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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1905
Page
2
The piece mixes satirical notes on world affairs, empire, and figures like Roosevelt, the czar, and France. It cites naval matters, neutrality, fuel costs, and industry with a wry newspaper voice. It references coal, currency, and a Johannesburg diamond find as global curiosities.
The piece argues that anxious people born or made to borrow trouble dwell on looming misfortune. It warns against brooding about future losses and encourages choosing optimism, preparing for happiness today, and adopting a habit of borrowing hope instead.
A critique of how society crafts attractions around vice through conversation and patronage. It contrasts how mothers, gossiping elders, and hypocritical reformers glamorize gambling, drinking, and vice while decrying them in speech. The piece urges moral people to make truth and temperance equally attractive to curb vice.
A rambling travelogue describes crossing the Rockies via the Northern Pacific route with notes on Bozeman and Mullan tunnels, Helena and Last Chance Gulch, the Great Divide, and views from the Gallatin and Clearwater areas. It mentions Flathead agency, Hope Idaho, Spokane, and Seattle, with scattered personal updates and local color about fruit, scenery, and towns.
The letter details lingering cold spell effects and social visits around Oxford. It mentions Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Callaway visiting relatives west of Oxford, Misses Jackie Webster Stella Avent and Lala Scott visiting Mr. C. C. Stephens, Fount Yallaway’s illness, a young lady guest for Mr. and Mrs. Sam Juglend, and the Bryant family moving to Yellow Leaf. The piece closes with reflections on weather and taking joy in blessings despite difficulties.
A fragment discusses cough remedies including Foley's Honey and Tar and mentions relief of cough and throat irritation. A reader, N. Patterson Nashea, recalls trying many medicines last winter without benefit and notes Honer as recommended.
Public notice warns readers to beware of fake medicines sold as remedies for consumption and coughs. It stresses that genuine cures have been sold for over 36 years and urges checking the wrapper for the maker’s name, specifically Dr King or Bucklen.
A letter from L A Soper of Little Rock praises Hodial Dyspepsia Cure for saving a child’s life and notes its current occasional use. The item lists local sick lists including Mrs Jeanette Tunkersley and Buford Matthis, with various small local happenings, a hunting accident, and a few medical endorsements for DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve and Foley and Co.’s Honey and Tar sleep aid.
A brief note from DLea& to readers reports Mr. Weat McNeill is very sick but improving. The message closes with best wishes to the dear old Eaers and its many readers.
Entries report cold weather and school at Walnut with about 25 pupils. Residents returning from Abbeville include William McAlister and Newton Hayburn. Sermon at Free Springs Church praised. Rev Bee Calvin, new Baptist minister, located near Harmontown. Mentions of health staying good, visits by locals, and a cough cure advertisement selling with money-back guarantee.
County correspondents discuss reducing acreage by half to curb cotton speculation. They propose counties hold one third at county sites and sell directly to manufacturers at standard prices, aiming to avoid surpluses and aid farmers and merchants. Mention of Foley’s medicine concludes the note.
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