23 May 1912
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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1912
Page
1
Mary Dean surveys summer dress ideas with silk coats and burnous mantles, detailing trims such as wee bows and cordings. She notes silk garments dominate for updating old frocks, with examples like taffeta wraps, lace-hooded burnouses, and dainty mufflings suitable for hotels this season.
The article describes a summer morning frock featuring a long black taffeta neck with an Irish lace buckle at the bodice, celluloid buckles, and linen fabric with embroidered sci lor. A leghorn hat trimmed with black, buff silk gloves with black wrist embroideries, and white buckskin boots with high buttoned tops complete the ensemble.
A charming small toilet basket features a high curved handle and outer drape of fine French dimity. It includes a dimity lined inner ride with pincushion soap pocket and compartments for brushes, with various finishings such as Va renciennes frillings or lace edging.
A traveling woman outlines a space saving trunk method. She builds a large partition for hats, uses a sawdust-filled box for medicines, rolls shoes in linen, places pills inside shoes, and creates linen covered cardboard envelopes to hold dresses. Heavy envelopes keep contents balanced. A shallow top tray holds laces ribbons and gloves. Underwear fills the edges.
A versatile use of ettron yellow trims gowns or costumes with embroidery touches. Oriental border motifs and garlands of wreaths give a stylish flare. A tiny taffeta jacket serves as a wrap for lingerie dresses. These color touches add smartness to the afternoon toilette.
A fashion note describes tiny white pearl buttons sewn in lines on velvet dresses. White ratine panels are used with good results on velvet costumes. Skirts are slashed to show the panels, with braided tabs and buttons to keep velvet in place.
Gov Karl Brewer secured a $600000 loan to cover a state treasury deficit at 414 percent interest through a New York banker connection after failing to find favorable terms in Mississippi. The loan, arranged after a Boston meeting, saves about $10000 to $12000 versus local offers. He arrived amid a flurry of political activity at Edwards and union station.
Miss Susie V. Powell reports a Meridian Farm Canner Manufacturing Company offer of fifteen dollars in gold to the tomato club girl with the most tomatoes from a one tenth acre patch. Twelve counties report good crops and rising excitement for the state fair exhibit as prizes are revised and expanded.
Secretary McDonald announces the Jackson county exhibit of tropical and sub tropical fruits under Frank H. Lewis. The display includes oranges lemons mandarins grape fruit kumquats pomegranates figs and peaches all grown in Jackson county and is a standout feature of the fair.
At a Mississippi Pine Association meeting the weights and overcharges report was adopted in part and the committee continued. It was instructed to engage two weighing inspectors for Hattiesburg Laurel Meridian and Jackson. A proposed 10 percent wage cut tied to the ten hour law passed by the last legislature was discussed and supported by the group.
The auditor reports deposits from three banks show the fund exceeds 87 509 dollars, meeting the state appropriation condition. With the cornerstone laid at the state house on June 3, funds must be ready to pay contractors.
Local capitalists renew interest in the Aberdeen and Tombigier Valley railroad survey from Columbus toward Okolona. The project stalled years ago due to funding shortfalls and lawsuits, but promoters have revived activity after several months of dormancy.
Vicksburg broker Brewer offers a reward for the capture of the men who held up the New Orleans and Northeastern New York limited near Hattiesburg. The heist secured approximately $200,000.
The Meridian police committee after examining bloodhounds from across the country decided not to buy any dogs. They are not convinced of their usefulness in tracking criminals in the city.
Reports from several sections indicate cut worms are destroying young corn, forcing extensive replanting across the state.
A Chicegg Record Herald item notes that at a reception the belief in the survival of the fattest is renewed, reflecting a social commentary on post-event attitudes and local humor.
The May trade day parade in Brookhaven featured the Elks State Reunion Association joining the annual parade. The procession stretched about 10 miles, surpassing all prior Brookhaven parades in length.
Nearly one hundred delegates of the United Daughters of the Confederacy heard Mrs S F Rose president of the state chapter deliver the president's report. She noted over 500 new members enrolled through a state wide contest and urged support for the Margaret Davis Hayes scholarship fund and monuments to Confederate veterans at Beauvoir and the old state house preservation in Jackson.
In Concordia parish Louisiana a deer named Buney wandered two weeks away from owner Miss Annie McCormick who had fled floods. The reunion occurred in Natchez where Buney trotted after McCormick to her boarding house. The deer will stay at Duncan Memorial Park until parish waters recede. A silver bell on its neck drew a crowd.
DeSoto County approves a $200 000 bond for road building across three beats with one beat opposing. Allocation allocates $75 000 to one beat and $50 000 to the other two, plus $25 000 for bridges countywide. Plans link Shelby county roads and bid for the Memphis to New Orleans highway via Jackson.
The Sardis and Delta Railroad Company report to the railroad commission for the March quarter 1912 shows earnings of 63 541 79 with operating expenses and other charges at 7 291 34, nearly double the revenue, indicating a nonviable plying proposition.
Amite and Forrest counties each allocate 200 dollars for dispensaries to treat bookworm disease. A state board of health representative will visit both counties to run a 45 day educational campaign and oversee the dispensaries.
Olive Branch offers 20 acres of land and a $4000 bonus to locate the new agricultural high school for De Soto county. The proposal highlights local development and capacity to host the project.
Jackson reports President Kennington announces a social membership committee to raise 500 members before June 1. Goodman notes Chase Brumfield lectures at Holmes County Agricultural High School. Brookhaven lawyer D M Miller asked to defer the Lincoln County circuit court term set for June. Jackson shows Westing Union earnings of 5038.62 in Mississippi in first quarter, contrast with a 1910 loss near 5000. Greenwood looks ahead with optimism as its delegates win next Bar Association convention.
New York Attorney General Wickerenam moves in federal court against the valorization plan for coffee. The suit seeks to declare the scheme unlawful under antitrust law, to halt withholding of 950,000 bags valued at $10 million, and to appoint a receiver to manage stored coffee. The action alleges conspiracy to raise prices and restrain trade, with Brazilian authorities named as parties in agreements affecting global coffee markets.
Col Roosevelt vows the Chicago convention will not be controlled by fraud or force. He denounces Taft leaders in Washington and a rump convention plan as illegitimate. He warns that if successful, such moves would disrupt the Republican party amid loud cheers.
Louisville conference of cotton exchange members from all sections calls for a July 13 meeting in New York with insurance shipping railroad banking and cotton interests to settle the insurance issue. A resolution favors cotton being properly covered with sewn density and notes a bale with two uncovered sample holes is not in bad condition. It says sample holes are not essential and steamship agents have shown open holes claims to be frivolous.
The battleship Texas, weighing over 11 000 tons, slid into the James River after being christened at Newport News Shipbuilding Company. The event, praised as an unmatched engineering feat, marked the largest and most powerful war vessel of the United States Navy. A daughter of the largest state broke a champagne bottle on the prow as the ship entered service.
A major Houston fire in the upper Main street district caused about 1 million dollars in damage. The building burned for two hours as flames raged, keeping firefighters at a distance due to the extreme heat.
Chicago firm Armour & Co. was indicted by a federal grand jury for criminal violation of U S meat inspection laws. The charges allege interstate shipments of meat without government inspection.
Mrs Lula Dobson, 40, white, sent to Huntsville Texas penitentiary for one year for running a blind tiger. The Rhodes incident reports 2,300 Turkish troops surrender to Italians with 3 officers, Italian capture 4,000 rifles and four artillery batteries.
In Washington friends of President Tait say Justice Charles E. Hughes will be the compromise choice at the Chicago convention for the presidency.
In Shreveport Louisiana gas flow from the city well drilled for a salt water supply to a public natatorium at the city park remains unchecked. The cap attempt is only partially successful with gas flow conservatively estimated at 15 000 000 feet. Washington DC reports note a bill to shift cotton acreage reports to the first Monday in July.
Attorney General George W. Wickersham, addressing Penn law alumni, denounced the idea of submitting court decisions to popular election. He framed the reform as an impatient, radical movement diverging from established national traditions and institutions.
Dr Era O Denman of Toledo told the Illinois Homeopathic Medical Association about throat infection with a striking line suggesting adults with strong physiques should have tonsils removed to avoid future problems while noting tonsils aid young children.
Floyd Allen of Hillsville was found guilty of the Carrell county courthouse murders after a nightlong jury deliberation. He faces the electric chair in Richmond as punishment for his crime. Massachusetts adopts direct elections for US senators. The Massachusetts House voted unanimously to amend the federal constitution.
The Lorimer case advances to the Senate as the majority report finds no corrupt influence in Lorimer’s election while a minority cites extensive testimony suggesting at least ten votes were bought. The dispute centers on alleged graft involving William Lorimer and influence from Charles Hines and others.
Clarence V. T. Richeson, once a Baptist clergyman, was executed in Neston Mass at 12 17 AM after confessing to poisoning Avis Linnell. He remained calm as straps and electrodes were applied and sat upright then closed his eyes through the procedure.
Rev Mo EL Lytmost of St Ignatius Church Kingston warns 3000 parishioners that women wearing low necklines and short sleeves will be refused holy communion at the altar. He says women must cover shoulders and arms to receive the sacrament, signaling a stricter dress standard.
Washington reports that corporations will pay under the next month two million two hundred seventy five thousand dollars to the treasury under the corporate tax. The government expects income one million one hundred fifty four thousand dollars less than the preceding year due to lower corporate returns in 1910.
Railway mail service, disrupted for seven to eight weeks by floods, is gradually returning. Post offices in Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Mississippi are now receiving daily mail from railway offices. Rail officials have devised ways to deliver to multiple towns.
The Southern Baptist convention adjourned in Kinhomen City Oklahoma and will meet in St. Louis in 1913. The 1911 year was the most successful in its history with missions funded on a million dollar basis for 1912 13. Boards are authorized to spend the amount and expect full payment to avoid debt. Southern Baptists exceeded expenses for the past year.
Col E Z Steever commands Eighteenth Infantry and Fourth Cavalry to bar cross border travel amid rebel refugee fears. Three rebels arrested for immigration violations at non entry port. Many Mexican residents flee to El Paso for safety fearing renewed unrest.
A Western Massachusetts college halts a pie ban during lunch sparking a remembered incident from twenty years earlier. In the Berkshires a New York contractor faced a strike over meals, promising three daily meals to workers and ending the dispute.
A Youth’s Companion excerpt recalls young Thomas Reed declining to bail a leaking boat saying it would be unconstitutional because the constitution forbids excessive bail. The anecdote frames Reed as a future statesman in a witty, moral light.
The jewels worn by the Daughters of the American Revolution at a Washington reception reportedly exceed $500 in value. An editorial note in the Boston Transcript suggests that if the fathers of the revolution had access to $50,000 in ammunition at some periods, the war might have been shortened by two years.
Noah mused at a window of the Ark about the mockers who doubted the water wagon. He noted their jeers and suggested they would have understood his dry wit if they had appreciated the vessel’s purpose.
The magistrate questions the thief who admits stealing a young lady's chatelaine watch saying he was merely busy and wanted to take a little time. The exchange reflects a blunt motive framed as a trivial excuse.
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