19 Feb 1920
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Newspaper
Iuka Vidette
Location
Iuka, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1920
Page
1
County Field Day set for March at Tishomingo with two sections. Literary contest includes oratory elocution and music, to be held the night before races. Races and basketball for boys and girls will be played, with district preliminaries and one entrant per district in literary events.
A Hastings advertisement offers over one million seed packets of flowers free with request. The 1920 Hastings seed catalogue features 100 pages of garden and farm information, illustrated, and mailed free with name and address on request. No obligation to buy.
A compact reflection on a home town newspaper as the outward voice of community life. It emphasizes how the local paper tracks marriages births deaths and town events, while contrasting with distant papers that miss local happenings and personal notices.
A wartime era broadside laments alcohol’s ban while warning of deportations and heightened immigration scrutiny. It cites John Barleycorn as a foe, laments civil unrest, and describes Ellis Island fingerprinting and a Justice Department identification bureau to track agitators and deter illegal arrivals.
A historic plea declares eleven years of cotton profits misspent and praises the American Cotton Association for uniting growers, merchants, and bankers. The paper vows to support cotton growers first, aiming to end economic constraints and speculative profits that harmed the sector, and to advance regional prosperity.
Poem by Edwin Harper Brown questions whether small acts decide fate. A busy man ignores starving bread while an angel’s name is erased from fame. A woman dismisses pride for wealth, yet love weeps as she is branded Sold. The piece argues that tiny acts determine whether we lift the fallen or fall to doom. The refrain: 'Tis a little thing, yet its reach spans heaven and hell.
Read This announcement from Farmers Warehouse by T. M. McDonald offering flour bought before the rise at less than wholesale, sweet potatoes at 10 cents, and other shelf goods priced below wholesale. Coffee and lard highlighted as specialties with present low prices.
A satirical column notes Congress kills many bills and imagines a Tarheel named Hammer seeking a seat. It contrasts the cost of living fight with wartime memory and mocks anti Mexican plots alleged by Senator Pall. Chairman Haya seeks a brief Republican platform focused on party virtues.
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