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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1905
Page
4
An editorial style admonition discusses rising hospital stays for ovarian and womb troubles among women and promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a non surgical cure. Letters from readers praise the remedy, claiming recovery from symptoms like irregular menstruation, back pain, weakness, and nervous distress, urging others to seek advice rather than surgery.
A garbled OCR fragment presents flippant lines on liquor weakening the voice and love, a blind love interest, and political rhetoric. Nonsense phrases reference women speaking versus men thinking, voter balance, and odd quotes about fashion and economics, ending with a misread line about present prices. It reads as a clipped, hurried newspaper entertainment snippet.
The census of the twentieth century brings fast changes in funeral furnishings. Caskets now favor copper over iron with varnished or cloth covers. The National Casket Co. introduces a Couch Casket that looks like a couch when open yet retains full casket outlines for dignified burial use.
At a Philadelphia dinner, Charlemaine Towar the American ambassador to Germany, discusses Americans love of Paris and European views. He cites a Berlin dinner anecdote and a French diplomat's stance on a young American girl's rabies scare and the wish to seek Paris for treatment.
The New York Press notes naturalist John Burroughs values personal collections. He tells Orr’s family to bring flowers and orchids home for his admiration as he discusses collecting and friendship with a casual, humorous tone.
A jumble of testimonials from Birmingham Herald style clippings tout Dodd’s Kidney Pills and Allen’s Foot Ease as cures for Bright’s Disease and related ailments. Readers are urged toward quick recovery after years of senserine like kidney pain and toe issues. A mix of advertisements and anecdotal claims appears with scattered names and places, including Peetree Pastor and New York statements.
Mrs Williams suffers years of nervous prostration exhaustion and rheumatic pains. A box of Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People restored appetite nerves and strength after a prior failed kidney and menopause treatment. Mrs Linske Williams now at 416 Cedar Street Illinois reports renewed health.
In Shawnee Tennessee a head on collision between two freight trains, one a doubleheader, killed four railroad men and injured six others. Named dead are James Klutz Middlesboro George Mooney Corbis Will Parris Corton and Brakeman Lauelier Norton. Several others were fatally or seriously injured, with crews from Corbin and Pennington Gap among the injured. The crash occurred on a slight curve near Shawnee and caused total wreckage of three engines and 25 cars with a caboose detaching to escape grave danger.
A boiler explosion derailed a Baltimore and Ohio freight engine near Mountain Lake Park Maryland on Sunday killing brakeman P F Johnson and fireman J L Simpan and seriously injuring engineer A W Stranhasen. All victims were Cumberland men. Three tracks were blocked for hours.
Charles Tuxhorn, 40, a farmer 14 miles southwest of McPherson, killed his two sons ages lx and ten, smothered them, carried their bodies to a neighbor's orchard and covered them with blankets. He then burned his house and barn, and shot himself. He had been arrested for mistreating his wife and children and was to appear in court today.
United States Customs Collector Leach found valuable ivories and faces belonging to Mrs Cassie J Chadwick in her Chadwick home on Euclid Avenue Cleveland. The goods imported are valued at about ten thousand dollars and may be sold to recover any unpaid duties with surplus proceeds going to Chadwick creditors fund.
A fire at Sparks Bros barns in the National horse and mule market near East St Louis destroyed about 100 mules. Three frame barns 90 by 195 feet and eight carloads of baled hay were burned, with total damage estimated at 25000 dollars covered by a blanket fire insurance policy.
The Oregon Railway and Navigation Co. steamship Geo. W. Elder left Portland for San Francisco with many passengers and cargo but struck a rock near Goble at midnight and sank. Passengers and crew escaped safely. Bloomington NL reports engagements and a wedding planned for June. Frank Rollings, 71, died. his widow died 24 hours later. Farm land in Ogle County set record at 150 per acre. John Stocking's estate sold to R. M. Johns. William Worth, 1, jailed three years for stealing a pint of whisky.
Public librarian Frederick M. Crunden and library board president Frederick W. Lehmann discussed losses from J. F. P. Langton, assistant librarian, who admitted stealing 4420 from library funds. Langton, 40, supported a large family including six children and an invalid relative, and said growing expenses led to the embezzlement as a loan to cover needs. The confession followed an anticipated routine books review.
Official account reports during the blessing of the Neva waters an accidental firing by a guard battery. A grape shot misfire struck the winter palace area, wounding a policeman and breaking four windows near Quay Gardens. The shell was left on a gun after Tuesday practice.
In a Powellton and Pocahontas railroad wreck near Charleston on January 2, engineer James Keesey and fireman Harry Jones were crushed beneath the engine. An unknown boy, about age 12, was severely injured and expected to die. The men had been dropping coal cars down a steep eight mile grade from Powellton to Mount Carbon when Keesey lost control, sending the engine off a sharp curve into a 20 foot embankment.
Farmington dispatch reports Jim Harris and Pan Sparks in a scuffle over a revolver at Elvins. Sparks dies instantly after Harris is shot two or three times. Harris arrested and jailed in Farmington. Earlier feud participant Harris survived Doe Run battle on August 4, 1900.
Mrs Kate Edwards faces execution on February 16 in the county jail for the murder of her husband John Edwards 30 years ago. She will be hanged alongside Samuel Greason. Her 3 1/2 year old daughter Alma, born in prison, will be sent to a southern state for adoption as Edwards endures a grim time ahead.
In Reno Nevada on Friday a mob formed after an unknown negro attacked Mrs James B Harper a prominent resident. Strainner a negro was arrested and taken to jail at gunpoint as a mob of about a thousand gathered to lynch him. The attacker broke into Harper s home struck her with an ax and dragged her to a woodshed before the alarm from her two children drove off the mob.
A special commission under Lieut Gen Khitoro to investigate the firing origin has been appointed in St Petersburg. The panel will operate under the artillery inspector general and Grand Duke Sergius. Reports abroad alleging Capt Davidoff suicide are unfounded.
Reports of a widespread conspiracy in the army appear unfounded. Grand Duke Sergius Nichaetovitch notes no real threat as a saluting gun contained a precautionary charge. A ban on gatherings is ordered in St Petersburg to preserve public safety. In Rapid City two Cain brothers were murdered, likely by a neighbor, while mining property remains valuable. Other items report on cotton supply, Arizona statehood stance, a Chicago embezzlement case tied to Louisiana, a Denver day of prayer, and the death of Abbot Felix de Grasse. Jane Toppan is described as a state hospital patient.
A 1910s testimonial pamphlet extols Peruna as a cure for la grippe and post illness catarrh. Judges, actors, and public figures like H J Goss and J R Guill credit the remedy with curing severe grip and restoring health after years of weakness.
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