Oxford Lake Park Adds Attractions and Modernizations
Nature and money spent yearly improve the resort making each season more appealing. Despite unseasonable weather, lake patronage remains high with lively rowing on a moss-free water. A bowling alley merry go round new bathing suits and boats are in use and a miniature railway run by J A Hulsey operates with 20 cent coupons for all pleasures.
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J. A. Hulsey
Dream Visage of Henry Clemens Returns in Autobiography
Mark Twain recalls a vivid dream of his brother Henry dying and being laid in a white pine coffin, then recounts the real Mississippi voyage disaster at Ship Island. He describes Henry’s injuries, Dr. Peyton’s care, a fatal morphine error, and the metallic casket ending with a red rose on Henry’s breast.
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Locust Street
Thirteenth
Fourteenth
New Orleans
Mr. Brown
Ship Island
Memphis
Mississippi
Pennsylvania
Peyton
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Sies
Medical College
St. Lews
Mark Twain
North American Review
Coffee schemes beware of slick pitches and false guarantees
Do not let any man switch you to coffee that pays him big profits at the cost of your car, stomach and nerves. This ad claims compliance with the National Pure Food and Drug Act and Guarantee No. 2041 filed in Washington.
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Maine Manufacturing Company
White Mountain
City Hardware Company
Anniston
Talladega
Oxford
Alabama
Washington
WM. A. Davis
Old-time travel costs higher for beds on trains
A Kansas City Star report recalls 25 years ago travelers paid 75 cents for a straw tick to California. L. 8 Banks notes 10,000 straw ticks sold. Vicks were luxury, with curtains and self-provided bedding, while most westbound travelers avoided sleeping cars.
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Pullman
St. Louis
Kansas City
California
Banks
Union, Avenue
Vicks
Kansas City Star
Spy In Europe Trial Ends With Acquittal
A German supreme court at Leipsic acquitted ex-lieutenant Bartwann of Austrian army who faced charges of spying for France. He claimed he aimed to deceive France in Germanys interests and was rejected by a German staff officer after offering to act as a counter spy during recent maneuvers.
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Supreme Court of Germany
Leipsic
Bartwann
Germany
France
Leipsie
Taken at His Word in Smallpox Warning Tale
A voice in a tale proclaims a demand for equal wealth while a passing microbe replies that one neighbor has smallpox and will attend to the speaker, illustrating a satirical clash between bodily threat and envy in a Catholic Standard and Times context.
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Catholic Standard and Times
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