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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1902
Page
4
Mrs. M. K. Bousch and her daughter Pearl testify to Peruna curing chronic catarrh in two generations. The ad brands Peruna as the era’s catarrh remedy, notes Dr. Hartman’s book Health and Beauty, and invites readers to write for free advice if results are not prompt.
Quotation notes that even ideal partners reveal preferences and silence, while Uncle Eben jokes that most arguments resolve only who stays quiet and who speaks. The Chicago Daily Tribune line adds that discovering an ideal woman often ends with finding her ideal man.
A Baltimore News excerpt portrays a father lamenting his son's chronic lying while a practical voice envisions the boy becoming a future financier. The exchange highlights contrasting views on reform and future utility within a family.
Editor of a southern Missouri paper quotes an Indianapolis Journal obituary with a solemn, rhetorical line about "the Pale Horse" coming at daylight and the deceased riding home in a vivid, feelingly worded tribute.
A playful exchange on department store ads contrasts youth with a wife who reads ads. The Philadelphia Press quips that ads reveal expenses, while the New York Herald notes a saying about seeking benefits for others guiding one to find them.
The piece argues farmers should raise mules locally to avoid high time prices, outlining a potential mule farm business with a colt costing about twenty five dollars and rising to over one hundred after three years. It notes Southern markets like St Louis and Atlanta dominate mule trade and urges self-sufficiency. it also discusses hog feeding, younger market pigs, and the benefit of growing and marketing pigs at six to seven months to reduce costs and improve profits.
The State Farmer argues drought cripples corn and cotton, urging flat cultivation with shallow frequent tillage to preserve soil moisture. It contrasts this with ridge systems, claiming level, dust mulch retention reduces moisture loss and may protect crops during dry spells. The piece calls for broad testing of the flat method for cotton as well.
A farmer explains a system to plant most acres in corn for silage and sale, grow peas and sorghum for forage, save grasses for hay, rear cattle and hogs, and use improved machinery to raise productivity. The plan includes limited cotton on poor land, manure production, and investment in equipment like a manure spreader, mower, rake, seed drill, and plows.
The demand rise and high feed costs over the past year have pushed farmers to place on the market animals that are more mature or ready for sale, altering marketing patterns and prices in the livestock trade.
A farmer advices on improving stock palatability with hay, alfalfa as a universal hay plant, and avoiding fowl tonics by improving sanitation. Silo use is praised for preserving forage, with praise for orchardists shifting to peach seedlings and extended fruit marketing. Emphasis on even fertilizer distribution, oat feeding benefits, and big U.S. corn crop value at $922 million for 1901.
Rome as capital ranks small in population compared with Milan and Naples. Alpine club year book notes 218 tourists 73 guides 14 porters killed in a decade. Britain yields 360 pounds grain per person while North America yields 22 228 pounds per inhabitant. Lake Baikal proves deepest with 4500 feet depth. Leeds magistrates limit street tramways. Revue de Paris cites French hopes Spain becomes French. Swedish postal authorities propose mail addressing lessons for children. Japanese diet favors fish with meat rare among the population.
A Canadian, Thomas P. Wilson, developed acetylene gas while smelting using rock salt and limestone. Slag dumped into a river produced bright flames. experiments with water and a flame confirmed the discovery, later benefiting automobile illumination and safety.
A Chicago Inter Ocean tale recounts a red cedar tie from Illinois first railroad the Northern Cross built 1836 near Springfield. After 30 years in service the tie became a grape trellis for 35 years while owned by a farmer, with decay only near the ends.
A witty exchange from the Detroit Free Press features Harriet and Harry debating a mother’s oratorical skills. Harriet notes she is a good talker while Harry quips she is a fluent contradicator in a light, humorous dialogue.
The clipped lines quote two opinions on human nature and love. The New York Herald calls selfishness the most contemptible trait, while Town Topics notes love at first sight often fades by a second glance.
A testimonial from Miss Evizariru Carsz of Fond du Lac Wisconsin praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for curing eight months of suppressed menstruation. The letter claims renewed health and regular cycles after weeks of use. Mrs Pinkham offers free advice and invites ill young women to write for guidance from Lynn Massachusetts.
A reflective note on the cycle of day and night from dawn to dusk. The piece closes with a moral about each day ending properly. A separate brief anecdote shows a child narrator easing a parent into trust, citing a relaxed conversation about a retirement and business.
A Connecticut woman's diary entry from 27990 notes roast pork with a jest about Mother Eve as a rib on the fork. It includes snippets of humor and adverts, a drug claim, and remarks from various published sources. The fragment blends domestic life with period ads and quips.
A college president with a trim yacht capsizes on the Thames and is lent a student’s hat after a quick change of clothes. The bald head provokes laughter as the student quips Ive got hair on my head, a joke the president accepts with hearty amusement.
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