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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1909
Page
6
Wesson Mississippi mill owners shipped 625 rolls of Odenheimer cotton bagging to a Fort Worth firm in a sale covering 6520 bales. The bagging is praised for durability and appearance versus hemp and is expected to gain farmer adoption. Mayor Thompson assigns 25 workers to cemetery cleanup to improve grounds this week.
In Maben Mississippi on June 19 the crowd heard the Lee Phillips murder tale told by Mrs Worsham wife of General Worsham the parent witness. The Chester court trial ran long as Judy Tullis freed Worsham from custody before he and his wife vanished from sight leaving lingering questions about motive and responsibility.
Hazlehurst Mississippi reports heavy rain on Friday broke the Lake Hazle dam. Prospects are that the lake will be lost as the wasteway failed after months of strain. Water pours from the lake, now lowered about four feet. The 30 acre lake cost $12,000 to construct four years ago.
Oakland Tribune laments fading past fashions and old-time customs. A poet notes vanished ladies and practices from bergamot scented hair oil to sunbonnets, catnip tea, pantalettes, barndoor trousers, and Shaker bonnets, calling them gone forever.
In rough dialect, the town notices Lewerl’s droughty pulls and the crowds cry for water. Folks speak of Trouble and “his po’ relations” as if a wider crisis follows every hose turn. A tale mentions Mars as the other world where water was found, sparking curiosity about home.
The Green Islands inhabitants in the China Sea value sponge diving. a girl wed has to prove diving skill by bringing up the largest sponge load. Fathers select the husband who stays longest underwater and brings the biggest catch, a custom noted in Woman's Life. A Peckham schoolboy near 13 who cannot learn was studied by the London education committee. he learned only two or three letters and cannot write or calculate, leading to a decision to expel him from school.
Mme Hatton of Chicago lectures local women on keeping a husband. The tip stresses proper feeding and clothing, supplying cigars, and giving a quarter of boarders’ spending money to retain a spouse, with the Houston Post quote noting the idea as simple.
A witty exchange cites a moralist's counsel to rise, but the youth counters with a joke about running an elevator. The quip plays on ambition and practicality, reflecting a playful contrast between ideal guidance and real work.
Camphor spirits are recommended to keep packs spotless. Rub slightly soiled cards with a sponge dipped in camphor to restore the pasteboard’s fresh appearance.
A young New York woman elopes and discovers she has become stepmother to nine children. She deserts her husband, leaving readers to wonder if romance remains for a widower with children.
A Cumberland reflection on the gift of agreeableness as a blend of talents for pleasing others. It notes that some people navigate social ease through easy manners and sweet temper without visible effort or formal wisdom, seemingly unaware of their own charm.
A reflection on courtesy as a lifelong law amid modern turmoil. Vernon Murray cites Whittier and Shakespeare to contrast the fading gracious spirits of American life with present pressures.
Quoted from Ruskin, cheerfulness is natural to a healthy heart and glow on the cheek. Habitual gloom signals bad air, unhealthy food, harsh labor, or faulty life habits. Teaching children to unfold their fun loving side could curb personal crises and unhappiness.
A historic Lincoln quote reflects on balance between labor and sustenance. It argues that if one group were meant solely to eat, they would lack mouths, and if another were meant to work, they would lack mouths in reverse, emphasizing intertwined effort and appetite.
A police agent in Tiflis, Russia, escaped his fifteenth attempt on life after being knocked down by a bomb that killed two companions. Though entitled to a pension, he chooses to remain in service.
Ancient Egyptians used gold and silver eye prosthetics followed by copper and ivory. In the sixteenth century European makers shifted to porcelain, stamping their address on the white of the eye.
In California money circulates as gold and silver with bank notes rare. A collector carries bags of gold, and the weight of wealth deters embezzlement. The piece urges faith hope and charity as core religious rules guiding toward a better future despite personal failings.
The speaker promotes joining a debating society to practice the negative for ten years and then switching to the affirmative, arguing that love knavery and necessity can mold any man into a capable orator, reflecting satire on rhetorical training.
A four year old, bored by steady rain, spots the sun and blurts a quip about God being a caution. The briefpiece captures a child’s instant, hopeful reaction to the change in weather, framed in a light, period tone.
A spoken quip attributes loud talk to a lazy man, with Uncle Eben noting that true effort would force politicians to stop writing speeches and learn to play the cornet. The remark humorously contrasts volume with actual labor in political life.
An editor's note warns that a heeler who submitted a slip reading How much did Salome will face the office tonight with a stout hemp rope for the promised chandelier. The item signals a cautionary, tongue in cheek message from the Yale Record.
A compact critique argues that when city districts housing factories grow crowded and smoky workers suffer, factory owners retreat to quiet suburbs and ignore the burdens they impose on others who continue to live and work in the polluted environment.
A sponge garden creates a beautiful effect using a damp coarse sponge cut to a desired shape. Soak the sponge, squeeze half dry, and sprinkle red clover seed millet barley grass rice oats or any combination into the openings. Hang the sponge in a sunny window.
A collection of moral reflections contrasts wealth with life’s purpose and praises the sower over the lender and lifeless hoarder. A Georgia boy’s essay on possum reviews the animal’s grin as good humor, whether or not danger is imminent, calling it a laughing matter.
Sir Robert Hart recalled at the Authors' Club a siege in Pekin when a Russian raiding party looted a house where a band boy lived with his mother and sister. The boy grabbed his violin and played the Russian national anthem, causing the looters to stand at attention before departing without further harm.
Chancellor Robyns in Starkville Mississippi refused bail for Al Edwards and his brother in the murder of Dr. Richardson killed on Christmas Day in Sturgis Mississippi. Duke Edwards has been sentenced to life in the penitentiary. The Commercial Appeal notes the strong stance of law observance reducing homicide dangers in the state.
Industrial Institute and College at Columbus Mississippi invites all women in the state to a July 5 gathering at 3 30 p m to promote better homes for Mississippi. Faculty studies home life issues and plans a state organization with county and local branches. Free entertainment July 5 and reduced Columbus fares offered. H L Whitfield president.
A spirited regional poem about enduring heat and weather lore with playful praise of summer and a nod to Colonel Satan as a hyperbolic figure taunting the blaze. The verse imagines hats flying in fanfare if the heat could turn icy and adds a regional preacher tone to reassure endurance.
Ex-Coroner Nathaniel Conway of Sussex county discovers a fortune after breaking the lock of a safe bought for 2 dollars over thirty years ago. Gold coins spill out as townsfolk gather and bag the treasure. Other notes mention cotton bloom patches and nonagenarians Harriett Beecher Stowe and General Daniel Henry Rucker.
A playful item notes a group of young men studying piano organ harmony and counterpoint to honor their opulent heads of hair. The piece attributes the practice to music cal anobs Gil Elas and frames it as a lighthearted linguistic flourish.
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