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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1905
Page
1
A Victorian tone exchange shows Mrs De Style asking Bridget to hang up her skirt and jacket. The maid questions tickets for the two, revealing social etiquette and humor. The text then offers a moral quip about giving a man sustenance and his propensity to preach on abstinence.
A short appeal urges readers not to buy inferior medicines and touts Cheatham's Tonic as the best chill cure. It claims twenty years of use and guarantees a cure with one bottle, while recalling a prior anecdote about wasting money on ineffective remedies.
Charles P. Thompson, late Massachusetts supreme court figure, defends Michael Dougherty charged with liquor sale. In court he invites the jury to look at Dougherty, then questions whether a man with a pint would sell it. The jurors are persuaded and Dougherty is acquitted.
A Sunflower State judge extols Grape-Nuts as a staple for five years praising its healthful benefits. He claims it replaces pastry, improves complexion, and provides a breakfast stronger than meat, noting Postum Co. branding and Battle Creek origin.
A cheap wooden granary design to hold 4000 bushels uses 34x40x10 feet dimensions with a central 6 foot aisle and 9x10 foot bins on each side. Ventilated gable roof, 2x6 studding, solid foundation, sleepers under joists and plates every eight feet to prevent spreading. Bins filled first to minimize heating.
Regent reports from France that Prof Moissan has produced genuine diamonds and rubies in an improved electric furnace. The tiny stones are identified as carbon crystal diamonds, with clear brightness. The article notes calcium carbide yields acetylene for lighting, praising its brilliance, efficiency, and easy installation for various buildings.
Directions for painting a frame house outside in white or light yellow. Recommend shellac for knots, two coats with first coat dry before second. Second coat mix about four gallons of oil and forty pounds of lead per hundred yards. Raw and boiled linseed oil both used. boiled dries faster, raw resists rain damage. Use of turpentine only if thinning necessary. peeling usually from inferior initial paint. Prior paint may affect adhesion if scales are not removed.
The Verona city government purchased the house linked to Juliet for 2900 dollars. The report notes uncertainty as to why J Pierpont Morgan did not bid. The rest of the column riffs on assorted 1910s topics from women’s influence to Edison’s storage battery and a fortune teller’s betting tip.
The Southern Pacific Railway has received a concession to build and operate a railway linking Guaymas, the southern terminus of the Sonora Railway, with Guadalaajara or another section of the Mexican Central railway.
A Ninth Avenue elevated train plunged into the street at Fifty-Third Street after a switch move. Three dozen injured or more, with several in hospitals and a death toll rising. Coroner and officials probe switchman bonds and train crew responsibility as ambulances swarm Manhattan. Policeman Henry Aitkens is among the severely injured.
A mass meeting in Osaka denounces the Russia Japan peace terms calling the treaty a betrayal of victory and constitutional rights urging the government resign. Other dispatches note martial law talks in Tokyo and demarcation talks between Russian and Japanese commanders.
In Vicksburg Mississippi there were no new cases by 6 pm yesterday. Most patients are improving with one or two exceptions. Dr. Chris Mengis and two nurses traveled to Tallulah to assist where conditions are dire.
King Victor Emmanuel arrived in Monteleone Calabria to view quake ruins and receive a grateful welcome. Ferraris toured Samaro after a village was destroyed, with residents in terror as walls collapsed and fissures opened. In Triparni the shock’s vast damage was seen, and Piscopio troops bury bodies while officers share rations. Orlando of Leghorn shipyards sent relief money.
W. K. Holt, a cowboy from Arizona, arrived in Austin to receive Pasteur rabies treatment at the State Pasteur Institute after being bitten on the cheek by a mad skunk that attacked his camp while he slept. Holt shot the animal twice before it released its grip.
New Orleans records 38 new cases by 6 p m yesterday bringing total to 2327. No new deaths reported, total deaths 316. Active cases 300 with 1711 discharged and 18 new foci identified since the outbreak began.
In the last 24 hours ending 8 p.m., Gulfport reports three new cases and Mississippi City two new cases. No new cases in Vicksburg Natchez Pearlington Handsboro or Sharkey County. No deaths statewide.
Nine new yellow fever cases and one death were reported in Pensacola yesterday at 6 pm by physicians allied with the State Board of Health. Suspicious cases stood at about twelve. The deceased was A Wolfburg Vice Consul of Norway, who died after a brief illness.
A survey of Russian positions shows soldiers celebrate peace news from Portsmouth with feasting and singing. Officers maintain decorum while many troops toast President Roosevelt as word of the treaty nears full explanation. News spread along rail lines and through newspapers.
In Hughes Spring a railroad accident injured Conductor Sam Kennedy of Greenville as he slipped from the caboose and fell under wheels. A special train carried Kennedy’s wife and child and Dr. Joe Becton to Hughes Spring, led by Conductor H. P. Weems.
A small tornado swept near Walter Oklahoma, about twenty miles south of Lawton, last night, causing two fatalities and severe injuries to nine people.
A Norwegian steamer named Venezia wrecked yesterday off Skillingen on Jutland’s southwest coast Esbjerg reports. The captain his wife and ten crew members were drowned.
Pensacola reports no new yellow fever cases for yesterday. Several fever cases of doubtful nature remain under observation citywide. A detention camp will be established Tuesday at Flatman by the Marine Hospital Service.
In Manchuria near Tie Pass Chinese and Japanese merchants amass native merchandise and souvenirs to sell to homegoing Russian soldiers as the General Staff plans full campaign reports. They aim to record faults openly to prevent repeats in future actions.
Mrs. W. Wright of 172 Main St Haverhill Mass describes four years of sharp flank pain dizziness and frequent urinary symptoms in 1898. After using Dean's Kidney Pills she reports quick relief and permanent cure after three boxes. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY markets them at 60 cents per box.
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