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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1895
Page
1
A collage of political names and offices followed by regional notes. Mentions of secretaryship, attorney roles, and legislators alongside local events in Mississippi and Tennessee. Reports on price fixing prohibition, football exhibitions, a death from a spider bite, sermons, and university progress.
Lafayette County Democrats convened to elect delegates to the State and County Conventions. W W Sullivan chaired. committees named, six delegates to the State Convention at Jackson August 7 and five per beat to the county at large. Proxies and unified voting instructions were approved, with candidates McLaarm for governor and Holder for sheriff among those supported.
From all parts of the country comes word of a wonderful rise in business with manufacturing firms crowded by orders. Immigrants, rail development, and foreign trade drive southern prosperity while a single danger remains. Professor W Belk, cheerful and hale, spent Tuesday with friends here, prompting Water Valley to extend a cordial welcome while De Price’s reax pokes Poweer World’s Fair Michigan Award.
Gulfport planners push a Gulfport Ship Island Railroad trestle to reach deep water and connect with the Mississippi Sound, routing timber to a port. New York capitalists surveyed the line, with talks of a seven mile trestle and a large rail facility, as Tidewater interests weigh its feasibility. The State ticket and industry groups anticipate economic impact, while cotton mill leaders from New England eye Atlanta and Georgia industry showcases.
A printed slip torn from a newspaper was found in the pocketbook of Hon. Stephen Allen, who was drownded on the Heary Clay. The piece extols honesty and good conduct with proverbs on truthfulness, keeping secrets, avoiding debt, and prudent living, including a line about Pitcher's Castoria for children.
A local exchange notes confusion between candidate and primary labels amid election chatter. An editor mocks business hoaxes and urges home merchants to support local trade through advertising. A Yazoo City item extols diverse crop yields and livestock as proof of a self sustaining county.
Journal by birth Peruvian and English parentage lives in Paris. He is 33, retiring, unmarried, and commands top prices with watercolors selling for 600 to 800 dollars. He won the Salon first prize in 18% for Spring a single-figure panel admired by critics and public.
Spelling errors and fragmented names show Delta residents visiting nearby towns. Mentions Mr. Will Lackie Miss Lizzie Blackwell and the editor’s comment on a local paper. Also notes Miss Ma ry Lockie Mrs. Watkins and others visiting relatives this week, with random farm and trade references and an Eagle Eye Salve advertisement amidst garbled text.
An alleged tobacco cure promises to end nicotine use by faithful chewing or smoking, advertised as sold by druggists at $1.00. The text reflects period marketing language urging readers to quit before it is too late and to try "BAC O-CURD" as a free from nicotine solution.
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