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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1908
Page
3
The poem recounts a guest who, after a cordial welcome and gracious hosting, reveals his dominance over the host. The host describes feasting, wine, and music as he trembles before Drew card’s demand. The guest proclaims mastership and the host laments the pitiless reversal. The lines reflect themes of power, fear, and servitude within a troubled hospitality.
In a small store the crowd discuses a farmer Clayton placing his wife in a buggy and protecting her with a laprobe while others joke about duties at home. A long tale follows about couples, warnings, and a neighbor’s cautionary tale of a man named Sam Hancock and Berthy, ending with Sam marrying the girl after a blunt confrontation.
A vivid reminiscence of Tyburn Tree in London near Park Lane, recalling the 1760 execution of Lord Ferrers for murder. Horace Walpole’s depiction of the pompous two hour march, the crowd, and the grim incident of an executioner losing the rope mark a somber chapter in the city’s history.
The piece recalls Sir Walter Scott’s clever bull terrier and a baker incident where the dog learned to react to lines about the baker’s fate. It notes the dog’s memory of the tale and the baker’s payoff, with a tangential remark on alligator flesh as veal-like delicacy in India.
A dialogue scene from The Master-Singer depicts a couple praising music as divine and exquisite. They mistake the symphony for a gown, highlighting dramatic irony between perception and art in a theater setting.
Mrs J B Renaud of Montreal reports a long battle with eczema on her leg. After twenty five years of failing treatment the Cuticura Remedies reduced swelling in two treatments and healed the leg in two months. She credits Cuticura with saving her life and notes seven years of cure.
A Bushby cobbler, Mr Holt, retells a cautionary tale about fate and misfortune to a waiting customer. He cites Annabel Spears who, fearing lightning, overprotects herself with absurd precautions and rubber boots until a real hurricane wrecks her home, proving Providence beyond judgment.
A fragmented ad style excerpt lists Bromo Quinine as a universal cold cure with a 25 cent price and signature by E W Grove, plus Woolford's Sanitary Lotion itch cure and drugstore notes. It includes a quip about octogenarians from a child’s reading, reflecting a humor column tone.
Lev P. Brockway of Anoks Minnesota says after five months in a hospital he was discharged as incurable with six months to live. He describes heart trouble, smothering spells, facial weakness, and kidney disruption, then credits Dean's Kidney Pills for relief and states he feels well now. Pills sold by dealers at 50 cents a bar, Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo. Meanwhile a brief quip has a romantic man offer and a practical woman counters with twenty five dollars weekly prospects.
The birth house of Charles Dickens at 393 Commercial Road Portsmouth sold at auction for the town, realized £1125 after two bidders. The mayor Sir W. T. Dupree bought it, with a rival bidder unnamed. Auctioneer Mr. J. Clark and successors plan to turn the house into a Dickens museum with help from the Boz Club and Dickens fellowship.
An Ottawa Toledo advertisement mix presents Dr Kline nerve cure trial offer and Hall s Catarrh Cure claims. The Toledo firm J Cheney & Co swears to pay a hundred dollars for each uncurable catarrh case. Testimonials, internal use claims, and druggist sales follow, with Hall s Family Pills mentioned for constipation.
A Harpers Magazine excerpt explains the dandelion’s European origin and its hardy traits. It details a perennial taproot, deep nourishment uptake, and rapid bloom in New York fields and parks. The plant thrives where sun and air feed it, forming a dense rosette that outcompetes grass in lawns and open spaces.
A clerk asks for a higher salary but the employer cannot raise pay. He offers a workaround by shortening hours for three months then restoring them, giving the clerk an excuse to leave early. A separate quip has a couple exchanging a hand hold with playful banter about fatigue.
Ed Howe recalls a Pacific voyage encounter with an old man who visited a smoking room and visited a blunt doctor in Frisco. The elderly man laments aging and a brutal nerve specialist as he gazes at a bleak view, then leaves the car.
The Well-Informed World seeks a simple pleasant laxative of known value and safety. California Fig Syrup Co. offers Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a trusted, ethical remedy for family use. Buy the genuine product from leading druggists, price fifty cents per bottle.
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