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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1924
Page
2
Old Kentucky dishes are explored with recipes for Kentucky Bürgout with squirrel and chicken, tomatoes, corn, beans, onions, barley, cream, butter and oysters. Chaumiere Baked Ham uses a flour paste crust, browning, glazing with chesten egg, sugar and cloves, served with parsley. Includes literary quotes on life and zest.
A century old collection features Lafayette Cake with white frosting and an American flag, plus Monsieur Girons Fruit Punch Rice Waffles and Kentucky Beaten Biscuit. The instructions detail butter sugar eggs flour and flavorings, mixing by hand, and baking times for sturdy loaves and biscuits.
The article stresses careful choosing and packing of fruit and vegetables for fair exhibits. It advises selecting specimens near perfect in size, color, and shape, avoiding insect damage and disease, and aiming for uniformity to please judges.
United States grades for barreled apples, adopted in 1923, are official for federal inspection at shipping points and markets. New York may allow use of federal grades instead of state grades. Baldwin and Black Twig color standards set at 33 percent for United States fancy and 15 percent for United States No.1. Copies available from the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, USDA, Washington.
Goat meat may bear the name chevon after support from goat-raising groups in the Southwest and approval by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The term chevon blends French roots chevre and mouton to mean goat mutton.
The article urges cooperative marketing and legume planting to turn roughage into cash, noting dairy cattle as a key factory. It cites 1923 cooperative trials, 600000 farm youth in 1928 learning business skills, and stresses early plowing, weed control, seed bed prep, and community cooperation to cut Hessian fly risk and raise yields.
Captain Donald B. MacMillan recounts his 15 month Arctic voyage with six companions aboard the Bowdoin. They reached within 11 degrees of the North Pole and observed 820 days frozen at Ellesmere Land deposits, reporting no illnesses and gathering scientific data by radio.
On Long Island Sands Point the Cosden home after a dance for the Prince of Wales saw jewelry valued at 160000 dollars vanish from Mrs Cosden and 42000 from Lady Mountbatten as well as a pearl shirt stud and a wallet with 2000 pounds. Only Mrs Norton escaped the spree. Lord Mountbatten slept through it.
James A. Drain of Washington DC is chosen as the new National commander succeeding John R. Quinn. Drain, 54, a lawyer born in Warren County Illinois, will move to Indianapolis where Legion offices are located. He lost his right hand in a hunting accident and served in the Span ish American War and the tank corps in France. He emphasizes nonpartisan patriotism and servant leadership, with priorities on care for disabled veterans and orphans and boosting voter turnout.
The passage argues that every life contains some favorable circumstance. Providence places cordia drops in each cup to help a person endure, extracting them wisely to achieve contentment and, at least, resignation rather than bitterness.
A quotation reflects on the eye as a powerful conduit of life and thought. The passage extols the eye's universal language and its ability to pierce poverty wealth learning and power, describing the eye as bold roaming and penetrating in a moment of time.
A Boston Transcript quotation recalls a New England visitor and a Chicago woman discussing a music society. The exchange jokingly questions whether Handel and Haydn were Boston men, highlighting mistaken regional associations and memory gaps about musical groups.
A glossary-like note explains three English legal terms: flotsam for shipwrecked goods that float, jetsam for goods cast overboard that sink, and ligan for sunk items tied to a buoy for later recovery. Unclaimed property saved becomes forfeited to the crown.
Austra lia house visiting parson faces odd rebuff as a six or eight year old answers door and declines clergy with the remark mother is suited with a clergyman. The boy’s mother closes the door in the Bulletin account from Sydney.
One of America’s best known makers of soaps and toilet goods marks 118 years in business. The company has operated under the same name and continuous family leadership across generations from father to great-grandsons.
A humorous snippet from Le Journal Amusant mocks a young woman’s prospects, with exchanges about her charm and lack of money. The quip reflects social attitudes toward marriage and financial status in a Parisian humor column.
Daniel Webster dominated American affairs for nearly 40 years. From his 1818 entry into Congress to his death in 1852 he held public office with few interruptions, shaping policy and national leadership.
An old advertisement touts Cascaret s as a gentle laxative for biliousness constipation and distress. It claims quick results by morning for adults and children and lists 10 cents per box at drug stores.
The article details Gen Chang Tso Lin backed by Edward Carleton Baker, an Alameda native and ex American consul general, who leads Chang’s Manchurian forces against Peking. It lists Wu Pei Fu, Sun Yat Sen, and Tsao Kun as central figures in the divided Chinese warlord era. Baker is described as advancing Chang’s military preparations and organizing a nationwide bid to assert control from Manchuria to Peking.
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