Oxford News Notes and Local Movements
Eben Hall visits from Lagarde and attends Oxford Sunday. Mrs Flora Powell and son visit Cold Water friends. Mrs B H McCain and children travel to Lincoln for weekend visits. Miss Nelle Pinson enters Noble Institute joining 18 Oxford girls there. Local interest grows in the upcoming game between Synodical college team and public school team.
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Oxford
Eben Hall
Lagarde
B. H. McCain
Lincoln
Nelle Pinson
Noble Institute
Oxford Friends
Synodical College
Golden Medical Discovery advertised by Dr. Pierce
The article touts Golden Medical Discovery made without alcohol using glycerine and Golden Bear root. It claims cures for weak stomach indigestion torpid liver and biliousness with endorsements from medical writers and a free booklet by mail. It warns it will not cure advanced consumption but may treat precursor ailments if used promptly.
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Pierce
Materia Edica
Golden Medical Discovery
R. V. Pierce
Affalo
N. Y
Dr. Pierce
Local Hardware Store Promotes Honest Prices and Courtesy
The City Hardware chain touts its three core values as a reputation builder. J J Sparks and William Orr head the Oxford branch and invite customers to view stock from bolts to farm wagons, with ready pricing and service.
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City
Messrs
J. J. Sparks
William Orr
Oxford
Local Notes and Obituaries From Oxford
Hubert Warnock visits Sycamore and Oxford. One police court case and a small city treasury receipt noted. Rev George F Cuthrell to stay another year in Talladega and Oxford as churches begin a new building. John Ray, longtime Oxford resident, dies at his South Oxford home.
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Hubert Warnock
Sycamore
Oxford
Talladega
George F. Cuthrell
John Ray
City
South
Windwitts Windmills Mark Local Life Events In Tolland
In Tolland a millers marriage halts the wheel with slanted arms and unfurled sails. Births use a more acute angle with two upper sails out. Deaths see sails furled and wheel turned to an upright cross until funeral concludes.
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Tolland
Mole Eyes Belie Public Notion Say Naturalists Prove
Sir John Lubbock and Carl Hess show through careful study that moles possess eyes as perfect as those of horses or elephants. Their eyes are tiny, about one millimeter in diameter, yet reflect and refract like normal eyes in larger animals.
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John Lubbock
Carl Hess
Inner strength and action in life’s test
The passage asserts that true growth comes from inner forces, not surface traits, enabling individuals to become meaningful beings. It argues everyone can summon these hidden powers to achieve worthwhile deeds, and warns that avoiding this call violates one’s sacred birthright.
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Success Magazine
French Marriage Restrictions Point to Parental Authority
Paris letter notes a French rule that a man under twenty five whose parents are dead and with a living grandparent cannot marry without written consent from the grandparent or parent.
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Paris
London Post
Early muffs and fur fashion through centuries
The text traces muff use from satin and velvet early forms lined with fur to leopard skin popularized by Queen Anne. It notes a Elizabethan print showing a muff, mentions Venetian fashion of carrying a lapdog in a muff, and cites Parisian sales in 1602 with sumptuary limits on muff color. It also contrasts bourgeois somber black with noble courtier brilliance under Louis XIV.
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England
France
Paris
Rue de Bac
Louis XIV
Curious Mid Middlesex Monument for Floating Parents
In Pinner England a tall ivy covered pyramid contains a stone coffin for William and Agnes Loudon. A son erected the monument to keep their money, payable as long as their bodies remained above ground. The act was to prevent heirs from claiming the funds after death.
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Middlesex
Pinner
England
William
Agnes Loudon
Bucklens Amnica Salve Heals Wounds Like Magic
L S Napier of Ruggles Kentucky recalls a torturing pile case ten years ago and credits Bucklens Amnica Salve with a permanent cure after using less than a box. The product is advertised at 25 cents at West End Drug Co. and Elam Ordway & Houser druggists.
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Bucklen
L. S Napier
Ruggles
West End Drug Co
Elam Ordway & Houser
Useless Toast Tale of Ill Advice
A quipty exchange pairs a doctor requesting a tongue check with a patient asking about usefulness. The ribbing highlights the tongue as an unreliable judge of illness and the comic futility of medical talk.
Pine Martens Terrorize English Village With Bloodless Sheep Deaths
A string of grisly sheep killings unsettled a village as lambs died overnight without wounds. Fearful locals blamed ghouls and vampires until hunters found the culprits were pine martens feeding in a nest they had raided. The mysterious spree ceased after discovery.
Indispensability joke ends with a vanished clerk
A lecturer warns against feeling indispensable. In Cincinnati a hotel lobby tale shows Uncle Dave, a long time clerk, joking about his own death as traveling salesmen rely on him, highlighting the humor and mortality in steady service.
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Cincinnati
Uncle Dave
Shortsightedness in Domestic and Captive Animals
Naturalists find no shortsight in wild animals in nature but note it in domestic and confined animals. Many pets misidentify friends at close range. horses and cattle show vision derangements. Eye diseases in captive wilds stem from narrow enclosures preventing long distance focus.
Cure for Sick Headache with Stomach and Liver Tablets
Advertisement notes sick headache stems from stomach derangement and indigestion. Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets claim to correct disorders and cure. Take at first signs to ward off the attack. Free sample offered. For sale by J. L. Wikle.
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Chamberlain
J. L. Wikle
Oddities of Light Phantoms Observed with Finger Alignment
The piece explains how the two eyes perceive two objects and describes a trick of sight. By aligning the forefingers at one and two feet from the eyes and focusing on the nearer finger, observers see phantom images flanking the real finger.
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Ray
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Birmingham
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Wytheville
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West Tenthst
Anniston
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