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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1913
Page
3
A York state town tale recounts a young man who snubbed four girls at the Playhouse door and, during a monologue on love, got his chance to “get even” by asking all the in love girls to stand up while taunting the girl next to him. The audience laughed as the prank unfolded.
A reader recalls Tyree Antiseptic Powder as a remedy for aching and perspiring feet, suggested for sprinkling in shoes or using in solution with endorsers noting it never fails. The ad mentions attainable through druggists and free samples from J. S. Tyree, Washington DC. A separate church anecdote describes Harokis Rut examining a hymn book at an Episcopal service and mishearing Ash Wednesday as a day when ashes are collected.
The text argues that no special future judgment exists and that every day acts as a judgment day. Judgment is described as the consequences of our thoughts words and actions, often unconscious, with continuous arrival at personal accountability through daily experiences.
A fragmentary line from a text notes that a normal child varies with perspective, suggesting in Boston discourse that “it is one who ears powerful spectacles” and hints at defining norms through interpretation rather than fixed facts.
A compact aphorism notes that Ushappr desires death only while a single sacrifice remains to sustain joy, to avert troubles, and to dry tears, reflecting a paradox of purposeful suffering.
A witty exchange unfolds as a wife notes a guest's bachelor status after departure. The husband replies that the guest's cleverness explains his singleness, delivering a light social quip in a concise exchange.
The Atchison Globe suggests the Society for the Prevention of Useless Noises could begin by cutting cheers from three to one to curb noise. The idea proposes a simple public etiquette reform to lower disruption in gatherings.
A fragment notes Smith favors a fountain pen over a pseudonym. The text suggests many dimes dropped to a blind beggar go toward an eye opening need. The tone hints at critique of authorship and fortune.
A reader recounts improved health after changing diet away from rich greasy foods like sausage and buckwheat cakes. By avoiding meat pastries and hot biscuits and using Grape Nuts with sugar and cream, the brain fog and constipation faded, stomach and bowels improved, and overall health felt restored. The note cites Battle Creek producer Postum Co and The Road to Wellville as influences.
A parable explains how God justifies the sinner not by personal merit but through union with Jesus Christ Jesus pays the debt of sin and repairs the believer's standing by partnership with a righteous Savior The faithful live as Christ lives in them and God can declare them righteous through faith in the resurrected Lord.
A reflective passage extols love as the source of human happiness and the expanding heart through God's embrace. It argues love gathers tribute from all loved objects and that open hearts invite joy, while noting a caution about slipshod conduct when observing a careless person.
A note from the American Food Journal explains cane sugar solution is not metabolized when injected, being excreted unchanged. It argues the true value lies in carbon from sugar disintegration forming methane gas essential for growth and respiration of organisms. A terse quip then jokes about an artist known as a pyromaniac.
A mixed-page snippet featuring old humor lines, brief ads, and quips about love, marriage, and daily life. Includes malaria treatment pitch, a souvenir of vintage product ads, and assorted one liners reflecting early 20th century newspaper humor.
Mrs. Fred Strong of Malone New York credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetate Compound with curing her organic inflammation and menstrual trouble after neighbors witnessed her suffering. She urges others to use the remedy and praises its health benefits for displacements inflammations and irregularities.
Fall's Business College for Efficiency advertises shorthand typing commercial branches including civil service preparation. It proclaims graduates in great demand and invites readers to write for a catalogue. President Pall signs the notice from Fassville, Tennessee.
Grace George performs a story where a ten year old girl Irene responds to her father’s rebuke over greasy food. The tale hinges on a child’s clever remark and the adult view of childish humor within a family dinner scene.
A collage of old advertisements and curiosities includes a Cuticura soap testimonial from Miss Lucy May claiming a four week cure for dandruff, plus tales of a bigamist named George Witzoff and a boy expelling 614 worms after Frey’s Vermifuge. Other items note a Presbyterian mission anecdote and a Cherbourg cafe performer who attacked a rival.
A humorous parable about a minister losing his overcoat near a river road ends with a punchline. The piece includes an ad touting a malaria medicine from a company selling parcels post items and praising its cures.
A collage of comic vignettes and anecdotes from old New Orleans life, including Dinah the cook’s remark about a former husband, advice on truthfulness with children, religious quibbles between Methodists and Christian Scientists, and a Brooklyn court quip about a jovial man named Charles Smith. The pieces mix humor with social observations and a dash of local color.
A wife tries to give away her husband’s old clothes while he clings to about five suits for fishing, though he never goes fishing and hates parting with them. In a separate vignette a Sunflower club member notes a mix up in a library book about Rome and St. Paul and a child named Johnnie chases weeds with a baseball.
A man was arrested on a charge of beating his wife as a justice questioned a witness. The exchange revealed a grim view of domestic violence and community attitudes. The column mixes anecdotes and humorous vignettes about remedies and human behavior.
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