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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1911
Page
7
A sweeping public response to the Oliver Typewriter Penny Plan promotes universal typewriting. The plan promises affordable access, boosting productivity and reducing errors across individuals, firms, and corporations, while expanding factory output to meet demand.
The Oliver Typewriter is advertised as a superior, low component machine with faster operation and broad business benefits. It claims wide professional use from clergy to doctors and architects, urges readers to purchase via a 17 Cents a Day plan and join the Penny Savers.
R N Whitfield urges districts to curb waste and filth by building sanitary closets in stores and offices, hiring a town cleaner, and funding a monthly 50 cent per business contribution to clean streets, spittoons, and school closets. The plan emphasizes preventing flies and germs and improving overall town sanitation with a dedicated worker and coordinated efforts.
The Meridian poultry group, formerly the Meridian Poultry Association, rebrands as the East Mississippi Poultry Association at its sixth annual meeting. It will merge with the Mississippi Alabama Fair, host a poultry show on fairgrounds, duplicate fair prizes, and boost cash premiums to be the largest in the state. The effort aims for the biggest, best Bi-State fair in the south this fall. Also a medicine ad for Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy notes its low cost and availability at Brandon Drug Co.
Sheriff Frank Birdsong of Issaquenna county reports strong crop prospects despite boll weevil presence. He says planters are well advanced, the outlook is the best in years, and the delta area shows encouraging signs as farmers push ahead with their planting. A stray line mentions a person from Ly Fork, but details are unclear.
The great spring exodus of hobos continues as the American Brotherhood of Hobos moves from cities to the countryside. The article describes tramp life, causes of wandering, proposed social police, and potential reforms including railway ballast projects. Meridian, Miss. hosts an aviation meeting on July 4 at the Mississippi Alabama Fair grounds amid claims by a bogus aviation company.
An advertisement touts Ballard's Snow Liniment as a superior remedy for both human and animal sores and wounds. Sold by Wm Flowers in Florence, Mississippi, priced 25 cents and one dollar.
El Paso Times reports the sister city across the river remains on the map, battered but alive, ready to set a new pace for any forward movement after the brief Mexican lead siege. El Paso shows resilience and vigor despite past hostilities.
Fragmentary exchange mentions sending a kitten to keep someone company and a brief acknowledgment. The readable text centers on a small personal gesture without broader context or identifiable names.
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