16 Jun 1911
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Newspaper
Indiana Oxford Gazette
Location
Oxford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1911
Page
1
A collage of humorous observations and tongue in cheek notes on society, science, and daily life. Bits on hobbies beliefs and fads reference fruit bugs coins and fashion with a light satirical tone and local flavor.
The article notes Germany naming a new dreadnought Peacemaker and contrasts with a quip about Innocent Bystander. It then references Chauncey Depew calling the US Senate a Poor Man's club and asserts senators do not starve.
In Porte Rico walking sticks are treated as marks of distinction, while Americans tend to view them as signals of weakness whether physical or mental.
A Chicago professor asserts motion exists in all matter as molecules continually move. He suggests molecules may act like wheels in objects, illustrating perpetual motion at the microscopic level.
A New Orleans scientist warns that fish and oysters can transmit leprosy. This fear keeps anglers from exploiting the fishing season opening and affects local fishers and seafood trade.
A Chicago preacher claims the present world is deeper in gin than during Rome's worst days, but this overlooks that the world is not like Chicago.
A general reflection notes that Chinese telephone operators respond with the phrase How can the insignificant one serve the enlightened master, highlighting Confucian influenced politeness in service culture and the formal reverence used in daily communication.
An elderly burglar in New York, with fourteen prior convictions and seventeen years served, proclaims the loot he gathered would not total twenty dollars. He adds that honesty sometimes pays.
A New York woman sues a hair dresser after her hair was dyed green. Neighbors’ reactions are noted as unenthusiastic. The case highlights disputes over salon color work and customer satisfaction.
Sparks from a locomotive landed on a Nebraska woman’s bonnet burning it to ashes and leaving her bonnet ruined. The incident is cited as an example of money wasted in precarious fashion.
Sam Elwood, a shy 23 year old Missouri farm hand, endures a secret crush on visiting Virginia Dave while his mother lends a hand with housework. A prank with yeast cakes sickens him, until a nursely helper tends him back to health, sparking a new confidence in courting Virginia on her return.
The text lists archaic Roman remedies for dental pain. Magician advised methods include injecting ear products from rabid dog ash with cyprus oil, scarifying gums with a water snake vertebra, and using lizard bone or chicken bone in moon's fullness. Other cures involve Temon caries with mallow bugs or sparrow dung, chewing an adder's heart, and preventive advice of two rats monthly.
In Santa Monica John A. Pool nurtures a single cabbage plant that has reached nearly nine feet, with a trunk of 11 inches and produced more than a bushel of small heads. The plant shoots upward along the stalk, is tied to a stake to stay upright, and may continue growing as a perennial oddity attracting visitors.
A sermon on the mount concept explores Christians as light reflecting Christ. It stresses shining through character, avoiding vanity, and keeping images of self from obscuring the Christ in life. It urges humility, integrity, and practical charity in society.
Estherville plans a marble 30 foot shaft to mark the old Fort Defiance location. The Daughters of the American Revolution lodge oversees the project, featuring a marble cannon ball crowned by an eagle atop the shaft. A bottom plate will honor Mrs. Esther Ridley, the town’s namesake and first white settler.
Contracts totaling over $2,000,000 have been signed in London for constructing and equipping waterworks at Buenos Aires with new pumping machinery.
A Francis de Sales admonition urges daily morning prayer for meekness and a firm resolve to practice humility especially with close contacts. The text counsels frequent self-reminder, perseverance after faults, and trusting in God to bring inner peace as the soul submits to divine will.
A Congregational minister Rev A G Singsen urges embracing foes as real people in a broader call to loving one’s enemies. He frames this as a path to understanding others rather than conflict. He speaks at a Providence church event, promoting reconciliation and neighborly regard.
Percy H. Epler recounts George Bancroft’s Massachusetts joke about Levi Lincoln who was nearly blind. A geese drive along Lincoln street prompts the old aristocrat to fling pennies and call out God bless you, my children.
A Wisconsin farmer took his twelve year old son to a village for the first time in February. The boy witnessed a train of cars and, overwhelmed, lost speech for three weeks. The farmer keeps his distant farm hidden to spare the boy another shock.
An active young woman attributes nervous prostration relief to Grape-Nuts. She credits improved digestion and fewer sick days after adopting the diet and notes a noonday luncheon using Grape-Nuts with cream, fruit, and strength to work daily. The testimonial endorses Road to Wellville and Postum Co. claims.
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