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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1912
Page
4
Dialog shows two unnamed speakers, Chinner I and Miss Wearyone, joking about public attention and catching people napping in a casual, backstage style exchange. The snippet hints at social humor and a tease about personal exposure to fame.
A Detroit Free Press item depicts a landlord pressing a tenant for rent while listing supposed flaws in wallpaper, fixtures, and room decor. The exchange ends with the tenant yielding to the landlord’s painting plan, highlighting tension over maintenance and payment.
A man asks for sausages per pound and the butcher jokes his price is up. The customer compares Schmidt's cheaper stock, but is told Schmidt's is out of them. The butcher quips that if he were out, he would also charge twenty cents.
A lawyer asks how a witness can bear testimonies against a friend. The witness replies that he loves his friend but loves Truth more. The exchange highlights loyalty and honesty in difficult moral choices. Fathers' Day and Mothers' Day are referenced with playful contrast.
A Victorian style guide outlines economical methods to diversify soups using leftovers. It suggests avoiding overpowering flavors and offers recipes for Potato Soup Tomato Soup Mulligatawny Tomato Bisque and Salmon Soup with step by step preparation and flavoring ideas.
Recipe describes cream brown sugar white sugar and butter then mix in melted chocolate and sour milk with soda to form stiff dough. Roll thin cut rounds bake. Filling combines hot water vanilla butter and confectioners sugar to spread. Assemble as a sandwich cookie with bottom spread.
A guide describes cleaning leather with very fine sand paper applied carefully to restore kid and suede surfaces. It also explains making gruel by mixing cold water and milk, then adding to boiling milk and water, simmering gently before serving with sugar and cream.
Three cupfuls of granulated sugar, a quarter pound of chocolate, a cupful each of butter and milk, a cupful of golden syrup, and a teaspoon of vanilla extract are stirred and heated. Test in ice water. when firm, pour into a buttered tin and cut into squares.
The note proposes using paper bags for cooking to save on pot washing and maintain cleanliness. It advises washing pots and pans immediately after use.
To clean light velvet or similar fabrics rub the soiled area gently with the cut surface of a day old loaf of white bread. Remove surface discoloration by lightly pressing and brushing away loosened crust.
Hold the needle eye against a light surface when threading with black thread. For white cotton or silk, place the eye over a dark surface. This contrast helps see the eye and thread clearly and makes threading easier.
Ottumwa Iowa resident Harriet E Wampier credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing years of female troubles after trying many doctors. The ad touts the tonic as a long trusted remedy and invites readers to write for confidential advice from Lynn Massachusetts.
A dialogue about practicality in a spouse and life. A father urges prudence while the son praises a highly practical fiancée who drives and disassembles a motor. The exchange ends with a quip about aging and knowledge.
A department store floorwalker replies that they stock arnica and witch hazel in the drug department. A banter exchange follows about suburban life and gardening. The cartoonish dialogue ends with a tired jab referencing Catholic Standard and Time.
A South Carolina peddler trudging through mud challenged a passerby and urged a Bible purchase. Refused, he resumed work after a rest and set up again, eventually selling the Bible to the same man who had declined the day before. He recounted meeting a muddy man with Bibles and noted buying from a Baptist as a matter of faith.
An old farmer and his plowman loading sand at St Andrews were behind a sand bank during volunteers practice when a stray bullet hit the plowman in the leg. He cried I’m shot, prompting the farmer to leap up and shout Stop there you lot you may have hit a man or even the horse.
A physician endorses Grape-Nuts for breakfast linking digestion relief, weight gain, and reduced meat intake. He cites patients with indigestion and recovery from illness, noting the food's easy digestion and nutrient availability from processed wheat and barley.
A sermon reflects on Jesus questioning the Pharisees about valuing a man more than a sheep. It contrasts worldly measures with divine worth, condemning greed and deception, and urging true values through Christ. It argues money and wealth cannot equate to a soul and urges living by God’s will in small acts to know it in great ones.
Mothers learn of outdoor baby tents used on rooftops and lots to shelter infants during extreme heat with nurses, cool water, ice blocks, and fans aiding comfort. Also noted: expensive French imported soaps costing four dollars a cake, marketed as fragrant travel gifts for brides.
General F D Grant often told a tale about his father speaking with General Sherman in his tent He recounts how a third general known for slovenliness entered the scene After the brigadier left Grant recalls his father blowing smoke and joking about who would be chosen to wear his shirts the first week
Dialogue hints at suspicion around Mrs Wombat. Two speakers debate whether she talks about them, suggesting unease in social circles. The exchange notes her proximity, moving into the house they left, implying potential gossip or misperception.
A fragmentary exchange presents dialogue between Mrs Knagg and Mr Knagg about personal change. The text includes a Thoreau quotation and ribbing about a new baby with a humorous, enigmatic tone.
A Creek North Carolina resident describes a three year scalp eczema cure after using Cuticura Soap and Ointment for two months. A Brooklyn resident reports relief from severe scalp itching and bald spot regrowth following Cuticura remedies.
The Village Cut-Up features Charley Billingsley delivering quick wit and funny lines about umbrellas and poems. A lighthearted exchange shows his playful banter with Gertie and Rose amid snippets of daily life and jokes.
A fragment describes a lifeguard scene where a man falls overboard and is rescued by two sharks acting with threatening behavior before offering to feed him to avoid drowning. The passage reads as a surreal or mis-transcribed account.
An American helps a French learner by promising to correct his exercises. After a delay, the French student sends a letter in awkward English, promising to learn from the text and dictionary and to come to America to give a lecture on the scaffold.
A wealthy man, examined by a doctor, is told his riches and indulgence have broken nature’s laws. He asks for a technicality to escape, but the doctor insists he must pay the penalty for living too high. The exchange hints at moral consequences of wealth and excess.
Lady Duff Gordon in New York at Sherry's offers a witty remark on divorce. She recalls two women discussing marriage with a cigarette and cocktail, noting marriages are made in heaven but Reno unmakes them.
At a Jacksonville dinner Senator Duncan A. Fletcher condemned an orange grower who had failed, blaming ignorance rather than external factors. He compared the man to a tramp who scorns work and industry, warning against willful blindness to cause. The Paxton Toilet Co plans free trial shipments of Paatine Antiseptic to women upon request.
A speaker explains a badge demanding votes for women, noting a change from prior views on suffrage. The dialogue contrasts past skepticism with the badge becoming a fashionable statement. The brief exchange reflects evolving attitudes toward women's suffrage.
A cartoon style exchange shows the henpecked husband asking Dora if his wife is going out and whether he will accompany her. A wry final line notes that those most willing to lead are often those who have nothing.
A tale from Youth's Companion recalls Prof Churton Collins attempting to weed his library. A second hand dealer offers to take the uprooted books for half a dollar to move them away. The owner rebuffs the proposal and reclaims his volumes.
A humorous remark references a supposed freckle eradicator tied to a parent figure, noting the speaker’s disbelief about its fame or existence. The line twists a joke into a mock boast about a remedies or patent product.
A Chicago attorney told a tale at a YMC A banquet about a Dane answering the judge about country conditions with Yes, I am satisfied but I would like to see more rain a girl jokes about love then notes a woman finds a man’s shoulder a consoling refuge.
A short local exchange features Mrs Grogan joking about meat and vegetables and a remark about philanthropy and college funding, reflecting a community mood on resource use and charitable rewards.
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