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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1949
Page
3
The ad touts the potato as the world’s most important vegetable and the tomato as rising in importance. It promotes Christmas gift ideas for smokers, recommending Camels cigarettes and Prince Albert Smoking Tobacco in ready wrapped packages with space for personal greetings.
The piece explains how 35 million Americans on social security pay half the pension cost via payroll taxes and how a bill in early 1950 would raise beneficiaries to 48 million, increase direct and indirect taxes, and impact consumers. It discusses wage earner contributions, employer taxes passed to prices, and the broader burden on the public.
Freshen dull looking or rain spattered black felts and derbies by holding them over a steaming kettle spout and buffing with a soft brush or piece of felt to bring up the nap.
A plan to switch closures to metal snaps and revert actions after use. The text describes snapping in the new hardware, brushing, then resnapping as a repeated routine.
Instructions suggest placing a limp veil between waxed paper and pressing with a moderately warm iron or dipping in beer to set and dry. For creased cuffs on men’s trousers, remove stitches holding the cuff to brush out wrinkles.
The reader provided five quiz questions with answers: cameo as multicolored carved gems, decisive battle at Santiago de Cuba on July 3, 1898, hand length four inches, Edith Cavell as the English nurse executed by Germans for aiding Allied soldiers, and Colonel T. E. Lawrence's book The Mint published after 1950.
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