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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1916
Page
2
Columbus resident J. Banton describes prolonged female troubles and nervousness easing after taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She drops from 178 to 118 pounds then recovers to 127 pounds and credits the medicine for restoring health and appetite.
The article stresses kidney function as vital to overall health and cites Bright's Disease deaths. It promotes Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as an herbal remedy for kidney, liver, and bladder issues, claiming tested, sworn testimonials and easy availability in 50 cent and one dollar bottles with a sample offer. It also notes New Brunswick plans to prohibit saloon sales next year.
An advertisement warns that a neglected cold may lead to pneumonia and promotes Laxative Quint dime Tablets for coughs colds la grippe and headache at 25 cents. The note also cites Canada producing asbestos fibers worth 3 491 000 dollars last year.
Washington reports the census bureau shows 4,062,991 bales ginned before September 25, surpassing all prior totals and signaling earlier crop activity. Totals to September 1 reached 860,812 bales, with 3,212,179 more gins through September 25. Sea Island bales numbered 31,260, against previous years.
Houston Texas reports an upcoming brief period of the tick eradication program as quarantine lifts elsewhere allow a large force of inspectors. Much sheep scal work in West Texas will finish this fall enabling the state livestock sanitary commission to assign more men to South Texas than before.
Washington announces the Organization of the Chinese-American Exchange Company a shipping firm planning a general mercantile trade between China and American ports on the Pacific Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic. Dr. Clarence J. Owens leads the venture with backing from the Southern Commercial Congress.
Washington disclosed details of a proposed American $60,000,000 loan for railroad construction in China. The loan would double previous totals and aim to raise the republics mileage by about 60 percent. Counselor David S. Rose spoke after Pekin dispatches suggested the agreement was close.
In Yonkers a protest by striking workers halted by violence as a surface car resumes service to Van Cortland Park. A car reached the subway line but its crew suffered severe bruises from attacks and bricks shattered all windows during the incident.
A switch engine pushing two freight cars rammed into a crowded Detroit street car Sunday night. Fourteen people were killed and more than twenty five injured, with several fatally struck as the car, carrying over ninety passengers, was driven from the tracks and onto the freight cars.
The Kron Prinz Wilhelm and Prinz Eitel Frederick arrived at the Philadelphia navy yard Sunday from Norfolk escorted by a convoy of twelve warships headed by the U S battleships Minnesota and Vermont.
Austin Texas Charles H Hurdleston of Palestine was Monday appointed a member of the Texas railroad commission to succeed the late William D Williams.
Berlin via London reports General von Wandel, deputy minister of war, resigns for health reasons. An official statement issued Friday confirms the move and notes no other changes in the cabinet.
Sixteen applicants at Salt Lake City Marine recruiting station were rejected in one month because their right legs were longer than their left. Sergeant Frank R. Busch refuted hereditary claims and joked that Salt Lake males may have longer starboard legs due to spring bonnet season leg pulls by wives.
The passage catalogs abundant mineral resources including limestone for lime and calcium carbide, phosphate rock, sodium compounds, iron deposits, and rare metals like barium zinc copper gold and silver. It envisions cheap hydroelectric power enabling chemical production, electrochemical soap and chlorine gas manufacture, and steel alloy production rivaling traditional regions.
An analysis of Uncle Sam's trade reports shows the United States becoming more of a manufacturing country as war rages in Europe. In seven months ending July 1916, exports of ready for consumption manufactures rose to 1.432 billion dollars, while crude materials exports fell, and imports of crude materials surged, signaling a shift to domestic fabrication from domestic resources.
Census reports show a major drop in hat production from 1909 to 1914 due to changing styles. Finished hats fell from 2,989,252 dozen to 2,118,634 dozen, a 29 percent decline, with value dropping from 47,864,630 to 37,349,744 dollars. Wool felt hats plunged from 690,957 to 381,044 dozen, and value slid from 4,882,411 to 1,944,484 dollars, a 55.6 percent drop, while other felt products rose to 13,692,765 dollars in 1914 from 11,852,626 in 1909.
Franklin K Lane argues for unleashing U S water power to drive industry and reduce dependence on foreign resources. He notes 6 million horsepower used today, with 180 million workers equaled by hydro power, and urges developing western water powers to bloom deserts and fuel new factories.
A fragmented page notes remedies such as Hostetter's Stomach Bitters and Dr Peery's Dead Shot for digestive issues and worms. A courtroom line mentions a district attorney and a case plea about being noile prostrated, indicating assorted ad and legal notices.
A man offers a patent cleaner to another's wife, learns she is absent, and proposes leaving it on approval. The exchange reveals tension as the older man warns of risk and memory of past approvals.
An advertising snippet touts Capudine as a liquid headache and back ache remedy. It claims it aids nature to restore balance and ease pain with easy administration. The text also includes fragmented blurbs about marriage and titles in a Browning's Magazine style.
An old ad warning about heart failure promotes Renovine as a cure for first symptoms. It promises the heart remedy can reverse delays with a price of 1 dollar and 50 cents. The text frames delay as a penalty for inaction.
Outdoor Life notes about 10,000 Girl Scouts nationwide with organized units in 328 cities and formed state councils to oversee programs and activities.
An advertisement urges careful use of Castoria with the claim of a 30 year safe record and a Fletcher’s Castoria endorsement. A separate line promotes La Creole Hair Dressing to cover gray hair and restore natural-looking color at $1.00. The UK trunk telephone lines have tripled in ten years as a business stat.
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