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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1920
Page
3
County agent notes press Rankin farmers to shift from cotton to food and feed crops. Encourages community planning, neighborly cooperation, and shared spray pump use to improve home orchards and stock feed. Advises spraying orchards for San Jose Scale with lime sulfur concentrate and pruning before spraying.
An agricultural note outlines dry curing for meat with a 100 pound basis, detailing salt, saltpeter, pepper, red paper, and syrup mix. It warns for warm climates, suggests smoking with hickory, and gives timing per weight while advising against washing or wrapping. Also promotes Nitrate of Soda orders and Watkins product opportunities for farmers.
An old remedy suggests Hamburg Breast Tea from pharmacies. Mix a teaspoon with boiling water, drink a teacup full at any time, claiming to open pores, relieve congestion, and loosen bowels to drive a cold from the system. Describes it as inexpensive, vegetable, safe, and harmless for colds and grip.
Advertisement touts 35 cent bottle of St Jacobs Oil to cure back pain lumbago sciatica and rheumatic stiffness. Claims quick relief within fifty counts and safe non burning formula, urging readers not to stay crippled and buy at local drug stores.
An advertising notice offers a weekly salary of 35 dollars plus expenses to a man or woman with the right to introduce Eureka Lodge. Producer Bahreka Mig & Co, St. Louis.
An old time recipe for dark hair uses Sage and Sulphur to cover gray and restore lustre. The ad claims it naturally darkens hair and adds fullness, dampened on with a sponge or brush. It states the product is for cosmetic use only and not a disease treatment.
A rat infestation aboard the steamship Leviathan, tied up at Hoboken, has worsened after quarantine officials’ measures. Legions of rats gnawed furnishings and fittings as the ship’s cat population failed to curb them, with officials predicting the rodents may attack each other in the battle for life.
An old health pamphlet claims headaches stem from self poisoning by body toxins. It recommends drinking hot water with a spoonful of limestone phosphate before breakfast to cleanse the digestive tract and purify the blood, touting inexpensive, harmless relief and urging pharmacists to supply the powder.
A reader ad promotes Ely s Great Balm for relief from head colds and nasal congestion, promising instant relief and soothing of mucus membranes. The notice urges planting soy beans with corn and raising hogs, advocating practical farming to build land and independence, signed by BURNS and J Allen from Puckett, Mississippi, with posted lands prohibiting hunting.
A call to Rankin County farmers urges prudent farming to protect soil fertility and reduce reliance on cotton by expanding corn meat molasses and potatoes production. It questions the ethics of overplanting cotton and promotes self-help with balanced crops to avoid economic strain.
An old advertisement warns meat may cause kidney trouble and urges regular kidney flushing with a proprietary compound. It links meat to uric acid and general ailments, then pivots to a bitter sale pitch and a county bid notice for feed stuffs to road districts, with clerk D. Donnell listed.
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