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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 Congress1861

Georgia.

Shows railroad lines emanating south and east of Atlanta going toward Macon and Columbus, Ga., with a notation "125 miles from Atlanta to Andersonville [Prison]."

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Library of Congress1948

Image 1 of Jackson advocate (Jackson, Miss.), March 13, 1948

muuuuuumuuuuumuumu We Stand With The J People By The People and For The People No One Is Safe Until We All n Are Saved V0LUMN x _JACKSON MISSISSIPPI MARCH 13 T948__ NUMBERZO Stale Attorney Genera Says Nothing Can Be Done About Klan Activities Whose Charter Was Revoked Last Year Negro Voters Frightened By Grand Dragons Speech Firey Cross Burns Here Wrightsville Ga ANP No Negroes voted in the Johnson county primary last week follow ing the appearance of the Ku Klux Klan in this coimty seat and an appeal to bloodshed by the KKK Grand Dragon aingNesgroe Some 300 hooded and robed klansmen paraded through the town on the eve of the election A 15 foot cross was burned on the lawn of the county courthouse Inside a circle of fully hooded and Iobed klansmen greenclad Dr Samuel Green of Atlanta grand dragon of the hate order made no direct reference to the election slated for the next day but openiy attacked President j Trumans announced program for j civil rights and threatened that j blood would flow on the streets j of the south if the Negro takes a j place at the side of white men thru 1

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Library of Congress1908

Image 3 of The Brandon news (Brandon, Miss.), November 26, 1908

ivaxvVsvvvwci Cake It takes fresh eggs and nice Flour to make nice cake along with other ingredients Have your fresh eggs laid by your own hens if not why not Feed your hens Como Hen Feed ang you will have eggs to sell 100 pound sack for 225 Freight paid on 300 pounds or more 5atsv S icksoTv KUss For the Parlor the Bed Room the Dining Room the Kitchen Attractive assortment for the Holiday Trade Everything in the Furniture line Our prices are right We want Rankin County Trade HENRY HESLEP Manager XLXUaLT1 THEO SWEENY Jacksons Leading PHOTOGRAPHER AH Styles Photo Work from the Cheapest that is Good to tne Best Made JACKSON MISS 415 East Capital Street t 9 rsv 9 240 EAST i C SMITHS Visible Typewriter Headquarters for Office Furnitnre i OFFICE SUPPLY and BOOK CO CAPITOL Street Jackson Miss Printers Stationers Litho graphers Blank Book Makers General Offce Out fitters __ DRAUGHONS PRACTICAL Business Bookkeeping Shorthand Telegraphy etc ML Colleges For Catalogue JflQ ORAUGHON Address either place Biggest and Best JACKSON MISS Nashville Tenn Memphis Tenn Muskogee l T Columbia S C THE BIG 30 s nmuawnB DALLAS TEX Paducah Ky Atlanta Ga El Paso

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Library of Congress1910

Image 2 of The Port Gibson reveille (Port Gibson, Miss.), July 14, 1910

THE REVEILLE TSDBPHONB NO 29 THURSDAY JULY 14 1910 H H CRISLER ft titered at the Postoffice at Port Gibaon Miss as secondclass mail matter FOR CONGRESS We are authorized to anuounce HON T M SHELTON as a candidate for Representative in Congress from the Seventh Dis trict We are Authorized to announce HON W A DICKSON candidate for reelection for as a Representative in Congress trbm the Seventh District THE SUNDAY NEWSPAPER The discontinuance of the Sun day edition of the Memphis News Scimitar and the statement that it has never paid in proportion to the weekday editions indicates that a change of sentiment is taking place among newspaper readers As a matter of fact God created us for six days work during each week and when we violate this physical law we must of necessity suffer both physically and morally There is a growing tendency among business men to cast aside com pletely on Sunday every thing that reminds them of their weekly labor and among these will be this liter ary hashthe Sunday paper Commenting on the NewsScim itars abandonment of its Sunday edition the Atlanta Georgian says The explanation is to be found in the tact

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Library of Congress1911

Image 2 of The Hattiesburg news (Hattiesburg, Miss.), June 5, 1911

c fffil yi rtm feT mmP Mm 2 fti ill wJÉLAjM pc ll 7 ijr m t in Heres To Your Good Health V and Pleasure r Comefollow the arrow r til you join the merry throng WÊ of palate pleased men and women who have quit seeking for the one best beverage because theyve found it Ü s w fa J a B Real satisfaction in every glasssnap and sparklevim and go Quenches the k thirstcools like a breeze i m Delicious Refreshing Wholesome 5c Everywhere THE COCACOLA COMPANY Atlanta Ga cr Send or our interestk ing booklet The Truth About Coca Cola Whenever you see an Arrow think of CocaCola 5 WORD FAN AS APPLIED TO BALL Doubtless a great many people have wondered as to the origin of the word fan as applied to the baseball en thusiast but so far no one has been able to speak authentically qustieon Quite a number of theories have been advanced but they have been nothing more than theories The Richmond TimesDispatch has the fol lowing to say Fan as all redblooded Ameri cans know is the bit of slang which denotes the baseball enthusiast The derivation of this world

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Library of Congress1895

The Negro as a soldier

Fleetwood was an African American who rose to rank of sergeant-major and received the Congressional Medal of Honor. He gives an account of the African American soldier from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War to show his suitability for military service, with concentration on the Civil War. He cites instances of valor and testimonials thereto, statistics on Black enlistments by state and on casualties, and lists African Americans who received the Congressional Medal of Honor.

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