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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1901
Page
3
Fragmented verse depicts an aging woman reflecting on youth and beauty lost to time. The speaker contrasts memory of charm with aging lines and faded luster, invoking a forgotten poet and a faded romance in a nostalgic tone.
Hank Simmons, isolated for years in the Jarlias slopes, befriends a traveling driver Bill Williams and a phonograph. A visiting vaudeville show leads Hank to woo Mae St. Clair, a stage performer named Polly, with the help of the machine. Mae abandons the profession for Hank, ending the tale with a hopeful union.
Lincoln Nebraska August era reports a man named W W Wright of Lincoln who claims to have engineered a concussion based rain making system. He built 23 mortars arranged in a large circle and fired them for fourteen hours producing a shower in Lincoln the following day while witnesses debated the method's validity. Wright describes gas mixing and electric currents as the core to rain creation and plans to push for state stations to promote rain production through his theory.
A note quotes Strong I speaking with Weens about career change. After training in wood craft, he plans to open a boarding house with his wife, signaling a shift from job loss to entrepreneurship.
A light literary exchange records Miss Simplecute urging Mr Lightwayte to occupy his mind without hard scythe work, in a tone from the Sommerrile Journal.
A New York bound legal bid unfolds via a Broad Street attorney who presses a $20 case into a broader dispute over $29 shares and travel expenses. He hints at costs, gates for the railroad, and aims for one half of potential winnings while noting recent sales to justify the trip.
Reports detail Japanese officers from the Boxer Rebellion era receiving higher classes of the Orders of the Rising Sun and the Kite. Shiba and others gain two-rank promotions. Fukushima moves from third to second in the Rising Sun and third in the Golden Kite. A clash of cultural awards highlights foreign views on Japanese honors. A separate brief notes a spirit medium in Eau Claire Wisconsin facing damages for allowing a spirit to kiss a spectator at a seance.
A collage of humorous misquotes and clipped dialogues from several papers. Witty exchanges range from sea art and bed fobs to stock market anxieties and domestic banter, with a curation of quirky mishearings and playful exchanges.
A collection of critical quips on writers like Hall Caine and Howells, noting errors in Derby horse counts and Panhandle railway routes. Also reports on transparent larval eels from the National Museum and bees using rubber from trees for nest wax, with brief child’s view on reading the ridges of a slipper.
Fragmentary report notes a tense standoff near the Pas-Amerian gates with warnings of a near deadline and precarious conditions. The text mentions elemental forces and a dare or challenge observed near the frontline in unclear terms.
An unreadable excerpt shows a fragmentary message about a Cleveland dealer and a confusing exchange. The legible parts reference a deed and some unrelated items, but the overall meaning is unclear.
The readable text includes garbled mentions of steel prices, a dubious offer for a state coin, places like Staten County and Boca, and a shocking line about a man exporting alleged cures. It also hints at a person quitting smoking and a pharmacist refusing to stock a supposed remedy.
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