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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1919
Page
2
Obituary tribute to Andrew Carnegie as a pioneer industrialist and world peace advocate. The piece contrasts Carnegie’s legacy with changes in modern industry and mentions Lee Russell and Bilboism in Mississippi politics. An medical advertisement for Herbine malaria remedy concludes the text.
The Kosciusko Herald notes Newton County conducted its first circuit court session in a year and a half, praising the county while acknowledging added strain on attorneys.
An advertisement warns that calomel, a mercury laxative, makes readers ill and wastes a day. It promotes Dodson’s Liver Tone as a vegetable, gentle substitute that does not salivate, promising liver renewal and safety for adults and children.
A prolonged rain Saturday provided relief and enjoyment for Pierson readers as the community wrapped up a series of Oak Grove meetings Friday night. Local notes highlight visits, marriages, travel, and gatherings among residents with many relatives and friends named across Mississippi and Texas.
An advertisement offers MeeGee's Baby Elixir as a pure harmless effective remedy for wind colic diarrhoea and summer complaint in babies. It lists prices 35e and 60c and notes sale by A H Kendel Oxford Mississippi.
A county cotton pest, the cotton army worm, has appeared and threatens crop damage. Farmers should monitor and apply control methods using Paris green or lead arsenate, either dry or sprayed. Dry mix guidance: Paris green 1 to 1.5 pounds with 8 to 15 pounds flour per acre, dusted via two flour sacks on a pole while riding a mule. For lead arsenate mix 1 to 1.5 pounds lead with 5 to 12 pounds flour per acre.
The piece urges applying poison in a still air early morning when dew rests on foliage. Do not let livestock eat treated areas. Treat only the infested acre, not the whole field, to curb the first insect brood and protect the cotton crop. It notes broader pensioning costs and nostalgia about barefoot days.
Consumer alert stresses always ask for genuine Bayer Tablets of Aspirin bearing the Bayer Cross. It notes fraud by a Brooklyn dealer selling talcum powder as aspirin and urges checking packaging and each tablet for the Cross and proper dosage instructions.
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