Two Weeks in Camp Merritt Vd United Soldiers
After landing at Hoboken the Red Cross greeted the unit with coffee rolls and candy. They traveled by train to Camp Merritt New Jersey for disinfecting, baths, rest, and brief leave in New York City before marching to barracks and preparing for discharge at Fort Benjamin Harrison Indiana.
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George Washington
Hoboken
N. Y
Red Cross
Flanders Fields
Camp Merrit
N. J
New York City
Hudson River
Mississippi
Pennsylvania
Oregon
Fort Lee
129” St
129
Manhattan
Broadway
Merritt Hall
K. of C. Hall
Fort Benjamin
Harrison
Indiana
Armenian and Syrian Relief Drive Notes
Rankin County relief report urges all chairmen and committees to send full beat reports next week. Last week donations exceed fifty dollars pending remittance. Beat One plans a full quota of two hundred dollars. Neighborhood churches urged to collect and send funds to their beat.
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Rankin County
Cat
Lata Reyge
LET RANKIN COUNTY TAKE THE LEAD
Brandon Mississippi April 5 1919 Editor News urges US government to test telephone lines on mail routes in Rankin County as a path to broader rural telephony. Letter notes potential self sufficiency, requests Congressman Collier support and outlines a May 1919 Democratic executive meeting in Brandon for primary preparations.
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Brandon Miss
Rankin County
United States
Collier
Congress
Notice to Democratic Candidates in Rankin County
Notice to Candidates requires all prospective Democratic candidates to file written notice with the Democratic Executive Committee Chairman by the first Monday in May 1919, stating intention to run and for which office. Brandon Mississippi April 8 1919 Patrick Henry Chairman Democratic executive committee Rankin County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brandon
Miss
Rankin County
Mississippi
Court House
Pat’k Henry
T. B, Spann
Attorney General’s
Democratic Executive Committee
England eyes Channel tunnel rail link to France
The article views a Channel tunnel rail to France as feasible within five years, imagining a chain of future projects including a Dardanelles tunnel to Asia Minor and a Gibraltar crossing to Africa. It notes engineers claim feasibility, but doubts lasting peace will allow such feats before the millennium.
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England
English Channel
France
Constantinople
Asia Minor
Europe
Straits of Gibraltar
Middle Europe
Red Cross Recognition Plan For Rankin County Workers
The Rankin County Chapter of the American Red Cross announces a plan to issue certificates recognizing long faithful service. Certificates allow wear of the Red Cross service insignia. women receive a badge with ribbon and bar, men a lapel button. Applications due before May 1, 1919.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rankin County
Ameri-caan
Red Cross
General Service
Notice of Registration in Rankin County Mississippi 1919
Registration officials will be at listed precincts in Rankin County Mississippi on dates in May 1919 to register new voters, transfer voters, and those changing precincts. Locations include Pearson Holbrook Florence Plain Cleary Star Whites Ig Creek Antioch Shiloh Dry Creek and others with dates from May 1 to May 20 1919.
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Mississippi
Rankin
Rankin Co
Cleary
Star
Ig Creek
Antioch
Wale Creek
Shiloh
Dry Creek
Rankin Camp Elects Delegates for Brookhaven Reunion
Rankin Camp No. 265 UCV met at the courthouse electing D. M. Robbins and C. J. Walters as delegates to the Brookhaven reunion July 9 to 11, 1919 with A. B. Stubblefield and J. P. Barksdale as alternates. Decoration Day May 1 was set and Daughters urged to assist. dues from absentees due. speaker to be chosen. flowers requested.
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Rankin
No. 265
Court House
D. M. Robbins
C. J. Walters
Brookhaven
A. B. Stubblefield
J. P. Barksdale
P. Henry
R. S. MA
Registration Opens At Court House In Brandon
Citizens may register to vote at the Court House in Brandon or the Circuit Clerk’s office from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. until July 2. Registrar J. A. Lindsey urges all eligible residents of Pelshatchie, Red Oak, X Roads and nearby areas to enroll promptly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pelshatchie
X Roads
Red Oak
W. D. Steens
Brandon
Seed for Sale in Florence Mississippi Notice
A notice lists a seed for sale at four dollars per bushel. The seller is A. E. Harper of Florence, Mississippi, Route 2.
Hammer Mill to Operate Tuesdays and Thursdays
Notice to the public from Brandon Feed Milling Co states limited crushing from now until fall with operation on Tuesdays and Thursdays each week. The query asks how many bushels of corn are needed to cover a checkerboard placing one kernel on the first square and doubling on each subsequent square.
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Brandon Feed & Milling Co
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Camp Merritt
Tom Rhea Phillips
Madison Square Gardens
Edison Electric Company
W.C.C.S
Red Circle
Fifth Avenue
America
New York
Merrit
Mr. McLaurin
Aber
Bere
Aere
Heidelberg
Jackson
A. J. Orkin
J. A. Lindsey
Regiatrar. A
A. E. Harper
Florence, Miss
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