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Library of Congress1909

Image 6 of Okolona messenger (Okolona, Miss.), January 6, 1909

fJACiKTTES raoG NOT GOOD BAIT Why Bailey Failed to Catch the Baea Good Fmraitiire Our Sale 1VOS 1ET0HG 7n t He went to be f but not to sleep The fact that h little girl was at tending her first 6 Ml grownup priy ff made him wake OvrW 1 ful and tnou8nt ful for It was nam ior uiui lu reconcile himself to the Idea of bis baby Elsie turning Into a young wom an Twelve oclock He wished that she were asleep in the small crib beside his bed where he had rocked her night after night during the first six years of her happy little life But of course he could not make her a baby again Half past 12 If she could only have stayed a j schoolgirl a few years longer that would have been a comfort and she might have done It Just as well as not j It was really only a matter of the j length of her skirts They had been j suddenly lowered In the spring from her shoe tops to within an Inch or so of the floor and Elsie had gayly an nounced that she was grown up

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Library of Congress1903

Image 6 of Okolona messenger (Okolona, Miss.), March 18, 1903

THE DUTY OP A NEWSPAPER Unfavorable criticisms of news papers are frequently made on the ground that they misrepresent things That is true They Ire qnently do But the newspaper which is trying faithfully to give the reading public the news makes remarkably few mistakes when it is considered how many state ments it is called upon to make in eachissue Those who are in the habit of charging inaccuracy in newspapers should remember two things First the average news paper makes certainly not less than ten thousand statements a year If none of these were er roneous or slightly misleading it would be astounding And sec ondly it is customary for one mis take in a newspaper to provoke more criticism than the nine thousand ninehundred and nine tynine correct statements And this very fact is much in the newspapers favor If the mis takes were so common they would not excite so much comment The record for accuracy and truth as held by a standard newspaper of good repute and enjoying a wide circulation among aa intelligent clientalle would put to blush any stump speaker platform lecturer or magazine lecturer in the land We once knew of a

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Library of Congress1903

Image 1 of Okolona messenger (Okolona, Miss.), March 11, 1903

J f I 1 I i IV II IJ I I JL I I FAS 11 I I X NT 1 fOrvTllEDEVELOFilEifiowtfc KB5i4lllMil ABE STELXBEEGER 4 SOM 100 A Tear n kixiM Ouk Aim To Tell the Truth Obey the Lav and Make Money Oub Motto Talk for Home Work for Home and Fight for Home fUMlKOl VOL 31 OKOLONA MISS WEDNESDAY MAKCH 11 1903 NO 10 SCIENCE AND SPIRITS longer IB William Crooka no stands for spirits and the open door to the unseen He frankly confesses that the chase in their direction has led him only to a brick wall There is no bridge between the spiritual and material world and I dont see how there can be is his latest utterance Coming from a man who has been deep in the merits of all psychic phenomena that the ag could roll up this dictum has forlornly the nature of a last word to the eager watchers at the tower which proud science haa reared for some defi nite peep into the spirit world That it still appends a hope that psychical science may perhaps stumble upon a soul a stray glimpse of tne spir itual kingdom is

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