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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1927
Page
2
Former War Finance director Fred Starek is named co manager for Frank O. Lowden of Illinois. The appointment expands leadership for the Lowden political organization with Starek bringing wartime finance experience to the campaign.
Cape Argus reports a hospital survey shows widespread belief in witchcraft among natives. Witch doctors practice torture or death by fire and stinging ants, confiscate cattle, and hinder birth records, while urging reliance on traditional cures. The committee calls for bush hospitals to teach modern medicine.
French papers hail Edouard Branly as the father of wireless, noting his 50 years of harsh lab conditions, a lone assistant, and a $75 monthly salary while supporting his family as a part time physician.
An English family led by R C Walton attempted to walk to Coney Island via a subway footpath. James O Donal subway motor map halted them, clarifying their error as they entered the Broadway subway of the Brooklyn Manhattan line and walked the express tracks.
Two Smithsonian researchers Henry B. Collins Jr and T Dale Stewart study Eskimo life on Nunivak Island Alaska. They document traditions language and daily life of a people long isolated from whites. Fieldwork aims to record artifacts including pottery skulls and stone tools under AAAS and Smithsonian auspices.
A compilation of twenty trivia prompts covering records inventions geography politics literature and natural science. Topics include high jump records sewing machine inventor treason trial geology Mrs. Fiske roles Mount Everest and other questions about language law history and botany.
List of terse quiz answers including Mary Ann Evans defeating Boston 4-1 in a 24 inning game on September 1 1906. Jefferson Madison Monroe Adams Van Buren Buchanan and Carolina for Charles II. Definitions of life science and landscape painting. Ladoga and North American species notes. Bible and classical references. Goulding Canada time 6 minutes 25.8 seconds. Millard Fillmore Gen John H Morgan Beethoven Scotland a lily genus with forty five species and Pyrenees inhabitants. War and Peace and Chronicles references.
The article recounts Shakespeare arriving in London around 1586 with wife and three children. He starts as a call boy, later works on the stage, and after a period of obscurity his breakthrough comes with Romeo and Juliet, marking him as a pioneer of a new world of drama.
A historical overview notes European horses from prehistoric times with earliest British references in Caesar. It highlights warfare and agriculture as initial uses, citing Bayeux tapestry as showing a horse drawing a harrow.
An elderly nurse testimonial cites Lydia B Pinkham's Vegetable Compound helping her stay on her feet for nursing and housework. Other letters praise its value for weakness and overall health, with locations from Greenfield to Lancaster and beyond. A Swedish engineer reportedly invented a road pavement that stays non slippery when wet.
An unhappy Long Island husband drove his wife from a motor boat and nearly drowned his marital troubles, according to Farm and Fireside. The incident underscores peril on inland waters and domestic turmoil.
An old advertisement claims headaches dizziness neuralgia indigestion bad breath and pimples signal an inactive liver. It urges immediate use of Bond's Pill at bedtime with the promise you will wake up well the next morning.
Two contributions of 50000 dollars each have been made toward establishing a chair of dietetics at the University of London. The gifts aim to widen medical knowledge of food values for public benefit. One gift is anonymous from a woman, the other from a manufacturer of dietetic preparations.
Advertising copy states Fletcher's Castoria has over 30 years of use as a harmless substitute for Castor Oil Paregoric teething drops and soothing syrups. It contains no narcotics and bears the genuine signature.
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