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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1915
Page
4
In warm plain language the editor thanks readers for their generous support during the past year. He wishes prosperity contentment and happiness in the new year for all loyal supporters and their loved ones.
A reflective editorial foresees the new year bringing uncertainty between peace and war, prosperity and risk. It cautions America to avoid foreign entanglements, strengthen defense, and act justly with nations while striving for global sanity and domestic order. The piece urges optimism tempered by realism.
A speaker urges readers to see themselves as just and righteous and to act with good will toward all. The message stresses that the coming year’s outcome depends on the public’s course, noting this truth has never been clearer or more direct in the nation’s history.
The Eagle invites country correspondents to send news copy by Monday night or Tuesday morning and urges sticking to news content. Readers are encouraged to recruit subscribers and attend a spring Correspondents Convention. Plans include installing a Standart Linotype and expanding to eight pages at an estimated cost of 33,400.
The letter praises well arranged displays and the printer crew, including pressmen and workers, as essential to the paper's attractiveness. Editors acknowledge others may claim credit, but credit for the paper's beauty goes to the printers and management through solid teamwork.
A vintage ad touts Dr. King's New Discovery as a trusted remedy with 46 years on the market. It claims to soothe coughing and lung troubles, promising money back if it fails and specifying prices of 50 cents and 1.00.
Dr J C Fant of the State University visited Union High School last Friday and gave an instructive talk to students on preparing for life through high school work. He reported everything in good shape and approved the work being done locally.
An old advertisement extols Dr. King's New Discovery as the best cough remedy for seasonal colds. It claims personal family use and loyalty, pricing at 50 cents and one dollar, noting quality printing and workmanship in the promotion.
Miss Holcomb serves as Society Editor of The Eagle and has ties to the merged Press and Eagle. Though still a schoolgirl, she is active in teen years and devotes her time to newspaper work when not in school.
The ginners report to December 13 records 11123 bales ginned this season, down from 12563 bales on December 13, 1914. Webster.
The Press of Mississippi notes rapid progress of state weeklies. Modern machinery is installed by once small papers and home readers eagerly seek them. The belief that big dailies would crush weeklies has faded as country weeklies gain patronage in subscriptions and advertising.
Notice states Wn J Lovelady president of the Board of Supervisors of Ease County Mississippi will meet the Chancery Clerk in Lafayette County Mississippi on the 61st day of December 1915 at 10 o clock AM to approve all county officials bonds for 1916. Officials taking office January 1916 must file bonds for approval the day of the meeting. Witness the clerk's signature December 13 1915. Woot Woopwanp Chancery Clerk By G A Woopwagp DC
The State of Mississippi Lafayette County proceeds to sell by trustees under a Deed of Trust from Joe Kisner and Sallie Kisner to The First National Bank Oxford to satisfy indebtedness. The sale, for cash to the highest bidder, will be held at the south door of the Lafayette County Courthouse in Oxford on January 7. Property description and further details are provided in the deed documents.
Several state papers publish special Christmas numbers. The Belzoni Banner leads with a 24 page holiday edition and lithographed cover from a Delta city noted for banner merchants and progressive citizens. Other papers like the Progressive Mississippian Yazoo County News and Southern Reporter also issue two color or lithographed twelve page Christmas editions.
The Clerk of the Board of Supervisors Lafayette County Mississippi invites sealed bids by 12 noon January 4 1916 for building a bridge across Bagley Creek on the Oxford and Rocky Ford Road in Best Beat and for a bridge on the Oxford and Wyatt Road near Old Place in Beat 3. Bidders must meet bond requirements for county depository qualification and provide bonds ten percent above the maximum deposit.
An old advertisement promotes Dr. King's New Life Pills claiming they wake the liver, increase bile, and make the bowels act more freely to drive away moody days. Bottles are sold for 25 cents.
In a local notice Ott department store advertises Bishoff ladies suits discounted to 13.35 and 16.65 from regular 325.00 prices, with one third off, amid a sale event for women’s apparel.
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