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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1908
Page
3
A poem excerpt lamenting rot within a nation as a great Venetian Bell Tower collapses under worm infestation. The speaker fears internal decay from greed and complacency undermining Senate, citadel, school, and shrine more than external foes. The Worm of Greed and the Worm of Ease symbolize corrupting influences.
A nobleman Kinjuro loves geisha O-Kama while his wife O-Tsuki-San endures a hidden heartbreak. The trio explores love, duty, and memory as distant fires of Go-gen-Sama loom, and the wife pleads for quiet amid lapping seashore tides and sacred mountain lore.
In a snowlit tale Kinjuro encounters the Woman of the Snow in the forest after leaving O Kama's house. He is led into a cold embrace that foreshadows death before Tsuki-San revives him. She speaks of cold love and life as they share a poignant moment, ending with vows of enduring love and four prints in the snow.
A barber explains the value of trimmed hair to a patron, noting it can be used for mortars, furniture stuffing, and especially fine strainers for clarifying syrups. The barber emphasizes that short human hair provides superior strainers and that strainer makers rely on his supply.
Melbourne Review asserts that no Australian Government has successfully run the railways, claiming continual bankruptcy and worsening deficits each year. It argues private companies would have closed lines long ago without taxpayer subsidies, noting state lines are behind times in several regions.
Lillie Devereaux Blake urged that men wear clothes suited to heat and climate, arguing men are the lords of creation and women follow. Mary Schenck Woolman cited women’s heavy garments and home-buying habits, while Blake defended women’s rights to income and home care.
Harvey D. Wade recalls surrender at Shreveport Louisiana and poverty after the Confederacy fell. He sold his last coat for two silver half dollars and kept one as he sought to return home. He describes enduring hardship while remaining determined to become a productive citizen in the land of his birth.
At a dinner a one eyed man accused a tall lean player of cheating in a Tin Can town poker game. The confrontation escalated as chips rose and a revolver came into play with a threat to shoot if cheating continued.
A Harper's Weekly vignette recalls a little girl told by her mother that angels watch over her. Later a small upstairs voice reports the angels are buzzing and one is biting as she asks for her mother.
In a brief exchange from Philadelphia, Cillman asks Sabbubs what he is buying and Sabbubs replies a thermometer. He notes they already bought one days earlier but extreme heat requires extra thermometers.
San Antonio dispatch reports Lock Don, a government interpreter, introduced Jamaica ginger plants to Texas. Plants flourished in San Antonio and experts say the region is well suited for ginger cultivation. Edward W. Knox and Dr. David Griffith noted potential for government farms in Southwest Texas and plans to inform Washington for cuttings.
A Wichita Beacon item reflects on table manners as true culture, recounting a host who set thirteen pears for twelve guests. In the dark, twelve hands reach for the final pear, but all guests are too well bred to take it, creating a quiet moment of propriety.
A reader from Providence writes that Minards Liniment cured his rheumatic back after two years of trying remedies. The ad promises a special bottle free upon request to prove its effectiveness, citing Minards Liniment Mfg Co of South Framingham Massachusetts. Accidents rule, not men, quotes Herodotus.
Hale Bordwell of Tipton Iowa describes an eighty month battle with widespread itchy eczema. After trying many remedies he used Cutura Soap Ointment Resolvent and Pills for eight months and was cured. Nelson Burnett endorses the testimony as true.
An old advertisement notes that many elderly suffer bronchial affections in winter and promotes Brown's Bronchial Troches as giving immediate relief. The copy ends with a Sterne quote about wind and the shorn lamb.
A collage of old patent medicine claims and seed ads. Includes Dr Kline nerve restorer, Mrs Winslow's Syrup for teething, Taylor's Cherokee Remedy, Paro Ointment for Piles, Woolford's Lotion, Bromo Quinine, Garfield Tea, Salter's Macaroni Wheat seed book offer, and Salter Seed Co promotional text. A mix of cures, tonics, jeering quotes, and seed incentives common to late 19th century catalogs.
A 30 year old remedy for female ailments is promoted with testimonies of backache and displacements eased after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad asserts the product cures many conditions including irregularities, fibroid tumors, and nervousprostration, urging sick women to try it.
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