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Picayune

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Picayune

Town in Pearl River County, southern Mississippi, USA, 6 km/4 mi east of the Pearl River and the Louisiana border, 56 km/35 mi northwest of Gulfport; population (1990) 10,600. It is a trading hub for local lumber, livestock, and dairy producers. Tung oil (used in paints and varnishes) is prominent among its manufactures, which also include heavy goods vehicle parts and textiles. NASA's John C Stennis Space Centre, a 13,500-ac/5,460-ha installation for space, oceanographic, and environmental research, lies 21 km/13 mi to the south.

Picayune was settled in 1885, and named after a New Orleans newspaper.



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"And after them will come the big mining sharks that buy whole creeks where you-all have been scratching like a lot of picayune hens, and they-all will go to hydraulicking in summer and steam-thawing in winter--"
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So he felt a moment; and then he smoked a cigar, and read the Picayune, and forgot his little gospel.
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