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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1906
Page
1
A collection of humorous exchanges and quick quips from seaside guests and neighbors. An anxious young man predicts war or revolution while a chatty landlady and puzzled lover offer contrasting, lighthearted remarks. Short jokes follow about romance and everyday folly.
A collage of quips and anecdotes from Chicago and Milwaukee papers. A doctor patient exchange about eating, a freckle cure pitch, a kindergarten misstep on a streetcar, and a humorous take on married men and poker.
A fragment quotes a Russian general claiming no fear of the foe and a fondness for war while admitting a shiver of dread when reading of a court-martial. The lines blend bravado with anxiety in martial rhetoric.
Quotation shows a man ending an engagement, citing that reports of his engagement failed to boost his credit as hoped. The humorous exchange questions whether the average man swears when stung by a tack, implying candid honesty about frustration and social perception.
Daniel F. Van Valkenburg of Galveston shot his wife and then killed himself with a pistol yesterday at a Houston Heights home on the Boulevard between Fourth and Fifth streets. Van Valkenburg died at St. Joseph's Infirmary. his wife survived. He had recently moved from Galveston where he worked as a grain agent. The mess left multiple bullets in his head and body. The bodies were taken to Wright & Co. for burial arrangements.
Mexia two yards received and weighed 382 bales of cotton last Saturday while Bertram gins report over two thousand bales ginned to date with more than a thousand bought from elsewhere. San Antonio prepares a beggars day under city orders as mendicants face enforcement.
Dallas police report Chester Collins a Houston area Negro was killed last night after allegedly attacking another Negro with a knife. The assailant fled following a heart shot that ended Collins’s life.
Uncle Hiram Wood a 75 year old Confederate veteran was thrown from a wagon by two runaway mules in the Woods settlement three miles south of Burkeville Texas. He suffered broken ribs and additional injuries but is reported seriously injured.
Eleven clerks at the Southern Pacific offices in Eagle Pass Texas staged a strike with nine walking out and two staying or absent. They demanded eight hour days extra pay for overtime and regular wages. The company seeks replacements for the striking workers.
Regular traffic of Chinese contraband once thrived with clever plans to dodge customs. A schooner frolic carrying coolies was driven into Providence harbor as a case in point illustrating riches for contraband dealers and the watchfulness bypassed by smugglers.
The piece details ongoing Chinese smuggling into the United States despite strict enforcement. It describes disguises, routes from Canada and Newfoundland, raids by inspectors, and the high wages driving depictions of operatives who send money home. The Frolic case highlights perilous smuggling and profits.
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