Equitable Life of the United States Admits Record Liabilities
In 1902 the Equitable Life Assurance Society announces liabilities of 259 312 923 and policyholder dividends to 1901 totaling 3 742 520. Richard P Lake is listed as manager for Mississippi and West Tennessee with office in the Equitable Building Memphis Tenn.
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The
Equitable Life Assurance Society of the
United States
BOLE
Sssescrese
Richard P. Lake
Mississippi and West Tennessee
Equitable Building
Memphis, Tenn
Local residents and visitors etiquette in Oxford scene
Several named individuals visit Oxford and surrounding towns this week. Mrs G W Durley and Mr J R Stowers travel Tennessee and Jackson respectively while Prof W P Goolsby and others spend days in Oxford.
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J. R. Stowers
Jackson
Mr. W
Robertson
Memphis
John Foster
Lexington
John Standifer
Social notes and visits fill Oxford weekly page
Local society items list Miss Newell and Miss Earl McCharen visiting relatives, J E Pope and J M Stone callers, and trips by Hon M A Montgomery and Miss Montie Gray. Notices includechurch events, picnics, a moonlight gathering, dress shirts sale, and memorials to the Confed eracy. The page notes rain benefits to farmers and a record-setting first watermelon harvest in LaFayette County.
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LaFayette County
Buford Bryant
Regular Odd Fellows meeting and lodge officers election
A. B. Longstreet Lodge No. 113 1. O. O. F. calls a regular meeting tonight Thursday for the election of officers for the ensuing term. Ww. B. McMason N. G. Weisel Kennedy Secretary. Death of Rev G. W. Boggs longtime Presbyterian minister dies at his University Street home in his 86th year after a lingering illness and pneumonia.
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Odd Fellows
A. B. Longstreet Lodge No. 113
Ww. B. McMason
N. G. Weisel Kennedy
Sec’ty
G. W. Boggs
University Street
Ice Wagon to Serve Oxford Morning and Evening
The notice promotes an Ice Wagon delivering to housekeepers at their doors with a bell call. It urges residents to secure any desired quantity and references T. H. Smith as market agent.
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Oxford
T. H. Smith
Obituary of College Hill Church Pastor and Longtime Resident
A pastor of College Hill Church and a resident for the past five years is remembered as a scholar and devoted Christian. He leaves a son, three daughters, several grandchildren, and many warm friends to mourn his loss.
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College Hill
Church
Witor
Our Town
Capwell Court Attendance Cited in Local Report
A note recalls a crowd of citizens at Capwell court last Saturday and mentions an injury to a man who fell from a ten foot high object. Mrs. J. S. Ford visited her daughter Mrs. J. W. Adama and returned home yesterday.
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Capwell
J. S. Ford
J. W. Adama
Somerville and Price Tie The Knot At Oxford
At the bride’s mother Mrs Price ten miles west of Oxford the ceremony united Hugh Vassar Somerville and Blanche Price at ten o’clock yesterday morning. Rev RB Standefer officiated. The couple valued by friends in Oxford, the groom a son of Prof T H Somerville. Only close relatives attended. The Eagle extends warm congratulations.
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T. H. Somerville
University of Mississippi
Somerville
City Treasurer's Annual Report Summary
City accounts show May cash receipts and disbursements across Water Electric Light School and Bond accounts. Totals include warrants paid 582.32, balances on hand, and separate Sewer Bond and Reservoir entries with cash and interest, premiums, and expenses.
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Harkins
Adams
Wee Wee Seat
Cash
Chickasaw
Trance
BoCash
Werranta
Eccessees Cevees
Unclaimed Mail at Oxford Post Office Week Ending June 21 1902
List of unclaimed mail matter left in the Oxford Mississippi Post Office for the week ending June 21 1902 includes Mre Corbin and Kitty.
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Oxford, Miss
Corbin
Mre
Kitty
Rain Ends Drought As Community Reports Pleasant Week
Long awaited rain fell Friday night marking first since March 28. The town enjoys mild skies and good health. Visits span New Albany Caswell Abbeville Memphis Gatesville Texas and local families including Petty Hale Adams Bonds and Adams family members with crops in Texas noted as short. Doyle A Game fell from a barn.
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F. J. Wilson
New Albany
Mary Hale
Caswell
A. J. Petty
G. L. Petty
John Mayfield
Memphis
J. W. Adams
J. EB. Bounds
G. F. Bonds
J. J. Bonds
Doyle
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Oxford Eagle
Illinois Central
Louisville
Gincinisti
St. Louis
Chicago, Ill
Cincinnati
Chicago
Ill
New Orleans
We. Wilson
James Stone
Tone & Wilson
Miss
Gullivan & Markeste
Mississippi
Sullivan Building
Public Square
A. W.t. Falkner
G. D. Shands
Ppalkner
Attorneys-At-Law
State Court
Supreme Court
United States Court
Circuit Court of Appeals
1.C. KR
L. Sivley
J. Jeer
R. F. Kraarens Water Valley
Kiimons & Kimmons
Oxfold
R. Henry Lake
J. M. Watpair
Mrs
G. W. Durley
Tennessee
C. C. Stephens
Dick Fair
J. R. Treloar
Orrwood
Mise Garner
Grenada
Laura Lake
Jamie Hutchinson
Newport, Ark
Miss India Flint
Aberdeen
J. W. Johnson
W. P. Goolsby
LaFayette Springs
T. B. Farley
Bledsoe, Ark
Emma Harris
Dew Arc
Ark
Bor
Miss Newell
North Carolina
E. H., Kimmons
Marshal Temple
J. E. Pope
Jackson, Tenn
Dr W. H Baird
Earl McCharen
Toccopola
City
Hon
M. A. Montgomery
Illinois
J. M. Stone
Liberty Hill
H. Friedman
J. B. Holmes
Iuka Normal College
C. P
Hattie Thompson
Eon Will
Batonville
Panola County
Montie Gray
DeLeon
Texas
Josie Weaton
Jouddie, Howard and Stewart
Athens, la
P. E. Matthews
Sallie Riennart
Des Arc, Ark
Emeline Harris
Rienbart
Mr. Murray Falkner
Ripley
Col
J. W. T. Falkner
Water Valley
H. Friedman’s
Roberta Fulton
Miss Bradfield
Birmingham
Ala
Lawrence Chandler
Greenwood
J. T. Chandler
Uesday
Methodist Church
Dan Hampton
Memphis Business College
W. A Hampton
Confederacy
Maj
T. M. Kemp
Delta
Woman’s College
Mas. Kemp
Alice Stinebeck
Meridian
Somerville-Price
W. M. McIntosh
W.B. Porter
Stonewall Cotton Milla
Methodist Parsonage
John H. Kimmons
Florence Henwood
Bessie Roane
Rafe Whitaker
That City
Raphael Williams
Ics
R. M. Standefer
Clarksdale
Mary Kendall Elkin
Okolona
Ellen Lundie
8. H. Sanders
Beauvoir Fund
David Reese
Lucie Delbridge
Mary Neilson
Greely
Colo
B. T. Kimbrough
Miss Katrina
Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Julia Young
Como
Miss Young
Berlin
Germany
Hyman
H. Sanders
Holly Springs
J. W. Malone
Candler
Brunswick
Dr.Malone
Dr. Malone
Bob Jones
Matt Slack
Sherif Harkins
Water Valley Military Academy
W. P. Maury
Call
Harris & Yates
Hallot Fame
Hall of Fame
Department of Archives and History
Eagle
Jefferson Davis
E. Ewalthall
James Z. George
J. L. Power
J. N. Waddell
Ham Chalmers
Aes
C. J. Galloway
A. H. Whitfield
Leavell
Gulf & Chicago R. R
J. F. Merrell
Joseph Ricks
Mobile
N. F. Carter
Mobile, Kansas City and Jackson Railroad
Gulf & Chicago RE. R
Pontotac
Middleton
Col. Falkner
I. C
India
Dr. King
R. R. Chilton & O’s
Someville—Price
Dalance
H. Krys
D. F. Spradling
Banner College
Lulbull
de Elfrsey
Lula
Fria
Fangie
Lorrance
B. F
Nelson
Myrtie
Ornge
Eva
Channie
Walton News
Girard Street
Confederate Stamps and Notes
T. C. Harbaugh
Casstown
Ohio
Walker, Carpenter & CO
Sea Island
Rheanranf
W. I. Turner & Sons
Davidson & Wardlaw
North Side
Square
W. T. Turner & Sons
Earth
Monte
Vallo and
Pocahontas
W. T. Wallace
Undertaker
W. B. Mc
Tahon
Dentstry
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