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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1908
Page
6
Two women near this city pursue a self supporting farm life after losing fortune. They buy a twenty acre property near a town, run a dairy and garden, raise chickens, operate a milk and egg business, and welcome visitors from a piazza tea. Their routine blends hard work with social activity and restrained future plans, earning admiration for independence.
The Chicago News reports that dredges left by French excavators at Panama, once deemed junk, have been rebuilt at moderate cost. One dredge in the Rio Grande River now excavates up to 120 000 cubic yards in two months, rivaling four modern ninety five ton five yard shovels. Recovered components include three boilers near San Pablo, two cylinders, and hull engines, all in excellent condition with heavy copper piping. Preservation credited to quality materials and thorough white lead grease protection when work ceased.
A chemist explains the human body by quantities found in eggs, gas, iron, fat, phosphorus, hydrogen, and remaining constituents. He notes enough gas to fill a gasometer, iron for four nails, fat for seventy five dies and soap, phosphorus for eight thousand sixty four boxes of matches, and hydrogen to lift a person to the clouds. He adds remaining parts could yield salt cruets, sugar, and water.
A French inventor is reported to have discovered a method to fire torpedoes using wireless electric power. The claim suggests a practical remote triggering system, potentially altering naval weaponry and submarine warfare concepts.
Three hundred Missouri mules with Empire waists and sixty one inch chest measurements head for India under a British officer’s eye. They sail in December and travel via Calcutta and the Himalayas carrying machine guns ammunition and a small cannon. The contingent favors cool coast leave over hot India with the best mules to be used in the mountains.
A teacher asks pupils about their fathers trades. Rosie reveals her father is a worm eater in an antique, a man boring lifelike wormholes in imitation furniture to mimic genuine pieces. The teacher verifies Rosie's story by visiting the family.
In a Harper's Weekly fragment Harold declares a desire for a crack in his hair like his father, rejecting brushing over the forehead. The note adds a colonial era aside that Mexico has not yet grown sufficient cotton to keep its spindles busy.
The poem reflects on year end visions and inner voices of love ambition and remorse. Three presences appear as guiding yet reproachful figures, exposing truth about a life spent striving. The speaker notes no remorse while aligning with the ascent toward higher aims and wiser conduct.
The article presents multiple year reckonings for 1908 across calendars and eras. It lists the 182d year since U S independence ending July 4, plus corresponding dates in Mohammedan, Greek, Chinese, Jewish, Japanese, Masonic, Roman, Usher, and Septuagint chronologies. It notes epoch start dates and cross-era mappings.
A compact table lists season start dates and daylight times for Washington Mean Time. It records winter starting December 22 at 6 36 p.m., spring beginning around March 20 at 7 1 p.m., summer starting June 21 at 3 8 p.m., and autumn beginning September 23 at 5 42 a.m., with a tropical year value of 365 5 41.
Three solar eclipses and one lunar occultation are recorded for 1908. The January eclipse will be total and invisible in America, visible on the Pacific. The June 28 eclipse is annular, visible in the United States including Tampa and Bermuda, from 9:27 to 12:41 AM Washington time. The December 22–23 eclipse is visible on the Atlantic and eastern South America, but invisible in North America.
The text lists planetary visibility windows for the morning and evening stars. It specifies Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Mercury with date ranges such as Venus after July and Mars after August 22, along with varying end dates like January 29 and December 11. It also includes repeated phrases and misread terms from historical ephemera.
The article lists evening sets and morning rises for Mercury on February 13 June 7 October 4 and March 27 July 25 November 13 Jupiter on January 29 Venus on May 29 August 7 Saturn on September 30.
A historical list of movable feasts and church days with dates for February through December, including Septuagesima and Easter timing, Lent, Palm Sunday, Holy Week, Ascension, Whit Sunday, Trinity Sunday, Corpus Christi, and Ember Days observed on varied March June September and December dates.
Walter Christie set a mile on circular track record at 54 seconds. Charles Daniels clocked 100 yards swimming in 55 2-5 seconds. Charles Edward posted a 1.50 3-5 one mile eighth horse record at Brighton Beach. Captain Hardy shattered 13,066 targets in shooting. Homing pigeons averaged 1612 yards per minute for long distances. Thompson's Colts bowled 2853 for three games. Ralph Rose John Flanagan Martin Sheridan George Bonhng and Melvin Sheppard all set athletic records. Snow shoe speed 47 minutes 20 seconds. Ski jump reach 114 feet.
London official statistics show 75 deaths from misadventure in the Italian Swiss and Austrian Alps in 1907. Most victims were Swiss and German, with 350 serious accidents. Reckless ascents without guides cited as chief cause.
Seventy one persons were killed during the 1907 hunting season, largely from carelessness, a count just below the 1906 record. Injuries rose to eighty one in 1907 from seventy in 1906, with fifty deaths across Wisconsin Michigan and Minnesota in 1907.
A recent tremor along the Estremadura coast uncovers old arms coins gold buttons and jewelry scattered across Nazareth village shores. Excavations at a former pirate stronghold reveal cavern-hidden hoards, with more treasure expected as digs continue.
A male author argues that managing a wife means mutual respect and partnership. He contrasts guiding and supporting with domination and suggests a balanced dynamic where the husband acts as protector and respectful friend, while the wife becomes loyal, affectionate, and thrifty. The essay frames happiness as the result of equal, cooperative roles within marriage.
The text explains that anger can trigger a bodily thunderstorm that corrodes normal secretions and fosters disease, while kindness and love promote a healthy purifying flow of secretions. These life forces, when active, counteract harmful effects of negative emotions, according to Tune.
Puck magazine surveys dough as a metaphor for wealth, linking it to bread, cars, yachts, and rare books. It asserts money fuels high life and scandal, shapes marriages, and empowers women beyond traditional roles, while condemning excess and dowdiness across generations.
A remark from the Atchison Globe notes that women delight in letters from married friends, especially when the missives are stained with tears, illustrating social curiosities of intimate correspondence.
A historical note advises removing tea coffee and fruit stains from linen by rubbing with butter. Apply thoroughly then soak in hot water, as described by the New York Press.
A New York Journal note describes a woman who wore a pedometer while doing housework. She found that under favorable conditions she completes about 7.38 miles of household tasks daily.
Unsightly holes from hanging pictures can be repaired by mixing plaster of Paris with water to a paste, applying to the hole, and once dry, painting over or covering with wall wallpaper, as advised by the New York Press.
An excerpt describes a home polish mix of whiting tartar and magnesia for metals and glass, to be stored dry. It warns the powder puff is unsanitary, suggests cleaning or replacing it, and notes use of a rabbit’s foot for tinting nostrils or decorative purposes in powder boxes.
A Washington Star note suggests drying and slit corn husks to fill one or two summer pillows, yielding a crisp springy filling. Add dried rose geranium or lemon verbena for fragrance, with clover blossoms as a change from pine and balm. Include at least one hop pillow for nervousness, insomnia, and headache, and place a newspaper inside the pillow case for cooler sleep.
A collection of simple recipes includes Spanish Rice One can tomatoes onions and rice cooked three hours with seasonings. Lemon Sherbet mixes milk cream lemon juice sugar and extract, then freezes. Surprise Cake uses flour sugar eggs butter milk and vanilla baked twenty minutes. Salmon Cutlets combine salmon and potatoes fried in crumbs. Cuban Hash simmers Hamburg steak with tomatoes onions and macaroni, option of cold roast beef. Fish Curry browns onion, adds flour curry powder and stock for sauce. Methodist conference in Milwaukee asks President Roosevelt to stop army men from playing ball on Sunday.
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