Brandon News Masthead Entry
The Brandon News, U. S. MAY, Editor. Entered at Brandon post office as second class mail matter.
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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1903
Page
4
The Brandon News, U. S. MAY, Editor. Entered at Brandon post office as second class mail matter.
Continued notes from County News recount local health and church matters. The pastor shows nerve and hope for recovery, with a busy social scene including visits from Annie and Gertrude Stubblefield, trips to Jackson for an opera, and a Thanksgiving observance with residents hunting, cooking, and cotton picking. Several families report illnesses and a quarterly conference at Monte rey with local ladies mentioned.
The renter vacates a local house and the resident plans to move back this week. Beginning December 15 a rural free delivery service will start from Jacson, hoped to satisfy everyone.
An old advertisement urges using Scott's Emulsion to strengthen lungs and fight consumption. It promotes early treatment, fresh air, rest, and generous eating, noting salt pork is hard to digest and offering a free sample with a label on every bottle wrapper.
P H Jones rode Sunday evening for church work at Drakes and travels to Fannin on Tuesday for a quarterly conference. Miss Fannie Wilson returns from Springfield Missouri after two months visiting her aunt and reports a pleasant southern journey and finds northerners hospitable to southern people.
E S Barksdale was here Monday and C Russell visited Jackson Saturday. Mrs Mattie Sanderson remains on the sick list. C C Russell Jr visited relatives last week. Pierce and Gordon Sanderson spent Thanksgiving here. E A Smith suffers with neuralgia rheumatism. Annie Lee Crump of Memphis visiting here. Mrs Maggie Williams and son visited the capitol city Tuesday. Over twenty one dollars made up here at Thanksgiving. Mrs Henry Shields of Brandon visited her parents. Langford high school pupils will speak again Friday week. All invited to attend. Mrs Bertha Smith and Miss Kathleen Kersh went to Fannin Saturday. J E Kersh went uptown to gather a crowd Friday. Those closing ears against Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption face a long fight. Mrs Beall of Beall Miss reports cure after four bottles.
Ashburnham Ontario April 18 1903 rector of St Luke's testifies to rapid relief from cold and cough after Easter, noting voice loss and ability to preach three times following use of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy.
A clergy letter promotes Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets sold by A. G. Thornton in Brandon Mississippi to cure a cold in one day. It claims money refunds if it fails and features E. W. Groves signature on each box. It warns of revolt signs and touts Electric Bitters to tone stomach and regulate kidneys, bowels, liver, and blood.
The advertisement promises complete relief as aches vanish under its searching and thorough effectiveness. Electric Bitters costs 50c with a satisfaction guarantee. Sold by A. Thornton in Brandon and A. C. Norman in Cato with A. L. D. Rhodes in Pelahatchie, Mississippi, and other local druggists.
R A McRae offers a liberal reward for the recovery of a roan mare branded on the right hip and a six month old black colt, lost two miles east of Brandon. Date November 19 1903. Ad also notes ladies walking jackets at bargains from Gayden and Co.
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