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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 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 Congress1918

Image 4 of Oxford eagle (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.), July 11, 1918

OXFORD EAGLE Official Organ of Lafayette County and City of Oxford Published Every Thursday GEORGE W PRICE Editor and Proprietor SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year In advance 130 Six Months in advance 75 Three Months in advance 40 No Free Copies no pairs sent on credit to anyone Declaration of Independence for American Publishers Self preservation is the first law of nature is a saying as old as the hills but one that has been disregarded by many and by publishers of the small country weekly it has been entirely ignored The Oxford Eagle under the present management has never been guilty of asking for support on the grounds of help ing the paper It has insisted that it wanted no subscribers or advertisers who did not get value received VY e have tried and have lived up to what we promised the people of Layfayeete countyto give them a paper in keeping and in proportion to tair appreciaion and patronage It matters not how much brain and eneigy a publication has behind it if the community be ignorant unconcerned and careless the paper will show it The newspaper reflects the true condition of the community in which it is published

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Library of Congress1918

Image 3 of Oxford eagle (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.), September 26, 1918

r Children Cry for Fletcher I Jbe Kind You Have Always Bought and which Las been I n over thirtv years has borne the signatu e o I and has been made under his p I sonal supervision since its i I Allow no one to receive you i I All Counterfeits Imitations and jutasg u I Experiments that trifle with endanger th I jSants and Childreny 15 I vASTGRIA m _ harmless substitute for Gtstor Oil ric Vops and Soothing Syrups It is pleasart It c ms W either Opium Morphine nor other narcotic substance ge is its guarantee For more than thirtv years it has I constant useor tfce relief of Constipation Flatulency 1 Wnd Colic and Diarrhoea allaying Feverishness arising therefrom and by regulating the Stomach and Law the assimilation of Food giving healthy and rati I The Childrens PanaceaThe Mothers Friend Ienuine CASTOR IA ALWAYS In Ose For Over 30 Years I The Kind You Have Always Bou 0 LOCAL AND PERSONAL Mrs A L Bondurant has returned r spending several weeks in Wash ton D C New York and other ts in the East Messrs Robert Robinson and Wil m livar motored through from ar

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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 8 of Water Valley progress (Water Valley, Miss.), March 21, 1903

Tf Me is an Jd story about the fSrir wrrA tois Wife who were not tali dird with their home and de eld 4 to pat their farm in the hands oan agent for sale Soon the realtor they read of a beauti tel place which they decided would exactly suit them They ailed on the agent only to find It was their own farm they had so jaech admired and as the agent had atated the facts they with drew it from the market They hai overlooked the good things round them antil a stranger had pointed them oat This is a very common experience We usually think the other fellow has the eas ier time of a better business be cause we dont know all about Ills troubles or disadvantages and because we dont fully appre ciate our good things Ex Your great man shines before the populace in vain without the newspaper He spreadeagles the Constitution in vain without the newspaper His clarion voice wakes up the universe in vain without the newspaper His most astounding financial enterprises serve him in vainwithout the newspaper His scientific re searches and achievehments are in vainwithout the newspaper His wireless

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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 Congress1961

Image 18 of The Chronicle (Pascagoula, Miss.), December 22, 1961, (SECTION THREE)

Two Paspointers upped to eagle scout rank Lamey and Shaw get highest award at court of honor Scouts of the Singing River District held their final court of honor for 1981 last Thurs day at the International Bro therhood of Electrical Workers Hall on Market Street in Pas j cagoula Scouts of Troop 500 Gau tier sponsored by the IBEM were hosts John Fuller and Jake Hoed are troop leaders Highlight of the court of honor was the conferring of the Eagle Scout rank upon Donny Lamey of Troop 220 Moss Point and Ned Shaw of Troop 232 Pascagoula J W Steadman assistant district commissioner con ducted the ceremony which elevated the two Scouts to the hehest rank of scouting He challenged them to con tinue to live their Scout prom ise and laws and to help their fellow Scouts along the Fagle trail The John Lameys and the Osbon Shaws parents of the two Scouts were escorted by Eagle Scouts Phillip Scordino and Karl Wiesenburg to par ticipate in the presentation The two mothers pinned the Eagle badges on their sons and were presented bouquets of roses by Scouts of their sons troops The couri of honor partici pation

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Library of Congress1962

Image 3 of The Chronicle (Pascagoula, Miss.), March 6, 1962, (SECTION ONE)

Goulas Carver High host to 200 in vocational event District gathering is allday Friday More than 200 vocational trades students and their in structors were in Pascagoula Friday to attend the South western District Trades Con test at Carver High School James E Taylor Carver High instructor was host for the event attended by F O Woodard Jackson state teach er trainer with the state vo cational department Information tests were con ducted during the morning and a manipulative contest held in the afternoon Four students instructed by J M Brantley of Moss Point Magnolia High competed with 46 of their fellow students ob serving Three contestants and 32 onlooker representing 33rd Avenue High School in Gulf port where the instructor is Herschel J Smith Todd Memorial High School in Poplarville was represent ed by three contestants 36 student spectators and instruc tor Obydce Nunnery Four contestants were en tered from North Gulfport High School Also attending were six students and their teacher Jerome Nichols Instructor at Nichols High at Biloxi Fred Randall brought three students to observe Four students at Carver High competed and 39 other students attended Miss Carver High Gladis Robins addressed the visitors in welcome after

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Library of Congress1962

Image 6 of The Chronicle (Pascagoula, Miss.), December 7, 1962

We are for these things whatever helps most of us even at the expense of some of us cCUuaI WE SEE IT THIS WAY We are against these things whatever helps some of us at the expense of most of us A slim hope that a good reap portionment bill will come from a housesenate conference next week is held out by State Rep Karl Wiesenburg of Pascagoula A bill calling for establishment of a legislature of 100 representa tives and 51 senators was passed by the house Wednesday Con ferees from the house will negoti ate with this as a starting point It is possiblethough barelythat a true reapportionment might be worked out What will come forth however most probably will be just another rearrangement plan disguised as fair reapportionment The house bill passed Wednes day though is closer to a fair one than any other suggestion yet to come from the legislature Its 100 man house allows for one member from each of the states 82 coun ties with 18 other seats available for dividing among the most heav ily populated counties Fiftyone senators most probably is the opti mum number for the upper house Wiesenburg believes that

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Library of Congress1963

Image 3 of The Chronicle (Pascagoula, Miss.), December 2, 1963

Say Newspaper Must Be Lawyer For The People CHICAGO UPIStuart List publisher of the Chicagos American told high school newspaper editors and advisers Friday that a newspaper must be an attorney for the peo ple A newspaper should realize that to accept evil without pro test is in reality to cooperate with it he said in a speech for delivery to the annual conven tion of the National Scholastic Press Association It is not enough to love the flowers You must also hate the weeds List said basic good taste and high standards of performance are marks of how a newspaper meets its responsibilities A newspaper must know the people of its community and love them he said Always the newspaper must ask the question do we reflect what is good for the people of the com munity not what is good for ourselves List represented the Ameri can Newspaper Publishers Asso ciation in presenting this years journalism awards for general excellence to five high school newspapers TVia irinnofc nrnrA Pa1_ legian Baltimore City College Baltimore Md The Hoofbeat Murrah High School Jackson Miss The Rocket John Mar shal High School Rochester Minn The Profile Proviso West High School Hillside

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Library of Congress1945

Image 4 of The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser (Pascagoula, Miss.), October 12, 1945, (SECTION ONE)

1 To Keep A Free Press Free Recently the newspapers of tins country made annual observance of Newspaper Week and once again we looked on with interest and mixed feelings as one great journal after another and many a small one treated its readership to an editorial diet of sanctity and selfpraise We are proud of the free American press and would rather be a part of this business than any other But we cannot help regretting a maudling element in our business which seeps into the editorial pages oi ine nation on such occasions as News paper Week To get down to details one theme we do not like to see spread across these pages is the theme of selfcongratulation because wethe newspaper industry honestly report the news It is a newspapers implicit duty honestly to report the news No newspaper in America ex ists without its own slants and opinions and spe cial axes to grind whether these be on behalf of some ideal or on behalf of some very special and selfish interest But the tradition of a free press demands that the newspaper leave these slants and opinions to the editorial pages and that its newscolumns

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Library of Congress1951

Image 21 of The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser (Pascagoula; Moss Point, Miss.), October 26, 1951, (SECTION THREE)

News From Esc a taw pa Nell Greenough Honored By Mother At Party On Her Twelfth Birthday By Gloria Bennett Nell Greenough was honored with a party by her mother Mrs W O Greenough on her 12th birthday Games were played and prizes won by Gloria Cunning ham and Winston Griffin Cake and punch were served to Win ston Griffin Phyllis and Sandra Greenough Gloria Cunninghprti Charles Lester Mack Geraldine George and Wanda Nelson Mary Helen Morgan Mary Ann Eaton Priscilla and James Cunningham Eunice Holland Mary Jane and George Emerson Nell Hill Gloria Patsy Lacey Dollie Sue Ward Harry Ready Pat Hurt Judy Wil lie and Doll Greenough A W Greenough Mrs J E Renagar and Mr and Mrs A J Mack Johnny Goff Camp Gordon Ga spent several days visiting his grandmother Mrs S L Goff Miss Jackie Greenough student at Perkinston spent the Weekend with her parents Mr and Mrs W O Greenough Misses Fannie Mae Eula and Eva Ruth Wyatt and Mrs G W Wyatt spent the weekend in Can tonment Fla visiting Mr and Mrs J A Goff and Mr and Mrs J V Wyatt Guests of Mr and Mrs Barney Smith over the weekend

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Library of Congress1961

Image 8 of The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser (Pascagoula; Moss Point, Miss.), July 11, 1961, (SECTION TWO)

Hints Homemakers 6y Charlotte M Garner VOHP MDMF AHFWT f s We find many recipes ioday calling for sour cream We can buy sour cream from the dairy display at the grocery store But how many ol us know that it isnt the same kind of sour cream that grandma used to churn into butter Todays sour cream is dairy made li is really fresh sweet cream to which a culture has been added The culture adds a custardlike consistency and produces a distinctive tangy flavor You can whip sour cream but be sure to chill both the bowl and beater before you start to whip It wont get stiff when whipped but fluffy and almost double in volume Top gingerbread spice cake or puddings W ith whipped sour cream In hot sauces and main dishes remove food from di rect heat before you add sour cream then reheat to simmer ing If you boil sour cream it will curdle and become very thin v Chicken and Sour Cream Two envelopes unflavortv gelatin 21 cups chicken broth divided 2 tablespoons grated onion 1 teaspoon salt dash pepper 2 cups cooked diced chicken cup toasted slivered almonds Vz cup sliced j

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Library of Congress1961

Image 12 of The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser (Pascagoula; Moss Point, Miss.), July 18, 1961, (SECTION TWO)

_ WIN SPECIAL CASH PRIZES OtE o Offered for Early Effort JULY 26TH During First Week of Contest SubecifpMont moy be ttken y i 66 Details Below time following this announce j ment i 1 1 n EARN CASH EARLY he hromcleStar iy JS Tur uncc point a nVFRTKFR tttsafcsr 1 IUll I 111 1 AUY LR 1 ULH Outlined Below r PROUDLY RESENTS BMMMMMBIBIIIMImhmhwmmmmflBBIIMWW Plan In Brief The object of this big Everybody Wins prize contest is threefold Primarily to increase the already large subscription list of this newspaper to collect advance subscription payments from present readers and at the same time afford local wideawake energetic men and women married or single and young people of this trade territory an opportunity to profit in a BIG way through whatever spare time they might have during the next few weeks So it is a plan that works both ways and to the ultimate good of all concerned In order to gain this end quickly and effectively the most attractive and altogether desirable awards ever offered by any newspaper in this section have been made ready for distribution among those who participate most actively Ambition and energy are the only requisites

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Library of Congress1961

Image 2 of The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser (Pascagoula; Moss Point, Miss.), August 1, 1961, (SECTION ONE)

I Newt From Vancleave Revival services at Qak Grove scheduled to begin August 12 By Mrs Ray Havens Revival at Oak Grove Bap tist Church south of Vancleave will begin Aug 12 The Rev Millard Fairley of Gulfport will be speaker Connie Lou Taylor and Ben nie Lynn Taylor have arrived from Washington where Con nie Lou has been employed Bennie Lynn visited for two months with her sister They are daughters of Mr and Mrs B B Taylor The Bobby Duncans have returned from a 10day visit to Corinth and Carrolton with their parents and grandpar ents Mr and Mrs C C McGee had all their children and grandchildren present recent ly when they celebrated five birthdays in the group Pre sent were the Cecil McGees of Pascagoula and the L A Stockstalls of Picayune Mr and Mrs Nathan Inabin ette and family have returned from a weeks visit with rela tives in Kansas City Sunday Mr and Mrs Max j Roberts Joy Debbie and Susie helped celebrate Joey Kennedys fourth birthday at j the home of his parents Mr and Mrs Conrad Kennedy in Biloxi Mrs Claude Smith of Jack i son was a recent visitor to Mrs

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Library of Congress1886

Image 2 of The Pascagoula democrat-star (Pascagoula, Miss.), September 10, 1886

fhecmt7crjtSfjr T22 booh rrm Tbe report of veffow fever a rkl mid 4f JAl 12J 1 SffiH CHT1 resolred ia another tni to tbe Const as a summer DETZCTI7S 320TTi A12ZaT3 tir here last TS EQHTTCrilXiriOl Ordinarily R KJTAYERa EiaTCR Scrarucn Miss FRiDAT Septemfier 10 IW i old blow rtsorr from wnieii we fear she will be alow in rewreriiig Is baa al ready liken her several years of imojautty from infectious diseases There wan some week occasioned by the aires of the t aegroes aieticioiieiliti oar bust issae by Detective Erowi of the jtiii jri UetMor iu espeet Memlua Cape LVowi left Iait auey ia retan tor bis oat lay Saturday wubouc the dark ami Strange to ear tbe payment ot tax after his departure Shentf Clark es ia an exception to this role Some disappointed nor beaded A COOP AXS1Z33 We bare come serosa many ad wben a ma a ram with bis money he doea ao cheerful1 mawnmp m me iocurOTi dresaea this year delivered at press I l rt t rt A lBklf aaln Hdiia I i eiub aad editorial aaiwciatioo dia ntuaes sutue very grave aa writ us false charges against tbe support ersof Scoekdafe

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Library of Congress1899

Image 4 of The Pascagoula democrat-star (Pascagoula, Miss.), March 24, 1899

THE AVERAGE CITIZEN THE NEWSPAPER AND Kurort KiRlittr His most amusing to hoc tlie man ner in which the average citizen looks upon newspapers Iu selecting his newspaper he takes the one which pleases his fancy moot and usually the one which he thiuks gives him the most news at least the most news of the character ho would like to read and would be most Interested In If he gets married has a child born Into the family if he goes abroad or does some commendable public act if he makes an inprovemcnt to his prop erty or does anything which pleases him he wants to see it magnified as much as possible and appear In the newspaper he has graciously and con descendingly bestowed his patronage on If a child or relative get married lie wants to see It gorgeously written up If some of his relatives gain dis tinction in any of the walks of life he proudly brings it to the newspaper for comment no nutter whether anyone else in Uie community knows or is in tcrcsted iu the relative or not he Is and that issuftlcient If the afore said relative Is sick or dies

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