Oxford Gossip and Local Notices Brighten Feb Day
Rex Parfield of Barfield visits Oxford as Anderson Key, farmer, among morning business. Mrs Graben and children to Delta if weather clears. Cotton weighed 250 more bales than last year to date. Movements on military company in Sylacauga premature. Odd Fellows meet tonight with a banquet planned next Thursday. Mrs Nancy McKibbon not well. Mrs Will Gwin leaves for Talladega. Local weather prophesies snow in 24 hours. Y M C A state secretary Merriman aims to organize here. A seine party plans Coldwater outing this afternoon.
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Oxford
Teporta
Oxford Lodge of Odd Fellows
Regeular
The World’s First Story Ghost Tale Assertion
A fragmentary quote claims the earliest story ever told was a ghost tale. The note attributes the idea to London Valucranh, presenting a provocative view on literature’s origins.
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London
Valucranh
In Memoriam Hartwell Lodge Pays Tribute to Lucius L. Allen
Hartwell Lodge No. 101 records the death of Lucius L. Allen at Prof. G. W. Bonner’s residence in Oxford Alabama on February 2 1907. Born 1831 in Lawrenceville Georgia he moved to DeArmanville Alabama as a child and became a devout Methodist founder member of the Oxford church. A former Confederate Cavalry veteran he is praised as a public spirited loyal and charitable man whose life reflected true manhood and noble conduct. The lodge notes his valued membership and mourns the loss to the country and its citizens.
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Cius L. Allen
Lucius J. Allen
G. W. Bonner
Oxford
Ala
Hartwell Lodge No. 101
Brother Allen
Lawrenceville
Alabama
DeArmanville
Major Hudson Allen
Alabama and Tennessee Rivers Railroad
Southern
Selma
Dalton
Major Allen
Methodist Church
Oxford Methodist Church
Tie
Fifty-first Regiment
Alabama Volunteers
John T. Morgan
Funeral Lodge Resolutions Honor Devoted Member
The lodge expresses sincere sympathy to the bereaved family of a devoted husband and father. Resolutions vow mourning badges for 30 days and record the note in the lodge book. A publication copy is requested, with one given to the family. J. C. Wright, W. Pace, R. T. Pinson. Oxford, Ala. Feb 2, 1907.
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J. C
Wright
The Best Physic Stomach and Liver Tablets Ad
When you want a physic that is mild and gentle easy to take and pleasant in effect take Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets Price 25 cents Every box warranted Get a free sample at J L Wikles drug store and try them.
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Chamberlain
J. L. Wikle
California Fig Syrup Company
Senna
California Fig Syrup Co
California
United States
Secretary of Agriculture
Washington, D. C
Whose Was It In A Denver Church Sunday
In a Denver church a bright half dollar lay in the aisle. A woman nearby whispered to a neighbor who claimed she dropped it first. A man with the collection box retrieved the money and handed it to another woman who said she had dropped it. The two neighbors have not spoken since.
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Denver
Land Crabs of the West Indies Migration
A West Indies land crab migrates yearly from inland areas to the seashore to spawn. Crabs wash off their spawn at the shore, hatch under sand, and millions of young crab offspring move uphill in orderly battalions. The procession travels with army-like precision, avoids detours, and continues night travel, adjusting to rain by day.
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West Indies
Romance of a Necklace in Emeralds Worth Fortunes
A Dublin auction of a deceased Frenchwoman’s effects included a dirty looking necklace. Two dealers pooled £5 and sold to a jeweler for £1,500 who refused the offer, and the piece later brought £7,000 in London. Lord Rosebery bought it at his marriage for around £20,000. the emeralds were once crown jewels.
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London
Lord Rosebery
France
The Ghost of Trichinopoly Haunts Tennur Road Nights
The Ghost of Trichinopoly appears nightly from 11 to 2 along Tennur road. A beautiful former temple dancer rises from the river dripping wet with silk tresses and carries a brass lotah. Those who approach her die after she points a finger. The tale recalls temple disapproval and a tragic crowd disturbance that drowned a dancer.
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Trichinopoly
Tennur
Madras
India
Formation of Natural Bridges Myth Reconsidered
The North Adams bridge may form by limestone solution along a joint plane diverting a brook rather than cavern roof collapse. Cleland notes this mechanism could explain many natural bridges in marble, limestone, sandstone and lava, with Walcott’s Virginia bridge as a related case.
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Virginia
North Adams
Cleland
Hudson Brook
Walcott
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
When the Spider Goes Courting
A naturalist recounts spider courtship, noting males perform bold, circling dances and flex their bodies while the female, stronger, may accept or kill the suitor. The piece contrasts human romance with the spider’s fearless, even theatrical, mating display amid danger.
Aberdeen Dialect Joke Reveals Death by Bed
An Aberdeen university exam winds through dialect differences as English clergy and a lowland Scot test students. When asked how Pharaoh died, a mispronounced query leads to a humorous misunderstanding about dying in bed, the class answering together that he “was drowned” in the dialect sense.
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Secotland
Aberdeen University
Egypt
Moses
Phawrach Dee
Phawraoh
Dee
Pharaoh
The French Idea and Race Decline Comment
A Paris Siecle editorial argues the middle class Frenchman sacrifices all for official status, leading after decades of penury to near-destitution, and contrasts this with Latin races lacking initiative, while Anglo-Saxon peoples prosper.
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Paris
Bow and Arrow fishing in distant south seas
In island groups of the Indian Ocean aborigines shoot fish with bow and arrow. The sport is very difficult as the archer must account for underwater refraction to hit a submerged target. Long practice has made these natives expert to a wonderful degree.
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South Seas
Indian Ocean
London Saturday Review
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