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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1906
Page
3
A reader praises heavy petticoats and mackinaw flannel for winter wear and outlines graded clothing for zero weather. The Epitomist prints a favored meat curing recipe using salt sugar potash with a boiling step to remove impurities, promising superior sweetness and color.
The Philadelphia Inquirer offers practical medical tips: keep bottles hidden and rooms ventilated but not directly blowing on the patient, keep the bed away from walls, maintain cleanliness, and use the purest soap with warm water. It advocates specific diets per disease, forbids tobacco in sick rooms, and recommends apple tea to assuage thirst. For gout and rheumatism, it notes walnuts aid swelling and pain, with a claim that swelling decreases and pain eases.
An excerpt from Harper's Bazaar explores dinner table nerves and etiquette as a novice hosts meals. It notes forks and knives terrors, uneven use of tableware, and the ease of small suppers over full dinners. It emphasizes casual hospitality over pretension and shared table awkwardness.
Instructions describe sour milk biscuit lift by mixing one quart flour with baking soda one pint sour milk and lard. shape into quick biscuits bake twenty minutes. Spanish Bun combines sugar melted butter molasses eggs yolk sour milk and more, text cuts off.
The passage lists recipes and steps for Sweet Johnnycake and Deviled Beef. Sweet Johnnycake uses sour milk, sugar, lard, egg, flour, soda, salt, nutmeg and cornmeal to form a stiff dough baked in a quick oven. Deviled Beef describes scoring roast beef, applying deviled paste, broiling lightly, and finishing with a prepared paste of salad dressing mustard curry powder and table sauce.
Governor Terrell calls for expanded farming education in Georgia and urges an agricultural college at the State University with nearby rural schools. He argues agriculture underpins the state’s wealth and favors establishing one or more agricultural colleges across congressional districts to train embryo farmers.
Samuel Bowles argues in the North American Review that a newspaper must be abjectly devoted to public interests and welfare. It should maintain honest art and proportion, act as a single minded servant of the community, avoid entangling alliances, and wield influence as a vital instrument of democracy.
Senator Bard recalls a tale from Georgetown about Archbishop Ryan humorously rebuking a priest for a shabby hat. The priest notes the hat belonged to his father who “fell in the rising of ’44,” prompting the archbishop to quip that he evidently fell on his hat.
A simple citizen questions public trust and personal motives in the face of corruption. He weighs why charit y and duty fail when private action reveals bribery, while honor remains untempted. No public report exists, as M A De Wolfe Howe notes in Youth’s Companion.
A 1418 tale recounts a thief hung in gleaming armor at La Piroche with armor still on him. The lord offers ten gold crowns for the corpse, yet dawn reveals the rogue alive and wearing spurs, a miracle witnessed by the chaplain and lord.
In a tale of a condemned robber near La Piroche the helmet is key to a gruesome rescue turn. A slip knot fails to kill him as a peasant pair discovers his life and returns him home. He plans another theft but is captured and hanged at the square. The lord then resumes war and dies first on the field.
A letter from a signer calling himself Six Times Best Man defends the post ceremony kiss. He argues clergy overreach threaten a cherished English custom rewarding the best man’s efforts and preserving a joyful, lasting memory for the newlyweds.
In June 1909 Lieutenant General Arthur MacArthur retires after reaching age limits, ending the grade until Congress revives it. The rank, created for exceptional merit, marks a storied career spanning the Civil War era through service on the plains, Cuba, and the Philippines.
The Kansas City Journal notes that brains vary among great men. Encyclopedic minds have large brains and many convolutions, while single minded geniuses have smaller heads. Named examples include Gladstone, Newton, Byron, and Cromwell.
A reader recalls a family photo album with captions of relatives and friends. Vignettes reveal twins, suitors, a choir member, a wayward fashion hat and a hair anecdote. The page closes with Ellis Parker Butler and a note about January calendar giveaways.
A 25 year look at New Year customs contrasts genteel visits with rising alcohol use. The piece favors starting the year with Postum instead of coffee or spirits, citing a Staten Island doctor and his daughter who promote Postum to guests, and suggests readers read The Road to Wellville for reasons.
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