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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1908
Page
2
Sedate models target elderly men with new lines of Schloss suits. The ad promises best value, fit, style, and quality, highlighting Easter shopping at Jackson's Best Equipped and Largest Clothing Department. Prices range from 9.00 to 30.00 per suit.
A mixed report from Brandon Miss details Surgeon General Rixey’s submission to Congress for three naval medical reforms including a women’s nurse corps, hospital corps reorganization, and dental surgeons. Local items note school closing exercises, teacher Miss Ollie Watson praised, community updates, preaching, and school pay beginnings with growing prospects.
Daisy McLaurin Stevens, president, invites members to the Mississippi Division U D C convention at Yazoo City with emphasis on dues payment and credential submission for full representation. Jefferson Davis Chapter 216 and Yazoo City to provide hospitality. March 30, 1908, Brandon, Mississippi.
Two young ladies are sought immediately to join the nursing training program at Brandon Sanitarium. Applicants should report to the Brandon facility and enter the nurse training track without delay.
Conway notes show farmers are getting along nicely with their work. H. C. Jones of Lucknow visited here last Sunday. Will Payne spent Saturday and Sunday in Jackson. Mrs. G. L. Cox visited Mrs. Smallwood at Pearson last Sunday.
A formal complaint to the bureau of insular affairs questions customs classification of sea turtles. It argues turtles are reptiles and should be duty free, contending the animal category imposes prohibitive duties. The piece notes Catholic views on turtle flesh and cites a Cuban precedent classifying frogs’ legs as dressed poultry.
The largest cannon ball ever made weighed 2600 pounds and was produced at Krupp works in Essen for the czar’s government. The shell was fired from a Cronstadt fortification gun with a twelve mile range and an estimated shot cost of 1500 dollars.
George Gordon, a well known Hamiltonian stallion, is advertised for service at the owner’s place. Service reportedly given at many times, with a partial note “Pd. apr. 20” and initial “D. M. Ro” indicating payment or contact details.
Dear Brother Farmers, organizer Meyers urges Union men to break the mortgage and credit grip by making homes self sustaining. He warns banks and merchants will face dues and stresses raising feed, hogs, hominy, and a cotton crop for local use. He calls for ending the credit system and supporting a banner year.
Milan Tennessee’s poultry yard pumps substantial sums into local farmers pockets weekly and monthly. Brooks & Co sold thousands of pounds of poultry and eggs in February, paying out nearly $967 that week and over $8,000 for the month. Local merchants—Lacy, Milan Grocery, Bryan and Co, Wheel er, Oliver, J. W. Rust—handle cash and trade with poultry raisers, with Milan shipping about $75,000 to $80,000 yearly in birds and eggs.
A fragmentary poem or verse discusses grief over an uncle's death and the unexpected financial gain it brings. The speaker notes sorrow yet acknowledges how the loss yields money, while another voice confirms the uncle's business activity and the chance of a larger inheritance had life continued.
A Boston area resident touts Cooper's New Discovery medicine claiming it tones the stomach in six weeks and cures chronic ill health blamed on stomach trouble. The account notes widespread belief, with Mrs. M. E. Delano recounting dramatic relief after using the remedy.
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