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Floods in the South Overrun Mississippi Valleys and Warn of Hard Times
The Silver Messenger portrays the 1897 flood as a cruel foe surpassing war, wrecking homes and farms across the Mississippi delta. It calls for government relief, and presents an impassioned excerpt by Helen Wilman on slave labor and the need for labor reform, contrasting past devastation with present ruin and urging reform and protection.
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