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Library of Congress1911

Image 4 of The Hattiesburg news (Hattiesburg, Miss.), May 30, 1911

t j r s t The Everlasting Building Material If concrete is cheap it is not sood and if it is od it is not cheap Good brickwork has to be painted does not disintegrate or BR CK never Cement block as ordinar ily made is both unsight ly and unsafe as a build ing material and this fact should be made known to those wishing to build permanent homes crumble away all di does not stands Riverside Brick Manufacturing Co Hattiesburg Office Ross Building Telephones 290 Yard Riverside Telephone 726 mates rot Miss I I TRIALS OF A REPORTER The newspaper reporter has a very difficult duty to perform when it comes to writing an account of anything wherein the slightest deviation from the course that parties on either side think should ba pursued may bring censure upon him It is not so difficult to write the account accurately if the m I j Ikf V Æm jvul S m l FT 1 Y ft I 1 I l Helpfor All Andrew Carnegie once suggested as an epitaph for hit own tombstone what he said w8 the secret of his success Here lies a man who surrounded himself with

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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 Congress1921

Image 5 of The North Mississippi herald (Water Valley, Yalobusha Co., Miss.), May 13, 1921

CHARLESTON GETS BANKERS NEXT TIME D D Davis of Brookhaven President Geo B Power Jackson Secretary VICKSBURG Miss May 11 Charleston will get the 34th annual convention ofMhe Mississippi Bsyik ers Association in 1922 provided the members of the executive com mitte are satisfied the hotel accom modations there will be sufficient for the needs of the members who will at tend TTie officers elected today and in stalled who will serve throughout the yea are as follows W D Davis Brookhaven presi dent E P Peacock Clarksdale vice president George B Power Jackson secretary A L Jagoe Okolona treasurer H C Herring Moss Point chairman executive committee Members executive committee whose terms expire in 1924 R A Ball Greenwood R B Clark Tupe lo A B Furloy Brookhaven Other members are T W McCoy Vicksburg exofficio A D Simpson Meridian George R Rea Bay St Louis John P Bennet Yazoo City W A Boone Pontotoc A L Rogers New Albany the president vice president treasurer texofficio mem bers Group vicepresidents Group 1 C B Farrish Charleston group 2 Lee Cox Ripley group 3 W A Montgomery Edwards group 4 E G Bond Collins The convention adopted a resolu tion

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Library of Congress1923

Image 2 of The North Mississippi herald (Water Valley, Yalobusha Co., Miss.), October 5, 1923

THE NORTH MISS HERALD OFFICIAL PAPER City of Water Valley Issued Every Friday LOUIS C BARBEREd aad Pb SUBSCRIPTION150 PER YEAR Strictly ia Adveace Entered at the Poet Office st Water Valley aa secondclass mail matter Ftneim Advrtiin Rcpccntmive THE AMERICAN PRIuSs THIN OKLAHOMAS LITTLE KAISER The action of Governor Walton of Oklamoma in putting a military cen sor into the editorial rooms of the Tulsa Tribune is a final brazen as sault os liberty of the press that should arouse every newspaper pub lisher from coast to coast action to the end that we may bring quickly to close the growing grip of officials over public expression The in sidious inroads made in different states all with the same end in view getting a grip on the throat of the publisher have grown so bold that the newspaper profession must sit up and take notice if it is to preserve itself In some quarters the assault is care fully camouflaged under the cloak of reform but it is none the less danger ous Th Tulsa Tribune leading news paper of the state saw fit to criticize the conduct of the Oklahoma Gover nor The recital of the Governors activities

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Library of Congress1920

Image 4 of The Progress-itemizer (Water Valley, Miss.), June 4, 1920

The ProgressItemizer W S Thornton Fdilor Entered in the Post Office at TV ater valley Mis as second lass mail matter Announcement FOR CONGRESS We are authorized to announce JEFF BUSBY A a candidate for ogress from the Sixth Congrr sional District We are authorized to announce T V SISSON a a candidate fo reelection to Con ge f from the Sixth Congressional 1 istict I lii Il BL R AND A NEWSPAPER Ir his annual address to the Missis s i Press Association last week uf G llport President O F Lawrence 0 f the leading newspaper men of 1 Ssippi and one whose interes ml whole soul Tort is to put the country weekly cn the piane of high s Sards where it should be Mr Lawrence gave good aru suf ficient reason y the newspaper in e cry commur y ws cn cf it big gest assets and that the woexly tie ryeper was fast becoming reoegj nied as cne of the most important institutions in the community Within the past two years the weekly news aer has been facing a serious situation and condition With the scaring price of newsprint paper and everything tiist goes to

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Library of Congress1903

Image 2 of Water Valley progress (Water Valley, Miss.), December 26, 1903

THE GOTHAM PRESS New York Journalism and the Men Behind the Papers A NEW NEWSPAPER ROW Editor Reid In Building n ew Home for the TribuneThe Movement Up TownA Comparinon of the Old and Xew New YorkWhitelaw Reid has no fear that Newspaper Row will move H r Reid as a Buildar uptown He has bought 30000 square feet of land next the old Tri bune building and will not only cover it with an addition but will extend the entire structure to the height of 19 stories This reconstruc tion will complete a cycle of building in New York It is a trifle less than one generation since the present moiine Duuamg oi ten siories wus erected It was the marvel of Its day and one of the highest office buildings ever erected in the oldfashioned way before the steel skeleton method was invented of raising skyscrapers Its lower story walls are as thick as those of a castle on the Rhine I remember well reading as a lad in the country the description of the Tribunes new building and wondering if l should ever see it The avid memory of youth reminds me how the architect proved that

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Library of Congress1921

Image 2 of The Neshoba Democrat (Philadelphia, Miss.), April 28, 1921

The Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company of California Provides complete insurance protection for young and old Writes Old Line InsuranceOrdinary Life20 Payment LifeJoint Life and Business InsuranceEndowment Insurance Represented by CARL L QENTSCH at Hotel Rush Philadelphia Miss Nraljuba imurrat C T RAND Editor Publisher Subscription l6O AYear Entered at the post office at Philadelphia Miss as second class mail matter Demagogues And Puppets We hare in our possession a copy of the American Edition of Perrys Royalist Dictionary It was the first book of its kind print ed in the United States and it was published in the year 1788 We chanced upon this valuable little volume several years ago in the library of an old New England home At a time when money was very tight we parted with a goodly sum that we might purchase it Just the other day upon turning over the thum worn pages of this interesting volume we ran upon the word demagogue which was defined as the ringleader of a mob In the same book pup pet waa defined as a wooden image but latter reference books also define puppet as one acting as another wills We have both demagogues and puppets

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Library of Congress1897

Image 2 of The Free press (Poplarville, Miss.), April 1, 1897

The Fkee Phess a Bussell8r Editor PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT POPLARVILLE MISS Thursday April 1 1897 ONE DOLLAR IN ADVANCE ENT BRED AT THE POST OFFICE AT POPLARVILLE MISS AS SEC OND class Mail matter The Blanc brothers will be exe cuted at Lafayette La next Fri day Thomas M Bloom nged 104 years died at Phoeuixyille Pa last week Maj P 1 Montroes and Dr Cornelius A Rice of Biloxi died last Saturday An earthquake shock was felt at Vauilalia III and in portions of Canada on the 23rd ult John Hcllinghead who lived 14 miles east of Waynesboro was as sassinated Friday night The New Orleans sawernge plant lias been purchased for 93500 by N V Jordon of Boston We have received the initial nura i her of the McLanriu Star E Hall editor It S Hall publisher Mrs J W Adams wife of Ed itor Adams of the Sea Coast Beacon died at lass Christian on the 26th People who think they are mar tyrs carry the look on their laces and make martyrs of their friends Picayune M C Cook of Cumberland Miss has been appointed United States Marshal for the northern district of this state Fanny

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Library of Congress1897

Image 2 of The Free press (Poplarville, Miss.), May 6, 1897

Tsffi Free Press A G RussrLl Sr Editor UTOBLISHHD WEEKLY aT POPLARVILLE MISS ffbvrsday May 6 1897 ON L DOLLAR IN_ADVANCE iNTSUKD AT TIIK POST office at POPLAHVIhLK MISS AS SKC oNu class Mail Mattkh Greece ha a new cabinet The streets of Hannibal Mo are now navigated by lioatN The cotton acreage of Texas tins season will he the largest on record Eleven thousand acres of Ala Hiauia gold lands hate been sold to a 8 ndieute for 117000 MG A veroff the Greek million aire of furls France lias subscrib ed 80 000000 to the War fund ot hs country A lire at Newport News on the 17th tilt destroyed 82000000 worth of property Eight persons were injured Levi A nlentine tor many years a Citizen of Enterprise aged 85 years died suddenly a few days ago While enjoying his tinner At Barcelnnia 20 anarchists in addition to those already sentenced have been condemned to heal It lur the bomb outrage June 7th last Fiy hundred houses were swept away and twice as many people rendered homeless by tiie recent lood ot I lie Cottonwood river in Oklahoma Mr Oliver VV Patchings son of Representative T 0 latchings

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Library of Congress1908

Image 2 of East Mississippi times (Starkville, Miss.), August 28, 1908

TIMEB Win Ward Kdltor and Proprietor Trustees in Session The trustees of ibe A k M College are In session thiv week having convened Wednesday morning The governor is pres ent as presiding officer Of the fourteen members of the board all are present except three Ii is known that six members of tne board favor President Hardys resignation but no sleps toward asking for his resignation will be made at this meeting but in the other hand it is ful v certain lhalsaveial members of the fac ulty wll bo asked t resign as Governoi Noel said before leav ing Jackson when asked übou tne meet in He replid that there were Several things to allend to am mg them the smoothing over of every thing p eparatory to the Opening of tne sessi m There may bo one or more of the facul ty members he said who have gone s far tiiat they could nut give loyal support to the college and their resignations may be accepted I dunt think there will be more than one or two of these and maybe none The purpose is to remove all the fric1 ton possible and render harm less

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Library of Congress1918

Image 5 of The Bolivar County Democrat (Rosedale, Miss.), October 5, 1918

Iolivar Countv ffmoera flt llie Po8t office t Koaetlale lf ns 8Condclnss imitter BCRIPTION 150 LINKKLI Kditop and LKSSB Turkey wishes she had d on her roost during the IUY LIBERTY BONDS question is who will he desert GermanyTurkey triaHungary buy LIBERTY BONDS re the war ends Germany striaHungary will be in hy Allied forces BUY LIBERTY BONDS Bulgarians liave more seuse ie oilier members of the I Powers They were the come out of the rain BUY LIBERTY BONDS First Judicsal District of County over the top it two days of the Liberty Drive All of our people volunteers BUY LIBERTY BONDS storm is beginning to brew est in Germany now The are beginning to realize ey are on the losing side is likely that Emperor Wil ill soon get his BUY LIBERTY BONDS dont forget that if Russia t been in the war at the be l Germany would have hort work of France and id Russia lost more men d and wounded than any ne nation BUY LIBERTY BONDS The soldiers of the United States turned the tide but Belgium France Great Britain Serna and Montnegro held the bun until they jot over there and then helped

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Library of Congress1895

Image 4 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), September 14, 1895

State Finances The highest test that can be ap plied to the administralon of public affairs in the condition of the State finances the manner and method of their handling and the results that followed as the expiration of a term of office approaches We propose to submit some facts concerning the management of Louisianas finances that willI be startling to the enemies of the ad ministration and that will rove to 9 arguments more potent than any idle words of praise that could be bestowed arguments unanswerable to the minds of all lovers of wise or good government At the beginning of this adminis tration there were outstanding 486000 of past due unpaid coupons every dollar of which has been retired asd provided for There were outstanding warrants for 1884 85 and 86 amounting to 840000 and this entire amount has melted away under the present administration There have been retired and paid dn full 512400 of interest bearing tate bonds maturing in 1914 thus reducing annually 20480 in in terest alone which the State would have had to pay and aggregating a total saving in interest of about a half million dollars Today there in not a dollar

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Library of Congress1913

Image 1 of The Caldwell watchman (Columbia, La.), November 7, 1913

bL I4WweiI SalBA rFDh VOL XXVII COLUMBIA LA FRIDAY NOVEMBER 7 1913 NO 46 US ASKS HUERTA TO RESIGN THE MEXICAN PRESIDENCY ASHINGTON SAYS REGIME MUST END BLANQUET OR ANY HUERTA SUP PORTER IS BARRED FROM OFFICE NOTIFY ALL FOREIGN NATIONS Mexican Officials Slow In Replying to UltimatumAwaiting De velopments Western Newspnper Union News Sry Ice Mexico CityPresident cluerta has been told he must resign the presi dency of Mexico without loss of time and that he must not leave his succes sor General Auereliano Blanquet his minister of war or any other mem ber of his official family or of the un official coterie whom he might be ex pected to control This ultimatum from Washington was conveyed to President Huerta through his private secretary Senor Rabago by Nelson OShaughnessy the American charge daffalrs acting un der instructions from the State Depart ment Senor Rabago presented the memo randum to his chief late Sunday but up to Tuesday President Huerta had returned no answer and as far as could be learned had guarded its cen tents from almost all of his official and intimate counsellors Those who learned of the Washing ton note regard General Huertas po sition as

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Library of Congress1916

Image 3 of St. Landry clarion (Opelousas, La.), February 5, 1916

NO MAN OR WOMAN Is truly independent who has not money in Bank Provide against Adversity BY OPEN ING A SAVINGS ACCOUNT WITH UNION BANK TRUST CO Three per cent per annum in terest compounded semiannu ally PAID ON SAVINGS DEPOSITS Interest paid from the 1st of the month on Deposits made before the 10th JOS P SAIZAN President J PERRODIN Casher fi 4IQLES LUIMIER BUOMPANY DEALERS IN SInds of 5BuUdig Matert i ber Shingls BrIck Urn and apr sar dse qe s an E 4s oproBCafoP Ws tlas vo YgrlAvg ReA286 YourselW Rigbt SThe IBig Season Ahe WERAL WELLS F r 13 t 1ou t excseiils saws oi Awl a n A Qv Pa Eg DALIAS T RECEIVED AWFuUl tock of Window Shadsi Cabinetan s Mantel our stock befor plactig your ors ý I Y M d0r Prices right and lry Lumber CeLL he Peopes State ank OF OPELOUSAS LA APITA STOCK 30 WE PAY 30 per annum interest on Sings A 3 0 counts and time certifeates of depesit9 S OFFICERS David Roos President Samuel Hiass Vice Presidenit Leon S Hass 2nd VicePresident t4wrence Lareade Cashier N M Childs Asst Cashier BoRO DrIRECTORSI David Roos Samuel Haas 3

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Library of Congress1915

Image 2 of The true Democrat (Bayou Sara [La.]), July 3, 1915

The True Democrat URIn ROBINSON MRS MAY B ROBINSON Editors Offioial Journal of the Parish of West Feaiclana the Towns of Bayou Sara and St Franclsville and of the School Board We also own and publish the Felici nas Record a weekly newspaper for he town of Jackson La Advertisers will do well to get joint rates for both eapers Entered at the Post Office at St rancisvllle La as second class mail Subscription 150 a Year in Advance Saturday July 3 1915 HtADYTOTAKE MEDIGINES The above adjective phrase ready totake is the latest way to describe patent medicines if one may judge by a circular now going by wail to the newspaper oflices of wle country This circular is headed Why the Locwr is opposed to patent medicines and purports to be reproduced from the Columbus Medical Journal Jan 1I1b althougn no clue is given as to where the Columbus referred to is or in what issue of the periodical this remarxable eftusion appeared It is hard to believe that any reputable medical journal published in the interests of the medi cal profession or for its information would publish so senseless an attack upon physicians its very obvious pur

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Library of Congress1915

Image 2 of The true Democrat (Bayou Sara [La.]), October 30, 1915

The True Democrat ELRIE ROtINSON MR8 MAY E ROBINSON Editors Official Journal of the Parish of West Fellciana the Towns of Bayou Sara and St Franclsville and of the School Board We also own and publish the Felici ana Record a weekly newspaper for the town of Jackson La Advertisers will do well to get joint rates for both papers Entered at the Post Office at 8t Francleville La as secondclass mail Subscription 150 a Year in Advance Saturday October 30 1915 A THOUSAND YOUNG DEMOCRATS A movement is on foot to call a mass meeting of a thousand young Demo crats five hundred from the city and the same number from the country to declare their support of Mr John M Parker and a business administration The term young Democrats is one to conjure with as for example in the triumphs of the Young Mens Demo cratic Association in New Orleans years ago and it is this recollection which has probably inspired the pres ent call But any young Democrats who may respond should consider carefully sev eral vital points Briefly these are that by Mr Parkers own request the moment they do respond they cease to be Democrats

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Library of Congress1893

Image 6 of The Progress (Shreveport, La.), December 23, 1893

C D BICES Ed and Prop SREVEPORT A KAISIR WILLIAMS preposterous egotism provokes univeal aw v among foreigners but to the German nation it is rather too serious a mat ter to laugh at A capital of 52000000 is invested W in the nursery interest in 172000 acres of land In all horticultural a pursuits the entire capital is esti bi mated at over 100000J0 by the tt sensus of the agrioulturai depart is mont P1 A registered letter that was re w ceived at the Portland Maine post ii office the other day bore a stamp ofi the 4 denomination It would have gone for the usual ten cent fee and t postage The stampcollecting fad H was suggested as an explanation the tl stamp that had been used being re garded by enthusiasts as more valua m ble than an uncanceled one b TILE smokeless powder is not prov o01 ing such an unadulterated success in tc Europe as was looked for It is said a that at least 500 Italian steel field j pieces have been ruined by the d use of this new explosive If field n piece are thus destroyed in ordinary if practice with

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Library of Congress1888

Image 5 of The Grenada gazette (Grenada, Miss.), February 25, 1888

NEWSPAPER WORK tats end 8uKMtloiu to Journalletlcallv Inclined Ulrli Many reasons exit why the majority of women are unfitted for the general work of a newspaper office The usual veryday work out of which a great daily paper is created is not only tally but physically laborious to extent that breaks down the constitu tions of strong men Men who follow the profession continuously age faster and more frequently give out midway in life than those in other businesses or professions The number of old jour nalists is far less than that of physicians lawyers clergymen or tradesmen Feminine physique is seldom construct ed upon a scale that it can endure the intense strain of newspaper work Another reason than lack of physical endurance is that they arc not so read ily amenable to discipline The ccssfnl newspaper is the one with a welldisciplined staff The workers in each department must follow rigidly the instructions of the head of that de partment Individual opinions and notions must be made subservient to the policy of the paper and its general tone There is no latitude for the ercise of pet views Now most women begin to write from the standpoint of

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