Oxford News Briefs Lights and Staff in Oxford
Worth Whiteside and family will occupy the J N Swift house on Church street until September 1. Miss Nora Gannoway stays with Judge Yeatman’s family. Warnock McClellan joins Oxford Drug Co. Mrs Songer’s condition worsens. Visitors from Modtevallo stay with Lula Warnock in Anniston. Dry goods stores close at 6 and shoppers are urged to come earlier. Minstrel show program to be published in tomorrow’s Star.
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Worth Whiteside and
Church Street
J. N. Swift
Joe Hi. Privett
Choccolocco Street
Mra
Robert McKibbon
Ming Elna McClellan
Modtevallo
Oxford
Lula Warnock
Anniston
The
Star
Oxford Notes Highlight Local Moves and Crop Hope
Oxford residents report Tom Langford of Atlanta visiting with Willian Oscar Harris, and Mrs. Alice F. Clark returning from Tennessee after a family illness. N. Swift ships a carload of goods to Attalla and plans to move there soon. Dubious weather aside, a local farmer claims a May 18 planting yielded four bales per two acres, the best crop seen.
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Oxford
May
Tom Langford
Atlanta
Willian Oscar Harris
Investment Prospect in 14 Acre Oxford Property
For sale a 14 acre tract known as South Highlands in Oxford offers a block of residential lots and a stone quarry on site. Investors have a strong opportunity to acquire land with diverse uses and potential income.
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Southern Depot
South Highlands
Oxford
Parasol Sale Promises Value and Variety at Low Prices
The store touts a dollar for dollar policy and highlights white hand embroidered washable parasols at 1.50, enameled handle parasols at 3.50, and silk parasols with plate borders not to miss, plus other styles at all prices.
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GWIN
Only One Student in Carnegie Bricklaying School
Pittsburg May 8 The Carnegie Technical School Bricklaying Department has one pupil Daniel Chisholm. The brickwork class is in a 100-student facility with 500 tools and staff. Chisholm attends daily, learning from a 15-a-day professor and a $6-a-day union bricklayer, paying 10 cents tuition each day.
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Pittsburg
Carnegie Technical School
Carnegie
Daniel Chisholm
Chisholm
Two Stories Are Enough for Bjornson
The Norwegian novelist Bjornson, dining with a club audience, smiles at two entertaining tales but remains unmoved and somber after a third. His companion explains he is forty years old and two stories are enough.
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Bjorngen
Bjornson
Community notices and club events in the city
The Christian aid society serves ice cream and cake at Fred C. Moorefield’s store from 3 to 6 PM. Oxford library holds officer elections and plans a flower show at Mrs. James W. Cunningham’s home Saturday at 3 30 PM. Charles A. Armentrout visits from Oakfuskee, John Thomas returns from Birmingham. The self culture club meets May 16 with Mrs. A F Bullard hosting, featuring Victoria topics and poetry readings.
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Ladies of the Christian Aid Society
Fred C. Moorefield
Oxford Library
James W. Cunningham
Self Culture Ture Club
A. F. Bullard
Queen Victoria
Prince Consort
Joseph KE. Aderhold
Victoria
A. J. Adair
Light Brigade
Frank Reynolds
Pinmaking machines reach perfection for rapid supply
Pins before 1824 were handmade and costly. Modern pinmaking machines handle wire from spools, cut lengths, form heads and points, polish, and assemble a row with paper wrappers. A single machine feeds pins, folds paper, and positions rows, with some models claim 500 pins per minute.
Doan's Kidney Pills Claim Cure for Sick Kidneys
An advertising testimonial asserts dangers of kidney disease and back pain. It describes symptoms like discolored urine and sediment, warns that kidneys failing lead to dropsy, diabetes, or Bright's disease, then touts Doan's Kidney Pills as a permanent cure with a customer in Anniston praising relief after use. Manufactured by Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo, NY.
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Bright
Dean
Anniston
J. W. Montgomery
Muther
Mulberry Street
J. J. Wikle
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
United States
Doan
Pendulum observations support continental permanence says Woodward
In a presidential address to the AAAS last December Professor M. Woodward notes gravity variation measurements align with Professor Dana on continents and oceans. He says the earth’s crust is denser beneath oceans, sea land distinctions arise from interior heterogeneity, and basins rose while continents subsided without exchanging places.
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M. Woodward
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Dana
Earth
Will Clause Sets Cremation and Ashes Free From Bond
Louis Bruns recent will filed for probate directs cremation and that his wife Minnie Bruns keep his ashes. If she remarries, she must have the ashes thrown to the four winds from a high vantage, per the nutter clause quoted by the St. Louis Republic.
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Louis
Bruns
Minnie KE
Lexington Avende
St. Louis Republic
The Czar’s Protected Train on the Imperial Route
The dowager empress travels in a nine-coach steel armored train from St. Petersburg. It features gold imperial eagles on each coach and unusually small windows. Guards numbered thirty to forty stay aboard, guarding the train day and night.
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Russia
St. Petersburg
London News
Queen Alexandra Arranges Royal Resolution of Love
At Buckingham Palace the queen learned of a maid's unhappy romance. She advised the girl and sent her to Sandringham for a change. The lover was summoned and humorously cautioned before also being sent to Sandringham. The couple have returned and a wedding at Buckingham Palace is expected soon.
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Alexandra
Buckingham Palace
Sandringham
London
Liar in City Targeted by Mayor Demand
The speaker addresses William and contemplates a hypothetical request from the mayor to identify the biggest liar in the city. The dialogue centers on names and accusations with a suggestive line about seeking truth.
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William
Joshua
Dick Turpin’s Oak Bullets Found Near Finchley Cemetery
Report notes that a branch at Turpin’s Oak near the Great North road opposite Finchley cemetery yielded pistol bullets. The London Standard recalls Turpin and Tom King robbing the royal mail at this site in 1724 for £300 during York trial records.
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Dick Turpin
Turpin
Great North Road
Finchley Cemetery
York
Tom King
Royal Mail
London Standard
Greenland For Tuberculosis Treatment Proposed
Dr Frederick Bohen of Washington argues the arctic region offers a practical Greenland sanitarium for tuberculosis. He cites perpetual sunshine dustless air and stimulating scenery as factors supporting medical use and potential business viability.
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Greenland
Arctic
Frederick Bohen
Washington
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Oxford News
Oxford Department
Nora Gannoway
Silver Run
W. A. Yeatman
Warnock McClellan
Oxford Drug Company
Warnock
Alice F. Clark
Tennessee
N. Swift
Attalla
John H. Hall
Thad M. Gwin & CO
Callon As
E.J. Walker ) CO
Scarbrough Drug CO
Great Carnegie School
Charles A. Armentrout
Oakfuskee
City
A. W. Ligon and
John Thomas
Birmingham
Cardus
J. L. Broadhead
Clanton, Ala
Févicery Dept
Chattanooga Egicine Co
Chattanooga, Tenn
Cardui
Minneapolis Journal
Anniston City Land Company
WM. A. Davis
E. L. Turner & CO
G. H. Brummell & CO
Brummell & Pinson
Twelfth Street
Quintard Ave
Aim
Thomas E. Kilby
C. J. Houser
Jas. Keith
Arthur Wellborn
State of
Alabama
White House
Whetstone & CO
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