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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1910
Page
2
The Oxford Eagle, founded in 1575 and published each Thursday, serves as the Lafayette County official organ. The paper notes its office at Telephotos: Office 108 and Residence 250 for communications and distribution.
A jumble of excerpts covers congressional announcements, party lines, and political satire. It mentions candidates such as Thomas Spight and others, jabs at Roosevelt and Aldrich, plus quirky notes on meat prices, watermelon abundance, and a bank cashier scandal with a wild salary claim.
A letter from H. H. Sneed of Oxford Mississippi argues that family prayer and parental example shape character and morals. It warns irreligious homes breed untruthfulness and vice and extols keeping the Sabbath, church attendance, and obedience to God as foundational to children’s lives. This item ends with a customer testimonial for Ware's Black Powder medical remedy.
Government land grants of 40 to 160 acres in Alabama Arkansas Florida Louisiana and Mississippi advertised to successful applicants. Send 25c for information and application form to Dixie Home Co , Tampa Fla. Sharks are reported increasing rapidly in Florida waters. In other respects Florida waters and Wail street are very dissimilar.
In Our County recollections of Civil War and reconstruction war incidents are shared. The narrator details Company A of the 20th Mississippi Infantry at Corinth, praising Lt Spencer and Marine like soldier Marsh Murphy, recounting near-miss danger, a Purdy road skirmish in June 1862, and a Murfreesboro ordeal with Walthall's brigade, ending with a note of future continuation.
Legal advertisements show bids sought for coal and jail fuel, school site bonds, and multiple road and bridge projects in Lafayette County Mississippi. Notices include bid openings on Sept 6 1910 and requirements for bonds, deliverables, and right to reject all bids, with various road link plans across Oxford Yokna River area and surrounding roads.
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