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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1923
Page
3
A vintage notice touts Freezone as a painless corn remover. It claims the product instantly stops hurting when dropped on the corn and can be peeled away with fingers, suitable for hard and soft corns and between toes.
Colorado Texas reports list twenty one killed and about 200 injured as cyclone sweeps through Mitchell County early Monday. Gov’t rescue parties warn death toll may reach thirty five to forty with sixty thousand dollars needed for storm relief. extensive property losses exceed one million dollars.
Banditry across six provinces plus anti-Japanese riots and piracy press Beijing’s government. The Suchow outrage tops the list as Shan tung and Henan bandits raiding the Pekin Shanghai express on May 6 abducted foreigners including Americans. Captives face death if Beijing does not grant immunity and recall troops besieging them.
Major General John A. Hulen announced Ellington Field in Houston will serve as the training ground for an aviation section observation squadron. Dismantling orders for the field and hangars were canceled, and the Thirty sixth division is now a complete unit except for one aero squadron.
In Corsicana Texas the Hughes McKie oil well blaze worsened Wednesday as steam gas dynamite and water failed to check it. Oil men report the well drilling itself and oil and gas flow increasing hourly with no new casualties since last Wednesday’s explosion in the East Navarro field.
U.S. exports for April totaled 341 million dollars, up from 318.5 million in April 1922 and 341.2 million in March of the current year, signaling a modest improvement in trade activity.
Houston city engineers report building permits issued to date this year total 10 020 089 dollars. The figure reflects activity across the city with contractors filing plans and awaiting approvals that drive the year’s construction pace.
On a beach plateau near Vimy Ridge a memorial honors the Forty fourth Canadian Infantry for repulsing the German advance in 1917. The memorial sits on land now owned by the Dominion of Canada and France gifted Vimy Ridge to British North American forces. From the plateau, wide views overlook the surrounding country.
Poetic image of a daisy in May sunlight with tears on pearled petals. A nation’s mood threads through a loyal soldier’s resting place as a mother’s prayer echoes among the fallen. The stanza lingers on memory and sacrifice.
The piece recalls World War I valor and national prestige while urging humility and remembrance. It cites Commander Galbraith of the American Legion who urged Americans to live by remembering the dead, noting the Grand Army of the Republic and veterans of later wars will carry the memorial mantle.
The Inter Allied Veterans federation adopted the Legion date to honor the dead, making May 30 an international holiday observed by Legion posts and allied veterans in Canada Belgium France Poland Turkey Mexico Argentina Brazil British Isles Chile China Cuba Guatemala Japan Peru Puerto Rico Portuguese West Africa Santo Domingo Spanish Honduras India Venezuela the Canal Zone Hawaii the Philippine Islands and Alaska.
United States Department of Agriculture tests show rounding the inlet end of culvert pipes boosts water carrying capacity. A bell shaped end reduces eddies, increasing flow by about 10 to 12 percent over sharp entrances, with minimal extra cost.
Ohio farmers who sprayed potatoes saw average gains of 31 bushels per acre among 62 growers, while 82 others in 1921 averaged 81.6 bushels. L. H. Parks of Ohio State notes yields ranged from none to 97 bushels, with 4 tests showing no increase and 30 over 50 bushels. Net cash gains averaged $30.28 per acre, and thorough spraying correlated with higher yields and reduced hopper burn.
The bureau of entomology sends scientific assistants to Europe to import breed and release beneficial European parasites to control the gipsy and browntail moths. Parasites from Japan are shipped here for propagation against these insects and for use against the Japanese beetle. The latest shipment arrived in December 1922.
The article stresses strict selection and treatment of seed potatoes. It notes annual crop losses from black leg, common scab, dry rot, and black scarf and urges using seed from clean sources as disease-free seed on clean land yields a clear value over uncertain origin seed.
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