Patrick Happenings in Brandon and vicinity
Local notes report visits by Bilis Patrick and John Ferguson with families in Brandon and Greenfield. Robert Smith and wife enjoy a week at Ben Fer. Local youths plan a Gulf coast pleasure trip. Children’s Day service at Shiloh praised. Rankin Clack from Cato visits. Mr Collier’s house being painted. Burnham busy with work while Mrs Burnham ill. Joe Patrick sold about 50 bales of 1908 cotton. Tom Myers from Dobson visits. Health generally good aside from Mrs Rachel McLain. A recent rain boosts crops. farmers optimistic. Mrs Will Ragsdale visits uncle Billie Thompson. a ball game draws visitors despite sickness. Visitors welcome. several Brandon residents travel and host guests.
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Bilis Patrick
Brandon
John Ferguson
Greenfield
Robert Smith
Ben Fer
Gulf Coast
Shiloh
Rankin Clack
Cato
Collier
Burnham
Joe Patrick
Tom Myers
Dobson
Tommie
Rachel M’clain
Will Ragsdale
Billie Thompson
Johns
W. G. Thompson
Sylvania
Fannie May
Nola Marshall
Florence Items: Death of Miss Marie Ellis Stuns Community
A pall of sadness hangs over Florence after the death of 19 year old Marie Ellis daughter of Mr and Mrs W C Ellis. She returned from Whitworth College Brookhaven Miss where she was due to graduate this month. Her burial dress was her grad uating dress and pallbearers included Maj Pat Henry Dr Ruel May and others. The service at the Methodist church honored her Christian character and a large crowd attended the Florence cemetery for the graveside. Weather and local farming notes follow, noting 4000 bales of cotton sold to depot and upcoming weddings and pastor changes with Rev J J Smylie moving to Biloxi. Continuous rain and showers affect local roads and farm work tonight feature school speaking contests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Marie Ellis
W. C. Ellis
Mr. Ellis
Marie
Whitworth College
Brookhaven
Miss
Spirit Land
Methodist Church
Miss Marne
Maj
Pat Henry
Ruel May
Brandon
Mims Williams
Hiram Flowers
Magee
P. B. Berry
J. L. Evans
A. P. Dear
Ed Singletary
Florence
W. W. Morse
Rest
Christ
J. A. Turner
Baptist Record
Jackson
J. J. Smylie
Biloxi Baptist Church
Florence and Brandon
Sistrunk
Green
Fannin News Highlights Rural Life and Farewells
Crops look better after rains and farmers cheer up as the school plans to close soon for the holidays. The community extends heartfelt sympathy to Mrs. D P Bradford on the death of her husband and father. Several residents attend Lena commencement this week. Mr and Mrs Latham and relatives visit Pelahatchie creek for a fish dinner. Dorabelle McLaurin of Jackson visits friends in Fannin. Jack Ferguson and Ida Lee of Jackson visit relatives. Mr and Mrs Baker of Pisgah visit R C Latham family.
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D. P. Bradford
Lena
Latham
Bro
Grice
Owen Brown
Pelahatchie Creek
Dorabelle McLaurin
Jackson
Jack Ferguson
Ida Lee
Fannin
Mrs. Baker
Pisgah
R. C. Latham
Langford Notes Rain Benefits Local Soil
The region welcomes needed rains benefiting the soil. Mr J J Daniels and family visited Jackson friends on Sunday. Mrs Maggie Williams and Miss Minnie Steverson were on the sick list last week. Oscar Rouse traveled to the capital on Saturday for business. Mrs Evans and Miss Grace Bethune shopped in Brandon on Wednesday. Mrs J M Williams and granddaughter Maynie Smith spent Monday in Fannin. Russell Kersh spent Saturday night at Pelahatchie. C C Rouse and Henry Bethune of Jackson were pleasant callers Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. J. Daniels
Jackson
Maggie Williams
Minnie Steverson
Oscar Rouse
Capital City
Evans
Grace Be
J. M. Williams
Maynie Smith
Fannin
Russell Kersh
Pelahatchie
Messrs
C. C. Rouse
Henry Bethune
Eureka Cullings Health Notes and Local Socials
Eureka Cullings reports the community in good health with two weeks of productive farming weather ahead. Noted losses include Mat Ponder losing his house by fire. Updates on Joe Lewis improving, Miss Polka MIntyre visiting Frankie Nash, and local visits among Barnett Nash Gray Traxler Palmer Myers Stevens and Johnson. A request for a good time on the fifth Sunday in May at Cato and best wishes to Brandon News conclude.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mat Ponder
Cato
Joe Lewis
Polka M'Intyre
Frankie Nash
Dobson Dots on Improving Health and Local Happenings
Finer farming weather is noted as Mrs. E D Myers stays at the bedside of her ill daughter Mrs Maggie Cocix who shows rapid improvement. Minnie Kersh leads a music class at Arbo. Bishop Cook is listed as sick. Dre E A and R W May visited their mother Rosa May. Sunday schools at Shady Dell attract a large crowd as youths engage in the Lord's work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. D. Myers
Maggie Cocix
Minnie Kersh
Arbo
Bishop Cook
Dre
E. A
R. W. May
Rosa May
Shady Dell
Pearson Personals Farmers await rain and visits noted
A much needed rain fell Monday increasing farm work. D Evans greeted old friends Thursday morning. Mesdames Why Harris and Etta Donaldson visited Jackson Tuesday. Philip Cameron of New Orleans visits his cousin D P Cameron. Rev Campbell from Jackson preached. Mesdames Tapley and Shackleford of Jackson stayed with Mrs Harris. Jessie Irish and Hazel Farish visited Friday and spent Sunday. Mary Puckett visits Byram. Walter Castle returns home to Chunkey for his mother's serious illness. Mr West of Clinton fills depot position. Edward Petross family visited their farm Sunday. Mrs Wm Hicks visited Jackson Monday. Mr Bullock of Monterey was in town Tuesday.
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Mesdames Wny
Hazel Farish
Mary Puckett
Byram
Walter Castle
Chunkey
West
Clinton
Edward Petross
Wm. Hicks
Jackson
Mr. Bullock
Monterey
Southern Baptist Adjourns After Prohibition Push
Louisville May 17 The Southern Baptist convention adjourned after a five day meeting firmly backing prohibition. Resolutions endorsing the South’s temperance fight were adopted with no dissent. Funds were raised for temperance work and missions boards. detailed apportionments were set for home and foreign missions across many states.
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Louisville
Southern Baptist Convention
South
E. Folk
Nashville
Tenn
Clinton N. Howard
Rochester
N. Y
Home and Foreign Mission Boards
Committee On
J. G. Gambrell
Texas
Alabama
Arkansas
District of Columbia
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maryland
Mississippi
Missouri
North Carolina
South Carolina
Oklahoma
Tennessee
Virginia
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Jos. N. Shenstone
Toronto
Canada
Southern Baptist Education Society
Baltimore
St. Joseph
Newfoundland Banks and the Sanks Submarine Plateau
A Newfoundland station notes the Sanks submarine plateau where most fishing occurs. The sea inside the bank is calm, and vessels loading cod check offshore weather reports from ships returning from the open sea for conditions abroad.
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Newfoundland
Great Bank
Heedless Travel Warned By Chesterfield Proverb
A paraphrase of Chesterfield warns that travelers who hurry from place to place, focusing only on distance and inn comfort, travel foolishly and will surely return as fools. The quote underscores caution in journeying and observation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chesterfield
Business Mindset Gap Highlights International Merchants
A London Modern Business critique argues that English businessmen lack scientific outlook compared with American, German, and Japanese peers. It says they treat business mainly as livelihood rather than a higher, purposeful enterprise, urging a loftier approach to commerce.
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London
Sneezing Superstitions Across Cultures
In German custom a sneeze is followed by Good health, seen as a sign of a cold approaching and a hint that a charm or wish can drive it away. Persian belief goes further, saying God be thanked as the sneeze is believed to expel an evil spirit seeking to feast on sacred fires.
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Committee On Temperance
E. E. Folk
Nashville
Christ
Sunday Magazine
Silence as Social Reform in London News Quip
A London News quip laments rising noisiness among men and women with nerves. It imagines a future where bells and clocks are replaced by silent rubber pavements and everyone wears quiet shoes like police and burglars, until London becomes noiseless.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
India
London News
Paris Doctors May Wear Badges
The Paris Medical society considers asking physicians to wear badges in streets and public places so they can be easily found in case of accidents. It notes delays when needing medical aid as messengers or bystanders search for a doctor.
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Paris
Paris Medical Society
His Fatal Sneeze Drowns Loire Guard Near Paimboeuf
The fishery guard Ganne, master of the patrol launch Chantenay patrolling the Loire mouth, drowned after slipping on an ice deck at midnight. The engineer woke and attempted rescue but failed. The incident is reported by Petit Parisien.
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Ganne
Chantenay
Loire
Paimboeuf
Petit Parisien
When Washington Swore at Monmouth Battle
A Philadelphia Ledger anecdote recalls Washington during the Monmouth engagement swearing loudly, heard by an admiring officer who said he swore “like an angel from Heaven” as leaves shook on the trees, a charming and delightful memory of that day.
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Washington
Philadelphia Ledger
Atherstone Marked by 700 Year Shrovetide Football
The market town of Atherstone in Warwickshire, once famed for hatting, observed a Shrovetide custom of kicking a football through public streets. The practice, claimed to date back to 1200, has endured for over seven centuries with archival proof cited by the London Standard.
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Atherstone
Warwickshire
London Standard
To Keep the Children Busy Craft Idea
A National Magazine suggestion keeps children occupied by threading needles onto a white thread spool and the rest onto a black spool. Tie knots at the ends to secure them, drawing out the needed length when sewing and pushing back unused needles for easy storage.
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National Magazine
Jewish Death Rate Light
A Western Medical Review writer notes that despite social conditions, the Jewish population, especially in American cities, shows a death rate only slightly above half that of the average American. A Grammar Lesson ends with a student's pun about a word ending in ous meaning full of.
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The
Western Medical Review
America
God and Bad Diversions
Washington Gladden argues that Christian discipleship allows harmless amusements that bring pleasure to the individual without harming others. He contends that any diversion causing self-harm or harming others is not right, regardless of one’s faith.
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Washington Gladden
One of the Few and the Wit of Punctuation Tour
A compact nostalgic piece recalls a town letter writer who dots every i and crosses t’s, earning smiles from the stern blue pencil man. A London drawing room quip follows about a widow’s winter tour to the south and Rome, with a playful exchange over silk stockings and memories.
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London
Rome
Dash
Ethel
Not New Just Overlooked Planet Observation Claim
The statement that a new planet was discovered at Harvard is deemed untrue. Indications suggest the object has existed for some time and was merely overlooked amid rapid advances in astronomy.
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Harvard
Fragmentary caption with broken quotes from newspaper page
A jumbled, damaged OCR fragment presents quotes attributed to John Kowiland and Uncle Stan, with misspellings and unclear context. The snippet lacks coherent event, names, places, or dates, leaving only stray phrases and stylized slang without verifiable news content.
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Fannin News
Langford Notes
Thune
Eureka
T. W. Barnetty
Lennie Nash
George Johnston
Brandon News
Dobson Dots
Pearson Personals
D. Evans
Southern Baptist
Rum Demon
What Is
Castoria
Mr. Farmer
Southern Oil & Fertilizer Co
Meridian, Miss
Theo
Sweeny Jackson
MN Jackson
Jones Old Drug Store
J. E. Moore
Pelahatchie, Miss
John 2
Kowiland
Uncle Stan
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