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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1903
Page
4
Poem recalls the village gathering at Baltoff's grocery store as locals and visitors linger on the curb and chairs. Captain Boggs Clark Jones Willie Brown and General Wood figure in light verse while townsfolk joke mockingly about politics and daily life at the store.
In a smoking car two strangers exchange introductions while reading a novel. One man claims Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch is trash, then reveals his wife is author Mrs. Freeman. The other man corrects him as Rice, the author Alice Caldwell Hogan Rice, leading to an awkward but friendly reunion reported by Princeton Tiger.
A Kentucky civil service chief recalls meeting a mountain farmer who refused to reveal a guest in his home, illustrating the depth of local character amid Breathitt county disturbances. A Seattle reader recounts Mrs. P Brunzel’s 15 year back pain relief from Dean’s Kidney Pills and a nationwide free trial offer from Foster Milburn Co.
The coyote is called a pest of the prairies with a small chance of life in the territories. Cowboys shoot it with six shooters, ranchers keep shotguns ready, and professional hunters pursue it year round. Organized hunts in communities sweep large areas, with coyotes skinned for rugs and doormats.
The piece reflects on life as brief and fragile and death as the final end. It urges living with purpose, compassion, and moral choice rather than chasing fleeting pleasures or easy happiness. It warns against neglecting duty and the danger of misusing time and influence.
Overcoats will be extensively worn this winter and will be extremely popular with the male population. Trousers with hidden pockets will be in vogue for married men. Wives will continue to wear moths in their furs with occasionally a little monkey business known as a collar ette. Bathing suit will not be au fair after December 1. Stockings will be worn as usual with a hole in the toe. The same neckties will continue to be popular with both sexes. Pie will not be eaten with a spoon after corn husking. Finger bowls will be smaller than usual to prevent rude people from taking a hand bath therein. In eating fish it will be considered good form not to choke on a bone. For further hints read the Ladies' Constant Companion, or ask the hired girl how they did in the family from which she has recently graduated.
A mournful verse by a man who died by his own hand in a Scottish jail laments a hopeless, ruined life. The speaker sails toward an unnamed harbor, fearing judgment, yet seeking rest as waves and wind echo internal despair. Battleships rage at sea, but cannot cross the bar. The poem ends with return to the harbor awaiting fate.
Inventors developed a new insoluble casein compound by mixing dissolved casein with soot and lead acetate to form a slate colored precipitate. The paste dried in cloth over a frame to yield a uniform dark mass resembling ebony and claimed to resist ignition better than celluloid.
Augustus Thomas recalls a Western editor famed for exacting standards who trimmed a reporter’s copy with a ruthless blue pencil. The reporter mournfully admits decline, only for the editor to reveal that the writer’s taste has merely improved. The anecdote highlights strict literary judgment and evolving discernment.
Gen Kuropatkin announces no immediate war with Japan. He cites about 200000 Russian soldiers in eastern Asia ready for call and notes potential enemies would have to cross a sea to reach them.
The Jacobshaven glacier in Greenland has retreated eight miles since 1850 and thinned by twenty to thirty feet, indicating faster melt than formation.
Smith Brown and Jones place hopes on Cheatham's Laxative Chill Tablets. They promise soon to shake hands with friends. Five pence. No cuceness. An assistant in the Congressional Library finds 2,200 books by colored authors. most are mulatto. The straight blacks have done almost nothing.
An advertisement touts Defiance Starch with superior quality and a 16 ounce, 10 cent offer. It also mentions a New Orleans electric banana unloading motor handling 15,000 bunches per hour at three hatches, protecting fruit from bruising.
The ad touts Hunt's cure for Itch Tetter Ringworm Itching Piles and Eczema with a guaranteed claim. It notes sailing vessels for general transportation are obsolete on the great lakes and that over thirty four Chicago vessels are presently in use.
An old newspaper fragment lists various patent medicines and cures including Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children and Simmons Liver Purifier. It mentions a nurse at a New York Children’s Home and free samples, plus notes on cures for fever, stomach trouble, teething, and worms, and cites other products and claims involving health, travel guides, and stock value losses.
A brief note warns against swapping Hunt's Lightning Oil for a worthless article. It advises asking a druggist for a free sample bottle. Emperor William recently provided 225000 marks to aid Zersen fishermen struck by a German tidal wave.
An ad from McCane's Detective Agency in Houston Texas promotes trained and reliable detective service. It also notes the Gobron Brille racing car as the most powerful automobile with 120 horsepower. It mentions Putnam Faceless Dyes for silk wool and cotton and discusses pests and cheeses from Holland Switzerland Italy and Denmark.
An advertisement touts Defiance Starch as big and best with a money back guarantee, 16 ounces for 10 cents. It mentions safety mades resisting friction on various surfaces yet igniting from glass. A reference to Cane's Detective Agency in Houston and a biographical note on Cardinal Rampolla versus Cardinal Gibbons and Pope Pius appears.
The hansom cab originated from Joseph Hansom of Birmingham. The original vehicle featured a square sedan chair style body mounted between two wheels nearly eight feet high with an open door and driver seat in front. The modern hansom evolved from this design.
The passage notes Americans and English consume twice as much sugar as the French and Germans yet show better dental health. It also claims American dentists rank first in all countries.
In Missouri a judge reserved ruling after a sixteen year old girl prompted charges against her father for spanking. The legal question centers on parental discipline and potential criminal conduct.
The notice cites F J Cheney’s oath as senior partner of F J Cheney Co of Toledo Ohio and offers one hundred dollars for every chronic catarrh case cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It mentions notary A W Gleason in 1896 guarding the oath and promotes Hall's products and testimonials to readers. It also briefly notes German empress awarding gold crosses to 176 women servants for forty years with the same family.
A humorous item notes there is no shaking of bottles or wry faces with Cheatham’s Laxative Chill Tablets. It also mentions a second Geils line promising no cure and no pay and a quip about Atlantic City using a motor car to haul intoxicated prisoners to the police station.
Ask Your Dealer for Allen's Foot Ease a powder to shake into your shoes. It rests the feet cures swollen sore hot callous aching sweating feet and ingrowing nails. Allen's Foot Ease makes new or tight shoes easy. Sold by all Dhuggists and shoe stores 25c. Sample mailed free in southern India the schoolmasters have forty two different kinds of punishment for naughty boys.
Aunt Lucindy travels with Hunt's Lightning Oil claimed to ease swellings toothache colic backache cuts burns neuralgia catarrh. She boasts sixty nine grandchildren as proof of experience. The text notes Montana hosts some of the finest glaciers in the world.
An advertisement collage touts Defiance Starch 16 ounce package for 10 cents with a one third extra claim and support from N W Samuel. It promotes Ba Cure for Colds Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets and Burronx Home treatment for Women. It ends with a reflective line about life proofs.
Miss Muriel Armitage of Detroit testifies she suffered five years with uterine irregularities causing hysteria and weakness. After trying doctors she used Peruna for six months and fifteen bottles, claiming full recovery and urging others to try it for female ailments caused by catarrh.
An advertisement claims female weakness stems from pelvic catarrh and can be permanently cured by Peruna. It describes symptoms as exhaustion and nervousness and urges readers to seek Dr. Hartman’s free advice if results are not prompt and satisfactory.
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