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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1883
Page
1
Schedule listing for the Chiago St Louis and New Orleans Railroad. Includes arrival and departure times, stations, and service notes as printed in the period timetable.
A miscellany mentions the Obolera appearing in Mexico, George Knapp at 98, Rothschilds owning $400000 of national debt, Ouida in seclusion, San Francisco harbor thefts totaling 87248.10, rising attorney counts post pension law, Bracken in New York, and various global notes on politics, science, and industry.
Delegates from Missouri and other Mississippi Valley boards of trade plan a great river commission in Washington during February. Mississippi should send a strong state delegation, levee districts must field reps, and harbor cities form a permanent body to preserve banks and harbors. The National Republican notes Western momentum and urges Congress to heed business needs.
A dated critique argues that consuming ice chilled drinks damages digestion and that freezing foods like strawberries trout and salmon robs flavor. The piece warns such ice culture dulls taste buds and predicts dining will become mechanical, likened to Skitzlandia, via tasteless, frozen fare.
Jacob Thompson recounts Henry Foote and Thomas Benton debates and Foote’s sharp rhetoric. He notes Foote’s classical learning and cites Benton’s retreat after Foote’s scathing attack. Thompson corrects Century Magazine’s report of the scene. Foote quoted Cicero in the exchange.
An analysis notes sunstroke stems from nervous factors linked to sleep quality and feet loss. It advises cool ventilated sleep spaces and avoiding over stimulating drinks and heated excitement, stressing moderate diet and rest for sun exposure health.
William Rohr is lured to a business house by two men one armed with a revolver and the other with knives. They force marriage to Carrie a sister of better by a preacher present. Rohr files for divorce claiming marriage under duress while Carrie seeks alimony and remains content.
Harriet N Prewitt led Yazoo City Whig and Banner from 1848 to 1862 as editor proprietor and news editor while raising three fatherless children. Health failed and she has been an invalid for twenty years yet she writes poems sketches and recalls Civil War days. Her cottage home rivals Paul H Haynes with honeysuckle vines and walls covered by pictures from last twenty five years.
In 1835 a Coahuila and Texas citizen met a young woman splitting rails after hearing an axeman. He spoke to her and, amid her railwork, wooed and married the damsel. The couple, esteemed, remained together with several children near Goliad, Texas, the old man testifying to her virtues as a wife.
The Meridian Observer reports a Mormon church organized last year by two Utah missionaries in Jones County near the Jasper line. The small congregation includes Newt Knight, his son and families, and the Valentines, with Knight a noted local figure who led a deserter band late in the war and conducted a raid on Confederate commissary stores at Paulding.
The piece notes corset whalebone usage has surged by about 150 percent, making the figure stiff and angular. It mentions muslin dresses with three back bones and bones under each arm, and predicts crinoline may return with gowns fitting from the waist up. London News adds that eleven professors in US higher education were elected from the University of Virginia.
Washington reports that Congress may need to amend the law to allow states to conduct their own censuses at half price in 1883. New York and Pennsylvania show interest, promising work for civil service clerks, while officials weigh the impact on reliability and national totals.
A Pole in Schuylkill County, unable to read English, ran a credit system by having patrons sign for debts. Last week he started collecting, exposing bills for drinks from prominent townsmen. Names include Henry Ward Beecher and Roscoe Conkling. sheriff closed the saloon. losses total 700. warrants issued for several implicated youths.
Dr. George Thurber notes cultivated vegetables diverge from their wild forms as selection grows, enlarging roots bulbs stems and seeds. He warns crops revert when conditions loosen, citing carrots as proof that careful care maintains the most developed form for superior seed production.
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