Town News From Monticello Frames Rail Talk And School Oration
In Lawrence and nearby towns residents discuss rail transportation improvements and a Cotton Convention event. Monticello hosts a student gathering with speakers Cyrus Lonnon John Quincy Adams Paul Walker and Albert Hopkins among others. Albert L Hopkins wins top prize and University representation in the Northern Oratorical League. Cecil Rhodes scholarships may be awarded to Mississippi students.
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Cyrus
Lonon A
John
Quincy Damis
Paul A. Walker
Charles Custer
Parne
Portio Digz
Hopkins
Lee
C Failton
Albert L. Hopkins
O. Hopkins
Hickory
Miss
Pensa
Brookhaven
University of Chicago
Fulton
State University
Mississippi
Fair River notes on bridge site at H Eson's
Ground material for a new bridge across Perch Creek at H eson's on Smith and Wesson road noted by Mr and Mrs Walter Lambert.
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Perch Creek
H Eson’s
Smith and Wesson Road
Walter Lambert
Fragmentary Local Notes from Fair River and Surroundings
Sunday visitors at J T Ritchie on Boney branch noted amid a cluster of local items. Mentions of Dr Bowman near Pleasant Grove, drinking issues, a Dr Robertson trip to Hall's creek, Mrs Robertson's illness, Fair River Baptist church repaint, graveyard overgrown, death of Wm Foot in 1905, and rheumatism afflicting B Herring.
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Alls Creek
J. T. Ritchie
Boney Branch
Bowman
Iran Beeson
Pleasant Grove
Wild Boys
Robertson
Hall’s Creek
Fair
Rs B. Herring
Butler
Baptist Church
The California Ruins in New Idea Woman's Magazine
An April article in New Idea Woman's Magazine highlights California’s early Spanish missions. It praises the padres as pioneers and educators who achieved rapid, beneficial results with native Indians, marveling at their architectural feats and methods.
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California
New Idea Woman's Magazine
Peck
Cassiena Carron
Do Not Drink Whisky Or Gamble Warns Editorial
A colonial era newspaper piece urges youths to abstain from whisky and gambling, linking vice to crime and moral decline. It calls for reform through responsible conduct, warns against social equality aims, and criticizes corrupting influences amid wartime memory and community values.
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The
Columbian
Mississippi
Algo
Mississippi division plans summer Jackson meeting
A Mississippi division general order from Jackson announces a summer meeting date to honor Confederate women with a monument. Maj. Geo Lowry as division commander notes no treasurer was named, appointing Comrade HS Clay Sharkey as treasurer to collect funds and report at the next state reunion in Jackson.
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Insise
Jackson
Geo. Lowry
Miss
A. Co . Jackson
W. S. Coleman
Aberdeen
Comstade HS Clay Sharkey
City of
Confederacy
Robert Lowry
Notable Deaths in Washington Chamber and New Orleans
Notable deaths reported from Washington include Judge Henry S Foote son of Sacer Foote of Mississippi who died of mernonia. Mildred C Lee daughter of Gen Robert Lee, who died in New Orleans after a stroke at Mrs William Preston Johnston's residence. Miss Lee, visiting Washington for Mardi Gras, was widely beloved with relatives in Virginia and Europe. Telegrams sent to her brothers. body to be taken to Virginia for interment.
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Washington
Henry
Foote
Sacer, Foote
Mississippi
Mermonia
Younrebt
Robert
William Preston Johnston
Second Street
Miss Lee
New Orleans
South
Pope
Custis Lee
Miss Mary Lee
Pee
Europe
Virginia
Sravel
Norma Conrad
New Orleans Times
Dem‘oorat
Railroad reshuffle in Louisiana division at McComb
March 27 report shows major management changes in Illinois Central Railroad Louisiana division effective April 1. O M Dunn becomes superintendent of terminals with New Orleans offices, F S James heads the entire Louisiana division at McComb, M B Gilling appointed roadmaster, and M Day supervises bridges and buildings. Offices and remodeling shift to McComb to unify zoning.
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McComb City
Louisiana
Ilinois Central Railroad
O. M. Dunn
New Orleans
F. Sames
McComb
M. B. Gilling
M. Day
Memphis
Bae
Williams to speak at Ellisville for cotton planters
Hon John Sharp Williams will address the people of Ellisville today in the interest of the cotton planter. D A Sanders and W f f Sudduth of Starkville shipped a carload of choice milk sows and hogs to New Orleans. J Bailey Webb, a young planter, was stabbed and killed at Sumner by Sam Dougherty and son who fled. Webb was 26. Confederate Veterans Camp in Jackson organizes to fix Memorial Park donated at the south end of the old Capitol Grounds. Crystal Springs hosts the eleventh annual Chautauqua Assembly starting July 12 for two weeks.
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John Sharp Williams
Ellisville
Messrs
D. A. Sanders
W. Ff. Sudduth
Starkville
New Orleans
J. Bailey Webb
Sumner
Sam Dougherty
Webb
Crystal Boring Graded High School
H. P. Todd
Confederate Veterans Camp
Jackson
Memorial Park
Old
Capitol Grounds
Delta Lumber Company
E. W. Smith
H. W. Watson
Lexington
L. T. McShane
G. P. Elliott
Greenwood
G. M. McMahan
Brookhaven
John Nochram
Aera Chautauqua Assembly
Crystal Springs
Chautauqua
Necaza
Yazoo City
J. Met. Martin
Port Gibson
Magnolia
Ississippi Cotton Growers’ Association
Oliver Catchings
Warren County
Jos
Walters
Vicksburg
Lass
Laurel
Confederate Veterans
Louisville
Weathers
Board of Saper A
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