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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1908
Page
4
The sanitary officer warns residents as heat rises. Citizens are urged to vote in the Rankin county primary on Tuesday August 25. Miscellaneous notes mention Pacific Fleet hospitality in New Zealand and a New York criminals convention.
The piece notes harmony in Democratic ranks and rising Republican rifts, arguing Bryan’s victory hinges on GOP fault lines and vote buying in swing states. It also mentions Labor Day festivities planned by Jackson on September 7 inviting workers to participate, with additional social notes about Brandon’s quiet birthday week.
The article notes villagers believe mosquitoes transmit yellow fever and cattle ticks can be eradicated by rotating pastures and depriving young ticks of hosts. It highlights Edwin Ford of Columbia Mississippi earning the Cecil Rhodes scholarship after excelling among 5,000 students at Oxford last week. It praises Ford as a son of General Thomas S. Ford and mentions hot weather, suspected yellow fever in Mexico or Central America, mad dogs, and various daily hazards.
A New York Life Insurance Company policy action declares Brig General Daniel H Rucker er dead noting their age based denials of survival beyond 95. The policy payouts are prepared to be issued to rightful heirs as the company shifts funds from political campaigns to beneficiaries.
Walton, once convicted in Madison County for murdering his wife, is reported strolling Jackson streets in citizen clothes with pale pants washed of convict stripes. Under whiskey influence, his freedom highlights alleged flaws in the state system and city liquor outlets.
An advertisement in a state newspaper features a whisky house image showing a Sphinx and pyramids in the background, a scanner on the left, and a man in the scene. The layout emphasizes exotic branding and modern device imagery to attract customers.
A newspaper column weighs whisky ads and alcohol culture highlighting a regular drinker in fiction and noting that legal sale depends on licensing but moral approval varies. It argues advertising reveals a business’s influence, and that liquor consumption harms both finances and judgment, urging readers to consider taste and propriety.
The inventor Hudson Maxim foresees air ships, solar and molecular energy use, and germ electrocuting cures within the next century. He warns progress driven by profit may erode morals, advocates wealth restraint, and cautions against excessive punishment, supporting capital punishment as deterrence while condemning theological hell as impractical. The piece critiques wealth, trusts, tariffs, and social ethics in a changing era.
Evangelist E A Ferguson tours west Tennessee delivering a critique to fellow clergymen who have not preached Revelations on business and politics, urging a more outspoken stance in public affairs.
A Black man lynched near Lincoln's monument in Springfield following a dispute with a respected white woman. Earlier, a Black assailant harmed a young woman as her father intervened. both families fled by train. White mobs raged, attacking Black residents with stones and arson.
The piece advocates violent extrajudicial punishment against Black people, arguing mobs should hang or shoot individuals accused or suspected of rape or crimes, and it endorses summary executions while asserting racial double standards between the North and the South. It frames rape as inevitable and defends vigilantism.
C. and L. C. Robinson offer a five year old Red Poll bull weighing about 1100 lbs. described as a splendid animal and priced at 50 dollars.
State of Mississippi commands Hugi Franklin to appear before Rankin County chancery court on the fourth Monday of September term 1908 to defend Harriet Franklin's suit. Clerk A M Gayden signs, Solicitor A G Norrell.
Rankin County notices command Idora Mack to appear before the Chancery Court of Rankin County Mississippi on September 4, 1908 to defend a suit by L. Foster. The notice bears August 6, 1908 and names A Gayden Atkins & Watkins as solicitors with the clerk.
The News asserts it offers informed, legitimate news and will critique public figures, but declines to advise readers on whom to vote. It notes the Democratic Executive Committee mishandled candidate placement with names such as Saarte, Pat, Hallam, Thames, Conn, Doxey and others linked to Jackson Mississippi businesses.
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