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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1906
Page
8
A neglected churchyard poem laments fading flowers and winter chill. The speaker, Henry Daniel Webster memory, reflects on the silent tombs and lonely paths as snow and bare leaves replace summer's bloom.
The notice blends cheerful Christmas wishes with practical reminders to pay subscriptions and mend grudges. It emphasizes generosity, gratitude, and reading aloud the year’s events, while warning against overindulgence and urging readers to share the paper with friends and neighbors. It closes with a note on the yule clog and Jul feast origins.
The column urges using life’s bitter elements as medicine and prioritizing children, books, and thrift. It extols wives as wise, strong, and virtuous, warns against exposing faults, and lauds parental and conjugal love as societal keystones, ending with praise of mothers’ enduring devotion.
The passage exhorts cherishing a mother in faith and memory even as the world forsakes. It speaks of her comforting presence, recounting virtues to console a wayward soul and urging tender love and devotion in her declining years.
The board of supervisors will, at their January 1907 session, let out the county convicts to the best bidder. All who wish to attend are urged to be present and bid. J. P. Barksdale, president.
Sealed bids will be received at the chancery clerk office until 12 o'clock noon on the first Monday in January 1907 for constructing a bridge across Pringle branch per specifications on file. By order of the board of supervisors J C Bruce Clerk.
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