Meridian Exhibit Opens Wednesday With Fine Herds
Meridian Mississippi hosts a two day Southern Cattlemen's convention with a large cattle exhibit at the Mississippi Alabama fair grounds. The display features registered cattle including Aberdeen Angus Shorthorn Hereford from Mississippi Missouri Wisconsin Indiana and West Texas along with Point Comfort XIV the prize bull from Davis farm Hinds county. Delegates expected exceed 750 with full entertainment planned. Noted: many signers of the Declaration of Independence were married men.
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Meridian
Miss
Southern Cattlemen's Convention
Mississippi-Alabama Fair Grounds
South
United
Davis
Hinds County
Tuscola
Chicago
Missouri
Wisconsin
Indiana
West Texas
Sleeping sickness and a mosquito remedy tale
A narrator warns of sleeping sickness from the tsetse fly in Africa and describes a native plant used as protection. The tale ends with a transition to an American mosquito remedy called Sweet Dreams, marketed widely by drugstores.
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Africa
Hotels must serve meals ruling by Mobile excise commission
The Mobile excise commission suspended the Hotel St Andrew saloon license for ten days from August 15 to 22 1914 after finding no dining room facility and meals served only by outside restaurants. The ruling defines a bona fide hotel as thirty rooms or more with in-house meals and lodging for guests. The decision targets compliance with the 1911 commission interpretation of the Smith regulation.
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Order of the Excise Commission of Mobile
St. Andrew
The
Excise Commission
Hotel St. Andrew Company
Mrs. Osgood's Wonder hair removal claims
A sensational ad touts Mrs. Osgood's Wonder as a guaranteed painless solution to remove facial and arm hair. It alleges the product destroys roots and offers a money back guarantee, sold by Van Antwerp Drug Co and other outlets with caution not to treat unwanted hair.
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van Antwerp Drug Co
Mrs. Osgood
C. J. Moffett
Jellicoen Medical College
Philadelphia
C. 1. Moffett Medicine CO
St. Louis
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic Promises Strength
Old Standard tonic claims to drive out malaria and build up the system. Marketed as a true tonic and sure appetizer for adults and children, priced at 50 cents.
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Grove
Postal Money Orders to Austria Suspended
The postoffice department suspended postal money order service with Austria on Monday, according to Associated Press dispatch from Washington.
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Associated Press
Washington
Austria
Postoffice Department
Mrs Richard Olp Praises Chamberlains Tablets for Health
A Spencerport New York resident lauds Chamberlains Tablets for curing headaches and nervousness and restoring health. The brief note appears among reader sentiments and advertisements.
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Chamberlain
Richard Olp
Spencerport
N. Y
Five Hundred Poor to Attend Salvation Army Outing
More than five hundred children of the poor and their mothers will join the Salvation Army for an all day outing at Monroe Park on Wednesday. Special cars depart at 9 a.m. from Bienville Square Prichard and Crichton, with charitable citizens loaning autos for infirm county poor from the county poor farm. Each beneficiary receives a lunch box, and at 2 p.m. a watermelon cutting follows by ice lemonade and cake. Park amusements and games will occupy the afternoon, with return to the city around 6 p.m.
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Salvation Army
Monroe Park
Arthur P. Ganong Dies Aboard Southern Train
Arthur P. Ganong aged 42 a prominent cotton figure in the South died of heart failure on a Southern Railway train near Grand Junction Tennessee while returning from New York where he sought to settle ties with cotton firms after leaving Ganong & Reid Memphis.
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Memphis
Tenn
Arthur P. Ganong
South
Southern Railway
Grand Junction
Ganong
Ganong & Reid
New York
Rainbow Missing Off Coast Sparks Naval Unease
Ottawa reports naval authorities uneasy as the cruiser Rainbow has not been heard since leaving San Francisco last Friday. The wireless equipped ship had maintained contact with Canadian wireless stations in British Columbia before her disappearance.
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Ottawa
Ont
Rainbow
San Francisco
British Columbia
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J. B. Webster
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Mobile Transfer
North Royal Street
Prompt and
Bell
R. S. Schwarz
Britton
F. L. Tapia
Dauphin ST
Tate Springs
South Royal Street
H. E. Jones, JR
Excise Board
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Pat Byrnes
N. Royal Street
Best Companies Insurance
Dumont & Croom
St. Michael
St. Bell
Salvationists
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Brenau
College Conservatof
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Water St
Mobile
Alabama
Bank OF Mobile National Banking Association
Streb’s Bakery
J. H. Wienand
Prop. Mobile Trunk
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