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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1939
Page
2
A historic newspaper excerpt shows a Black preacher warning against the crime of stealing watermelons. An older man in the audience snaps his fingers, then jokes about recalling where he left his knife.
A light exchange turns awkward as one speaker praises the other for hours with an overlong compliment. The moment hints at the strain of excessive flattery in a casual conversation.
Bernice Goetz, a 28 year old Cleveland insurance worker, recounts a perilous eight day trek in Ecuadorian head hunters country. She travels from New York to Guayaquil then Quito, hires guides, endures porters deserting over gold panning, survives by makeshift shelter and aid to native women, and departs after a drunken village gathering raises threats.
Sacramento reports reveal Santa Catalina island hosts a unique quail species found nowhere else. The island quail is 7 percent larger than mainland birds with broader flank streaks and heavier breast scaling, drawing daily hunter reports as hunting opens for the season after 30 years.
Louis Koszta, after drinking, confronted his car fender with a crow bar claiming it kept hitting other vehicles. Patrolman Lad Rousal stopped the scene. Koszta received a suspended 50 fine and 60 day sentence with agreement to junk the 1932 auto and pay 15 for the prior damage.
Dr. G F Heuser of the Cornell Poultry Department emphasizes that the key to productive feeding is ensuring birds consume plenty of balanced, complete feed. Even confined birds can meet requirements with a ration that supplies all essential nourishment. feeding method is secondary to daily intake.
Advice on feeding a mature bull to avoid fatness and health issues. It recommends keeping bulls lean, adjusting hay and silage during service, and increasing grain instead. Ideal rations include 10 to 15 pounds of legume hay and blends of ground corn with cob meal or corn and bran with cottonseed meal.
Survey of 3,000 farms shows seven in ten have automobiles, six have radios, four have electricity. One in three have tractors and one in four have motor trucks. Radio, electricity, and water access have risen sharply since 1930, with tractors and motor trucks also up.
Dr H B Thomas of Iowa State University feeds hens irradiated yeast to produce vitamin D rich eggs. Each egg allegedly contains as much vitamin D as three teaspoonfuls of cod liver oil, suggesting a condensed nourishment once attributed to beef and oil.
Short excerpts note that dampness and drafts threaten poultry houses and that pre-chick housing is essential. They cite 1938 tobacco yields in Onondaga County New York, a drop in US buckwheat production from 1927–36 averages to 1938 levels, winter bee losses, US seed exports to Egypt, global employment in agriculture, and Oregon poultry industry cash income ranking.
The feature outlines pattern No 1557 a backless slim waisted play suit with optional skirt or bolero ensemble in linen broad cloth sharkskin or percale trimmed with ricrac braid sizes 12 through 20 designs No 1731. It notes material yardage for size 14 and promotes Barbara Bell Spring Summer Pattern Book sent to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept Chicago Ill 15 cents per pattern.
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