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Library of Congress1962

Image 6 of The Chronicle (Pascagoula, Miss.), May 16, 1962

f nrruTj_iinnnrumnnrumr SdCtonfaU II WE SEE IT THIS WAY 1 a riiiinnannjLiijumjmju yr i Horn Island For people profit or for the birds Eighth in a series Who is opposed to the countys plan for developing Horn Island and what does the opposition offer as an alternative The Mississippi Wildlife Fed eration last September adopted a resolution opposing the Horn Is land plan and similar plans advo cated by Harrison County politic ians for developing Ship Island W V Robertson of Gulfport president of the federation told the Chronicle that the federations opposition is based on its belief that commercialization would des troy recreational facilities now open to the public on these islands Jackson County supervisor president A P Moran says that as far as Horn Island is concerned more not fewer people would be able to use the island for recrea tion Ample public areas would be available he says And who can get out there now he asks Only the few people who have big boats With the building of the causeway anybody with an automobile will be able to go to Horn Island and iiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimii use those recreational facilities The wildlife federation has an other objection however

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Library of Congress1886

Image 1 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), January 16, 1886, (English)

r aYIu ABBEVILLE LOUISIANA SATURDAY JANUABY 1o 1880 NO 80 H J EDWARDS X D TOUNG EDWARDS Physicians Surgeons BBEVILLB LA opposite ýadeleine Square 1 T C Youngs Drug Store at N C Youngs mug Store given prompt attention M SALOON 1M Proptietol ABBEVILLE LA lbrte resort of pleasfrs and will be found one of the most in the town to while hours in rocreation Good K ES LN4j D CIGARS oad and also a Pool and lil Kind and polite attention eivery one Oct 3n51y IBEAUXIS ABBEVILLE LA geonst4aatly on hand a fresh and spply of Family Groceries of all f ned and J erred Gends of a full and Couutly Produce of every and the very best brands of yeWiucs and Cigars Unaidies aikes tsh retails Liquor by the drink bargnis and fresh goods I claim srpjeed by any other merchant placeOct3d51y AL PRODUCE AND CoxwIssION MEPCHANT DRALutR IN AR MOL4SSES COTTON AND ALL KINDS OF RY AND WESTERN IROD U C E 61 Poydrats Street NEW ORLEANS L V Boi 3215 promptly attended to W W EDWARDS LAW Y E3R Ah ville La WIllatteed to all bnsines in the line of gouduulo in Vermiliou or the adjoin

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Library of Congress1908

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 29, 1908

Literary News and Notes President Roosevelt has signed a con tract with The Outlook to act as an asso ciate editor after his retirement from the Presidency in March next This is made subject to the existing contract to write the story of his African travels tor Charles Scribners Sons His work in connection with the Outlook is to cover political and economic topics William Dean Howells Mary E Wil kins Freeman John Kendrick Bangs Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews Mary StewartCutting Alice Brown Henry van Dyke Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Elizabeth Jordan Edith Wyatt Mary Heaton Vorse and Henry James have written a composite novel The story is entitled The Whole Family and will be published next week after having run as a serial in Harpers Bazar where the puzzle was to find which author wrote what chapter The plot hinges on the engagement of pretty Peggy the daugh ter of the house to a fickle youth who is in love with her aunt and the whole family gets delightfully tangled up about it As a literary device this book is bound to create a pleasant little stir The November Everybodys is an elec tion number That is three out of

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Library of Congress1901

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), November 21, 1901

LITERARY NEWS AND NOTES The contents of the New England Magazine for November are a3 follows Sherburne Farms by Henry L Hazel ton When Me and Ed Got Religion by Fred W Shibley Isaiah Thomas the Patriot Printer by Frank R Batcliel der A Political Conspiracy by Epes W tSargent Ye Ancient Inns of Boston Town by Frederick W Norcross Self ishness by Charles H Town An Archi tect of the Old School by Henry T Bailey Manda a story by Jeannette Pemberton WashingtonGreene Cor respondence A Castle in Spain by Frederic lteddale Is there a decadence of New England Agriculture by Charles S Phelps The English Com monwealth by Burdett Hart For seventyfive years The Youths Companion has been published every week as a family paper In these sev entyfive years the papers constancy to a high standard has won the confidence of the American people It has kept pace with the growth of the country Its stories its special articles its edito rials its selections represent all that is best in American life For 1002 the foremost men and women of the Eng lishspeaking world have been enlisted as contributors The work of an un precedented number of

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Library of Congress1962

Image 2 of The Lexington advertiser (Lexington, Miss.), January 25, 1962

UosUaii But Not UN Legislature Can Decide State Reapportionmenf The men in the Legislature seem to be spending a lot of time talking and listening to talk memorializing Con gress on matters which are complete ly outside their jurisdiction and final ly politics as usual with tthe little petty squabbles and infighting the public has come to regard as the nature of the Mississippi Legislature Let us hope that if and when these gentlemen get down to work they will be consistent in their approach to the solution of the states many serious problems and it wont be another ses sion of saying Dont do as we do but do as we say do We refer specifically to their memorializing the United States Con gress to limit contributions to the United Nations and prohibit the U S from participating or buying any bonds that may be issued by the United Nations This action was said to be inspired by House Speaker Walter Sil lers and others It received a highly favorable vote in the House and over whelming approval in the Senate Tt is well and good that we stand for fair play in the United Nations and we agree

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Library of Congress1907

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), November 21, 1907

NATION MAY BE DRY Hovember Elections Help to Swell the Roll of Prohibition States The temperance people who are light ing the saloon and the saloon influ ences in politics have reason to feel elated over the result of the November elections Democrats and Republicans lost and won but the returns show a steady gain for the cause of prohibition Following is a statement of actual con ditions in all the States up to date as compiled and issued by the Chicago RecordHerald AlabamaFortyone counties have voted to stop the sale of liquor entirely and the same result is said to be cer tain in nine others where arrange ments have been made for elections These nine include Montgomery the third largest in the State This will make titty out of sixtyseven against whiskey Four of the seventeen left have dispensaries that cannot be dis turbed for two years yet It is well established that the incoming legisla ture will make all the State prohibition ArkansasFivesevenths of the pop ulation live in dry territory License majority of 52000 in 1894 has changed to an aggregate majority of 10000 for prohibition in 1900 CaliforniaFour dry counties and much dry territory in

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Library of Congress1915

Image 5 of Greene County herald (Leakesville, Miss.), December 10, 1915

Greene Count Herald n obltuurv to each deceased published free If It does not exceed 400 words Count the words and cut It down If excessive Card of Thanks not political will be Inser ted for 1 whereof average short form If long winded extra 5c per line for such overuge Let the thanking parties bear the expense of their lhankyou talks In print which Is but fair to the newspaperman Local Reading notices of a commercial or business nature will be run for lOo per line for the first Insertion onehalf prloe for subse quent insertions When such notices are of a religious or benevolent nature 5c per line No charge for church or charitable notices where there is no admission fee or benefitstring at tached I in DAY Dec 10 1916 localj Mrs Joe Tooley ot Minneapolis Minn is visiting her parents Mr and Mrs E W L Davis out in the forks of Big Creek She is accom panied by her little daughter E P Walley principal of Pleas ant Hill Consolidated school has pur j ised himself an auto of the Stu oaker type Its a twoseated one table of carrying live passengers D C Turner

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Library of Congress1917

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), May 31, 1917

u America and Great Britain Many people do not realize that hitherto all the active political relations between Great Britain and America have been hostile relations writes William Archer in the Westminster Gazette Twice the two Nations have been at war and there are not a few Americans who are fond of boasting that in both of these conflicts they whipped us Our normal level relations have no doubt been amicable enough but when ever the level has been broken it has been by incidents which left a certain legacy of illfeeling The general attitude of Britain during the great Civil War was anything but j sympathetic Once we were on the verge of a rupture over the case of Mason and Slidell The affair of the Alabama was exceedingly disagreeable the Venezuelan squabble led us not perhaps to the brink of hostilities but some way in that direc tion The incident of Manila Bay is perhaps the only international episode of any note that has definitely tended to draw the two Nations together Of course this does not mean that there has not been real friendship between them There has never been a moment when thousands of Englishmen and

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Library of Congress1922

Image 60 of New-York tribune (New York [N.Y.]), November 26, 1922

A RAILROAD THAT ISSUES ITS OWN NEWSPAPER Of Employees by Employees for Employees Is The Pennsylvania News a Paper With out Politics or Advertisements and No Purpose Except to Tell Whats Doing on the Line By ROBERT B PECK Jhe Pennsylvania News only girl correspondent Miss Mattie Miner interviewing Lord and Lady Mount betten in Union Station Chicago a NEWSPAPER without poltica and without advertising whose private iJa ends are served alraply by service to the community and whose staff seivs rthout payit Bounds visionary enough for i maddest hatters of Gr3enwich Village but ere is such a publication two of them in ftt and they are corporation products The publications are The Pennsylvania giro of the central region of the Pennsyl finia Railroad and The Pennsylvania News i the northwestern region of the same rail md system Directors of the road are to de al this month whether the enterprise is to be stended and a similar paper published by the euployeea of the eastern region which includes Ne York and Philadelphia and has almost nc as many employees as the 60000 In the satra region The clannishnesa of railroad men is some thing that a few months or

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Library of Congress1850

Image 1 of Eastern times (Bath, Me.), October 31, 1850

A Journal of Political and General NewsAn Advocate of Equal Rights VOL V_BATH MAINE THURSDAY MORNING OCTOBER 31 1850 jt0 lq le Eastern imt9 Ii PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY GEORGE E NEWMAN Wc in north nd of Uniou Block third tory Front St opposite head of Broad StEntrance first door north of the Arch TERMSOne dollar and fifty cents per annum If paid TRICTLY in ADVANCE one dollar seventyfive cents within six months two dollars if payment is delayed to the end of the year These tern will be strictly adhered to nr Any person who w ill send us sLx good subscribers shall be entitled to a seventh copy for one year IjT No paper will be discontinued until all arrearages are paid unless at the option of the publisher O Single copies four cents O All lette and communications to be addressed post paid to the Publisher Bath Me Ters o AdvertisingLess than 15 lines three weeks seentyfive cents each subsequent insertion 17 cents fifteen lines three weeks 1 each subsequent insertion 20 cents _ 8 M PktteoillNo 10 State St and V B Palmer r BuUlnS Uourt St Boalon are our authohled Agents Tor the transaction of

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Library of Congress1900

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), May 31, 1900

THE HUMOR OF POLITICS Some Good Stories Told of Public Men by Hon Joint J Ingalls Some of the very best stories of poli tics were contributed recently to the Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post by ExSenator John Ingalls First he says Charles Sumner had no more sense of humor than a hippopotamus but there was something excessively hu morous about his colossal selfconscious ness of which it is no paradox to say he was apparently unconscious llis egotism was inordinately vast though innocent in its simplicity it was far from conceit and led to no dis paragement of his associates Indeed 1 doubt if lie ever instituted compari sons Probably Irant whom he hated and abused came the nearest to sizing him up when he said The reason Sumner doesnt believe in the Bible is because he didnt write it himself lie bad large intellectual powers but not so large as he imagined He had no inliuence on legislation He was un able to endure opposition If he could not have his own will he would do noth ing But this is not intended as an an alysis of his work or his character 1 started out to say that

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Library of Congress1908

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 1, 1908

POLITICAL POINTS Mr Bryan declares that President Roosevelts letter indorsing Mr Taft is irrelevant and immaterial That is what a tioubled lawyer always says of hostile testimony which he cannot refute Mr Bryan dodged the cameras in Baltimore for fear that the photographer would catch him without his victory ex pression He clearly realizes that his victory expression wont pass at its lace value in Maryland Mr Taft believes in revising the tariff with judgment Bryan proposes to re vise it with a bludgeon Being scared to death and overconfident at the same time is the condition ascrib ed to Chairman Frank H Hitchcock by Bryan organs Those who have known Hitchcock any length of time have never known him to be either Even though Mr Taft were not to come to California there is no doubt that Cal ifornia will go to him Los Angeles Times Now that Theodore Roosevelt Jr has reached his majority Taft has two votes in the Roosevelt family not counting Nicholas Lingworths Bryan is going to visit Judge Parker and Dave Hill Once before in a Presi dential campaign Bryan visited the Sage of Wolforts Roost but nothing happen ed Out in Missouri there

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Library of Congress1912

Image 3 of The true Democrat (Bayou Sara [La.]), December 7, 1912

PERSONAL BUT POLITE E S Quinn is here this week Mrs George H Wilcox has been quite ill this week with grippe Miss Edwina Raynham leaves to night for the State Normal W P Craddock was here Sunday for the day Miss Lily Mims of New Orleans is a isitor at the Rectory Miss Irene Wadsworth spent the weekend4 in Jackson Miss Jessie Ball was the weekend guest of Misses Mary and Lily Too raen Miss Helen Johnson spent the weekend with Miss Lenora Mahoney at Forest Cadet Edward Newsham and guest Cadet Roberts left Monday for L S U Miss Belle Lawrason is a guest at Judge Lawrasons to remain till after Christmas Miss Amelia Barrow returned Thurs day from a visit to relatives in New Orleans Mr and Mrs J P Newsham have returned from a stay of several days in New Orleans Mr and Mrs F B Dennett had as their guest Mr Diebokl of the U S ship Kansas last week Dr Cusachs of New Orleans is the guest of Mr and Mrs E G Westmorland Mrs M C Forrester returned Thursday from Clinton where she has been visiting relatives for sever al months Ruffln Barrow

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