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Dateline 1914 — When Yuba played the tuba down in Cuba
One Nelson Delauney of Terrebone Parish, La., made the front page of the Biloxi Weekly Herald with the news that he had decided to open “a new grocery store in the Gay Building. He chose Biloxi because it looked to him to be a live town.” And why not? In an adjacent column was an advertisement, which in itself, offered plenty of life and complete justification for his choice: “Current top music furnished by The Biloxi Herald Band for parades, dances and requests.” At age 30, The Herald had already lived through the national Panics of 1893 and 1905 — and clung steadfastly to a popular motto of the day: “Toot your own horn or the same shall not be tooteth.”
Sun Herald Memory Bank archives are researched and compiled by retired staff writer Jimmie Bell, whose reporting career at The Daily Herald and The Sun Herald spanned 30 years. Jimmie Bell is editor of Bell’s Letters poetry magazine, published in Gulfport. E-mail, jimbelpoet@aol.com.
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