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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 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 Congress1920

Image 4 of The Progress-itemizer (Water Valley, Miss.), June 4, 1920

The ProgressItemizer W S Thornton Fdilor Entered in the Post Office at TV ater valley Mis as second lass mail matter Announcement FOR CONGRESS We are authorized to announce JEFF BUSBY A a candidate for ogress from the Sixth Congrr sional District We are authorized to announce T V SISSON a a candidate fo reelection to Con ge f from the Sixth Congressional 1 istict I lii Il BL R AND A NEWSPAPER Ir his annual address to the Missis s i Press Association last week uf G llport President O F Lawrence 0 f the leading newspaper men of 1 Ssippi and one whose interes ml whole soul Tort is to put the country weekly cn the piane of high s Sards where it should be Mr Lawrence gave good aru suf ficient reason y the newspaper in e cry commur y ws cn cf it big gest assets and that the woexly tie ryeper was fast becoming reoegj nied as cne of the most important institutions in the community Within the past two years the weekly news aer has been facing a serious situation and condition With the scaring price of newsprint paper and everything tiist goes to

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Library of Congress1903

Image 8 of Water Valley progress (Water Valley, Miss.), March 21, 1903

Tf Me is an Jd story about the fSrir wrrA tois Wife who were not tali dird with their home and de eld 4 to pat their farm in the hands oan agent for sale Soon the realtor they read of a beauti tel place which they decided would exactly suit them They ailed on the agent only to find It was their own farm they had so jaech admired and as the agent had atated the facts they with drew it from the market They hai overlooked the good things round them antil a stranger had pointed them oat This is a very common experience We usually think the other fellow has the eas ier time of a better business be cause we dont know all about Ills troubles or disadvantages and because we dont fully appre ciate our good things Ex Your great man shines before the populace in vain without the newspaper He spreadeagles the Constitution in vain without the newspaper His clarion voice wakes up the universe in vain without the newspaper His most astounding financial enterprises serve him in vainwithout the newspaper His scientific re searches and achievehments are in vainwithout the newspaper His wireless

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Library of Congress1921

Image 5 of The North Mississippi herald (Water Valley, Yalobusha Co., Miss.), May 13, 1921

CHARLESTON GETS BANKERS NEXT TIME D D Davis of Brookhaven President Geo B Power Jackson Secretary VICKSBURG Miss May 11 Charleston will get the 34th annual convention ofMhe Mississippi Bsyik ers Association in 1922 provided the members of the executive com mitte are satisfied the hotel accom modations there will be sufficient for the needs of the members who will at tend TTie officers elected today and in stalled who will serve throughout the yea are as follows W D Davis Brookhaven presi dent E P Peacock Clarksdale vice president George B Power Jackson secretary A L Jagoe Okolona treasurer H C Herring Moss Point chairman executive committee Members executive committee whose terms expire in 1924 R A Ball Greenwood R B Clark Tupe lo A B Furloy Brookhaven Other members are T W McCoy Vicksburg exofficio A D Simpson Meridian George R Rea Bay St Louis John P Bennet Yazoo City W A Boone Pontotoc A L Rogers New Albany the president vice president treasurer texofficio mem bers Group vicepresidents Group 1 C B Farrish Charleston group 2 Lee Cox Ripley group 3 W A Montgomery Edwards group 4 E G Bond Collins The convention adopted a resolu tion

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Library of Congress1922

Image 2 of The North Mississippi herald (Water Valley, Yalobusha Co., Miss.), March 24, 1922

JOHN HORAN Lawyer CRIMINAL AND GENERAL PRACTICE Office Oppicite Pot Office WATER VALLEY MISS C W JOHNSON Civil Engineer Land Survey Farm Drainage WATER VALLEY MISS iMiiiiiiimiitiiiiiiiniiiiitiiitiiiiiiiiiiiii W A SPEARMAN Dentist Office hour 8g m to S p m Over Harkins Store MAIN ST WATER VALLEY Llilillitlllllllllllltlllllllililliiiiiiiiiiiit J L HARRIS AttornevatLaw Will practice in all the Court Office on Wood Street WATER VALLEY MISS Dr P L BERRY Dental Surgeon Phone 199 Over Poctoffice WATER VALLEY MISS lllimillllllllllllllHIIUHHIlIinilllHHI W I STONE J P STONE STONE STONE Lawyers Will Practice in all Court Water Valley and Coffeeville imiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifiiiiiiijiiiiiHi DR J B LONG Dentist OAKLAND MISS IIMlIIIMItliltllllliUmilllllllllfllllillll 6R6 cures Chills and Fever To Stop h Cough Quick take HAYES HEALING HONEY a cough medicine which stops the cough b healing the inflamed and irritated tissues A box of GROVES OPENTRATE SALVE for Chest Colds Head Colds and Croup is enclosed with every bottle of HAYES HEALING HONEY The salve should be rubbed on the chest and throat of children suffering from a Cold or Croup The healing effect of Hayes Healing Honey in side the throat combined with the healing effect of Groves OPenTrate Salve through the pores of the skin soon

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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 Congress1921

Image 4 of The North Mississippi herald (Water Valley, Yalobusha Co., Miss.), April 22, 1921

THE NORTH MISS HERALD Issueed Every Friday LOUIS C BARBEREd and Pub SUBSCRIPTION180 PER YEAR _Strictly in Advance_ Entered at the Postoffice at Water Valley as secondclass mail matter 1 Foreign Advertising Representative THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION J rei April reT Sir 1 Vto n fe Sal 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 II 12 Id 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 2 24 25 26 27 28 29 K Political Announcements The Herald is authorized to an nounce the follownig names as Can didates for Circuit Court Judge of the 17th Judicial District JOHN W KYLE Sardis Miss GREEK L RICE Charleston Miss Catarrh Cannot Be Cured with Local Applications as they cannot reach the seat of the disease Catarrh is a local disease greatly in fluenced hy constitutional conditions and in order to cure it von must take an internal remedy Halls Catarrh Medicine is taken internally and acts thru the blood on the mucous sur faces of the system Halls Catarrh Meddne wag prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for years It is composed of some of the best tonics known combined with some of the best blood purifiers

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Library of Congress1963

Image 6 of The Lexington advertiser (Lexington, Miss.), July 11, 1963

Dorsey McCay Is Candidate For lieutenant Governor Of Mississippi Dorsey McCay of Water Valley candidate for Lieuten a n t Governor today an nounced the formal opening of his campaign and the ap pointment of his state cam paign manager Named by him is Clinton T Howell of Jackson Howell was the editor of the Missis sippi Methodist Advocate Of ficial weekly NewsMagazine of the Methodist people in Mississippi for eight years and is now in the printing business He is the author of several books the latest Lines to Live By is an inspirational volume of poe try philosophy and sayings He was a member of the Campaign Staff of Ross Bar nett in his successful race four years ago McCay a former lay prea cher of the Methodist Church is 42 years of age He was educated at Northwest Jr College and Jackson School of Law He is married to the former Mary Helen Rankin of Nettleton niece of the late Congressman John Rankin The McCays have five sons He says he will wage a vigorous campaign based up on his stand for 1 Economy in State Government 2 A balanced state budget 3 Increased pay for our

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Library of Congress1852

Map of the Philadelphia, Easton & Water Gap Rail Road

At end of title: Shewing its conections [sic] with other lines, & its importance in providing a direct communication between Philadelphia & the Lehigh, Delaware, Lackawanna, & Susquehanna Valleys, western New York, the Northern Lakes & Canada ... Includes lists of distances from Philadelphia and New York and "Comparisons of distances." Scale ca. 1:1,200,000. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy imperfect: some sections torn and missing along fold lines, hole in left center, section of right margin missing. LC copy distance lists annotated in blue ink. Source annotated in pencil on verso: From: Address of the committee appointed at a mass meeting ... 9th Oct. 1852. Phila. 1852. Brown's Steam power Book & Job Printing ... AACR2: 650; 610

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Library of Congress1914

Image 4 of The Grenada sentinel (Grenada, Miss.), August 14, 1914, (PART 1)

Che renaba Sentinel Grenada jHwsisiippi O F LAWRENCE Editor and Publisher oo Subscription 100 per Year in advance When Subscription not paid in advance or before the expiration of twelve months the price is 125 3 months 35c 6 months 60c I ADVERTISING RATES Advertising rates on display matter and readers furnished on application Obituaries In Memoriams and Cards of Thanks 10 cents per line The Official Organ of Grenada County Second Claws Mail Matter Entered at the PoA Office at Grenada Mils 1914MEMBER1915 Mississippi Press Association Announcements The Sentinel is authorized to announce S A MORRISON of Grenada as a candidate for Congressman from the Fourth Congressional District The Sentinel is authorized to announce JUDGE J G McGOWAN of Water Valley as a candidate for reelection to the office of Chancery Judge of this Dist The Sentinel is authorzied to announce JUDGE J A TEAT of Kosciusko as a candidate to succeed himself as Circuit Judge of this district The Sentinel is authorized to announce H H RODGERS of Winston County candidate for Circuit Judge of the Fifth Judicial District The Sentinel is authorized to announce 0 A LUCKETT of Attalla county as a candidate for Circuit Judge of

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