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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1909
Page
6
An old Italian woman in Nice, a veteran player at the lato stakes, relied on numbers found in everyday sights from tram cars to matchboxes. Without a formal system she collected these numbers and treated them as favorable for her petits billets, reflecting strong superstition among gamblers.
A Scrap Book excerpt lists famous leaders and figures with ages at pivotal points. Washington commanded at 43, Cromwell began at 29, Napoleon conquered Italy before 30, Gladstone entered Parliament at 23, Macaulay started writing at 20, Columbus set sail at 36, Frederick the Great began the Thirty Years War at 30, and Blackstone finished his Commentaries before 35.
A cat is chased by Patrick around the kitchen and falls into a pancake batter crack. It scrambles out as Patrick wields a poker. Biddy pleads to end the fight while noting the batter sticks to the cat and everything it touched.
Toccoa Record notes farmers prize blacksnakes for rodent control and praise their pest-killing role. It warns against harming reptiles, highlighting their valued place on rural properties and their effectiveness against rats and mice.
A biblical excerpt attributed to Sennacherib boasts of strength and wisdom, claiming removal of peoples bonds, theft of treasures, and destruction of inhabitants. The speaker proclaims gathering earth’s riches as nests of eggs untouched by any who moved or spoke.
Commandant Soule of Paris devised unique police spectacles with small concave mirrors at the outer corners of ordinary glasses. Tests show they do not hinder forward vision and provide wearers with a rear view, enhancing watchmen’s efficiency.
A traveler steps into a fifteenth century Montenegrin Albanian border zone and witnesses border raids and vendettas described in history. The piece reads like a historical travel meditation on how time bending scenes echo past Anglo Scottish feuds.
Poons, India uncovers a ballroom novelty using limelight effects in dance. Dancers perform with all lights off while colored limelights illuminate their heads. A waltz appears like moonlight and a cotillion with rainbow tones is described as ravishing.
A Sunday school moment shows young Jean uncertain as he identifies a colored print of David in royal robes. He declares it may be a king, but perhaps a jack, reflecting playful child reasoning.
A quotation extols the enduring value of written learning over fading tradition. Dr. Johnson emphasizes that books remain fixed luminaries, recalling knowledge after periods of neglect, and keep imparting instruction when opened again.
Some undertakers serving poor customers are using coffins crafted from pressed paper pulp. Available in various styles, these paper coffins are varnished and stained to resemble wood. Proponents claim they are more durable than wooden coffins.
The piece notes Walden remains a long established favorite among American readers, outselling many new nature books over the past four decades and growing in popularity each year. It also explains Walden sustains interest in several of Thoreau's less popular titles.
Herr Schiemelman presents wife with birthday lottery ticket. she tears it up in reproach over wastefulness. Ticket later wins $5,000, but cannot be cashed because the ticket is lost. Husband petitions for divorce citing the torn ticket dispute.
In Tongking China a remarkable mine sits in a sand formation at 12 to 20 feet deep containing stems of trees. Workers extract the timber used for coffins troughs carving and other purposes. The wood is found in good condition and regarded as a curious natural resource.
Hollanders view tobacco favorably and ministers even offer visitors cigars during tours of church interiors. They refrain from smoking in services, but lighting a cigar for guests appears common in local religious circles.
The South African war spurred a fashion for calabash pipes. Farmers in South Africa now plant calabash specifically for pipe production, with cultivation expanding in southern France and even in Australia.
Aesop tells of an old man who, exhausted from carrying a heavy bundle of fagots, asks Death to end his misery. Death arrives and asks what the man wants, and the old man replies to help him up with the fagots, preferring relief from labor over oblivion.
A German traveler, frostbitten after wandering in snow, crawled to a stable near St Sulpice in Neuchatel Canton. In agony he used a pocket knife to amputate two of his toes before passing out. He is hospitalized.
The London county council advertised for sale several decommissioned horse tram cars. They were pitched for diverse uses including bungalows, houseboats, portable buildings, tool and garden sheds, contractors' offices, cycle and motor houses, and for siting on farms, potato fields, hopfields, and on football and cricket grounds.
A quotation notes that women are more loyal friends to men of genius than men are to each other. It suggests that geniuses attract “petti coats” who seek praise both in life and after death, highlighting a gendered view of social circles around celebrated figures.
Nealie visits a farm yard with his mother and peers at a pen of small pigs. A pig leaps up and grunts, prompting Nealie to request his mother to have the pig repeat the sound.
A reflection on virtue from Oliver Wendell Holmes warns that a moral life should not be built solely on abstaining from sin. He argues true character requires feeding on benevolence and active sympathy, not just negative virtues.
A new boot design allows the sole and heel to be unscrewed and replaced. The inventor claims boots can be soled and heeled in 65 seconds, reducing repair costs by about 25 percent versus ordinary methods.
A Pennsylvania Al toona correspondent reports a dramatic fight on a westbound local train at Summer Hill between a copperhead and a blacksnake. The copperhead allegedly bit the other snake as passengers watched, ending in the copperhead's apparent victory. The tale is tied to a moral anecdote about Jimmie’s knife and his birthday.
A compact reminiscence notes James Watt finding science in boyhood toys and cites John Hunter's reflection on mind as a beehive yet orderly. It also outlines two types of unselfishness, one linked to noble self-esteem and the other to self-effacement and lack of individuality.
A playful note on urban bean baking celebrating a claimed doubling of output. It extols a genius who can transform two quarts into two dozen quarts, praising mastery of dietary science and political economy while describing the city’s bean production in grand, satirical terms.
A compact reflection contrasts common sense with madness. It argues common sense mistakes experience for inevitability and equates it with reality, while madness cannot distinguish between what is and what it imagines, blending dreams into truth.
A short anecdote about three year old Little Johnnie noticing his grandfather has a hole in his pants. The child asks to look with a finger, prompting a humorous exchange about noticing details. The line captures playful family humor from The Delineator publication.
In a humorous scene from the Christian Register Willie and his father tour a circus and menagerie. The boy remarks to his papa about an elephant described as a big cow with horns in her mouth eating hay with her tail.
The public often cheers impressive discoveries of poems by dead poets who ignored including those works in their collected editions. Yet history shows the deceased usually exercised sound judgment, and the finds may not alter the poet’s established reputation.
A 16 year old girl with a bass voice was heard singing in a London hall. She previously had a soprano voice but over the past year it deepened until it now sounds as low as a man's. A throat specialist reported unusually large and broad vocal chords.
An ordinance of Brandon Mississippi authorizes the issue of five thousand dollars in municipal bonds at six percent interest with semiannual coupons payable each January and July. The bonds will be redeemable after ten years, mature in twenty, and fund street improvements. Bonds are to be registered, bearer payable, signed by the Mayor and Clerk, and sequestered with the city seal. Publication to occur in the Brandon News.
A brief wry exchange notes a man’s joke that a pet goose behaves like a surrogate car. He quips that its honk is as close as he gets to owning an automobile, reflecting playful local humor.
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