B. Y. P. A. Program Promises Evening Interest
Oxford note: The B. Y. P. A. committee will hold a meeting tonight with a splendid program anticipated. Mrs. M. G. Christian and Mr. M. G. Christian plan a Florida trip soon. John Mingson heads to Birmingham on business. Mrs. Jones of Munford returns home after visiting Mrs. B. 8S. Russell. Spring Garden’s Fule Young visits relatives. Lillie Williams reports the season’s first large green strawberries nearly ripe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Jones of
Munford
Russell
Lillie Williams
Local residents and visitors noted in Oxford society items
MISS FLORIDA PIISON Mary Sims of Silver Run visits today. Mr. and Mrs. Gains Slaughter of Rockland are here with friends. Dr. Theodore Wilson returns to Jenifer after visiting relatives. Mrs. J. H. Yee improves after illness. Mrs. A. J. Adair returns from Jacksonville. Sam Cook and wife spent yesterday here. Mrs. Earle Roberts family staying at Lincoln. Oxford school honor roll for January 1909 lists eighth grade May Etta Disharoon Grace Williamson Alleta Walker Mattie Nora Wakefield Tom Blake Howle and ninth grade Mattie Williamson Nelle Allen Inez Robison Maylene Howle Fred Cooper. W. C. Warnock leaves for Florida. City council meets tonight. Alexan of Birmingham visits. Tom Prater returns from Piedmont. W. F. McCain returns from Eulaton. Cooper Whiteside of Birmingham visits parents. Mrs. L. M. Dodd of Atlanta visits W. T. Dodd. Miss Mattie Marlow returns from W M Rhodes home near town to Gadsden.
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Oxford School
May Etta Disharoon
Grace , Williamson
Alleta Walker
Mattie Nora Wakefield
Tom Blake Howle
Mattie Williamson
Nelle Allen
Inez Robison
Maylene Howle
Fred Cooper
Practical Joker Abandons Brougham In Manchester Stunt
A man passes a draper shop in Manchester and sees a closed brougham with a sleeping driver. He slips inside, slams the door, and the coachman looks away as the wag chats with someone inside. The carriage is driven away after the mischief, leaving questions for the coachman and the mistress.
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Manchester
Wag
Tech
Brougham
London
New York Nervous Energy Sparks City Hysterias
Special correspondence from New York paints a vivid portrait of a city in perpetual high alert. It laments urban nerves and hype while noting how stage, church, Broadway and Wall Street feed sensationalism and aid professional beggars, con men, and sensationalists amid a bustling holiday spectacle.
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New York
Brooklyn Bridge
Wall Street
Herald Square
Old Trinity Church
Broadway
Bedlam
Italy
Mark Twain
Ragelad
Remarkable Cross Breeding Hopes Stir Eastern Farms
A Worcester correspondent reports a truck farmer claims a marvel orange cucumber produced by cross fertilization. The piece imagines further cross breeding wonders from Massachusetts to rival Luther Burbank and hints at strawberry cabbages cherry-turnips currant-melong and walnut-pumpkins as possible mixes for eager experimenters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ananias Club
Worcester
Mass
Luther Burbank
Massachusetts
Hall's Catarrh Cure backed by oath of F J Cheney & Co
Frank J. Cheney sworn as senior partner of F J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio to pay one hundred dollars for any case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The firm advertises the medicine as internally taken and acting on blood and mucous surfaces. Notary A W Gleason witnessed the oath dated December 6 1886. Sold by all druggists 75 cents. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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State of Ohio
Toledo
Lucas County
Frank J. Cheney
F. J. Cheney & Co
Hall
A. D
A. W. Gleason
Tales of Humor and Mischief In A Quirky City Scene
A drunk quick witted man on a Brooklyn to Manhattan ride tells a grieving tale of Typhoid pneumonia death for six children, prompting sympathy and flowers before authorities reveal the fiction. A Harlem tenement yard eagle traps a hungry cat and boy tips the balance. the moral: fools and hogs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Long Island
Harlem
Capudine Promises Fast Headache Relief
Capudine liquid claims to cure sick headaches and nervous headaches for travelers and those with grip stomach or female troubles. It advertises immediate effects and is sold by druggists.
Angry customer accuses grocer over fresh eggs claim
A village visitor storms into the store demanding to see the proprietor He accuses the grocer Mr Peavey of selling his wife eggs described as fresh The man defends the fresh label saying Si Wiley promised fresh eggs and swapped for biscuits with a six week old exchange.
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Peavey
Si Wiley
Waal
Baltimore American
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Gwin’s
Thad M. Gwin & Co
Oxford
Ala
News of Oxford
M. G. Christian
Florida
John Mingson
Birmingham
Fule Young
Spring Garden
Conducted By
MISS
Piison
Mary Sims of
Silver Run
Mrs. Gains Slaughter of
Rockland
Theodore Wilson
Jenifer
J. H. Yee
A. J. Adair
Jacksonville
Sam Cook
W. C. Warnock
Mr. Alexan
Tom Prater
Piedmont
W. F. McCain
Eulaton
Cooper Whiteside
Mrs. L. M. Dodd of
Atlanta
W. T. Dodd
Mattie Marlow
W. M. Rhodes
Town
Gadsden
Haynes, Hingson & Cox
Sheetig
Sheeting
Haynes,hingson & Cox
Alabama
Philadelphia
Constantinople
Bronz Zoo
Adelaide Stringer
Eva H. Barker
Barker
Charles Bell Barker
Miss Stringer
Forbes
F. E. Forbes Piano CO
G. E. Warrick
Lill Noble St
Anniston, Ala
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