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Library of Congress1908

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), July 2, 1908

International Road Congress President Roosevelt Names Commissioners to Represent the U S Government Washington D C June 22 1resi dent Roosevelt lias directed that this Nation be strongly and officially repre seuted at the International Roads Coi gress to be held at Paris the week be ginning October 11 and credentials have been issued naming Logan Waller lage Director of the Office of Public Roads of the U S Department of Agri culture Chairmau of the Commission The other members named are Colonel Charles S liromwell of the United States Corps of Engineers now serving as Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds of the District of Columbia and Clifford Richardson of New York an eminent chemist and one of the worlds acknowledged authorities on bituminous road building materials This coming Congress which will be attended by distinguished delegates from every country in the world is re garded by highway engineers and ex perts as probably the most iniportant ever summoned for the discussion of an economic question Its need is the direct outgrowth of the advent of the automobile for while thousands are ignorant of the fact the solt tires ol the modern motor car are the greatest menace the hard

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Library of Congress1961

Image 4 of Jackson advocate (Jackson, Miss.), March 25, 1961

JACKSON ADVOCATE PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT JACKSON MISSISSIPPI A Member Of The Audit Bureau Circulations Make all checks payable to the Jackson Advocate Address 406 North Farish Street Phone Office21617 Phone Society Editor21213 In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers but in all things that affect our mutual progress and develop ment we can be together as the handBooker T Washington Entered as Second Class Matter in the Post Office at Jackson Miss July 13 1946 under Act of Congress March 13 1879 PERCY GREENEEditor and Publisher FRANCES REED GREENE Society Editor Subscription Rates One Year 400 Six Months 260 by mail anywhere in the United States and to Service Men overseas Foreign One Year 600 Six Months 360 SUBSCRIPTION RATES All Subscriptions Due And Payable In Advance ONE YEAR 400 SIX MONTHS 250 INTERSTATE UNITED NEWSPAPERS Inc National Advertising Representatives 145 Fifth Ave New York City Murray Hill 25452 National Negro Newspaper Week March 19 to 26 COME let us sing of the Negro Press Sing of its courage its trials its success Sing of its fight for the right waged so long In defense of our people who suffer much wrong

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Library of Congress1914

Image 1 of The Caldwell watchman (Columbia, La.), January 9, 1914

VOL XXVIII COLUMBIA L RIDAY JANUAUY1 91 1914 O HOUSE OF MORGAN Sr AU5ES UPHEAVAL GREAT NEW YORK BANKING CON CERN WITHDRAWS FROM MANY CORPORATIONS IS BIG CHANGE IN POLICY Action Is Believed to Mark Passing of System of Interlocking Directorates Wetern NewsDpaper Union News Service New YorkThe withdrawal of J P Morgan Company from more than a score of great corporations anl the statement shortly afterward by Geo F Baker an almost equally dominant figure in American finance that he soon will take similar action gave Wall street a thrill that almost broeght trading on the stock exchange to a halt Mr Morgan departing from his firms traditional policy of silence made a public statement announcing the withdrawal of five members of J P Morgan Company from director ships in 27 corporations and the inten tion to withdraw from more Sees Change in Public Sentiment The necessity of attending many board meetings Mr Morgan said has been so serious a burden upon our time that we have long wished to withdraw from the directorates of many corporations Most of these directorships we have accepted with reluctance and only because wo felt constrained to keep in touch with properties which

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Library of Congress1951

Image 6 of Jackson advocate (Jackson, Miss.), June 9, 1951

Muriel Rahn Hits Back At Miss Governor FW YORKMuriel Rahn W ero concert singer who snends not of her time touring the south ern states in the course of her work as an artist appealed to ev ery member of her race to take cut an additional membership in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People this week Miss Rahn stated that although she is already a member of the organization she was motivated to ohl her efforts in its behalf by the statement of Governor Fielding Wright of Mississippi who called upon the people of his state to resist the efforts of the NAACP to the fullest extent of our resources The statement which appeared in the New York Times May 28 in an article by John N Popham Times Corre spondent quoted the Governor as being opposed to Federal cases which sought to abolish segrega tion in public schools Any fainninded person under the sun who has seen the in equities of separate hut equal ed ucation in Mississippi and other southern states as 1 have would know that such a system never has and nevei will work said Miss Rahn There are millions more who

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Library of Congress1909

Image 4 of The Hattiesburg news (Hattiesburg, Miss.), September 2, 1909

lATTIESBURG NEWS Ef AND PROGRESS let Published Every Afternooa P iwxcept Sunday THE HATTIESBURG NEWS If Incorporated I Office 112 Front Street Telephone Mltorlal and Counting Room Both Phone No 36 Variety Editor Cumberland No 757 Home No 232 SUBSCRIPTION RATES GOO 300 fi Ou year tlx months j three months 150 By Carrier 15 cent 50 cent v r the Week L ty the Month Member ol the Associated Press I entered as secondclass matter on Kay 22 1907 at the postoffice at Hat ttaaburg Miss under the Act of Con te gross of March 2 1879 OFFICIAL PAPER CITY OF HAT TIE8BURG hND COUNTY OF FOR REST FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVE e S C Beckwith Special Agency Bldg New York VI Tribune me Chicago r OUTHERN REPRESENTATIVE SkJr Louisiana Arkansas Texas and The Crockett Agency I Oklahoma New Orleans and Dallas I R J Collins is the only authorized I traveling representative of The Hat tieiburg News and Is authorized to col I iact tor subscriptions and advertising ft THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 2 1909 Circulation Double That of Any Other South Mississippi Paper becoming editor and f haps no other section of the South is and Hattiesburg is the capital and

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Library of Congress1958

Image 1 of Jackson advocate (Jackson, Miss.), March 15, 1958

NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEEK MARCH 1622 Jackson Advocate S VOLUME XVINUMBER 20 JACKSON MISSISSIPPI SATURDAY MARCH 15 1958 PRICE TEN CENTS Congressman Powell See South Getting Better PROPOSED CURBS ON U S SUPREME COURT HIT Former U S Senator Herbert Lehman Chides Gradualist On Program For Quick Federal Action On Civil Rights Says Eisenhower Must Give Moral Leadership In Howard Uni Speech A WASHINGTON D C Mar 10 Former U S Senator Herbert H Lehman Friday took to task the advocates of gradualism in de segregation and proposed a bold fivepoint program of Federal ac tion to bring an end to what he termed 300 years of waiting by American Negroes for social jus tice The New York Democrats pro posal came in an address during Charter Day exercises at Howard University the nations largest predominantly Negro institution of higher learning Earlier during tha program the University con ferred the honorary degree of Doc tor of Laws upon Mr Lehman It was the 19th such honor received by the former lawmaker since he entered public life 30 years ago Also honored during the pro Continued on Page Five O FBI Director Says Negroes Rejecting Communism Wasington D C March 10 FBI

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Library of Congress1909

Image 4 of The Hattiesburg news (Hattiesburg, Miss.), July 31, 1909

THE HATTIESBURG NEWS AND PROGRESS Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday jr THE HATTIESBURG NEWS Incorporated Office 112 Front Street Telephones Mltorial and Counting Rooms Both Phones No 35 Beclety Editor Cumberland No 757 Home No 232 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Om year 3800 Mx months three months By Carrier y the Week Uy the Month 300 150 15 cents 50 cents ft Member oi the Associated Press Entered as secondclaBS matter on May 22 1907 at the postoffice at Hat tiesburg Miss under the Act of Con gress of March 2 1879 OFFICIAL PAPER CITY OF HAT TIE8BURG AND COUNTY OF FOR RE8T FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVE The S C Beckwith Special Agency Tribune Blilg New York Tribune 81dg Chicago SOUTHERN REPRESENTATIVE Tor Louisiana Arkansas Texas and Oklahoma Nw Orleans and Dallas The Crockett Agency R J Collins Is the only authorized traveling representative of The Hat tiesburg News and is authorized to col lect for subscriptions and advertising IN ION label SATURDAY JULY 31 1909 Circulation Double That of Any Other South Mississippi Paper DO YOU PAY YOUR SUBSCRIPTION The News has had much to say in the past few days about paying sub We have not meant to scriptlons take anybody to

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Library of Congress1909

Image 4 of The Hattiesburg news (Hattiesburg, Miss.), September 1, 1909

the HATTIESBURG NEWS AND PROGRESS Puhllhed Every Afternoon veept Sunday V THE HATTIESBURG NEWS Incorporated Office 112 Front Street Telephones janitorial and Counting Rooms Both Phones No 35 4 tety Editor Cumberland No 757 Home No 332 SUBSCRIPTION RATES soo r year 300 l months vT8f months 150 By Carrier 16 cents 50 cents 1 the Week 8y the Month Member ol the Associated Press Entered as secondclass matter on May 22 1907 at the postoffise at Hat tiesburg Miss under the Act of Con gress of March 2 1879 OFFICIAL PAPER CITY OF HAT TIESBURG ND COUNTY OF FOR REST FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVE The 9 C Beckwith Special Agency Tribune Bldg New York Bldg Chicago Tribune REpSksENirfive SOUTHERN for Louisiana Arkisas Texas and The Cfbckett Agency Oklahoma New Orleans and Dallas R J Collins is the only authorized traveling representative of The Hat deaburg News and is authorized to col lect for subscriptions and advertising WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 1 1909 Circulation Double That of Any Other Sooth Misausippi Paper TO PATRONS OF THE NEWS 0 With his issue of the Hattiesburg lily News m rsp aibll t y for management ends as I have trane 1 ferred my interest to Messrs

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Library of Congress1894

Image 3 of The sea coast echo (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.), September 22, 1894

JOHN P ALTGELD GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS S3bS awss wfc HUST be trustworthy Otherwise Newspaper Men Can not Secure Oood Stuff Hew the Serrate of Rirrntlra Sessions of the Senate Reach the Public The Mo Klnley Bill Olwn Awi N bf ConfrMamtn ftpeeUl Wanhlnguin Iupr It U the object of the executive de partments to keep a great many mat ter eecret from the people and the Mine Idea of secrecy concerning execu tive business 1 entertained by the sen ate During the administration of Presi dent Hayes one of his annual messages to congress was purloined from the government printing office and printed in a New York newspaper on the morn ing before the message was sent to congress It caused n great deal of comment and excitement in this city bnt the leaky employe of the govern ment printing office was never discov ered It was stated at the time that the newspaper which published the message paid 1000 for the copy A little over a year ago the Russian extradition treaty which was then be ing considered in the senste was stolen and given to the public through the medium of a Chicago newspaper sad from those columns

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Library of Congress1950

Image 4 of Jackson advocate (Jackson, Miss.), May 27, 1950

JACKSON ADVOCATE PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT JACKSON MISSISSIPPI Make all checks payable to the Jackson Advocate Address 406 North Farish Street I hone Office21617 Phone Society Editor 21213 In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the mgers but in all things that affect our mutual progress and develop ment we can be together as the handBooker T Washington Entered as Second Class Matter in the Post Office at Jackson MissT July 13 1945 under Act of Congress March 13 1879 GREENEEditor and Publisher JAMES RUNDLESAdvertising Manager FRANCES REED GREENESockty Editor National Advertising Representative Associated Publishers Inc ob Fifth Avenue New York 19 N Y Telephone LUxemberg 21177 and 166 Washington St Suite 416 Telephone Anoover 6343 Chicago 3 Illinois Subscription Rates One Year 350 Six Months 200 by maTl anywhere in the United States and to Service Men overseas Foreign One ear 600 Six Months 350 SUBSCRIPTION RATES All subscriptions due and payable in advance ONE YEAR 350 SIX MONTHS 200 ADVERTISING RATES UPON REQUEST The Negro Newspaper And Economic And Job Opportunity For The Southern Negro Speaking before the conference of Social Workers the other Day the honorable J Oliver Emmerich the distinguished Editor

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Library of Congress1918

Image 3 of The Starkville news (Starkville, Miss.), October 25, 1918

WILL YOU HELP OUR BOYS ABROAD Every Man Woman and Child Can Join to Send News of i This Town Into the Front Line Trenches WHOLE NATION MOVES k TO BANISH SOLITUDE Our Heroes Are Calling From Over ThereGive What You Can to Help Those From Home Every citizen Interested In the boys of his home town now at the front and In the brave women who equally are serving their country abroad has an opportunity to show his appreciation of the sacrlllce they are making The opportunity comes as a result of the generosity and thought of Colonel Wil liam Boyce Thompson of New York who has conceived and put Into execu tion what Is known as the Home Pa per Service Under the plan every man and wo man In foreign service will receive the town newspaper and so be kept In constant touch with the places and the people they know and love Every branch of the United States Government is Interested In the plan The Government realizes the Impor tance of keeping those In the service happy and constantly In touch with their home ties and associations Noth ing Is more depressing In a national emergency

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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 Congress1888

Image 4 of The Magnolia gazette (Magnolia, Miss.), September 1, 1888

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Library of Congress1950

Image 45 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), October 13, 1950

yy I l I U H 1 i 1 I i 1 I 1 Furniture STORES 1 V I I I I ANNIVERSARY SALE 1 I E SAVE IN ALL 24 I DREAMHOUSE E f DEPARTMENTS J H St at 7th NW I jj 1106 G Street NW i i 215 King Street 1 Alexandria i I I Blair Lee House Silver Spring Crops Out of Control DELBURNE Alta In 1948 a barley crop was sown and har vester near here Last year a good volunteer crop came through from seed accidentally scattered the year before although the land was due to be summer fallowed This year another volunteer crop is under way and looks as though it may be the heaviest of the three The Workers and Peasants Party of Bombay India has gone Communist i A FASHION SHOW ydurno I auHCAm l EVERY SATURDAY at I PM I staged and narrated by p MRS CLADSTONE WILLIAMS PrizesGuest StarsFavors j HOTEL RALEIGH I For res call Pierre NA 3810_J La Prensa Executive Receives Award for Freedom Efforts By the Associated Press NEW YORK Oct 13Dr Al berto Gainza Paz director of the Buenos Aires daily newspaper La Prensa last

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Library of Congress1959

Image 11 of The Petal paper (Petal, Miss.), December 24, 1959

II Jim Bomboys Service v Broadway Drive Dial 22594 i I Tis time to rejoice and honor the Nativity of onr Saviour and to reflect and reieiher Bis teachings j i l I Meridian Fertilizer Factory i i Hattiesburg j y T i I jt 4 11 r V f jj VT Long Bitter Fight Led To Nations Press Freedom The list is small It begins with John T Morris of the Baltimore Sun It ends for the moment with Marie Torre of the New York Herald Tribune Its a list of reporters who have this in common they have gone I to jail rather than name the source of information given them in confidence Their defense of what they con sidered a moral principle has sparked 12 states to place con versations between a reporter and a news source in the same privileged place as conversations between priest and penitent doc tor and patient attorney and client However the number of states giving legal approval to a report ers privilege doesnt appear des tined to increase For while re porters are almost unanimously in favor of the socalled shield laws legal groups the American Civil Liberties Union and even

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Library of Congress1948

Image 4 of The Lexington advertiser (Lexington, Miss.), April 8, 1948

There is a photographing machine on a lower floor of Grand Central Station which is a marvel even in this day of mechanical miracles In appearance it resembles the body of a honsom cab You step inside sit insert a qarter in a slot and press a button In just one minute there is delivered to you automatically your photograph already framed For an other nickel a mailing envelope is also furnished The first days of spring have broght a new look to New York Side streets which had been piled high with snow are clean from warm showers Store windows have chang ed from their winter dressing to bright mildweather colors like the clothing of passing pedestrians Cen tral Park has taken on a verdant mantle set with diamondlike lakes And out in the suburbs residents have removed their overcoats too soon done too much raking on their vards have become overheated caught colds and now are taking the modern version of sulphur and mo lasses I recently had occasion to ride the Pere Marquette railrdftd from Grand Rapids Michigan to Chicago and I was much impressed by the dining car service This railroad is owned by the Chesapeake

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Library of Congress1961

Image 21 of The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser (Pascagoula; Moss Point, Miss.), October 6, 1961, (SECTION THREE)

I 1 swe J I tataiM obh l I HfCacHTIMI MN I i ir jptUiULavMMMl 1_ SMART HOME FOR A FAMILY Entrance to this luxury house Is adftss a sheltered flagstone porch The house with its three bedrooms family room facing a back terrace and basement recreation foom is meant for a family It has 2005 square feet of living area Plan HA1853 was designed by Lester Cohen Room 75 117 VV 48th St New York 36 N Y AAAAAawaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Local Business By S S TALBERT Chaimaso Dept of Journalisas Valxsity of Mississippi AAAAAAAWWWSVWVWVWSAAVAAA Pcss women plan weeks activities Regular business meeting of Business and Professional Womens Club of Pascagoula was held Monday night in the clubhouse with Mrs Bessie Seely presiding Plans were made to visit the Biloxi and New Orleans clubs to join in activities during National Business W o m e ns Week which will end Satur day public official is subject to such constant scrutiny Another reason why t h e newspaper may be considered the most democratic of insti tutions is the fact the news paper is the only major local information medium which is not under regulation by the federal government Broadcast media by

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