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Library of Congress1914

Image 2 of The Hattiesburg news (Hattiesburg, Miss.), July 21, 1914

I Hattiesburg îfatua Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday Editor Business Manager F D LANDER A B HOBB8 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS _ EnterecTasTecondclass matter on May 22 1907 at the postoffice at Hat tiesburg Miss under the Act of Congress of March 2 1879 _ c CIRCULATION OF ANY SOUTH MISSISSIPPI PAPER LARGEST TUESDAY JULY 21 1914 OFFICIAL PAPER CITY OF HATTIESBURG AND COUNTY O F FO RREST TELEPHONES 35 Editorial and New Room Business and Job Department 133 SUBSCRIPTION RATES STRICTLY CASH IN ADVANCE 000 One Year BIx Months Three Months By the Month 300 150 50 cents coffin and wear it Carbajal if ke dont mind out will inherit Huertas longer than he will his crown The in New Orleans on rats SergeantGeneral Blue is making war squealing mightily against blue laws rats ure Now we have a new phase of the Mexican situation to mouth about Wilson and Bryan will settle it their way and after much Whats the use mouthingthe country will be satisfied _ Chautauqua Week was a most delightful week for all those who took advantage of it Success begets success and Chautauqua Week next year will be even a greater success than

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Library of Congress1909

Image 4 of Times-promoter (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.), July 15, 1909

The TimesPromoter G L Darden Publisher SUBSCRIPTION RATES 100 One Year Six Months Three Months T 60 26 Obituaries resolutions of respect and no tices of pay entertainments will be charged for at two and onehalf cents per line of ev ery six words Count the words in your man uscript and send two and onehalf cents for every six otherwise it will not be published Anent The Lumber Trust Attorney General Sterling has brought suit against the Retail Lum ber Dealers Association of Mississip pi and Louisiana for more than four teen million dollars for violating the antitmst laws of Mississippi The supreme court of Mississippi has already ruled that the Association is a trust and the case has been appeal ed to the supreme court of the United States If that tribunal affirms the decision of the Mississippi courts the attorney general should be able to recover There is ample evidence that the Association is a combination in re straint of competition Evidence can also be adduced to show that when a consumer in one part of the state buys lumber direct from a member of the Association in another section the member of the Association living nearest

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Library of Congress1938

Image 2 of The Durant news (Durant, Miss.), June 9, 1938

f THE DURANT NEWS R PUBUSHED EVERY THURSDAY _ Hazel Brannon Editor and Publisher Subscription in Advance200 Per Year MEMBER MISSISSIPPI PRESS ASSOCIATION Entered as Second Class mail matter in the Postoffice at Durant Mississippi Liquor Dealers Again Three weeks ago we wrote an editorial about the liquor dealers in Holmes county In it we said tha there were 42 places in Holmes county with Federal licenses to distribute liquor and wines According to our record we listed seven places in the city limits of Tchula on the western section side of our county among the 42 Mayor W C Perry of Tchula checked upon the places listed and found that only two of these places were inside the city limits the others being on the out skirts Mayor Perry said that he made an effort to keep up with what was going on in the city and that he didn t believe these two places sold liquor Thus Tchula is cleared up hub actually sell whiskey to the best of our and official knowledge We are glad to make this statement We can only say that we wish we could say the same of the other communities in Holmes

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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 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 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 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 Congress1896

Image 7 of The Houma courier (Houma, La.), December 5, 1896

The Houma Courier EA5TON DUVAL Publisher HOUMA LOUISIANA STUDY IN PHYSIOGNOMY Lambert W m On af Those Who Knew It AIL Lambert belonged to that class of men who know it all It was his wife Jault She never disputed his state ments and always accepted what he said as gospel So from being a pretty shrewd yet agreeable fellow at the be ginning he became a dogmatist whose utterances were frequently as wild as they were tiresome Still there were a few things in which those who knew him admitted his superiority One of these was the science of phren ology and physiognomy Some philoso phers divide these studies and make two sciences of them but Lambert main tained that they were merely branches of the same thing Be that as it may he took great pride in his ability to ie men up as he put it by studying their features and noting the shape of their heads He even claimed that he could tell a mans occupation by looking at hi face One day Lambert and Barton were riding down town in an open trolley car Upon the front seat and directly facing them sat two men

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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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Library of Congress1919

Image 13 of The White Mountain echo (Bethlehem, N.H.), July 12, 1919

BETHLEHEM N H JULY 12 1919 what similar cog railway for moun tain climbing and purposed to build a railroad up the Rigi Just what influence the studies of the Mt Washington system had upon the Swiss plans is not known but the Rigi railway was soon under con struction and was opened in 1870 or 1871 The Riggenbach patents were used and everyone who is familiar with the Mt Washington device can see at a glance that the mechanism is decidedly different put no doubt the demonstration of a cog railway in actual operation up a mountain gave great encouragement to the projectory of the Swiss railway and thus Mt Washington pointed out the way for the building of the Alpine road Through Mr Aikens enterprise the Summit house was built capable of accommodating 200 persons The house was built in part on land leased from the owners of the terri tory and this fact combined with the rivalry of the two enterprises led to friction and ultimately to litiga tion We do not feel disposed to pay for the use of the summit and to have to fight for it wrote Mr Aiken to his antagonists on one

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Library of Congress1911

Image 1 of The independent-reporter (Skowhegan, Me.), March 30, 1911

I_ ___ MAINE S BEST COUNTY WEEKLY Canaaliiiatutg tjr 8mnrrart 3lnirprnipttt anil Qlljf fcomprart Hrportfr SWORN CIRCULATION OVER 6000 WEEKLY VOL 72 _ SKOWHEGAN MAINE THURSDAY MARCH 30 1911 NO 13 PATTANGALL MADE GREAT PLEA FDR POWER DEVELOPMENT Scores Newspapermen for Giving Kennebec Dam and Reservoir Company Bad Name In printing below the able defense which Representative Pattangall re cently made of the Kennebec Dam Reservoir charterwe are endeavoring to place the matter before the public just as it appears to the average busi ness man The IndependentReporter has taken no position with regard to this project endeavoring merely to present the facts Mr Pattangall studied the situation with care be came convinced that the proposed de velopment would be a great thing for Maine ana espoused the cause The arguments which he puts for ward seem well nigh unanswerable If there is another side to the ques tion let it be given all possible publi city so that when public opinion be comes finally crystallized the de cision may tie right and for all time The columns of this paper will be op ened for the exhaustive discussion of this matter and we hope for a cor dial response

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