Mississippi River Threatens Memph at Lake City News
Editor Jon Reed is returned as head of the House. Missouri allows women in offices not barred by law. The Hazlehurst Courier notes typhoid in Miller brothers and twins. floods near Memphis and Cairo loom two weeks. Salaries and aging cabinet members discussed. By-Secretary Carlisle may join Pullman. Jackson passes livestock ban. city aims for progress, a new state capitol, and improved prestige.
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Prohibition and Peruna Ads in a Prohibition Era Column
The column reviews March through May as mood-linked health myths and praises Peruna for mood and sleep, claiming daily testimonials and inviting readers to request a free book from Peruna Drug Mfg Co Columbus. It then condemns blind tiger liquor traffic, urges stricter laws, and critiques federal enforcement and advertising loopholes. The piece calls for elected Congress changes and suggests making liquor sales within Mississippi penitentiaries illegal and banning certain newspaper ads.
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Perova
Dr. Hartman
Peruna Drug Manufacturing Company
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Prohibition
Sam
Congress
Bam
McLaurin
Vickaburg
Jackson social notes mix theatre, politics and tales
Special Correspondent from Jackson Mississippi reports on Lent season in the capital, local theatre openings including Augustus Thomas Alabama and Krause Wild Oats, and remarks on music. It notes arrests and court cases involving Wallace McLaurin, a Mississippi Supreme Court decision on life insurance, Levee Board tax issues, and a chase of a prisoner with hunting dogs. Gov McLaurin visits Smith County as speculation grows about an extra session.
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Jackson
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Onera
Augustus Thomas
Alabama
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Miss Yaw
Rankin
Octo Krause
Jennie Holman
Krause
J. C. Taylor
Taylor
Wallace McLaurin
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M. L. Reddock
Yazoo County
Reddock
Circuit Court
Supreme Court
Supreme Lodge
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Rosalie Stein
Greenwood
Mississippi Levee Board
Board of Control
Delta
Leon
Ki, E. Frantz
Public Roads Question Calls for Better Overseer Tools
Jackson correspondent urges enforcement and legislative fixes to improve public highways across North Carolina. He notes some counties contract road work as a better method than inadequate overseer labor and cites a strict code provision requiring overseers to report road conditions, work days, and expenditures with penalties for false or disapproved reports.
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N. C. Picayune
Rankin
Boards of Supervisors
Board of Supervisors
Local Notes On Town Affairs And Minor Incidents
Wellman notes several residents ill including Mrs Carlisle Mrs Booker and Mrs W J McGraw Mrs John Mason visited Brookhaven to see family Rev Mr Backus gave a sermon at the M E church Mr Summers spoke of his mare recovery and a swap story Will Thornhill escaped from the convict stable authorities hoped for capture Keystone Company continues fertilizer deliveries three carloads to aid eastern farmers Mr Parnell voiced concern over a missing animal Mr Scott owns a fine half Holstein half Jersey heifer calf and is active in crop raising A young boy injured by an explosion is recovering under Dr Ed Cowart Nelson Lloyd now a town citizen married to Marion Stewart's daughter and recently arrived from Washin...
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Carlisle
Booker
W. J. McGraw
John Mason
Brookhaven
Backus
M. EB
Summers
Will Thornhill
Keystone Company
Parnell
Scntt
Scott
Ed. Cowart
Farmer Jon A Merehturty Letter Offers Practical Budget Help
A fragmentary historical letter advises reducing expenditures to survive shortages. It urges dropping bacon and meats, quitting tobacco, and relying on milk, potatoes, garden vegetables, and homegrown corn and sorghum. The writer uses a sharp tone to scold a man named Smith and promote thrift, farming supplies, and debt avoidance.
Brookhaven Truck Growers Association Meets for Bean and Okra Plan
The Brookhaven Truck Growers Association met after adjournment. Secretary Treasurer F. F. Becker stated members want about three hundred bushels of beans and four acres of rettation. Four acres of White Velvet okra are planned. Becker noted potential canning work and contracts with Eastmine Renee and others.
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Becker
W. T. East
Renee
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