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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1903
Page
7
A Rochester businessman played a draw poker game with friends and bet on a jackpot. A caller said someone held three queens and the man boasted, only to learn the caller was his wife. He now scrambles to explain the misread hand.
A survey of coal applications spans durable structures and art. From a coal bridge in a Welsh town to a 1888 compressed coal lighthouse in Barcelona. Ancient England玩 perforated coal shale coins akin to cash and coal porcelain items from Pennsylvania factories including vases mugs plates covers clocks and inkstands demonstrate coal’s versatile uses.
A curious household tale unfolds as Mrs Grouty fires a new maid after Mr Grouty compliments her appearance and Smith notes the girl’s eye and arm. The ruse reveals the maid’s inability to broil a steak, exposing a mean prank on the cook.
A sweeping miscellany lists global population densities, animal weights and sizes, and natural wonders. It notes whale and redwood dimensions, lightning risks by locale, Revolutionary War pensions, Indian Territory schools, church-building costs, U S railway travel averages, postage stamp varieties, and urban streetcar habits. A Utah mountain region reports strange cloud-sourced road descents, while a Europan trend links fame to postcard portraits. A Cimarron hot spring tale ends with a dramatic lightning story.
A reflective piece on modern desires for novelty in fashion and weddings. It notes London weddings tossing silver paper horseshoes, Mexico’s women wearing living jewels like fireflies in gauze, and quirky tips such as feeding jewels sugar cane and storing them in a wire cage at night.
A fisherman relates a strange Maine Woods tale from Little Sebago Lake. After dressing a bullhead, he threw the head overboard. Ten minutes later a second angler hooked the same head, proving the hook remained in the fish’s mouth. The account ends with a note on the Pope and population.
An advertisement extols Peruna as a household safeguard for families with children. It urges keeping Peruna at all times, claims it prevents and cures catarrhal affections, and cites testimonials from Mrs. Brown of Dunneg an Springs Missouri and Mrs. Schafer of St. Louis Missouri praising its effects on a child with convulsions and repeated illness and a mother recovering from catarrh.
An advertisement from 1904 touts Peruna as protection against colds and related childhood illnesses. A Chicago reader, Albert Lietzman, describes improved health after using Peruna and urges others to seek Dr. Hartman’s free advice. The piece links cold complications like croup and rheumatism to neglected colds and promotes the Hartman Sanitarium in Columbus, Ohio.
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