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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1895
Page
4
An advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a remedy for scrofula salt rheum and all blood diseases. It urges readers to take the tonic now to realize benefits and express enthusiasm for its merits.
A distorted poem fragment echoes pilgrims traveling through a harsh desert. It laments suffering, fading beauty, and the endurance of the soul, attributing the experience to the desert’s trials and the mortal toll on travelers. The voice names James M lrumsen and University Signal in a cryptic closing.
In Sumatra near Sanda Strait two American families, the Mowbrays and the Sherwells, live amid rice fields and coffee plantations. While Lilian and Lala Sherwell explore, a rare rimau dahan leopard menaces them until Ernest Mowbray and his Arab horse rescues them, killing the animal with a single shot and earning the girls’ lasting gratitude.
A Glasgow boy, jailed for misdeeds, is asked where he earned his wickedness. He answers by asking the judge if he knows the pumps on Glassford Street and Brig Gate. The boy then tells the judge to go to Brig Gate and pump as long as he likes.
The text describes an encounter with an English author named Parker I met Lion. It suggests he is working on a project to gather information from various sources and to verify its accuracy.
Caldwell recounts his years of heavy tobacco use and painful withdrawal before quitting with BeTTes crated therapy. He cites weight gain, tremors, and mental strain during withdrawal, then credits a tobacco cessation method advertised by Sterling Remedy Co. as life turning. He notes Caldwell and others in town claim success and warns against counterfeit cures.
Fragmentary verse describes a primordial world of water air and forest life. The speaker evokes divine artistry in shaping landscapes oceans storms and creatures while linking music as a act of creation and human emotion. The cadence and imagery suggest a spiritual ode to nature and art.
The piece surveys college education for women, missionary origins in California and the Sandwich Islands, a Chicago settlement plan linking multiple colonies, Bramwell Booth’s Darkest England report on London poverty, and early prizes for Hebrew New Testament studies at the American Institute of Sacred Literature. It notes Harvard bequests, faculty cuts, and a plan to train ministers via practical Hebrew and Greek study.
A collage of witty quotes and jokes from multiple papers including the Philadelphia Inquirer and Washington Star. It features humorous exchanges about honesty, marriage, singing lessons, church membership, skulls in a museum, and a nightmare poster idea, with brief anecdotes and wordplay.
A quirky tale follows Gus Hawkins a reformer who wants kinder treatment of ghosts. In Spruce Hollow graveyard he meets a ghost at Perkins tombstone who invites him home for tea and a calm chat before vanishing leaving Gus puzzled and a clue in his pocket.
The piece stacks a chilly street scene with a North Side thermometer fooled by a boy’s breath and a debonair German comic misread. It also strings in quips about newspapers, reviewers, and a Philadelphia man’s blunt remark, all in light, humorous vein.
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