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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1918
Page
3
In Urbana Illinois women describe relief from nervous tension heat flashes backache and headaches during change of life after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound The ad cites improved well being and suggests it helps women through the menopausal transition.
Consul Arthur McLean reports a new school of commerce opened in Santo Domingo by the Association of Commercial Employees. The institution accepts men and women, offering day and evening classes in arithmetic commercial practice bookkeeping grammar and commercial correspondence.
Green's August Flower touted as a household remedy for constipation intestinal troubles torpid liver and low spirits. Promoted for nervous indigestion dyspepsia and related symptoms with quick relief claims and gentle laxative effects. Advertising copy encourages asking a druggist and notes sale in civilized countries. Also promotes Mansfield Cough Balm with 25 and 50 cent price and a jab about avoiding a doctor's bill.
Nathan Wayne and Hazel Wayne endure poverty and displacement aided by John and Mary Dunslow. Ten years later Hazel returns, brings money and a hopeful future, and Malcolm Dinslow, the former debtor, learns of a promised reunion as Hazel becomes mistress of the old homestead.
Hazel visits the Dunslow place and confronts a gift from Malcolm a suitcase she refuses to keep insisting the money should be returned. He resists offering a kiss instead and Hazel tearfully thanks him before departing for the new country in the crowd at the railway station.
Vancouver Sun reports a crafty bear raiding prospectors cabins on Cultus creek. J. W. Mulholland loses 200 dollars worth of food this season, and Charles O. Woodrow notes the bear climbed over fifteen feet into a tree and devoured a three week supply. The loss exceeds food value due to packing labor, as Bruin prefers bacon and high price meats, with talks of using grenades guns and chlorine gas to stop him.
Broadcast safety hints warn against dangers from live conductors. Do not cover an electric globe with paper or cloth as it can start a fire. Do not hang a lamp cord over a nail or metal work. Do not leave a cord connected after use. Do not touch any downed wire regardless of type. In emergency remove a wire with a wooden handled instrument keeping distance.
The article describes atmospheric coronas or glories around luminous objects in translucent clouds and tiny water vapor particles. It notes the corona forms near the light source and is symmetrically distributed. It also observes helmet styles remaining unchanged for centuries and a resemblance between ancient knight armor and modern military helmets.
A game cock is described as the finest fighter, equal to any creature of its size when given a fair field and no bias. The bird is noted for speed and formidable spurs, projected as an extraordinary combatant of its era.
Lawmakers debate bills on a new income tax with exemptions for individuals up to 800 dollars and families, while adjustments adjust rates from 1 to 13 percent. Opponents press to repeal the tax commission, and other measures address campaign spending limits, dog taxation, appeals, and county boundary shifts amid statewide legislative wrangling.
Elected officers for Hancock county fair association. Pascagoula post office contract awarded to Twin Cities Construction Mobile Ala. hog shipment nets $1935.26. Pastor J M Prendergast to succeed late Father Mallin in Bay St Louis. Biloxi to open four municipal wood yards for winter fuel. Around 30 percent of Hinds county registrants in class 1 facing examinations. Boy Scouts distribute President Wilson’s pamphlet. Yazoo cotton crop shows rising surplus over 30000 bales. Jones county to offer $1000 in prizes for ag products. Camp Shelby reports first month of 1918 with pneumonia death. Topper released on bond awaiting Jan 25 trial. Bone dry law boosts illicit liquor substitute sales. Nine orphans seek warm home at Hotel Irving. Ocean Springs tourist club elects officers. Yazoo City banks show gains in resources and deposits. Arthur Taylor among wounded and missing English soldiers. his twin brother seeks news. War savings drive expanding in Natchez Adams county. Meridian hires R J Bateman as pastor. E S Pool new pastor at another church. Simpson county fair charter granted. officers elected. Holly Springs speaker George R James of Memphis. school program with Prof Puckett. Vaiden minister preaches reminiscence of 40 years. Como reports several carloads of car corn shipped. Tate county active in education.
A repairer warns against calomel and promotes Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe, vegetable liver remedy with a cheerful family guarantee. The piece also notes smoking in churches as a Dutch and international habit, citing historical instances and a Moscow church with gold domes.
An advertisement extols the original Vacher Balm as superior to imitations for coughs colds croup and soreness with a 25 cent price per jar or tube. It offers free samples via mail if local druggists lack stock and lists E W Vacher Inc New Orleans as the maker.
A ticket man appears to hold a stash of old railroad tickets for routes rarely used. He plans to discount and close out these tickets, selling them cheap to clear the stock. The exchange hints at a limited market for forgotten railway lines.
A compact advertisement fragment offers a hair treatment mixing Bast Rum Barbo Compound and glycerine to darken gray hair without scalp staining. It also mentions learning French and a laxative remedy ad. A joke about “soft soap” and New York’s reduced debt limit to 2,114,325 conclude the clipped items.
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