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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1916
Page
4
The text urges residents to improve personal habits and cleanliness in alleys and vacant lots. It argues a clean town enhances health and capacity, praising cleanliness and criticizing dirtiness as harming the town’s reputation and future progress.
The piece denounces Venustiano Carranza as a piddling and belligerent Mexican leader who has insulted the United States repeatedly. It argues the United States must act firmly, likening Carranza to a small dog challenging a big one and urging a decisive intervention to humble him and his forces.
The article complains that railroads failed to move troops promptly due to a shortage of cars delaying regiments and men bound for the border. It argues this shows unpreparedness and questions how the nation would handle a sudden surge of a large army.
A broad exhortation urges readers to study the paper's advertising pages daily. It argues advertising is the cheapest quickest and best sales method and that merchants who advertise reach thousands of cost conscious buyers. Reading ads can reduce a family's cost of living.
The Oxford Eagle offers a ten year subscription for $5 to raise funds for a new machine and expand circulation. Subscribers save 50 cents per year, with existing debts folded into the extended period. The offer applies to old and new subscribers and ends soon.
An obituary sketch honors a local man who lived for his town and cared for its welfare. It notes his steadfast dedication to neighbors and the quiet impact of his lifetime of service, contrasting with those who betray their home community.
Society notes from Clarksdale report Attorney General Ross A. Collins and family visiting former Governor Brewer and family at Moon Lake. The piece hints at shifts in political alliances and suggests explanations may follow now Collins is identified with Bilbo's adversaries.
Health authorities across the country warn cancer causes thousands of deaths yearly and urge early medical action. The article explains cancer often begins as a slow healing growth and that only early complete removal offers real cure, with plasters and salves giving false hope and radium therapy as a possible but limited option.
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