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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1938
Page
6
A Nebraska farmer added a single strand of electric wire to an ordinary barbed fence. Cows touched it several times, then avoided the fence. He plans to recharge the wire once a new herd arrives, hoping the deterrent lasts.
Lin colyn Cann of Oakland California rolled in sleep and drove his arm through a window pane severing an artery. His wife woke to the breaking glass and found him bleeding. He received hospital treatment.
Patrick Trainer and two companions, John Fisher and Ed Furland, were lost for 48 hours in bushland 14 miles north of Blind River. Trainer found a six foot wide gold quartz vein and plans another expedition with precautions. He survived on a skinned porcupine and raspberries, fought mosquitoes, rain, swamps and bears, and later found five matches at a deserted lumber camp.
Chicago report says Jerry Plisec, a ten year night custodian at St. Jerome Catholic Church, installed a church wide burglar alarm to guard the poor box. The system, with wires and a bell, has helped catch thirteen thieves and brought in $1.73 from two transients.
In New York Joachie Hubert 31 took his 12 year old son Joachie Jr to school wearing a sign reading I am a thief I stole my mother's money. A police officer intervened a fist fight followed and both were brought to magistrate court where Joachie Jr returned to class without the sign and the father received a suspended five dollar fine.
Mrs Dorothy Lee left a plumber and helper in her kitchen to repair the hot water heater and went to work. On return the pair were gone along with silverware linens dishes clocks and an electric iron. Police arrested two men later charging them with grand larceny. Loot recovered from a pawn shop a butcher shop and a barroom where clocks were traded for drinks.
WALLENBURG COLORADO. A new city ordinance prohibits operating mechanical devices that create radio static. Officials note the law aims to curb social static causing neighborhood quarrels, with police reporting more trouble from social disputes than from mechanical static.
Shirley Ann Sum ma, 21 months old, toppled head first into a 10 gallon jar of sour milk and drowned in Gentry Missouri.
A young woman spoiled by vanity drives a new car into a railway crossing wreck. She survives but powders her nose oblivious to onlookers as the express engine driver questions why she failed to stop until the road was clear. She claims her horn sounded before the whistle blew.
A mother teaches her son about coins using a silver dollar and a half dollar he calls two dollars. He is told he has one dollar and a half. A large dog passes by with a small dog, and the boy asks slyly if it is a dog and a half.
The girl exclaims about clothes on the line while a mother identifies them as rompers. The scene captures a simple domestic moment with a playful dialogue about children's garments.
A Texas rancher visits Kansas City and is shown the stock yards. Local teens prank him by placing snapping turtles in his bed. In return he notes Missouri bed bugs and quips that the young intruders are not fully grown.
Two friends recall eyelet dresses once common in town and speculate they may have been sewn up or altered during a remodel as they discuss fashion changes in a casual downtown scene.
For sale by owner a 1936 Chevrolet coupe recently overhauled contact 65785. Spotted by Goldfish Bowl in Sioux City Tribune listing style.
A fragment discusses a character described as a leech and adept at catching fellows, mentioning bathing as a context. The terse line implies a sharp, perhaps harmful, social observation without broader detail.
A prison team defeated the cadets in a football game, illustrating the proverb that the pen is mightier than the sword in this unlikely victory.
A brief dialogue reveals plans for a hyphenated surname after marriage. The exchange casts Eaton as a potential partner name and jokingly considers "Moth" as a possible second name.
A mother asks her wandering son what he seeks and he says nothing. She directs him to look in the box that once held candy, hinting at a hidden or found item in the memory or object.
A feature on using oilcloth shelf edgings to dress kitchen windows with straight easy care curtains. The piece suggests matching banded towels and painted tin containers, noting the Sewing Book No. 3 by Mrs. Spears offers many money saving home ideas with clear large sketches. It promotes ordering the book for 10 cents postpaid to Mrs. Spears in Chicago.
A quotation from Irving compares a good temper to sunshine, brightening tasks and easing anxiety by smoothing daily labor and troubling feelings.
An advertisement promotes Dr Caldwell's Laxative Senna with Syrup Pepsin to relieve constipation and stomach discomfort. It claims Pepsin digests undigested protein in the stomach and the laxative wakes lazy bowels, with a family-friendly flavor.
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