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Newspaper
Petal Paper
Location
Petal, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1962
Page
3
In Addit Mississippi the sixteen year old Alexander Graham Tell faced court for calling Mrs Ruby Jean Hollofield a wee bonny lassie. Prosecutor A J Elliss urged severe punishment linking heritage to history while Tell remained under guard amid local tensions.
Hon. Dr. Nelson Blankhead state senator from Minnowville Miss speaks to Leopard Club of Pool Water on Scotch-Irish music claiming jigs and reels express a nervous mind and cultural decline. He condemns songs to a high native tone and questions modern tastes.
The Mississippi Legislature approved a bill to furnish Green Mountain College with 128.60 for real blackboards and chalk with the stipulation the items may be used for purposes other than teaching American history. Stanislaus Bodinsky criticized history as the cause of current troubles.
An Irish Wake in Minnowsville is disrupted by a group of Boy Scouts showering the scene with acid and laughter. The wake is postponed indefinitely amid rumors of a luminous paint burn incident, with J. P. McSweeney injured and hospitalized in Minnowsville County Hospital.
A Local 431 member denounces mixing with Scotch-Irish people, arguing biblical sanction for segregation. He cites Genesis and gospel verses, praises some figures like Andrew Carnegie and Robert Burns while claiming the Scotch-Irish remain uncivilized after two centuries. He urges maintaining separation and laments interracial schooling.
The Petal Paper appears to be a damaged OCR fragment mentioning Punlinedublications Co and the Post Office. It references a box and return forms in a garbled line, with scattered proper nouns implying a local newspaper notice or mailing address. The readable elements are limited and uncertain.
A polemic extols interposition nullification and secession as tools to enforce a rigid political stance. It uses inflammatory language to attack opponents and advocates drastic measures, including violence, to achieve a so called total mental intransigency and social order.
A disrupted interview outlines threats from rural elements as Reverend Doctor I Cokeman of the Bvent denounces a “Scotch menace” and urges American unity to preserve civilization against alleged pagan moral decay.
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