Weather and community notes from June changes
June 11 report describes fine weather and good planting progress with cotton and corn. Local names Marvin Stansberry and family, Mrs. Tarpley visiting, a marriage near Bonham, and a suicide of Roe Bales noted. Funeral led by Rev. R. W. Tarply. church duties announced. Local social details and berry canning at Ravenna factory.
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Marvin Stansberry
Stewart
R. W. Tarpley
Denison
James
Me. Martin
B Tor
Lawrence
Bonham
Roe Bales
Carson
Ector
Oakland News Briefs From June Showers and Visits
Weather brought a light rain in Oakland with scattered campers at church until it ended. Local residents and visitors include Mrs. Belcher improving after illness, Mrs. Monroe of Wolfe City visiting Mrs. Uriah Smith, Rev. Oscar Hudson from Lamasco in town, Miss Joe McSpadon from Allen's Chapel visiting relatives, Sam Bassham and family from Bonham, and Lacie Tucker staying with relatives. Rev. Cooper of Bonham will preach at the church, and George Lovelace and family are noted residents.
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John Belcher
Monroe
Wolfe City
Uriah Smith
Oscar Hudson
Lamasco
O .K
Joe McSpadon
Allen’s ‘Chapel
Last Eel
Lacie Tucker
Onhan
Is Place
Mr. Kerr
Oakland
Allen’s Chapel
Niss Elsie Banton
Greenile
Cooper
Bonham
George Lovelace
Rainy June in Philadelphia Town Report
Long rain and hail sweep Philadelphia area as farmers resume cotton planting. Local illnesses include Aunt Tine Riddle’s recovery and Maggie Durham’s malaria. Social notes: Willie Chandler visits relatives. Newt Cunningham and wife visit. Walter Cantrell travels from Hunt County. Hugo visitors Mrs Steward and children. A wedding marks lighter news as Will Porter marries Miss Avola Pasa at the bride’s home with Rev Grimes officiating.
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Tine Riddle
Maggie Durham
Will Porter
Avola Pasa
Rev. Grimes of
Gober
Farmer’s Union
Piles Relief Promoted By Dr Shoop Medical Ointment
Piles sufferers are urged to use Dr Shoop's Magic Ointment claiming quick relief. It promises positive action for itching, pain, protruding or blind piles and notes jars sell for fifty cents by J W Peeler.
Character in Face Temperament and Disposition of Individuals
An English study argues facial features map character. Dark eyes imply passion, blue eyes cool calculation, light brown eyes intelligence and fickleness. Protruding eyes signal oratorical gift, large noses energy, nostril size courage or cowardice, mouth and lips gleam with suggestion, jaw and chin reveal love and economy.
Senator Ross Discovers His Breakfast Is Chop Suey
An amusing tale from Oakdale Massachusetts recalls Senator Joseph Ross who, after years avoiding chop suey, finally agrees to try it in Chinatown. He discovers with humor that the dish is merely what he has eaten for two weeks, prompting a wry remark on his meals.
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Joseph Ross
Oakdale
Mass
Hadi
Chinatown
Mad Dog Behavior Explained by City Health Chief
Dr. P. M. Hall of Minneapolis explains rabid dogs act mechanically with involuntary jaws and no targeting of victims. He notes adults can evade them, while small children are at risk. a firm kick can disable a rabid dog temporarily.
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P. M. Hall
Minneapolis
Caravan of the Desert Pilgrims Pursue Gold and Health
Two caravans trek across the southwest deserts seeking gold and health amid harsh conditions. Prospects stretch 1090 miles from Feces to Yump as plague and poverty shape the journey, with many finding exile ends in distant mountain air or bitter death along the route.
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Anid
How Birds Learn to Sing Innate or Learned Song Question
The article compares W. H. Hudson’s tinamou observation showing innate song development in a nestling raised apart from parents. It also cites Hon. Davies Barrington’s experiments with linnets raised under lin nets where birds learned the linnet song, suggesting imitation.
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W. H. Siudson
Hon. Davies Barrington
Buried Forest Unearthed Near Peterborough England
In Peterborough England a buried forest was found seven feet deep containing oak trees about 2000 years old. About 80 trees have been raised and sold to furniture makers while hundreds more remain underground at five to six feet. Roots are attached and the wood is so hard it requires machinery to cut.
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London Chronicle
Oaks sugar chief reacts to muckraking piece
O Havemeyer, noted leader in American sugar industry, dismissed the magazine article as insincere and unjust. He compared reading it to recalling a rich old woman and daughter exchange about dullness and boredom, ending with a call to ring for the cook.
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O. Havemeyer
From a Train Ride to Little Lord Fauntleroy
A tale recalls Frances Hodgson Burnett and her serial Little Lord Fauntleroy as a child on a New Jersey train hacks uncut magazine pages with a visiting card, unaware she rests near the author.
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Lord Fauntleroy
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Little Lord Fauntleroy
New Jersey
Fauntleroy
Burglar Artist Arrested After Finishing Unfinished Portrait
Karoly Janos, once a painter of repute and now linked to criminals, was arrested after he was found adding finishing touches to an unfinished portrait in a ransacked house. Brushes and paint boxes lay scattered as the owner alerted police.
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Karoly Janos
Courage under fire saves frigate Olaf before blast
The Russian war frigate Olaf lay among hundreds in Copenhagen harbor when a coal cellar fire threatened its powder magazine. Captain Rehbinder decided to sink the vessel to avert catastrophe, crew evacuated, carpenters made a leak, and the ship went down then rose for repairs. Court martial praised leadership. emperor honored officers and crew with gratuities.
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Olaf
Japan
Czarowitz
Copenhagen
Rehbinder
Sundidy Magazine
The Sanitary Bible for Witnesses in Court
A dealer touts a sanitary Bible bound in celluloid that can be washed and disinfected after each kiss. He claims it safeguards witnesses’ health in antiquated courts where witnesses are still required to kiss the book.
BeMe Confused Over D and P Spelling Difference
Margie asks how to tell the letters d and p apart in a quick reader. Effie explains the a’s tummy sits on its back.
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BeMe
Margie
Effie
Slarper
Shake Says the Norwegian Walter at Norway Farewell
A travel note describes Norwegians offering a handshake at farewells, a sign of independence. English travelers may find the habit, whether from chambermaids, waitresses, porters, or drivers, mildly annoying yet charming as a cultural gesture.
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Walter
Norway
The Likeness: An Obliging Man in a Paying Business
A fragment describes two men showing courtesy and interest in extending good offices. One man likens another to someone with a thriving business, prompting curiosity about the likeness and intent.
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Ian
Nervous Bridegrooms Told by Clergy in Humorous Tales
A clergyman recalls wedding mishaps as nervous grooms mishandle cigars and rings during ceremonies. One groom clutched an unlit cigar and traded hands. another blurted a surreal reversal of vows to the astonished congregation.
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John
Mary
Telephone exchange trainee learns department store trap
A new operator at a telephone exchange, newly hired from a department store, handles calls with charm but slips when a caller asks for 326. She offers $23 or 326, revealing her training gaps and inexperience despite initial eagerness.
Kingston council member praises Chamberlain cough remedy
W O Reilly Frgatty of Kingston Jamaica writes from the Antilles that Chamberlain's Cough Remedy relieved his cough quickly after continuing use. He plans to obtain another bottle and notes availability from J W Peeler.
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Chamberlain
Kingston
Jamaica
W. O’reily Frgatty
Jarmaica
West Indies
da Fulisne
J. W. Peeler
Glass injures man at Williams grocery store
Yesterday afternoon Oscar Inglis had his left hand badly cut by a falling piece of glass while a glass pane in a door shattered at R. Lt. Williams' grocery store.
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R. Lt. Williams
Oscar Inglis
Dr Shoop Restorative claims inner nerve treatment
An advertisement touts samples of Dr Shoop's Restorative and a book on indigestion heart and kidneys. It argues symptoms hide deeper causes and promotes Restorative as uniquely addressing inner nerves. It ends with a call to write for a sample and free book.
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J. W. Peeler
Hall’s Catarrh Cure Promotes Deafness Treatment Claims
An advertisement claims deafness results from inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian tube and that only constitutional remedies work. It asserts catarrh causes most deafness and offers a free circular from F J Cheney Co with a sales pitch for Hall’s Catarrh Cure and Hall’s Family Pills.
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Haill
F.J. Cheney & Co
Telido
Q. Bola
Jamestown Ter Centennial via Norfolk 1907 travel offer
Jamestown Ter Centennial route Norfolk Virginia from April 26 to November 30 1907 via M Ex&T. Going and returning via same route. Claea A 35200. Limit Dua 16 1907. Claas B 4683 JUir 60 days. Clary Y UT7 u Limit 15 days.
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Norfolk
M. Ex&t
Claea
Claas
Clary Y
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