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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1903
Page
4
A sergeant recorded a soldier reported dead in a South Africa battle, then notes altered to say Died by mistake. The man survived hospital stay but died weeks later from injuries, later communicated to the sergeant by the regiment’s colonel. A final note claimed death by order of the colonel.
In Frairpoint Mississippi a boy long treated for spinal disease improved after using eight boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills. The doctor had not identified a diagnosis and the boy's night fears and trembling ceased after the remedy. The father publicly credits the treatment.
A fragment from the Philadelphia Record notes a playful exchange where a man claims his new auto attracts the admiration of a “good woman” while a woman dismissively corrects him, mentioning hearing a horn and confusing it with a fish peddler.
An old advertisement touts Allen's Foot-Ease to cure tired hot aching feet and ease tight shoes. It invites readers to request a trial package from A.8. Olmsted in Le Roy New York and warns to accept no substitute.
A Kansas City Journal account follows a traveler crossing Kaneap toward the Cherokee Strip seeking free government land. He displays bold claims of owning 160 acres and later reveals trading for a mule team, raising questions about his honesty and the fate of the remaining claimed acres.
Public notice typeset of old quack cures and jokes. Mentions Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets with refund policy if no cure. Includes quips about love, a joke from Princeton Tiger and Philadelphia Press, and a Minneapolis letter praising Piso's Cure. Concludes with a weight gain joke and a New Orleans Times-Democrat line.
Mrs. James Beck of 314 West Whitesboro Street Rome New York describes eight or nine years of kidney trouble and seeks relief. The brief item notes her street and surname in a local notice style.
A farmer advises proper dress and neat packaging to boost sales of farm produce in town. He emphasizes honest dealings, reliable delivery, and careful jar tracking, then shifts to cotton fertilization stressing potash importance for lint and noting common fertilizers often lack adequate potash.
An Illinois farmer reports success solving farm labor by raising hogs that feed on self-harvested clover and rape and soybeans. He notes net returns per acre from clover alone and from soybeans with corn fed, detailing weights, gains, and costs to illustrate thriftier, healthier pigs and reduced cholera risk.
The article notes cotton yields favor lint over seed, urging fertilizers rich in potash while balancing potash phosphoric acid and nitrogen. It explains each nutrient's role and warns that over-supplying one at the expense of others can hinder growth.
The Midland Farmer notes that protecting manure from loss in open yards and adding treatments to reduce ammonia loss and raise phosphoric acid content improves value. It cites acid phosphate as most profitable, with finely ground phosphate rock as a possible substitute as an absorbent in stalls. Stall manure loses less and remains richer in nutrients than open-yard manure.
Investigations show substituting corn for oats can keep horses in good condition while lowering costs. Massachusetts and New Hampshire stations measured feed costs for horses over years, finding daily costs from 18.5 to 24.8 cents and annual feed costs around 74.32 dollars per horse, with labor costs at 3.4 cents per hour worked.
The excerpt surveys U S binder twine use 110000 to 120000 tons and tobacco acreage up 7000 acres 0 7 percent with a favorable 85 1 condition. It notes wheat exports 1903 at 74360370 bushels vs 23268420 prior year and cotton visible supply 2065475 bales on July 10. It discusses potatoes acreage down 49000 acres 1 6 percent and July 1 condition 88 1. It includes moral guidance on farming as honorable labor and practical farming tips.
Memphis Congressman Malcolm R. Patterson outlines a vision of white supremacy in a Brownsville Confederate veterans reunion speech. He argues universal Negro suffrage harmed the South, urges racial separation, and predicts a future reconciliation under white rule, contrasting Northern and Southern perspectives and invoking Appomattox as a pledge to preserve white dominance.
A Bonn University professor traced 334 descendants of a woman described as a thief drunkard and tramp who died in the late 1700s. He followed 700 descendants from youth to old age finding 142 beggars 64 on charity 76 convicts including 7 murderers. The family cost authorities about $1,250,000 in alms houses courts prisons and institutions over 75 years.
The Huntington Herald reports a graduation scene with ten graduates in white in the first row, each holding a large bouquet of carnations and accompanied by a young man. The vivid staged moment frames the ceremony’s celebratory tone.
Tess comments on a grumpy mood and references a late night call in a fragment from the Philadelphia Press, capturing a light local dialogue moment.
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