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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1916
Page
5
Brandon residents receive updates on dental practice returns, local visits by friends and relatives, and civic actions. The town eyes road and stock-law enforcement, school and church activities, and upcoming elections for the Democratic Executive Committee.
Marriage licenses issued for Jesse M Landreth and Jessie Mae Denson Walter Spencer and Mary Burton Grigsby Clyde Lewis and Mattie Mann Sam Walker and Alice Washington Sidney Kersh and Cornelia Kersh Melvin Carter and Dora Nelson Charley Jackson and Clara Reasey.
Mrs Watts Webb of Florence Rankin county Home Demonstration Work will give a free canning demonstration at Pearson on Monday June 12 for the ladies of Pearson and Pearl school district. Come early bringing suitable fruits and vegetables and a lunch. spend the day at Mrs A H Lampe's residence.
Miss Ota Myers of Pelahatchie leads the ring contest with a majority of 872,736 votes and is awarded the diamond ring at King's Drug Store. A piano prize is given to the contestant selling the most Fountain Pens, based on standings at 6 p.m. June 3 with several other contestants named. Committee signatures: R. E. Knight, C. C. Shotts, W. H. Tit.
S J Taylor mayor invites newcomers from Hinds Madison and Rankin counties to a Jackson gathering at the Board of Trade on June 16 1916 at 10 a.m. About 500 attendees expected with dinner music and speeches. Newcomers asked to RSVP and bring wives or sweethearts.
A reader notes prices from an 1825 1826 Atlanta counter book showing eggs four cents a dozen butter eight cents a pound sugar ten cents a pound pepper fifty cents a pound coffee thirty one cents a pound tea one fifty a pound bacon six cents a pound wheat forty cents a bushel oats fifteen cents a bushel corn twenty five cents a bushel salt twenty four cents a pound. The item contrasts cheap necessities with today’s high living costs and mentions poultry powders and gasoline absent a hundred years ago.
A Scranton man writes to the New York Times about using a bacteria called azea to combat rat infestations. The reporter notes the bacteria poisons rats without harming dogs or poultry, as rats cannibalize among themselves, spreading the disease and reducing the pest population. Early tests on isolated farms showed destruction of rats up to three to five miles from the feeding site.
In Moscow and other cities, kennel proprietors train dogs to aid wounded soldiers. The dogs are taught to search battlefields, deliver bandages and first aid, and even revive unconscious soldiers. This humanitarian effort highlights patriotism among Russia's noncombatant classes.
A Paris professor proposed breeding large blowflies to be kept in cages and fed blood behind dummy uniforms. Upon war, the insects would receive plant sap to become venomous, then released at the front to attack the enemy.
Country of Lakes Finland covers 144 249 square miles with one seventh water. By end of 1914 population reached 3 196 700 across eight governments. Fewer than one sixth live in cities, only fifteen exceed 5 000. Helsinki largest with 154 000 residents.
Public pension rules estimate wartime service by school teachers in the British navy or army as equivalent to service in a public elementary school. The piece also notes Uncle Pennywise remarks, and critiques parents for receiving little credit while many paper sellers claim to be self-made men.
The article reflects on contrasts between small and great things using a Virgilian analogy about pups, dogs, and kids, drawing a quotational parallel to human and animal behavior. It notes a humorous or reflective tone in comparing scales of importance.
A Los Angeles Express quips about weather and mood, noting a dawn downpour that would flood a prayer meeting but is called only a spritz in the theatre. The columnist contrasts rural speech with urban reporting, using a humorous taunt toward weather fate.
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