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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1909
Page
4
A collage of trivia touching on the potato as a versatile item from glue and starch to edible uses. It weaves jokes about stamps licked with dextrine and “vegetable ivory” buttons with brief humor from a school scene and a village anecdote. Capudine advertised for colds and headaches ends the collage.
A column contrasts trivial disasters with a boy's ruined kite due to telephone wires. The tale follows the hopeful ascent and sudden downfall, ending with a note on desire for a clean stage as a theater boss jokes about plays opening with a girl dusting the set.
Mrs. W Pray of 260 Twelfth St Brooklyn reports two years of throat and head catarrh improved after following directions. She used one bottle then a second, noting clear throat and head, while continuing spring tonic dosage. The testimonial highlights relief and ongoing use of tonic.
A 30 year old standard remedy for female ills, Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, is praised by testimonials from women in Camden New Jersey and Erie Pennsylvania who report relief from back pain fatigue and other symptoms after using the medicine. The maker invites others to try it and offers free advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
A collage of quotations covers studies in child behavior and criminal tendencies, a pastor vacation exchange anecdote, and Eratosthenes’ ancient claims. The pieces, from New Orleans Picayune and Ladies' Home Journal, juxtapose early moral training and intellectual history with concise, anecdotal humor.
A New York woman recalls suffering heart and stomach trouble from coffee. She stopped coffee, started Postum, and within days began improving, able to digest foods and regain health she credits entirely to quitting coffee and adopting Postum. She urges others to try a 10 day Postum replacement.
A comic exchange imagines a tortoise asking if a snail has started a motor car and the snail replies that one must move with the times, poking at modern speed and progress.
A collage of ad fragments highlights Mrs. W. G. Davis of Groesbeck Texas praising Dean’s Kidney Pills for back pain and kidney irregularities. The clipping weaves in jokes and vignettes about punishment methods and humorous exchanges, reflecting period advertising tone.
Property owners seek to cut costs by hiring the lowest bid or cheap paints. The National Lead Company urges caution and offers a free House owner's Painting Outfit No 49 with color schemes, specifications, and a paint adulteration detector. It promotes their pure white lead as a standard and provides help to obtain it through dealers.
In a brief comic exchange Clarence asks for a dance from Miss Sharply who declines with a crisp reply. The dialogue captures a playful social moment reflecting era etiquette and flirtation in a compact verse.
A mother in Burnt Cabins Pa recounts a severe infant eczema case cured by Cuticura remedies costing $1.50 after $50 spent on doctors. The two and a half month-old suffered itchy watery sores, hands wrapped to prevent scratching, and a dramatic recovery with the Cuticura line.
A jumble of small notices and quotes appears, mentioning tenders and business items from FEENEY and CO and a New York reader asking why theater tickets lack show times. Various witticisms and adages are interleaved, including an Emerson quote on knowledge and power.
A collage of quips and scenes with streetwise youths confessing mischief at Schwarz’s grocery, an elderly cleric offering comfort, a parson’s caution, and jokey lines about medicine and marital mischief. The piece blends humor, social types, and magazine vignette flavor from Bohemian and Tit Bits style.
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