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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1908
Page
1
Gunda the elephant and Sitting Bull the buffalo staged a tense clash after hay theft near a wire fence. The elephant used her trunk to strike the buffalo, while keepers intervened with a hook to separate them, ending the standoff without fatalities.
Falls county farmers report peanut yields shortened by June drought but praise the crop as valuable feed for stock. Many hog producers feed on peanuts with vines and nuts baled together, noting high returns for land and labor and predicting peanuts may become a regular crop in sandy districts.
Dr. W. M. Brumby leads Texas at the International Tuberculosis Congress in Washington with about 100 physicians urging free public sanatoria for indigent consumptives, strict state controls on arrivals, and compulsory disease registration to curb the “white plague.” The plan aims to ease Texas burden from influx of consumptives and prevent spread while noting high local mortality from TB.
U S Marshal Brewster appoints three additional deputy mar shals for temporary duty along the Texas border from Laredo to the river mouth. The move follows investigations of unrest during Mexican fiestas and fears of cross border incidents. Appointees include J J Sparrow Duval county headquarter s Vann Hidalgo border Raf with Starr county. Regular deputies listed in Laredo City and other towns.
Dallas reports electric street lights drawing swarms of insects, boosting chicken fattening as fowls leave roosts at night to forage on streets alleys and yards for bugs. People crush many insects while chickens feed under glowing streets in cities nearby.
The War Department advised Austin’s adjutant general that to take part in encampments and maneuvers, guardsmen must enlist six months as of now or its equivalent. The policy aims to secure more permanent membership, ending last minute enrollments for rolic and fun.
In the 24 hours to 8 am Saturday Manila reported 23 new cholera cases and six deaths, with the epidemic receding. A great storm drenches the city and a coast typhoon rages. In the 24 hours to 8 am Monday 58 new cases and 19 deaths were recorded as infected areas spread. Gov Gen Smith called a Philippine Commission meeting to plan extending the campaign against the disease.
Charles B. Aldrich, noted University of Chattanooga athlete and politician’s nephew, files for divorce alleging Mona Ridgeway of Fallen by the Wayside attempted to strangle him during a disputed rehearsal in their Chattanooga apartment. A police intrusion interrupted the scene and Aldrich left for a hotel.
A gray rat enters the Great Northern hotel grillroom during an after theater gathering on Jackson Boulevard. It bumps waiter Charles Colgan, causing dishes to spill across a table of guests. Panicked diners flee the scene as the grillroom erupts into chaos and the rat escapes up the stairs with hotel staff in pursuit.
A horse owned by Jared Finlay of Great Notch New Jersey favored cockfights over meals. While the horse stood with a feed bag, a flock of roosters fought near him drawing his attention. Finlay learned the horse remains lively when allowed his preferred diversion, cockfighting.
A Milford man credits Dean's Kidney Pills with restoring kidney function after a severe injury left him nearly paralyzed. He says pain eased, cramps stopped, and he regained strength enough to walk without crutches in three months. The piece also notes weather and Dutch fisherwomen in Holland and Belgium.
A group circulated fake $20 bills Sunday night causing several purchases under $1 each as a man, described as a negro, handed the clerks counterfeit notes claiming no smaller change. Banks Monday refused nearly $1,000 in $20 bills.
Theodore Gibson of North Galveston and Fort Worth, once in Madill Oklahoma gin business, receives a Meeker Oklahoma letter offering restitution for selling him rocks by weight four years ago. The writer asks forgiveness, noting the rocks weighed about twenty pounds.
Austin, Texas, commissioner Love stated in a letter to an insurer that no certificate of authority can be granted to any company between October 1 and December 31 under Texas law. The action confirms a non granting period affecting companies seeking admission to operate in the state.
A powder magazine used by a wholesale powder company and Samples Mining company in McAlester Oklahoma was struck by lightning shortly after 5 PM. The explosion killed miner Arthur Richards and seriously injured eight others. Richards was decapitated.
In Le Mans the American aeronaut Wilbur Wright, before a large crowd and French Aero Club officials, beat his brother Orville Wright with a 1 hour 31 minute 51 second flight covering 98 kilometers. Attendees included the American ambassador Mr. White Gen Regaine Hayter and numerous officers and aeroplane experts.
Padre Island Development Company sells all holdings on Padre Island near the Rio Grande to Tarpon Beach Company of Texas for 100 000 dollars. Tarpon Beach, a year round pleasure resort three miles from the mainland, will build a new hotel and improve the area backed by northern capitalists.
Gainesville Texas notes a big Cooke County Fair day with schools dismissed at noon for Children's Day. The afternoon program centers on races as the featured events drawing public attendance and community participation.
Little Rock prosecuting attorney R E Jeffrey of Batesville filed suit in Independence Circuit Court against the Waters Pierce Oil Company of St Louis alleging violation of the Arkansas anti trust law. Damages claimed range from 186000 minimum to 4600000 maximum.
W A Bonnett of Eagle Pass had a bankruptcy hearing in Del Rio on Monday. Creditors did not appear and the commissioner granted the petition. Liabilities were about 150000 dollars, assets include 375 shares Woods bank stock and a home valued at 31060.
City detective John Womack travels to Tucson Arizona to care for his 14 year old son stricken with typhoid fever.
Buenos Ayres reports two American capitalists are near purchasing two key refrigerating plants. The move is described as the initial step by Americans to gain control of Argentina’s meat market.
Mr. Sam McDonald of Coleman Texas visited Madisonville this week and secured ten white boys and the promise of several Negro workers to harvest cotton.
Nacogdoches Texas forecasts 15 000 bales of cotton for the season the largest in years and three times 1907 receipts as the city anticipates bumper cotton traffic.
Fort Worth, Texas. Prof. H. H. Harrington, former A and M College president, now state experiment stations director, says he will ask the legislature to fund at least seven additional stations. He favors a livestock experiment station to be located in Fort Worth near the stockyards.
A fragment urges acceptance of events as they unfold and calls for careful observation. It hints at fate guiding outcomes and the need to watch closely for signs or consequences.
W H Dean of Newark Delaware describes seven years of eczema on his hands. He states that none of many remedies helped as much as Cuticura Soap and Ointment. After two boxes of Ointment and one cake of Soap his hands were perfectly cured. March 28 1907.
A collector argues doctors are easy to pressure for cash since their reception rooms are open to many potential patients. He claims collectors can glean payment terms from early patients and that doctors struggle to claim they have no funds after being pressured by witnesses who paid spot cash for treatment.
The article notes no national census exists in China but cites the Almanach de Gotha 1900 estimate of about 400 million people. It adds that roughly one in four humans on earth would be Chinese if lined up, reflecting vast population.
A Feingold era letter describes a Me girl starving from indigestion after overwork and irregular meals. She credits Grape-Nuts for restoring appetite and health, noting it became a principal part of her diet and that she can now eat freely.
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