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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1912
Page
4
An elderly Irishwoman at a Lord Spencer era St Patrick Day ball reportedly filled a large silk bag with food after a predatory raid. The comptroller confronted her as she claimed a joker remark about ham, recounting the incident from Sir Alfred Turner’s Autobiography.
A doctor notes many more patients last year than this and wonders where they have gone. Mrs Wrink responds that they can only hope for the best.
A California farm owner with a 16 percent acre property says he offers any sleeping space to a new hand. He tells the worker he may use any part of the land that looks suitable for sleep and welcomes him kindly to Meals at the farm. The note portrays a generous, ironic setup from Popular Medicine.
Dr Henry Churchill King, president of O Sertin college, recounts an episode outside a Chicago fair venue. A man exited intoxicated and asked for the building name, then thanked him after learning it, claiming he had previously been present and wished to mark it off.
Unclear dialogue shows a pedestrian misreading a driver as a roundabout tour guide. The exchange includes a remark about paying nine dollars and fifty cents and a suggestion to hire an acroplase as the speaker complains of indirect routing. A comic opera company is referenced in a tangential line.
An OCR fragment offers a health ad infomercial with various claims. Mentions Dr Pierce’s pills, a tonic for summer use, malaria prevention, and general remarks on constipation and digestion. References unclear product names and slogans.
A collection of pickle and relish instructions detailing onion celery pepper and tomato relishes, corn salad, and meatless relish. Steps include chopping, salting, soaking overnight, mixing with vinegar sugar mustard seed pepper and spices, then sealing in jars without cooking. Specific quantities for corn salad and mixed relishes are given.
Practical kitchen guidance covers simmering soup and three hour roast times for a tem pound turkey. It advises celery iced to crisp, olive oil for cleaning aluminum, alcohol on sponge to remove dust, and keeping a pencil calendar for accounts. It warns against canned food in tins once opened and suggests butter as cubes with fluted edges. Fat for frying should boil before frying, and chestnuts add flavor boiled to a simple salad.
A vintage recipe passage details making lemon walnut cookies with butter sugar egg flour and nuts then discusses a spiced apple mixture using allspice cinnamon cloves and nutmeg with molasses and lemon juice. The text includes cooking steps and several ingredients for both recipes.
A recipe describes boiling sugar with cream of tartar and water, then pouring over stiff egg whites beaten to peak stages. It blends in raisins and English walnuts, then spreads the mixture between and over the cake layers.
A simple bake recipe lists one day one pourd butter two tablespoons sugar and enough flour to roll very thin. Mix lightly with a spoon. Roll out thin cut diamonds. Sprinkle granulated sugar and cinnamon. Bake ten minutes in a moderate oven. If they run add a few more sour.
Two cups of four and butter totaling two and a half tablespoons plus one and a half tablespoons of lard are mixed. Add about one third cup of ice water, form a soft dough with minimal water, roll out thin, and bake.
A fragmented recipe note lists ingredients for a tea related mix and advises filling a kettle with fresh water. It notes that repeatedly boiled water can give tea a flat taste and suggests using water that has not been previously boiled to improve flavor.
One quart cranberries with six cups water and two cups sugar are cooked eight minutes. The mixture is forced through a sieve, returned with sugar, then cooled and frozen to make preserved cranberries.
A druggist explains that a grouchy customer signals a purchase while a grinning man might seek a donation or a bogus line. The swallow is cited as the speed king of the air with a record of 300 feet per second.
A fragmented promotional and humorous notice references malaria prevention with Oxidine weekly doses and a social quip about widows. It includes a nonsensical line about a sunny lot and a marginal free treatment offer. The text preserves era tone and generic medical advice within a promotional fragment.
In a shop scene the dialogue questions why one studies costly dummies asEdward answers learning order and etiquette from them. The exchange hints at social lessons and the value of decorum in public spaces.
A reader comic recounts an opera plot with Mrs Wallaby seeking divorce Miss Lotta Planks smuggling a pearl necklace and Mr Gerald Pie drinking. The German Imperial Post Office issues a Wireless Map showing world telegraph stations highlighting Neuien as the strongest with a 2100 mile range, two hundred miles beyond the Eiffel Tower.
The forecast indicates continued cold conditions across the area. No other significant updates are mentioned.
A physician notes that caffeine in coffee and tea can cause dyspepsia and insomnia and recommends Postum as a caffeine free alternative. He cites patient relief from nervous dyspepsia after quitting coffee, touts Instant Postum, and provides preparation and pricing details from Postum Cereal Co. Ltd. in Battle Creek.
A devotional reflection on Jesus who welcomes sinners showing his mission to save mankind. It cites verses from Isaiah Luke and John to affirm the savior’s inclusive love and the transforming effect on figures from Mary Magdalene to Paul, urging meditation and joy in faith.
An old newspaper fragment advertises Mrs Wisslow's Soothing Syrup claiming to ease teething pain and cure wind colic. It touts Oxidine as an malaria remedy and includes a quirksome exchange about salary and succession in a humorous aside.
A witty exchange asks what constitutes an ideal husband with a jab about independence from court-ordered alimony. The item also includes a testimonial for Babek malaria cure praising its effectiveness, non quinine formula, and price.
An advertisement offers a free sample of a panacea claimed to ease headaches biliousness constipation malaria and indigestion by supporting liver function with no pain or griping. The Bond Pharmacy Company in Rock Ark will mail a sample upon request.
This excerpt promotes Cuticura ointment and Cuticura Soap as a home remedy for scalp itching dandruff and thinning hair. It describes rubbing the ointment into the scalp with a parting, covering the hair, and shampooing the next morning, noting shampoos alone can be used and a monthly regimen is typical. It ends with a cynical line about marriage and cooks.
An advertisement extols Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a gentle effective laxative for women. It claims salts and purgatives upset the system, promotes natural relief next morning, and offers a free trial bottle via mail from Dr W B Caldwell, 203 West St Monticello Ill.
The text notes an anti malaria practice recommending nd prescribe ONIDINE for malaria with years of experience. It advises keeping a bottle at hand and to administer at first sign of chills and fever. It contrasts wealth with a coal in the cellar and a paid for one.
Two Kansas City sisters make rounds calling on households and leaving cards while one worries about being watched. The Blaine schoolhouse in Mars Hill once honored by James G. Blaine has been converted to a storeroom and moved, ending a long era for generations of graduates.
The Memphis Tennessee firm advertises welded and wrapped stock fencing two inch privacy and painted steel roofing options. Promotes rubber and gravel coatings per square and invites trial orders. Ends with a wry line about pocketed men and wristwatches.
A garbled passage references a summer tonic and a drug named Roxidines, with stray lines about satisfaction, the self made man, and the idea that time equals money when interest is due. The fragmentary text mixes product hints with proverbs and unrelated commentary.
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