Better Homes Campaign and Prize Details for 1924
A Better Homes Campaign runs June 4 to 10 to promote thrift home ownership and improved home life. It cites low owner rates, home environment importance, and national growth needs, with Montgomery Ward offering $100 for a Mississippi club girl to attend the Chicago National Live Stock Show next fall based on a 100 point scorecard across management, products, exhibits, cooking, sewing, attendance, and year’s history. Eligible contestants are third and fourth year club girls with state fair exhibits and product records. ties resolved by state fair tests.
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Unitedates
America
Amerca
Montgomery Ward & Co
Chicago
Mississippi
American Legion endowment drive cited as national appeal
James L. Feizer of the American Red Cross praised the Legion for a $200,000 Graves Endowment Fund to honor overseas dead at annual grave decorations. A small donation from wounded veterans at U S Hospital No 60 North Carolina Ward 18 arrived in a tin can, containing $18 in coins, with a poem about planting forget-me-nots on far-off graves.
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The
American Legion
James L. Feizer
American Red Cross
Legion National
Indianapolis
Legions Graves
National
United States Hospital No. 60
N.C
Ward 18
Elberton Granite and Georgia Marble History
Elberton in Georgia is famed for its enduring stone industry, with granite and marble monuments shaping architectural dignity. This brief notes the lasting value of stone memorials and hints at key factors to consider when purchasing memories.
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Georgia
Beauty Permanency and Appropriateness by Coggins Morials
Assurance of beauty, permanency, and appropriateness when buying from Coggins Memorials. COGGINS MARBLE COMPANY, leading manufacturers, Canton Georgia. Special representative featured.
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Coggins
Coggins Marble Company
South
Canton
Georgia
Cardul touted by Mrs Beene McParland for woman’s health
A testimonial from Mrs Beene McParland of Beside North Carolina describes severe weakness relieved by Cardul. She claims a great improvement after one bottle and urges other women to try it, noting thousands of similar letters praising the remedy for female troubles.
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Cardus
Cardul
Is That Somebody You In The County Election Talk
An editorial notes a flood of candidates ahead of August primaries and urges diligence. It contrasts industrious effort with idleness, warns about vague accusations against county officers, and urges voters to choose those who will “fight a good fight” and fulfill duties, ending with the question “Is that somebody you.”
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Thomases
Johnny
Bayer Aspirin Advertising Style From Historical Snapshot
An old ad-like fragment features Bayer Aspirin branding urging recognition of the Bayer trade mark. It mentions tablets in unbroken packages with directions, twelve tablets costing a few cents, and mentions bottles of 24 and 100.
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Bayer
Coe
Frog Horn Eddy and Loose News From Iuka Hints
A column from Iuka notes scarce news with humor about frogs, planting delays, and local life. It mentions dog racing memories, sermons at Joy, new births, town visits, and jokes about a burglary with three beer steaks as the only valuables, amid light gossip and reflections.
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Bug House Hill
Citizen
Bill
Freedom Hilla
Old Bob
Blue Jack
Slim
Iuka
Tam
Frog Horn Eddy
Passage of Wine and Beer Resolution in Congress
New York governor presses for a state memorial to modify the Volstead Act to permit beer and wine sales. Senate approved but assembly failed, sent to judiciary committee. Congressman Rordan, ally of the governor, says the dry committees and House will block it.
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New York
State Senate
Assembly
Judiciary Committee
Riordan
Congress
Judiciary
Rules Committee
House
Senate
Sale of Land For Partition in Tiowahaa and Tishomingo Counties
The commissioners will sell by cash bid on May 25 1923 in Oxford Mississippi front of the south courthouse door for partition among owners per decree of the Chancery Court Tiowahaa County Mississippi. Described tracts include 56 acres in Tishomingo and adjoining parcels in Section 28 Township 8 Range 9 and other land in Sections 40 and 30 Township 2 Range 10. Sale to convey only commissioner’s title. Parties include J C Bains J P Ford Thomas H Johnson R P Strickland Mrs N J Strickland J C Gray and others. Public notice dated May 2 1925.
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Chancery Court
Tiowahaa County
Mississippi
Atlgka
South Court House
Tishomingo County
Tsinois Central Raiload
Jd. P. Ford
R. P. Strickland
Tishomingo
Oid
N. J. Strickland
J. P
Ward
Iuka
Miss
J.P. Tod
H. M. Rhine
Sod Bt
Non Resident Notice in Mollie Puckett suit Mississippi
Non Resident Notice for Mollie Puckett and others against Harvey Hamm and others. Defendants in Trimble Tennessee and Leedy Hamm must plead answer or demur by the second Monday of June 1923 in Iuka Mississippi. Chancery Clerk J P Ford signs. T A Clark attorney for complainants.
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Helmin Worter
Mermobia
Tenn
J. &, White
Counce
Dollie Morrie
Counve
Chancery Court
Tielomingo County
Mississippi
Tuka
E. J Pyron
Belma Foster
Mollie Puckett
Harvey Hamm
J.P. Ford Chancery
T. A. Clark
Tishomingo County
Addie Boyle
Willis Boyle
St Paul Street
Memphis
Tennessee
Iuka
W. B. Ellis
Compt
Sale
Polarized politics and social stereotypes in a candid tirade
The passage critiques party rancor noting the daily U S death toll and mocks bipartisan compromise. It contrasts political hostility with a crude gender stereotype regarding a woman's coping mechanism and hints at overlooked economic implications of sobbing and sentiment.
Dodson’s Liver Tone Ad Claims Safe Liver Cleanse
An 19th or early 20th century style advertorial promises Dodson’s Liver Tone as a safer alternative to calomel, claiming it cleanses the liver without salivation, cures headaches and lax bowels, and guarantees vigor the next morning. The copy stresses the product’s vegetable content and a money back guarantee.
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Dodson
Proverbial Insights On Politics And Age
A collection of paradoxes and observations on political behavior and aging. It contrasts dry and wet politicians, notes a clever person’s ease in life, and cautions against repeating mistakes. It also remarks that wealth is a temporary custodian’s role and that curiosity fades after age fifty.
For Sale Scholarships in Memphis and Birmingham Colleges
Public notice lists two business college scholarships for sale in Memphis and Birmingham. Also appears a pardon petition for Reuben Marler in Tishomingo County Mississippi citing age illness and family needs as grounds, plus a chancery bill against Willis Boyle with dates in 1923.
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Memphis Business College For Sale
Wheeler's
Business College At
Birmingham
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Hotes
County Home Demonstration
Club Girls
Elberton Blue
H. Simmons
H. Johnston
Gard
DR. Harry Homer Govers
Hall
R. R. Hill
Ayer
Ene Taumbigo
Iuka U. S.A
Starr
Missisairri Tishomingo
EJ Pyron
Bell Foster
J.C. Bains
Thomas H. Johnson
Commissioner's
State of Mississippi
Tishomningy County
Robert Lee South
Et Alys
J.C. Gray
Wrigleys
Wishomingo County
United States
DA Dugger
Peteon
To Goy
Lee M. Russell
Panthonity Board
Jackson
Reuben Marler
Circuit Court
Tishejmingo County
Marler
Tishominga County
Lee M Russell
Honorable
Pardoning Board
Berkely JH
Glasgow
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