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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1921
Page
2
Reports from Cuero and Port Arthur note test wells, oil trade gains, and new health boards. Ventura and Smithville see lignite exploration, jasmine crops promise large harvests, while alfalfa exports from Fort Stockton rise. Public health warns on flies and mosquitos as peanut feed trials show pig gains of about 185 pounds.
Berlin reports Germany accepted the allied ultimatum under a 221 to 175 Reichstag vote. The government will pay £6.75 billion, disarm, and prosecute war crimes. Dr. Wirth forms a coalition cabinet with Bauer, Brauns, Schiffer, Gradneur, and others guiding a fragile unity.
The Southern Wholesale Grocers Association wrap up its Cincinnati convention with J. H. McClurin of Jacksonville, Fla., re-elected president for a twelfth term at a salary of 25000. Other officers chosen include vice presidents William Hoffman Milwaukee W D Cleveland Houston Alter Fowler Seattle Guy V Lewis Cincinnati J C Felsenthal Minneapolis T H Holmes Goldsboro N C treasurer John D Baker.
The Texas Bankers Association convention endorsed Corpus Christi as a Gulf coast deep water port site. Fort Worth was chosen as the next convention city and Warren P. Andrews of Fort Worth was elected president.
Miss Laura Bromwell, 23, aviatrix and New York police lieutenant, broke the world loop-the-loop record by completing 199 consecutive loops from 8,000 feet before landing at Curtis Field in Mineola New York.
The fifty fifth annual convention of the State Medical Association closed Thursday electing Dr. Joe Breton of Greenville as president and selecting El Paso as the next meeting site.
Eleven oil derricks collapsed in the Blue Ridge oil field near Houston Texas after a Thursday windstorm. Local crews reported the damage and assessed the scene for repairs and safety.
The USDA market bulletin notes weak butter with down price tendency, steady early week then decline from heavy undergrades. Cheese prices lower, hay markets firm on light supply, and grain prices volatile amid mixed news. Livestock prices ease for fat cattle and hogs, with mixed gains and losses across beef and lamb segments. Cotton futures fall while spot prices dip, reflecting broad demand uncertainty.
Moderate cattle receipts arrived Friday but the market was slow and stubborn, taking all day to dispose of about 1,100 head plus 800 calves. Prices were quoted steady when sales occurred. Hogs, 1,000 head, sold in an active steady market while the sheep market stayed unchanged with 1,100 head receipts.
Washington reports April foreign trade declined with exports at 340 million dollars, imports up 3 million, and a trade balance near the long-term average. For ten months ending April, exports totaled 5.85 billion, imports 3.246 billion, and gold and silver movements are noted with year-over-year comparisons.
Figures from the Mexican trade bureau at San Antonio show Germany's trade with Mexico up by nearly 19,000,000 pesos in the past year while United States trade with Mexico grew by about 16,000,000 pesos.
A communist rising has occurred in Cremonia Italy with troops deployed and machine guns used against insurgents. Numerous casualties are reported.
Carl Vrooman former assistant secretary of agriculture told Washington on Monday that the American farmer overwhelmed by surplus crops must be provided with export markets now or face a post mortem later.
The supreme court will recess for the term on June 6. The next term opens October 10.
Only two of the forty convicts who escaped from the Texas state penitentiary at Huntsville last Thursday remain at large, according to reports.
A fire at a gas well near Monroe, Louisiana, wastes about 20 million cubic feet of gas daily, prompting concerns over the loss of fuel and safety implications for the area.
Pekin notes the death of Auguste Boppe, the French minister to China, who died Sunday following an appendicitis operation.
Rear Admiral Robert H. Robison, commanding the Boston navy yard and station, was assigned Friday as military governor of San Domingo. He will relieve Rear Admiral Thomas Snowden, who reaches retirement age this summer.
Official figures show Texas cane plantings for syrup and sugar dropped from 35 000 acres ten years ago to 16 400 acres now.
Dallas hosts the Texas Retail Jewelers' Association for the fifteenth annual convention. The group announced Dallas will host the convention again in 1922.
Forty convicts at the Texas State penitentiary in Huntsville assaulted guards and wounded two before making their escape on Thursday.
An old advertisement extols Bayer Aspirin tablets with the Bayer Cross and claims they derive from physicians guidance over 21 years. It touts safety for colds headaches neuralgia rheumatism earache toothache lumbago and pain. It notes handy twelve tablet tins cost a few cents and larger packs are sold by druggists.
A newspaper ad speaks to women about kidney and bladder trouble and urges trying Dr Kilmer Swamp Root. It claims kidney health improves overall wellbeing and offers a sample bottle by mailing ten cents to Dr Kilmer Co in Binghamton New York. The notice ends with a quote on sympathetic life from Emerson.
Catarrh is a local disease influenced by constitution. Hall's Catarrh Medicine is a tonic and blood purifier. By cleansing the blood and system it restores normal conditions and lets Nature heal. Druggists. Circulars free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
A New York Sun teaser notes fear and ridicule surrounding a comet story, describing the celestial visitor as a victim while characters express dread of approaching Earth and the harsh names given.
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