State Dispensary Probes Raise Graft Fears in South Carolina
The Leader notes a Columbia investigation into the State Dispensary reveals graft and corruption risks. Witnesses describe bribes, pump prices, and open liquor access during board meetings. Questions of feasibility and integrity loom, with calls that the system invites influence and political entanglement.
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South Carolina
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Sumter
Kentucky
E. Smith
Columbia
N QO
Times-Democrat
Black Letter Day for Hamburg Fevers Mount
Saturday a bad day for Hamburg Miss Sept 23 yellow fever announced Sept 13 since then eleven fever cases four discharged last night four deaths Bishop Earl Allen L H Byrd Mrs W L Allen and W J Strahan among the deceased two new cases bring total to thirteen four discharged and five under treatment all doing fairly well Regular Baptist suspended publication moved to Levin paper to be issued as stock paper Simpson county supervisors order entire new voter registration to straighten books
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Hamburg
Miss
Earl Allen
L. H. Byrd
W. L. Allen
W. J. Strahan
The
Regular Baptist
Laurel
G. W. Boyd
Levin
Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City Road
CAPT BARKER DEATH BRINGS MOURNING FAR AND WIDE
Seattle dispatch reports Captain Walter Barker, United States Army quartermaster, died in Tokyo after a railroad wreck in August. His body will return to the U.S. via Nagasaki. funeral in Nagasaki featured a Stars and Stripes casket and addresses by Rev. Warne and others. Barker previously served as U S consul at Matanzas and aided Cuban relief. burial planned at Macon with East Mississippi turnout including Noxubee Rifles, Confederate Veterans, and United Daughters of the Confederacy.
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Seattle
Walter B. Barker
Mississippi
United States Army
Nagasaki
Tokio
Japan
United States
Baptist
Barker
Kinshu
E. N. Warne
H. Stout
Y. Chiba
Capt. Barker
Warne
Matanzas
Cuba
Spain
Nagasaki Medical College
Macon
Noxubee Rifles
Walter Barker
United Daughters of
Che Confederacy
Knights, Templar
Ribbon cane grows as cash crop in Laurel Mississippi
Living At Home from Laurel Mississippi notes ribbon cane as a profitable crop alongside cotton and corn. Yields of syrup reach about 400 gallons per acre, with Jones County syrup winning several prizes last year. Small cane mills proliferate, boosting local and foreign molasses production and reducing reliance on Louisiana shipments.
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Laurel
Miss
Jones County
Louisiana
Inter-State Convention Call For Southern Meeting At Chattanooga
Governor Vardaman joins the call for a quarantine and immigration convention to be held in Chattanooga on November 9 and 10 1905. Twelve Southern states governors sign the call urging uniform quarantine and better immigration safeguards amid yellow fever fears and racial concerns. Delegates from governments health boards railroads and newspapers are named to participate and cooperate in the conference.
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Vardaman
Chattanooga
United States
Tenn
Congress
Commissioners of Agriculture
South
A Negro's Brave Act at Waynesboro Railroad
In Waynesboro on September 21 an unknown Black man heroically warned two trains on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, averting a likely collision after a miscommunication left the passenger No. 4 on a collision course with a freight at Boyce. The unnamed rescuer acted on the moment, guiding the freight to safety as trains neared on a curve, while local families observed the dramatic near-miss.
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Waynesboro
Mobile and Ohio
Boyce
Shabata
Mississippi Colleges Delay Opening to October Seventeenth
Ole Miss style: colleges across Mississippi including Industrial Institute at Columbus Agricultural and Mechanical College at Starkville University of Mississippi at Oxford and other colleges will not open on September 17 due to fever precautions. A separate Chicago case involves a $100,000 verdict against the city in a railroad damage suit linked to a fire. Dr Wentworthons address Crystal Springs urged Christian action regarding liquor business.
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Colourus
Industrial Institute Sod College
Columbis
Agricultural & Mechanical
Colepe Starkeville
Universit Missisvalle Oxford
Attaca
Colle
Chicago
Obieiga
Pauohandle Railroad
Echipany Dovjing Ume A
Cheaire
Ordtdek Nero
Monay
Beatzeie
Ofuny
A. G. Hackstaff
Notice to Ella Jackson in divorce suit in Lincoln County
Citation Notice from the State of Mississippi to Ella Jackson of upland address. She is commanded to appear before the Chancery Court of Lincoln County on the first Monday in October 1905 to defend a divorce suit filed by James Jackson. Clerk McNair and Attorney E B Hannis, solicitor.
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Mississtrrt
Carl Carl
Dea
Chancery Court
Lincota Ta
Shares. Cart
Tee W. Mow Atl
J.N. Yawn
Mississippi
Jordan
Carrie ‘Jones
E. B. Han
Florence Blue
McNalil
E. B. Harpers
Mississipri
Ella Jackson
Lincoln
James Jackson
Otis
McNair
E.B. Hannis
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Pearl Bertie
New Fork Tes
Bro
Bil Dougie
Inter-State Convention
Brookhaven
Sadie
Brookhaven, Mississippi
Bell System
Stern, Lauer, Shohl & CO
Cincinnati
May, Oberschmidt Co
Brookhaven, Miss
Yom Company
Walter Wenthornton
Crystal Springs
Ioran
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Egaiamppo
Salsh
Glock
Gierk
Lincolns
McNaila
Tom McNair
da. T. Y. Nelson
Sunerox
Somookhaven Drax Co
Tale
J. T. Walker
Pursrotas Axp Sunegon
Larsen Building
Alcience
Fice
Henry Flowers
John Purser
Pursteran Asp Surcron
HPP
J. N. Yawn
Bogue Chitto
R. D. Lanier
Attorney At Law
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M. McCulloven
Cassedy Building
F. E. Everett
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MUNA
W. An
AL McNair & McNair
Attorneys At Law
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P. Z. Jones
Gro. C. Hoskins
N. R. R. Avenue
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Hannah
Arrorners
Law
Real Estate & Investment Ag
Jackson
St. Marco
Folby
FOTO
Fosby
T. A. Fosby
Seagoy
Lincoln County
W. T. Lowrey
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LL. D
Clinton
Hinds Co
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Carcsian
BOVLG
W.H. Penn
Sma Oaas
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