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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1907
Page
6
The article notes widespread discussion of dangers from noisy Independence Day celebrations and laws to curb gunpowder use. It argues bans help prevent suffering while preserving safe noise for youths, and urges adults to teach restraint and sternly suppress hoodlum gunfire.
The article recounts how Mary Ludwig Hays, wife of John Hays, gained the nickname Molly Pitcher at the 1778 Monmouth clash. She carried water and later manned a cannon rammer after her husband was wounded, receiving praise from General Greene and a commission from Washington. Born in Carlisle in 1744, she remained with soldiers after the war, cooking, washing, and nursing for years.
The article recounts Molly Pitcher’s life from 1770s battles to her death in Carlisle in 1823, noting her legacy with a monument and inscriptions. It also mentions analysts predicting a Monmouth battlefield memorial and a possible national park at Valley Forge as Congress debates preservation funding.
A bashful patriot woos a maiden during a Fourth of July parade. Fireworks, drums, and booming guns set the scene as a shy suitor gathers courage and a kiss finally slips from lips averted, May Kelly in July.
Ned is a timid six year old who tries to be a hero on the Fourth of July. He prevents a girl from handling dangerous firecrackers, suffers a powder burn on his cheek, and is thanked by neighbors. His mother calls him a hero for his brave act and the injury.
The ordinary firecracker and paper torpedo are comparatively harmless and cause only superficial burns. The true hazards are the toy pistol cannon cracker and clay torpedo, which are death dealing instruments. Children should never handle them as they cause most Fourth of July accidents.
The Lander Wyoming World correspondent reports the national government halted the Shoshone sun dance, deeming it cruel and barbarous. Shoshones face forced modernization while Winnebagoes near Nebraska adopt mescal use as a religious duty. The piece highlights the sun dance rituals, buffalo head prayers, and the self-torture of warriors, then profiles Rev. Sherman Coolidge, an Arapahoe missionary on the Shoshone reservation, his wife Grace Weatherbee, and their blended lives among the tribe.
A fragment from Macmillan's notes on dining etiquette contrasts eating with conversation. It argues meals are awkward theatres where facial smudges and mustache wobble hinder polite talk, making dinner parties a continual trade off between hunger and dialogue.
W. B. Gilbert, famed author of comic opera, once praised Miss Rosina Brandram, the Savoy contralto, as Rosina of glorious voice that rolls out as full bodied Burgundy rolls down.
In some parts of Switzerland all the dead are buried by the Government without respect to wealth or position, indicating a state led handling of funerary rites that deprives social status of influence in burial.
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