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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1918
Page
6
The article warns that typhoid carriers can contaminate meals, water, and flies during travel and vacations. It urges immunization using the Army vaccine and notes Mississippi's Hygienic Laboratory provides free vaccine where funds permit.
Multiple ads list Haynes Touring Car with Mohair top and new tires for sale at a bargain from Dr. W. B. McMahon Oxford Miss. A separate rent ad offers three large rooms above Chilton's Drug Store by R. R. Chilton & Company. Additional sale notices include two Angus bulls plus 30 head of cows and heifers bred to registered Angus, A F Calloway Oxford Miss, and 20 Poland China pigs from A M Mitchell & Sons with a boar Chief of Woodleigh reference.
Lieut. Coningsby Dawson urges mercy as munitions in a national drive led by the YWCA and seven major organizations. The $170,500,000 campaign supports garrisoning the behind the lines and aiding war workers in France. American girls in Brittany host a YWCA house and nurses hut described by Mabel Warner. A humorous wartime exchange with Captain Creekmore ends with a simple Halt command.
WANTED stock to pasture twenty acres in shacks peavine and cane can graze 100 head at once price 1 50 per month ready November 1st W D Porter E Oct 17 24 31 PORRENT become proficient in typewriting special rental rate of 83 00 for Underwood typewriters to students in school three months payable in advance Memphis E Oct 7 24 Nov 7 14 FOR RENT The Commercial Hotel partly furnished water lights baths modern conveniences see J E Pegues E A 22thf WATED TO RENT I want a house January 1 must be born on place Chester A McLarty Oct 31 Nov 7p
Non resident notice to Mrs Elva Harvey Kelley Memphis Tenn requires appearance before Lafayette County Mississippi Chancery Court on the fourth Monday in November 1918 to plead answer or demur to the divorce bill of J Byron Kelley. Clerk Las Woodward seal dated October 26 with attorney W F Hamilton for complainant. E Oct 31st Nov 7-14.
Malachi Sanders by next friend Julius Mix sues Isaiah Sanders a nonresident of Arkansas and Marshall County Mississippi asks chancery court in Lafayette County to remove minority disabilities. The order cites appearance on the fourth Monday of November 1918 with clerk Louis Stephens as deputy clerk.
Fred Lockley of the Y M C A reports from London that giving brings more joy than getting. He recalls helping troops with supplies, doughnuts from Salvation Army, books from the American Library Association, and Y M C A goods sold to officers and soldiers who express deep gratitude.
Government sets care fund at 170.5 million dollars and urges Americans to give double previous amounts for 1919. The drive promises vast morale benefits including recreation buildings libraries houses and cultural facilities for service members and families.
Hon. Loring Brown, a national editor and progressive farmer, endorses Irogen after testing its “remarkable results.” He cites his own wartime editorial duties, a run nervous state, and finally improved health from using Irogen. He notes widespread availability in Abbeville and other cities.
A sergeant in marching formation orders the men to respond with a sharp gesture as he calls for all to turn eyes right. The line ends with a pun on eye balls clicking, highlighting drill humor.
A fragmentary dialogue on a campus shows a girl recalling a dog accident and a boy noting measurements. The lines mix morbid imagery with a prank like tension in a freshman coed exchange about waist and arm lengths.
The exchange features Blythe Carnie denying a si nse rogue is harmless and suggesting it works if applied to one cheek. The quirky line hints at a humorous or coded remark within a malformed text excerpt.
A riddle style line asks which dust is most and answers with eye 7 Gold Dust and the bitter dose to those who swallow it as Flattery.
Miss Shields recalls dancing with Russelligfo as Miss Bell comments on a limp observed by Shields. The exchange captures a social moment with personal noting of the limp.
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