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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1915
Page
3
Fragmentary timetable shows train numbers and vague times. Entries reference No 24 No 44 No 6 and No 35 passenger services with imperfect times and unclear destinations or stations.
Local notices describe abundant produce arriving in town with watermelons and cantaloupes flooding the market. The item also lists many social visits, gatherings, and community announcements from Oxford and surrounding areas, including travels to Lake Village Arkansas and Grenada.
Notices call tent-holders at the Oxford Camp-ground to gather on the fourth Monday in July, July 26, for cleaning and tent repairs. The item lists local names and dates amid assorted notices and ads including sales, weddings, and a laxative product promotion.
Women suffer backaches headaches dizziness and fatigue from kidney troubles. Mrs A M Hall recalls a year of poor results with doctors until Kidney Pills eased her pain and restored function. Her daughter also benefited from the remedy endorsed by people she knows. FosterMilburn Co. promotes Hong’s Kidney Pills.
Farmers Association invites all to Oxford Market Day on the first Monday in August with reduced prices from local merchants. A wagon of hogs was sold from 16 miles away on last Market Day, and C. W. Spawr sold a cow for 360.00 to Mr. Stall. Spawr lists more cows and urges farmers to weigh acres of fall wheat for seed wheat, offering to buy seed wheat and accept no service charges. The note stresses early grain arrival for better wheat prices and asks farmers to estimate fall sowing area.
An advertisement extols Dr Be’s Pine Tar Honey cough syrup as soothing and effective. It claims the remedy eases a cough and cold, urging readers to ask for the original bottle and start with two doses.
Oxford Insurance Realty and Loan Agency opens in former Merchants & Partner Bank rooms. Hexter Bogard to head operations. Agency offers life accident and health insurance, surety bonds, real estate services, rentals, and property management with burglar and fireproof vaults for patrons. Minor notices include Burrough Rding Machine for sale and Dr Linders Stomach Pills arrival.
The Oxford Hospital is fitted with modern conveniences and prepared to accommodate medical and logical cases. The hospital is also prepared to accommodate a few charity patients. For further information write or apply to Dr. G. Bliss, Matron.
For the convenience of the pow Mr. VW C Neill will now keep for sale all of the Stonte Remedies. He will show to any interested the names of people he has used and recommends these remedies. The Stonte Pain Reterminator has cured many a user of rheumatic pain. The Stonte Mierelle Jies troyer is sure to aid the care of inflammation.
A grateful user reports tired aching muscles and sore pains eased by Sloan's Liniment. The notice claims fast penetration without rubbing and promises cleaner, better relief than mustard plasters. Available at all druggists for 2 cents.
The administrator B C Harris of the estate of J A Harris announces probate of letters of administration in Lafayette County. Creditors must file claims within one year from this notice or be barred. Witness dated July 15 1915. Attorney R C Andrews represents the estate.
The patchy ledger lists numerous allowances and payments to workers and officials, including Wk rl and rd b sums for multiple names like Maples Neill Breaner Co and Parks, plus contract notes for bridges and roads. It notes executions, road district reports, and tax assessments, with several ordered actions and approvals across 1914-1915 in Lafayette County Mississippi.
State of Mississippi Lafayette County petition by J A Biardes and others to create Read District from lands in Springs Road area. Board of Supervisors set to meet August first to consider establishing the district under Cr 176 of 1914 with bonds to be issued by G A Woonwagp D.C.
Notice from the Lafayette County Board of Supervisors invites sealed bids by 12 oclock p m August 15 1915 for road work on Lower Oxford and Paris Road and for keeping the County Home and inmates for 1916. The Board may reject any or all bids. Clerk M Woopwaxp certifies the notice.
A cheerful ad claims a beautiful woman with good digestion reflects inner health and promotes Chamberlain's Tablets as a remedy for faulty digestion. The product is advertised as obtainable everywhere with emphasis on tangible benefits and universal appeal.
Advises against catarrh remedies containing mercury claiming they damage semen and health. Promotes Hall’s Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio, reading as a safe internal remedy. Sold by druggists for 1.00 with testimonials and cautions on counterfeit versions.
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