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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1913
Page
3
Comtesse Elise on the Mount is abducted by the Black Seigneur. The Governor and Marquis weigh a hostage exchange as guards return with grim news and rumors spread of a looming rescue or retaliation near the rockbound island fortress.
A band of horsemen led by the Marquis captures a prisoner near a weathered cross on a marshy coast. The Governor’s daughter is taken as part of a secret exchange while Paris unrest simmers, prompting plans to sail to a hidden cove as a storm gathers.
Two Germans visiting New York from Chicago dined at Delmonico's with a dinner for two and wine. After paying an $11 bill they debated the charge and one swore until his friend admonished him that God had punished Delmonico, hinting that his own pocket was full of spoons.
Mrs. Fred E. Muller of Charlestown Massachusetts testified before Judge Grant that her husband fed her almost exclusively pork chops. She said the diet was greasy and sometimes inedible and that he started a quarrel four days after the marriage.
A playful reflection notes love blocking the sidewalk as daily life keeps turning, hinting at romantic humor within ordinary city bustle.
Mrs Ella Sheffield of Oklahoma reports years of itchy scalp and hair loss halted by using Cuticura Soap and Ointment. After trying samples she saw improvement in two weeks and hair grew longer and stronger, crediting the product for curing her scalp trouble. Advertising notice for Cuticura samples and Skin Book offered by Cuticura, Dept L, Boston.
Mrs B A Hitchcock of Canaan and a Litchfield County Equal Franchise league officer relates in a letter a surreal claim about taming angleworms. She says she fed them pumpkin and bran mash and used a knock and whistle to summon them from underground. The letter notes a cross eyed largest worm.
The article traces ancient hour division from 12 hours day and night in Egypt, likely adopted by Jews and Greeks from Babylonians, and notes Rome's sundial built 293 BC by L Papirius Cursor. It mentions pre water clocks usage and Rome's public criers. England used wax candles as time measures, with three inch candles per hour and six candles for 24 hours, linked to Alfred around 886.
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