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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1903
Page
2
Mr Toggs is portrayed as peculiarly generous to himself amid lavish attire and a stern wife. A violent indigestion episode, treated with quarts of hot water and pepper tablets, tests his bonds with Elizabeth and Mrs Toggs until his recovery restores status quo and a final payment for nursing surfaces.
An 1890s era estimate compiles world wealth at about 400 billion dollars, with the United States owning around 100 billion and Britain, France, Germany, and Russia listed with per capita and total figures in pounds and dollars. The figures vary by source and year, reflecting large capital invested domestically and abroad.
A Philadelphia Record excerpt describes mis sionaries noting that wild monkeys in India can be trained to harvest pepper. Natives watch curiously, form pepper mounds, then drift away, leaving the fruit. The monkeys imitate, gather pepper, stack it, then depart bored, effectively harvesting the crop.
The two men joke about why their fiancés love them with the line facing their own wondering responses. Dick replies his fiancé says simply because, a concise punchline from a humorous exchange.
A Chicago owner holds a 1638 cookbook Murrell’s Two Books of Cookerie and Carving. Recipes describe red deer in red wine, fritters on the court fashion, and blanc mange precursors. The piece includes a critical aside on a solemn leader from the Washington Post.
In Cooperstown the Freeman's Journal, founded in 1808, will see editor Samuel M. Shaw retire after fifty-two years in that role and nearly seventy years in journalism. His predecessor John H. Prentiss led for 43 years, shaping politics and media alike in a region famed for Otsego Lake and American spirit.
A well-born Norfolk Epicure, W. J. Hardy, died in a small Washington Heights room after five days of cold and starvation. His body, discovered by police, was sent to the morgue where an earlier name revealed the identity. Judge Mayo, a city magistrate and Hardy’s former schoolmate, arranged for proper interment in Norfolk. Hardy, connected to Maj Gen Arthur MacArthur through his sister, was separated from his Baltimore wife and renowned as a refined host and connoisseur.
During the Russo Turkish War Mehmet Ali Pasha retreating from Ostrog with his army halted at Monaco to destroy a monastery and set a battery. Unaware, a Montenegrin garrison captured and beheaded Turks entering the courtyard. A second Turkish party fared the same. A pursuing Montenegrin brigade attacked from flank and rear, producing a horrid slaughter. Three pairs of Siamese twin fishes hatched at the New York aquarium.
A quip from a famed inventor declares there is one branch of labor that must always be done by hand. The reporter asks what, and the inventor replies with a ghoulish grin that pocket picking is the task.
In a Century magazine line poet Christian Gauss recalls a man who found joy in marriage and heard a singing figure along the hills. The verse frames the landscape as rejoicing with the man’s life turning east toward a new day.
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