Newlands Platform Urges White Suffrage and Immigration Rules
In Baltimore on June 8, Senator Newlands drafts a platform for the Baltimore convention. It includes a call to amend the constitution to reserve suffrage to white citizens and to bar immigration of non whites except for education travel or commerce. It also proposes large federal spending on rivers roads ships.
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Balttimore
United States
Newlands
Nevada
Baltimore
Washington
Mack
Newland
Close Beat Four Justice Contest Sparks Election Dispute
A disputed tally in Beat Four pits Boutwell and Fatheree against contesters amid misdated election notices and late returns from Oden. County supervisors had shifted dates from May to June and resulted in a double ballot decision, with Rogers and Fatheree candidates impacted and one Rogers vote discarded.
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Boutwell
Fatheree
Gady
Rogers
Rural freighting and political chatter in a wartime notice
The piece blends misbegotten political opinion with local commerce notes. It mentions Mississippi delegates and a shift toward Roosevelt, urges repealing war amendments, and cites Yazoo City cash markets and drug advertisements for kidney pills. It reads as a fragmented newspaper column from a late 19th or early 20th century issue.
Planting Oats with Cowpeas for Soil Fertility and Profit
An agricultural note promotes rotating oats with cowpeas and other legume mixes to boost soil nitrogen, improve cattle feed, and increase farm profitability. It cites cowpeas adding 8 dollars worth of nitrogen per acre, and highlights sorghum, soybeans, and pea blends as productive hay sources.
Free Adler-ika Book Offers Guidance on Appendix Risk
Read about preventing appendicitis and relieving constipation or gas. Wallace Drug Co offers the Adler-ika book free this week, promoted as a health aid and remedy guide.
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Wallace Drug Co
Zemo claims quick cure for skin ailments advertised
An advertisement touts Zemo as a liquid skin treatment that sinks in and allegedly cures eczema rash dandruff itch liver spots and other skin diseases. The B W Rosado Medicine Co of St Louis markets it through druggists with a trial bottle guaranteed and Mississippi Drug Co promotes it locally.
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B. W. Rosé? Medicine Co
St. Louis
Zemo
The
Mississippi Drug Co
Move to establish Pelagra home in Lauderdale county Mississippi
Faced with a rising pelagra crisis and hospital refusals, Lauderdale county plans a permanent pelagra home on a high plateau near Meridian. Citizens statewide may be asked to fund the facility and provide care for victims as doctors seek a cure with possible aid from the Rockefeller Institute.
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Mississippi
Mattie. Hersee
Meridians
Vicksburg
Natchez
Lauderdale County
Meridian
Pallagra
Hockefeller ‘Institute
Haggardy’s Specific Tablets Promoted As Indigestion Cure
A testimonial from Dr S H Green of Chattahoochee Georgia praises Haggardy’s Specific Tablets as a cure for indigestion and related ailments. The ad offers a 50 cent box with a refund if no benefit and mentions Mississippi Drug Co of Laurel.
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Chattahoochee
Haggard Specific Co
Atlanta
H. Green
M. D
Mississippi
Laurel
Late cotton planting raises boll weevil damage risk
The article notes late cotton planting increases boll weevil damage risk as the weevil multiplies from winter survivors. It also mentions new public works in Laurel including a $100,000 union passenger station a $30,000 school building and paving of streets with no public uproar. A local merchant’s wife is quoted about a cough remedy, praising Honey and Tar Compound and Folys Honey and Yar Compound as cures for a child's severe measles cough.
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Laurel
C. B. Palmer
Little Rock
Fotey
County capitalists form million-dollar crop mill firm
Gouahoma county capitalists organize a million-dollar corporation to supply facilities for growing crops beyond cotton. The project includes a flour mill, grain elevators, alfalfa plants, and a mammoth rice mill in anticipation of Mexican boll weevil invasion reaching the delta region this year.
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Gouahoma
Dolar
Daily log hints at Union Fish and Oyster office note
A fragment indicates Union Fish and Oyster in Mobile Alabama with contact box 341 and a manager named J Lores. The text reads as a brief business note or advertisement snippet lacking context.
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Union Fish and Oyster ‘Up
Mobile, Alabama
J Lores
Judge Brewton Recommends Foley Kidney Pills
Judge 8. B. Brewton of tineavitti Georgia writes that he used Foley Kidney Pills and urges others to know about them. He claims great benefit and recommends them to any party suffering from kidney trouble. Sold by all druggists.
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B. Brewton
Tineavitti
All Druggiste
Chamberlains Cough Remedy Gains Trust and Sales
An old advertisement touts Chamberlains Cough Remedy with rising sales and voluntary testimonials from relieved customers. It urges readers to try the product for coughs and colds and notes availability from all dealers.
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Chamberlain
O Chamberlain
Mrs J EK Henry Relates Foley Kidney Pills Benefit
Akron Michigan woman describes how Foley Kidney Pills helped her kidneys and stomach after illness. She states the remedy aided her health and she believes doctors would have charged more for treatment, noting the pills were sold by all druggists.
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J EK
Henry
Akron
Mich
Tex
Borrowed Time Club Brings Seniors Together in Los Angeles
Philander W. Barclay founded the Borrowed Time club in Oak Park near Chicago and brought the idea to Los Angeles where men over seventy gather for conversation and shared memories. The club preserves members’ voices on phonograph records and hosts storytelling evenings, inspiring similar efforts in other cities to immortalize great lives.
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Augeley
Oak Park
Chicago
Philander W. Barlay
Joan Los Angeles
Barclay
Pierce Apartments
Mr . Barclay
Chicago Historical Society
Divining Woman Describes Sensing Coal Veins and Minerals
Vienna report recounts Frau Tuckoerg describing how she detects minerals. She cites arm twitching and shooting pains signaling a silver vein near Jan Kubelik estate, and a cloth-like head sensation when petroleum is found in Hanover. A coal smoke sensation supposedly travels from hand to hand.
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Vienna
Frau Tuckoerg
Jan Kubelik
Bohemia
Pfabi
Boon University
Hanover
Cards Hastens A Wedding In Spokane Card Game
W C Jackson, a Spokane Amateur Athletic Club former member, and Miss Dorothy Coley MacKenzie of Windsor Annex wed in a rush after a card game involving Robert Rosa led them to obtain a marriage license. The participants planned no spring wedding yet followed through at a justice of the peace.
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Robert Rosa
Ross
Ted
James
Twain
Tell How to Stay Wedded by Anna Held
New York star Anna Held, rumored married or in conflict, offered marital advice stressing marriage for love, male dominance, and reconciliation rules. She claimed happiness comes from congeniality, companionship, and avoiding long separations, while blaming jealousy for most marital troubles.
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New York
Anna Held
Dke
Clever girl hosts original entertaining party
A recent party described as original and entertaining featured a diverse crowd in humorous costumes. Guests included a stamp collector with a face patched in stamps and a quilter sewing party gowns into garments, while others wore novelty outfits and interacted with props and a camera crew.
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Anjl
Gamner
Bonmie Place
Joseph
Fourfold bag pattern with ribbon drawstring details
Instructions describe making a fourfold fabric bag from Breiich ribbon with satin edges. Cut ribbon into four strips, fold and overcast edges, form casings, thread drawstrings, and join bags with bows to keep them from sliding.
Memorial Erected for Sovereign Oo Bravia McGeaney
In McFarland cemetery near Heidel Berg a monument is unveiled in memory of Sovereign Oo Bravia McGeaney. Woodmen are invited to attend the ceremony on the eighteenth Sunday of June at 1:00 p m. The cemetery lies four miles south of Heidelberg. White Oak Camp England’s sailors seek to organize a union.
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McGeaney
McFarland Cemetery
Heath
Heidelberg
White Oak
Munsell alimony case ends in temporary arrest
Promoter salesman Munsell of Pittsburgh was arrested under Pennsylvania non support law after failing to remit alimony. He wired the owed amount from Pittsburgh and was released by local authorities.
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Munsell
Jackson
Jasper
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Mississippi Supreme Court Unable to Take Planned July Vacation
Mississippi Justices abandon plans for a July vacation as legislators cut two commissioners. The court, working overtime, faces a heavy backlog and doubts they can finish by mid month. In Jackson a unknown man’s body found in Pearl River is identified as an unknown negro, with coroner’s jury unable to determine foul play due to advanced decomposition. Also notes Chamberlains Cough Remedy popularity and Roosevelt and Taft political and social scenes.
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Jackson
Supreme Court of Mississippi
Pearl River
Sam Nelson
Nelson
Foley Kidney Pills Restore Back Pain and Kidney Function
A Knoxville man credits Foley Kidney Pills with ending his back pain and restoring normal kidney action after a few days. He calls himself a well and sound man today and endorses the product, saying it works for sale by all druggists.
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Chappel St
Hogs, Ark
Voley
Kid
Afl
Knoxville
Haines
Gale
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N. A. Jones
Dave Ae
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Zena
Keenbera
Bing
Dorothy” Bag
England
Jack Tars
Ike
Taft
Saul
Israel
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