01 Aug 1918
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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1918
Page
1
Rankin County agricultural campaign urges farmers to join community meetings at local schoolhouses to learn seed selection soil preparation fertilizer and fall wheat planting. County Agent Burks plans cooperative clubs in unorganized communities and asks neighbors to spread word and attend the upcoming meeting with date to be announced next week.
A fiery anti German wartime exhortation urges readers to hate Prussian militarism and to vow to fight at home or on the French battlefields until Germany and its allies are crushed. It decries atrocities against Armenians and calls Germans “super fiends” seeking world conquest and loot.
A public rally set for Wednesday August 7 promises a large crowd of about 4000 with all senatorial candidates invited and Pat Harrison slated to speak. The issue of war support and industrial stability dominates editorials praising press contributions to Liberty Loans, Red Cross, and Y M C A while warning against rising costs and postal rules impacting publishers. The piece also covers cotton price stabilization talks, southern planter pressure, and banking concerns as war reports from Germany are scrutinized alongside a vivid anecdote of a fearless colored soldier in trench fighting.
The Democratic Executive Committee of Rankin Goun will convene in Brandon on August 6, 1918 at 10 A M to appoint managers for the county primaries. The first primary is August 1 and the second eight weeks later. Full attendance urged. by order of Pat Henry, Chairman.
In a Brandon dining scene Jonny and his mother dine with a friend. Jonny refuses chicken soup while the hostess notes he eats around the windpipe. The piece ends with Brandon residents heading to Jackson to see Annette Kellerman.
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