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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1916
Page
3
The speaker notes a piano manufacturer branding his shop as an infant industry while highlighting a specialty in baby grand pianos. The exchange implies a branding strategy tied to a niche, suggesting growth potential and market positioning for the craftsman. The contrast hints at a founder’s vision and product focus.
An advertisement for Grove's Tasteless chill tonic promotes quinine and iron as a general tonic, claiming liver help malaria relief blood enrichment and system-wide strength. The page also features a brief humor note about a hunter who was not lost but hiding to avoid being shot by mistake.
A nostalgic ad praises Skinner’s Macaroni and Spaghetti as nutritious and economical for children, touting durum wheat goodness and bone and muscle building benefits. It invites mothers to request a free cookbook from Skinner Mfg. Co., Omaha Nebr. Also included are brief remarks on bone needles and a few humorous quotes about economy and social behavior.
The text notes a shift of consumers away from coffee toward a hot savory drink, highlighting growing popularity. It suggests rising interest in a new beverage category as people seek greater satisfaction after consuming something hot. This signals a broader trend in beverage choices.
A ten day trial of this hot drink helps many improve health and comfort by reducing nervousness and sleeplessness. The Postum drinker will tell you it is worth while.
A desk set for men or women is described with a heavy paper and cretonne finish. The desk pad uses heavy colored paper, with cretonne pockets at the ends, edges turned over, and glued to a cardboard backing. A cretonne covered blotter ties to the pad and a small round pen wiper matches the design with a flannel underlay.
A decorative heart cushion with a kneeling soldier figure and satin ribbons sits left, while a cork pin-tree on a brown skewer stands right. A green wooden bucket holds colored pins in a festive display, promising few pin losses until next Christmas if kept away from women.
The piece outlines candle and lamp gifts for various rooms including lunch or dinner tables living rooms and dressing tables. It notes electric candle substitutes glass candle sticks brass or mahogany holders and decorative shades in silk paper and lace enhancing candlelight style for seasonal decor.
The article describes popular crepe paper lamp designs for bedrooms and living rooms. It details a white cardboard shade with black stripes and rose wax decor, a glass candlestick, and a mica protector. A second lamp uses white paper rope, bluebirds wax ornaments, a blue satin ribbon bow, and a chain switch for lighting.
A fragment notes the annual Christmas gift of pincushions. It describes two masculine cushions chosen from a set of small cushions intended to hang near the dressing table mirror. The text suggests they are simple pleasantries and not elaborate items.
A simple Christmas tea cozy project for grandma, using printed Japanese silk or silk, cretonne, or plain fabrics. Four outer silk sections, four lining sections, cotton batting inner layer, edges overcast, and a full multi loop satin ribbon bow on top. Keeps tea hot and adds cheerful color to tea service.
There are bags for everything this Christmas with vanity bags opera bags shopping bags and bags of rich brocades ribbons and metallic laces. A party bag made of ribbon corded seams is silk lined and gathered with a satin ribbon bow. A handsome shopping bag features heavy purple satin ribbon brocade.
A playful boy imagines growing up to receive his Christmas present without Santa checking if he has been good. The scene features purple velvet and silver flowers on a gate like ornament, silver tassel, and purple satin ribbon, with mature immunity as a caption.
A speaker asserts belief in returning good for evil and recounts a personal vow. After her husband refused to buy a parlor rug during house repairs, she plans to give him one as a Christmas present, illustrating a moral emphasis on reciprocity.
Dialogue style exchange about Christmas. Egbert notes his wife’s absence brings happiness at Christmastide while Bacon jokes about holiday gifts. The trimmed text hints at irony about true gifts versus wishes and the family’s holiday mood.
The piece argues Europe will flood the U.S. with cheap goods after the war, urging tariff reductions rather than hikes. It praises Wilson’s farm and currency reforms, praises Democratic teamwork, and critiques East and West Republican factions while predicting a Wilson reelection and progressive gains.
The Mobile Register lauds Mr. Wilson and his party for four years of constructive policy. It says the republic is placed on a strong lasting welfare-based path with legislation benefiting the masses and upholding high ideals for all time.
A schoolhouse exchange turns on a teacher noting a pupil as backward and a parent proposing a paired study with a forward daughter. The dialogue then shifts to bragging about pitching prowess and a boast about a big strikeout record with words.
A newspaper advertisement touts Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe vegetable medicine that replaces dangerous calomel. It claims quick relief from headache biliousness coated tongue and other distress from a torpid liver with one spoonful, guarantees money back if not effective, and urges readers to try a bottle for better health.
An overlong feature extols Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as an ideal kidney and bladder remedy, urging readers to test it with a sample offer and to consult their druggist. It also contrasts true education with mere teaching, arguing learning comes from doing and teacher guidance should foster absorption.
A scattered collection of vintage advertisements and anecdotes. Prominent items include Cuticura soap and ointment claims with mail offers from Boston, a mother narrating a child’s crutch joke, a cold and headache remedy note for Laxative Quinidine Tablets, Adam and Bible joke prompts, Wright’s Indian Vegetable Pills touting health benefits, a line about a mean sleeper and Spartan women, and a brief note on private Hadene pricing and marital love.
A Birmingham Age-Herald excerpt shows a job interview where a former prisoner seeks work. The employer warns of required hustle and long hours, testing the man’s readiness to trade leisure life for labor. The passage also notes mental treatment skepticism and a tonic ad. United States yearly imports are cited as 500000 birds.
The article describes uric acid as the cause of rheumatism and claims Dr. Pierce at the Invalids' Hotel in Buffalo developed Anuric to drive uric acid from the body. It says Anuric relieves pains and swelling and can be bought at drug stores or obtained by sending 10 cents for a trial package.
Prominent Clifton woman Miss Ermund Ruth Moser declares backache and kidney trouble vanished after using Dr Pierce's Anurie Tablets. She urges others with similar pains to try the tablets as they meet expectations. Also promotes Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as original liver pills, small sugar coated granules made from May apple and aloes juice.
A collage of quips and short snippets includes a story about a rich uncle visiting a niece and her great nephew Teddy who jokes that in school he mostly waits to go home. The page also advertises La Creole Hair Dressing and Roman Eye Balsam, with light humor about aging, currency, car starters, and self stopping, plus a wry line about people who are too good to be interesting.
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