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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1906
Page
7
A poetic lament speaks of wearied eyes and cold touches. The speaker admits doubt and hurt, yet the heart resists change as landscapes and seasons echo longing. The piece ends with the restraint of love and a confession of shared mortal limits.
A narrator observes a plumber's assistant reveal a scheme to generate work for plumbers. The assistant explains that plumbers hire him to secure tasks, then orchestrate costly repairs. Dixon, the homeowner, confronts the situation as the plumber and his assistant discuss a three day job and potential police involvement.
Officials of the Department of Commerce and Labor call banana flour a cure for acute indigestion and note demand in England, but experts doubt it can compete with cereal flour due to high costs. The piece cites limited U.S. usage and calls for cheaper production methods. A separate item tells of a horse that walked to a smithy to have a shoe reset after casting it.
In a class arithmetic problem a family has four potatoes for five people. After a pause a boy suggests the simple solution: mash the potatoes so each child gets an equal share. The remark, noted by the Kansas City Journal, captures a humorous closing to the math puzzle.
Consular Clerk Hernando de Soto of Paris forwards a translated French decree ordering rats on vessels entering French ports to be destroyed when ships arrive from ports with plague and unload over fifty tons of merchandise. The ship must cover all fees and expenses for the destruction.
The Barnum Bailey circus plans to move its shows by automobile next year after Bailey’s death accelerated the shift. Experimental autos last season proved reliable and the company, with 125 wagons, faces daily costs near a thousand dollars as railroads demand high rates and occasional refusals.
A medical journal notes milk source influence on consumption patterns. Paro Ointment guarantees cure of piles in six to fourteen days or money back, with a 50 cent price. The ad claims relief for itching, bleeding, and protruding piles.
An old advertisement promises a $100 reward for an incurable catarrh by Hall’s Catarrh Cure from J Carter & Co Toledo. It quotes endorsements for F J Cheney and lists druggists selling the cure at 75 cents per bottle. The piece also notes Nottingham gas price and profit figures, with Glasgow and Nottingham supplying gas at about fifty cents per thousand cubic feet, half the cost of American cities.
An advertisement promotes Laxative Bromo Pea Tablets promising quick cold relief with a Progeist refund if it fails. Grove's signature appears on each box amid cautions about constipation and moral quotes from Sydney Smith and Phillips Brooks.
The text contrasts nature and thought in moral terms, stating that a good man better reflects spiritual truth than landscapes. It extols conscience as a divine law in the soul and cites Dr. B. Meyer on honest work. An advertisement for Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup claims it soothes teething gums, reduces inflammation, and cures wind colic.
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