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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1907
Page
3
A farm magazine discusses cures for a hen that eats eggs and outlines dairy cattle salt needs, water use, plant waste as fertilizer, and general animal husbandry. It covers pulverizing soil with a frost pulverizer, hay pricing tricks, leaf fertilizer values, cow water and salt guidelines, hens feeding routines, and splint treatment for horses.
Bangor agents spread across Northern Maine buy deer hides for tanners in Boston. In two years values have nearly tripled as hides become essential for gloves and leather goods. Licenses cost five dollars, enabling dealers to purchase widely. The article questions whether higher prices will spur more hunting.
A San Francisco Argonaut note discusses a Los Angeles public school debate on teaching children to say sir and maam. It cites provincial perceptions, memory concerns for titles, and contrasts rural usage with city practice, noting etiquette from royalty to everyday address and the dwindling urban custom among educated Americans.
In Bluffton a Wesleyan Methodist church, unresponsive to tradition, heard its cupola bell tolled one evening. Members, thinking someone dead, gathered to find the alarm was for spiritual lethargy. The minister used the moment to exhort the flock to wake up and attend church.
A historical note states that in Russia there are no fewer than eighty six general holidays in the year, reflecting a tradition of numerous public and official observances recognized beyond standard weekends.
The passage extols Blood cleansing remedies and pills claiming to cure skin disease ulcers and scrofula. It promotes Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and All Healing Salve with instructions to obtain by mail. It adds pseudoscientific claims about blood purity and tiny notes on other products and trivia.
A Burlington North Carolina reader recalls a birth skin disease in a cousin that cost a fortune to treat without benefit. After using Cuticura, within two months the child recovered, leaving no scar, and the writer notes continued health for seventeen years.
An advertisement promises Paro Ointment will cure itching, blind, bleeding piles within six to fourteen days or money back. It claims a guaranteed cure and asserts a moral stance about good and bad men.
A New York Press excerpt quotes Methodist Episcopal Bishop Cranston criticizing female study of theology and recounts a Maryland hostess who muses on prayer and desire for thick hair. She notes praying for hair but sees no results, linking faith and personal vanity.
The aeronaut Santos-Dumont declares that within a year or so the public will be "up in the air" and enjoying themselves on aeroplanes, signaling widespread acceptance of air travel and leisure flights.
Peruna is both a tonic and a catarrh remedy. The herb hydrastis canadensis is praised for its mucous membrane action and general nervous system tonic effect. When combined with cubebs copaiba and other tonics it forms a powerful compound for catarrh across body locations supported by testimonials and practical experience.
The article notes warnings against ointments containing mercury used for catarrh and cites a trade update: Asia purchased American goods totaling 105 million dollars in the last fiscal year, down 23 million from 1905 but up 36.5 million over 1904.
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