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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 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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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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Library of Congress1921

Image 2 of The Neshoba Democrat (Philadelphia, Miss.), April 28, 1921

The Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company of California Provides complete insurance protection for young and old Writes Old Line InsuranceOrdinary Life20 Payment LifeJoint Life and Business InsuranceEndowment Insurance Represented by CARL L QENTSCH at Hotel Rush Philadelphia Miss Nraljuba imurrat C T RAND Editor Publisher Subscription l6O AYear Entered at the post office at Philadelphia Miss as second class mail matter Demagogues And Puppets We hare in our possession a copy of the American Edition of Perrys Royalist Dictionary It was the first book of its kind print ed in the United States and it was published in the year 1788 We chanced upon this valuable little volume several years ago in the library of an old New England home At a time when money was very tight we parted with a goodly sum that we might purchase it Just the other day upon turning over the thum worn pages of this interesting volume we ran upon the word demagogue which was defined as the ringleader of a mob In the same book pup pet waa defined as a wooden image but latter reference books also define puppet as one acting as another wills We have both demagogues and puppets

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Library of Congress1921

Image 6 of The Neshoba Democrat (Philadelphia, Miss.), May 19, 1921

What It Means To Your Community Artemus Ward one of the great students of the psychology of pub licity once made the following ad dress before the merchants of a small town In New York and what he said said then is applicable now to mer chants everywhere A country weekly newspaper do 1 lug a business of five thousand dol lars a year is worth fifty thousand dollars to the business and profes sional men of the community and can Ik made worth one hundred thousand dollars a year to them If yon dont believe that statement try to get along wlthoutyour paper To talk about supporting your newspaper is about as damphoolish us to talk about supporting a store a bank or a manufacturing enter prise You wouldn be much in the world If you didnt trade in a store have a hank account and have some outlet for the energy of the citizens Too many business men look upon the local newspaper as an incubus a sort of charity Yet the local paper Is us much a public Institution us the public library the churches the hospitals or even the commercial club with the difference that It

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Library of Congress1897

Image 2 of The Free press (Poplarville, Miss.), April 1, 1897

The Fkee Phess a Bussell8r Editor PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT POPLARVILLE MISS Thursday April 1 1897 ONE DOLLAR IN ADVANCE ENT BRED AT THE POST OFFICE AT POPLARVILLE MISS AS SEC OND class Mail matter The Blanc brothers will be exe cuted at Lafayette La next Fri day Thomas M Bloom nged 104 years died at Phoeuixyille Pa last week Maj P 1 Montroes and Dr Cornelius A Rice of Biloxi died last Saturday An earthquake shock was felt at Vauilalia III and in portions of Canada on the 23rd ult John Hcllinghead who lived 14 miles east of Waynesboro was as sassinated Friday night The New Orleans sawernge plant lias been purchased for 93500 by N V Jordon of Boston We have received the initial nura i her of the McLanriu Star E Hall editor It S Hall publisher Mrs J W Adams wife of Ed itor Adams of the Sea Coast Beacon died at lass Christian on the 26th People who think they are mar tyrs carry the look on their laces and make martyrs of their friends Picayune M C Cook of Cumberland Miss has been appointed United States Marshal for the northern district of this state Fanny

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Library of Congress1897

Image 2 of The Free press (Poplarville, Miss.), May 6, 1897

Tsffi Free Press A G RussrLl Sr Editor UTOBLISHHD WEEKLY aT POPLARVILLE MISS ffbvrsday May 6 1897 ON L DOLLAR IN_ADVANCE iNTSUKD AT TIIK POST office at POPLAHVIhLK MISS AS SKC oNu class Mail Mattkh Greece ha a new cabinet The streets of Hannibal Mo are now navigated by lioatN The cotton acreage of Texas tins season will he the largest on record Eleven thousand acres of Ala Hiauia gold lands hate been sold to a 8 ndieute for 117000 MG A veroff the Greek million aire of furls France lias subscrib ed 80 000000 to the War fund ot hs country A lire at Newport News on the 17th tilt destroyed 82000000 worth of property Eight persons were injured Levi A nlentine tor many years a Citizen of Enterprise aged 85 years died suddenly a few days ago While enjoying his tinner At Barcelnnia 20 anarchists in addition to those already sentenced have been condemned to heal It lur the bomb outrage June 7th last Fiy hundred houses were swept away and twice as many people rendered homeless by tiie recent lood ot I lie Cottonwood river in Oklahoma Mr Oliver VV Patchings son of Representative T 0 latchings

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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 Congress1909

Image 4 of East Mississippi times (Starkville, Miss.), June 4, 1909

The East Mississippi Times PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT STARKVILLE MISSISSIPPI Office in Times Building Opposite East Entrance of Courthouse Wm Ward Kclltor and Proprietor A Texas prophet predicts that the world will come to an end in July We advise delinquents to pay their subscription 2 r s Kangaroo meat is being served in New York restaurants People who have eaten it are undecided as yet whether to re gard it as a luxury or a misdemeanor Jackson has organized a crusade against the pestiferous and deadly housefly When Jackson cant organize a cru sade against some evil its a dull day at the capitol city Hear in mind that we are going to have the grandest big gest and best Fair this fall in the history of the Fair Associa tion The officers are doing their partlet the citizens do theirs Tippah county claims to have discovered coal and iron mines within her borders With these commodities in North Mississippi and oil gushers on the coast Mississippi may yet come into her own It is said that there are a number of SIOOOO counterfeit bills circulating in various portions of Mississippi and Presi dent Pirdsall editor of the Yazoo

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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 Congress1920

Image 6 of The Starkville news (Starkville, Miss.), May 14, 1920

THE PRESS US II FREE BOOSTER change a publication issued by the Corn Exchange bank of Philadelphia Were Philadelphia to pay at com mercial rates for all the advertising which the newspapers now contribute gratis the annual outlay for that item would exceed the whole cost of the llolice department Mull well When Your Friends Ask That Can You Always Say Yes PeptoMangan Builds Red Blood The Happy Family Is the One Where Everybody Has RedBlooded Health Children should not be pale and wan Women should not be tired weak and blue Young girls should not be sallow listless and anemic Men should not feel rundown and poorly Poor health and lack of vitality are often merely the result of im poverished blood Gudes PeptoMangan is for peo ple whose bodies suffer from lack of proper blood nourishment Pepto Mangan enriches the blood and in creases the number of healthy red blood cells which are so necessary to carry the proper nourishment vigorousness and strength to every part of the body It contains the very properties that are so sorely needed to build up thin watery blood Physicians call It the Red Blood Builder For your convenience PeptoMan gan is

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Library of Congress1907

Image 5 of The Tupelo journal (Tupelo, Miss.), August 2, 1907

1 T1 IM 1 _ SHOES J V For the boy qjSiiF lir hfrfs the real test 1 A shoe that will stand the rough IV and tumble wear of the average 1 1 young Amsv a must ho good V DIAMOND BRAND gL Shoes arc huilt for real hard every 8K L day service They stand severest Hglk Mf use vhich only a hoy can give yK Every pair has honest value both eVVj in material and workmanship agSium 1 Look for the Diamond Brand JF MAKERS vMjjktSjm MAKE MORE FINE SnOESJTMAn L other nousej f THE SAFEST AND QUICKEST WAY TO TRANSFER jVIONEY IS BY LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE For Fates apply to Local Manager CUMBERLAND TELEPHONE TELEGRAPH CO Incorporated XV SMlVMi J03WIX TUPELO SOUTHBOUND No 1 Exprees daily lv 1127pm No 3 Havana Lim daily lv 917 a m No 5 Express daily lv 1025 a m o 11 Week days lv 300 p m NORTHBOUND No 2 Express daily lv 620 a m No 4 Havana Lim daily ly 727 p m No 6 Express daily lv 502 p m No 12 Week days lv 1025 am 3 V Taylor jno m Beall General Manager General Passenger

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Library of Congress1917

Image 1 of The City itemizer (Water Valley, Miss.), October 18, 1917

The City Itemizer Si A LEi Editor Devoted to the Interest of the Editor Exclusively11 100 Yees VOLUME 23 WATER VALLEY MISS OCTOBER 18 1917 NUMBER fco The Decay of American Man hood History records nothing so won derful as the development and pro gress of this great nation in the last hundred years Amerioan manhood is deoaying We are going down mentally and morally at a terrifying rate We have foes at home more deadly and destructive than our European enemies Davenport has shown that one in every hundred men is men tally defective insane epileptic habitually criminal or feeble minded Eeoent military examinations have brought out most appaling facts Major Orr a medical omoer of the regular army tells us that two to three out of every four appli cants for the army are rejected as physioally unfit Draft examinations show more than half our young men unfit for military training The examinations of the Life Extension Institute show only one man in a hundred wholly free from disease and physically fit The causes are many Among the most potent and direct are the saloon the brothel and the cigar ette These three evils are the greatest causes

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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 Congress1922

Image 2 of Stone County enterprise (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi), November 30, 1922

Stone County Enterprise PUBLISHED EVERY THl RSDAY MORNING T P BOND Editor cm Publisher Entered as secondclass matter July 3 1906 at the postoffice at Wiggins M ss under the Act ot Congress of March 3 1879 One Year 150In AdvanceSix Months 75c_ Wiggins Miss Nov 0 1922 v c stcf hhmkbmmi The Proper Course The editorpublisher is au thority for the statement that Frederick I Thompson paid a million dollars for the Birming ham AgeHerald This is proba bly the record price for a south ern newspaper The AgeHerald was founded twenty years ago by the late E W Barrett who made it one of the leading news papers of the countryLaurel Leader Maybe it is worth it but we cant see what any man with a million dollars wants with a newspaperClarionLedger Of course the ClarionLedger was jesting but the average per ron including some newspaper men whose sole ambition is merely to make money feels Ln 4 Ttii i 14 EH AAii vrt a i T o man runs a newspaper with no other idea than to make money there would be no use in spend ing a million dollars to buy a paper It is seldom

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Library of Congress1843

Image 3 of Holly Springs gazette (Holly Springs, Misp. [i.e. Miss.]), February 17, 1843

fuMPH OF TRUTH nrAriz in that branc 3 in that branch of A0 LZ tr which ia the olden time i the olden time the litle of au if it reattaching irs may have observed that Cj last a resolution was proposed fthe Senators from Missouri to jy ce tal the thanks of the couniry are a sV jickson ExPresident of the J t liit h r hia rnnra nn r l i si city m removing the pub Woinihe Bink of the United ii13 and in placing his veto on ved charter of the Bank in 1832 i fiavemment and Pvnl i ctvei i r States from the pucuniary rriica corruption and moral pol J th a longer connexion with that c0lnu3t nave orougoi upon mem of the subject of the glow1 ie y eulogy waiC3 uuaks is iivucu oy to pronounce that nothing ti it imposes upon us sioroi h u Vs have induced us at this mo VCJ V the attention of our readers to a tipJ in tat ueusuapeit iu morius a ifli bCi v rcserveu tor publication future day should occasron require Jlhnt occasion now presents itself Had 7r aon proposed for adoption inthe ifiJifd

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