03 Aug 1905
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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1905
Page
1
The message advertises Ready-to-Wear hats latest shapes and patterns at the Millinery Parlor. It notes ladies shirt waist suits in grey linen and embroidered white lawns from $2.00, plus new fans, handkerchiefs, hose, belts, collars and a complete line of embroideries and notions. The seller thanks patrons and invites inspection and cut prices before buying elsewhere.
A July 31 1905 dispatch argues yellow fever threat is overstated with proper care mortality low and mosquitoes key. It promotes eradicating Stegomya mosquitoes and criticizes quarantine while predicting minimal outbreak within six weeks. The piece includes local school board actions in Rankin County and notices on new schools and term dates.
A compilation of early health observations describing yellow fever as an acute infectious disease with high fever, gastrointestinal and hemorrhagic symptoms, yellow skin, and geographic spread from the West Indies to the Americas. Notes mention immunity after infection, uncertain germ theory, mosquito vector, and rapid onset with chills, back pain, nausea, and possible severe bleeding.
Mrs Stirling recounts 19th century yellow fever outbreaks, noting Woodville 1844 mortality, transmission via contaminated clothing, and the need for complete isolation. She warns against mail from fever districts, shares nursing tips from New Orleans Creoles, and describes widespread household deaths and the peril to entire families.
Rankin county Mississippi School Board met July 17 1905 in Brandon to consider moving Leesburg school from section 15 township 7 range 5 to section 23 or 14 in the same township and to approve a new East school in township 3 range 3 with deeds to land. Drakes school was discontinued and Kate Barksdale reappointed examiner for 1905 06 term with adjournment set for July 81 1905.
Dr John Berry of Lawton Oklahoma reads a Lawton Constitution story about Orma Damon Berry an eleven year old son of Judge W D Berry of Vernon Texas. The boy fell ill after arriving with his family to Lawton for his wife’s health and died from a ruptured gangrenous appendix. The Berry family includes prominent attorney Mr Berry who represents the Frisco System and the Texas Cattlemen's Association.
The Gulf and Ship Island train arrived in Jackson with President Jones’s elegant private car. The chief passenger was Mrs. Daisy Stevens, widow of Judge Forest Stevens and daughter of U S Senator McLaurin. Ill in Hattiesburg weeks earlier she was taken to her father’s home in Brandon aboard the special train arranged by Captain Jones.
A brief note from the Clarion Ledger describes a sudden move in Jackson that occurred before a dozen people at the depot understood what was happening, with family members accompanying the subjects.
A reader urges public moral reform for the town in 1905. The text calls for integrity, industry, and religion to guide civic life, urging satsifying work, honest business, and Sabbath observance, with a vision of purity, peace, and righteousness guiding the community. The note closes with Mrs. H. B. Cole attending a Dry Creek meeting this week.
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