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Library of Congress1963

Image 9 of The Chronicle (Pascagoula, Miss.), September 18, 1963

Hancock Voters Seek Reversal In High Court JACKSON UPIAn attorney for a group of Hancock County voters hias asked the Mississippi Supreme Court to overrule a Chancery Court decision and re turn the states first county voter redistricting case for trial Attorney Upton Sission of Gulf port appealed to the high court to reverse a ruling by Chancellor William Hews at Bay St Louis which sustained a general demur rer by the defense dismissing the case The suit filed last Feb 13 by Powell Glass Jr of Bay St Louis and a group of Hancock residents as a class action asked that the county election commission be en joined from holding a further elec I tion for supervisor until redistrict ing had been accomplished The court took the matter under advisement The suit complained that one of the countys five beats had been virtually annihilated by the federal governments purchase of land for the space vehicle test site center in Hancock and Pearl River coun ties It claimed that the county had not been redistricted in more than 100 years and said that efforts to __ I IP ASTORALL PURPOS K I BLEACH wow Baby Food Ss 6 r 49

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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 Congress1962

Image 6 of The Chronicle (Pascagoula, Miss.), May 16, 1962

f nrruTj_iinnnrumnnrumr SdCtonfaU II WE SEE IT THIS WAY 1 a riiiinnannjLiijumjmju yr i Horn Island For people profit or for the birds Eighth in a series Who is opposed to the countys plan for developing Horn Island and what does the opposition offer as an alternative The Mississippi Wildlife Fed eration last September adopted a resolution opposing the Horn Is land plan and similar plans advo cated by Harrison County politic ians for developing Ship Island W V Robertson of Gulfport president of the federation told the Chronicle that the federations opposition is based on its belief that commercialization would des troy recreational facilities now open to the public on these islands Jackson County supervisor president A P Moran says that as far as Horn Island is concerned more not fewer people would be able to use the island for recrea tion Ample public areas would be available he says And who can get out there now he asks Only the few people who have big boats With the building of the causeway anybody with an automobile will be able to go to Horn Island and iiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimii use those recreational facilities The wildlife federation has an other objection however

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Library of Congress1934

Image 4 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), April 26, 1934

DILLINGER ELUDES NET OF PURSUERS U S Men Mass in Vicinity of St Paul Preparing for Finish Fight Continued From First Page_ desperadoes shot their way to free dom killing two men and wounding four others Dillingers other wound was sus tained March 31 when he and at least two associates blasted their way out of a police and Federal trap in a St Paul apartment Dillinger was shot in the leg and later attended by Dr Clayton E May Minneapolis phy sician May and his nurse are now held on charges of harboring a criminal NET IS TIGHTENED Escape of Dillinger Is Feared by Officials CHICAGO April 26 The law with 5000 eager arms slammed shut the stable door today but the horse John Dillingerapparently was gone A great circle ol men blocking high ways and stopping all suspicious ap pearing persons was swung for hun dreds of miles around Mercer Wis to prevent the escape of the gunman yet even as the circle tightened there came reports that the desperado had lipped through Federal men burning under such criticism as seldom is made of Gov ernment detectives were massing some where in the vicinity of St Paul Minn

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Library of Congress1930

Image 4 of The Wolf Point herald (Wolf Point, Mont.), May 23, 1930

The Wolf Point Herald A HOME NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED FRIDAY AT WOLF POINT COUNTY SEAT OF ROOSEVELT COUNTY MONTANA ESTABLISHED IN 1913 ÉÊ C B Marshall Associate Editor C L Marshall EditorManager NATIONALEDITORIAL S Official City Newspaper Official Coanty Newspaper 1930 1930 ASSOCIATION A Valuable Advertising Medium Exclusive in a Large Territory Including Parts of Three Counties Subscription List Strictly Paid in Advance 8200 PER YEAR IN MONTANA 260 OUTSIDE Full Information Concerning Advertising and Subscription Rates Furnished on Request Entered as secondclass matter at the post office at Wolf Point Montana April 9 1913 under the Act of March 3 1897 FINAL FIGURES DIGEST POLL The current issue of the Literary Digest gives the tenth and final report of its great national straw vote on the 18th amendment The votes returned in all of the 48 states the District of Columbia and by 48171 persons who neglected to designate their state are tabulated The loyal American citizens who adhere to the cause of law observance and respect for the federal constitution may find great satisfaction in the final result of this great experimental poll They can find in it no cause for alarm Any claim that the figures bring hope

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Library of Congress1934

Image 57 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), November 4, 1934

Electrical Transcription Woe Haunts Commission Broadcasters Ask That Announcement Ruling Be Eliminated AltogetherProducers Want Whole Status Reviewed BY THE RADIO EDITOR ONE of radios bewhiskered squabbles gingerly side stepped by the old Federal Radio Commissionthat of announcing of electrical transcriptions as suchhas arisen to haunt the new Federal Communica tions Commission The F C C when it took over the functions of its predecessor last Summer found this issue on its door step but it was so engrossed in other more important matters that it gave the matter no attention Now how ever three formal steps have been taken which bring the matter forcibly before it The first was the adoption by the annual convention of the National Association of Broadcasters last Sep tember of a resolution petitioning the F C C to eliminate the requirements that electrically transcribed programs be announced as such and that they be treated in the same fashion as network or other live talent fea tures Promptly came the opposition of the American Federation of Mu sicians perennial objector to past efforts along this line It charged the broadcasters with trying to deceive listeners into believing that living rather than canned music was being performed

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Library of Congress1901

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), February 28, 1901

NEWS ROTES James M Smith near Athens Ga sold his cotton crop 2o00 balesfor 100 000 Fourteen women received the doctors degree last year at the University of Zurich Congress has adopted the slowsand system of filtration for the water sup ply of Washington Emeralds have been discovered in Arizona and it is said in North Caro lina They are however very small A few days ago at Littleton N H the mercury changed from 40 below to 40 above inside of twentyfour hours It has been found in India that in oculation against rinderpest will protect an animal for a period of seventy or eighty days Iron lands showing more than 7000 000 tons of ore have been leased in Northern Minnesota by the American Steel and Iron Company Arkansas legislators could not decide whether the State flower should be an apple blossom or passion flower and re ferred the matter to the committee on education A bill is before the Federal Council of Germany providing that the time of study shall be for medical students five years instead of the present term of four years and a half There is a Chinese farm in Florida where the Johns

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Library of Congress1961

Image 1 of The Hardin tribune-herald (Hardin, Mont.), October 19, 1961

w f VOL 54 NO 42 Denny elected president of state School Boards Sam Denny chairman of the Board of Trustees of School Dis trict 17H since 1953 was elected president of the Montana School Board association at the annual convention of that organization in Havre last Friday and Saturday Denny was vice president of the group the past year When he completes his current term next spring he will have a record of 15 years of service on the local School Board He says he has only missed a meeting or two of the state association since that tmei Last May he was Mon tanas delegate to the convention of the National School Board as sociation in Philadelphia The new state president has been active in many other community affairs in Big Horn county He is Jbl Sam Denny a director of the Big Horn Soil Conservation district and the Fed eral Land Banks Wyola district He is also currently a member of the Federal Home administra tion committee and is a past ASC committeeman He is also a Past Master of Sts John Lodge No 92 A F and A M Mr and Mrs Denny returned Sunday from

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Library of Congress1946

Image 1 of The Poplar standard (Poplar, Mont.), March 8, 1946

lIJ A Volume XXXIX Ne 49 FEDERAL CROP INSURANCE IS NOW AVAILABLE TUPLE A OFFICE ANNOUNCE URGENCY OF GETTING AP PLICATIONS IN BEFORE PLANTING TIME Federal Crop Insurance can be attained from designated agents Md county AAA offices accord to announcement made this week Application must be signed before the crop is planted or be fore the specified closing date Insurance is being offered now an wheat in Roosevelt county The elosing date is April 10 1946 or year planting time whichever eames first Triple AAA officials say Farmers like other business ten must take risks Some risks cant be avoided But there is no laager any need to gamble on the weather and other natural haz ards which may damage or take your wheat crop Insurance against natural haz ards is now available for the busi ness f farming Allrisk Federal Crop Insurance at nonprofit rates will guarantee a return from the federal Crop Insurance is back ed by Uncle Sam who pays the operating expenses Every penny of premium is set aside to pay crop losses Crop insurance protects against crop damage from all natural caused The contract covers up to specified per cent of your nor mal

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Library of Congress1946

Image 2 of Jackson advocate (Jackson, Miss.), February 23, 1946

Party Leaders Urged To Act Against FEPC Killers C NEW YORKAction against iii Republican and Democratic euators who voted against cloture d killed FEPC was urged by t Workers Defense League in omprehenshre U S Housing Plans Made Wilson Wyatt Sees Adequate Race Provision H J VMES L HICKS NNPA Staff Writer w SHINGTON D C The x nd moderate cost homes by the of next year will include houses colored occupancy as well as i whites Wilson W7yatt nation hot sing expediter indicated at conference last Monday While Mr Wyatt believes local ohw must be met by local w hip he said he was aware he oblem of finding suitable for the construction of homes or coloied people We are aware of the problem i Mr Wyatt and certainly do expect to produce housing for ust white people J Federal Assistance In s program of emergency suros to get started this year lcO00 homes he recommended 10 the President that Federal co operation and assistance where ary be given in the develop ment of home sites People familiar with housing i obi ms of colored people recog c that one of their greatest dif taulties is the finding of

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Library of Congress1919

Image 1 of The Montana nonpartisan (Great Falls, Mont.), September 13, 1919

OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THe NATIONALNONPARTISAN LAAGUe IHU T5 TATr OF MOF A IOLUMU 8 GREAT FALLS MONTANAATURDAY SEPT 13 1919 NUMBER 38 C oa A U NUMBER 38 LABOR LEAGUE JOINS HANDS WITH FARt RS IN DETERMINED FIGHT TO FREE MONTANA REPRESENTATIVE GATHERING OF LABOR AT GREAT FALLS EFFECTIVE PLANS OUTLINED Platform Adopted and Nonpartisan League Program Endorsed Organization of Labor League Forces To Be Started At Once and Vigorously Pushed Means Defeat for Copper Crowd Montana Labor has officially joined hands with the Nonpartisan League At a representative gathering of labor men who met at Great Falls two days last week pursuant to resolutions passed at the re cent conference at Billings the committee named to find ways and means gave birth to the Montana Labor League The men who met are well known throughout the state and in cluded Hugh Jones of the Railroad Brotherhood of Great Falls Jack Mangus of the Mineworkers Lehigh Harry Hudson of the Railway Federation Don McLeod of the Havre Machinists Mike Holland of Sun River Bench representing the farmers Hon W F Dunn of Butte and A T Woodruff of the Smeltesmen and Alf Budden president of the Cascade Trades and Labor

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Library of Congress1943

Image 8 of The Western news (Libby, Mont.), September 16, 1943

i I I j I The Libby Womans club launched i itsfall program Tuesday afternoon at the Community room which was beautifully decorated with garden flowers Presiding for the first time was the new president Miss Inez Ratekin There was an un j preccdented number of new mem1 bers present Everything was planned and car1 ried out with dispatch As the j members entered thev were pro 1 sented with the yearbook After 1 the salute to the flag the club co lect was repeated Miss Ratekin asked the members to consider for one month a collect clause the one for this month being Keep us O j God from pettiness let us be large I Has First Meeting Of New Season thought in word in deed The club was delighted to have special guest for the afternoon j a former State Federation presi in as Rosiland Russell Fred MacMurray They risked every hing to give America the jump on the Japsj dent Mrs Marion Morrow of Moore Mont Mrs Morrow is prom inent all over the state of Montana She said she had just as soon live I ill Thursday Friday Saturday Sept 16 17 18 in ii Flight

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Library of Congress1919

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), June 5, 1919

Ip provides Home For Actresses at Camp Dix N J ay In the Liberty Theater at Camp Plx N J find a touch rs House which the housing committee of the Young ssociation of which Mrs John P Rockefeller Jr Is r them Because of the distance from any town where is necessary to provide some sort of living accommoda The Y W C A built the house supplying it with all sewing machines washtubs ad Ironing boards Camp nilar liouse s NIFORMS HOT STUDENTS Workers Will nmless Stu tzerland he Young Wo iation minus j Association in I t winter by e been strand m tlie war and i funds inabili me country a versity courses no family to i min there next I I ho lias been in i mrs under the m Federation nal Student A for cloth women stu i he scarcity of u these almost necessary for coat so that ses or go out cases of all g save hats n have been j mien college j gland States Pennsylvania I by the Stu National Y W response to clothing will made over in Adng collected nearest New is which have C A secreta ml

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Library of Congress1928

Image 4 of The Ronan pioneer (Ronan, Mont.), December 13, 1928

Hmm for Christmas Specially low vacation tame uu convenient train terr lea bring Chrietmae at Home within your reach How glad the Mbs will be to tee you Yarn yl OmbTMi tor Tickets on tale Dec 19 to 23 inclusive Return limit Jan 71929 Rates between all points in Montana Wash ington Idaho and Oregon Ask Tear Aaart NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY IfMHIfIgMMIfMgUM A C RETZ UNDERTAKER LAKE COUNTY CORONER Licensed Embalmer Represented by A M STERLING CO RONAN MONTANA A O SKOGEN Watch Clock and Phonograph Repairing Ronan Montana DR E J FRENCH PHYSICIAN and SURGEON Office at Residence RONAN MONTANA DR A K RESNER PHYSICIAN SURGEON Eyes Tested and Glaasea Fitted leaidence and office one block South of Ronan Drug Store RONAN MONTANA JOHN P SWEE LAWYER ractlce in State and Federal Courts and before V S Land Offices Office first door west of Ronan State Bank RONAN MONTANA DR J H HEIDELMAN PHYSICIAN SURGEON Office and residence two blocks South of Ronan Drug Store RONAN MONTANA M M TWICHEL UNDERTAKER LICENSED EMBALMER Represented by Lemire Bros Ronan Mont HIDES WOOL FELTS Ship direct We pay the highest market price We also carry a full Une of Garden Tools

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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 Congress1946

Image 1 of The Camas Hot Springs exchange (Camas, Mont.), January 24, 1946

The Camas Hot Sprmgs Exchange VOLUME XX NUMBER XLVUI VHAI Underlies This Banks Growth hen a tree grows the soil that nourishes It Is as Important as the life within It f Likewise the patronage and con Sk fidence of our patdons have been OWL sun and rain to the growth of this In The more people we serve the Wmjj greater our responslbllty to pro VM vide complete and uptodate sac mtles which they and YOUwin And most helpful We are doing our best to measure up to what you expect of us First National Bank of Plains Plains Montana MWlTIff of the FEDERAL DEPPSTT MB OOBKa ll Longer Life for TowCl V The lucky lady who found a gift of towels under the Christmas tree will want to give those towels the care that will make them last Here are suggestions from home econo mists of the U S Department of Agriculture Rotate supplies by putting fresh ly laundered towels on the bottom of the pile so that a few towels will not get all the wear and laundering while others lie In storage Long storage without laundering may cause the fabric to deteriorate be cause smoke dust

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Library of Congress1948

Image 1 of The Durant news (Durant, Miss.), April 8, 1948

THE DURANT NEWS 90th YEAR NUMBER 30 DURANT MISSISSIPPI THURSDAY APRIL 87 1948 J 200 Per Year I THROUGH HAZEL By Hazel Brannon Your editor is very humbly proud this week of the fact that she re ceived first place for the best news story first place for the best news paper published by a woman and second place in feature writing in contest sponsored by the Mississip pi Federation of Press Women Top winners in this contest are entered in the national contest sponsored by the National Federation of Press Women Recognition of our effort in our chosen field means a great deal of couise but we do not Ynind saying the reward we like most is when folks say Miss Hazel you sure do put out a good paper Wed rather have our subscribers like us than win all the glory in the state or nation And thats the truth Army Day Tuesday April 6th is being celebrated in Holmes county tomorrow April 9th Durant citizens are given a spec ial invitation to attend Col Harwood C Bowman who served as a Brigadier General under Lt General Joe Stillwell in the ChinaBurmaIndia treatre will make the principal speech

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