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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1918
Page
7
A detailed 1920s style home canning guide explains how to clean and dissect a chicken for canning. It outlines killing, defeathering, drawing the entrails, removing organs, and packing a quart jar with breast and bones for efficient preservation. It directs readers to Farmers' Bulletins for further canning instructions.
This note asks whether to send early hatch cockerels to market or keep them for home use. It suggests raising a row of chicken dinners for winter days as poultry prices rise. It weighs the choice between selling and eating to stock the pantry.
The Pekin breed is favored by green-duck producers and meat farms for rapid fattening. Indian Runner ducks suit farmers prioritizing eggs, rivaling Leghorn in egg production with large white eggs. Runners are efficient foragers and hardy, boosting first class duck egg trade, though eggs lose value quickly if unsold.
The article notes most farm and backyard flocks produce far fewer than potential. It cites 1915 data where 2,000 hens averaged 151 eggs, with individual totals ranging to 814. It urges culling to keep best layers and stresses breeding, care, feeding and sunny, protected yards to boost production.
The National Women’s Liberty Loan committee mobilizes one million volunteers for the fourth Liberty loan. Women canvass house to house and in stores, boosting subscriptions nationwide from New York to California, redefining patriotic finance and ending the pampered image of American women.
William Colley, an American, recalls meeting a noncommissioned officer near St Pauls in London. The officer advises dropping the British accent and adopting local speech, teaching him to say cant and blimy as he learns to fit in. Colley says what he learned at Yale will help him.
A debate turns sharp as one man claims nothing is impossible while another mocks the idea and questions the chance of ever becoming a dead body, highlighting a tense exchange between two interlocutors.
Jackson complains of insult from an old barber who shaved him. Wilson confirms. The barber jokes that shaving reminded him of a past game called hunt the hair.
An ad promotes a freckle sunburn and tan lotion made from lemon juice and orchard white. It claims low cost and harmless use, with steps to mix and apply to face neck arms and hands. Also mentions Liberty loan subscribers forming a long queue to subscribe.
An old advertisement touts Capudine as fast relief for headaches. It claims the product calms distress and eases nervous strain with a squid pleasant to take, presented as a quick remedy.
Tinwater had not looked plump. a friend teased him after Allons spread word. The quip came when Tinwater asked why Fuller claimed he was getting fatter, and the friend answered tersely that Tinwater was looking Fuller in the face.
Frank J. Cheney of I. J. Cheney & Co. swears as senior partner that the firm will pay one hundred dollars for any catarrh cure that Hall's Catarrh Medicine cannot achieve. Notary A. W. Gleason witnesses the oath in Toledo, Ohio, with the product touted to act on mucous surfaces through the bloodstream.
A brief dialogue in the Indianapolis Star captures a boy asking about rare treats and a father’s playful reply about any kind being rare today. The exchange reflects everyday family humor and mid century newspaper voice.
A terse dispatch notes a seven year famine affecting Copentine and other districts, with shortages severe in Petrograd as authorities struggle to control the demic impact. Local relief efforts are described as limited and strained.
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