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Frightened livestockmen fought through the swarms to set smudges and dump oil on all exposed water. A few. fearing an epidemic of anthrax might follow, inoculated their stock. At Yazoo City, Miss., someone oiled his mules with axle grease; they were not bitten. The news spread and soon most mules in the adjacent territory were slick and glistening...
Practically everything that happens in Yazoo City-parades, flirtations, business deals-happens on Main Street. It is the only real street in town and if you are looking for someone, you just stand on Main Street and wait. Soon or late he will come along...
...Yazoo citizens knew that during his own 35 years of stormy local journalism, Editor Birdsall had certainly feared nothing. A few years after he bought the Sentinel (1895), he and his in-laws shot it out with the Kelly boys from Benton, Miss., because of an article which he had printed. In that affray he lost a brother-in-law, D. D. Dorsey. T. A. Kelly was also killed. Governor James Kimble Vardaman had to send troops to protect the jail that lodged Editor Birdsall. Now that he was dead, feud-wise Yazoo City talked it over quietly on Main...
...dismissed in West Virginia for shooting into an automobile. Before that there was an outcry from Canadians who complained that U. S. rum guards had fired across the boundary line at Detroit. Near Fresno, Calif., one Frank Aiello was lately shot dead for not stopping. In Yazoo County, Miss., Federal bullets whacked into a back seat occupied by a woman and her two children...
...biggest pair of shoes that ever walked out of Mississippi" belonged, according to Senator Pat Harrison of that State, to John Sharp Williams, onetime (1911-23) U. S. Senator, who now dozes in gardenia-scented retirement on his plantation near Yazoo City, Miss. To fill the Williams shoes, Mississippi sent to Washington Hubert Durett Stephens, a man who was considered brilliant as a youth because he started practicing law at the tender age of 20, but who has yet to distinguish himself either as a shoe-filler or as a Senator...