Freight timetable fragment at local station page
Odd OCR fragment shows train timings and mentions Dentists Leavell Building and M D Loss. includes names and addresses with unclear context.
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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1912
Page
3
Odd OCR fragment shows train timings and mentions Dentists Leavell Building and M D Loss. includes names and addresses with unclear context.
Mrs. Ross Bakheed and Miss Julia Compton visit Pine Bluff and Houston while the Board of Supervisors meets. Updates cover travels, marriages, illnesses, business moves, school notes, corn club rally, road conditions, and obituaries with many local names and places across Oxford and surrounding areas.
The LaFayette county delegation gains recognition in the Legislature. In the Senate Mr. Russell serves on the judiciary committee and chairs the corporations committee and sits on the penitentiary panel. In the house Mr. Saunders joins the agricultural committee and Eskridge sits on the ration and penitentiary panels.
Mr. Levi Metta died at his Delay area home of pneumonia. A Confederate veteran, he was highly esteemed and joins his early-life comrades. Mrs. W. S. Wooten died at her north Oxford home after ten days with la grippe. Her husband Busyan Wooten and her mother D. B. Short mourn her. Interment was at Oxford due to extremely cold weather. Sympathy extended to the bereaved.
In Lafayette County a crowd gathered in the courtroom to hear Mr Tom Barly address the Corn Club Boys while Mr Balthrop entertained teachers and boys in the Superintendent’s office. Mr Early arrived late as speeches urged continued schooling and Mr Smith provided a lunch with hot coffee praised by all.
The Commercial Appeal advertises one year subscriptions to the Oxford Eagle and Home and Farm with prices around $1.25 to $1.33. It mentions combinations with Southern Ruralist and other papers, plus order handling and subscriptions available by mail.
A testimonial from Edward Wiley of Oxford, Missouri praises Dean's Kidney Pills for curing kidney trouble for five years. He says a box purchased at Kendal's Drury Store helped him and he continues to endorse the remedy. The ad notes a 50 cent price and Buffalo, New York Federnburn Co as US agents, with a reminder to remember the name Dean's.
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