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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1910
Page
3
Webster visits at Lamar and many residents are mentioned in brief items. Health, travels, sales, church events, fair preparations, and hospital fund efforts are noted along with obituaries and local business updates. Mrs. Maria Parvin dies at 85 near Oxford after long illness.
The third annual meeting will be held in Jackson on Tuesday and Wednesday. Counties should send representatives. Hon J C Treloar of Lafette County will chair the Taxation committee and address the convention.
Advert reads a large well built house on a beautiful lot, convenient to town, schools and churches. Terms available inquiries directed to Mrs. M. S. Collier.
The First National Bank of Oxford offers prizes for exhibits at the Lafayette County Fair to be held in Oxford next week. Awards include best 500 pound bale of rotten grown in the county, best 100 ears of corn, best male colt under one year, best horse colt under one year, and best sheaf of wheat crown. prizes paid in government numbered bank bills. The fair judges determine winners, with J W T Falmer as president and B P Booxer as cashier.
The sheriff announces collection of the 1910 state county and road tax. Taxes should be paid together and residents are urged to send 1900 receipts or land acreage details to avoid errors. Signed by J.C. Hantsmann Sheriff and by 8. M. Green
The notice invites county residents to view weekly market prices for poultry eggs and produce. It states prices are posted at the American Express Co office and urges readers to call and compare. Prices listed include hens at 12 1/2 cents per pound and young chickens at 14 1/2 cents, with other poultry and eggs referenced.
Advertisement from V HM Bell's Poultry Farm offering Reds and other exhibition breeders for sale with claims of popular Ridershard Red fowl. Also notes about Rhode Island Reds and Barred Plymouth Rock cockerels sold cheap with prices available on request. Additionally mentions Chamberlain's Cough Kennedy as a trusted remedy for colds and flu with broad endorsement.
An advertisement for Rexall Orderlies promotes an odorless tasteless bowel regulator described as a new discovery. The product allegedly cleanses the bowel, strengthens digestion, and does not create a habit unlike other laxatives. It is sold at R. R. Chilton & Co with 25¢ and 50¢ sizes and a money back guarantee.
A garbled OCR scan lists students and teachers by grade levels from an unnamed school. The fragmented lines include names such as Arkisson Ceecil Margie Fraz ers Dran Elmira Kimrrons and Elizabeth Rayburn, suggesting a roster or class roll with multiple typos and misreads.
Local readers recall incidents from the war and reconstruction in Lynchburg area. Messages discuss a brother named Willie Barr misidentified as killed at battles near Manassas and Pebtotac, and notes about Burton S. Harricen leaving Davis's party to join the Confederate Cavalry before his death. Public notice warns against hunting fishing or trespassing on lands under penalty of law.
An advertisement touts a salve as superior for healing corns, sores, bruises, cuts, rashes, eczema, sprains and piles. It promises quick relief and applies to chafes, burns, and other skin conditions. Sold only by A. I. Kewlei's.
Oxford resident Mr H E B Wallace recalls using Doan's Kidney Pills years ago for kidney trouble. He reports lasting relief and urges others with kidney pain to try the remedy. Sold by all dealers with Foster-More Co as U S agents. Remember the remedy.
A jumble of patent remedy claims cites Balant Snow finiment as a powerful pene treating andelieving remedy. It asserts restoration of health and ease of pain, sold by A M Kend and AL HL Kendell with various liniments and plaster variants offered.
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