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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1920
Page
4
Lucile and Billy plot to marry against her father and mother, eloping with help from a confidant. The plan unravels as two owls hoot twice, signaling the couple’s covert departure and prompting both sets of parents to reflect on moral risk and romance.
The Outlook piece recalls a friendship between Peter Pindar Pease and Edgar Allan Poe begun at the University of Virginia in 1826. Pease, a curio shop worker in Charlottesville, recounts dice over Hogarth prints and Poe paying up. Other meetings include Boston and New York in 1831 amid Poe’s literary efforts.
Facts for Music Teachers note that the Chinese reportedly used circles of fifths thousands of years ago in teaching. Frescobaldi, Italy’s organ master, drew crowds up to 90,000 in Rome and is titled the Father of the Organ Voluntary.
A fragment from the Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph discusses the phrase double entry, explaining it as two sets of records or entries used in court if needed, but not the other. The quote contrasts business sense with the concept, inviting clarification of how double entry functions in legal or financial contexts.
A fragmentary health tip promotes kidneys’ cleansing through high water intake, lime juice, and Jad Salts from a pharmacist. It claims flushing acids prevents bladder irritation, supports normal function, and suggests lemon juice and lemon water as a general tonic.
An article discusses a Japanese shrine tied to the tale of warrior Yamatodake and the village of Shimodaira. It reflects on whether the shrine commemorates tragedy or honor, noting Kemachiya’s night with the warrior and the village’s ritual rebuilding of the shrine every few years.
The Kangaroo gained its name from white explorers misinterpreting the Aboriginal term. Captain Cook, viewing natives ashore, sent men to collect a specimen and learned of its pouch carrying habit and remarkable hopping.
A fragment links a language misunderstanding to a native exchange about a beastie, then shifts to household plant care. It advises feeding indoor ferns with oyster fines mixed into soil, watering weekly, cleaning rubber plant leaves with olive oil, and using ammonia in lukewarm water as a tonic. It cautions against cold water in winter and suggests warming water and using rainwater in summer.
The pansy centenary noted by English florists recalls Lady Mary Bennett, daughter of the earl of Tankerville, discovering a viola tri color wildling. She cultivated seedlings, prompting systematic selection and the rise of leading growers, turning an amateur into the founder of one of our most loved garden flowers.
In Denver a newly wealthy family grows dissatisfied with their longtime physician who had kept them in good health. A caller recounts a conversation where the lady explains their choice of a different doctor, criticizing the former's use of flaxseed tea and mustard plasters for people as rich as they are.
A London Answers note references U S cigarette use rising from negligible 1868 levels to 127 million daily and 46 5 billion annually. The snippet also mixes a domestic exchange about meals and a playful dialogue between Maria and Robert, reflecting casual social chatter amid the data.
Prospectus from J. R. Watkins Co invites farmers and wagon teams to sell 137 Watkins products nationwide. Apply for territory in the world’s largest institution. Writes for information and bond. Twenty million users. Dept 111, Winona Minn.
In Houston a man bought a child’s ticket at a consolidated railway office then tore it up. A woman and child had left city recently for a far city without securing travel for the child. When asked about travel plans the buyer claimed the party had already gone, then resolved to act on the maxim better late than never.
An elderly Sullivan County woman attending a Indianapolis convention found the event unlike her expectations. She imagined banquets and parties but encountered a sequence of lectures. Exhausted and hungry, she told a fellow delegate she would never be a conventional woman.
A call is a contract giving the buyer the option to purchase a commodity or security at a fixed price within a fixed time. It is used in speculation for grains, cotton, stocks, and currencies, such as buying 25,000 German marks for nine months at 5.6 cents. If market price rises above 5.6 cents, the holder profits by buying at the fixed price and selling at the market price. if not reached, the premium is lost.
A dialogue shows a fair minded man and an anarchist debating justice and equal opportunity. The man asks why protesters who seek fairness would condemn an innocent bystander when they plant a bomb. The exchange highlights the tension between due process and violent action.
Quarantine officials report starving rats on the steamship Leviathan formerly the Vaterland have attacked and fought large cat families aboard while gnawing furnishings and fittings. Rodent populations surged since the ship was tied up at Hoboken, with authorities warning the battle may continue until the rats destroy each other.
Mr Growcher comments on Bliggins strong opinions. He argues opinions vary much like physical traits and objects to Bliggins overblown sense of their importance.
An odd medical ad promises cure for backache and sciatica, with a straight salary offer for a Eureka Egg Producer. Public notices call for sealed bids in January 1921 for county road abstracts and for building bridges on Funny Gusha Creek and Red Cane Creek, with authority to reject all bids.
Under decree of the Chancery Court of Rankin County Mississippi issued December 4 1920 in Lil lie B Jones v Florence B Turner et al Chancery Suit No 2547 and recorded in M B H at 261 special commissioner F G A Harrison was ordered to sell for partition the described land lying in Rankin County Mississippi to wit: West half of the northeast quarter of Section 24 Township 4 North Range 1 East.
The notice states that on December 30 1920 at the Bran da county courthouse front door in Mississippi a special commissioner will sell at public sale for cash the partitioned land described, with the sale report to the Chancellor for confirmation on January 3 1921. The purchaser will receive only the title vested in the commissioner. Also published is a Rankin County notice inviting bank proposals to act as county depository for 1921, with bids due the first Monday in January 1921 under Chapter 194 laws of 1912.
Notice of Trustee's Sale announces that on January 8, 1921, in Brion, Rankin County, Mississippi, a deed of trust to secure debt to R. E. Knight has defaulted and the trustee W. E. McIntyre will sell the Northwest Quarter of Section 17, Township 6 North, Range 4 East, at public auction for cash to satisfy the indebtedness.
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