Showing posts with label newspaper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label newspaper. Show all posts
Friday, May 1, 2015

Flashback Forty-One

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Time: July, 1941 Place: Liberty, Mississippi Status: What's Yours is Mine aka the Borrowing Neighbor Dear Mrs. Stratton: I saw in ...
Friday, December 5, 2014

Flashback Fifty-Nine

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Last week I used the microfilm reader to locate an obituary from the April 1959 Clarion-Ledger . Not only did I find the death notice, I als...
Friday, April 4, 2014

What would you do for a drink right now?

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It's Friday and, as the old adage goes, "It's 5 o'clock somewhere!" I'm not knocking back libations at the library...
Friday, March 7, 2014

Charlie and Minnie

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I was recently doing some research in the Simpson County News from March 18, 1909 and found this little blurb out of Maben, MS. ...
Thursday, December 5, 2013

We're All Mad Here

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We have several books compiled of articles from old Mississippi newspapers. The entries range from the mundane to the bizarre. For example, ...
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Monday, July 22, 2013

She Done What She Could

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Webster's Blue Black Speller I've been searching for the first school shooting in Mississippi for the past day or so. I favor a...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

That's My Job

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I've been searching for obituaries for the past several days. Although I didn't find a single one that I needed, I did stumble upon ...
Thursday, July 26, 2012

The Projected Extinction of Mosquitoes

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I was diligently scanning microfilm yesterday when I ran across this little blurb:   Extinction of Mosquito Seen by '73. By SCIENCE...
Thursday, April 26, 2012

He's Harmless!

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Sometimes the oddest of stories hides in an array of daily "top" news stories.  This one was found while searching through the Jac...
Thursday, April 12, 2012

Man vs. Banana Peel

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We often come across interesting, even amusing, pieces of information here at the Mississippi Library Commission while searching for patron...
Monday, September 19, 2011

All the News That's Fit to Print, Newton County Style

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Last week I was helping a patron look for genealogical material in one of our reference books, Newton County, Mississippi: Newspaper Items 1...
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Friday, September 16, 2011

Google News Archives & Dear Abby.

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It's a beautiful, sunny Friday afternoon here in Jackson, and while the reference desk phone keeps ringing and people keep asking intere...
Monday, February 7, 2011

Terrific!

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Last week I was looking for an item in the January 1950 Clarion-Ledger for a patron. While I didn't find it, I did discover that when I ...
Thursday, May 27, 2010

Old-Timey Superstitions

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While researching a recent genealogy question, one of our reference staff came across some interesting tidbits in an old Mississippi newspap...
Friday, November 21, 2008

Take a Seat.

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Did you know that MLC is the only Patent and Trademark Depository Library in Mississippi? If you have a great idea for a new product or need...
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