Dr Berry Suggestion Endorsed in Rankin County Roads
A 1908 Brandon Mississippi letter to the editor endorses Dr J T B Berry s plan for a 100 to 150 dollar purse funded by Brandon Merchants to reward the overseer who builds the best five mile road in a year and urges broader county adoption plus targeted road drainage and qualified overseers with yearly inspections and prizes across districts LOAMIE urges officials to focus spending on road work over bridges while improving drainage and oversight of nepotism in appointing overseers.
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Rankin County
Supervisors
Rankin
Loamie
Remembering Old Settlers of Fannin County Texas
The writer recalls 1879 memories as a family moves toward the Mississippi Delta. He notes childhood in Sunflower swamps away from Black peers, living with relatives and a plantation manager. The letter laments separation and longing for former ties in Mercury Texas.
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Fannin
Mississippi River
Loswery
Lonesome
Cromwell and His Mother Elizabeth Steward Biography
A long excerpt extols Oliver Cromwell as a mighty moral force and honors his mother Elizabeth Steward from Huntingdon to Whitehall. It notes her lineage to the Stewards, her stern yet tender nature, and her steadfast faith guiding Cromwell’s character and aims, recounting Thurloe’s and Foster’s praise and ending with a line about the aged mother’s death.
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Thos. B. Gregory
Oliver Cromwell
England
Cromwell
Foster
Whitehall
Huntingdon
Elizabeth Steward
Robert Cromwell
Oliver
Alexander
Scotland
Cromwel
Thurloe
Protec
Wanted Salesman to Call on Country Trade
A salary commission position for a salesman with own team to call on country gin and saw mill trade in Rankin and adjoining counties. Promises a celebrated line of oils and greases from Stetson Oil and Paint Co of Cleveland Ohio.
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Rankin
Stetson Oil & Paint Co
Cleveland O
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Brandon
Mercantile Co
Rankin County Bank
Brandon Miss
Anda
Pelahatchie
Mercury, Texas
W. A. Carrell
W. G. Barnes
MhAca
M. Shields
C. A. Richardson Co
East Capitol Street
Jackson, Miss
E. E. Johnson
Darnall Bros
Brandon, Miss
Jacob’s
Plow
Brandon Drug Co
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