13 Nov 1903
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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1903
Page
1
The fifty-eighth Congress completes its organization during a special session. Leaders are set and committees are formed as the new body consolidates its early agenda. The chamber resumes full legislative duties after swift procedural actions.
Washington reports opening of the Fifty-eighth Congress with Charles Cannon chosen as speaker amid lavish floral tributes in the Speaker's lobby. The chamber adjourned after organizing and a lottery for seats, with notable absences and familiar faces from the prior congress. Secretary Wilson urged early cotton planting to outrun boll weevil damage, noting eradication efforts fail and early crops offer the best defense.
Alice Roosevelt will be a bridesmaid at Miss Lelia McCauley’s wedding to Walcott Tuckerman set for November 25 in Washington. The two girls have been chums since school, and McCauley is a daughter of Col. Edward McCauley of the census office with Virginia and Maryland family ties.
Elizabeth Anderson, longtime favorite of the theater world, dies at Forrest home near Philadelphia. Born in Boston in 1833, she started in an amateur club named after Edwin Forrest and spent years acting with Edwin Booth and Mrs. Barrows. Her career included Boston stints at the Museum and Athens.
The Dallas gathering of Texas cotton growers endorsed cultural methods to beat the boll weevil with early maturing seed from uninfested districts. Delegates urged deep fall plowing, windrow burning, weed destruction, and diversified crops, plus a permanent Texas Cotton Growers’ Convention to coordinate actions and seed programs.
In Brinkley Arkansas at dawn a mob of ten to fifteen hanged Z. C. Cadie a white man after he cut Memphis policeman J. C. Cox who died soon after. A coroner's jury ruled Cadie died from lynching by parties unknown.
Williamson county officials refuse to lift quarantine in Taylor Texas. Mayor John F. Black requests announcement that the city remains quarantined against all points affected with yellow fever.
Frank M. Bates of Nat county Texas filed a bankruptcy petition. Assets listed at 3000 dollars liabilities 2800 dollars. Local filing noted in Nacogdoches on November 10.
The article traces the career of Mrs. Anderson from early stage novelty in the зі archaic period to fame with the elder Southern and Our American Cousins. She performed at the Boston Museum, with Dion Boucicault in Rescued, in Narcisse with Daniel Bandmann, and as the Nurse to Adelaide Neilson's Juliet before retiring in 1895.
A New York Sun report notes that in 1900 an American committee sought Turkish authorization to excavate Mugheir and Nawawis near Ur of the Chaldees but was repeatedly delayed and denied. The piece questions Abdul Hamid II’s impartiality toward Americans and Jews in a disputed archaeological effort.
A letter to Rev Dr Bodman follows his request to end heavy rains. The sender, R R Chucksley, objects, saying crops rely on rain and he would blame the minister if the weather stops. The note appears in London Tit Bits.
A missionary argues against killing neighbors while a cannibal king asks how assimilation could be achieved. The exchange frames a clash of ethics and cultural coexistence in a tense dialogue.
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