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Elsewhere in Mississippi · Port Gibson

One story, eight printings

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Quong Thomas, a farmer near Port Gibson

3–14 November 1903

8 article appearances in 8 newspapers
found in this collection · source-image review

Where the account of Quong Thomas was printed, 3 to 14 November 1903Quong Thomas farmed near Port Gibson. The same account was printed in 8 newspapers elsewhere in Mississippi: Hattiesburg on Nov 3, Lexington on Nov 12, Oxford on Nov 12, Tupelo on Nov 13, Canton on Nov 13, Macon on Nov 14, Brookhaven on Nov 14, Scranton on Nov 14. No newspaper printed in Port Gibson is among them.Port Gibsonhis farmHattiesburgNov 3LexingtonNov 12OxfordNov 12TupeloNov 13CantonNov 13MaconNov 14BrookhavenNov 14ScrantonNov 14
8 newspapers, Oxford in the north to Pascagoula on the coast. One newspaper printed it on 3 November. Nothing for 8 days. Then 7 more between the 12th and the 14th. Dates are when each paper printed it, not a path of copying; which newspaper took it from which is not recorded. No surviving Port Gibson paper printed it.

“Quong Thomas” is the name the newspapers printed; no source here records how he wrote it himself.

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Comparison reference · Nov 3

Hattiesburg Daily Progress

Thomas has been quite sucessful, and within the past few years has accumulated a snug account in the savings bank.
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Selected appearance · Nov 12

Oxford Eagle

Thomas has been quite successful, and within the past few years has accumulated a snug amount in the savings bank.
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What the words show

The versions differ between “account” and “amount,” but the portrait of financial success remains. Repeating the savings claim supplies no independent confirmation of the farmer’s wealth.

Interpretation of these two passages · source review

Shared wording does not prove who copied whom. Repeated reporting does not independently confirm what happened.

How this story family was reviewed

From 16 fragments to 8 appearances

Each pair of candidate OCR windows belongs to one bounded item on one page. All eight page images and full items were inspected in this source review. No raw-window counts appear in the timeline.

The eight printings repeat an account of a farmer called Quong Thomas. The newspaper’s claim that he was Mississippi’s only Chinese farmer has not been independently established.

Editorial preparation, visible evidence

The review located item boundaries, read damaged OCR against source crops, and compared each item with the family. Exact raw OCR, image-derived transcriptions, uncertain readings, and deterministic passage alignments are saved separately.

This selected exhibit is not a representative survey. Human expert and community review remain incomplete; existing research gates remain unpassed.

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