Local Ballot Candidates Listed for County Offices
Readable text lists candidates for county posts including Clerk of the Supreme Court YW MRA For Railrond Qammisasoner KINCANNON for District Aubney W ASROANE state Senator Go 8 WOH TOWER Chanoery Clerk RAMEY Circuit Clerk Babo Treasurer LINVURN CULLEN County Superintendent T M ANDERSON Coroner W T TURNER Surveyor S MLARTY Supervisor Beat 1 M W KWH Magistrates Beat 1 J I McLarty T L Wares Bailliff Henat J O Roach names shown in ballot summary
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Supreme Court
Railrond Qammisasoner
Doe
Kincannon
Fragmented Hodgepodge of Political Snippets and Odd Notes
The column surveys varied topics from post office scandals and Roosevelt to Carnegie stocks and international tensions. It highlights political opinions, possible misstatements, and curious coincidences in a humorous, opinionated style.
Making Friends The Art Of Gaining And Keeping Friends
The article argues that making friends is a natural gift that can be cultivated. It emphasizes showing friendliness, courtesy, tact, and pleasing others. By being unselfish, generous, and genuine, one can win and retain friends even when fortune is unsteady.
Continue to Advertise For Business Success
The piece urges constant advertising as essential to growth in business and profession. It warns stagnation leads to decline and urges readers to share gains, support family welfare, and pay it forward by advertising through the home paper.
Our Best Wealth and the Call to Retain Local Talent
The piece argues that true wealth lies in people and education, not gold or cattle. It urges keeping skilled, moral residents, especially youth, at home by supporting local enterprise and offering fair opportunities to prevent brain drain.
Two Brothers in a Mississippi Town Tale of Fate and Ambition
In a Mississippi town a wraithy merchant’s two sons share keen minds yet diverge. The elder pursues study with unflinching resolve and reaches a lofty, unlikely goal after years of hard work. The younger abandons many paths, loses inheritance and work, and remains an inefficient, drifting figure with limited prospects.
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Mississippi
Stand by a Purpose Strong and Lofty
A reflective passage contrasts two brothers as symbols of failure and success. One seeks mere existence while the other aims high and surpasses initial limits. It asserts that purpose and determination empower natural ability and effort toward achievement, urging steadfast progress toward a lofty aim.
Fragmented Humorous Snippets and Social Satire
A column collects jests and anecdotes from the era. It includes quips about matrimony advice in a novel, an odd German epitaph, racial humor on chicken theft, a moon joke, a lawyer editor’s office pun, a child’s view of editors, a Georgia politician’s election joke, cotton price commentary, friendship reflections, tornado tales from Kansas, and a debate about gender roles and bread winning.
Education Without Heart Spoils A Poor Man's Daughter
A gray haired lady laments educating a young woman beyond her social sphere. The girl, daughter of a poor tenant, is educated for four years at college by a rich man who hopes she becomes self supporting. She returns home unhappy and unuplifted, while the sister is favored. The speaker argues head education alone fails without heart.
Ballard's Snow Liniment Promises Quick Rheumatism Relief
An elderly user reports fast relief from pain by applying Pallard's Snow Liniment to the spot. R Smith of Tenaha Texas endorses it for aches and pains including throat and chest pains in his family. Available at Oxford Pharmacy in 25 50 and 1.00 sizes.
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Pallard
R. Smith
Smith House
Tenaha
Texas
Ballard
Oxford
Dr King's New Discovery Cures Severe Coughs and Lung Ailments
A promotional notice from Armonk New York touts Dr King's New Discovery as life saving for a child with whooping cough and bronchitis and a niece with advanced consumption. It claims the remedy defeats lung diseases where others fail, with trial bottles offered free and bottles priced at 50 cents and one dollar, guaranteed by A H Kendell.
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W.K. Haviland
Armonk
N. Y
A. H. Kendell
Good deeds and remedies praised by Chicago reader
A Chicago man extols kindness over deeds and promotes Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for colds, claiming it cures and averting pneumonia. He urges sympathy and helping others, noting many benefit from gentle words and support. The note is signed R. Chilton & Co.
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Chicago
R. Chilton & Vo
Unclaimed Mail Matter at Oxford Post Office 1905 List
Weekly notice for Oxford Mississippi shows unclaimed mail for week ending September 26 1905. Names include Mary Taylor Florence Meilice Mamie LP Johnson Quinte Laiar Mamie Curler Cutia Derring Annie P Crawford Mrs P E Dillard Willis Gilviu Mary Foster Clary Wilkeson S Moon W D Westbrook Wade Whitten Marie Young N Cowins C W Thirkill Rufus. For details call No of letter and date advertised, Pierce P M.
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Oxford
Miss
Taylor
Mary
Meilice
Florence
Johnson
Mamie LP
Davison
Quinte
Hill
Laiar
Curler
Mamie
Beard
Cutia
Derring
Annie
Crawfurd
P. E
Dillard
Foster
Clary
Wilkeson
Moon
W. D
Westbrook
Wade
Whitten
Miss Marie
Young
N. Is Cowins
C. W
Thirkill
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy sale notice
An antique sales blurb notes John Wesley anecdote and asserts Chamberlain's Cough Remedy cures cold and grip and counters pneumonia tendencies. It proclaims the product pleasant and safe to take and lists RK R. Chilton & Co as sellers.
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John Wesley
Mistress Wesley
Chamberlain
RK. R. Chilton & Co
Confessions of a Priest Endorses Electric Bitters
Rev. John S. Cox of Wake Ark claims 12 years of Yellow Jaundice cured after using Electric Bitters. He credits the remedy for liver and kidney trouble, stomach disorder, and debility and endorses it as reliable, with a 50 cent price guarantee by A. Henkel.
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John S. Cox
Wake, Ark
A. Hkenéel
White's Cream Vermifuge Promises Health for Children
An advertisement touts White's Cream Vermifuge as a guardian of children's health, claiming it dissolves worms and aids digestion for strong growth. A Holmes County tale reports twin sisters celebrating their 103rd birthday, described with race-related color by a skeptical exchange.
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Oxfy
Holmes County
Pain Halms Heals Hand Injury Quickly
Mr J C Mount of Free Mile Bay New York injured his hand by a ten penny nail. He applied Chamberlains Pain Halm and later, and reports the pain and soreness disappeared and the injury healed quickly. Sold by R Chilton & Co.
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Munn & Co
Scientific American
Tan & Co
New York
Washington
Remarkable Recovery After Stomach and Liver Tablets
For several months our younger brother suffered indigestion. He tried remedies without help. After using Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets for about 50 days he gained 40 pounds and fully recovered. We have a good run on the tablets. Holley Bros., Merchs, Long Branch, Mo. Sold by R. B. Cn Hilton & Ue.
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Chamberlain
Holley Bros., Merchants
Long Lanch
R. RB
Hilton & Ue
The Urfitel Dreams by Robert L Taylor
Robert L Taylor, hailed as a prose pot of Tennessee, reflects on existential themes in a reflection about virtue, time, and mortality. He contemplates a desert of faith and a life bounded by fleeting years, contrasting mortal limits with dreams beyond.
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Robert L Taylor
Tennessee
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve Praised By Missouri Reader
Otto Dodd of Ponder Missouri says a yearlong sore healed after using Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. The ad claims 28 cents at A H Kendel’s drug store and promotes it as the best salve on earth.
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Otto Dodd
Ponder
A. H. Kendel
Cleansing the Liver for a Clear Complexion
An old remedy claims spoilage of skin comes from liver issues. An occasional dose of Herbine cleanses the bowels and regulates the liver to establish a clear healthy look. Available for 50 cents at the Oxford Pharmacy.
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Oxford
Local social notes and classifieds from Eagle dated week
Mr Tom Banke visits home folks Sunday. Miss Rosa Barry of Liberty visits here this week. Mr Tom McNeely spends Tuesday in Memphis on business. Mr Pete Mason leaves for Water Valley to take a position. Miss Cruse Arnold Willie Sloan and Mattie Gallegley shop in Oxford Monday. Illness of Miggie Gallegley Hope she recovers soon. Miss Pat Nichols visits friends in Myrtle. For sale by Lt. R. Chilton Co. Chest of Chamberlainia Stomach and Liver Tablets. Easy to take. Pleasant in effect.
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Tom Banke
Rosa Barry
Liberty
Tom McNeely
Memphis
Pete Mason
Water Valley
Cruse Arnold
Willie Sloan
Mattie Gallegley
Oxford
Miggie Gallegley
Pat Nichols
Myrtle
Carrie
Chamberlainia
Lt. R. Chilton & Co
Herbine Promises Cure For Malaria In 19th Century Ad
An Oxford Pharmacy advert promotes Herbine as a remedy for malaria symptoms including chills fever headache and low mood. The copy claims the medicine cures the disease at any stage and endorses it by Hopkins and other users. It lists a price of 50 cents.
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J.¢kee Hopkins
Rane
Oxford
Fayette Springs News and Society Notices
Summer fades as residents travel and relocate. D O Gilmore visits Memphis. Dr Sneed and wife plan months there. Mrs Carry visits Oxford relatives. A F Taylor buys Smith & Powell interest. W B Brown buys Sneed residence north street. Multiple Sneed and Patterson family members to Memphis or local schools. Patton recovers from congestion. Local teachers appointed to Shilo, Christian Rest, Uorder, County Line, Denmark schools.
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D. O. Gilmore
Memphis
P. Sneed
Sneed
Medical
Dr. Carry
Oxford
A. F. Taylor
North Street
A. B Sneed
J. O Sneed
M. Speed
J. M Powell
R. G. Hunter
Yellow Leaf
A D. Patton
Stella Avent
Northern Negroes Told to Stop Fretting, Says Preacher
A Southern preacher visiting the North urged Black residents to avoid excessive worry about the life of Black people there. The ad promotes Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets for bilious attacks with a quick cure claimed. Sold by B. R. Chilton & Co.
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Noth
Chamberlain
B. R. Chilton & Co
Dr Kings New Life Pills Said To Cure Chronic Constipation
Cavindish Vermont resident LeQuinn reported chronic constipation until Dr Kings New Life Pills were used. The ad claims the pills arrested the trouble and cured him, priced 25 cents at A H Koedel's dray store.
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LeQuinn
Cavindish
Dr. King
A. H. Keodel
Don’t Fail to See Him Con tractor and Painter
R. A. Johnson offers painting staining and graining services for furniture finishing. He overhauls furniture and handles bronzing gold leaf and ornamental work with a satisfaction guarantee. Don’t miss his ad in the Eagle.
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R. A. Johnson
Low Rates to California and the North Pacific Coast
Rock Island System offers low rates from Sept 15 to Nov 30 to California and the North Pacific Coast. For details on service train schedules and rates from Oxford contact J N Cornatzar, General Agent, Memphis Tenn.
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California
North Pacific Coast
Rock Island
J. N. Cornatzar
Memphis
Tenn
Oxford
To Cure a Cold in One Assay Tablets
A printed line touts Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets to cure a cold in one dose. Drugstores refund money if it fails. The box bears W Grove's signature. Price is 2 cents.
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Bk. W. Grove
Lime for dis infecting at Lewis and McKer's
200 barrels of lime priced at 65 cents per barrel for disinfecting use, valued at 1.25 dollars per barrel at Lewis and McKer's. The note records a local transaction involving chemical supplies and a named supplier.
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Lewis & McKer’s
Malaria Tonic Sold as Tasteless Iron Cure
Advertisement for Grove Tasteless Chill Tonic marketed as a tasteless iron and quinine remedy for chills and fever. Claims to cure malaria with no pay until relief and lists a price of 50 cents.
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Grove
Public bid notice for bridge and lumber contract 1903
Sealed bids due by noon on October 13 1903 for building a bridge at Toby Creek Buford Mill and about 7000 feet of heart lumber to be delivered to Oliver Crossing Alero for flooring. Bond double bid with two or more sureties required. Work may be let as a whole or in three parts. Board may reject any bid. B P Gray clerk Oxford Miss September 15 1903.
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Toby Toby Creek
Buford’s Mill
Oliver Crossing
Alero
B. P. Gray
Board of Supervisors
Oxford
Miss
Nitrous Oxide Anesthetic for Painless Tooth Extractions
The advertisement proclaims nitrous oxide and oxygen as the safest anesthetic for dental extraction. It claims rapid, painless results with a brief procedure and notes that Dr. W. B. McYabon uses this gas as the sole dentist in the city. Prices for quality work are advertised.
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W. B. Mc Yabon
Great Homeseekersland along Cotton Belt Route
Land offers across Missouri Arkansas Louisiana and Texas promise mild climate abundant water cheap building material fuel and soil rich enough to pay for ground in a season. Prices range from 2.50 to 20 per acre for farm land with colonies of 2990 to 8020 acres offered at 4 to 10 per acre. East Texas peach tomato belt lands 10 to 20 per acre. Write E W Lasemy G P and T A Cotton Belt Route St Louis MO for information and excursion dates.
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Missouri
Arkansas
Louisiana
Texas
East
E. W. Laseamy
Cotton Belt Route
St. Louis
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