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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1919
Page
6
The article explains ship building begins on land with mold loft patterns and keel blocks. It describes building ways, shores, and lifting devices like gin poles cranes and trackways called cradle ways to support and move the ship as construction progresses toward water.
Theda Bara stars in Kathleen Mavourneen at the Lyric Theatre on Saturday October 18. The Fox special, written and directed by Charles J Brabin from Julia Crawford’s poem, crowns Bara’s transition to a sweet Irish heroine after famous vamp roles.
The text explains straight parallel tracks greased for ship launching. It describes cradles with bearing and wedges to support the hull. After fitting under the ship, wedges lift the cradle, releasing the ship into water while the cradle floats away. It lists essential steps: site, mold loft, molds, ways, keel blocks, shores, hoisting equipment, cradle way, cradle, launching.
The Oxford Eagle promotes a subscription deal offering a yearly rate of 1.50 dollars. Readers are urged to sign up to enjoy ongoing local reporting from the newspaper.
An advertisement touts Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe, pleasant vegetable liver remedy that replaces calomel. It claims calomel causes salivation and weakness, while Dodson's Tone cleanses the liver without harming bones and suits children and adults. It urges quick use to avoid biliousness and other symptoms and promises a money refund if not better.
To get rid of worms in children give them White's Cream Vermifuge. The little sufferer improves at once and soon becomes healthy, active and robust. Price, 35c. Sold by A. H. Kindel.
A nostalgic poem recalls life fifty years ago with sharp social observations. It notes harsher schooling, corporal discipline, presumed propriety, limited technology, and social norms about marriage and behavior, contrasting them with modern times. It mentions teachers, patrons, and common rural life elements like cornbread, rail travel, and old dances.
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