BOLL WEEVIL ENCROACHING AND LOCAL IMPROVEMENT NOTES
Farmers battle boll weevils across Copiah and Pike counties. A Shady Grove road project raises $800 and teams offer support while a Natchez broom factory moves toward fifty dozen capacity. Typhoid fears surge in Pike county towns as doctors warn of care strain. A Mississippi judge contests trial applause claims, and a jail arrest links a Magnolia bank robbery suspect to Jesse Smith.
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Shady Grove
Hattiesburg
I. C
Shady Grove School
Natchez
William Stietenroth
Louisiana
Concordia Parish
Charles A. Mixon
Osaka
Jesse Smith
Magnolia
Rankin County Farmers Union
Rankin County
Mississippi
Tax Commission Busy with Illinois Central Valuation
Mr. W. L. Tarbett of Chicago, tax commissioner for the Illinois Central railroad, is gathering additional data on the railroad’s Mississippi taxes and preparing to present further reasons at the railroad commission meeting. He seeks a reduction rather than the tentative increase fixed for the valuation of the Illinois Central and Yazoo and Mississippi Valley lines in Mississippi.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. L. Tarbett
Chicago
Illinois Central Railroad
Mississippi
Railroad Commission
Illinois Central
Yazoo
Mississippi Valley
Woodmen Health Resort plans in Mississippi
The Woodmen of the World have filed for a charter to establish a health and pleasure resort near Gloster Amite County Mississippi, near the former Sam Jones camp ground. The waters are noted for curative properties and the project aims to create a regional retreat supported by local planning and investment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodmen of the World
Mississippi
Secretary of State
Gloster
Amite County
Sam Jones
Convicted Druggists Face Fines in Meridian Police Court
Dr. Sherrod, a black physician and druggist, was fined $50 and given 30 days in each of two cocaine selling cases by Mayor John W. Parker. The same $50 fine and sentence were imposed on R. A. Thorn, a prominent white druggist, in a prior conviction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Sherrod
John W. Parker
Meridian
R. A. Thorn
Greater Mississippi and farm reform push gains momentum
Mississippi voices stress corn club progress, drainage district growth, and road improvements as part of a broader plan toward a “Greater Mississippi.” Articles highlight Otho Tabb’s Webster county letter, district successes like Homochitto in Pike, and fins on Wheat and berry cultivation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Homochitto
Pike County
Mississippi
Clarksdale
Coahoma County
Board of Supervisors
Coahoma
Good Roads
Winston County Fair Association
Wheat growing in Mississippi and pest spray law
The article notes possible further comments on wheat in Mississippi and explains the new insect pest law authorizing spraying against the San Jose scale. It argues spraying protects orchards and improves returns, and mentions road question with wide tires, plus egg incubation times for hen and goose eggs observed by a Marshall county farmer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Jose
Marshall County
Washington Notes On Tariff And Appointments
News notes from Washington report no negro census enumerators to be appointed in the South, Wright fails to soar at Fort Myer, Monroe La postmaster appointed, tariff bill conferees slow, low tariff Republicans threaten revolt, and Taft pushing downward revision. Also mentions Taft’s China minister pick, bond resources, and a proposed leper station in Hawaii.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orville Wright
Fort Myer
J.C. Weaks
Monroe
Senate
House
Taft
Diaz
el Paso
Tex
Hawaiian Islands
Prairie Oil and Gas Company
Oklahoma
Baton Rouge
Gilmore
Louisiana
Charles R. Crane
Crane & Co
Chicago
China
Congress
A. T. Long
Naval Intelligence Office
United States
Romey
Vienna
R. R. Belknap
Berlin
Bureau
Foreign Service
State Department
White House
Marine Hospital Service
Ha‘waiian Islands
Sat'n Amer
Global flashes of revolution and disaster
Wire reports note Columibits revolutionists surrendering in Persia with Teheran under insurgent control, an Athens earthquake causing widespread damage, and royalist talks of surrender. Other items list political assassinations, suffragette unrest, a submarine sinking, and various international crises with names, places, and dates.
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Chicago Board of Trade
Teheran
Persia
C. W. Bayles
Monroeville
Ala
D. K. Smth
Greece
France
Spain
Morocco
Bolivis
la Paz
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Vern Buelow
Baron Oskar Rothschild
Vienna
Walter Williams
Sens Burgaw
N. C
Anderere
William J. Bryan
Taft
England
J. A. Sammis
Lemars
Iowa
the Elks
Garry Herrmann
Cincinnati
Henry Munson
St. Andrew's Bay
Mrs McLaughlin Poorer But A Wiser Woman
Shreveport Louisiana report states E Lewis former Majestic Moving Picture Theatre manager and later Down Town Skating Rink chief was sought by sheriff and police on embezzlement charges. He is accused of stealing $900 from photographer N F Meughlin of BicNeil Street. A warrant is in hands of the shift, but Lena is at large.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Paz
Melila
Macrocco
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Harry K. Thaw
Stanford Whte
White Plains
N. Y
Howband
Bohlman
Merxe Mobile
M. Saxon
Sheaf
W. R. Miller
J. H. Sayler
Crescent City
Sayles
Saylter
Gee A. Ferguson
Columbia University
Elsie Sigel
Leon Ling
New York
United Copper Company
F. Augustus Heinze
Mercantile National Bank Fumdés
United States District Attorney
McLaughlin
Shreveport
E. Lewis
Majestic Moving Picture Theatre
Down Town
Lewis
N. F. Meughlin
BicNeil Street
Lena
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Great Northern
Capital City
N. A. Nall
Nashville, Tenn
Mississippi River and Eastern
Amite River
Liberty
Liberty-White
Jackson and Southern
Bayou Sara
Copiah County
J. S. Decell
Summit
A. M. Whitfield
Supreme Court
C. R. Smith
Columbus
John L. Buckley
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
McComb
Wilkinson
Tax Commission
Visiting Baptist Orphanage
Camp Sample
Mississippi Baptist Orphanage
J. R. Carter
Walter Weaver
James T. Harrison
J. M. Dickinson
Judge Dickinson
Weaver
Harrison
Jackson
Great Northern Railroad
Board of Trade and Business
Yazoo City
Hattiesburg Traction Company
Traction Company
Rawls Springs
J. H. Wallace
M. D. Brown
Mississippi City
Kola Lumber Company
Kola
Mabell
Miss
H. E. Blakeslee
Corn Club
Department of Agriculture
Otho Tabb
Webster County
Tate County
South
Mississippi Experiment Station
Lancaster
Minnesota
Union
Washington
Hat Husband
Wan
Miners Confederation of Great Britain
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