Annual election of self culture club held this afternoon
The self culture club holds its annual election this afternoon with Mrs Joseph B Aderhold as hostess in the final meeting before disbanding for the heated term. Rev T M Meyers discusses There Any Hell at Christian church tonight in his direct style. Chief Knighton takes a week vacation to fish and hunt. Patrolman Story and Night Watchman Thomas keep the peace. Oxford baseball travels to Talladega for a game with Yeatman Wilson Haynes Adair Danston Wilson Miller Wil
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Self Culture Club
Mra
Joseph B. Aderhold
T. M.meyera
The
Christian Church
W. P. Knighton
J.P. Story
John Thomas
Little City
Oxford
Talladega
Yeatman
E. Wilson
D. Haynes
O. Wilson
John Danston
K. Wilson
W. Adair
Hudson Miller
L. Wil
Oxford Event Notes and Local Socials Tonight
Oxford Odd Willows lodge meets tonight for routine business. The B PAL hosts a Friday night event at Mel Barton on Main Street from 7 to 11 with 25 cent admission. Program includes piano solo by Annie Howls and other performances by local residents. D Smythe plans to move to Jonesboro Tennessee for a new job and will be missed by Oxford residents. Mrs. W T Arnold of Sonoia Georgia visits Carlton Urquhart and wife next week.
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Oxford
Noble Street Theater
Ross Jones
A. F. Bullard
Felton Jones
Odd Willows Lodge
Mel
T H
Barton
Main Street
Annie Howls
Clara Wright
Warnce Ballard
Met Ae Thynes
Lillian Stewart
Ruth Miller
Mattie Wakefield
Gus Miller
Sallie Mae Eichelberger
Lila Roberts
Messrs
Wallace Ballard
Macy Bullard
William Orr
W. T. Arnold
Sonoia
Carlton Urquhart
New Life Pills Sold At Local Drug Stores
A promotional note claims that a dangerous deadlock of liver and bowel functions can be ended quickly without discomfort. It advertises Dr King’s New Life Pills as a guaranteed remedy with money back satisfaction at Elam Ordway Howser’s and Scarbrough Drag Co drug stores.
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Dr. King
Elam
Ordway & Howser’s
Scarbrough Drag Co
Washing hands saved his life in Paris Commune tale
An unnamed Englishman recounts escaping execution during the Paris Commune with Archibald Forbes. They were ordered to stand with severed hands dirty, but Forbes and the narrator were allowed to leave after washing. The gruesome scene followed, as others were shot.
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Frederic Villiers
Paris
Archibald Forbes
Versailles
Forbes
Smoking speaks with a beggar aunt in Scrap Book
A preacher questions Aunt Chloe about Christian beliefs as she smokes a pipe. She insists on her faith while denying unclean breath as a barrier to heaven. Poems reflect on death and faith with Abdullah and Edwin Arnold lines. A New York policeman answers a Brooklyn-bound woman’s travel query.
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Chloe
Bruider
Kingdom of Heaven
Twenty-third Street
New York City
Brooklyn
Ladies’ Home Journal
Rude Gossip and Light Buncombe Across Social Lines
A clipped excerpt from a 19th century miscellany features sharp witty exchanges on manners and politics. It recounts a Boston woman joking about rude questions from an Oklahoma man, a socialists joke about sharing possessions, and a boy mishearing top berth as top drawer, with further playful anecdotes about Sherman and a Washington attaché's courtship.
Ball night mischief and a box of confusion
A young man sends a note and flowers to a girl at a ball. The valet delivers the box containing underwear instead of the intended gift, leading to a misread note about wearing items for the sender. The girl avoids him for the evening while the young man learns the truth at home. A humorous aside has a child reject marriage in favor of family care.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
Miner Makes Rich Strike in Cripple Creek Mine
Tully Scott of Cripple Creek boasted a vein of Unexampled richness with gold at 25 per pound or 50 000 per ton at a congratulatory dinner. A drinking warning tale about a miner turned drunkard ends with a sobering vow to quit candles.
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Tully Scott
Cripple Creek
Horace
Antiquated Tales and Election Zingers From London
A jumble of quips and anecdotes from London News includes a blunt electoral quip about truth and yes or no, a mischievous tale of Alice Russell and a divine rebuke, and Sheridan urging gentlemen to drink like men not beasts at a gathering.
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London News
Sol Sith Russell
Alice
Pitty
Scott
Alice Russell
Sheridan
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