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Newspaper

Oxford Eagle

Location

Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America

Date

Dec 08, 1898

Page

4

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.

Ice dealer and other tales from a Chicago paper

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.

Shen Owen Aoa Oe Eceman Hemin Oes Chicago

La Fayette and the French hero's enduring memory

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.

la Fayette Review la Payette Washington United States McKinley Indore la Fayette Paris Olmuets Great Britain Bonaparte Italy France Chamber of Deputies Congress of the United States Monroe Ile New York Congress Iecember Charles XI National Guard Louis Philippe Petit Picpus Marquis DE LA Fayette Chateau de Chavagnac Auvergne College de Plessis Franklin Deane Lee Bordeaux Haron de Kalb Charleston D. C Philadelphia George Washington Brandywine Monmouth Marquis Atlantic Rochambeau Lord Cornwallis Yorktown Marquis Egein Assembly of Notables States-General Louis XVI Marie Antoinette Palace of Versailles National Assembly Austria Frontier Philippeville Mauberge Florennes Germany Canada Carlyle

Indian Welfare Report Cites Osage Rows and Uncompahgre Claims

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.

Pollock Interior Department Hather Stephens Cornish Uintah and Ouray Agency Utah White River Utes United States Colorado Congress

Antoine Laduke Hero of Potsdam Riots

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.

Adirondack St. Lawrence Valley Mill Pee Potedam Eidanen Beck Salagn Se Howe Jerome Petrie Mike Thonoran Mike Hang Os Antoine Ladake Potsdam Antoine Ladukie

Explorer Christian in Caroline Islands Reveals Ancient Ruins

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.

Caroline Islands Christian Halliol College Oxford Carolines Taureau Venice Manchester England Guardian

Dolls and Diaries of Famous Women in Childhood

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.

George Eliot Maggie Tulliver Maggie Anne Thackeray Thackeray George Sand Florence Nightingale Charlotte Emily Bronte Duke of Wellington Napoleon

Old-Time Riddles and a Legal Tale Told in Fragments

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.

United States England Connecticut Virginia New York Boston

Fossil collectors share wild tale of lost fossils and mistaken theft

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.

Thum Cooper Detroit Free Press

Deafness Cure Shown by Hall's Remedy Claims

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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