Laurel Hails New Lumber Industry Growth in Laurel Mississippi
A Magnolia Gazette article predicts a new industry for Laurel will start early next month, employing about a thousand men and boosting the city’s industrial payroll by at least twenty percent. It claims the Wausau Southern Lumber Company project will elevate Laurel to one of the world’s largest lumber producing centers with permanent mills and thirty to forty years of timber supply.
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Magnolia Gazette
Hich
Mississippi
Omni
Wausau Southern Lumber Company
Laurel
Tumsber
Raleigh Surrenders Charter in Historic Village Change
Gazette reports Raleigh a historic town in Smith County Mississippi seeks to become a village by act of proclamation. The article notes ordinary state practice of forming villages from towns and recalls weak municipal governance under aldermen.
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Raleigh
Magnolia
Smith
Jones County
Mississippi
Niger
Prohibition Poise and Political Shifts Across Mississippi
A composite update notes pro forma political maneuvering in Mississippi with Taft Roosevelt splits and calls for a unity candidate after Chicago. It cites the Democratic HQ opening in Baltimore, press reach of The Daily Argus in Jones county, and Cuba’s Gomez promising rapid rebellion end if U.S. stays neutral. It also touts newspaper advertising efficiency for store news reaching thousands of Jones county homes.
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Daily Argus
Jones County
Weekly
Argus
Camp Notes and Campers Return After Final Day
A camp story recounts a rain laden farewell as about fifteen boys volunteered for a five mile tramp to Covington county led by Henry Tate and others. They swam and fished at Red Dock Ferry, with trout catches and lunches of two dozen sandwiches. The group plans to break camp at dawn and return home tomorrow.
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Knight
Jane
Neil
Hmn
Covington County
Henry Tate
Linassey ‘Waldrup
Ray Waldiug
Charlie, Clark
Lew Wallace
William Wilson
Ralph: Feather
Garland Skages
Red
Thurston
Har
Old
Beard
Floyd Hamrick
Rogers
Waldrup
Clarke
Gomez Ends Riots Pledge Within Ten Days
Associated Press reports President Gomez promised to suppress the rebellion in Guba within ten days. The State Department backs his effort and would consider intervention only after giving him full opportunity. The Atlantic fleet division at Hampton Roads prepared to sail if needed to Cuba. Marines would guard foreign property as needed.
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Gomez
Cuba
United States
Associated Press
Washington
Guba
Admir
Osterhaus
Havana
State Department
Hampton, Roads
Eugene
Dogs Barred From Chicago Hotels For Convention
Chicago delegates wives feared leaving household pets behind. Hotel managers, flooded with requests to accommodate dogs during the convention, decide dogs must find other quarters. Sherk Schacifar of the Auditorium hotel advises guests to leave hounds at home.
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Chicago
Sherk; Schacifar
Feduests
Biank Showdown Buries Doubt In Aulanta June
Aulanta article fragment notes a June 13 event, with limited readable details. The item references Biank and a decisive moment shaping local discussion. Further context is unavailable in the surviving text.
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Aulanta
Biank
Weather forecast notes Gulf tides near Texas coast
New Orleans June 13 The storm's appearances in the gulf last week raised tides along the coast west of Mobile and moved northwest into Texas. The local weather bureau today issued a forecast with warnings for Galveston indicating possible coastal hazards and marine alerts.
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Gulf
Movila
Texas
Tadayyis
Galveston
Geokin
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