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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1900
Page
4
A garbled page stitches together ads for cures like a liver and stomach remedy, letters from readers, and scattered references to medical products and personal anecdotes. It wanders through mentions of marriage, funerals, and public notices with numerous broken words and misread lines.
An account details scientific chicken fattening in Canada to maximize export prices. Chicks 3 to 30 pounds live weight are fed in small coops with ground grain and fattening fattening steps, including tallow addition. Food cost per pound live weight gained runs about 44 cents, birds starved 24 hours before slaughter, then plucked and packed for shipment.
J. L. Irwin of Ohio describes a method to preserve wooden wagon wheels by heating oil in a makeshift fire and dipping the wheel. A sharpened wire coil and a rounded-bottom pan are used to shape and fit the tire while two men hammer the process with simple cradles or crotches to hold the wheel steady.
Hints discuss feeding work horses with corn oats and hay for meals and pasture at night. Emphasizes gradual training with kindness and intelligent persuasion, not force. Recommends keeping mares for breeding, feeding lavishly during gestation and after delivery, and selling the colt.
A compilation of quirky exchanges and garbled captions from multiple newspapers. Jests touch on inheritance, insanity pleas, advertising confusion, and misread dialogues, with mis-spelled lines and pratfalls reflecting early 20th century humor.
A prison orchestra of about 1100 inmates performs under an Austrian led group with banjos, mandolins, and a gas pipe bass. Overseers say the music lifts prisoners’ spirits, while the ensemble works on the Dowlanger march and other pieces for an upcoming public performance in Philadelphia.
The Singer Manufacturing Company of New York displays its celebrated Singer Sewing Machine in Group XII at the Paris International Exposition. The machine earns the Grand Prize for design and efficiency, echoing prior success at Chicago. Readers are urged to visit Singer salesrooms nationwide.
Population of Zululand is 150 6m with only 500 Europeans. Japan dykes cost more than Dutch ones. In China unpaid debts allow demons to enter via shop doors. Carisbrook Castle well water sinks 170 feet below ground yet a pin hears the strike. Uganda report notes Bantu peoples crave cloth and imported goods. Persian fashion shifts to European dress with Teheran dressmakers earning highly.
Morris Gengrave Daly of Cork marries Miss Marie M Doyle of St. Louis after a romance that began in a Paris convent where Daly’s sister Mice Daly befriended Doyle. The couple, quiet wedding at Church of the Visitations, plan a month of travel before settling in Cork. Daly is from an old Irish family and runs a large business.
Frankfort report to the state department urges establishing American department stores abroad to boost exports. The vice consul notes European cities lack such stores, predicting Frankfort would become a hub for American goods, with annual sales of 3 to 4 million dollars and wide agency distribution. Shoes could lead the trade.
Prominent lawyers prepare for a fall probate battle over A T Stewart’s estate with three years of evidence gathered. They claim an autograph letter proves kinship to a nephew, and witness testimony will test the will’s assertions of no heirs while seeking assets not to the widow or Judge Hilton. A Chicago Times-Herald note adds a train hold up remark.
Flo delivers a sealed letter through a window and pays two cents. The clerk responds gruffly asking what is wanted while a traveler asks for an easenoute in a terse street scene from the Philadelphia North American.
Alabama former congressman A. T. Goodwyn writes about Peruna Meteine Co of Columbus Ohio praising the remedy for catarrh. He claims improvement within a week and urges public protection from disease with Hartman as a national cure.
During a Supreme Court session, an eminent patent attorney faced interruption as Judge Shirase questioned a collar button that cannot roll under a bed. The lawyer defended patent rights, insisting the product’s uniqueness benefits mankind yet remains unsold by his client.
A scattered OCR passage mixes comic fragments about genius and love with a Chicago Great Western Railway job notice listing opportunities in Illinois Iowa Minnesota and Missouri. It includes a courtroom anecdote from a Scottish court and a dry goods clerk cameo, with no clear single event.
An letter from Wm H Milla of California recounts how California fruit and forestry displays at the Paris Exposition impressed French committees. He notes the panorama of California’s grove and forest, irrigation arguments, and the assertion that California offers ideal climate and soil for fruit, positioning the state as the world’s orchard.
A Chicago Chronicle extract quotes a colored Georgia resident asking the War Department about eligibility, pensions, and being able to serve with one leg or head injury, ending with a vow to vote for the requester if allowed to enlist. The piece also includes a Town Topics joke: a man fleeing after discovering love, followed by a brief punchline.
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