1937 MISSISSIPPI State magazine article, history, present progress etc

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Selling is a 1937 magazine article about:
Mississippi
Title: Machines Come To Mississippi
Author: J. R. Hildebrand
Quoting the first page “Machines are coming to agricultural Mississippi.
After a morning tour of industrial Jackson I had to scrape from my shoe soles layers of cottonseed oil, pungent creosote, and clayey bentonite, all caked hard with dried mud from a petroleum well being dug by special appropriation of the State Legislature.
Twice daily the red and silver streamline Rebel train flashes through the State-past ox teams plodding along sunken roads, new myriad-windowed garment factories, negroes driving ramshackle buckboards-and glides beneath airplanes that are heading into the capital's spacious, four-way airport.
The train hostess was holding a platform reception as we alighted at Jackson, greeting many passengers by name, thanking one woman for flowers she had sent her the week before, while another called, "I'm going to bring you a jar of my peach preserves when I go back next week."
Over in Natchez girls in lavender hoop-skirt gowns trimmed with rare old lace sidled into Fords and Chevrolets to drive annual pilgrimage-week visitors to ante-bellum homes straight from the pages of So Red the Rose.
Up in the Delta a sprightly gentleman of 82 years called his chauffeur to take THE GEOGRAPHIC'S photographer and me in his Packard to a log cabin still standing on the plantation of 6,000 acres of cotton, corn, pecans, and hay. He and his uncle built the cabin only 65 years ago, after they   had cleared the land and floated the timbers in from the surrounding forest and the chimney brick from the river dock ten miles distant.
This epic from covered wagon to limousine in one man's lifetime is a clue to why Mississippians call their State "the last frontier."
Busy, modern Jackson illustrates the transformation. The city is no upstart; it has been the State Capital since 1822. Stately homes with Wistaria growing over columned porticoes and with crape myrtle on the lawns line wide avenues.
Barber shops still are spacious forums of political argument where a southern colonel may doff his broad-brimmed hat in courtly salutation without toppling over a coat rack. Rooms in hotels, office buildings, and homes knew not the builder who estimates costs in cubic feet.
From sidewalks beneath rusty tin roofs you look across the street toward shop fronts with onyxlike tiles, burnished metal, and neon lights.
One tall office building with cubistic floors and chromium elevator doors rises knife-edged to carve an otherwise gracious skyline just opposite a colonial-type home now painted green and occupied by the Salvation Army.
Taking swift elevators to the 18th floor, the visitor may see how the city is laid out in mammoth squares which usually have only six or eight dwellings to a block-houses set far apart in the parklike expanse of gardens, trees, and lawns…"
7” x 10”, 56 pages, 34 B&W and 26 color photos plus map
These are pages carefully removed from an actual 1937 magazine.
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