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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1940
Page
2
A domestic sketch pits a self styled dictator against his wife in a tense exchange over smoking in the living room, steak, and authority. Ella challenges his pomp while recalling his past, and the couple spar over right and power in a humorous, era toned dialogue.
A doctor tells a patient that another patient is cured by stopping worry about his tailor’s bill. The patient asks how, and the doctor says he told him to stop worrying, revealing the tailor is the punchline as the tale ends with the tailor’s alarm.
A light exchange turns on a pun about a grandmother’s funeral. Whifflebotham recounts a tense day after an office boy used a funeral gag to test him. Playfoot recalls an exciting football game, but Whifflebotham clarifies it was about his grandmother’s funeral.
A reader asks about building an open porch over a sun porch and converting a window to a door. The response covers roof covering, minimum ¼ inch per foot pitch, rigid framing, a tongue and groove pine or fir floor with canvas over a thick underlayment, flashing at walls, and to convert the middle window into a door with a storm door and weather stripping.
A pansy themed bedroom ensemble featuring appliqué motifs including a circle of pansies for a quilt block. Yellows or lavenders best evoke real pansies and pastel shades pair with existing decor. The transfer 29105 offers a complete linens group and matching spread. order instructions follow.
Storks are urged to nest on central European chimneys as a sign of many babies for households. Geese are gifted at Chinese weddings as symbols of fidelity. Pigeons are released at Japanese funerals to accompany the soul toward heaven.
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