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Newspaper
Laurel Daily Argus
Location
Laurel, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1912
Page
4
The Nelson hotel hosts numerous guests including Claude Reddoch from Chicago and James Wood from New Orleans. Others listed include Bessellieu from Biloxi, Phillips from Meridan, C F Kottaman from Vicksburg, D Dansby from Gulfport, W F Gallwitz from Vicksburg, and C F Boland from Mobile. Guests register from Meridian and Mobile while several locals appear as visitors.
Classified notices offer cleaning services with prompt returns and solicited ladies. Includes a solicitation for business partners and job seekers. various ads for livestock, employment, rental, and lost and found items with multiple names and locations noted.
A stream of guests is listed with origins from St Louis Niagara Falls Meridian Birmingham Jackson and more staying at the Nelson and the Southern in Laurel Mississippi. Notices include creditors in Jones County with Eliza Brinson’s estate and administrator F D Holifield. The item also records guests from Kansas City Chattanoo ga Muskegon and Mobile visiting locally on business or leisure.
Private advices from New Orleans indicate most of the original nine cent cotton balls were unloaded with lightening on Friday Saturday and Monday. Liverpool opened with spots down 20 points and futures down 20 and closed 25 lower. New Orleans May contracts traded as low as 10 cents amid expectations of crop prospects and heavy mill takings.
Members of the Ladies Industrial of the First Presbyterian church will meet at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at Mrs D W Hopper's Sixth Ave home. Everyone is urged to attend. Rev G G Vandevender and R B Todd of Ellisville were in the city yesterday and stopped at the Argus office.
Hungarian violinist Helmund Singer died in Stuttgart where he had lived for years. In his Europe memoirs he recalls arriving to find two veteran violinists at the first desk and facing resistance before Baron von Gall arranged a place for him. The anecdote highlights early career struggles.
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