Oxford lake events bring crowds and church activities
The Glen Addie Baptist church and Sunday school held a picnic at Oxford lake with large attendance this morning and more this afternoon. Rev Solley will baptize eight candidates at Oxford lake this evening. Teddy Bears perform at Oxford lake park theater both afternoon and night.
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Oxford Lake Park Theater
Oxanna Baptist Church
Mr. Wood
Texas
Oxanna Church
Oxanna lodge to hold semi annual officer election
Oxanna lodge K of P meets this evening for the semi annual election of officers. Sydney J. Bowie passed through the city this morning en route to Washington D C. He was greeted by friends at Union station. Mrs R P Thomason left Sunday for Oswego N Y to reach her grandmother Mrs McConnell who is seriously ill Capt s Thomason received word Sunday of Mrs McConnells death.
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Washington, D. C
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Oswego
N. Y
Snowshoe Rabbit: Nature's Snow Adaptation Feature
In KEverybody's Magazine, the snowy hare is described as the snowshoe hare born from a snow drift and a brown hare. The article compares moose stilts to snowshoe movement and explains seasonal color change from brown to white as mid-October to mid-April. It portrays the hare as a practical, scientific adaptation for surviving snow and cold.
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Tiawatha
Lelow
Keverybody
Remarkable cure by Electric Bitters for multiple ailments
Abraham Brown of Winterton New York says doctors misdiagnosed him as heart disease kidney trouble blood poison and stomach liver complaints. His wife advised Electric Bitters and he recovered after one bottle, advertised as a cure for blood poison weakness and stomach liver kidney issues by Elam Ordway Houser and Se through Drug Co at 50 cents.
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Abraham Brown
Winterton
N. Y
Elam
Ordway & Houser
Drug Co
Scriptural Bull in Isaiah Describes Assyrian Camp Demise
A passage from Isaiah chapter thirty seven recounts the angel of the Lord striking and killing one hundred four score and five thousand Assyrian troops, leaving the camp at dawn as dead corpses. The text presents a vivid miracle scene amid biblical conflict.
The Most Fatigable Nerves In The Body
Nerves of smell fatigue quickly even to tiny perfume traces while heat and cold nerves tire fast. Hearing and sight endure long work. The heart nerves are tireless from birth to death and can even resume beating after death with salted water.
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Pearson's Weekly
Plain Facts Drive a Story to a Happy Ending
A Washington author revises a manuscript at a magazine editor’s request to strip atmosphere and keep to simple facts. Jonas loves Eliza, goes to Wall Street, makes a fortune, bankrupts his father, but later saves Eliza from a mill pond and marries after Papa relents and borrows money from Jonas.
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Jonas
Eliza
Papa
Wall Street
Washington Post
Quotation Playful Swap On Friendship Sayings
In Illustrated Bits a quip twists familiar lines about helping friends. A line reads a friend in deed and another mocks a friend in need keeping a man broke. The item presents a humorous contrast between common proverbs.
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Askitt
Noitt
Manly Meanderings and Witty Exchange at The Ball Game
A humorous column riffs on baseball fans and sayings. The first Rooter notes a third strike while the second mocks hitters for chasing high balls. The Lover jokes that love levels all, and The Bachelor quips about love’s exceptions. Jinks and Biinks riff on fasting and poetry.
Inside the Submarine Hood and Hull Mechanics
A Metropolitan Magazine piece explains submarine operation revealing how flooding via fanocets sinks the vessel, the crew of twelve essential for navigation, the hooded craft severed from the world, and the dual vertical and horizontal governors controlling dive and ascent, with depth limits and pressure resistance noted.
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Metropolitan Magazine
Proper Breathing and Breath Control for Singers
The article argues that natural voice alone does not ensure singing skill. It stresses mastering breathing methods, attack, and registers, plus chest expression, to produce tone. It warns that breath control is more essential than a beautiful voice and cites Nellie Melba in Century.
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Nellie Melba
Ptah-Hotep Manuscript Described as Ancient Egyptian Moral Guide
The oldest known writing dates to Ptah-Hotep, an Egyptian royal, living about 3566 years before Christ. His manuscript, written on papyrus, addresses moral, political, and religious themes and is housed in Paris's Bibliotheque Nationale.
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Ptah-Hotep
Christ
Bibiiotheque Nationale
Paris
Pioneers in Ice and Tea Trade
An American, Dr. John Gorrie of Apalachicola, Fla., innovated artificial ice making enabling modern ice storage. Another American, Frederic Tudor of Boston, organized the natural tea exchange and helped establish a global tea trade.
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John Gorrie
Apalachicola
Mla
Amerte da Frederic Tudor
Toston
Fragmentary Sports Timings Then Notes Missing
OCR readout shows scattered times and numbers 252 4 27 3 658 p 6 27 p m 6 45 4 07 1 a with unclear context or events. No identifiable names or teams present.
The Coney of the Bible in Cape Colony and Syria
A compact note describes the daasje or dassie or coney a small gray rock-dwelling mammal found in Cape Colony South Africa and Syria. It notes biblical references to conies in Psalms and Proverbs and adds that the South African dassie is a sunny pet when tamed, as recounted by Amy Sutherland in St Nicholas.
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Cape Colony
South Africa
Syria
Amy Sutherland
St. Nicholas
The Decorator’s Narrow School of Design Obsession
The piece criticizes decorators who fixate on a single design school. It notes that such mono-mania leads to a rigid taste for Interior Decoration and arts and crafts, and labels the practitioner as a rigid zealot, dogmatically aligning with French, German, Flemish, English, or Elizabethan styles.
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Hea
Ile
Tle
Courageous youths praise beauty in a prom note
A line from the St Louis Globe Democrat describes how a young man shows courage by complimenting another girl's appearance. The brief item reflects social courtship norms and the era's attitudes toward romance.
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St. Louis Globe- Democrat
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