Reunion for Mississippi Battery A at Jackson June 3
The First Mississippi Withers Light Artillery Ratliff's Battery A will hold its annual reunion in Jackson on June 3 at 11 am. Farmers urged to raise butter bread ham and eggs for home consumption and avoid swapping 8 cent cotton for essentials. Lieut Governor Luther Manning is acting governor while Noel tours Washington and northern cities. Juror pay rise may attract fewer casual jurors, while peck to half bushel drilled seed oats promise stands for ground. Importing red fox cubs for hunting may delight hunters but harms poultry. France wants Roosevelt to threaten Venezuela after U S minister Rusell leaves for home, angering the French.
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Ratliff
First Mississippi
Withers) Light Artillery
Jackson
Luther Manship
Noel
Washington
Luther
War, pests, and politics in a Southern view
The Brandon News notes Admiral Evans warning that war persists without strong statesmen and porfers a jab at eastern possessions. Senator McLaurin offers a 50000 dollar bounty for a cotton boll weevil exterminator while cotton faces storms and pests. It cites Carnegie, Hobson, trusts, tariffs, and a cosmopolitan New York dinner derision as part of a broader political climate.
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Evans
McLaurin
Senate
Washington
Andrew Carnegie
Hobson
Brandon News
Impractical Southern View on Negro Labor and Immigration
A 19th or early 20th century editorial proclaims harsh limits on northern influence, urging fair yet strict enforcement of laws for Black citizens. It links immigration to labor sufficiency, suggesting removal if Black workers fail to sustain taxpaying farmers, and likens citizens to livestock needing support or disposal.
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North
South
Thrilling days in Civil War tale challenged as fiction
James Dinkins rebuts a Sunday feature by Dexter Marshall that claimed ninety Union troops under Russell Alger routed 2,000 Confederate soldiers under Gen. Chalmers at Booneville in 1863. Dinkins cites Gen. Alger, Gen. Forrest, and Gen. Chalmers to argue the sensational tale is unfounded and historically inaccurate.
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Dexter Marshall
Russell A. Algers
Gen
Chalmers
Booneville
Miss
Alger
Sherdian
Mississippi
Memphis
Memphis and
Charleston
Army of Tennessee
Lever
Marshall
Gen. Alger
Chalmer
McKinley
Schofield
Forrest
Alabama
Tennessee
Sturgis
Brice
Hood
Dexter-Marshall
Chambers
the Picayune
James Dinkins
Washington District Child Labor Rules in House Bill
The House backed a Washington District child labor bill with provisions banning under 14 from work during school hours and before 8 am or after 7 pm. Ages 14 to 16 require schooling certificates, no one under 16 to work over eight hours daily or 48 weekly, and restrictions apply to newspaper sale and boot blacking.
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District of Columbia
House
Sale of land in Rankin County Mississippi by special commissioner
Campbell Campbell vs Wm M Kight et al. by authority of Rankin County Chancery Court, special commissioner W White will offer for cash on July 6, 1908 at public auction the south half of the southwest quarter and northwest quarter of the southeast quarter, section 31, township 7, range 5 east. Proceeds first cover costs, then $825 to Campbell Campbell, with any balance to defendant Wm M Right. May 14, 1908.
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Campbell & Campbell
Wm. M. Right
W. White
Man fleeing ideal wife prompts grim reflection
A man rejects a woman who embodies domestic virtue, prudence, modesty, economy and judgment, choosing to flee from what he perceives as the ideal partner. The fragment hints at conflict between expectation and reality in relationships.
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The
W. S. May
Brandon, Miss
Congress
R. H. Henry
Hinds
Patrick Henry
Rankin
Chicago
France
Roosevelt
Venezuela
United States
Russell
New York
Forrrest
St. Paul
Minnesota
Grandpa Bono
W. C. Wood Lumber Company
Collins
Morris Whitten
Monroe H
J. A. Taylor & Son
Pelahatchie, Mississippi
S. L. McLaurin
W. H. Barnes
Farmers’ Building
Brandon
Ammons Bros
Downing
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