Oxford News Briefs Highlight Local Moves and Health
Scott Strickland returns from Howard college to work with Humphries & Co for the summer. Mrs. J. Phillips travels to Georgia due to her mother’s illness. Mrs. Thomas L. Barry’s condition remains unimproved. Mrs. Robert Burns of Lincoln attends bedside. Mrs. B H McCain and children visit Rev. W F McCain on West Mechanic. Stephen Stucky returns from Milwaukee and the Northwest. Rev. Alexander Miller will arrive about the fourth Sunday this month. Card of Thanks from Mr. and Mrs. La Rose for kindness after infant’s death. Sue Norton expected in Oxford around May 22 or 23 from Opelika for a visit with W B Norton family member. W Mangham of DeArmanville plans to move to Oxford August 1.
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Oxford
Scott Strickland
Howard College
Humphries & Co
Strickland
Thomas 1. Barry
Robert Burns
Lincoln
B. HW. McCain
City
W. F. McCain
West Mechanic Street
Rins Sue Norton
Opelika
W. BR. Norton
Local Society Notes and Upcoming Events
Miss Beatrice Jones leaves for Illinois to study photography amid family visits and birthday celebrations. Rev. McCain grows large Trish potatoes noted for flavor and size. Nixon praises Lineville as the garden city. T A Best heads home from Renfrew for a short stay. T M Kene of Atlanta treks through Oxford. Tom Jenkins and Mrs. Tom Lee Bagley visit from Silver Run and Cave Spring. Carrie French Turner hosts birthday party on Snow Street with many gifts. LaRouse the acrobat and contortionist draws a large crowd at Odd Fellows hall with plans for a repeat show tonight.
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Carrie French Turner
Snow Street
Tonor
Death Has No Superlative
A lawyer met a German farmer who had just buried his wife. He offered condolences and learned the man had remarried within three weeks. The farmer explained his late wife is metaphorically as dead as ever and the new marriage stands.
Miss Maude Earl: Royal canine painter of charm and fame
Maude Earl, famed animal painter, rose from humble beginnings to paint royal dogs for Queen Victoria and King Edward. The article notes her artistic lineage, a London studio, and a celebrated parlor image of white hounds in a snowy scene. It also mentions a recipe for sweetbreads and an essay on how women influence men.
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Maude Earl
London
Mary
Royal Academy
Victoria
Edward
Great Britain
Continent
Karl
Weary
Miss Earl
Academy
Fiona Macleod
Reading Aloud Shapes a Child's Language and Thought
The piece argues parents must guide reading aloud to developing children. It stresses simplifying words, checking understanding, and explaining terms to build vocabulary, comprehension, and lifelong language taste as the child grows from listening to reading and writing.
Cookery note on preparing sweetbreads
Wash the sweetbreads carefully free of skin and strings. Then drop them into boiling water.
Repairing Old Umbrellas For Daily Use And School Coats
Old umbrellas can be restored into useful items for daily use or school umbrellas. Remove the old cover and top edge cap, select smooth sateen as replacement, cut patterns from the old cover, sew French seams, slip cover over the rod, and secure at rib points.
Salt Cod Cones With Cream Sauce and Potatoes
Pick enough salt codfish into small pieces to make two cupfuls. Soak overnight, drain and bring to boiling point. Make a white sauce by melting two tablespoons of butter and blending with two tablespoons of flour and one cup of milk, cooking to thick cream. Have ready one pint of hot seasoned mashed potatoes. Beat the fish into the sauce, add the potatoes, mix, form into small cones, place on a buttered sheet, brush with melted butter, sprinkle with breadcrumbs and brown in the oven.
Scrapbooks by Subject Offer Simple Clippings Plan
To keep clippings ready, use several cheap scrapbooks each for recipes games entertainments garden hints and fancy work. Include a strong manila envelope in each book to file cutouts until they can be pasted in the volume.
Massage Cream Formula from Historical Text
A historical recipe describes a massage cream heavier than ordinary cold cream. It lists kivolin two and a half ounces, soericaceil three-fourths ounce, white gasoline two and a half ounces, coconatrt oil two ounces, sweet almond oil two ounces, tincture of benzoin half a dram, with optional violet extract for perfume.
Hair tonic salt and orris root mixture described
A historical note explains making a hair tonic from salt and orris root two ounces per pound of salt, sifted and rubbed into the hair then brushed out. A separate item recalls Mrs. Samuel Prevoorst as the woman who laid the first pavement in New York and drew visitors from Philadelphia to view her sidewalk.
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Gotham
New York
Samuel Prevoorst
Philadelphia
Maiden's Tears and Widow's Tears cascades described by guide
A Killarney guide leads a tourist group to a right side cascade named Maiden's Tears and a left side cascade called Widow's Tears, noting the Widow's Tears dries up the quickest.
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Killarney
Eulaton Farmers Delayed by Heavy Rains
The May 14 item notes farmers behind on work due to recent heavy rains from Monday evening to late night. Flooded low lands delay cotton seed planting. Attendance at Glen Addie all day singing praised as among the best in Calhoun County. Reverend Davis of East Lake has been called to lead the local Baptist church.
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Eulaton
Glen Addie
Calhoun County
Mr. Davis
East Lake
the Baptist Church
Special travel rates to West Coast and Norfolk expositions
The Louisville and Nashville announces round trip fares via diverse routes to San Francisco Los Angeles and Norfolk Virginia for events and homeseekers trips. Rates include season and sixty day tickets with stopover privileges. final limits range from July to August. Agents listed in Anniston Birmingham and Louisville provide details.
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Imperial Colweil
Louisville & Nashville
Norfolk
Cincin- WM
Sas
Gee Cee
Cincinnati
Hyomei Promises Quick Relief for Bronchial Troubles
Bronchial troubles are local and caused by airway irritation. Hyomei, inhaled via a pocket device, soothes and heals the mucous membrane with rapid action. Denchers and atomizers are discouraged by physicians. The Scarbrough Drug Company sells the complete Hyomei outfit for $1 with a satisfaction guarantee.
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Scarbrough Drug Company
Joy In a Tramp's Life
Excerpted musings on prisoner life from Josiah Float in Success Magazine contrasts jail with outdoor freedom. It reflects the tramp's roving ethos and buoyant return to open air after time in confinement, emphasizing the exhilaration of unfettered movement after months of restraint.
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Josiah
Success Magazine
Muddy London Day Costs Five Figures To Public
A Tit-Bits quip notes London’s muddy day costs around 25 000 dollars. It cites that thirty two tons of mud travel on carts horses and hooves, with fifteen tons brushed from clothing and a similar amount shaken from doormats after rain. Despite the mess, mud boosts shoeblock earnings and spurs new fashion and footwear sales.
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London
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