Prosperous Mississippi Fire Insurance Bankers & Merchants
The Bankers & Merchants Fire Insurance Company of Jackson Mississippi promotes a $2,000,000 capital venture offering home investments with strong underwriting agency, experienced directors, and early dividend potential. The piece also criticizes vehicle tag laws and privilege tax costs, urging legislative reform to reduce waste and expose state revenue leakage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Miss
Eagle
Bankers & Merchants Fire Insurance Company
Mississippi
Million Packets Of Flower Seeds Free
The Hastings 1922 seed catalog offers over a million free packets of flowers to readers in the South. It promises easy growing varieties and home garden tips while inviting readers to request the catalog for full details on obtaining seeds at no cost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hastings
Capital Stock Subscriptions for Two Million Dollar Issue
Subscribed capital authorized up to two million dollars with par value ten dollars per share. Selling price twenty dollars per share, ten dollars to capital and ten to surplus. All shares are common, fully paid, non-assessable and participate in profits. Payment may be cash or bonds and Liberty Bonds at face value. Time deposits yield four percent for six months.
Word From Home Brings Texas Editor Elation
A. W. Price of the Daily Telegram in Mexia, Texas, rushes through streets after reading a Mississippi message. He bursts into a store for cigars, offers one to a stranger who checks the smoke for danger, then proudly declares he has a ten pound girl.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. W. Price
Daily Telegram Force
Mississippi
Kaufman Street
Mr. Price
Mexia Dail
Mexia
Texas
Classified One Cent Per Word Ad Policy
Classified notice notes pricing and payment rules. It lists battery service at U L Battery Station in Holly Springs Mississippi and two used car offers a Ford roadster and a Hupmobile No 82 both priced at 100 dollars, with reply via Box 347 Oxford Mississippi.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. L
Holly Springs
Miss
Navy
Oxford
Ella F. Pegues
Route
FOR SALE-80 acres near Oxford and other property ads
An assortment of notices lists real estate offers around Oxford Mississippi including 80 acres three miles north of Oxford with a four room house and baths offered by L L Russell. Also 600 dollars for a 60 acre farm four miles from town and inquiries by C C Scanlon Realtor. Other ads include trades and exchanges and cabbage plants from Parker Farms Atlanta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Co-Operative Sales Co
Grenada
Miss
Oxford
L. L. Russell
C. Scanlon
Neilson
Notice of Sale of Real Property in Oxford Lafayette County
Notice is given that on February 20, 1922, between 11:00 A M and 4:00 P M at the south door of the courthouse in Oxford Mississippi the substituted trustee Phil Stone will offer for sale at public outcry the land described in the deed of trust recorded in Book 81 page 57 conveying property in Lafayette County Mississippi to secure indebtedness to the Bank of Oxford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. D
A. M. Bickerstaff
Lula Bickerstaff
Chancery Clerk
Lafayette County
Mississippi
Shaw Robinson
Bank of Oxford
Shaw Robison
Phil Stone
Lula- Bickerstaff
Court House
Oxford
Bedi
Sale of Real Property in Lafayette County Mississippi
Notice announces a cash sale of land in Lafayette County Mississippi by the Trustee LL C Andrews after a deed of trust. The property includes the northwest quarter of section 35 and part of section 21 south of the Tallahatchie river, with exceptions to previous conveyances to Mrs. Mattie Banks and Dan Almond. Sale date set for February 13, 1922 in Ford, Mississippi.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lafayette
State of
Mississippi
Court House
Oxford
Miss
Tallahatchie River
Mattie Banks
Dan Almond
Chancery Clerk
LL. C. Andrews
Sale of Real and Personal Property in Lafayette County
Notice of foreclosure sale under a deed of trust by H W Lockhart and Anna Lockhart to Guaranty Bank Trust Co Oxford Mississippi. Property includes 120 acres homestead in Lafayette County with several described horses and stock. Sale set for February 1 1922 in Oxford Courthouse front south door, for cash to highest bidder. Also public notice to banks in Lafayette County Mississippi inviting bids for city depository services for 1922 with bid details due February 11 1922.
Bid Call for 40 ft Bridge on Beat Three Road
The Lafayette County Clerk invites sealed bids by 12 noon Feb 7 1922 for a 40 ft bridge on Road Link No 204 in Beat Three across a dry branch on Hay's Ford. Plans and specs on file in the Chancery Clerk's office. The Board may reject any or all bids and award at public outcry. Published Jan 2 19 26 Feb 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi
Lafayette
Board of Supervisors
Lafayette County
Missisippi Avill
Dry -Branch
Hay
Chancery
Inspector of breaths eyed in Youngstown under new mayor
Under Mayor Oles the city of Youngstown Ohio plans an official inspector of breaths to poke his bean into policemen faces to discover what is on the inside. The lighthearted line hints at a safety first idea involving gas testing by an official to assess inner conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oles
Youngstown
Ohio
County Depository Sealed Bids Sought for 1922
The Fayette County Board invites sealed bids for keeping county funds and qualifying as County Depository for the remainder of 1922. Bids due by 12 noon Tuesday February 7 1922. The board may reject any bids. Successful bidder must provide bond as required. Jan 5 1922 W M Woodward Clerk.
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and Sark
Super
Ayette
W. M. Woodward
Eagle
Foreclosure Sale Under Trust in Oxford Mississippi
Trustee James Stone Sr. will sell Lot 27 in Oxford Lafayette County Mississippi on February 13 1922 at the county courthouse by cash to settle a debt of about 1500 tied to a deed of trust dated May 11 1920 securing Mrs Guy B Taylor from H Simpson and wife Mary Garner Simpson. The sale proceeds go to the creditors, title believed good, trustee only.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State of
Mississippi
Lafayette
James Stone, Sr
H. ¥. Simpson
Mary Garner Simpson
Guy B. Taylor
Chancery Clerk’s
Lafayette County
County Court House
Oxford
Nellie Haynes
Deed of Trust Sale in Lafayette County Mississippi
Pursuant to a deed of trust I. H. Buford and Bell Buford mortgaged to The Guaranty Bank & Trust Co. in Oxford Massachusetts. The sale will occur February 13 1922 at the Lafayette County Court House in Oxford Mississippi. Property includes 80 acres in the south half of the northwest quarter of Section 15 Township 8 Range 2 West and two horses a black gelding Mack about 10 years old and a bay mare Glendell about 7 years old with the increase of the mare securing the debt. J Douglas Trustee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. W. Lockhart
Anna Lockhart
Guaranty Bank & Trust Co
Uxford
Miss
Chancery
County of
Lafayette
Mississippi
Oxford
Towit
Kit
Neil
Lady
Jesse
J. S. Douglas
I. H. Buford
Bell Buford
Mass
Court House
Mack
Glendell
J. & Douglas
Sale of Real and Personal Property in Lafayette County
Notice of sale under a deed of trust by E. H. Gamble and Nell Gamble Trust Co. to satisfy indebtedness. The 8 acre tract in section 20 township 8 range 3 west, known as former residence of Bader Sparks, will be sold for cash February 13 1922 in front of Oxford Court House South door.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. H. Gamble
Nell Gamble
Guaranty Bank & Trust Co
Oxford
Mississippi
County of
Lafayette
State of
Court House
Miss
County
Tom Rowell
Oxford and
College Hill
Elijah Sparks
Rowell
Bader Sparks
E. H. Gamblé
Lafayette County
Mexican girls adopt bobbed hair trend in 1920s era style
A fragmentary report notes Mexican girls embracing bobbed hair as part of a broader 1920s fashion wave. The text references curiosity about the style and its effect but provides no concrete outcomes or broader context.
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Eagle Consolidated
American Press
Oxford Eagle
U. S
Eevee
Raer
Rowland Drug CO
International Stocking Mills
Norristown
Georgia
Carolina
Early
Jersey
Charleston
Wakefield
Boston
Parker Farms
Atlanta
JRS. Stone, Oldham, Stone & Stone
Attorneys-at-Law
F. M. Heard
Notary Public
Taylor H. McElroy
Oxford, Mississippi
W. Brian Watson
W. G. Boyett
W. B. McMahon
Harry M. Bryan
A. E. Russell
Junius
Eogam
Allan Moss
South Depot Street
Major
Johnsing
Graffer
Manchester
Tom Lundie
Modern Fables
Baltimore
M. Sun
Portland
Me. Express
Cleveland O. News
Hartford
Conn
Times
New York
Telegram
Ike Robert G
C. A. McCharen
Pateuade
W. D. Porter
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