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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1914
Page
4
An Iowa newspaper note describes a woman in Creston who suffers persistent female troubles. The ad touts Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a standard remedy, urging readers to write for confidential advice and promising a woman will read the letter.
An old advertisement touts cure for rheumatism neuralgia cramps colic sprains bruises cuts and burns with Antiseptic Anedyne priced at a stated rate. The copy emphasizes quick relief of aches and pains.
A humorous Springfield Union item portrays a woman asking for smokeless powder at a drug store cigar counter and learning the clerk does not stock it. She explains she wants it to mix with her husband’s tobacco to stop his pipe smoke in the house.
A man voices his longing to breathe the sea air and stand on a steamer’s prow with mouth open as his wife smiles and jokes about ocean travel. The exchange ends with a playful question about forgiveness for a kiss.
The passage blends humorous exchanges about Mexico and politicking with social commentary on eligibility for office. It notes how some enter politics by circumstance or wealth, and suggests drink as a pathway to trouble, reflecting a satirical view of public life and personal conduct.
Fashion notes describe black and white as the prevailing tones for elegant outfits and accessories. A casino frock in crepon with white blouse and black tunic features a crocheted ball-button motif and a belt of oval crepon eyelets. Hats, parasols, and footwear also showcase black and white, with black chantilly lace and white net accents completing the look.
The article warns women to carefully tailor tunics to avoid emphasizing flaws. It notes lace varieties like Chantilly and Milanese point as trendy this season, with lace tunics appearing in black, white, and marine tones, while recommending precise adjustments to achieve a smart look.
Embroidered sashes are popular this season and a child ten years or older can learn. Start with a scrap ribbon, teach buttonhole stitches, and progress to sash designs in blue, gold, or green with fringe options.
The article highlights taffeta as the premier fabric choice this year with a gown using brown taffeta and lighter rose chiffon. It describes a bodice with taffeta and reverse details, chiffon sleeves, and a chiffon trimmed shoulder with a brown brocade vest beneath.
A rubber band worn under sleeve hems serves as a convenient pocket substitute to tuck a handkerchief. A narrow rubber armlet with ribbon matches the dress color for a dainty accessory. When drawn work is worn, cover with insertion and trim away excess fabric.
A fragment notes children sewing beads and experimenting with sashes. The text urges offering the child a sash project to replace a lifelong centerpiece, suggesting hands on craft as a learning activity.
A novel headpiece blends a two inch straw brim with a silk puffed crown. Taffeta piping decorates the band and silk rosettes sit above the ears. Two long silk streamers can wrap the throat or be used as a face veil.
A heavy ribbed tussore dust coat features kimono sleeves and large white pearl button fastenings on the left. An attractive very light gray suiting with faint brown stripes, amethyst facings, belt and buttons includes side pockets. color combination praised.
The article surveys table coverings for living rooms and lounges, suggesting materials like embroidered brocade, velvet, and old samplers. It notes practical options including Persian shawl remnants, chintz table tops with edge braiding, and crash cloths bound with colored linen for veranda and casual spaces.
The cretonne parasole with braid and cotton passementerie hem motifs will be carried by smart women at the seaside and in the country, adding a gay note to white costumes.
A narrator on a ship describes cramped staterooms in New York style, a foldable wall washstand, and top bunk berths reached by a ladder. A mishap ends with the speaker tumbling onto a fellow passenger and finally securing a berth after adjustments.
A London Paris demonstration showed the Teledograph from the Photo-Telegraph Cable company. The invention lets newspapers theatres private persons receive current event images within minutes and police circulate wanted criminals across towns rapidly.
A small circular metal disk burglar alarm, easily carried in a vest pocket, accepts a detonating cap to become a home and travel security device. It can be hidden under a chair leg to trigger an explosion if a thief or intruder moves furniture, or placed under baggage purses tires for alerting or harming intruders.
A shopper returns with a sable scarf and rejects a two headed fur joke. Her sister approves with a wry remark that she bought a fur with 13 tails, a quip attributed to the London Opinion.
John Merrick of York Pennsylvania, believed oldest Rutgers graduate, was celebrated at 1834 commencement aged 101 with a letter praising ongoing progress among new generations. Captain Kelsey of the Cape to Cairo motor expedition dies from injuries after leopard hunting incident ending the expedition once welcomed by Buckingham Palace and various dignitaries.
The Baltimore Sun notes a debate on whether a fourteen year old boy’s music teacher may forbid him from playing baseball to protect his future as an organist. The piece contrasts art and sport and suggests the boy, as the keenest judge of his own limits, would likely be the best authority.
In a terse exchange the questioner asks if belief in a second mark exists and the respondent replies absolutely not. The dialogue reveals the speaker has been married twice.
A muddled ad claims a prescription for relieving a headache with no opiate and a thirty minute relief promise. A Sunday school watcher chastises a girl for not washing her face, while the girl retorts about her birthday.
A humor sketch features a Wellesley maiden testing a Yale student with a math question. The student concedes the riddle but jokes it is a conundrum he gives up. The maiden then loudly proclaims the answer as nothing divided by two. The piece ends with a cautionary joke about misusing figures of speech.
Mrs. Peavish says that if it were to do over again no man need ever ask for her hand until he had shown his.
An old drugstore ad touts Fazio Ointment promising cure for itching with fast relief after first application. It guarantees money back from the druggist if the product fails to cure any case. The copy includes a brief brag about a sharpshooter remark and a gunmetal theme.
Fragmentary OCR describes a tasteless syrup labeled FEBRILINE given to children as a medicine. It allegedly contains quinine and caused stomach upset without the child’s knowledge.
A London Answers vignette recounts Colonel Goethals as the decisive force behind the Panama Canal project. A fidgety subordinate mistakes a letter for orders, prompting a terse exchange that underscores the colonel’s exacting command style at Miraflores.
A weekstart drive home ends with a traffic officer warning Don Ladlum about corner cutting in the business district. A front of a car full of strangers stalls near a blacksmith shop Tuesday afternoon. Ore Gimber touts a Moon Lake rowboat sailing over a week while shore details drift. Witt Larcum earns cash selling beauty pins and snaps sun angles yesterday. A city bug hunter, in town with a met, rushes into Corny Paine's yard Thursday evening.
An old advertisement touts Resinol products for dandruff eczema and itchy scalp with Hesmol soap and ointment claimed to heal skin eruptions pimples and sunburn. It urges use by druggists and notes doctor prescriptions for 19 years.
A collage of snippets from a historic page features a flirtatious dialogue about a Mexican phrase good night and farewell, a Alpine village scene with a safety banner, a sardonic maiden, a business-need rush moral, and brief comic vignettes about speech, paying debts, and a tonic product.
The fragment pieces together a scene with disjointed names and terms like Pate and Masts amid an unclear discussion of anesthesia and numbers 405 AN. Readers must infer context from scattered references and partial words.
The 1912 law requires tuberculous individuals to destroy sputum, burn soiled garments, ensure an outside window in the patient room, avoid handling food unless properly wrapped or sterilized, and prohibits home shop work or commercial production unless products can be sterilized under local health board rules.
A Progressive leader Colonel William H. Childs sails aboard the Joyance meeting Roosevelt after Spain's return. An onboard cigars dispute ends with a cigar tossed overboard. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw refuses to marry over the word obey. She mocks anti and reactionary critics and notes a joke about marriages and promises.
Two men race toward the station as a train readies to depart. A caller jokes about their sprint and one man admits he did not start in time, prompting light humor as the train leaves.
An old advertisement promises a malaria remedy labeled as a special prescription for Malaria or Chilla and Fever. It claims five or six doses break the disease and that a tonic dose prevents a relapse, priced at 25 cents. It adds a brief note on marriage not guaranteeing failure, suggesting a fighting chance.
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