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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1918
Page
5
Heavy Driver Weight Fraud Noted On Memphis Train
A train overheard conversation between a merchant and coal dealer exposed schemes to cheat customers by heavy drivers and inflated weights. The writer calls such conduct a menace to the community and urges arrest and life imprisonment for those who rob others in weights or measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Lafayette County Wheat Growers Association Formed
The Lafayette County Wheat Growers Association is organized with a large membership and plans. The president forecasts planting five thousand acres of wheat this year. A meeting is set for Saturday July 13 to discuss seed, planting and harvesting machinery, and other matters with representation urged from every farmer in the county. Lafayette County leads the state in organizing wheat production systems and other counties may follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lafayette County Wheat Growers Association
Lafayette
Editor Sullens Goes to War as Captain in National Army
Hon. Fred Sullens of the Jackson Daily News departs soon for Washington to serve as a Captain in the National Army Executive Division. He hopes his wartime zeal matches his editorial vigor. Marshall county plans a July 10 meeting on the Tallahatchie levee issue and the Bankhead Highway route. Grenada Sentinel claims anti draft sentiment in Neshoba County favors Vardaman, predicting broad Mississippi support after August primaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Sullens
Jackson Daily News
Colors
Washington
Nationa Army
General Staff
Sullens
The
Daily News
Marshall County
Tallahatchie
Bankhead
College Hill
Iron Bridge
Oxford
Memphis
Grenada Sentinel
Neshoba County
Vardaman
Sentinel
Mississippi
Bramlett Hospital Incorporation Charter Filed in Mississippi
The Bramlett Hospital charter lists incorporators Dr E S Bramlett Mrs E S Bramlett and Dr A C Bramlett of Oxford Lafayette County. The company is formed to erect own operate a general hospital and to open a nursing school with capital stock ten thousand dollars at one hundred dollar par value. The charter cites Chapter 24 Mississippi Code 1906 and sets a fifty year term with domicile in Oxford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. S. Bramlett
Oxford
A. C. Bramlett
Lafayette County Wheat Growers Meet Pledges Planned
A meeting of the Lafayette County Wheat Growers Association is called for Saturday July 13 at 11 A M in the county courthouse. All interested should attend for information and pledges on acreage to be sown. Absentees may have a representative pledge on their behalf. E C Davidson President H Friedman Secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lafayette County Wheat Growers Association
County Court House
E. C. Davidson
H. Friedman
Rte your Kidneys The universal purifier Hepatica offer
The ad promotes Vin Hepatica as a universal system purifier for kidney liver and bowels. It urges early use for health and claims thousands helped after other remedies failed. It cites F M Cawthorn a former Mt Juliet Tennessee stockman praising its effect and invites readers to obtain a bottle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. M. Cawthorm
Mt. Juliet
Tenn
Banks rally for Fourth Liberty Loan through district banks
Banks across the Eighth Federal Reserve District pledge earnest support for subscribing to United States Certificates of Indebtedness to fund the Fourth Liberty Loan campaign. A numbered participation announcement will be sent to each subscribing bank and displayed publicly. Citizens urged to seek the notice or ask banks if it is missing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eighth Federal Reserve District
United States
Liberty Loan Organization
Uncle Sam
Washington
Bank of Oxford
Certificate Plan Urges Banks to Buy Indebtedness Certificates
Secretary McAdoo appeals to bankers to purchase United States Treasury Certificates of Indebtedness up to 24 percent of resources. Offered only to bankers, semi monthly until the Fourth Liberty Loan. They bear 4 percent interest and are marketable paper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of the Treasury
William G. McAdoo
Federal Reserve Bank
United States Treasury
Bankers Are Patriotic in Fourth Liberty Loan Drive
The Eighth Federal Reserve District banks lead the preliminary Fourth Liberty Loan campaign begun June 25 with 750,000,000 in United States Certificates of Indebtedness. Bankers are praised for financial study, foresight, and support of government methods to avoid financing errors. The plan spreads demand across fall commerce, returning funds to reinvestment, and creates a credit system to ease national strain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eighth
Federal Reserve District
United
Germany
United States
Home Demonstration Agent urges preserving harvest through drying and canning
Mrs. Luella B. Ramsey, emergency home demonstration agent, reports organizing three community clubs and promoting blackberry drying and canning. She advises sun or oven drying, conditioning dried goods, and storing in moisture proof containers, while noting Camp Shelby purchase of $1,000 in blackberry jam and $600 in canned berries for 4H brand goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lima
Camp Shelby
Captain Johansen
Hattiesburg
McGees Baby Flixir Offered for Infant Ailments
An advertisement touts McGees Baby Flixir as a remedy for feverish infants and digestive discomfort. It notes the product treats hot weather afflictions and related stomach issues and bowel troubles, with a price of 25 per bottle, sold by A H Kenda.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. H. Kendel
McGee
A. H. Kenda
Notice to Tax Payers in Lefayrt County 1918
Notice to taxpayers as required by state law that the Lefayrt County Board of Supervisors will meet in August 1918 to equalize the tax assessment. Objections should be filed with the Clerk of Supervisors. Witness the signature dated July 1918. Dr and Mrs Albert and children spent Sunday at the farm near Tula.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Super Supervisors
Lefayrt
Mississippi
Board of Sure
Mra Albert
Tula
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Lafayette County
City of
George W. Price
Bramlett Hospital
State of
W. M. Woodward
Rte Your Kidneys
U. S&s. Treasury
Chancellor Powers
Memph‘s
Home Economics Department
Luella B. Ramsey
Lafayette Coum
B. Kk
Eagle
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