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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1913
Page
2
Editor outlines push for an agricultural high school in LaFayette County. Trustees report progress on building contracts, fundraising, and community support, urging citizens to back the college and donate stock or funds to ensure a statewide agricultural education facility thrives locally.
Fragmentary note describes a scene with a ferrier and four Shawnful pio extats between Lew Bowes and a value by Dr King's New. A line mentions eyes and a family. Insufficient coherent details to determine full event or participants.
The supreme court is behind and may not reach the Northern district before March. Citizens' rights hinge on speedy hearings for small cases. The letter proposes a constitutional amendment to allow seven judges in two divisions, arguing appellate reforms would complicate the system. The next legislature may address this neglected subject.
An analysis details the annual expense of owning a $4,000 city home in Mississippi, including interest, taxes, utilities, insurance, and upkeep. It argues high urban costs push families toward rural living and advocates farmer education at home while children receive higher schooling in towns.
Athens Georgia readers are urged to trust the actual testimony of the Law & Shepperd firm. The ad emphasizes that no amount of promises compares to their proven service in legal matters.
A charter for The Peoples Educational and Benevolent Association outlines its purpose to aid fellow citizens, organize local associations in Mississippi, and provide for accidents old age and death benefits. It establishes a Board of Directors, annual dues, local organization requirements, and eligibility rules including ages and race. The charter fixes principal office at Oxford in Panola County Mississippi and grants authority to collect assessments and manage benefits.
A poet-musician laments a dreamer who writes a check to pay the donor yet finds the act illusory. The piece contrasts wealth and poverty, praising learning and the artist while questioning the dreamer’s generosity and social impact. The speaker, identified as a physician, contemplates fate, fame, and economic disparity.
State Board of Health reports 43 pellagra deaths in November across Mississippi. Six whites and 27 blacks, pellagra made up 17 percent of all November deaths, 2.6 percent of white deaths, 25 percent of black deaths. Physicians urged to report communicable diseases to county health officers.
A damaged notice notes a sale at A. W. Kee's Drug Store. It lists a price of 2 cents and mentions a 48 cent item and a trial beatie fully eo. The readable fragments imply a promotional sale or discount event at the local shop.
Notice documents a sheriff sale directed by Circuit Clerk G B Tagior in BaPay ette County Mississippi. It lists the sale of Ausie Logan's property described as the southwest corner of section 6, township 3, range 3 west, containing 10 acres to satisfy a judgment. Witness Pewrie, Sheriff, dated 13th.
Public sale of real and personal property under a trust deed to Roach as Trustee. The described lands include fractions of Lots 216 and 217 in Oxford Mississippi and multiple parcels in Hinds County, plus a long list of office and printing equipment. The sale occurs Monday February 1912 at the South Downe court house in Oxford, cash to highest bidder, costs of sale borne by the trust.
The article records chapel visits, an art exhibit delayed by missing tea, dismissal at 1 pm for revival meetings, and rumors of a senior year annus. It mentions basketball court work, student reports on irregular pupils, and a wave of donated pictures from clubs and the senior class.
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