Rice on cut over land yields promise in Mississippi
Rice on cut over land near Good Roads shown by W M Conner of Perry County with stems five feet high and heads full. He predicts fifty bushels per acre on dry cut over land. Magnolia extends sewerage system with gravity drainage from Tangipahoa River. McCall's Creek grows rapidly as river dredging and gravel extraction aid growth and road building. Labor Day celebration planned by Woodmen of the World in Vicksburg area with noted speakers. River commission endorsements target Douglass and West. Forest compress ready Sept. 5 with 40 workers and 500 bales daily. Hattiesburg cracks down on illegal liquor. Mexican boll weevils threaten crops in Amite County. Railroading schools eyed for McComb City under Harriman program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. M. Conner
Perry County
Conner
Mississippi
Magnolia
Tangipahoa
Tangipahoa River
McCall's Creek
McCall’s Creek
Homochitto
New Orleans
Premium Lists for Okibbeha County Fair Exhibition
President H A Beattie of the Okibbeha County Fair Association issues the official catalogue and premium list for the eighth annual fair with Oct 6 to 8 dates. The event features three days of first class racing and the association's reputation for premier animals and races outside metropolitan tracks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. A. Beattie
Oktibbeha County Fair Association
Okibbeha Fair Association
Corn Improvement and Profitable Farming Practices in Mississippi
Mississippi corn yields are said to lag behind seven corn-rich states. The article urges farmers to seed selection, soil improvement, and better cultivation to raise per acre output. It notes poor soil handling, recommends drying and storing seed properly, and discusses weed and pest controls including salt and sulfur for weevils. It also covers state tax exemptions to encourage food storage warehouses and calls for road and agricultural policy debates at a Jackson convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Illinois
Iowa
Nebraska
Missouri
Kansas
Indiana
Ohio
Mississippi
Georgia
Farmers’ Union
Explosion Kills 12 Men at Florida Rail Project
A blast from seven hundred pounds of dynamite near Bocachica, twelve miles from Key West, kills eleven workers instantly and another dies en route to hospital. Twelve dead total and five seriously hurt as debris flies up to ninety feet, amid chaos on the East Coast Railway work site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Key West
Fla
Bocachica
Florida
East Coast Railway
Louise Maloney
Stock Island
Manteo
Ohio steamer Ohio sinks off Alaska with five crew lost
A steamship named Ohio belonging to the Alaska Steamship Company foundered off Steep Point, Alaska. Of 182 aboard, five crew members perished while passengers were saved by life boats and nearby vessels. Purser Stephen and Operator Eccles sacrificed themselves to protect passengers as the ship and cargo were lost.
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Ohio
Seattle
Wash
Alaska Steamship Company
Steep Point
Alaska
Kingfisher
Swanson Bay
Humboldt
Rupert City
Ketchikan
Vancouver
Stephen
Eccles
Accidental Gun Discharge Kills Mrs Noblin in Huntsville
In Huntsville Alabama Mrs Robert Noblin of Fisk was instantly killed by an accidental gun discharge. Lassater wife of her son fired to shoot a hawk perched in a tree. The weapon went off as she handed it to her husband, blowing off the top of Mrs Noblin’s head.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntsville
Ala
Robert Notin
Fisk
Lassater
Paris Texas drought leaves bullfrogs unable to swim
Jackson Mississippi reporter W. B. Gowdy recounts a drought area around Paris Texas where no rain has fallen since October. Creeks are dry, watercourses overgrown with grass, and bullfrogs seven months old are observed to have not learned to swim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson, Miss
W. B. Gowdy
Paris
Tex
Lone Star
Gowdy
Roosevelt T Trophies In Hands Of Taxidermists
Skins sent by Col Theodore Roosevelt from his African hunt were unpacked at the National Museum in Washington. The specimens, packed in salt, are in good condition and tanning will begin when other work permits, with exhibition expected many months hence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Col
Theodore Roosevelt
National Museum
Benzene Free Food Experts Endorsed by Conference
Denver reports President Roosevelt’s renowned “referee board of consulting scientific experts” was endorsed by the convention of the Association of State and National Food and Dairy Departments. The details are unclear due to garbled OCR but indicate support for benzene-related food safety measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Col
Roosevelt
Remeen
Association of State
National Food and Dairy Departments
Unc
Remsen Board
New York
Tar Board
McKees Rock
Independence
Ind
Global News Tangle From Early 1900s Wire Flash
A sweeping wire service roundup reports on Peru Bolivia border settlement, Taft postal savings plan, Harriman health, and bar associations in Detroit and Seattle. It notes Moroccan-Spanish fighting, Boc a Chica dynamite blast with casualties, peonage probes in Pittsburg, and a Montreal graft inquiry. Also covered are Rheims endurance records, Alabama Laurel arrest, and canal contract rumors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peru
Bolivia
Russia
Melilla
Alaska Exposition
Taft
Congress
Baton Rouge
American Bar Association
Detroit
National Conservation Congress
Seattle
Supreme Court of the Foresters of America
Toledo
B. H. Harriman
Arden, N. K
Harrisburg
Archbishop Farley
New York
Rome
National Pure Food Congress
Denver Cole
Monroe
Henry Farman
Rheims
Laurel
Mobile
E. H. Harriman
United States
Pittsburg
Donaldsonville
Monetary Commission
Aldrich
G. Grosvenor Dawe
Chautauqua
N. Y
National Bar Association
Boca Chica
Fla
Thompson
State Department
Mexico
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Pike County
Vicksburg
Halpin Landing
Senator McLaurin
Vardaman
Charles Scott
Earl
H. S. Douglass
Chas
West
Greenville
Mississippi River Commission
Richardson
Douglass
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Jefferson County
Hatties-burg
Boll Weevil Point
R. W. Harned
Amite County
Harriman
McComb City
Sharkey County
Walter Babbitt
Concordia Parish
R. N. Harris
Coahoma County
National Editorial Association
J. L. Gillespie
Gillespie
Editorial Association
Brookhaven
Hodges Bros and Co
Pensacola
Pascagoula River
Krebs Lake
R. M. Smith
Everton Plantation
Church Hill
Meadville
Newman
Biloxi
H. E. Blakeslee
Columbia
Marion County
Lhrge
Inquirer
G. R. Hightower
The
Union
W. P. Campbell
Jackson
Texas
RS. Noblin
Roosevelt T
Rufus Gillespie
Samuel F. Thigpen
Lemuel P. Conner
Pressed Steel Car Company
McKee’s Rocks
Brazil
Louisiana
Camp Perry
France
Hubert Latham
Montreal
Canada
Steve Brown
Bronson
Becky Snowdon
Bart Farcloth
Gov. Wilson
Kentucky
Southern Pacific
New York Stock Exchange
Buckley Halford
E. W. Newman
Fred Middleton
Natchez
Louisiana Naval Militia
Panama Canal
Ofic
Bennet
Hesbure
Lew Wilte
Supreme Court
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