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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1911
Page
5
Local notices recount social visits from Florence and Jackson residents, travel to Little Rock and Oklahoma, and engagements with teachers, church events, and school announcements. The column notes illnesses, travel plans, civic appointments, and upcoming meetings, with social updates on families, guests, and neighborhood sympathy.
An advertorial note endorses Chamberlain's Liniment for muscle soreness from exercise or injury and rheumatism, to be sold by Brandon Drug Co. The copy also mentions two carloads of top grade Fertilizers and Acid Phosphate from Gayden & Co.
A collection of humorous sketches on daily life and human foibles. Wry lines on compromises, relationships, and idle thoughts explore how people justify, adjust, and endure. Some quips examine marriage, courage, and social pretensions with a light, satirical tone.
J M Howell of Greensburg Kentucky endorses Chamberlains Cough Remedy for home use claiming its excellence. The ad promotes White's Cream Vermify as a guaranteed worm destroyer to restore vitality in children with intestinal Worms, priced 25 cents per bottle and sold by Wm W Flowers in Florence Mississippi.
W. G. Barnes advertises fresh groceries with prompt delivery at reasonable prices.
On June 1 the Corner Stone Sale begins and lasts ten days. The Goods must go regardless of price as the Brandon Mercantile Co plans a store remodel to become a first class department store. Workmen need room to operate and shoppers can buy every item kept in a top store at unbelievable prices. Watch for their circular.
Foley Kidney Pills advertised as a true medicine that heals strengthens and acts quickly. For sale by Brandon Drug Co.
E. 8 Bacon of Bath Maine warns railroaders that his chronic kidney inflammation improved after taking Foley Kidney Pills. He says his strength returned, inflammation cleared, and weakness and dizziness stopped, endorsing the product after twenty years of poor health.
A reflective essay asserts tolerance as calm respect for differing opinions, including enemies, and as silent, just sympathy. It envisions wisdom guiding others toward broader thinking, with patient self-help, while warning against coercive control.
The text notes that orchids can move one step each year as they traverse a meadow. Over long periods the orchid advances toward completing its slow journey, shifting its position annually to gradually progress toward the goal.
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