Local Mississippi News Mix Includes Deaths and Prohibition Fees
Mississippians report a sudden death near Guntown at age 70 as families mourn. The Cumberland Telephone Company cites June quarter revenues of 250,000 with higher costs, while county officials note fines and bonds for prohibition offenders. Warren County hosts female-driven anti-cattle ravage efforts, and notable moves include land options for settlers, a Confederate veteran’s funeral, and a large Masonic gathering. Governor Noel plans a Hattiesburg visit amid fair duties. Oxford mourns Mrs. W. Porter after two weeks’ illness. rural mail carriers meet in Vicksburg. Mississippi College builds a new fence hall at Clinton.
Death in Western Forest Fires Near Wallace City
Forest fires sweeping across western Montana drive fugitives from settlements and wipe out property worth millions. In one case 180 men flee as fire surrounds a camp. 18 survive by water while others escape on horses. A relief train prepares to reach the stranded forestry crew. About 40,000 refugees reach Missoula. relief efforts coordinated locally with support from nearby communities.
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Minsonta
Mont
Felwntiosaly
Montana
Fale
Avantares
Wallace
Idaho
St. Coe
Forestry Service
Cam
Tard Creek
Bromeneare Missoula
Cotton Crop Shows Good Prospects Across Regions
Cotton reports from several states indicate good conditions in the Southeast and Texas with some late development and favorable weather. In Oklahoma delays ease as frost remains desirable, while Texas sees limited rainfall and scattered deterioration. Boll weevils have damaged cotton in Louisiana and Southern Mississippi, but are not a major factor elsewhere.
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Tease
Georgia
Oklahoma
Texas
Panhanile
Louisiana
Mississippi
Oil Producers Plan Fight in Pennsylvania Refineries
In Butler Pennsylvania a broad coalition of about 5,000 oil producers from Washington Allegheny Butler Clarion Verange Armstrong Warren Forest and McKean counties formed the High Grade Oil Refinery Company with a $19 million capitalization to buy refining and pipelines or build new facilities. The movement promotes the slogan Producers refine your own oil. The plan follows a proposed clash with Standard Oil as producers seek greater processing control.
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Butler
Washington
Allegheny
Clarion
Verange
Armstrong
Warren
Forest
McKeen
Arrest J C Grafters Indians Fleeced Harriman Prosecutions Loom
Three railroad executives Frank J Harriman Charles T Ewley and John M Taylor were arrested on charges of conspiracy to cheat and defraud the Budeis Central Railroad Company. The case links Ira E Rawn and a broader bribery and land scandal drawing Taft interest as a congressional committee releases figures on Indian attorney fees spanning twenty years.
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Charles T. Ewley
Ohie
John M. Taylor
Rand
Marahan
Converner
Harriman
Ewing
Taylor
Farse Namber
Teaser
Mag- Citede
Ira E. Rawn
The
Mad
Ie Monon
Sone Rean
Murray Nelson, Jr
Minols Central
Rawn
Meat Prices Rise As Labor Tightens Food Futures
Farm labor shortages push meat prices higher as producers seek remedies. Excluded workers and urban demand constraints are cited as key factors. Cityward reports future producers consider automation and efficiency drives to stabilize supply.
Causes of High Meat Prices and Proposed Remedies
A historical list outlines factors behind elevated meat costs including tariff effects, slaughter timing, and farm education. It calls for remedies such as removing tariffs on live stock, ending state inspections, curbing corporate stock holdings, and temporarily banning slaughter to ease pressures.
McMurray Paid Big Money for Indian Legal Work
J F McMurray testified before a congressional committee on Indian land cases that he held multiple contracts with tribes for legal services. He said two Chickasaw contracts and two Choctaw contracts were worth 5 000 dollars annually each, plus a 15 500 dollar special services fee, a 2 700 dollar yearly expense allowance, and 7800 dollars in general expenses. This came alongside a 750 000 dollar contingent fee for citizenship cases and a hoped 10 percent contingent fee on a 30 million dollar sale of asphalt and coal lands.
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Okla
J. F. McMurray
Congressional Committee
Mr. McMurray
Mayor Gaynor Sits Up After Shooting Injury
New York mayor William J. Gaynor, propped in bed with pillows, spoke with his year old daughter Ruth about news from St James Long Island. Surgeons say he is out of danger after the last blood test, secretary Robert Admeonson reported. a calm day followed the attack by James J Gallacher on August 9. Boston reports mills to curtail output. 50,000 New England workers await the cutback while Southern mills expect 3,000,000 spindles idle for a week in September.
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New York
William J. Gaynor
Ruth
St. James
Long Island
James J. Gallacher
Robert Admeonson
Boston
Mass
New England
Perilous feat as Moissant crosses Channel with passenger
Deel England reports John Moissant of Chicago flew Calais to Tilmanstone across the English Channel with a passenger. The Spaniard unaware of geology relied on a compass as a stormy westerly wind challenged the crossing. Moissant had learned to fly only a month earlier and had few prior flights.
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John BL Motssant
Chicago
English Channel
Calais
Tilmanstone
Enierot
de Lesseps
Ralls
Bournemouth
France
England
Moissant
Channel
Iroquois settler speech hints at last address in park
In Cisna Park Ul Speaker Joseph G Cannon told old settlers of Iroquois county he may be addressing them for the last time. His remarks opened a Midwest congressional campaign with little old-time trailblazer talk and a strong Lincoln Grant line on policy as cause of progress. In Seattle forests, 4 000 000 feet of first class green timber burned this season, with about 20 000 acres buried west of the Cascades. Thousands of cords of firewood and shingle bolts burned. many fallen trees could have become logs.
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Cisna Park
Joseph G. Cannon
Iroquois County
Minois
Lincoln
Grant
Garfield
Seattle
Wash
Washington
Cascade Mountains
Simmons
Texas reform bill aims to end convict leasing program
A Texas reform bill proposes abolishing convict leasing and releasing about 2,000 new convicts to work on farms owned by the state. The plan would lease roughly 30,660 acres of land in addition to 56,0? acres already state property, with around 2 million dollars spent on land and equipment. no convict lease contracts would be renewed.
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Galvesina
Texas
Pew Contvct
Gallagher Cleared In Lunch Bar Case In Cleveland
In Cleveland a jury found Patrick H. Gallagher not guilty of breaking the Schaefer anti free lunch law. Police had found a lunch counter in the rear of his barroom in operation with patrons required to deposit a penny for each lunch item.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Patrick H. Gallagher
Gallagher
Causes and remedies from United Master Butchers convention
Delegates from the United Master Butchers of America, linked to an international meat workers group, blame high prices on farmers. Secretary John H. Schoffiel says farmers misstep by slaughtering too soon and urges land accumulation by corporations to raise livestock. He laments farm labor scarcity as city jobs lure workers.
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Chicago
United Master Ituteliers of America
International Organization of Master Patel
Crocere
John H. Schoffiel
National Organization
United States
Jtm Crip
Con
Conference to Plan Southern Commercial Congress Meeting
Ex President Roosevelt praised Southern Commercial Congress work and G Growtenor Daw managing director asked all sixteen Southern governors to appoint ten prominent businessmen from each state for an Atlanta conference next October. About 200 captains of industry will attend to develop plans for the March 1911 meeting to be addressed by Roosevelt, aiming to be the greatest business gathering yet.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Southern Commercial Congress
G. Growtenor Daw
Atlanta
Gia
Congress
Measleo City Peace Memorial Gift Planned For Mexico
At Americana meeting in Measleo City Americans voted to fund a peace memorial to Mexico for the Mexican centennial celebration next month. The proposed expenditure is 50 dollars in gold under chairmanship of former American ambassador to Mexico David B. Thompson.
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Measleo City
Mexhca
Mexico
David B. Thompson
Folk candidacy endorsed by district Democratic committee
In Kirksville Missouri the district Democratic committee unanimously endorsed Joseph W Folk for the 1912 presidency at its meeting.
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Kirksville
Joseph W. Folk
Democratic Committee
Firat
Massachusetts rifle team wins NRA regimental title again
Camp Perry Ohio report: the sixth Massachusetts rifle team wins the NRA regimental championship for the fourth time with a score of 871. The event notes previous victories in 1906 1907 and 1905. In a separate incident near Russell Fork bridge Bucklin Missouri two men boarded a Santa Fe passenger train, robbed the passengers, and vanished into the woods.
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Camp Perry
Ohio
Massachusetts
National Rifle Association
Bucklin, Mo
Santa Fe
Russel Fork Bridge
Here
Nature of Divine Forgiveness by Rev Chas A Riley Detroit
A sermon explores sin penalties external and internal with focus on God’s forgiveness as restoring the broken relation. It argues true forgiveness removes the heart’s alienation, not just penal consequences, likening it to a father’s open heart and the prodigal’s return.
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Rev
Chas A. Riley
Detroit, Mich
Holfone
God
Ain
The Christian Ideal and Its Practical Power
The piece discusses the Christian deal of character as the loftiest goal, tracing the inward transformation through trust in Christ. It asserts that those with the Spirit of Christ purify themselves, and that growth is a life-long development reflecting Christ in all conduct, with power beyond human effort.
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Christ
Steeplejack Miller Dead in Los Angeles Fall
Los Angeles mourns Steeplejack Miller known as the human climber who scaled buildings in major cities. He fell from the seventh floor of the Hamburger building after a shadow caused a misstep, striking a ledge at the third floor and dying hours later with every bone broken.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Steeplejack Miller
United States
New York
Chicago
Pittsburg
New Orleans
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Flathead Practice Among Chinook Indians
Seattle report notes that Chinook Indians of the Pacific coast traditionally flatten their heads, a practice known as platheads, achieved by mechanical compression of the skull to alter shape as part of tribal custom.
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Seattle, Wash
Pacific Coast Region
Head Flattening Practice Among Native Tribes Described
The text recounts infancy applied flattening to shape the head, lasting months before effects fade. It lists tribes once noted for head fattening including Chickasaws Choctaws Caribs Toltecs and ancient Peruvians, denies Selish Indians practiced it, and briefly describes the Chinook people along the Strait of Fuca as diminutive with ill formed limbs and darker complexion.
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Strait of Fuca
North West
Cedar fence becomes pencil supply in Tennessee
Nashville reports that old cedar rail fences from middle Tennessee are the world’s main cedar pencil supply. Statistics show these fences are the sole source for high grade smooth whittling cedar pencils famed by schoolchildren. Farmers selling fences fetch sums their ancestors would have considered fabulous.
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Nashville
Tenn
Middle Tennessee
Abraham Lincoln
Optimism Emphasized by Mayor Jordan at Jacksonville Banquet
Mayor William F. Jordan spoke at a Democratic banquet in Jacksonville urging optimism and hopefulness. He urged people to sew a bright side to everything and shared a parable about a missionary placing a hand on a slum dweller's shoulder to convey encouragement.
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William 8. Jordan
Jacksonville
Those Cocked Hats and a Cocked Hat Week
A playful exchange notes a misfortune with salaries and domestic antics as a chantecler claim draws attention in a Town Topics item.
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Dily
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