Oxford Social Notes and Plans Highlight Local Happenings
Oxford residents mingle with visitors from Lineville Atlanta and Fort Valley while planning social events. The Manus Bagley family announces Lena Bagley’s wedding to Charles Henry Howle at the Christian church August 28. Cleaning up Day on August 7 urges citizens to pile and burn rubbish ahead of townwide removal on August 8.
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Thomas
Bagley
Lena
Charles Henry Howle
Christian Church
Thonth to Fort Valley and Indianopolis and More
Thonth departs Saturday for Fort Valley Georgia then to Indianapolis Mr Gray has many warm friends in this city who wish him abundant success in all undertakings Self Culture Club held a pleasant Mid summer meeting at the home of its president Mrs Will H Cooper where the year 1906 1907 study time was set and minor matters attended to Oxford Lodge I O O F will meet tonight for routine business The stork visited the home of Mr and Mrs Frank Gravey on Ross avenue this morning bringing a baby boy
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Thonth
Fort Valley
Apolis
Gray
Self Culture Club
Will H. Cooper
Coal and Wood Supplier R O Watson Promotes Phone Setup
R O Watson advertises coal and wood supplies with a contact phone 72, promising reliable service and home deliveries for heating needs.
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R. O. Watson
Coal and Wood
Nature's Word Symbols and the Limits of Language
An essay from Christian Work ponders how nature's colors scents and silences defy translation into human words. It contrasts the vast sapphire hues of sea and sky with the blunt term blue and likens forest stillness to a living, multilingual silence.
Dr King’s New Life Pills Promote Health Cure Claims
The ad proclaims the Yellow Fever germ has been discovered and resembles malaria. It touts Dr King’s New Life Pills as the best remedy to purge the system of disease germs caused by malaria poison and constipation. Priced 25 cents at Elam Otway Houser and West End Drug Co.
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Dr. King
Elam
Otway & Houser’s
West End Drug Co
Pointed Paragraphs From Chicago News Satire
A compact set of wry maxims contrasts ambition and restraint. Observations note the pull of success, domestic economics, and social mobility with blunt humor, hinting at urban folly and the unpredictability of risk in life and investment.
Why the printer's devil is named so in old printing culture
The term printer's devil stems from seventeenth century printers who peered at boy helpers as devils or spirits due to dirty work and mischievous behavior. A fifteenth century tale about Aldo Manuzio claims he exposed a black slave boy as the printer's devil, inviting observers to prove he was flesh and blood.
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Moxen
Aldo Manuzio
Frightfully Burned Machinist Recovers With Arnica Salve
Chas W Moore a machinist from Ford City Pa burned his hand in an electrical furnace. He used Bucklens Arnica Salve and quickly healed. The ad claims it is the greatest healer for burns wounds sores eczema and piles sold at West End Drug Co Elam Ordway Houser.
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Chas. W. Moore
Ford City
West End Drug Co
Elam, Ordway & Houser’s
Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery Promoted
Advertisement extols Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a safe glycerine based medicine made from native roots. It claims it treats indigestion catarrh and chronic coughs while warning it won’t cure advanced consumption and recommending Sage’s Catarrh Remedy as adjunct therapy.
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Dr. Pierce
Nature
Pierce
Sage
State Normal School opens Sept 18 1906 with free tuition
State Normal School invites applicants to a session beginning September 18 1906. Enrolment last session totaled 524 in all classes with 332 in the Normal School divisions from 55 Alabama counties. 300 boarders, 185 teachers, strong professional courses and a manual training department. Board costs ten dollars monthly plus expenses 75 to 125 dollars per session. For catalogue address.
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the Normal School
Alabama
Announcements for Congress by Wm B. Craig Dallas
Friends of Hon William B Craig of Dallas county announce him as a candidate for Congress from the Fourth District subject to the Democratic primary action.
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Friends of
Wm. B. Craig
Dallas County
Fourth
Model Ice Co Winter Coal Supply Ad
Lay in your winter’s coal supply. Model Ice Co. offers steady delivery and heating fuel ready for cold weather. Phone 59.
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Model Ice Co
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R. G. Fuller
Lineville
Birmingham
Band Mountain
Oxford Friends
MM. L. Dillard
Atlanta
Lynwood Gray
Hon. W. ©. Gray
Tor
Meadames M. FE
Hudson
George
Brannon
Missisippi
Texas
Farmer’s Union
Nic
Coldwater
John D. Staples
Heflin
Fermor Staples
Misses Haynes
College Hill
Miss Goodhue
Gadsden
Mins Gray
Fort Valley, Ga
Wallace Bullard
Rome
Anniston
Winnie Roberts
Dalton
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Columbi
Ana
Thomas S. Bagley
Howie
D. P. Haynes
Citien
KE. A. Walker & CO
the People’s Friend
Oxford Lodge
Stork
Mrs
Frank Gravey
Ross
Bradfield Regulator Co
Nature’s
Chicago News
Watson
State Normal School
Jacksonville, Ala
Congress
W. H. McKleroy
Wm. A. Davis
C. D. Woodruff
Randolph Smith
Anniston National Bank
United States
Southwest
Cotton Belt
L. P. Smithh
Equitable
Robinson’s Book Store
Noble Street
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