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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1900
Page
2
A jumble of names and mock declarations praises Oregon and Roosevelt while lampooning figures from McKixsey to Calhoun. The piece touches on the Spanish American War era loyalties, tariffs, and calls for constitutional changes, concluding with a controversial plea to repeal the fifteenth amendment in exchange for political gains.
An editorial urges choosing the narrow path of effort to elevate the town. It cites needed street lighting, walks, and sewerage as affordable civic goals, and criticizes officials for lack of progress without citizen cooperation. Also reports court outcomes and local church events.
Judge RA Hill died at his North Street home after months of frailty. A respected leader for nearly forty years, he shaped local education and mentored law students, with funeral services at the PL Church conducted by Rev. T A Wigginton and Rev. W King, the Masons in charge at the grave.
The tent holders of the Oxford sept l round are urged to assemble at the courthouse on Saturday, July 16 at 4 pm. Secretary Tem re asks all to attend for an important business matter to be transacted. Contact or address Oxford, Mississippi, before purchasing marble works of Bradbery in Holly Springs. May 21, 1900.
To men and women except in Law School the costs are very low. Attractive location with perfect sanitation, complete water and sewer systems, electric lighting and steam heating, and purest deep well water. Summer term runs June 12 to July 25 1900. Session opens September 11 1900. For special information address K B Feito Chancellor University Missouri.
The Illinois Central R R announces excursion ticket sales for various events and destinations including Detroit Detroit Sovereign Grand Lodge gathering Cincinnati annual conventions Atlanta Battle Field Reunion and Hot Springs Arkansas. Tickets offered at one fare for round trip with dates and limits stated.
A Brevard North Carolina editor defends recommending Chamberlain's Diarrhoea Remedy as a trusted cure. The piece argues keeping a bottle on hand saves suffering and may reduce physician visits, citing twenty years of personal use. Advertisers R R Chilton & Co Oxford Fay Pettis Abbeville sell the remedy.
Nov McDonald, candidate for Congress, lists farmers friendly campaign stops in towns across the district with July dates and times. He notes rain and late season delays have delayed country appointments, promising later scheduling and urging candidate participation to discuss live issues. A satirical farmer tale follows about Latin conjugation and farm work.
An advertisement touts August Flower as the top medicine in the world. It claims the remedy cures indigestion headaches and other aches with a few drops of Green-Flower in a liquid form, praising its efficacy over doctors and modern alternatives.
An old advertisement promotes Gule for babies claiming it makes them healthy and stout without opium. It also recounts a cyclone tale of a cow carried sixty feet by a rope and later returning to grazing. Hope’s Blue Line Antiseptic is touted as the best antiseptic curing cuts bruises sprains and stomach pains for both humans and animals. sold by A H Kendal in Oxford Mississippi.
A crude ad promises subscribers a weekly paper for 10 cents with a coin guessing contest on corn ears. Prizes include cash for closest guesses and a good watch for a 30-subscription club. Contest ends August 4 with entries sent to The American in Nashville Tennessee. Also notes an epilepsy diarrhoea outbreak amusingly tied to a local ad.
A Mississippi Frees Association rule, proposed by I K Mayers of the Pascagoula Democrat Star and adopted June 20 1900, bans employing negroes as apprentices in printing offices. An expunging motion failed to repeal the rule which remains in force. The item notes opposition to integrated schools and warns of race mixing in offices far from Pascagoula. The Pascagoula Democrat Star endorses the action, citing ongoing division in the printing trade.
Fragmentary text shows a lawyer asserting his billing method while a prospective client nervously considers the value of his case. The damaged bulletin also mentions medicines, local ads, a Missouri boy and a railroad torpedo incident, plus brief notices about staff and employment and a plantain cure claim.
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