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Local notes mix social updates and mishaps in town
A crowded column records a Park Association meeting at the depot, visits by Mrs. L Underwood from Torre, Rev Gambrell assisting in a Mississippi revival, local business plugs, a sheriff sale of delinquent lands, and notices of church services, fires, and community happenings including school discussion, medical remedies, and tributes to a longtime servant Mammy Young.
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The
Park Association
Wilock
Sherman & Davis
Powell's
M. W. Powell
Wesleyan Society
Methodist Church
Galloway
John M Grath & Sons
Annie Easterling
Boyne Chitto
Tobe Cox
Board of Supervisors
New Orleans
Orleans
Common Street
St. Charles Hotel
Chrisman
Bishop
Charles
Maggie
Ethel
Jackson
Willie
Hallie
Piker
Bennett
Baton Reenge
T. J. Gill
Johnston Station
A. Henegs
Key
A. A. Lomax
Baptist Church
Gates
Hartman
Lanquet
Railroad Avenue
Canal Street
Wanamaker & Brows
Philadelphia
America
Josie Pfeifer
Stella Dreyfus
Eva Kohlman
Times-Democrat
M. E. Church
Addie Marshall
Marrah
A. F. Watkins
W. PT. Walker
McCall’s Creek
Franklin County
Mammy Young
Row. Millsaps
Colored People's Cemetery
Colored Baptist Church
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