Warnings and Warnings: Local Editorial Notes From Brandon
The Brandon News reports on the Boddie bucket shop bill passing and ending cotton futures gambling. W. J. Bryan accepts to address the legislature late this month, drawing a large crowd. News covers Portugal’s King Carlos assassination with mixed sentiment and notes the State Normal School’s funding gap. Rail service disruption and track deterioration risk wrecks, and Canton Picket loss by fire prompts sympathy and hopes for restoration.
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Canton
Terrible cyclone harms Copiah County and Martinsville area
A cyclone in Copiah county last Friday killed eleven white residents and several Black residents in Martinsville, with buildings fences and livestock ruined. Across the coast Mississippi plans a silver service for the battleship name ceremony at Ship Island Gulfport or Pascagoula harbors, not deep enough for current draught. Williamsport Pennsylvania reports 461000 spent on five years of advertising city advantages, with 1908 budget forecast higher. seventy five new factories result from the work and money well spent.
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Copiah County
Martinsville
Mississippi
Ship Island Harbor
Gulfport
Pascagoula
Williamsport
Penn
New Issue of The Issue Features Vardaman Editorials
The Ex-Governor J K Vardaman editorship returns as editor and Col R V Ratchford business manager in a neatly printed appearance. Vardaman’s trenchant pen shows sharp insight despite four years away from newspaper work.
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J. K. Vardaman
R. V. Ratchford
Vardaman
Portuguese King and Heir Shot in Lisbon Square
King Carlos and his eldest son were killed by anarchists in a Lisbon square while driving a carriage. The king's guards killed three attackers. Rumor and shock follow as the second son is proclaimed King Manuel.
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Carlos
Portugal
Lisbon
Manuel
Experts urge fire wardens for cut over lands in South Mississippi
Government experts surveying cut over land in South Mississippi say only a small percent of lands remain level enough to resist washout after years of cultivation, except creek and branch bottoms. They recommend counties appoint fire wardens to manage forest fires in timbered areas and protect young trees on cut over lands.
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South Mississippi
Roosevelt's January 31 Message Draws Strong Senate Support
President Roosevelt's special message to Congress on January 31 drew strong cheers from both parties. Senator Jeff Davis of Arkansas urged printing 10,000 copies as a public document, praising the democratic doctrine from a republican source. The address condemned watered stock gambling and urged needed legislation, though the largely Republican Senate and House tempered expectations for rapid gains.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Jeff Davis
Arkansas
Senate
House
Norrell Making Mark in Rankin County Leadership
Judge A G Norrell of Rankin is developing key leadership traits as chair of the local and private legislation committee. He skillfully handles county seat and new county bills, keeping major fights with committees rather than the house floor. A veteran lawmaker, Norrell moved to Utah years ago, served on the Salt Lake City circuit bench, then returned to Mississippi to farm cotton and serve Rankin County voters in the legislature.
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A. G. Norrell
Rankin
House
Norrell
Utah
Salt Lake City
Rankin County
Jackson Correspondent
Commercial Appeal
Advertising Pays Three Weeks Sale At J A Taylor & Sons
An extensive two color circular from J A Taylor and Son Pela hatchie Mississippi promotes a three weeks pre Christmas sale. Report notes 8500 dollars in goods sold during the sale and 6800 in cash. The ad credits advertising for strong results and praises the firm’s honorable methods. The News and the Dry goodsman are cited for the promotion.
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J. A. Taylor & Son
Pelahatchie
Miss
Seventy Seven New County Officers Proposed by Legislature
Mississippi moves to establish county departments of agriculture under the Alford bill. Counties may create a county commissioner of agriculture, with duties including county farmers institutes, coordination with state and national agriculture departments, and support for school boys corn clubs. The measure aims to combat boll weevil advance and boost agricultural education. compensation and staffing rest with county boards. The Jackson correspondent notes Mississippi’s status as an agricultural state and urges rural youth education.
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House of Represents
Alford
Mississippi
Board of Supervisors
State Department
National Department of Agriculture
The
Picayune
Jackson
Ippi
Practical farming valued by a practical people
The speaker laments that schools teach all subjects except farming and that farming is looked down on. He argues that most of their sons must engage in farming and that they should be encouraged and enjoyed in every possible way.
Birth of Twins Highlights New Year Boundary
Mrs. Joe Denson of Walnut Grove welcomed twins born at the year’s boundary, one girl just before midnight on the last night of 1907 and one boy shortly after midnight, making twins born in two different years.
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Joe Denson
Walnut Grove
Farmers Union to Convene County Meeting at Florence
Monterey editors note a county call meeting of the Farmers Union at Florence to discuss the warehouse and unions at Star King Whites Hickory Ridge Thomasville and Monterey. Representation expected from these areas. others may attend. County President Biapane urges attendance.
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Monterey, Miss
Farmers’ Union
Florence
Star, King, Whites
Hickory Ridge
Thomasville
Monterey
Ven Biapane
Shotts Shot With a Ne'er a Gun
A deplorable accident occurred last Sunday night at Dr. C. C. Shotts home in Johns. Prof. Thomas Shotts reached for something on the mantle and knocked a 38 caliber cartridge into the fire. It exploded when he tried to remove it, injuring him below the right eye. The bullet was found in the room. He was brought to Brandon Sanitarium Monday and is resting nicely.
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C. C. Shotts
Johns
Thomas Shotts
Brandon Sanitarium
Prohibition Sweeps States With Local Option Growth
The piece notes a rapid national push for prohibition with Georgia and Alabama last to declare dry. It cites The World’s Work analysis showing only nine states where saloon business remains, while many states have dry counties or towns. It lists numerous state totals for dry areas across the Midwest, South, and West, highlighting regional variation and the strength of anti saloon sentiment in the vicinity of the Great Lakes to Ohio River.
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Georgia
Alabama
Ohio
Kentucky
Tennessee
Maine
Kansas
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Atlanta
Washington
Oregon
California
Mississippi
South Dakota
Nebraska
Minnesota
Iowa
Missouri
Arkansas
Louisiana
Texas
Great Lakes
Ohio River
Wisconsin
Michigan
Indiana
fOive Miausa
Regional dry state map and temperance details in the south and northeast
The report lists dry and wet counties and states, noting Tennessee is largely dry except Memphis Nashville and Chattanooga, Mississippi has 68 dry counties nine wet, Alabama to be dry after 1908, and fractional dry counts in South Carolina North Carolina Virginia Maryland Delaware New Jersey New York Connecticut Massachusetts Vermont Rhode Island New Hampshire. It highlights strong anti saloon sentiment in the east, weak temperance in Pennsylvania, and New York City remaining wet in a largely dry New York.
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Tennessee
Memphis
Nashville
Chattanooga
Mississippi
Alabama
South Carolina
North Carolina
Virginia
West Virginia
Maryland
Delaware
New England
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Rockies
New York
New York City
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Vermont
Rhode Island
New Hampshire
Road overseers urged to inspect and repair beat 5 roads
In a letter dated February 3, 1908 N H Nash appeals road overseers of beat 5 to inspect their sections and report to the grand jury. He urges putting roads in good condition by the first Monday in March amid local notices selling storehouses residences and lots.
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N. H. Nash
Four weeks old single comb brown leghorn eggs sale
C A Williams of Brandon Mississippi advertises four week old single comb brown leghorn eggs at 15 for one dollar.
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C. A. Williams
Brandon, Miss
For Sale Mules Cows Hay And Contact
For Sale a pair of mules and two good milch cows. Apply L C Robinson Brandon Mississippi. Nice bale hay at 50 cents per bale. Contact W G Barnes.
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Brandon
Miss
W. G. Barnes
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Lee G. Webb
Rankinite
HA Busick Co
J. A. Morris
W. B. Collier
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