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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1903
Page
2
A fragment from Poems of Edward Sandford Martin reflects on the sun’s fading radiance and the fleeting power of human achievement. The speaker muses that final glimpses of greatness prompt reverence for what was and the scope of all that existed.
Henry Yates travels with his daughter Edith as he recedes from Wall Street power to river work and potential reconciliation with love. Facing Allen Houston and a change in fortune, Yates confronts real worth beyond money amid Memphis and New Orleans travel, while Edith's future tugs at his heart.
In a fragment from the Boston Globe, Henry Yates stands by the river with arms folded, torn between returning to a social struggle and his lover's expectant gaze. The scene evokes a tense pause between past battles and personal desire as the couple faces an uncertain future.
Elliot Zborowski, famed as a daredevil in New York and Newport society, died in a Tuesday auto accident near Nice. The article links a four generation family curse to male Zborowskis never dying in bed, citing several prior fatal or tragic deaths in the lineage and noting this latest crash as the family’s twentieth century calamity reported by the New York World.
Mrs Farrant comments on men's changing behavior as she sits in a Woman's Husband Reform Association meeting. She recalls a time when her husband carried her golf sticks willingly, contrasting it with his current grumbling at carrying firewood from the cellar upstairs. Mrs Preisse notes the exchange.
A playful Victorian verse notes a clever flirt named Flo who withholds a caress yet his heart reads the truth in her eyes. The speaker cites wise men on mirrored hearts and declares that despite her denials, her eyes say yes.
Mr Newrocks and Mrs Newrocks discuss the Venus de Milo missing arms. They joke that the missing limbs are an advertising ploy, noting the statue has generated far more chatter than if arms had been present.
At a charity fancy fair in Nice men wore badges priced at 20fr that exempted them from sales pitches. The badges claimed to be from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Men. Gentlemen spent freely, allowing Bazaar promoters to profit from buying immunity.
Dialogue shows Charlie proposing dangerous terms to wed his daughter. Ernie recalls the father consenting quickly after worry about social ruin from Egyptian cigarettes and other items in Charlie pockets. The exchange ends with the humorous jab that desperate tactics forced acceptance.
President Eliot of Harvard University, aged sixty nine, keeps an active routine riding a bicycle each morning. Mrs. Eliot, younger, joins him as the pair appear fresh, happy, and hearty. Dr. Eliot has served as Harvard president for thirty four years.
A clipped quip from La Montt and La Moyne recalls a once famous baseball pitcher now employed as a motorman. The remark implies his pitching curves would still amaze or “knock people silly.”
A terse observer wonders why young men with golfer looks and tree box physiques wear a military back style in their new spring suits, noting the incongruity between appearance and fashion trend. The remark highlights sartorial contrasts among male youth.
Late news notes a ridge near Ackerman in Choctaw county as the likely crossing point for the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City railroad. The high ground on the line divides river systems, with Adams’s house near the crest and water from eaves feeding both the Tombigbee and Pearl river basins.
Public interest in reducing insurance costs grows in Jackson. A proposed city business committee would travel to New York to learn insurers demands and guide local upgrades. Expected requirements include improved water pressure and a fully paid fire department.
The Greenville Elks known as the Cotton Pickers heritage travel in their sleeper Dixie to Baltimore for the Elks convention starting next Wednesday. About fifty Elks plus large paraphernalia and many Southern souvenirs ride the train while hundreds of citizens bid farewell at the depot. Governor Longino names St Louis World’s Fair commissioners from Claiborne county, including M A Fisher C A Gordon ROC McCay Miss Hattie Person and others.
Deeds for the right of way for the Mobile Jackson and Kansas City road through Neshoba county have been given. Citizens display liberality to the company and are gratified by assurances that construction work will be rapidly pushed.
The text notes that if Dr Kiger of Warren County is elected lieutenant governor on August 6, he would become the second physician to hold the office in Mississippi. The first was Dr David O Dickson of Pike County, elected in 1837 and serving two years.
A Mississippi exhibit at St Louis next year will feature a gigantic loaf of bread baked by Harry Mansfield of Moss Point using an entire barrel of flour. Gulf coast display includes several tarpon specimens five to seven feet long.
BILLARP'S/LETTER notes the formal opening of the public library, praises the women's library club, and recalls community reading efforts including "Georgia Scenes" and "Uncle Remus." It also honors Rev Frank Goulding and discusses local bibliographic plans, school memories, and the value of flowers for neighbors and the bereaved.
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