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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1909
Page
3
A fast train with a Pullman Sleeping Car operates between Shreveport and Chattanooga, connecting through to New York and Cincinnati. A dining car is included with through coaches and a parlor car between Shreveport and Birmingham. Rates and details are listed by SMITH, Gen Pass. Agent.
A Mississippi poet from Aberdeen crafts impassioned verse about Taft and the South. He insists the South will not surrender its ideals for wealth and urges a political rapprochement with President-elect Taft to unite North and South in a single brotherhood. Washington Post
The board of directors adopted a preamble and resolutions to increase American cotton consumption in the United States. It notes that Britain acted similarly regarding wool in the United Kingdom and colonies, which met with marked results.
The New Orleans Cotton Exchange endorses a movement by Southern farmers’ groups to boost home use of raw cotton. It calls for government action to study substitution of raw cotton in U S manufactures, compare costs, durability, and educate to raise domestic consumption. Letters and requests go to senators and congress. Local notes mention Miss Pierce visiting and Rev Brame’s services next Sunday. Paul Bierjeman of Carter's Valley was in town last Sunday.
Mrs L M Monk returned from Forest Mississippi to tend to her sister Linsey Harvey's deathbed. D J Puckett runs a Jackson Mississippi meat market. Florence Saunders hosted a youth party last Saturday. A Thursday prayer meeting aimed at encouraging members away from dances. Mr and Mrs Clark Tatum left for Hickory Mississippi. Tatum resigns as depot agent, Cassell of Smith Mississippi succeeds him. Miss Mary Puckett improves after illness. Miss Gladys Fisher recently ill but recovering. James Neely of Plain visited and dined with J E Fisher. Rev Wayne Allison preached at the regular appointment. Mr and Mrs John Neely and others from Carter's Valley attended church. Bessie Cockrelly of Jackson visited H D Mendum.
A column traces thimbles in England from a Dutch immigrant John Lofting who founded a Islington factory in the seventeenth century. It notes sewing easing nerves, cites George Sand praising sewing’s soothing effect, and mentions Duchess D Uzes pushing Paris fashion away from directoire gowns. Also details Laura a Hecock as Vera Cruz lighthouse keeper since 1881, succeeding her ill father, with only six vacations in twenty seven years.
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