France at Last Crossing the English Channel to Cherbourg
Tom Rhea Phillips writes of crossing the channel at night and waking in Cherbourg to cheering locals. The regiment parades city streets as French women shoulder burdens and youngsters shower coins. They view German prisoners, dine on potatoes, and camp in conical huts before riding in crowded cattle cars toward Nancy near Metz. A train collision kills and injures dozens, a sobering war memory before two weeks in Ploermel.
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Cherbourg
French Love Association
France
Nancy
Metz
188 Field Artillery
Ploermel
Junior Red Cross drives citizenship and thrift education
An educational column urges strong support for the Junior Red Cross to train children for citizenship and promote health, sanitation, and thrift. It notes schools enrolled in Junior Red Cross may receive free materials from the Mississippi Anti Tuberculosis Association or purchase from Jackson, and urges teachers to involve students immediately to aid community health and government thrift campaigns.
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Red Cross
America
Rankin County
Junior Red Cross
Mississippi Anti-Tuberculosis Association
North State Street
Jackson
Meddie L. Robinson
Brandon
Mississippi
Agricultural Notes Promote Hogs and Grain Over Cotton
South farmers plan to reduce cotton acreage and boost hogs and grain. The message highlights cheaper feed, favorable climate, and two good markets, with demonstrations on terracing land and a shipment of hogs from Brandon scheduled for February 26.
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South
Brandon
Letters From France 1918 Christmas Wishes and War News
A reader in Pelahatchie Miss writes from France dated November 24 1918 describing Dad’s Letter Day at the AEF front the big drive the final one and celebrations in French towns, noting casualties and sacrifice with hopes of Christmas reunions and a shaft to memory soldiers who died. A January 1919 follow up from Risey France reports illness and ongoing duties letters long overdue and concern for home folks.
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E.G. Davis
Pelahatchie
Dad
A.E.F
America
Risey
France
Rankin County finances report for year ending 1918
A public financial statement details receipts and disbursements of Rankin County Mississippi through September 30 1918 including courthouse expenses roads schools and various county officers plus cash on hand and bonded indebtedness. The document also includes a 1917-18 tax collections by public service corporations and a personal World War I letter from Pvt Harris W Pattie of the 306th Engineers describing conditions in France and their unit’s emblem the Wild Cats.
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Rankin
Misssissippi
Court House
Justice of the Peace
Perey Pe Ee Se
Agricultural High
Rankin County
Mississippi
France
Pvt
Harris W. Pattie
Co. F
Reg
E. F
A. P. C. Box
Via
New York
Ennai
Mateenenasne
eAnne Rural
Meegersees
Pelahatchie
Bankers of the State to Hold Group Meetings
The Mississippi Bankers Association plans annual group meetings in New Orleans with itineraries from Greenwood to Tupelo Meridian and finally New Orleans from March 18 to 21 2021. Special Pullmans will transport Mississippi bankers and recent reservations include active association members and major banks from New York Chicago St Louis Memphis and New Orleans.
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Mississippi Bankers’ Association
Greenwood
Tupelo
Meridian
New Orleans
Mississippi
Lema
New York
Chicago
St. Louis
Memphis
Grenada
Holly Springs
Association
George B
Power
Jackson
Ely's Cream Balm for catarrh and nasal relief
An old advertisement promises quick relief from nasal congestion and catarrh with Ely's Cream Balm. It claims to open clogged nostrils in a minute, soothe inflamed mucous membranes, and provide easy breathing after applying a small amount in the nostrils.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ely
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Tom Rhea Phillips
Jim Dear
Filorenca
Mother
Carl
Wilkes
Clarksburg
Johns Consolidated School Meter
N-Ne Eee
Bond Avenue
Jae
Sahswen E-Een
Ludlow Consolidated School Ware Ean Nee Eee
General.Co. Interest & Co. School Ag. H. S
Total Co. Fund
A&v. RR
Ennese
R. R
Cumberland Telephone Co
Florence Telephone Co
Meee
Western Union Telegraph Co
Postal Telegraph Co
Pullman Sleeping Car Co
J. A. Robinson
Miss
Bankers
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