extols Cascara candy laxative as a daily health tonic. It claims cascaret cleanses the system, regulates bowels, and promotes bodily harmony, reducing odors and deodorant use. It targets men women and children, noting price 10c and 25c.
The first selectman of a northern Maine town visited a Portland department store to view inexpensive bridge lamps. He examined the lamps, doubted their quality, and asked if they could light bridges with the devices.
A humorous exchange questions hiring a hall for a famous diva and the depth of her dive. The dialogue contrasts ambition and capability with a witty nod to George Eliot.
Deadly shrapnel from shells is melted down at a Hornsey factory in England and transformed into toys. About 800 tons of metal are cast into miniature animals and figures, then painted in natural colors to erase their warlike origin.
The chairman speaks of prospects with optimism while a bloomy shareholder remains skeptical. A back-and-forth ends with a witty exchange about pessimists and optimists in a corporate meeting.
Texas pioneer Mr. Wells recalls entering Texas in 1876 and enduring decades of toil until stomach and liver disorders sapped his health. A skeptical trial of Tanlac led to renewed appetite, normal digestion, steadier nerves, and sound sleep. He credits Tanlac entirely for his revival and notes over 52 million bottles sold.
A metal bas relief tablet will be erected in a Fleet Street church London to commemorate Stanley the African explorer. It will feature a central symbolic figure with inscriptions on both sides one praising Stanley and the other honoring the Uganda missionaries he aided.
Warning urges buyers to look for Bayer on packaging or tablets to ensure genuine aspirin proven safe by millions and prescribed for 26 years. The ad warns imitators may be dangerous and ends with a quip about respect and worth.
Readable items include J M Zugg Farm Hatchery offering baby chicks from Lancaster Missouri with 35 percent savings and 100 percent live delivery. Other ads promote tires from Hart Tire Co Chicago, Liberty Jell fundraisers for lodges, and a corset brassiere business opportunity with Henderson Specialty Cleveland.
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