Mississippi Legislative Adjourns After Lengthy Session
The Fifty-Eifth to Sixty-First Day records show adjournment after a two month session. Bills passed include H. B. 570 depository funds for Yazoo Mississippi Delta board, H. B. 202 school tax limit, and H. B. 679 concealed weapon penalties. Senate resolutions call for penitentiary investigations into 1907. Multiple appropriations and railroad, tax, and public works measures were debated, amended, or failed with adjournment sine die.
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Board of Commissioners of
Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
Senate
Anderson
Committee On Penitentiary and Prisons
Board of Trustees
Mississippi Penitentiary
W. A. Montgomery
Pupiic
Penitentiary Committee
Cdy
HOUSE
Noel
Johnston
Coahoma
Johnstone
Aberdeen
Laurel
Gov. Noel
Chancery Court
U. Senate
First Canal Zone jury trial held in Cristobal
The Canal Zone’s first jury trial occurred in Cristobal. Of forty Americans called for jury service, thirty-nine attended as the final jury was selected.
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Canal Zone
Panama
Cristobal
Sugar Suit Dismissed by New York Circuit Judge
Judge Holt of the United States Circuit Court in New York dismissed the $30,000,000 sugar damages suit brought by Pennsylvania Sugar. The action sought big damages and involved the two parties in a high profile corporate dispute.
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New York
Holt
United States Circuit Court
Pennsylvania
One Dead in Mine Accident at Blocton
Birmingham Alan Thomas Bivins is dead and his brother Vincent Bivins is seriously burned after an explosion in mine No. 3 at Blocton Bibb county operated by Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad, as reported in local news.
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Birmingham
Alan Thomas Bivins
Vincent Bivins
Blocton
Bibb County
The
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad
Saw Mill Plant Burned in Arkansas Town Fire
Dewitt Arkansas saw mill and handle factory owned by E J Spratlin was totally destroyed by fire causing about four thousand dollars in loss with partial insurance. Origin unknown but considered incendiary.
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Dewitt, Ark
E. J. Spratlin
Mississippi Farmers Call For Agricultural Office Preservation
The Water Valley Herald argues against abolishing the Commissioner of Agriculture and praises the Department of Agriculture and Commerce. It notes aid from Cotton Association and unions, urges better committee placement, and highlights a school of cotton grading at A&M College to improve seed, grading, and farmer education.
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Herald
Water Valley
Commissioner of Agriculture
Blakeslee
Department of Agriculture and Commerce
Cotton Association
Agricultural and Livestock People of
Mississippi
Mississippi Live Stock Association
A. & M. College
Hog Hogs Record Weights In Poland China Breed
The Senatobia Democrat highlights local hog raisers who killed three Poland China hogs weighing 557, 581, and 618 pounds. Dressed weights total 1 766 pounds with an estimated value of 140 dollars and 48 cents at eight cents per pound, arguing local methods compare to Chicago packing.
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Senatobia Democrat
Armour
Chicago
W. L. Wallace
A. L. Bledsoe
P. A. Eason
Poland
Pine stumpage and resin need in pine lands profits
An Ohio man scouts piney woods for lightwood stumps to ship for resin and turpentine extraction. He cites methods to process stumps locally for paper pulp, noting plants charred in Mississippi to remove resin and other constituents.
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Ohio
Toledo, Ohio
Piney Woods
Mississippi
Laurel
Wiggins and
Hattiesburg
White Lead Purity and Fraud Exposed in Home Test
An article explains how white lead is produced and sold worldwide, warns of adulterated brands mixed with barytes or chalk, and describes a blow pipe test to prove purity. The National Lead Company offers a kit and booklet to test at home, with a Dutch Boy Painter emblem guarantee.
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Gua Antes
Pac Sas Peesteg
E-Mar
Woodbridge Building
Nev
Causes of Headache in October Series
October notes identify colds as the most frequent headache cause. Laxativ and Bromo Quinine preparations are cited as common remedies. The guide emphasizes avoiding overuse and consulting a physician for persistent pain.
Woman Sca rescuers and humor in a hotel fire tale
A husband calms his wife during a hotel fire scare. He advises keeping cool and slips his watch away before evacuating with his wife. After the danger passes the wife remarks that trousers would have saved her modesty, as the Boston Herald recounts.
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William
Boston Herald
General Ainsworth Seen as Ambitious Army Leader
The Washington Star says General Fred Cra ton Ainsworth, fifty five, once a army medic now a major general and adjutant general, is ambitious like Julius Caesar and Napoleon. The government saves about 500000 annually through his card index system that records a full history of every soldier.
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General Ainsworth
Fred Craton Ainsworth
Pople
Ainsworth
Julius Caesar
Napoleo Bonaparte
Gvernment
Washington Star
Secret kept by a girl named Madge and a warning to Dolly
A brief dialogue shows Marjorie claiming to know a secret about Dolly and insisting she will keep it until she becomes angry. The exchange, from a Puck quotation, hints at impending conflict and mischief.
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Madge
Marjorie
Puck
Grape-Nuts and Postum Ad Claims Health Benefits
An advertisement extols Grape-Nuts cereal and Postum drink as ideal nutrition for aging bodies. It cites elderly users, including a 74 year old and a 92 year old, praising energy, digestion, and mental clarity, and claims the products support brain health and ease constipation. The piece ends with promotional lines from Postum Company in Battle Creek and references to a health claim slogan There's a Reason.
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Iowa
Tin Lana
Postum Ca
Battle Creek
Sid
Wellville
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McDowell
Darden
Owen
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Frierson
S. B
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Franklin
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Walthall County
McMillan
Dean
Roy Hale
Old Ladies’ Home Senate
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Judiciary Committee
Yazoo
Committee On Universities and Colleges
H.C. R
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M. E. Denton
Marks
W. D. Cameron
Meridian
H. E. Blakeslee
Jackson, Mississippi
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Newton
Waldrup
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Clayton
Lee
Shaw
Webster
Allen
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