Farmers Institute offers crop rotation plan for soil fertility
The Farmers Institute held Friday and Saturday with Profs Welborn and Perkins of the A Welborn a and M College. It promoted crop rotation to build land, cover crops in winter, and specific mixes to boost yields, noting green residue and compost starters as key. Prof Welborn highlighted annual sequences cotton then corn and peas with oats or oats and hairy vetch, plus green crops to prevent leaching. He urged early fall sowing of oats, using winter oats as seed, and presented a compost formula involving cotton seed manure and acid phosphate for soil improvement. The event, though sparsely attended, was praised as highly valuable for Lincoln county.
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Farmers’ Institute
Nd Perkins
A. Welborn A and M. College
Prof
Welborn
Twenty Years Proof Liver Pills Cure Headache and Dyspepsia
Advertisement notes Tut’s Liver Pills keep the bowels in natural motion and remove impurities. Claims an absolute cure for sick headache sour stomach constipation and related diseases. Testimonial from R. P. Smith of Chilesburg Virginia says they are indispensable and that he has liver disease.
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Tut
R. P. Smith
Chilesburg
Mississippi News Highlights Crowd the Era's Headlines
Mississippis sweep of items chronicles deaths such as George Hays a Black brakeman killed at Bentonia and Mrs Henrietta Kearney of Canton. It notes Jesse Montgomery acquitted of arson in Magnolia court and various local events from church revivals to school meetings and railway service updates.
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Yaxco
Jackson
George Hays
Bentonia
Henrietta Kearney
Canton
Jesse Montgomery
Magnolia Court
Albert Holmes
Wm. Smith
Minnie McDowell
E. A. McDowell
Magnolia
J. K. Pace
Baptist Church
Hazlehurst
Orwood
Lafayette County
Florence
Edith Fox
McComb
W. A. Hodges
Callie Stanfill
Auburn
George B. Reuben
Summit
John A. Stevens
McLaurin Returns Elated After Washington Mission
The Times-Democrat reports Governor McLaurin returns from Washington elated by success in securing patents for about 45,000 acres donated to the Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges. He also aided mustering out First and Second Mississippi units with 30 days extra pay. Site visits included Chickamauga and Gulf View Hotel fire coverage. The New Orleans Picayune notes politics shaping war business settlements and future quarrels.
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McLaurin
Washington
Times-Democrat
Jackson
Gov. McLaurin
Chickamauga
National Capital
Secretary of the Interior
Congress
Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges
Senate
Mississippi
Lauderdale Springs
Meridian
Twenty Stories About Mark Twain and Related Snaps
Public notes discuss The Ladies' Home Journal plan to publish about twenty anecdotal stories and snapshot pictures of Mark Twain from his close friends, none previously printed, highlighted alongside ads and a medical tonic claim. The article also reports Secretary Hester of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange announcing cotton crop data for year ending September 1, 1898, with Texas contributing over a quarter of the record yield.
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Mark Twain
Ladies’ Home Journal
Mark
Hester
New Orleans Cotton Exchange
Texas
Kansas
Utah
N. O. Picayune
Chamberlain's Ointment and Cady's Condition Powders Ad
For tetter salt rheum and eczema Chamberlains Eye and Skin Ointment relieves itching and smarting quickly with continued use healing scalp sore nipples itching piles and cracked hands. Dr Cady's Condition Powders for horses are a tonic blood purifier and vermifuge priced at 25 cents.
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Southern Railway
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Hattiesburg
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Miss Scott
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