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Library of Congress1945

Image 8 of Jackson advocate (Jackson, Miss.), March 10, 1945

THE JACKSON ADVOCATE 125H N Farih StreetPhone 33181 Published Weekly at Jackson Mississippi iERCY GREENE Editor and General Manage SUBSCRIPTION RATES AH Subscriptions Due and Payable in Advance Single Copy 6c One Yean 350 6 Months 200 3 Months 125 Make all checks payable to The Jackson Advocate 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 development we can be together as the handBooker T Washing ton The 118th Anniversary Of The Negro Newspaper Last Sunday brought to a close the annual observance of Na tional Negro Newspaper Week which included the issuance and publication of a letter of commendation from the President of the United States a radio program broadcast over a nationwide hook up and programs of observance in schools colleges churches bv civic and fraternal groups in village town and city in every sec tion of the nation which was probably the most widespread and general observance since its institution of few years ago No person who s in possession of even the slightest knowledge of the history of the United States and of the evolution of th great cohesive

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Library of Congress1958

Image 2 of Jackson advocate (Jackson, Miss.), March 15, 1958

131 AND STILL LIGHTING THE WAY to FREEDOM tSggEif IH _ THE JACKSON ADVOCATE Is Proud to Cooperate with Fellow Publishers In the Observance of NEGRO NEWSPAPER I MARCH 16 22 Commemorating the founding of Freedoms Journal the first Negro Newspaper by John B Russwurm on March 17 1827 in New York City r S Special Events SUNDAY MARCH 16 In mon Churches special sermons will be preached commemora ting the 131st Anniversary of the first Negro Newspaper TUESDAY MARCH 18 A Negro Newspaper Week Radio Broadcast over Station WXXX 000 megacycles at 545 P M featuring Sammy Davis Jr Billy Eckstine Jackie Robinson and William O Walker announced by Beverly Carter FRIDAY MARCH 21 Open House at the Jackson Advocate Plant Visitors are welcome See how a modem newspaper is edited printed distributed and managed SATURDAY MARCH 22 Another Negro Newspaper Week Radio Program on Sta y tion WZZZ 000 megacycles at 915 P M featuring Lena Horne Ella Fitzgerald Rev Martin Luther King Jr and h Frank L Stanley announced by Thomas W Young No Other Source of Information or Entertainment Gives You All These Negro Newspapers like the Jackson Advocate present the truth about stumb ling blocks

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Library of Congress1939

Image 8 of Glacier County chief (Browning, Mont.), December 15, 1939, (Magazine Section)

Sweethearts Reunion Under Mistletoe Twig BETTY JANE dressed careful ly wondering if college had changed Bill much It was grand having him home for the hol idays The doorbell rang Christmas gift cried Bill hand ing her a gaylywrapped package and taking her in his arms Betty Jane drew back She wasnt sure she liked this Bill so wellhe seemed so sure of himself She re membered Bill as humble wooing for her favors Come say hello to the folks Betty Jane invited and see the tree and smell turkey They went hand in hand I sup pose youve met a lot of girls at col lege she hazarded Tell me about them Well theres just one Im really crazy about Bill answered All the fellows think shes swell Her pictures on my dresser and when ever Im in doubt I talk things over with her How grand said Betty Jane in a tight little voice They came to the mistletoe How different from last year when she was just learn ing to love him I have her picture on my watch too Bill went on his eyes twink ling brighter than the silver star atop the tree You used

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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 Congress1871

In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 944.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 944, for the relief of Mrs. Lucy H. Carroll, administratrix of George W. Carroll, deceased, late of Conway County, State of Arkansas, and Mrs. Hibernia Armstrong, of the same county and state, have considered the same, and beg leave to submit the following report

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