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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1904
Page
2
The itemized snippets touch on World War era topics, including Tolstoy talks, Hoar’s views on the Crook vessel, a Jackson Kentucky crime note, Tolstoy’s time with a Russian thinker, and remarks on Dowie, Arabs, and Taft era politics. It also notes North Carolina’s lynching count, British-Canadian tensions, and Rockefeller’s mortgage moves, ending with the Sultan of Turkey’s arrests for conspiracies against Christians.
A New Year message urges prosperity and effort, inviting community support for a thriving county paper. It asks local businesses to seek patronage, publish ventures and real estate, and encourage subscriptions and generous advertising to ensure success and visibility.
The Lafayette county court house hosts a Monday inauguration as J H Welch becomes sheriff and J O Ramey ascends to Chancery Clerk. Other incumbents remain in posts like Circuit Clerk, Treasurer J B McEwen, and Assessor Cullen, with new appointees including County Surveyor Dallas McClarty. The Board of Supervisors and magistrates are named as prepared to serve, while the community bids retiring officials thanks and best wishes.
A collection of brief exchanges on life and repentance from a midwestern printer's column. It includes a preacher in Indiana misquoting a church notice and a Missouri editor’s honey joke about a hotel waiter, with transitions to mental philosophy snippets and a note about the editor’s wife.
The piece promotes international reporting reach via telegraph and cable with Chicago Record-Herald foreign staff and partners like New York Herald World and AP. It also touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve for injuries and Grove Tasteless Chill Tonic as malaria remedy with pricing and pay terms.
Mt Zion reports a coldest spell of the season with Christmas memories for local Sunday school children. notices include deaths, illnesses and hospitalities among neighbors, gatherings at Callaway and Strickland households, and plans as residents move to the Delta.
Farmers in the Northern and Eastern States sell high priced lands and move southwest into Missouri Arkansas Louisiana and Texas. Land prices range from 10 to 85 dollars per acre with timber lands and fertile soils suitable for corn wheat oats clover cotton fruits and vegetables. Descriptive literature highlights soil climate people schools churches water and health with maps and dealer contacts. Reduced homeseeker rates apply on the first and third Tuesdays via St. Louis Cairo or Memphis on the Cotton Belt Route.
The Daughters of the Confederacy will gather on General Robert E. Lee's birthday January 19 to confer the Crosses of Honor on veterans. A fuller report will appear in the paper's next issue. R W Jones, Commander.
A festive update notes multiple marriages including the June 30 ceremony of Escar Butler and Pannie Crawford with Rev. W. C. Brown officiating. It mentions community health, illnesses, new neighbors, and various local visits. A rumor about a White House police matter with President Roosevelt’s son is briefly mentioned, reflecting local humor.
The death of three month old infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Brown occurred at their county home on the night of January 1. No further details are provided.
The Atlanta Journal lists subscription prices for daily and Sunday editions. One year costs $7.00 by mail and postage paid. six months $3.00. one month 60 cents. weekly price unspecified. Also details prices for the Sun- ies edition and related orders to The Journal.
Headache and neuralgia relief claims for Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills with no opium or habit forming substances. Advertises small pink tablets said to be non laxative and effective for various pains, urging households to keep a box ready and promising money back if not relieved. Includes testimonial from a user in San Antonio.
An advertisement invites readers to request a free trial of Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills claiming a new scientific remedy for pain. Details are unclear and the copy encourages readers to contact a specialist to learn how it can ease their symptoms.
Miss Cassie Banks of Oxford spent Christmas with home folks in Abbeville. Wister Strickland and family stayed with Rev. G. W. Strickland last week. Several locals, including Mr. Lee Russell and the Bowens, were in town for business and social calls. A storm crossed Abbeville Monday night affecting the parsonage, with many unnamed damages. Stella Langly and Lula Strickland were among guests. Doak Matthews and Charlie Nelson joined Friday gatherings. The Eagle newspaper sends New Year wishes to its readers.
A 5100 reward note touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the sole positive treatment for catarrh. It claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces, strengthens constitution, and offers one hundred dollars for any failure. Includes buyer testimonials and a mailing address in Ohio. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
It is exceptional to find a family with no domestic ruptures but these can be lessened by Dr King’s New Life Pills. They relieve stomach and liver troubles and they cure. 25 cents at all druggists.
Ren Carlisle P B Martin of Waverley Texas writes praising Jiallard’s Horehound Syrup for morning phlegm and coughing. He claims it dislodges phlegm quickly and recommends it for throat or lung troubles. Prices listed as 230, 500 and 1.0 dollars per bottle at Oxford Pharmacy.
The community reports a festive Christmas at the school with Santa Claus delighting children. Local meetings led by Rev. J. A. Webb at Corder, and visits from relatives and friends across towns including Oxford, Holly Springs, Potts Camp, and Thaxton mark the holidays with travel and family reunions.
The essay argues dyspepsia affects workers more than millionaires and promotes Green's August Flower as a long used remedy. It claims the medicine stimulates the liver, improves digestion, and enhances life quality for all social classes. Trial bottles cost 26 cents. regular 75 cents at A. H. Kendel's.
Advertisement for Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets promising a cure for a cold. Claims refunds if it fails. Mentions Grove’s signature on each box and a price of 25 cents.
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