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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1922
Page
5
A sweet Brandon girl’s essay discusses Ellen Howard’s longing for a prettier home. She dreams of Jap a Lac furniture cretonne covers porch boxes and plants to transform a plain porch into beauty without wealth, urging readers to plan similarly for their homes.
Cream shortening and sugar then mix salt nutmeg cinnamon. Sift flour with baking powder and alternate with milk. Fold in chopped walnuts and almonds. Bake three layers. Make filling with butter confectioners sugar cocoa and coffee until smooth. Cover top and sides with icing.
The article urges children to adopt a health routine by appealing to their desire for strength and success. It lists ten daily rules including brushing teeth, washing hands, keeping nails clean, using personal items, good posture and breathing, eight hours of sleep, and regular bowels. It announces Dr. E L Posey’s surgical clinic at Johns Miss Agricultural High School on the sixteenth and seventeenth, with Drs. Watson and Russell assisting, plus follow up arrangements for further treatments and a health unit visit to Brandon Court House next week to examine colored children.
Bank exam records detail financial condition of Rankin County Bank Brandon and Peoples Bank Pelahatchie with assets including cash reserves, bonds and loans, plus deposits and liabilities. Statements sworn by cashiers R. L. Fox and H. Fox, with notary attestations in Rankin County Mississippi during May 1922. Includes Florence Citizens Bank and local notices, plus a Puckett poem and town notes.
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