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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1908
Page
1
A compact digest highlights top domestic and international developments. Key political moves, economic shifts, and notable events shape the week's global picture with emphasis on persons and organizations involved.
The Texas Company trims crude oil prices by three cents per barrel as national and international news flow in. Reports from Corpus Christi note a large State Medical Association session while Yaqui rebels seek peace in Sonora.
A perfume dealer cites doctors recommending scent to patients prone to illnesses like influenza and advises wide use of sprays. He notes wood violet aroma as the most in demand for its springlike, refreshing quality.
The article promotes milk based beauty routines for women, detailing hot milk compresses for the face, milk baths for the body, and cream applications. It advises using warm, not scalding, milk with muslin compresses for ten minutes, wiping the face lightly, and repeating as time allows. It suggests six quarts to three gallons for a bath, with cream optional for those who can afford it, and boracic acid as a preservative to soften skin.
Orchid arrangements again appear as a dinner decoration while hats rely on bonnets and plaited batiste. Ulster coats return in revival style with costly daytime wraps and solid color or long bias striped mens ties. Striped madras suits for small boys and liberty silk black coats also feature, with experimental hips yoke noted and fruits replacing flowers as table centerpieces. Taffeta parasols with straw trim head to seaside resorts.
The article describes making a double photo frame with two oval openings in stout cardboard covered in moire. It details cutting, lining, and securing with wadding, seccotine, gold braid, and glass backs. It notes optional hanging hardware and a supporting back strip.
A Farmers' Saal Union pamphlet urges solidarity with the motto In union there is strength. It warns against voting against school taxes without value, encourages reading and local education scrutiny, notes the coming era of alcohol fuel, and advises prudent cotton planning and vigilance against fruit-tree pests. It promotes knowing teachers and demanding responsible directors.
The Interpreter in The American Magazine recalls a western father who made a fortune in pork packing. He taught his children to salute hogs on the road to honor the source of their wealth and to respect the nation that made such success possible.
The article emphasizes cooperative effort in seed purchases planning crops cultivation harvesting and marketing. It argues the co-op's name reflects its goal and asserts success in growing strength and numbers if members live up to it.
The farmer should keep clear of all entangling alliances with other Unions. They have nothing to offer him, they are his customer and he is theirs, and they are always seeking ways to cheaply obtain his goods while charging him high prices for theirs.
A harsh railing against a man who lets manure wash away from his property, condemning him as a knave and fool for wasting his wealth in trust rather than stewardship, with a call to action to "Soak him" as punishment.
A source argues that a designed panic prevented a price drop, claiming it kept a minimum price intact and saved the South millions of dollars, though it caused lingering fear. The statement credits the tactic with stabilizing markets and averting a deeper crisis.
A speaker urges unity and discipline, likening a well drilled military company to an ideal Farmers Union. He argues members must understand principles, uphold obligations, and act in concert to survive the current economic panic and profit from local farming win.
An 80 year old man from Hopkinton New York recounts years of painful piles bleeding and itching eczema. After failing remedies a month of Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills plus suppository injections led to improved health. He continued maintenance for three months then weekly. April 26 1907.
A Cleveland grocer shares a health improvement from leaving coffee for Postum Food Coffee and urges others to switch. The piece then shifts to anti liquor themes, arguing prohibition as a moral, legal, and social reform, citing religious, patriotic, and business arguments and noting Georgia and Atlanta as examples of resistance to saloons.
A presenter claims to have invented specially prepared tablets that trigger a ringing in the ears at a chosen hour, with five tablets for five o'clock, six for six, promising to revolutionize waking routines and "put the alarm clock trust out of business." The crowd disperses after hearing the idea.
A San Francisco cook John, long faithful at his post, reappears after weeks with a cold. The boss jokes about catching a cold, prompting John to protest in a humorous pidgin claim that he did not catch a cold.
A brief comic exchange shows a tourist puzzled by a wandering performer and the Howling Dervish declaring his elevated mind in a playful street encounter. The scene captures a moment of urban quirky humor.
United States labor commissioner Carroll D Wright cites studies of European and American homes to argue that alcoholism, not industrial factors, lies at the root of working people’s distress. He says in every case observed the cause traces to drink rather than work conditions.
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