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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1929
Page
7
A brief notice credits Wyndham Martyn for the W N U service copyright. The item presents as a citation or legal acknowledgment within a period newspaper card. No additional context or details are provided in the readable text.
Hilton Hanby buys the Gray house near Pine Plains Mississippi. Selenos warns of a curse while a former chauffeur tells of danger. Kerr the caretaker is murdered. Pelham joins the household and Leslie Barron arrives as a guest. An ornithology keen stranger Appleton arrives and Hanby hires him as agent.
In the mansion a district detective, Doctor Byers, and a lawyer-psych expert discuss the Selene case. Bill Pelham reveals clues from a visitor from New York while Junior alerts them to a looming threat as Dina’s nerves fray and the client’s alleged persecution complex grows.
Dr Byers explains the Selenos case as a lonely elder woman driven by past hurts into a feud over a house and buried coffins. Appleton blocks evictions and digs, while Hanby weighs buying the home as Selenos' emerald offer and a lake burial threat collide with family loyalties and a grass court future.
Historians discuss the queen of Sheba mentioned in the Bible as visiting Solomon, with debate over her nationality. Some trace Sheba to Saba in southwestern Arabia now Yemen, linking the Sabeans to Ethiopians and Abyssinians, and suggesting royal descent from Balkis, though details remain uncertain.
The article explains a wheat in bond system where Canadian imports go to American mills and flour is exported. It states duty is not required to be paid by the mills under this arrangement.
The article notes vast interiors including Versailles battle gallery at 804 feet by 43, the glass gallery at 230 by 85 by 42, the Vatican library hall at 220 feet, and the Galleria of the Vatican at 700 feet long. It compares dimensions and highlights room sizes as record examples.
Agricultural engineer B R Gross of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment station warns damp poultry house floors cause heavy losses and reduced bird efficiency. He describes dry wooden floors with two-board layers and building paper, raised 12 to 18 inches, plus dry concrete floor methods and raised-ventilation options. If dampness persists, inspect ventilation litter and sunlight as potential remedies.
The article warns that feeding turkeys highly concentrated foods causes indigestion and possible death if not relieved. It recommends plenty of green foods like alfalfa, clover, lettuce, onion tops, and dandelion leaves, cut above soil to reduce black-head contamination.
The article explains that nature aims for eggs to hatch and advises defeating this by producing infertile eggs for better summer market returns. It recommends selling or confining roosters after breeding season and notes hens lay well without males. Early hatched cockerels are useful for breeding and should be sold after the season to reduce feed costs.
It is difficult to be absolutely sure of the sex of young turkey poults. Males usually "shoot the red" and show head growth sooner and grow faster. Bronze turkeys reveal sex by plumage color. females have white tips on breast feathers while males show dark tips.
The article recalls a time when poultry growers avoided changing breeds. Hatcheries expanded, enabling mixed seed flocks and later crossbred and mongrel flocks as birds from different breeds were kept together. It notes the shift from long term, pure lines to rapid introduction of new stock.
Poultry keepers face two options for unwanted males: destroy them early or feed to fatten. The latter is used for early cockerels but rarely approved for later broods. Some poultrymen also condemn keeping surplus fowls.
The edition lists 44 metropolitan clubs with powered memberships, naming brass names like Brig. Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt and Irving Berlin’s father in law, Charles Mackay, among top joiners. A Greenwich Village public school shows a dog and horse welfare group with curb cats patrolling streets. A Long Island commuter exposes gate timing practices leading to reform. gates now open 15 minutes early except in rush hours.
Lebanon Indiana Emmett Scott aged forty six began a three month sentence at Boone county jail and earned a unique record by sawing his way in to serve time. With doors locked and keys missing he used a hack saw to cut the bull pen gate under sheriff Sandlin’s orders.
In Budapest a gravestone for Mrs. Jo hann Rudi mislabels her as dead and lists her children. Her investigation reveals her ex husband erected the monument to prove his devotion to a future wife. The stunt aims to show how much he could love another woman.
An old advertisement touts California Fig Syrup as a gentle laxative for babies and children. It claims to regulate bowels, soothe the stomach, and start liver action without eroding, with no narcotics or soothing drugs. Consumers urged to ask for the genuine product by brand name.
An ad claims a simple mix using cprol lycerine and water creates a facial cream that tightens skin. It promises a plump youthful surface with dead tissue and impurities disappearing, reducing aged appearance.
Experiments in the Natal tsetse belt show a special powdered poison sprayed on donkeys kills flies when they land. Early reports indicate success, offering hope to farmers plagued by the tsetse fly.
A surgeon at a dog and cat hospital in Great Falls Montana operated on a dog to remove a silver dollar from its stomach. The operation succeeded the dollar was recovered and the dog regained health.
Fort Worth attorney Judge Pete Arnold claims a twenty year record of perfect attendance and attributes it to Nature's Remedy NR Tablets kept in his desk. He urges readers to ask their druggist for the 25 cent NR Tablets, noting their decades of sales and trust among customers.
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