Roosevelt Urges National Employers Liability and Anti-Corruption Measures
The president condemns corporate arrogance and calls for a national employers liability act applicable across interstate commerce. He argues state action alone is insufficient and urges comprehensive reform, injunction scrutiny, and government oversight to curb dishonest practices by powerful corporations.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Ucommerce Sh Union
Rieh
Supreme Court
Man After Woman's Place Advert Shows Job Competition
A narrator notes women entering former male dominated trades and reports a morning advertisement where a young man seeks a general housework job with cook and bread duties, hinting at financial pressure pushing men to apply for housework roles.
Sicilian Vespers Massacre After French Oppression
On Easter Monday 1282 in Sicily a popular uprising in Palermo followed a brutal insult to a Sicilian bride. French forces faced a violent revolt as inhabitants slain were reported at about seven thousand victims.
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Sicily
Charles of Anjou
Palermo
Freakish Houses in Odd Architecture Across Lands
A survey of eccentric dwellings includes a paper house in Savinovka Podolia costs 8000 rubles and built in New York with furniture of the same material. Westmeath features chairs' backs as window facades, Connecticut shows cottages mimicking a church, a Washington resident lives in a tree with a brick base, and a French inventor created a revolving house on casters for adjustable light and air.
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Savinovka
Podolia
New York
County Westmeath
Ireland
Connecticut
Washington
Mississippi leaders urge diversified crops and cooperative units
President Hightower of the Farmers Union outlines a year of work for Mississippi to diversify crops, build gin presses, and create Union warehouses. Walter Clarke on cotton price causes calls for stronger organization. John W. Haddon proposes corn clubs to engage youth and older farmers, with statewide展示 at Jackson.
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Geo FR. Hightower
State Farmers’ Union
State Senate
Mississippi
Hightower
Farmers’ Educational and Cooperative Union of America
Misalsaippi
Oxford
Jackson
Walter Clarke
The
Cotton Association
Southern Cotton Association
South
Clarke
Farmers’ Union
Home Training in Manners and Local Union Institutes
The Ridgeland Local Union held a three day institute on home training and manners. Education and extension efforts by A M college and federal and state departments support these programs across Mississippi. The piece urges broader local participation and notes political bills and “coca club” progress impacting Jones county and Mississippi youth.
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Ridgeland
A. & M. College
Department of Agriculture and Commerce
Department of Public Education
United States Department of Agriculture
Ridgeland Local
Mississippi Legislature Passes Pixidie Anti-Bucketshop Bill
The Mississippi House approved the Pixidie anti bucketshop measure by a near unanimous vote amid debate focused on author Ile Ven I Maddie and supporters L. domes of Union. A concurrent constitutional amendment by H. M. Quin would fund common schools from a poll tax and state funds with four months term, while bills on professional teacher exams and labor relations progressed. Senate opened, approving a lien for wages to sawmill workers and considering a personal property sale bill, with passage on some measures and defeat on others as votes completed.
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House
Ile Ven I Maddie
L. Domes
Union
T. R. Foster
Warren
H. M. Quin
Kaltirmiiem
Iandner
Senate
Preyer
Anderson
Supreme Court
Sample
Boards of Supervisors
Eighteenth Day Debates Over Logan and American Slumber Bills
Senate activity focused on two major proposals including the Logan bill to regulate Teek after February 1 and an Am ereon slumber bill. Debates centered on how to limit legal scope to protect chastity, public officials, and against unfounded charges. Lower house advanced several private but acceptable bills without opposition.
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Senate
Logan
Lee
Fale
Slam Derows
Howe
Legislature Debates Juvenile Poolrooms and Deadly Crime
The House and Senate considered bills addressing youth access to poolrooms and a capital offense for criminal assault. Debates covered exemptions for debts and proposed stock law changes. A House bill to aid Itawamba teachers and a stock-law proposal failed 19 to 16 after extensive discussion.
Sober Senate Debates Slap Dowm On Tax and Education Measures
A Senate session featured a debate on a slander bill with an 18 to 23 vote, a motion to reconsider a perquisites bill failed 42 to 2, and a tie defeat on letting women run for county superintendent of education. The House also set a specific sale notice date for delinquent lands, aligning tax dates to April and codifying related provisions.
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Senate
W. J
Holmes
Batdhe
Senate considers school distribution amid budget debate
The Mississippi Senate debated the common school appropriation bill, with $2,500,000 proposed for two years 1905 and 1906. An amendment by Senator Adams sought $1,500,000 instead of $1,250,000, triggering a contentious session. House discussions focused on raising remuneration for county board supervisors, passing 72 to 42 amid rural opposition. Insurance interests watched as a bill to require life and casualty insurers to invest reserves in local securities was introduced, modeled after Texas.
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House
Mclntosh
Senate
Quin
Omer
Hebron
Hunnicutt
Jones, Lee
Prentica
West
Jones Counity Medical Society
Harper
Bitho
Itawamba
Bailew
Bush
Sha Whitman
Sample
Adame
Finance Committee
S. J. BR
Vance
Congress
Vewell
Bond
Lawrence County
Mure
Momse
Wiesissippi
Legislature approves several bills despite heated amendment vote
After a long debate the amendment fixing the age at 12 was defeated 70 to 32 and the main bill passed 79 to 26. The banking committee reported favorably on a bill requiring banks to report cash balances quarterly to the auditor. Several Senate and House bills passed, including local measures and a request for a $500,000 federal appropriation for a soldiers home. The committee rejected House Bill 160 creating George County.
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Nelms
Committee On Banks and Banking
Auditor of Public Accounts
House
Washington County
Prentiss County
S. H. Jones
Panola County
Jasper County
Simpson
George
Mississippi Forest Study Advises Enacting a Fire Law
Dr. A F Crider of the Mississippi geological survey, cooperating with the U S forest service on long leaf pine lands, submits a preliminary report urging a forest and fire law for enforceability to protect forests after timber removal. A proposal aims to create a new county by annexing parts of six counties to form a 492 square mile Delta unit.
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A. F. Crider
Mississippi Geological Survey
United States Forest Service
Maynet
Ib Ie
Sandlower County
Latlorn
Washington Counts
Sharkey
Yasco
Congressman's rice experiment in Japan delta discussed
Congressmen Huupther advocated planting 100 acres in Japan rice as a demonstration crop in the delta. An upland rice trial last year failed, but experts say Japan rice can succeed in the Yazoo delta. A cattle pest commission bill gains support from Mississippi Live Stock Growers' Association members met at Jackson during the state fair. The proposed $500 two year appropriation would be supplemented by federal aid from the agriculture department.
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Recenithe
Ompany
Banta Fe Hallroad
Jude
Huupther
Japan
Humphreys
Rieshich
Louisiata
Department of Agriculture
Yahco Delta
Jackson
Mississippi Live Stock Growers’ Association
United States Department of Agriculture
Miscreants Disrupt Banquet At A. and M. College
During a Starkville banquet by the junior class miscreants forced entry into the dancing hall at supper time. They destroyed decorations including two flags valued over a hundred dollars and escaped with several hats and overcoats after spoiling the floor for the evening dance.
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Starkville
A. and M. College
Prohibitionists Urge Lawmakers to Stand Against Liquor Compromise
Lincoln county prohibitionists forward petitions to legislators opposing liquor men plan to not cancel saloons licenses until January. They urge representatives to resist the compromise and demand saloons close next summer.
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Lincoln County
Former bank official charged with forgery in Hattiesbury
Joe Williams once vice-president of a negro bank in Hattiesbury is again jailed on forgery charges after previously facing a murder case tied to Cashier Pat Howell who awaited a third trial.
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Joe Williams
Hattiesbury
Trier
Pat Howell
Joint Sunday School Institute for Two Mississippi Conferences
The Mississippi conference and North Mississippi conference M F Church South plan a joint institute for Sunday school superintendents. It will meet in Durant from Tuesday afternoon May 12 to Thursday noon May 14.
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Mississippi Conference
North Mississippi
M. F Church
South
Durant
Lynching of two 15 year old boys near Commerce
A mob of Black men hanged two boys aged 15 and 17 for the alleged murder of their father to obtain a small inheritance. The brutal act occurred as locals reported vigilante justice in a racially charged case.
Pascanzoula Seeks Silver Service for New Battleship Mississippi
Citizens of Pascanzoula demand the battleship Mississippi dock at their port and receive the silver service funded by state wide popular subscription for the navy’s latest acquisition.
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Pascanzoula
Mississippi
Conviction in Canton Attack Joins Mississippi Prison
The Negro Jim Jamison, convicted for assault with intent to murder Ernest Ray after a November Canton attack, is sentenced to ten years. Adjutant General Fridge reports the State Guard at 1,213 with 3,000 needed for 1908 and 1900 budgets. Fred Gessler of Vicksburg reports a prowler, discovering a thief used his wife’s wrapper as a disguise.
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Jim Jamison
Ernest Ray
Canton
Adjt
Fridge
State Guard
Fred. Gessler
Vicksborg
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