Brandon Area News Briefs Reflect Rains and Visits
Auto race coverage notes Brandon's representation yesterday while heavy rains hinder farm work. Several residents travel to and from Brandon including Potts, Dickinson, McLaurin, Hes ter, Owens, and Mayers. Local infrastructure expands with a 500 gallon tank. nursing of Dr. McLaurin continues at Battle Creek Sanitarium.
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Brandon
L. C. Potts
C. A. DeWees
Barnes
W. W. Dixon
Fannin
W. D Ragland
Mt. Creek
Viola Burns
Charles Hester
Flora
Lee
Danville
D. M. Mayers
Hostetters
Stella Ford
Shreveport
Ira Shields
T. A. McCaskill
Clifton
Meridian
R. S. Maxey
Miss Kiethly
Robert
DuFuniak Springs
Fla
Wiman
McLaurin
Battle Creek Sanitarium
O. K
Search at Carson Rhodes home targets whiskey makers
Officers surveilled the home of Carson Rhodes and his wife near Rankin jail and conducted a Saturday morning search finding whiskey making gear but no pipe. Rhodes claimed it was for personal beer. bond set at 1000 dollars. Gipson received a 100 dollar bond for possession of a quart of homemade whiskey. Sheriff Harrison vows to continue efforts to shut down distillers of white lightning and urges readers to act on broader food and fuel shortages with corn planting and self reliance.
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Carson
Loushodes
Carson Rhodes
Harrison
Rhodes
Gipson
White Lightning
Rankin County
Rankin Camp Deliberates Dues and Memorial Plans
An excerpt from May 8, 1920 outlines Rankin Camp No. 265 U. C. V. Brandon Mississippi meeting actions. Delegates B F Mulholland and D M Robbins named for State Reunion at Oxford June 16 17 18. Members urged to pay dues. Decoration Day plans deferred due to graves preparation. Also notices on orders for morning delivery and an stray black horse.
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Rankin
Brandon
Miss
Oxford
B. F. Mulhollan
D.’. M. Robbins
George W. Robinson
New Or- Jeaas
Henry Conde
Albert Shields Promotes Feeds Oats Nuts and Shells
Albert Shields advertises raising chick and hen feeds with preferred special chick and hen grades and shells. He sells oats and chops by pound or sack and urges oyster shells and drinking fountains. Burt Olneys canned goods are praised for quality. Nutrola shortening is recommended. He notes customers praise his candy since Kaiser Bill started the focus and laments Brandon housekeepers delays in telephone ordering.
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Burt
Kaiser Bill
Brandon
Dress cost furor cited by Madison County Herald
The Madison County Herald argues that public fascination with expensive dress drives up prices, hitting workers hardest. It notes women display the greatest extravagance and urges inexpensive uniforms to level costs for rich and poor alike, reducing fashion-driven excess.
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Madison County Herald
Wartime thrift crusade urged for lower living costs
A call for doubled production and frugal living argues that only by boosting output of essentials and conserving goods can prices drop. It cites 1917 wartime mobilization, household austerity, and civic cooperation as a model to avert hunger next winter.
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Congress
Individual economy urged to curb war time excesses
The Aberdeen Examiner questions why production in fowl, corn, pigs and garden crops isn’t increased and calls for self denial and economies. It questions labor and deportation rulings and asks if action should wait until threats to institutions materialize, urging proactive protection and restraint.
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Aberdeen
O Labor Wilson
Communist Labor
Fresh Bread Mondays and Thursdays by W G Barnes
A Brandon seller lists cattle for sale including 50 head of cows, heifers, eight steers and a registered Black Angus bull. Located at OnE Oak Cook Stoves, with sale details to be arranged Saturdays in Brandon through L B May.
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Brandon
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