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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1897
Page
4
A garbled column features a man with bronzed shirt hearing a charming young woman. They exchange lines about beauty and truth in a smoky café vibe, with fragmented quotes from various speakers including Chicago seeners and a British tone.
A garbled passage shows a student’s request for a pony and a swimming after school activity. The text fragment includes childlike lines about wanting a pony, after school swimming, and mentions of others being absent or silent. The readability is limited with many misspellings.
In the days after the war a young man named Bob Walters, handsome and self-assured, clashes with Swells over a canoe trip on a treacherous lake. A tense rescue unfolds as Miss Princely intervenes, Bob saves her and Dobball’s companion, and Swells faces judgment and eventual rejection in favor of Bob for Miss Princely.
A survey of winter fashion highlights with furs, velvets, and jet accessories. Describes trimmed waistcoats, belts with jeweled buckles, long muffs, blue gowns with lace borders, and emerging fabrics like Epingle. Also notes Paris fur trends and a humorous anecdote from American travelers, plus a stray dental glass novelty.
The article argues farming requires practical and theoretical knowledge across agricultural chemistry botany and entomology. It praises two knowledge types knowing facts and knowing where to obtain more, and stresses that colleges like Texas A and M advance agricultural science. It urges expansion to accommodate more students to raise national farming competence.
The Agricultural Epitomist notes a published claim that corn costs six cents per bushel to grow and can be sold for far less than three times that amount. It reports interviews with 68 Prairie-area growers and finds average costs higher, with plowing and listing methods yielding about 16 cents per bushel, while marketing and shells add no savings.
Agricultural expert J. J. Baird urges farmers to build well ventilated lighted stables with concrete floors and proper drainage. He advises eight foot high ceilings, long front windows, and top ventilation to keep horses healthy and reduce waste. He warns against allowing swine in stables and notes broader farm practices for winter readiness and working capital.
The latest vogue features lace whistcoats trimmed with fur and sable accents, gray gowns, and jet black net tremes. Belts of narrow leather with smoked pearl and steel, ermine lined seals, and long white fur muffs are in style. blue gowns use blue velvet bodices with lace yokes, while red gowns show white lining.
In Eururban town Mira Stimpson dismisses a delivery of new furniture as the undertaker wagon arrives and blocks her doorway. She protests to the driver and wonders what neighbors will think as the coffin wagon stands at her home. The dealer explains no other vehicle was available and the sale proceeds.
A spunky tale from the Detroit Free Press shows Mrs Huldah Hoskins altering a wedding notice with Samson Peters, citing finances and duties. The editor confirms the names as Peters and Hoskins and Mrs Peters to be. The piece shifts to a light aside about frost and peach crops in Pittsburgh.
A compact etiquette note on modest jewelry choices and social manners. It advises against costly rings in the workplace, describes acceptable accessories like a turquoise in a gold ring, pale tan gloves with faint contrasting stitching, and proper handling of dropped items. It also notes attire details for gowns and suggests honoring polite introductions to avoid overbearing requests to perform.
An early 20th century advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure by F. I. Cheney & Co as a constitutional treatment for catarrh, claiming cure in blood and mucous surfaces with doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful and offering $100 for any failure to cure, plus a brief jab at traditional local remedies.
In a terse provincial exchange the speaker opposes ridiculing the former leader and cautions against fanfare over the old administration while insisting on measured treatment and accountability.
The passage presents short quotable strings from The New York Journal and Well Come Up. It features a brisk exchange between a wife and husband about loyalty and decency, with remarks on appearance and a reference to a Chinaman. The tone mirrors a gossip or humor column style from early newspaper pages.
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