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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1920
Page
2
Analyzing postwar unrest, Frank Comerford argues soldiers shaped by war pursue force in labor and politics. He links demobilized troops feeling ignored to calls for direct action and profiteering as triggers of social tension across Europe and the United States.
Col. William Barclay Parsons, commander of the eleventh engineers who aided Haig, writes the Louvain library destruction was the greatest Teuton crime in Belgium. The statement is issued by the national committee for restoring the Louvain library and cites support from Nicholas Murray Butler and other European figures.
Berlin announces that German subjects charged with offenses against persons or hostile aliens during the war up to June 29 will be prosecuted. The attorney general will pursue crimes by Germans abroad if punishable where committed. A general procedure law has been submitted, allowing relatives of the injured to sue as complainants.
Agricultural agents Wade and Grantham report Mississippi dairying expands with 1919 butter sales reaching 2.4 million dollars from 4.4 thousand in 1912. New creamieries emerge in Brookhaven Aberdeen and across the railroad main line, lifting rural prosperity and electrifying homes. They note increased feed production, better stock, and wider farm improvements driven by dairy development.
A letter from Mrs. J. M. Wells to Mr. Wade describes dairying progress near Eldeen and Chunky Mississippi. She recalls starting four years ago with five cows and heifers, and now reports a growing herd and better results from improved practices.
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