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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1914
Page
3
Passenger train times from the Illinois Central Railroad show departures at 3:05 pm 7:35 pm and 4:06 am with additional notes in the schedule.
Crow Co items advertise goods and services with phones 105 165 and 16 as Miss Olivia Tankersly and others visit Holly Springs and Abbeville. Oxford Field Day activities include speeches religious services and vendor notices while community mourns Lizzie Stoates and a gas accident is reported. Trades with Spokane saddle stock and Hams Bacons canned goods appear among county notices and social updates.
Public notice warns against hunting fishing or trespassing on W C Moncan property.
An advertisement offers Beat the Boll Weevil Plant Simykins prolific cotton seed promising vigor and purity. W. J. Derrick of Water Valley Mississippi invites inquiries by writing or phone to order seeds or obtain details.
For sale is Early Triumph Cotton Seed, 15 to 20 days earlier than average. A bale and a half produced that year from 1400 pounds yields a 520 pound bale. Seed offered at Farmers Warehouse Co. and Silk-Lawes Co. guaranteed to be absolutely pure.
Cascade Linen sells writing paper at 25 cents per pound with 16 ounces per pound and matching envelopes at 10 cents per package. Next Monday morning the store offers 100 pounds of paper with envelopes, featuring one pound paper and envelopes at 3 cents each, while supplies last. Come early. R. R. Cameron & The Rexall Co. Store.
A health column warns against overcare in giving medicines to children and stresses following medical guidance for safe pediatric cough remedies.
The annual Field Day of city and county schools was held over Thursday and Friday with ideal weather and large attendance. County Superintendent H T Smith praised the management. Agricultural School led in participation and many events featured winners from Oxford Paris Taylor and other schools with a final team score led by Cultural School 67 Oxford 60 and others.
The Lafayett county board met at Oxford and Lafayette on April 1 and 6 1914 to approve numerous road and county office payments. Actions include salaries for March 1914 courthouse and county home, road work allowances in beats 1 2 3 4 and 5, payments to suppliers for MDs lumber nails and papers, and various minor travel and service costs.
The Lafayette County Board of Supervisors orders payment of various road constructing and dragging costs across Beat 1 Beat 2 and Beat 5 totaling thousands. Individuals named include Daniel Gardeer Alka Brown W R Berrybill A F Calloway B G Denton J A Bigger Menter Foust Walter Creech RC Heater J F Parts H F Blackard A N Gullick J M Saunders Harle Garner Jerry Hillard FrankMn Brown Harmon Mipp G PD Funee MC Creech B T Marketts GW Russell R C Glands E Darideee Relbee Price and others. The resolution also discusses funding for a bridge project and a grammar of bonds for a college cemetery at Lafayette County Mississippi.
An advertisement-style fragment touts products to clear complexion and remove skin blemishes. It references Dr Hobson and a sample suggestion, claiming relief from eczema and chapping with a money back guarantee. Additional stray lines discuss plumbing and an organ, suggesting a noisy, mixed page.
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