Local shoppers visit as dry goods sale ends
Mrs. W. C. Mangham improves after illness as Sam Morgan arrives from White Plains. Mrs. Earle Roberts and children expected home from Lincoln while Beulah Humphries trips to Birmingham. Emmie Draper returns from Atlanta and J. T. Pinson spends day in Talladega on business. Cincinnati Bargain store moves to Anniston. Miss Belle Andrews resumes teaching. Thrash of Hicks and Miss Melda Haynes take posts in public schools. Shep Sheppard from Baltimore departs for Birmingham. Miss Alice Chitwood visits en route to Spring Garden.
Local notices from Oxford and Toledo areas summarize various meetings
Oxford reports election of officers for Methodist ladies aid and B Y P U treasurer. city council names night watchman John Shuford. Epworth League free will offering planned. Presbyterians and other groups noted. Toledo advertises Hall’s Catarrh Cure and P J Cheney Co testimonials with usual patent medicine claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank J. Cheney
FP. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Hall
A. W. Gleason
P. J. Cheney & CO
The Oldest Black Edged Mourning Paper Traces
The text notes the Jan 5 1683 dated letter on black edged mourning paper and traces its style through references in Addison 1715 and Ram ey 1758. It explains Florence’s influence and the spread to England, clarifying it was not solely Italian in origin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Addison
Allan Ramey
Mann
Italy
Horace Walpole
Florence
Irish youth finds patience and luck in love
Beumas MacManus shares a tale where an Irish boy marries after securing a house and fortune, while a girl weighs wisdom and youth. The mother counsels delay, but Laurence O Mahony promises to mend Mary’s fault with patience and wins her, aided by luck as a guardian angel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary
Laurence O'Mahony
Laurence
Beumas MacManus
Lippincott
Two Valuable Volumes Sold To Huntington
Henry Miller sold Collis P Huntington two volumes for 700 dollars after a sales pitch claiming their rarity. Huntington denied purchasing them, but Miller recalled his remark that “those are two valuable volumes for my library,” then delivered the books to Huntington’s house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Miller
New York
Collis P. Huntington
Mr. Miler
Mr. Miller
Readers urged to keep almanac dictionary and atlas handy
Editors note readers often ask questions best answered by an almanac a dictionary or an atlas. These reference books belong in every home library dusty shelves aside. Frequent consultation links daily news to history and current events, enriching understanding. Get the habit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Mail
A Sporting Parson and the Devonshire Hunt
A correspondent recalls Rev. Jack Russell the west country sporting parson who faced bishop of Exeter charges for neglecting duties and for following a pack of hounds. Proven unfounded he hunted until near his death in 1883 at eighty eight. He supported Devonshire wrestlers and cider and cream. In the pulpit he aimed to reform conduct rather than expound doctrine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Russell
Bishop of
Exeter
Russell
Devonshire
Throw Em Down Babies and Sleeping Sickness Discussed
A parent muses on babies throwing objects and the joy of watching others retrieve them. The piece then reviews a Popular Mechanics article on tropical Africa's sleeping sickness caused by the tsetse fly, detailing transmission, progression, and final coma and death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Africa
Popular Mechanics
Railway timetable fragment shows multiple north south east west trains
A dated timetable lists Northbound connections for Rome and Chattameegs with No 21 and No 16 locals, Southbound trains to Talladega Selma and Mew Oxteane, Westbound night expresses to Birmingham Greenville and Atlanta, Eastbound to Atlanta and Calera, with Worthbound locals to Gadedee Birmingham and Calera.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Talladega
Selma
Childersburg
Birmingham
Greenville
B’ham
Leeal
Gadedee
Calera
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Haynes, Hingson & Cox
Haynes,hingson & Cox
Oxford
Alabama
Sam Morgan
White Plains
Mra. Earle
Roberts
Lincoln
Beulah Humphries
Emmie Draper
Atlanta
J. T. Pinson
G. &. Jones
C. J. Payne
Fishhead
Cincinnati
Anniston
Belle Andrews
Mr. Thrash
Hicks
Melda Haynes
Department of Elocution
Shep Sheppard
Baltimore
Alice Chitwood
DeArmonnanvillé
Spring Garden
News of Oxford
Methodist Ladies’ Aid
John Alexander
Robert Singleton
Willie Gunnels
Frank Reynolds
Henry Yeo
J. F Smith
Florida
John Shuford
Hugh Singleton
Will Leslie
Miss Florida
Piison
State of
Ohio
City of
Lucas
Gowan Roberts
Munford
The
Presbyterian Ladies’ Aid
Annie Orr
Mra
James Cunningham
Rosa Wilson
W. O. Harris
T. BE. Davison
Wilton
John Stewart
Epworth League
Methodist Parsonage
Gwin’s
Thad M. Gwin
Ireland
Books of Reference
Forbes
E. E. Forbes
G. E. Warrick
Anniston, Ala
Union
Southern
Atlante
Essoun
Night Express
the Mast
Intermedia
Giafle
Lar Hett
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