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Library of Congress1963

Image 6 of The Lexington advertiser (Lexington, Miss.), July 11, 1963

Dorsey McCay Is Candidate For lieutenant Governor Of Mississippi Dorsey McCay of Water Valley candidate for Lieuten a n t Governor today an nounced the formal opening of his campaign and the ap pointment of his state cam paign manager Named by him is Clinton T Howell of Jackson Howell was the editor of the Missis sippi Methodist Advocate Of ficial weekly NewsMagazine of the Methodist people in Mississippi for eight years and is now in the printing business He is the author of several books the latest Lines to Live By is an inspirational volume of poe try philosophy and sayings He was a member of the Campaign Staff of Ross Bar nett in his successful race four years ago McCay a former lay prea cher of the Methodist Church is 42 years of age He was educated at Northwest Jr College and Jackson School of Law He is married to the former Mary Helen Rankin of Nettleton niece of the late Congressman John Rankin The McCays have five sons He says he will wage a vigorous campaign based up on his stand for 1 Economy in State Government 2 A balanced state budget 3 Increased pay for our

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Library of Congress1895

Image 4 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), October 5, 1895

dome unfounde i reports have spread misinforination ab nt the rites to he charged by hoteis and boarding houses at Atlanta during the Cotton States and International Exposition Mr Alex W Smith Chief of the Public Comfort Depart meat makes this statement tor pub lication Atlanta Ga ug 25 1895 Mr Walter G Cooper Chief De partmcutlf Publicity and Prom otion Atlanta Ga DEAR inReferring to the ed itorial comment of the Savannah Morning News to the effect that boarding house keepers have an nounced an increase in their rates I beg to state that this department has received no intimation of any such intention and not one single person who has registered accom wodation with the department has given any notice of an increase I take pleasure in announcing through you to the public at large that sufficient accomodations have been secured through the efforts of the Public Comfort Department to adequately and comfortable care for the average attendance upon the Exposition The rates for such accommodation at the regular hotels will be from one dollar to three dollars per day European plan and from two to five dollars per day American plan In the lodging and boarding houses

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Library of Congress1909

Image 1 of The sea coast echo (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.), July 3, 1909

mi rmi u The Official Journal OTT OP BAT ST LOUIS Subscription 160 Per Annum SENSATIONAL HONEYMOON A SEQUEL TO ROMANTIC BAY ST LOUIS MARRIAGE Couple Recently Married inThis City Have a Hard Time With Irate Parent of Child Wife and Officers of the Law in Hot PursuitRe fuge Taken Over Alabama Line Requisi tion Papers Will Now Be Necessary Meridian Miss June JO Itii stated here that an application is to be made to Governor Noel by D D Morrison mayor of Scooba Miss for requisition papers on the governor of Alabama in order that he can force Thad Stewart husband of Anna Morrison Stewart the sixteenyearold daughter of Morrison to deliver his daughter to him This action follows the escape of Mr and Mrs Stewart from Deputy Sheriff Will Brown who acting under the direction of the courts of Kemper county which granted Mr Morrison the custody of his daughter under habeas corpus pro ceedings outwitted the deputy sheriff and made their escape into Alabama Thad Stewart and his pretty girl wife are having a honeymoon the like of which has never been known before in the State of Mississippi Following a sensational elopement from a convent in

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Library of Congress1855

Map of routes for a Pacific railroad

Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Appears in the U.S. War Dept.'s Report of the Secretary of War on the several Pacific railroad explorations, 1855. "This is a hurried compilation of all the authentic surveys and is designed to exhibit the relations of the different routes to each other. An elaborate map on scale of 1:3,000,000 is being compiled and is in an advanced state." In manuscript ink on verso: "Maps showing boundaries of proposed territory of Arizona belonging to the [illegible], Department of the Interior." Annotations in ink at lower center. LC copy imperfect: Mounted on cloth, minor discoloration horizontally along lower right half and along upper left half. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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Library of Congress1867

Map of the territory of the United States from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean; originally prepared to accompany the reports of the explorations for a Pacific railroad route

Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows military departments, posts, routes and dates of expeditions and surveys. Includes list of "Authorities." Scale 1:3,000,000. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy annotated in pencil. Vault AACR2

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Library of Congress1908

James M. Roberts and others. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting ... the findings filed by the court in the case of James M. Roberts, Louisa A. Dougherty, administratrix of John W. Dougherty, deceased, and J. Robert Taylor, administrator of James T. Taylor, deceased, against the United States. December 18, 1908. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed

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Library of Congress1961

Image 2 of The Lexington advertiser (Lexington, Miss.), November 30, 1961

SdliaUaid Our Low Income crmmic Progress Are Partners v issip i has only a few prob d it 01 y couldnt overcome 1 r nev in t ie form of more ir more people could help alle viate ome of these s 1 u M comes to mind as the 1 Cu us figures are published v V h levcal that Mississippi is still st e in the union with an a prraonal income of 288400 per family gores statk up something like this 3 e are 500921 families in the st a O this number there were 25 f vh had an income of 810000 or mote 139722 with an income of fa more in the year of 1959 3 hs m a ns 155 646 families rated in t e unper income bracket or almost o of the total number of fami lies the other extreme there were 9 dandies which had to exist on h h a 81000 per year a subsistence s nd k or almost onefifth of the states families In the middle were the majority 775 families whose income was less than 81000 Obviously raising the income sta tus o f a bottom fifth

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Library of Congress1899

Image 2 of Greene County herald (Leakesville, Miss.), September 22, 1899

GREENE COUNTY KHALI Published Every Friday JAS FAULK tdltor and Sole Proprietor Official organ of Greene County Subscription 3100 per yeai IN ADVANCE Advertising rates furnished on appli Mtion Local reading notices 5c per line Addreaa all communications to Pub listers at Leakesville Greene County Iliii Sintered in the Poatoffloe at Leakes villo as secondclass matter A_1 ANNOUNCEMENTS Wo are authorized to announce the following candidates on the Demo cratic t cket for the offices named in the geuerrl election ns per permision f tho Democratic Executive Comrni loe of Green County viz JTur Kepresenranve J A SMITH For District Attorney W A WTHITE For Tax Assessor RICHARD D COCHRAN For Ctei of Courts DAN MoLEOD S R MKAY Ifor SLeiLff BEN C ODANIEL W W WALLEY Superintendent of Education W M DORSETT Justice of the Peaee HARDY MILLS For Supervisor Beat No 1 JOHN D TURNER Beat No 2 T J LUCAS For Constable Beat No 1 HARRY MOODY DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET For Governor A II Longino of Washington For Lieutenant Governor Jns T Harrison of Lowndes For Secretary of State J L Tower of Hinds For Auditor W Q Cole of Yalobusha For Treasurer J R Stowers of

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Library of Congress1867

A new sectional map of the state of Kansas showing the route of the Union Pacific Railway--E. D. to Denver City. Col. and complete system of projected rail roads. Information compiled & collected from departments of the government at Washington, D.C. and other authentic sources by W. J. Keeler, C. E. 1867

Detailed township and county map showing drainage. Relief by hachures, salt marshes, and minerals in inset only. Includes Indian reservations, roads and railroads, and the land grants of the Union Pacific in Kansas. Lists projected railroads.

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