near Port Gibson · 3 November 1903
Farmer account in Hattiesburg Daily Progress
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Hattiesburg Daily Progress (Hattiesburg, Mississippi), 1903-11-03, edition 1, image 1. Library of Congress, Chronicling America; Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
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Claiborne county has the honor of claiming the only Chinese farmer in Mississippi. His name is Quong Thomas, and the almon-eyed celestial runs a farm of 100 acres near Port Gibson where he cultivates a fine variety of cotton, all of which is shipped to the orient. Thomas has been quite sucessful, and within the past few years has accumulated a snug account in the savings bank.
One of eight inspected printings of the same account about a farmer near Port Gibson.
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Line breaks and end-of-line hyphenation joined; capitalization and apparent printed spelling retained. The conjunction after Thomas is read as “and” despite damaged type. “almon-eyed” and “sucessful” are apparent spellings; do not interpret their missing letters as editorial changes.
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