Laurel Argus Publication and Subscription Details
The Laurel Argus lists publication details and pricing for its daily and weekly editions. It notes a special $9.00 yearly rate for daily subscribers living on rural routes, with payment in advance, and mentions a 50 cent yearly city charge for weekly subscribers, along with office and editor information.
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Daily Argus
Carrive Ve Sou
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Drea Mohs
Matware
Laurel
Approaching Events Across Spring Activities and Meetings
A scrambled list of events dates upcoming in April May including a Sunday School convention in Dacison, teachers examinations in Elbsville Laurel and Macon Georgia, a dam age congress in New Orleans, a suffrage gathering Flora in April, a county surveyorReferendum, and a national club gathering Wississappa. The note mentions a spring mood and the baseball trust remains active with a proverb about hot heads and cold feet.
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Anim
Lvammation
Pharmacisis
Ddison
Slate
Dacison
Elbsville
Rue Math Carrier
Woamans
Flora aApeil
Lacler
Bleefion
Gounty Surveyor
Deamage Congress
New Orleans
Teachers Examumnatation
Laurel
Wississappa
Fournamer
Imevls
Eurel
Crutraerale
Macon
Justice Courts Schedule Regular Sessions Across Jones County
County Attorney Keeman arranged with local justices of the peace to fix definite court days for litigants. The list spans multiple towns with set dates such as Ovell and Midsville, detailing judges and meeting days for each location to aid attorneys and the public in court planning.
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Keeman
Justices of the Peace
Jones County
Justice Courts
Tornado Strikes Newton Store Owner Little Tornado Spreads Damage
March 23 Newton reports a destructive tornado tearing through the town. J B Russell and his wife narrowly escaped the store collapse with minor injuries. Russell estimates property loss over a thousand dollars as a smokestack, roof, and windows are damaged. Doors blown away and residents sheltered. four Black men escape unharmed.
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Ran J. B. Yrussell
Trussell
Joss
Circuit court tries horse stealing case and convicts two
In Laurel, Flowers and Keeney faced trial over horse theft with Flowers pleading drunken forgetfulness. Keeney pleaded guilty, and both cases reached sentencing while Williams awaits potential continuance. Harrison, a long-time real estate agent, received three years at hard labor for misusing $100 to influence others in Gulfport. A Vietnam question mockingly referenced Captain Hobson in a re election line.
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Sears
WL Harrison
Jos
Williams
Bond issuance proposed for Jones County High School expansion
Notice from the Jones County Mississippi board of supervisors. at Laurel courthouse on the first Monday of April 1912 the board proposes issuing ten thousand dollars in bonds of 1000 each to fund an additional building for the Agricultural High School. Adult taxpayers are urged to show cause why the bonds should not be issued under law. Clerk W. W. Walters, deputy, signs the notice dated March 8, 1942.
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Board of Supervisors
Jones County
Mississippi
Court House
Laurel
Said County
Agricultural High School
Hat Gleaner and Renovator Frenche Returns to City
Frenche, the up to date hat gleaner and renovator, announces hat restoration services in the city. He will fix old hats and restore them to look as good as new with a new process for Panama hats and no injurious chemicals. Ladies hats cleaned and blocked.
Sale of Peters Todd machinery by Carter Lumber Company
W M Carter Lumber Co. will sell at the Laurel Jones county courthouse on April 9, 1912, the Perkins shingle mill, drag saw outfit, circular saw, port Huron engine and boiler, and related equipment securing unpaid balance on a purchase money lien dating from October 28, 1911. The machinery sits six miles south of Sosa near Aaron Todd’s residence. purchaser to take possession.
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Peter Todd
W. M. Carter Lumber Company
Laurel
Jones County
India
Sosa
Aaron Todd
Mississip
Port Huron
W.M. Garter Lumber
Senator Bond’s Legal Shield Scrutiny in Local Incident
A stained account critiques Senator Bond, noting his legal background and alleged failure to foresee misconduct. The piece accuses a Laurel resident of manipulating an outsider into a crime, while the senator escapes direct culpability despite apparent security.
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Jone
Unclear garbled text fragment with mixed names and notes
Fragmentary OCR style piece references Taher Burbank Patrick’s Pay St Patrick’s hall Yorks dig lanes and New Jersey music comedy coal mines and a Mississippi Underwood campaign with jumbled names and phrases. no cohesive event or clear facts emerge.
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Wien
Apple Pickle and Breakfast Muffin Recipe Fragments
A pair of historical kitchen notes describes a fruit and vegetable pickle with apples tomatoes celery onions peppers and mustard seed and a breakfast muffin recipe using flour sugar baking powder lard and milk to yield eight muffins.
Eggnog Preparation Note from 19th Century Cookbook
A brief recipe instruction describes beating egg whites to stiff froth, folding in the yolk lightly, bringing milk to a boil, pouring over the eggs, then adding sugar and flavoring.
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Marian Holfield
Storm
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Did Flowers
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Live Stoch
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Flowers
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Japan
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W. WY. Walters
Oak St
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Beaty Building
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Harris
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E. C. Lucas
Veterinary Sargeon
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E. ©. Armstrong, M. D
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Fifth Stream
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Risher Drug Co
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Sandersville
Scruggs Drug Store
Laurel, Miss
Robert E. Lee
Keys
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LEE Brothers Architects
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Samarium
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Tullahoma Club
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Valuabank
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Chicago Veterinary College
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