Agricultural High School Bill Moves Toward County Adoption
The Legislature authorizes county school boards to establish agricultural high schools for white youths, outlining funding, governance, land acquisition, and state aid. A July meeting may see multiple counties apply as boards set up five trustees, land requirements, dormitories, and annual state appropriations of one thousand dollars.
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S. R. Myers
Mississippi
Board of Supervisors
County School Board
County Agricultural High School
County Superintendent of Education
State Board of Education
Board of Education
Cleveland's Career Reflects Character Over Family Ties
The obituary praises Mr. Cleveland for steadfast will and public service over party loyalty. It credits his success to character, noting his integrity and firmness, which earned him both political allies he declined and adversaries he opposed. It suggests his foreign policy insights were weaker than his economic grasp.
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Cleveland
Fannin News Urges Graded School Earnest Effort
In Fannin the community pushes for a separate school district and a graded or agricultural high school. Residents urge trustees and citizens to seize the state appropriation, noting ideal location, water, land and price. Other items include social events, a resignation from Prof. J. M. Taylor, an ice cream supper, and sympathy for Irvin Lee’s family as they mourn. Dr. Robinson’s post operative improvement is reported from Rochester.
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Katie Belle Ferguson
J. M. Taylor
Monterey
Mississippi College
Taylor
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Academy
Dora Lee
Matt McLaurin
Ida Lee
Eula Noble
Irvin Lee
Jackson
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Rochester
Rochester, Minn
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Clear Branch Brings Big Turnout for Children's Day Service
The Clear Branch community reported a successful Sunday service with an estimated six to seven hundred attendees from Jackson Florence Plain Monterey Star King Gama Harrisville Terry and Crystal Springs. A two o'clock sermon by Rev. B E Tutton followed noon refreshments. The July 4 Union picnic plans were announced with a State Union lecturer, band, free lunch, water, and soda pop stands. H W Bradshaw will arrive Florence Saturday morning with transport arranged by J W Byrd Florence.
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Monterey
Star
King
Gama
Harrisville
Terry
Crystal Springs
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H.W. Bradshaw
J. W. Byrd
Stamp taste linked to sweet potato gum says Cultivator
An American Cultivator note humorously claims every lick of a United States postage stamp tastes of sweet potato. The author attributes this to the gum backing the stamps, prepared from the vegetable as deemed the most harmless by Uncle Sam’s lieutenants.
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Sam
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