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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1900
Page
4
An OCR filled jumble of sales pitches and medical claims cites cures for stomach troubles fever and aches. It mentions various patent medicines and a retailer network with bold price notes and dramatic testimonials.
A Chicago club of bohemian men staged a dangerous mock initiation in a downtown hotel. A new member faced a staged “silver knife” ritual with a hot water blade, a chair restraint, and a pretend threat, ending when he drew a revolver in panic but caused no injuries.
A mother from Manchester Mill Macon Georgia writes that her nineteen year old daughter suffered through long-lasting illness and irregular painful menses. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound the daughter's health improved, menses became regular and nearly painless, and the mother plans to keep the remedy at home. She grants permission to publish the letter to help others.
Farmers learn that sweet cream slows churning when mixed with three or more days old cream. Ripened cream churns faster, but mixed batches waste fat as butter separates first. Proper timing, cooling to 18–26 hours, and warming to 65–75 degrees before churning improve efficiency and yield. Prairie Farmer offers advice.
A veteran clown Dan Rice received a donated tent worth 82.40 from a factory owner after he was unable to start a show in Cincinnati. Rice later paid 2 1 soll for the tent, then rose to fame in traveling shows, while recounting a tale of gratitude and business. The piece includes anecdotes from Max Bell and brief notes on the Paris World's Fair theater and Harlem Life reflections.
The article touts a crusher and leveler device that levels land in one pass by inserting a plank before rear teeth. It claims soil can be harrowed, lumps crushed, and depressions filled, with added ability to move earth by stepping on the cross piece. It advocates planning for silage and year round feed. It warns dairymen to maintain milk supply and keep a barn clock.
A Home Magazine piece advises careful preplanning for purchases, urging country women to buy twice yearly, stock on hand, and buy winter clothing in spring and summer undergarments in fall. It advocates remaking items, paying cash, and buying from home stores to save money.
Fashion tips describe new eet gowns with jewel buttons and princess lines, mint accessories, palm leaf patterns, red tulle evening wear, and mitten sleeves. A mint vinegar condiment recipe and a pawnbroker joke about laying by an umbrella for a rainy day round out the clipped clippings from era papers.
A Pine Bluff Arkansas pastor in a sermon on American enterprise recounts finding a lard bucket branded Swift and Company at Jacob’s Well, illustrating cross country ironies. A Kansas City Gazette clipping and a testimonial from E Vady of Hamilton Indiana are included, urging readers to note Teeth ing in the advertisement.
The text extols Mrami T Roberts a prominent Nebraska contractor and mason describing him as shrewd and dependable. It includes testimonials from C. T. Falls City and William You Aschter praising Peruna for curing stomach troubles fever malaria and catarrh and calling Peruna the greatest medicine on earth.
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