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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1909
Page
5
Pelahatchie and Jackson area residents are noted visiting, traveling, and relocating. Several names appear with ties to Fannin, Raleigh, Canton, and Greenwood, plus updates on crops, weather, school plans, and upcoming baptist meetings. Community residents, educators, and travelers share news of illness, travel, and work changes.
Two Black men, Isaiah Burton and John Franklin, reportedly forced a bacon side through cellar bars and loaded it into a sack to steal from H.A. Busick Co. Franklin fled but was arrested after Bond was posted for his release. Burton also detained by authorities.
A dense 1909 Brandon Mississippi page fragment includes notices and ads. It mentions strict cash business from June 1 1905, Turley’s cash grocery store, and GAYDEN & CO cream cones. A town ordinance bans ball playing on public streets with fines up to five dollars. References target heirs of R Hatch and E J P Hatcher with a chancery court appearance on the second Monday of July 1909 to settle title for land in Rankin County.
The 1908 cotton harvest is praised for exceptional spinning qualities and cleanliness. It is valued at about 681 million dollars with lint worth 588 million and seed 92 million, though output rose by 2.2 million bales and prices fell by about 20 million from 1907.
From the Trenton Times comes word that Thomas A. Edison will promulgate his long promised concrete house innovation. The report outlines expectations for this new building method and its potential impact on construction.
The article describes Henry Edison’s scheme to build six room concrete houses at about 1200 dollars each. Molds cost 25000 and plant 15000, with four days for setting, six hours to pour, four days to cure, and four more to finish. If capitalists back it, many workers could own homes, easing city congestion.
Detectives seeking a stolen goods receiver in Rue Rompal Paris failed to arrest him before sunset when French law barred arrests at home. They hid in a cellar and captured him in the morning.
A Chicago News line muses that if people paused to think twice before speaking they might forget what they intended to say, offering a wry take on restraint and noise in public discourse.
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