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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1902
Page
4
A reader shares a testimonial praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for claimed recovery from chronic pains swelling and sleep issues. The letter mocks medical guesswork and includes a second fragment of a rural song by Frank L Stanton submitted from Youth's Companion with imagery of farm life and home.
Literary customer notes concealment like a worm in the bud on damask apples. Dealer asks about a variety named Red Shakespeare. Chicago Tribune quotation in a quoted exchange.
A theatrical manager asks if the applicant can sing or dance and suggests using them as a stepson of the company in a humorous exchange. The quotes reflect on honesty and risk taking with observers noting boldness and wit from various newspapers.
A narrator recalls meeting Riggs, a blind lantern dealer, and his shop of light. Riggs tells of dreams and a moral longing for morning light, while the narrator witnesses a life blurred between dream and wakefulness and later confronts a preacher's consoling words with dissonant fury.
A historic look at the bee as a model of architectural precision. Koenig proposed a hexagonal cell base from three rhombs with angles 109°26 and 70°34. Maraldi later measured 109°25 and 70°32, Maeterlinck noting any error lies with measurement, not the bees.
A Philadelphia lawyer earned a $100 000 fee for settling contested claims over a will. The piece argues physicians deserve comparable recognition and compensation, noting surgeons’ high earnings and stressing the lifelong impact of a family physician. It calls for unity within the medical profession to correct perceived injustice.
E Benjamin Andrews argues morality can be taught without religion in a new pamphlet. The Chicago Record-Herald notes the idea may be possible but rarely holds.
A veteran writer quotes a New Orleans Times Democrat interview with a veterinarian who praises mules for lacking imagination. He argues that mules rely on five senses and calm, safe behavior, saving riders in dangerous terrain where horses might panic or dream. We owe much to the mule.
A Sunday school lesson on God’s power prompts a boy to declare God cannot create a three year old colt in a day. The teacher asks for the impossible, and the boy’s answer highlights limits of omnipotence in a humorous remark reported by the Philadelphia Times.
A Boston Transcript quip contrasts a wife buying fairy story books for her child with her reaction to fairy tales, illustrating domestic inconsistency in a lighthearted exchange.
A quirky Stray Stories item noting the joke that an automobile costs more than a horse, with a punch line that a surgeon charges more than a horse doctor.
A well known optician quoted by the New Orleans Times- Democrat warns that color and glare strain the eye. He cites electric lights as a danger and argues for broad vistas through parks and promenades to preserve long sight lines and reduce eye strain.
The Prussian Knights of St John donate 3000 marks toward Cos Island excavation led by Herzog and Vosseler of Tubingen University and Necht of Württemberg with Tubingen and Royal Museum support. The Imperial Berlin Archaeological Institute provides 5000 marks and Prince Albert of Prussia 2500 for publishing the report.
A playful exchange features Mr. Griffin and a young woman who jokes about age and eyesight. Griffin teases that about twenty summers have passed without her noticing, while she reacts with surprise to his blunt remark and his suggestion of glasses.
In a witty remark from Woman's Home Companion, a young boy says when he sits in his chair his feet won’t touch the floor yet when he walks they touch the floor just as well as anyone's. The innocuous observation captures a playful moment in a child’s early philosophy.
The essay argues idealism as essential to civilization, praising Christian theology for its transformative power. It cites Goethe Emerson and critics, claims Scots and Dutch theologians fueled practicality through religious study, and credits Christ with embodying ultimate idealism that shaped culture and social progress.
Governor Jelks pardoned George Howard Martin Fuller and John Strength, three of the four white men convicted in Alabama for lynching a negro after John Thomas rallied a mob. The pardon cites Thomas persuading others by exaggerating the alleged assault.
George Roberts, 14, a Black youth, testified at Kingston Tennessee that he killed Mrs. John Bailey of Harriman. He said the husband had given him a mule to seal the deed.
Arthur Jones, the negro who killed E. B. Lewis at Princeton Kentucky on April 21, was captured at Carbondale Illinois and returned to Princeton with out requisition papers amid high excitement. William R. Karples of New York City is jailed in Knoxville Tennessee charged with bigamy after marrying a local woman and leaving a wife and two children in New York. Two men from Diamond Louisiana, Sam Johnson and Joe Brown, drowned in the Mississippi near Diamond after being swept by an undercurrent.
A head on collision between a passenger train and a freight train on the Southern railway near Macon Georgia left two dead and nineteen injured. Texas Christian University in Waco plans new dormitories costing 35000 to be built during the summer vacation.
A threatened uprising of negroes in Kemper county Mississippi was checked by prompt action of whites who armed themselves and arrested the ringleaders. In Audubon park New Orleans Louisiana the other night hoodlums fought a desperate battle leaving five men wounded and two mortally.
Five negroes are jailed in Vicksburg Mississippi charged with killing a negro woman and fatally wounding a negro boy at a dance near the city.
Postmaster Baldwin Hesigna, appointed by President McKinley as postmaster of New Orleans, has submitted his resignation. A wave of violent deaths follows: a Negro miner lynched in Bondtown West Virginia. Levi Morton murdered in Shelby County Alabama. John Brewer fatally shot in Kentucky. Miss Lou Gardner and Arthur Guthrie die by their own actions in Tennessee and Texas respectively. a three cornered fight in Irwin Tennessee leaves John F. Tinker dead and others wounded. multiple fatal and nonfatal accidents occur in Mississippi Louisiana and Arkansas including strikes, falls, and runaways.
A Philadelphia Record note highlights a rival sleuth who easily identifies a customer as left handed and a bookkeeper through clever barber shop observations. He notices ink on the left temple from a pen, deduces professions, then confirms with a lather wash revealing two ink colors. The anecdote ends with a humorous remark on manners and persistence.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports a proposed bureau scheme where an artist draws a Mont Pelee eruption on a peak with explosive chemical dots. A child under five with the least hair and brows after the explosion would receive first prize, a controversial concept for a child’s section.
Advertisement for Allen's Foot-Ease powder claiming relief for tired feet. Includes call to action to request a trial package and provides an address for A. S. Olmsted in Le Roy, New York.
A column notes a Boston professor’s view that no new languages can be invented, mentioning a Georgetown man with a bare lip who parrot-talks. It then shifts to Henry A. Salzer, La Crosse seedsman, donating a last thousand dollars to wipe out the La Crosse Y M C A debt and supporting educational causes. The piece includes a string of brief local quips about hotel bills, mining talk, and a floor of stock jokes.
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