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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1924
Page
3
In a 1924 McClure Syndicate tale Jimmy Skunk uses a spray spell to scare Mr Fox Peter Rabbit and Mr Coon away. The trio learns the price of the ruse as homes are disturbed and dog trouble follows, with Jimmy retreating after the ordeal.
Household noted actor House Peters describes himself as a world traveler having lived in Bristol Hong Kong Peking Johannesburg Rio de Janeiro Buenos Aires Melbourne Sydney and Hollywood He is over six feet tall married with two children and built a career through stage work before turning to films.
Sergei, an exile in New York, explores many houses seeking a home. He recalls Colonel Miller’s warmth and later learns of Anne Miller and her sister’s hardships. A postman tip leads him to a shabby shack where Anne appears in a blue gingham dress, embodying his idea of happiness.
An essay on rural beliefs about cutting initials on a turtle shell to bind a creature to a home. It explains sympathetic magic, the like producing like principle, and the turtle as a mythic figure linked to Cybele, with references to Pliny and ancient ritual ideas.
Lydia Ydia is a feminine name of Latin origin linked to the ancient city of Lydia and to Delia from Delos. The piece notes biblical ties with Lydia, the seller of purple at Thyatira, and cites its English usage, meaning, and associated talismanic stone jacinth. It lists Thursday as a lucky day, yellow as a lucky color, and mentions travel safety beliefs.
The London Mail notes how common words derive from early mistakes by ancestors. It explains terms like belfry once meaning watch tower and costardmonger evolving from costard, and engrosser or dealer in gross becoming grocer, while bocher or isiller of goats traces to butcher.
A pithy aphorism notes that a horse a man once owned and his future wife represent ideal exemplars of their kind, emphasizing lasting compatibility and value across relationships and ownership.
A prehistoric dialogue shows Bbnechisel asking for anaesthetic and Doctor Sabertooth replying with a crude stone mallet to dull pain. The exchange humorously hints at medical bravado and the rough limits of early dental practice.
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