Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 44
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, October 23, 1907
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Roosevelt in Mississippi.
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       Vicksburg, Miss., Oct. 21.--All Vicksburg and vicinity lent itself to the reception of President Roosevelt, who reached the city early this afternoon in the best of health and spirits as the result of his two weeks' outing in the Louisiana canebrakes.  There was a general closing of all business houses, crowds filled the principal streets and residences and stores were decorated in honor of the occasion.
       The President was met at the station by a reception committe (sic) of one hundred citizens headed by Mayor B. W. Griffith.  The programme arranged for the afternoon provided fro a public address in the courthouse square, a drive about the city and a visit to the Vicksburg National Military Park.  At the conclusion of his brief stay here the President will depart for Nashville and from that city will return at once to Washington.

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