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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1912
Page
1
We offer durable articles at small prices across all departments with prices for men’s all wool suits at 10.00 12.50 15.00 and 11.50. We bought more goods than intended and must reduce stock quickly with attractive everyday values while they last.
Store notes recent express shipment of ladies cloaks. Prices range from 4.00 to 15.00 with small profits and emphasis on stylish coats.
We offer a full stock of black and grey hats in all sizes and will meet any competition. While stock lasts, our regular five dollar hat is priced at four dollars.
A fragmented price list presents various goods with per unit or per item prices including Finest Flour at 5.50 per lbl and 1.35 per sack, Pure Clean Malt Coffee at 1.00 for 4 lbs, Mustard Sardines at 25, Hippo Wash Powder at 25, and household items like enamel pans, cups, and glassware. Also listed are clothing items such as Winter Caps at 25, a Men’s Overcoat at 7.50, and a Silk Head Scarf at 0.50.
Unusual construction is underway with three new business houses under way and many residences being erected in the city.
In Cleburne the peanut factory pays 82 cents per bushel but cannot meet demand. Johnson County farmers realize peanuts offer a lucrative opportunity as a crop.
The fourth annual Texas Industrial Congress will meet in Dallas at the Chamber of Commerce audtitorium on December 12, 1912. It will award $10,000 in gold prizes for top yields of corn cotton kaffir corn and milo maize with four prize classes and notable cash awards for both adult and youth competitors across single acre and ten acre trials.
Wood county spent 30000 on good roads this year. Fort Worth Packing Co raised capital to 50000. Cumby’s new electric light plant costs about 50000. Travis county values rise to 36192520, up 1000000. Tom Green county builds twelve silos, six more underway, forty planned. Port Lavaca votes 150000 in road bonds. Kenedy plans a large cold storage plant. Keffir corn prizes total 143 with 1000 aggregate winnings across 205 counties. Railroads offer reduced Dallas fares for convention. Fort Worth reports a bread price cut to 32 loaves per dollar. Dallas Greenville interurban crews start Garland to Greenville building. Austin high school project behind schedule but beginning soon. McKinney ships 100 mules to Panama for canal work. Over 1500 head of Texas mules sold outward this season.
Despite labor scarcity, work on the Quanah Acme and Pacific extension to Roaring Springs is being rapidly pushed. The line is expected to be finished and in operation by May 15, 1913.
The text extols good roads as the backbone of civilization and ties road funding to rising land values. It argues there is no better use of money than highway improvements, noting farmers rely on public roads and acknowledging some oppose paying for them.
Galveston Texas reports a 250000 bale increase in cotton receipts this year versus last year. The International and Great Northern delivered 345083 bales, up from 288677 a year ago. Total receipts across all roads reached 1322344 bales, compared with 4074877 previously.
In Tuesday's election Woodrow Wilson carried thirty nine states while Theodore Roosevelt won six and William Howard Taft three.
The snippet notes tensions in Balkan states over Turkey before Thanksgiving and links U S politics to the era, citing Wilson's election as triggering panic within Taft and Roosevelt headquarters.
Dr J G Guenther led a local subscription for the St Josephs orphanage fire orphans in San Antonio. $91.35 was raised and sent to Bishop Shaw. Secretary W W Hume thanks the community for the generous gift and notes the bishop will respond in a few days.
The State Fire Insurance Board approved a 15 percent rate reduction for Bastrop Floresville Elgin and Kerrville. The city of Austin seeks a similar cut but the board delays a decision pending reports from three local agents.
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