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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1910
Page
4
A humor filled slice of early 20th century miscellany peeks at fashion aviation crime and science. Observations span mail routes winter eggs from China monorail rivals and veiled jibes at gender roles. Anecdotes include embezzlement cases fashion trends and medical quips with a dash of politics and international notes.
A jumble of notes spans weather, crime, and policy from a late 19th or early 20th century press. Topics include chilly Central America, secret police tenure, Boston poets clubs, Roosevelt bills, odd alibis, winter gear, and radium pricing. It notes marriages in Chicago, faith and divorce, and quips about winter's grip and Uncle Sam's naval gun.
In a Mississippi village cemetery the author lauds A J McLaurin as the greatest man, praising his mind, integrity, patriotism, family devotion, and plain unpretentious life. He recalls intimate home moments, dismisses rumors of humble origins, notes generous acts, and calls for a successor with similar character while lamenting national figures slandered in history.
The water commissioner asks the Newton Record to publish a notice that all city water users must pay rents by the first of each month or water service will be cut off.
The Brandon town council met January 4 1910 with Mayor P Henry and aldermen Barnes Busick Shields. After recess and reconvening the board approved accounts for street labor blacksmithing school desks water works and related items totaling 561.90 and heard a town death notice of Huber Rush aged 52 with a note of presumed mental imbalance and drowning near a creek leaving a wife and five children.
Four family members endure typhoid fever amid scarce local cases. James, Maggie, Henry, and 12 year old James suffer, with the latter in critical danger. Doctors suspect a visitor from Laurel who had fever, as the transmission link, while town records show only a few prior cases.
The passage warns that newspapers may not appreciate favors once tested. It advises readers to examine their prior obligations to the paper and editor rather than worry about the lack of coverage. It urges understanding the paper’s perspective and avoiding feverish resentment.
For sale notes mention Mr Will Ellison thrashing peas with a gasoline machine at John Munsterman’s north of Pelahatchie. Mr Atkins finishes a new house and erects a large barn. Death of Mr Sam Ammons mourned with funeral at Spring Hill cemetery and community sympathy offered.
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