24 Aug 1905
Page 1
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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1905
Page
1
A fragment notes ongoing effort to please customers and address their needs. It signals a business mindset focused on service, though specifics are unclear due to incomplete text. The snippet hints at commitment to customer satisfaction and continued engagement with clients.
The 19th annual Rankin County Sunday School Convention met at Shiloh Mississippi on August 17 1905 with pro tem officers led by Hon William Buchanan and R F Brown. Committees were named for credentials nominations and resolutions including tributes to the late secretary Mrs Emma Covington.
At the United States Hotel in Saratoga New York Sunday John Wanamaker hosted Booker T. Washington as his guest and escort for Mrs Barclay Warburton causing a mild sensation among diners in the great dining room.
A famed New York physician aged 75 shares health rules from fifty years of practice. Emphasizing temperance, sleep, avoiding regret, keeping a youthful mind, and staying current, he argues for practical, ongoing self care over grand searches for hidden cures. Minor local note mentions Miss Alford’s Rankin county ties and greetings.
Loward Cheatham of Birmingham, Alabama and Miss Leone Alford of Jackson were married Sunday morning at the bride’s aunt Mrs. Adam Shields’ home. Dr. LaPrade performed the ceremony. The bride wore a gray silk traveling suit and carried a shower bouquet of bridesmaid roses. The couple, attended by friends, left on the 10th after a pretty ceremony marking a promising union.
The writer explains the term foci as Latin for centers of infection used in fever reports in New Orleans. A new case far from the original center is a new foci. The word should be pronounced fosi, not foki, and a local speaker mispronounced it as skeered of dem foci.
A brief excerpt presents a boy's playful musings on girls as sisters, describing appearances and age, family dynamics, and childish views. It notes three kinds of girls and their fears, ending with a light joke about mice and bugs and a playful mispelling.
A Laurel hotel keeper was fined 25 dollars and costs after admitting in court to telling a woman on a train that four yellow fever cases were at his house. He claimed it was a joke, but the judge rejected the humor and warned jokers should be severely dealt with.
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