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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1916
Page
8
The Washington Star warns that careless residents who throw trash into streets on windy days spoil the city’s appearance. Receptacles are provided to encourage proper disposal, and prosecutions may be required to enforce the rule against discarding refuse in public spaces.
A concise critique argues that small towns need proactive planning, not later adaptation. It warns against relying on everyday practice or greed of special interests, using an architect and carpenter analogy to show how skipping proper planning creates costly, missing elements such as a stairway to the second floor.
Illinois adopts the city manager plan with several communities voting on the reform. A City Managers' association has formed and nearly twenty municipalities are under the plan. The University of Wisconsin offers a course for aspiring managers as part of this practical, modern trend.
A civic view argues homes must be protected from business intrusion. The text insists home life is the peak of urban activity and should not be sacrificed to commerce. It urges regulations and ordinances to shield residences, noting shops alongside homes degrade community character. It mentions the need for balancing livelihood with neighborhood well being.
Wall Street notes vast American and foreign investments in Mexico amid border tensions. Estimates place total investments between 1 and 1.5 billion dollars, with railways, oil, rubber, and mining dominates. Mexican National railways show stock 230 million and bonds 495 million, majority held abroad. French investors hit hard by railway troubles, some payments in scrip. Major assets include Greene-Cananea, American Smelting and Refining, Mexican Petroleum, and Phelps Dodge. Southern Pacific also linked to Mexican lines.
The piece notes the nose ring craze among fashionable women in New York, shown on Fifth Avenue, contrasting it with savagely associated African nose ornaments. It describes the dainty jeweled circle worn like an earring with diamonds and sapphires glinting in sun, and dismisses the idea of the rings as savage adornment.
Financial circles claim Huerta issued 75 million dollars in Mexican bonds after a 25 million issue, sold in New York at a deep discount. Proceeds reportedly funded political uses in Mexico as English investors pull back. Lord Cowdray and the Pearson Farquhar syndicate shifted most English capital into oil and public utility stakes in Mexico amid the revolution.
Whitefish Montana Chief of Police Holter uncovered a stone relic about eight feet underground near the rifle range west of town. It resembles a pestle used for grinding chemicals and medicines and was likely hewn from stone. It may have been used to grind corn or grain.
US Army observers in Colonia Dublan note strict fly control and water sanitation reduce illness as lessons from Cuba and the Philippines persist. A Mexican superstition, sparked by a recent mountain face discovery near Namiquipa, foresees three Franciscos presidents and a bearded leader facing a future war, signaling national stress.
The piece notes a muted Republican mood after Hughes and Fairbanks nomination and a clear Democratic platform. It contrasts bustling whispers of unity with quiet signals in key states, warning that the triangle of 1912 may yield unexpected outcomes and that Republicans sense unsettled odds going forward.
The piece debates how aggressively Hughes or his party will press the tariff plank of the Chicago platform. It notes the 1913 tariff change was framed to dull business arguments postwar, questions if voters can be swayed by hypothetical outcomes, and contrasts with older Republican claims tying panics to tariff acts amid recent tariff cuts and improved business conditions.
The piece critiques Republican platform rhetoric that casts Democrats as evil or as mixed but sometimes virtuous allies. It notes disputes over responsibility for policies in the last three years, including the Philippines and armed merchant shipping, and mocks the Chicago platform for avoiding a clear stance on who supported what in Congress.
John M. Parker of Louisiana, a Bull Moose candidate for vice president, says he never was a Republican and if the Progressives die he must return to the Democratic party. The remark reflects the political status of many Roosevelt supporters from four years ago. Perkins Flinn and other old-line Republicans are likely to back Hughes, but persuading the rest of the party will be difficult.
An eastern expert states fried eggs cause insanity and the speaker jokes about overindulgence. The piece notes language quirks and a society proposing to teach people how to eat, reflecting on how life loses glamour when people study their meals.
The article stresses udder development as essential in dairy cattle selection. A large yet well supported udder with sturdy teats set squarely, not low hanging or conical, predicts milking ease and efficiency. Dam's traits strongly influence offspring. choose breeding stock with well formed udders.
Advice on feeding calves after four weeks old describes using a hot gruel made from corn meal oil meal middlings bran and ground oats. Start with a pint in three quarts of water then rise to a quart of gruel. Provide clover hay ensilage or other roughage and begin cornmeal and ground oats once the calf will eat.
The article notes summer is the toughest season for dairying with short pastures and many flies. It advises using supplemental forage crops and darkened stables to keep cows inside during peak heat. It contrasts summer stress with winter, where cold is less demanding.
Milking cows need more water than growing cattle and should have access to a clean water supply at least twice daily. Best practice is a well water source pumped into a tank or trough. if unavailable, a flowing stream is preferable.
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