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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1952
Page
7
The Moulton Eagle publishes every Friday from Moulton Texas under KNAPE W L KNAPE publishers. Subscriptions listed as 2.50 yearly 1.50 six months 1.00 for three months and single copies available. The paper is entered as second class matter at the Moulton post office dated May 23 1952.
A survey of odd facts and folklore covers fish eating by Arabs and Eskimos, slang for money, rabbit fur varieties, shoe sizes, aU.S. president who never voted, misspellings of Chicago, sailor terms, butterfly lifespans, speeds of planes, historic London fire bells, Mother Goose, child washing superstitions, and the nine million bats in Carlsbad Caves.
A mosaic of curiosities and oddities from history and science. It notes the Neck Verse test for reading, the Goliath Beetle size, a fourteen inch stick insect from New Guinea, a baby born on a ferry with a white diaper flag, and 100 year old colonial practice of preserving foreign corpses in spirits for transport home. It ends by hinting that Canada derives from an Indian word.
The text notes Alaska as the largest outlying possession with a coverage of 586,400 square miles. It mentions copra as the dried meat of coconuts from which lion has been extracted.
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