Local Church Plans Early Play By Oxford Ladies
The Methodist church women in Oxford plan a forthcoming play featuring the town's best local talent. J. C. Davin has just returned from a week long business trip to South Alabama. Various residents including Mrs. Tom Jackson and her daughter travel to Talladega on route to Ensley for a home visit.
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Oxford
J. C. Davin
South
Alabama
Tom Jackson
Little Daughter
Talladega
Ensley
Oxford Phone Social Roundup and Visits
Oxford friends Jodin Gurt and JC Paughender spent yesterday with a companion. WW Barry visited Lincoln. Mrs G W Bonner and children of DeArmanville with Mrs Lillie Draper plan to return tomorrow. Mive Trixie Humphries returns from Atlanta. ManZan Pile Remedy offers immediate relief. 60e, sold by J L Wikle.
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G. W. Bonner
DeArmanville
Lillie Draper
J. L. Wikle
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad Promises Cure for Catarrh
In Toledo Ohio 1886 an oath states Hall's Catarrh Cure will pay one hundred dollars for each case not cured. Frank J Cheney and Co advertise the remedy taken internally with direct action on blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials sent free and sold by druggists for 75 cents. Also mentions Hall's Family Pills for constipation and coal prices with delivery by phone.
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State of Ohio
Toledo
Lucas County
Frank J. Cheney
FP. J. Cheney & Co
Hall
A. W. Gleason
F. J. Cheney & CO
Telephone No 72 for high grade coal
R. O. Watson advertises high grade coal with telephone number 72 for inquiries. The brief notice emphasizes prompt service and reliable supply for local customers seeking quality fuel.
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R. O. Watson
The Fare and the Black Maria van wit
A prison van driver nicknamed Black Maria gains a grim retort from a would be passenger on the causeway asking for fare. The driver replies there is room for one and the wit asks for fare. He is told bread and water as you had before.
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Black Maria
Robert
Great Circus Compared With Rome’s Colosseum
The article extols the great circus’s vast size noting Rome’s Colosseum seated about 80 000. It claims the great circus in various periods held 150 000 260 000 and finally 880 000 spectators making it possibly the most stupendous public spectacles building.
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Rome
Palatine
Aventine Hills
New York
Americas
Wasn't a Beauty. Tired Traveler to Barber
A humorous exchange about beauty and a sleeping car night ends with a barber remark. A bride laments her husband's writing talent while the barber quips he already has a drawer full of love letters at home reflecting a lighthearted domestic joke.
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Harper's Bazar
Manchester Guardian
Coal for sale by R. Watson
Coal of all grades advertised for sale by R. Watson with phone contact 72.
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R. Watson
The Women of Sweden and Their Education
The article notes rapid changes in Swedish women education since 1870 with universities opening to women and women pursuing medicine though costly fees and long study. It highlights Gynecologist Karolina Widerström, rising suffrage activity, six bills in Parliament, and many suffrage societies led by dedicated women including traveling teachers.
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Sweden
Upsala
Lund
Lady Preceptors
Karolina Widerstrom
England
National Association For Women's Suffrage
Stockholm
One Night Convert in Father Mathews London Crusade
In 1843 Father Mathew sought to convert Lord Brougham during his temperance campaign in London. After playful resistance, Mathew awarded a silver medal and ribbon, and vowed to keep the gift. Brougham pledged to remain sober for the night amid amused peers.
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Father Mathew
London
Lord Brougham
Katharine Tynan
Brougham
Order of the Bath
Lord
Oath of Silence Observed by Western Australia Widows
Paris Revue Medicale notes that in select Western Australia districts widows and sometimes mothers and mothers in law swear an oath to remain silent after a husband’s death. The vow can last up to two years, with many cases extending to relatives.
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Western Australia
Paris
Revue Medicale
Poets Debate Birth and Craft in Rural Wit
The Louisville Courier Journal quotes a rural philosopher arguing poets are not born targets and that fathers harshly influence their children, framing a skeptical view of natural talent versus upbringing. The exchange satirizes literary pretensions with rustic bluntness.
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Louisville Courier Journal
Notable Visitors Stop in Anniston Citizens from Several Cities
County Commissioner M. C. Coker and A. M. Cook of Villa Rica Jr visiting Anniston today. J Lassater of Wilton and R B Burns of Lincoln were in the city yesterday. Philip H Avery of Montgomery and R A Mitchell of Gadsden arrived for business. Walter Dean of Jacksonville, H L Davis of Chattanooga, S H Bryan and W E Oslin of Atlanta. J D Goldsmith, Charles P Mercer and R C Bradley from Birmingham. W J and Robert A McCurdry of Tallapoosa stopping at the New Wilmer.
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A. M. Cook
Villa Rica, Gag., Jr
Anniston
W. J. and
Robert A. McCurdry
Tallapoosa, Ga
City
Wilmer
Dragging Etowah River for Cockrell Body
In Rome Georgia on January 28 the Etowah river is being dragged for the body of J C Cockrell an insurance solicitor for State Mutual Life of Rome. His coat was found on the river bank two miles above the city and two women reported seeing him in the water. Cockrell came with his wife and five children from Birmingham about two months ago. He was brought to a hospital on Tuesday delirious then escaped at noon and vanished.
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Rome
Etowah
J. C. Cockrell
State Mutual Life of
Cockrell
Birmingham
Painting the Town Red in Dante and Francesca
A London News correspondent traces the phrase to Dante's Inferno. In the cavernous pit of the lustful punished souls, Francesca and Paolo arise and claim to be those who painted the world red with their sins.
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Dante
Virgil
Francesca
Paolo
London News
Mi O Na tablets claim rapid relief for indigestion
The ad promotes Mi O Na as a universal cure for stomach ailments and dyspepsia. It asserts improved digestion, less fermentation and belching, and even benefits for thin people, sea sickness, and pregnancy vomiting. Elam Ordway and Houser sell a large box for 50 cents with a money back guarantee.
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Elam, Ordway and
Houser
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News of Oxford
Judge Stewart of
Wedover
J. M. Stewart
Lyman Clark
Robert Singleton
W. L. Gannoway
Silver Run
B. A. Cooper of
Wakefield
W. P. Calloway
Atlanta
OC. R. Pitner
Rome, Ga
Conducted By
Miss Florida
Jodin Gurt
J.C. Paughender
Barry
Lincoln
Mive Trixie Humphries
Pearson
the Great Circus
Bush & Gerts
United States
E. E. Forbes Piano Co
Ld Noble St
G. E. Warrick
the Women OF Sweden
The
Poets
M. C. Coker
J. Lassater
Wilton
R. B. Burns of
Philip H. Avery
Montgomery
R. A. Mitchell
Gadsden
Walter Dean
Jacksonville
H. L. Davis of
Chattanooga
S. H. Bryan and
W. E. Oslin
J. D. Goldsmith
Charles P. Mercer
R. C. Bradley
Elam, Ordway & Houser
Pee
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