Point Hood's Pills Charted as Local Market Item
A brief item notes Point Hood’s Pills listed as a local market commodity. Officials clarify the sale process and community access details for residents seeking the remedy.
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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1898
Page
4
A brief item notes Point Hood’s Pills listed as a local market commodity. Officials clarify the sale process and community access details for residents seeking the remedy.
A Chicago Chronicle piece recounts a wandering ice seller crying out ice cold on a hot day and other humorous vignettes. It shifts to humorous anecdotes about social missteps and oddities from various papers, including a stairway incident and parade of letters from Cleveland and Chicago reporters.
The article traces the life of the Marquis de La Fayette from his birth in Auvergne to his role in the American Revolution and the French struggle that followed. It notes U.S. President McKinley's support for a Paris monument, La Fayette's loyalty to Washington, and Carlyle's harsh verdict while acknowledging his enduring influence and the lessons on freedom.
General Pollock notes Osage wealth and idle lifestyle in annual interior department report. Crow Creek agent warns intertribal gaming and idleness harm progress, while Uintah Ouray captain presses Uncompahgre land claims and hunting rights. Agent urges congressional remedy and compensation.
In Potsdam during a liquor-fueled riot prompted by a wet town vote, Antoine Laduke, a five foot four Canadian blacksmith, plowed through a mob wrecking a path with a red sandstone slab. The next day the town swarmed with roughs seeking Laduke, who had become a local figure of defiant survival amid the turmoil.
PW Christian of Halliol College Oxford spent eight years in the Caroline Islands visiting all 25 islets and documenting native dialects. He collected ethnological specimens and found ruins suggesting large lagoon cities with basalt walls and carvings, implying advanced engineering by early inhabitants.
The piece recounts how figures from prominent women such as George Eliot Anne Thackeray George Sand Florence Nightingale and the Brontes used dolls. It notes Eliot's dolls faced harm Thackeray kept damaged toys at a shop Nightingale cared for fragile toys and the Brontes staged plays with wooden figures and created poems for Wellington.
A garbled reminiscence recalls colonial living with imported English goods, stagecoaches between New York and Boston, a two-shilling daily wage, and odd quips about social customs. A lawyer recounts defending a murderer in a crime tale, mentioning a German stack charade and a disputed verdict, amid scattered phrases that hint at courtroom drama.
The clumsy anecdote recounts two geology enthusiasts meeting through a stranger at a Bowser, staying up late to compare specimens, and a fossil allegedly vanished from a table and under papers. The tale ends with a quip about honesty and a hurried departure.
A dubious patent medicine ad declares Hall's Catarrh Cure can restore hearing and cure deafness. It credits a Dr. Obenero and an Indianapela label, asserting a unique remedy without medical proof and promising relief with the product.
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