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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1908
Page
4
A witness facing self incrimination fears declares that truth would expose him to years in prison, while the court grants immunity. The testimony suggests the witness knows little about the case as labeled by the Philadelphia Ledger.
An ad style clipping recounts a mother’s cure of a boy’s itching sores using Cuticura Soap and Ointment, claiming rapid four night recovery. It mixes product pitches, miscellaneous anecdotes, seed offers, and a London Mail quote on eye winking with casual commentary.
A reader explains how Postum Food Coffee replaced coffee at home after headaches and cravings. A mother quits coffee, headaches vanish, and a friend also switches after proper preparation. The note attributes the change to Postum and promotes the company, Battle Creek Michigan, and the booklet The Road to Wellville.
A naturalist notes ants living up to fifty years in captivity and two queens observed for a decade. Ivy on walls cools in summer and warms in winter but damages wood. Paris Academy reveals electro chemical diamond production by M. Charette with demonstrations. Splice length dictates rope strength. Baylac concludes oysters pose little typhoid risk unless recently from infected beds and that freshness boosts healthfulness. Breadfruit yields cement cloth tinder and lumber. fibers make coarse cloth. leaves towels. blossoms tinder. A new occupation illness telephon itis hits Bronx girl switchboard operators with arm rash and possible mild blood disorder.
Fashion notes from the London Tribune describe the craze for yellow and black pearls as highly sought after by fashionable women. Jewellers craft small jewel cases for one to three gems, and large gold safety pin brooches with colored stones remain popular. Purses mimic checks and stripes in platinum, gold, and silver, with tiny gold tobacco-pouch shapes featuring shamrock leaves or monograms in diamonds or pearls.
Tourists attracted by Mexico’s pottery during winter seek examples from Guadalajara Oaxaca Cuernavaca Puebla and Puebla’s Talavera. Style features grayish white clay with Delft blue patterns and occasional browns yellows. designs tend toward heraldic medieval motifs.
Secretary Straus, after visiting the Pacific coast, concludes the Oriental question is an economic issue, not a race question. The remark suggests it will console Asiatics battered by mobs in San Francisco, Bellingham, and Vancouver according to the New York World.
In letters from Rev Geo A Troutman and Rev H W Tate plus pastor Swanstrom various Peruna testimonials praise its healing for catarrh la grippe and throat spasms. The note highlights Peruna tablets and a 1908 almanac while remarking on Wall Street envy and a line about time slipping away from the old.
A collage of ads and quotes promoting tonics, tonics for coughs and teething, and remedies for kidney stones and piles. It includes Dean's Kidney Pills by FosterMilburn, Woolford's Sanitary Lotion, Pero Ointment, and various discussable lines about patience and effort, with references to Oyster Bay and a testimonial from Bernard P. Woods of Lonaconing Maryland.
Adolph Topperwein of Texas smashed world wing shooting records in San Antonio by firing at air blocks for ten days. He missed only 4 of the first 50,000 shots and 9 of 14 afterward, amid glowing reports from local sports enthusiasts.
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