Word: mounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Booze's celebration lasted all week too, backed by the Mound Bayou Foundation and white American Legion posts of neighboring towns...
...birthday. Sprinter Owens gave Mississippi's champion high-school sprinter, Berkeil Naylor of Cleveland, Miss, (white), a five-yard handicap, beat him easily. Mr. Booze's No. 2 attraction was an Aviator, Colonel John C. Robinson, "the Brown Condor of Ethiopia,"* who landed at the Mound Bayou Airport with Mrs. Annie M. Turnbo Malone, president of Chicago's Negro Poro College...
...illustrated 60-page anniversary program put out by Mayor Green graphically summed up Mound Bayou's history...
...Deal Days. "Mound Bayou counts among its business, professional and industrial enterprises, two gins, three blacksmith shops, one garage, one tailor, two restaurants, five service stations, two contractors, two doctors, one dentist, one lawyer, one grist mill, one saw mill, two undertakers.† twelve groceries, and meat markets, one drugstore, one 5? & 10? store, one billiard parlor, one barber shop, one gun & locksmith and one newspaper. . . . Our municipal government is stable. Its wisdom is attested by the fact that many needed improvements have been foregone to prevent its citizens from being burdened with debts. The outstanding obligations of the municipality...
...Fifty Mound Bayouans enlisted during the War. All returned home, several severely wounded...