Nonsense and satire mix in Mississippi press quotes
A collage of clipped quotes from Mississippi papers ridicules national events and local quirks. It mocks editors, bonds, and salaries while contrasting New York theft penalties with Mississippi mule theft. It notes a governor editor bluff and lampoons a senator’s salary as absurd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Okalona Sun
New York
Mississippi
Hattiesburg Daily News
Vardaman
News
United States
Piney Woods
Forest Register
Pretty Fair Religion and the Bonds of Charity
A Harper style reflection on religion, ethics, and daily kindness. The author argues creed matters less than living Christlike love, caring for others, and simple humane joys. It extols cheerful living, unbending to harmless folly, and the companionship of animals as part of a wholesome life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice Brewer
United States Supreme Court
Banat
Descartes
Malebranche
Life of Sylvester McLaurin Native of Smith County
Robert Sylvester McLaurin born March 14 1855 on a Smith county farm four miles southeast of Trenton. He endured limited schooling, chose law, studied with his brother in Raleigh, started practice in 1877, became district attorney a decade later, and earned a reputation for memory, analysis, and plain earnest oratory. He defended the weak, faced political enmity, and after a civic career died a churchgoing Christian at his Brandon funeral.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Sylvester McLaurin
Trenton
Smith County
Lutheran College
Roanoke
Salem
Loch McLaurin
Yuan
Congress
Mark Hopkins
Sylvester McLaurin
Brandon
A. J. McLaurin
Raleigh
A. H M. Longino
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Methodist Church
C. EB. Emery
Enoche
Bereaved Widow and Child Endure Unutterable Sorrow
A reverent notice speaks of the departed husband and father sharing with his widow and her small son the unutterable sorrow of bereavement.
Letter from Little Rock Traveler Describes Visits and Politics
A long, rambling letter from an Arkansas reader recounts travel from Brandon to Jackson Estill Greenville and back to Little Rock. The writer praises Lake Sheep and country beauty, notes city life, and shares views on Arkansas politics including support for Vardeman over Williams and impressions from a Jackson speech by John Sharp Williams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Brandon
Jackson
Estill
Sum
Greenville
Arkansaw
Fur Little Rock
Mississippi
Charlie Scott
Williams
Vardeman
John Sharp
Johnie
Feller
Stalin
John Sharp Williams
Pati An
Ole Vardie Falls in Mississippi Farmers Institute Program
Mississippi Agri Cultural and Mechanical College hosts a three day farmers institute from September 4 to 6 1907 in Mississippi with talks on tillage soil improvement dairying hog profits and Audubon feathered help. The reader asks about Fannin and a town ten miles from Brandon while noting local politics and the shift from Vardie to Williams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vardeman
Seazer
Railroads
Ole Vardie
Williams
Medle
Brandon
Little Rock, Ark
State Farmers’ Institute and Industrial Convention
Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College, Agricultural College
Miss
W. L. Hutchinson
Jno
W. Day
Crystal Springs
W. R. Perkins
Mississippi
R. P. Wright
Carthage
C. D. Lyons
Georgetown
Ohio
Dai
H. B. Gurler
DeKalb
Ill
National Dairy Show Association
J. S. Moore
H. H. Kopman
National Association of Audubon Societies
A. Sanders
Starkville
Round Miss Institute to discuss agriculture and farming profits
Pelahatchie Graded School hosts sessions featuring H. E. Blakeslee on tree uses in economy and aesthetics, Prof. Geo. L. Clothier on illustration, Archibald Smith on profitable beef cattle, Dr. J. C. Gathings on alfalfa value, B. H. Strong on alfalfa farming, and Prof. Carr on poultry raising. Pastures provided for attendees, meals at 25 cents. Tickets sold statewide with reduced-rate certificates. Also notice of shoats and Berkshire pigs for sale by D. G. Breland of Florence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prairie
Roblems
B. H. Strong
West Point
Mississipi
Mississippi
Illustra
Wp. Carr
Also Mentioned on This Page
The
Brandon News
Advange
Vicksburg
Lews
Meadville Searchlight
Missouri
R. S. McLaurin
J. A. Taylor
Pelahatchie
C. W. Taylor
St. Louis
Monarch
B. C
Mexico
L. E. Washburn
Brandon Milinary
Pelahatchie Graded School
John Rundle
Pelahatchie, Miss
Berkshire
D. G. Breland
Florence
Brandon Sanitarium
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